DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS (3)

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JOHN 19:30

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Praise the Lord. Minister Anthony Bonner here. Truth Turnt Up Ministry. The Gospel, the Game, and the Glory. Another episode of Divine Instructions Part 3. We thank the Lord for this portion of pouring out this series on Divine Instructions to Generation Z and to all else who will be partakers of it. To everyone who will be drawn to it and listen to the Holy Spirit prayerfully have his way and the oil of God's wisdom to flow from my being over the sound of this podcast to prayerfully be a blessing to all who will partake. We just want to continue down this vein of divine instructions simply because the Holy Spirit has revealed how important of a subject this is and it will remain to be throughout our lifetime. There will never be a time that we won't need divine instructions. It doesn't matter whether we're 3, 13, 33, 303. It really does not matter as absurd as that sounds to be 303. Because there was a time in biblical ages that people did live that long. Hallelujah. But we will always need divine instructions. There's no other way to live and to experience the life God has ordained us to have in this fallen world with all of the tactics of the enemy and all of the enemies we fight, whether in the natural or in the spiritual realm, that we can be more than conquerors, that we can overcome, that we can abide in Christ, that we can walk upright, that we can stand on his promises, that we can believe him for miracles or divine intervention or divine provision or protection or whatever else is needed in this lifetime. We have to have divine instructions. Divine instructions that kind of keep us in balance. Kind of like when we go bowling and you're a new bowler, or you could be a seasoned bowler, but you put the guardrails up just for practice to keep the ball from going in the gutter. Divine instructions keep us from falling in the gutter of life. Whatever that gutter is, the gutter of sexual immorality, the gutter of alcoholism, the gutter of having a gambling addiction, the gutter of becoming a habitual and consistent liar, the gutter of being a believer, but yet lacking real faith to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the only manner in which he has ordained, but yet the world, Christianity, and the church have tried to lower the standard, make it a little bit easier, but yet the life you're living, the journey you're traveling, is not yielding or producing the fruit, the peace, the power, or the participation of God in your life that the Word of God has ordained and promised. You see, we want to raise the bar so this next generation can truly trust God, that they can really fall in love with Jesus, that they can follow Him as instructed, so that they can get to the place that He has promised that they can get to, and that they too will pick up the mantle and lead the charge in their generation for future generations that find their place in the bosom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and not have to endure what previous generations have endured. The example being the first generation of believers who God led out of Egypt who did not believe God, who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years around the same mountain and never made it into the promised land, simply because of their unbelief. Though they had been set free and delivered from the claws of Egyptian slavery and the hands of Pharaoh and the horrible conditions that they were forced to endure mentally, spiritually, emotionally, they wanted to go back. They wanted to go back into the hands of their captor. They wanted to be oppressed once again. Despite being miraculously set free by God after 430 years of captivity, they wanted to go back because the conditions in the wilderness were not pleasing to their flesh. They no longer had the opportunity to eat the leeks and the garlics of Egypt. They no longer had the comfort of their homes that they had built out of mud or brick or straw or whatever substance they had built them out of. They were now unsure about their future because their past was more important to them. They were prisoners of their past. They were prisoners of routine. They were not open to the newness of life that God wanted to bestow upon them. And that's the same thing we find in almost every generation. Because change is hard, especially sudden, dramatic, dynamic change, divine change. And any change that God uh blesses us to embrace is gonna require and demand divine instructions. So in today, in chapter one, we want to talk about allowing God to examine us. Examine me, oh Lord. We're gonna come out of the Psalms today, Generation Z, because as you live, you're gonna want to become familiar with the book of Psalms. Psalms are nothing more than hymns and songs and praises unto the God of Israel, the God who liberated his people, the God who chose them. And the Psalms allow all of its writers to do something that many people who may not know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ or the God of Israel in the manner in which those who really love him, know him, do this. In the art world, in the music world, in any world where you are allowed to express yourself freely through your creativity, and may not necessarily have to use words where you can express feelings that you have that God has given you to get them out of your mind, your body, and your soul so you can be heard, or so that your views or the way you feel can be heard. Because that's exactly what the Psalms are about, it's people speaking or expressing the part of the human the human experience that we have through poetic words, uh, and offering their feelings to God in this form of poetry. And these feelings are not just feelings of praise and thank you, as some would have it to be. You know, these are honest expressions of feelings that also include, you know, prayers and raw emotions and express things like joy and anger and peacefulness and frustration, uh, despair, happiness, and even anxiety. That's the great things about the Psalms is that they're relatable. If you will open yourself up to sit down and read them, they are relatable. And what's so amazing is, you know, it's not like other books of the Bible, uh, where there may only be 15, 20, uh, or even 30 chapters. The Psalm seems like an endless river because you can go all the way up, hallelujah, in the name of Jesus, to the very end of the Psalms, which takes you to Psalm 150. Incredible, right? 150 Psalms, certainly the longest book in the Bible, and one of the most precious books in the Bible. And we know that King David wrote 73 of the Psalms. He did not write all 150 of them, but he did write 73 of them that he's given credit for, and several of the other ones have been attributed to him, uh, have not been proven, but there's evidence and indication that because of his style of writing and the way he lived his life and the way he served his God passionately, that uh he or his hand or the Holy Spirit may have uh let's look at what this examination I'm talking about really looks like to be examined by God. You know, it can be a fearful and and frightening thing to be examined by God if you are a willing sinner. Because if you're willingly living in disobedience, knowing that you were created for something more than what you're experiencing and living, because you have a conscious, you have a conscious, you're made in the image and likeness of God. So when we function outside of that, ignorantly or willingly, our conscience, life, other people who are walking upright, will tend to be an indicator or can be vessels God uses to get our attention and point it out. Look, you need to get on track, you need to get in line, you need to get in alignment for my will for your life, because your life is headed in the wrong direction and down the wrong path. And I, the Lord your God, your Savior, who came to die for the sinner and the saint alike, the just and the unjust, the evil and the good. Though you are out of line at the moment, I love you and I have need of thee, and at my appointed time, you too will taste of my salvation and my love and my grace and my mercy, because I've ordained it to be so. Hallelujah. That's why God's love is unfailing. That's why the Bible says he is long suffering. God waits on us, God is patient with us, God does not enjoy our sinning, because the Bible says he wished that none should perish and that all should be saved. That's God's plan. For the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hallelujah. But in doing that, God examines us. Whether we're in Christ and out of Christ, as I've said previously, if we're in Christ, the examination is done with grace and love and care, but also with very meticulous uh attention to helping us to mature and to go from the milk of the word to the mature meat of the word. Because God wants us to reflect him to the highest magnitude and in the greatest manner that is possible, and that's all a choice we make. God has given us access to himself with no walls, no barriers. He says, be it unto you according to your faith. How much of me do you want? How much of me can you handle? How much of me will you submit and surrender yourself to so that I can come and abide with you, so that I can come and take over. I don't want to be a renter, I don't want to be a landlord. I want the mortgage on you, hallelujah. I want to buy your property, therefore, I can come in as owner of your property, your vessel, and do what I came to do in there, which is to transform you, to take over, to live life through you. Yes, I want to fill you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet with my Holy Spirit, because there's a great purpose I have for your life. Let's read Psalm 26. I'm just gonna read verses 1 and 2 in two different uh translations. But before doing that, let's look at this word examine me, since that's the first topic of our discussion on today. Examine me. So to examine. To examine means to inspect. When the psalmist talks about examining me, he's saying, God, inspect me. We know what an inspection entails, we're not new to it. An inspection entails the unveiling and the uncovering of things that may be hidden, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Things are pointed out, whether the attention to detail is adhered to or not, whether the standard is upheld or not, whether we are operating at a low level and in a low place, or we're striving for the highlands. An examination allows all this to be determined after the fact. It is not predetermined, it is something that happens after all the details, all of the information, all of the facts are gathered, and then a clear distinction and a clear determination is made because the necessary work has been done. Hallelujah. When God does an examination on someone or something, he's looking at the condition of their nature. Are they still possessing the old, darkened, fallen, sinful, selfish, uh, stubborn, rebellious nature? Or have they submitted to take on the new nature? The nature that God through Jesus Christ clothed them in. This new beginning, this newness of life that the blood of Jesus has allowed those who will dare to walk in, to be partakers of. I'll be reading again from two different versions, so that you can get the full meaning and know what it means for God to examine you. Because God's going to examine you, young people. And the examination is for your good. It's no different than when you go to the doctor. You go to the doctor in the natural point examination, you want to know why your back hurt, why your elbow hurt, why your eyes are red, why you're having headaches, or any other number of afflictions that the enemy tries to bestow upon God's creation. And the doctors are only vehicles or vessels that God used to diagnose what is wrong with you. They are not the cure. I'm gonna say that again. Doctors diagnose they are not the cure. Though they can prescribe medicine, medicines do not cure. No, they mass, they relieve some symptoms, and sometimes they will lead to healing or a temporary healing. But you see, when God examines something and he gives a diagnosis of your sin problem, he's showing you because he wants to deliver you from it. He does not want to put a band-aid on it, he does not want to send you to the pharmacy, he's not going to send you to another specialist because he is the only specialist in dealing with sinful natures, fallen people or fallen humanity, and people who are in need of what only he can give, which is total deliverance in the name of Jesus. True salvation, not a salvation that's delayed in another time after you've transitioned and the breath in your body has ceased to exist. No, he's talking about a salvation that you enjoy on a daily basis, and you're free to live, move, and have your being in him and experience life to the fullest magnitude that the blood of Jesus has afforded you, that you can walk in this land and take over and not fit in. That's what the Bible tells us in the aptitude in the book of Matthew, when he shares the Lord's prayer and he teaches his disciples how to pray. Hallelujah. We are to bring the heavens into the earth. We are to bring the heavens into the earth. That is pretty mind-boggling and flies over the head of religious people because the religious people don't want to bring heaven into the earth. They've been taught you have to die to go to heaven, which is why many people are turned away from modern Christianity, because it's like I have to experience hell on earth in order to get to heaven, and it's not biblical and it's not true. If you read your Bible and you read your Psalms, you'll see in Psalms 118, verse 25, the psalmist says, Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord. Oh Lord, I beseech thee, send prosperity now. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. The psalmist says, Send prosperity now. He's talking to his God, he's laying out what his need is and his desire according to his understanding of his position in God and his relationship with God, that he has a right to ask, that there is an inheritance. And we know the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus Christ has been made a surety of a better testament. The Old Testament was a school teacher, a taskmaster, hallelujah, which contained the law to lead us into the arms and the understanding of the great new covenant that has been afforded us to receive divine instructions, instructions that examine us on a daily basis, hallelujah, on a moment-by-moment basis, that we may be conscious of the life that we're living and how we're living it out. It's one thing to quote the scriptures, it's another thing to um be aware of the scriptures, but it's a completely different thing to become the scriptures, the word made flesh and Jesus was in the book of John. Hallelujah. God wants us to become one with the Word. The Word made flesh should be us because we're made in the image and likeness of God. Jesus Christ is our elder brother. We are in the family of God. We have access to all of the divine instructions and wisdom of God. So we are without excuse. Now, judgment is a form of accountability. Judgment is a form of the highest form of love. Divine judgment is eternal love. Judgment is nothing more than correction. It is a redirect to place you back on a path that you need to be on and to remove you from a path that you should have never been on. It says that in the book of Matthew, when it begins to talk about the two gates. The broad gate, hallelujah, and the narrow gate. How many there be that go in there at. And on that path they find destruction. And in the narrow path, it says that few there be that find it. And always open to the judgment, the correction, the divine instructions of the Holy Spirit. And yes, God can use men and women to do that, young people. Don't be offended if God uses a man or a woman or a young man or a young woman to impart correction into your life. It's being done out of love. God will send people that He knows you can receive, and He'll also send people that to test you and see if you're humble enough to receive. You see, human beings lack the discernment to discern whom God is sending at any given time into their lives to help them grow and go to the next level. Hallelujah. So it says, Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity. This particular uh individual, this particular servant, this particular son of the most high God, this particular uh uh warrior for God and the kingdom of God and its advancement says, I have walked in my integrity, meaning I have followed you, I have submitted to you, I have laid down my life to obey you to the best of my ability. He says, I have trusted also in the Lord. Meaning, all of the instructions, the divine instructions that David has received from God, though his life has been uh uh far from easy with the betrayal of his sons trying to take his strong, with the adultery he committed with Bathsheba, with the death of the son that they had conceived, uh being in exile, being on the run from uh King Saul, who wanted to take his life, uh playing crazy in the temple, uh, and many other things that King David had to endure to get to the throne and to be a man after God's own heart. He says, I trusted also in the Lord. Therefore, I shall not slide. Because he's trusted in God. David is saying, I'm not going to the left nor to the right. I'm not going back. I have a made-up mind. Divine instructions will help you develop, establish, keep, rely on, depend fully upon, only trust in divine instructions. That's where David is. So when you get to that place, receiving divine instructions is not a big deal. And you don't have fear because you know you're walking upright, and you know whom you're following, whom you're relying upon, solely whom you trust in, and that's our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That you're seeking only his instructions to do things his way, and just as David said, therefore I shall not slide. You see, there will be no sliding when outside voices, outside influences, uh, outside people, uh, alternate opinions, alternative methods and means have been eliminated and canceled before they even pop up. Because the Bible tells us when you start being all in with Christ, every fool will be meddling. And that's just the way it is. I'm sure you guys can relate that each and every time you begin to try and do something new or amazing or follow through on a vision or an assignment God has given you, everyone has input. Everyone has a better way to do it. But see, you have to remain true to the creator who gave you the vision, who gave you the dream, who gave you the assignment of the divine instructions, because people can be vessels of Satan and be used to destroy or to kill the vision in the womb. Hallelujah. They can kill your vision in the womb if you're not properly in line with the voice of God to hear and discern what people are saying, why they are saying it. Is it for self-gain, or are they part of the people God is going to use to help you bring that thing forth for his glory? Verse 2 says, Examine me, O Lord. This is David. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me. Are you ready to be proven? Are you ready to be proven? See, too many of us come into this relationship with Jesus Christ not understanding that if we want to do our own thing, we shouldn't come. We shouldn't come, we should just stay sinners, have fun, turn up, turn out, build our kingdoms on earth, roll the dice. If there's a heaven, you'll find out later. If there's a hell, you'll find out later. If that's the way you want to roll. But if you say yes to accepting him as your Lord, because he's already your savior, you don't have a choice about that. He's the savior of the world. But you'll make him your Lord now. You are willing to come to your doctor's appointment every single day. Every day there's going to be a doctor's appointment. Every day he's going to take the spiritual uh stethoscope and look at your heart in the name of Jesus. Every day he's gonna uh put his hands on your head and make sure your mind is renewed and in the position it needs to be in. He says in Isaiah 26 and 3, that thou shalt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is scathed upon thee. You see, this examination wants to see if your mind is scathed upon the things of God. In the book of James, it is very clear. He says, Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth. Can I say that again in the name of Jesus? Set your affections, meaning your will, your emotions, your mind, your whole being. He says, set them on things above. Those are divine things, those are secret things, those are unseen things, those are supernatural things. Hallelujah. He says, set your mind on those things, not on things of the earth. I delivered you from those things. I allowed you to have those things before you said yes and signed up to come into my kingdom army before you agreed to be my property. Yes, you've been bought with a price. You are no longer your own. The Bible says, Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. So since it's the temple of the Holy Ghost, you can't just do unholy things anymore, young people. Hallelujah. And young being anyone who's under the sound of my voice, because once we come into a relationship with Jesus Christ, we're all still, in fact, his children. Yes, none of us ever fully outgrow the title of being a child of God. That's just the way his love is. He designed, assigned, ordained, arranged it to be that way. So we glory in the fact that we never outgrow the title of being a child of God in his love. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me. Now we know what it means to prove. We know what it means. Back in the world, you'd have homeboys or homegirls hanging out with you. New or old. People always had to prove themselves, especially new people. You gotta prove that you can be trusted. You gotta re you gotta prove. You gotta prove that you're worthy of being in the clique, in the group. Prove that you can hang, that you got what it takes to run the race that we running, to do the dirt we doing. Uh you gotta be about it. Well, David is saying to God, he's saying, prove me. Prove that my transformation is real. Prove that my heart is where it's supposed to be. Prove that my motives and my intentions are indeed in line with your will, not only for my life, but for the people you've assigned me to lead and the task you so graciously bestowed upon me to bring forth in the earth. Prove that I'm worthy, prove that I'm ready, prove that I'm in position. You see, and this can either be rewarding depending on how you're spending your uh time of the day, depending on uh where your heart is or where your mind is, is it on the things of God or is it on the things of the world? Because this examination is surely going to reveal that. This examination can be smooth and painless because his grace is sufficient to help you get through it, his grace is sufficient to help you uh receive the divine instructions to align whatever is out of line, and his grace is sufficient also to forgive you if for whatever reason the examination does not yield the results that it should. He's a God of unlimited chances. That is the good news. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me. Try my reins and my heart. These are the inner beings. Glory to God. So David tells God to try his reins. You know, the reins are a physical representation of a kidney. It is said, once you do your research. But spiritually, the reins are referring to our innermost thoughts, our innermost affections, our innermost emotions, and our moral character. David is saying, again, try me in all these unseen areas. These are the areas that I may look like I'm in alignment outwardly, but inwardly I could be so far and disconnected from God. And God knows that. That's why the Bible tells us God does not look on man as man looks on man. Man looks at the outer vessel, but God looks at the heart and the intents of the heart always. Why are we doing what we're doing? It's not just that we're doing it. Why are we doing it? What is the motive behind it? Is it to advance the kingdom of God, display the love of God, be a blessing to the people, to advance the kingdom of God, or is it just to advance our own kingdom, to uh amass more social media followers, to gain more influence, to have a 501c3 to uh stock up the wealth of other people so that we can live a carnal, lavish lifestyle. God's going to try the range, young people. And because God is who he says he is, nothing is hidden from him. The Bible tells us that there's nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hidden that shall not be made known. There's nowhere we can go and hide from the presence of the Lord. The psalmist said, if I go to hell and make my bed there, you'll be there with me. Somebody say amen in the name of Jesus. That is profound because that now shows that the examination is an ongoing, all-inclusive, completely in-depth to the core of my being. Like the book of Hebrews, in Hebrews 4 and 12, when it says, For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and joints and moral, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intent of the heart. That's what the word of God does. It shows the thoughts and the intents of our heart. That's what the examination is about. The thoughts and the intent of our heart. Why? Why? Because in the book of Jeremiah, in the 17th chapter, God is very, very clear through the prophet Jeremiah. He said, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? Yes, that's your heart, that's my heart, that's every heart. Your mother's heart, your father's heart, your little brother's heart, your sweet little son's heart, the baby that was born two seconds ago heart. Unless we've been born again, we continue to maintain that darkened nature and that wicked heart. Unless we submit to the daily examinations even after being born again, then we're susceptible to the enemy coming in and shifting us like wheat slowly, causing us to drift in our relationship and our commitment and our understanding to the assignment God has put on our lives for his glory. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the Lord, therefore I shall not slide. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me. Try my reins and my heart. Very powerful, very profound words by David. But there's another translation that I want to read, which makes it a little plainer, and let's see if this will help you out a little bit more as we rear it up for the back stretch of Divine Instructions 3. Examine me. Hallelujah. Do you like the sound of that? This is from the Competitors Bible. It's a Bible I use when I'm ministering to young people in athletic venues and atmospheres. Has a lot of devotions, a lot of uh other useful tools in here that really resonate with them and can really reach them where they are, and they're not as uh overwhelmed by the bees, the vows, the bow in the King James Version of the Bible. Nonetheless, Psalms 26, a Psalm of David, it says, Declare me innocent, O Lord, for I have acted with integrity. So the word judge is switched for the word declare, which in the day we live in is a lot more receptive, a lot less intimidating and intrusive, and it doesn't cause me to stand back on my heels like when I hear the word judge, instead, I hear the word declare me innocent, oh Lord. For I have acted with integrity, I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. That's what David was saying, therefore I shall not slide. He was saying that I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. You see, our examination is going to show whether we've wavered. Hallelujah now. Talk to me. Our examination is going to show whether we've wavered, how far we've wavered, and how often we waver in the name of Jesus. You see, to waver means to get distracted or off track, to place our attention somewhere else, to neglect our assignment. That's what wavering is. David says that I've trusted in the Lord without waver. You gave me an assignment. I've stood on it day and night. I've suffered for it. I've struggled to maintain it. I've struggled to walk in it. And God knows it. So he says, put me on trial. Put me on trial. That's the switch and the flip will examine me. David is saying, God, put me on trial. Put me on the witness stand. I'm not gonna put my hand on a sack of Bibles because you are the Bible. You are the word, you are the unlimited word. You are he which is, which was, and which is to come before the Bible even came into existence. He says, put me on trial. This is David volunteering to get on the stand. He didn't have to be called by the prosecuting attorney. He was willing to stand before the Lord, open himself up, lay his soul bare for his mind, his body, his emotions, his moral character, everything to be examined and laid out before the courts of heaven so that you and I, in our day and age, and everyone who would live after us and who have lived before us could see that David was. Indeed, a man after God's own heart, because he allowed God to examine his heart. He allowed God to have free access to his heart. 24-7. 24-7. David never withheld himself from God. That is amazing, my brothers and sisters. My young brothers and sisters, my middle-aged brothers and sisters, my older brothers and sisters. We are not to withhold ourselves, our heart, our mind, our emotions, those secret little dirty things we struggle with that we're trying to get rid of. Confess it and allow God to have it because only in that place is there deliverance. God can deliver you from vaping. He can deliver you from child molestation. He can deliver you from depression, anxiety, fear, doubt, bullying, overspending, laziness, whatever it is that the enemy has inflicted upon you in the name of Jesus. We curse it at the root right now. We decree, we decree and declare your complete deliverance, your complete victory, your complete freedom to live, move, and have your being in Christ Jesus, to be the amazing vessel of deliverance to someone else in Jesus' name. Amen. Put me on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me, David said. Oh, I'm getting excited now. You see, because that's maturity, that means though I am not perfect, God, you are. And even in my imperfections in the earth, my intention is to perfectly seek after you. Somebody say amen. I want to be perfectly in position to seek after you. Because if I'm where I'm supposed to be doing what I'm supposed to do when the examination occurs, which is daily, I'll be found perfect in your eyes. I'll pass the examination. I will get glowing remarks. Your grace and your mercy will increase in my life. Your favor will increase in my life. Test my motives and my heart. It's all about the test, my brothers and sisters. Because you know the examiner, which is God, which is Jesus Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, have scheduled a doctor's appointment for you daily. That every day you have a doctor's appointment. That every day you got to show up and you don't even have to take your clothes off and undress. Because the Holy Spirit undresses you. The Holy Spirit shows the thoughts and intents of your heart. May we fall in love with Jesus in this generation and every generation to follow. May God's will allow to be done. May we move ourselves out of the way and allow God to get in the way and intercede on our behalf against everything that's coming against the will of God in our lives, that we that we may be found blameless, without spot, without wrinkle, to be used for his glory, to the fullest measure, not in a small measure. People talk this for his glory stuff, and it is so shallow. It is so shallow because it's all about accomplishing worldly things. God is glorified by everybody in the world. The Bible even says that Isaiah 45 and 7, I form the light and create darkness. I make uh good and I make evil. That's God saying that. God has created everything for Himself, the good and the evil. It says that in the book of Proverbs, verse 16. I mean, chapter 16, Proverbs 16. Selling things for God's glory, okay. I get it. Yeah, you're a believer. Yeah. God is glorified when you sell something. Winning basketball games or football games, yeah, I get it. You're a coach, you're a believer, okay. God is kind of glorified like that. Cool. But it's not about God receiving glory, it's about God receiving the greatest glory. Hallelujah. The highest level of glory. And the way God receives the highest level of glory is he must increase, I must decrease. God gets the greatest glory when I pick up my cross, deny myself, and allow his Holy Spirit and his will to annihilate me, to destroy me, to make me disappear like David Copperfield, and then bring me back a new creature, resurrected like Lazarus, full of the Holy Ghost, ready to go to battle, waiting on my marching orders, excited every day to be examined by God, because that means I get to spend more time with him. Hallelujah. Bless his name. I pray that this divine instructions in three has been a blessing to you. It is surely quite different than the other two, but I'm sure each and every volume will take on a life of itself and all of them will be different. But the end game will be the same. It is to magnify, it is to uplift, it is to share the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is to empower his people, it is to encourage his people, it is to equip his people to submit to a deeper relationship with him, that they might know him in the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection, as the apostle Paul tells us. May God keep you, my young brothers and sisters. This is Unk of the Word. May God's light shine upon you, may his grace go before you. And may everything He's ordained for your life be fulfilled in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.