Hello and welcome to
"Behold the Lamb Presents."
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host
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and I want to
thank you for tuning in.
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Today we're going to present
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the completion of a
two part series of messages
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that we have entitled
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"Promised Blessings of
believing God's Prophets."
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In our first program
Pastor Kenny Shelton discussed
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that for centuries this
was one of God's chosen methods
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to communicate to his
beloved children here on earth.
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Yet with all this
spiritual confusion in our world
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many are leery to accept
or believe that this is a gift
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that could still be active
in today's New Testament Church.
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So let's quickly
review for a few moments
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what was taking
place in Paul's day
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in the early days of
the New Testament Church
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and we will begin
with Acts Chapter 19.
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I'm going to read just
parts of the few verses
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beginning with verse two.
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Here Paul asks a question
of disciples in Ephesus.
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He asks them,
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did you receive the
Holy Spirit when you believe?
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They replied, we
have not so much as heard
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whether there is a Holy Spirit.
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We find in the next few
verses that these disciples
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decided to be
re-baptized into Jesus Christ.
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Verse six reads, "And when
Paul had laid hands upon them,
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the Holy Spirit came upon them
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and they spoke with
tongues and prophesied."
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What about Paul's
council to the Corinthians
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in First
Corinthians 14:5 where we read.
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"I wish that you
all spoke with tongues,
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but even more that
you prophesy for he
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who prophesies
is greater than he
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who speaks with tongues."
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My point, my point in reading
these few texts is to show
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that many men and women who
were filled with the Holy Spirit
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prophesied with
instructions from heaven.
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And several were
officially labeled
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as prophets here in
the New Testament Church.
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So again what about prophets,
what about prophecy today.
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I believe that
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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has been given
insight through the guidance
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of the Holy Spirit
to address this question
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more fully as we conclude
our two messages entitled
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promise blessings of
believing God's prophets.
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But first we
have the opportunity
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to visit the 3ABN
Worship Center and listen to
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"Amazing Grace Medley" as
sung by Angela Bryant-Brown.
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Amazing grace shall always be
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my song of praise
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For it was grace
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that brought my liberty
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And I do not know
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just how He came to love me
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so He looked beyond
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all of my faults and saw my need
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I shall forever lift
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mine eyes to Calvary
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To view the cross
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where Jesus died for me
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How marvelous that grace
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that caught my falling soul
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He looked beyond my faults
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and saw my needs
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Amazing grace,
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how sweet, how sweet the sound
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That saved a wretch like me
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I once was lost,
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but now thank God I'm found
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Was blind,
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but now I see
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I shall forever lift
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mine eyes to Calvary
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To view the cross
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where my Jesus
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He blooded and
died for you and me
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How marvelous oh yes,
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that grace that
caught my falling soul
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He looked
beyond all of my faults
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He loves, He looked
beyond all of my faults
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He looked beyond
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all of my faults
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and saw my needs
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Praise the Lord.
It's good to join,
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join us today
for Behold the Lamb.
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Very important subject.
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Now prophet, how does a
prophet operate in the church
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and especially in a
New Testament Church.
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This is second
part of our series
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as you've been following along
we pray and we're going to as,
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you know, before we start
this we gonna have prayer.
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But I just want
to remind you that
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we will not have time to go back
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and to go over like we usually
do in the several part series
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the things that we
studied previously.
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Because we wanna cover
as much as we can today,
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so you may wanna call and get
that first part of the series.
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This is the vital subject.
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Life and death subject
of God's last day church.
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And so I cover that
you pray with me right now
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as the Holy
Spirit begins to open up
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these beautiful truths to us.
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Would you pray with me
and ask for the Holy Spirit
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to open our hearts
and our minds. Let's pray.
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Mercifully father in heaven,
we thank you for Your love today
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We thank You for
Your sweet spirit.
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We just ask now
that we be covered
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in the blood of Jesus
Christ that these scriptures
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that we read today will
be made plain by your power.
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You said the Holy Spirit
will lead us into all truth.
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Bless we pray those
who listen and who watch
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open their
hearts and their minds.
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Help them desire
to know what truth is.
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Shocking as it might be to some.
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We pray now that
you will consume us
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by Your spirit in the
precious name of Jesus,
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we pray and we thank you, amen.
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Again it's always
good that we get, you know,
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pencil and paper and jot
down these passage of scripture.
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Again because of our time
we'll move as quickly as we can.
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We talked about
in the first part
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about the Old Testament,
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even mentioned New
Testament prophets,
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but we gonna switch
rather go with all the list
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and you can take it concordance,
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you can go by and
look up the prophet
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the activity of a prophet
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in the church in
the Old Testament.
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We gonna skip
quickly to the New Testament.
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But remember
this, we're offering
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a free book called
the "Prophet of the End"
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one of the best concise books
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I've ever read on
the Spirit of Prophecy
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or prophet operating
in New Testament Church.
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Over 200 pages
that you can read,
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over 100 passage
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with Spirit of Prophecy.
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Two hundred of
passages of scripture
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that we can go
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leading up to this study.
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It's yours free, you
just need to give a call.
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Only a couple of hundred,
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first callers
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But may I remind
some of you though
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when you say free here's
nothing free in this life.
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It does cost for the
book, it cost to ship them out.
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And so there will be someone
I know maybe several bodies
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that hear this
and say you know what
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I'm gonna send a
nice love gift to help
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to get these into
the hands of people
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who desire, who want to know
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what truth is, and how God wants
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to speak to His people.
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I hope you're one of
those who pray about it
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where you send what you can
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so that we can get
these books into the home
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of everyone who
is requesting it.
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But you need to
call quickly as you can.
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Now, we're gonna go
to New Testament quickly.
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Paul, man of God hence
we read it in New Testament.
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Paul had no
problem with a prophet
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operating in the
New Testament Church
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Now I'll be bringing up
New Testament quite often here
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because many
people Christian say,
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I'm a New
Testament Christian believer.
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Good, that's wonderful, I'm too.
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But, you know, that doesn't
negate what or where we jot
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--just throw out the
Old Testament not at all.
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But as we look at
New Testament believer
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we find that Paul
here and he said this is,
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he said in 1 Corinthians 14:37,
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"If any man think himself
to be a prophet, or spiritual,
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let him acknowledge the things
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that I write unto you,
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they are the
commandments of the Lord."
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So prophet then
is going to what?
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Just going to say
okay, this is the truth.
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And so a prophet then
helps to lead and helps to guide
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and to what,
encourage us to what
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truth is and
then to follow that.
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It's a word from God.
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So then a New Testament
Church then cannot possibly have
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a problem with a
New Testament teaching.
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Can we? Oh, we can't
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because Luke
pens these words here.
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We're gonna have to
deal with scripture.
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Our mind may be set
against it we may have been
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--we're told that
this is not the truth,
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but we're going to
see what Luke has to say.
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Luke Chapter 1 we're
gonna read verses 70 through 73.
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Pen those down quickly.
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"As he spoke
God, says God spoke.
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He spoke by the
mouth of his" what?
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"Of his holy prophets."
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So God has chosen
to speak through what?
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His holy prophets.
Can a prophet be bad?
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Well, if they are speaking
what God wants them to speak
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its all good,
we need to hear it.
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"Which has been
since the world began."
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So God has used
prophets how, to what?
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Good since the world has begun.
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Now for what
purpose of the prophets?
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Why did God give them to us?
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Well, verse 71 there of Luke
Chapter 1 makes it real clear
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"That we should be
saved from the enemies,
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of the hand of
all that hate us."
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And then verse 72 remind--
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and the prophets reminds us
to remember his holy covenant
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that God has
made with his people.
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Now we need to remember this.
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In the New Testament, Old
Testament and New Testament
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God said in the last days
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that there would
be prophets among us.
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You read it in Joel
Chapter 2:28 and 29.
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You read it also in the
Book of Acts 2:17 and 18.
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As we read these we
find out God said that
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He's going to
pour out His spirit,
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right, here in these last days.
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He said, I'm going to
pour out on your sons and what,
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and your daughters and
He said they will prophesy.
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Again I want to encourage you
this many people take the word
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and say prophesy and
they kind of say well,
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they're just giving
a word in deu season.
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We're going to expand on that
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what prophesy what it
really means in New Testament
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and scripture in
the regional language.
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It's very, very important.
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And then we're going to see here
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that Bible says that
the old men will do what?
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Oh, they are
going to dream dreams
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and young men's
going to have vision.
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Three area's here God said
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I'm gonna
communicate through men, what?
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Prophets holy
men they would speak
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what God tells them to speak.
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He's going to do
it through dreams
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and going to do
it through vision.
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So a dream can't be
bad, vision can't be bad,
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a prophet in a
church can't be bad
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as long as they
match up with scripture.
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Now, notice what Jesus
said in Luke 11:49 and 50.
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Jesus stated this, He said
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"Therefore also
said the wisdom of God,
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I will send" what
"prophets and apostles."
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God himself sent
prophets to His church
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and His people to help
them, to encourage them.
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But he say all the sad thing
is what "A some of them shall
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--you shall slay them
and you shall persecute."
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And then verse 50, He says,
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"That the blood
of all the prophets,
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which was shed from the
foundation of the world,
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may be required
of this generation."
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He talking what?
Not only Old Testament,
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but He's talking
about New Testament too.
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So He's establishing
the fact that the prophets,
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what, work in the church.
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It was just--it was a
common occurrence here.
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And notice this passage
that pertains to New Testament,
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Christians do
today in Luke 16:31.
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The Bible says
"And he said unto them"
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notice "If they
will not hear Moses"
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Jesus thought they are
not going to hear Moses
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or the saying of
Moses "and the prophets"
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that means the old and
what, and the New Testament
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"Neither will they be
persuaded though one rose from"
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what, "Rose from the dead."
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That mean's there's no hope.
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Oh, if you don't hear
God's prophets his mouthpiece.
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If you don't listen
to what's being said,
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He said there is no hope.
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Because you won't believe
the one rose from the dead.
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There is no hope.
Again Luke 24:25 and 27.
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"Then he" Jesus
said this, notice.
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He said "O
fools, and slow of heart
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to believe all that
the prophets have spoken."
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How much are we to believe?
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All that the
prophets have spoken.
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"Beginning" and
here's what Jesus did,
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Jesus said "He began at
Moses and all the prophets,
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and he expound unto
them all the scripture
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the things concerning himself."
Did Jesus believe in prophets?
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Yes, He ordained
them. Yes, He did.
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He said, here He expoundly told
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all the beginning of
Moses and all the prophets.
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Oh, friend, listen if
God want's to use a prophet
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to guide His
church, He has that right.
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But if we reject this
means of communication
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that God has
chosen Jesus says to us.
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He says "O fools
and slow of heart."
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We need to believe all
that the prophets have spoken.
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Therefore our benefit.
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God wants to have
them in the church
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to speak towards it like,
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something we need
to be encouraged today.
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We need help today.
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See the New Testament Church,
I have come to find this out.
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New Testament
Church, lot of them loves
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the Book of Acts
and of course I do too.
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And here we find the
importance of the church
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needing guidance and counsel.
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Even in
prophesying or in prophecies
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in concerning Jesus.
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So friend we see a
New Testament Church.
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Notice what
Acts 3:18 says to us.
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"But those things,
which God had shewed"
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notice "by the
mouth of all his prophets"
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still establishing, still saying
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God chooses how to speak to us
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to communicate
here by his prophets
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"that Christ should suffer"
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and notice this "and
he has so fulfilled."
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Prophets will tell
things before they happen.
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They are going to reveal things,
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that's what the Bible
said in Amos, verse 3.
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He's going to speak
through His holy prophet.
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They are gonna reveal things.
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He doesn't want us shocked
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and so He tells us
things before they happen.
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Now notice these
verses are powerful,
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we're gonna read them
so you have your Bible
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quickly Acts 3:22 through 25.
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These are, they tell of
a need of God's prophets
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for the time in which we live
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and he said
beginning what at Samuel.
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Beginning at the beginning
here but notice these verses.
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Says verse 22 "For Moses truly"
what "Said unto the fathers,
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A prophet shall the Lord
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your God raise up
unto you of your brethren."
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Now next follow.
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"Like unto me" it says here
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"Him shall ye hear of all things
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whatsoever he shall
say unto you." What?
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God said I'm
going to send a prophet.
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We know He's
talking about Jesus.
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That interesting
referred to here,
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but I'm gonna send him.
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Notice, "And it shall
come to pass that every soul,
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which will not
hear that prophet,
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shall be
destroyed among the people."
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Having a prophet in the
church is very, very important.
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"Yea, and all the prophets
from Samuel and those that"
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listen "And those that follow
after, as many as have spoken,
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have likewise
foretold of these days."
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Notice "Ye are the"
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what "The
children of the prophets."
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Who? New Testament Church
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"Ye are the
children of the prophets,
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and of the
covenant which God made
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with our father saying Abraham,
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and in thy seed
shall all the kindreds
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of the earth be blessed."
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We're the
children of the prophets.
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Now again we wanna
share a few more passages
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so we don't
become confused here,
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but we don't
want to miss the part
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that the prophets played
in the New Testament Church.
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See that way if
we establish that
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beyond a shadow of a doubt
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we can't throw out
the need of a prophet
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operating in the
church, God's mouthpiece.
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And remember Paul was going
on his first missionary journey
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in Acts 13:1 it
begins to give this account.
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But it indicates
that there were prophets
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that were operating
in the church of Antioch,
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a New Testament Church.
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And so as we look at
this Paul made no rebukes
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he made--that was
not a surprise to him.
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It was a common
occurrence that took place.
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So again if he had no
rebuke it must be all right
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and it was a common
thing to take place.
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In fact the Holy Spirit said
something very, very important.
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It said in fact the Holy
Spirit puts his approval upon
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the prophets in the church
and of calling men and women out
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to do a special
work, you remember that.
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It said separate
me Barnabas and Saul
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for their appointed
work. Now let's read Acts 13:1.
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Here's what it says
"Now there were in the church
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that was at Antioch
certain prophets and teachers."
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Now are we getting this
in the New Testament Church
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there were what?
Prophets operating.
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When you say that today
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in today's society
people close their mind,
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they close
their eyes, they just,
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oh, it can't
possibly be. Why not?
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It's the New Testament teaching.
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There's too much
information here for us to deny.
00:19:59.60\00:20:04.55
There was no rebuke
by Paul. Nothing he said.
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He just simply
said, they're operating
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in the church in Antioch.
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So it seems to me if
we neglect this gift,
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if we throw it out,
then we're throwing out
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how God wants to
communicate with us
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and speak to His people.
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It's a gift that God
has given. It's interesting.
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We're interested in special
spiritual gifts, aren't we?
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Whether a pastor, a
teacher, an evangelist
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and so you talked
about end prophets.
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We named them all,
but we don't say whole lot
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about prophets
it's like we're afraid.
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Devil doesn't want you
to understand the subject.
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He's afraid you're
going to understand it.
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And that you'll understand
more, you see of scripture
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if you get into and
listen to His prophets
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those He's talking
to. We need help today.
00:20:45.22\00:20:47.59
We need to be enlightened today.
00:20:47.62\00:20:49.89
We need to have spiritual
things pointed out that
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we just can't
seem to comprehend.
00:20:51.97\00:20:53.64
We see through like a darkly,
00:20:53.67\00:20:55.67
spiritually and we just
can't see things all around it.
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Sin--we can just be
swimming around as we're in sin.
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And we can't see that it's
sin, we think it's all good.
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Oh, friend, we
need the voice of God
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operating in the church today.
00:21:06.20\00:21:08.82
Oh, friend, look
God's last day people.
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His church--you know, we
find in Revelation 12:17,
00:21:11.72\00:21:15.66
it said, "The dragon
was wroth with" what?
00:21:15.69\00:21:17.58
"With the woman,
and went to make war
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with the remnant of her
seed" who do what? Good.
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"Keep the commandments of God,
and the testimony of Jesus."
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and Revelation 22
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and Revelation 1:9, we have to--
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I'd like to be
able to read all those
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but I can't really do that.
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But friend, as we read all
of these passages of scriptures,
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Spirit of Prophecy we're talking
about testimony of Jesus.
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is the Spirit of Prophecy.
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God's last day church
will promote two things.
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They will move keeping
all ten of the commandments
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by the grace of God.
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We knew salvation is gift,
but we're going to be obedient
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and we'll have, what?
00:21:51.73\00:21:53.10
A prophet
operating in the church
00:21:53.13\00:21:55.79
to guide his
church. It's very clear.
00:21:55.82\00:21:58.22
That's what scripture says here.
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We don't want to miss this.
00:22:00.02\00:22:01.87
The witness of Jesus will
be in the midst of His people,
00:22:01.90\00:22:05.59
don't throw Him out.
00:22:05.62\00:22:08.52
Now once again if this
gift is not in operation
00:22:08.55\00:22:11.19
if it's missing, the
people will go backwards.
00:22:11.22\00:22:15.00
The Bible said in Proverbs
28, you remember 19 that we read
00:22:15.03\00:22:18.87
or 29:18,
remembered what it said.
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.24
It said the people will perish.
00:22:21.27\00:22:23.80
That means
we're gonna backslide.
00:22:23.83\00:22:25.32
That means we're
gonna go backwards.
00:22:25.35\00:22:27.07
That means we're going to--
the word there in Hebrew said,
00:22:27.10\00:22:29.70
we're gonna loosen up.
00:22:29.73\00:22:31.58
We don't need to loosening up
and sliding backwards right now.
00:22:31.61\00:22:35.59
But you know,
there're still people
00:22:35.62\00:22:37.51
that do not believe in prophets.
00:22:37.54\00:22:38.97
We can read all of these.
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Read all the
instances in the Old Testament
00:22:40.43\00:22:42.31
and in the New Testament
and the approval of God,
00:22:42.34\00:22:44.45
the approval of Jesus,
00:22:44.48\00:22:45.85
the approval of
New Testament Church
00:22:45.88\00:22:47.25
and all the Bible
writer and still we say,
00:22:47.28\00:22:49.28
"Oh, well, now look if you
still have a problem with that,
00:22:49.31\00:22:53.38
what do you do
with this passage?"
00:22:53.41\00:22:55.41
What am I gonna do with it?
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.64
Are you Bible believer?
00:22:57.67\00:22:59.04
Then let's start
believe in the Bible, shall we?
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First Thessalonians 5, I'm
not trying to be too difficult,
00:23:01.06\00:23:04.51
hard on you, but listen I
wanna get your attention. Why?
00:23:04.54\00:23:07.17
Because I believe that
many, many, many by the millions
00:23:07.20\00:23:09.53
are missing what
God wants to give us.
00:23:09.56\00:23:12.56
He wants to talk to you. He
wants to communicate to you.
00:23:12.59\00:23:16.67
First Thessalonians 5:20 and 21,
00:23:16.70\00:23:20.06
here's that's
what the Bible said,
00:23:20.09\00:23:21.46
"Despise not prophesying."
00:23:21.49\00:23:25.06
What does that word mean?
00:23:25.09\00:23:26.46
Here is what it mean in
the New Testament Greek.
00:23:26.49\00:23:28.49
Prophet, despise
not what? Prophesying.
00:23:28.52\00:23:30.60
Last stage he
said they're gonna be
00:23:30.63\00:23:32.00
prophesying in the last stage.
00:23:32.03\00:23:33.40
They'll say, "Well,
yeah, there's gonna be
00:23:33.43\00:23:34.80
a word from God."
it's deeper than that.
00:23:34.83\00:23:36.20
It's broader than that.
00:23:36.23\00:23:38.50
This word here means in
the New Testament Greek.
00:23:38.53\00:23:40.60
It means do not
despise listen predictions.
00:23:40.63\00:23:44.27
Do not despise prophecy.
Do not despise prophesying.
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Do not despise,
listen, an inspired speaker,
00:23:49.93\00:23:54.92
or do not despise a prophet.
00:23:54.95\00:23:57.81
Did you get it?
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Don't despise a prophet.
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Please remember this definition
as we go on in this study.
00:24:03.66\00:24:07.66
It's very, very important.
00:24:07.69\00:24:09.19
Don't despise what?
00:24:09.22\00:24:10.59
A prophet, prophesying,
predictions, inspired speaker.
00:24:10.62\00:24:14.36
The passage continues and
it says, pay more attention,
00:24:14.39\00:24:18.59
"Prove all
things." Here's the key.
00:24:18.62\00:24:20.88
"And hold fast
that which is good."
00:24:20.91\00:24:23.70
Too many people
are not holding on fast
00:24:23.73\00:24:25.30
at those things that
are good. We're letting go.
00:24:25.33\00:24:28.82
We're nearing the
time of the coming of Jesus
00:24:28.85\00:24:31.57
we're in the judgment
hour and we're letting go
00:24:31.60\00:24:34.77
of the hand of
God, our only helper,
00:24:34.80\00:24:38.09
only way that we're going
be saved in God's kingdom.
00:24:38.12\00:24:40.57
We're throwing Him out.
00:24:40.60\00:24:42.91
We're throwing out the way
which He wants to communicate
00:24:42.94\00:24:45.42
to His--remember God
has always communicated
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.00
with His people, has He not?
00:24:48.03\00:24:50.17
So why would He
not in the last days?
00:24:50.20\00:24:53.44
So I'm just--I want to
challenge your mind here.
00:24:53.47\00:24:55.43
And just to say in other
words, we're not going to--
00:24:55.46\00:24:56.96
it is a gift.
00:24:56.99\00:24:58.57
It's proven in scripture in
New Testament as we will know.
00:24:58.60\00:25:01.15
Now, let's just
dissect a little bit this word.
00:25:01.18\00:25:04.93
It says, "Do not despise."
00:25:04.96\00:25:07.51
Despise means what?
To make of no account.
00:25:07.54\00:25:12.44
So don't discredit a prophet.
00:25:12.47\00:25:15.55
Don't discredit
an inspired speaker.
00:25:15.58\00:25:18.62
Don't discredit what prophecy.
00:25:18.65\00:25:21.20
Please listen to that.
00:25:21.23\00:25:22.60
Don't discredit prophesy,
don't discredit predictions.
00:25:22.63\00:25:28.28
Well, it's a line up with the
word of God, do you see that?
00:25:28.31\00:25:30.52
This is expanding
this, don't despise.
00:25:30.55\00:25:33.46
You know what- don't
despise these things.
00:25:33.49\00:25:35.75
You realize this that the
spiritual gifts were displayed.
00:25:35.78\00:25:40.08
I mean this is one of
the ways that God used
00:25:40.11\00:25:43.10
the spiritual
gifts in the formation
00:25:43.13\00:25:45.35
of the New Testament Church.
He used all of these gifts.
00:25:45.38\00:25:50.09
In Thessalonica the Bible
is very, very clear on that.
00:25:50.12\00:25:53.92
Now let's look though
quickly, First Corinthians 14:1,
00:25:53.95\00:25:57.79
the Bible says,
and everybody loves
00:25:57.82\00:26:01.39
and certain
people more than others,
00:26:01.42\00:26:02.98
but we love the
word of God, don't we?
00:26:03.01\00:26:04.38
First Corinthians 14 says right
here, "That ye may prophesy."
00:26:04.41\00:26:09.07
This is one of the gifts.
00:26:09.10\00:26:11.81
Paul here said, well I
want you to be prophesied.
00:26:11.84\00:26:18.28
Want God to be speaking,
00:26:18.31\00:26:21.43
He'll speak to
you making predictions
00:26:21.46\00:26:24.81
could be a prophet,
could be a spiritual speaker.
00:26:24.84\00:26:29.27
A word in due season but
it said, that ye may prophesy.
00:26:29.30\00:26:33.45
First Corinthians 14:3,
"but He that--" notice this,
00:26:33.48\00:26:37.87
"But he that
prophesieth speaketh unto men."
00:26:37.90\00:26:41.51
All we need to hear today is
the word spoken to us, right.
00:26:41.54\00:26:44.39
The person is prophesied.
00:26:44.42\00:26:45.95
First Corinthians 14:5, he said,
00:26:45.98\00:26:48.59
"I would rather
that ye prophesied"
00:26:48.62\00:26:51.36
and of course you-- look, jot
these down and read them all.
00:26:51.39\00:26:54.59
He said rather than what?
00:26:54.62\00:26:57.60
Speaking tongues
must have in what?
00:26:57.63\00:26:59.04
An interpreter.
00:26:59.07\00:27:01.04
Wow, rather that ye prophesied.
00:27:01.07\00:27:03.88
Interesting enough as we
study that--listen the church
00:27:03.91\00:27:08.32
that was focusing on
prophesying and prophets,
00:27:08.35\00:27:13.18
you know what
their messages were?
00:27:13.21\00:27:14.58
You know what the messages were?
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They were focusing on
the second coming of Jesus.
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Wow! And the
signs of His coming.
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The events that would be taking
place before Jesus would come.
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They were focusing on that.
Is that sound familiar to you?
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That God's last day
church will be what?
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That has the prophet.
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Prophesy gift of
prophecy will be focusing
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on the second coming of Jesus.
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How we can be
prepared for His coming?
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Signs and the events
that would be taking place.
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It needs to sound familiar.
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They did in the New
Testament Church, you remember.
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And interesting,
First Corinthians 14.
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I am just using few of
these because a lot of people
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love these
passages of scripture.
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They love First Corinthians 14,
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but they're
overlooking somethings,
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First Corinthians 14:22 says,
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"Prophesying serveth
for them which believe."
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What was it?
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Prophesying serves
for them which believe.
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Are you a believer?
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Oh, I am a believer, I
am New Testament believer.
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Then prophecy you
see, the gift of prophecy,
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a prophet in the
church is for you then
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because that's what it's
for, that's what the Bible says.
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First Corinthians 14:29
said, "Let the prophets speak."
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Wow, how powerful.
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"Let the prophets
speak" and then it says
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you know two or three or so on.
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So no one was rebuking a prophet
in the New Testament Church.
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Why should we be
rebuking them now?
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Acts 15:32 says,
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"And Judas and Silas
being prophets also themselves,
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exhorted the brethern with
many words, and confirmed them."
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Or they did what?
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They supported,
they established--
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reestablish the truths.
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This is part of a-- a
prophet's work is to exhort,
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part of the prophet is
to comfort, is to lead,
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is to guide, is to pray for,
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is to call for, to
give commands as it were.
00:29:10.68\00:29:13.57
To tell the events
that are soon to take place,
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is to warn, a mouthpiece of God.
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Now if we get time to go into
all not but let me tell you,
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a prophet can only
say- true prophet of God
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can only tell you
what God tells him
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and nothing more of
thus saith the Lord.
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Friend, in Acts 21:8 through 11,
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here in the New
Testament we find Philip.
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There's getting a
New-- we find Philip here
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because well that was a
prophet, that was a man.
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Philip was the evangelist,
but he had four daughters,
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do you remember that?
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And he said-- the Bible said,
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and these four
daughters they did prophesy.
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Look up that word. You
know what it said they did,
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they said they did
what? They did prophesy.
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That means they
would foretell events
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before they took
place. A word from God.
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They would speak under
inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
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They would exercise the
prophetic office of a prophet.
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Men and women God will
use here in this last day.
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So why are people afraid
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of a prophet in the
New Testament Church?
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Well first of all you
said there's true prophet
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then that also means what?
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That they're
gonna be false prophets.
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So we have to-- the
Jesus gave some simple rules
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to distinguish between the two.
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And he stated very, very plainly
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in Mathew 7 verses 15-20,
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He said, A good tree bringeth
forth" what? Good fruit.
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And a bad or corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit."
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In the First John 4:1 it says
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"We must prove all things
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and we must try
or test the spirit."
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So we've to try the spirit,
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we've to test them, what?
Test them by the word of God.
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Everybody pops up
and says, I am a prophet.
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They aren't more of a prophet.
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I am not prophet, I
don't claim to be prophet
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but God gives me
a word dear friends,
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we need to let that word out.
00:31:06.68\00:31:08.22
And then whatever
that word comes out
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we've to test it by the Bible.
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Isaiah 8:20
really brings to light
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and it just so much time
is--some of us wants to says,
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to the Lord, to the testimony,
00:31:17.85\00:31:19.78
if they speak not
according to this is because
00:31:19.81\00:31:21.91
there is no light in
them. Someone comes up and says,
00:31:21.94\00:31:24.28
I'm a prophet of
God. I've got a message
00:31:24.31\00:31:26.31
and they down chart the
Ten Commandment Law of God.
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They down chart
the testimony of Jesus
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Spirit of Prophecy,
00:31:32.50\00:31:33.87
one of the
witnesses of Jesus Christ.
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Dear friend he is not
a true prophet of God.
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He's a false prophet.
00:31:37.23\00:31:38.63
The law on the testimony,
there be no light in them.
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Friend there's a way and
the world has--basic Christian
00:31:41.65\00:31:45.12
world is thrown out this
gift because they are afraid,
00:31:45.15\00:31:48.50
because you know what, because
they're not studying the Bible,
00:31:48.53\00:31:50.79
because you don't
know what is truth
00:31:50.82\00:31:52.30
and you don't
know what is false,
00:31:52.33\00:31:53.70
because you're not
studying to show yourself,
00:31:53.73\00:31:55.34
approved unto God.
00:31:55.37\00:31:56.74
I want you to
encourage today to do that.
00:31:56.77\00:31:59.09
How do you define a prophet?
00:31:59.12\00:32:00.49
I mean let's say, how do
we really define a prophet.
00:32:00.52\00:32:03.08
We've been talking about them.
Can we so do it simply today?
00:32:03.11\00:32:07.19
A prophet will
simply be what, good,
00:32:07.22\00:32:10.14
a mouthpiece for God, good.
00:32:10.17\00:32:14.28
God uses them to do
what? To guide His church.
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Oh, how beautiful that is.
00:32:17.92\00:32:19.86
And friend we need
that help today, do we not.
00:32:19.89\00:32:22.99
See God has always--from the
very beginning He's had what?
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Prophets in the
church. So once again
00:32:26.66\00:32:29.31
I am pleading
with you why not now?
00:32:29.34\00:32:31.78
Rather to turn it off
and say it doesn't exist,
00:32:31.81\00:32:33.78
you are denying
dozens and dozens and dozens
00:32:33.81\00:32:37.05
of clear scripture
in the New Testament,
00:32:37.08\00:32:40.87
upholding the gift of prophecy
00:32:40.90\00:32:42.76
or prophet
operating in the church.
00:32:42.79\00:32:45.70
But now when you say
whether prophet operating
00:32:45.73\00:32:47.36
this church is a cult, cult.
00:32:47.39\00:32:51.93
Oh friends, that's what that is.
00:32:51.96\00:32:55.06
That what they said in
the New Testament times,
00:32:55.09\00:32:57.90
Paul never said that.
00:32:57.93\00:32:59.91
Now we realize there's a line
which you cross and hopefully
00:32:59.94\00:33:01.93
we will be able to
discuss little more about that.
00:33:01.96\00:33:04.64
But if we think about this,
00:33:04.67\00:33:06.33
you see the
enemy has so many ways
00:33:06.36\00:33:08.71
to cause diversions
here in the last days.
00:33:08.74\00:33:11.48
There are so many ways
in which the enemy tries
00:33:11.51\00:33:14.36
to captivate us and to
caring for things of the world
00:33:14.39\00:33:17.29
and being involved in the world
00:33:17.32\00:33:18.89
and we just can't get
winged away from the world
00:33:18.92\00:33:20.59
where I've been in
the world, do you get it.
00:33:20.62\00:33:23.93
Taken us captive.
00:33:23.96\00:33:25.33
Listen, we need to
communicate with God
00:33:25.36\00:33:27.71
more than ever before
in a history of this world.
00:33:27.74\00:33:31.19
We need to hear
God's voice and He said,
00:33:31.22\00:33:34.04
I am going to speak
through my prophets.
00:33:34.07\00:33:37.10
I want to give
dreams and visions.
00:33:37.13\00:33:39.54
You remember this
account of scripture.
00:33:39.57\00:33:40.94
We got to go away
back here but remember
00:33:40.97\00:33:42.58
this account of
scripture given in Exodus 4:16.
00:33:42.61\00:33:46.59
God call Moses to do a work
00:33:46.62\00:33:47.99
and you
remember what Moses said,
00:33:48.02\00:33:50.49
I must me be dried
out, I am short of speech.
00:33:50.52\00:33:54.02
And God said to him,
00:33:54.05\00:33:55.42
He said, "Aaron,
shall be thy spokesman."
00:33:55.45\00:34:00.35
Now remember
Moses, oh be careful
00:34:00.38\00:34:02.19
somebody may not have
heard this and others have,
00:34:02.22\00:34:04.00
Moses was a type
of what? Of Christ.
00:34:04.03\00:34:08.65
But he said what?
"Aaron shall be thy spokesman."
00:34:08.68\00:34:12.93
And notice what he said,
"And he shall be to thee,
00:34:12.96\00:34:16.16
even he shall be
instead of a mouth,
00:34:16.19\00:34:19.95
and thou shalt be
to him instead of God."
00:34:19.98\00:34:23.18
So Moses what?
Was a type of Christ.
00:34:23.21\00:34:26.70
And Christ will speak
through what as it were.
00:34:26.73\00:34:28.93
Moss will speak
and the prophet of God,
00:34:28.96\00:34:31.26
Aaron would take what he wants
00:34:31.29\00:34:32.66
and then he will
give it to the people.
00:34:32.69\00:34:34.70
Very interesting. God
made it very clear here.
00:34:34.73\00:34:38.82
Aaron was to Moses'
words. Get the point,
00:34:38.85\00:34:42.42
Aaron was to Moses'
words as the word of God.
00:34:42.45\00:34:47.71
And everything that He told him.
00:34:47.74\00:34:49.70
And later what did God
say? He called Aaron a prophet.
00:34:49.73\00:34:53.73
Exodus 7:1, he said, "Aaron
thy brother shall be a prophet."
00:34:53.76\00:34:58.33
God said He's
gonna be a prophet.
00:34:58.36\00:35:01.69
Of course you
remember Moses was even afraid
00:35:01.72\00:35:03.83
to go before the farewell,
you know, the second time
00:35:03.86\00:35:06.10
and so on and God reminded
him and I am reminding you today
00:35:06.13\00:35:09.28
as a
representative of Jesus Christ.
00:35:09.31\00:35:11.58
You are superior to
any Pharaoh or any king.
00:35:11.61\00:35:16.31
We need not be afraid.
00:35:16.34\00:35:18.33
God has joined together,
He has given us information.
00:35:18.36\00:35:20.86
He has given a
solid word of truth.
00:35:20.89\00:35:23.41
Divinity and humanity
working together cannot lose.
00:35:23.44\00:35:27.20
We cannot lose
this race, this battle
00:35:27.23\00:35:30.26
because we're working
together with Jesus Christ.
00:35:30.29\00:35:32.57
But we've to
communicate, we've to listen,
00:35:32.60\00:35:35.41
we've to what not throw
out what God has given us.
00:35:35.44\00:35:39.50
Oh, it's
interesting, you remember
00:35:39.53\00:35:40.99
that God used a
prophet to deliver what?
00:35:41.02\00:35:43.70
To deliver Israel.
Do you remember that?
00:35:43.73\00:35:45.62
And then to preserve--listen
not only deliver Israel,
00:35:45.65\00:35:48.90
but He preserved Israel.
00:35:48.93\00:35:52.21
You remember
reading that in Hosea 12:13,
00:35:52.24\00:35:57.19
and when we say
Israel we say His church.
00:35:57.22\00:35:59.78
Here's how it read,
it say, "By prophet God
00:35:59.81\00:36:02.45
brought Israel out of Egypt,
00:36:02.48\00:36:04.75
and by a prophet
that he was preserved."
00:36:04.78\00:36:08.85
So God's church then
was--can be delivered
00:36:08.88\00:36:11.10
by a prophet is
gonna be preserved by what?
00:36:11.13\00:36:14.02
By a prophet.
00:36:14.05\00:36:15.42
May be many churches
today is not being preserved
00:36:15.45\00:36:17.19
because they don't have
what? The mouthpiece of God.
00:36:17.22\00:36:19.62
They are not
hearing from heaven,
00:36:19.65\00:36:21.02
they're hearing from man.
00:36:21.05\00:36:24.37
And Moses here was the prophet
00:36:24.40\00:36:26.15
that was speaking about here.
00:36:26.18\00:36:28.14
Israel was
preserved by obeying what?
00:36:28.17\00:36:31.45
God's prophet.
00:36:31.48\00:36:33.45
Today God's
people will--is going
00:36:33.48\00:36:35.79
to be preserved by what?
00:36:35.82\00:36:38.65
By listening to
God's appointed messengers.
00:36:38.68\00:36:42.39
We cannot afford
not to listen to God.
00:36:42.42\00:36:44.66
He has appointed messengers
00:36:44.69\00:36:46.48
and we need to
listen to them today.
00:36:46.51\00:36:49.09
God tells us that
when He uses a prophet
00:36:49.12\00:36:51.94
that His spirit
then must be what?
00:36:51.97\00:36:54.13
His spirit must be upon them.
His spirit must be upon them.
00:36:54.16\00:36:59.13
First Peter 1:10
and 11 says this,
00:36:59.16\00:37:02.34
"Of which salvation
the prophets have enquired"
00:37:02.37\00:37:05.97
that means they sort out.
"They searched diligently"
00:37:06.00\00:37:09.68
that means researching
the scriptures diligently.
00:37:09.71\00:37:13.27
Really trying to find out.
00:37:13.30\00:37:15.31
Here it says, "Here they
who prophesied of the grace
00:37:15.34\00:37:18.05
that should come
upon you searching what,
00:37:18.08\00:37:21.13
or what manner of time
00:37:21.16\00:37:22.93
the Spirit of
Christ was upon them.
00:37:22.96\00:37:25.68
" Oh friend, think about this. "
00:37:25.71\00:37:28.31
And did signify,
notice this, signify
00:37:28.34\00:37:31.67
when it was testified beforehand
00:37:31.70\00:37:34.48
that the sufferings of Christ
00:37:34.51\00:37:36.17
and the glory
that should follow."
00:37:36.20\00:37:38.92
Wow, the prophets here,
they're gonna to tell what?
00:37:38.95\00:37:42.39
Gonna tell in advance the things
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.47
that were going to take place.
00:37:44.50\00:37:46.22
How awesome, when what?
00:37:46.25\00:37:47.75
When the Spirit of God,
00:37:47.78\00:37:49.15
Spirit of Christ was in them.
00:37:49.18\00:37:52.01
They were
searching, they were prophets,
00:37:52.04\00:37:54.04
they've inquired,
they want to know,
00:37:54.07\00:37:55.92
they are telling you
things that should come to past.
00:37:55.95\00:37:58.42
The spirit kept
pointing out significance
00:37:58.45\00:38:01.40
facts concerning the
mission of Jesus Christ.
00:38:01.43\00:38:05.30
Oh, may I mention
again a prophet knows only
00:38:05.33\00:38:10.95
what God reveals and only this.
00:38:10.98\00:38:16.27
I mentioned a while ago, I
simple thus saith the Lord.
00:38:16.30\00:38:19.11
So it's not man's word,
00:38:19.14\00:38:21.10
when a prophet
was anointed by Jesus
00:38:21.13\00:38:23.50
and a message
was given to prophet
00:38:23.53\00:38:25.07
and gave that
message just exactly
00:38:25.10\00:38:26.86
the way it was given to him.
00:38:26.89\00:38:28.71
No deviation from it,
that's the true prophet.
00:38:28.74\00:38:32.16
Prophets going to be underneath
00:38:32.19\00:38:33.65
the influence
of the Holy Spirit.
00:38:33.68\00:38:35.23
Second Peter 1:21
and Second Samuel 23:12
00:38:35.26\00:38:39.66
are two you can read that.
00:38:39.69\00:38:41.06
It says, "For
prophecy came not" what? "
00:38:41.09\00:38:42.87
In old times by the will of man,
00:38:42.90\00:38:45.48
but holy man of God
spoke as they were moved"
00:38:45.51\00:38:47.78
by what, "by the Holy Ghost."
00:38:47.81\00:38:49.94
So we've Holy Spirit power here,
00:38:49.97\00:38:52.15
uniting as together
and then they may begin
00:38:52.18\00:38:54.71
to speak as God
gave him utterance.
00:38:54.74\00:38:58.44
Prophecy, friend is
a revelation from God.
00:38:58.47\00:39:03.00
He decide what is
made plain to the church,
00:39:03.03\00:39:06.72
He decides what the
church needs what we need today.
00:39:06.75\00:39:10.74
The prophet then
is entirely under
00:39:10.77\00:39:13.29
the control of the Holy Spirit.
00:39:13.32\00:39:16.41
That's so, so
important. Let's look,
00:39:16.44\00:39:19.31
we'll have time to look at some
of the areas of communication
00:39:19.34\00:39:22.82
that God used
from the beginning.
00:39:22.85\00:39:26.17
Are we getting this?
00:39:26.20\00:39:27.57
We're going to look at some
of the areas of communication
00:39:27.60\00:39:30.80
that God used from the
very beginning of time.
00:39:30.83\00:39:33.84
Now how did God
communicate with Adam and Eve?
00:39:33.87\00:39:38.74
How did he do? Well you
know as you take scripture,
00:39:38.77\00:39:40.71
you began to
read in Genesis 3:9,
00:39:40.74\00:39:43.13
you just turn back scripture
and you say we're here "
00:39:43.16\00:39:45.11
And the Lord God called
unto Adam, and said unto him."
00:39:45.14\00:39:49.94
So how did God
communicate with Adam and Eve?
00:39:49.97\00:39:54.51
Yeah, He spoke to them,
didn't he? Bible says here,
00:39:54.54\00:39:57.08
he called them and he
said to them before sin right,
00:39:57.11\00:40:00.54
"Where Art Thou?"
00:40:00.57\00:40:03.76
So God spoke to
them before the fall.
00:40:03.79\00:40:08.69
Now, so how did God
speak to man after the fall?
00:40:08.72\00:40:13.04
Now, what we're
establishing here?
00:40:13.07\00:40:14.45
We're establishing
in that once God had--
00:40:14.48\00:40:16.59
He spoke to them before the fall
00:40:16.62\00:40:18.94
but He still need to communicate
to His church, and I say,
00:40:18.97\00:40:21.88
church as his people
but after sin came in,
00:40:21.91\00:40:25.26
a lot of things changed,
but God still wanted to do what?
00:40:25.29\00:40:28.21
Communicate with His people.
00:40:28.24\00:40:31.09
And so how did God do it?
00:40:31.12\00:40:33.71
Well the Bible would
go over the Old Testament,
00:40:33.74\00:40:35.11
Hosea 12:10 says this. He said,
00:40:35.14\00:40:38.91
"I have also
spoken by the prophet,
00:40:38.94\00:40:43.17
I've multiplied" Listen,
00:40:43.20\00:40:45.65
" Visions and
I've used similitudes."
00:40:45.68\00:40:48.88
What is that means.
00:40:48.91\00:40:50.28
He said I've used lightnesses,
00:40:50.31\00:40:51.68
I've used things
that are similar,
00:40:51.71\00:40:53.85
I've used things that
resemble something else.
00:40:53.88\00:40:57.12
And he said, notice,
I've done this by the--listen,
00:40:57.15\00:41:00.14
"The ministry of
the prophets." Wow.
00:41:00.17\00:41:05.18
God spoke before
sin to them directly.
00:41:05.21\00:41:07.90
Sin came in, God's coming.
00:41:07.93\00:41:10.04
Say, I am gonna
use what? Prophets.
00:41:10.07\00:41:12.15
I am going to use what? I
am gonna multiply visions.
00:41:12.18\00:41:16.88
So God said, okay he's
gonna use visions then.
00:41:16.91\00:41:19.58
And we talked about Joel,
00:41:19.61\00:41:21.17
it's gonna be dreams and
then he's gonna use likenesses
00:41:21.20\00:41:24.99
and things that are similar,
He's gonna make comparisons.
00:41:25.02\00:41:27.69
And then He says what? By
the ministry of the prophets.
00:41:27.72\00:41:32.43
Heaven approves of
prophets or prophecy,
00:41:32.46\00:41:35.59
the gift of
prophecy in the church.
00:41:35.62\00:41:37.20
Listen, the devil does not want
you to understand the subject.
00:41:37.23\00:41:42.07
He doesn't want you to receive
the help that is available,
00:41:42.10\00:41:44.74
that God has made available
through New Testament teachings,
00:41:44.77\00:41:48.40
through the gifts that
He's left to the church
00:41:48.43\00:41:50.68
for the
edification of the church,
00:41:50.71\00:41:52.34
for the building
up of the church,
00:41:52.37\00:41:54.85
for the church getting ready
00:41:54.88\00:41:56.25
for the grand climax of
the coming of Jesus Christ.
00:41:56.28\00:42:00.21
If you feel
like I do difference,
00:42:00.24\00:42:01.61
I need all the help I can get.
00:42:01.64\00:42:03.37
Oh, God help me to
see, help me to understand,
00:42:03.40\00:42:05.41
we live in a smoke
filled world as it were.
00:42:05.44\00:42:08.78
It's hard to understand
what is truth and what is not.
00:42:08.81\00:42:10.85
What's real and what's
not. We need all the help
00:42:10.88\00:42:14.62
that we can
get. I am so thankful
00:42:14.65\00:42:17.56
that God has chosen to still
communicate with us, aren't you?
00:42:17.59\00:42:22.02
What if He had stopped?
There will be no hope for us.
00:42:22.05\00:42:25.44
But He says I am
going to go ahead,
00:42:25.47\00:42:27.24
I am gonna speak
through men, holy men.
00:42:27.27\00:42:30.00
And they are gonna
write down through women.
00:42:30.03\00:42:32.27
Gonna write down
things that we need to know
00:42:32.30\00:42:34.75
to prepare for
the coming of Jesus,
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.57
because we are so
spiritually dull today
00:42:36.60\00:42:39.11
and we don't--sad
part is we don't know it.
00:42:39.14\00:42:42.09
We say, we're
increased with goods
00:42:42.12\00:42:43.75
and we're well and
everything is going good,
00:42:43.78\00:42:45.45
we've all these things
going and this is happening,
00:42:45.48\00:42:47.63
and that's
happening. We're naked.
00:42:47.66\00:42:50.82
We need help and
we don't realize it.
00:42:50.85\00:42:55.47
Ministry of the
prophets means the-notice,
00:42:55.50\00:42:59.06
it means the directions
or the work of the prophet.
00:42:59.09\00:43:02.64
God said, I am going to do what?
00:43:02.67\00:43:04.11
I am going to
work through a prophet.
00:43:04.14\00:43:07.50
Now if your church
doesn't have prophet
00:43:07.53\00:43:09.27
you are missing
out on something.
00:43:09.30\00:43:12.35
Instead of looking at
the people and say well,
00:43:12.38\00:43:14.04
we're careful and then they say
they have the gift of prophecy.
00:43:14.07\00:43:16.95
They have a
prophet in the church.
00:43:16.98\00:43:18.95
I am looking at
you and I am saying,
00:43:18.98\00:43:20.35
oh my, you don't have.
00:43:20.38\00:43:22.23
Why becaus the
Bible is teaching here,
00:43:22.26\00:43:23.93
clear teaching here. We
can't miss this right here.
00:43:23.96\00:43:28.91
Prophet is going to be what?
00:43:28.94\00:43:30.70
The direction
in the work of God.
00:43:30.73\00:43:32.95
They're doing what God
was speaking to the people.
00:43:32.98\00:43:37.15
We must realize
that God has information
00:43:37.18\00:43:39.16
that He wants to impart to us.
00:43:39.19\00:43:42.36
And He has information
that belongs just to Him,
00:43:42.39\00:43:44.72
you remember reading that.
00:43:44.75\00:43:47.50
He's made
information available to us.
00:43:47.53\00:43:51.76
What to make
spiritual things clearer,
00:43:51.79\00:43:54.59
because we need to discern
it. We see through a glass.
00:43:54.62\00:43:57.81
You remember Deuteronomy 29:29,
00:43:57.84\00:44:02.17
they said, "The secret
things belong" to who? "
00:44:02.20\00:44:05.18
Belong to the Lord our God.
00:44:05.21\00:44:07.73
But those things which
are revealed belong to us
00:44:07.76\00:44:11.25
and to our children for ever."
00:44:11.28\00:44:13.52
The things that God has inspired
00:44:13.55\00:44:14.92
to be written in
the Bible and it's what?
00:44:14.95\00:44:18.16
Spirit of Prophecy, prophets,
the things are revealed.
00:44:18.19\00:44:23.57
Then we go back,
remember the prophet said,
00:44:23.60\00:44:25.29
I am a prophet
then we test him to see.
00:44:25.32\00:44:28.31
It's very clear.
So that we understand
00:44:28.34\00:44:30.07
what he saying is
from God, because God said,
00:44:30.10\00:44:33.03
He will use this
means in the last days
00:44:33.06\00:44:36.18
in the New Testament Church
if you don't have it, why not?
00:44:36.21\00:44:39.89
It's a gift.
00:44:39.92\00:44:41.29
All of the gifts
will be in operation
00:44:41.32\00:44:43.09
in God's last day church.
00:44:43.12\00:44:44.49
It's clear as we read. Hopefully
00:44:44.52\00:44:45.89
we've little
time to get to that.
00:44:45.92\00:44:48.17
If not remember this free
offer this book of 200 pages,
00:44:48.20\00:44:51.59
you are going to need that.
First 200 callers get it free.
00:44:51.62\00:44:56.33
It goes in deep, I
am talking about deep.
00:44:56.36\00:44:59.44
You'll love it
because if you don't have
00:44:59.47\00:45:02.77
it operating in
the church dear friend,
00:45:02.80\00:45:04.21
you're been
cheated by the devil.
00:45:04.24\00:45:07.63
God want you to have this.
00:45:07.66\00:45:09.90
The secret things
belong unto, what?
00:45:09.93\00:45:11.62
The Lord our God, but He
reveals those things to us
00:45:11.65\00:45:14.58
and to our
children. What He's revealed,
00:45:14.61\00:45:16.10
they are forever. See
this is God's promise to us.
00:45:16.13\00:45:19.64
He's made this
promise, He's going to keep it.
00:45:19.67\00:45:22.18
We alluded to it in
the first of the program
00:45:22.21\00:45:24.53
but in Amos 3:7 he
said, "Surely the Lord God"
00:45:24.56\00:45:27.71
come on you know this
one, come on say it with me,
00:45:27.74\00:45:30.00
"Surely the Lord
God will do" what?
00:45:30.03\00:45:31.93
"Nothing but he
revealeth his secret
00:45:31.96\00:45:34.25
unto his servants the prophets."
00:45:34.28\00:45:37.06
God calls a prophet a
servant. They are His servants.
00:45:37.09\00:45:43.93
They are to speak
when God says to speak,
00:45:43.96\00:45:46.31
may not be nice about it,
00:45:46.34\00:45:47.71
they keep their mouth shut
when God says keep it shut.
00:45:47.74\00:45:51.26
They're obedient to God.
00:45:51.29\00:45:54.18
That's all they have to
say is what God tell them,
00:45:54.21\00:45:56.27
I want you to reveal this,
00:45:56.30\00:45:57.76
I want you to go
in this situation
00:45:57.79\00:45:59.31
or that situation. I
want you tell the people.
00:45:59.34\00:46:01.74
Most generally it's a woo wow,
00:46:01.77\00:46:03.37
rough situation these things
are meant to for being obedient.
00:46:03.40\00:46:09.63
See how long will God use
this gift in the prophecy.
00:46:09.66\00:46:14.79
A prophet guiding his
church. How long will it be?
00:46:14.82\00:46:18.21
Well, first of all in
First Corinthians 13:8-10
00:46:18.24\00:46:21.02
when you have time read that.
00:46:21.05\00:46:22.79
It says whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail.
00:46:22.82\00:46:27.11
Now when will
the prophecies fail,
00:46:27.14\00:46:29.71
when there is no need for
a prophet operating anymore,
00:46:29.74\00:46:32.34
when Jesus return. So
it's gonna operate until what?
00:46:32.37\00:46:35.25
Until Jesus comes,
it's very, very clear.
00:46:35.28\00:46:38.09
So it is a gift in
the New Testament Church,
00:46:38.12\00:46:40.97
it will be in operation.
Now please remember this,
00:46:41.00\00:46:44.14
a true prophet-- let's just do
00:46:44.17\00:46:45.81
a couple of
this--may be kind of quiz
00:46:45.84\00:46:48.78
to you may be new to others,
00:46:48.81\00:46:50.66
but if you say now
what is a true prophet.
00:46:50.69\00:46:52.91
What are some identifying
marks of a true prophet?
00:46:52.94\00:46:56.52
Number one they
are called of what?
00:46:56.55\00:46:59.26
Good, they are called by God.
00:46:59.29\00:47:02.20
You read that in Isaiah 6, you
can read it Jeremiah Chapter 1,
00:47:02.23\00:47:05.28
Amos 7. Take time to
read all of these things.
00:47:05.31\00:47:08.17
Remember you just
don't say, I am a prophet,
00:47:08.20\00:47:10.84
I've decided to be a prophet.
Not all God calls the prophet.
00:47:10.87\00:47:17.91
And number two that
prophet's life will be
00:47:17.94\00:47:21.13
they live is a godly
life, Mathew Chapter 7
00:47:21.16\00:47:26.70
They would be
living a Christian life,
00:47:26.73\00:47:28.98
they would be like Jesus.
00:47:29.01\00:47:32.37
Number three, their
words and their writings
00:47:32.40\00:47:35.13
are always in
harmony with scripture.
00:47:35.16\00:47:39.82
They never like go against what
scripture has already revealed.
00:47:39.85\00:47:43.70
They are not the lesser lie
00:47:43.73\00:47:45.49
leading us to
always the great lie.
00:47:45.52\00:47:47.60
They're both
lies. They always reveal
00:47:47.63\00:47:51.10
what's already
revealed in scripture
00:47:51.13\00:47:53.00
so that we can
know that it's from God.
00:47:53.03\00:47:56.98
Four, they make
prediction Deuteronomy 18
00:47:57.01\00:48:00.53
reads that every prediction
that they make will come true.
00:48:00.56\00:48:05.22
Prophet of God, you
have too many prophets
00:48:05.25\00:48:06.93
around call self proclaim
prophets in the world today.
00:48:06.96\00:48:09.92
Oh they are
prophet, they are prophet,
00:48:09.95\00:48:11.32
you know, about half of
their prophecy prediction
00:48:11.35\00:48:14.19
they make they fail.
00:48:14.22\00:48:16.07
They can't be a
true prophet of God.
00:48:16.10\00:48:19.13
Number five, we notice here
00:48:19.16\00:48:20.53
that they are going to--many
of them will have visions.
00:48:20.56\00:48:24.53
Read that in Numbers 12.
They're gonna have dreams,
00:48:24.56\00:48:28.87
they gonna be
taken overcompletely
00:48:28.90\00:48:30.32
by the Spirit of God.
00:48:30.35\00:48:32.07
You think about
when the God takes over
00:48:32.10\00:48:33.47
the spirit--Holy
Spirit takes control of you
00:48:33.50\00:48:36.03
that you're in vision.
00:48:36.06\00:48:37.43
God is speaking to you and
you gonna relay that message
00:48:37.46\00:48:39.50
that you don't even breath.
00:48:39.53\00:48:41.75
It may be an hour
or may be two hours.
00:48:41.78\00:48:43.35
See that's
impossible without God.
00:48:43.38\00:48:47.75
Supernatural human strength.
00:48:47.78\00:48:51.13
Oh dear friend
let's think about this.
00:48:51.16\00:48:53.50
Who gave this
gift to the church?
00:48:53.53\00:48:56.57
Ephesians 4:8 says that,
"When He ascended up on high,
00:48:56.60\00:49:01.30
He led captivity captive,
and He gave gifts to men."
00:49:01.33\00:49:06.13
Jesus said I am gonna
leave gifts to the church.
00:49:06.16\00:49:09.64
So what He promised it,
but because of His ascension,
00:49:09.67\00:49:14.06
Christ guarantees
His ability to give
00:49:14.09\00:49:17.06
the New Testament
Church these gifts.
00:49:17.09\00:49:20.06
His ascension, read
that in First Corinthians 15
00:49:20.09\00:49:22.63
and 15 through 22.
00:49:22.66\00:49:24.43
What were these gifts
that Christ gave to us?
00:49:24.46\00:49:27.38
Oh you know these one's you
read over and over Ephesians 4,
00:49:27.41\00:49:31.90
you know, 11through 14.
First Corinthians 12:28,
00:49:31.93\00:49:36.69
see we cannot deny
a prophet operating
00:49:36.72\00:49:40.25
in New Testament
Church and in the last days
00:49:40.28\00:49:42.35
and in his what? Remnant Church.
00:49:42.38\00:49:45.60
It says--the
Bible says he gave some
00:49:45.63\00:49:47.17
apostles and some prophets.
00:49:47.20\00:49:50.39
Very interesting how he even--
how he listed the Holy Spirit,
00:49:50.42\00:49:53.42
listed the gifts you
need a prophet in the church.
00:49:53.45\00:49:56.96
And then he said
evangelists and teachers
00:49:56.99\00:49:58.60
and pastors you remember that.
00:49:58.63\00:50:00.08
Now notice they
were giving for verse 12,
00:50:00.11\00:50:02.18
the perfecting of the saints
for the work of the ministry,
00:50:02.21\00:50:06.57
for the edifying
of the body of Christ.
00:50:06.60\00:50:10.13
How long will these gifts last?
00:50:10.16\00:50:11.94
We've been talking about it.
00:50:11.97\00:50:14.52
Bible says until we
come what? Verse 12,
00:50:14.55\00:50:16.72
"Until we come
into the unity of faith
00:50:16.75\00:50:19.92
and the fullness of God."
00:50:19.95\00:50:22.05
So the answer is
simply the gifts will be
00:50:22.08\00:50:24.44
in operation in a
New Testament Church
00:50:24.47\00:50:26.86
until Jesus comes.
00:50:26.89\00:50:28.56
And if you're still
denying it friend, pray.
00:50:28.59\00:50:31.47
You're denying a
wonderful, wonderful truth here.
00:50:31.50\00:50:34.94
The Bible is clear
of the gift of prophecy,
00:50:34.97\00:50:37.98
prophet operating in the
church until Jesus comes.
00:50:38.01\00:50:41.83
Now let's say
again why these gifts?
00:50:41.86\00:50:45.48
And why the including a prophet?
00:50:45.51\00:50:48.70
Well verse 14 talks about that.
00:50:48.73\00:50:50.88
It says so that we
be no more like what?
00:50:50.91\00:50:54.20
Children toss to and fro
00:50:54.23\00:50:56.68
and carried about by
every wind of doctrine.
00:50:56.71\00:51:01.06
Gift of prophecy in the church,
00:51:01.09\00:51:02.46
well, we're
not--oh, some believe this,
00:51:02.49\00:51:03.98
some teach this some--oh so
00:51:04.01\00:51:05.78
that we're not blown
by every wind of doctrine.
00:51:05.81\00:51:08.03
We know what we believe,
It's truth in God's word.
00:51:08.06\00:51:11.19
It's the right
foundation is here in the Bible.
00:51:11.22\00:51:14.13
First Corinthians 12:28 say,
00:51:14.16\00:51:15.53
"God hath set
some in the church."
00:51:15.56\00:51:17.80
and how he do,
"First the apostles,
00:51:17.83\00:51:19.94
second the early prophets"
we're at the head of the list,
00:51:19.97\00:51:22.98
he said prophets in the
church and it goes onward.
00:51:23.01\00:51:26.67
See today the enemy.
00:51:26.70\00:51:28.20
Oh, he has
people believe in that
00:51:28.23\00:51:29.83
prophet operates in the church
00:51:29.86\00:51:32.98
that they are a cult.
00:51:33.01\00:51:34.58
Do you realize what that
means you say--being a cult
00:51:34.61\00:51:37.64
simply means that
you follow a person
00:51:37.67\00:51:40.43
or you follow principal,
00:51:40.46\00:51:43.25
some kind of you
call a religious nature
00:51:43.28\00:51:45.56
above scripture.
00:51:45.59\00:51:48.94
We don't follow anything
above scripture here, in God.
00:51:48.97\00:51:53.55
Can't say
because you have prophet
00:51:53.58\00:51:54.95
in the church,
then you are a cult.
00:51:54.98\00:51:56.35
No one should
even come up with that,
00:51:56.38\00:51:57.75
you shouldn't
even dream that up.
00:51:57.78\00:51:59.47
But yet what, the devil
is making sure that happens.
00:51:59.50\00:52:02.96
If you put what you
believe above the scripture,
00:52:02.99\00:52:07.98
yeah right cult might bit you.
00:52:08.01\00:52:10.96
If you believe scripture,
and you take a right arm
00:52:10.99\00:52:12.71
along with
scripture that could be a man,
00:52:12.74\00:52:16.42
that could be a
woman, God chooses to help
00:52:16.45\00:52:18.33
to guide His
people, to guide His church.
00:52:18.36\00:52:21.82
They're gonna
lift up the scriptures,
00:52:21.85\00:52:23.43
the truth of God's word.
00:52:23.46\00:52:25.72
Scripture, I smite
you well is a great light.
00:52:25.75\00:52:28.08
Everything is to be
tested by God's word.
00:52:28.11\00:52:32.71
People are afraid
you know, about prophet,
00:52:32.74\00:52:35.41
there's nothing wrong
with the prophet operating
00:52:35.44\00:52:37.22
we talked about
that in scripture.
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.96
We also talked about
First John 4:1, you remember,
00:52:39.99\00:52:42.20
just few minutes left
here, but it said that,
00:52:42.23\00:52:44.42
"We are to try the spirits
whether they are of God."
00:52:44.45\00:52:48.34
Why is that then the
Spirit of Prophecy--the prophet
00:52:48.37\00:52:50.79
in the church is
one gift that challenge
00:52:50.82\00:52:53.30
you see by the world
and another Christians?
00:52:53.33\00:52:57.91
Because what it points out
little pet sins in our life.
00:52:57.94\00:53:00.44
It gives us what?
Insight to the word of God.
00:53:00.47\00:53:03.22
Helps to stay on
a close track with
00:53:03.25\00:53:04.73
what God would have us
to--if we fail and we fall short
00:53:04.76\00:53:10.00
is because we would not
listen to God's mouthpiece,
00:53:10.03\00:53:12.34
or the holy prophets.
00:53:12.37\00:53:14.37
Numbers 12:6, Jesus said,
00:53:14.40\00:53:16.93
"If there be a prophet
among you," notice what "
00:53:16.96\00:53:19.27
I the Lord will make myself
00:53:19.30\00:53:21.10
known unto him in
a vision" or what?
00:53:21.13\00:53:23.30
"Or in a dream." God
say, I am gonna speak to him.
00:53:23.33\00:53:26.80
Daniel said he was in
vision, there was no strength,
00:53:26.83\00:53:29.03
there was no breath left in him.
00:53:29.06\00:53:31.28
God said in the last days
00:53:31.31\00:53:32.68
He's gonna have
men dream and visions,
00:53:32.71\00:53:34.15
there will be
prophet operating the church.
00:53:34.18\00:53:35.55
It's so clear.
00:53:35.58\00:53:37.93
If you do not have
a prophet operating
00:53:37.96\00:53:39.73
in the church today
you cannot possibly be
00:53:39.76\00:53:41.68
God's last day
church of Revelation 12:17.
00:53:41.71\00:53:45.74
Why, because this
gift will be in operation.
00:53:45.77\00:53:48.64
If you don't, your church is
in trouble brother and sister.
00:53:48.67\00:53:50.91
Its worth examining.
Don't you want to examine?
00:53:50.94\00:53:54.65
I realize there's
a lot of information
00:53:54.68\00:53:57.36
the verses of gifts.
00:53:57.39\00:53:59.00
But the Bible says
it's the same spirit
00:53:59.03\00:54:01.11
First Corinthians 12:4,
00:54:01.14\00:54:04.66
prophetic gift
prophets were indispensable
00:54:04.69\00:54:07.89
in the foundation of
New Testament Church.
00:54:07.92\00:54:10.92
Be in operation
till Jesus comes.
00:54:10.95\00:54:13.79
If we reject the
prophets' words, we reject God.
00:54:13.82\00:54:16.98
Oh, friend you don't
want to do that today.
00:54:17.01\00:54:19.28
Test the prophets
and then it will be true,
00:54:19.31\00:54:21.08
follow the
prophets. Friend, you know
00:54:21.11\00:54:22.89
I remind you about this book.
00:54:22.92\00:54:25.44
We over just scratched
in and went over-there's
00:54:25.47\00:54:27.62
mountains of information
to try to condense it down
00:54:27.65\00:54:30.24
to hopefully whet
your appetite say oh God
00:54:30.27\00:54:32.21
I need that book.
00:54:32.24\00:54:33.61
Don't forget to
call, get that free book
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Two hundred pages of their book
00:54:36.05\00:54:37.53
that will help you
to understand this gift.
00:54:37.56\00:54:39.10
The devil doesn't
want you to understand.
00:54:39.13\00:54:40.76
He's gonna put it
off, don't put it off.
00:54:40.79\00:54:43.07
Don't put it
off. We are gonna pray
00:54:43.10\00:54:44.47
about this right now that you--
00:54:44.50\00:54:45.87
that the Holy Spirit
will help us understand
00:54:45.90\00:54:47.77
what we've been
talking about here.
00:54:47.80\00:54:49.56
And then you gonna call for that
free book and then you go out?
00:54:49.59\00:54:52.01
God's gonna open
avenues and doors for you.
00:54:52.04\00:54:54.10
Let's pray right
now, shall we together.
00:54:54.13\00:54:56.50
Merciful Father in
heaven we thank You
00:54:56.53\00:54:57.90
for Your precious word today.
00:54:57.93\00:54:59.89
We thank You that
You are enlightening us
00:54:59.92\00:55:01.67
and You have helped
and many of us rejected
00:55:01.70\00:55:04.21
that help because we
didn't realize it was there.
00:55:04.24\00:55:06.17
Oh Lord, help up
as we see it today.
00:55:06.20\00:55:08.22
To reach out and say, oh
Lord thank you for that help,
00:55:08.25\00:55:10.23
thank you for that communication
00:55:10.26\00:55:11.63
that we so need here in
the New Testament Church.
00:55:11.66\00:55:13.82
and I thank you for
in Jesus name, amen.
00:55:13.85\00:55:17.46
Friend, don't forget to pray
for us here at Behold the Lamb.
00:55:17.49\00:55:20.03
Remember the only
support that we've coming
00:55:20.06\00:55:22.30
in here is a free will
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00:55:22.33\00:55:24.58
We've to got keep
these programs going.
00:55:24.61\00:55:26.24
We depend upon you. We
enjoy spending time with you.
00:55:26.27\00:55:29.86
You now every time we are
on whether it's on the radio,
00:55:29.89\00:55:32.00
or you know,
whatever it might be in 3ABN
00:55:32.03\00:55:34.19
we enjoy spending that
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00:55:34.22\00:55:36.63
we're gonna be praying for you.
Don't forget that free offer.
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Call right now
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00:55:38.91\00:55:40.60
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00:55:40.63\00:55:42.31
Hello and welcome back.
00:55:42.34\00:55:44.90
Our prayer for you
today is that this message
00:55:44.93\00:55:48.21
was used of God that
fill your heart and mind
00:55:48.24\00:55:50.95
with more wonderful
truths and blessings of heaven.
00:55:50.98\00:55:54.99
The knowledge of
prophecy and prophets is
00:55:55.02\00:55:57.70
so important to
Christ's last church.
00:55:57.73\00:56:00.97
So important that as
Pastor Kenny stated earlier,
00:56:01.00\00:56:04.27
it was mentioned in Revelation
00:56:04.30\00:56:06.25
as an identifying
mark of God's people.
00:56:06.28\00:56:09.85
Let's quickly review and
re-read Revelation 12:17,
00:56:09.88\00:56:14.25
reading it says, "And the
dragon was wroth with the woman,
00:56:14.28\00:56:18.62
and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed,
00:56:18.65\00:56:21.61
which keep the
commandments of God,
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.29
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:56:25.32\00:56:27.98
Now lets compare
this with the end
00:56:28.01\00:56:30.22
of Revelation 19:10 once again,
00:56:30.25\00:56:33.26
here we're instructed
that "For the testimony
00:56:33.29\00:56:36.75
of Jesus is the
spirit of prophecy."
00:56:36.78\00:56:40.93
Friends this is a
powerful truth of God's word.
00:56:40.96\00:56:44.75
What wonderful instruction
and clearness is obtained
00:56:44.78\00:56:47.90
as we allow the
Bible to interpret itself
00:56:47.93\00:56:51.35
and to aid you--to aid
you further with the study
00:56:51.38\00:56:55.06
we are offering a
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"Prophet of the End." In
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just how to
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00:57:01.82\00:57:04.69
as directed in scripture.
00:57:04.72\00:57:06.88
Friends, listen I
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that you would want
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