WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.360 I hope everyone's doing well in the super cold and frosty morning. 00:03.920 --> 00:06.060 And you found joy in the Lord in it. 00:06.780 --> 00:09.840 I feel like the older I get, the more bitter I get to the cold. 00:10.640 --> 00:11.940 So I have to check my heart. 00:13.340 --> 00:14.860 Because we got to thank Him for that. 00:14.960 --> 00:16.640 There's so much beauty in the cold. 00:16.820 --> 00:21.080 There's so much of His grace that is shown in our bodies, 00:21.260 --> 00:22.520 how it responds to the cold. 00:26.020 --> 00:27.820 Today, I'm going to talk about 00:30.880 --> 00:31.460 purity. 00:32.980 --> 00:35.000 And before I talk about that, 00:35.240 --> 00:40.080 I had a conversation with the Lord of what He wanted me to share 00:40.080 --> 00:42.000 with His body, with His bride. 00:44.820 --> 00:50.280 And as the Lord is so beautiful in the way He speaks to us, 00:50.300 --> 00:53.960 but He led me down the rabbit hole of my life. 00:54.680 --> 00:57.920 And usually when we speak, or at least in my case, 00:58.000 --> 01:00.080 whenever I speak, it's something that I'm living through. 01:00.580 --> 01:02.020 It's a revelation that the Lord gave me 01:02.020 --> 01:03.720 and I'm trying to walk it out with Him. 01:06.300 --> 01:08.960 But the first question that arose in my mind 01:08.960 --> 01:10.640 is why do we go to church? 01:12.320 --> 01:12.760 Right? 01:13.420 --> 01:16.100 Do we go to church for ourselves? 01:16.440 --> 01:17.560 Oh, because we need healing? 01:18.400 --> 01:20.100 Or I need deliverance? 01:20.580 --> 01:22.780 Or I need to receive a word from the Lord? 01:24.120 --> 01:25.240 Is that the reason? 01:25.440 --> 01:26.780 Or do we come for community? 01:27.660 --> 01:28.660 I just want to fit in. 01:28.880 --> 01:30.320 I want to have friendships. 01:30.700 --> 01:31.700 I want to have relationships. 01:32.040 --> 01:33.460 I want to have a sense of family. 01:34.960 --> 01:36.660 Because if that is the case, 01:38.060 --> 01:40.080 you're going to get offended really quick. 01:41.040 --> 01:43.720 Because that's not the point of coming to church. 01:43.820 --> 01:46.400 It's not the point of the gathering of the saints. 01:46.700 --> 01:50.180 That's a result of the gathering of the saints. 01:50.180 --> 01:53.060 But that is not the reason for the gathering of the saints. 01:53.500 --> 01:55.980 The reason is to encounter the Lord, 01:56.600 --> 01:58.340 to come and love on Him, 01:58.420 --> 01:59.680 to come and know Him, 02:00.440 --> 02:01.680 to feel His presence. 02:01.840 --> 02:03.680 Not for our sake, but for His, 02:03.840 --> 02:05.520 because of what Jesus did on that cross. 02:06.020 --> 02:07.940 He needs to receive His reward 02:07.940 --> 02:09.580 and I want to give it to Him 02:09.580 --> 02:11.360 in any capacity that I can. 02:12.020 --> 02:14.060 So if that means coming to church, 02:14.300 --> 02:15.300 even though I'm tired, 02:15.420 --> 02:16.920 even though I have two hours of sleep, 02:16.920 --> 02:18.280 or I might have a cough, 02:18.440 --> 02:20.060 or my kids are cranky, 02:20.460 --> 02:22.100 I'm going to make it to service. 02:22.340 --> 02:25.720 So I want to give my Lord the reward that He deserves, 02:26.120 --> 02:28.040 the reward that He died for. 02:31.340 --> 02:33.580 So sometimes we got to check ourselves. 02:33.920 --> 02:35.200 Sometimes it becomes a routine. 02:36.240 --> 02:38.080 Are we coming because it's a routine? 02:39.680 --> 02:43.120 Are we coming because it's the right thing to do? 02:43.340 --> 02:45.160 In other words, self-righteousness. 02:45.160 --> 02:47.480 Well, I know it's the right thing to do. 02:47.920 --> 02:49.200 So I'm going to go, 02:49.480 --> 02:51.300 because either I was brought up that way, 02:51.420 --> 02:52.660 or my friends go. 02:53.880 --> 02:56.360 But really, that's an act of self-righteousness, 02:56.620 --> 02:58.400 because you know it's a good thing to do, 02:58.400 --> 02:59.820 so you're going to choose to do it. 03:00.540 --> 03:02.280 That's the beauty of the Lord. 03:02.780 --> 03:05.280 It doesn't matter what programs are going. 03:05.500 --> 03:08.280 It doesn't matter if the worship band is perfect 03:08.280 --> 03:10.020 and their performance is great. 03:10.480 --> 03:13.200 It doesn't matter if the speaker has charisma. 03:13.900 --> 03:16.020 It's the Lord that draws us here. 03:17.060 --> 03:19.360 Because we see so many churches. 03:19.680 --> 03:21.940 Igor and I, like we've said it as our testimony, 03:22.520 --> 03:25.340 we have seen so many churches that have that. 03:25.960 --> 03:29.180 They have a pastor full of charisma that knows how to speak. 03:29.780 --> 03:32.480 They have a worship band that is immaculate. 03:33.840 --> 03:35.460 But something is missing. 03:36.860 --> 03:38.780 And it's because the Lord's not there. 03:39.880 --> 03:41.840 Because he's like a magnet. 03:42.440 --> 03:44.260 Once you taste him, you're like, 03:44.420 --> 03:47.340 I'm going to do anything I can just to taste him again. 03:49.300 --> 03:51.340 So why do we go to church? 03:52.000 --> 03:53.340 Why do we go to conferences? 03:54.420 --> 03:55.860 Why do we go to services? 03:56.240 --> 03:57.200 Why do we go to prayers? 03:57.820 --> 03:58.860 Why do we go to meetings? 04:00.600 --> 04:01.780 It should be the Lord. 04:03.200 --> 04:06.300 And if it's not, we got to realign ourselves with the Lord. 04:06.500 --> 04:08.480 We got to repent and ask him for forgiveness 04:08.480 --> 04:11.320 and to realign, renew our mind 04:11.320 --> 04:13.760 and our mindset to be aligned with his word 04:13.760 --> 04:15.600 for him to be our one thing. 04:16.400 --> 04:17.420 That's the whole point. 04:18.020 --> 04:18.860 He is our one thing. 04:21.020 --> 04:23.080 So we're going to read out of Matthew 5.8. 04:23.160 --> 04:24.760 We're actually going to read out of a couple of scriptures. 04:25.620 --> 04:26.700 But Matthew 5.8, 04:28.040 --> 04:29.840 blessed are the poor in heart 04:30.420 --> 04:31.620 for they shall... 04:31.620 --> 04:32.540 Oh, sorry, not poor. 04:33.040 --> 04:34.720 Blessed are the pure in heart 04:35.340 --> 04:37.900 for they shall see God. 04:38.020 --> 04:39.660 I was thinking that I'm like, it's the spirit, 04:39.660 --> 04:41.480 not the heart, but sorry. 04:41.920 --> 04:43.600 Blessed are the pure in heart 04:44.520 --> 04:46.040 for they shall see God. 04:47.540 --> 04:49.380 So if we come to a service, 04:49.880 --> 04:51.580 a meeting, a prayer, a teaching, 04:52.720 --> 04:54.440 and the Lord's not there, 04:55.200 --> 04:56.880 well, if we want to see him, 04:57.760 --> 04:59.380 people have to have a pure heart. 05:00.260 --> 05:02.020 Or else we won't see him. 05:04.780 --> 05:07.160 So to see God in a movement, 05:07.160 --> 05:10.020 in our prayers, to see God in a movement, 05:10.240 --> 05:13.060 in our services, through the preachings, 05:13.060 --> 05:15.120 in our meetings, in our teachings, 05:15.940 --> 05:18.620 to see God move in our personal lives, 05:19.000 --> 05:21.340 in our relationships with our spouse 05:21.340 --> 05:23.360 and our kids and our friends and our family, 05:24.120 --> 05:26.300 to see God move in our gatherings 05:26.940 --> 05:29.100 or to see him move in our conferences, 05:30.300 --> 05:31.720 we need a pure heart. 05:33.320 --> 05:35.800 I need a pure heart if I want to see the Lord. 05:38.040 --> 05:40.240 Because it starts with me first, 05:40.600 --> 05:42.020 not because I'm your pastor 05:42.020 --> 05:44.360 or because I'm up here on stage. 05:44.860 --> 05:48.460 It's a personal, it's a personal decision 05:48.460 --> 05:51.800 one-on-one, a child of God with her father 05:51.800 --> 05:54.360 saying, I need that pure heart. 05:54.900 --> 05:58.480 And if I choose to live in a pure heart, 05:58.700 --> 05:59.960 I will see the Lord. 06:00.700 --> 06:02.520 And if I speak that out 06:02.520 --> 06:05.720 and share a testimony of how I live with a pure heart, 06:06.400 --> 06:08.040 they'll impact your heart 06:08.040 --> 06:10.220 and then you will start living in a pure heart. 06:10.340 --> 06:11.420 And it's like a fire. 06:12.200 --> 06:14.500 And I love how the Lord uses fire 06:14.500 --> 06:18.720 as one of his, like, symbolisms 06:19.280 --> 06:21.720 or one of his categories 06:22.500 --> 06:24.000 to describe something. 06:24.560 --> 06:26.440 Because with a fire, we all know fire. 06:27.080 --> 06:28.780 One little lit match 06:28.780 --> 06:31.400 can cause chaos to everything around it. 06:36.200 --> 06:38.080 And it's interesting because purity 06:38.080 --> 06:40.720 actually a lot of people don't want to talk about purity. 06:41.260 --> 06:43.600 And I was thinking this through my mind with the Lord 06:44.280 --> 06:46.660 because he started downloading a bunch of things to me 06:46.660 --> 06:47.840 and I'm like, oh, this is good and good. 06:48.060 --> 06:49.740 And then I started thinking, I'm like, ooh, 06:49.920 --> 06:52.160 people can see that as self-righteousness. 06:53.300 --> 06:54.780 And it's so unfortunate 06:54.780 --> 06:58.040 because as soon as people think self-righteousness, 06:58.200 --> 06:59.820 well, I'm doing this. 07:00.920 --> 07:02.760 Then people back away and like, no, no, no. 07:02.980 --> 07:04.980 We're not gonna do that. We're not gonna be pure. 07:05.640 --> 07:07.040 We're not gonna talk about purity. 07:07.040 --> 07:10.440 We can like dance around the word purity or pure 07:11.440 --> 07:14.340 because it's such a thin line 07:15.200 --> 07:18.260 between purity, oh, I'm gonna choose to be pure, 07:19.720 --> 07:22.020 of a response of the Lord 07:22.720 --> 07:25.780 or a response of our self-righteousness. 07:26.680 --> 07:28.800 And a lot of people don't want to talk about that. 07:29.620 --> 07:31.420 And like I said, it's unfortunate 07:31.840 --> 07:34.140 because if we want to see God, we need a pure heart. 07:35.960 --> 07:38.620 So how can we get a pure heart? 07:39.780 --> 07:41.060 Psalm 119. 07:44.760 --> 07:47.160 So I'm gonna read from two different versions 07:47.160 --> 07:48.520 or three different versions 07:48.520 --> 07:52.120 because I like how these versions talk it through. 07:53.320 --> 07:55.560 So the first is ESV. 07:56.640 --> 07:59.820 How can a young man keep his way pure 08:00.780 --> 08:03.680 by guarding it according to your word? 08:06.040 --> 08:08.460 And it's interesting because it says young man 08:08.460 --> 08:12.120 and I don't know about you, I feel pretty young. 08:13.420 --> 08:18.040 But I know the older I get, the younger my spirit gets. 08:19.280 --> 08:22.800 I'm like, I'm not 34, I'm 22. 08:24.360 --> 08:28.360 And it's interesting how our body gets older and it ages 08:28.360 --> 08:30.960 but we still feel so young inside. 08:30.960 --> 08:32.780 Like we can do everything, right? 08:34.980 --> 08:40.020 So how can a young man keep his way pure 08:40.020 --> 08:42.520 by guarding it according to the word? 08:43.860 --> 08:48.300 The New King James Version says how can a young man cleanse his way 08:49.420 --> 08:53.100 by taking heed according to your word? 08:53.840 --> 08:57.420 Yours is capitalized as it's talking about God the Father, 08:57.920 --> 08:59.980 God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, 08:59.980 --> 09:01.960 and it's talking about their word. 09:04.200 --> 09:07.140 But I like the amplified version too. 09:07.660 --> 09:10.100 How can a young man keep his way pure 09:10.100 --> 09:15.740 by keeping watch on himself according to your word, 09:16.000 --> 09:19.320 conforming his life to your precepts? 09:20.600 --> 09:25.280 So we can keep our way and way by as in a passage 09:25.280 --> 09:28.640 or a progress on a course, that's our life, right? 09:28.640 --> 09:31.500 We're walking a certain way in our life. 09:31.620 --> 09:32.680 Our life is a way. 09:33.320 --> 09:35.420 It's a passage through this time. 09:36.460 --> 09:38.140 It's a course that we're in. 09:38.760 --> 09:41.300 So we can keep our way pure. 09:41.720 --> 09:44.420 How? In simple terms, by following the word, 09:44.840 --> 09:47.320 the truth of God, which is written in the Bible 09:47.320 --> 09:49.620 that was inspired by the Holy Spirit 09:49.620 --> 09:51.520 who dwells in us and confirms it. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.280 Let me read that again. 09:55.280 --> 10:00.640 In simple terms, to keep our way pure, 10:01.560 --> 10:05.020 we follow the Word, we follow the truth of God, 10:05.960 --> 10:07.600 which is in the Bible. 10:08.500 --> 10:10.620 This is the inspired Word of God 10:10.620 --> 10:14.680 written through Holy Spirit by vessels that he loves. 10:17.020 --> 10:19.920 So it's following the Word of God 10:19.920 --> 10:21.980 written in the Bible 10:22.580 --> 10:25.100 that was inspired by the Holy Spirit 10:25.100 --> 10:28.500 who dwells in us now and it confirms it in the Word. 10:29.580 --> 10:31.980 There's many times that I... 10:32.620 --> 10:34.740 there's something in my spirit that I know. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.600 It's like a revelation I know, 10:36.780 --> 10:38.740 but then somebody else speaks it out. 10:38.780 --> 10:41.480 I'm like, oh, that's the words to what I'm feeling inside. 10:42.140 --> 10:43.060 You're confirming. 10:43.340 --> 10:45.000 I just didn't know how to spit it out. 10:45.420 --> 10:48.000 And that person confirmed it through a certain way 10:48.000 --> 10:49.980 that the Lord asked them to speak it out in. 10:49.980 --> 10:52.300 And so that's what it's talking... 10:52.300 --> 10:53.400 that's what I'm talking about. 10:54.660 --> 10:56.300 It's like there's something... 10:56.300 --> 10:58.700 this Holy Spirit's going to be doing stuff in you. 10:58.920 --> 11:00.900 And sometimes either it's in a service 11:00.900 --> 11:04.660 or a conversation or a post or something. 11:04.880 --> 11:07.660 And you're like, yes, that's exactly what I'm feeling. 11:08.940 --> 11:10.760 That bears witness with me 11:10.760 --> 11:13.420 because that is the words that I can't formulate. 11:20.090 --> 11:23.170 So with this, it's interesting 11:23.170 --> 11:26.150 because one of the rabbit holes the Lord took me on. 11:27.470 --> 11:28.330 And I didn't... 11:28.330 --> 11:29.730 there was so much more that he gave me, 11:29.750 --> 11:31.130 but I'm just going to share a snippet. 11:31.790 --> 11:35.230 He took me to Exodus chapter 30. 11:36.450 --> 11:38.590 And I was thinking... 11:38.590 --> 11:40.070 it actually came out of a scripture 11:40.070 --> 11:42.310 that Pastor Mary talked about last week. 11:43.010 --> 11:44.830 And I can't remember what it was, 11:45.090 --> 11:49.070 but it was talking about being in alignment 11:49.070 --> 11:53.290 and not having like alignment to other things. 11:53.930 --> 11:56.030 But it was talking a little bit later on 11:56.030 --> 11:58.970 of like it was taking a scripture out of the Old Testament 11:58.970 --> 12:00.990 saying they will be my people. 12:01.130 --> 12:02.670 I will be their God. 12:02.910 --> 12:04.210 It was like in that context. 12:04.830 --> 12:06.770 And it brought me back to Exodus 30. 12:08.730 --> 12:10.950 And it's talking about the altar. 12:11.350 --> 12:12.650 There's an altar of incense. 12:12.930 --> 12:14.030 That's before the Lord. 12:14.970 --> 12:17.290 And it's interesting because the incense 12:18.170 --> 12:21.210 is actually a representation of our heart. 12:22.670 --> 12:25.630 So Exodus 30... 12:25.630 --> 12:33.880 there we go. 12:34.220 --> 12:34.380 Okay. 12:35.700 --> 12:36.180 One, it says, 12:36.460 --> 12:39.260 you shall make an altar to burn incense on 12:39.260 --> 12:43.260 and the Lord takes them through how to build this altar. 12:44.560 --> 12:45.360 And in verse 6, 12:45.520 --> 12:47.660 and you shall put it before the veil 12:48.310 --> 12:50.660 that is before the ark of the testimony. 12:52.740 --> 12:54.300 Before the mercy seat, 12:54.540 --> 12:56.060 that is over the testimony 12:56.060 --> 12:58.180 where I will meet with you. 12:59.700 --> 13:00.700 So this incense... 13:01.320 --> 13:02.980 I talk about it in my prayers 13:02.980 --> 13:04.620 because it's a revelation of the Lord. 13:05.100 --> 13:05.980 I always pray, Father, 13:06.340 --> 13:08.900 when I am here and I want to encounter you 13:08.900 --> 13:10.040 and I want to see you 13:10.040 --> 13:11.040 and I want to worship you 13:11.040 --> 13:12.120 and I want to love on you, 13:13.800 --> 13:16.180 may you find a pleasing aroma 13:16.180 --> 13:18.940 an incense that fills your throne room 13:18.940 --> 13:20.700 that your eyes churn and say, 13:20.720 --> 13:21.760 what's that smell? 13:23.640 --> 13:25.640 And that comes from a pure heart 13:27.160 --> 13:28.480 because with a pure heart 13:28.480 --> 13:29.600 I can worship the Lord. 13:29.780 --> 13:30.540 There's no mixture. 13:31.120 --> 13:32.580 There's no contamination. 13:34.320 --> 13:35.260 It says, 13:35.300 --> 13:37.100 you shall put it before the veil 13:37.920 --> 13:40.200 that is before the ark of the testimony 13:41.400 --> 13:42.780 and the mercy seat 13:42.780 --> 13:44.060 that is over the testimony 13:44.060 --> 13:45.160 and I will meet you. 13:45.160 --> 13:47.900 And Aaron, Cheryl, burn on it 13:47.900 --> 13:50.120 sweet incense every morning. 13:51.180 --> 13:52.640 So this incense, 13:52.840 --> 13:55.580 which is a representation of our heart 13:56.160 --> 13:58.280 it's interesting that they do it in the morning 13:58.880 --> 14:00.960 that Aaron lights this incense 14:00.960 --> 14:02.400 and starts it in the morning 14:03.140 --> 14:03.980 which to me, 14:05.120 --> 14:05.760 that's... 14:05.760 --> 14:08.160 if I wake up with a decision 14:08.160 --> 14:09.820 of I'm choosing the Lord today 14:09.820 --> 14:12.580 most of my decisions after that 14:12.580 --> 14:14.120 will be choosing the Lord. 14:14.120 --> 14:15.760 We'll be loving on Him. 14:16.320 --> 14:17.400 If my first thought, 14:17.500 --> 14:18.720 I remember when I was in youth 14:18.720 --> 14:20.840 I was so hungry for the Lord 14:20.840 --> 14:22.580 and a youth pastor at the time 14:22.580 --> 14:24.360 there was like six of us, maybe four 14:24.360 --> 14:26.700 and our youth, he was a leader, 14:26.880 --> 14:29.560 youth leader, man such a... 14:29.560 --> 14:32.180 such a humble and anointed man 14:32.180 --> 14:33.960 that was so like hidden 14:33.960 --> 14:36.200 everyone just went over him 14:36.200 --> 14:37.780 and it was unfortunately 14:37.780 --> 14:40.040 because people just didn't treat him right 14:40.040 --> 14:41.800 but he had such wisdom 14:41.800 --> 14:43.380 and I remember once he was talking 14:43.380 --> 14:46.300 he's like I wake up every morning 14:47.020 --> 14:49.480 praising the Lord and giving him 14:49.480 --> 14:51.920 like my time in the morning 14:51.920 --> 14:53.920 of loving on him, thank you Lord 14:53.920 --> 14:56.380 he's like my thought, the first thing I wake up 14:56.380 --> 14:57.560 my thought is on the Lord 14:57.560 --> 14:59.980 and I remember being a hungry teenager 14:59.980 --> 15:01.940 and I'm like God, I want that 15:03.200 --> 15:04.980 and it didn't happen the next morning 15:04.980 --> 15:07.480 because I had to practice it 15:07.480 --> 15:09.500 some things are given supernaturally 15:10.420 --> 15:12.200 in my life what I've learned 15:12.200 --> 15:15.180 most things are something that I have to work out 15:15.180 --> 15:17.100 I have to die to my flesh and choose him 15:18.180 --> 15:20.360 and so the next morning 15:20.360 --> 15:22.580 I woke up and I went straight to my phone 15:23.200 --> 15:25.000 and then that little voice 15:25.820 --> 15:29.180 oh man, I was supposed to think of the Lord 15:29.180 --> 15:30.260 I forgot about that 15:31.020 --> 15:32.920 so then I'm like Lord I'm so sorry 15:32.920 --> 15:35.440 the next morning same thing I'd reach to my phone 15:36.440 --> 15:38.680 and then again a slight little tap 15:39.220 --> 15:41.320 and I'm like oh Lord I'm so sorry 15:41.320 --> 15:44.140 I want you to be my first thought 15:44.140 --> 15:47.600 and what's wild is that 15:47.600 --> 15:49.580 I don't even exactly remember when 15:49.580 --> 15:52.420 it started happening so naturally after that 15:52.420 --> 15:55.220 because I had to die to my flesh 15:55.220 --> 15:57.820 and choose him and in that response 15:57.820 --> 15:59.180 the Lord is so beautiful 15:59.180 --> 16:00.880 I take one step to him 16:00.880 --> 16:03.100 and he takes three steps to me 16:03.100 --> 16:05.300 and that's an analogy I'm not saying 16:05.300 --> 16:06.940 that's exactly how he works but 16:06.940 --> 16:08.420 that's an analogy 16:09.200 --> 16:14.220 So if I make one tiny baby step, the Lord's like, okay, I'll get a little bit closer. 16:14.660 --> 16:17.380 And he's so merciful in that. He's so good in that. 16:18.620 --> 16:23.060 So I remember it happened so naturally. And it was like, maybe a month in. 16:23.880 --> 16:27.820 And I woke up and I'm like, Lord, I love you. Thank you. Thank you for this day. 16:29.060 --> 16:32.920 You're my bridegroom. And then I remembered, wait a second. 16:33.260 --> 16:36.600 And obviously it wasn't me. It was the Lord saying, hey, 16:36.600 --> 16:40.400 have you noticed that you've been thinking about me every morning? 16:41.600 --> 16:43.380 And it was such a blessing for me. 16:43.920 --> 16:48.200 So here they burnt incense in the morning. And I think there's something special about that. 16:56.660 --> 17:00.820 So then later on, so this talks about building the altar of incense. 17:01.560 --> 17:06.720 Later on in verse 30 or chapter 30, it talks about actually making the incense. 17:08.280 --> 17:11.440 It says, and the Lord said to Moses, take sweet spice. 17:12.380 --> 17:19.420 And he goes on so forth, so on and so forth, talking about different spices and oils to take of equal amounts. 17:19.540 --> 17:21.100 And he says, hey, put them all together. 17:22.300 --> 17:27.340 It says, according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure and holy. 17:27.920 --> 17:33.220 That's what he talks about all of these incense, or not incense, all of these oils and spices. 17:35.320 --> 17:44.540 And a little bit later on, and it says, and it shall put some of it before the testimony in the Tabernacle of Meeting, 17:44.700 --> 17:45.780 where I will meet with you. 17:45.780 --> 17:51.540 And he talks about again the altar of incense right before the testimony, right before the veil. 17:53.200 --> 17:57.060 And he says, and it shall be most holy to you. 17:58.880 --> 18:04.860 But as for the incense which you make, you shall not make any for yourselves. 18:05.880 --> 18:12.880 So this heart decision, this pure heart, this incense that we're bringing and we're making before the Lord, 18:13.180 --> 18:15.380 we're choosing to make before the Lord. 18:15.720 --> 18:17.500 He says, it can't be for yourself. 18:18.280 --> 18:22.120 That's interesting because we've been thinking about all year about dying to ourselves. 18:23.020 --> 18:25.440 It's not about what I want, Lord, it's about what you want. 18:25.440 --> 18:29.000 It's not what I want in the situation, it's about what you want. 18:29.080 --> 18:31.640 It's not what I deserve in the situation, it's what you want. 18:32.400 --> 18:40.340 And he says, because it's so holy, it shall be most holy, the most holy to you. 18:41.200 --> 18:43.420 He said, do not make any for yourselves. 18:45.300 --> 18:47.760 It shall be to you holy for the Lord. 18:48.160 --> 18:50.400 This is set apart oil for him. 18:51.140 --> 18:54.500 This incense is for him, this heart, this pure heart. 18:54.500 --> 18:55.720 It's for him. 18:57.240 --> 19:04.220 And then when I come into a time where I want to be with him, whether it's in public or whether it's in private, 19:05.440 --> 19:09.800 he ignites that flame and it brings aroma to his throne room. 19:10.920 --> 19:13.540 And it's holy, only for him. 19:14.220 --> 19:19.920 It's not for myself so that I can receive the glory so that I can pray for people and they fall over 19:19.920 --> 19:22.800 so that I can touch this person and they get healing 19:23.600 --> 19:27.560 so that everyone can look at me and be like, wow, look at that man and woman of God. 19:30.260 --> 19:33.620 No, it's for him. It's holy. It's pure. 19:36.940 --> 19:38.760 So what do we do with this word? 19:39.040 --> 19:42.000 We talked about how we get a pure heart, the word of God says, 19:42.700 --> 19:48.860 by guarding or by heeding, taking heed or keeping watch according to his word. 19:51.000 --> 19:52.720 And what do we do with this word? 19:52.720 --> 19:54.640 First Peter 1.22. 19:58.200 --> 20:03.380 It says, having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth 20:03.380 --> 20:10.480 for a sincere brotherly love, one another earnestly from a pure heart. 20:11.820 --> 20:19.240 So when we follow the word of God, like it says in that first scripture in Psalm 119, 20:19.240 --> 20:23.260 if we want to have a pure way, if we want to choose to have a pure way, 20:23.840 --> 20:29.900 we have to take heed, we have to watch, we have to guard according to the word. 20:30.600 --> 20:32.020 Now what do we do with this word? 20:33.300 --> 20:38.720 We're obedient. So when we follow the word of God, God will in turn ask us of things, 20:38.940 --> 20:40.940 which means death to self. 20:43.500 --> 20:45.720 So when we follow the word of God, 20:48.400 --> 20:52.700 whether we're just new in Christ a couple months, a couple years, 20:54.080 --> 20:56.380 or we've been in the faith for a while, 20:58.060 --> 21:01.500 the beauty of God is sometimes we always have to be realigned. 21:04.120 --> 21:09.260 So when we choose, okay Lord, I want to be pure, I want to see you, I want a pure heart. 21:09.680 --> 21:14.860 I'm going to choose that way, which means following the word of God, 21:14.860 --> 21:16.260 taking heed to the word of God. 21:17.480 --> 21:22.480 So I'm going to read the word of God, and by reading this word of God, 21:22.760 --> 21:26.740 He will start asking you, in other words, convicting you of things and saying, 21:26.760 --> 21:31.120 hey, you need to get rid of this, you need to apologize for this, you can't do this anymore. 21:32.840 --> 21:38.360 Some things are kind of basic, right? We're like lying. 21:39.780 --> 21:43.220 It's like I can't have you not lie anymore. 21:44.100 --> 21:48.340 I can't have you bear false witness, in other words, exaggeration. 21:51.940 --> 21:57.060 You want a pure heart? It talks about it also in another scripture. 21:57.300 --> 21:58.420 I don't have it here, I don't think. 22:01.120 --> 22:04.360 Oh it does, it's the next scripture I talk about, but it says, 22:04.500 --> 22:07.280 do not keep deceit on your lips, on your tongue. 22:08.860 --> 22:12.800 False witness is a form of exaggeration. 22:13.620 --> 22:15.900 You're bearing false witness over something. 22:20.060 --> 22:24.040 So he's going to, once we read this word, he's going to ask us of things, 22:24.400 --> 22:29.300 death to self, it can be basic where it covers all, 22:30.780 --> 22:31.980 everything covers all. 22:32.580 --> 22:37.100 But as we mature in the Lord, there's certain things that are personal to our personality, 22:37.100 --> 22:40.740 where he's like, yeah, you can't do this anymore. 22:42.440 --> 22:43.840 Sometimes it's for a season. 22:44.500 --> 22:48.900 He's like, hey, I don't, I don't want you to have this anymore. 22:50.520 --> 22:53.880 One of my testimonies is I grew up in a Slavic culture, 22:54.640 --> 22:59.840 and one of the main goals of every young girl is to get married before she's 19, 23:00.000 --> 23:01.460 because after 19 she's old. 23:02.140 --> 23:05.200 And it's wild to think, because at 19 I'm like, you're a baby, 23:05.860 --> 23:07.060 you don't know anything yet. 23:08.120 --> 23:10.980 But I remember having this desire, 23:11.240 --> 23:13.920 and I started encountering the Lord when I was 16. 23:14.160 --> 23:18.180 So by the time I hit 19, I haven't met anyone, 23:18.460 --> 23:20.320 and I'm like, Lord, I just, I want to get married. 23:20.380 --> 23:21.940 I want a husband, I want children. 23:22.420 --> 23:24.020 It was like part of my personality. 23:25.160 --> 23:26.560 It's just the way God created me. 23:26.580 --> 23:28.260 I was like a mother to all these little kids, 23:28.280 --> 23:29.140 and I just loved it. 23:29.260 --> 23:30.220 I drank it up. 23:30.600 --> 23:32.700 And I remember him asking me, he's like, okay, 23:32.700 --> 23:34.460 what if you never get married? 23:35.820 --> 23:37.560 Oh, I was so scared to think that. 23:38.040 --> 23:40.180 But obviously I wasn't thinking that it was the Lord. 23:41.360 --> 23:43.840 And I was like, no, that, that can't be the Lord. 23:43.920 --> 23:46.000 The whole word of God talks about marriage 23:46.000 --> 23:47.120 from the cover to cover. 23:47.260 --> 23:48.080 It talks about marriage. 23:48.180 --> 23:50.340 What do you mean, never get married? 23:50.920 --> 23:52.380 That's your design, Lord. 23:53.340 --> 23:55.200 He's like, what if you never get married? 23:55.340 --> 23:56.520 What if you never get the husband, 23:56.940 --> 23:58.160 and you never get the children? 23:59.720 --> 24:02.380 I wrestled with the Lord for two weeks. 24:03.460 --> 24:04.980 I was exhausted. 24:07.240 --> 24:09.180 It was such a hard decision. 24:09.600 --> 24:12.340 But at the end, I remember distinctly saying, 24:12.680 --> 24:14.160 I love you too much. 24:15.240 --> 24:16.420 I will give it up. 24:16.780 --> 24:18.280 And from the age of 19, 24:19.920 --> 24:21.520 I think to 21. 24:21.900 --> 24:23.200 I think I met Igor in 21. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.200 From 19 to 21, 24:25.200 --> 24:28.500 I legitimately thought I was never going to... 24:28.500 --> 24:29.320 I died to it. 24:30.140 --> 24:33.460 And it's so beautiful because the decision was hard to make. 24:33.800 --> 24:36.720 And following through with that decision was hard to make. 24:37.060 --> 24:39.080 But like I said in the earlier testimony, 24:39.420 --> 24:40.780 all of a sudden it became natural. 24:41.460 --> 24:42.160 That desire. 24:42.300 --> 24:43.500 I thought about a husband and kids. 24:43.680 --> 24:47.000 I'm like, yeah, that mean I'll miss it. 24:47.440 --> 24:49.600 But like, oh Lord, you're too precious. 24:50.220 --> 24:53.320 What I received for dying to that was way... 24:53.980 --> 24:54.420 Never. 24:54.420 --> 24:57.700 I'd rather live celibate and I'd rather live alone. 24:57.900 --> 24:59.100 I'd rather become a nun. 24:59.600 --> 25:01.560 Because he was just so good. 25:02.200 --> 25:04.800 I got to see and experience the side of the Lord 25:04.800 --> 25:06.680 through dying to my flesh. 25:06.800 --> 25:08.680 That was so beautiful, so pure. 25:10.520 --> 25:12.200 And then I remember one year, 25:12.360 --> 25:14.800 I was talking to the Lord and I'm like, 25:14.900 --> 25:16.580 hey, I know I died to this. 25:17.040 --> 25:18.720 And I'm okay not having it. 25:20.340 --> 25:22.360 Because it was like a year thing every January. 25:22.540 --> 25:23.320 I would talk about it. 25:24.060 --> 25:26.020 And the Lord's kind of had a... 25:26.020 --> 25:27.020 I was praying to the God 25:27.480 --> 25:29.540 and he kind of had a bubble out of me like, 25:29.860 --> 25:31.300 I'm ready to get married this year. 25:31.720 --> 25:33.740 I don't remember escaping my lips and I'm like, 25:34.880 --> 25:35.900 I died to this. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.360 Like, I'm never going to get married. 25:37.520 --> 25:38.700 It was already set in my mind. 25:38.760 --> 25:40.000 I was never going to get married. 25:40.620 --> 25:42.580 And that year I met Igor, which was wild. 25:46.400 --> 25:48.640 So when we follow the word of God, 25:53.380 --> 25:54.340 sometimes it's... 25:54.340 --> 25:56.320 it depends on our walk with God 25:56.320 --> 25:57.740 and our maturity in the Lord. 25:57.980 --> 26:00.760 He's going to touch at certain things for us to get rid of 26:00.760 --> 26:02.320 or to die to. 26:03.740 --> 26:05.740 Sometimes it reflects on our personality. 26:07.280 --> 26:09.640 And sometimes it reflects on... 26:10.400 --> 26:11.900 you know, if he's asking me, 26:11.940 --> 26:13.980 hey, I want you to stop exaggerating. 26:14.780 --> 26:17.820 And he won't say that to Abby for another three years. 26:18.420 --> 26:21.540 It depends on my walk with the Lord, right? 26:21.840 --> 26:24.260 So he's going to pick at things in our life of saying, 26:24.280 --> 26:26.120 hey, I don't want that anymore. 26:26.860 --> 26:30.720 And sometimes it's for a season of not getting married. 26:30.960 --> 26:33.300 And then he's like, yep, you passed the test. 26:33.700 --> 26:35.380 Your heart is fully devoted to me here. 26:35.900 --> 26:37.400 You can have the desire of your heart. 26:38.420 --> 26:40.760 Because I know the desire of your heart is me. 26:41.460 --> 26:44.080 And my desire is to fulfill the word of God. 26:44.420 --> 26:46.960 And the word of God talks about marriage from cover to cover. 26:48.680 --> 26:51.400 But he wasn't able to trust me before 26:51.400 --> 26:54.220 with the kind of marriage that he wanted to give me. 26:58.840 --> 27:00.800 So when we follow the word of God, 27:01.120 --> 27:03.220 God will enter and ask of us things, 27:03.440 --> 27:04.900 which is death to self, 27:05.320 --> 27:07.320 in which we purify our souls, 27:07.580 --> 27:10.460 in which automatically can affect our heart. 27:12.380 --> 27:13.540 Religion forces, 27:14.920 --> 27:18.500 but God allows us to choose and respond out of love. 27:20.280 --> 27:22.680 We don't have to follow the word. 27:22.800 --> 27:23.960 We have a free will. 27:25.000 --> 27:26.440 Why do we follow the word? 27:26.960 --> 27:28.280 Because our mom and dad tell us to? 27:28.740 --> 27:30.320 Because it's the right thing to do? 27:32.000 --> 27:33.580 It's like, why do we come to church? 27:34.560 --> 27:35.640 I don't know, it's routine. 27:36.080 --> 27:37.320 There's a community, I have friends. 27:38.980 --> 27:41.260 No, it should always be the Lord. 27:42.480 --> 27:44.620 He's the one that draws us here. 27:45.260 --> 27:47.940 He's the one that draws me to his word 27:47.940 --> 27:50.580 and his word comes alive in my spirit. 27:51.840 --> 27:53.800 And then he gives me revelation 27:53.800 --> 27:55.740 and I walk that revelation out 27:55.740 --> 27:57.180 and I purify my heart. 27:57.980 --> 28:00.160 And then all of a sudden I'm seeing God 28:00.160 --> 28:02.720 in facets that I've never seen God in, 28:02.920 --> 28:04.520 that people don't talk about. 28:06.520 --> 28:07.880 It's a pure heart. 28:10.840 --> 28:13.520 We can force our flesh to comply, 28:14.520 --> 28:17.040 because sometimes I do that, I force my flesh. 28:17.780 --> 28:19.620 Sometimes I don't want to come to service, 28:19.720 --> 28:21.260 sometimes I don't want to do things 28:21.260 --> 28:22.920 that God has asked me to do. 28:23.560 --> 28:25.220 It's a human nature. 28:26.720 --> 28:30.040 We live in a fallen world that rejects the Lord. 28:31.280 --> 28:33.740 It's okay to force our flesh to comply, 28:33.980 --> 28:35.660 but we only do that in response 28:35.660 --> 28:36.960 of our love towards Him. 28:38.300 --> 28:40.400 God has placed me in this position 28:40.400 --> 28:43.240 and there's many times where I don't feel like doing it. 28:44.700 --> 28:47.300 But I'm like, hey, flesh, you don't control me. 28:47.900 --> 28:49.500 I'm doing this because I love the Lord. 28:50.380 --> 28:51.880 And even though it's hard for me 28:52.400 --> 28:54.200 and it's challenging for me, 28:56.500 --> 28:58.920 nothing, nothing is more worth it than Him. 29:00.900 --> 29:02.100 And that's a pure heart. 29:02.920 --> 29:04.920 When you come into the realization 29:04.920 --> 29:07.780 that even doing things you hate to do 29:07.780 --> 29:09.040 or don't like to do 29:09.040 --> 29:11.640 or your flesh is literally warring against you 29:11.640 --> 29:13.300 and you're still choosing Him, 29:14.280 --> 29:17.100 a pure heart, you can purely worship the Lord. 29:22.080 --> 29:24.460 So we can force our flesh to comply, 29:25.240 --> 29:28.320 but we only do that in response of our love towards Him, 29:28.500 --> 29:30.880 not because we want to do it. 29:31.360 --> 29:34.180 Because again, that thin line, 29:34.340 --> 29:35.720 someone can take it and say, 29:36.200 --> 29:37.780 well, that's self-righteousness. 29:37.960 --> 29:40.500 And it can happen where you're like, 29:40.500 --> 29:42.080 oh, yes, I'm doing this for the Lord. 29:42.780 --> 29:44.480 And all of a sudden the Lord taps 29:44.480 --> 29:46.120 and he's like, take a step back. 29:46.400 --> 29:47.180 Where is your motive? 29:48.060 --> 29:49.100 Oh, that's right, Lord. 29:49.300 --> 29:50.760 I'm going to realign myself with your word, 29:50.940 --> 29:51.760 renew my mind. 29:52.400 --> 29:53.380 I'm going to step over here. 29:53.980 --> 29:55.800 I'm doing it in a response to the Lord. 29:56.460 --> 29:58.420 So it can, unfortunately, 30:00.080 --> 30:02.100 cross the line into self-righteousness. 30:02.200 --> 30:04.560 And that's why we have to be so sober and diligent. 30:04.740 --> 30:05.760 That's what the Word of God says. 30:06.200 --> 30:07.880 Be sober and diligent. 30:07.880 --> 30:09.720 We always have to be watchful. 30:11.480 --> 30:13.440 So we can force our flesh to comply, 30:13.520 --> 30:14.900 but we only do that in response 30:14.900 --> 30:16.620 of our love towards Him 30:16.620 --> 30:19.140 in what He asks of us. 30:19.800 --> 30:21.400 If He didn't ask you to do it, 30:21.660 --> 30:22.960 then don't do it. 30:24.240 --> 30:26.840 There will probably a time where He will ask you, 30:27.080 --> 30:28.900 because He's purifying the bride. 30:29.240 --> 30:30.420 He's making her pure. 30:30.760 --> 30:33.360 There are things that we all will need to get rid of. 30:36.600 --> 30:38.780 But if He doesn't ask you to do it now, 30:38.780 --> 30:40.620 don't touch it yet until He asks. 30:42.620 --> 30:44.860 Because then you can open up a can of worms 30:44.860 --> 30:46.300 that you weren't ready to deal with. 30:47.100 --> 30:49.760 That's why His timing is so, so good. 30:51.140 --> 30:52.600 And sometimes we'll do that. 30:52.720 --> 30:54.460 And I'm going to admit to that, I've done that too. 30:54.740 --> 30:57.380 I'm like, your Word says I need to do it. 30:57.480 --> 30:58.820 I don't feel a prompting from you, 30:58.840 --> 31:00.180 but your Word says I'm going to do it. 31:01.420 --> 31:02.880 Okay, maybe that's not a good example, 31:02.920 --> 31:03.640 because it's the Word of God. 31:05.840 --> 31:07.280 Here's another example that I've done. 31:07.280 --> 31:09.680 Where I see it happen in other people's lives. 31:12.680 --> 31:15.040 Where I see it happen in somebody else's lives. 31:15.160 --> 31:16.020 They're going through something, 31:16.200 --> 31:17.360 oh Lord, I want that. 31:18.040 --> 31:19.540 I'm going to do that what they're doing. 31:20.860 --> 31:24.060 So I'm going to follow what that footstep is. 31:24.940 --> 31:27.160 And the Lord's like, I haven't asked you to do that yet. 31:27.720 --> 31:28.840 He's like, you will do that, 31:29.080 --> 31:30.640 because it's written in my Word. 31:32.340 --> 31:34.080 But there's a timeline with the Lord. 31:35.280 --> 31:37.620 I hope I portrayed that correctly. 31:38.300 --> 31:41.200 I feel like that one can... 31:41.200 --> 31:42.840 Purity is hard to talk about. 31:44.140 --> 31:46.180 I really didn't want to talk about this. 31:46.400 --> 31:47.600 I was asking the Lord, please, 31:48.040 --> 31:51.480 because it can be taken in such a way 31:52.120 --> 31:53.960 where it's self-righteousness. 31:56.280 --> 31:58.360 It's a hard topic to talk about. 32:02.790 --> 32:06.170 So we can force our flesh to comply. 32:06.170 --> 32:09.310 But we only do that in response to our love towards Him 32:09.310 --> 32:10.890 in what He asks of us. 32:11.030 --> 32:13.970 And His grace will be shown in the act 32:13.970 --> 32:16.850 because we feel His yoke, which is light and easy. 32:17.770 --> 32:20.230 So when the Lord asks us to do something, 32:20.430 --> 32:23.290 if He says, hey Tanya, I want you to stop exaggerating. 32:24.170 --> 32:25.530 I don't like when you do that. 32:26.730 --> 32:30.050 It's not negative 3500 degrees outside. 32:31.330 --> 32:31.810 Right? 32:33.810 --> 32:36.030 Now there is a sense of humor that the Lord has. 32:36.290 --> 32:38.750 And there are times, but if personally He's like, 32:38.790 --> 32:40.310 hey I don't want you to do that. 32:40.650 --> 32:42.830 Somebody else can, but I don't want you to do that. 32:42.990 --> 32:44.370 Because I have to check my heart. 32:44.470 --> 32:46.750 He sees something in my heart that's impure 32:46.750 --> 32:47.950 and He wants to take it out. 32:48.950 --> 32:51.190 And He said, I don't want you to exaggerate like that. 32:52.590 --> 32:53.810 And I'm like, okay Lord, 32:54.190 --> 32:58.070 I'm going to respond to your request with love. 32:59.210 --> 33:02.070 And when my response, there's going to be a grace 33:02.070 --> 33:04.670 shown from the Lord over my life. 33:05.230 --> 33:07.150 And with that grace, it doesn't mean 33:07.150 --> 33:08.950 that this step is going to be easy. 33:09.430 --> 33:11.030 Walking, this is going to be easy. 33:11.550 --> 33:14.110 But it almost feels like someone's holding your hand 33:14.110 --> 33:14.650 as you do it. 33:14.710 --> 33:16.430 You're like, I thought this was going to be 33:16.430 --> 33:17.990 a little bit harder than expected. 33:18.490 --> 33:21.990 But for some reason, it's working. 33:22.770 --> 33:23.050 Right? 33:23.990 --> 33:25.710 And so there's going to be a grace 33:25.710 --> 33:27.910 that will be shown in the act 33:28.490 --> 33:30.390 of following Him what He requests 33:30.390 --> 33:32.930 because His yoke is easy and light. 33:35.330 --> 33:37.350 I remember there was a time where Igor, 33:38.230 --> 33:39.570 the Lord, asked him to fast. 33:39.750 --> 33:41.690 And at that time, I was pregnant or breastfeeding 33:41.690 --> 33:43.090 or one of those things. 33:43.190 --> 33:44.450 And so I couldn't participate. 33:44.570 --> 33:45.730 But it was like about two years 33:45.730 --> 33:47.790 where the Lord asked him to fast 33:48.510 --> 33:50.270 like a lifestyle fasting every week. 33:51.450 --> 33:54.670 And it's wild because Igor would say like, 33:55.670 --> 33:56.490 I'm not a good wife. 33:56.510 --> 33:57.430 I would always ask him, 33:57.430 --> 33:58.770 hey, what do you want me to make you for food? 33:58.810 --> 33:59.730 And he's like, I'm fasting. 33:59.990 --> 34:01.710 And it would be week after week. 34:01.930 --> 34:02.890 And it's like, Tonya, 34:02.930 --> 34:04.390 why aren't you registering that he's fasting? 34:04.550 --> 34:06.070 I would forget for like months. 34:07.350 --> 34:08.590 But he would say, he's like, 34:08.670 --> 34:10.750 there was just this grace over my fast. 34:11.450 --> 34:12.270 He's like, was it hard? 34:12.410 --> 34:13.210 Yeah, it was hard. 34:13.910 --> 34:16.050 But it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be 34:16.050 --> 34:18.370 because His grace covers us. 34:18.650 --> 34:19.410 He helps us. 34:19.550 --> 34:21.290 His yoke is easy and light. 34:26.840 --> 34:29.380 So purity is no mixture 34:29.380 --> 34:31.320 and no compromise. 34:32.500 --> 34:33.960 That's what purity is. 34:34.860 --> 34:36.260 It's no outside influences. 34:37.560 --> 34:39.680 It's not the influence of our peers. 34:40.340 --> 34:41.680 Purity is pure. 34:43.820 --> 34:45.660 And whenever I think of holy, 34:45.860 --> 34:46.800 I think of God, 34:46.940 --> 34:48.400 you're set apart and you're pure. 34:50.800 --> 34:53.900 The last is Psalm 24-3-6. 34:57.500 --> 35:00.240 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? 35:02.780 --> 35:05.720 And that's a response to the calling 35:05.720 --> 35:07.860 of the Lord to come up higher. 35:08.420 --> 35:10.000 It's a maturing of our faith. 35:11.600 --> 35:13.940 We can start climbing that mountain, 35:14.140 --> 35:15.160 the hill of the Lord. 35:15.800 --> 35:19.160 And then we can stop and plateau 35:19.160 --> 35:21.040 or start walking around the mountain 35:21.040 --> 35:22.680 instead of going up the mountain. 35:24.240 --> 35:26.220 And that's a response of our heart. 35:26.360 --> 35:27.700 If we don't want to work on things, 35:27.820 --> 35:29.060 he asks us to work on. 35:31.780 --> 35:33.580 So ascending the hill of the Lord 35:33.580 --> 35:35.720 is a response to the calling of the Lord 35:35.720 --> 35:36.500 to come up higher. 35:36.660 --> 35:37.240 He says, come up. 35:38.340 --> 35:39.280 Come up to me. 35:40.860 --> 35:43.520 And to grow in our understanding of the Lord. 35:45.460 --> 35:47.380 So who shall ascend the hill of the Lord 35:47.380 --> 35:49.580 and who shall stand in his holy place? 35:50.420 --> 35:52.920 Who is able to be in his presence 35:52.920 --> 35:54.180 or find fellowship 35:55.000 --> 35:56.680 with not just a friend, 35:56.820 --> 35:59.200 but also has reverence and fear and honor 35:59.200 --> 36:01.780 to a holy set apart and pure being? 36:03.180 --> 36:05.200 That's what it means to stand 36:05.200 --> 36:06.460 in the presence of the Lord. 36:07.420 --> 36:09.760 To stand in his holy place. 36:10.900 --> 36:12.300 It reminds me of Abraham. 36:12.520 --> 36:13.860 When we look through Abraham, 36:13.860 --> 36:16.640 people talk about him as God's friend, right? 36:17.840 --> 36:19.220 And with God's friend, 36:19.340 --> 36:20.940 he had a friendship with the Lord. 36:21.080 --> 36:22.060 He talked with him. 36:22.340 --> 36:24.460 But if you look at all of his responses, 36:24.980 --> 36:27.040 they were weighed with reverence 36:27.800 --> 36:29.380 and honor to the Lord. 36:30.080 --> 36:33.880 So if we want to stand in his holy place, 36:34.060 --> 36:36.960 not only can we stand in boldness of, 36:37.180 --> 36:39.160 hey, I can have a relationship with you. 36:39.200 --> 36:40.920 No, I can have fellowship with you. 36:41.100 --> 36:43.000 But I always have to remember 36:43.000 --> 36:44.160 that he is holy. 36:44.480 --> 36:46.560 He is pure and he is set apart. 36:48.840 --> 36:50.940 He's not our best friend, Daddy God. 36:52.720 --> 36:54.420 There is intimacy there. 36:54.520 --> 36:55.500 There is closeness. 36:56.820 --> 36:59.000 But I still need to hold reverence 36:59.540 --> 37:01.480 and awe and honor unto him. 37:06.010 --> 37:07.330 He, so it talks about 37:07.330 --> 37:08.810 who shall ascend the hill of the Lord 37:08.810 --> 37:10.610 and who shall stand in his holy place? 37:10.890 --> 37:13.030 He who has clean hands 37:14.890 --> 37:16.470 and a pure heart. 37:17.630 --> 37:19.870 Clean hands, it's external deeds, 37:20.130 --> 37:22.330 works, acts, expressions, response. 37:23.730 --> 37:25.870 But that's not the first thing we do. 37:26.750 --> 37:28.810 That's actually an expression, 37:29.170 --> 37:32.530 a response of having a pure, clean heart. 37:36.800 --> 37:38.860 A pure heart, it's the res... 37:38.860 --> 37:40.220 all of those things, 37:40.360 --> 37:42.800 the clean hands is a result of a pure heart. 37:42.800 --> 37:45.380 And we already talked about how to get that. 37:45.640 --> 37:47.320 It's a circumcised heart 37:47.320 --> 37:49.100 that is only received from the Lord. 37:49.600 --> 37:50.580 I can't be pure. 37:51.920 --> 37:52.660 I've tried. 37:54.400 --> 37:55.920 But the only way I can be pure 37:55.920 --> 37:57.760 is if the Lord gives me that pure heart. 37:57.980 --> 37:59.060 It comes from him alone. 38:02.840 --> 38:04.640 Who does not lift up his soul 38:04.640 --> 38:05.940 to what is false 38:05.940 --> 38:07.840 and does not swear deceitfully? 38:07.980 --> 38:09.460 This is talking about the person 38:09.460 --> 38:11.320 who can ascend the hill of the Lord 38:11.320 --> 38:13.140 and who can stand in his holy place. 38:13.140 --> 38:15.440 He needs clean hands and a pure heart. 38:16.080 --> 38:17.940 Who does not lift up his soul 38:17.940 --> 38:18.700 to what is false 38:18.700 --> 38:20.700 and does not swear deceitfully? 38:21.760 --> 38:23.920 He will receive blessing from the Lord 38:23.920 --> 38:25.340 and righteousness from God, 38:25.700 --> 38:27.260 from the God of his salvation. 38:28.920 --> 38:31.160 I can only receive blessing from God 38:31.160 --> 38:33.460 and I can only receive righteousness, 38:33.660 --> 38:35.440 live a righteous life if it's God's. 38:36.460 --> 38:37.540 I can't attain that. 38:38.640 --> 38:41.000 Such is the generation of those 38:41.000 --> 38:43.740 who seek him, who seek the face of God, 38:44.660 --> 38:46.880 to seek the face of God of Jacob. 38:47.360 --> 38:49.040 I like some of the other translations 38:49.040 --> 38:50.740 and I'm going to be finishing up here soon. 38:51.560 --> 38:53.380 So the last verse, verse 6. 38:54.740 --> 38:56.980 This is the response of this person 38:58.340 --> 38:59.920 who has clean hands. 39:00.720 --> 39:02.500 The response of this person 39:02.500 --> 39:05.040 who can stand in the holy place, 39:05.200 --> 39:06.980 or sorry, who has clean hands, 39:07.220 --> 39:08.440 who has a pure heart, 39:09.400 --> 39:12.040 does not lift up his soul to what is false 39:12.040 --> 39:13.980 and does not swear deceitfully, 39:15.080 --> 39:15.780 what will happen? 39:16.100 --> 39:18.500 He will receive a blessing from the Lord 39:18.500 --> 39:20.280 and he will receive the righteousness 39:20.280 --> 39:22.600 from God, from the God of his salvation. 39:23.300 --> 39:23.900 Verse 6. 39:24.600 --> 39:26.800 Such is the generation of those 39:26.800 --> 39:27.940 who seek him, 39:28.700 --> 39:31.600 who seek the face of the God of Jacob. 39:33.100 --> 39:34.540 New King James says, 39:35.020 --> 39:36.140 this is Jacob. 39:36.140 --> 39:39.780 The generation of those who seek him, 39:40.260 --> 39:41.280 who seek your face. 39:41.800 --> 39:44.520 In Amplified it says this is the generation, 39:44.720 --> 39:46.700 the description of those who diligently 39:46.700 --> 39:48.940 seek him and require him 39:48.940 --> 39:50.640 as their greatest need. 39:52.300 --> 39:54.450 Who seek your face even 39:54.660 --> 39:56.540 as did Jacob. 39:57.000 --> 39:59.300 It's interesting that Jacob's name is there. 40:01.600 --> 40:04.220 And it's not given his new name 40:04.220 --> 40:05.440 as Israel. 40:06.660 --> 40:09.220 It's still given his old name as Jacob 40:09.220 --> 40:11.600 because it's when Jacob was his name. 40:11.840 --> 40:14.120 Jacob is when he was seeking out the Lord. 40:14.440 --> 40:15.420 Sorry, that was a tongue twister. 40:16.820 --> 40:19.580 And it was after the Lord found trust 40:19.580 --> 40:20.840 and he changed his name. 40:23.060 --> 40:23.940 A pure heart. 40:25.100 --> 40:27.020 A pure heart to worship him, 40:27.100 --> 40:29.980 a pure heart to have our incense, 40:30.940 --> 40:32.380 of worship, our incense, 40:32.380 --> 40:33.240 of prayer. 40:35.860 --> 40:37.740 To ascend into his throne room. 40:41.020 --> 40:43.360 An aroma that pleases him. 40:45.740 --> 40:48.100 That causes his eyes to be like 40:48.100 --> 40:49.700 where is that scent coming from? 40:50.460 --> 40:52.860 That's the type of people I want us to be. 40:53.280 --> 40:55.940 That's the type of people the Lord requires of us. 40:57.020 --> 40:59.220 But that's not going to happen on our own will. 40:59.520 --> 41:01.340 We need his pure heart. 41:04.140 --> 41:05.980 But we can walk those steps of faith 41:05.980 --> 41:07.620 because we choose the pure heart, 41:07.740 --> 41:08.980 which is the Word of God. 41:10.640 --> 41:13.720 Which does start to purify our souls, 41:13.820 --> 41:14.860 which affects our heart. 41:17.080 --> 41:18.000 Heavenly Father, 41:19.940 --> 41:21.780 we come before your throne 41:21.780 --> 41:24.360 boldly, Lord, with reverence and honor. 41:25.420 --> 41:27.040 Knowing that you are holy, 41:27.260 --> 41:28.940 you are set apart, you are pure. 41:31.120 --> 41:33.580 What an honor, Father, that we have 41:33.580 --> 41:36.140 that we can boldly come before you 41:36.140 --> 41:37.280 because of your Son. 41:37.840 --> 41:40.420 You are so beautiful in your storyline. 41:40.700 --> 41:44.520 The reason how you created all of this to happen, 41:45.840 --> 41:47.700 it shows your heart, Lord. 41:49.720 --> 41:51.440 I'm asking you for a pure heart. 41:51.640 --> 41:53.700 If we want to see you, Father, in our services, 41:54.260 --> 41:56.380 if we want to see you at open heavens, 41:56.560 --> 41:58.260 if we want to see you in our meetings, 41:58.540 --> 41:59.360 in our prayers, 42:00.860 --> 42:02.960 create in us a pure heart, Lord. 42:03.680 --> 42:05.260 Let us walk this road, 42:05.460 --> 42:08.060 let us choose this way of purity, 42:09.160 --> 42:12.760 of reading your Word, having it renew our minds, 42:15.220 --> 42:19.140 and create a purified soul that affects our heart.