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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.80,0:00:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm absolutely convinced what we need
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.87,0:00:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our families more than anything else
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.66,0:00:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are men and women who are putting on the new man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.82,0:00:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.41,0:00:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men that are living by faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.63,0:00:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women that are living lives looking to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.64,0:00:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Full of the Spirit. Full of the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.23,0:00:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Full of joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.32,0:00:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really believe that this is the heart and soul of healthy families.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.18,0:00:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I don't believe, brethren, that I've strayed at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.64,0:00:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, as I've been progressing through Ephesians 4
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.50,0:00:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came across that verse there in 4:30
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.13,0:00:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has to do with grieving the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.68,0:00:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, from there I jumped back into Ephesians 3,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.61,0:01:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply because one of the main operations
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.50,0:01:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Spirit is described there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.21,0:01:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we grieve the Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.26,0:01:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we quench such operations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.95,0:01:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's key.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.93,0:01:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we live in families where the Spirit of God is quenched,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.37,0:01:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true Christians though you may be,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.42,0:01:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can not survive spiritually without the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.41,0:01:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said it. "Without Me, you can do nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.54,0:01:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, what He means by that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.27,0:01:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we look at His teaching,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.55,0:01:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when He said that He was leaving,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.28,0:01:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we live with Him -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.04,0:01:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without Him we can't do anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.19,0:02:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we live with Him when He is departed?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.03,0:02:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, He said, "I'm not going to leave you orphans."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.90,0:02:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what He did was He sent us the Spirit of God
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.62,0:02:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.46,0:02:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He lives with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.18,0:02:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in us, by way of that Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.83,0:02:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Spirit is the channel by which,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.04,0:02:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Spirit is the Person of the Godhead
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.80,0:02:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that puts the fire and the energy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.96,0:02:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the life of the child of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.29,0:02:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, brethren, I'm not ready to leave it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.02,0:02:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we dealt with last week and not grieving the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.88,0:02:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I went back to Ephesians 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.95,0:02:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not ready to leave there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.38,0:02:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I'm probably going to stay there next week as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.99,0:02:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after that, Mack Tomlinson's coming in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.74,0:02:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if this is going to just be more
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.61,0:03:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a devotional this morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.79,0:03:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what this is going to turn out to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.57,0:03:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know where I want to go with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.67,0:03:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I guess where I'd like us to go right now...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.32,0:03:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's that simple passage there in Ephesians 4:30,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.84,0:03:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it says, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.33,0:03:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by which we've been sealed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.65,0:03:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the day of Redemption.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.52,0:03:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, brethren, let me just say something about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.99,0:03:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sealed. It's interesting - you find this idea 3 times
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.36,0:03:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the New Testament, twice in Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.46,0:03:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've been sealed by the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.78,0:03:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, actually, the first time Paul talks about this concept...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.08,0:03:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's a seal? Before I jump any further?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.44,0:03:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's a seal?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.47,0:03:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, if you had a document,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.17,0:04:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would have taken some melted wax possibly,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.63,0:04:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put it on that document right where it folded over,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.56,0:04:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pressed a ring into it or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.11,0:04:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, that seal would have been a mark
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.17,0:04:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to who that document was composed by,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.82,0:04:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who it belonged to.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.38,0:04:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whose authority stood behind it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.72,0:04:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now here's what the apostle says, the first time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.16,0:04:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Ephesians back in chapter 1
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.08,0:04:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he talks to them about the fact that they're sealed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.86,0:04:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says that the Spirit of God has sealed them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.31,0:04:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then He says this Spirit is the guarantee
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.65,0:04:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.17,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the idea is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.00,0:04:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Spirit of God has been given to us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.25,0:04:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have not yet reached glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.08,0:04:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a guarantee.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.56,0:05:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can tell you this:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.94,0:05:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something is not a guarantee unless
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.58,0:05:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know it's there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.44,0:05:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's basically the idea of a down payment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.73,0:05:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's basically the idea of that pre-payment
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.54,0:05:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's made that gaurantees that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.50,0:05:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the rest is going to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.20,0:05:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.62,0:05:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you were selling something and you demanded
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.92,0:05:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a down payment from somebody, and they say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.56,0:05:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well yes, I've given it to you, but you can't see it."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.27,0:05:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's invisible, it's hidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.05,0:05:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no clear and visible marks to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.54,0:05:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that doesn't do any good.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.31,0:05:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What guarantees us, what brings us that assurance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.99,0:05:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this life is that the Spirit of God is in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.02,0:05:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's within us; He's with us; He empowers us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.22,0:05:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He does things within us that we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.86,0:05:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we feel, we experience, they affect us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.61,0:05:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in so doing we look at that and we say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.36,0:05:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wow, I'm one of the Lord's."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.09,0:06:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you never read right there in Romans 5
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.34,0:06:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it says that the Spirit of God
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.96,0:06:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pours the love of God into our heart?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.87,0:06:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you never read there in Romans 8,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.23,0:06:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it says that that Spirit bears witness with our spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.01,0:06:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're children of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.44,0:06:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what happens. We have a witness bearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.17,0:06:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have love being poured in.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.16,0:06:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have operations.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.82,0:06:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very heart of God is communicated to us
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.27,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by way of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's exactly what we were looking at
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.14,0:06:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 3 last week,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.99,0:06:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so let's go back there and read that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.16,0:06:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 3:14 - you see, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.11,0:06:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reason I jump back here is
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.84,0:06:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if we grieve the Spirit Who pours
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.08,0:06:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the love of God into our hearts,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.57,0:06:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we grieve the Spirit Who
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.39,0:06:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proclaims to us that we are children of God;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.59,0:06:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we grieve the Spirit Who makes
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.66,0:06:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the love of Christ comprehendable,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.49,0:06:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then His fiery influences are quenched.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.44,0:07:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don't want to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.44,0:07:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, if there's anything that's key to healthy families,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.65,0:07:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, it's right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.77,0:07:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you this, the most transformed families,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.30,0:07:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most growing families, the most blessed families,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.22,0:07:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are where the Spirit of God is most powerfully
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.48,0:07:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actively demonstrating His influences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.01,0:07:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No question about it. Brethren, we want to be sensitive
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.68,0:07:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we do not grieve Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.82,0:07:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's go back there, Ephesians 3:14
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.45,0:07:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.91,0:07:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.88,0:07:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that according to the riches of His glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.22,0:07:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He may grant you to be strengthened with power
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.12,0:07:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through His Spirit in your inner being,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.60,0:07:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.84,0:07:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you being rooted and grounded in love
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.53,0:07:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may have strength to comprehend with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.55,0:08:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth, and length, and height and depth
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.20,0:08:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.53,0:08:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.19,0:08:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now brethren, I don't know whether
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.51,0:08:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it occurred to you just now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.32,0:08:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is a prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.09,0:08:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you all see that?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.34,0:08:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is bowing his knees in verse 14.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.76,0:08:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.48,0:08:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because he's praying. This is a prayer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.75,0:08:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You bow your knees when you pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.25,0:08:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's lifting up the Ephesians
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.33,0:08:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sight of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.20,0:08:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's praying for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.05,0:08:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, let me ask you this.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.16,0:08:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.54,0:08:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you think he's praying for the Christians at Ephesus?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.47,0:09:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, probably because as an apostle
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.75,0:09:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had visited many churches and started many churches
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.52,0:09:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and planted many churches, and as one
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.61,0:09:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was a Christian himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.16,0:09:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he likely understood that the people at Ephesus
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.22,0:09:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were just like you and me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.68,0:09:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Struggling people. Real people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.54,0:09:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I think sometimes we can get to thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.66,0:09:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that because somebody - you know, the Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.61,0:09:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there they are, they're addressed by an apostle of Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.03,0:09:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're called faithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.71,0:09:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think sometimes we get the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.97,0:09:46.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that because people are mentioned in the Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.25,0:09:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they lived a long way away, a long time in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.17,0:09:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because we don't know them personally,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.87,0:09:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can make super-Christians out of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.76,0:09:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can think them to be something that they weren't.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.38,0:10:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? Look, I know reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.63,0:10:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reality in this church.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.35,0:10:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what reality in this church is?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.80,0:10:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men and women get married.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.92,0:10:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They find out that Paul, when he said that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.61,0:10:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would spare people from difficulties,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.67,0:10:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get into marriage, and they find out,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.29,0:10:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow, that was true, we've got difficulties.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.08,0:10:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got men who are striving to learn
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.21,0:10:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to love their wives,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.84,0:10:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women who are striving to learn how to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.19,0:10:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,submit to their husbands.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.37,0:10:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love their husbands.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.69,0:10:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men and women that are struggling to figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.72,0:10:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to raise their children; love their children.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.95,0:10:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Properly discipline their children.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.66,0:10:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you haven't had children if you think it's easy
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.73,0:10:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to just tow the line with regard to spanking and discipline
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.91,0:10:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and basically to set up the boundaries and to keep that perfectly,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.59,0:10:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to not compromise.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.43,0:11:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.05,0:11:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ravages of divorce were real in that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.69,0:11:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were families without fathers, families without mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.43,0:11:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were families where deaths occurred.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.40,0:11:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were people that were struggling.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.60,0:11:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look! Sometimes we have problems in our marraiges
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.32,0:11:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we feel embarrassed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.64,0:11:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes there's sexual issues
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.58,0:11:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's struggles between husband and wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.23,0:11:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things that a lot of times we're embarrassed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.37,0:11:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you, it was real life back then.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.18,0:11:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same things that you struggle with,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.92,0:11:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you get angry over, that you have problems with,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.25,0:11:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making ends meet, getting angry over your wife
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.51,0:11:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she spent too much money,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.62,0:11:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't know how you're going to be able to pay the bills
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.48,0:11:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's out there buying this and that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.86,0:11:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men can do the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.10,0:11:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the realities, the things that cause frustration
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.98,0:11:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your life, in my life, the greatest hindrances
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.61,0:12:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to moving and excelling in our families,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.04,0:12:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were real back then, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.84,0:12:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people back then were just like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.83,0:12:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wrote this letter to the Ephesians.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.17,0:12:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you and I read it, we find,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.17,0:12:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow, it helps us. It's really tremendous.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.55,0:12:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's helpful. You know what?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.84,0:12:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was to them too.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.29,0:12:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because they're just like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.30,0:12:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the same thing...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.72,0:12:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reason Paul's words seem so real,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.63,0:12:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so alive, so applicable to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.50,0:12:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they were in fact first spoken to the Ephesians
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.26,0:12:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because we're the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.67,0:12:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing new under the sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.71,0:12:44.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here's the thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.35,0:12:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, think with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.54,0:12:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we are. We're in prayer meeting.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.53,0:12:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not Sunday morning anyways, it's Wednesday evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.39,0:12:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet here. We get together to pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.34,0:13:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's just say, a sister says,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.06,0:13:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm married to a lost husband."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.00,0:13:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's here by herself, with her children.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.91,0:13:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm married to a lost husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.63,0:13:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Church would you please pray for me?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.57,0:13:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really having problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.50,0:13:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the husband hits her.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.20,0:13:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the husband is just lazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.50,0:13:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe he's a heavy drinker.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.75,0:13:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any number of these kind of problems can come up.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.90,0:13:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, think about how we typically pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.94,0:13:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we typically pray?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.21,0:13:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think. How would you?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.51,0:13:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have several brethren and they pray, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.07,0:13:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, please help our sister."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.87,0:13:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing wrong with that. That's good, that's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.09,0:13:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean what I'm about to say is just an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.71,0:13:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been to prayer meetings for the last twenty years of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.25,0:13:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard lots of them. I know how the brethren pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.45,0:13:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not fault finding at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.94,0:14:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fine. It's good. It's well.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.83,0:14:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll get together and we'll pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.26,0:14:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are different levels of maturity
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.42,0:14:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obviously in the prayers that come forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.99,0:14:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how often the prayer is, "Lord, bless them."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.24,0:14:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a very common thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.10,0:14:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, bless them." That's kind of where the new Christian goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.08,0:14:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not a whole lot of depth there, but just "bless them."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.99,0:14:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, help them." "Lord, our sister..."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.21,0:14:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we recite back the things that are happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.76,0:14:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, please protect her."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.49,0:14:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of times we pray, "correct the problem, Lord."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.70,0:14:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's got a lazy husband - make him work.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.14,0:14:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's got a drunk husband - make him quit.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.12,0:14:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's got a husband that beats her - make him stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.95,0:14:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, save him.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.40,0:14:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are very common ways to pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.20,0:14:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen. You know this is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.53,0:15:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ways that Paul prays
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.74,0:15:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they almost stagger us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.68,0:15:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's almost like, "what?"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.85,0:15:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like his words are so profound and so deep
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.29,0:15:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's got so many thoughts in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.13,0:15:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like you almost have to read the thing for six weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.43,0:15:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to even draw out what he's saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.63,0:15:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, listen to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.42,0:15:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.69,0:15:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so far we're good. Right? We kind of get that.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.50,0:15:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"From Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.54,0:15:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there I stop getting everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.57,0:15:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Every family in heaven and on earth is named."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.42,0:15:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's crossed my mind, I need to look at the original there
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.97,0:15:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really scope that out.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.77,0:15:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some concepts there that Paul's hitting on
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.10,0:15:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think are probably phenomenal.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.60,0:15:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That according to the riches of His glory, He may grant you
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.86,0:15:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be strengthened with power..."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.49,0:16:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strength. Now, just catch that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.11,0:16:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a good thing. We want to be strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.56,0:16:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's of course speaking about spiritual strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.12,0:16:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that spiritual strength comes from power.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.04,0:16:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Power. Energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.97,0:16:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Power is what brings strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.86,0:16:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Through His Spirit." So the Spirit is that Person
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.66,0:16:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who dispenses this power of God to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.54,0:16:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.43,0:16:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you being rooted and grounded in love."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.20,0:16:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I mean, he's saying this stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.03,0:16:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.85,0:16:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get that. By faith, He dwells in us.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.36,0:16:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, He dwells in us by this very Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.47,0:16:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You being rooted and grounded in love."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.75,0:16:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's like you're planted. You're a plant of God's planting,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.63,0:16:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're planted in the soil of love.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.87,0:16:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this soil of love, with by faith Christ and His Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.97,0:17:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dwelling within you, the Spirit Who is this power giver,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.22,0:17:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That gives strength, to do what?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.77,0:17:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's all this strength about anyway?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.52,0:17:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Verse 18, "may have strength to comprehend with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.40,0:17:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth and length and height and depth
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.15,0:17:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.50,0:17:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.69,0:17:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now brethren, this is the way to pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.88,0:17:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because let me tell you something.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.94,0:17:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think with me here, brethren. Think with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.19,0:17:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got a mother. This is real life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.13,0:17:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mother who is about going over the edge.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.84,0:17:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her head's about going under the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.19,0:17:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, here she is, she's trying to figure out how to be a mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.53,0:17:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trying to figure out how to raise some little children.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.64,0:17:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's trying to figure out how to dish out her time.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.63,0:17:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then her husband comes home.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.17,0:18:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants her attention. He wants to talk to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.93,0:18:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants to communicate with her.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.71,0:18:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants dinner. He wants intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.04,0:18:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants this... she's just staggering all over the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.22,0:18:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There she is at home one day,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.20,0:18:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you come along and pray like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.17,0:18:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come along and I call her up pastorally,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.99,0:18:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Sister, I know you're struggling here,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.28,0:18:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to bow my knees before the Father,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.01,0:18:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to begin to pray to Him from Whom
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.36,0:18:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every family in heaven and on earth is named.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.41,0:18:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That according to the riches of His glory He may grant
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.34,0:18:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.27,0:18:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your heart
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.32,0:18:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through faith, sister, so that you being rooted and gounded
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.89,0:18:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in love may have strength to comprehend with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.86,0:18:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth and length and height and depth
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.34,0:18:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.90,0:18:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.24,0:18:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I don't know, typically, but I'm thinking that
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.71,0:19:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I just rattled that off, it'd just be like whew...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.64,0:19:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's nice, brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.36,0:19:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think she gets off the phone
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.59,0:19:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she goes back to being overwhelmed, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.99,0:19:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we can look at this and we can think,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.82,0:19:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Come on, Paul! You're dealing with real people
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.49,0:19:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here with real problems. Can't you just pray,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.20,0:19:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, help the ladies in the church that are
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.76,0:19:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,struggling with raising children?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.23,0:19:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't you just come down off your theological high horse here
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.47,0:19:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just meet us where we live?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.33,0:19:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I can only imagine Paul might answer
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.20,0:19:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something like this, you know, you read it there
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.69,0:20:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Thessalonians 2, he had a nursing heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.22,0:20:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a mother who nursed her children.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.86,0:20:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said that he was like a father to his children.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.55,0:20:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you this, he'd come along and he'd say,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.58,0:20:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, my precious, precious children,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.40,0:20:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the midst of all your struggles and trials,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.06,0:20:23.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you not realize that the reason I pray this way for you
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.79,0:20:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this is exactly what you need more than anything else."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.86,0:20:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it's true there may be complexities here,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.19,0:20:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there may be depth here,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.47,0:20:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.57,0:20:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.30,0:20:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.83,0:20:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you could just comprehend.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.96,0:20:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I want you to see what's going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.87,0:20:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is praying for comprehension.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.50,0:21:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He realizes this: He realizes that when that mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.32,0:21:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that place, is sitting there with those children
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.38,0:21:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that home, with her certain set of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.44,0:21:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,struggles and trials,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.01,0:21:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that man as he's trying to make ends meet
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.91,0:21:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he's trying to provide for his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.20,0:21:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lead his wife, love his wife, lead his children,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.17,0:21:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instruct his children - in all these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.03,0:21:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he feels his failures, he feels the struggles of the flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.71,0:21:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he feels these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.81,0:21:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Singles that are trying to keep single
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.82,0:21:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to do it with contentment,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.90,0:21:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you feel these struggles of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.04,0:21:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Paul breaks in there and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.01,0:21:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, it's fine to pray that God bless one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.00,0:21:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's fine to pray that God help one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.38,0:21:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what you folks need more than anything
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.58,0:21:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what I'm praying for right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.93,0:21:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need a comprehension of certain realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.66,0:22:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you could just see them, if you could feel them
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.95,0:22:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you could touch them,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.33,0:22:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you could have the hope in those things,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.42,0:22:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would come back to this world's cares and troubles
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.46,0:22:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one has said, like giants refreshed with new wine
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.42,0:22:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caring nothing for anything that might happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.99,0:22:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ would be so sweetly and blessedly within you
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.16,0:22:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could bear the burden and think nothing of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.49,0:22:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's precisely where Paul is going,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.91,0:22:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what he's praying for.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.58,0:22:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ability in you, in me, to be able to comprehend.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.74,0:22:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The greatest realities -
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.49,0:22:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the love Christ has for His chosen people.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.07,0:22:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what was it it said in that song?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.45,0:22:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was that last stanza of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.02,0:23:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It said something about, "Lord, don't deny me Yourself."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.51,0:23:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the love of Christ...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.03,0:23:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was Spurgeon that said that giant thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.52,0:23:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's right.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.66,0:23:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will be like a giant refreshed with new wine,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.29,0:23:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you'll be struck by the love of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.22,0:23:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, Paul wasn't trying to drown us theologically.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.92,0:23:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was bypassing the lesser things,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.18,0:23:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more trivial things,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.96,0:23:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was going right to the heart of the matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.39,0:23:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knows if that sister with the lost husband
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.12,0:23:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would realize her true and heavenly Husband,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.83,0:23:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the love that He had for her,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.27,0:23:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, brethren, has it ever just swept into you
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.87,0:24:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Christ is like there in John 17,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.79,0:24:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's saying, "Father, I pray that they may be where I am."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.20,0:24:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I pray that they may see My glory."
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.31,0:24:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you this, have you ever read
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.07,0:24:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it talks about the love that a man ought to have
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.54,0:24:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for his wife, but then Paul pulls back and
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.10,0:24:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shows us the love that Christ has for the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.57,0:24:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, Christ - His whole heart is set on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.32,0:24:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to understand something,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.31,0:24:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has chosen to put an infinite love on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.74,0:24:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know why Christ went to that cross
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.98,0:24:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bore infinite wrath? He did it out of love.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.80,0:24:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture repeatedly tells us it's love that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.95,0:24:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drove Him to that cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.48,0:24:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's love that as in the garden, He just trembled
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.13,0:25:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under that coming horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.99,0:25:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sorrowed nigh unto death.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.69,0:25:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did He keep going?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.22,0:25:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, there was a joy there, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.90,0:25:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'll tell you this, it's the joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.34,0:25:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that joy to be with His people.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.38,0:25:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that joy to have them and be with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.14,0:25:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He longs for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.84,0:25:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Christ longs for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.50,0:25:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He prayed to His Father for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.77,0:25:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants you with inexpressible love to be where He is.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.17,0:25:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you this, if it wasn't for love,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.27,0:25:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the purposes of love, and for the sake of love
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.06,0:25:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave you right here where you have your present struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.24,0:25:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,love would bust open right now
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.70,0:25:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He would pull you into His arms and take you to glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.73,0:25:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is only love that keeps you here.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.20,0:25:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the love...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.00,0:25:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Paul is saying if you could just comprehend
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.34,0:26:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ is there and His heart longs for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.48,0:26:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants you to be where He is.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.33,0:26:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is your heavenly Lover.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.30,0:26:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He loves you with a love that this world does not know.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.42,0:26:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That your husband and wife relationships don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.90,0:26:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loves you passionately.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.90,0:26:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He means to make you pure and spotless,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.69,0:26:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to bring you to Him an undefiled, chaste virgin.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.100,0:26:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A virgin, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.100,0:26:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A virgin pure.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.91,0:26:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He will take you to Himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.76,0:26:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He will love on you,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.47,0:26:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pour His love into you forever
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.92,0:26:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forever and forever and forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.89,0:26:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you'll go to Him a virgin but you will not stay a virgin
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.98,0:26:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because He will love you in ways that what we have
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.88,0:26:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the human realm, in the physical realm, are only but glimpses.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.67,0:26:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm telling you, brethren, He'd break through right now
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.13,0:27:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and come get you, if it wasn't for the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.05,0:27:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that love stays His hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.15,0:27:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it is the very temporary light afflictions
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.77,0:27:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that work in you the eternal weight of glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.63,0:27:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's working. You see, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.72,0:27:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you suffer now because it's granted you to suffer,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.72,0:27:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's good for you right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.36,0:27:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're following that path where He went.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.52,0:27:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Paul's coming in and saying, "Brothers and sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.66,0:27:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not trying to lose you theologically.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.88,0:27:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am simply trying to pray that you would have the best thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.10,0:27:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest thing, brethren, we need to pray this way!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.62,0:27:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you see that brother, that sister, struggling,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.06,0:27:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you pray that God open up to their comprehension
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.78,0:27:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an understanding of the love that Christ has for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.62,0:27:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because brethren, Spurgeon's right:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.34,0:28:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giants you will be,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.62,0:28:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refreshed with the wine of Christ's own vintage.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.60,0:28:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you will face those things, and you will be able
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.86,0:28:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to march through them, and have victory.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.74,0:28:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when you're overcome with love,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.64,0:28:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the problems and the struggles and the trials in this world
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.67,0:28:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just, they don't disappear and go away altogether,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.50,0:28:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they become small in comparison.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.92,0:28:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, do you realize it?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.83,0:28:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went out front this morning of my house.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.16,0:28:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've planted various trees there
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.24,0:28:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to recreate Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.50,0:28:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, don't laugh, it's kind of worked.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.98,0:28:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have maples that are red, and yellow, and orange.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.100,0:28:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was out there looking at them,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.70,0:28:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was admiring the beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.38,0:29:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brethren, the love of Christ is like a garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.86,0:29:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where as you walk through, there is beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.43,0:29:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's roses, and the scents that comes, and there's fruits.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.79,0:29:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me tell you something, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.14,0:29:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those that find eternal life,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.20,0:29:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.75,0:29:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, those that find Him are few.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.21,0:29:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you realize, brethren, not just anybody can tread that garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.58,0:29:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a few.. brethren, only a chosen few can tread there.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.21,0:29:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that garden, there is beauty and there are flowers.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.14,0:29:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is full of healing and singing and color and wonder.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.47,0:29:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm telling you folks, if you have license to walk there,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.14,0:30:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh brethren, why do you forfeit it?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.54,0:30:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a very choice few, select few, can walk there.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.92,0:30:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How often we purposely do not walk there, brethren!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.81,0:30:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to walk in the air of that place, in that garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.80,0:30:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the redeemed of the Lord can walk in that place.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.58,0:30:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the redeemed of the Lord, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.08,0:30:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can go up and smell those roses! Or pick that fruit!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.86,0:30:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have the opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.56,0:30:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you going to be like the man in Pilgrim's Progress
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.24,0:30:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you're just raking the muck, raking the muck,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.81,0:30:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here the garden is all about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.87,0:30:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're Christians, brethren, we're Christians!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.15,0:30:41.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ loves us!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.100,0:30:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even in this world, there is a comprehension.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:44.82,0:30:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't grieve the Spirit, the Spirit has a power
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.82,0:30:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He endows upon the children of God
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.71,0:30:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cause us to comprehend such vastness,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.30,0:31:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such breadth and length and height and depth, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.00,0:31:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stagger us, even in this life!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.49,0:31:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have to wait for heaven to get all of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.13,0:31:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And oh, brethren, if we've been invited to walk here, why?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.87,0:31:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why so much of the world? Why so much of just raking,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.58,0:31:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, raking the muck?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.13,0:31:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it's held out there to us?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.06,0:31:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I just say in light of all this,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.68,0:31:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't grieve the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.92,0:31:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when you grieve the Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.86,0:31:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the scent wafts away.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.16,0:31:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of a sudden, in your sight, the fruit shrivels.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.40,0:31:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Spirit is the One that gives the comprehension.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.43,0:31:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, listen to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.66,0:32:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came across this in my reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.98,0:32:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really want to finish out this message on this note.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.20,0:32:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man by the name of Edward Payson,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.38,0:32:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone ever hear that name? Edward Payson.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.00,0:32:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a godly man who lived here in the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.32,0:32:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the time just after the American Revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.69,0:32:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, listen to him describe how the ungrieved Spirit...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.98,0:32:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Spirit wasn't grieved in his life - ungrieved.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.76,0:32:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How that Spirit flooded His comprehensions.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.70,0:32:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says this, "The Son of Righteousness has been
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.74,0:32:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gradually drawing nearer and nearer."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.41,0:32:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I know we've been talking about revival.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.26,0:32:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that there have been times in history
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.42,0:33:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the Spirit of God has fallen suddenly.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.76,0:33:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, one of the things I'm encouraging
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.53,0:33:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and arguing for here is that you make it a practice
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.05,0:33:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to seek to habitually live with the Spirit ungrieved.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.75,0:33:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Habitually living in the beauties of this garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.47,0:33:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, revival's great.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.51,0:33:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when people are smothered by the love of God
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.53,0:33:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instantaneously and miraculously and extraordinarily
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.24,0:33:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's great, but brethren, there are people who walk
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.58,0:33:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these choice places far more than others.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.03,0:33:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They tend to live there. They tend to dwell there.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.31,0:33:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's a man, brethren, here's a man
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.22,0:33:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that didn't always know it was so.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.01,0:33:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't know the realms into which it was possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.24,0:33:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to how he expresses this.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.90,0:33:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like he gets to the end and he's just kicking himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.42,0:33:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying, "Oh, if only I would have realized
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.23,0:33:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twenty years ago that this was all real! That it was so!"
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.26,0:33:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to him, "the Son of Righteousness
Dialogue: 0,0:33:59.08,0:34:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been gradually drawing nearer and nearer.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.25,0:34:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Appearing larger and brighter as He approached."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.30,0:34:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, through his spiritual senses he feels
Dialogue: 0,0:34:08.99,0:34:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and senses and sees and hears and smells
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.21,0:34:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the approach of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.88,0:34:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And now Christ fills the whole hemisphere.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.80,0:34:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pouring forth a flood of glory in which I seem to float,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.45,0:34:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like an insect in the beams of the sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.38,0:34:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exalting yet almost trembling while I gaze on this almost
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.05,0:34:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,excessive brightness and wondering with
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.92,0:34:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unutterable wonder why God should deign to shine
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.76,0:34:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon a sinful world."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.55,0:34:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, he goes on,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:43.35,0:34:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Christians might avoid much trouble and inconvenience
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.53,0:34:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they would only believe what they profess.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.90,0:34:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That God is able to make them happy without anything else."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.31,0:34:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what he's saying, brethren?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:58.96,0:35:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's saying take everything else away.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.30,0:35:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take all your comforts away. All your enjoyments away.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.63,0:35:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All your pleasures away. All your toys away.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.13,0:35:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the idols away. All the stuff. Clear it all out.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.37,0:35:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.27,0:35:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And walk through this garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.92,0:35:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's enough. It will make you happy
Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.00,0:35:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a joy that only comes from heaven, folks.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.78,0:35:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They imagine that if such-and-such a dear friend were to die
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.47,0:35:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if such blessings were to be removed,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.16,0:35:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would be miserable.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.25,0:35:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whereas God can make them a thousand times
Dialogue: 0,0:35:44.63,0:35:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happier without those things.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:47.58,0:35:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To mention my own case,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.12,0:35:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has been depriving me of one blessing after another.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.23,0:35:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as each one was removed,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.31,0:36:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has come in and filled its place.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.02,0:36:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, when I'm a cripple, and I'm not able to move,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.81,0:36:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm happier than ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.48,0:36:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm happer than ever I was in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.48,0:36:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before or ever expected to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.96,0:36:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I had believed this twenty years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.57,0:36:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might have been spared much anxiety."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.50,0:36:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.12,0:36:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to this.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.30,0:36:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a test put forth by the same man.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.100,0:36:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gives a very practical way to examine ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:46.08,0:36:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to test where we're at with regards
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.50,0:36:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the love of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.92,0:36:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And whether we may have grieved the Spirit away
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.62,0:36:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from pouring the love of God into our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.88,0:36:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen to this:
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.32,0:37:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I know this is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.83,0:37:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It caught my attention because I know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.03,0:37:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it. I've seen it as a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.17,0:37:08.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've felt it in my own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.100,0:37:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've gone through seasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.67,0:37:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've met other Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.30,0:37:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've read of other Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.99,0:37:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just people who've had the Spirit of God fall on them,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.93,0:37:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and been filled with the Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.66,0:37:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had some sensation of the love of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.77,0:37:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was just momentary or for a short season.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.07,0:37:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's happened, and we certainly don't want
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.11,0:37:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to despise that, but I'm talking more here
Dialogue: 0,0:37:31.44,0:37:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a way of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.78,0:37:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to what Payson says,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:37.90,0:37:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Suppose professors of religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.06,0:37:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(those who profess to be Christians),
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.48,0:37:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be ranged in different concentric circles around Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.55,0:37:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So He's imagining Christ in the center,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.83,0:37:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you have these concentric circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.64,0:38:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A concentric circle is another circle with the same center.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.95,0:38:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they're getting bigger.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.64,0:38:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same center. Which is Christ. There He is in the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:09.87,0:38:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then you have these concentric circles moving out from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.42,0:38:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says each of these concentric circles is
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.72,0:38:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like different Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.19,0:38:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Different Christians live at these different concentric circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.35,0:38:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving out and away from the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:29.65,0:38:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Some value the presence of their Savior so highly
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.93,0:38:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they cannot bear to be at any removed from Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.52,0:38:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even their work, they will bring up and do it
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.48,0:38:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the light of His countenance."
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.64,0:38:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want you to see what Payson recognized,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.41,0:38:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to be a pastor or a missionary
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.12,0:38:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in some certain designated church ministry
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.72,0:39:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.11,0:39:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the case.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.88,0:39:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, brethren, remember!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.21,0:39:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you might have strength to comprehend
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.83,0:39:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.06,0:39:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is the breadth and length and height and depth.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:21.11,0:39:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's for all the saints, brethren, it's not just for the pastor.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.25,0:39:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They cannot bear to be at any removed from Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.09,0:39:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even their work they will bring up and do it
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.37,0:39:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the light of His countenance. Whatever work that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:36.56,0:39:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's in ministry, whether it's building,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:38.12,0:39:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,construction, plumber... and while engaged in it
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.79,0:39:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be seen constantly raising their eyes to Him
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.00,0:39:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if fearful of losing one beam of His light."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.98,0:39:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, here's the truth, every child of God
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.57,0:39:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,definitely knows the love of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.84,0:40:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not every child of God definitely knows that love
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.42,0:40:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the same degree.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.08,0:40:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all of us walk in the same circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.14,0:40:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all of us live as close to Christ as others do or have.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.41,0:40:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just a reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.53,0:40:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the innermost circle represents those...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.37,0:40:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.06,0:40:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you live in the innermost circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.28,0:40:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are sensitive to Christ's love.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.54,0:40:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, Christ saved us to love us.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.92,0:40:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loved us and He saved us,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.65,0:40:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He saved us to love us.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.61,0:40:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those that live closest, they are sensitive
Dialogue: 0,0:40:50.29,0:40:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to His approaches, they are sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.06,0:40:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what characterizes people here.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.80,0:40:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They watch for that love.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.52,0:41:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They watch to respond to that love.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.55,0:41:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this is the real test of whether you're
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.92,0:41:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maturing as a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.73,0:41:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isn't simple whether today you can articulate
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.39,0:41:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limited atonement where you couldn't a year ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.99,0:41:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the real test, the real key to maturing
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.60,0:41:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Christian life is how close to Christ you're walking.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.08,0:41:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How close to Him you live.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.52,0:41:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How much of His love you're bathed in.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.57,0:41:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I gaurantee this, just that reality of 2 Cointhians 3:18
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.44,0:41:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the closer you live to the glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:32.83,0:41:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more you behold His glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.75,0:41:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more you are becoming conformed to that image.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.36,0:41:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, some just live closer.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.82,0:41:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.68,0:41:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They live where there's greater apprehensions of Christ's love.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.26,0:41:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll tell you this, children of God that live
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.04,0:42:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this innermost circle, they must be careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.41,0:42:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what do you mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.36,0:42:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever thought about Moses?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.91,0:42:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God would say if I'm going to speak to one
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.32,0:42:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the prophets, I'm going to do it through a vision,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.55,0:42:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.75,0:42:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says when I speak to Moses, it's face to face.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.83,0:42:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I tell you this?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.52,0:42:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moses struck the rock.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.73,0:42:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of us have done some fool thing like that?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:32.42,0:42:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in disobedience to God?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.55,0:42:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet the consequences were not so severe. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.78,0:42:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you what, when you live
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.36,0:42:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those inner circles, you must walk carefully.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.39,0:42:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martyn Lloyd-Jones says the air here is very pure
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.90,0:43:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and very rarified,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.17,0:43:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and slight changes are immediately felt.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.69,0:43:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Responsiveness to Christ's approaches must set us to
Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.01,0:43:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a careful watch, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.17,0:43:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about Moses.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.14,0:43:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who walk in the innermost concentric circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.82,0:43:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must develop a holy sensitivity to the advances of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.66,0:43:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They must be sensitive to sin. Sensitive to their conscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.21,0:43:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sensitive to any grieving of the Spirit of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.13,0:43:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, do you remember how it was?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.83,0:43:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There in the Song of Solomon 5?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.27,0:43:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We find that the woman there,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.74,0:43:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had taken her clothes off.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.38,0:43:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had removed her garment, it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.24,0:43:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she had washed her feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.60,0:43:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she was there at the bed,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.23,0:43:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her beloved came to the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.19,0:43:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you get that wonderful intimacy, that language there,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.27,0:44:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just flows out of that first part of Song of Solomon 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.09,0:44:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happened? He's knocking on the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.61,0:44:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the advance. He's come to just immerse her in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.36,0:44:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was hesitation. Did you catch that?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.53,0:44:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a hesitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.46,0:44:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had the thought go through her head.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.31,0:44:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait, I've put my garment off, I've washed my feet.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.40,0:44:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was the hesitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.93,0:44:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethern, the people that walk in those
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.82,0:44:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innermost concentric circles...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.63,0:44:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the way, that lady was not at that moment
Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.16,0:44:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in the inner circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.81,0:44:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a hesitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.55,0:44:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when she got to the door, her beloved was gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.10,0:44:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I guarantee you, there are times in life
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.79,0:44:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Christ waits to smother you in His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.34,0:45:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you do not respond to His advances.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.61,0:45:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, can you prove that from the Scriptures?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.02,0:45:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, brethren, it's everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.65,0:45:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:08.83,0:45:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, speaking to a church,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.83,0:45:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking to a group of covenant people,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:16.62,0:45:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the lost indiscriminate masses.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.44,0:45:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's speaking to a church, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.05,0:45:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.62,0:45:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He says, "if you will open to Me, I will come in."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.14,0:45:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And do what?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.16,0:45:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dine with you." Brethren, in that near Eastern,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.22,0:45:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,middle Eastern mindset, to have somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.01,0:45:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come into your house and dine with you
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.34,0:45:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a sign of intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.91,0:45:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know in the Muslim world,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.33,0:45:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them to bring you in
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.02,0:45:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have you for dinner in their home
Dialogue: 0,0:45:49.78,0:45:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that they are now under an obligation now to protect you.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.45,0:45:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there's an intimacy I think that sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:45:56.32,0:45:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't feel in our culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.29,0:46:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christ was saying, "I stand here."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.70,0:46:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, those that have used that illustration for
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.79,0:46:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ calling the lost multitudes,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.29,0:46:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's just simply not what this is talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.47,0:46:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't use that verse in that context.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.47,0:46:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what it means.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.03,0:46:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's speaking to His covenant people,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.32,0:46:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He's saying, "Look, I stand here."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.07,0:46:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just got done saying, "Those that I love, I chasten."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.93,0:46:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's saying, "I stand here."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.16,0:46:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's been talking to those He loves, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.37,0:46:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, to live in this inner circle,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.54,0:46:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here's what it takes:
Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.64,0:46:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the slightest tug of heart...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.16,0:46:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you're sitting down to a meal,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.88,0:46:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you feel "Christ wants me to fast,"
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.61,0:46:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He wants me to go be with Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.12,0:46:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're laying down on your bed,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.50,0:47:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel Christ wants me to put my clothes on
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.55,0:47:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go out and walk the fields and commune with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.74,0:47:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're at work, you're in the middle of something,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.98,0:47:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you feel like God wants me to pray right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.56,0:47:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lord is calling me.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.13,0:47:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we put it off. No, just not yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.93,0:47:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when we go there, it's like the young lady,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.98,0:47:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she goes to the door and He's gone!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.14,0:47:20.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that happens. That happens when
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.100,0:47:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put off the loving advances of a lover.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.50,0:47:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That happens. That's how we cause grief.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.90,0:47:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, it's not like Christ is somehow foreign
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.27,0:47:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and far removed. He's a Lover of His people.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.33,0:47:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know what grieves two people that are in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.25,0:47:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know where the grief comes from.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.48,0:47:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the kind of things...
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.05,0:47:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when one lover is making an advance to another,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.91,0:47:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's put off, and it's resisted.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:51.27,0:47:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or something is deemed to be more important,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.36,0:47:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we come to the door and He's gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.30,0:47:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy, if we would have gone right when He called us.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.68,0:48:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was calling us to His Word. He wanted to speak to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.47,0:48:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we get there...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:04.15,0:48:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, it's not there now.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.85,0:48:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if we're going to live in the innermost
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.34,0:48:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concentric circles, there must be sensitivity.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.50,0:48:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sensitivity, brethren, sensitivity!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.96,0:48:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Too many of us have too much noise,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.36,0:48:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too much clutter.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.82,0:48:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't hear when He's knocking at the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.89,0:48:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, you know how it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.09,0:48:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when two people are in love,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.19,0:48:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes it's just - what?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.56,0:48:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You catch a glance from one another, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:39.94,0:48:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, come on, you that are married...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.04,0:48:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just a look. It's a fleeting glance of the eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:46.07,0:48:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you saw something in your wife's eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.96,0:48:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your husband's eyes that just shot back to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.64,0:48:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I love you."
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.33,0:48:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, Christ is the same, and His ways
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.44,0:49:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of communicating His love are manifold.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.79,0:49:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, so often we've got so much noise,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.22,0:49:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't hear His voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.81,0:49:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't hear the knock.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.59,0:49:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or we're so preoccupied with other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.89,0:49:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, Payson's describing the people in
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.03,0:49:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these innermost circles, not as reading their Bibles perpetually.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.36,0:49:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even when they're in the workplace,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.93,0:49:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they constantly have their eyes lifted up.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.14,0:49:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lord, is this pleasing to You?" "Lord, is this right?"
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.54,0:49:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're constantly talking. They're constantly singing.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:27.04,0:49:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their minds are constantly set on things above.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.97,0:49:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're constantly looking. They're constantly going there.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.12,0:49:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're afraid - they don't ever want to get to the place
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.35,0:49:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they look up and "where is He?"
Dialogue: 0,0:49:39.16,0:49:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He's gone," or "I've drifted away,"
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.00,0:49:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've wandered away."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.25,0:49:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a fear, brethren, there's a fear
Dialogue: 0,0:49:46.34,0:49:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live in this circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.71,0:49:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you don't want to strike the rock
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.36,0:49:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now I can't go into the land of Canaan.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.87,0:49:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a sensitivity here. We need to be careful.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:57.85,0:50:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember Moses, brethren, remember.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.33,0:50:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The apostle Paul was one who sought to live in this realm.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.69,0:50:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know there in 1 Corinthians 4:4, he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.81,0:50:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I know nothing against myself."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.39,0:50:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul was a man who lived with a conscience
Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.47,0:50:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was undefiled, all the time, before God and man.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.39,0:50:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing, brethren, nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:22.30,0:50:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying he lived a perfect life,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.23,0:50:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm saying he kept his conscience clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.07,0:50:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He let nothing stand between Him and Christ - nothing!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.36,0:50:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No idol in his life. No sin in his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.29,0:50:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Short accounts. He dealt with it right away, right away.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.24,0:50:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People that dwell in this innermost circle
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.29,0:50:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the love of Christ, that bask in that glow
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.81,0:50:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more perpetually than all the rest of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:46.60,0:50:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, they're sensitive. They're sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.89,0:50:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't want to grieve Him, they don't want to
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.53,0:50:54.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grieve His Spirit at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.83,0:50:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this power just floods them.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.71,0:51:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more we strive, the more we give ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.46,0:51:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more we try to be attentive to His advances,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.68,0:51:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His glances, and His voice, brethren,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.89,0:51:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more we will find that voice being heard.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.40,0:51:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we will find that glance coming to our eye.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.21,0:51:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more, brethren, the more.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.29,0:51:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is not slow, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.73,0:51:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to be sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.62,0:51:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brainerd. You guys know David Brainerd, many of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:24.99,0:51:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He worked among the Indians in the 1700's.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.51,0:51:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, he would confess his pride somewhat hourly
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.22,0:51:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to keep sensitive, trying to keep short accounts,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.24,0:51:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to keep in the Presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.66,0:51:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, brethren, as you are more and more
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.84,0:51:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsive to Christ and all His loving approaches,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.84,0:51:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your comprehension of His love will grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.07,0:52:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let a frown of grief come across that Spirit at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.50,0:52:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep all the channels open. All of them flowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.74,0:52:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like that song says, "Nothing between, nothing between."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.81,0:52:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of it out of there.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.54,0:52:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Jude says, "Keep yourselves in the love of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.32,0:52:21.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's not about being saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.23,0:52:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's about people, as our missionary in China loves to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:27.57,0:52:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, it's a sensible sense of God's love.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.22,0:52:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.16,0:52:37.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't mean that once God loves me,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.97,0:52:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can get away from His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.30,0:52:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His love is eternal. His love is everlasting.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.83,0:52:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He lays His love upon somebody,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:44.55,0:52:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody can pluck them out of His hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.87,0:52:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what He's talking about there.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.80,0:52:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is, brethren, there is a place
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.46,0:52:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the love of Christ flows.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.96,0:53:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get you there. Get there. Sit there. Find that place.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.90,0:53:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes sensitivity. It takes awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.69,0:53:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you this, the lazy aren't going to find that place.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:09.25,0:53:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those that aren't committed to this;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.72,0:53:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those that are in love with the world;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.00,0:53:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those that would rather play at Christianity...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.22,0:53:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not going to find this place.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.39,0:53:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep yourselves sensitive, keep yourselves alert
Dialogue: 0,0:53:24.14,0:53:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this rarified air, brethren, of the inner circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.99,0:53:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, here's Edward Payson.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.58,0:53:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Others, to be sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.27,0:53:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not be content to live out of Christ's presence,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.42,0:53:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're yet less wholly absorbed by it than these first ones
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.97,0:53:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and may be seen a little further off,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:48.41,0:53:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,engaged here and there in other various callings;
Dialogue: 0,0:53:51.25,0:53:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their eyes generally upon their work,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.75,0:53:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but often looking up for the light which they love."
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.64,0:54:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, people, as we fall and we move further out
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.79,0:54:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these concentric circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.54,0:54:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Spirit's work is somewhat more resisted.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.71,0:54:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We allow somewhat more of the grieving of the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.64,0:54:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in this category allow more noise,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.90,0:54:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more distractions.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:20.48,0:54:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ's knock at the door is less obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.48,0:54:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets mistaken for other noises.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.42,0:54:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their minds tend to stray from Christ for longer periods.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.32,0:54:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The young lady from the Song of Solomon,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:32.96,0:54:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least at that point there where she put off her lover,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:35.39,0:54:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least at that moment, she was in more
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.58,0:54:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these outward circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.54,0:54:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you know what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.28,0:54:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a hesitation in our obedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.75,0:54:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a hesitation in our love.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:52.24,0:54:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that what happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:53.96,0:54:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That lady when her lover came to the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:57.75,0:55:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she hesitated. Isn't that what happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.41,0:55:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She got to thinking, "well, I put my garment off,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.42,0:55:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I washed my feet." There was a hesitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.97,0:55:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that is often what characterizes
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.28,0:55:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the difference is that characterizes
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.66,0:55:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those in the innermost circles from the outermost.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.72,0:55:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tend to move more outward from those
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.81,0:55:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concentric circles of the love of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.79,0:55:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there's more hesitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.61,0:55:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's more justifying that which probably
Dialogue: 0,0:55:27.67,0:55:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't good in our life.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.89,0:55:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They may be somewhat neutral things, but they're just stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.39,0:55:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just filler.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:34.42,0:55:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We move more into the realm -
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.49,0:55:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know how it says in Philippians,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:41.37,0:55:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to approve what is excellent.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.79,0:55:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ones in the innermost circles, they approve
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.82,0:55:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is most excellent.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.49,0:55:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you begin to move out, people tolerate stuff that's good
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.93,0:55:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the expense of stuff that's excellent.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:53.40,0:55:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in this realm, to be sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.93,0:56:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're people that do love Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:04.34,0:56:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in this camp, the love for Christ is full,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:07.26,0:56:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's rich, it's strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.33,0:56:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that recently put off garment; those freshly washed feet,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.66,0:56:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often are the kinds of things that give rise to
Dialogue: 0,0:56:15.70,0:56:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such the hesitation that puts them in a class
Dialogue: 0,0:56:22.03,0:56:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to where they get to the door and they don't enjoy
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.23,0:56:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the overwhelming embraces of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.95,0:56:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:29.87,0:56:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, some of us are too calculated.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:31.89,0:56:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over much calculation, over much deliberation,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:33.46,0:56:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over much hesitation - hesitations of doubt,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.07,0:56:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distractions by the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:38.72,0:56:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, it costs.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:43.63,0:56:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But moving outward still, Payson goes on to describe
Dialogue: 0,0:56:46.10,0:56:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this last category. He says this,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.20,0:56:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A third class beyond these, but yet within the life-giving rays."
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.10,0:56:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his estimation, as he lived his life when he's writing this,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.13,0:56:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's at the end of his life. He's observed,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.12,0:57:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are people who are genuinely saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.18,0:57:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're within the life-giving rays.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.52,0:57:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It includes a doubtful multitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.89,0:57:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Many of whom are so much engaged in their worldly schemes,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:10.44,0:57:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they may be seen standing sideways to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.77,0:57:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking mostly the other way, and
Dialogue: 0,0:57:16.38,0:57:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only now and then turning their faces towards the light."
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.44,0:57:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you can see the picture, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.14,0:57:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ is here in the center, and they're in these fading
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.31,0:57:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concentric circles, and they're standing sideways.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.60,0:57:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which means, they can turn and glance.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:32.25,0:57:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people in the inner circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.16,0:57:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've got their eyes on Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:36.22,0:57:39.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just afraid, lest they take them off.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.100,0:57:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people as you move out, they tend to turn.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.98,0:57:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They tend to turn more and more to the side.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.28,0:57:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until you get in the outer concentric circles
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.11,0:57:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what still remains to be true Christianity.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.74,0:57:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, a lot of people live there.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.90,0:57:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like that picture that Spurgeon paints
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.70,0:58:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the love of Christ being an ocean to swim in.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:03.42,0:58:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that most Chrsitians wade ankle deep.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.00,0:58:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very, very few dive in to find it an ocean to swim in.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.84,0:58:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what I want to ask you right now
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.03,0:58:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is let's just bring it home.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.29,0:58:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are you at?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:27.37,0:58:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean is this true of you?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:29.30,0:58:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are you living? What are you content with?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:58:33.57,0:58:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what happens in our life?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.04,0:58:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I tell you this?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:38.36,0:58:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you be a Christian and grieve the Spirit?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.53,0:58:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, or Paul wouldn't be telling those Ephesians not to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:48.22,0:58:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you grieve the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:58:49.52,0:58:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then His fiery influences are quenched?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.47,0:58:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now this power doesn't flow in us, to comprehend this love?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.08,0:59:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, brethren, that's why there's danger
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.56,0:59:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in quenching the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:03.31,0:59:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why there's danger in grieving the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:05.46,0:59:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We woudn't be told not to do it if it didn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:08.81,0:59:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.58,0:59:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It greatly matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.09,0:59:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But think about grieving the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:16.78,0:59:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it. What happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.93,0:59:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I can remember one time as a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.32,0:59:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my brother and I, we went to this carnival,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:25.02,0:59:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up there in Michigan, and we got on this
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.17,0:59:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing that went around in circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:31.59,0:59:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what made it fun was that once it got going around,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.67,0:59:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would shoot you way up in the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.51,0:59:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there we were. My brother and I got in this thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.53,0:59:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were spinning around, and every time we went around
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.26,0:59:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the ride operator, he'd shout something at us.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:53.39,0:59:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the other cars are going up, ours wouldn't go up.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:56.87,0:59:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just kept going in circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:59.07,1:00:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What made the ride fun was the fact you got to go up in the air.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:02.18,1:00:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he kept shouting something. We couldn't hear him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:05.14,1:00:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're moving around, moving this way,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:06.91,1:00:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going over here, we thought he wanted us
Dialogue: 0,1:00:09.10,1:00:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to move further in, further out.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:10.84,1:00:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're moving all over, we're doing all this stuff.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:12.93,1:00:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, the ride's over, and we never got to go up.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:16.67,1:00:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know that's a lot like a lot of Christians.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.93,1:00:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he was saying,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:22.45,1:00:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pull the safety bar back."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:24.66,1:00:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never did hear it.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.79,1:00:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's like that with a lot of Christians.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.99,1:00:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you're being told by the apostle.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.04,1:00:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the ride operator. You're on the ride.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:36.17,1:00:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's shouting to you:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.58,1:00:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't grieve the Spirit."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.29,1:00:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pull into the inner circles,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:43.96,1:00:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you might comprehend the love of Christ."
Dialogue: 0,1:00:50.40,1:00:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vastness of it.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:52.45,1:00:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be filled with all the fullness of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:56.53,1:00:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will bring you power, folks.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:58.42,1:01:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will help you. It will pull you through this life.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:00.88,1:01:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will pull you through the problems.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:04.76,1:01:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what does grieve the Holy Spirit?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.48,1:01:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it comes back to this aspect of love.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.32,1:01:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really does.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.14,1:01:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody will come along and say,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:17.63,1:01:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, the only possible thing that could grieve
Dialogue: 0,1:01:19.59,1:01:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Holy Spirit is sin.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:24.04,1:01:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what I find?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.97,1:01:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find even when there's sin, such as,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:31.46,1:01:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remember the prodigal son?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.46,1:01:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He lived in all sorts of sin.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:37.50,1:01:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he came back to his father,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.40,1:01:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his father didn't meet him with a grieved smile.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.38,1:01:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, what grieves the Father, grieves the Son,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:46.20,1:01:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grieves the Spirit. They're all One.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.81,1:01:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as what grieves them. What grieves the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,1:01:50.87,1:01:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be the same thing that grieves the Father.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:53.80,1:01:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here's the picture Christ is painting for us of the Father.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.92,1:02:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite all the sin, the Father did not welcome him back
Dialogue: 0,1:02:00.12,1:02:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a frown of grief.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:03.71,1:02:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.12,1:02:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than over 99 that need no repentance.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.77,1:02:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you cannot just nail it down to the fact
Dialogue: 0,1:02:13.04,1:02:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sin...
Dialogue: 0,1:02:16.16,1:02:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, it comes back to the intimacy thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:20.15,1:02:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Father's rejoicing because here comes one now,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.52,1:02:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a repentant sinner, that's seeking the intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.14,1:02:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming back, returning to the Father,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.69,1:02:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Father throws His arms, kisses, robes, sandals,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.12,1:02:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fatted calf, rings on finger...
Dialogue: 0,1:02:39.85,1:02:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, again, it's intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:43.47,1:02:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to know what grieves the Spirit?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:46.14,1:02:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to this, you say, well
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.61,1:02:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly not keeping His commandments.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:50.26,1:02:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, but He says, listen to how He says it.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.91,1:02:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, that's true, but that's not all the truth of it.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:56.72,1:03:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is, if you love Me, keep My commandments.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:00.80,1:03:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even there, Christ is making it an intimacy thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:04.65,1:03:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A relational thing. He's appealing, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.71,1:03:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:10.85,1:03:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not so much interested in people
Dialogue: 0,1:03:13.19,1:03:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking around through life who coldly
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.97,1:03:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mechanically just try to be law keepers.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:18.02,1:03:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm looking for people who are like these people
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.31,1:03:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the innermost concentric cirlces; they're afraid
Dialogue: 0,1:03:24.37,1:03:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they fear lest they should fall out of His love,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:27.98,1:03:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of His loving beams, out of His gaze.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:31.01,1:03:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:33.45,1:03:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason that they're wanting to be so meticulous
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.43,1:03:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is lest they should have any cloud come between them.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:40.32,1:03:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when that's what drives you,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:42.50,1:03:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look how pleasing that is to Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.34,1:03:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, He says, have you ever read
Dialogue: 0,1:03:49.96,1:03:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was said of the Ephesian church there
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.18,1:03:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Revelation 2?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:55.28,1:03:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, they were a good church. They were good.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.23,1:04:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go through the list of everything that Christ says,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:00.04,1:04:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,positively about them, they are a tremendous church.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.69,1:04:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the end, He says this,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:05.46,1:04:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite all that looks tremendous,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:08.73,1:04:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite all that may seem to the contrary,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.57,1:04:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You've lost your first love,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:13.44,1:04:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I hold against you."
Dialogue: 0,1:04:15.68,1:04:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, you want to know something that grieves the Spirit?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:18.82,1:04:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you begin to lose this first love.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:21.38,1:04:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That in itself is grieving.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:26.44,1:04:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's grieving.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.59,1:04:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, when you look at these things?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:32.52,1:04:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are we?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.67,1:04:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are you?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:37.01,1:04:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where have you been?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:39.06,1:04:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where have you been living?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:42.46,1:04:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if we can press in. Press in. Press upward.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:49.59,1:04:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I not only love reading about these guys
Dialogue: 0,1:04:53.47,1:04:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have this burst of love come upon them.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:58.10,1:05:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these men, these women, who lived
Dialogue: 0,1:05:02.02,1:05:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year in, year out, in the blazing glory.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:06.42,1:05:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samuel Rutherford, I'll just end on this:
Dialogue: 0,1:05:09.52,1:05:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon says of him,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:11.90,1:05:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Old Samuel Rutherford used expressions sometimes so rapturous,"
Dialogue: 0,1:05:19.01,1:05:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon says, "I won't even quote them."
Dialogue: 0,1:05:24.32,1:05:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's why. Spurgeon said,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:26.01,1:05:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Love letters are not to be read in the streets.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.69,1:05:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the words which souls inflamed with heavenly fire
Dialogue: 0,1:05:33.50,1:05:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes use towards Christ are not fit for public repetition.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:38.44,1:05:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For there are passages of love, there are
Dialogue: 0,1:05:40.57,1:05:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet embraces of affections of which we must not tell.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:45.28,1:05:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this were to commit treason such as Paul might have done
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.29,1:05:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he had told on earth those things that He had heard in heaven.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:52.69,1:05:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And which it would not be lawful for a man to utter here."
Dialogue: 0,1:05:57.11,1:05:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, do you know anything of that?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:59.03,1:06:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know anything of such words, such exchanges
Dialogue: 0,1:06:02.64,1:06:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between you and Christ that it's almost unfit for the public?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.46,1:06:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're there in the inner circles.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.91,1:06:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you might be able to comprehend with all the saints
Dialogue: 0,1:06:19.92,1:06:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you might be able to press into these inner circles
Dialogue: 0,1:06:23.49,1:06:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what that means.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:25.58,1:06:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the power of the Spirit of God is there.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:29.48,1:06:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't grieve Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:30.85,1:06:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is your life.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.06,1:06:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is it. Basking in the glow of Christ's love is it.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:38.80,1:06:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what fills us with all the fullness of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:42.59,1:06:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't go in further.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:49.52,1:06:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no more further in than the innermost circles, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:54.88,1:06:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we will get swept, unless it's just to go into Christ Himself,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:59.61,1:07:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we are in there.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:03.19,1:07:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll just be swept off into glory forever and ever,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:08.50,1:07:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to be ravished by this love.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:15.68,1:07:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I'm sorry I can't - I can guarantee you
Dialogue: 0,1:07:22.05,1:07:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a glory here to be brought out
Dialogue: 0,1:07:25.80,1:07:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I feel I fail tremendously to be able to do,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:32.42,1:07:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but seek to dwell on these things.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:36.36,1:07:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go after them.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.54,1:07:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, walk carefully.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:41.96,1:07:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strive to know nothing against yourself, nothing at all.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:47.73,1:07:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be careful.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:49.37,1:07:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't hesitate.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.38,1:07:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Christ beckons you, go at once.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:56.52,1:07:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He calls you to prayer, jump.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:59.52,1:08:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He calls you to the Word, jump.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:01.74,1:08:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He calls you to fast, move, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:05.72,1:08:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He calls your name... don't be slow.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:10.06,1:08:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here am I."
Dialogue: 0,1:08:12.58,1:08:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He puts that tinge in your conscience, don't go that way,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:15.80,1:08:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, don't go that way.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:18.40,1:08:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When He knocks at the door, run to that door and open it.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:24.02,1:08:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And may God help us.