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Episode 123 - Let Us Not Be Ignorant · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I W. And we are continuing, by the way in
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  Speaker 1: our series in the first Letter of the Apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Church. And today we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: in chapter number twelve, and we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a man the gifts of the spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: gifts of the Spirit in the church. Amen, the gifts
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit in the church. And the point that
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  Speaker 1: I really want to drive home today, and I'll get
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  Speaker 1: to this at the close of this session on today,
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  Speaker 1: is for us to not be ignorant. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that the Apostle Paul, a man states
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  Speaker 1: at the outset of this a man particular chapter division
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  Speaker 1: of the letter of the letter that he wrote to
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  Speaker 1: the church. It is not good for us to be
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  Speaker 1: a people of ignorance, especially and particularly when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the man things of God. Amen. And we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be like a man. The children of Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the Old Testament. My people are destroyed for lack
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge. And it's not because it was not available.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because there was no revelation. It's not because
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  Speaker 1: God was holding back. God is spoken. But have we heard?
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  Speaker 1: God is spoken? Are we listening? God has spoken? Are
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  Speaker 1: we in obedience? Amen? And so today we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be a people in ignorance. A man, if we're
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  Speaker 1: to be the Church of the Living God, that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a man raptured, that is going to
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  Speaker 1: be found worthy, a man to escape the things that
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  Speaker 1: are coming to pass. And we want to certainly stand
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  Speaker 1: before His presence with rejoicing, and a man forever, a
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  Speaker 1: man being thankful, a man to him for a man
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  Speaker 1: delivering us from a man the wrath that is to come.
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians, Chapter of the twelve. I'm going to read
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  Speaker 1: first three verses. I'm going to be reading from the
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  Speaker 1: new King James version of the Bible. So certainly we
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  Speaker 1: invite you to read along with us, if you have
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  Speaker 1: your Bible. Amen. And certainly, a man, the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is right, the word of the Lord is true.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the Lord is for our A man
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  Speaker 1: learning instruction, edification, direction protection you name it. Amen. God's
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  Speaker 1: word is precisely what we need, especially in such a
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  Speaker 1: time as this now concerning spiritual gifts, Brethren, I do
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  Speaker 1: not want you to be ignorant. You know that you
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  Speaker 1: were gentiles. Carry it away to these dumb idols, however
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  Speaker 1: you were led. Therefore, therefore listen what he says. I
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  Speaker 1: make known to you that no one speaking by the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can
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  Speaker 1: say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy I
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  Speaker 1: do not want you to be ignorant. The apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: rights Amen to the church, and certainly it is applicable,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps even more so in our day, where people are
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  Speaker 1: still being deceived, led astray, a man captivated, a man
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  Speaker 1: taken down the path of idolatry and witchcraft. Even in
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  Speaker 1: the Church. Amen, there's simply no excuse a man for
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, the Church of Living God, a
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  Speaker 1: man to be in a state of ignorance, when God
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  Speaker 1: has so painstakingly preserved a man for us and given
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  Speaker 1: to us his revelation. He's given to us wisdom, He's
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  Speaker 1: given to us knowledge, given to us stability to understand
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  Speaker 1: a man along with of course the power and the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Ghost. A man to be with us,
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  Speaker 1: to be in us, to lead us, and to guide
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  Speaker 1: us into all truth. A man, no excuse for ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: a man. And so what we had in the Corinthian
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  Speaker 1: Assembly was a very egregious situation concerning spiritual gifts. So
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  Speaker 1: it was incumbon from the Apostle a man to address
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  Speaker 1: this problem, a man. Of course, he had the purpose,
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  Speaker 1: as always should be the purpose when we address matters
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  Speaker 1: of this gravity, gravity, that there'll be a vanquishing of
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  Speaker 1: the ignorance, and of course not only that, but application
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  Speaker 1: of truth, so that we don't walk in error, be
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  Speaker 1: led astray by error. And so this is the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of the apostle in addressing a man, this very very
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  Speaker 1: very egregious error, a man concerning the spiritual gifts that
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  Speaker 1: was happening in the church. Because they were being in
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  Speaker 1: their in their day and their culture, they were being
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  Speaker 1: carried away with paganism, and and and and these practices
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  Speaker 1: of paganism of the pagans, the pagan culture that they
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  Speaker 1: were so engrossed in. Many of them had already been
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  Speaker 1: delivered from it. And somehow, some it is something about
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  Speaker 1: I guess our fallen nature, our fallen humanity that deems
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  Speaker 1: it necessary to I don't know, as it helped God out.
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  Speaker 1: And and so what we had in the church and
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  Speaker 1: what we still have in our churches today, and we
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  Speaker 1: certainly have to be aware of this all the time,
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  Speaker 1: this syncretism that was seeping into the church, that was
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  Speaker 1: being made or attempted to be made a part of
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  Speaker 1: a man, the worship services a man of the people
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  Speaker 1: of God, which are by the way exclusive a man,
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  Speaker 1: and only for those who are baptized into Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: A man, the worship a man, the adoration. Now anyone
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  Speaker 1: can praise, but we're talking about worship, true worship a man,
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  Speaker 1: worship in spirit and in truth. And without the spirit
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  Speaker 1: and without the truth a man, there is no true
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  Speaker 1: worshiper a man. There can be no true worship a
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  Speaker 1: man unless you have the spirit and unless you have
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And they were a man being led away
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  Speaker 1: in error. And so the apostle Paul again had to
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  Speaker 1: address this in order to correct there a man uh
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  Speaker 1: uh egregious behavior and conduct that was happening right in
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  Speaker 1: the church. And so in these pagan religions of Corinth.
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  Speaker 1: And there were many deities that these people and took antiquity,
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  Speaker 1: bowed down to, worshiped, looked up to in in the
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  Speaker 1: in their attempt to a man according to the flesh
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  Speaker 1: anyway UH be appeasing to these gods. And so they
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  Speaker 1: had these mystical practices that they engaged in in one
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  Speaker 1: of them, or a couple of them, for example, ecstasy
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  Speaker 1: and enthusiasm, and and and and and and the people
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  Speaker 1: in the church who had been delivered from this they
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  Speaker 1: brought these some of them there brought these practices of
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  Speaker 1: these pagan religions, of these pagan practices of this pagan culture.
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  Speaker 1: A man into the church and sample the practice of
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  Speaker 1: ect ecstasy a man was considered to be the pinnacle,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of religious experiences. And so it supposedly
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  Speaker 1: if you were able to reach this pinnacle, there was
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  Speaker 1: supposedly a kind of communion uh with the supernatural, with
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  Speaker 1: with these deities and and and so the people in
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  Speaker 1: the church thought that if they could combine I suppose
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  Speaker 1: there pagan practices that they had been delivered from with
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  Speaker 1: this new spiritual reality, combining them with the gifts in
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  Speaker 1: the church, such as the gifts of the spirit when
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  Speaker 1: it came to speaking, speaking in tongues and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature, they thought they would be I guess, more spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they would be adding something to the church,
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  Speaker 1: adding something to the worship. And so they had this
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  Speaker 1: again wrong headed theology as it were, or again their
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  Speaker 1: own mystical kind of ideology concerning how they could again
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  Speaker 1: be more spiritual. And again the apostle Paul, upon learning
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  Speaker 1: about this, he knew that this was something that had
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  Speaker 1: to be addressed. And even in there with these practices
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  Speaker 1: that they were engaging in, these pagan By the way,
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  Speaker 1: let me just add this. Some of these pagan practices
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  Speaker 1: that they were engaging in involved of drunkenness and in
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  Speaker 1: many cases all kinds of sexual immorality, and and and
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  Speaker 1: those who were engaged in these practices were certainly under
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  Speaker 1: the influence of demonic spirits. And uh they would begin
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  Speaker 1: to prophesy as it were. And and of course, when
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  Speaker 1: demons began to speak, and when demons began to take control,
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  Speaker 1: blasphemy is coming. And this is exactly what was taking place.
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  Speaker 1: These demons would speak blasphemously against Jesus Amen, because this
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  Speaker 1: is the irrepressible nature of the devil of the demonic
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  Speaker 1: of hell itself, Amen, And so they would in essence
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  Speaker 1: curse Jesus Amen in these Amen again mystical experiences that
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  Speaker 1: they were engaging in. And so please understand. And the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul made this crystal crystal clear right here in
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  Speaker 1: these first three verses that I read a man, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, let me read them again concerning spiritual gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Brothern I do not want you to be ignorant. You
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  Speaker 1: know that you were gentiles. You were carried away to
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  Speaker 1: these dumb idols, these idols that cannot speak, these idols
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  Speaker 1: that cannot think, these idols that cannot act, these idols
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  Speaker 1: that can do absolutely nothing a man. You were being
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  Speaker 1: carried away into worship, into idolizing, into bowing down to
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  Speaker 1: into a man believing that there was some kind of
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  Speaker 1: power behind these idols. This is what you were delivered from.
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  Speaker 1: You were carried away into these pagan practices, these doctrines
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  Speaker 1: of devils a man, these these spirits of the demonic Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore he says, I make known to you that
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  Speaker 1: no one this is what he says, no one speaking
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  Speaker 1: by the spirit of God, calls Jesus accursed and no
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  Speaker 1: one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. So please please understand again, the Apostle makes
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  Speaker 1: it crystal crystal clear here that no spirit filled, spirit
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  Speaker 1: led person will ever call Jesus Christ a curse. On
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, no one a man who is spirit field,
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  Speaker 1: no one who is spirit led a man can ever
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  Speaker 1: say a man. No one who is not spirit Let
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  Speaker 1: me rephrase that, amen. No one who is a man
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  Speaker 1: not filled with the spirit, no one who is not
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  Speaker 1: being led of the spirit. Of course, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the spirit, you can't be led with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: None of a man, those unbelievers, no person who does
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  Speaker 1: not have the Holy Spirit. No person can ever say
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is Lord. You cannot say it. They cannot
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  Speaker 1: do it a man. Only those who are truly born
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  Speaker 1: again of the Holy Spirit a man can say that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord. Amen. And those who are truly born
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  Speaker 1: again of the Holy Spirit will never speak blasphemously nor
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  Speaker 1: disparagingly in any way of the person of the work
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry of Jesus. A man that he specifically
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  Speaker 1: came down to do, a man on our behalf. He
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  Speaker 1: came and he did what he did taking on human flesh,
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  Speaker 1: making himself up no reputation. He did that for us.
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  Speaker 1: He did that to save us. A man, and no one,
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  Speaker 1: a man speaking by the spirit of God, will call
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  Speaker 1: Jesus a curse. Foundational and fundamental to the Christian faith.
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  Speaker 1: A man is the fact that Jesus Christ came in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, that Jesus Christ died a vicarious death, a
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  Speaker 1: man again on our behalf, that Jesus was buried in
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  Speaker 1: a grave, and that he rose again triumphant Amen, on
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  Speaker 1: the third day. And he is alive, and he is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and he is seated at the right hand of the
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  Speaker 1: Majesty on High, and he is coming back because he
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  Speaker 1: is the judge of the quick and the dead. He
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  Speaker 1: himself testified. Unless you want to call Jesus a liar.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the hour is coming when everyone that are
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  Speaker 1: in the grave, all all saints and sinners alike, everyone
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  Speaker 1: in the grave is going to hear the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God, and live you will be back. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He is the judge of the quick and the dead.
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  Speaker 1: This is foundations, This is fundamental to the faith. And
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  Speaker 1: if you have somebody in the church that is calling
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  Speaker 1: Jesus a curse that is denying the humanity of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the deity of Jesus, the work of Jesus, the efficacy
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  Speaker 1: of his is atoning work. If you have people in
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  Speaker 1: the Church supposedly under the influence of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: speaking disparagingly of Jesus, no no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no contrare. Amen. And because here it is, and this
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  Speaker 1: is how you can know by the way. This is
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  Speaker 1: why the apostle John I believe, tells us to try
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  Speaker 1: the spirits by the spirit. Amen. If there's somebody who
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  Speaker 1: denies that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a person who is of God. Amen. Those who
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  Speaker 1: do not believe the testimony of Jesus himself, those who
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  Speaker 1: do not believe the testimony of God. Amen, When He,
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  Speaker 1: for example, spoke from heaven Amen, on one occasion at
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  Speaker 1: the baptism of Jesus. And this is my beloved son,
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  Speaker 1: in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us by the way. Amen. In the Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Hebrews, the Letter to the Hebrews, God who
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  Speaker 1: has some hundred times and in divers Man who spoke
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  Speaker 1: in time past to the fathers, by the prophets half
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  Speaker 1: in these last days, spoken to us by his son.
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  Speaker 1: Hear ye him. If you don't believe Jesus said these words.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe that I am He, you will
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  Speaker 1: die in your sins. And he said again, I Am
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  Speaker 1: the Way, the Truth, and the life. No one comes
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  Speaker 1: to the Father but by me. Amen. So this is foundational,
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  Speaker 1: This is fundamental to the faith. And you have those,
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  Speaker 1: of course, all of those, and that includes everyone who
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  Speaker 1: is not in Christ Jesus, everyone who is not in
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  Speaker 1: the Church. And I'm talking about the true Church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about people who are professing. Amen. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about who people who are supposedly under the
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  Speaker 1: umbrella of Christianity, under the name of Christianity. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about only those who are truly baptized into Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, the foundation of God's stands sure.
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  Speaker 1: Having this seal, the Lord knows them that are his.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who names the name of Christ is depart from iniquity.
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  Speaker 1: But in a great house there are all kinds of vessels,
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  Speaker 1: vessels to honor, vessels to dishonor. And that's what we have.
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  Speaker 1: A man in our supposedly churches. Today we have people
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  Speaker 1: who are not vessels of honor, a man, who are
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  Speaker 1: a man speaking a man disparagingly of Jesus, a man.
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  Speaker 1: And again, those who do not believe this testimony of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who don't believe the testimony of God, who don't believe
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  Speaker 1: the testimony of the apostles, who don't believe the testimony
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  Speaker 1: of the Word of God. Amen, they will never be
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  Speaker 1: able to confess. They will never be able to say
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is Lord, that Jesus is the King of Kings,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the first
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  Speaker 1: and the last, a man, that he is the Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: They will never be able to say it. Amen. It
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  Speaker 1: is only by the work of the Holy Spirit doing
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  Speaker 1: a transformation in the heart that anyone can say a
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  Speaker 1: man that Jesus is Lord. In other words, he is
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  Speaker 1: over all, he is the sovereign, he is the Ruler. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Having now made this distinction, the apostle Paul, of course,
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  Speaker 1: having now made this distinction between a man again the truth,
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  Speaker 1: holy ghosts, feel holy Spirit, feel Holy spirit led believers
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  Speaker 1: a man from those I would call them infiltration of pagans.
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  Speaker 1: Those infiltrated perk pagans, rather a man. The apostle will
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  Speaker 1: now seek to dispel a man, this ignorance, a man,
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  Speaker 1: to let them and all believers from that time forward,
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  Speaker 1: of course, know and understand the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: A man in operation, a man within the Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. So now let's pick it up, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost finished, and verse number four, because we're going to
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  Speaker 1: dive deeper into this in our next session next podcast.
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  Speaker 1: A man will continue a man because this rolls us
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  Speaker 1: into chapter number thirteen as well. But Paul, lets the
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  Speaker 1: church know and listen. We need to pay attention to this,
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  Speaker 1: pay very close attention to this, so we can have
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  Speaker 1: an understanding and not again be ignorant of the gifts
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  Speaker 1: and the operation of the gifts within the spirit, I
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  Speaker 1: mean within the Church of Jesus Christ, which of course
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  Speaker 1: are by the Spirit of God. As we're going to
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  Speaker 1: see here a man very clearly from a man, the apostle, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: a man, verse number four, a man First Corinthians, chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: There are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. There
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  Speaker 1: are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are
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  Speaker 1: diversities of activities. But it is the same God who
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  Speaker 1: works all in all, but the manifestation of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is given to each one for the profit of all.
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  Speaker 1: For to one is given the word of wisdom through
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, to another, the word of knowledge through the
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  Speaker 1: same spirit to another, faith by the same spirit to another,
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  Speaker 1: gifts of healings by the same spirit to another, the
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  Speaker 1: working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of
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  Speaker 1: spirits to another, different kinds of tongues to another, the
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  Speaker 1: interpretation of tongues but one and the same Spirit works
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  Speaker 1: all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills,
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  Speaker 1: he of course, being the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God, which he is a person and not
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  Speaker 1: a thing, a man. Now, what the Church of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: a man again, must not be ignorant of. What we
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  Speaker 1: must not be ignorant about, is that God is seeking
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish something through us in us. And first and
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  Speaker 1: foremost I'm gonna give you that's just four things I
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  Speaker 1: want to point out from what we read that is
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear. Excuse me in the text here, Number one,
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  Speaker 1: please please please hear me carefully hear what the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is saying, I hope you're reading. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: read your Bible. Read your bible. Read it for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have your Bible, go to First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number twelve. I've just read verses one three eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I just read verses four three eleven, verses one through
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  Speaker 1: three earlier, but verses one through eleven. This is what
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  Speaker 1: we are dealing with today. Amen. And it is so
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear that even a food should be able to
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  Speaker 1: understand it. Listen what the Bible says. Amen. The gifts
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  Speaker 1: do not belong to us. I hope you heard that.
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  Speaker 1: Just read it. It's right there. The gifts do not
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  Speaker 1: belong to you. They do not belong to me. They
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  Speaker 1: do not belong to the church. They are given to
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  Speaker 1: the church. Amen. But the gifts belong to the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The gifts belong to God. Number two. That's number one.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget it. It's not your gift. And I hear people,
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  Speaker 1: and listen, I've been in this church for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: People claim gifts, amen, as if they were their own gifts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But please understand, the gifts do not belong to us.
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  Speaker 1: Number two. The gifts are not controlled by us. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot make the gift of prophecy happen. We cannot make
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  Speaker 1: the gift of healing happen. We cannot make any of
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  Speaker 1: these gifts happen. Everything is of God, Everything is under
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the Holy Spirit. Again verse number eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The same spirit works all these things, distributing to each
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  Speaker 1: one individually. Listen to what the Bible says, as he wills,
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  Speaker 1: it is according to the will of God a man.
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  Speaker 1: So the gifts number one do not belong to us.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, we don't have any control at all over
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  Speaker 1: what the Spirit of God is doing will do a man,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly of course over what he has done. They're
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  Speaker 1: not controlled by us. Number three. The gifts are not
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  Speaker 1: exclusive for us. In other words, whatever gift that you
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  Speaker 1: a man, have been rented a man, it's not exclusively
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's not for you to selfishly benefit from. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that leads us to number four. The gifts are
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  Speaker 1: always for the whole body. They're for the benefit of all.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no exclusivity when it comes to the gifts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible again is so clear. There are diversities of
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  Speaker 1: gifts in the church. There are differences of ministries, a
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  Speaker 1: man in the church, in the body of Christ, a man.
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  Speaker 1: There are diversities of activities in the Church, but it
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  Speaker 1: is the same Holy Spirit, it is the same Lord,
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  Speaker 1: it is the same God who is working. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says all in all, and it is for the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of all, and not for a benefit specifically for one
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  Speaker 1: or two or few select individuals of persons. A man
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  Speaker 1: who are supposedly elevated to certain some certain status, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because of their giftedness, as we again in our erroneous
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  Speaker 1: and ignorant understanding of the scriptures, elevate these people. And
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  Speaker 1: even even even oftentimes this is happening right now in
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  Speaker 1: our day, leads it leads people into idolatry, worshiping of people,
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  Speaker 1: a man looking up to people, a man in a
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  Speaker 1: way that should not be a man. And and this
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  Speaker 1: is again because of ignorance. It's simply because of ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: My people, again the Old Testament, My people are destroyed
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  Speaker 1: for lack of knowledge. And Paul said, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to be you. You you were gentiles, you were
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  Speaker 1: being led away, you were being led captive, you were
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  Speaker 1: in bondage, you were being controlled by the the money Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And and and and you were you were just being
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  Speaker 1: led away into worship of these dumb idols. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so that is your past. Don't bring your past. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't need our help. Amen. God doesn't need our
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  Speaker 1: assistance in any way. He doesn't. All God desires of
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  Speaker 1: us is our cooperation, coal operation, Amen, being led by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, being obedient to the word of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we could have all kinds of and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy all kinds of of spiritual benefits if we would
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  Speaker 1: only a man apply our ourselves therein. So again, let
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  Speaker 1: us not be ignorant and desiring to take ownership a
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  Speaker 1: man of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say. I'm just gonna say it, and
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  Speaker 1: and and I've seen it. It's still happening. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: it's for the purpose of prostituting, prostituting the gifts. People
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  Speaker 1: do this for their own benefit, a man for their
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  Speaker 1: own profit, as they profess to be benefactors, as they
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  Speaker 1: profess to be. A man helping others, a man being
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  Speaker 1: a blessing to others, a man in the church and
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom, a man while all they're doing is
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of unsuspecting, unlearned, ignorant people who are perhaps
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  Speaker 1: looking for some kind and of supernatural experience, some supernatural power, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to be authentically on display. When again, none of us
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  Speaker 1: own the gifts of the spirit, none of us control
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  Speaker 1: the gifts of the spirit. Amen. And none of us
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  Speaker 1: can a man direct a man, or even certainly can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's oh, oh my God, I've just again, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: it so much. I've seen it so much. People actually
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  Speaker 1: commanding God, ordering God again, as if they are in control,
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  Speaker 1: and they can command God, they can you know, speak
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  Speaker 1: blessings into existence. They can command the host of Heaven Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the power of God to operate when they say operate. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so again they take advantage of people. A man propheteering,
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  Speaker 1: a man for their own greedy gain, a man prostituting
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  Speaker 1: supposedly the gifts of God. Amen. And again I would
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  Speaker 1: dare say, anyone who is supposedly doing this, Amen, be sure,
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  Speaker 1: be sure that they will be found out. They will
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  Speaker 1: be found out, They will be found out because again
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  Speaker 1: I listen, you can see it for yourself, you can
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  Speaker 1: read it for yourself. We don't own the gifts, we
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  Speaker 1: don't control the gifts a man. We don't own them,
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  Speaker 1: we don't control them. Amen. And they're not for us,
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  Speaker 1: they're not for us. To Amen again, Propheteer from God
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  Speaker 1: absolutely forbids prostitution, especially in the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Jesus went into the temple twice in the gospels. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: overturned tables of the money changes, drove them out of
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  Speaker 1: the temple and said, take these things out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Do not make my father's house a house of merchandising.
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  Speaker 1: You are You've made it a den of thieves. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeking to profit from what God has given to
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  Speaker 1: be done freely. Amen. God forbids prostitution in the church.
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  Speaker 1: He forbids profiteering by fosters, false apostles and teachers. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Charlatan's wolves in sheep's clothing who come in to fleece
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  Speaker 1: the flock. God will not sanction it, He will not
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  Speaker 1: bless it, He will not tolerate it a man without
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  Speaker 1: divine retribution. Amen. For those who are deliberately disobedient, for
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  Speaker 1: those who are dishonest, for those who are in actuality
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  Speaker 1: in alliance with the pagan demonic practices of hell itself. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God intends God has purpose. God has ordained. God has
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  Speaker 1: commanded for his people to be holy, to be godly,
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  Speaker 1: a man, to be reverential in all of him, to
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  Speaker 1: fear him, a man. And so we need, we are
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  Speaker 1: not to be playing games, as it were, with the
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  Speaker 1: gifts a man that God has given to the church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Errand's two sons, if you know your Bible in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, his first two sons, oldest two sons were killed. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God killed them a man when they came into the
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  Speaker 1: house of God, when they came into the presence of
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  Speaker 1: God without that reverential fear, awe and respect of the
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  Speaker 1: holiness of God. Let us not be ignorant, Let us
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  Speaker 1: not abuse, take advantage, take for granted, Amen, the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen. So Father, will you just help us today,
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  Speaker 1: help someone today, Lord, open eyes, open ears, open hearts. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to believe, to know, so that we don't walk in ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: so that we don't walk in unbelief, so that we
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  Speaker 1: are not deceived taking captive. Let us stray. God, be merciful. God,
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  Speaker 1: help us, God guide us, protect us as only you
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  Speaker 1: can do by the power of your Holy Spirit. And
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  Speaker 1: so Lord, we give you praise, glory and honor and
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  Speaker 1: thanksgiving for somebody's eyes being opened, somebody's ears being attuned,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's art being changed for your glory and honor. It's
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ we praying your things.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen, God bless you in Jesus' name. H
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