Welcome home, you're watching Legacy Television! I'm Jeremy
Pearsons. I am so glad you tuned in the broadcast today and I
believe you're going to be glad you did it. We are going
together high into the mountains of Colorado. I love it up there,
if you've never been then come join me on this trip! Earlier
this year I was invited by Brother Andrew Wommack, who many
of you know and love and receive great things from his ministry,
invited me to come and spend some time at their ministry,
ministering to their school and to a great congregation that
they had there in Woodland Park, Colorado, and we had such an
outstanding time together around the Word of God and just in
fellowship. It was... it was amazing, it was wonderful, and I
really want to share this with you. So for the next two weeks
we're going to be showing you a service that we're calling
"Pressed, but not crushed." Pressed, but not crushed.
There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is you
can't stop the pressure from coming. The pressure is on, and
pressure from all directions, and you probably already know
that without me telling you. You've got pressure everywhere
you look. Financial pressure, pressure at home, pressure at
work, pressure at school, on the job, in the ministry. We're
pressed on all sides, but here's the good news... We don't have
to be crushed by it, and that's what this message is about! It's
going to take us a couple of weeks to get the whole thing in,
so I want you to make sure, stay tuned all the way through the
end of the broadcast this week, and make sure you get next
week's to go with it, because God is going to speak some
things to you in the course of this broadcast that I'm
confident will bring change into your life and you might very
well hear the answer that you've been looking for. How to live
pressed, but not crushed. Let me pray for you then we'll go right
into the Word. Father, I bless this television audience today,
in Jesus' name. I thank you, Lord, for drawing them into this
house, drawing them into your presence. We pray together over
our time in the Word today ,and I ask, Father, that it would
speak to the heart. That it would answer questions and bring
solutions into their lives. I bless everybody who's watching
and listening to this, all of the world. We thank you for
them, in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's go right now to Woodland
Park, Colorado for part one of "Pressed, but not crushed." If
you brought a Bible with you this morning I want you to go,
first of all, to the book of Second Corinthians. We've
prayed, I know the Lord's heard our prayer. We're in agreement
today for good things. Insight from His Word, eyes that see
what He wants us to see, ears that hear His voice, hearts that
understand who we are in Jesus, and who Jesus is in us, and I
believe we can lead with that today. We're going to look at
several places in the Word, and I'm gonna tell you right now
we're going to wade off into some stuff. Man, we are getting
in way over my head, I know that. Way above my pay grade
today, but I believe the Lord's got some things he wants to say
to us. Let's begin here in Second Corinthians chapter four,
and I want to start in verse seven. It says, "We have this
treasure in earthen vessels." Let me see the hands of all the
earthen vessels in here this morning! "We have this treasure
in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be
of God, and not of us." Earthen vessel just simply means, if you
look it up, it basically just means a clay pot. Earthen, it is
made out of clay, it's made out of the dirt. If you look at it
there's a fragility, of fragile-ness, and a frailness
that goes along with what he's saying here, and this is, he's
describing us, and he says we've got this treasure in this. Now
don't be offended at this, but we've got a treasure inside
just, basically, a cheap clay pot. Don't be offended at me!
Not yet, anyway. Wait till later, at least. But that's what
he's calling us, but he says, "That the excellence of the
power may be of God and not of us." Verse eight, "We are hard
pressed on every side." Now I'm reading to you from the New King
James. He says, "We're hard pressed on every side but we're
not crushed." He goes on and says, "Perplexed, but not in
despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not
destroyed." You know, there's a big difference in this verse
between the word "but" and the word "and". Most people are
pressed and crushed. Perplexed and in despair. Struck down and
destroyed. You see what I'm saying about? Not you and I! Not
Paul writing here! He says, "Yeah, we're pressed, and we're
hard pressed," the King James says, "We're troubled," watch
this now, "on every side, but..." See, you've got to adopt
this mentality. "But!" I believe I'm looking at a room full of
butts this morning! Right? Come on, somebody. You've got to
adopt this mentality. Yeah, I'm pressed but I'm not crushed! Now
here's the question we have to ask, what is it that could
possibly keep a cheap, clay, frail, fragile pot from being
crushed? If it's being pressed on every side, like he said it
is, isn't that what he said? "Pressed on all sides." That's
pressure. Anybody in this room know a thing or two about
pressure this morning? To be pressed and pressured on every
side. If you take this cheap clay pot that we're talking
about and you press it like that, with constant and
consistent pressure on every side, it's going to be crushed!
But he says here, we're pressed and we're not crushed! See, men
we've got to understand that one of the main tactics of our enemy
is pressure. It's pressure. Your enemy, the accuser of the
brethren, the adversary of your soul comes against you and I
with pressure, and his whole strategy is to apply this
constant and consistent pressure, pressure, pressure.
From every angle, all around you, at all times. That's
pressure in every area of your life. That's financial pressure,
that's marital pressure, that's pressure at work, that's
pressure at home, that's pressure in your extended
family, that's pressure in your own body! Sickness! Disease!
It's pressure pushing in on you, and Satan, his whole strategy,
is to push you, push you, push you until he can get you past
that breaking point and crush you. That's what he's after.
Because that's when we do dumb stuff. That's when men, and
women, but I'm talking to a group of men this morning.
That's when you and I do dumb things, is when we've been
pushed and pressed to a point beyond our ability to sustain
it. Are you with me so far? So let's ask this question and
answer today. What is it that could keep a cheap clay pot from
being crushed under the heavy weight of pressure on all sides?
We gotta answer that. Ask that, and answer that. So this morning
when we get into this, we need to start with good news and bad
news. You want the bad news first? I knew you did. The bad
news is you can't stop the pressure from coming. Pressure's
on. And you can't stop that. But the good news is you don't have
to be crushed by it. You do not have to be broken, you do not
have to be crushed. Would you like to know how, this morning,
to be sustained through the pressure? So to do this, I want
you to hold your place here in second Corinthians. We're going
to come back to it in a moment. I want to go back to the book of
Exodus, and let's go to chapter thirty three. We've got to lay a
foundation for this and I believe this is going to carry
us on into this evening. I don't think we can finish all of it
this this morning. I think we'll need the service tonight as
well, but let's just lay a foundation for it. Exodus
chapter thirty three. Brother Andrew made reference to this
last night, talking about this... this moment that Moses
had in conversation with God. Moses had a moment! This guy had
a moment with God, and I want to look at it here in Exodus thirty
three. We're going to get a verse twelve, but you got to
understand in the verses that are leading up to it God has
already had it with these people. And he told Moses, He
said, "Look, ya'll go on. I ain't going with you." That's
the Texan paraphrase of it, but He said, essentially, that I'm
not going with you. You can go on from here, but don't even
count on me going with you bunch of stiff neck, hard hearted
people. I want nothing to do with you. This is serious. So
Moses comes to Him in response to that. In verse twelve he's
having this, like I said, a moment with God, and Moses said
to the Lord, Exodus thirty three twelve, he said, "See." Or in
other words, "Now look. Look." You ever have a conversation
start with that? "Look! Come on. See this." That's what he's
saying, "Let's see this the same way." He said, "look at this!"
"Look, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not
let me know whom you will send with me." In other words, if
you're not going, then who you gonna send? You tell me to go,
but I can't go by myself. He said, "You have not let me know
whom You'll send with me. You have said... Yet You have said,
'I know You by name,' and You have also," watch this, "found
grace in my sight." Moses is quoting God, to God. Moses has
put God's words in his mouth and is giving them back to God. He
said, "Look you want me to go, but you haven't told me who's
going to go with me. And yet on the other hand, You told me that
You know me by name. You said You know my name. You said I'm
not just a nameless face in the crowd. You know me. You know me,
and I know you." He said, "So if you're not going, who you going
to send? And all the while, you said You know my name." And then
he said this. Watch this! He said, "You said that I found
grace in your sight." Now wait a second. Me standing here saying
this, listening to this, looking at this, living on the side of
the Cross and the resurrection that you and I are living on,
I'm looking back at this Old Testament guy. Is that what
we're doing, right? Help me out, Bible scholars. Moses, is he Old
Testament or New? Old Testament. Alright? I'm looking back at
this Old Testament guy and I find out that somehow he got the
grace? That almost makes me mad. I'm looking at it going, "What
are you doing with my grace?" But see he found something! He
said, "You said I found grace in Your sight." Moses found out
that that's the only place Grace is found, is in knowing how God
sees you. He found it in His sight. And he threw that back in
his face! "Hey, you said I found grace! What's this about you
leaving me? You said I found grace in your sight!" Verse
thirteen, "Now therefore, I pray if I have found grace in your
sight, show me now Your way, that I may know you, that I may
find grace in your sight. Consider that this nation is
your people." And He said, God said to him, "My presence will
go with you." Just changed his mind, right there on the spot.
Now help me out again, are we in the Old Testament or new? Now
you and I are living over here on this side of the cross,
right? This side of the resurrection. But we're looking
at a man living on the other side of it, and not only does he
have my grace, and yours, he just got God to make a promise
to him that said, "My presence is going with you." I thought we
were the ones that weren't ever left or forsaken? And yet, this
Old Testament dude, he's not only got our grace, but he's got
the presence of God going with him, and on top of that, God
said, "I'll give you rest!" This is really starting to make me
mad! What's this guy doing with all the stuff that I'm promised
through Jesus? Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are
heavy laden and I'll give you rest." But Moses? This guy
living on this side of it, he's got my grace and favor, he's got
the presence of God that was promised to me as a believer in
Jesus, and on top of that, he's got the rest that belongs to me.
I'm gonna tell you something. What's going on right here?
Moses is coming dangerously close to a New Testament
experience. This old testament dude is flirting with the New
Testament God. And he's coming close. And I think you're going
to find here in a second that he can feel that. He likes every
card he's been dealt in this hand. Because this whole
conversation started with God saying, "See you later. I'm not
going with you." And Moses got his face and said,"Look!" Quoted
God back to him, and it all turned around and he's got this
promise of grace, and this promise of the presence and this
promise of the rest? He said to him, verse fifteen, Moses said
to Him, "Hey look, if your presence doesn't go with us,
don't bring us up from here. How then will it be known that your
people and I have found grace in your sight, except you go with
us? So we shall be separate, your people and I, from all the
people who are upon the face of the earth." So the Lord said to
Moses, "Fine!" That's my paraphrase, but essentially,
that's what He said. "Fine! Get off my back. Fine! I'll do
this!" No, what'd he say? "I will also do THIS thing that you
have spoken! For you have found grace in my sight, and I know
you by name." Man, can you sense in this argument here that it's
moving decidedly in Moses favor? I mean the momentum is on his
side. And he has got every thing he's asked for so far. And I
think he could feel it. I think he recognized, "I caught Him in
a good mood today." And we'll see here in just a second, the
very next verse, verse eighteen, you're going to see Moses. So I
said to you a moment ago he like the hand he'd been dealt? You're
about to see Moses go all in! You're about to see Moses go all
in! He's thinking to himself, "I was not expecting all this. I
got His grace! I got His favor! I got the promise of His
presence! I got His rest from my labor! I'm going for it!" In
verse eighteen, you know what he said? "SHOW ME YOUR GLORY!" Now,
the Bible doesn't record awkward silences, but I think if it did
there'd be one right there. Because God essentially looked
back at him and said, "Uh... No." Didn't He say? Basically,
look at what he said in verse twenty. He said, "You cannot see
my face, for no men shall see me and live." Basically, God said
to him, "I could show you, but then I'd have to kill you." God
had another plan for him though. The Lord said, "Here's a place
by me, and you'll stand on the rock and so will be while my
glory passes by. I'll put you in the cleft of the rock and I'll
cover you with my hand while I pass by. Then I will take away
my hand, and you will see my back, but my face..." Everybody
say, "my face." "Shall not be seen." So Moses, while he is
flirting like we said with this New Testament experience,
walking this fine line between the Old and the New, he's got
the grace, he's got the favor, he's got the presence, he's got
the rest, but when he went for it and he said, "Show me your
glory! Let me see your face!" He was saying, "Let me see the part
of you that makes you, you! I want to see that side of God
that makes God, God!" And that's when God said to him, "No, you
can't see that. You're getting too close to this to this
experience that's reserved for another time." And He said to
him, "You can't see my face," so evidently that's where the glory
is. That's where the glory is. Now there's two things that I
believe would have killed Moses on the spot had he seen the
face, had he seen the glory of God. One of which, I think you
may agree with this right away, is the brightness of it. The
brightness of His glory. I don't think he could've stood that. I
don't think... I don't think he could have looked into the face
of the one who said, "Light, be," and in response to those
words the glory shot out of him at a hundred and eighty six
thousand miles per second, spanning across the universe and
is still creating at that same rate right now. I don't think
Moses could have looked in the face of that. It would have
burnt him to a crisp. Because when God said, "Light, be,"
that's not when he put the sun in the sky. That was a couple of
days later. He said,"Light, be!" and the glory — his essence, the
thing that makes Him, Him —shot out of him and began creating,
creating, creating, at a hundred and eighty six thousand miles
per second. And Moses is like, "Can I see that?" And God said,
"No." But it wasn't... I don't believe it's just the light, and
the brightness of it. The the word "glory" itself means,
"Weight." It means "heaviness." The glory of God, look it up for
yourself, it's defined by the presence of God that's heavy,
heavy with everything good. It's weighty. There's a weight to it.
Let me throw this in right here for a second. No, stay with me,
stay with me. This is getting good. OK, hold on. You still
have your places in Second Corinthians? Let's go back
there, only this time, we're going to back up a little bit
into chapter three, and what chapter three years of Second
Corinthians is, is this New Testament view of what happened
in the life of Moses that day. OK? Second Corinthians three,
verse seven, don't forget we're talking about the glory of the
Lord, which is the brightness of the Lord. It's the heaviness.
Watch this, in verse seven. Second Corinthians three, let's
read several verses here. He says, "If the ministry of
death..." Let me just pause for a moment. Those of you who are
thinking of going into full time ministry, this is a bad name for
your ministry. "Ministry of death." Don't go with, you'll
have nobody at your meetings, ok? Just don't call your church
that. "What small group do you lead?" "I lead the ministry of
death. It's mostly just me." Second Corinthians verse three,
look at it again. "The ministry of death." What's he talking
about? "Written and engraved on stones." So if you and I would
have kept reading there in Exodus, you can go right into
the next chapters, where God got Moses to take the tablets and
where he put that new testament law. And as glorious as that
was, from the New Testament perspective of it, he refers to
it here as, "the ministry of death." "The ministry of death,
written and engraved on stones." He said, "If that ministry,"
watch this now, "was glorious..." Say the word
"glorious." In these next few verses, I just want you to make
note of how many times the word "glory" or "glorious", something
of that nature, appears, OK? He said, "of that ministry written
engraved on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel
could not look steadily at the face of Moses, because of the
glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away. Wow will
the Ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?" So again,
this New Testament perspective, looking back on that Old
Testament day, now we know this... Moses saw something. Are
we agreed on that? God said, "I'm gonna put you on this rock
and I'm gonna cover you up, and my glory is going to pass, and
then I'll remove it and you can see what's behind me." And we
know that what Moses saw was so great that the brightness of
that so saturated him that his own face began to shine. Now
we've gotta agree that he saw something! He saw something! But
let me ask you, did he see everything? No. He saw
something, but he didn't get it all.
[Music]
I hope you enjoyed
today getting a sense of the other side of what we do here at
Pearsons Ministries International. You know Sarah
and I spend so much of our time traveling to other churches and
other places, across the U.S. and around the world, and we
want you to know that you are always welcome to come be a part
of those services. If we're in your area, come get in there
with us and experience this unique anointing that's on God,
and on His Word from God, and on His word for us as we gather
around together. It's just different. It's different than
what we experience here in the studio, although this is
wonderful, we want you to be a part of that as well. That's why
I want to tell you about some of the great meetings we've got
coming up this month! We are going to be at Beyond Church,
October 8th. Now, Beyond Churches is in Alma, Arkansas,
and it's pastored by our good friends Nate and Evan Schlegel.
We love these guys, we love this church, and we would love for
you to come be a part of that service. Beyond Church, Alma,
Arkansas, Sunday October 8th, at ten thirty AM. Then Monday,
October 16th through Tuesday the 17th, we're going to be at the
Leadership Summit, hosted by Faith Christian Fellowship
International and in Tucson, Arizona. This meeting is open to
the public, but if you want to be a part of it you have to
register. Go to F C F dot org ( fcf.org ) find out how to
register, then come get in this service with us. And then here's
the big one. We are going to be in South Africa, starting
Monday, October 23rd through the 25th, in East London, South
Africa, for the Stand Strong Conference, hosted by Faith
Broadcasting Network, and we are so excited about this! I know
we've got many people watching right now on F.B.N. in South
Africa, all over the continent of Africa, if you can come be in
these services we want you there! Monday October the 23rd
through the 25th. Come be a part of this conference! And then
later that week will be back in Johannesburg, on Friday, October
27th, for a minister's meeting. This meeting is at Rhema Church,
there in Johannesburg. It starts at ten o'clock in the morning,
and it's open exclusively to five fold ministry ministers.
Come be a part of that service, hosted also by Kenneth Copeland
Ministries, who of course we know and love dearly. And we'll
be also doing a partner meeting for KCM on Saturday, October
28th. Kenneth Copeland Ministries, South Africa partner
meeting, there at Rhema Church. So for more information about
these services, specifically in Johannesburg, you can find them
either at Pearsons Ministries dot com ( PearsonsMinistries.com
) or K.C. M. dot org, dot Z.A. ( kcm.org.za ) You'll have all the
information you need about our time there in South Africa, and
we are so stirred up, so excited about it. I can't wait for the
giant plate of biltong that I'm going to be devouring when I get
there. Now, I know some of you watching across the U.S. are
going, "What is he talking about?" Don't worry about it, my
African friends know exactly what I'm talking about! We are
so stirred up by what God is doing in your nation, and in you
as a people, and we are so privileged, blessed, and honored
to get to come be a part of it. So for more information about
what's going on at Pearsons Ministries, visit us at Pearsons
Ministries dot com ( PearsonsMinistries.com ) and
join us somewhere out there on the road along the way. Until
then, we want you know how much we love you! We'll see you again
next time on Legacy TV.
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