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7/30/25 - Discerning What's Genuine in Prophecy · LOH Church Archive

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  (upbeat music)
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  ♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪
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  ♪ When your glory floods the earth. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
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  ♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
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  ♪Everything changes. (3x)♪
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  ♪ When your glory floods the Earth. ♪
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  ♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (6x) ♪
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  ♪ When Your glory floods the earth. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
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  ♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
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  ♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪
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  ♪ When your glory floods the earth. (2x) ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (2x) ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes (11x) ♪
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  ♪ Everything turns around when you come into the room. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes when you come into the room. ♪
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  ♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
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  ♪ We lift our eyes and we see your glory, God. We lift our ♪
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  ♪eyes and we see your greatness, God. We see your greatness,♪
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  ♪ God. We see your greatness, God. (3x) ♪
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  ♪I see your greatness God. Over my life, over my children. Over♪
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  ♪ my city, over my nation. I see your greatness God. (2x) ♪
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  ♪ How great is our God? Sing with me. How great is our God? ♪
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  ♪ Oh we'll see how great, how great is our God. ♪
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  Come on sing that tonight. The Lord is great and greatly to be
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  praised. ♪ How great, is our God, is our God? Oh, you are. ♪
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  ♪ Sing to me how great is our God. Oh, we'll sing how great, ♪
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  ♪ how great is our God. Sing how great is our God. How great ♪
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  ♪ is our God. Sing it out. Sing how great. So great are you ♪
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  ♪ Lord. Is our God. Ohh. How great is our God? Name above ♪
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  ♪ all names. Worthy of all praise. Come on, we'll sing. ♪
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  ♪ How great is our God? Come on, sing name above all names. ♪
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  ♪ You are the name above all names. Name above all names. ♪
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  ♪So worthy of our praise. Worthy of our praise. There is♪
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  ♪ none else like you, Lord. Come on, we'll sing, sing how ♪
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  ♪great is our God. Come on sing it. Sing how great are you♪
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  ♪ Lord. How great are you, Lord. How great is our God? ♪
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  ♪ Oh, oh. Sing with me, how great. How great are you, ♪
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  ♪ Lord? Is our God. Oh, sing. Oh, we'll sing. How great. How ♪
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  ♪ great. How great is our God. How great are you, Lord? How ♪
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  ♪ great, is our God? Sing with me. How great. How mighty are ♪
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  ♪ you Lord. How mighty are you Lord. Oh we'll see how great, ♪
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  ♪how great is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me,♪
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  ♪ how great is our God. Oh, we'll see how great, how great ♪
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  ♪ is our God. So great. (3x) You are highly exalted. You're ♪
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  ♪ Highly exalted. (3x) Come on, tell the Lord, say, "You're ♪
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  ♪ highly exalted." (2x) Highly exalted, are you Lord. Highly ♪
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  ♪ exalted.♪ Why are we saying highly exalted? Because when
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  we exalt Him above everything, above our workplaces, above our
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  nation, we exalt Him above our city. Guess what? The Spirit of
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  God comes in and things begin to change. They begin to rearrange.
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  They begin to shift. They begin to move. So we say, God, you
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  are highly exalted. Say highly exalted. Oh, just take a moment
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  and exalt him above whatever you're facing. Exalt him above
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  any sickness. Exalt him above disease. Exalt him above fear.
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  Exalt him above poverty. Exalt him above death. Exalt him above
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  life. Come on, say, ♪ you are, you are, you are exalted. You ♪
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  ♪ are exalted. There is no one else like you, God. There is ♪
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  ♪ none beside you. There is no one. (3x) There is no one, ♪
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  ♪ higher than you, Lord. There is no one. Higher than you, ♪
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  ♪ Lord, there is no one. No one higher than you, Lord. ♪
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  ♪ No one higher than you, Lord. (7x) There is no one higher ♪
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  ♪ No one higher than you, Lord. (3x) There is no one. No one ♪
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  ♪ higher than you, Lord. You say there is nothing. Nothing ♪
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  ♪ higher than you, Lord. (2x) There is nothing. Nothing ♪
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  ♪ higher than You, Lord. (3x) Come on, shout tonight. Shout, ♪
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  ♪ shout, shout. Say, God is good. (2x) Hallelujah. (3x) ♪
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  (electric guitar playing)
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  So what are we doing tonight? We're exalting the name that is
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  above every other name. If you came in here with a need
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  tonight, just shout the name of Jesus. If you came in here
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  needing someone to pray for you tonight, shout the name of
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  Jesus. (congregation cheering)
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  'Cause when we say that name, that is higher than every other
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  name, I am telling you, bondages begin to break, chains begin to
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  fall off, sickness has to bow its knee. When we exalt Him, you
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  know what Pastor preached on Sunday? He said, "We don't cast
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  the care forward, we cast it behind us." So if you came in
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  here with care, cast it on God. I feel like, is there anybody in
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  here you're needing a job? Anybody you believe in God for a
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  different job? All right, raise your hands real high. If you're
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  believing, there's no shame in that. I want some believers to
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  gather around these people because the Bible says where two
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  or three of us are gathered together in his name. In his
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  name. There is power in agreement when we pray.
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  (soft piano music)
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  So let's declare that Father, everything that they're
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  believing for, it comes to pass for them. Father, we declare
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  that Father, increase comes to them. Father, we declare
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  promotion comes to them. Father, we declare, Father, increase in
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  finances. Father, where there has been persecution, Father, we
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  say that it is broken in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If
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  you're watching online and you're believing God for a job
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  or you're believing God for an increase in your finances, I
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  feel like some of you, you're believing God for some bills to
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  get paid. So we stretch our hands to you right now, those of
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  you that are watching online, and we say the God that is more
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  than enough is working on your behalf. The God that is
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  exceeding and abundant above all that we could ask or think. We
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  say He is working, working on your behalf right now, and we
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  say it is done. It is done in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, how
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  many of you believe that God is good? How many of you believe
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  that in the prayer of agreement, something begins to change?
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  Amen. Well, find two or three people. Greet them in the love
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  of the Lord tonight, and we're going to get ready for a
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  powerful word from Pastor Brenda.
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  (upbeat music)
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  - Amen. Well, before we get to prophetic school officially, it
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  is offering time. Amen. They're going to go ahead and put that
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  giving information up on the screen and got to put my hair
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  back out of my face. Praise and worship hair. How many of you
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  women get praise and worship hair? I know you can't see in a
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  few minutes but anyway, there's the giving information up there.
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  Text to give. I'm not going to share a scripture because we're
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  going to get right into prophetic school and uh want to
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  do some good teaching tonight. Try to get in as much content as
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  we can. I mean bless you guys, those of you that are in person,
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  I don't know what the weather's like where the internet
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  community's all from, but I mean we had like a deluge of rain
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  last night and so Pastor Hank's like, should we water any of the
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  plants? I'm like, yes, I said because when they say we're
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  going to get rain, you get nothing. And then if you do, if
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  I wouldn't have watered the plants, it would have been a But
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  because I went out and made the effort, I mean it was just, oh
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  my goodness, we lost a tree branch on one of our trees.
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  They're going to come clean it up. But anyway, I don't know, I
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  was sleeping in all that wind. I'm like, listen, God never
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  sleeps near slumber. Let's just get some, I didn't hear a thing,
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  not even the dogs, you know, so it was all good. But you guys
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  are here in church, I don't know, you could have been like
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  having a picnic somewhere. But I'll try to get you out at a
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  good time, but too bad, it's gonna be dark. You know, it's
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  getting dark early now. But anyway, just get the giving
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  information up. Do wanna just throw that back up one more
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  time. Just wanna make sure everybody knows that all the
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  different ways to give. And then for everybody that is giving
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  into building the Tavern Apco, I just wanna say to the internet
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  campus, thank you for helping us. And we are already talking
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  about all the exciting things we're planning for dedication
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  weekend. And we don't know the date yet. So we'll get it out as
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  soon as you know, we just need to go a little bit farther in
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  the construction so that we know kind of when it's done. because
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  there are variables that happen when you're building a building
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  of that size. How many think it's looking good when you drive
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  up to it? It is looking really awesome. I came by tonight. I'm
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  like, man, thank you, Laura. That just looks so cool. So
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  glorious for your kingdom. And just what a piece of excellence
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  that we have there. And then also, uh, got a little bit of
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  good news. I think it's still good news, Mark, right? It was
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  the good news email yesterday. This is the good news as of now.
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  I think it's still going to be a thing. But remember when I
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  talked to you Sunday about the asphalt versus the concrete, but
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  we had to find a person that could do it. Well, guess what?
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  We got an email yesterday. They found a concrete company. So too
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  bad for Pastor Hank. He won't be able to. Huh? Oh, they're
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  starting next week. So yes, I didn't I miss that part. So and
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  Pastor and Pastor Matt and the group, they are up getting ready
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  for Flashpoint Live. They're in the beautiful city of
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  Minneapolis. And of course, they that city needs a Flashpoint
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  Live, I think. Anyway, we'll leave it at that. But anyhow,
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  they are up there. And so honey, if you're watching, that means,
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  ushers, you can go ahead and start to serve the people. And
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  online, you can go ahead and do your giving there. But honey,
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  that means that you won't be able to put your swimming pool
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  in the parking lot of the church. I'm so sorry. Go, aww.
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  Amen. So, amen. All right, well, very quickly, as the ushers
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  serve you, and we'll get right into it tonight. I'm not being
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  in a place of delay. I have a lot of things I want to share,
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  so I want to get to it as quick as possible. And I know, and we
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  do try to be a little bit sensitive on a Wednesday night,
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  because I know it's a school night for kids and whatnot, but
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  how many of you are excited the kids are back in schools? How
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  you feel? Are you feeling it yet? Are you done? Are you ready
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  for summer yet? I don't know about that. So I see all of our
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  neighbors getting their little kids and I'm like, oh, I don't
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  miss those years. But anyhow, those were the days, those were
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  the times. So real quickly, all right guys, you can wrap up,
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  we're good. Just a couple reminders, I wanna let everybody
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  know, first and foremost, I came in tonight and found this little
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  gem, Pastor Newest Mutsvi Amilo. Mutsvi's longest day is here.
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  And so we're super, super excited about this. Now we are
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  going to be doing some things pertinent to children, planning
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  a night of ministry. I'm not going to give you the details on
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  that yet until we have solidified all the things we
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  want to do with that. But we're going to do a night of prayer
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  for the children and just talking a little bit more about
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  why we're so passionate. In fact, we're working on a book
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  right now, just a little prayer guide for parents with their
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  children because, you know, they're navigating things. I
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  hear a lot of people say this a lot, "I wouldn't want to be
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  raising kids in this season of time." These are older people
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  that say that just because there's so much to kind of get
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  through. But I'm so thankful for Pastor Hank who put the latest
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  Mutzvi book out. So awesome. Make sure you get a copy of
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  that. They'll have that. I think it's pretty much out on the
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  website. You can get it from Amazon, but we always say, get
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  it from us because then the benefit of it goes back to the
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  ministry and that is what is so important to our heart. But
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  Amazon probably get it to you faster. So if you're desperate,
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  if you're desperate and you just need it tomorrow because you
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  just had to have a children's book this week, then you can go
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  out and you can get that. And then also pastor's book, if
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  you've not gotten this, The Anointing of Preservation. I
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  will tell you, I don't know if anybody that has a revelation
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  better than pastor on the anointing of preservation or
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  anybody that called it that, I've not heard that. That's just
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  kind of a fresh take on scriptures of protection that
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  the Lord is preserving us and of course preserving us for the
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  season that we're living in. You're alive right here tonight
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  because you have purpose. You have, God has a reason for you
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  to be here. And I don't believe anything is by accident. I
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  always believe that it is absolutely ordained of heaven.
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  The anointing of preservation, you can get that, of course, on
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  Amazon, but you can get it from us, and I encourage you to go
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  get a hold of that. And then my latest daily decree book, Daily
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  Decrees for Government and Nations. And if you've not
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  gotten that as well, please get out there, get a hold of a copy
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  of that, because honestly, I really want to see us. We're
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  going into, I don't know, I guess I could always say we're
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  already in election mayhem. I mean this whole Speaker of the
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  House, anybody been watching that little drama going on?
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  There are some people saying that they're going to nominate
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  Trump as the Speaker of the House. I saw that on Fox today.
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  But anyway, and not that I always watch the news, but that
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  was interesting to me that people are making that
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  nomination because they believe what we feel about the election
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  too. But anyway, but I just think what happens if we're all
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  praying some of the same things at the same time and going
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  through this whole year, just think about all of the things
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  that God can do with our prayers if we all get in agreement. So
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  get out there, go to hankandbrenda.org, get all of
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  those materials and all the other stuff that's out there.
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  Um, we don't write them so we can make pretty covers. We write
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  them so that we can really, really encourage people and give
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  them hope and give them strength and the ability. Somebody asked
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  us or asked me years and years ago, they said, how did you get
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  strong in the word? I'm like, I read people's books. Isn't that
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  right, Janet? Okay. I think I had every Brother Hagin book
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  there ever was, and I read it from cover to cover to cover,
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  and life-changing it was for me. Amen? All right, well, let's get
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  into it tonight. I wanna get right to the teaching, and
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  hopefully just really kind of go back through some things. Now, I
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  talked a little bit on, tonight I wanted to talk about
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  recognizing genuine prophecy and prophets, genuine prophetic
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  ministry, and again, I always kind of open with this. I kind
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  of went a different direction the last time, I guess I'll say
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  it that way, talking about how to minister in the prophetic and
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  do it with taste and grace and class. But then I found these
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  notes that, I don't know, I hadn't preached it all the first
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  time, so I thought, well, I'd go back. And I know Pastor Hank has
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  talked a little bit on false prophets, true prophets, and I
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  mean, I couldn't even begin to match the revelation that he
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  carries in that. book. And if you didn't get a hold of that, I
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  think all of these are out on OVTV. So get out there and check
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  those out. It's just his understanding of the prophetic.
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  He really digs deep in just the anointing of the prophetic and
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  prophets and prophecy. And so get out there and check that
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  out. But I circled back on these notes and I found them. And I
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  was like, "Man, I didn't preach some of this." So I've got to
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  kind of go back and talk about just how to recognize genuine
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  prophecy and prophetic ministry. So I want to go to tonight to 2
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  Peter. Let's just read this Scripture and 2 Peter chapter 2.
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  And let's just start at verse 1. I'm just going to read a couple
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  of these, but this is an important verse. And by the way,
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  I really encourage you to read all of this, this whole chapter,
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  because it really makes a description on how God views
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  those that are involved in error and those that are false. But it
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  says here in verse 1, "But there were false prophets also among
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  the people," talking about in the Old Testament, right? This
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  is in the Old Covenant. "There were false prophets among the
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  people, or among the people, even as there shall be false
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  teachers among you." Now, so it brings out false prophets in the
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  Old Covenant, and we see a lot of that mentioned. We don't see
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  it as much in the New Testament. It is mentioned, but it's not as
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  common as it is in the Old Testament. And interestingly, if
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  you want to just kind of put a little circle or a note around
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  the word prophet there, the Strong's kind of uses a phrase
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  or it uses the word in there, "impostor." Okay, so this is not
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  just talking about people that make genuine, honest mistakes.
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  How many of you know, not one of us is perfect. Not even as I get
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  up here and I preach the Word, teach the Scriptures, not one of
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  us knows the whole counsel of God. Not one of us is revelatory
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  perfect. Not one of us knows everything. And the reason in
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  the Bible Paul talked about that if a prophet prophesies, there
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  should be those that can bring a scrutiny or a judgment to it to
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  ascertain whether or not that prophetic word was legitimate or
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  not. And we'll talk about that here in a little bit as we get
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  into some of this. So, the prophets of the Old Testament
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  were really egregious, I should say it like this, egregious
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  impostors. They were deceivers. They were not people trying to,
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  when you're talking about the old covenant, it was not to, I
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  guess I'll say it this way, to, you know, make an honest
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  mistake. It was egregious, deliberate error. Okay. This is
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  the, the false prophets of the old covenant. And I want you to
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  understand that because I think in this time people are so up in
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  arms over the prophetic, like, is that a false prophet? Is
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  who's a false? I mean, I mean, the mayhem that went through the
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  2020 election over the Trump prophecies and all of these
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  things. And I'll talk about this as we get a little bit into it.
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  In my viewpoint, from what I can ascertain from scripture, was
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  really exaggerated. It was so brought out so extremely. First
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  of all, I'll just say this and that. So many people, prophetic.
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  Now, Pastor will tell you his prophetic journey in the 45th
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  president goes way back to 9/11. And so he's been prophesying a
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  journey. He didn't just rise up one day and go, "Man, I like
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  Trump, I'm gonna prophesy about him." He didn't do that. That I
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  know, I know for a fact. And I believe there were people that
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  did do that. So they couldn't hold to what they felt. But you
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  cannot tell me that there are this many prophets. Come on,
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  Christians. Come on, we all have the Holy Spirit. Christians,
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  intercessors. Come on, how many of you are intercessors? You
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  pray, you intercede for America. You can't tell me there are this
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  many of us that all felt what we felt. And when I say we, this is
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  a collective growing, a collective large number of
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  people felt what they felt about the anointing on Donald John
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  Trump and that we're all that crazy and we just missed it. And
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  it was because we just really wanted this guy. No, there were
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  visions, there were dreams, there were things people saw in
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  the spirit that you can't argue with, you can't deny. So that
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  doesn't make this whole group a false group. Okay? That's not
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  the point. The false of the Old Covenant, which you will read,
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  and in the New Testament, are those that have egregious,
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  purposeful intent to deceive. And we'll kind of talk about
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  that character as we go through some of this. But I want to set
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  that up because I feel like people get, and well let me read
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  the rest of this, because I'm, and then I'll say, make my
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  point. It said, "There were false prophets or impostors also
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  among the people, even as there shall be false teachers." Now,
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  this false teacher is people that propagate teachings of
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  error. "Among you who shall privately or secretly or
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  covertly bring damnable heresies or destructive doctrines, even
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  denying the Lord that bought them." Now, here's what I want
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  to say. When it comes to doctrine, when it comes to
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  teaching, when it comes to truth and understanding the truth of
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  the Bible, first of all, we have to get down the fact that not
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  one of us knows it all. Aren't we glad we're growing? Aren't we
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  glad we're all growing? Aren't we glad that we have the room
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  and the ability through the Holy Spirit? I was thinking about, in
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  fact, I read this, maybe we'll go to it. It was Apollos, if you
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  read this in Acts the 18th chapter, Apollos, the Bible
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  says, was a man of the Spirit. He knew the Scriptures mightily.
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  In fact, there they have it up there. It was a certain Jew
• 33:28
  named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man. In
• 33:33
  other words, he was a good preacher. And he was mighty in
• 33:36
  the scriptures. So did he know the Word? He was a man that knew
• 33:39
  the Word. He was mighty in scriptures. He came to Ephesus,
• 33:44
  verse 25, and it says, "This man was instructed in the way of the
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  Lord and being fervent in the Spirit." So he was intense. He
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  knew the scriptures. So you would say this is a man that is
• 33:57
  genuinely called of God. He spoke and taught diligently the
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  things of the Lord, but he only understood the baptism of John.
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  So look at verse 26, it says, "And he began to speak boldly,
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  he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, who when Aquila and
• 34:15
  Priscilla heard him, they took him to them," or they got
• 34:19
  together with him, and expounded unto him the way of God more
• 34:23
  perfectly. Keep reading. And it says, "And when he was disposed
• 34:28
  to pass into Aquila, and the brethren wrote," or they wrote
• 34:31
  the brethren there when he was going to that region, "exhorting
• 34:36
  the disciples to receive him." Okay, they did not get on
• 34:40
  Facebook and say, "Oh my goodness, he preached that. I
• 34:42
  can't even believe he said that." They didn't do any of
• 34:45
  that. They didn't get all up in arms because he was preaching
• 34:48
  something that needed adjustment. They didn't get
• 34:53
  themselves all in a knot and start having, you know, letter
• 34:55
  wars. I don't know how they had, what was social media back then?
• 34:58
  I guess maybe, you know, they wrote each other notes. I can't
• 35:01
  believe you agreed with that guy. And then passed it, took
• 35:04
  them to each other's houses. If this was today, come on, if this
• 35:08
  was today, I mean Facebook would be exploding. I can't believe he
• 35:13
  preached that. And, but it, this whole section here, when here
• 35:20
  they had given him some instruction to develop his
• 35:23
  revelation, they said, now you receive him. Now this is no
• 35:27
  different than the book of Acts, Acts the 17th chapter. The Bible
• 35:32
  says the Bereans were more noble than those that were in
• 35:36
  Thessalonica. That's what the Scripture says, they were better
• 35:39
  because they received the Word. They didn't criticize it out the
• 35:45
  gate. And this is what is so important in discerning whether
• 35:49
  it be the prophetic, whether it be preaching, whether it be a
• 35:52
  message you heard online, whether it be somebody's book
• 35:56
  that you read, to understand the genuine is you take the Word and
• 36:01
  you pull it. It's like Brother Hagin used to say, sometimes
• 36:03
  you're going to have to pull the meat off and spit some bones.
• 36:07
  It's going to be like that. But that doesn't make the delivery
• 36:10
  person a false minister or a false prophet or a false
• 36:16
  teacher. There's so much more that goes into it. And I say
• 36:20
  that because I watch people so much get up, up in arms over
• 36:25
  this person and claim that revelation. They had that
• 36:29
  vision. They had that dream. They had that prophecy. And
• 36:33
  people are just like melting over. And I'm like, come on,
• 36:37
  y'all. Are you like losing your salvation here? Are we that dumb
• 36:43
  that we're all just like falling off the planet and shooting off
• 36:46
  in a shoot straight to the gate of hell because somebody said
• 36:50
  something that we didn't think was right? Okay, so this is
• 36:59
  important. If we're going to make it in the last days, we
• 37:02
  have to know how to navigate. Now, I'm going to give you the
• 37:04
  stuff that will help put your guard up when you need to. But I
• 37:08
  think some of the things I'll say in Christendom, we get way
• 37:11
  too - and this is why the world capitalizes on our divisions.
• 37:16
  Because we're so busy and ready to go and crucify somebody
• 37:20
  because we didn't like something they said. And the next thing
• 37:23
  you know, we got to make a post, and we got to write a book, and
• 37:26
  we got to send it out. In fact, I heard somebody say, you
• 37:29
  marinate on something before you go preach against it. And the
• 37:34
  Bereans did that. It said, and they went back after they heard
• 37:37
  the preaching that they didn't understand and they went back
• 37:41
  after the preaching and they searched the scriptures daily to
• 37:47
  see if these things be so. Now say, but Pastor Brenda, I hear
• 37:52
  people say things that they're not in the Bible. Well, yeah,
• 37:55
  God, there are things that aren't in the Bible. I'm going
• 37:57
  to talk about that. There are things that are not in the Bible
• 38:00
  that God does reveal. Okay. Those of you that are believing
• 38:07
  God tonight for to get a new job, you know, God's not going
• 38:10
  to walk up, you know, or God's not going to walk up and show
• 38:14
  you a scripture. There's not a scripture in the Bible says, go
• 38:16
  apply a Walmart. Right? I mean, come on now. So there are
• 38:26
  revelations and things that we see. The Bible says in 1
• 38:30
  Corinthians 13, we now, whether you be a prophet, a teacher, a
• 38:35
  revelator, an intercessor, a person with the gift of the word
• 38:38
  of knowledge, whatever gifting of the Holy Spirit you might
• 38:42
  carry, all of us see the Bible says, "Through a glass darkly."
• 38:49
  That's why sometimes prophets will get up, you know, the
• 38:51
  apostle John, we still don't know what in the world he saw.
• 38:56
  He thought it was grasshoppers. I've heard the best scholars
• 38:59
  say, "I'm sure it was helicopters." Well, we don't
• 39:02
  know that. We don't know that. But what we do know is as people
• 39:06
  revelate, more than just the word itself, you cannot judge
• 39:12
  false, except under certain circumstances, which I am gonna
• 39:15
  cover tonight. I told you this was a long preaching. But you
• 39:19
  cannot assess the true and the false, most of the time, based
• 39:25
  on just the initial thing that you hear. Because we go through
• 39:31
  a whole lot of things. Listen, I mean, I told, I've told this
• 39:35
  story hundreds of times that I almost missed a powerful word by
• 39:39
  a prophetic minister that called us out because I didn't like
• 39:42
  that man's hair. I thought, you know, looking all crazy. It was
• 39:47
  in his eyes and he was in flip-flops. And as far as I was
• 39:50
  concerned at that time, you don't wear flip-flops to church.
• 39:52
  I mean, I've reduced to tennis shoes, but it's okay. But in my
• 39:58
  mind, shorts and flip-flops was not the way a guest speaker
• 40:01
  ought to dress. And I thought, I can't. And one of the prophecies
• 40:04
  he gave was, "You are going to pastor a church, son and
• 40:06
  daughter. You're going to raise up this." I thought, he is a
• 40:08
  fool. He has missed it. This was years before Lord of Hosts
• 40:11
  Church. I thought, "We're never going to pastor a church." Be
• 40:14
  careful what you say never to. So just because I didn't like
• 40:19
  him, I was ready to call him out as an error. And we have to be
• 40:24
  so careful. And now, of course, I know I harp all the time on
• 40:28
  social media, but social media has enabled so much bad
• 40:33
  behavior. It has just enabled us. It has enabled us to
• 40:37
  criticize, speak out, post things, and write things, and
• 40:42
  all of this that sometimes we don't take the time to first of
• 40:46
  all get counsel. We're going to talk about that. We don't take
• 40:50
  the time to get other input. We don't take the time to be like
• 40:53
  the Bereans and search the scriptures daily. And sometimes
• 40:57
  we don't just wait and let things marinate. Come on,
• 41:00
  because you didn't agree with somebody, does that really mean,
• 41:04
  I mean seriously, you think the whole body of Christ is gonna go
• 41:07
  to hell over that one person that you have just got to get
• 41:09
  out your statement? All right, don't shut me down because I'm
• 41:14
  preaching good tonight. This is prophetic school, we're
• 41:17
  teaching. This is a good place to take notes. Now, here is
• 41:22
  where you immediately get up in arms. And I'm gonna talk about
• 41:26
  the characteristics of the genuine. I wanna really get into
• 41:30
  that tonight, 'cause I think it is very important that we look
• 41:33
  at this. Now, realize you're gonna add to this revelation as
• 41:36
  you get home. If you take time to study, you can go back in,
• 41:39
  take the things that I've been sharing and build upon it,
• 41:43
  'cause I have 45 minutes or so to go through all this. But I
• 41:48
  encourage you, take the time, take the bones of what I'm
• 41:51
  saying, and then go back and study it out. Now, here is where
• 41:56
  our alerters on whether it's a prophet, a preacher, a pastor,
• 42:03
  any of the fivefold gifts and a claimed apostle, the Bible, Paul
• 42:07
  said that there's some that say they're apostles, they're not.
• 42:11
  Any person, let's take it the next step, a YouTuber, a
• 42:16
  blogger, come on, any one of these, here's where we are alert
• 42:23
  should come in. Number one is when they start to tap on
• 42:27
  denying the basic tenets. Say, "Pastor, what are the basic
• 42:31
  tenets?" Well, you could look at all the basic tenets out there,
• 42:34
  but I'm going to just give you the eight that I put together.
• 42:37
  Some of these could be separated, but I want to make it
• 42:39
  easy for you. These are the important things everybody
• 42:42
  should understand and know. And when you see false that goes
• 42:46
  against the basic tenets of the foundation of the root of our
• 42:50
  Christian faith, then, and believe me, they come disguised.
• 42:54
  They're more common than you think. So here they are. Just
• 42:58
  note them, mark them, study them. In fact, this is your
• 43:02
  homework. I guess in prophetic school we can give homework,
• 43:04
  right? Pastor Keith, can we give homework in prophetic school?
• 43:08
  This is your homework, is to go and study, 'cause I can't give
• 43:11
  you all the scriptures that support it, but then you can go
• 43:14
  look them up. Number one, here's the basic tenets. There is one
• 43:17
  God, manifest in three persons. So now that's a big one that's
• 43:23
  come up again, because people are all saying, oh, well,
• 43:26
  there's many gods. And that was something you didn't hear a lot.
• 43:30
  Now you're starting to hear that resurface again a lot more. That
• 43:35
  goes against my basic tenets. There's one God in three, the
• 43:40
  Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And one scripture for
• 43:43
  that is 1 John 5:7. There's three. These three are one, the
• 43:47
  Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Scripture's plastered
• 43:50
  with it. That is a non-negotiable, non-changeable.
• 43:54
  Yep, people are changing it now. Here's another one. So be
• 43:57
  listening for these things. Number two, Jesus is the only
• 44:02
  and first begotten Son of God, born of a virgin. And he came in
• 44:06
  the flesh in human form. 1 John 4:1-2, "Beloved, don't
• 44:12
  believe every spirit, but test them whether they're of God,
• 44:16
  because many false prophets are gone in the world. Hereby you
• 44:20
  will know the Spirit of God, that every spirit that confesses
• 44:23
  that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." Now, let
• 44:26
  me just clarify that. Just, there are a lot of false that
• 44:30
  will say, "Oh no, Jesus is the only way," or "Jesus is,"
• 44:34
  they'll say, "Jesus has come in the flesh." But the ones that
• 44:37
  are held to the fact that Jesus came in the flesh as a human
• 44:42
  being, He came in the flesh in human form, and hold to that,
• 44:47
  it's hard to remain false when you hold to that principle. Now,
• 44:52
  Mark, note that. It's very important. The third one, the
• 44:56
  death. Oh, and interesting, let me say another thing on that
• 45:00
  second one, that Jesus is being the Son of God. There's a load
• 45:03
  of religions out there that secularism, humanism is
• 45:06
  promoting right now that will say, well, Jesus wasn't the Son
• 45:09
  of God, He was just a prophet. Okay, He was a good man. And
• 45:16
  there are Christian groups that are just making Him out not to
• 45:19
  be so much the Son of God, but some philanthropist somewhere.
• 45:23
  So we've got to be, of all the things we need to look for right
• 45:27
  now, come on, the basic tenets, these are the non-negotiables.
• 45:32
  So Jesus is the only and first begotten, the reason it also
• 45:36
  says in the New Testament, the first begotten, 'cause there
• 45:38
  were many sons and daughters to come, that's you and I. Number
• 45:41
  three, the death and physical bodily resurrection of Jesus
• 45:46
  Christ, right? Romans 10:9, if you confess that Jesus is
• 45:49
  Lord and that believe in your heart that God has raised him
• 45:51
  from the dead, you shall be saved. Number four, salvation is
• 45:55
  through Jesus Christ alone. We're seeing that come up again.
• 45:59
  Jesus said, "I'm the door. I'm the way, I'm the truth." John
• 46:03
  14:6 "I'm the life. No man comes to the father but by me." And
• 46:07
  I'm telling you, the culture right now wants to press us on
• 46:09
  that topic. Okay they want to press us on that. "What do you
• 46:15
  mean? I mean, what a bigot you are for saying that there's
• 46:18
  only, that Jesus is the only way. How dare you say that?"
• 46:21
  Come on, this is, we're seeing this come up again and again.
• 46:24
  They're hitting our children with it in the schools. So, know
• 46:28
  your basic tenets. Again, you guys are going to look up other
• 46:31
  scriptures to all these. This is your homework assignment.
• 46:34
  You don't have to turn it in. You can
• 46:36
  give yourself an A or an F. It's whatever you
• 46:38
  want to do. Prophetic school, you get to grade
• 46:41
  yourself. How's that? The fifth one is the Bible is the
• 46:46
  inerrant and inspired Word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16, all
• 46:50
  scripture is given by inspiration of God and is
• 46:52
  profitable for doctrine, instruction, reproof, correction
• 47:00
  and instruction in righteousness. I said that
• 47:02
  backwards. Instruction, correction and instruction in
• 47:05
  righteousness. So people that deny the word. I would be wary
• 47:12
  of being in any church where the pastor was barely opening the
• 47:15
  Bible. Okay. I would. And a lot of them are doing it. They're
• 47:20
  preaching movie themes and I'm not here to down on pastors, but
• 47:23
  you can drive by churches and they'll be like the latest movie
• 47:26
  that's out, they'll make sermons that match it. And I'm like,
• 47:31
  again, I'm not here to say maybe that's all bad. Maybe there was
• 47:35
  something in it, but I'm just going to say, I don't know. If I
• 47:37
  want to see a movie, I'm going to go to the movie, but I want
• 47:40
  to hear preaching that I can chew on. I want to hear
• 47:44
  preaching that'll challenge me. I want to hear the word. I want
• 47:48
  to grow in the scriptures. Come on. I want some Bible attached
• 47:52
  to what I'm hearing. And so if a preacher can, and there's no
• 47:57
  preacher that can give you enough scripture to satisfy your
• 48:00
  life on a Sunday or a Wednesday, but I want to hear the word
• 48:03
  coming out of my pastor's mouth. That's a fact. Come on, folks.
• 48:08
  So there's a lot of that that's just kind of gone out the window
• 48:11
  in the American church, that pastors are, you know, maybe
• 48:14
  touching on a scripture. Now, just again, let's not get crazy
• 48:17
  here because there are times you might hear someone get up and
• 48:20
  the way the anointing is flowing, they're not going to
• 48:22
  open to 15 verses. I've seen that. That's okay. But normally,
• 48:27
  but that's how, how are they normally? That's what we want to
• 48:30
  have. The Bible is the inerrant inspired word of God. And of
• 48:34
  course people are trying to chop that apart, take it out. Some
• 48:37
  translations leave parts off. I mean, it's, it's so all right.
• 48:41
  Number six, we're born sinners. Salvation is by grace and not
• 48:45
  works. Ephesians 2:8-9 says for by grace are you saved
• 48:48
  through faith, not that of yourselves. It's the gift of
• 48:50
  God, not of works as any man should boast. So everyone is
• 48:54
  born in sin. We can't work our way to heaven. We couldn't do
• 48:57
  enough good things, right, to work our way. There's whole
• 49:01
  religions that teach that. You're going to rise the ladder,
• 49:05
  and somehow you might make it to God and all of that. So that is
• 49:10
  very important. You must know that. In fact, I would study the
• 49:13
  grace teaching, because there's imbalances that have gone on
• 49:17
  with that. But you know, you can do whatever and still be saved
• 49:21
  by grace. Number seven, the second coming of Jesus Christ on
• 49:26
  earth to reign. Acts 1:11, know this scripture. It says, "For
• 49:29
  you men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing to heaven? The same
• 49:32
  Jesus that was taken up shall come the same way he left."
• 49:36
  Second coming of Jesus. And by the way, and that's a good
• 49:39
  reason to go and read 2 Peter 2-3. It all talks about people
• 49:45
  that deny the second coming. So you need to know about that.
• 49:48
  Number eight, heaven. And here's a big one, folks. Heaven and
• 49:51
  hell are real. And all of us will spend eternity in one or
• 49:57
  the other. All right. I won't spend time giving you scriptures
• 50:00
  on that, but those are the basics of the tenets. You can
• 50:03
  break them out a little bit farther if you want to. Some
• 50:05
  people make ten. But those are the non-negotiables. And I
• 50:09
  listen, when I listen, when I'm hearing preaching, and
• 50:12
  especially preaching and teaching, when I'm hearing these
• 50:15
  things, I look for things that deny those. And if a pastor gets
• 50:19
  up and I try to separate, I try to be careful, you know, are
• 50:25
  they saying that out of just a lack of knowledge, or is there
• 50:29
  an underlying intent to break the basic tenets of the faith?
• 50:34
  So it's so important. And I would just say this, I think
• 50:37
  it's really important for the body of Christ to be up in arms,
• 50:40
  but not up in arms. Can I say that? Because if we're too up in
• 50:45
  arms, we become critics. You know, and sadly, there are many,
• 50:49
  and now with the internet, there are so many people that can sit
• 50:53
  at home like armchair pastors, and just criticize everything,
• 50:59
  and pick apart everything, and yet they couldn't do half the
• 51:02
  things that that pastor is doing. So it's really important.
• 51:06
  I don't mean to sound negative, but it's just necessary, because
• 51:09
  the world is looking right now at how we're treating each
• 51:11
  other. And we need to be united. We need to be on one front. We
• 51:17
  need to have one mind. Come on, the scripture says one accord.
• 51:21
  We need to be united together. And I have found out, listen,
• 51:25
  I've served God for 40 years. There's very few people I've had
• 51:28
  to just walk away from because they were so egregiously
• 51:30
  erroneous. They started denying fact, pastor and I years ago got
• 51:34
  connected to one minister that somebody had recommended. And in
• 51:37
  the early, early years, we even had them in the church. And then
• 51:40
  they started knocking on the door of hell is hell. Hell is
• 51:45
  just a place where maybe you don't get to talk to God every
• 51:49
  day. I'm like, check. So I listen for those things, okay?
• 51:56
  And of course, they went right out down the road into
• 51:58
  universalism teaching there is no literal hell. So it's
• 52:02
  important, be alert in the last days. Be alert as you listen,
• 52:06
  but don't ride around in the van or the wheels of criticism all
• 52:11
  the time because you can get in one ditch or the other. So this
• 52:14
  is very important and I'm just setting this up and taking my
• 52:17
  time in it because I have watched in recent times where
• 52:21
  there is so much bickering and fighting. I mean, somebody can't
• 52:25
  say anything on the internet without somebody coming in with
• 52:29
  a criticism. I mean, it's amazing. And the reason that, in
• 52:33
  fact, in this church, the reason we will kill those comments,
• 52:36
  well, you don't want anybody to disagree, no. This is a church
• 52:38
  service. You come in here, I mean, to me, getting online and
• 52:43
  criticizing the preaching or the singing or the prophesying or
• 52:46
  somebody's hair and saying those kinds of things, that would get
• 52:50
  you banned. Plain and simple. Because we ought to know how to
• 52:55
  behave in the house of God. To me, it's no different when
• 52:58
  somebody gets on and criticizes online, any different than
• 53:03
  somebody stood up in the church while Pastor Anka's preaching
• 53:05
  and heckled him in the middle of the service. There's people
• 53:08
  online that are desperate. They need to hear. They're trying to
• 53:11
  get a word from God. They're trying to connect to the
• 53:13
  anointing. Some of them can't get in a church. And the last
• 53:17
  thing they need to see is somebody getting on the internet
• 53:20
  and being an armchair quarterback critic, preaching
• 53:24
  and teaching and trying to be a preacher. I know it all on the
• 53:27
  internet. All right. Glad I got that off my chest. No, it's just
• 53:35
  wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Okay. We don't have to pretend
• 53:38
  we all know it all. It's really important. All right. Let's talk
• 53:42
  about ways to spot the genuine. I talked a little bit about the
• 53:45
  false and the basic tenants. I felt like that was important to
• 53:50
  give that to you. So, let me just say it this way. The first
• 53:55
  and I think the foremost important thing on any preacher,
• 53:59
  minister, prophesier, it's important in the church, let's
• 54:04
  just say. Not just people that are in the pulpits or have a
• 54:08
  YouTube channel, but I'm talking about as you know one another.
• 54:12
  That the most important thing is knowing people's character. Now,
• 54:18
  this does not get said. I know ministers that have been flogged
• 54:23
  online, and yet they have better character than the people that
• 54:27
  flogged them. More Christ-like behavior. Come on, things that
• 54:33
  nobody thinks about. More forgiveness, more
• 54:36
  love, more kind words. You know, and of course
• 54:39
  our love is going to be one of the things that's going
• 54:41
  to get us in big trouble. If we don't have it, right? So the
• 54:45
  character of the person, now let me just make note of a couple of
• 54:49
  things. This is too heavy tonight. Am I helping everybody?
• 54:52
  I want our church to be sharp. I want us to be people that know
• 54:55
  how to do it right. So here's what we know from the Bible,
• 54:58
  that false prophets are not just measured alone by the accuracy
• 55:03
  of their prophecies. Now we'll get to talking about accuracy in
• 55:06
  a minute, but that's not the only reason, but there's a way
• 55:09
  to judge them. Even though that's a role, that's important,
• 55:13
  their genuineness is measured by their character. Now, here's the
• 55:19
  thing, we can't always know everybody's character, come on,
• 55:22
  you don't know everybody's darkest secrets, you don't know
• 55:24
  everything about everybody. You probably could look around this
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  room and don't even know what flavor toothpaste most people
• 55:30
  like. You probably, people that you think you know well, you
• 55:35
  probably, there's lots of things about them you don't know that
• 55:37
  well. But there are certain character traits that do start
• 55:42
  to come out as you build acquaintances. So as we listen
• 55:46
  to preaching, as we listen to somebody with a YouTube,
• 55:51
  somebody with a Facebook page, because goodness, I mean,
• 55:54
  information is just coming at us at a record rate. I mean, it's
• 55:58
  like a fire hose of stuff, just, you know, and sometimes you
• 56:02
  don't have time to pause and think about it. And I'm learning
• 56:06
  more and more. I pause and think about it. I'm not going to just
• 56:09
  like something until I let it marinate. Okay. Steaks are
• 56:14
  always better if you marinate them first. Isn't that right,
• 56:19
  Pastor Shane? Or ribs or whatever else. Sometimes there
• 56:23
  is value to the marinating. Just because they're your friend on
• 56:27
  Facebook doesn't mean you have to like their post. They'll get
• 56:31
  over it. If they don't, then there's unfriending them. You
• 56:35
  can unfriend them then. But we need to be able to look at the
• 56:39
  character of things and sometimes let it marinate a bit,
• 56:43
  not just jump to conclusions. And this is so, so very
• 56:47
  important. Now Pastor Brenda, how then can you know the
• 56:50
  character of people, right? How can you know the character of
• 56:53
  people like on the internet? Because internet ministry is a
• 56:56
  real thing now. And there's a lot of people to listen to and a
• 56:59
  lot of good people. Let's not, there's so many good people to
• 57:02
  listen to and you should follow their pages and let that feed
• 57:05
  your spirit. I mean, my goodness, how much better it is
• 57:08
  to listen to some preaching pages and some of these stupid
• 57:11
  things with these media outlets that do nothing but fire out
• 57:15
  propaganda. So it's a good thing. It's a good thing that we
• 57:20
  have all that coming to us and at us and the availability to
• 57:24
  minister to people via the internet. It's all good. But
• 57:27
  here is how you look at character, because you're never
• 57:30
  going to know that person personally, probably through the
• 57:33
  camera lens, right? Okay. You know, Pastor and I would love to
• 57:36
  meet everybody that's online, but it's impossible. We can
• 57:40
  barely meet the people right in here. Like 20 minutes, okay,
• 57:43
  church is over. Hi guys. And we run out and come back and do the
• 57:46
  11:30. It's very difficult. It's very difficult for some of you
• 57:51
  to meet people that are sit, that always sit on this side on
• 57:54
  a Sunday. From the ones that are set on the north side. Okay. And
• 58:01
  people believe me, most of the time they're pretty set on their
• 58:04
  chairs. I can look out every Sunday and I always know Bernice
• 58:07
  is right nearby. So, it's a fact, right? So, here's the
• 58:13
  thing. How do you get to know people's character? Because
• 58:16
  there's a consistency that's developed. And this is very
• 58:19
  important. As you listen to different preachers, as you
• 58:21
  listen to people, look for the consistency and reliability of
• 58:27
  their character. Character issues, if they're in there,
• 58:31
  will eventually come out. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of a
• 58:35
  person's heart, their mouth is eventually gonna talk," or
• 58:37
  they're gonna do things. You're gonna start to see things,
• 58:40
  right, that are gonna come out in a person's character. Yeah,
• 58:43
  you may not get to know them personally, but if you listen to
• 58:45
  them enough, you're gonna understand their message, okay?
• 58:49
  Most people understand Pastor Hank's core message, okay?
• 58:53
  People know that. It's prophetic, right? He'll preach
• 58:56
  prophecy, okay? Listen, that's just gonna be the way he's gonna
• 59:00
  roll. It's like Kenneth E. Hagen used to say, "No matter what
• 59:03
  subject I try to preach, it always comes back to faith and
• 59:07
  healing 'cause I just can't help it. That's who I am. It's what
• 59:12
  comes out of me." That's why we do have many different voices.
• 59:14
  It's why we have different types of prophets. It's why we have
• 59:17
  different kinds of teachers and pastors so we can get a full
• 59:21
  measure of what we understand. But look for their character,
• 59:26
  okay? Look for their integrity. After you listen to somebody
• 59:30
  long enough, you can start to see their intention and their
• 59:34
  heart. And this is so necessary, okay? This is important. I mean,
• 59:39
  that's always our prayer here at Lord of Hosts. So we want people
• 59:42
  to see the character of the Kunnemans, that we do things as
• 59:46
  uprightly as we know how to do, that we will get our heart right
• 59:50
  if we have to. We will manage money correctly. In fact, that's
• 59:54
  one of the signs of the false prophets, they mishandle money.
• 59:57
  You know how many Christians probably do mishandle money and
• 1:00:00
  just nobody knows, okay? We worked very hard to handle the
• 1:00:05
  money of this house with impeccable integrity, with
• 1:00:10
  auditing, outside firms, we worked very hard. It's important
• 1:00:17
  that you get to know the character of the person that you
• 1:00:19
  listen to. It's impeccable. 'Cause if there's a bend inside
• 1:00:25
  of them that's deceptive, it's gonna start to arise and you'll
• 1:00:27
  know it. And listen, you have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
• 1:00:31
  in you is gonna teach you. That's what the Bible says in 1
• 1:00:34
  John. It says, "The Spirit within us will teach us all
• 1:00:38
  things." So you'll listen to 'em long enough. In fact, I can tell
• 1:00:42
  you a good story about this. There was this person that we
• 1:00:46
  knew years ago. And they invited me to come to this women's
• 1:00:52
  conference just to attend it. I wasn't preaching there. And it
• 1:00:55
  was a pretty big group of people. And I went up there all
• 1:00:59
  by myself. I drove and went to this. I told pastor, you know,
• 1:01:02
  now he'd never even let me do that now. And I'm like, why? You
• 1:01:04
  think I'm going to get lost or drive in the wrong street? I
• 1:01:07
  don't know. He tells scary stories about it. But I got
• 1:01:09
  there. And I went to this meeting. And the preacher at the
• 1:01:16
  time, not the person that invited me, but it was another
• 1:01:18
  person that was preaching that night, preached something that
• 1:01:23
  it really did great against the Word. How many of you ever been
• 1:01:26
  in a room like that? Now, listen, there is full liberty.
• 1:01:31
  If you hear something preached, you don't have to stand and
• 1:01:33
  shout an amen to it if you're not sure about it. Doesn't mean
• 1:01:37
  it's necessarily wrong, okay? Sometimes you just gotta go home
• 1:01:40
  and study, okay? I've had that many times. I've heard that a
• 1:01:43
  lot. Sometimes like, "Man, I never heard that before." I
• 1:01:46
  mean, really, do we really think we come to church and we've
• 1:01:48
  heard everything there is? No. So I heard what this person said
• 1:01:54
  and I'm like, "Man, that's, I'm not sure about that." And of
• 1:01:58
  course the whole place is standing up and just screaming.
• 1:02:00
  I mean, they're shouting. I was kind of in the back and I,
• 1:02:04
  because I was a little bit late, but I got in there in the back
• 1:02:07
  and I'm sitting in there and the whole place is just shouting and
• 1:02:10
  they're screaming, this person is saying this and I'm thinking,
• 1:02:11
  Lord, I don't know about that. I just don't know about that, I'm
• 1:02:16
  not sure. And it just kind of goes against something that I
• 1:02:21
  think that I knew. And so I felt a little uncomfortable to just
• 1:02:27
  get in agreement with it. But then the more I began to listen
• 1:02:31
  to that person, I'd watch their character, I watched their
• 1:02:34
  associations, 'cause that's another thing, you know, you
• 1:02:37
  don't need somebody, we'll talk about accountability, Pastor hit
• 1:02:40
  on this so well a few weeks back, but you don't need
• 1:02:43
  somebody that is a lone ranger maverick, that it's their way or
• 1:02:48
  no way. And so I watched this person and watched who they
• 1:02:52
  communicated with and then it began to just let me know, okay,
• 1:02:55
  well maybe that was just a development spot for them. We
• 1:02:58
  have to be very good at this in this hour. And realize folks,
• 1:03:02
  when people get out there on the internet, most people don't know
• 1:03:05
  half of what goes on behind the scenes. It's very important. So
• 1:03:09
  character is, it must abound in folks. Anybody can be
• 1:03:14
  well-spoken. Okay, there are, in fact, the Bible says, that
• 1:03:18
  scripture we just read, that some of the false are the most,
• 1:03:21
  they're best spoken. There could be some of the most, I mean,
• 1:03:25
  amazingly spoken. Think about all of the prophetic people that
• 1:03:30
  you've heard, and you've heard of them over the years, who sat
• 1:03:33
  there and phonied prophecies, looked people up on the internet
• 1:03:38
  and found their name and then pretended they had a word from
• 1:03:40
  God. Okay, their character, character becomes important. And
• 1:03:46
  believe me, if you watch somebody long enough, this is
• 1:03:48
  why I kind of say, don't just listen to everybody. Get some
• 1:03:54
  people that you're connected to and you listen to them. I had
• 1:03:57
  one lady say, and I don't mean to quote Brother Hagin a lot
• 1:04:00
  because he certainly isn't the only minister we've always
• 1:04:03
  listened to, but I kind of cut my teeth listening and reading
• 1:04:06
  his books, but I heard a person one time, I said, "You know, who
• 1:04:09
  do you really listen to?" And she named him. This is a woman
• 1:04:13
  pastor. She named him. And I thought to myself, "Well, I
• 1:04:17
  mean, that seemed a little close that that's the only name that
• 1:04:19
  you can name." That's what I thought to myself, but then I
• 1:04:21
  thought it's kind of good that we kind of just we hone in with
• 1:04:25
  a few key voices that we have built trust and we know their
• 1:04:27
  character. This is so important. So character is just as
• 1:04:32
  important as accuracy, right? Okay. Secondly, the
• 1:04:36
  accountability, and so I'll just say this, it takes time to
• 1:04:40
  ascertain that. Did I make that point clear? All right. So the
• 1:04:43
  number two, the accountability of the messenger, and I think I
• 1:04:46
  already just hit on that a little bit. Christianity, and
• 1:04:50
  this is important because we're all gathered in this room
• 1:04:52
  tonight, Christianity carries with it a sense of community,
• 1:04:57
  okay, where we need each other. We build off of each other.
• 1:05:01
  That's why the Bible says iron sharpens iron. We need one
• 1:05:05
  another. Where none of us can survive as these loners
• 1:05:09
  somewhere. Okay, you can't do it. I mean, you go through
• 1:05:12
  something, I watch how the body of Christ rallies behind people.
• 1:05:17
  And so the church, you think about the early church when they
• 1:05:20
  were persecuted in Acts, the fourth chapter, remember that
• 1:05:23
  they were persecuted. And the scripture says they went back to
• 1:05:27
  their, their company, they went back to their people, they got
• 1:05:30
  back with their group. This is why the local church is still
• 1:05:34
  one of the safest places you can be in the end times. Because
• 1:05:38
  it's not just about coming up and hearing Pastor Hank preach
• 1:05:40
  on a Sunday. And hearing some music. It's also about rubbing
• 1:05:43
  shoulders with each other. There are many layers of
• 1:05:47
  accountability. We think of accountability as this like
• 1:05:50
  negative word, like there's some ruler that we're accountable to.
• 1:05:54
  And that's the farthest thing of what it should be. Really
• 1:05:57
  accountability is I come to church. I make my, I build
• 1:06:02
  relationships so that people, when I'm going through
• 1:06:05
  something, there's other people in the world that know my
• 1:06:08
  situation. And they can pray for me. They can help me. They also
• 1:06:14
  might get in my face and go, "Stop." But aren't you glad for
• 1:06:20
  that? Because that's the stuff that keeps us from going to
• 1:06:23
  hell, people. Amen. Sometimes you just need somebody to get
• 1:06:29
  and go, you know, settle down. Okay? And it's not just, we make
• 1:06:34
  accountability about some authoritative overseer, when
• 1:06:38
  really accountability is multi-layered. Okay? You become
• 1:06:41
  accountable just by sitting in the seat next to people every
• 1:06:44
  week. Think about that. We all need it, every one of us,
• 1:06:51
  because it brings checks and balances to our life. You know
• 1:06:53
  Pastor Hank, what I love about him, he's far more relational
• 1:06:56
  than I am. And he has how many people, you know we have a
• 1:07:01
  number of board members at the church, and people that he is in
• 1:07:05
  relationship with, one of those is Pastor Gene Bailey, they're
• 1:07:08
  very close. And if you're listening tonight guys, I said
• 1:07:11
  that. In fact, you'll hear Pastor Gene say, "My very best
• 1:07:16
  friend is Pastor Hank Kunneman." And they're very close. They
• 1:07:20
  talk most every day. There are a few seasons in there after
• 1:07:23
  opening the heavens and they were on the road, we're all like
• 1:07:26
  nobody getting on the phone. But you know, but they talk a lot.
• 1:07:30
  And Pastor Hank loves those accountability discussions. He
• 1:07:35
  will ask people, "How did you like what I said? Is there
• 1:07:39
  anything I need to change?" Now people don't see him do that.
• 1:07:42
  They see his bold way and believe me, he is a steamroller
• 1:07:48
  for what he knows to be right. But I've also watched a man who
• 1:07:52
  will let people speak into him and he will change. And I'm
• 1:07:56
  like, honey, you are very good at that. I need to grow. I need
• 1:07:59
  to grow. We all need that. Iron sharpens our accountability. And
• 1:08:05
  so look for people that you listen to who have that. Now,
• 1:08:08
  whether it be the checks and balances of the church as an
• 1:08:12
  institution, that's important, right? The church ought to
• 1:08:15
  have... Some churches, I'm not being critical, they're just run
• 1:08:19
  like sorry ships. It's terrible, okay? There's not
• 1:08:23
  accountability. It was like Pastor Hanks said when he first
• 1:08:26
  started in the prophetic, somebody invited him to this
• 1:08:28
  little church and he went in there. I'm at the back and there
• 1:08:33
  might've been 20 or 30 people in this little prophetic meeting
• 1:08:36
  and they decide to do the offering. And the preacher gets
• 1:08:40
  up and said, there's 20 people that are gonna give $100. He's
• 1:08:45
  looking around, he's like, there are 20 people in here. And so,
• 1:08:51
  you know, under compulsion, all of those people are pressured
• 1:08:55
  until they're, I'll give the next, they don't wanna be the
• 1:08:58
  guy that says no, and I'll be the next, and then it got down
• 1:09:02
  to 19, and he's like, there's one more person that's gonna
• 1:09:09
  give $100, and he was like, well, I didn't even have $4, so
• 1:09:13
  he goes, I'm outta here. He went out the back door, he said, I
• 1:09:17
  didn't know what to do, but I didn't have $100, I couldn't
• 1:09:19
  commit to $100, I couldn't even pledge $100, I wasn't gonna be
• 1:09:23
  able to give $100 in any time now or in the future that I knew
• 1:09:27
  of. So he said, I just had to slip out. Now, come on, that's
• 1:09:32
  sorry run, okay? Those are the kind of churches nobody ought to
• 1:09:36
  go to, okay? And so accountability is very, very
• 1:09:39
  important. So I think I exhausted that enough. So
• 1:09:42
  genuine prophets, teachers, preachers, prophetic people will
• 1:09:48
  make themselves accountable to somebody else besides
• 1:09:51
  themselves. And I will say this, let me just say this last part I
• 1:09:55
  told you this was going to be a long-winded message. But it's
• 1:09:59
  good because I really want to break all this down for you.
• 1:10:02
  This is prophetic school. That's why we do this Come on, this is
• 1:10:04
  living room talk. This is chalk talk This is where we just get
• 1:10:07
  down in the weeds and we go through some of these things
• 1:10:10
  because these are things that people think It's just nobody
• 1:10:13
  wants to bring it up in the pulpit. So we're gonna bring it
• 1:10:15
  up in the ball, but let's just do it But accountability is a
• 1:10:21
  community, it's multi-layered, it's multi-faceted. I forgot
• 1:10:24
  what I was gonna say about that. Is, oh, we should want to be
• 1:10:29
  around preachers and people that reflect that sense of wanting to
• 1:10:34
  be accountable. And that is so important. I say that because in
• 1:10:37
  the prophetic, people don't like the word accountability
• 1:10:41
  especially, 'cause they feel they've heard from God. And
• 1:10:45
  nobody wants to be questioned when they feel they've heard
• 1:10:47
  from God. So we have to, if we're gonna be prophetic people,
• 1:10:52
  come on, prophesiers out there, those of you online, if you're a
• 1:10:55
  person that prophesies or you're prone to prophecy, 'cause some
• 1:10:58
  people are just prone to prophesy. Okay, I'm not as prone
• 1:11:01
  to prophesy as my husband is prone to prophesy. I mean, he'll
• 1:11:04
  just walk up to people and prophesy. I'm like, how do you
• 1:11:07
  do that? How do you do that? He doesn't always make it sound
• 1:11:10
  like a prophecy, but it's a prophecy. And he'll prophesy to
• 1:11:13
  them. It just comes out. Some of you are like that. I know I'm
• 1:11:17
  seeing some of your faces. I know there's some of you that
• 1:11:19
  are prone like that to prophesying. And so what we have
• 1:11:23
  to know is that we even, the ones that are prone to prophesy,
• 1:11:27
  I have to even want to be more accountable. You've got to let
• 1:11:30
  people scrutinize your prophetic. Genuine prophets will
• 1:11:35
  not mind being scrutinized by people that have earned the
• 1:11:39
  right, this is important, earned the right to scrutinize them. We
• 1:11:45
  don't scrutinize everybody. Pastor Hank doesn't go out and
• 1:11:48
  just scrutinize somebody and call them on the phone, they're
• 1:11:51
  minister, I've never met you, but I didn't like what you said
• 1:11:54
  on YouTube. We don't do that. They've earned the right. Nathan
• 1:11:57
  the prophet earned the right in David's life to say you're the
• 1:12:01
  man. He earned it. He wasn't a stranger to David, he knew him.
• 1:12:07
  Okay, there was a relationship there. Okay, number three,
• 1:12:10
  enough about accountability. Did I say, I think I did the best I
• 1:12:14
  could on that one. Number three, the message and prophetic words
• 1:12:18
  should be able to be submitted or judged or scrutinized. Let me
• 1:12:22
  read this scripture to you. 1 Corinthians 14:29-32.
• 1:12:26
  Let the prophet speak two or three, so many things we could
• 1:12:29
  preach on this, but and let the other one judge or let other
• 1:12:32
  prophets judge it. Okay, it's not to be critical. It says, and
• 1:12:36
  if anything be revealed that one or anything be revealed to
• 1:12:40
  another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. Now what
• 1:12:42
  he's saying is, it's not to be chaos of interrupting each
• 1:12:46
  other. What it's talking about is be willing, be willing to be
• 1:12:51
  submissive to other people in the room. It's really important.
• 1:12:56
  242, this is even more important in a small group, because you'll
• 1:13:01
  ruin the night. If you're the person that your jaw's always
• 1:13:05
  got to be flapping the whole night. You'll ruin it, you'll
• 1:13:08
  ruin it. You'll ruin it for the leader, you'll ruin it for the
• 1:13:11
  people, right? You should always be submitted to the person in
• 1:13:15
  charge of the group that night. Come on, they planned the
• 1:13:19
  message, they got the authority, they bought the cookies, they
• 1:13:23
  did all the, they cleaned their house. I mean, think about that.
• 1:13:28
  People come into a home group and they didn't even do
• 1:13:31
  anything, they just came in to keep talking. Yet that person
• 1:13:34
  came, they cleaned the house, got a sitter for the kids, came
• 1:13:37
  and made a meal and invited people over, and then somebody
• 1:13:40
  just takes over. Okay, this is what this scripture is talking
• 1:13:43
  about. It's talking about have a submitted way. Allow others to
• 1:13:48
  counter you if need be. Husbands and wives, counter each other.
• 1:13:52
  It's good, it's healthy. You know, just don't fight. Okay,
• 1:13:57
  you can counter one another. Pastor and I do it all the time.
• 1:13:59
  What do you think about this? And we're honest. Eh, I'm gonna
• 1:14:03
  stretch that. I heard Marilyn Hickey say one time, somebody
• 1:14:06
  asked her, they said, Marilyn, I've got this word I've been
• 1:14:09
  really working on, and how does it sound to you? And she'd go,
• 1:14:13
  hmm, well, it might be a little windy yet. You know, the Bible
• 1:14:16
  talks about windy doctrine. I think you need to rein the wind
• 1:14:19
  back in just a little bit. We all need it. Come on, every one
• 1:14:23
  of us needs it. Okay, we need to be as submitted as we are
• 1:14:26
  critical. We need to be as teachable as we are big mouths,
• 1:14:30
  all of us, every single one of us. If we do, I'm telling you,
• 1:14:34
  we would grow. Amen. All right, next one, next one, Rick. All
• 1:14:39
  right, we could go on and on about that. Let's see, number
• 1:14:41
  two, number three. Oh, scrutiny is different than criticism,
• 1:14:45
  okay? Can I just say it like that? Learn to scrutinize
• 1:14:48
  yourself, right? Remember, if you point the finger, how many
• 1:14:51
  are pointing back? All good. It's very necessary. That's why,
• 1:14:55
  I don't know, I did see a meme one time on Facebook and it said
• 1:14:58
  this. it says when you type out your whole comment and the Holy
• 1:15:02
  Spirit goes delete. Just remember that sometimes the Holy
• 1:15:07
  Spirit will say do not post that. Do not write that in the
• 1:15:10
  comments. Stop. I've had to grow in that myself. All right. I'm
• 1:15:16
  just submitting that to you. Number four, prophetic words
• 1:15:20
  should be uplifting, for the most part encouraging. 1
• 1:15:23
  Corinthians 14:3 says, "But the one who prophesies
• 1:15:27
  strengthens the others "and encourages them and comforts
• 1:15:30
  them." That's the new living. So when you're prophesying, really
• 1:15:33
  the majority of the prophetic is not to find out the skinny on
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  people, it's not to get in their business, and I had a dream and
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  this happened, and then there's negative in there. It's really,
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  that is not the front run of the prophetic. The front run of the
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  prophetic is to strengthen somebody, not make them feel
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  like, you know, they're worse than, you know, I mean, worse
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  than everything. That's not the point. It's to strengthen and
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  uplift people. People, if you're prophesying to one another, you
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  should prophesy in such a way that it's there to make that
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  person run with the wind at their back. Amen. Strengthen
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  each other. And then it says, and encourages one another.
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  Okay. You should, you should be able to walk away with
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  encouragement. Very few prophetic words that I have
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  watched Pastor Hank deliver over the years. I believe me, we've
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  traveled in stadiums, in conferences, preaching. I mean,
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  the Mid-America Center was not our
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  first arena. We went all over Latin America
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  for a decade. Preaching and preaching. And I only
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  recall in probably 30 years, one time he gave a word
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  of warning publicly to somebody. And that person was about to
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  split that church. And it was, and the pastor was like, Oh my
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  God, thank you. I couldn't go to that person. I tried, I did
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  everything. They've caused me so many problems. And I believe
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  that was a last ditch to save their life. But He has always
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  uplifted people. Listen, there's times that you can see things
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  about people, but you don't go call it out. You come on, you
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  can code it. The Lord says, you know, it's time to turn your
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  back on some stuff. You're not just say, you know, you fouled
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  this and you did that and call. You don't have to. It should
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  encourage. Okay? And most of the time you hear pastor and I will
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  do it like that. Come on. What sounds general to the audience
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  sometimes is very specific to the recipient. They know what
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  you're saying and to comfort them. Come on, the prophetic
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  ought to give people hope. That's what I love about the way
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  pastor, come on, he prophesied risky things up in here. He'll
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  prophesy risky. He'll take risks to give people hope and to give
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  them comfort so that they walk away going, "Come on, God,
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  you're not done with this nation. You're not done with
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  America. Come on, the body of Christ. We still have a harvest.
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  There's a harvest that's coming. A harvest of souls. There's
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  still something good happening." That's what I love that he does
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  that on Flashpoint. He's like, "Always brings the hope." I love
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  you for it, honey. It's awesome. So, prophetic should uplift.
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  Look for that. All right. What are we on? All right. Very
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  quick. Three minutes. I can do it in three minutes. Here's
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  another one that's so important. And there's so many things that
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  I could say about uplifting and encouraging. Oh, my goodness.
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  There's scriptures on that. We could talk about the disciples
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  that ministered to Paul that he shouldn't go to Jerusalem. But
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  anyway, you can read it. They did that, by the way, in a
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  group. It wasn't one person going, "Don't go to Jerusalem."
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  Okay? Only Agabus, a seasoned prophet, did that, by the way.
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  Number five, a messenger, all messengers, whether you are a
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  242 person, we call them a lay person, a person in the church,
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  a greeter, a prophet, a minister, an apostle, any
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  person, every single Christian ought to have a well polite
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  manner about them. I don't know what it is about prophetic
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  people that think they've got to be some, they're, you know, it's
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  crazy. It's crazy. I mean, it's, it's a turnoff to be honest. And
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  I talked about that last week, getting right in people's face
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  and cornering them and they can smell your breath and you didn't
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  have, you didn't brush your teeth on the way and it's
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  terrifying. And I mean, I'll be honest, it just gives the
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  prophetic a bad name. It gives church a bad name. Think about
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  that, you know, and there's people that have no discipline
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  whatsoever. They will go up to a brand new visitor that's never
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  been to the church before. And the greeters have worked hard.
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  They're out there trying to meet people, get to know them, love
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  on them, let them know where the bathroom is. I mean, some people
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  just wanna know where the bathroom is. They don't wanna be
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  cornered and told all their secrets. Yeah. So well-mannered,
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  I mean, speaking in an orderly manner. I mean, just polite. Can
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  we all just, can we just do that? Can we just, and you guys
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  are all so good, but I'm preaching to more than just
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  everybody in here. Can we just all be polite? Can we all be
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  polite? Can we be polite in the church? Can we be polite on the
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  internet? Can we be, you know what people say about, I know
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  I'm talking a lot about Pastor Hank tonight because I can,
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  'cause he's not here. And so then you can tell him all the
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  things I said if he didn't see it tonight. But you know what
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  they'll say, Pastor Hank, wherever, where you go on the
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  road, you just don't carry yourself like you're anybody
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  important. You're out there like making jokes with the guy that's
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  cleaning the tables. You're hanging out with the cooks.
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  You're like out in the back just saying howdy do to the person
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  that's like doing the hair and the makeup. And you're in the
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  back corner saying, I mean, he'll go to all these big events
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  and he's, I mean, yeah, he'll get in and talk with some of the
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  ministers and different things and share and get in
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  conversations, but he's out there reaching everybody. You
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  know, I mean, I watched him at Mid
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  -America Center, all the people that worked for the Mid-America
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  Center, here he was walking out, "How you doing?" I know, we kept
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  you up late. How are you? You doing all right? You doing good?
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  Patting them on the back, meeting their name, getting to
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  know them. And I know many of you do that, but that is how the
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  body of Christ ought to be. And if we're prophetic, we need to
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  even be more that way. We don't have to be weird to prophesy.
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  Okay? Some people are more demonstrative than others, but
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  that doesn't mean that we have to try to prove something. We
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  should be the most well-behaved, well-mannered people on the face
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  of the planet in the body of Christ. It ought to be the best
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  place for people to come on any given time we gather. Come on,
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  somebody. All right, last one. I'm closing with this. Now we'll
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  talk about accuracy, because I know you were waiting for me to
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  say it and you thought I might forget. So here's the thing. Are
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  you getting anything out of this? Am I helping you? Oh,
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  good. Cause I want everybody around the world that's watching
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  to hear some of this. Cause I think we ought to grow. I tell
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  you, I'm just going to say it like this. It discourages my
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  heart a little bit when I watched the world, who's got an
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  evil, evil message. Okay. Evil. Okay. And, and, and they are
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  united on their message. Yeah, they get in killing each other.
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  We know all those scriptures, but they're, they're united on,
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  on evil. Okay. I've watched them be one force to promote
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  abortion. And yet Christians can't even get in alignment.
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  I've watched them be one force to promote transgender ideology.
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  And you got Christians that will sit on the sideline and go,
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  well, we shouldn't say anything. You know, we can't, we got to
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  get an agreement. So accuracy, accuracy. Let me close with
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  this. You can stand. I can say this last one so short, you
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  won't mind standing. Accuracy, this is Jeremiah 28:9.
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  It says, "The prophet that prophesies peace," in other
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  words, he has a good word. It's an encouraging word. "When the
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  word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet
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  be known or acknowledged. It'll be known of that prophet that
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  the Lord has sent him." In other words, there was an accuracy.
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  His words came to pass. Does that mean that any prophetic
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  person can't ever miss God? Absolutely not. I mean, anybody
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  can miss God, okay? Anybody can do that. We can all miss God.
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  The key is, is the general, same way with character, their words
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  in general should come to pass. That's the key. I mean, after a
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  while, you listen to somebody and everything, 80% of what
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  they're saying, it just ain't happening. Unsubscribed from
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  their channel. There should be a general accuracy to the
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  prophetic. There should be a general, and it's the same.
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  There should be a general accuracy. When I get up here and
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  teach the Bible, there should be a general accuracy in what I
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  have to say. Okay, does it mean that I'll always say everything
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  the right way? No, 'cause I'm growing just like all of us. And
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  it's the same way in the prophetic. And I will say it
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  like this, because one false prophecy doesn't make a person
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  false. Otherwise we ought to throw prophecy completely out.
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  And it's amazing, people will point to somebody else and say,
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  "Oh, that person missed it. Oh, that person shouldn't have
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  shared that vision. And that vision was kind of crazy. I
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  didn't agree with it. Yet, they would afford themselves the same
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  right to grow in their revelations and their visions.
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  Amen. Am I helping you? So I think it's very important. The
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  general consensus is a person should always be accurate. I
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  love pastor because he works very hard to be accurate and
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  take risks. And I would tell you, I have watched his words
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  come to pass, people. I'm telling you. And he's not the
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  only one. There's so many out there that you can trust 'cause
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  man, they're happening. But accuracy can't be the only judge
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  because there's a lot of false prophet. Listen, Balaam was an
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  accurate false prophet. Okay, so that cannot be the only judge.
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  That's why God taught him. He said, I'm closing my Bible now.
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  He told him, he said, the way you judge them, you better know,
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  mix character with their accuracy, 'cause you need both.
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  There's a lot of good preachers that can preach up a storm, but
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  they have no character to speak of. They live dirty lives in
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  secret, and yet they could preach up a word. I mean, they
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  can be just. So accuracy is not enough. It has to be mixed with
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  the other areas. And if you get that, and they are accurate, you
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  probably got a good vessel. It's probably genuine. And that's
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  what we're looking for. But don't get up in arms. Don't be,
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  just be discerning. There's a difference. I'll say this, last
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  statement. There's a difference between being discerning and
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  suspicious. And what I would do is I would avoid all the mayhem
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  out there of all the people that want to take shots at other
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  people and just hang back. Listen, the best thing I could
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  do is know for myself if something's wrong or right. I
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  don't need to prove that I think it's wrong or right to 18, 20,
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  30, 3000 other people, okay? I've watched articles get
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  written in recent times by the secular newspapers at the
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  fighting of the body of Christ. Nothing is more grievous, but we
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  can be accurate and genuine and still stay in the right spirit.
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  And that's what I want because God is using prophets now. God
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  is using it. We need the prophetic. God saves nations
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  through the prophetic voice and we need it. Lift your hands to
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  heaven. Say this, say, Lord, I'm gonna be one of the accurate
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  ones. I'm gonna have the right character, the right attitude.
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  Help me to discern things right, Lord. In this prophetic season,
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  I want to be one of the vessels that you can use for this time
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  in history. Amen. Did you get something out of that? All
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  right. Go home. Do your homework. Look up all those
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  scriptures, and we will see you on Sunday. I love you guys.
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  We'll talk soon. Bye bye, internet.
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