Press Into Christ While We Can — Robert B. Thompson

Lord, as we come unto you tonight, it is with great praise and thanksgiving, Lord. We just worship you and give thanks to you and thank you, Lord, as you help us along and guide us in your faithfulness, the details of our life, we're so appreciated.

And Lord, we pray that your blessing will be on each home represented here. Let your peace be there, the solution to problems, Lord. Just grant us your presence in our homes, Lord, we ask, in the name of Jesus.

And Lord, help us tonight, Lord, as we go ahead, that we will just say and perceive that which is of the Holy Spirit, we ask in Jesus' name, and thank you, Lord. Amen. Now, I'm stuck on John 14, starting with verse 13.

Salvation Begins, but Does Not End, with Pentecost

I want to go over this again, we've got people here who are not here Sunday night. So, cut the difference here. So, I'll try to go real slow and plain, and then if you have any questions, just raise your hand.

What this is talking about is the experience that comes after Pentecost. And the idea is that God forgives our sins through his blood, through the blood of Jesus. And then he gives us his Holy Spirit.

And the blood gives us the authority to be children of God. And the Holy Spirit gives us the power to pursue the plan of salvation. Today, we have to think, when we are saved and filled with the Spirit, we've arrived.

The truth is, we've just received the way of starting on the plan of salvation. And the end of salvation is to be filled with the fullness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. To have your flesh and bones raised from the dead.

And to be clothed with a body like that of Jesus. That's the goal. The goal of salvation is to be filled with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. To have your flesh and bones raised from the dead.

And the whole clothed upon with a body like that of Jesus. And then you are ready to serve. That's when your service begins. And what we do in this world is preparatory to God's great plan. Now, is there any question about that?

So you see that that being the goal, that when we receive the blood atonement for the remission of our sins, and the Holy Spirit, we haven't arrived. We just have the means of starting. It would be kind of like getting on the airplane, getting strapped in with your child.

Maybe you sit there for 15 minutes while they're doing whatever it is they do. And your child turns to you and says, Mother, are we there yet? When you haven't taken off. And that's kind of the way we've been in Pentecost.

The next stop is heaven. No, the next stop is salvation. Which is the change from Satan to God. From Satan's image to the image of God. Now, is there any question about anything I said? Sunday, if you're interested in this sort of thing, we talked about the same thing from the third chapter of Ephesians, where Paul talks about being strengthened with God's Spirit, so we might be filled with all the fullness of God.

And what I'm talking to you about is being filled with all the fullness of God. Okay? That's true. The moral transformation. And I probably should add that moral transformation is a prerequisite for being filled with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

It's kind of interactive. As you make progress in moral transformation, you can receive more of God, and as you receive more of God, you have the power to be transformed further. So, every one of us tonight is in an interactive, cyclical process.

You are either sinning, which leads to more sin, or you're getting deliverance, which leads to more deliverance. You're either cycling downward or cycling upward. Given the spiritual pressures that are on us, it's impossible to stay still.

And that's what Jesus said when he said, you're either gathering with me or you're scattering away from me. There's no middle ground in which you can say, well, I'll wait for a while and then I'll decide.

To not press into Christ in any given day is to choose to cycle downward. I tell you that the times are more critical than we are aware. We have a little window of opportunity now to grow and to serve.

Global Sovereignty and the Loss of National Independence

Two great forces are on the horizon. The future doesn't look too good. Two major forces are on the horizon. One is the increasing power that's being given to the United States. The trend is away from national sovereignty toward global sovereignty, meaning that the courts and the police forces and all will be international.

Of course, this does not bode well for Israel because the UN will always strive for reconciliation. Reconciliation to the Arabs means that East Jerusalem is their capital, which seems reasonable to the unsaved and to the Gentile.

The unsaved Gentile seems very reasonable that Jerusalem should be divided. I don't think that the Jews will ever stand for a divided Jerusalem. They may, but I doubt it. But they won't have any choice because the UN, with its experience in Indonesia, Bosnia, Kosovo, is already establishing a pattern of intervening where they see genocide or torture or any of the other abrogation of the rights of people.

China and other nations like this will vigorously resist the UN because they don't want the UN telling them what they can do with their dissident groups. The same is true of Russia. But the United States is really buying into this with the present administration and there are not too many voices in the land crying out against it and those that are downplayed by the media as being right-wing fundamentalists, whether they are even Christians or not.

That's a handy stereotype and it obtains for anyone that doesn't want to really join the UN. Of course, we are now in the process of giving away the Panama Canal that was set in motion by President Carter.

This will be done in a short time. It will be finally consummated. We are already pulling out our forces there and the Chinese are already moving in. And these powers are so great, the only ones that are resisting it are people that are regarded as right-wing fanatics.

So, the UN is greatly increasing its authority. I expect in five years it will pretty much have the say over any action in any nation that appears to be against the general standards of the UN. It's a diminution of national sovereignty and it's well underway in the United States.

Communication Technology and the End of Privacy

That's one force. The second great force has to do with communication. Now, where we are with our cell phones and our internet compared to what's on the drawing board now, I mean actually on the drawing board, and I didn't get this information from any religious source, but from a technological source, a non-religious source among the great communication companies such as Bell Telephone and Qualcomm and others.

This is what I'm talking about. They anticipate that within five years there will be a communication skin that will blanket the United States to the extent that communication will be far advanced from anything.

Let's say dialing on your telephone will be only for the history books. I was saying to Audrey, like if Audrey was visiting in Phoenix, all I would do would be to just say, Audrey liked that, and she'd be online.

I mean, I'm not talking about Buck Rogers. I'm talking about what is on the drawing board in terms of the miniaturization already accomplished. You'll have a video phone on your wrist. All this is wireless.

And one of the things is, for example, if your refrigerator starts acting up, your refrigerator will notify the service company, telling them what's wrong. I'm not talking foolishness. I'm telling you this communication skin, I've been telling you for years that what we're in is a horse and buggy on this thing.

I'm talking now about information coming out of Qualcomm and General Electric and Bell Telephone and the other companies that are working on this communication skin. So what we have now is just, you know, it'll just be in the history books.

This is five years. Now, put these two forces together, the political and the electronic. And you see, when we begin to move past Pentecost, we are in areas that are arcane. That is, they are the information given to a privileged few.

And that makes it suspect. And so when it comes to the education of children, you can be sure that you end up not want them being taught anything like taking up your cross and following Jesus, living by his body and blood, or anything like that.

And they will be well able to perceive what you're doing. In other words, there'll be a total loss of privacy. So this was projected as being five years away by these major electronic sources, who see it, of course, only as good.

They've got their nose stuck in their computers. They don't see this other force rising up. Now, I'm not saying that to say anything awful or it's terrible or nothing. I'm telling you that the day today, now, now, is a little window of opportunity and it isn't going to last forever.

Urgency, Prayer, and the Misuse of Time

And if we spend our time on our hobbies and things that are less than critical, we are really going to regret it. Because this is not going to last. And so that means that everything you do in your family should be brought to prayer because a lot of things are not sinful and they're American hip-hop, you know, they're just nice and they're cool, but they're not sensible in terms of what we are facing.

Now, am I making sense? You see this thing coming five years away, this monster. This is not a day to be immersed in the American culture. Okay? What do you do about it? Pray. Pray. That's what Audrey and I do.

Pray and ask God how to get the most out of each day. I don't spend any time playing golf. The time I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night, I am on to this communication thing, giving what God has given me.

That's my little contribution. And you have one too. But make sure because if you don't, if you allow this time to go by while you fiddle-diddle-daddle with the American way of life, you're going to find you will not be prepared in the day to come.

Furthermore, you're going to face an angry Christ because you have information and opportunities that most people in the world do not have. And you'll say, what did you do with your talent? Well, I was busy making a living.

And that consumed all your time? Well, so it seemed. I'm only telling you as a friend, this is what you're facing. The facts I've given you are facts about the UN. The facts I've given you about communication are facts.

They're not out of some preacher's skirm and bring them to church. I'm telling you about what is happening. So, what it does to me, I'm not afraid of the future. I just want to make sure that I make this Tuesday count for God with whatever strength I have.

Does all that make sense to you? Okay. Now, God is ready to take his people past Pentecost. We have the blood, we have the spirit. Now, where do we go? Alright, if you look in verse 15, If you love me, you will obey what I command.

Obedience as the Evidence of Love for Christ

Now, this appears three times in this short section from 15 to 23. And everything is based on this. Everything is based on this. You must read your Bible every day and the Lord will speak to you and tell you what to do.

You're not going to get it all at once. He'll only give you what he wants for the day. If you don't pray for the day, you will have no idea what you're doing. You'll just go through the routine until you're in a nursing home.

That's what's going to happen. Don't tell me about it, I've lived to see it. Okay? You just have all the best intentions in the world but you didn't pray, you didn't know God's will for that day which makes it more difficult the next day to pray and so on and it just slips, slops, slips, slops.

The years go by. Believe me, the years go by. And you always thought someday will be the golden time. It never arrives. You have to take it today and grasp it like a drowning man to get out of this pressure that's on us in America this materialistic pressure.

You have to grasp it like a drowning man to climb out of it. You have to pray. As you pray and read your Bible each day God will show you what to do that day. That doesn't look good back there. It just doesn't look good.

Be better. Lynn, you're a strength in this church and I want you to be a strength in this church. Okay? Where was I? What was I saying? You've got to pray and read your Bible every day to hear what God is saying to you to that day and God will speak to you from the Word.

He'll speak to you from the Word. He'll tell you what to do. And that you have to do. Now we've had more bad teaching in our country on this very thing. The idea is Christ did it all or you have to wait for Him to do it.

So you just have to wait for Him to do it. Or you're saved by grace and it doesn't matter whether you do it or not. And how many have heard these kinds of things? That is 90 of evangelical teaching.

Colleen, I'm sure you've heard it. That is because Satan does... Look what Jesus said. If you love Me, you will obey. If you love Me, you will obey. Not that you'll think about grace or be saved by grace or anything else.

If you love Me, you will obey. We've got to get that in our heads and the Lord has been talking to us about that. About obedience. We can't always explain everything we do. The Lord sets up organization in the church and it just has to operate that way.

And we have to do what Jesus said. The day of this grace and everybody does his own thing, God will not buy it. God will not buy it. Now, the Lord has told us certain things in His Word like take up your cross and follow Me.

Deny yourself. Well, that's not an option. We have to do that. If we don't do it, what I'm talking to you about tonight will not happen. It will not take place. You can forget about it. You'll go on from here and play church and that will be the end of it.

You'll go nowhere. Everything is predicated on obeying what Jesus said. And in order to do that, you're going to have to turn your back on the church world because they will not hear it. They're not used to obedience.

They will not have it. They're Americans and they're used to pretty well dictating what it is they're going to do. We're not Americans by culture. We have, just like all cultures, we have things in which we're strong and we have things in which we're weak.

And one of the things in which we're weak is we are sassy. We will do what we will do. And we know from the Old Testament how God dealt with people when they reacted like that to the leadership. We know what they did.

I'm not the last guy in the world to throw my weight around, as you know. But I'm telling you, it isn't obeying me, it's obeying what Jesus said. We've got to get in this idea. It is not a choice. We have to do what He said.

He said, present your body a living sacrifice. If we do not do that, this that I'm telling you about will not happen. And it's all based on reading the Bible every day. As the Bible says in His law, you meditate day and night.

We pray without ceasing. We do it with all of our might. And then, this begins to operate. But apart from that, it will not operate. It will not operate because you understand it. It will not operate because you're a member of this church.

It will not operate unless you do what it says and I do what it says. Otherwise, I tell you, we are in a fool's paradise. In America, the problem is that we haven't, in the last few months, laid on the ground and the ice and our frozen vomit like the Muslims did in Kosovo.

See, we're not acquainted with that. Now, it was just recently, I noticed in India, and it got buried somewhere because there was 400 people that died in the earthquake, a new earthquake in Turkey, but there was something like 10 ,000 that died in India recently from a cyclone.

10 ,000. Well, now, if 10 people die in the United States from an earthquake, it's like, oh man, front page. California is dropping into the ocean. But if 10 ,000 people in India who are just as precious in God's sight as we are, well, you know, it's somewhere in the back page of the paper.

We're in a fool's paradise. And God looks down and He equates all this and He says, here's these people, they've got the Word, they've got food, they've got everything, and here's these other people whose families are being ripped apart by earthquakes and by cyclones.

It ain't right. And what we need to do, we can't do everything. We can't feed all the hungry in the world. We can't go and bring back to life the people that have died. But we can do whatever God has appointed to us to do and do it with all our might.

That's all that God asks of anyone. We cannot carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. But we can go to God each day, keep His commandments, and say, Lord, what would you have me to do? And God will accept nothing less.

If we do not do that, the blood of these people will be on our hands because we have the message. Now, God may not call us to speak it, or He may, but whatever we do, we're a member of the body of Christ and that body acts together.

It's just like in a human body, the whole thing isn't the mouth, but there's parts of your body that act and they have to be healthy or your mouth is shut. Is that right? That's the way you are. You're a part of the body.

I'm the mouth, and others in here are the mouth. But the whole church isn't the mouth. But the mouth can only operate as others pray and give and do whatever it is. And thank God, there must be half of the people in this church that are involved one way or another in what we're doing here.

Actively involved. Giving of themselves. Actively involved. At least 50%, which is pretty good. But what I'm concerned about is you as an individual and me as an individual that I'm faithful in telling you that the challenge goes beyond what we comprehend.

And God doesn't change. He's told us plainly what He expects and that's it. So everything is based on obeying His command. Now if we do not obey His command, what is that true of our attitude toward Jesus?

We do not love Him. We say, I love you, Lord. He says, obey my commands. If we do not obey His commands, we don't love Him. We're just saying things. We don't really love Him. We're just saying things.

Any questions about that? Okay. And I will ask the Father, and to understand this, as I said before, you have to understand that Jesus is not the Father. Now in evangelical teaching, the implication, though it's not stated as such, but the implication is that Jesus and the Father are the same person.

There's a very heavy presumption in evangelical teaching. Now I remember one evangelical, and I can't remember his name, he wrote a book and it was endorsed, as I remember, by Noma School of the Bible, which is pretty centrally located in fundamentalism.

And in his book, he had God coming down to earth and going through the sin and giving His blood and all, and the throne was empty. Yeah. This is a book endorsed by evangelicals, and not only by... I'm going to say Noma, I'm pretty sure that's what it was, but there are other evangelical leaders endorsing this book.

The throne was empty. That is how deeply involved in this... And you know, as I said before, it's a spurious elevating of Christ. It's spurious because it's not scriptural. And it renders numerous passages of the New Testament, such as what we're reading right here, so that you can't see them.

I will ask the Father. Does that mean He's asking Himself?

Who is He asking? And who's doing the asking? Yes? They get around by saying that the Father is in you. Well, Christ is in us, and that doesn't make us Christ.

Where's the Father? The Father dwells in... That very fact shows that there's two Persons. That very statement shows that there's two Persons. Because how could God dwell in Christ if there weren't two Persons?

So, until you grasp that, you're going to have an awful problem with this passage, and numerous others, in particular, Gethsemane. Because Gethsemane becomes a farce. There were not two Persons there.

Not my will, but mine be done. No way. But it shapes a lot of people when I say this, believe me, more than just about anything I teach. Yes? They can't. And see, that's a passage that it renders absolutely incompetent.

See, it doesn't mean what it's saying. So, until you see that Christ is God's Son, and not God Himself. Now, I have to be careful there because God is not the name of a person. See, that's where the confusion becomes.

Is Jesus God? Yes. Is He God? No. In the first place, you mean, is He divine? Yes. Is He the Father? No. God is not the name of a person. God is a title. Like someone said, Pablo Casals said, Bach was the God of music.

We use a term like that, meaning something elevated. Alright. Now, is Jesus, can we worship Him as God? Yes. Because the Father has made Him God. Is He the Father? No. Because then you have absolute confusion.

God set Christ at His right hand. You could say, God set God at His right hand. Or, the Father set His Son at His right hand. But they are not the same person. Mike?

Don't you think, though, a lot of that is basically God revealing that to somebody also? Don't you think, you know, that it's basically a spiritual work of revelation? I mean, you know, just... To know that?

It definitely is a fact.

That definitely is true. And we'll see that as we go down. You cannot understand the Godhead by study. You have to experience the Godhead. Or it's just words. You have to experience the Godhead. There comes a time when you know.

Knowing the Father by Revelation

Turn to... Somebody read Matthew. What we want is Matthew 11 .27, I believe it is. Just before it says, Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. You can only know the Father by revelation. Yeah. That's it.

You cannot know the Trinity, if you want to call it that, by study. You can speculate on it. But you see, it transcends physical laws. Because in our physical domain, three cannot be one. One is one and three is three ones.

But in the spirit realm, one can be three. So, you cannot understand it. It's like infinity and eternity. You can speculate on them, but you cannot grasp them mentally. Our brain is not capable of grasping infinity, eternity, or the oneness of the Godhead.

It has to be revealed to you. And when it is revealed to you, what happens is, you begin to realize, God is my Father. That's something that you didn't know before. You knew about Jesus, and you knew about the Holy Spirit.

And you probably prayed to Jesus. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there comes a time, as it says in Matthew 11 .27, that you realize, God is my Father. And you relate to Him from inside. And then Jesus said, I ascend to my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God.

So, there's a time when you know Jesus. As you progress in the Christian walk, you come to know the Holy Spirit is not just tongues or a good feeling, but is a person. And then beyond that is the Father.

And that's the fullness of God. So, we're moving on. And this is arcane, as I said. This is not the common possession of mankind. They can understand Jesus, and maybe the Holy Spirit to a certain extent.

But beyond that, we have trouble with the UN.

Yes? Don't those three types kind of fit the three main theses then, actually? Yes, they do.

In Passover, we learn about Jesus. In Pentecost, we learn about the Holy Spirit. And in tabernacles, the Father becomes more real to us. Now, someone would say, but we have it all in Jesus. And I have nothing to say about that.

That's absolutely true. It's all in Jesus. And when you have Jesus, you have the Father. That is absolutely true. You say, how can that be? I'm telling you, it has to come by revelation. There comes a time.

Stan and I were talking tonight about the Logos Library. Now, the way that software library is, they give you this tremendous library on CD of commentaries, translations and all, but you can't open them.

You have to contact Logos, tell them what you want, send them your check for $15 or what, and then they give you the key to open that particular book. So you have it. It's there. It's all on the CD, but it's not available.

Well, that, of course, is a faulty simile, but nonetheless, there's a lot of truth there. You have the whole thing in Jesus, but it has to be played out until the parts become more available and more real to you.

Does that make sense? Yes.

Question from 966. For a child who will be born so as the sun will be given, the government will ransom his children, his name will be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father. It's a title of respect.

It's a title of respect. Some have made a great case out of the fact that in Genesis, the term Elohim is plural. Again, it's a title of preeminence. Probably one place you can see the Trinity is the three men that came to Abraham.

That's pretty sullen. But otherwise, you get into the Hebrew expression for a used father to denote someone who is elevated. Like we say, George Washington is the father of his country. If you love me, and I will ask the Father, this is Jesus praying to the Father, what is Jesus doing today for you?

He's interceding. He's interceding. He's making intercession. That's what Hebrew says. Well, now, he's not making intercession to himself. And the fact that he's making intercession tells us a couple of tremendous facts.

One is that even though God has everything laid out from the foundation of the world, there still is opportunity for things to be swayed by prayer. Otherwise, Jesus wouldn't be praying. The second thing it shows us is that God is greater and in possession of power that Jesus doesn't have.

Else, why would Jesus be interceding? Pleading with God for you and me. And then we know from the New Testament that Jesus doesn't know everything that God knows because He said, no man knows the day or the hour.

See? Only the Father knows. It's not mine to give, He said about those on His right hand and His left. It's not mine to give. And the opening verse in Revelation is very significant. It says, the revelation which God gave to Jesus.

Meaning that God had it before Jesus did. So, that's a very small example of the numerous Scriptures that are wiped out when you assign a spurious, seemingly good and reverential, but nonetheless spurious, exaltation of Christ until He becomes the person of the Father.

Then you cannot understand the Feast of Tabernacles because the Feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled when Christ is dwelling in you. Notice how that goes. The Father is dwelling in Christ who is dwelling in you who are dwelling in Christ who is dwelling in the Father.

It's the wheel in the middle of the wheel. And so, it's like Jesus said that they may be one in us as we are one. Which means that through marriage to Jesus, we are being incorporated into the very person of God.

That's holy ground. But that's what the church is. It's a furtherance of the incarnation of God. It is not separate from God. It is of God, by God, born of God, part of God. That does not make us the Father and it does not make us Jesus Christ.

It brings us into relationship to Jesus Christ as He is in relationship to the Father. And when Paul said, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. He's expressing the same relationship to Christ that Christ has to the Father.

It's no longer I am living, but Christ is living in me. That's what Christ said about the Father. It's not I am doing these things, it's the Father is doing them to me. It's the very same thing. Now, this is where we're going.

This is the goal. This is what is after Pentecost. And it all depends on what? Obedience. And that's something we've got to learn. And obedience is a question of will. It's a question of will. And the issue of will is the fundamental issue of the kingdom.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Because that's where sin began was when Satan went against the will of God. Now, we're saved, and we're filled with the Spirit, and now we've got to learn obedience.

Obedience to God, and sometimes in the church, not always, and not to an excessive point by any means, or a slavish point, obedience to the elders. Because without that you have nothing. God will not work apart from government.

He will not do it. That doesn't mean anybody is any better than you. I'm just talking about God's government. Another counselor to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. Now, the Holy Spirit does everything in the church.

You can't think of anything in the church that isn't done by the Holy Spirit. He's as Eliezer who has come from Abraham, a type of the Father, to get Rebekah, a type of the church, to bring to Isaac, a type of Christ.

And that's the great story of Rebekah and Isaac. And that's the Holy Spirit. So He comes, He gives gifts. You know, people today are enthralled, the churches are enthralled with the gifts that the Holy Spirit is bringing.

Aren't they? They're really trying to make much of them capitalized upon, which is fine. What they don't realize is the Holy Spirit has not come to give, but to take. All these gifts, revivals, blessings, manifestations are only the Holy Spirit getting the family of Rebekah ready for Rebekah to leave.

The goal is Rebekah. Abraham could have bought 140 camels loaded with wealth. They'd probably been to this day counting. It meant nothing to Abraham. He had 400 servants in his house. He had so many male servants, he had an army of his own.

It didn't mean anything to him. Money. And so, that's a great danger today because the Holy Spirit comes in and gives gifts in the church and everything, and all of a sudden, the tenants is built and everything is going, and the pastor is all excited, and he builds, and of course, this is the way it should be and the way God wants it to be.

But we must always keep in mind that the signs are not the destiny. The signs are not the destiny. The gifts are not where it is. Where it is is the bride. If you picture Isaac, Isaac, I guess, was around 30, wasn't he?

Or something. Andrew may know. I'm not sure that's right, but I think he was around 30 at the time. And he was out in the field. I don't know if you've ever been down in the Negev and looked. I mean, that's where he was, down in the Negev, meditating.

Boy, that's a place to meditate. I mean, that you can see as far as you can see. And it's quieter than a church. It's a beautiful thing to see. Just sand as far as you can see in the Negev. Well, he was meditating in that beautiful place.

What do you think he was thinking about? Do you think he knew where Eliezer went? He knew where Eliezer went. So what do you think he was thinking about? Do you think he was thinking about the candles?

Do you think he was thinking about Eliezer? Do you think he was thinking about, oh boy, look what he brought. What a dowry already. Five million dollars worth of spices and nose rings and earrings and bracelets and everything else.

Solid gold. Do you think he was thinking about that? Keep it. Where is she? What does she look like? Is she going to take the place of my mother? See, he brought her into his mother's tent. What's she going to be like?

Is she going to be a good mother for my children? Is she going to raise up strong sons for me? This is what he was thinking about. Being a man of that period. He was thinking about her. Her. Not camels.

Not Eliezer. Do you believe that? I think so. Do you agree with that? Be careful how you answer. Having some fun here with you. Alright, now. Yes, he was thinking about her. Now, you see what happens is these things come into the church.

They're not worried about bride. They're not worried about anything else. They're worried about the gifts. So, their idea is Look, Rebecca. Take care of this old guy. Marry him if you have to. But this is where the action is.

They don't care anything about some dude over in the Negev meditating. Or about the fact that Christ is actually can you hear me? Excited about the idea of getting married. So, that perked you up. Alright.

Christ is actually excited about the idea of getting married. Meditate on that. We don't think about that. Think of the gifts. Eliezer. Now, they're praying to Eliezer. They're praying to the Holy Spirit.

Trying to get more gifts. Eliezer. More gifts. Eliezer. More gifts. More gifts. More gifts. That's what's going on today. People are praying to the Holy Spirit. Not a verse in the Bible to support it.