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The Gifts of the Spirit pt 14: The Gift of Prophecy in the Believer Today · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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right in. You know you can still be praying in
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tongues and still listen to me, amen? Praise
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God. You can still be praying and what? And still
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listen. So Lord, as I'm here, privileged to be
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here. As I'm speaking and also what? Listening
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within. Hallelujah. Praise God. So in the week
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I had someone say something, just a few days
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ago. He was teaching about the gifts of the Holy
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Ghost. The gifts of prophecy. You know, and he
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said something. which is not in the scriptures,
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however. He said that the gifts of the Spirit
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are in ranking. And he said he's going to show
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them how it is ranked. But he said something.
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He said, you know, him, he's privileged to have
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all the nine. Ha! And he said he will show them
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how to just start operating in few. Because he's
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in rank. So there are, you know our people, there
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are dimensions you must reach to now see the
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nine. But for him, he's privileged to have the
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nine. Do you know the implication of that? He
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is Lord of the Rings. Yeah, so everybody has
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to look up to him. He's the general. Yes, that's
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the right word. Hallelujah. Say, I have all the
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gifts of the Holy Ghost. I have all the gifts
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of the Holy Spirit. You know, when you say, I
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have resources, what you are saying is that all
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that is in Christ Jesus, the Holy Ghost has deployed
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it to you. Hallelujah. The Holy Spirit didn't
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forget one in heaven. He didn't forget one somewhere.
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He has deployed what? All the resources. To who?
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To you. Praise God. So when you get to somewhere
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and then somebody tells you, you see, you, and
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then he says something. He said, you know, the
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one that every one of you have here is tongues.
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That one is free for you. It's free. But you
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see every other one? He said, it's the Holy Spirit.
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The gifts are with the Holy Spirit. So he is
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the one that when he didn't fit to see it at
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operation, then he threw it. He releases it.
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It's somebody that I know, I respect. Amen? So
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I said, okay, so if the Holy Spirit has it, and
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then now we need one, and he has made up his
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mind not to give the one, come on, we'll be in
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trouble. Hallelujah. See, I have all the gifts
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of the Holy Spirit because God's word says so.
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And that is my reality. Hallelujah. Choose to
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believe God's word above every man's word. Amen.
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That is why I would encourage us to stay. Stay
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and be taught and be trained. Praise God. Stay.
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Be patient. Be patient. Be patient. Be patient
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to be taught and what? And trained in the word
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of faith. That is our security. That is our security
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against every kind of wind of doctrine. that
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is flying to and fro everywhere. That is our
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security. That is how we measure up unto maturity
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to the fullness of Christ. That is why we hear
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wind of doctrine, right? We are not traced to
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and fro by it. So if I stand here and tell you
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that every one of you just have only tongues
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and I am the one that have the nine. Do you know
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the implication of that? After this service,
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there will be a line of people waiting for word
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of wisdom, waiting for word of knowledge, waiting
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for the prophetic. Praise God. That's the implication.
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So question, what will I do as a believer, oh
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Lord, to have this line? What will I do? Maybe
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they will say 16 hours. I do 16 hours and I don't
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see it. One video will say 100 days of tithing
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and I will do 100 days and I don't see it. Do
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you know what it starts becoming? I become a
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frustrated believer that has a desire that cannot
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be met. Hallelujah. But is that what Paul taught
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the church in Corinthians? No. Praise God. That
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all is at work in them. Hallelujah. And you know
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that all is at work in us this evening? In RECF,
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local church, we have all the gifts of the Holy
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Ghost. Praise God. And we have all of them in
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demonstration. Praise God. We see them. In fact,
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he went out to say, he said, why you are seeing
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some common and why some are not common is because
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those ones are rare. Lord, gifts of the Holy
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Ghost is rare. We have them in abundance. Hallelujah.
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None of them is rare. None of them. No word of
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knowledge is rare. No word of wisdom is rare.
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No working of miracles is rare. No gift of faith
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is rare. None of them is rare. All of them are
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in abundant supply. You know? The guy that was,
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the legs are gone, balls are finished. This young
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guy walked. This man, they do miracles without
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thinking. I always use this word. They do miracles
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without what? They don't analyze it. The power
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flows through my hands. The power of the Holy
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Ghost flows through my lips. When I speak words,
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I build things. When I speak words, I edify.
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When I lay hands on things, I see things change.
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Oh, I see the blind, the blind eyes open. Because
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the power of the Holy Ghost flows through my
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hands. Oh, I see deaf ears open. I see someone
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here that has been having difficulty sleeping
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through the night as a result of this meeting.
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You're going to sleep every night without that
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condition again in Jesus' name. Someone here
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also that you've had a communication with your
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mom regarding high blood pressure. From this
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meeting tonight, that high blood pressure is
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normal and is born in the name of Jesus. Someone
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here, you have been reading the scriptures. and
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you have been finding it difficult to understand.
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And I tell you this by the Spirit of the Lord,
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that the eyes of your understanding are open
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as a result of this meeting. Spirit of Revelation
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is rocking in your heart right now from this
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meeting in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise
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God. Hallelujah. Let's quickly do what we have
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to do. We will take 30 minutes to 35 minutes
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and then finish on the gifts of prophecy. And
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we'll do something. Hallelujah. So, so far so
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good from Pastor Emmanuel, myself. We've been
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able to talk about a long, different series on
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the gifts of the Holy Ghost. And we want to practice
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all of them tonight. Hallelujah. Amen. We want
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to practice what? All of them when? Tonight.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Yes, so, as we
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are practicing them, the pastors, as they are
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led in their heart, or they perceive in their
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heart, they will move around and then imparting
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people. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Yeah, so
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we're going to group ourselves. A couple of people
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will be assigned to different groups to minister.
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Amen. And then as we are doing that, the pastors
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move around. As they perceive in their heart,
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they are going to lay hands on people. Praise
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God. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I believe
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in miracles. I believe in miracles. I believe
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in miracles. I see miracles. They happen through
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my hands. They happen at my words, by the Spirit
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of the Lord, in the name of Jesus. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. One Sunday I came to church. Somewhere
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around here I was feeling, I don't know what
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was holding me. I could not stand. I didn't know
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what was it. Pastor, if I... drove me to Gilney.
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We went to a hospital. The guy took whatever,
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whether he checked me or did not check me, I
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don't know. But he tied some drugs, put some
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things, gave me some prescriptions. I came home,
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kept laying hands there. I'm healed, I'm healed,
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I'm healed, I'm healed. Just within a week, I
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remembered we had a pastor's meeting that same
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week. You know, I also asked the pastors, I said,
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please, that Saturday, I told them, I said, please,
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can we just lay hands on my stomach and then
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let's pray? I know they prayed, I slept, I woke
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up, the pain gone. Sunday morning I came, I was
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jumping everywhere, nothing. Monday morning I
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waited to see whether he's there, nothing. Tuesday
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I woke up, you know, nothing. I was like, hope
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it's not my kidney. But kidney is at the back.
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You know, I went on Goku. Demons are real. They're
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on Goku. Don't allow any demon send you to God
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to check what is disturbing you. Do you know
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the result you see? That you have died last two
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weeks. Yes, that's what you will see. With the
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advent of Chadji Pitina, he will tell you anything
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he wants to say. One day. One day? He said you
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died last two weeks. So if you have been, maybe
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it's kidney of so -and -so, maybe it's this,
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this, maybe it's a liver, this, maybe it's a,
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but liver where? Kidney where? I said on Sunday,
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all you need to see is one miracle. Hallelujah.
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You don't need 10. If you can see one, it means
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that you can see 10. If you can see 10, it means
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you can see 1 ,000. Hallelujah. The same power
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you need for headache is the same power that
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you need for cancer. The same power you need
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for cancer is the same that will open the blind
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eyes. It's same spirit. We don't have spirit
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that casts out headache. We don't have spirit
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that heals cancer. We don't have another spirit
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that drives out demons. The Holy Ghost is Holy
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Ghost. He is the Spirit of God and He walks sane.
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Praise God. I choose to see the miraculous every
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day in my life. Both in the things that pertain
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to the spiritual and both in the things that
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pertain to the natural. Praise God. So we ended
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1 Corinthians chapter 14 on Sunday. Verse 3.
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Verse 3. Edification, exaltation and what? And
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comfort. Praise God. Hallelujah. And we read
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1 Corinthians 14 verse 6. And we said, now brethren,
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if I come to you speaking with tongues, what
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shall I profit you except I shall speak to you
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either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying
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or by what? Or by doctrine. Hallelujah. Praise
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God. And that word revelation in 1 Corinthians
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14, 6 is apocalypses. A -P -O -K -A -L -Y -P
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-S -I -S. A -P -O -K -A -L -Y -P -S -I -S. Apocalypses.
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Which implies to means full disclosure. Full
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disclosure. To uncover. To lay open what has
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been veiled. Hallelujah. Revelation. Full what?
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Disclosure. Amen. To uncover. To unveil what
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has been veiled. Praise God. So when we say revelation,
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we're not saying that something is not there
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and suddenly something happens. Praise God. Already
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something is there and then we now see an unveiling
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of the thing. Praise God. Hallelujah. So, and
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when there is a full disclosure, it means that
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the mind should be able to understand what is
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seen. Praise God. Hallelujah. So Paul is saying
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that when prophecy comes, prophecy brings full
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disclosure. Prophecy unveils. Your understanding
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will be able to be fruitful from it. So you will
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benefit from it. Hallelujah. Prophecy does not
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come to confuse you more. Prophecy comes to unveil.
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I said it on Sunday, to unveil what? The will
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of God, the plans of God, the purposes of God.
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So that we can have direction. Amen? So that
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we can have guidance. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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Praise God. So that we can have what again? There's
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another word there. Guidance, direction, encouragement,
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and then help. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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That's what revelation is. And then he said knowledge.
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What is knowledge? Translated from the word mercies.
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G -N -O -S -I -S. Which implies insights. Gnosis.
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G -N -O -S -I -S. Gnosis, actually. Which implies
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insights. Insight into what? Insight or experiential
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knowledge. Expiration knowledge. From where?
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From God's words. And when that kind of knowledge
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comes to you, it does not come in tongues. It
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comes in plain words that your mind can understand.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah. I said if
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I come to you by prophecy, which we are doing
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now. Amen. Or by doctrine. Doctrine means, it
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implies an instruction. Amen. I often will say
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if I come here and I just instruct you by tongues.
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And then you go, yes, sir, I know what to do.
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You don't know what to do. But as if I come and
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I give you instruction. I said, this hall, actually,
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we need to repaint it. We need to fix the windows.
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We need to fix the doors. Actually, there have
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been sound going out. We need to put some soundproofs
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and ETC. Your mind and your understanding now
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can understand, can take it. Amen. And you are
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fruitful. Your mind is fruitful from it. Praise
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God. Hallelujah. And may you live this blessed.
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So what Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 46 is
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that if I come to you speaking with tongues only,
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how can I profit you, brother? Except I come
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to you by what? By revelation. Amen. Or by what?
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Knowledge. Or by what? Prophesying or by what?
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Or by teaching. Because if I come to you like
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this now, your understanding will be blessed.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah. Yeah, so
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what is the purpose of prophecy? The gift of
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prophecy? The purpose is what? For edification.
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Hallelujah. So building. So building. So building.
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So building. Lying in the wall is the ability
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to build. Lying in is ability to what? To build,
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build people by the Spirit of the Lord. Build
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people by the Spirit of the Lord. Build what?
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People. One of the words I got in the place of
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prayer is that you have received so much information
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on the other side, on the negative, and you have
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used it and it has become your reality. Let me
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use this word, your virtual reality. Because
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your reality is in Christ Jesus. Amen? It's not
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time for you to redefine what you're seeing about
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your life. Redefine it how? By speaking. Speak
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it how? By God's words. Take God's words and
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then make them, speak them, prophesy them, pray
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upon them. Declare them over your life. Ah, we
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have prayed this prayer. I can give you my younger
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brother's number. You can call him. We have prayed
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this. We will never be like the people from my
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village. We have prayed it. We will do work of
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ministry. We will do this. We will do that. Every
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night, we will fast and pray. We will go. One
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of the things that drove us to go and do those
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things is because of where we are coming from.
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It wasn't knowledge, however. What drove us?
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For example, what drove us is that since they
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built our house, the house, 10 years, no paint,
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no nothing, and there's this big crack. You can
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see our neighbor's house. Lizard always coming.
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So we said, no, if words cannot change it, we
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know prayers can change it. We put it as a first
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item. This house must be fixed. We started fasting.
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We started praying every day. We started fasting.
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Two weeks, our mom called us. She said, your
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dad just came back and said, I think it's enough
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now. This house needs to be painted and it needs
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to be this thing. Ha! She said, this one that
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we are seeing, it has happened. It means all
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other ones will work. We intensified prayers.
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We called Sam. We call other sabo. We call other
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people. We say, see, we are praying every night.
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And these things are working. I'm telling you,
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we kept praying every night. I will tell you
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this by the Spirit of the Lord. I know it because
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we are still experiencing. All the things we
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have prayed for, all of them happened. Even though
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when they painted the houses, I don't know the
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people that painted it. The color that was supposed
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to be outside was inside. The ones inside, they
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took it outside. I say they painted it. However,
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the pillars are fixed. Everywhere is good. Who
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carries that color? Brown color, maru, I've put
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inside the room. Now I say, okay, it's okay,
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no problem. Carry yellow color and paint outside.
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At least now I can say, come and visit. I don't
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bring people to my house. But for whatever reason,
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our parents are okay with it. You know those
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times my dad would say he's waiting for the crack
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to reach to his end. No, cracks don't reach ends.
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They just end the building. Yes. We kept praying
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that, Lord, we know that our parents cannot afford
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even natural things. You are sending us to places
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on scholarships. You are sending us to everywhere
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around the world. Scholarships everywhere, around
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the world, around the world, around the world.
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See, I'm telling you, they're all here. They
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know it. People kept thinking maybe our father
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knows anybody. Our father don't even know anybody.
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He only knows us. That God is pushing us far.
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No way. You can change the story. You can change
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the narrative. You can change everything you
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see. Not with another man's words. With his words.
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With your words. You are anointed. You have the
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spirit of God. Forget about the people you see
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from Kenya. Who is from Kenya here? Yes, forget
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about all those things you see from Kenya. I
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don't know why I'm calling Kenya. Forget about
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them. You can do much more for Jesus beyond what
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you see young people do there. Forget about it.
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Just take hold of these realities that we are
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teaching and discussing here, all of us, and
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give us some time. Some of them are already speaking
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now about your life. Some of them will speak
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tomorrow. Some of them are going to see it in
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the next one year. Some of them are going to
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see it in the next 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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years to come. But truly we will say, when we
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all gather together in this room, the Spirit
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of the Lord... actually was working in our hearts
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all. Praise God. So, the gifts of prophecy come
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to edify. For building. For edification. For
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comfort. For what? For exaltation. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. So, then expressing the gifts of
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prophecy. Expressing the gifts of prophecy. Don't
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allow negative people come close to you. Don't
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allow negative words, negative statements come
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close to you. Always stay, stay, stay, stay,
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stay. Declaring God's word as your reality. Praise
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God. Expressing the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
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So firstly, the gifts of the Holy, which we have
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said, the gifts of, okay, firstly, please write
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this. When gifts of prophecy are in manifestation,
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there is a sense in which That God is speaking,
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right? When the gifts of prophecy are in manifestation,
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when the gifts of prophecy are in manifestation,
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there is a sense in which God is what? Is speaking.
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But if God actually is speaking, then we will
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not have rights to judge those words. Praise
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God. When gifts of prophecy are in manifestation,
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there is a sense in which God is what? Is speaking.
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But if actually God is the one speaking directly
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to us, then we don't have the right to judge
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those speakings. Amen? Because it will be literally
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His voice speaking through the clouds or some
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form of medium. Amen? And if that happens, which
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means we can't what? We don't have the right
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to do what? To judge it. Don't forget that the
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subtopic is expressing the what? The gifts of
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the Spirit. Amen? And we cannot judge or question
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it because God is speaking through the clouds.
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He's speaking through some form of medium. Amen?
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So it's God that is speaking. We can't what?
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We can't judge it. Secondly, if God actually
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were speaking, we will not need any instructions
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for the use of the gifts. In 1 Corinthians now.
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Amen? If God is actually and literally speaking
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to us, then we will not need any instruction
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for the use of what? For the use of the gifts
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because God will always come down and speak.
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I will not need Pastor Victor to speak. I will
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not need Pastor Fred to speak. I will not need
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you to speak to me. You understand, right? Because
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God is speaking. So God is speaking. Why need
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anybody and why need any gifts of spirit again?
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I don't need gifts of spirit. So he went to speak
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and went not to speak because God does not need
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any instruction. Amen? So if he is the one speaking,
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he will not need any what? Instruction. Went
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to silence him and went not to silence him. Praise
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God. Thirdly, the gifts of God are perfect. All
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the gifts of the Spirit are what? Are perfect.
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The Holy Spirit is perfect. But these gifts are
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not or are often not perfect in their manifestation.
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The gifts of God are perfect. The Holy Spirit
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is perfect. But these gifts are often not what?
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Perfect in their manifestation. Why? Because
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they are manifested through imperfect channels,
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men and women. Praise God. These gifts are manifested
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through what? imperfect channels. Through what?
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Men and women. We're going to talk about them.
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So when these deeds are manifested, men and women,
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what is happening is that something from our
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personality gets mixed with the divine flow.
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Praise God. So there's a divine flow. Amen? The
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mind of God being revealed. But as the mind of
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God is being revealed, it gets mixed up with
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our what? With our own personality. Praise God.
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So for example, it will be mixed with our minds.
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Because when it flows from the Spirit, our mind
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understands it. So it will be mixed with our
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minds. It will be mixed based on our understanding.
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It will be mixed based on our emotions. It will
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be mixed based on our maturity in the things
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of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Let me say it again.
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We say because they are manifested through what?
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Through imperfect channels as men and women,
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through us. Why? Because when they are in manifestation,
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they get mixed with our what? Personality. Because
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God will speak through us as vessels. The Spirit
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of God will speak through us as what? As His
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vessels. Amen? And when He is speaking through
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us, the instructions will be lit with our minds,
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our understanding, our emotions. Our maturity
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in communication and our knowledge of spiritual
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things. Hallelujah. Our knowledge of spiritual
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things or the things of the Spirit. Hallelujah.
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So we must understand something, that when it
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comes to the expression of the gifts of the Spirit,
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like gifts of the prophecy, God does not put
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a premium on ignorance and education. When it
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comes to the manifestation of the themes of the
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spirit, God does not put a what? A premium on
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what? On ignorance or what? Or education because
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he is using the vessel that carries his spirit.
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He does not put a premium on ignorance or what?
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Or education. Pastor Vic, Vic, Victor, this man
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is an associate professor. I think what is going
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to be happening? he will be flowing like water.
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The things will be happening. And then suddenly
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now, he will look at somebody now doing undergraduate,
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he say, oh, he's doing undergraduate. Even the
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undergraduate is not medicine, it's archaeology.
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Studying of soil. I think, let him just remain
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at tongues and interpretation. No. God does not
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put a premium on what? On ignorance or what?
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Education, Acts chapter 4, verse 7 to 13. Facts,
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let's read. Acts chapter 4, verse 7 to 13. Then
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Mayoko filled with what? Then Takunda filled
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with what? With the Holy Ghost sent unto them.
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Ye rulers of people and the elders in Israel,
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if we this day be examined of the good deed drawn
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to the impotent man. What is the good deeds?
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What is the good deed they did to the impotent
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man? They healed him. Hallelujah. They healed
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him. See what he said. by what means he is made
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whole. Be it not unto you all, and to all the
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people of Israel, but that by the name of Jesus
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Christ of Nazareth, whom they have crucified,
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whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth
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this man stand before you at home. This is the
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stone which was set at the Lord of you builders,
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which is become the hair of the corner. Neither
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is there salvation in any other. For there is
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none other name on that heaven given among men,
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where be we must be saved. 13. Now when they
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saw the boldness of Peter and what? Fear with
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the spirit, boldness. Hallelujah. Fear with the
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spirit, what? Boldness. Fear with the spirit,
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a display of the gifts of healing. Fear with
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the spirit, receive power. Fear with the spirit,
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boldness to what? To speak to the rulers. And
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see what they said now. And they perceived that
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they were what? Unlearned and what? Ignorant
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men. They marveled and they took knowledge of
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them that they had been studying books. That
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they had been with who? The man that is being.
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Let me put it this way. The man. I don't know.
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This is not a good English. But let me put it
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this way. The man that is being. English people
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are weaker than me. The man that is being with
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Jesus always. Ah, that man can never be termed
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an uneducated man. That man can never be termed
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an ignorant man. Oh boy, I saw a testimony of
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a woman that just attended Rema Bible Institute
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in Kaduna. She said she does not know how to
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read. She does not know. In fact, even her husband
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said that that place is only for educated people.
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He was not giving her transport money because
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he knows she's going there to waste her time.
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She made up her mind to go to Rema Bible Institute.
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She registered. She attended. During the graduation,
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she was sharing her testimony. She said, it's
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from this school that the Holy Spirit opened
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her understanding. For the first time, she could
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read the Bible and understand the Bible. That
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is not there. And she can speak articulate English
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language. Her husband has never called her honey.
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But because of the miraculous he has seen in
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her life, he is calling her honey. I'm using
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her sound. And he's not only calling her honey,
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he's giving her transfer money. Till the graduation
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day. She has been with Jesus. Amen. The man that
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is always with Jesus, that man is a supernatural
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man. He defies every law of natural. You see,
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they took cognizance of them. You know, I went
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to check. That word on land, it means agrammatos.
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That word on land, in Greek what it means is
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agrammatos. A -G -R -A -N -M -A -T -O -S. Grammar.
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Grammar. Agrammatos. You're not writing. You're
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a worker. Workers are supposed to be writing
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and be following. Because now, those gathered
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go somewhere in Iskele. Gather ten people that
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are demon possessed. You're the one that will
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curse them. Agrammatos. Agrammatos means not
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formally educated in the scriptures or rabbinical
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school. A formal institution. These guys were
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not formally educated. You know what we are about
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starting this church? Some people told us that
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we have not gone to theological school. Number
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one. Number two. We are not even married. Number
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three. We are just going there to just... Yes.
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And we are going to disturb. Is there even a
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matured woman among us? No. So we are going to
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go and deceive the young ladies. Ladies, have
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anyone deceived you here? Okay. You know, we
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were laughing about it in the past, right? I
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said, at least now, we have ticked one of the
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criteria. We are all married. According to the
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standards, We are still on agrammatos. Because
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there is no any formal theological school that
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we have gone. Have your life been the same since
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you joined us? All the things you have received
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so far, does it look like we are uneducated?
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We have been with Jesus. And we are still with
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Jesus till we die. Hallelujah. Kai. We will go
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all the way with him till we die. And everywhere
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we go, people see. We're not here with Jesus.
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Nobody. Who cares about my certificates? Jesus.
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That I'm head of department. That is associate.
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Who cares that you're associate professor? Nobody.
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Oh, we know that you are be with who? With Jesus.
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And every time you speak, you don't speak in
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word only. But you speak in the spirit and power.
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With not assurance in the heart of your hearers.
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Hallelujah. Rabbinical school. Ignorant in Greek
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word means idiot. But the meaning is a layman
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or someone without professional or scholarly
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status. A layman, right? A layman or someone
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without what? Professional or scholarly what?
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So they perceive that these guys were nobody
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in the society. But they know that they have
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been with Jesus. And they've seen and tested
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the authority of Jesus. And it's an undeniable
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power and authority. Hallelujah. Praise God.
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So the person who speaks, the person who speaks,
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the person who speaks, the person who speaks
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does not mean He or she is not a believer or
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is not filled with the Spirit of God. Amen? When
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it comes to the expression of the gifts of the
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Holy Spirit, the speaker, the person that you
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are hearing, right? When he licks those things,
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that does not mean that he is a non -believer.
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Amen? And that does not mean that he does not
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have the Spirit of God. Like I told us, what's
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happening is that as the manifestation is coming,
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it's mixed with emotions, it can be mixed with
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the mind of the person, the maturity of the person,
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how the person understands the things of the
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Spirit. Amen? Hallelujah. So that is why we must
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give so much emphasis to the teaching of God's
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words. Because so that the man that is speaking,
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now he has been taught and trained in the word
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of faith much more, much more, much more, much
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more. When the manifestation is coming now, it
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can be felt that well. Hallelujah. Because now
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you are taught and you are trained that the gifts
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of prophecy and the gifts of the Holy Ghost,
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when they come, is to build, right? So, because
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you have been taught and trained and you are
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now mature or you are maturing, as the manifestation
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is coming, you know how to now pass it so that
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there will be a building. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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Do we understand? Yes. So, expressing the gifts
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of what? The gifts of prophecy. So, we need the
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operation of the gifts of prophecy in our congregation.
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We need everything God has provided for us. But
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we need to follow the instructions of God for
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the proper use of the gift. Praise God. 1 Corinthians
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14, 26. He said, let all things be done unto
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a divine. 1 Corinthians 14, 26. 1 Corinthians
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14, 26. See what the scripture says. Very fast.
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See what it says. Hi, brethren. Hi, brethren.
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When you come together, every one of you had
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a psalm, had a doctrine, had a tongue, had a
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revelation, had an interpretation. Let all things
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be drawn unto what? Edifying. Hallelujah. The
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aim of the expression is to what? To edify. Even
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as it's mixing with your mind, edification. As
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it's mixing with your emotions, edification.
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As it's mixing whether you have a bad day or
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you have a good day, the aim is to what? Is to
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edify. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah. So
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although, We may be inspired to speak. We may
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have a message in tongues or interpretation of
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tongues or a word of prophecy. It is not always
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wise to just jump into it. Because the aim is
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to edify. The aim is not just to bubble up. Praise
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God. It's not just to what? Bubble up words.
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The aim is to what? Is to edify. Let me say this
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now as it's coming to my heart. Then as a believer,
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we need to be cheerful how we communicate. the
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instructions of God to our hearers. We must be
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careful. Our words build. We must be careful
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how we communicate. So the manifestation and
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the expression of the gifts of the prophecy are
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a product of both God and man. The manifestation
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of the expression or the expression of the gifts
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of the prophecy are what? Are a product of both
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what? Divine and what? And human. God and man.
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So God will lead me to edify somebody. Hallelujah.
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God will lead me to build what? To build someone.
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Praise God. So nowhere in the Bible does it say
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that the Holy Spirit ever talked with tongues.
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Nowhere. Instead, we read that the Holy Spirit,
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what? Gives you utterance and you are the one
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that do the talking. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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Nowhere that the Holy Ghost is the one that is
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doing the healing directly. But the Holy Ghost
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has the power to heal his way. It's in us. Who
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does the healing? In my name, yes, I'll do it.
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Lay hands on what? On the sea. Praise God. So
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the power of loss, we read Acts chapter 4, 29,
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does stretch from your hands and heal. How Jesus
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stretched out his hands? Through my hands. Hallelujah.
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So as the manifestation of the feats of the Spirit
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are happening, they are happening through who?
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They are happening through who? They are happening
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through me. Hallelujah. Write this down there.
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I must strive to daily become better in the things
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of the Spirit. For more edification, I must strive
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to get better at what? At the things of the Spirit.
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I must strive to get better in the study of God's
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Word. I must strive to get better in the place
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of prayer. I must strive to get better in the
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place of preaching the Word. I must strive to
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get better. I must strive to do what? to get
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better. We pray something that our brother led
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us. One of the things we pray that he would,
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we should stay what? We should stay fresh. Ah,
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the man that is always fresh, the man that is
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always boiling hot with the themes of the spirit,
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oh boy, he is limitless when it comes to building
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others. Everywhere you go, you bring so much
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edification to your hearers. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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So right is lastly now. Having said all these
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things, prophecy is a result of merging the divine
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and the human. Prophecy, prophecy is a result
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of merging the divine and what? And the human.
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1 Timothy 4 verse 14. We've read it a couple
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of times here. Neglect not the gift that is in
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thee. Prophecy is a result of merging of the
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divine and the human. 1 Timothy 4 .14 Neglect
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not the gift that is what? That is in thee, which
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was given thee by the prophecy, with the laying
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on of the hands of the what? Presbytery. Praise
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God. Who is the one not to neglect? Who is the
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one not to neglect? Me. Hallelujah. 1 Timothy
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4 .6 again. Sorry, 1 .6. Wherefore I put thee
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in remembrance that thou stir up the gifts of
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God, which is in what? In thee. Who does the
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stirring? Who does the speaking? Who does the
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tongues and interpretation? Who does the laying
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of hands? Who does the one that gives the gifts
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of the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge?
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Casting out devils. Who's the one? I do it. Hallelujah.
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Praise God. So in essence now, when it comes
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to the expression now of the things of the spirit,
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God needs you for the manifestation of the gifts
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of prophecy. Hallelujah. But God does not need
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you to be the way you are always. He will always
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need you to grow unto maturity. Amen. Hallelujah.
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Because as the gifts are perfect, the Holy Ghost
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is perfect, the manifestations are perfect, they
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are going to move and flow through who? Through
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me. Hallelujah. So every day I must stay refined.
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Ah, I love this word now. Every day I must stay
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what? I must stay refined. Refined in the place
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of prayer. Refined in the place of the words.
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Refined praying in tongues. Refined praying in
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tongues. Because I want when the gift is manifested,
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you get edified. Hallelujah. The last thing we
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are discussing now and we pray, how to judge
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prophecy? How to judge prophecy? I'm going to
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list it. I will list it and then list the scriptures
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so that we can catch up with time. Amen? How
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to judge what? Prophecy. Even though when we
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come to the prophetic office, We're going to
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talk about it in detail. Amen? Praise God. How
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to judge what? Prophecy. 1 Corinthians 14 .29.
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Fast. 1 Corinthians 14 .29. Let the prophets
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speak. 203. And let the other judge. Let the
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prophets speak. 203. And let the other what?
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Judge. So the word judge. is the word diacrino.
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The word judge is the word diacrino. D -I -A
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-K -R -I -N -O. Diacrino. D -I -A -K -R -I -N
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-O. Which means to discern, to distinguish, to
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test, to evaluate, to weigh carefully the message
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received, whether it is genuine and edifying
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or not. I'm going to repeat it. Diacrino, which
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means to discern, to distinguish, to test, to
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evaluate, to weigh carefully the message received,
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whether it is genuine and edifying or not. To
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test, to discern, to distinguish, to test, to
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evaluate, to weigh carefully the message received,
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whether it is genuine and edifying or what? Or
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not. Hallelujah. Let the other judge. Because
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the essence is that when these words come, right,
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that we don't quench the spirit. Hallelujah.
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We don't despise the prophesying. Amen. And also
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we're able to prove all things and hold fast
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to that which is what? Which is good. 1 Thessalonians
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5, 19 -21. Like we said, even though we acknowledge
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that the gifts of prophecy are God's words, But
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they are coming through what? Through fallible
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human vessels. So therefore, there is an instruction
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for us to be able to what? To weigh them carefully.
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I remember, you remember the first prayers we
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had, the 14 -hour retreat we had. One brother
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came in. And then Yurman Papa Saulu told us that
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we should not allow him to prophesy. Because
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if we allow him to prophesy, he's going to say
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something. The people that were around, they
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know what I'm talking about. I know when we gave
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him opportunity to speak. He said he sees Zimbabwean
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currency getting better. So when we came, we
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now started correcting what he's saying. Maybe
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he needs this. Maybe he needs that. Amen? Often
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we're going to do it now in the next minutes.
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Don't be afraid to give the instructions. Don't
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worry, there will be people in your group that
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are going to say what actually that instruction
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is by the Spirit. Amen? Hallelujah. See if you
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get better at it. Amen? Number one, write it.
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Prophecy is primarily speaking unto men to edification,
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exhortation, and comfort. So first, we must judge
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that is what? Is edifying, is building. Number
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one. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 3. You can write
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that scripture. That's number one. Number two.
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Is it in conformity with the scriptures? Prophecy
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is primarily, that's number one. Prophecy is
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primarily speaking unto men to edification, exhortation,
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and comfort. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 3. So when
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these instructions are coming, what we should
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see is that what? There's a building. There's
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a guidance. There's a help. Amen? There's encouragement.
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Praise God. Not fear. Hallelujah. Not chaos happening
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in the heart of receivers. It's a spirit of love.
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So two, is it in conformity with the scriptures?
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Is it in conformity with the scriptures? Does
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it agree with the scriptures? Like on Sunday
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I said something, everybody laughed. My children
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or my son, my son, do not be afraid. For I, your
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father, sometimes I often get afraid and scared.
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So question. Does God get scared? Does He conform
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with the Scriptures? Does He agree with the Scriptures?
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But you know, some people can receive it and
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say, Oh God, don't be scared. We will not be
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scared. I'm telling you. Does He conform? Does
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He agree with the Scriptures? 2 Peter 1 .21 2
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Timothy 3 .16 -17 1 John 4, 1, 3. 2 Peter 1,
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21. 2 Timothy 3, 16, 17. 1 John 4, 1, 2, 3. Revelation
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19, verse 10. Revelation 19, verse 10. 1 Corinthians
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14, 37. Do I need to say it again? As you say
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it. 2 Peter 1, verse 21. 2 Timothy 3, 16 -17.
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1 John 4, 1 -3. Revelation 19, 10. 1 Corinthians
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14, 37. 3. Do the prophecies produce faith and
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liberty or fear and bondage? Do the prophecies
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produce what? Faith and liberty. Or fear and
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bondage? Do the prophecies produce faith and
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liberty? Or fear and what? And bondage? 2 Corinthians
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4 .13 Do the prophecies produce faith and liberty?
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Or fear and bondage? Romans 8 .15 Romans 8 .15
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2 Corinthians 3 .17. 2 Corinthians 3 .17. 2 Corinthians
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11 .20. 4. Does it glorify God or draws attention
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to man? Does it glorify God or draws attention
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to who? To man. So when you receive these words,
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does it glorify God? or draws attention to who?
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To man. 1 John 4, 1 -2. 1 John 4, 1 -2. 1 John
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4, 1 -2. John 16, 14. John 16, 14. We have two
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more here. The gift of prophecy is not to be
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used to introduce new doctrine. The gift of prophecy
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is not to be used to introduce what? New doctrine.
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Jude 1 .3 Jude 1 .3 You see, I'm bringing a deeper
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truth. I want to take you people and we'll dive
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into a new dimension. There is no any dimension
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anyway. The dimension is here. It's already revealed
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here. Amen. Hallelujah. Jude 1 .3, 1 Timothy
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6 .3 -4. 1 Timothy 6 .3 -4. 1 Timothy 6 .3 -4.
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Ephesians 2 .20. Ephesians 2 .20. 1 John 4 .1
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-2. 1 John 4 .1 -2. 2 Timothy 3, 16 -17. 2 Timothy
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3, 16 -17. And then lastly, the gift of prophecy
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is not to be used merely to satisfy curiosity.
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The gift of prophecy is not to be used merely
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to satisfy what? Curiosity about the future.
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They want to predict who wins the UEFA Champions
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League. A lady met me. She came and met me and
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said, please, there are two guys and pastor,
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can you pray? Real, I'm telling you real. Can
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you pray? I want to know whether the man is my
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husband. I said, why do I need to pray? She said,
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because she came to the house during weekend
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and she saw the clothes of another lady. And
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the cleaner told her that the lady has been there
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for two weeks. I asked her, have you been having
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sex with him? She said, yes. I said, he's not
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your husband. Straight. She said, even my mother
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has endorsed him. I said, even if your mother
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has endorsed him, I don't need to pray about
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it. He's not your husband and you're not his
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wife. They never liked this statement. She left
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and never came till today. I don't know. I think
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I deleted her number too from my phone. Praise
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God. You want to satisfy curiosity about the
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future. Should I pick the husband? He see my
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husband. He see my wife. They already having
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feelings for him. Why do you want me to know?
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Praise God. Hallelujah. Let's rise to our feet.
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Did I give any scripture about that? 2 Peter
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1, 20 -21. Matthew 7, 15 -20. Matthew 7, 15 to
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what? To 20. Hallelujah. Let's rise to our feet.
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