Hello, friends, welcome
to another Bible study here
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at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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This is A Sharper Focus,
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named that because we do believe
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that the more we
study the Word of God,
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the sharper it comes into focus.
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Thank you for
taking the time tonight
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to continue to join us.
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And if you're
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remember this channel,
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we believe that
studying God's Word
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strengthens our walk with Him.
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Can we all say
amen to that? Amen.
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And so we thank you
for joining us here,
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wherever you're joining us from.
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In just a moment,
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I'll tell you how to
get a copy of the lesson.
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But before we do anything else,
we always begin with prayer.
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Heavenly Father, we
thank You for the opportunity
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of opening Your Word.
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We pray that Your holy
angels will come and surround us
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that You will
connect us to our listening
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and viewing audience.
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And that because the
topic is about the Holy Spirit,
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may Your Holy
Spirit have His way tonight
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in our hearts and in our lives.
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Make Your Word clear
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and give us the desire
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and strength to
continue to follow You.
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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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Now go to this
following website asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson number 41
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"It's the gifts of the Spirit."
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Lesson number 41 asf.3abn.org
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at that very website
there are about 181 videos
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and lessons all these outlines
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that you can download
and share with your friends
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and your church
and or your neighbors.
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But something else we do
before we go any further.
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We have our theme song.
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Our theme song is... What is it?
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"Victory in Jesus."
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Let's sing this together.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sin
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And won the victory
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Together.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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The gifts of the Spirit,
that's our topic tonight.
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And once again, if
you don't have a lesson,
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if you just
joined, go to asf.3abn.org,
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download lesson number 41.
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The Holy Spirit is the gift
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that gives the gift.
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The Holy Spirit is the
gift that gives the gift.
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If Jesus did not give
the gift of the Holy Spirit,
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we would not have
the gifts of the Spirit.
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So this transaction...
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Let's go to John Chapter
16 to lay some foundation.
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This transaction
was guaranteed by Jesus
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for the benefit and the blessing
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of the New Testament Church.
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But I wanna make it very clear,
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the Holy Spirit was also active
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among the Old
Testament people of God.
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The prophets could not have done
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what they have done
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had there not been a Spirit.
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Remember, Elisha asked
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for a double
portion of the Spirit
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that was upon Elijah.
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So the Spirit of God
is always been active,
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but in the New Testament
there was a transitional stage
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because you
finally Old Testament
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while God was
working on His people
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so that eventually He
can work through His people,
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He never got to
work through them
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because they did not
respond to Him working on them.
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And so He made an
attempt in the New Testament
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by choosing, how many disciples?
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How many say?
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Twelve. Twelve disciples.
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And then through the
work of the Holy Spirit,
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He trained them for
three and half years.
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And before He left,
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He was now
beginning in the New Testament
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what He intended to
do in the Old Testament
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to carry the
gospel to the world.
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Look at John 16 and verse,
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let's see verse 5.
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Let me see if want
to go further back.
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Okay, I wanna go to verse 1.
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How did I get to verse 1?
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The Bible says,
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"These things I
have spoken to you,
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that you should not
be made to stumble."
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And this is a prophecy that
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the apostles were told
would eventually happen.
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"They will put you
out of the synagogues.
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Yes, the time will come
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that whoever
kills you will think
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that he offers God service.
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And these things
they will do to you
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because they have not
known the Father nor...
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They have not
known the Father nor Me.
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But these
things I have told you,
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that when the time comes,
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you may remember
that I told you of them.
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And these things
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I did not say to
you at the beginning,
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because I was with you."
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But now here is the transition.
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"But now,"
what's next three words?
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Say with some fervor, I what?
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"I go away."
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He is leaving.
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"I go away to Him who sent Me,
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and none of you asks Me,
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'Where are You going?'
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But because I have
said these things to you,
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sorrow has filled your heart."
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And this is the beauty.
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"Nevertheless I
tell you the truth.
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It is to your
advantage," to your what?
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"It's to your
advantage that I go away,
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for if I do not go away,
the Helper, or the Spirit,
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or the Comforter
will not come to you.
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But if I depart, I
will send Him to you.
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Let me pause and
make a point right here.
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The Holy Spirit is not an it,
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Him.
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"He will come,
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if I don't go
away, He will not come.
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I will go away,
and I will send Him."
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And the Bible
doesn't use this word
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in an arbitrary way,
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it's literally using
it in the masculine way.
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This is the
masculine description
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of who the Holy Spirit is.
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And we'll find out
in our lesson another,
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a number of other attributes
about the Holy Spirit.
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"When I go away, He will come.
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I will go away,
and I'll send Him."
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So this idea
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that the Holy Spirit is
some kind of ethereal cloud
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that floats around and
effects people's lives.
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And like wind,
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His work is
unpredictable like the wind.
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But He's very much
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the third person of the Godhead.
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Can we say amen? Amen.
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The third person of the Godhead,
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not the third entity.
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"And when He has come,
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He will convict
the world of sin."
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This is His operation.
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Let me make a point right here.
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One of the
reasons why Jesus said
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it's to your
advantage that I go away
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is because once
Jesus took on human flesh,
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He will forever be in
the form of human flesh.
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That omnipotence
that He possessed
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before He
condescended to the earth,
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He will no longer possess,
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He became the Son of
man, He became our brother.
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So with one hand,
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He connected
humanity to divinity
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and with the other hand,
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He connected
divinity to humanity.
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But the great price...
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That's why He said
it is to your advantage
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or expedient that I go away
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because He now after
taken on the form of humanity
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cannot reverse that,
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He will either be victorious
in the form of humanity
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by the help of His Father,
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or He will be defeated
in the form of humanity
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and forever be a
slave to Satan's kingdom.
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Thank the Lord, He won. Amen.
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But He's saying it's
necessary that I go away.
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"I've got to go
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because I cannot do now
what He is going to do."
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He's going to be omniscient.
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Sorry,
omnipresent, also omniscient.
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But He's gonna be omnipresent,
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He's gonna be able to work
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through all of
you at the same time,
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He's gonna
continue to work in you.
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And you'll find
that so many examples
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in the New Testament.
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For example, when Philip
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was sent into the desert
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to do an evangelistic series,
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how many people attended
his evangelistic series?
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One. One, and who was he?
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The Ethiopian eunuch.
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And after that
baptism, what happened?
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The Spirit swept him away,
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that would not have happened
had the Spirit not been active.
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So the Lord is saying,
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"There's another
work that must continue,
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but it won't happen,
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it would not
happen until I go away."
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Let's look at a
couple of other things
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that are very
important about the Holy Spirit.
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And by the way, this is the work
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the Spirit is doing,
convicting the world of sin.
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And you'll see
later on of righteousness
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and also of judgment.
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What verse am I up to? Verse 8?
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"And when He has come,
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He will convict
the world of sin,
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and of righteousness,
and of," what else?
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"Of judgment, of sin,
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because they do not
believe in Me of righteousness,
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because I go to My
Father and you see Me..."
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No more. That's right.
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"And you see Me..."
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Am I saying that correctly?
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"And you see Me no more."
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And verse 11.
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Mine just all of a
sudden it flipped here
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and did something
really strange here.
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In verse 11, let
me just open here.
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I had a glitch in
my iPad. Here it is.
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Further down.
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"Because you see Me
no more, of judgment,
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because the ruler of
this world is judged."
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And then this is the part
that was so beautiful verse 12.
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"I still have many
things to say to you,
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but you cannot bear them now.
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However," I love that, however.
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So as much as the
Lord showed the disciples
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there was still something
more He had to show them.
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So the reason
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why they were called
disciples and later apostles,
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discipleship is training,
apostleship is function.
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You're getting ready.
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And now you're sent.
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Discipleship is,
"I'm mentoring you.
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Apostleship is,
"I'm sending you."
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And that's why he said later on,
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"I send you forth
as lambs among wolves."
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So I got you ready.
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I'm gonna tell you more things,
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but I'll only give them
to you as you need them.
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So it says here in verse 13.
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"However, when He,
the Spirit of truth,
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has come, He
will guide you into,"
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how much?
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"All truth."
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Let me make
another point right here.
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It's not possible to say that
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you are being lead by the Spirit
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and not willing to accept truth.
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If the Spirit is leading you,
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and you're
responding to the Holy Spirit,
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truth is not an issue.
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Right, Emma Lou?
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Not an issue at all.
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Right, Ramona? Not an issue.
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And He says,
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"But whatever He hears..."
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Well, let me finish.
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"For He will not
speak on His own authority,
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but whatever He
hears He will speak,
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and He will tell
you things to come."
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Another phrase
for things to come,
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what's the single word
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we could use for things to come?
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Future? Okay, what's the word?
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Say it again?
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Prophecy. That's right.
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The Holy Spirit is
going to pour upon the church
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this understanding that
they don't presently possess.
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And the reason why they
didn't presently possess it
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is because the
New Testament Church
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didn't start yet.
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It didn't start
until Jesus left.
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So while He was discipling
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what was still in
place was the aristocracy,
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was the Jewish
leadership, was the Sanhedrin,
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and the Pharisees, the Scribes,
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all of those that should
have for more than 1,000 years
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been communicating
the gospel to the world,
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but they didn't.
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So the Lord is now
training a new group of workers
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to do what the Jews fail to do.
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And this is really humbling
00:14:06.17\00:14:07.51
because I wanna make this point.
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We don't have the
truth, the truth has us.
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If the truth doesn't have you,
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then the Lord will give
the truth to somebody else.
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So we don't possess the truth,
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the truth is
intended to possess us.
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All right?
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And lastly,
I'll transition here,
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verse 16,
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"He will glorify Me,
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for He will take of what is Mine
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and declare it to you."
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So this is important.
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Should we
glorify the Holy Spirit?
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Yes or no? Yes.
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No.
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You don't
glorify the Holy Spirit,
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not even the Holy Spirit
glorifies the Holy Spirit.
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Am I right?
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The Bible says the Holy
Spirit will glorify Jesus.
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He doesn't even glorify Himself.
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So we're not to
glorify the Holy Spirit.
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We can thank the Lord
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for the work He
does in our lives
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through the Holy Spirit.
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But the Holy Spirit
is not glorifying Himself
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and His work is
to glorify Jesus.
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Say that again.
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Some churches glorying. Right.
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Some people make the Holy Spirit
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the highest focus in their walk,
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when in fact Jesus says,
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the Holy Spirit never
says if I be lifted up,
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it's if Jesus is lifted up.
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All right? And
let's end on this note.
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Verse 15,
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"All things the
Father has are Mine.
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Therefore I said that
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He will take of Mine
and declare it to you."
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Now look at the
trinity right there
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or the Godhead,
whatever phrase you wanna use,
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whatever word you wanna use.
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The Father,
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everything the
Father has belongs to Jesus,
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and the Holy
Spirit is gonna take
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what belongs to
Jesus and declare it you.
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Right there showing carefully
00:15:40.94\00:15:43.84
the connection
between the three.
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"All things that the
Father has are Mine."
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Father and Mine, that's Jesus.
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"Therefore I said
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He will take of Mine
and declare it to you."
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Passing the torch
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from the Father, to the
Son, to the Holy Spirit.
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But tonight, we're gonna look...
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Since we've gone
through 17 questions.
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Tonight, we're gonna dive
down to question number 18
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and ask some very
important questions
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because what we're
gonna talk about tonight
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is the indispensability
of the Holy Spirit.
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When I say indispensability
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that means something
you can't do without,
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someone you cannot do without.
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If you don't
have the Holy Spirit,
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you have no power.
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But there's another reason
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why the Holy
Spirit is necessary.
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So look at question number 18.
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What makes the gift of
prophecy indispensable?
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And by the way,
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the gift of
prophecy is one of the gifts
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that the Holy Spirit
has imparted to the church.
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What makes the gift of prophecy
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indispensable?
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Okay.
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And we're gonna
go to Matthew 26:56.
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Go back here, all right?
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Important, here's the answer.
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"But all of this was done
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that the Scriptures
of the prophets might be,
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" what?
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"Fulfilled."
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That's the focal
point of the verse.
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So the gifts that
the prophets exercise,
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the message that
they communicated...
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When Jesus talked
about the events in His life,
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and by the way,
Matthew 25, Matthew 26, and 27
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are talking about
the passion of Christ,
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His arrest, His trial,
00:17:35.38\00:17:38.52
His conviction of
nothing He did wrong,
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of His scourging,
of His crucifixion.
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The disciples were concerned,
why is this happening?
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And He said it,
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"That the
Scriptures of the prophets
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might be fulfilled."
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So if the Spirit wasn't
working through the prophets,
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then they would not know these
things were going to happen.
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So this indispensability,
and you'll see,
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let's go to another passage.
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This is extra, we
did this in the past.
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Go to Amos 3:7.
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So write the answer down.
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The answer is...
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Say it again, honey.
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Scriptures may be fulfilled.
Scriptures may be fulfilled.
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That's right.
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The Spirit has
been working in ages,
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but He has been
working through the gifts
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that the prophets have.
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Amos, go to Daniel,
Hosea, Joel, and then Amos.
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You find Daniel,
you can't find Daniel,
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go to Ezekiel,
Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos.
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You know, when you think about
the story of the road to Emmaus
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was a powerful story.
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Jesus walks with
Cleophas and another disciple.
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And the Bible says,
Jesus revealed to them
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all things in the
Scripture concerning Himself.
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Now can you imagine,
this is one of those passages.
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So that means every
prophecy from the first prophet,
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from the first prophecy...
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What was the first prophecy
in the Bible about Jesus?
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What book was He found in?
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Genesis. What chapter?
00:19:09.01\00:19:10.95
What verse? Okay.
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I will put enmity.
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So Jesus when He's
walking on the road to Emmaus,
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every prophecy in the scriptures
00:19:19.29\00:19:21.22
concerning Himself,
00:19:21.26\00:19:22.66
He revealed to
Cleophas and the other disciple.
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Can you imagine, Marlena,
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what kind of
Bible study that was?
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You think He
missed the Scripture?
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No.
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He is the living
Word, every scripture...
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And that's why when
they realize it was Him,
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what did they say?
00:19:38.04\00:19:41.11
"Wasn't that something else?"
00:19:41.14\00:19:43.04
They didn't have
indigestion, they had heartburn.
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They had a heartburn
for the good reasons.
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I think it was
Pastor Ivor Myer that
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he took a flip
on that scripture.
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When you get heartburn?
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Did not our
hearts burn within us?
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Something you can only get
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when the Word of God
is filling your heart.
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That's the good heartburn.
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When you don't accept
that, then you get indigestion.
00:20:01.53\00:20:05.00
Look at what the Lord says here.
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A couple of passages.
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And by the way,
00:20:09.07\00:20:10.84
how many men that I say
00:20:10.87\00:20:12.21
Jesus was walking
with on the road to Emmaus?
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Two men. Okay.
00:20:14.24\00:20:15.61
Look at verse 3
of Amos Chapter 3.
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Amos 3:3, "Can
two walk together,
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unless they are agreed?"
00:20:24.15\00:20:25.49
And what's the answer?
00:20:25.52\00:20:26.89
No, no.
00:20:26.92\00:20:28.26
But then verse
7, which was the one
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that I wanted you
to focus on initially.
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The Bible says,
00:20:32.83\00:20:34.16
"Surely the Lord
God does nothing,
00:20:34.20\00:20:37.57
unless He reveals His secrets
to His servants the prophets."
00:20:37.60\00:20:42.90
So what is
being referred to here
00:20:42.94\00:20:44.91
by Jesus in the Passion Week
00:20:44.94\00:20:47.08
was revealed
through His servants,
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.14
the prophet, His prophets,
00:20:49.18\00:20:51.75
He was revealing
that so therefore,
00:20:51.78\00:20:53.85
what was now happening,
00:20:53.88\00:20:55.32
Jesus was saying
to His disciples,
00:20:55.35\00:20:57.19
"This had to be fulfilled."
00:20:57.22\00:20:58.69
And they tried their best
00:20:58.72\00:21:00.09
to extricate
Jesus or to deliver Him
00:21:00.12\00:21:03.56
from what was happening to
Him, but it had to be fulfilled.
00:21:03.59\00:21:06.70
It had to be
fulfilled so that they will know
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.66
He is the Messiah.
00:21:08.70\00:21:10.67
Okay, let's go to
the very next question.
00:21:10.70\00:21:13.03
Question number 19.
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.10
Question number 19.
00:21:15.14\00:21:17.94
What assurance does the Bible
give concerning a true prophet?
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Number 19.
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What does the Bible...
00:21:23.24\00:21:24.58
What assurance
does the Bible give
00:21:24.61\00:21:28.68
concerning a true prophet?
00:21:28.72\00:21:30.42
You'll see that on the screen
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those of you who are
in the home audience.
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What assurances does the Bible
give concerning a true prophet?
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In Jeremiah 28:8 and 9.
00:21:36.86\00:21:39.93
Let's look at that together.
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All right.
00:21:43.10\00:21:44.43
We read, "The prophets
00:21:52.54\00:21:55.51
who had been
before me and before you
00:21:55.54\00:21:59.41
of old prophesied
against many countries
00:21:59.45\00:22:02.75
and great kingdoms
of war and disaster
00:22:02.78\00:22:06.52
and pestilence.
00:22:06.55\00:22:09.66
As for the prophet
who prophesies of peace,
00:22:09.69\00:22:13.06
when the word of the
prophet comes to past
00:22:13.09\00:22:15.66
or pass that
prophet will be known
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.83
as one whom the
Lord has truly sent."
00:22:18.87\00:22:23.57
So what is the assurance
00:22:23.61\00:22:27.28
that the Bible gives
concerning a true prophet?
00:22:27.31\00:22:29.28
What they say, what?
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.48
Comes to pass.
00:22:34.52\00:22:35.92
That's the assurance
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.29
if the prophet says
it, and it comes to pass.
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.79
But there is a caveat
there, there is a caveat.
00:22:39.82\00:22:44.06
A caveat is like a caution.
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Hold on a moment.
00:22:47.53\00:22:48.86
Don't go too
fast, kind of moment.
00:22:48.90\00:22:51.00
I want you to see that.
00:22:51.03\00:22:53.00
Go with me...
00:22:53.03\00:22:56.14
to Deuteronomy.
00:22:56.17\00:22:59.44
Let me just see
where that one is,
00:22:59.47\00:23:00.81
I'm going right here.
00:23:00.84\00:23:02.18
Come on, bring it up here.
00:23:02.21\00:23:03.55
Deuteronomy, and we
are gonna look at...
00:23:03.58\00:23:05.65
I believe it's Chapter 13.
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.39
Yeah, Deuteronomy Chapter 13.
00:23:20.90\00:23:24.50
Yeah.
00:23:24.53\00:23:25.87
Now the reason I'm
reading you this passage
00:23:30.21\00:23:32.17
is because
00:23:32.21\00:23:33.71
who else knows
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.08
that the test of
a true prophet means
00:23:35.11\00:23:36.85
they say something that happens,
00:23:36.88\00:23:38.28
who else knows?
00:23:38.31\00:23:39.65
The devil does.
00:23:39.68\00:23:41.02
And have we been warned?
00:23:41.05\00:23:44.05
No, let me not just
give you the answers?
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.49
What have we been warned
of concerning the last days?
00:23:45.52\00:23:48.39
False prophets
will arise and do what?
00:23:51.46\00:23:54.30
Deceive.
Deceive many with, what?
00:23:54.33\00:23:57.63
Signs and wonders.
00:23:57.67\00:24:00.04
In other words,
they will do things
00:24:00.07\00:24:01.94
that if your
eyes were the only way
00:24:01.97\00:24:05.94
that you can confirm
whether or not it's true,
00:24:05.97\00:24:08.14
you'll be deceived.
00:24:08.18\00:24:09.68
Right?
00:24:09.71\00:24:11.05
They'll do many
things in Jesus' name.
00:24:11.08\00:24:12.91
And those things will be...
00:24:12.95\00:24:14.28
The Bible says
00:24:14.32\00:24:15.65
they will be of such magnitude
that if it were possible,
00:24:15.68\00:24:18.52
they would
deceive the very elect.
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.39
So one of the keys
is you have to make sure
00:24:20.42\00:24:22.12
all the parameters are in place.
00:24:22.16\00:24:23.73
Here's the reason why.
00:24:23.76\00:24:25.09
Deuteronomy Chapter 13.
00:24:25.13\00:24:26.96
I'm gonna read this very quickly
00:24:27.00\00:24:28.33
as you walk with me
through the passages.
00:24:28.36\00:24:30.97
Verse 1, "If there
arises among you a prophet
00:24:31.00\00:24:35.10
or a dreamer of dreams,
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.14
and he gives you
a sign or a wonder."
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.17
That's why the Bible says
00:24:39.21\00:24:40.54
he'll show many
signs and wonders
00:24:40.58\00:24:41.91
in Matthew 24.
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.31
"And the sign of the
wonder comes to pass,"
00:24:44.35\00:24:47.08
Boom, if you
stop there, you'll say
00:24:47.12\00:24:48.45
he's got to be a true prophet.
00:24:48.48\00:24:50.29
But look what he adds to it.
00:24:50.32\00:24:52.39
"Of which he spoke to
you, saying," now watch,
00:24:52.42\00:24:54.89
he adds the condition to that.
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.62
He says now that
you know it's true.
00:24:56.66\00:24:58.96
Follow me.
00:24:58.99\00:25:00.66
Now that you know
it's true, follow me.
00:25:00.70\00:25:02.40
And look what it says,
00:25:02.43\00:25:03.77
"Saying, 'Let
us go after,' what,
00:25:03.80\00:25:06.97
'other gods,'
00:25:07.00\00:25:08.34
which you have not
known and let us do," what?
00:25:08.37\00:25:11.51
"Serve them."
00:25:11.54\00:25:12.97
Look at the injunction.
00:25:13.01\00:25:14.88
"You shall not listen to
the words of that prophet
00:25:14.91\00:25:18.28
or that dreamer of dreams,
00:25:18.31\00:25:20.82
for the Lord your God is," what?
00:25:20.85\00:25:23.22
"He's testing you.
00:25:23.25\00:25:25.39
He's testing you to know
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.19
whether you love the
Lord your God with," how much?
00:25:27.22\00:25:30.76
"All your heart
and," with what else?
00:25:30.79\00:25:32.43
"All your soul."
00:25:32.46\00:25:33.80
And then he says,
00:25:33.83\00:25:35.43
in verse 4,
00:25:35.46\00:25:37.63
"You shall walk after the
Lord your God and," do what?
00:25:37.67\00:25:41.47
"Fear Him," and what else?
00:25:41.50\00:25:44.24
"Keep His
commandments and," what else?
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.78
"Obey His voice, and
you shall serve," what?
00:25:46.81\00:25:49.78
"Him and hold," what?
00:25:49.81\00:25:51.21
"Fast to Him."
00:25:51.25\00:25:52.58
Now it's all
about Him, Him, Him.
00:25:52.61\00:25:54.72
So sometimes,
00:25:54.75\00:25:56.08
and this is
something you have to put on,
00:25:56.12\00:25:57.65
you know, put a red
dot on this in your brain.
00:25:57.69\00:26:01.16
Sometimes a false
prophet would say,
00:26:01.19\00:26:03.89
"I did not tell you
that was gonna happen.
00:26:03.93\00:26:06.16
Yeah, it didn't happen.
00:26:06.19\00:26:07.70
So why you're not
gonna join my movement?"
00:26:07.73\00:26:10.37
Then you ask him,
00:26:10.40\00:26:12.43
"Do you honor the
commandments of God?"
00:26:12.47\00:26:16.14
Well,
00:26:16.17\00:26:17.67
and you know right away,
00:26:17.71\00:26:19.51
that that person is
not sent of the Lord.
00:26:19.54\00:26:21.58
He's trying to draw you away.
00:26:21.61\00:26:23.01
And the reason for this,
00:26:23.04\00:26:24.38
and God is
always forward looking.
00:26:24.41\00:26:26.15
What's that word I use?
00:26:26.18\00:26:27.68
He's always forward
looking because today,
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.95
more people will pack
into a miracle service
00:26:29.98\00:26:33.19
than into a Bible seminar.
00:26:33.22\00:26:36.02
When you put
those big miracle...
00:26:36.06\00:26:37.86
Sir Benny Hinn or Benny
Hill, whichever one he is,
00:26:37.89\00:26:41.06
when he comes to town,
00:26:41.10\00:26:43.06
people will be
coming in the droves,
00:26:43.10\00:26:44.90
they'll be filling stadiums,
00:26:44.93\00:26:46.84
giving out miracle
oil and miracle letters
00:26:46.87\00:26:49.70
and red claws and
splinters from the tree that...
00:26:49.74\00:26:53.17
As one person once said
00:26:53.21\00:26:54.54
there was so many splinters soul
00:26:54.58\00:26:55.94
that people claim
that come from the tree
00:26:55.98\00:26:58.05
that Jesus was crucified on.
00:26:58.08\00:26:59.91
It's said it was enough
to make Yosemite forest.
00:26:59.95\00:27:03.79
But false prophets do
that, they lie to you,
00:27:03.82\00:27:07.06
they sell you stuff
00:27:07.09\00:27:08.42
that is not
connected to the true prophet.
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.89
That's what they do.
And people get deceived.
00:27:10.93\00:27:12.76
They said, "Well,
he did heal that man,
00:27:12.79\00:27:14.53
and he's walking normal now."
00:27:14.56\00:27:16.97
Well, the devil could
put on a malady on somebody
00:27:17.00\00:27:19.93
and then remove
it, just to deceive you
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.14
if that's what
it's going to take.
00:27:22.17\00:27:24.07
Question number 20.
00:27:24.11\00:27:26.21
Question number 20.
00:27:26.24\00:27:27.88
Let's turn there.
00:27:27.91\00:27:29.24
Okay.
00:27:32.71\00:27:35.38
Okay.
00:27:35.42\00:27:36.75
How can we know
00:27:39.49\00:27:41.66
that the prophet is
connected to the true God?
00:27:41.69\00:27:44.26
How can we know
00:27:44.29\00:27:45.89
that the prophet is
connected to the true God?
00:27:45.93\00:27:48.93
Okay.
00:27:48.96\00:27:52.10
1 John Chapter 4,
00:27:52.13\00:27:54.44
let's go to verse 2 and 3.
00:27:54.47\00:27:57.87
I'm gonna turn my Bible there.
00:27:57.91\00:28:00.41
I try not to spoon feed you.
00:28:00.44\00:28:03.28
I know you have your
Bibles when you go to yours,
00:28:03.31\00:28:05.55
then those who
are on the screen,
00:28:05.58\00:28:07.28
who are joining us
may not have theirs.
00:28:07.32\00:28:09.48
1 John 4:2 and 3.
00:28:09.52\00:28:13.22
And here's what the
Bible reveals to us.
00:28:13.25\00:28:15.49
It says, "By this you
know the Spirit of God:
00:28:15.52\00:28:19.76
Every Spirit that confesses
00:28:19.79\00:28:22.66
that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is of God."
00:28:22.70\00:28:26.20
Now the word Spirit there
doesn't mean a different Spirit
00:28:26.23\00:28:29.57
or disembodied entity.
00:28:29.60\00:28:31.84
It means the
attitude of a person.
00:28:31.87\00:28:35.71
If that person is
speaking by the Spirit,
00:28:35.74\00:28:37.71
that person is speaking
truth, and they must confess.
00:28:37.75\00:28:41.52
So that's in essence saying,
00:28:41.55\00:28:42.95
a sincere
individual will confess
00:28:42.98\00:28:45.15
that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh
00:28:45.19\00:28:47.26
that person is of God.
00:28:47.29\00:28:48.86
"And every Spirit
that does not confess
00:28:48.89\00:28:50.79
that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh,
00:28:50.83\00:28:52.83
" what does it say?
00:28:52.86\00:28:54.46
"Is not of God.
00:28:54.50\00:28:56.06
And this is the
Spirit of the Antichrist."
00:28:56.10\00:29:01.14
And by the way,
that doesn't mean
00:29:01.17\00:29:02.77
against Christ
that means in place of.
00:29:02.80\00:29:05.51
"Which you have
heard was coming,
00:29:05.54\00:29:07.18
and is now
already in the world."
00:29:07.21\00:29:10.18
So how can we
know that the prophet
00:29:10.21\00:29:11.61
is connected to the true God?
00:29:11.65\00:29:15.55
How can we know?
00:29:15.58\00:29:16.92
They'll confess
that Jesus Christ
00:29:21.29\00:29:22.96
did come in the flesh.
00:29:22.99\00:29:24.53
Now this is huge
00:29:24.56\00:29:26.49
because to this day,
00:29:26.53\00:29:30.50
the Jews have rejected the fact
00:29:30.53\00:29:32.03
that Jesus Christ
came in the flesh.
00:29:32.07\00:29:34.04
This was the
context of this passage.
00:29:34.07\00:29:37.37
John is speaking
00:29:37.41\00:29:39.21
as one of the
apostles of Christ,
00:29:39.24\00:29:41.28
who was a disciple of Christ,
00:29:41.31\00:29:43.11
and the very
nation that Jesus chose
00:29:43.14\00:29:45.68
rejected the fact
00:29:45.71\00:29:47.32
that this person
standing in the flesh is not.
00:29:47.35\00:29:51.05
They rejected the fact
00:29:51.09\00:29:52.42
that this person in
the flesh is Christ.
00:29:52.45\00:29:55.69
"When the
fullness of time had come,
00:29:55.72\00:29:57.39
God sent forth His
Son born of a woman."
00:29:57.43\00:30:00.30
Galatians 4:4.
00:30:00.33\00:30:02.06
They rejected that.
00:30:02.10\00:30:03.43
So back then,
00:30:03.47\00:30:04.80
the test was as they
went to the Jewish churches
00:30:04.83\00:30:08.10
as they continue
preaching the gospel.
00:30:08.14\00:30:09.74
Okay, let me check you.
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.54
Do you believe that
Jesus Christ came in the flesh?
00:30:11.57\00:30:13.74
No, no. Okay, you're antichrist?
00:30:13.78\00:30:18.38
Do you believe that
Jesus Christ came in the flesh?
00:30:18.41\00:30:20.18
And that was the test
that they had to continue
00:30:20.22\00:30:22.28
to apply throughout
the New Testament church
00:30:22.32\00:30:24.55
because it was so close
to the rejection of Christ
00:30:24.59\00:30:28.26
that John had to
say, "Do you believe?
00:30:28.29\00:30:29.76
Do you believe? Do you believe?"
00:30:29.79\00:30:31.43
And when they said yes.
00:30:31.46\00:30:32.79
"Oh, great. You're safe."
00:30:32.83\00:30:35.66
But the test is broader today
00:30:35.70\00:30:38.10
because what the devil has done
00:30:38.13\00:30:40.04
is he's found a
way to deceive those
00:30:40.07\00:30:41.60
who do believe that
Jesus Christ came in the flesh.
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.44
That's why he's
added another component.
00:30:44.47\00:30:46.34
Let's go to 1 John 2:3 and 4.
00:30:46.37\00:30:49.64
That's why he's
added another component.
00:30:49.68\00:30:52.18
And by the way, when I
said another component,
00:30:52.21\00:30:54.32
he didn't give something
00:30:54.35\00:30:55.68
that's not already in the Bible.
00:30:55.72\00:30:57.05
But the tests have
expanded because back then,
00:30:57.09\00:30:59.55
the big issue was did
Jesus really come in the flesh,
00:30:59.59\00:31:02.96
and to this very day,
00:31:02.99\00:31:04.59
to this very day
00:31:04.63\00:31:07.03
the Jews are waiting
for the coming of Messiah.
00:31:07.06\00:31:09.93
They're waiting
for Jesus to come.
00:31:09.96\00:31:12.13
The Age of Aquarius
the New Age believers,
00:31:12.17\00:31:14.04
they're waiting for the
dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
00:31:14.07\00:31:16.91
Remember that song?
00:31:16.94\00:31:18.34
I didn't wanna sing
it because right now
00:31:18.37\00:31:19.94
in some of your
heads, you hear it,
00:31:19.97\00:31:22.31
am I right?
00:31:22.34\00:31:24.65
Right? You hear it?
00:31:24.68\00:31:26.48
But the Age of Aquarius.
00:31:26.51\00:31:28.42
Among other like in Buddhism
00:31:28.45\00:31:32.15
and Eastern religions,
00:31:32.19\00:31:34.76
they're looking for
this great leader to come.
00:31:34.79\00:31:37.93
Everybody's
looking for someone to come
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.86
who has already come.
00:31:39.89\00:31:43.47
And that's why
we're among the rare ones.
00:31:43.50\00:31:47.04
Let me go a step further.
00:31:47.07\00:31:48.40
Are you ready
for a step further?
00:31:48.44\00:31:50.37
That's why it was so key
00:31:50.41\00:31:51.74
for the
Jerusalem to be established
00:31:51.77\00:31:53.71
as the capital of Jerusalem
00:31:53.74\00:31:58.11
because the evangelicals believe
00:31:58.15\00:32:02.22
that Jesus is gonna
come back to walk the earth
00:32:02.25\00:32:04.65
in physical earthly Jerusalem.
00:32:04.69\00:32:07.66
But He's not coming
back, we'll meet Him, where?
00:32:07.69\00:32:10.59
In the air. And we did he go?
00:32:10.63\00:32:13.46
I don't wanna do this
because it's already out there.
00:32:13.50\00:32:14.83
Where did he go?
00:32:14.86\00:32:16.20
He went to prepare us a place.
00:32:16.23\00:32:18.50
We're not preparing Him a place.
00:32:18.53\00:32:20.74
He's going to
prepare us a place.
00:32:20.77\00:32:22.94
And what does
they call? The New...
00:32:22.97\00:32:24.61
Jerusalem.
00:32:24.64\00:32:25.97
That's right, a New
Jerusalem, not down here.
00:32:26.01\00:32:29.38
We've been to the Middle
East, I call it the Bible lands,
00:32:29.41\00:32:34.28
not the holy land.
00:32:34.32\00:32:36.32
The holy land is up there.
00:32:36.35\00:32:38.39
I call it the Bible
lands because Bible...
00:32:38.42\00:32:41.06
You cannot take an
atheist to the Bible lands
00:32:41.09\00:32:43.76
and he come away
still being an atheist.
00:32:43.79\00:32:45.39
It's not possible.
00:32:45.43\00:32:48.03
He'll have to
either be willingly blind,
00:32:48.06\00:32:50.53
deaf, and dumb.
00:32:50.57\00:32:51.90
Because even those
00:32:51.93\00:32:53.27
that don't accept
Jesus in the Middle East,
00:32:53.30\00:32:56.14
still tell of the
prophecies of Jesus.
00:32:56.17\00:33:00.78
The guy that did our Bible tour,
00:33:00.81\00:33:03.58
remember that, honey?
00:33:03.61\00:33:04.95
He was a religious Jew.
00:33:04.98\00:33:07.88
And he was fascinating us
00:33:07.92\00:33:09.45
with all these
prophecies about Jesus
00:33:09.48\00:33:11.32
and how they came to pass.
00:33:11.35\00:33:14.06
And then I asked
him the question,
00:33:14.09\00:33:15.42
"So why didn't
you accept Jesus?"
00:33:15.46\00:33:20.76
And he said, "It's a
complicated question."
00:33:20.80\00:33:24.53
He didn't accept Jesus.
00:33:24.57\00:33:25.90
And he's telling us
about all these prophecies.
00:33:25.93\00:33:27.44
And he's showing us
00:33:27.47\00:33:28.80
the scriptures in
the Old Testament,
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.17
the fulfillment
in the New Testament.
00:33:30.21\00:33:31.54
For him, it's a
job, not an experience.
00:33:31.57\00:33:34.21
It's amazing but sad.
00:33:34.24\00:33:36.01
And he's saying it came to
pass exactly as Jesus said,
00:33:36.04\00:33:39.61
and I'm thinking,
"Am I missing something?"
00:33:39.65\00:33:42.92
And we left with
a great experience,
00:33:42.95\00:33:44.59
but the sad reality
00:33:44.62\00:33:45.95
he's talking about
the coming of Jesus,
00:33:45.99\00:33:47.32
and he's confirming
everything that Jesus said,
00:33:47.36\00:33:49.42
and I said, "Why
don't you accept him?"
00:33:49.46\00:33:53.40
And the reason I said that
00:33:53.43\00:33:54.76
is because right
now in the Middle East,
00:33:54.80\00:33:57.23
many of the sites
that are connected
00:33:57.27\00:33:59.17
to the life of Jesus
00:33:59.20\00:34:01.24
are now owned by
the Catholic Church.
00:34:01.27\00:34:03.61
You know why?
00:34:03.64\00:34:04.97
Because the Jews rejected Jesus.
00:34:05.01\00:34:06.34
If they didn't reject Jesus,
00:34:09.28\00:34:10.88
all those holy sites
00:34:10.91\00:34:13.38
would have
chronicle the life of Jesus
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.18
through the Jewish nation.
00:34:15.22\00:34:17.19
Okay, so what did I say?
00:34:17.22\00:34:19.65
1 John 2:3 and 4.
00:34:19.69\00:34:22.79
This is the additional test.
00:34:22.82\00:34:25.23
Verse 3.
00:34:25.26\00:34:26.59
"Now by this we
know that we know Him,
00:34:26.63\00:34:27.96
" if we do what?
00:34:28.00\00:34:30.00
"If we keep His commandments.
00:34:30.03\00:34:31.73
He who says, 'I know Him,'
00:34:31.77\00:34:33.10
and does not
keep His commandments,
00:34:33.13\00:34:34.47
is a liar," and the what?
00:34:34.50\00:34:36.20
"And truth is not in him."
00:34:36.24\00:34:38.24
So the test is not
just Jesus came in the flesh
00:34:38.27\00:34:40.81
because that was
suitable for that society then.
00:34:40.84\00:34:45.65
But today, it has to
be something additional,
00:34:45.68\00:34:47.42
not just that alone.
00:34:47.45\00:34:48.95
So are we at
question number 21 now?
00:34:48.98\00:34:51.59
Yes. All right.
00:34:51.62\00:34:53.25
So question number
21. Let's look at that.
00:34:53.29\00:34:56.42
When prophets are in vision
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.06
what is connected
to their experience?
00:34:58.09\00:35:00.40
When prophets are in vision
00:35:00.43\00:35:02.00
what is connected
to their experience?
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.53
Prophets have
various experiences.
00:35:04.57\00:35:07.97
But the Bible records
one of those experiences
00:35:08.00\00:35:10.74
that Daniel experience.
00:35:10.77\00:35:12.11
In Daniel 10:16 and 17.
00:35:12.14\00:35:16.54
Ezekiel then Daniel.
00:35:16.58\00:35:18.01
Okay.
00:35:22.38\00:35:25.82
Here I am.
00:35:25.85\00:35:27.19
I'd like to add verse 15,
00:35:31.69\00:35:33.03
and then we'll
dive into verse 16,
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.16
all right?
00:35:35.20\00:35:36.53
"When he had spoken
such words to me," verse 15,
00:35:41.67\00:35:45.37
"I turned my face toward
the ground and became," what?
00:35:45.41\00:35:49.34
"Speechless."
00:35:49.38\00:35:50.71
Now verse 16
which is on the screen.
00:35:50.75\00:35:52.85
"And suddenly,
00:35:52.88\00:35:54.85
one having the
likeness of the sons of men
00:35:54.88\00:35:59.55
touched my lips,
00:35:59.59\00:36:01.46
then I opened
my mouth and spoke,
00:36:01.49\00:36:04.06
saying to him
who stood before me,"
00:36:04.09\00:36:05.99
What that he say?
00:36:06.03\00:36:07.36
"My lord,
00:36:07.40\00:36:08.73
because of the vision
00:36:08.76\00:36:10.63
my sorrows have overwhelmed me,
00:36:10.67\00:36:13.57
and I have retained," what?
00:36:13.60\00:36:15.34
"No strength.
00:36:15.37\00:36:16.94
For how can this
servant of my Lord
00:36:16.97\00:36:20.08
talk with you, my Lord?
00:36:20.11\00:36:21.64
As for me," what?
00:36:21.68\00:36:23.71
"No strength remains in
me now, nor is any," what?
00:36:23.75\00:36:27.78
"Any breath left in me."
00:36:27.82\00:36:29.48
He was breathless.
00:36:29.52\00:36:31.65
He was without
strength. He became weak.
00:36:31.69\00:36:33.86
You know, the
amazing passage here.
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.76
And this is
where the Apostle Paul
00:36:35.79\00:36:38.09
communicates the connection.
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.40
You'll notice something
happened to Daniel here,
00:36:40.43\00:36:42.26
he was weak, and he was, what?
00:36:42.30\00:36:43.70
Also what else?
00:36:43.73\00:36:45.27
Breathless.
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.20
But who wasn't weak
and who wasn't breathless.
00:36:48.24\00:36:52.21
You know,
00:36:52.24\00:36:54.51
who wasn't weak and
who wasn't breathless?
00:36:54.54\00:36:56.88
Who wasn't weak and
who wasn't breathless?
00:37:04.65\00:37:06.02
Say it again?
00:37:06.05\00:37:07.39
The Lord. Right.
00:37:07.42\00:37:08.76
The Lord that appeared to him
00:37:08.79\00:37:10.13
the angel was not
weak and was not breathless
00:37:10.16\00:37:11.96
because the word
their lord is in small L.
00:37:11.99\00:37:15.63
The angel wasn't weak.
It wasn't a trick question.
00:37:15.66\00:37:17.83
You guys just didn't
wanna give me the answer.
00:37:17.87\00:37:20.90
Xenia kind of whistled it out.
00:37:20.94\00:37:25.47
But you were correct.
00:37:25.51\00:37:26.98
So what happens here now
00:37:27.01\00:37:28.38
you see why the
Apostle Paul says,
00:37:28.41\00:37:30.21
"In our weakness," what happens?
00:37:30.25\00:37:32.21
"His strength is made perfect."
00:37:32.25\00:37:34.12
So we don't have to be
strong, as long as He is strong.
00:37:34.15\00:37:40.16
We depend on His strength.
00:37:40.19\00:37:41.52
I can do all
things through Christ
00:37:41.56\00:37:42.89
who strengthens me.
00:37:42.92\00:37:45.16
So here one of the experiences,
when the prophets are in vision
00:37:45.19\00:37:48.36
what is connected
to the experience?
00:37:48.40\00:37:49.80
What happens?
00:37:49.83\00:37:51.17
Sometimes they
lose their strength,
00:37:51.20\00:37:52.67
sometimes they cannot breathe.
00:37:52.70\00:37:55.00
All right.
00:37:58.47\00:37:59.81
Let's go to number, what?
00:38:03.85\00:38:06.11
Twenty-two.
00:38:06.15\00:38:08.32
Number 22.
00:38:08.35\00:38:09.68
How can we know
00:38:13.52\00:38:15.32
that a prophet is being
led by the Spirit of God?
00:38:15.36\00:38:20.66
I had a discussion today I
was doing my therapy today.
00:38:20.70\00:38:23.80
If my therapist is
watching, hello there.
00:38:23.83\00:38:26.27
I just said that really quickly
00:38:26.30\00:38:27.64
'cause she said
she'll be watching tonight.
00:38:27.67\00:38:29.67
But I was doing
my therapy today.
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.37
And it was just a
little Christian circle.
00:38:31.41\00:38:33.27
The guy sitting to my
right was a new pastor.
00:38:33.31\00:38:35.94
I gave him some
of the three angels'
00:38:35.98\00:38:37.31
messages booklets.
00:38:37.35\00:38:38.68
And my therapist
and the other one,
00:38:38.71\00:38:40.05
they were Christians.
00:38:40.08\00:38:41.42
I think one was
Baptist, one was Catholic,
00:38:41.45\00:38:42.82
and he was like,
00:38:42.85\00:38:45.12
I think, nondenominational
00:38:45.15\00:38:46.72
and then I was
obviously Adventist,
00:38:46.76\00:38:48.72
an Adventist.
00:38:48.76\00:38:50.46
And she says,
00:38:50.49\00:38:51.96
"So what's gonna
be on TV tonight?
00:38:51.99\00:38:53.66
What's coming on tonight?"
00:38:53.70\00:38:55.03
I said, "Well, our Bible study."
00:38:55.06\00:38:56.46
"What's it on?"
00:38:56.50\00:38:57.83
I said, "It's on the
gifts of the Holy Spirit."
00:38:57.87\00:39:00.17
"Oh, really?
00:39:00.20\00:39:02.20
Well, explain that to me."
00:39:02.24\00:39:03.57
So and I began explaining.
00:39:03.61\00:39:06.24
"I'm not ashamed of the gospel."
00:39:06.27\00:39:08.78
And we were having a
wonderful Bible study.
00:39:08.81\00:39:10.98
And then I said, "Well,
so many people misunderstand
00:39:11.01\00:39:13.25
and misuse and miss apply,
00:39:13.28\00:39:14.98
the Holy Spirit
works on us, then in us,
00:39:15.02\00:39:17.95
then eventually through us."
00:39:17.99\00:39:20.12
And when He gives us
gifts, we can't pick the gift,
00:39:20.16\00:39:22.16
He gives us the one
that He knows we need.
00:39:22.19\00:39:24.26
And I did
specifically sought talk about
00:39:24.29\00:39:26.23
how sometimes the
gift of tongues is misused
00:39:26.26\00:39:28.60
because there's a pastor
that was sitting next to me,
00:39:28.63\00:39:30.73
he's just
getting a church started.
00:39:30.77\00:39:33.03
And when I heard that,
00:39:33.07\00:39:34.40
I had to give him
some material to read.
00:39:34.44\00:39:36.94
And so it's amazing that
00:39:36.97\00:39:38.41
last week his therapy
was the same time as mine,
00:39:38.44\00:39:42.88
and it was also the
same time as mine today.
00:39:42.91\00:39:46.01
And I said, "Now
get in touch with me."
00:39:46.05\00:39:48.28
And so when I was leaving,
00:39:48.32\00:39:49.65
my therapist was walking
down the front, she said,
00:39:49.68\00:39:51.15
"Hey, I hope tonight's
sermon is really good."
00:39:51.19\00:39:54.32
And she said out
loud, overheard everybody.
00:39:54.36\00:39:56.32
You know, Kim.
00:39:56.36\00:39:57.69
"I hope tonight sermon
is gonna be really good.
00:39:57.73\00:40:00.00
Can I tune in?
What time is it again?"
00:40:00.03\00:40:01.46
I said, "7 o'clock."
00:40:01.50\00:40:02.83
So hopefully,
00:40:02.86\00:40:04.30
she's taken advantage of that.
00:40:04.33\00:40:06.17
But you know,
the beauty of it is,
00:40:06.20\00:40:07.90
God has His people everywhere.
00:40:07.94\00:40:10.14
And He wants to
lead them and guide them.
00:40:10.17\00:40:11.87
He doesn't want them
to just remain hostage
00:40:11.91\00:40:14.08
where the truth is
not being proclaimed.
00:40:14.11\00:40:16.38
He wants us to
reach out unashamedly
00:40:16.41\00:40:17.88
and share the gospel.
00:40:17.91\00:40:19.25
But here's one of the keys.
00:40:19.28\00:40:20.62
How can we know
00:40:20.65\00:40:21.98
that a prophet is being
led by the Spirit of God?
00:40:22.02\00:40:24.55
And by the way,
this is a test for anyone
00:40:24.59\00:40:26.55
who claims to be a Christian.
00:40:26.59\00:40:31.49
Matthew 7:15-16,
00:40:31.53\00:40:33.80
the reason why I
use the word prophet
00:40:33.83\00:40:35.26
is because that's the
context of the question
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.63
in Matthew Chapter 7.
00:40:37.67\00:40:39.53
Let's go there.
00:40:39.57\00:40:42.44
That's the
context of the question
00:40:42.47\00:40:44.57
in Matthew Chapter 7.
00:40:44.61\00:40:46.37
All right.
00:40:46.41\00:40:49.38
Here it is.
00:40:49.41\00:40:51.41
"Beware of" say it
with me "false prophets,
00:40:51.45\00:40:55.82
who come to you in" what?
00:40:55.85\00:40:57.85
"Sheep's clothing but
inwardly they are" what?
00:40:57.89\00:41:01.92
"Ravenous wolves.
00:41:01.96\00:41:04.06
You will know
them by their," what?
00:41:04.09\00:41:06.56
"Fruits." And
here's the question.
00:41:06.59\00:41:08.66
Do men gather
grapes from thornbushes
00:41:08.70\00:41:12.57
or figs from thistles?
00:41:12.60\00:41:14.07
And what's the answer? No.
00:41:14.10\00:41:16.10
So one is gonna produce one,
00:41:16.14\00:41:17.91
the other is
gonna produce the other.
00:41:17.94\00:41:20.48
False prophets
will look the part
00:41:20.51\00:41:24.15
who will not
measure up to the part.
00:41:24.18\00:41:26.75
And today in a world today.
00:41:26.78\00:41:28.62
I mean, can you imagine
how long ago this was said?
00:41:28.65\00:41:31.45
Jesus said this
about 2000 years ago.
00:41:31.49\00:41:34.12
Is it true today?
00:41:34.16\00:41:35.72
It's very true
today, it's very true today.
00:41:35.76\00:41:38.69
So much has been,
00:41:38.73\00:41:40.06
people have been motivated
by so many different things
00:41:40.10\00:41:43.00
and we are living in the time
00:41:43.03\00:41:44.37
where many will not
endure sound doctrine
00:41:44.40\00:41:46.13
so you cannot...
00:41:46.17\00:41:48.47
What that means is,
00:41:48.50\00:41:49.84
now let's look
at another caution.
00:41:49.87\00:41:52.07
What else is this saying to us
00:41:52.11\00:41:53.44
that we have to be careful of...
00:41:53.48\00:41:56.41
Talk to me.
00:41:56.44\00:41:57.98
Okay, false prophets.
00:41:58.01\00:41:59.35
Well, how would we know?
00:41:59.38\00:42:00.72
By their fruits,
and also by what else?
00:42:04.75\00:42:08.52
By the word.
00:42:08.56\00:42:09.89
If they don't speak
according to God's Word,
00:42:09.92\00:42:11.79
and not just portions of it.
00:42:11.83\00:42:14.00
But the caution that
this text is giving to us is,
00:42:14.03\00:42:17.93
don't go by what you see.
00:42:17.97\00:42:19.87
That's what is an
essence being said,
00:42:19.90\00:42:21.44
don't go by what you see.
00:42:21.47\00:42:23.81
Measure by God's Word.
00:42:23.84\00:42:25.64
And also,
00:42:25.67\00:42:27.01
the other thing
that's being pointed out here
00:42:27.04\00:42:28.38
is measured by their fruits.
00:42:28.41\00:42:30.15
And let me tell you
why the first aspect
00:42:30.18\00:42:31.68
is vitally important.
00:42:31.71\00:42:33.75
Because there are I believe,
this is my firm conviction.
00:42:33.78\00:42:37.52
I believe that there
are many religious leaders
00:42:37.55\00:42:40.66
who honestly don't know.
00:42:40.69\00:42:43.63
I don't believe that everybody
is just on this torpedo
00:42:43.66\00:42:48.06
just to destroy everybody
that believes the truth.
00:42:48.10\00:42:49.90
I don't believe that.
00:42:49.93\00:42:51.27
I believe that there are some
00:42:51.30\00:42:52.63
who are honestly
not fully understanding
00:42:52.67\00:42:54.27
of what the Word of God teaches.
00:42:54.30\00:42:55.94
I believe there are a lot
of sincere pastors out there,
00:42:55.97\00:42:58.61
and a lot of
sincere religious leaders.
00:42:58.64\00:43:00.71
On the other side,
there are some sheep,
00:43:00.74\00:43:02.81
there are some
wolves in sheep clothing.
00:43:02.84\00:43:04.85
But when you see a person,
like I had a good friend,
00:43:04.88\00:43:07.45
I won't mention his name.
00:43:07.48\00:43:09.08
When we lived in
California, remember,
00:43:09.12\00:43:11.25
when I did
music at that program,
00:43:11.29\00:43:15.22
the pastor who
invited me back over
00:43:15.26\00:43:17.89
and over and
over and over again.
00:43:17.93\00:43:19.73
His first program we did
was on Sabbath versus Sunday,
00:43:19.76\00:43:22.83
and he didn't
really know about Sunday,
00:43:22.86\00:43:24.37
and he invited me
00:43:24.40\00:43:25.73
and I invited
Pastor Doug Batchelor
00:43:25.77\00:43:27.14
and I invited Alan Reinach
00:43:27.17\00:43:28.97
who's with Religious Liberty.
00:43:29.00\00:43:30.84
And he said,
okay, you bring two guys
00:43:30.87\00:43:32.41
and I'll bring two guys
and we'll debate the Sabbath.
00:43:32.44\00:43:36.18
His debate was,
00:43:36.21\00:43:37.55
we could go to church on Sunday.
00:43:37.58\00:43:38.91
And he said,
00:43:38.95\00:43:40.48
you have to
convince me that is Sabbath.
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.72
And his board asked
him if he lost his mind.
00:43:42.75\00:43:46.72
They said, are you kidding me?
00:43:46.76\00:43:48.09
You're gonna bring two
guys to debate the Sabbath.
00:43:48.12\00:43:49.66
And when he brought the idea up,
00:43:49.69\00:43:51.03
he said to the, the
board members said to him,
00:43:51.06\00:43:53.06
so where are you
gonna find somebody
00:43:53.09\00:43:54.86
for that kind of debate?
00:43:54.90\00:43:56.43
And I was there
that day singing.
00:43:56.46\00:43:58.47
And earlier that
day, I prayed Lord,
00:43:58.50\00:44:00.54
I know I'm here for
something other than singing.
00:44:00.57\00:44:03.51
And I literally
and I kid you not,
00:44:03.54\00:44:05.67
like see the room
how nicely lit it is.
00:44:05.71\00:44:07.74
I went in the
corner of the studio
00:44:07.78\00:44:09.24
while they were on the couch.
00:44:09.28\00:44:10.88
Face to wall and I said,
Lord, reveal to me why I'm here.
00:44:10.91\00:44:14.45
And I was sitting in the foyer
00:44:14.48\00:44:15.82
waiting for that program to
end and they had their meeting.
00:44:15.85\00:44:17.95
And his board said,
00:44:17.99\00:44:19.32
so where are you
gonna find somebody
00:44:19.35\00:44:20.69
to talk about the Sabbath?
00:44:20.72\00:44:22.29
And he went like this,
there, he is right there.
00:44:22.32\00:44:26.33
And I have the video, I
keep telling you about it.
00:44:26.36\00:44:28.36
I got to show it to you.
00:44:28.40\00:44:29.96
And, but he was honest.
00:44:30.00\00:44:31.67
He said I was preaching
on the Ten Commandments.
00:44:31.70\00:44:33.90
When I got to the Sabbath,
00:44:33.94\00:44:35.30
I honestly didn't understand it.
00:44:35.34\00:44:37.44
So the only thing I
told my congregation was,
00:44:37.47\00:44:40.88
make sure you have
an honest work ethic.
00:44:40.91\00:44:43.98
But I want to
know about the Sabbath.
00:44:44.01\00:44:45.78
Well, he didn't win that debate.
00:44:45.81\00:44:47.75
But because he
didn't, he realized something.
00:44:47.78\00:44:50.22
And he invited me
back a number of times
00:44:50.25\00:44:52.59
to support his beliefs
that we did have in common.
00:44:52.62\00:44:56.02
And he asked about Ellen White,
00:44:56.06\00:44:59.39
he asked about diet,
he asked about jewelry.
00:44:59.43\00:45:02.53
And that was funny. It
was an amazing experience.
00:45:02.56\00:45:04.77
His wife was right there
00:45:04.80\00:45:06.37
with all this
jewelry on and he said,
00:45:06.40\00:45:08.64
tell me what you
believe about jewelry.
00:45:08.67\00:45:10.01
What does the Bible
teach about jewelry?
00:45:10.04\00:45:11.37
And I said, honestly, really,
00:45:11.41\00:45:13.51
your wife is
sitting right there.
00:45:13.54\00:45:14.88
He said, my wife
00:45:14.91\00:45:16.24
and I don't agree on everything.
00:45:16.28\00:45:17.61
Just tell me what
you think the Bible says.
00:45:17.65\00:45:19.45
And I revealed to
him what the Bible says.
00:45:19.48\00:45:21.15
And then she
got him back though.
00:45:21.18\00:45:23.18
She said, no.
00:45:23.22\00:45:24.55
I won't mention her name.
00:45:24.59\00:45:25.92
She said, we've
got to go, you know,
00:45:25.95\00:45:27.29
because it's our anniversary.
00:45:27.32\00:45:28.66
It's our seventh anniversary.
00:45:28.69\00:45:30.33
And seven is God's
number, remember that.
00:45:30.36\00:45:33.70
So she poked him back,
00:45:33.73\00:45:35.46
but I believe
that there are sincere,
00:45:35.50\00:45:38.27
honest people that want to know
and it's our responsibility.
00:45:38.30\00:45:41.67
First before we
let our lights shine,
00:45:41.70\00:45:45.87
they will examine our fruit.
00:45:45.91\00:45:48.84
So we are fruit inspectors,
00:45:48.88\00:45:52.71
is that okay?
00:45:52.75\00:45:54.08
Not judges but fruit inspectors.
00:45:54.12\00:45:57.42
Let's not take that too far.
00:45:57.45\00:46:00.92
Okay, so write that down.
00:46:00.96\00:46:02.89
What's that question?
00:46:02.92\00:46:04.26
How can we know
that a prophet is being
00:46:04.29\00:46:05.63
led by the Spirit of God?
00:46:05.66\00:46:07.16
Examine their fruits.
00:46:07.20\00:46:08.80
The fruit of
the Spirit is, what?
00:46:08.83\00:46:10.20
Together love, joy, peace,
00:46:10.23\00:46:12.53
longsuffering,
gentleness, meekness,
00:46:12.57\00:46:15.74
patience against
such there is no law.
00:46:15.77\00:46:18.57
Look at what kind
of Spirit they have.
00:46:18.61\00:46:19.94
I've met some sincere pastors.
00:46:19.97\00:46:22.04
Wonderful man that
said, I didn't know that.
00:46:22.08\00:46:24.88
I could add to that list.
00:46:24.91\00:46:28.52
When I was in
Northern California
00:46:28.55\00:46:29.88
and the Ministerial Association
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.25
would not let the Catholic
priests become a part of it
00:46:31.29\00:46:33.29
because he said he's on
with the system of Antichrist.
00:46:33.32\00:46:37.99
I would always visit with him
00:46:38.03\00:46:39.36
because he had
the nicest attitude
00:46:39.39\00:46:40.73
out of all of those guys.
00:46:40.76\00:46:42.46
And we would laugh and
together and his name was John.
00:46:42.50\00:46:44.60
I never call him Father John.
00:46:44.63\00:46:46.50
I call him John,
he called me John.
00:46:46.53\00:46:48.50
But there are people
that have a different Spirit
00:46:48.54\00:46:51.51
and it's not up to us
to judge their Spirit,
00:46:51.54\00:46:53.54
but it's up to us
to reveal our fruit.
00:46:53.58\00:46:56.98
Let's look at the next question.
00:46:57.01\00:46:59.68
Okay.
00:46:59.71\00:47:01.58
Okay, question number 23.
00:47:01.62\00:47:06.79
What promise has the Lord made
00:47:06.82\00:47:09.22
to those that
follow His instructions?
00:47:09.26\00:47:13.19
What promise did the Lord...
00:47:13.23\00:47:15.53
What promise has
the Lord made to those
00:47:15.56\00:47:17.23
that follow His instruction?
00:47:17.27\00:47:19.83
We're going to 2
Chronicles 20:20.
00:47:19.87\00:47:25.31
We're in the 2 Chronicles now.
00:47:25.34\00:47:26.98
My wife and I,
00:47:27.01\00:47:28.64
we started that last week
00:47:28.68\00:47:30.71
we're reading
through the Bible together.
00:47:30.75\00:47:33.38
You ever see that people...
00:47:33.42\00:47:34.75
Some people read the
Bible through in a year?
00:47:34.78\00:47:36.65
You won't remember anything?
00:47:36.69\00:47:38.89
It's too much to suck.
00:47:38.92\00:47:40.26
I mean, can you imagine
00:47:40.29\00:47:41.62
you just like
flying, you on a race,
00:47:41.66\00:47:43.66
will take five
years to read the Bible
00:47:43.69\00:47:45.29
through an year.
00:47:45.33\00:47:48.53
We did that, we did like
00:47:48.56\00:47:49.90
seven years we did the Bible.
00:47:49.93\00:47:51.27
And we can
remember where we were
00:47:51.30\00:47:52.63
when we read
certain parts of the Bible.
00:47:52.67\00:47:54.00
We remember our
journeys on the road
00:47:54.04\00:47:55.74
when we were in certain parts
of the Scripture and right now,
00:47:55.77\00:47:58.17
we're in 2 Chronicles.
00:47:58.21\00:47:59.71
So 2 Chronicles,
00:47:59.74\00:48:01.51
and what chapter are we in ours.
00:48:01.54\00:48:03.08
So we're in 2
Chronicles Chapter 4
00:48:03.11\00:48:04.75
in our own personal reading,
but here we're 2 Chronicles 20,
00:48:04.78\00:48:09.12
and we're gonna begin with
00:48:09.15\00:48:14.19
verse 20.
00:48:14.22\00:48:16.52
All right, it says,
00:48:16.56\00:48:19.36
"So they arose
00:48:19.39\00:48:20.76
early in the
morning and went out
00:48:20.80\00:48:22.93
into the Wilderness of" what?
00:48:22.96\00:48:25.37
"Tekoa,
00:48:25.40\00:48:28.60
and as they went out,
00:48:28.64\00:48:30.01
Jehoshaphat stood and said,
00:48:30.04\00:48:33.88
'Hear me, O Judah
00:48:33.91\00:48:36.98
and you
inhabitants of Jerusalem.'
00:48:37.01\00:48:41.08
"Here it is now.
00:48:41.12\00:48:42.45
Let's read it together.
00:48:42.48\00:48:43.82
"Believe in the Lord your
God, and you shall be" what?
00:48:43.85\00:48:47.16
"Established,
00:48:47.19\00:48:48.69
believe His prophets,
and you shall prosper."
00:48:48.72\00:48:51.93
What do we need
to be established
00:48:51.96\00:48:54.80
and to prosper?
00:48:54.83\00:48:57.03
To believe. To believe.
00:48:57.07\00:48:59.50
To believe in the Lord,
00:48:59.53\00:49:01.40
to believe the
words of His prophet.
00:49:01.44\00:49:03.64
Now the reason
why this was shared
00:49:03.67\00:49:05.37
and let me give you the context
is because when you go...
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Let's go to
Acts Chapter 7, okay.
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Instead of giving it to
you, let me show it to you.
00:49:11.45\00:49:15.18
Okay.
00:49:15.22\00:49:18.19
Acts Chapter 7,
00:49:18.22\00:49:20.06
and let's see, okay.
00:49:20.09\00:49:23.09
Acts Chapter 7
is a long chapter.
00:49:27.86\00:49:31.13
And I'm gonna go ahead
00:49:31.17\00:49:33.54
and just do
something real quickly here.
00:49:33.57\00:49:36.30
It's a beautiful passage.
00:49:36.34\00:49:38.67
As you arrange and
I got to Acts A-C-T 7
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and you'll see here that
this is the stoning of Stephen.
00:49:43.71\00:49:46.82
Okay, good. I have it here.
00:49:51.49\00:49:53.32
So let's look at Acts 7
00:49:53.36\00:49:56.89
and verse 52.
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Stephen is on a roll.
00:50:03.60\00:50:06.84
And he is referring
to prophet after prophet
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after prophet after prophet.
00:50:10.94\00:50:13.07
And then he gets
down to verse 52.
00:50:13.11\00:50:15.68
And the reason
why Jehoshaphat said
00:50:15.71\00:50:18.01
what he did is because
this was the constant pattern
00:50:18.05\00:50:21.38
among the Jewish leaders.
00:50:21.42\00:50:24.22
Those who were in rebellion,
00:50:24.25\00:50:25.65
they didn't want to
listen to the prophet.
00:50:25.69\00:50:27.56
Look at verse 52.
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Well, verse 51,
00:50:32.16\00:50:33.50
we got to add that
in for extra credit.
00:50:33.53\00:50:35.80
You stiff necked
00:50:35.83\00:50:37.17
and uncircumcised
in heart and ears.
00:50:37.20\00:50:40.34
Now you know why he said
uncircumcised in heart and ears
00:50:40.37\00:50:42.34
because they always
focused on circumcision.
00:50:42.37\00:50:44.87
But he said, guys,
00:50:44.91\00:50:46.51
your heart and your
ears are not circumcised.
00:50:46.54\00:50:49.38
That means something's
blocking your function.
00:50:49.41\00:50:52.18
Then he says, you
always resist who?
00:50:52.21\00:50:56.82
The Holy Spirit
as your fathers did
00:50:56.85\00:51:00.22
so do you.
00:51:00.26\00:51:01.92
So now you know
what he's saying.
00:51:01.96\00:51:03.29
The Holy Spirit was
working on your fathers,
00:51:03.32\00:51:05.76
they resisted him.
00:51:05.79\00:51:07.13
You're doing the same thing.
00:51:07.16\00:51:08.83
And what did he say
they were guilty of.
00:51:08.86\00:51:11.17
Verse 52.
00:51:11.20\00:51:12.53
Which of the prophets
did your fathers not, what?
00:51:12.57\00:51:15.87
Persecute and they killed those
00:51:15.90\00:51:19.21
who foretold of the
coming of the just one
00:51:19.24\00:51:22.94
of whom you now
have become the betrayers
00:51:22.98\00:51:26.75
and murderers,
00:51:26.78\00:51:29.18
who have received the law
by the direction of angels
00:51:29.22\00:51:34.22
and have not kept it.
00:51:34.26\00:51:35.72
In other words,
God has done so much,
00:51:35.76\00:51:37.79
He gave you
exclusive rights to the law,
00:51:37.83\00:51:39.96
but you wouldn't even keep it.
00:51:40.00\00:51:41.50
And the prophecy sent
to you, what did you do?
00:51:41.53\00:51:43.67
You persecuted them.
00:51:43.70\00:51:46.63
So when you read
2 Chronicles 20:20,
00:51:46.67\00:51:49.70
the issue was the same problem
00:51:49.74\00:51:52.97
that Stephen
said the church had,
00:51:53.01\00:51:54.64
where the fathers had,
00:51:54.68\00:51:56.01
that's exactly what
Jehoshaphat is talking about.
00:51:56.04\00:51:58.28
If you would simply,
00:51:58.31\00:51:59.71
you believe the Lord,
but believe His prophets too.
00:51:59.75\00:52:04.12
And that's why
between Malachi and Matthew,
00:52:04.15\00:52:06.59
the Lord was silent.
00:52:06.62\00:52:07.96
He spoke through no prophets
00:52:07.99\00:52:09.82
until the next one came.
00:52:09.86\00:52:12.56
Who was the next
one that came after?
00:52:12.59\00:52:14.36
Say it.
00:52:18.10\00:52:19.53
John the Baptist.
00:52:19.57\00:52:21.10
See, Xenia is whistling
those words out tonight.
00:52:21.14\00:52:23.27
It was John the Baptist.
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.04
Quiet from the Prophet Malachi,
00:52:26.07\00:52:27.64
the very next one
was John the Baptist,
00:52:27.68\00:52:30.08
and he was the voice of
one crying in the wilderness.
00:52:30.11\00:52:33.78
He came loud and bombastic,
00:52:33.82\00:52:37.09
which you need to be loud
00:52:37.12\00:52:38.59
when you're proclaiming
the coming of the Lord.
00:52:38.62\00:52:43.02
No amens necessary.
00:52:43.06\00:52:46.63
And by the way,
this is really amazing.
00:52:46.66\00:52:48.46
Today our devotion in
the book, Oswald Chambers,
00:52:48.50\00:52:50.90
My Utmost for His Highest
00:52:50.93\00:52:52.63
was about listening
to the voice of the Lord
00:52:52.67\00:52:55.20
and was amazing.
00:52:55.24\00:52:56.60
Oswald Chambers, he was
saying, I won't give the date
00:52:56.64\00:52:58.67
because I don't
want to date the program.
00:52:58.71\00:53:00.04
But he was saying that
00:53:00.08\00:53:01.84
many people would
rather listen to a minister
00:53:01.88\00:53:04.08
than listen to the voice of God.
00:53:04.11\00:53:06.11
Because they
listen to the voice of man
00:53:06.15\00:53:08.08
and what the man says
they think of it as optional.
00:53:08.12\00:53:11.95
But when God speaks directly,
they know it's mandatory.
00:53:11.99\00:53:15.29
So the problem today he
uses Samuel as the example.
00:53:15.32\00:53:18.53
He said, Samuel
said, speak Lord for, what?
00:53:18.56\00:53:22.06
Your servant hears.
00:53:22.10\00:53:23.43
So he says, we
must get to the point
00:53:23.47\00:53:24.93
where we tune our
ears to hear God's voice,
00:53:24.97\00:53:28.54
not just the voice of man.
00:53:28.57\00:53:30.81
So many pastors feel like
their hands are handcuffed,
00:53:30.84\00:53:34.08
because we're
proclaiming what God has said
00:53:34.11\00:53:36.48
just like Moses,
and Elijah, and Noah,
00:53:36.51\00:53:39.81
and the people think of
it sometimes as optional.
00:53:39.85\00:53:42.62
But if God came down
00:53:42.65\00:53:43.99
and said it was like
man instant response.
00:53:44.02\00:53:46.42
And He is gonna
come down one day.
00:53:46.45\00:53:47.99
He says, His voice this time
is not gonna shake the earth,
00:53:48.02\00:53:51.89
but the heavens also.
00:53:51.93\00:53:53.86
And what a voice? What a voice?
00:53:53.90\00:53:56.00
So we have to get used
to hearing God's voice.
00:53:56.03\00:53:58.07
So what's the prophets?
00:53:58.10\00:53:59.43
What's the
promise that God has made?
00:53:59.47\00:54:01.47
Believe in the Lord
and believe in His what?
00:54:01.50\00:54:03.81
In His prophets
for establishment
00:54:03.84\00:54:05.97
and for prosperity, prosperity.
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.58
And I tell you through
the gift of Ellen White,
00:54:09.61\00:54:12.35
the church has been
become so prosperous.
00:54:12.38\00:54:15.35
The servant of the Lord,
00:54:15.38\00:54:17.29
the church has
become so prosperous.
00:54:17.32\00:54:19.62
Even Paul
Harvey did a commentary
00:54:19.65\00:54:22.99
on this woman
00:54:23.02\00:54:24.73
who was a way ahead
of her time medically.
00:54:24.76\00:54:29.36
And then also Time
magazine did an article.
00:54:29.40\00:54:32.93
They entitled it
00:54:32.97\00:54:34.30
the woman that was 100
years ahead of her time
00:54:34.34\00:54:36.87
and Time magazine,
00:54:36.91\00:54:38.27
which at that time was
a Catholic owned magazine.
00:54:38.31\00:54:40.58
They said if she was
right on so many things,
00:54:40.61\00:54:42.98
what else can she be right on?
00:54:43.01\00:54:45.78
The Lord had
blessed her wonderfully
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.88
with the gift
of His Holy Spirit,
00:54:47.92\00:54:50.62
the gift of prophecy.
00:54:50.65\00:54:52.32
Let's go on to
the next question.
00:54:52.35\00:54:54.02
Question number 24.
00:54:54.06\00:54:56.02
See if we could,
00:54:56.06\00:54:57.39
how any more we can get in here.
00:54:57.43\00:54:58.76
Question number 24.
00:54:58.79\00:55:02.73
Okay, here it is.
00:55:02.76\00:55:05.90
How do we know
00:55:05.93\00:55:07.77
that the gift of
prophecy is still active?
00:55:07.80\00:55:12.07
How do we know
00:55:12.11\00:55:13.44
that the gift of
prophecy is still active?
00:55:13.48\00:55:15.54
And we're gonna
1 Corinthians12:28,
00:55:15.58\00:55:21.25
when the Lord established
the New Testament Church,
00:55:21.28\00:55:23.12
the Apostle Paul now to
the Corinthian believers
00:55:23.15\00:55:26.42
he's establishing God's...
00:55:26.45\00:55:29.99
He's establishing God's offices
that he wanted the church
00:55:30.03\00:55:32.79
to have to function.
00:55:32.83\00:55:34.20
Every church needs
functioning offices.
00:55:34.23\00:55:38.20
Like any organization
00:55:38.23\00:55:39.57
the church needs
functioning offices.
00:55:39.60\00:55:41.30
And God gave ecclesiastical
authority to the church.
00:55:41.34\00:55:44.64
But for that
authority to be effective,
00:55:44.67\00:55:46.34
He told them what
the church needed.
00:55:46.37\00:55:48.18
Look at 1
Corinthians 12:28, here it is.
00:55:48.21\00:55:52.18
"And God appointed
these in the church,"
00:55:52.21\00:55:54.98
let's read it
together "first," what?
00:55:55.02\00:55:57.02
Prophet. Second, what?
00:55:57.05\00:55:58.99
I mean "first apostles,
second prophets, third," what?
00:55:59.02\00:56:02.39
"Teachers," all right.
00:56:02.42\00:56:04.29
And then also
"after that miracles,"
00:56:04.33\00:56:06.86
then what else?
00:56:06.90\00:56:08.23
"Gift of healings," what else?
00:56:08.26\00:56:09.60
Helps, what else?
00:56:09.63\00:56:11.20
"Administrations" and what else?
00:56:11.23\00:56:12.97
"Variety of tongues."
00:56:13.00\00:56:14.34
Varieties of tongues,
that means various languages.
00:56:14.37\00:56:17.77
So notice what
else, you never...
00:56:17.81\00:56:19.74
I mean, why don't people say,
00:56:19.77\00:56:21.18
oh, I'm praying for the Lord
to give me the gift of helps.
00:56:21.21\00:56:24.08
Because people
want the gift of tongues
00:56:28.25\00:56:30.52
which doesn't
require any actions at all.
00:56:30.55\00:56:33.05
But the church
needs the gift of helps.
00:56:33.09\00:56:35.09
Help me somebody. Amen.
00:56:35.12\00:56:37.23
Am I right? The
church needs help.
00:56:37.26\00:56:39.79
The Lord needs help.
00:56:39.83\00:56:41.23
Pray that the
Lord of the harvest
00:56:41.26\00:56:42.76
will send forth
laborers in the field.
00:56:42.80\00:56:44.23
The harvest is ripe
but the laborers are few.
00:56:44.27\00:56:46.80
The church needs what? Help.
00:56:46.84\00:56:49.57
And the Lord has
given the gift of helps.
00:56:49.60\00:56:51.67
Not only that, administration.
00:56:51.71\00:56:53.51
When somebody says
00:56:53.54\00:56:54.88
that they don't want to be
a part of an organized church,
00:56:54.91\00:56:56.85
they're rejecting that gift.
00:56:56.88\00:56:58.81
Because the Lord has given
the gift of administration.
00:56:58.85\00:57:00.98
Administration is
necessary, isn't it?
00:57:01.02\00:57:03.28
Am I right? Am I right?
00:57:03.32\00:57:05.69
Administration is business.
00:57:05.72\00:57:09.16
David the Psalmist says,
00:57:09.19\00:57:10.69
"Do not handle the Lord's
business slothfully, lazily."
00:57:10.73\00:57:15.86
Administration is there
so the church can function
00:57:15.90\00:57:19.10
as it's supposed to function.
00:57:19.13\00:57:20.80
That's why I'm
praising Lord about the way
00:57:20.84\00:57:22.17
the Adventist
church is established.
00:57:22.20\00:57:24.21
I mean,
accountability at every level,
00:57:24.24\00:57:25.84
administration,
00:57:25.87\00:57:27.71
and praise the
Lord but not only that,
00:57:27.74\00:57:31.35
apostles, those
carry the gospel, prophets.
00:57:31.38\00:57:33.98
We have teachers,
00:57:34.02\00:57:35.35
largest educational institution,
00:57:35.38\00:57:36.72
but not only that,
of education teachers,
00:57:36.75\00:57:38.52
but those
teaching the Word of God.
00:57:38.55\00:57:40.56
Miracles,
00:57:40.59\00:57:41.92
many examples of miracles
happening around the world.
00:57:41.96\00:57:44.33
Gifts of healings, helps,
00:57:44.36\00:57:46.90
administration and
varieties of tongues.
00:57:46.93\00:57:49.33
And I tell you
it's really so sad
00:57:49.36\00:57:50.70
that our lesson is ending.
00:57:50.73\00:57:52.20
But I tell you, we're
gonna continue in this lesson
00:57:52.23\00:57:54.80
on our next program,
00:57:54.84\00:57:56.17
and we encourage
you to continue studying
00:57:56.20\00:57:57.97
because one day
it will come into
00:57:58.01\00:58:00.34
A Sharper Focus.
00:58:00.38\00:58:02.01
God bless.
Where did the time go?
00:58:02.04\00:58:03.38