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The Gifts of the Spirit pt 9: The Gift of Prophecy · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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  designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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  walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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  the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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  right in. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory to
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  God. Hallelujah. Before we start the message,
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  sorry, before we continue the message. Sorry
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  if you are new and this is your first time. In
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  this church, we are always drunk like this in
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  the Holy Ghost. There are two people here. The
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  Lord has been putting so much in your heart this
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  week. You know, regarding the work of ministry.
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  Most especially to the youths. You see yourself
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  teaching youths. Who are the people that pray
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  for you? Who are the people? Where is Victory?
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  Victory, join them. Your last week during service,
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  I saw it upon him. Amen. I saw Victory teaching
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  a group of youths. Praise God. Hallelujah. Come
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  on, join them. Come on, join them. I see you.
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  I see youths before you. Every one of us is close
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  to the work of ministry. But I see you specifically,
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  I see youth. I see youth before you. Yes. Hallelujah.
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  Please, Pastor Osaka, can we just pray for them?
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  Can you pray in the Holy Ghost towards them?
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  Can you pray in the Holy Ghost? Can you pray
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  in the Holy Ghost, please? Pray in the Holy Ghost.
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  Stretch forth your hands towards these people
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  here. I'm telling you. In the next few years
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  to come, you're going to see this prophecy is
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  a reality. Hallelujah. You will see them doing
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  exploits. You will see so many youths gathered
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  before them. I know what I'm saying and I know
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  what I've seen. You will see them so many in
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  multitudes. The words of their mouth as much
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  as carry power and authority. They are teaching.
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  And I hear people even ask questions. Where are
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  these ones from? We believe the things they are
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  saying. But where truly are they from? Because
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  the Lord is training them. The Lord is building
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  them. The Lord is equipping them. And the Lord
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  has prepared them for such a time as this. So
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  much of the supernatural back in the works of
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  their hands. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Holy
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  Ghost. Thank you, Holy Ghost. Someone here, you've
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  been desiring to see much more of the prophetic.
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  Right now, receive that. Receive that. Receive
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  that. Receive a seeing eye by the Spirit. And
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  receive a hearing ear by the Spirit. In the name
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  of Jesus, even as you're seated right now, your
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  desire regarding the prophetic, in the name of
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  Jesus, is strengthened much more. In the name
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  of Jesus, the Lord uses you for healing. In the
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  name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus, I pray for
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  you. In the name of Jesus, many are healed. Many
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  are healed through your hands. In the name of
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  Jesus. There is so much power of the Lord through
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  your hands to heal, to heal, to heal. That compassionate
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  heart, Jesus turns it. All the virtue for healing
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  is released in the name of Jesus. Thank you,
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  Lord. Thank you, Lord. We bless you, Jesus. Thank
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  you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God.
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  Glory to God. Coming up to 1 Corinthians chapter
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  12. I have 18 minutes. So in these 18 minutes,
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  I still want to teach and I still want us to
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  do some things of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Is
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  that possible? All things are possible to Custon
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  since he believes. Amen. Praise God. I will introduce
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  what we will have and we will finish it on Wednesday.
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  Praise God. So I will encourage you to come on
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  Wednesday. Amen. Praise God. I will encourage
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  you to do what? Because there will be a mighty
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  expression of the things of the Spirit. Hallelujah.
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  Praise God. How did I know it? I saw it since
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  from yesterday. Hallelujah. Praise God. You know
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  this is not compared to what I've seen that will
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  happen this morning. And much more is happening.
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  Amen. Leaders, the people you gave word to, have
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  they confirmed that? By the Spirit of the Lord?
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  Glory to God. Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians chapter
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  12. Let's run. Amen. Is this the kind of church
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  this NECF, these Near East people have? Yes.
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  I kind of like that church. Yeah, yes. 1 Corinthians
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  chapter 12 verse 10. If you're writing, You are
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  correct. We are continuing actually with the
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  teaching from Catechismos. Amen. This morning
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  we are talking about the gifts of prophecy. The
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  gifts of what? Prophecy. Hallelujah. So this
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  is gifts of prophecy, not the prophetic ministry
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  or the prophetic office. Amen. We are going to
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  teach that in detail when we come to ministry
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  gifts. Hallelujah. Amen. Yeah, so please, as
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  many of you that have been desirous to see more
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  of the manifestation of the prophetic, right?
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  Please stay tuned. Praise God. So we're going
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  to talk about the gifts of what? Prophecy. Turn
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  to the right and to the left and tell the person,
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  do you know you can prophesy too? What's the
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  person's response? Please ask the person, what's
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  the person's response? Ask the person, do you
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  know you can prophesy too? Yeah. Hallelujah.
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  Hallelujah. Praise God. Let's chorus something
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  here like a Sunday school. Chorus this in the
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  way they do it. Can we chorus something? Can
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  we say in Jesus' name? Everybody, let's raise
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  our hands. We'll do it like... Everybody. Everybody.
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  Please, by the way, let me tell you, when I teach
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  and I see you don't participate, I'll pick you
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  out. Don't be offended at that. Amen? Yes, that's
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  how I do it. Can I say in Jesus' name, in Jesus'
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  name, I believe that I have the Spirit of God
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  in me and I believe I have all His gifts in me
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  and I believe I can prophesy. I prophesy always
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  and every day. Say prophecy in motion. Yes. Praise
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  God. Yes, that's our reality. Amen. Okay, so
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  let's read 1 Corinthians 12 .10 now. To another,
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  the walking of miracles. To another, prophecy.
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  To another, discerning of spirit. To another,
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  diverse kinds of tongues. Actually, if you're
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  reading King James Version, you're going to see
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  that diverse is italicized. Originally, it's
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  not supposed to be there. Amen. It's kinds of
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  tongues. Praise God. And then to another, the
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  interpretation of what? Of tongues. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah. Let's read it again. To another,
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  the walking of miracles. To another, prophecy.
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  To another, discerning of spirits. To another,
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  kinds of tongues. To another, the interpretation
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  of what? Of tongues. So during the Karatismos,
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  one of the things that we've learned is that
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  the Holy Spirit It's the gifts. Amen. The Holy
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  Spirit himself is what? It's the gifts. Praise
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  God. And in the gifts, we now have gifts. So
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  in the Holy Ghost, we now have what? His diversities.
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  Amen. If you're not going to be writing, use
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  your phone. Don't be looking at me. Amen. Yeah,
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  so we write in this church. if you have not come
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  here with writing materials, they say, brother,
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  he said I was going to pray with. He came here
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  with a book and passed. Ah, the brother beside
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  that sister. Yes, you, that brother. Yes. You
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  know, the way your hair, I'm checking, are you
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  actually looking at me or not? I'm going to pray
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  with you, right? Yes, I'm led to do that. Praise
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  God. So, in Karatismos, we learned that what?
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  The Holy Ghost is what? Is the gift. And in the
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  gift, we now have what? we now have gifts. And
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  those gifts, we call them diversities of the
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  spirit. Amen? It's almost like I have a carton
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  and then inside the carton, I put different gifts.
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  What do they call this during Christmas? Hamper.
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  Okay. So, they give you a hamper. Right? And
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  inside, I hope the thing will not harm you. So
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  inside the hamper, there are different things.
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  Amen? So when we carry the hamper and give you,
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  we are not giving you only the carton. We are
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  giving you with everything inside what? The hamper.
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  So you have the hamper, you already have everything
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  inside. Praise God. So that's why we're saying
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  that the man that has the Holy Ghost has everything
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  in the Holy Ghost. So you don't have some things.
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  You don't have one thing. You don't have two
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  things from the Holy Ghost. You have how many
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  things? All the things in the Holy Ghost. So
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  let me ask, when a hamper is given to you, is
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  it yours or is it for your neighbor? It's yours.
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  So when we see you, Not using everything inside.
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  Are we to question you or not? Yes, we should
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  question you. I always give an illustration.
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  Where is Theodora and her group? Yes, I always
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  give an illustration. Right? And I gave them
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  that illustration and they gave me a perfect
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  answer. For example, we calculated their tuition
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  fees. And it's run to about how many million?
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  Don't be shy. How many million? Eh? 82 million?
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  No, it's not 22 million. It's more than 22 million.
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  It's almost 100 and something million. Everything.
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  Aside accommodation, NERA, please, not dollars.
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  Right? Yes. That is the tuition fees they are
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  going to use for six years. 100 and something
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  million NERA. Oh, boy. Do you know that you ladies
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  are millionaires already? But you know, I gave
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  them my illustration. I said, take that money
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  now to ICAS. And then you walk there. You know,
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  with 100 and something millionaires in Nigeria,
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  you're going to have bodyguards. Security is
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  360. And then you just walk in there and everybody's
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  questioning, who is this guy or who is this young
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  lady? And then you go in there, you know, and
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  I ask them a question. What is the highest thing
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  you have bought in ICAS? The most expensive thing.
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  And you say, how many? 1 ,000 TL, right? 200
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  TL? Confesso. Okay, let's say it's 1 ,000 TL.
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  And then you run into this place and you then
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  drop 100 and something million and just say,
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  use the rest. I just take 1 ,000 TL team and
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  then you just walk out of the place. And they
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  are calling you, come back, come back. No, no,
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  no, no, no, no, no. You say, I leave it to you.
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  And I asked them, what do you think the people
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  in IKAS will say? Some of them say, they will
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  say you are stupid. Some of them say, they say
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  you are mad. Some of them say, they say you are
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  foolish. I said, do you know that at the end
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  of medical school, if you're not careful, that's
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  how you'll be termed? Because this institution
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  is like a business sector and you come with 100
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  and something million and the equivalent of what
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  you're supposed to take out of it is 4 .0 and
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  you decide to go with 0 .4. What should we call
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  you? You're stupid. When we say you're stupid
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  and foolish, we're not insulting you. We're just
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  saying that you don't have sense to utilize.
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  You're not wise. We're not insulting you. Having
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  said that, sorry, I'm not insulting us. Do you
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  know every time you don't utilize the gifts of
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  the Holy Ghost, you are not wise? Praise God.
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  You are not what? You are not wise. Every time
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  you limit yourself from laying hands on the sick,
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  you are not what? You are not being wise. Every
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  time you are supposed to give a prophetic word
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  and bring instruction, don't sleep on me. Tell
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  your friend, don't sleep on me. Yes, I don't
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  want to point my hand to that direction. But
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  don't sleep on me. If not, I will ask you to
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  stand up. Every time, because this message is
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  very important. And if you are sleeping here,
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  question the demons are oppressing you so that
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  you won't hear it. And you are not wise. Every
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  time you refuse to be led by the Spirit of God,
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  you are not what? You are not wise. Why? Because
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  we know that you have the gift of the Holy Ghost
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  residing where? In you. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  Are we good? The word prophecy. Is translated
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  from the Greek word. Prophetia. The word prophecy.
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  Is translated from the Greek word. Prophetia.
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  P -R -O. P -H -E. T -E -I -A. Prophetia. P -R
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  -O -P. H -E -T -E -I -A. And that word is derived
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  from a root word, prophetio. Just the same thing,
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  just add a U -E -O. Prophetia, from the root
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  word, prophetio. Prophetio. I'm not a Greek,
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  so. P -R -O, the root word, P -R -O -P -H -E
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  -T -E -U -O. Prophecy is prophetia. Prophetio
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  is prophesy. Is that clear? Is that clear? So
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  the word prophecy is from the Greek word what?
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  Prophetia. And it's derived from the root word
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  prophetio. Right? Prophetia. Prophecy. Prophetio.
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  To do what? To prophesy. Hallelujah. So what
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  does it mean to prophesy? To speak forth? Under
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  an inspiration. Hallelujah. To speak forth. Under
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  what? An inspiration. To speak forth. So you
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  meet a man that is drunk. With 10 bottles of
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  red label. Or red horse. Or white label. Right?
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  The guy suddenly starts behaving like a white
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  horse. Or a red horse. At least I've been privileged.
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  Our house I've been privileged to be beside a.
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  Biapalo. Local Biapalo. You know? Yes. So everything
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  is coming crude. We call that BKT. Right? Yes.
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  So the people that know BKT, they understand
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  what I mean. You know? Pastor Fred will always
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  say, is it Pastor Fred or Pastor Victor? He say,
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  is it Ruan Firhauna or Ruan what? He say, the
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  water from Egypt. You know? So when these guys
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  take that brukutu, right? What happens is that,
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  at least we have had lots of sin. I can remember
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  it. You will see them, they are under stupor,
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  right? Is it not? Don't, don't, please. If in
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  your past life you have been, just say yes. I'm
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  not trying to expose anybody. I'm just giving
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  an illustration. So, you know, when they drink,
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  they are under what? Stupor, influence, right?
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  And today start saying, God bless you. God bless
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  you. What do they start saying? Eh? Stupid things.
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  You know, they will start hallucinating. Some
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  of them, suddenly they will even start singing.
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  They will sing, hallucinate. Some of them will
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  fall inside gutter. Some of them will urinate
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  on their body. At least we've known the ones
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  that will sleep in the beer pallet till morning.
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  They will start speaking from the inspiration
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  of the bottle. The formula for that fermentation
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  will enter their head. let me say it this way,
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  their brain will be fermented and they will start
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  speaking rubbish. You see, in prophecy, you speak
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  forth by what? Inspiration. But do you know for
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  the believer, we know our inspiration. Hallelujah.
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  That our inspiration is from who? The Holy Ghost.
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  They do not be drunk with wine, wear it in excess,
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  but be filled by what? By the Spirit or with
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  the Spirit. Sorry. So I am filled with the Spirit.
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  The Spirit becomes my source of what? Inspiration.
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  Every instruction, every direction, everything
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  that will proceed forth will be controlled by
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  what? By the Holy Ghost. The leaders that minister
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  to every group here, they spoke under the inspiration
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  of who? The Spirit of God. Are we all here? So
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  it means to speak forth by the Spirit. To speak
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  forth by the inspiration of the Spirit. And if
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  you are writing, write it this way. And usually
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  is on the spur of the moment. Usually is what?
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  Is on the spur of what? Of the moment. Like right
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  now. Shimdi, shimdi, shimdi. Is happening now.
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  So you see now, what we are saying is that prophecy,
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  let me put it this way. Prophecy, right, is speaking
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  forth from the inspiration of the Holy Ghost
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  on the moment. Praise God. We are speaking when?
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  Now, on the moment. Are we all here? Are we all
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  here? So Acts chapter 2 now. Let's go to Acts
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  chapter 2. Have we all gotten the definition
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  of prophecy? Have we gotten the definition of
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  prophecy? Good, perfect now. So let's move on.
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  Acts chapter 2, everybody. Let's start building
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  now. Let's start building. Acts chapter 2. Acts
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  chapter 2 from verse 16. Let's start reading
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  from verse 14 so that we can have a context to
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  it. Acts chapter 2 from verse 14. Be this known
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  unto you and hearken to my words. For these are
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  not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is what?
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  But the third hour of the day, 16. But this is
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  that which was spoken. Hallelujah. Which was
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  what? By who? So Prophet Joel spoke under the
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  inspiration of what? He spoke under the inspiration
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  of? The Spirit of God. What did he say? 17. And
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  it shall come to pass in the last days, said
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  who? God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all
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  flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall
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  prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
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  and your old men shall dream what? Shall dream
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  dreams. So where is Peter quoting this from?
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  Amen? Because we understand, as a way of training
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  and teaching in this church, right, that Matthew,
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  Mark, Luke, John, and all the epistles, right,
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  all of them were written from where? Huh? From
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  the scriptures, right? And when we say the scriptures,
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  we mean what? Okay, Old Testament. Okay, keep
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  saying anything old. What is Old Testament? Genesis
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  2. Malachi. So if Peter is going to talk at this
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  point, because let's take ourselves and stand
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  where Peter was standing. At this point, there
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  is nothing called book of Acts, right? Because
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  this was written, right, in the life of Peter.
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  Praise God. So Peter will not quote from any
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  book. Peter will go and quote from where? From
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  Genesis to where? To Malachi. So from Genesis
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  to Malachi, the event that is happening in the
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  room. Where Peter saw its fulfillment is nowhere
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  from Joel. Praise God. Because he said, Prophet
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  Joel prophesied about this event that is happening.
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  That there is going to be a time that the Spirit
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  of God will be put and it will be upon everyone.
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  Hallelujah. Praise God. So now let's go to that
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  Joel. Joel 2, 28. Let's read Joel 2 .28. And
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  on Wednesday, we're going to build solidly on
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  this as a way of introduction. Joel 2 .28. And
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  it shall what? Come to pass afterwards that I
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  will do what? That I will do what? Pour my spirit
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  on what? On all flesh. But you see, what he said
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  in Acts, he said, and the Lord said. But you
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  see, Joel here is saying, I will pour out of
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  my spirit and all flesh, your sons and your works.
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  So you see, and it shall come to pass. This wasn't
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  Joel that is speaking. Praise God. This is God
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  speaking through who? And that is why you will
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  see the statement as though Joel is the one that
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  is what? Speaking. I will pour out of my what?
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  Spirit. But Peter said that, and God what? He
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  will do it. But when Joel was speaking this as
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  a word of prophecy, because now we're going to
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  build on it on Wednesday, right? The Spirit came
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  upon Joel and he is speaking as it were God is
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  what? He's speaking. Praise God. He said, your
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  daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall
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  dream dreams, your young men shall see what?
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  Shall see visions. Hallelujah. Say I speak under
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  the inspiration. Of the Holy Ghost. And I prophesy.
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  Under the inspiration. Of the Holy Ghost. I see.
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  By the Spirit. I hear. By the Spirit. I perceive.
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  By the Spirit. In the name of Jesus. Can we just
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  give thanks to the Lord? Can we give thanks to
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  the Lord everybody? we hope you carry this word
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  with you throughout your week don't forget to
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