Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 310.
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We often use this expression,
the power of prayer.
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We often use this expression,
the power of prayer.
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But what do we mean by that?
Do we mean that prayer is some
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innate force that gives us what
we want, sort of like Aladdin’s
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lamp that we rub and it sort of
produces the things that we
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desire?
Or do we mean that it’s the
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comfort of prayer that we get a
feeling from it?
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What?
What is this power?
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There is a power in prayer, and
we know that because on the
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altar we’re horns, and we know
that horns in the Bible are
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symbolic of power.
Now James speaks of a power in
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prayer, and he says this.
The effectual, fervent prayer of
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a righteous man avails much.
The Interlinear Bible, or Greens
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as it’s sometimes called, says
this, The prayer of a righteous
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one is very powerful, having
been made effective.
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That’s the order of the Greek.
So there is a power in prayer
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and that power, it’s, there’s a
power in prayer because it’s
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been made effective or dunaman,
it’s been energized in some way.
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So there’s something powerful or
effective that makes our prayers
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have power.
Now Rotherham renders it this
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way.
Rotherham says much avails the
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supplication of a righteous man
when energized and in his margin
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he shows that it is actually in
the middle voice and it is
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something that works inwardly.
There’s a power which works
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inwardly.
It’s an external power that
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affects us and energizes prayer.
I believe that it refers to the
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to the acceptable attitude.
It produces an acceptable
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attitude.
The very things that we
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considered yesterday in those
ingredients.
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I don’t, I think I ran out of
time to show that all the the
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ingredients spoke not of
technical things, not of the
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things that make it work, but of
attitudes.
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Every one of them spoke of
attitude.
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And that’s what God is looking
for in prayer.
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But there’s a power, an external
power that produces those
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attitudes, a motivation.
Now, the answer to this lies in
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those horns on the altar of
incense.
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Horns in Scripture are used is a
summary of the passages that use
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horns of salvation and
exaltation in victory.
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Now salvation comes as a result
ultimately of forgiveness.
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Remember, there were two men
that took hold of the the horns
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of the altar, the brazen altar,
Adonijah and Joanne.
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And they grasp hold of those
horns seeking mercy or
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forgiveness.
And so these desperate men
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obviously had a basis for that
symbolic action.
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Well, there is, because there’s
this connection between the
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altar of incense and that altar
or the brazen altar, the altar
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of vent offering.
And that connection is that they
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both have homes, they all have 4
horns each, and the horns of
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both of those altars represent
the power of forgiveness because
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they are only ever used the
horns on both altars for one
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reason.
Sure, people grabbed hold of
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them, and there’s a passage that
shows that some of the animals
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were tied to those horns, but
that’s not part of the law.
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In the law, the reason for those
horns, it had one specific use,
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and that was that all those
horns were smeared with the
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blood of the sin offering.
For the standard sin offering
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and for the sin offering on the
Day of Atonement, it’s always
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the sin offering.
Can you see the connection with
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atonement and forgiveness?
And of course, all of this
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represents Christ’s offering for
sin.
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His sin offering has power.
In other words, brothers and
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sisters, in connection with the
altar of innocent, Christ’s
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sacrifice enables prayer.
It’s that which enables our
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prayers.
It’s got power.
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It gives access to God.
Forgiveness in Christ brings us
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nigh unto God.
Now we have another connection
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between those two altars, those
24 horned altars.
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Incense could not emit its
powerful aroma unless it was
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ignited.
It had to be ignited in order
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for that the fumes to to usher
forth.
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But as Naidab and Abihu found,
you cannot ignite God’s incense
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with strange fire.
God stipulated that the fire to
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burn the incense, the coals that
ignited the incense, were to be
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taken from the brazen altar, the
altar of sacrifice, the altar
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that represents Christ’s
sacrifice.
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In other words, brothers and
sisters, Christ’s sacrifice
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should ignite our prayers.
There’s motivation.
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It’s Christ that empowers,
ignites our priests.
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So He’s both the means and the
motivation of prayer.
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Come with me to Hebrews chapter
10.
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In Hebrews 10 and in verse 19,
it says there having therefore,
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brethren, boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of
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Jesus, by a new and living way
which He had consecrated for us
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through the veil, that is to
say, His flesh.
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Having an high priest over the
House of God, let us draw near
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it with a true heart, with full
assurance of faith, having our
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hearts sprinkled as an evil from
an evil conscience, and our
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bodies washed with pure water.
He’s taken us right through the
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Tabernacle there, the Laver and
the burnt offering, the altar of
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burnt offering, and through the
the veil into the holiest by the
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blood of Christ.
He’s the means.
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So the power of prayer is
Christ.
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So when we use that expression,
the power of prayer, that’s what
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it is.
It’s the place of Christ in our
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lives.
The sacrifice of Christ then
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must be both the means and the
motivation through Christ, his
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sacrifice.
He’s the means and he inspires
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us.
He ignites our priests.
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He ought to be the motivation
for our priests.
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And we must see the importance
of this.
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And there’s more to this,
because it’s not just a theory
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here.
What does, what part does Christ
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play in our prayers?
What’s his part in our prayers?
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Well, he’s the high priest and
the mediator and the
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intercessor.
But we’ve got problems with
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those expressions, brothers and
sisters, and those problems are
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are seen and how we use those
expressions.
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When we talk about Christ’s role
in our prayers, it conjures up
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confusing images.
For example, we know that we
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must pray to the Father through
Christ.
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So does that make Christ like a
telephone exchange operator?
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Could you put me through to God,
please?
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And, and while you’re at it,
could you put in a good word for
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me?
And we also know that Christ is
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our intercessor who pleads our
cause in heaven.
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And the image is that Christ is
down on his knees pleading with
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the Father, saying I understand
him and I really believe he’s
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telling the truth.
And of course you don’t
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understand this Father.
So listen to me now, all of that
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is highly, it sounds highly
disrespectful and it is.
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But those are the images that we
present and how we talk about
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Christ’s role in prayer.
If Christ is required to
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meditate, mediate rather, and to
intercede for each and every
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prayer in that sense at the
right hand of God, then we’ve
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got problems, haven’t we?
Because who?
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Who did that before Christ
descended unto the Father, from
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Adam to Christ’s ascent?
Who did it?
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If that’s absolutely necessary,
why is it necessary now, as
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opposed to those before Christ
came?
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And who’s going to do that role
when Christ descends and is on
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the earth for 1000 years if it’s
necessary for that kind of
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picture that we sometimes
present of Christ?
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So I want to spend a little bit
of time exploring Christ’s role
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in as a mediator and an
intercessor.
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So what is a mediator?
Well, he’s a a go between
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someone that goes between two
parties.
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It’s one who brings two
conflicted parties together, one
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who facilitates agreement or
peace between two conflicting
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parties.
He’s also an adjudicator or
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judge in dispute.
We have that in our court
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systems today.
Now a biblical mediator must be
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absolutely just, but secondly
must be accepted by both
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conflicted parties.
Someone who is accepted by both
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parties so he can represent both
parties.
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Now an intercessor.
An intercessor is one who speaks
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up for or on behalf of someone
else.
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It’s someone who intercedes, in
other words, on behalf of
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someone, an actual fact.
You can intercede on behalf of
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yourself.
Well, there’s no two parties
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there.
You’re doing it yourself.
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It’s not the biblical mediator
is the the third person.
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It’s an one in between.
So there’s three parties
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involved there.
So an intercessor is not
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necessarily a mediator, but the
biblical mediator is of
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necessity an intercessor.
Hope you can see that point.
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He has to intercede on behalf of
both parties, for example.
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I’ll also make this distinction.
An intercessor is not
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necessarily a mediator, but a
mediator must be an intercessor.
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And what I mean by this as an
example is Moses, because he
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interceded as a mediator on
behalf of Israel to God, but he
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also interceded on behalf of
Pharaoh.
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Several times Pharaoh asked him
to pray to God for him, but he
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was never a mediator, bringing
reconciliation between Pharaoh
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and God.
So I hope you can see that
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point.
There is a difference between an
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intercessor and a mediator.
A mediator must also be an
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intercessor.
But an intercessor is not
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necessarily a mediator.
But Christ is both because he is
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the mediator.
Hope you get that.
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That’s not it’s a yeah, all
right.
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The Old Testament frequently
mentions the absence of an
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acceptable mediator.
For example, we come to have a
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look at Isaiah 59, Isaiah 59,
and in verses one and two,
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behold, Yahweh’s hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save,
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neither His ear heavy that it
cannot hear.
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But your iniquities have
separated between you and your
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God, and your sins have hid His
face from you that He will not
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hear.
So what can be done?
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How can they be reconciled?
Well, God saw that problem too,
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because in verse 16 it says and
He saw that there was no man, no
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east, no no powerful man, and
wondered that there was no
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intercessor.
Therefore his arm brought
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salvation unto him, and his
righteousness it sustained him.
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So God was searching the land,
and he could find no man to
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fulfil this role.
And so he put forth his own arm
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to accomplish salvation for his
people.
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And God’s own arm symbolized an
extension of himself in a human,
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one who represented both
parties.
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So there’s a human, and God
extends himself through into
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that human.
There’s mediation.
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Have a look at Isaiah 53, Isaiah
53, verse one.
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Who hath believed our report,
and to whom is the arm of Yahweh
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revealed?
For He the arm, shall grow up
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before Him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground.
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He that arm hath no fault, no
comeliness.
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And when we shall see Him, there
is no beauty that we should
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desire Him.
He is despised and rejected of
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men, a man of sorrows, a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with
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grief.
And we hid, as it were, our
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faces from Him.
He was despised, and we esteemed
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Him not.
Isaiah 53 presents this arm of
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Yahweh as a suffering servant, a
man as the mediator.
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This servant arm would bear the
burdens of human nature as an
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offering to God.
Verse 12 Therefore will I divide
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him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoiler
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with the strong, because he hath
poured out his soul unto death,
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and he was numbered with the
transgressors, and he bare the
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sin of many, and made
intercession for the
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transgressors.
Now notice that His offering
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unto death was an act of
intercession, a prayer.
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His offering brothers and
sisters, His life given was a
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petition to the Father on behalf
of the many.
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Now the New Testament also
speaks of how Christ became the
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mediator of the New Covenant in
His death.
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Come with me to Hebrews Chapter
9.
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Hebrews 9 and in verse 15.
And for this cause He is the
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mediator of the new covenant,
that by means of death, for the
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redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first
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covenant, and so on.
So He was the mediator of the
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new Covenant by the means of
death.
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So we notice then that
intercession in Isaiah 53 and
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mediation in Hebrews Chapter 9
occurs in Christ’s sacrificial
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death.
Or was this act that brought
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reconciliation between the two
parties?
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Now, the role didn’t end with
his death.
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His sacrificial death was the
beginning of the role.
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Notice because it says for this,
’cause he is the mediator of the
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new covenant.
It’s in, in the Greek present,
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continuous.
It’s something that continues.
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It’s a state.
And so for what cause is he the
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mediator?
Well, Paul shows that Christ,
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what Christ’s blood accomplished
in verse 24, he says, For Christ
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is not entered into the holy
places made with hands, which
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are the figures of the truth,
but into heaven itself.
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Now to appear where?
In the presence of God, for what
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reason, or or on behalf of us?
That’s a mediator’s role, which
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includes intercession.
The blood of the New Covenant
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enabled Christ, our
representative, our mediator, to
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be raised and to enter into
heaven itself self and to dwell
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in the Father’s presence on our
behalf.
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That’s mediation.
His presence there on our behalf
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signifies that we too are there.
We’ve been brought nigh to God
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in Christ.
That’s the place that we were
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talking about yesterday.
So this being in Christ is the
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continuing intercessory work of
Christ, mediation, which begins
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at our baptism because we enter
into the covenant, we enter into
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Christ and it concludes when we
are made in the same image of
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Christ in immortality.
We no longer then need
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mediation.
We no longer need to be, as it
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were in him.
He’s still our Lord, but we’re
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one with him and one with God.
We’re All in all.
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That’s what Brother Thomas says.
And Eureka now the role of
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mediator and intercessor
therefore doesn’t require Christ
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to pray for us or literally to
stand in the breach like Moses
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had to and stop an angry God
from destroying us.
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He’s done that work when He
brought us nigh to God in
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Christ.
In Him we have direct access to
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the Father.
Now Christ says this himself,
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John 16 verse 26, He says at
that day he shall ask in my
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name.
And I say not unto you, that I
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will pray the Father for you.
I don’t have to pray anymore.
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There’s no need for Christ to
pray for us, because asking in
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His name is the same as Christ
asking for us.
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That’s what He’s saying.
Then here it is again, but John
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1413 and 14 And whatsoever you
shall ask in my name, that will
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I do that the Father may be
glorified in the Son.
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If you shall ask anything in my
name, I will do it.
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When we speak in the name of
someone, we speak with their
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authority.
If someone comes in the name or
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as an as an ambassador, they
speak in the name of royalty or
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whoever.
They speak with their authority,
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with their message.
So when we speak in the name, we
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speak on their behalf.
Prayer in the name of Christ
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therefore means that he is the
means of speaking to God.
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This is not correct.
Oh, yes, it is.
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I’m sorry.
I’m viewing a different screen.
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And it’s.
Yeah.
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Anyway, I won’t involve you in
the technicalities.
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I just got confused by what was
there.
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OK.
It’s also the motivation.
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We’ve seen this, haven’t we?
But that’s speaking in the name
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of God as I in the name of
Christ.
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He’s also the motivation, but
he’s also, well, it can find
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what we should ask because it’s
got to be something he wants or
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will need or or or requires,
because it’s in his name.
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We’ve got no better illustration
of all of this, brothers and
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sisters, than in what the
incense represents, because
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Christ is the incense.
Remember what we said yesterday,
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that every part of the
Tabernacle, every single item is
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Christ, It represents Christ.
So also with the incense, it is
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Christ.
How in Luke chapter one verse
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10, it says and the whole
multitude of the people were
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praying without at the time of
incense.
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So in other words, the people
would pray at the time of
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incense.
And the implication is this at
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the time that incense is wafting
in through the Vale into the
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holiest people are praying, they
have their individual prayers.
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Can you see the point of that?
It’s saying that that their
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prayers are joining with that
incense.
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It’s being added to that
incense.
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Now we’ve got that picture in
the apocalypse.
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Come with me to Revelation
chapter 5, Revelation 5 and
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verse 8.
And when he had taken the book,
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the four beasts and four and 20
elders fell down before the
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land, every one of them sorry,
having every one of them harps
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and golden vase or senses full
of odors, incense, which are the
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prayers of the Saints.
Now we know that that’s true
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from Psalm 141, that that
incense represents prayers.
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And so here are these
individuals, each with their own
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censor, full of their own
incense or prayers.
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Now look at chapter 8 and verse
three.
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And another Angel came and stood
at the altar, having a golden
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censor, and it was given unto
him much incense, that he should
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offer it with the prayers of all
the Saints upon the golden altar
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which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense
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which came with the prayers of
the Saints, ascended up before
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God out of the angel’s hands.
See, there’s that picture.
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Incense is all our prayers
joining or even being subsumed
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in Christ’s prayer of mediation,
which he accomplished in his
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death.
That’s what we’ve seen as the
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incense.
Christ is the spirit of prayer,
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so we join with Him in his name.
He is the spirit of prayer.
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Now I haven’t time to look at
the we can see that from the
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ingredients of prayer that that
he is the incest, but we haven’t
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been able to look at that.
But it’s there.
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It’s hidden there in the
meanings of the names.
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And what is that spirit, the
Spirit of Christ?
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Christ is the Spirit of the
whole of the Bible, isn’t he?
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All of God’s Word is all about
Christ.
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Even the Old Testament prophet
sought to understand the message
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of the Spirit of Christ which
was in them, says Peter in first
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of Peter one verse 11.
He was the Word made flesh.
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He’s everything.
He’s God’s purpose.
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It’s all there in the Word.
It’s God’s mind expressed for us
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in one man.
So the Word represents Christ.
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It’s all about Him.
He’s every part of that word.
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Now we see this correlation
between God’s Word and the Lord
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Jesus Christ in two remarkable
passages that help us in regard
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to prayer and his role in
Hebrews chapter 4.
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It is quite remarkable because
we see a transition here,
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Hebrews chapter 4 and in verse
12.
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Now notice this.
See what happens here verse 12.
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For the Word of God is quick and
powerful and sharper than any
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two edged sword, piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul
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and spirit, and of the joints
and marrows, as a discerner of
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the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
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That’s what the Word of God can
do and that says neither is
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there any creature that is not
manifest in his side.
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All of a sudden the Word has
become a him, a person, but all
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things are naked and open unto
the eyes of him with whom we
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have to do so.
The the Word of God is able to
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discern the thoughts and intents
of the heart and it reveals us
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for who we are.
It does that for us, but all of
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a sudden this has become a
person.
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Who is this person?
Well, it says seeing being verse
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40, that we have a great high
priest that is passed into the
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heavens.
Jesus, the Son of God.
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Let us hold past our profession.
See that transition there.
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It’s the word of God which is
able to do these things.
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It becomes a person that’s
looking and doing That
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discerning is not just the Word,
it’s the Word made flesh.
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And He’s the one representative
and He’s looking into our
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hearts.
It becomes Him as a high priest.
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Now the same relationship
between God’s Word and Christ’s
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role appears in Romans chapter
8.
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Come with me there to Romans 8
and in this chapter we know that
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that that Paul uses various
expressions to describe the word
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of God in a person’s mind.
He describes it as being it’s
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spiritually minded.
In other words, it’s the Spirit
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of Christ in US or the Spirit of
God verse 9, the Spirit of
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Christ.
It’s even simply Christ in the
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mind or the Spirit in the mind.
They’re all synonymous.
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Ultimately, it is the word of
God, but it’s the the word of
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God in Christ.
It was, it was seen in Christ.
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It’s his spirit in us.
It’s the spirit mind of Christ
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that leads us in our walk as
God’s children.
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It causes us as His children to
cry ABBA Father like He did.
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It’s the Spirit of Sumption as
it says in verse 15.
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Now this Spirit or Christ like
thinking the word of gardeners
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does more because it operates as
an intercessor in our minds,
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just like Hebrews 14 at 4:00.
But just as that word in Hebrews
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4 functions as a discerner of
thoughts and intents of the
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heart, it then becomes the Lord
Jesus Christ who does this in
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Romans chapter eight.
Look at verse 26.
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Likewise the Spirit, the mind of
Christ or the Word of God also
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helps our infirmities.
For we know not what we should
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pray for as we ought, but the
Spirit word of well, mind of
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Christ makes itself, makes
intercession for us with
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groanings which cannot be
uttered.
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And he that searches the heart
knows what is that mind of the
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Spirit, because he makes
intercession for the Saints
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according to the will of God.
So the Spirit that helps our
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infirmities is the same spirit
word that was in Christ, who in
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his distress cried in the garden
ever Father.
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The word believed intercedes
when we are distraught and
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unable to express the the the
our feelings, the intents of the
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heart.
These are the times, brothers
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and sisters, when tears or even
inner groanings are prayers.
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And he that searches the hearts
hears, and he understands those
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prayers, for He is the discerner
of the thoughts of the intents
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of the heart, and he knows the
mind of the Spirit as it sees,
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because he experienced the same.
He therefore has become a
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faithful high priest, touched
with the feelings of our
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infirmities, and he makes
intercession for the Saints
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according to the will of God.
Can you see the transition that
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takes place Here is God’s word
in our hearts doing this, and he
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is looking into those hearts.
So there’s the place Christ in
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our hearts, He’s there, and
that’s that word in US.
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And he recognizes that word
because he’s looking in that
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place and he recognizes it and
he understands those grounds and
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those tears, and he’s able to
intercede.
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He makes intercession.
So Christ does more than simply
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understand our groanings and
incapacities.
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He intercedes.
As a mediator, He’s in charge of
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doing something about it.
As an intercessor and mediator,
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He’s the judge.
You see, a great change has
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taken place in heaven if you
come with me to Philippians
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chapter 2.
Our reading Philippians chapter
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2 and we read verse 9 because
the Son humbled himself to the
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Father’s will.
It says, verse 9.
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Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a
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name which is above every name,
that in the name of Jesus it
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should be in the name of Jesus
every knee should bow of things
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in heaven, and things on earth,
and things under the earth, and
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that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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To the glory of the Father.
The Lord Jesus Christ declared
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to the disciples, All power is
given unto me in heaven and on
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earth.
The apostle Peter says Jesus
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Christ, who has gone into
heaven, and is on the right hand
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of God, angels and authorities
and powers being made subject
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unto him.
First to Peter 3, verse 32.
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The Father has highly exalted
Him over whatever except
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Himself, so that Christ rules
over the angels.
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In fact, it says in Hebrews that
the angels worship them.
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They Revere Him.
They stand in awe of Him.
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He has jurisdiction over God’s
affairs upon the earth.
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He not only rules in the heavens
over the angels, He rules over
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the affairs upon the earth.
Not only that, but He has
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control of Providence.
Look at all of those passages
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that show that He’s in control
and He’s also the judge of all
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00:38:37,360 –> 00:38:43,200
humans seeing.
He knows what is in man and He
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00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:46,840
hears our prayers.
We’ve already seen that.
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And in Romans chapter 8, verse
27, and He acts on them as John
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00:38:53,200 –> 00:38:55,720
14, we’ve already seen that as
well, but we’ll come back to
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that.
The Father is still supreme,
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obviously, and he overseas the
rulership of his Son as he
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00:39:06,040 –> 00:39:09,760
prepares him, as it were, for
his role as King over all the
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earth in the future.
But it’s all to the glory of the
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Father, as Paul says in
Philippians to him.
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It’s in his name now.
In Philippians, Paul says that
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God has given Christ a name or
the name above every name and
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that name is Yahweh.
And we we know many will know
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00:39:35,480 –> 00:39:39,600
this, but his I’ll put it up on
the screen, Isaiah 45.
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This is where Paul is citing
from and this is what it says
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00:39:44,040 –> 00:39:47,600
there, what Isaiah says, in fact
it’s what God is saying.
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God says, I have sworn by
myself, and the word is gone out
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00:39:52,600 –> 00:39:57,280
of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return that unto
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00:39:57,280 –> 00:40:02,520
me every knee shall bow, and
every tongue shall swear.
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00:40:03,320 –> 00:40:07,600
Surely shall one say in Yahweh
have I righteousness and
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strength?
Even to him shall men come, and
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00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:12,920
all that are incest against him
shall be ashamed.
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In Yahweh shall all the seed of
Israel be justified, and shall
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00:40:17,480 –> 00:40:19,960
glory.
Isaiah says, that is unto Yahweh
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00:40:19,960 –> 00:40:23,480
himself that every knee bounce.
Well, so does Paul.
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Because it’s in the name of
Jesus Christ that they bear and
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00:40:28,080 –> 00:40:31,360
confess unto Yahweh.
It’s to the God’s glory.
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00:40:31,480 –> 00:40:34,720
But He’s also given him that
name.
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00:40:37,720 –> 00:40:42,680
And just as the Archangel
Michael for the name of Yahweh
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00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:50,920
in the Old Testament, Christ as
God’s Son, He is now superior to
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00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:58,320
all angels, including Michael,
and he upholds that office as
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the name bearer.
So Christ now is the
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00:41:03,440 –> 00:41:08,760
representative of the Father.
Now I want to show what that
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means.
In the little time that we have
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lived in Genesis chapter 48 and
here we have in Genesis 48,
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00:41:19,120 –> 00:41:24,400
Jacob is calling upon God to
bless Joseph and his two sons.
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00:41:24,960 –> 00:41:30,880
And he says in verse 15 and he
blessed Joseph and said, God,
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00:41:32,440 –> 00:41:39,320
Elohim, before whom my father’s
Abraham and Isaac did walk, the
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00:41:39,360 –> 00:41:44,440
Elohim which fed me all my
lifelong and lifelong unto this
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00:41:44,440 –> 00:41:46,400
day.
Who is he speaking to?
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00:41:49,560 –> 00:41:53,600
Well, this is a prayer because
he’s speaking unto God.
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He’s speaking to Elohim.
So is that ale or an Angel that
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00:42:02,880 –> 00:42:06,880
he’s speaking to?
Well, we know because the very
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00:42:06,880 –> 00:42:11,360
next verse, verse 16 says the
Angel which redeemed me from all
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00:42:11,360 –> 00:42:17,840
evil, bless the meds.
So he’s speaking directly to an
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00:42:17,840 –> 00:42:22,040
Angel, but he’s not speaking to
that Angel as an entity in
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00:42:22,040 –> 00:42:25,360
himself.
I believe that it’s the Angel of
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00:42:25,360 –> 00:42:31,520
the name, but he’s he’s speaking
to a real entity that acts on
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God’s behalf.
He’s the representative of
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Yahweh himself.
Because this is how Elohim
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works.
You see, Elohim is a corporate
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body, as it were.
If we could put it into our
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00:42:48,880 –> 00:42:54,280
expressions, it’s it’s, it’s,
it’s God and his Son with all
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00:42:54,280 –> 00:42:57,680
those entities.
The whole corporate body is
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Elohim.
God himself is called Elohim
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00:43:02,240 –> 00:43:05,960
because of all those others that
represented represent him.
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00:43:06,640 –> 00:43:09,560
And the Lord Jesus Christ is
called Elohim.
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00:43:12,160 –> 00:43:16,840
All are Elohim, but it all
represents God.
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00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:21,200
It all represents Him.
As Brother Thomas says in
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00:43:21,200 –> 00:43:25,760
phenerosis, the Mosaic and
prophetic revelation concerning
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00:43:25,760 –> 00:43:33,040
Deity is that there is one power
multitudinously manifest, and
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00:43:33,040 –> 00:43:36,080
that these manifestations
constitute God.
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00:43:37,600 –> 00:43:39,920
They are Him because they all
represent Him.
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00:43:42,320 –> 00:43:45,320
Now look at these two statements
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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00:43:47,040 –> 00:43:51,040
In John 15 verse 16 it says
whatsoever you shall ask of the
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00:43:51,040 –> 00:43:54,320
Father in My name, He may give
it you.
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00:43:55,120 –> 00:43:59,280
And then in chapter 14 and verse
14 it says, if you ask anything
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00:43:59,280 –> 00:44:02,840
in My name, I will do it.
So who’s going to do it?
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This is highly confusing unless
you understand manifestation and
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00:44:10,760 –> 00:44:16,120
representation.
Technically it is Christ that
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00:44:16,120 –> 00:44:19,720
will do it because He’s in
charge.
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00:44:20,640 –> 00:44:24,920
He hears the prayers, He’s the
one that speaks with the angels
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00:44:24,920 –> 00:44:31,000
and organizers, our affairs
under the oversight of the
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00:44:31,000 –> 00:44:36,600
Father and is all to his, to Him
because He represents the
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00:44:36,600 –> 00:44:40,480
Father.
He’s the one that’s actively
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00:44:40,480 –> 00:44:45,200
involved under the Father’s
care.
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00:44:46,360 –> 00:44:53,040
So God, Christ and the angels
hear our prayers and respond to
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00:44:53,120 –> 00:44:58,120
them in the name of Yahweh.
So the question about prayers to
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00:44:58,120 –> 00:45:06,240
Christ to me is a non issue.
If we ever think that we should
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00:45:06,240 –> 00:45:09,800
quietly have a little word with
Christ because he understands us
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00:45:09,800 –> 00:45:12,560
a little better than the Father,
then we’ve got it wrong.
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00:45:13,520 –> 00:45:16,120
We don’t understand who Christ
is.
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00:45:17,960 –> 00:45:23,600
There’s been an age of struggle.
The fact is that God was in
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00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:27,240
Christ reconciling the world
unto himself.
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00:45:28,160 –> 00:45:32,280
God bigot a son in order to be
related to our problem.
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00:45:33,200 –> 00:45:37,920
He became related to humans
through a son so that we might
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00:45:37,920 –> 00:45:40,680
understand.
He does understand us.
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00:45:43,320 –> 00:45:50,360
And Christ represented us to the
Father, and now he’s highly
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00:45:50,360 –> 00:45:54,680
exalted him and Christ
represents him to us.
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00:45:54,680 –> 00:45:58,920
I mean, he did so in his, in his
mortality as well, because God
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00:45:58,920 –> 00:46:01,880
was in him.
But now he has that full
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authority and acts in his
Father’s name.
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00:46:05,960 –> 00:46:09,560
He is the name bearer.
And being that name bearer and
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00:46:09,560 –> 00:46:13,440
the mediator, Christ hears our
prayers on God’s behalf.
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00:46:13,440 –> 00:46:16,720
Our prayers are still to the
Father.
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00:46:19,680 –> 00:46:22,840
We cannot separate Christ from
the phone.
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00:46:23,680 –> 00:46:28,240
It’s true they are separate
entities, but the Father and the
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00:46:28,240 –> 00:46:34,200
Son are one.
I’ve run out of time so I can’t
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go to the passage that I wanted
to in first of Timothy 6, but
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I’ll just briefly say this.
This is the passage I’ll I’ll
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00:46:40,120 –> 00:46:44,560
read it out to save time.
Remember, it says there that at
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the appearing of the Lord Jesus
Christ, which is in His time, He
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00:46:49,160 –> 00:46:51,520
shall show who is the blessed
and only.
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00:46:51,520 –> 00:46:55,080
For to take the King of Kings
and Lord of Lords, who only has
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00:46:55,080 –> 00:46:57,960
immortality, dwelling in the
light which no man can approach.
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00:46:57,960 –> 00:47:02,000
Unto you whom no man hath seen,
nor can see, to whom the honour
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00:47:02,000 –> 00:47:05,000
and power power everlasting.
Amen.
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00:47:05,360 –> 00:47:09,080
Now we use this passage to show
the immortality of God, that
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He’s the source of immortality.
No man can approach unto this
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00:47:12,280 –> 00:47:16,840
one or he would die.
But the context is that it’s
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00:47:16,840 –> 00:47:19,480
Christ who will show these
things.
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And there’s a prayer at the end.
To whom?
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00:47:22,000 –> 00:47:23,840
The honour and power
everlasting.
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00:47:24,040 –> 00:47:25,560
Amen.
Who’s the prayer to?
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00:47:25,760 –> 00:47:37,000
Well, it’s ambiguous because the
context is Christ, but he is the
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00:47:37,000 –> 00:47:40,400
name bearer.
He’s the representative of the
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00:47:40,400 –> 00:47:42,760
Father.
Now this is what Brother
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00:47:42,760 –> 00:47:46,360
Mansfield says in making prayer
powerful.
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We should combine the Father and
Son in our prayers.
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00:47:50,880 –> 00:47:54,480
It is wrong to address the
Father without the Son as it is
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00:47:54,480 –> 00:47:56,440
to address the Son without the
Father.
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00:47:56,840 –> 00:48:00,080
There is a glorious unity
between the Father and the Son
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00:48:00,080 –> 00:48:03,360
that should not be sundered by
worshippers on earth.
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00:48:06,080 –> 00:48:10,360
So there is a power in prayer,
brothers and sisters, a
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00:48:10,360 –> 00:48:15,000
wonderful power, and it is the
Lord Jesus Christ because He’s
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00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:20,400
brought us nigh unto God.
And in him we have this access
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00:48:21,640 –> 00:48:23,960
and He is listening into our
prayers.
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00:48:24,040 –> 00:48:29,400
He understands us, He sit,
recognizes the Spirit, His
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00:48:29,400 –> 00:48:34,080
Spirit in US, even if it’s just
tears or groans.
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00:48:35,600 –> 00:48:41,240
And He knows and he discusses
with the Father our needs, both
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00:48:41,240 –> 00:48:47,400
spiritual and temporary, and he
discusses it with the angels.
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00:48:49,240 –> 00:48:50,800
You know there’s power in that,
isn’t there?
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Brothers and sisters, you think
about that.
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That place we go to in Christ,
that they’re in heaven, is the
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00:48:57,160 –> 00:49:01,520
whole of our family in heaven.
They’re listening in and they’re
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00:49:01,520 –> 00:49:06,800
involved with us in our needs,
that all they’re listening in.
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00:49:06,800 –> 00:49:13,200
Christ is adjudicating on our
behalf and helping us and
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00:49:13,200 –> 00:49:17,880
talking with our heavenly Father
about these things and directing
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00:49:17,880 –> 00:49:21,240
the angels to intercede in our
affairs.
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And so far, the brothers and
sisters, there is the power of
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God’s Word made flesh.
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