{"id":6148,"date":"2023-03-24T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:28:33","slug":"another-coffee-break-resurrection-from-the-dead-part-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-resurrection-from-the-dead-part-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Resurrection From the Dead, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column 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fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=WordSection1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#747474'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\ntext-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#984806'>Resurrection From the Dead, Part 4<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Reprint March 24, 2023<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;mso-themecolor:accent6;\r\nmso-themeshade:128'>Once again, it is important to recognize that we have been\r\nprogrammed by centuries of wrong thinking and a mindset woven into society that\r\nrequires us to expect death \u2013 never mind the fact that Jesus canceled our\r\nappointment with death.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>What happens is\r\nthat because of this wrong mindset and thinking permeating God\u2019s people, Jesus\r\ngets cheated out of a people \u2013 especially a seasoned and mature people who can\r\nteach and mentor believers with Jesus\u2019 mindset.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>No\r\nmatter how long we live, and no matter what our upbringing, we have all\r\ndeveloped mindsets and mental protocols that cause us to either respond or\r\nreact or \u201cadjust\u201d the Word spoken to us to fit our understanding.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It is mandatory that we overcome those\r\nmindsets and mental protocols.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\u2019ve\r\nquoted this amplified Word to you in the past from Paul\u2019s second letter to the\r\nEkklesia in Corinth, but here it is again.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>It fits this situation precisely!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>II Corinthians 10:3-6<\/span><\/u><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>For though we live,\r\ndeport and comport ourselves by that which we see, hear, taste, smell and\r\ntouch, we do not contend with, war after and execute military strategies\r\n[against Satan] by that which we see and hear, know intellectually, or have\r\nopinions of:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'>For the weapons and instruments of our war and executed actions\r\n[against Satan] do not have their origins and [weak, impotent] operation in\r\nnatural flesh and human abilities, but they are skillful, potent and powerful \u2013\r\nlike dynamite \u2013 through God to the demolition and extinction of all fortified\r\nand guarded places of opinions in opposition,<\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#002060'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'>Bringing down violently and demolishing (to total extinction)\r\nall mental reasonings and thought processes, and every mental barrier or\r\narrogant and self-elevated attitude that justifies itself in opposition to the\r\nknowledge of God; bringing into captivity and making a prisoner every\r\nperception of the intellect and every mental purpose or determination to the\r\ncompliance and submission of Christ and His anointing [in the same way that He\r\ncomplied with the will and desire of the Father];<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'>And holding in readiness and preparedness the [spiritual]\r\nfitness to vindicate and punish all refusal to hear what the Spirit is saying\r\nwhen your attentive and obedient submission has been satisfied fully and\r\nexecuted.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(RAC Translation and Amplification)<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Couldn\u2019t\r\nbe clearer, could it?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The overcoming of\r\nthe humanistic thinking, the old mindsets \u2014 and more specifically, our belief\r\nthat death is a given, and that all these promises are \u201cin the sweet bye and\r\nbye\u201d \u2014 is war!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>This\r\nis war, folks!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are engaged in a\r\nmental battle that the Lord Jesus Christ has already overcome on our behalf.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Death\r\nis not a given!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Death is a part of the\r\ncurse.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Death is part of the Law.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Death is part of the consequence of Adam\u2019s\r\nsin when he ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and\r\nEvil.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We have been delivered from the\r\nLaw by the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross and His resurrection power\r\nenacted on the third day when He rose from the dead!<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Once again, take a look at Paul\u2019s statement\r\nin his letter to the Romans:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Romans 8:1-7, KJV<\/span><\/u><\/b><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in\r\nChrist Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law\r\nof the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and\r\ndeath. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,\r\nGod sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned\r\nsin in the flesh: <\/span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>That\r\nthe righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the\r\nflesh, but after the Spirit.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the\r\nflesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be\r\ncarnally minded <i>is<\/i> death; but to be spiritually minded <i>is<\/i> life\r\nand peace. Because the carnal mind <i>is<\/i> enmity against God: for it is not\r\nsubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>One\r\nmore time!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me\r\nfree from the law of sin and death.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\r\ndon\u2019t know how better to say it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The Law\r\nof the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is the Law of the Universe established\r\nwhen Jesus shed His blood, died on the Cross FOR US, and then broke the curse\r\nof death by rising again from the dead on the third day.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The Law of Sin and Death was abolished by the\r\nLaw of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus \u2014 for those who are in Christ Jesus!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>So far we\u2019ve tried to cover some basic foundations\r\nin understanding what Resurrection from the dead is.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>My objective, thus far, has been to break the\r\nhumanistic mental construct that Resurrection from the dead is an instantaneous\r\nevent, and it relates <i>only<\/i> to raising someone from physical death.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, resurrection is a lifestyle.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>What has been so overlooked in the body of Christ is\r\nthe fact that Resurrection applies to everyday living and normal events and\r\nadventures that come our way.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Our lives\r\nin Christ have been preparing us for the transition we talked about last week\r\nin which we are changed from mortals to immortals.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s see how far we can get today in sharing\r\nthe fundamentals of daily Resurrection life.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#864300'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>\u00ad\u00adTake\r\na look first of all at something that Paul says as he writes to the Corinthian\r\nEkklesia.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I Corinthians 15:20-34<\/span><\/u><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>:<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>But now is Christ\r\nrisen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>For since by man came\r\ndeath, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>For as in Adam all\r\ndie, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>But every man in his\r\nown order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ\u2019s at his\r\ncoming. <\/span><sup><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>Then\r\ncometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the\r\nFather; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><sup><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>For\r\nhe must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>The last enemy <i>that<\/i>\r\nshall be destroyed <i>is<\/i> death. <\/span><sup><span style='font-size:8.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>For he hath put all\r\nthings <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him,\r\nit is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>And when all things\r\nshall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him\r\nthat put all things under him, that God may be all in all.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Else what shall they do which are baptized\r\nfor the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the\r\ndead?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>I protest by your\r\nrejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, <u>I die daily<\/u>. <\/span><sup><span\r\nstyle='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>If after the manner\r\nof men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what <span class=SpellE>advantageth<\/span>\r\nit me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for <span class=SpellE>to\r\nmorrow<\/span> we die. <\/span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\r\n\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>Be not deceived: evil\r\ncommunications corrupt good manners. <\/span><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>Awake to\r\nrighteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak\r\nthis to your shame.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\u2019m\r\nnot going to take the time to amplify all of this today, but there is so much\r\nembodied in what Paul says that it is hard to know where to begin.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Notice,\r\nfirst of all, that he says, <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000'>I die daily<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If, indeed, Paul experienced death daily, he\r\nalso experienced resurrection daily.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It\r\nhad become a lifestyle.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The KJV\r\ntranslation of his earlier statement obscures the significance of this.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Watch!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made\r\nalive.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>That\u2019s clear enough.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019ve already talked about this in the realm\r\nof water baptism. What follows, however, misses it.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><sup><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;\r\nafterward they that are Christ\u2019s at his coming.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nnormal instinct is to read this as being the second coming of Christ, and the\r\nGreek word translated \u201ccoming\u201d is a word most of us are familiar with: <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>Parousia<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>However, this word comes from its root, <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>pareimi <\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>\u2014 meaning: <\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Antique\",\"serif\";color:#864300'>to be\r\npresent<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The word, <\/span><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Gourmand\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>Parousia<\/span><\/i><\/b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>, therefore,\r\nliterally translates to: <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Antique\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#864300'>presence<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you see what it does to that\r\nstatement?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s re-translate and\r\namplify.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'>But every man or woman in his\/her own particular succession and\r\narrangement: Christ being the first and forerunner (as our pattern overcomer);\r\nand thereafter, they that are in Christ and His anointing, positioned in His\r\npresence.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(I Corinthians 15:22, RAC\r\nTranslation & Amplification)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Sure\r\nchanges things, doesn\u2019t it?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Each of us\r\nexperiences death many times \u2014 sometimes, as Paul did, on a daily basis.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>But that death isn\u2019t necessarily a physical,\r\ndrop-dead experience.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Sometimes,\r\nthat death is the death of a vision, or the death of a hope or planned\r\nevent.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Other times, it may be the death\r\nof a relationship with someone, whether that someone be a close friend or a\r\nbrother or sister in the Lord, or someone whom you have loved and revered.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Let\r\nme cite an example.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Many\r\nof you know that I was involved in international banking back in the\r\n1980\u2019s.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>I got into it because of a\r\nvision the Lord had given me during my time at Long Beach Christian Center in\r\nthe early and mid-1970\u2019s. We\u2019ve talked about that vision many times over the\r\nyears \u2014 a vision for a 24-hour worship center that would, in large part,\r\nduplicate the pattern of David\u2019s tabernacle.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>What\r\nwas planted in my spirit with that vision was what happened with the nation of\r\nIsrael during the years that the continuous praise and worship and intercession\r\nwent forth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>I saw how the United States\r\ncould conceivably duplicate that pattern and reverse the downward spiral it was\r\nexperiencing spiritually, socially and economically.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The vision became something that almost\r\nconsumed me.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\r\nknew that in order to duplicate the pattern of David\u2019s Tabernacle, we would\r\nneed to do what David did and have a company of praisers and worshipers whose\r\nentire lives and lifestyles focused on ministry to the Lord.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>They couldn\u2019t be engaged in \u201csecular\u201d jobs\r\nand occupations that could interfere with that focus on ministry to the\r\nLord.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That meant that we were going to\r\nhave to have unlimited resources from which to pay them salaries that would more\r\nthan compensate for their giving up normal jobs and occupations.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\r\nbecame engaged in a four-participant trading platform with Merrill Lynch, the\r\nleading banker for the House Ways & Means Committee and the President of\r\nBel Air Mortgage & Finance Company.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>We were recycling and multiplying billions of dollars on behalf of the\r\nCanadian government so that they could provide low-interest loans (think SBA) to\r\nCanadian businesses and enhance the various provincial economies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Because\r\nthe Securities and Exchange Commission decided to ban platform trading in the\r\nU.S., I met with the Chairman of the S.E.C. to get permission to complete our\r\ntrading platform.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That permission was\r\ngranted.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We completed our project over a\r\ntwo-year period.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>My\r\ncommission for the part I played was right at $7 Million.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Because of the high-risk nature of platform\r\ntrading, all four parties agreed that our commissions would be put in a trust\r\naccount at Sumitomo Bank in Los Angeles.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>The President of Bel Air Mortgage & Finance was the principal\r\nsignatory to the trust funds, with the responsibility of disbursing those funds\r\nat completion.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>As\r\nwe neared the completion date, Della and I picked a likely piece of ground \u2014\r\neight acres \u2014 just off the Seward Highway in Anchorage to build the worship\r\ncenter.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Not very big, to be sure, but it\r\nwas a beginning.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>We\r\nalso negotiated the purchase of a home large enough to accommodate our\r\nexpanding family.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The price was a\r\nbargain, and the seller was the heir to the Morton Salt fortune.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Lastly,\r\nwe entered into a purchase agreement for the Girdwood Gold Mine, which was just\r\nsouth of Anchorage, and Della advanced the sellers an earnest money check of\r\n$100,000.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The mine was producing a net\r\nprofit of about $2 Million annually.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>You\r\nget the picture, I\u2019m sure.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We were\r\nmoving tangibly towards a real goal.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We\r\nwere going to be able to build the worship center, AND provide ongoing funding\r\nfor its construction, and the salaries of those who would become the staff of\r\nworshipers.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nday came in January of 1988 when Della and I sat down at Home Savings &\r\nLoan in Anchorage awaiting the transfer of our funds.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>(This was back when wire transfers took place\r\non a twice-daily basis.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We were\r\ngathered for the afternoon transfer.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>With\r\nus were the real estate broker who represented the anticipated purchase of both\r\nthe home and the property for the worship center.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Also with us were the two principals of the\r\nGirdwood Gold Mine.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>This was the day of\r\nclosing on these purchases.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>By\r\nnow, you understand how vested we were in what was taking place.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The vision was actually getting its\r\nlegs.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We were about to launch!<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We were doing our best to contain our\r\nexcitement.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nFed Wire window came and went and no funds transferred. <a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>It was hard to conceal our disappointment and\r\nfrustration.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Our real estate broker was\r\nphilosophical about it, as were the principals of the gold mine.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cDon\u2019t fret with it.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>As soon as you resolve the issue, call us and\r\nwe will wrap this up.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>24\r\nhours went by before we found out that the President of Bel Air Mortgage &\r\nFinance had fled the country with all $28 Million of the commissions.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He had orchestrated everything almost to the\r\nminute.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It took a year before the Feds\r\nreported to us that he had fled to the island nation of Palau in the south\r\nPacific, where the funds had been broken up into untraceable transactions.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>When\r\nPaul said, \u201c<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#C00000'>I die daily<\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>,\u201d it made perfect sense to me.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>I died.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Not physically, you understand, but to see us at the brink of the\r\nunfolding of the vision, only to have it slip out from under us like that,\r\ncaused me to crash.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The vision died.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>I\r\nwill finish this story next week.<\/span><span style='font-size:12.5pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#00269A'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>In case you are\r\nmissing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our Sunday\r\nworship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013 usually at about 10:45AM\r\nPacific.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That conference number is <\/span><\/b><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>, and the access code is <\/span><\/b><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>308640#.<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#002060'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these\r\ngatherings available by Skype. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>If you\r\nwish to participate by video on Skype, my Skype ID is <span class=SpellE>regner.capener<\/span>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice call, you can dial\r\n<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:red'>(712) 770-4169<\/span><\/b><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\";color:#002060'>, enter the same access code and listen in\r\nlater.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of course, is not\r\nrecorded \u2013 not yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>B<b>lessings\r\non you!<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Majestic;mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> \r\n<div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-left in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:left;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\" style=\"margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"85\" title=\"Signature1\" 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style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span class=SpellE><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Regner<\/span><\/b><\/span><b><span\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'> A. <span class=SpellE>Capener<\/span><\/span><\/b><span\nstyle='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'><br>\n<b>CAPENER MINISTRIES<\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>RIVER WORSHIP CENTER<br>\nTemple, Texas 76504<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Email Contact: <u><span\nstyle='color:blue'>CapenerMinistries@protonmail.com<\/span><\/u><\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\n\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\nnormal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Book 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