Looking Unto Jesus Pt 2 - The Living Word - Joe Sweet

well I'm excited about this series that were on that calling it looking unto Jesus and I can't think of a better thing to do or a greater thing to do then to look to Jesus Isaiah 45 verse 22 says is God speaking he says look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth I am God and there is no other we saw last week in numbers chapter 21 verses 4 through 9 that when the children of Israel sinned against God by complaining against God and against Moses God sent fiery serpents to bite him and they started dying then they cried out Moses we sinned against God we've complained against you pray for us Moses prayed God said take it serpent said it on a pole and lifted up whoever looks will be saved and as they were dying now the serpent represents the consequences the judgment the penalty for their sin as they just looked the the serpent on the pole was a type and a shadow of Christ as they looked they were healed Jesus in John chapter 3 applied that type and shadow to himself he said as Moses lifted up the serpent on the pole in the wilderness even so the Son of man should be lifted up that whoever looks on him would be say whoever believes in Him will be saved so looking is believing to look to him as our Savior look to him as our rescuer put our hope in him put our trust in him looking is believing by looking we're changed so God said look to me in second Corinthians three verse eighteen beholding as in a mirror the glory of God we are transformed into the same image so as the Holy Spirit makes real to our heart who God is it has an impact on us and it changes us in John 17 verse 26 jesus prays to the Father he said father I've declared to them your name that means your character and your nature and I will declare it but the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them we talked this about this this morning at prayer there's revelation in this verse as Jesus walked the earth as he lived his life and he died and rose again and as he taught everything he said and everything he did was manifesting the father in John chapter 17 he said father I've manifested your name when Philip asked Jesus we show us the father he said Philip you've seen me you've seen the father now Jesus said I've revealed father your character and your nature to them so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them that means when the revelation of who Jesus is increases in our heart our love for God increases all of us know him in part we can't even be saved except the Holy Spirit first reveals to us Jesus is Lord and we come to him he convicts us so we see a little bit but our growth in in our relationship with God is dependent on us getting to see him more with the eyes of our heart and that's how change happens beholding him were changed so our greatest need is to see Jesus the Pharisees saw Jesus in the flesh he was in his 30s he was the peak of his ministry signs and wonders speaking the Oracles of God but the Pharisees hearts were blinded although they saw him in the flesh in front of them their hearts couldn't perceive who he was they were blind and yet John the Baptist's in the womb who couldn't see Jesus with his eyes but he was filled with the Holy Spirit from the mother's womb when Mary came near and Christ was in her womb John in the womb of Elizabeth leaped and recognized Jesus he had the Holy Spirit filling him which means it takes the Holy Spirit to reveal Christ to us we cannot know the Lord by our willpower we can only know the Lord by His grace he gives grace to the humble and he satisfies the hungry so if we can recognize one of the greatest blessings God could give any of us is make us recognize I need to know Jesus more and if we recognize that and we can humble ourself and be hunger for him he will reveal more of himself 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 13 Peter says therefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober rest your hope fully upon the graces to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ so our hope what is our hope on he said your hope should be fully on this one thing Christ being revealed to your heart not on our ability to respond not on our resolve not on our commitment our hope should be set on our heart having more revelation of who he is because that is what changes us Psalm 34 verse 5 it says they looked to him the Lord and they were radiant and their faces were not ashamed Colossians 1:28 him we preached the Apostles said him we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom acts 5:40 to daily in the temple and in every house they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus the Christ so the Apostles went in the temple and house to house and they preached Jesus Jesus Jesus Paul prayed in Ephesians 1 verse 17 that the god of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of Lord would give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him and the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened there's another verse that shows us that when the revelation of who Jesus is increases in our heart here's the effect it has on us are you ready the word knowledge in 2nd Peter chapter 1 the Greek words epping osis it doesn't mean mere information it means experiential knowledge it's the difference between someone saying God loves you and you having an experience of the Holy Spirit touching you and you can sense and feel the love of God that's now that when you experience that that's called the knowledge of God are you ready you agree watch this Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord so grace and peace are not just added to us they multiply as Christ has made knowing more and more to our hearts he says as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness how many want to access everything that God has pertaining life and godliness here's how it says he's given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us to glory and virtue the New King James has called us by glory Birchers not a good translation it's a better translation in the King James God called us to glory and virtue by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these promises you may be a partaker of the divine nature that's the most awesome thing that could happen to us first to be born again the Spirit of God comes in us and then to access the grace of God and partake of everything that he's given us pertaining to life and godliness until we're partakers of the divine nature the very nature of God fills us that's what we're called to that's caught means he called us to glory and virtue how to partake of his nature he said how do you partake of it through the exceedingly precious promises they've been given what are some of them here's some of the exceedingly precious promises but we have to believe him but if we'll believe the promises we can become partakers how many want to hear some of them ask and you'll receive seek and you'll find knock and the door will be opened these are exceedingly precious promises how about this if you cover your sins you will not prosper but whoever will confess and forsake them will find mercy here's a promise these are all from the lips of Jesus blessed are the merciful they will obtain mercy don't hold a judgment against people because a measure you use will be measured back to you let them go release them the measure of grace we use will be measured back to us here's a promise humble yourself on the sight of God he'll lift you up there's any ways many exceedingly precious promises so by the knowledge of Jesus Christ's grace and peace are multiplied to us we act we access everything that God has given us pertaining to life and godliness so my greatest need our greatest need is to know him more in experience away do you agree all right now the Lord is infinitely multi-dimensional would you agree he is God is love I'm gonna just throw out a few of the names of God and today we're gonna pick out one and the Lord willing week by week we're gonna look at we're gonna attempt with the Holy Spirit's help to look at Jesus we're gonna attempt over the several weeks to just behold Jesus and we're gonna believe and if you'll pray with me and I'm going to ask you to pray over the next week's please be praying God will you declare your name to our body to my family to my heart and let's pray and believe the Holy Spirit will open all of our eyes and he'll change all of us by making Jesus more real to all of us here's some things a Bible says about God God is love Jesus is the Lamb that was slain Jesus is the suffering servant the burden bearer the Messiah he's also these are different aspects when I'm not going to get into all these I've just thrown a few out he's also the merciful high priest who ever lives to make intercession for us he is the light of the world John 8:12 I am the light of the world he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of Life he's the bread of life that came down from heaven he's the Good Shepherd that leaves the 99 he goes after the one Jesus is the bridegroom wooing his bride and waiting for her to make herself ready he's the king of all kings he's the Lord of lords coming to rule the earth be ready for this the same Jesus is also the judge of all the earth he's the way to be followed he's the truth he's the life he is the Word of God and it goes on and on who Jesus is and if we can turn our eyes on him and see him we'll be changed today we want to look at this one aspect of who Jesus is he is the word of God let me read to you from John chapter 1 verse 1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made in him was life and the life was the light of men the light shines in the darkness the darkness did not and it one translation I believe it's better says the darkness did not overcome it so here Jesus is called the word in Revelation chapter 19 verse 11 I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse he sat on him was called faithful and true in righteousness he judges and makes war so there he is a judge his eyes were like a flame of fire on his head were many crowns he had a name written that no one knew except himself he was clothed with a robe dipped in blood this is a picture of Jesus at the second coming when he comes back to the earth it's going to be a hostile takeover he's coming to make war it says and it says and his name is called the Word of God so there we have it in John chapter 1 in Revelation 19 Jesus is the word of God now when in verse 4 of John chapter 1 it says in him was life and his life was the light his life is not only the light his life is the word his words are the Word of God his life is the Word of God do you remember me reading a few weeks ago an excerpt to you from a book called imagine heaven I told you about a young man he was 21 years old in the Armed Forces he had pneumonia he ended up becoming the founder of the Peace Corps and he had a death experience he died of pneumonia when he died he didn't know he was dead he just sat up in his bed and thought I feel better and got up and went down walking down the hall looking for to get that robe off and get his clothes on anyway long story short after a while he realizes I'm dead I'm not in my body's what you realize I need to go back and get my body because he didn't want to die yet he walked back in the hospital room and when he did the room lit up and the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him then he said the Lord begin to review his life he said everything about my life was open and naked he said all the sexual thoughts that I had I couldn't control the good the bad the ugly it was all out and open in front of him and the Lord was reviewing it all he said and when I stood there before him I came to the understanding of the realization that everything that the Lord was looking for in my life was all summed up in one word love did I love God and did I love people and as he reviewed he saw he said I saw myself in third grade at the blackboard I saw every he said I don't know how it could have happened but in the spirit your whole life can happen you can see it all simultaneously in the spirit and my whole life in moments was passing the Lord reviewed it all and it made me understand he said I realize I fell short I missed it I did not become loved I wasn't loving God with all my heart and I the way I treated other people most of time he I was selfish he said in that experience before the Lord he said I felt very frustrated he said I realized my life was a failure and I'd been caught off guard at that time he thought I'm dead and I'm going on to be and he said I I realized I blew it and I was frustrated he said I said to the Lord how come nobody told me that was all about love and that you expected me nobody told me this to be loved and the love God with all my heart love everybody the Lord said you were told and he said who how now listen to this the Lord said I told you by the life I lived and by the death I died by the life I lived and the death I died I told you that when I remembered that story that that is Jesus is the word of God it means he is the communication of God to us he tells us who God is what God requires and then he's also our example 1st Peter chapter 2 Christ suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow in his steps Jesus never told anyone pray the sinner's prayer here's what he told him follow me so he's the Word of God who God is he's the way he's the truth he's the life and he calls us to follow him so Jesus is the word here's what Colossians 1 now I hopefully this will change our the way we look at him everything about Jesus is a communication to us from God he's a communication to us of what a son or daughter should walk and look like he's a communication to us of the Father who the father is of the love of God he see the communication to us of what it looks like to lay down your life Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 he Jesus is the image of the invisible God the firstborn over all creation now the word firstborn doesn't mean that Jesus ever had a beginning the word firstborn in the original language means preeminent a firstborn son had the most rights that's what it's saying so Colossians 1 says Jesus is the image of the invisible God God is spirit and when we're in the flesh he's invisible to us but Jesus came in the flesh and said now I'm the image of the invisible God you know what God the father's like look at me here's what Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1 2 and 3 says God at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the father's by the prophets but now in these last days he has spoken to us by his son there's the word whom he appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the world's who being I love this verse 3 Jesus is the brightness of his glory and the Express image of his person the word Express image means the exact identical image of the father is Jesus now Jesus is the Living Word of God he's the Word made flesh we saw that in John chapter 1 it says for the word became flesh and dwelt among us agreed his spoken word the written word the Scriptures are one with Jesus the Living Word if we want to know Jesus the Living Word we must read his written word now Jesus affirmed that himself Jesus affirmed over and over that Scripture is the Word of God Jesus quoted Daniel Isaiah he Jonah he referred to them as the people who wrote the books as those people who wrote the books he referred to those scriptures as the Word of God often wherever Jesus went he would say that it might be fulfilled which was written in the prophets Jesus affirmed the scriptures the Word of God Jesus himself said the scripture cannot be broken jesus said heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away so the written word is one with Jesus the word agreed so I want to look at some of the things about Jesus the Word made flesh and his written word or the word it's preserved for sin the scripture shall we look there's an aspect of Jesus I want to say I want us to see the parallels that they're the same you can't separate God's Word from him in fact Jesus said in John 14:21 and John 14:23 whoever keeps my word loves me he goes on after that said whoever doesn't keep my word doesn't love me so to the degree that we value a team Reid hold in our heart the scriptures to that degree we value esteem and love Jesus Christ there's no difference whoever keeps my word loves me agreed here's some parallels between the written word and Jesus the word Revelation chapter 1 verse 8 jesus said I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end says the Lord who was who is and is to come verse 18 he said I am he who lives I was dead and behold I am Alive for evermore so Jesus the Word made flesh is eternal agreed he's alive forever Jesus is written word Luke 21 23 jesus said heaven and earth will pass away but my words will by no means pass away so his word the word of God the scripture is one with Jesus Psalm under 19 verse 89 forever O Lord your word is settled in heaven means no ifs ands or buts no arguments God's Word is forever alright here's what the Bible says about Jesus and about God Jesus said in John 8:12 I am the light of the world he that follows me shall not walk in darkness to have the light of Life 1st John 1:5 God is light John chapter 1 verse 4 it says Jesus the life of Jesus was the light of men there's three verse it says that God is light Jesus is light agreed here's the Word of God Psalm under 19 verse 105 your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path Psalm under 19 verse 1 and 30 the entrance of your word gives light so the Word of God is the same as Jesus there want meaning there an agreement there one God is spirit John 4:24 jesus said God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth John hears the word john 6:53 jesus said the words that i speak to you they are spirit and they are life God is spirit his word is spirit alright Jesus is truth and life John 14:6 Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life there's what the Jesus said about his word he said father sanctify them by your truth Your Word is truth John 6:63 the words of God are life so Jesus is truth and life his word is truth and life there is supernatural life in the Word of God Hebrews 4:12 for the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword the word of God when we read it is alive come on somebody now I'm going somewhere with this hang on God is listen God is fire now there's a lot to be said about that fire speaks of passion fire speaks of fervency intensity his love is a fire his holiness is fire his jealousy is a fire his righteousness is fire God is fire Hebrews 12 21 29 our God is a consuming fire do gree now watch this jeremiah god's word is fire jeremiah 20 verse 9 but his word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones i was weary of holding it back and i could not now i said this before but please hear this if you and i are not where we want to be spiritually this one quick solution be be brutal with your schedule and make yourself spend a significant time undistracted alone in the Word of God every day if you will do that that whatever it cost you to do it make yourself have time and spend time in the word every day this word is alive its light its spirit its fire and if you eat it it will get in your heart and burn like fire you will not be distracted by the world you will be on fire and your heart to be full of zeal for Jesus God's Word is fire here's a an awesome picture of it in Luke chapter 24 verse 13 to 32 after the resurrection the two were walking on the road to Emmaus the Bible says it was seven miles from Jerusalem I mean we're familiar with that right there dejected they're talking about the crucifixion they were hoping that Jesus was going to redeem Israel they didn't know he'd risen from the dead though the Bible says it's a seven mile walk so they have some time as they start to walk how long would it take to walk seven miles hour-and-a-half I don't know two hours so they've got a time to walk he says they start walking on the road to Emmaus Jesus comes alongside them but the Bible says he hid from them their heart was blinded they didn't recognize him so he comes alongside him who is he he's the Living Word risen from the dead appeared in another form that's what one of the other Gospels says about this account it said he appeared in another form though he did that at the resurrection when Mary saw him Mary knew him he used to come to Mary's house right she thought he was the gardener he can come in disguise so he comes along and yes and what they're talking about they said the crucifixion of Jesus we hope that it was he was going to redeem Israel here's his answer he said oh you foolish ones and slow of heart to believe and watch this and beginning Moses and all the prophets how many that scripture isn't it he expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself so Jesus the Living Word was breaking open the written word and feeding him the Living Word and they didn't know it was Jesus and they're they're having the best Bible study of their life it can't get better than this because nobody has a nobody's a better Bible teacher than Jesus he's the word so now watch this they get to the point in a road and it says Jesus made him look like he was about to go on and they said no come with us they loved him so he went in with him to stay they said it's late come stay with us he sat at the table took bread blessed it and broke it and gave it to them it says then their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished from their sight then they said did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road and while he opened the scriptures to us when they heard the scriptures and it got in their heart it made their heart burn with fire passion for God what happened the Living Word was breaking open the Living Word their eyes were closed now I believe it's just my speculation one of the reasons why the Lord refrained them from knowing who he was is they would have got too excited about him and they wouldn't elicit the what he said I had prophetic dreams I had the Lord come to me a number of times by the grace of God I've seen the Lord and but in some dreams he'll come in another form so I can get the message and there's time I'll wake up for my bed and and my heart starts racing and gasps for breath and good oh my god I just saw the Lord that was the Lord but in the dream I didn't know it but as soon as you wake up you go uh-huh that was the Lord I think Lord why did you disguise yourself and I felt all these spirit said because you wouldn't have paid attention to what I said you'd have been too excited about seeing me you wouldn't have listened I remember I had one dream I the Lord came to me he looked almost identical to my earthly father but slightly different and in the whole dream I've kept looking at him going he looks like my dad but it's not it looks almost like him anyway the whole I want to the whole dream and as soon as I woke up it just hit my heart like a freight train oh that was the Lord so when the lord broke now when did their eyes open when he broke the bread and gave it to him so what he was telling him was yes I am the one who breaks the bread open and gives it to you if we want the scriptures to be open we have to ask the Lord to open it for us we had we can't we have to pray Lord give me the spirit of wisdom and break the bread for me that's where their eyes were opened so Jesus is fire come on he's light he's love he's life he's fire his word is all of that how many believe his word is the same Jesus is our Sanctifier we saw this last week first Corinthians 1 verse 30 and 31 it says it's of God's doing that you're in Christ Jesus who became for us wisdom from God in righteousness and sanctification Jesus the person of God is our Sanctifier agreed that's what it says Hebrews 2 verse 11 it says the Lord Jesus is the one who sanctifies us now is the mystery of the Trinity it's also the father who does it and it's also the Spirit who sanctifies us so God is our Sanctifier and guess what else his word sanctifies us God and His Word are one I don't understand all that this means but Jesus the Bible says God says I have exalted my word above my name in other words I'm not gonna let my word fall to the ground okay here's got what God's Word says Christ also loved the church gave himself for her that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word so the word sanctifies us John 17:17 she said father sanctify them by your truth Your Word is truth so the word sanctifies us there's another thing about Jesus are you getting tired of this Jesus is his word is whatever God is his word is if if Jesus has light his word is light is Jesus is life his word is life if Jesus is spirit his word is spirit Jesus is fire his word is fire the greatest gift God's given to us is the Holy Spirit with us and his word the spirit and the word agree so if we see Jesus as the word of God we treasure and value his word Jesus is faithful revelation 3 verse 14 watch this the angel the Church of the Laodiceans write these things says the Amen the faithful and true witness so Jesus is the faithful one john 829 jesus said and he who sent me is with me the father's not left me alone watch this I always do the things that please him so Jesus is the word made flesh he always does the Father's will his word is the same watch this Jeremiah 55 verse 10 11 for as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and they do not return there but they water the earth and they make it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread for the eater so shall my word be that goes from my mouth it will not return to me void it will accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do we could go on and on Jesus is Jehovah Rapha the healer he bore our sicknesses carried our pains with His stripes were healed his word his health read proverbs chapter 4 keep his word in the midst of your heart don't let it depart from your eyes it'll be health all your flesh he sent His Word and healed them of all their destructions whatever Jesus is his word is Jesus's fire his words fire he's life his word his life he's light his word is light he's wisdom his word is wisdom now jesus said he that has my word and keeps it in John 4 let me just John 14:23 if anyone loves me you'll keep my word and what that tells us is to the degree that we honor the word of God we honor God to the degree that we love his word we love God to the degree that we give time to the word we give time to God to the degree that we attempt to hold his word in our heart we're attempting to abide in Christ so when we see Jesus as the word we value his word come on somebody this is a good word Jehovah Rapha our healer he sent His Word and healed him do you remember Eunice Lee she used to be a part of our church till she moved away she went back to Korea to visit her family when she was back there the church that she went to had something going on where a group of people got together and they were gonna have Bible reading marathon they were going to get together and I can't remember if it's eight hours or twelve hours a day they were just going to get together and and read the Word of God out loud they're just going to start from Genesis and go through the Bible and every day they would read the word for eight to twelve hours remember given this testimony when she was there she met a dear sister also from I believe if I got the story right from the United States she'd been diagnosed with cancer she didn't praying and praying to get better but she only got worse she's about Stage four so she said I'm gonna fly back to Korea and visit all my family before I die so she went to the church the same time Eunice did so she thought you I'm gonna go to the I might as well just go and sit with the other ladies and other people and they took turns and they would just read an honor God's Word read it out loud so she went for eight to ten hours a day and they read the Bible out loud do what happened to her in less than seven day she went every day for I can't remember exactly was five or six days eight or ten hours a day in less than one week of reading the word out loud her cancer was completely healed now we shouldn't be shocked because proverbs 4 says keep my word in the midst of your heart don't let it depart from your eyes she actually literally did that she kept the word in the front of her eyes and in the midst of her heart day and night date for four or five or six days and the word healed her because God and His Word are one I had I'm gonna try to finish up here in a minute I had to experience years ago that it really encouraged me about meditating on the word I would it's been my habit for years probably since probably about last one almost 20 years to regularly take time go in my office I use earplugs I usually lay down on the floor and I get scriptures or my Bible in front of me and I like to spend a significant amount of time not just reading the Bible but meditating on verses so I'll take topics like areas that I know that I need change in my life like getting angry am I the only one that's ever done that probably I'm huh that so so I would read verses about you know controlling your tongue or you know the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God and I need to get that in you know in a it's like watering the ground if you're if the ground is hard the water just goes off the surface it seemed like I'd water myself with a word over and over it didn't but you have to keep doing it and keep doing it until it gets in anyway that's been my practice here's what I've learned over the years I would I wouldn't go in there to say Lord fill me with your say that my whole purpose is because I want to be sanctified I want to come into union with Jesus so I would take topics love humility purity of heart race on your lips and I would just take him put my earplugs in and I'd usually want to lay on the ground I would be like this and I have the scriptures right there and I would read them and then I would pray them back to the Lord and then I would say lord please make this real to me have you ever read a scripture verse and it's here but it's not down here yet and I'm like Lord I know what it says I need it to get in so that's what meditation is is you you you read it you pray it back to the Lord and you pray and you meditate on it so the Bible says about Mary she heard the word of the Lord that was spoken to the shepherds in the field and they came and told Mary it says she pondered these things had held them in her heart that's what meditation so I would meditate on those and then I would find out I could spend an hour or 90 minutes and you just get lost in the word do you have a hobby or a magazine or a subject that's interesting to you might be gardening or real estate you know you get the new issue it's your day off and you're just reading and after your after 45 minutes you're in another world help me know what I'm talking about you're just lost you're seeing an old man all the plants you can grow in your yard and you're well that's what meditation is the more that you meditate without distraction you start going into another world I would notice after about an hour an hour I think oh it's almost time for church to start or a meeting tonight I got to stop I get up when I would get up I would feel and I feel full of the Holy Spirit I'd be like gee I just felt the anointing all over me then I realize Jesus's words are spirit in their life the entrance of his word brings light his word is fire and I would realize wow I was just meditating on the word because I wanted to be sanctified look at the effect it's having I just feel it come somebody let me lay hands on them because the living fire life breath spirit Word of God got in and it does something supernatural and so then I had another time I had it this is years ago I had a prophetic dream it was just a dream but it I don't know it might have been more than a dream but in the dream I was taken up to heaven and I was in a I don't know where I was I was somewhere in heaven and I was in a room that was all was all like the the walls were kind of nebulous white clouds a floor was like white clouds and about 30 feet 25 or 30 feet away from me there was the Lord Jesus Christ but he wasn't looking at me he was facing this way and there was a woman facing him and the two of them were talking together and I have never met this woman she's alive but I've heard her name before and I instantly knew that was her and I knew that she was still alive on the earth she'd just been caught up to heaven it was communing with the Lord face to face and I was watching that and I thought man I want to have a close walk with the Lord like she does because I just had the knowledge you know there's some people God will take up to heaven and just talk to him so I said O Lord I want a close walk with you like that now when I said that the Lord heard me in heaven your thoughts are as loud as your words so as soon as I said it he turned and looked at me when he looked at me I couldn't stand you can't he's the king and I just remember I immediately just got down on my face before him I just got on my face and I remember laying just like I do on the floor in my office I was laying like this and but I kept my eyes up because I didn't want to not see him and as I did that he walked over to me then he got down on his hands and knees he laid prostrate he mirrored my body position and he put his arms right up his forearms touched mine and then there was no words it was just communion I remember thinking to myself oh my god I hope this never ends so then it was a dream so then I made a big mistake I remember I took my hand and I put it on his forearm like don't leave don't leave I didn't say that I just and then I realized that as soon as I my hand touched this arm that had my hand had sweat on it and he didn't like sweat I knew that what and I pulled my hand off like oops sorry then the dream ended but here's what the Lord said to me when I woke up because I always lay in that position on the floor I lay like this and I meditate on the word I said Lord what are you trying to tell me through that he said you want a close walk with me he said don't you know that every time you get you shut yourself away and you meditate on my word that's how close you are to me he said when you're eating my word your community with me that's what he said then I knew because the Book of Leviticus says that the priests are not allowed to wear any garments that make sweat God does not want human effort human striving he wants us to go by grace by faith by obedience so he what he was saying was it's not gonna be your human sweat that's gonna keep me I don't know he said just humble yourself and keep feeding on my word amen praise the Lord now now this is a reality this is this is a reality you can go home this afternoon and lay on your floor and meditate on the word for an hour and a half I will be as close to the Lord as if he was in heaven with his forearm touching you because when we love his word were loving him when we eat his word we're eating of him he is the word of God Amen let's give Him praise [Applause]

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