Burning bush, God’s Covenant - December 17, 2023: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:12 I want to welcome you this morning online those in the room good to be in God’s house amen we’re going to pray invite Jesus right now we’re going to invite him to breathe on us this morning his breath of life we’re going to invite him to let his river flow in us this morning and that river of life is what we need everyone on this earth needs that river of life they need the breath of God to breathe into their spiritual man and make them alive so let’s take time this morning to invite our God and breathe in him let him breathe in us today amen let’s lift up our voices God Lord we call on you this morning.

▶ 0:54 Jesus that. You people you are here to re call you this morning j Lord we ask Lord that you would come by your spirit by your power Lord that you would come with your river Lord that you would give us your life this morning God we pray that you would breathe on us your word of life God Lord just like you spoke at the beginning let there be God you bre oh Lord the world was created God you breathed into Adam and his life he became a living soul oh God we want to become Lord people that are alive oh God we pray this morning Jesus please Lord let your spirit come in us this morning God let your river blow in us this morning Jesus Jesus Jesus Lord be call.

▶ 1:48 Spirit take over our minds as we. Come. It’s. We rejoice we rejoice in the name of the Lord we rejo in his love today by his love we can conquer and do anything we rejoice in his love today boundless love boundless love he has conquered all death and the grave boundless love boundless love by his love our souls are saved we rejoice we rejoice in the name of the Lord we rejoice in his love today by his love we can conquer and do anything we rejoice in his love today boundless love boundless love he has conquered all death and the grave boundless love his love by his love our souls are saved we rejoice we rejoice in the name of the Lord we rejoice in his love today by his love we can conquer and do anything we rejoice in his love today b.

▶ 3:16 Love he has conquered all death and the grave b love by his love our souls. Are does anybody have anything they can rejoice to God about this. Morning if you do uh we’re going to stop one more time I’m going to sing a song we’re going to stop again and going to invite you up to just give God some. Thanks we rejoice we rejoice in the name of the Lord we rejoice in his love today by his love we can conquer and do anything we rejoice in his love today boundless love boundless love boundless love he has conquered all death and the grave boundless love boundless love boundless love boundless love by his love our souls are.

▶ 4:15 Saved. Hallelujah anybody have something they can rejoice in God about and thank him for his love we rejoice we rejoice in the name name of the Lord we rejoice in his love today by his love we can conquer and do anything we rejoice in his love today boundless love boundless love he has conquered all death and the grave boundless love boundless love by his love our souls are sav by his love our soul are sa by his love our souls are. Saved God we thank you this morning God we lift you up Lord we worship you thank you for your love.

▶ 5:17 Lord you gave your life for us you your life you are alive and living today Jesus Holy Spirit. We thank you we thank you Lord we lift you up we lift you up oh. God Lord we thank you that your love is. Boundless God we love you we love. You Jesus. Jesus hallelujah yeah. Hallelujah love is calling in the wilderness mercy follows everywhere we.

▶ 6:14 R leading with the greatest. Tenderness showing us the path to take us. Home and as we leave this baren place run into your arms of grace we. Return we will dance and celebrate our lives we dedicate to the testimony of what you’ve done for. Us our past has been made clean with a all the righteousness your grace brought us out of the wilderness joy like a mighty river.

▶ 7:10 Flows giving us the strength to carry. On the wind of our destiny now. Blows the bitter taste of failure now is. Gone. And as we look upon your face feel the warm of your embrace we return we return we will dance and celebrate our lives we dedicate to the testimony of what you’ve done for us oh God our past has been made clean with a rob of rightousness your grace brought us out of the wilderness.

▶ 8:03 Joy joy like a mighty river. Flows giving us the strength to carry. On the wind of our destiny now. Blows the bitter taste of failure now is gone. Hallelujah and as we look upon your face feel the warmth of your embrace we. Return we will dance and celebrate our lives we dedicate to the testimony of what you’ve done for us. Jesus our past has been made clean with a ro of righteous.

▶ 9:00 Your grace brought us out of the wilderness your blood brought us out of the wilderness your river your river brought us out of the wilderness wild your love your love brought us out of the wilderness your blood yes your blood oh your blood brought us out of the wind. Let’s thank him this morning God we love you we thank you Lord we exalt you Lord we lift you up we worship you. Lord thank you. God thank you.

▶ 9:53 Lord Lord Jesus we worship you. Great andy God thank you Jesus. Jes we call on you this morning we invite you this morning God breath your breath of light there is a river where the stream shall make glad the city.

▶ 10:30 Of our God it’s in the holy. Place the tabernacle of the most high. God there is a river where the stream shall make glad the city of our God it’s in the holy place the tabernacle of the most high my God there is a river where the stream shall make glad the city of our God it’s in the holy place the tabernacle of the most high God oh there is a river where the stream shall make glad the city of our God it’s in the holy place the tabernacle of the most high God hallelujah there is a river where the streams shall make gl the city of our God it’s in the holy place the tabernac.

▶ 11:44 Of the most high. God it’s in the holy place the tabernacle of the most high. God God let your river pour and are the God we call you this morning. Jesus. Jesus we than you Lord there is that river God let your river flow.

▶ 12:27 Us you this morning God we worship. You h Lord in your presence we enjoy the river of God and Lord you’ve made that river as everyone does their part expand and as that river expands Lord you would send streams out into the dry and thirsty land Jesus Lord there are peoples in this world who do not know of that river yet they do not know that they can come and drink of the living everlasting waters Lord you said let the blind let the sick let those that mourn let those that are seeking after something greater than what they’ve experienced they can experience it in the river’s flow and we thank you today Jesus that river is rising up in us even now and we thank you that you’re here in our midst hallelujah let your river flow.

▶ 13:39 Jesus. Hallelujah let the poor man say I am rich in. Him let the lost man say I am found in him him. Let. The river let the blind man say I can see. Again let the dead man say I am born. Again oh let the the river.

▶ 14:36 Flow. Jesus. Let. The. River let’s lift up our hands together. Jesus let the river let the river. Fl. Holy Spirit. Come. Move. Power let the river. Flow let the poor man say I am rich again I’m rich again let the blind lost man say I am found in him I’m found in oh let the r.

▶ 15:43 Let the blind man say I can see again I can see again let the dead man say I am born again born again oh and let. The. Riv. Flow God Lord let your river flow Jesus. Oh let. The. River. Flow let’s sing it unto him tonight this morning oh let the riv. Blow let the riv ever. Flow. Holy Spirit.

▶ 16:37 Come and move. In. Power let your river. Flow let your river. Flow let your river flow. Let your river. Fl Lord it says in the scriptures God that you will make a way you will make rivers in the desert God Lord you’ll do a new thing it says God you will take what is barren and dry and broken God and you will let your river flow in that desert and when that river flows there things will start to grow life will start to show it’ll change from a a dry and brown dusty color to green lush gardens of life Jesus we pray Lord God Lord we pray for our country Lord we pray for our state our city God Lord there’s dryness Lord there is deadness God and Lord we pray that your river would begin to flow in our country Lord that it would be begin to flow in

▶ 18:07 the desert of America God Lord that you would spring forth your life oh Lord God Lord that the the gardens would start to spring out God Lord we need you God this country needs you Lord we need your river of life. Jesus please let your river flow in our country. God let your river. Flow let your river. Holy Spirit. Come and move. In.

▶ 19:01 Power let your ow Lord God no matter what our age Jesus no matter what our culture God Lord our bodies all work the same we all have blood flowing into us we all have that breath that we need to breathe we all need to drink the same water throughout the whole earth and God no matter what age we are or what culture we’re in God no matter what fad we follow or what lies we’ve heard no matter what the saturation is from one country to another God Lord we still need the river of life the spiritual man the inner man needs the river of life we need that spiritual water God to give us life life to revive us Lord we pray this morning Jesus we pray that you would come God that you would come Lord even in our church even in this group this morning that you would come and give us your life your water of life.

▶ 20:18 And Lord not just here but Lord we want your river to flow in our country Lord throughout the world God we pray we ask that you do this. God let your river. Flow let your river. Holy Spirit. Come. Move. In power. Let your river. Fl. Hallelujah God we thank you Jesus Jesus Jesus please God we fall on Lord when you came to the woman at the well father we need your r you came to her Jesus there oh spirit of the living God we call on.

▶ 21:25 You Jesus when Jesus came to the woman at the well he came. Alone and the woman came to the well alone there was no pastor there there even the disciples were not there her friends were not there nobody was there with her and the Lord would say to you today as an individual if you will come to the w waters that only Jesus can supply no one else is there with her just Jesus and just Jesus is all you need today so encounter him let him touch your life and out of your innermost being only he will bring forth the waters of life that you are thirsting.

▶ 22:26 For alone with Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah and Jesus said come to the water stand by my side I know you are. Thirsty you won’t be. Denied I felt every tear. Drop when in darkness you. Cry and I strove. To. You that for those tears I.

▶ 23:26 Die you said said you’d come and share all my sorrows you said you’d be there for all my tomorrow and I came so close to sending you. Away and just like you promised you came came here to. Stay I just had to. Pray and Jesus said come to the water stand by my side I know you are.

▶ 24:21 Thirsty you won’t be. Denied I. Every. Tear. Drop when in darkness you. Cry and I stroll. Toind. You that for those tears I. Die your goodness so great I can. Understand and dear Lord I know that this was all. Plan.

▶ 25:12 Saor you’re here now and always will be your love loose my chains and in you I free. But Jesus why. Me and Jesus said come to the water stand by my side I know you are thirsty you won’t be. Deni I felt every tear te drop when in darkness you. Cry and I stroll.

▶ 26:09 To. You that for those tears I. Die. Jesus I give you my heart heart and my soul I know without you I never. Behold. Savior you. Open all the right. Doors and I thank you and praise you from earth’s humble sh. Take me I’m.

▶ 27:05 Yours with our heads bowed as we sing this chorus one more time let this be our prayer this morning that we come and drink of that water and let Jesus Christ come and heal us and give us that life and Jesus said. Come to the wall. Stand by my side I know you are. Thirsty you won’t be denied let’s lift our hands. Together I felt every tear. Drop when in darkness you. Cry and I strove.

▶ 28:01 Toind. You that for your tears I. Die thank you Lord. Pr. Thank. You we honor you we bless bless you. God you’re excellent. Jesus oh you are great oh. God.

▶ 29:02 Dear Lord thank you Jesus for coming and being with us today and filling us with your presence and your spirit Lord God we’re grateful that you honor us today with your presence Jesus I pray you would help us to open our ears and our hearts to hear what your word is about to say to us Lord God help us to remember and understand Lord Jesus these words today that it would affect us for the rest of the week for the rest of this year Lord God please Jesus grace us with your understanding and your knowledge Lord God we thank you Lord Jesus in your precious name. Amen we’re going to be continuing on in what we’ve been learning about his covenant and uh Moses at the burning bush.

▶ 29:59 Um we recognize the burning bush story and uh we’ve talked about how Moses turned aside and stopped and uh met with God he had a meeting with God and we learned. That uh the disciples on. The whatever sea they were on during the storm it says that Jesus would have passed them by the pe the men on the road to emmas when Jesus was talking to them Jesus was going to continue on and go to the next city but Peter called out to Jesus on the sea and he said if it is you Lord call me out under the sea these men on the road to emmas they stopped Jesus and they constrained him they would not let him go they kept him from going on and we learned that Moses was an example of how we got we have to respond God draws us and he drew Moses by a flame Peter and the disciples were drawn by a man walking on the water the people on the road to emus the two men God was they were drawn by the word that was being spoken into them and we have to respond it is our resp responsibility to respond that.

▶ 31:23 Calling that uh word that God is speaking to our hearts and I don’t know if you guys have ever heard that or felt that but I have and I’m sure many of you have felt that before. Amen you’ve felt that tug and that drawing from God how many can agree with that yes we have a responsibility to respond to that tug that drawing from. God going back to the scripture in Exodus chap 2:23 the children grown because of the bondage and they cried out out because of the bondage and God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant we want to remember his covenant this morning before that we have some evil in our day uh as one writer writes cheryl cumley she says the pride flag being placed on the white house was an exploitation of um agreeing with sexual promiscuity animalistic behaviors uh all normal concepts of morality and virtue have been utterly shattered and she has a point when we promote the sin in our government for all the world to see and we say this is good and acceptable and then we kick God right out the door we have a problem and there is an evil that we have to speak against with the gospel of Jesus Christ in Proverbs chap 14:34 it says that righteousness exalts a nation but sin brings

▶ 32:54 a reproach to any people and it’s important that we recognize that no matter how we feel about issues and how no matter how we feel about the current issues in our day God has a standard of right and wrong and he is going to bless a nation based on his what. Standard not our standard not what we think is true his standard and it says he’s going to bring correction a reproach it’s a reproach ro to any people sin is a reproach when we promote that we went from we went from allowing it to accepting it to now we’re promoting it and so it’s important for us to. Recognize what God’s opinion is and make sure that we’re on his side and with these things going on we also want to cry out we want to groan and say say God hear our cry and that’s what we’ve been doing I want we have to keep doing it they had to do it in Israel for a long time before God responded but we got to let our cry come up to him.

▶ 34:12 Amen Ezekiel chapter 36:25 I will clean you with water I will give you a new heart remove your heart of stone put a new spirit within you I will cause you to walk in my statutes and will keep and you will keep my judgments and do them so God it says he has remembered his covenant and he had a covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob that he would bring them into his promised land but God has made a covenant with all the people of the earth. Everyone his new covenant he has made with both Jew and Gentile and this is it right here that no matter what dirt shame ugliness that we have in our lives lives he has the power to clean it I will clean you with water no matter what the state of our spiritual man our spiritual heart is God can replace it with a new heart no matter if it’s rock hard stone and lifeless he can give you a new heart God is reminding us of his promise for all of the world and that promise is still in effect right now I will put a new spirit within you how many need a new spirit we’re going to learn why we need a new.

▶ 35:34 Spirit and that spirit will drive away the spirit of darkness the spirit will drive away it’s it’s that’s what’s supposed to do I mean Christians are living with a lot of darkness and we don’t we got to tap into the spirit of God are we are we bringing the spirit of God to address the darkness that we have affecting our mind and our heart that’s very important we have gone to men’s solutions but have we gone to God’s. Solution his Spirit it’s. Important I will cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them so from this new heart and this new spirit he’s going to cause us he’s going to move us he’s going to equip us enable us to walk in his ways.

▶ 36:34 1 Corinthians chapter 3:1 according to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation and another builds on it for no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is who Jesus Christ it’s important to understand that from the beginning from the first man and the human body has worked the same since the beginning the human body has always needed blood the human body has always needed uh to breathe the air from outside the human body has always needed to be clean and free from bacteria from the elements you you got to keep yourself clean it is always work the same and it’s important to recognize that no matter what God is doing no matter what new thing God is doing whether he’s moving in another area another country the new covenant is foundational and important to put your life to begin your spiritual life.

▶ 37:41 On and no matter what God is doing in 2023 or 2024 or the next century we all need the new covenant. Amen. In Leviticus 1:9 he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water what are you talking about they would take the sacrifice and they would they would cut it up and they would take the entrails and they would wash it with water and after they washed it with water they would burn it on the altar and you might think to yourself why did they wash it with water if they were just going to burn it because it is an ex example is an example that we that God comes and he washes our inner man and cleans it when we get baptized acts chap 22: 16 arise and be baptized and wash away your sins calling on the name of the Lord we know this there’s tons of other examples that we need to be baptized.

▶ 38:53 Amen God will clean us with that water water Ezekiel 36:26 I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh and God is asking us this morning is our heart hard is it angry is it resentful is it bitter is it sorrowful is it hopeless do you have a proud heart a hoty heart. Arrogant a heart that is lifeless are you so numb to life or to God then that you’ve flatlined and your heart’s not. Beating you know just because you have a heart that’s red and looks like flesh if it’s not beating it’s not. Working God wants to give you a heart transplant in Ephesians chapter 21 you have you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked according to the course of this world so you have a heart that may be dead this is the new covenant God will take your dead heart and he will give you a new heart your dead heart does not work what is the heart meant to do in the natural it’s meant to pump the blood throughout your body.

▶ 40:18 And if your spiritual man does not have a new heart and it’s a heart of stone it is not working it is not pumping the blood of Jesus Christ to every extremity of your man of your spiritual man so what God has done and his promise is that he will fashion he will fabricate he will create with his own hand with his own words a new heart for you. Customade for you now you know we’re not talking about the natural heart right when you accept accept Jesus Christ you’re not going to look wake up and see oh something cut in me today no we’re talking about the mind we’re talking about the spiritual heart that God h has given you and when you look back on after you’ve been given a new heart you’ll realize that your mind made a change and that change came from Jesus Christ from God almighty giving you a new heart this is his promise and this promise is important because it’s called a covenant he can’t break this.

▶ 41:31 Promise and we need to take God up on his promises you hear that world you got to take God up on his promises if your heart is angry resentful if it’s not be and your spiritual man is dead take God up on his promise he’ll give you a new heart Hebrews chapter 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God that blood of Christ will what does that word say. Purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living. God I don’t know if you know but there’s a disease there’s a blood. Disease and this blood disease will attack the the red blood cells and what these people have to do is they have to take chemotherapy until they’re brought to the brink of death.

▶ 42:27 Till their body is completely destroyed and their blood cells are completely everything’s just dismantled and what they do is they get somebody who’s really close to their dna and they get a transplant from them into their body and their body starts to make blood based off of that new blood they were given and you see when I would hear this as a kid you know God cleanses us with his blood you know I I would think the blood does not cleanse. Anything you know you can’t if I were to wash this shirt in blood it would be. Destroyed if I had a white shirt washed it clean washed it with his blood you look at that white shirt it’s not going to be white. Anymore but when you think about the body and the blood that is running in your veins and how sin is like a disease and how the blood of Jesus comes in and he begins to.

▶ 43:32 Heal every blood vessel every area with his powerful blood in your spiritual man that makes sense and that’s what Jesus has done he’s come and he has the power to purify your inner man by his blood and we need to take Jesus up on his offer John 3:17 God did not send his son to the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved see Jesus’s blood is that conduit that saves us Jesus’s blood being brought to every part of our spiritual man is what brings us. Life his death on the cross his resurrection acts chapter 4:30 by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant.

▶ 44:28 Jesus and so here again it’s saying through Jesus Christ he heals and just like healing signs and wonders were done through Jesus Christ Christ has made a way for your spiritual man to be healed by his blood the disease has crept in Christ has come with his blood to first of all cover it and then he kills that or he’ll get rid of that uh bad blood he’ll purify you and we got to take God up on all of his steps don’t leave anything out. Amen uh we know that if you do not have blood supply if you do if you cannot get blood to the end of your toes you’re going to have a problem. Right if you cannot get blood your brain you’re going to have a problem amen.

▶ 45:27 And so it’s important very important that we have that blood supply of Jesus Christ flowing in our spiritual man Leviticus 17:11 for the life of the flesh is in the blood the blood of Jesus Christ has the life that you need Jesus said to him I am the way the truth and what the life he is that life and this example that blood of Jesus Christ gives gives you life no one comes to the father except through me Jesus Christ has made a way to bring a healing power to every part of your being through his what blood through him so you you you see these uh these scriptures through me I am the life through me God has made a way Christ has made a way through him it says in Ezekiel chap 3.

▶ 46:27 627 I will put my spirit within you now this is important it’s important to understand the relationship between the blood and the the new heart and the spirit so if you’re not paying attention please I ask you pay attention Genesis 2:7 the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living soul talking about Adam. So this breath is also important now and you’ll understand why if you and you may know why already the spirit of God is like oxygen okay the blood that you have flowing in your body is no good without what. Oxygen you need.

▶ 47:22 Oxygen you have you have taken so many breath since you got here and every breath that you took the oxygen went into your lungs and the the blood that’s uh in your lungs absorb that oxygen and it’s taking it throughout your body and that’s what the spirit of God is Jesus Christ has made a way through his blood to get that oxygen and distribute it throughout your spiritual man. John 663 it is what the spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing Leviticus chap 1711 the life is in the blood so we take a moment here to recognize that when it’s saying the life is in the blood it’s talking about that oxygen is in the blood the blood transports what oy oxygen so Jesus Christ with his blood coupled with the oxygen or the spirit of God will bring life to your inner man but it’s under it’s important to understand what all that means John.

▶ 48:42 663 clearly starts to define what that means he says what the what words that I speak to you are what spirit and they are. Life we want to take a moment and recognize that your body right now your natural body that you are walking in living in breathing in doing all the bad stuff we do in and the good stuff too you are a walking example. Of what God wants to do in your spiritual man he wants your blood to flow properly he wants that oxygen to come into your lungs and be distributed that’s exactly what God wants to do with your spiritual man by his blood and by his Spirit.

▶ 49:48 John 16:13 the spirit of truth will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak he tells you the things to come Matthew 11:15 he who has an ear to hear let him hear the action of hearing is like. Breathing the breath of God so when you hear the word of the Lord what you’re doing is you’re breathing in your spiritual man you’re in you’re you’re allowing that oxygen to flow to the blood so if you are stopping your ear from hearing the word of the Lord from reading the scriptures from hearing a sermon from taking time to get on your knees and ask God what do are you saying to me in my life if you’re going to stop all that and remove and cut yourself off from that what you’re doing is you’re holding your spiritual.

▶ 50:54 Breath and you are not breathing. Spiritually Ezekiel chapter 37 will help us understand this a little more oh dry bones what does he say. Here the word of the Lord thus says the Lord God to these bones I will cause what breath to enter into you and you shall live but what is he say first he says hear the word of the Lord and he’s saying that that hearing of the word of the Lord is like the breath of God that will enter into you I submit to you. Today please do not try to take the blood without the Spirit please do not try to accept a new heart without his spirit or sometimes we want to just take the blood of Jesus and not breathe we don’t want the spirit of God we don’t want him telling us what to do we just want to take his blood.

▶ 52:05 They must work together you we have to take God up on his promise his promise is that he’ll give you a new heart and he’ll put his spirit in you but it only works when you will listen when you will respond when you will hear the spirit of God speaking and respond to it he speaks through his word he speaks. Uh. His his voice will speak to. You and God is asking us today are we shutting him. Off are we stopping our ears like steven said to the Sanhedrin are you are we resist resisting the Holy.

▶ 52:57 Spirit we don’t want to be like a person in the hospital that is always needing a drug blood transfusion constantly because we won’t breathe do you understand that process if you don’t breathe the oxygen doesn’t flow throughout the body and so people in their Christian life will lie in the hospital and get it the needle in their arm and they just say Jesus forgive me and they go about their life and they keep sinning and they go back back in the hosp Jesus forgive me their spiritual man is. Stuck lying in a spiritual hospital bed because they will not open their ears and respond to God’s. Word they will not hear the word of the Lord and let that breath of God come into them there’s a scripture in the Psalms that says I can leap over I can run through a troop and leap over a wall don’t you want to have a spiritual man that can do.

▶ 54:03 Anything don’t you want to have a spiritual man who is strong who can get up who can rise up who can run through a troop and leap over a wall. Amen Jesus came and stood in the and said to them peace be with you and when he said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the Holy Spirit Jesus Christ after he rose from the grave he came to that room he appeared in that room and he gave them his spirit he breathed on them and he gave it by his words he said peace be with you receive the Holy. Spirit how many know it’s important for us to surrender it’s important for us to surrender to his words to allow him to breathe on us it’s important for us to open up our ears to hear the word of the Lord and let his breath enter our spiritual man and give us.

▶ 55:11 Life God is calling us to get disconnected from the spiritual hospital. Bed get a new heart that pumps on its own you don’t need assistance cuz God’s heart is good enough God’s heart is more than enough the one that he custom and fashioned for you is more than enough to keep your spiritual man living and beating and and pushing that blood throughout your body and when you hear the word of the Lord you are allowing that spirit to come and and breathe into you and when you take on this new heart and this spirit that he’s put in you it says if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation the result is that you become a new person old things have passed away behold all things have become new the dry bones and the the valley of dry bones you can go read about that if you’ve never heard the story how many know you look back at the valley of dry bones you look like I was over there I was lying in that.

▶ 56:20 Valley but now I’m what I’m alive what are you you’re a new creation you know there’s a big difference between the person standing here in the v in the valley of the dry bones you’re a new creation you become new Hebrews chapter 4:12 the word of God is living and powerful no matter. What anyone tells you when you open up the scriptures and you take time for yourself to put God’s word into you and you ask God hey God Lord I pray that you would make your word alive he’s going to make it. Alive and just reading it it’s going to be powerful I would suggest you start with the New Testament if you’ve never readen God’s if you’ve never read God’s word before start with the New Testament start putting God’s word into you start hearing the word of the Lord.

▶ 57:15 And here we’re not just saying you know let the words you know you can go into a a gym you can go to a store and they’re playing music that that’s not the kind of hearing right you know I don’t you can walk through stuff and you’re not even paying attention to the music going on what you’re doing is you’re listening you’re allowing his word to come into you you’re taking it in you’re you’re using your mind to say what is it saying what how do I apply. This you’ve got to hear that. Word because uh we all know that we’ve gotten we’ve opened up our bibles before we read them and I can tell you I’ve done this many of times I’ve read through four pages and I’m like what did I just read I don’t even know what I read my mind just read everything and I have no recollection something about Jesus did something somewhere the Lord he’s up there that’s all I.

▶ 58:14 Got okay you got to find a way to get your heart open to hear the word of the Lord I find that if I speak it out loud then my mind has read it I can hear myself speaking. It and on my lips had to utter the words so there’s three things that you did to hear the word your mind read it you spoke these words into the atmosphere and your ears heard what you spoke okay it it might be helpful for you I’m just saying if you need some solutions if you don’t have a problem good for you but if you want to hear God’s word remember you want that word to get in you you want it to affect. You it’s living and it’s.

▶ 59:10 Powerful God has a new covenant a new covenant promise with all of creation all of his people both Jew and Gentile I submit to you today that Saul of Tarsus. When Jesus met him on the road to. Damascus Jesus said to him Saul. Saul why are you persecuting me and from that moment from when Jesus first spoke to Saul Saul started to breathe and the breath of God started to enter. Saul and Saul he says I was the chiefest sinner I was the worst person in in all the world but when I met Jesus on the road to Damascus he started to speak to me and I started to.

▶ 1:00:05 Breathe I heard his word his word started to enter me and what was the first thing that Saul said do you. Remember he didn’t. Say I hate you he didn’t say get out of here he didn’t say leave me. Alone what did he say to Jesus he said who are. You. Amen how many know that’s a right. Response and from that. Moment he says who are you Lord and Jesus says I’m Jesus whom you’re. Persecuting and so Paul Saul at that moment he starts to breathe and the breath of God is in him and that spirit is starting to.

▶ 1:01:04 Awaken and he goes back and he’s blind because he can’t see and uh Jesus sends Ananias to the house and Saul he gets baptized and he gets the Holy Spirit all right there why because he’ve heard God’s voice. And he. Responded he was all gung-ho and he was he was going hard after what he thought was true until God breathed life into him. Lazarus he was in the tomb he was a friend of Jesus and he had died and he was in the tomb he was in there for 4 days and if you don’t know tombs are.

▶ 1:01:57 Dark there’s no. Light tombs have uh creeping crawling things they got worms they got things in there you know they got dirt it’s just the earth and so Lazarus body is it’s uh deteriorating it’s. Decomposing and they said his his body stinks what are you. Doing and Jesus jus said roll away the stone. Amen just like that heart that heart of stone God says he’s going to replace it with a heart of flesh and Jesus said to Lazarus come. Forth and there it is again he. Spoke he spoke and Lazarus even though he was dead somewhere he heard that voice.

▶ 1:02:55 And his body started to heal his blood started to flow in his veins and he started breathing. Again and that’s exactly what we need to do. Today if you’re dead in trespasses and sin God is calling out to you from outside and he’s saying what come forth whatever the word is whatever God says it can be hey get up it can be hey brush your whatever the word is it’s life and you can take that word that he has spoken and you can breathe it and it will awaken. You so I submit to you. Today do not hold your spiritual.

▶ 1:03:53 Breath. Breathe the word of God into your heart get on the track of being someone who can run through a troop and leap over a wall let his spirit and let his new heart in you help you develop into a Christian who is disciplined strong and powerful. Amen I’d like to invite you to stand right. Now we’re going to sing a song. I was made in his likeness.

▶ 1:04:45 Create it in his image I was born more to serve the Lord and I can deny him. I’ll walk beside him for I was born to serve the Lord with their heads bowed this.

▶ 1:05:19 Morning maybe we need that blood throwing through flowing through us maybe we need to ask God hey I need a I need to check up on my heart Lord I need you to do some work on my heart it it needs not flowing right it’s not pumping right God Lord please I ask that you bring it back up to snu bring it back up to the standard that you created it to be or toor this morning maybe we want to let God his spirit speak to us and his breath of life come in and hear his word whatever it is this morning let’s let’s lift up our voices right now and ask that God would do let’s make our request to him this morning asking him to do that in our lives Jesus we call on you this morning God Lord we come before you this morning Jesus Lord we pray that your voice we pray that your word would come to us Lord we pray God Lord that your powerful excellent words Jesus your word of life life that is living and powerful Lord would come Lord and speak to our heart come Lord and speak to our spiritual man God that we may breathe that life into our our hearts again Jesus Jesus Holy Spirit we call on you God Holy Spirit we call on you Lord breathe your breath of life into us into your people.

▶ 1:06:50 God Jesus gl we want more of you you Lord God take our hearts God change our heart Lord bring it back up to the standard it’s original condition that you fashioned it to be Lord Jesus God we want to be Christians that are strong Lord that can run through a troop and leap over wall God Lord we pray equip us for that this morning Jesus Jesus we call on you. Lord from the the dust of the earth God created. Man a living soul his breath made man a living soul for God so love for God so l the world that he gave his only son and that is why I love him so.

▶ 1:07:57 Before we’re going to sing this one more time I’m going to invite you we need to take some action some steps this. Morning I’d like to invite you to come up to the front if you can you can kneel on the ground and just let God do that work in your heart just like Saul he got on the road to the Damascus and he he had his encounter with Christ just come before him this. Morning come before him and respond kneel. Bow all kinds of people in the Bible they responded they worshiped before the Lord they they came before him they humbled themselves this morning I’d like to invite you to. Come any pride any arrogance anything you have just throw it aside right now and come humbly into God this morning from the dust of of the earth God created.

▶ 1:08:59 Man his breath made man a living. Soul for God so loved the world that he gave his only son and that is why I love him. So I was made. In his likeness. Created in his image I was born to serve the Lord and I can’t deny. Him walk beside him for I was born to serve the lord.

▶ 1:09:52 Oh I was made in his likeness. Created in his image I was born to serve the Lord and I can’t deny him.

▶ 1:10:47 All walk beside. Him. I was born more to serve the Lord. I was. Made. Created in his image.

▶ 1:11:40 I was born to serve the Lord and I can’t deny him alone always walk beside him I was born to serve the Lord and he said come to the water stand by my side I know you are. Thirsty you won’t be. Deny I felt every tear drop when in darkness you.

▶ 1:12:39 Cry and I strove to. Remind. You that for those tears I. Die we’re going to take a moment here and just pray for one another lay hands on one another that God would come and uh with his power his might do a work in our heart like I said earlier bring our hearts back up to the original condition that he made them to. Be and also that we would hear God’s word that we’d breathe it on a daily. Basis that it would be hidden in our hearts.

▶ 1:13:26 Hidden in our hearts that breath of God let’s pray for one another right now let’s lift up our voices God we pray for our church Jesus Lord we pray for the people here gathered together God Lord Jesus that you would breathe your life into us God Lord that you would let your spirit Lord move God Lord that you would let your river flow Lord we pray Jesus that we would not hold our breath and resist Lord resist your word into our hearts God but Lord that we would hide your word in our heart God that our your word would be hidden in our heart and our heart would distribute that wonderful word throughout our spiritual man God we pray this. Morning Jesus we also pray for the church we pray Lord for the church God Lord that the church would take this word Lord that the church would hear with one with one.

▶ 1:14:27 Ear God Lord that we would hear all together Lord Jesus that we would breathe in your spirit of life God into our spiritual man as one and Lord that your blood would flow to every church God to all the different places and Lord that it would make us one people Lord unite us again with your blood unite us again Lord with your spirit spirit of life God awaken every part unite every part every church Jesus back together Jesus we need you we need your power your authority Jesus come be with us oh. Lord. Emmanuel.

▶ 1:15:22 Emmanuel. His name is. Called. Manuel God with. Us. Reild in. Us his name name is. Called. Immanuel thank you for joining us online we trust that you have heard the word this. Morning and when you heard that word the your spiritual lungs started to breathe.

▶ 1:16:17 In that spiritual. Oxygen amen. Do not hold your breath don’t resist the Holy Spirit hear his word let it change you let it give life throughout your body let it transform. You that is God’s promise let’s take him up on every part of his promise amen thank you for joining us God bless. You.