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Episode 127 - Order In The Church · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, God bless you once again. Once
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  Speaker 1: again we welcome you to this another edition of In
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  Speaker 1: one else. And Amen. Of course we are here to
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  Speaker 1: a man proclaim the name of Jesus, to proclaim his
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  Speaker 1: truth in such a time as this, to cry aloud
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  Speaker 1: as the where the Lord came to the prophet. Spare
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  Speaker 1: not lift up your voice like a trumpet in Zion,
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  Speaker 1: show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob
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  Speaker 1: there sins Amen, warning men everywhere to flee from the
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  Speaker 1: wrath that is to come. Amen. God is love, God
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  Speaker 1: is Amen, long suffering, God is compassionate. God is forgiving, forgiving,
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  Speaker 1: God is tolerant, he is merciful, he is faithful. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All of that. But he is also a God who
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  Speaker 1: demands of us that we repent and turn from our waywardness,
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  Speaker 1: our wickedness, our own way, and be saved. Amen. Why
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  Speaker 1: when you can live? Amen? Why die? When you can live? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: God has a man so much more Amen for you
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  Speaker 1: than what the world has to offer than what the
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  Speaker 1: adversary deceitfully deceives people into believing that they have. And
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  Speaker 1: there's no prophet. Jesus made it very complain. There's no
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  Speaker 1: profit for man if he gains the whole world and
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  Speaker 1: loses his own soul. There's nothing you can give in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for your soul. And so amen. It is our
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  Speaker 1: amen endeavor as one who is called by God to
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  Speaker 1: a man, proclaim the truth of God, to always be
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  Speaker 1: faithful to amen, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul said, it is the power of God into
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  Speaker 1: salvation to everyone that believes. And God has commanded all
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  Speaker 1: men everywhere to repay, repent, repent, and be saved. Amen. Repent, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and escape the wrath of God that is to come. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Today we continue in Paul's First Letter to
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  Speaker 1: the Corinthians, chapter number fourteen. We're going to conclude that
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  Speaker 1: chapter on today in our session, and it is simply
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  Speaker 1: entitled me giving it a title for today. Order in
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  Speaker 1: the Church. Amen, Order in the church. And before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: let's take just a quick moment too, a man in
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  Speaker 1: both the presence of the Lord Father. Again, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you for bringing us through all of the storms of
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  Speaker 1: this life. We thank you for the peace of God,
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  Speaker 1: the joy of the Lord that gives us strength. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for salvation and victory. We triumph, we
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  Speaker 1: always triumph because you cause us to triumph. You've made
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  Speaker 1: us more than conquerors. You've given to us victory we
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  Speaker 1: overcome by the blood of the Lamb, by the word
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  Speaker 1: of our testimony. Thank you for this day, this glorious
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  Speaker 1: day that you have made. Thank you for again all
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  Speaker 1: of your benefits, more than we can number. We take
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  Speaker 1: now the cup of salvation and call upon your name, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: bless each and every listening here in every obedient heart,
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  Speaker 1: for your name's sake, for your glory, kingdom and honor.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name, We praying your thanks, Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right again, Order in the Church. Is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to a man emphasize in our session on today.
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  Speaker 1: Order in the church, and we know this in our
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, we have to have order, structure, law, rules, commands.
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  Speaker 1: There there's a way that has to be amen, decided upon,
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  Speaker 1: it has to be unders stood, uh, and there has
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  Speaker 1: to be order. We have order in earthly courts. When
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  Speaker 1: you go into a courthouse, a court of law, a
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  Speaker 1: man in this nation, of course, Uh, there's order. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And if there's a potential for disorder, and you've heard
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  Speaker 1: this before, you will have the judge who has a
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  Speaker 1: gabble and has authority as the one who is over
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  Speaker 1: that courtroom to call order. The bailiff may call for
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  Speaker 1: order in the court. Amen. We have order in corporate boardrooms,
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  Speaker 1: for example, when we have meetings, we have a certain
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  Speaker 1: way in which we conduct meetings and uh, there's a
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  Speaker 1: certain uh, there are certain requirements that must be met.
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  Speaker 1: Even in cases where you may want to speak and
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  Speaker 1: or be heard. There is an order a man, even
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  Speaker 1: in corporate boardrooms. And we also have order in government
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  Speaker 1: legislatures a man across the country, in our federal in
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  Speaker 1: our state, in our local legislatures, we have order there's
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  Speaker 1: an order.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly are not ignoring the fact that there are
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  Speaker 1: times when we have disturbances, when we have disagreements, when
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  Speaker 1: we have disruptions, when we have the flaring up of tempers.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that these things will can and will
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  Speaker 1: and have at times brought about disorder a man in
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  Speaker 1: these institutions of which we just gave examples. But whenever
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  Speaker 1: and wherever there's disorder, it is primarily because order is
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  Speaker 1: being broken down by those who cannot rest. They have
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  Speaker 1: no sense of order. They want chaos. They cannot rest
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  Speaker 1: unless there is fighting. They cannot have any peace uh
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  Speaker 1: in their minds unless there is disharmony and confusion. This
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  Speaker 1: is what they thrive on. And this Bible speaks to it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the wicked who cannot rest Amen, unless
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  Speaker 1: they have done some evil uh, stirred up strife. And
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  Speaker 1: you know one of the things that Lord hates, these
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  Speaker 1: six things does the Lord hate? Ain't said? The Bible said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: seven are an abomination to him. And that last one
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  Speaker 1: is he who solds discord among the brethren. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and there are people who just thrive on disharmony, confusion,
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  Speaker 1: fighting chaos. Amen. Uh, and and and it's part of
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  Speaker 1: their idea a and it it comes from the adversary,
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  Speaker 1: and they are children of the adversary. I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: call it like it is. Because Jesus did he needs
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  Speaker 1: what he told the Jews of his days, that you
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  Speaker 1: are of your father, the devil, and the deeds of
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  Speaker 1: your father you would do. And so there are people
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  Speaker 1: who are being used by the devil, Amen, to continually
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  Speaker 1: stir up and phamn racial strife and enmity between the sexes,
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  Speaker 1: between nations, just conflict. They love conflict, they love confusion,
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  Speaker 1: they love chaos. Amen. And God is not the author
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  Speaker 1: of confusion. And that's what we're going to certainly be
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing as well in our session today. Let there be
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  Speaker 1: order in the church's order in the churches of our
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Again, because God is not the order
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  Speaker 1: author rather of chaos and confusion, calamity, but he is
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  Speaker 1: the author of peace. Amen. Jesus said, my peace I
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  Speaker 1: leave with you, not as the world gives give I
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  Speaker 1: unto you. Amen. God desires for us to be a
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  Speaker 1: people of peace. And if we are to have order
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  Speaker 1: in the churches, by the way, as has been commanded,
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  Speaker 1: by God a man, the apostolic word that He's given
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  Speaker 1: to us. There must be a spirit of submission to
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  Speaker 1: the authority that God has ordained, the authority that God
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  Speaker 1: has instituted, the authority that God has set forth in
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  Speaker 1: the churches, his church. By the way, Amen, Christ, this
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  Speaker 1: is the head of the church, and he is the
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  Speaker 1: savior of the body. That the Bible makes that very clear. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It is his church. He is the chief shepherd. All
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  Speaker 1: of us who serve as his ministers are under shepherd. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He is the chief shepherd. The church belongs to him.
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  Speaker 1: It is his body. He gave himself for it. He
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  Speaker 1: is both founder and builder of the church. It is
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  Speaker 1: him who said, Jesus up on this rocket. Listen what
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  Speaker 1: he said, I will build my church. Church, never forget,
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  Speaker 1: never forget, belongs to him. Christ is not divided. Paul
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  Speaker 1: already emphasized this to these Corinthians. Amen, that Christ is
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  Speaker 1: not divided, and there should be no schism in the body,
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  Speaker 1: because there is no schism or division in the Godhead.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and so
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  Speaker 1: it must be in the churches if we are to
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  Speaker 1: be the people of God. So we picked this up
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  Speaker 1: in First Corinthians chapter fourteen. I'm down at verse number
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, and Paul has been a man speaking to them,
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  Speaker 1: writing to them brother about the gifts in the church,
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  Speaker 1: the use of the gifts, and he's in this particular
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  Speaker 1: chapter kind of concluding the thoughts that he's sharing with them,
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  Speaker 1: the commands and the instructions that he's been given to
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  Speaker 1: them in order for them to function cohesively in the church.
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  Speaker 1: Because the church in chapter twelve Paul makes crystal clear
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  Speaker 1: that it is the body of Christ and there should
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  Speaker 1: be no a man schism in the body. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Corinthian Church, of course, had all kinds of confusion
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  Speaker 1: and calamity going on in the church, and one of
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  Speaker 1: the major problems that they had was a man the
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  Speaker 1: u use of tongues in the church, completely out of order.
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  Speaker 1: And we touched on this in our last session, but
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  Speaker 1: we want to pick up again in versi number twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: because again it's so important that we understand there must
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  Speaker 1: be order in the Church of Jesus Christ. Amen. First
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  Speaker 1: Garantheian Chapter fourteen, be in a verse twenty six, I'm
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  Speaker 1: reading from the New King James version of the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: How is it, then, brethren, all asking this rhetorical question,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, how is it, then, brethren? Whenever you
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  Speaker 1: come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching,
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  Speaker 1: has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. How
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  Speaker 1: is it? How is it? Brethren? How can this be
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  Speaker 1: that everybody has a song, everybody has a teaching, everybody
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  Speaker 1: has a tongue, everybody's got revelation, everybody's got interpretation, Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the key that all things be done
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  Speaker 1: for edification. Oh my goodness. And again I'm gonna emphasize
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  Speaker 1: this because this is what this is all about, edification.
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  Speaker 1: Three things edification, decency, and order must be in the
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  Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ. Edification is what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: And man, again we've covered this, particularly in chapter twelve
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  Speaker 1: when Paul again talk about benefit for the whole body.
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  Speaker 1: The use of the gifts of the spirit are to
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  Speaker 1: benefit edify, lift up the whole body, not one or
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  Speaker 1: two or some select group of individuals benefiting uniquely. And
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  Speaker 1: as it were, from Amen, the gifts of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, which belong to the spirit. And so edification, decency,
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  Speaker 1: and order is what we must have in the church.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty seven. Listen what he says. If anyone speaks
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  Speaker 1: in a tongue, let there be two or at the
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  Speaker 1: most three. Listen, listen carefully. These are instructions, each in turn,
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  Speaker 1: and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter,
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  Speaker 1: let him keep silent in the church, and let him
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  Speaker 1: speak to himself and to Godo, My God, help us, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: help us, Jesus. We need this, We need this. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two
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  Speaker 1: or at the most three, each in turn, and let
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  Speaker 1: one interpret. Now, why is it important for their interpretation? Way,
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  Speaker 1: He's already covered that. Again. If you're speaking in an
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  Speaker 1: unknown tongue and the church, nobody there understands there's no edification.
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  Speaker 1: You're only speaking to yourself and to God. But the
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  Speaker 1: one sitting by is not benefited. And so Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church,
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  Speaker 1: and let him speak to himself and to God. That
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  Speaker 1: ought to be crystal crystal clear. Amen. And again this
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  Speaker 1: is all about order in the church. If you're not
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  Speaker 1: a man speaking to edification for the whole body, don't
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  Speaker 1: speak out loud. Paul says, speak to yourself and to God.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: There must be order in the church, and we cannot
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  Speaker 1: have in the church a whole cacophony of people. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: out of order. And I'll get to that in just
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  Speaker 1: a minute. Listen what he says verse twenty nine. Let
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  Speaker 1: two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
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  Speaker 1: But if anything is revealed to another who sits by,
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  Speaker 1: let the first keep silent. Order. God is in God order. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: for you can all prophesy. Listen what he says, one.
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  Speaker 2: By one, one by one, that all may learn and
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  Speaker 2: all may be encouraged.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many times do we need to hear it?
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  Speaker 1: Because again the key here is edification, benefit for the
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  Speaker 1: whole body. The key again here is decency and order.
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  Speaker 1: There must be decency and order in the church. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And let it be done for all of the church.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, to learn and for all of the
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  Speaker 1: church to be encouraged. In other words, God is all
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  Speaker 1: about us being uplifted. I mean, not us sitting there
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  Speaker 1: wondering what in the world is going on? And I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand and I'm lost, I'm confused. What is this?
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  Speaker 1: I mean no, that's not God. Amen. Decency, order, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: edification for the whole body, the whole body. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible says. Oh, watch this, this is so
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  Speaker 1: this is so important. Amen, because people say, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: just feel the spirit. I just oh, I just can't
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  Speaker 1: help me. Oh it's just like fire up in my bones,
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  Speaker 1: and I just can't stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Verse thirty two says, the spirits of the prophets are
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  Speaker 3: subject to the prophets for God verse thirty three.
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  Speaker 4: Here it is is not the author of confusion, but
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  Speaker 4: of peace, as in all.
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  Speaker 1: The churches of the Saints. Amen. Now again, let no
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  Speaker 1: man say that he just listen, I got the can't
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  Speaker 1: help it. I can't help it. I can't help it.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't control it. I just can't help myself
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  Speaker 1: from speaking out of order. I just got there. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta say it. The spirit of every prophet is subject
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  Speaker 1: to the prophet. Amen, in all of the churches of
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  Speaker 1: the Saints of the Most High God. Again, because God
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  Speaker 1: is not the author of confusion. God is the author
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  Speaker 1: of peace. So if God is not the author of confusion,
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  Speaker 1: then pray, tell me who is You know who it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's the devil. It's satan. He loves it, he thrives
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  Speaker 1: on it. Amen. He looks for any and all opportunities Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to create chaos and confusion anywhere, and especially in the church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to again, as I pointed out at
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  Speaker 1: the very outset, there must be if we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: order in the churches. There must be a spirit of
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  Speaker 1: submission to what God has established, to what God has ordained,
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  Speaker 1: to what God has instituted, to what God has commended
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  Speaker 1: of us. We must submit ourselves to the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: to the will of God. Just as Jesus did not
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  Speaker 1: my will, not my will. Let this what did Paul
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  Speaker 1: right to the church. Let this mind be in you,
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  Speaker 1: which was also in Christ Jesus. Amen. Amen. He humbled himself,
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  Speaker 1: took on humility. Humility, humility, humility, that's what we got
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  Speaker 1: to have. We need humility. Amen. We're going to be submissive. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In the church, Amen, to the authority that God has instituted.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse thirty four. It's very important. Let your
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  Speaker 1: women keep silent in the churches. That's church is all
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  Speaker 1: of the churches of the Saints, the churches of God,
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  Speaker 1: the churches of Jesus Christ. Let your women keep silent
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  Speaker 1: in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak,
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  Speaker 1: but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, listen, you've been around a long
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  Speaker 1: time in church, and I know there's I guess these
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  Speaker 1: people are confused. But if there if there's if there's confusion,
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  Speaker 1: where'd it come from? Doesn't come from God? Because I
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  Speaker 1: think the word here is crystal clear. And there are
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  Speaker 1: other scriptures that are crystal clear about this as well.
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  Speaker 1: A man one in particular, where Paul writes to Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: and he makes it so crystal crystal clear. And I
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  Speaker 1: know I've heard all. I've heard all of the arguments.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard them all. I've heard them all. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: them all. Amen, I've heard him. I've heard him. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything subjective about what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: is clearly teaching here. Amen. Paul writing to Timothy, he says,
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  Speaker 1: the man is the head. There's a priority of order
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  Speaker 1: that God did in creation. He said, for the man
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  Speaker 1: was first form, and not the woman. Amen. The woman
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  Speaker 1: is to be in subjection. She's to be in submission. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I suffer not a woman to teach Paul says, nor
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  Speaker 1: to usurp authority over the man. The woman is not
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  Speaker 1: to teach the man. She is not to be in
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  Speaker 1: authority over the man. Christ, the Bible makes clear, is
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  Speaker 1: the head of the man. The man is to be
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  Speaker 1: submissive to the Lord. The head of the woman is
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  Speaker 1: the man, and she is to be in submission.
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  Speaker 3: To the man.
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  Speaker 1: This is the order of God. Again, that goes back
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  Speaker 1: to creation where Adam was first formed. Again, Paul appealed
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  Speaker 1: back to creation Adam was first formed. Then Eve Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and so again, and Paul is gonna he listen. Paul understands,
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  Speaker 1: he understands. Everybody listen again, They're gonna be people always
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  Speaker 1: as men always will be people who will not submit
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  Speaker 1: to authority, will not submit to the authority that God
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  Speaker 1: has established in the church. And this and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: when you or I, any of us, when we do
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  Speaker 1: not submit to the authority that God has established. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus sent the apostles out, when he told them, he said,
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  Speaker 1: when you go and preach, when you go in and
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  Speaker 1: and and and speak the words that I have given
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  Speaker 1: to you. If these people don't receive you, if they
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  Speaker 1: reject you, they're rejecting me. We are ambassadors of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We're simply spokes persons for Him. Amen. And so when
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  Speaker 1: we speak according to the Word of God, on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of God. And this who the apostle, Paul is, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Amen, He's God's chosen vessel, God chosen apostle
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  Speaker 1: to the gentiles. Amen. And God gave him revelation. God
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  Speaker 1: gave him understanding. God by the Holy Spirit, Amen, gave him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: These apostolic admonitions and commands. By the way, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see that these are not just all's opinions or suggestions.
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  Speaker 1: These are the commandments of the Lord. Amen. God is
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  Speaker 1: the one who gave them to Amen, the apostle for
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  Speaker 1: the churches. Well, again, what's the purpose of this? What
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  Speaker 1: is the purpose of this? Now, this doesn't by the way,
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  Speaker 1: let me say this. This doesn't mean the woman is inferior,
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  Speaker 1: does not mean she is not learning. It does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that she doesn't have the capability, she's incapable of
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  Speaker 1: doing it. It's not what it is. It's about the
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  Speaker 1: order of God. Simply put, It's about order. Amen. You
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  Speaker 1: can have people that are far more eloquent, you can
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  Speaker 1: have people that are far more educated, you can have
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  Speaker 1: people that are far more learned in the Bible, in
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  Speaker 1: theology and all of that. And yet if God did
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  Speaker 1: not call them, if God did not appoint them, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be out of order preaching and or teaching
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  Speaker 1: the word of God if they do not have the
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  Speaker 1: commission from God to do so. Amen. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is all about order. Let your women keep silent in
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  Speaker 1: the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but
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  Speaker 1: they are to be submissive, as the law also says.
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  Speaker 1: And if it verse thirty five. And if they want
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  Speaker 1: to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home,
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  Speaker 1: for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, I've heard the arguments. I've read the arguments,
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  Speaker 1: and some people say, well, Paul was just addressing the
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  Speaker 1: Corinthian Church because there were women there gossiping and talking
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  Speaker 1: doing the service in this faft. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that was what he's talking about. Listen to what he
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  Speaker 1: says in verse thirty six. Or did the Word of
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  Speaker 1: God come originally from you? Or was it you only
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  Speaker 1: that it reached? Now, if anyone look at verse thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual
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  Speaker 1: listen what he says. Let him acknowledge that the things
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  Speaker 1: which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So what Paul is writing here again not his own
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  Speaker 1: personal opinions, not his own you know, Paul has been,
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  Speaker 1: of course been accused of being a chauvinistic you know,
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  Speaker 1: male uh pig as it were. Uh, and that so
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just it's just I'm not gonna even take
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  Speaker 1: the time to entertain that foolishness. As much as Paul
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  Speaker 1: a man lifted up and commended all kinds of women
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  Speaker 1: in his writings and so forth and so on. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that that doesn't hold any weight or carry
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  Speaker 1: any weight at all. Uh. But again, these are not
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  Speaker 1: Paul's personal That's that's why then people want to attack
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  Speaker 1: Paul personally. And it won't attack anybody, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: anybody that that uh just simply agrees with the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen, you get attacked for being uh male chauviness,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and so forth. Whatever. But these are not
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  Speaker 1: his suggestions, These are not his personal opinions, he says
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  Speaker 1: very clear. And if you think yourself to be spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: if you think yourself to be a prophet, Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: you are to acknowledge that what he is writing to
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  Speaker 1: you are the commandments of God. These are from the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, women usurfing authority a man over
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  Speaker 1: the man. It's not something new, Amen. And they're all there.
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  Speaker 1: There always is going to be this struggle, Amen, for
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  Speaker 1: the woman to be in submission to the man. And again,
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  Speaker 1: you can give all kinds of and I've heard them,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard them. My Well, if the men would do this,
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  Speaker 1: and the man would do that, and blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: and then the women wouldn't have to and blah. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know I've heard I've heard it. I've heard it.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard it. I get it, I get it. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: We're all sinful creatures. We're all short of the glory
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  Speaker 1: of God. Nobody is walking in perfection, nobody is doing
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  Speaker 1: everything as they ought to do all the time. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why we have to forbear one another
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  Speaker 1: grace and patience and tolerance and praying for one another,
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  Speaker 1: interceding for one another. Amen. And again, not finance, listen,
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  Speaker 1: finding a reason trying to rationalize disobedience to the commandments
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  Speaker 1: of God. We all not do that. Y'all not well, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. Let's obey God and lead the rest to him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's leave the rest to him. Hey man, Now listen
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  Speaker 1: when Paul says verse thirty eight, watch this. Oh, but
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  Speaker 1: if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. And again,
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  Speaker 1: not just on this subject, but you've always had people
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  Speaker 1: in the church who did not acknowledge authority John, the apostle,
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  Speaker 1: John writing to the church, he says, I wrote to
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  Speaker 1: the church, but there was a man there who was
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  Speaker 1: supposedly the elder or the bishop, or the overseer of
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  Speaker 1: the church, and he refused to acknowledge the apostolic authority
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  Speaker 1: of John, and he spoke against the apostle. And again,
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  Speaker 1: when you have that and we we've always had it,
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  Speaker 1: by we've always had it in the church. It's always
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  Speaker 1: and again there's this spirit. And this spirit comes from
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  Speaker 1: the devil, who is out to create disorder, dis harmony, confusion, chaos, rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: you name it. That's what he that's what he's all about.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is nothing new in the churches. And
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  Speaker 1: so this is what Paul really is emphasizing here. And
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  Speaker 1: if anyone is to be ignorant. Then Pol says, let
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  Speaker 1: him be ignorant. Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, do
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  Speaker 1: not forbid to speak with tongues. Tongues Paul again, this chapter,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, dealt with this gift of tongues,
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  Speaker 1: the use of tongues in the church, how it is
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  Speaker 1: to be used. And prophesying is much better than tongues,
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  Speaker 1: because people can understand when we prophesy. But there is
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  Speaker 1: an order, there is an order that has to be
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  Speaker 1: there in order for the body as a hold to
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  Speaker 1: be edified. So therefore, brother, and he says, desire earnestly
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  Speaker 1: to prophesy, do not forbid to speak with tongues. Let
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  Speaker 1: all Oh, here's the key verse again, verse forty. Let
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  Speaker 1: all things be done decently and in order, edification, decency
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  Speaker 1: and order, this is what we must strive for a
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  Speaker 1: man in the church. Continually. Amen. And this starts, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, with the peace of God ruling in our hearts. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God ruling in our heart. And we've
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  Speaker 1: got to forbear one another in love. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: put up with one another. We've got to a man
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  Speaker 1: strive and contend as it were for the faith, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says Jude wrote, which was once and for all
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  Speaker 1: delivered into the saints. Amen, follow peace with all men.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us as well. Amen for bearing again,
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  Speaker 1: for bearing, tolerating, long suffering. Amen. Amen, and listen. What
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  Speaker 1: did Jesus say in to be attitudes? Blessed are the peacemakers,
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  Speaker 1: for they shall be called the children. We gotta follow
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  Speaker 1: after peace, Pursue peace. The Bible says, seek peace and
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  Speaker 1: pursue it. Peace is going to be elusive. Peace is
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  Speaker 1: going to Amen again because of that adversary. Amen. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the Bible says, Listen, Peter, I believe it was said,
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  Speaker 1: be vigilant and be sober because your adversary, the devil.
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  Speaker 1: We're wrestling not against fleshing blood. Certainly, Please, we are
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  Speaker 1: not to be fighting amongst each other in the churches.
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  Speaker 1: We're wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against principalities
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  Speaker 1: and powers, spirit, your wickedness that's lurking in the high places.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we have to put on God's whole armor,
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  Speaker 1: armor that He's provided for us. Amen, so that we
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  Speaker 1: can live in peace, walk in peace, be at peace
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  Speaker 1: with one another. With the Word of God ruling in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts. Amen. Casting down imaginations all of these Amen,
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  Speaker 1: fallacious arguments, Amen, that seek to again bring about disharmony,
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  Speaker 1: this unity, chaos and confusion in the body of Christ. Amen, Edification, decency,
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  Speaker 1: and order. That is what God has called us to be.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the peacemakers, Amen, for they shall be called
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  Speaker 1: the children of God Father. Help us today, Amen, so
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  Speaker 1: that we in your church that you built, that you founded,
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  Speaker 1: that you establish, that you are adding to Lord, Help
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  Speaker 1: us as your people to fulfill that mission that you
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  Speaker 1: get to us. That we go into all the world, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: making disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all
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  Speaker 1: that you commanded us to do. Help us to be obedient,
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  Speaker 1: submissive to Your authority ultimately, as the King of Kings
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  Speaker 1: and Lord of Lords, be thout glorified, be thout magnified
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  Speaker 1: today in your churches, in your people, everywhere. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: we pray, Amen and Amen. All right, God, bless your