Matthew Blewett – Class 2: Applying the Approach

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You are listening to a Bible,
talk recorded at the 2018.

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Western christadelphians Bible
school at Minooka.

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This is the second class in a
series given by brother, Matthew

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blew it on the subject.
Meditations in Revelation.

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This class is titled applying
the approach.

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Welcome back to the graveyard
session.

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I hope you all had sustained
with some caffeine or some tea,

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or whatever.
It is that you need to keep you

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going.
Just a few more minutes and then

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you’ve got the whole afternoon
as you said to enjoy your

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Sustained by the example of our
subject of what an encouraging

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word from my brother John.
So, we’re going to continue just

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to remind you a little about the
meditation approach that, that I

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was suggesting, we’re going to
spend a bit of time today, just

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looking at some of the
techniques, which I guess many

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of you are familiar with that.
I’ve tried to employee in my

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meditations and when they become
a bit more, from a study point

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of view, the approach that I
think is supported in scripture

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and then we’re going to go and
apply it and give you some

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examples of Of some of the
applying the approach in some of

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the meditations that I’ve had
been able to enjoy.

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So I’m just going to run very
quickly that some of these

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slides we’ve seen already.
So I will just run through them.

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Those are the five steps that we
were going through yesterday

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focus.
And then this idea of looking at

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the overall passage first.
And then of course, remembering

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thinking about Echoes.
And we’ll look at some of that

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in a bit more detail bringing us
to worship and Obviously looking

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at ways in which we can apply
what we’ve learnt and gaining

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from it, this spiritual truth,
the principles that the Lord

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Jesus Christ is intending to
share with us in this amazing

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love letter.
So in this military action

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approach, as I’ve already
suggested what I found really

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important is this idea of taking
our time.

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And there was already allusions
to the fact that we live in a

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world that’s full of lots of
things, but there’s not enough

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depth happening.
And I think when we give

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ourselves Tom, that is very
important and so one of the key

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principles that are found is
taking a little bit less and

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really giving it a whole bunch
of time.

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I’ve already spoken about when I
think about a passage in the

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Book of Revelation, my intent is
not to and I’ve been told saying

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not tick the boxes but check the
boxes.

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So that’s what I mean by that.
Don’t just be trying to check

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the boxes, trying to work out
what every symbol represents.

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Sometimes we get more caught up
in that then getting to

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understand the why?
And the real application and the

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principle behind the passage,
I’m sorry.

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Yes.
My template changed to Red on

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black and I’ve already worked
out that that is not good.

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So I’m going to go back to white
on black, but we’ll have to hope

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to do with the last time.
You can see some of the writing

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in doing that.
Obviously, this principle that

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that I’ve emphasized and will
continue to emphasize is the

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strong principle that when we’re
trying to Understand these

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symbols, the best place to go is
spiritual with spiritual.

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You know, the idea of symbols
and images.

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I’ve really said, is exciting.
It allows us to look at these

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these messages from a number of
angles, this multi-dimensional

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approach.
And the risk of it obviously is

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is also that because we’re
reading about symbols and

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images, we can bring a lot of
our own understanding and no

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doubt when the Bible or
Revelation uses a symbol like

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lamb, it wants us to think about
the natural qualities of a lamb.

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And that it’s obviously often a
gentle creature, that it follows

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the shepherd, and it follows the
Sheep.

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Yes, those issue.
Those thoughts should come in,

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but a lot of what I believe
we’re taught to think about is

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what and how those symbols those
images.

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Those ideas, those words have
been used in remembering the

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rest of scripture and we’ll see
in some of the techniques that I

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think Paul and the Lord, Jesus
Christ, who really are our.

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The great students were us of
the Old Testament Use these

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techniques and show us how to
actually unravel the meaning of

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things that we find in the word
of God.

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So this is to me, one of the key
passages to do that, that

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explains how we do that.
And then at the center of any

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meditation of any Bible, study
of any passage that we get into

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in some detail, must always be
why?

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What, why is this passage of any
importance?

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You know, I think as we get
older, we lose the.

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Why question?
My kids were really good when

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they were young and asking why.
Why eventually we got crazy with

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Adam older or sicker as kid.
He asked why so many times we

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gave them three for the day and
then he couldn’t ask anymore and

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you might be less gracious, a
more gracious as parents.

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But the reality is what we doing
is we squeezing the wires out of

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them but obviously that’s the
most important question we get

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older.
We stop asking why because maybe

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we think we worked out
everything but every every

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passage of Revelation, every
passage of scripture is really

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trying to bring As to the, why,
why is it recording for us?

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Why do we have the book of
Hosea?

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You know, what is the Y?
And that’s what I want us to

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keep coming back to.
And then, for those of you heard

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me before, you know, I think I
plagiarized, well, sort of a

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plagiarism when you take
something from somebody else,

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but I remember Peter King.
I’m sure some of you may have

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heard of Peter King.
He always said that if you do

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any Bible study or any Bible
talk, and it doesn’t eventually

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bring you to the feet of Jesus.
You perhaps have Haven’t used

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your time effectively and so in
almost any meditation, my

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expectation is that it’s going
to bring me back to Jesus and

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the Book of Revelation as we
said in the beginning in chapter

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1 verse 1 says, this is the
Revelation from Jesus Christ and

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that that genitive use of the
Greek also can mean of Jesus

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Christ.
So he is both the messenger

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who’s giving us the message but
it’s also all about it begins

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with them right at the
beginning, he’s walking amongst

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the lampstands he’s the Symbol
of the lamb and many other

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images of him throughout the
book, and he’s there at the end.

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And the last statement even soul
second to last statement, even

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so come Lord Jesus.
So he, he is the central figure.

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We should expect to see him in
everything that we meditate on

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and, and I hope to be able to
show that as well.

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So what are some of the
techniques that that, that I

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think are really important?
And one of the ones that has

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been, I guess hugely impactful
for me.

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And this is why I keep Keep
referring to this as a

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meditation approach is the idea
of when you read a few verses of

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Revelation, focusing on seeing
the picture that has been

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described a large part of what
John is recording for us in the

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Book of Revelation is visual so
he saw something, he was caught

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up into the spirit.
He sees a picture, sometimes he

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does hear words, he records
those words and then he takes

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the visual and puts it back into
words because he has to

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communicate.
It didn’t have a video at the

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top so he couldn’t capture it on
video.

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So He captures those words and
then he presents it back to us

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often.
What we do is we just stayed

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back at the words Zone, we read
the words and then we attempt to

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study it, instead of trying to
convert those words, in our

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mind, back into a picture.
Now that might sound well that,

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you know, but it’s very
important because once we do

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that, we begin to see and notice
things that we may not have seen

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just by reading.
And I’m going to give you two

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little techniques to do that and
I think this is really

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important.
I’m also taught I’m not a

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psychiatrist and I’m sure would
have people that are more into

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studying the way in which the
brain works.

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That when we, for example are
reading, and we’re going through

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the process of encoding letters
and two words, there’s a certain

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part of our brain that’s
activated.

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And we enter into certain way of
thinking, which is quite

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different to the way of thinking
we may have when we see a

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picture.
So, there’s a different mindset

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that we approach something when
we see it in picture form, and

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it’s also so important for me,
this idea of trying to See that

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the passages of Revelation that
I highly encourage you, if you

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have not already done this
because then you’re already are

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corrupted not to go on the
internet and find other peoples,

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pictures of the passages of
Revelation because they’ll

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corrupt, you give yourself the
opportunity to build the picture

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first in your own mind, that’s
the beauty when we read

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something and we create the
picture ourselves, that our

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pictures will look different.
And why is that?

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Because we will notice different
things.

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And in that is Something special
for you.

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So if you’ve really done it,
maybe you’ve forgotten and you

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can recreate these pictures in
your mind.

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And the important principle here
is what I call the principle of

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taking the words off the page.
And hence my the thing that has

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worked really well for me is to
try to limit the passage are

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meditating on to one or two or
at best maybe three versus.

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Now this isn’t always easy
because sometimes the picture

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that’s being described, even if
we want to take the smallest, Of

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it is a bit more than that, but
the point is, if you like me and

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at some point, I want to read
what’s being said, and then I

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want to put it away so that I’m
not in the reading mode.

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I’m in the thinking imagining
mode.

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What if it’s too many verses
you’re going to fall, you’re not

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going to be able to do that.
So some of you may have really

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good memories, you can read ten
verses, put it away, and

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remember it, then that’s great.
But the idea of taking a small

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passage helps us to take it off
the page, the beauty of taking

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scripture off the page means you
meditate, when you drive it or

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up, because it’s impossible.
As far as I found to meditate

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when you’re driving.
If you’re reading those two

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things don’t go well together.
So this is going to elongate

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your term of meditating taking
it off the page and when I mean

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taking off the page, it doesn’t
mean you’re trying to learn a

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verse or bahat.
You read a passage three times.

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What’s going to happen is
certain words are going to stick

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or certain ideas.
I hopeful even pictures in your

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mind so that you can take it off
the page and further work with

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it.
So, that’s a key principle one

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way of doing this as well.
We all different Is maybe

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choosing actually not just to
imagine the vision, but to draw

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it to take the opportunities,
they let me draw what I think

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I’ve read and again, I encourage
people if you’re going to draw a

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vision not to do it
analytically, okay?

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It says that there are four
creatures that we draw the four

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creatures.
So, it says this and then go

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back in that analytical mode.
Read it.

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Read it two or three times.
If you’re very slow, reader, 10

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terms, move it away.
And then from what you’ve

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remembered trying to recreate
that picture will do a little

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exercise in that and you’ll see
her.

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Amazing.
Is when you start to draw

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something that you’ve heard as a
picture, you’ll notice that

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certain detail, isn’t there.
You can’t actually draw it.

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You say, well, it didn’t say
whether it was round or Square,

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or it doesn’t tell me who’s
actually on the threat, is it a

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man?
A lamb?

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It says someone.
So, you begin to notice what’s

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missing.
And that’s a very important

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technique for focus and
meditation.

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As I’m presenting it, very
important for me, as I’ve

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already mentioned.
Is this idea of Echoes?

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We’re trying to pick up On
ideas, themes, symbols and and

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then to unlock them or
potentially gain more from them

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from what the rest of the Bible
says, I’m passionate.

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I said, I heard you remember
camera and saying, in his first

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talk I’m going back to Genesis 1
and I do that every time.

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Well, that’s a good practice
because to me there’s a great

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and the last Genesis and
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themes of Revelation are
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DNA in the Book of Genesis.
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back to chasing up an idea or a
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because they’re often the
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picture is in Genesis and we see
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amplification of Revelation,
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discussion yesterday.
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in Revelation The dni and what
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symbol looking for themes, is it
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a parent.
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hear me talking about over and
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obvious to me is the continuous
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of Revelation starts with this,
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power that’s been given to the
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man, tries to exert, power and
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that power back.
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themes and these, these
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see and then meanings and
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We make a lot of use of we try
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see, is there anything in the
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we as barbel students, we keep
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word and then sometimes we over
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technique.
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milk is it?
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Melchizedek and he begins to
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righteousness.
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technique, he takes the meaning
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of Salem.
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righteousness.
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peace and that idea of
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So so these are technique being
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meanings.
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concerned, the Lord Jesus
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obvious is incredible at
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occurrences of words.
People often say, you know, you

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keep talking about the number of
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I’ll give you one example.
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consider the lilies.
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And I can tell you that Solomon
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as one of these.
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the pattern of the use of that
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Solomon is the one who uses it.
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and makes use of it.
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Looking specifically for colors.
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colorful books that we notice
the colors and notice the

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numbers we’re going to talk
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in different languages.
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two, what looks strange and what
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both Paul and the Lord Jesus
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When we focus on a scripture, we
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spiritual truth year that
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doesn’t fit naturally.
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aware when we’re reading from
the book of the spirit that many

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of the things that the natural
mind expects to see and fraud

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shouldn’t actually be there.
They should be things that don’t

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make sense, because we’re being
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Remember what it says in Isaiah,
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My thoughts are higher, as the
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To your thoughts.
I have a different way of

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comprehending things, so when we
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looking for.
What’s missing?

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What did I expect to find her
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Melchizedek.
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Who has no father or mother now
we think well surely because it

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again a father or a mother and
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But what he’s saying is go back
to the record in Genesis use the

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Genesis Gene practice.
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Genesis.
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Melchizedek this incredibly
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He has no mother used to say
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that was missing and why?
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So so he’s using that, that
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passage, you know, Jesus does it
also he’s phenomenon and that

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often marveled at his technique
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resurrection.
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god of Abraham, Isaac, and
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living, not the god of the Dead.
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He was saying, didn’t you
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When God the only time it’s
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If you got to have a look at the
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you
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used throughout the Old
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have got it, isn’t it actually
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the time of the burning and of
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the Eternal name?
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He who was he, who is, he used
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name.
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and we will call me the god of
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make that God in declaring
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the god of three people that are
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mindset, that says, they’re not
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They will be raised again.
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Meek’s meditation techniques,
they’re being taught to us by

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the two greatest students we
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Lord Jesus Christ, and Paul and
others who show us how we can

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take parts of Revelation and
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scripture and apply these kind
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it requires us to think deeply.
So we’re going to be doing some

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of these things.
We’re going to be saying, what

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looks strange what’s missing?
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learn a few things so these
little This yet developed by the

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graphic designer, Matthew blew,
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And again, to show you that
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maybe just to demonstrate it,
and I’m sure in your own Bible

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study, you have.
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haven’t thought about it more
formally, he has a way of

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thinking about it, so let us
start getting into some practice

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because that’s the best way to
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Now, if you haven’t worked out
by now, I have a computer it

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background.
So I do think of it like a

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computer every night.
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level of RT, the way that we’ve
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simple, we just understood

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binary code, we understood that
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Everything is either on or off.
So right now some of you are

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often some of you are on okay
I’m overly more 1s than 0 then

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zeros in this room and we
represent that as a one and a

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zero and it’s the simplest piece
of information that in the

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article computer world that we
could represent and we can

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either represented by II
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electronic circuit being on or
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magnetism to do that and we can
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Light is on or off.
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communication methods, I’ll
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often to sort of like represent
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like a letter, we take a number
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a bite.
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remember anything else at this,
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Listen.
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Now the only reason I’m telling
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scriptural background as you
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scripture it’s just that when I
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became very aware that sometimes
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and they would be a single idea.
I call that a bit, a beautiful

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spiritual truth, that I would
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Maybe I would pause on for two
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But every now and again, and
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again, I would discover a bit
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You know, you understand about
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The cud like the cattle.
Teach us when they really get a

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good piece of grass.
They tasted say, wow, this this

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grass is really good.
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and then they wake up in the
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Wow, I remember that piece of
grass a tight and they bring it

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back up again.
I mean, sometimes I wish I could

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do that.
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good meal annexed, a bring it
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I won’t carry on with that
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So, The idea is that you can
chew the cat and of course

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what’s so amazing about the word
of God is, we choose the kind

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and we and we get into a bit
more of the detail.

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We pull more of the string, even
more spiritual truths, come out.

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And our mind begins to wonder
and think about it over the day

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and over the week.
So everyone, again, I have a

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bat.
So what we’re going to be

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sharing with you through the
rest of our time together, are

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some bits, some meditations that
are, I think quite specific

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singular in the, in the message
and some that We’ll take me

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about half an hour to tell you
about just, and I’m so excited

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to share it.
So, I’ve just got a lead you to

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the cad with me.
So that’s a bit about.

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So I’ll talk about Revelation, B
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no Bible reference to show you
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But anyway, let us now give to
illustrations of bits, just

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putting into practice the the
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So I’m going to start with a
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Yeah.
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Passage from Revelation chapter
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So he jumping to Revelation, 19,
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So, if I was doing my meditation
approach, this is the passage

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that’s come up.
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His eyes were like a flame of
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crowns.
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That no one knew except himself.
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dipped in Blood, and his name is
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Now, if I click forward, just
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Not that forward, if I go back
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fine linen, white and clean
followed him on white horses.

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Now, what I’ve purposely done
here is I have decided to stop

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there because there is a break
in the vision.

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00:23:05,600 –> 00:23:08,000
The next part of the vision is
going to focus on those who are

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00:23:08,000 –> 00:23:09,900
around the one on the White
Horse.

436
00:23:10,100 –> 00:23:13,400
So again, the only reason I’ve
done that is because I’m a

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00:23:13,400 –> 00:23:16,100
pretty simple guy.
If I’ve got to try and Imagine

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00:23:16,100 –> 00:23:18,200
all of that.
My mom not may not be able to

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00:23:18,200 –> 00:23:20,100
focus.
I’m quite comfortable with doing

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00:23:20,100 –> 00:23:23,700
that because the way I do, my
meditation is in two or three

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00:23:23,700 –> 00:23:27,000
days time, I will move on to the
next part of the vision and

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00:23:27,000 –> 00:23:29,700
maybe focus on that and there
may be some context that’s

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relevant from the previous spot.
So so, you know, we always say

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00:23:32,600 –> 00:23:34,000
try and keep everything in
context.

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00:23:34,000 –> 00:23:37,700
Well, that’s maybe an exception.
So we’re focusing just on that

446
00:23:37,700 –> 00:23:40,400
first part.
I’m going to read it again and

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00:23:40,400 –> 00:23:42,100
I’m warning you now.
So after you’ve done that, then

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00:23:42,100 –> 00:23:44,500
I want you to close your eyes
and I want you to see the

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00:23:44,500 –> 00:23:45,600
picture.
You can do it while I’m reading.

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00:23:45,700 –> 00:23:47,300
Say it again, but let’s read it
again.

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00:23:47,300 –> 00:23:50,300
Are normally take three reads.
Some might take this.

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Now, I saw heaven opened and
behold a white horse, and he who

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sat on him was called faithful
and true.

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And in righteousness, he judges
and makes War.

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00:23:59,700 –> 00:24:03,800
His eyes were like a flame of
fire and on his head were many

456
00:24:03,800 –> 00:24:06,300
crowns.
He had a name written that no

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one knew except himself.
He was clothed with a robe

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00:24:09,600 –> 00:24:13,400
dipped in Blood and his name is
called the word of God.

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So you’re going to be thankful,
I’m going to shut up for them.

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Minute and ask you just to
imagine and visualize that

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00:24:19,000 –> 00:25:20,300
little picture.
At this point, anybody listen to

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00:25:20,308 –> 00:25:23,300
the recording is just checking
that it’s still working, but we

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00:25:23,300 –> 00:25:24,800
are still.
Yeah, how many thought to minute

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00:25:24,800 –> 00:25:26,600
was quite a long time and you
didn’t need a minute.

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00:25:26,600 –> 00:25:27,900
To think about that, put your
hands up.

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00:25:27,900 –> 00:25:31,500
If you want to say that you were
done in 10 15 seconds.

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00:25:31,800 –> 00:25:35,900
So so the point is, if that’s
true, it’s a practice, it’s a

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00:25:35,900 –> 00:25:39,000
practice of saying it just took
me 10 seconds to imagine a.

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00:25:39,008 –> 00:25:41,200
But now I’ve got to get on top
of this man with it.

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00:25:41,200 –> 00:25:42,800
What do I see?
How do I see anything different?

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00:25:42,800 –> 00:25:45,500
When I zoom up and look at him
from above, is anything

472
00:25:45,500 –> 00:25:47,900
different from that perspective?
And then I look at him from the

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00:25:47,908 –> 00:25:50,700
front door, I noticed I think I
might notice anything different.

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00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:53,500
So there’s looks to notice isn’t
there in that there’s lots to to

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00:25:53,500 –> 00:25:57,100
get our attention, this picture
of this incredible man and he’s

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00:25:57,100 –> 00:25:59,300
riding his White Horse.
And the white is perhaps

477
00:25:59,300 –> 00:26:03,500
starting to get our mind racing.
And he’s got these fiery ours

478
00:26:03,800 –> 00:26:06,000
and he’s got the word of God
written on them.

479
00:26:06,000 –> 00:26:08,800
And of course, their minds
perhaps before we can even stop

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00:26:08,800 –> 00:26:10,200
them because we try to imagine
it more.

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00:26:10,200 –> 00:26:13,500
We maybe even getting it goes
back to John 1 and and we still

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00:26:13,500 –> 00:26:16,900
trying to imagine the picture
and as we’re imagining it there,

483
00:26:16,900 –> 00:26:18,700
so many things that could get
our attention.

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00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:21,100
That’s why there’s so much in
here.

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00:26:21,100 –> 00:26:24,000
Now, for me, what was it?
I’m taking you through my

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00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:25,600
process.
What was it about that picture

487
00:26:25,600 –> 00:26:29,200
that maybe grab my attention,
that seem peculiar using that

488
00:26:29,200 –> 00:26:33,300
particular technique and we’re
going to be sharing that

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00:26:33,300 –> 00:26:36,300
together.
So for me, as I’ve just taken

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00:26:36,300 –> 00:26:40,000
you through, it’s a process of
focus, getting yourself into a

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00:26:40,000 –> 00:26:43,000
quiet place so that you can
externally, Focus doesn’t help

492
00:26:43,000 –> 00:26:47,100
if you’re in a very noisy place,
it’s hard to see the vision we

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00:26:47,100 –> 00:26:48,700
spoke about internal Focus
clearing.

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00:26:48,900 –> 00:26:52,100
Mind meditation practices,
perhaps before, even doing the

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00:26:52,100 –> 00:26:55,900
imagination and reading the
scripture spend 235 to have a

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00:26:55,908 –> 00:26:57,400
long.
You’ve got breathing techniques,

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00:26:57,600 –> 00:27:00,900
clear your mind, get yourself
ready to truly be able to focus.

498
00:27:01,200 –> 00:27:03,500
Another little practice that I
find very useful.

499
00:27:03,700 –> 00:27:05,700
When you’ve got a shorter
passage of scripture, sometimes

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00:27:05,700 –> 00:27:09,000
trying to read it in reverse.
Now I know that that’s to do

501
00:27:09,000 –> 00:27:11,200
that audibly is very difficult
but it’s not difficult to do

502
00:27:11,200 –> 00:27:13,000
that.
When you just look at a passage

503
00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:16,600
read the passage and the ideas
backwards because our brains

504
00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:18,200
have ability.
When we looking at passages,

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00:27:18,200 –> 00:27:21,600
we’ve seen many Any times before
to miss to see the same detail

506
00:27:21,600 –> 00:27:24,300
every time.
So a practice, read it in

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00:27:24,300 –> 00:27:27,100
reverse.
And then of course in this Focus

508
00:27:27,100 –> 00:27:30,300
tick method that I was thinking
of going Beyond, just seeing the

509
00:27:30,300 –> 00:27:33,800
picture, but looking for that,
which is missing, or that, which

510
00:27:33,800 –> 00:27:36,600
looks like the red ball,
something, that’s different.

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And so if we take this passage,
did your picture look like that.

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00:27:41,800 –> 00:27:43,800
Anybody ever picture like that?
Not at all.

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00:27:44,000 –> 00:27:47,200
So imagine if you had seen that
before, then you would have been

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00:27:47,200 –> 00:27:49,500
maybe made to have Good.
That picture.

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00:27:49,800 –> 00:27:52,300
So that’s a part of this.
This technique apart of this

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00:27:52,300 –> 00:27:55,100
approach but I have used that
picture for a reason because

517
00:27:55,100 –> 00:27:59,300
when I spend time focusing on
this image one thing suddenly

518
00:27:59,300 –> 00:28:02,700
jumped out at me.
Yeah we have this this amazing

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00:28:03,400 –> 00:28:06,800
person coming who’s going to
terrain and faithfulness and

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00:28:06,800 –> 00:28:09,300
bring Justice and of course,
we’ve got the pictures of the

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00:28:09,308 –> 00:28:11,600
Lord, Jesus Christ already in
our mind.

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00:28:12,000 –> 00:28:16,100
And it says that he is wearing
many crowns and I wasn’t as good

523
00:28:16,100 –> 00:28:18,400
as this archers.
I was wondering how he was going

524
00:28:18,400 –> 00:28:19,100
to be.
Balance.

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00:28:19,100 –> 00:28:21,400
All those crowns on his head, I
don’t know that some of you had

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00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:23,800
that kind of thought, you know,
I kind of I didn’t think you’d

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00:28:23,800 –> 00:28:26,000
pick them like that.
You had one here and one there,

528
00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:30,100
it’s just quite awkward.
And I was looking at some video

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00:28:30,100 –> 00:28:32,000
footage, you know, when the
Queen of England makes her a

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00:28:32,000 –> 00:28:35,500
rare appearance often not
looking too happy, even for a

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00:28:35,500 –> 00:28:38,600
porous, grandson’s wedding.
But anyway, besides that she

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00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:41,700
arrives and she’s just got one
crown and you don’t need more

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00:28:41,700 –> 00:28:43,700
than one Crown to show you a
queen or a king.

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00:28:43,700 –> 00:28:48,300
But here is this, this many
crowns and of course the the

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00:28:48,300 –> 00:28:50,600
person, Drew this picture has
tried to illustrate that.

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00:28:50,800 –> 00:28:53,900
He’s got them stacked up on his
head and so suddenly my

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00:28:53,900 –> 00:28:57,100
attention is drawn to why many
crowns?

538
00:28:57,700 –> 00:28:59,500
Why does he have to come with
many crowns?

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00:28:59,500 –> 00:29:02,300
And what does that teach me and
is there something I can take

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00:29:02,300 –> 00:29:04,900
with me for the day and for the
rest of my life?

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00:29:04,900 –> 00:29:06,900
So it’s it’s follow that
through.

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00:29:07,400 –> 00:29:11,600
First of all, as I said, I do
like to start by just saying,

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00:29:11,600 –> 00:29:14,600
what am I getting out of this
passage before I move into the

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00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:17,200
detail of something I’ve noticed
and and I think we would all

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00:29:17,200 –> 00:29:20,500
agree when we stay at the First
level, this is a beautiful

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00:29:20,500 –> 00:29:23,900
passage, and if I get nothing
more out of it, it’s confidence

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00:29:23,900 –> 00:29:27,200
that although we live in a world
where sometimes we can feel like

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00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:30,400
there’s no justice that will
they ever come a day where there

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00:29:30,400 –> 00:29:33,200
is going to be this?
Well, to be colloquial this

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00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:36,900
knight in shining armor on a
white horse will come and rule

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00:29:36,900 –> 00:29:38,800
in righteousness and bring
Justice.

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00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:41,900
And and there’s the inspiration
before we even go any further.

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And the Book of Revelation is
full of that inspiration.

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00:29:44,500 –> 00:29:48,000
So that when I go out for my day
and suddenly at work, I’m

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00:29:48,000 –> 00:29:52,000
confronted With power that I
understand is not good and not

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00:29:52,000 –> 00:29:54,400
by the principles that I want to
live by.

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00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:58,300
I’m encouraged that that my
judge is coming and when he

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00:29:58,300 –> 00:30:00,200
comes, he will Vanquish all
that.

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00:30:00,200 –> 00:30:02,800
I’ll be for him.
So there’s the the Forest View.

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00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:05,100
But, but that’s pursue now the
focus.

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00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:07,900
And let’s think about these
crowns.

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00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:12,400
So he’s wearing many crowns and
so we want to say, well, how

563
00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:14,200
does the bible help us to
understand crowns?

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00:30:14,200 –> 00:30:16,500
Well, from a natural point of
view, the minute we think of

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00:30:16,500 –> 00:30:21,300
crowns, we think of English say
Queens, rest of us a king’s.

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00:30:21,600 –> 00:30:26,500
Okay, we think of of power, we
think of those who rule we think

567
00:30:26,500 –> 00:30:28,900
of Kings, well, is that what the
scripture?

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00:30:28,900 –> 00:30:31,400
Says we go back to the
scriptures and fact the first

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00:30:31,400 –> 00:30:34,200
occurrence of a crown is linked
to a King.

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00:30:34,900 –> 00:30:37,800
First time we find it’s not in
Genesis, by the way or that I

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00:30:37,800 –> 00:30:41,000
found, please if I’m wrong, I’d
love to be able to correct that

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00:30:41,000 –> 00:30:44,100
act in fact, but second Samuel,
chapter 1 and verse 10 is the

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00:30:44,100 –> 00:30:47,500
first occurrence of a crown and
it was the first king’s crown.

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00:30:48,200 –> 00:30:51,500
So very interesting, just a
little side note, we get

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00:30:51,500 –> 00:30:54,400
introduced to Source Crown once
he’s dead.

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00:30:55,300 –> 00:30:57,300
I think there’s a wonderful
message there, The People’s

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00:30:57,300 –> 00:31:01,400
Choice for power and we see his
crown first, when he’s a dead

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00:31:01,400 –> 00:31:05,600
man, and of course, we have many
other references to crowns, but

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00:31:05,600 –> 00:31:09,500
the one Echo that should be
coming up is the crown of thorns

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00:31:09,800 –> 00:31:12,500
that they gave to the one that
God had chosen to be king.

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00:31:13,100 –> 00:31:16,700
So the one that they chose to be
king, we find him with a crown

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00:31:16,700 –> 00:31:19,900
when he’s dead.
One that they didn’t want us

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00:31:19,900 –> 00:31:21,900
King.
We found him with a crown of

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00:31:21,900 –> 00:31:23,300
thorns when they trying to kill
him.

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00:31:24,100 –> 00:31:28,500
What an amazing contrast between
power and Kings.

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00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,200
So, immediately we starting to
understand more about, he’s

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00:31:32,200 –> 00:31:37,200
coming with many crowns and this
is something to do with with

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00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:42,500
power and God and man’s claims
to power And so why would he

589
00:31:42,500 –> 00:31:48,500
have to wear many crowns?
Well, but later on the verses

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00:31:48,500 –> 00:31:50,800
that I didn’t ask you to read
and we would come to you in the

591
00:31:50,800 –> 00:31:53,900
next day of meditation.
He and the very same vision is

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00:31:53,900 –> 00:31:57,600
called the king of kings.
In other words, the word of God

593
00:31:57,600 –> 00:32:00,800
wants you to know that there are
many Pretenders to power out

594
00:32:00,800 –> 00:32:02,700
there.
Many people who want to hold the

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00:32:02,700 –> 00:32:05,500
crown, this man is not coming
just to be another king.

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00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:09,100
He’s coming to Vanquish all of
them.

597
00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:12,300
All of these Kings will be under
his kingship.

598
00:32:12,300 –> 00:32:15,100
Every Crown is going to be his
crown.

599
00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:19,200
He has many crowns because he is
the king of everything and

600
00:32:19,200 –> 00:32:22,400
everyone or crowns are brought
before him.

601
00:32:22,900 –> 00:32:26,200
So suddenly this idea of Many
Crowns, as unusual as it may

602
00:32:26,200 –> 00:32:30,000
seem in a vision from the
natural perspective in the

603
00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:32,300
spiritual perspective, makes all
sense.

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00:32:32,500 –> 00:32:34,300
And so we find in the Book of
Revelation are lots of other

605
00:32:34,300 –> 00:32:37,200
crowns.
The beasts have crowns.

606
00:32:37,200 –> 00:32:40,400
A dragon has crowns.
Everybody’s trying to show that

607
00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:44,600
they are the true power, but
this is the only one with many

608
00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:47,100
crowns.
This is the king of kings.

609
00:32:48,900 –> 00:32:53,100
So, that brings me to worship.
It brings me to reflect on.

610
00:32:53,400 –> 00:32:57,900
What does that mean for me and
my Lord and it may bring me to

611
00:32:57,900 –> 00:33:01,400
pray and all of this matters
because it puts his greatness

612
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:04,800
into perspective, I’m brought to
worship him with humility.

613
00:33:04,800 –> 00:33:08,300
We spoke about that today in the
knowledge of his omnipotence,

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00:33:08,600 –> 00:33:11,300
though we may live in a world
where it seems that certain

615
00:33:11,300 –> 00:33:15,400
crowns wield, so much power, and
resultant Untold, Injustice and

616
00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:17,700
misery.
We are humbled by his or

617
00:33:17,700 –> 00:33:22,000
consuming power, he will prevail
as the only Power For yours is

618
00:33:22,000 –> 00:33:24,100
the kingdom, the power, and the
glory, both now and forever.

619
00:33:24,100 –> 00:33:27,700
And I’ve put it as a free
because to me, meditation must

620
00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:30,900
bring us to some, some edit
consciousness of our

621
00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:33,100
relationship with the Lord
Jesus, and his father.

622
00:33:33,500 –> 00:33:36,500
So, that’s the worship.
And then before we leave our

623
00:33:36,500 –> 00:33:39,000
meditation.
What can I take with me for the

624
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:42,000
day?
How can I apply this into my own

625
00:33:42,000 –> 00:33:44,600
life?
And isn’t it true?

626
00:33:45,300 –> 00:33:50,000
That he is the king of kings?
He is the one who wants to be

627
00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:54,200
king of every part of my life
and we do have different parts

628
00:33:54,200 –> 00:33:56,100
of our Lives.
We have the part that we’re

629
00:33:56,100 –> 00:33:59,800
enjoying right now.
It’s our ecclesial Church laugh

630
00:34:00,200 –> 00:34:03,500
and sometimes it’s easy for him
to have that crown and we are

631
00:34:03,500 –> 00:34:06,300
celebrating the fact that he’s
the king here right now but in a

632
00:34:06,308 –> 00:34:09,800
few days time we go back to work
and there’s some very, very

633
00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:12,699
strong people there.
People like our bosses people

634
00:34:12,699 –> 00:34:16,000
like the owners of the business
you could fire us tomorrow and

635
00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:19,000
they exert power and sometimes
we don’t want to tell them where

636
00:34:19,000 –> 00:34:21,699
we’ve been the last week because
we’re afraid that maybe That

637
00:34:21,699 –> 00:34:23,300
would affect our relationship
with him.

638
00:34:23,900 –> 00:34:29,000
And so perhaps he isn’t the
kingly, well, maybe for you, he

639
00:34:29,000 –> 00:34:31,300
is the king there, but you have
some entertainment that you love

640
00:34:31,300 –> 00:34:33,600
to do with friends, maybe
playing golf.

641
00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:36,100
Maybe going to watch football or
whatever it might be.

642
00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:37,900
And in that place, he doesn’t
have the crown.

643
00:34:39,300 –> 00:34:44,600
Or maybe it’s at your home in
your family environment where

644
00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:47,900
you are, the boss would like to
be the power and he doesn’t

645
00:34:47,900 –> 00:34:50,100
honestly rule there.
So the point is, he has many

646
00:34:50,100 –> 00:34:53,400
crowns because he wants to be
the king of every part of your

647
00:34:53,400 –> 00:34:56,199
life.
Is there a place in your life,

648
00:34:56,199 –> 00:35:00,600
where he doesn’t hold the crown?
So as I walk out into the day,

649
00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:05,200
I’m thinking, Lord, you need to
be my king of kings in every

650
00:35:05,200 –> 00:35:07,500
place that I’m found.
I need to be able to say you are

651
00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:11,200
King here.
And of course, if you like

652
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:13,900
bonus, Jim’s, I like to wish you
a bonus Jim’s.

653
00:35:13,900 –> 00:35:18,200
There’s this idea that comes
from the New Testament.

654
00:35:18,300 –> 00:35:21,500
We’re in fact, pork talks about
the Crown’s, we’re going to

655
00:35:21,500 –> 00:35:23,800
receive and often we think what
we’re going to get this one

656
00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:24,900
Crown.
Well, I’ve got good news for

657
00:35:24,900 –> 00:35:26,100
you.
You’re not just getting one

658
00:35:26,100 –> 00:35:29,300
Crown in.
First Corinthians 9, Paul says

659
00:35:29,300 –> 00:35:31,200
you’re going to get an
Incorruptible Crown, I’d like

660
00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:34,900
one of those, but he says in 1st
Thessalonians, there’s a crown

661
00:35:34,900 –> 00:35:37,400
of rejoicing that’s also on
offer.

662
00:35:37,900 –> 00:35:40,900
And then Peter says, there’s a
crown of Lori, first Peter,

663
00:35:40,900 –> 00:35:43,900
father’s, full.
And then we’ve read about from

664
00:35:43,900 –> 00:35:46,600
Jesus that he wants to give us a
Crown of Life.

665
00:35:47,200 –> 00:35:50,200
And again, Paul says, there’s a
crown of Rochester so I can’t if

666
00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:53,800
these Five Crowns that I’m
expecting, so no wonder he’s

667
00:35:53,800 –> 00:35:57,000
coming with many crowns.
So all of these ideas just

668
00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:00,500
unlocking by listening for The
Echoes buying by remembering

669
00:36:00,500 –> 00:36:03,600
what we’ve read in the rest of
scripture and I hope through

670
00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:07,300
that Illuminating the spiritual
truth that is contained in a

671
00:36:07,308 –> 00:36:09,600
passage that we may have just
viewed as predictive.

672
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:13,200
As a fulfillment when the Lord
Jesus Christ returns but that

673
00:36:13,200 –> 00:36:19,300
has value for us today.
So let’s do some a different

674
00:36:19,300 –> 00:36:20,600
approach.
We’re going to do some drawing

675
00:36:20,600 –> 00:36:22,900
but we’re not going to.
Well, you have got a pencil and

676
00:36:22,908 –> 00:36:24,900
a piece of paper.
Excellent, good, good Bible

677
00:36:24,900 –> 00:36:26,900
student.
So at least you’ve got one that

678
00:36:26,900 –> 00:36:31,200
can participate in this.
So, Because I forgot to give you

679
00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:34,100
homework Bulls, very good.
He gives you a homework and my

680
00:36:34,100 –> 00:36:35,900
homework would have been simple,
just bring a pen and paper.

681
00:36:36,200 –> 00:36:40,600
So we have over here, Revelation
Chapter 4, verses 1 to 4, a bit

682
00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:43,100
of a long.
Passage I do, except it’s on the

683
00:36:43,100 –> 00:36:46,500
limit of even my ability to take
off the page.

684
00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:48,700
So here we have a picture, very
well-known picture.

685
00:36:48,700 –> 00:36:51,700
The throne room scene.
It’s often called that beautiful

686
00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:55,800
scene of Glory that is pictured
for us in Revelation 4.

687
00:36:55,800 –> 00:36:58,500
So what I want to do is I’m
going to read it to or two times

688
00:36:58,500 –> 00:37:00,800
twice twice.
We have to And then, if you have

689
00:37:00,800 –> 00:37:04,200
got a pen and paper, you can
actually fast it, will let you

690
00:37:04,200 –> 00:37:05,600
cheat.
You can even start drawing while

691
00:37:05,600 –> 00:37:08,600
I’m reading because we have got
Tom constraints, and then I want

692
00:37:08,600 –> 00:37:10,000
you to quickly draw up, what you
see.

693
00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:14,900
Now, the idea of drawing is a
passage or a vision is not to

694
00:37:14,900 –> 00:37:17,900
present it to anybody else.
So if you like me and you have

695
00:37:17,900 –> 00:37:21,400
no artistic skill, this is not
for you to prove that you are a

696
00:37:21,400 –> 00:37:23,200
closet artist.
You can go to the training

697
00:37:23,200 –> 00:37:26,000
courses if you want to get that
to come out, this is purely for

698
00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:30,400
you in the process of drawing to
start perhaps the In details

699
00:37:30,400 –> 00:37:32,700
that you hadn’t seen before.
So you can start drawing one.

700
00:37:32,700 –> 00:37:35,900
I read it’s read the passage
after these things are looked

701
00:37:35,900 –> 00:37:41,300
and beheld, a door standing open
in heaven and the first voice

702
00:37:41,300 –> 00:37:43,000
which I heard was like a
trumpet.

703
00:37:43,000 –> 00:37:46,500
Speaking with me saying, come up
here and I will show you things

704
00:37:46,500 –> 00:37:49,300
which must take place after this
immunity.

705
00:37:49,300 –> 00:37:54,200
I was in the spirit and behold a
throne set in heaven and one sat

706
00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:58,400
on the throne and he who set
there was like a Jasper and a

707
00:37:58,408 –> 00:38:02,400
society, a stone in Appearance.
And there was a rainbow around

708
00:38:02,400 –> 00:38:06,100
the throne and appearance, like
an emerald around the throne

709
00:38:06,100 –> 00:38:11,100
were twenty-four Thrones and on
the Thrones are sought 24

710
00:38:11,100 –> 00:38:15,700
Elders, sitting clothed in white
robes and they had crowns of

711
00:38:15,700 –> 00:38:20,300
gold on their heads.
I’ll go a little bit further and

712
00:38:20,300 –> 00:38:25,200
the throne proceeded a lightning
thunder, and voices seven lamps

713
00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:29,100
of fire were burning Before the
Throne which are the seven

714
00:38:29,100 –> 00:38:31,700
spirits.
It’s of God Before.

715
00:38:31,700 –> 00:38:34,300
The Throne there was a sea of
glass like Crystal and in the

716
00:38:34,308 –> 00:38:37,000
midst of the throne and around
about The Throne were four

717
00:38:37,000 –> 00:38:39,700
living creatures, full of eyes
in front.

718
00:38:39,900 –> 00:38:42,500
And in the back I’m going to
read it one more time to give

719
00:38:42,500 –> 00:38:45,300
you a bit more time to draw
because it is quite a bit of

720
00:38:45,300 –> 00:38:47,900
detail.
I’m going to leave out the first

721
00:38:47,900 –> 00:38:50,900
part when he scored, he comes
through a door.

722
00:38:51,300 –> 00:38:54,600
Come up here.
See more verse 2 immediately.

723
00:38:54,600 –> 00:38:58,300
I was in the spirit and behold a
throne was set in heaven and one

724
00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:01,500
sat on the throne.
Hugh said they was like Jasper

725
00:39:01,500 –> 00:39:04,000
and the Saudi has done an
appearance and there was a

726
00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:07,000
rainbow around the throne and
appearance, like an emerald

727
00:39:07,200 –> 00:39:09,400
around the throne were
twenty-four Thrones and on the

728
00:39:09,408 –> 00:39:13,400
Thrones I saw 24 Elders sitting
clothed in white robes and they

729
00:39:13,400 –> 00:39:15,800
had crowns of gold on their
heads.

730
00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,300
And from the throne proceeded
Lightnings thunderings and

731
00:39:20,300 –> 00:39:24,300
voices seven lamps of fire were
burning Before the Throne which

732
00:39:24,300 –> 00:39:27,800
are the seven spirits of God.
Before the Throne, there was a

733
00:39:27,800 –> 00:39:31,300
sea of glass like Crystal and in
the middle of the throne and

734
00:39:31,300 –> 00:39:34,300
around the throne were four,
living creatures, full of ours

735
00:39:34,300 –> 00:39:37,500
in front and in back.
And if you join very quickly,

736
00:39:37,500 –> 00:39:40,700
one was like a lion.
The second was like a cough, the

737
00:39:40,700 –> 00:39:44,200
third had the face of a man, and
the fourth was a flying eagle.

738
00:39:45,300 –> 00:39:46,800
Now, that’s quite a long
passage.

739
00:39:47,000 –> 00:39:49,600
And the first thing that I’ve
learned is I’m not necessarily

740
00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:53,300
interested in my drawing being
perfect and capturing every

741
00:39:53,300 –> 00:39:56,100
detail that’s in that passage.
What I am interested in is what

742
00:39:56,100 –> 00:39:59,400
remains in my mind, that I heard
that, I’d like to draw as I’m

743
00:39:59,400 –> 00:40:01,300
drawing.
I’m also interested that when

744
00:40:01,300 –> 00:40:04,900
I’m drawing, there’s certain
detail that I’m not sure of was

745
00:40:04,900 –> 00:40:07,100
that in the passage, is that
detail there because I’m trying

746
00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:09,800
to draw it and I don’t quite
know how to draw it and that may

747
00:40:09,800 –> 00:40:14,500
make me go back and have a look.
And in those details are perhaps

748
00:40:14,500 –> 00:40:16,400
the ways in.
Which we see something missing

749
00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:18,800
or something that stands out for
us.

750
00:40:19,000 –> 00:40:21,200
So some of you may have been
able to draw something.

751
00:40:21,200 –> 00:40:24,400
So I’m not going to ask you to
present your drawing to us

752
00:40:24,400 –> 00:40:26,500
although I’m sure some of you
got some beautiful pictures.

753
00:40:26,900 –> 00:40:29,700
I’m going to show you some
pictures and and you’ll see how

754
00:40:29,700 –> 00:40:32,100
different they may be from what
you’ve done.

755
00:40:32,500 –> 00:40:35,800
So here’s a picture that I got
off the internet of that Vision.

756
00:40:36,200 –> 00:40:38,200
Does that look similar to any
other ones that anybody who did

757
00:40:38,200 –> 00:40:39,400
draw look?
Not at all?

758
00:40:40,100 –> 00:40:41,700
All right.
Now interestingly enough, it

759
00:40:41,707 –> 00:40:43,100
doesn’t make yours wrong.
Well there’s right.

760
00:40:43,100 –> 00:40:45,400
And they may have some details
that may not be quite Correct

761
00:40:45,400 –> 00:40:48,300
with the way it’s written.
But the point is whoever drew

762
00:40:48,300 –> 00:40:51,200
that I can see and I don’t even
know it is that there’s a

763
00:40:51,200 –> 00:40:52,800
certain word that caught their
attention.

764
00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:56,400
What would you think that might
be all right.

765
00:40:56,400 –> 00:41:00,200
And they’ve captured them on on
the circular nature of the

766
00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:03,600
throne room, which by the way is
very interesting if you haven’t

767
00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:07,300
thought about this because
clearly the throne room has all

768
00:41:07,400 –> 00:41:12,300
of the Echoes of the Tabernacle
and what is one of the defining

769
00:41:12,300 –> 00:41:13,800
features of the Tabernacle and
Temple?

770
00:41:15,900 –> 00:41:18,600
Oh my goodness, that’s got my
attention.

771
00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:23,600
The throne room looks round and
circular and yet the pattern of

772
00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:27,000
it on Earth, the Tabernacle the
temple was fourfold Square.

773
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:29,800
Anybody has an answer for that?
I don’t come and tell me that.

774
00:41:30,100 –> 00:41:34,300
All right?
Yes, another picture, very

775
00:41:34,300 –> 00:41:37,800
interesting details.
All right, focusing on lots of

776
00:41:37,800 –> 00:41:42,000
ours, on the on the four
creatures and their your 24

777
00:41:42,000 –> 00:41:45,500
Elders, coming through their
emphasis on the door.

778
00:41:45,500 –> 00:41:49,400
Perhaps lovely idea.
You start drawing this picture

779
00:41:49,400 –> 00:41:53,000
and you, and you draw that door
that John is pulled up through.

780
00:41:53,900 –> 00:41:58,400
And then there is my picture.
I must confess, I did my

781
00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,100
picture, and then, I did say to
my wife, please Icon present

782
00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:03,700
that, so, He took my picture and
she might look a little bit

783
00:42:03,700 –> 00:42:04,200
more.
Beautiful.

784
00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:06,000
I don’t roll like that either.
That’s my wife.

785
00:42:06,000 –> 00:42:09,000
She’s incredible artist.
So so I think sir.

786
00:42:09,600 –> 00:42:11,600
So here is the picture that I
drew.

787
00:42:12,000 –> 00:42:14,600
And and what I want to show you
in that picture in the drawing

788
00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,300
of my picture, the two things
that became my focus and there’s

789
00:42:18,300 –> 00:42:21,000
so many things and this is just
the, the approach of the

790
00:42:21,000 –> 00:42:23,600
methodology, two things that
really Drew my attention and

791
00:42:23,600 –> 00:42:26,700
maybe they are quite reflected
our that one.

792
00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:33,700
The seven lamps before before
the Roan and and we’ll talk a

793
00:42:33,700 –> 00:42:35,700
bit about why that Drew my
attention.

794
00:42:35,700 –> 00:42:38,600
But that was wow, I hadn’t
really noticed that these seven

795
00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:41,800
lamps, this lamp stand, as it
were right in front of the

796
00:42:41,808 –> 00:42:44,000
throne.
And then the other thing that

797
00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:46,900
Drew my attention I’ve already
mentioned, is this idea of an

798
00:42:46,900 –> 00:42:50,400
open door?
So so now my meditation focused

799
00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:53,500
through the act of drawing some
things out there, and there’s a

800
00:42:53,500 –> 00:42:56,400
spiritual truth that I want to
go and understand a bit more.

801
00:42:56,700 –> 00:42:58,200
So let’s take that a bit further
then.

802
00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:02,900
Just through the door,
understanding, Zoom thick.

803
00:43:02,900 –> 00:43:05,600
What do we know before we even
get into any detail?

804
00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:07,200
You know what’s so amazing
about?

805
00:43:07,200 –> 00:43:10,500
This is for John to see this
picture of Glory.

806
00:43:10,700 –> 00:43:14,200
He just had to come through a
door, there was a door in time

807
00:43:14,200 –> 00:43:18,400
and space that revealed to him,
what it would seem luck, the

808
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:22,800
Earth reconciled to its God in
glory, to me, that’s phenomenal.

809
00:43:22,800 –> 00:43:26,700
What an inspiration just from
that through the door of time

810
00:43:26,700 –> 00:43:29,300
and space weights the day of
Glory, your kingdom, come your

811
00:43:29,300 –> 00:43:31,500
will be done on Earth.
As it is in heaven, you know,

812
00:43:31,500 –> 00:43:34,500
sometimes in my daily life and
I’m sure you are the same.

813
00:43:34,900 –> 00:43:39,600
It seems so much further away.
Things are going wrong, I seem

814
00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:42,900
like I’m surrounded by
immorality and sending it starts

815
00:43:42,900 –> 00:43:46,500
with me, actually, and that door
and that vision of the Kingdom

816
00:43:46,500 –> 00:43:49,400
seems so far away.
And yet, John in chapter 4.

817
00:43:49,400 –> 00:43:53,700
And Jesus talking to us as it’s
only a doorway only as far as

818
00:43:53,700 –> 00:43:55,200
that door that you hear
knocking.

819
00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:58,400
I’m standing at a time knocking.
I want to come in and share this

820
00:43:58,400 –> 00:44:01,400
Glory with you.
So that’s To me a wonderful

821
00:44:01,500 –> 00:44:03,700
overall understanding but let’s
talk about the focus, very

822
00:44:03,700 –> 00:44:06,600
briefly.
This is what caught my

823
00:44:06,600 –> 00:44:09,500
attention.
Hebrews Nan says, for a

824
00:44:09,500 –> 00:44:12,900
tabernacle was prepared.
This image, The Echoes of the

825
00:44:12,900 –> 00:44:17,500
Tabernacle all over Revelation,
chapter 4 was prepared.

826
00:44:17,500 –> 00:44:22,300
The first part of which was the
lampstand, the seven lamps, the

827
00:44:22,300 –> 00:44:24,200
table of the showbread, which is
called the sanctuary.

828
00:44:24,200 –> 00:44:27,700
And behind the second Veil, the
part of the Tabernacle, which is

829
00:44:27,707 –> 00:44:31,400
called the holiest of all, which
had the golden censer and the

830
00:44:31,400 –> 00:44:35,400
Ark of the Covenant, which we
come to know from the Psalms is,

831
00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:39,300
Very Throne of God.
And so here in Hebrews Paul is

832
00:44:39,300 –> 00:44:44,300
saying as we know that it did,
it wasn’t right in front, it

833
00:44:44,300 –> 00:44:46,400
wasn’t front, but it was
separated by avail.

834
00:44:47,600 –> 00:44:53,100
And because of that separation
only once a year, Only once a

835
00:44:53,100 –> 00:44:57,000
year could one man, go and stand
Before the Throne.

836
00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:03,100
But in Revelation chapter fall.
The holiest place the place of

837
00:45:03,100 –> 00:45:07,000
the throne is full of people or
at least what seems to be

838
00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:10,300
representation of people.
There are the 24 Elders, they

839
00:45:10,308 –> 00:45:12,800
are the four beasts and they’re
praising and they all in the

840
00:45:12,800 –> 00:45:17,700
holiest place and the lampstand
which which we know represents

841
00:45:17,700 –> 00:45:21,100
the certainly in Revelation.
The churches represents us is

842
00:45:21,100 –> 00:45:25,200
not separated, it’s right there,
right in front of the throne,

843
00:45:26,200 –> 00:45:28,100
what an incredible spiritual
truth.

844
00:45:28,100 –> 00:45:32,300
This is that this is true.
They’re indeed.

845
00:45:33,700 –> 00:45:38,200
We have boldness to enter the
holiest by the blood of Jesus,

846
00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:42,900
that Jesus has turned the
holiest of all from a lonely

847
00:45:42,900 –> 00:45:47,100
place to a family place from a
place.

848
00:45:47,100 –> 00:45:51,200
Where only one man could go to a
place where all of us can go

849
00:45:52,100 –> 00:45:55,000
that he’s opened that door that
he’s torn, that Veil.

850
00:45:55,300 –> 00:45:59,100
Wow, what a privilege to be able
to enter into the holiest today,

851
00:45:59,300 –> 00:46:01,000
in communion with you.
My Lord.

852
00:46:01,400 –> 00:46:04,100
Thank you for opening such an It
about door.

853
00:46:05,200 –> 00:46:08,300
So as I go out into the day and
I look at how I can apply this

854
00:46:08,300 –> 00:46:12,700
into my everyday Living, Well,
it becomes obvious that not only

855
00:46:12,700 –> 00:46:17,100
do I have to be aware that as I
face challenges in my life as I

856
00:46:17,100 –> 00:46:20,600
face these other crowns and the
dim the vision of the Kingdom

857
00:46:20,600 –> 00:46:23,300
becomes dim that day of Glory.
That I know that it’s just a

858
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doorway that if I commune with
him he’ll bring me to that place

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of Glory.
I can experience that that

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feeling that is described in
Revelation, chapter 4 and more.

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Morton V is that he’s done?
The work, he’s broken the veil

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and how often in our spiritual
lives.

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Either, we are putting things to
separate ourselves from God, or

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other people are other people
are putting conditions by which

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you might break bread and be in
communion other people are

866
00:46:50,000 –> 00:46:53,500
putting conditions, how you
should communicate with God, and

867
00:46:53,500 –> 00:46:56,200
how you should have a
relationship with him and all he

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00:46:56,200 –> 00:46:59,400
was doing was to try and take
away those barriers.

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00:46:59,600 –> 00:47:03,200
Those whales those curtains that
either, we’re putting in place

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Or others are putting in place
and to me that is inspiring to

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00:47:07,500 –> 00:47:09,700
know that there is no separation
anymore.

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00:47:09,800 –> 00:47:14,800
There is no dividing wall, there
is no Veil that seven lamp that

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00:47:14,800 –> 00:47:18,400
lamp stands, stands her up
before the throne because of

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00:47:18,400 –> 00:47:21,400
what he has achieved.
So I hope in some small way

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we’ve been able to see how we
can take these passages.

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Some might say completely out of
context and meditate on them and

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see how they can bring us to
worship and change and reveal to

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00:47:33,100 –> 00:47:34,800
us.
Spiritual truths that can impact

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00:47:34,800 –> 00:47:37,700
our daily living.
I had intended to bring you a

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bike but I would never do a but
any justice in the time that

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remains so I will leave you so
that we can get a but next door.