Hello I am Pastor Hal
Steenson. I would like
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to welcome you to join
me today on Faith Chapel.
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I have very
interesting subject here today,
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this is a series
that I do usually only in
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leadership meetings,
I do not usually do them
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in a church setting.
And the title of it is
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how to recognize
false prophets. I found
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it through the years
it's not just leadership
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and pastors and
elders that need to hear
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this message. Most
of the time the pastors
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will go back and
share this same with the
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congregation, but
we have an opportunity
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here today to share
this with the world,
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and there are false
prophets on every corner
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waiting to try to
destroy the things of God.
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And I want to
share with you today how
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to recognize those
through God's word.
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First before we go
to the word, let's go
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to God in prayer,
okay. Father we thank you
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for this day, we thank
you for this opportunity,
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the opportunity to
share your word to break
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the bread of life
Father Lord led us feast
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upon your word, I
ask that just somehow,
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someway God let me
be a conduit, and you
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flow through it
Lord to get this message
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across to those Lord
that might be encountering
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or might confront
false prophets that seek
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to steal, kill and
destroy the church of
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our living God. We
thank you for in Jesus
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name, amen. Through
the years I've witnessed
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many, many good
Christians drawn away
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by people who
professed to be prophets,
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you hear
everywhere, I am the prophet,
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I am this, I am
there and you know what
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you are not
something because you call
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yourself
something, you are something
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because of what
Jesus has appointed
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an anoinity to be
and people will recognize
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you to be, you can
call yourself an elder
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pastor but if
people don't recognize you
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as that, then you
really aren't. We know
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that there are
prophets because we've
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encountered these
in our denomination,
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and we thank God
forum. It amazes me that
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they could be so
easily deceived. However
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when I started looking
for material describing
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false prophets, I
could not found anything,
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so what I did was I
went to the word of God,
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and I said okay Lord
show me how to recognize
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false prophets and
also the reason why we need
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to recognize false
prophets. And the first
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reason that God
showed me it's because,
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you know hey how
I shed my blood for
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the church and I
found that in Acts 20:28:
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Take heed therefore un
to yourselves, and to all
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the flock, over the
which the Holy Ghost has
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made you overseers, to
feed the church of God,
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which he has
purchased with his own blood.
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Okay, God you shared
your blood for the church
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now what? He said
now I desired for you
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and all of my children
to take proper care of that
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which I shed my blood
for, and I found that in
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1 John 4:1 Beloved,
believe not every spirit,
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but try the spirits
whether they are of God:
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because many false
prophets are gone out
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into the world
today. You know in the lot
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of the charismatic
and Pentecostal churches
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if the minister
would say okay anybody,
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anytime someone
stands up and declares that
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they are
prophesying what we're gonna do
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is we're gonna
stop the service and the
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elders in the leadership
of this church are going
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to judge what you
have said according to
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the word of God. You
know there wouldn't be
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as much talking
going on as there is in
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a lot of those
churches. We prove everything,
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we try everything,
we try every spirit,
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and we do it
according to the word
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of God. So here it
is take your notes,
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get your highlighter
out and highlight these
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and write them
down. The first way to
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recognize the
false prophet. The number
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one way is they
talk about being God's
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special vessel and
they exalt themselves
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above others.
They think they are the
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select of the
elect, it's amazing,
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oh thank God, the
God send me to your
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church, that this is
just great, I've got here
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just in time, your
church in such bad shape.
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I heard one man
say back years ago he
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was from another
country and I asked him
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where he go to
church, he said wherever
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God leads me. I
said how does God lead
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you where to go.
And he said well I
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get on the bus and
I start riding the bus
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through town and
the third time the bell
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is rung on the bus
which in this country
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meant to stop let
some go off. He said
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this I get off and
go to church and this
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how God leads
me. And I said bother
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it sounds to me
like that you are being
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led by the bell
instead of being led by God.
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And this is the way
a lot of the prophets
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are. Now grant it
there are true prophets
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and I humble myself
before God to say that
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God gave the false
prophets, evangelistic
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pastor and
teacher for the perfecting
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of the saints until
we all come into the
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unities of faith,
we're not there yet,
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the ministry is still
here. Jesus gave those
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dump a gifts and I
humble myself to realize
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there are in effect
but not false prophets
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and false prophets
come across to so many
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people that are
impressed by what they
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see, hear, touch,
test and smell rather than
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by the word of God.
Now once again the first
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way number one way
is they talk about being
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God's special vessel
and they exalt themselves.
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2 Peter 2:1-3 says:
But there were false
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prophets also
among the people, even
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as there shall be
false teachers among you,
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who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies,
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even denying the
Lord that bought them,
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and bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
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And many shall follow
their pernicious ways;
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by reason of whom
the way of truth shall
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be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness,
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covetousness shall
they be feigned words
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make merchandise
of you: whose judgment
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now of a long time
lingereth not, and their
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damnation slumbereth
not. You know in 1988
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all over the world
especially in America
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the churches
started filling up, I mean
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all of a sudden here
these people coming out
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of the wood, people
that used to be in church,
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you didn't see for a
couple of three years,
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and all the sudden
they are there, and myself
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along with the
some other pastor were
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talking about I
wonder why when I said
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because it's of Whisenant's book
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you know
Whisenant, who is Whisenant.
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He is this guy
that's a prophet, claims to
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be a prophet and he
has written book 88 reasons
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why Jesus is
going to return in 1988.
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You know we, we
should know better even,
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you know there is
even some people in our
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denomination can't
help us that are teaching
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times and dates when
the Lord is returning,
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in the word of God
tell us not to do this.
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But this man did
this, and then in 1988 after
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the date came and
he didn't happened,
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here was his
statement. I can stand in front
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of the Lord and say
I gave it my best shot,
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failed prophet
Edgar Whisenant said after
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September the
1st, 1989 came and went
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without any
evidence of the rapture and I
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I might add to that
after this date came
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and went, the
people that returned to the
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church left the
church because they
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realized that it
was not going to happen.
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God is not a fire
escape, God is a loving
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Father preparing a
place for us. He says
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after running up a
zero for two record
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in the rapture
predicting, the retired
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NASA engineer who
lives in a one room shack
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outside Little Rock,
Arkansas, says his Job
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is now done his
book predicting this year
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rapture only sold
30,000 copies in contrast
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to his book
predicting the raptured of last
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September was sold 4.3
million copies a dollar
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a pop, 4.3 million
dollar and you know after
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it didn't happen he
still sold 300000 books
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for dollar pop
predicting it for the next year.
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How could many
believers fall for this age
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old problem of
date setting that Jesus
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clearly warns us
about in Matthew 24?
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You see at that
time, I was preaching
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a message on 88
reasons why the Lord wasn't
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returning in 1988. Now
this might sound strange
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to some of you but
this charismatic pastor,
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I never preach
the secret rapture,
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it didn't work, it
didn't come together,
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it wouldn't fit
it, and so I refused to
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preach until God
enlightening me on it,
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when I came to the
Seventh-day Adventist
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Church and realized
that we are sleep in
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the grave, we're not
all up in heaven those
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who had gone on
before now it fits, but
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still not the
secret rapture. When people
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talk about the
secret rapture it tickle me
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because Thessalonians
is an awful noisy book,
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there is a shout,
there is trumpet and there
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is a lot of noise,
it's not too secret to me.
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But I was preaching
88 reasons why the Lord
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was not returning
in 1988 and I didn't
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have time to get
through it before the date
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was to come. So I
told the congregations
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don't worry about it
we'll be here next week,
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and I'll finish
it. You see Jesus knows
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the date, Jesus
knows the time, and what we
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need to do is just
to be prepared and ready
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and recognize
anyone that's out there
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that's trying to
tell us exacts that we do
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not know that God
himself is the only one he
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knows, don't buy
it, don't pay a dollar
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for it, don't pay a
penny for it. The second
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way to recognize a
false prophet is they always
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attack the spiritual
leadership of the church.
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Now hear that,
okay this is important,
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they attack the
spiritual leadership
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of the church. All
this, this means they attack
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the pastor, and the
elder, no not always,
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that's not always
the case, because a lot
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of times the spiritual
leadership in the church
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is somebody that
you would never see up
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front, it's
somebody that stays in their
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prayer closet, someone
that lays on their face
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and cries out to God
for that church, and the
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people that's in that
church and their family.
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I will remind you a
story back years ago
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on evangelist came
and held a Revival series
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in the small town.
And after that Revival
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series is over,
this one elderly lady,
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the matriarchs entire
family had come to God.
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And so the last
meeting, after the last meeting
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she invited him
over for dinner. He came
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in and he was
sitting there and he said
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oh is this wonderful
that God use his revival,
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use me to bring your
entire family into the
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body of Christ.
And she said come here
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brother let me show
you something, she open
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the closet door in
the middle of her house
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and there in the
floor were two holes,
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one in the floor
from her knees where she
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had been praying for her
family for over 30 years,
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so that's
spiritual leadership that's
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in the church, they
don't just attack the ones
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that sits front.
Anybody that's doing something
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for God has a heart
set for God they will
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attack. In
Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians
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5: 2 says: And we
beseech you, brethren,
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to know them
which labour among you,
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and are over you in
the Lord, and admonish
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you; and to
esteem them very highly,
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listen as you esteem
him highly for the work's
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sake. You don't
buy him a Cadillac you
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esteem him highly.
This is what you do,
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you don't pat him on
the back and tell him
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how wonderful they
are. There is nothing wrong
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with giving them
accolades of love,
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but what you do is
you esteem him very
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highly for their
work sake, and be at peace
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among you no one
Ben Burk, and I we were
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talking recently about
this, no one would submit
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themselves and
even the right man would
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submit themselves
to someone that's gonna
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to tell them to
jump of the cliff, or set
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themselves on fire,
they wouldn't do that.
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The only person you
are gonna submit yourself
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to is someone that is
laboring among you that
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show himself
approved unto God it's who you
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gonna submit
yourself to. But the false
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prophets never be
able or never able to form
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a relationship
with others, they are
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always very
elusive. And what they do
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sometimes is they
fleet, fleet and float from
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here to there and
everywhere else. I told
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somebody here
back several years ago,
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I said you know it
won't be long, you've
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been to so many
churches in our area,
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it won't be long you
have to drive 100 miles
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to St. Louis to go
to church because you've
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already been in
every church in this area.
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Every time a fire
starts burning, a fire
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will draw not
only warmth, comfort,
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it will also draw
the bugs and beast,
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so when your church
starts doing something
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get ready for the
false prophets to come in.
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Don't submit yourself
to failure, don't submit
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yourself to a
false prophet, and I
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have seen so many
people do it. Also the
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word submission to a
lot of people is a very
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dirty word to a
false prophet. You know
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when we submit ourselves to God,
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we don't have
trouble submitting ourselves
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to one and another.
Wives submit yourself
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to here husbands and
there you like you see
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the truth of the
matter is what it says to
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begin with. If we
submit ourselves to God
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then we won't
have trouble submitting
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ourselves unto a
Godley representation of our
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Father. In, in
Hebrews the 13 chapter in 17th
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verse, I want you
to see this, read this
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with me okay. He
says to obey them that
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have the rule over
you, and submit yourselves:
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why, why because
they watch for your souls,
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as they that must
give account, that they
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may do it with joy, and
not with grief: for that
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is unprofitable for
you. They do this for the
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joy, so like Jesus
endureth the cross for
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the joy that was set before him,
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what was the joy
that was set before him.
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It was us, it was the
church rejoicing in Him
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and loving on Him, and
being able to recognize
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that which is true,
that which isn't true
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you know, if it's
goofy it's not God,
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if it's weird, it's
not the word it's just that
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simple. What we
need to do is we need
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to set our face
to the word of God.
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Whenever somebody
tells us something and
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share something with
us, we must make sure
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that it lands up
with God's word. Now
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let me give you
an example of this,
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this I like this.
It's says a group of
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students at Harvard
once tried to fool the
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famous professor
of zoology, Agassiz,
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they took
parchment number of different
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bugs and with great
skill attached them together
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to make a creation,
they were sure would baffle
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their teacher. On
the chosen day they
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brought it to him,
and ask him to identify.
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As he inspected it
with great care the
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students grew more
and more sure that they
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had tricked this
genius. Finally the professor
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straightened up and
said I have identified
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this bug scarcely able
to control their amusement,
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they ask it's
name and the professor
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replied it is the
humbug, that's what it was
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a person with
genuine life from God will
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attack the counterfeit
and think to him stay
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off humbug, it
doesn't not take a road
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scholars, it's just
takes child of God to
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recognize whether this
person is really speaking
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by the oracles of God,
or they are building up
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themselves. The third
way to recognize a false
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prophet and this
is what amazes me that
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people will follow
after people that do this.
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The third way this
is key. They always have
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a message of doom,
death and domination,
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they would dominate
you, they preach death,
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they preach doom and
gloom. They talk about
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in have word
supposedly they have knowledge
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that this is going to
happen in a great way.
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I had one that
tell me, get ready just
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recently get ready
there is great wave that's
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gonna come in and
rush cross the entire
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North American
continent and everybody
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be destroyed, and
I wasn't, you know
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I wasn't really
encouragedby that,
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and I just sometime
listen to him. And most
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of the time I said
well that's interesting,
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but I don't hook my
wagon to that ungodly
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star. If they
can't control something
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they try to do
destroy it, when did you
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hear that. I've
witnessed this many of you
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have witnessed this,
its being close to a lot
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of hearts. It's sad
because if the false
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prophets can't
destroy something,
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it doesn't matter
even if they had been
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for a while in charge
of it, it does not matter
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how much they have
invested in it? How much
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they put in it? How
much they have worked?
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How much they have
toiled, if they cannot
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destroy then what
they will do, or cannot
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control it, then what
they will do is they will
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try to destroy
it. Solomon is a great
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example of this.
The two women, one had
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the other ones
child and they came to him
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and we all you
know I don't wanna say
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it because
somebody back years ago when
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I was first got born
again they start to tell
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story, now I'm gonna
tell that because everybody
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knows about
Abraham, I didn't knew who
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Abraham was, so I
am gonna share the
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two women brought the
child, one of them had
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the child and said
this is my child and the
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other said no it's my
child and Solomon said
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well I'll settle
this, let just cut the child
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in half, and give
each of you half of it
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and the woman that
it was truly her child
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said no, no don't
destroy that which I birth,
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see a real prophet no
matter what a real child
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of God, real
somebody really prophetic will
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never allow that
which they birth to be
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destroyed. And the
other women that it was
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not her child said yes,
yes, yes cut it into two.
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God will never cut the
baby in two. And I read
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this scripture
along with me if you can
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1 Corinthians 14:3
he says: But he that
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prophesieth speaketh
unto men for edification,
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let me, let me
really see if you know it,
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edification, exhortation
and comfort. Now I have
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a perfect example
of this in Florida, my
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pastors in Florida
Pat, Wayne, and Manny,
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Lakeland, Florida.
Manny was pregnant with her
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second child, and
had real tough time with
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her first child birth
was concerned about her
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second child birth
and she was at a meeting
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in Orlando, Florida
and bumped into a prophet,
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false prophet that
had come to their church
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several months
before that and stood up
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and try to tear the
church all the pieces
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and everything and
proclaimed that he was
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the prophet sent
there by God, and he was
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to take over the
church and all this stuff,
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and so they just
show him where the door
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was that he came
in, you go out same way
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and they did it with
love. Well this guy was
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very bitter about
this, so there was Matty and
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with one of her
friends at this meeting
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in Orlando, Florida
and she was about at
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the time probably
about six or seven months
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pregnant something
like that, and this guy
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came up to her and
said because of your
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husband didn't
received me as a prophet of
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of God. The Lord
is showing me that
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your child is
going to be born deformed
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when that baby comes
forth out of the womb.
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A little lady
standing there next to her that
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was her friend,
her name was Mardy,
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she was in missionary
in Nicaragua. She looked
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around it Maddy and
said, Maddy let me ask
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you a question
honey were you edified,
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were you exhorted,
were you comforted,
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Maddy had tears in
her eyes, and she said
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No Mardy I wasn't.
Mardy spun around stuck
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her finger in that
so called prophet's face
00:19:01.03\00:19:03.36
and said I rebuke
you in the name of Jesus
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that baby was fine. He
is now her worship leader,
00:19:07.97\00:19:11.91
he is 28-years old,
has two beautiful children
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of this own. Do
not believe everything
00:19:14.33\00:19:17.24
that's somebody
speak to you and says that
00:19:17.25\00:19:19.98
he comes by the
oracles of God. The next
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way to recognize a
false prophet is they
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come from some far of
distant place, claiming
00:19:25.85\00:19:30.28
to be sent by God
usually looking for a handout.
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They tend to leach of
the spiritually immature
00:19:34.54\00:19:37.20
and I say this
with much love such as
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young converts,
single ladies, and widows.
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It is so many
people out there and I pray
00:19:45.16\00:19:48.30
for those that are
single, and that are widows
00:19:48.31\00:19:50.48
that, that needs
somebody to stand in their
00:19:50.49\00:19:52.87
life, as a man to
represent them in social
00:19:52.88\00:19:57.37
circles and I
know that you are hurt,
00:19:57.38\00:19:59.17
but don't let the
enemy sneak in under color
00:19:59.18\00:20:02.29
and calls you to fall
for a false prophet or
00:20:02.30\00:20:06.16
someone that's
teaching things that are not
00:20:06.17\00:20:07.77
of God. What you need
to do is go to the word
00:20:07.78\00:20:10.89
of God and see what
the word of God says
00:20:10.90\00:20:12.52
you get clear
direction from it. Now this is
00:20:12.53\00:20:14.64
what 2 Timothy 3rd
chapter in the 2 verse
00:20:14.65\00:20:18.46
tells us. This now
also, that in the last days
00:20:18.47\00:20:21.99
perilous times
shall come. We are in that
00:20:22.00\00:20:23.70
right now. For men
shall be lovers of their own
00:20:23.71\00:20:26.48
selves,
covetous, boasters, proud,
00:20:26.49\00:20:28.48
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
00:20:28.49\00:20:30.35
unthankful, and
unholy. Well are we there?
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Yes you have arrived
if your children they
00:20:33.92\00:20:36.47
continue will ask
you, are we there yet,
00:20:36.48\00:20:38.20
are we there yet, are
we there yet. Well I want
00:20:38.21\00:20:40.54
you to know we are
here, we are in the
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scriptures, without
natural affection, truce
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breakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce,
00:20:45.17\00:20:47.83
despisers of those
that are good. Traitors,
00:20:47.84\00:20:50.42
heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more
00:20:50.43\00:20:54.32
than lovers of God.
Man we are seeing that.
00:20:54.33\00:20:57.09
Having a form of
godliness, but denying
00:20:57.10\00:21:00.76
the power thereof:
from such turn away.
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For of this sort are
they which creep into houses,
00:21:05.30\00:21:10.63
and lead captive
silly women laden with sins,
00:21:10.64\00:21:14.44
not that you are
laden with sins, but this
00:21:14.45\00:21:16.70
is the easiest
ones, led away with divers
00:21:16.71\00:21:19.70
lusts. We got to
stop this, we've got to
00:21:19.71\00:21:23.44
turn this around
when we first move to
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.78
Southern Illinois, my
daughter was 8 years old
00:21:25.79\00:21:27.68
Ditty was 8 was
years old, and we were
00:21:27.69\00:21:29.61
listing to television
before we were going to
00:21:29.62\00:21:31.50
church one morning
and this supposedly
00:21:31.51\00:21:33.70
prophet was on as we
were changing channels.
00:21:33.71\00:21:35.79
My daughter was
getting ready in her room,
00:21:37.31\00:21:38.96
she overheard this
and she said those of you
00:21:38.97\00:21:41.16
out there I am
moving in my prophetic right
00:21:41.17\00:21:44.59
now I am going to
healed you of sicknesses,
00:21:44.60\00:21:46.87
and diseases that
you do not even know
00:21:46.88\00:21:49.88
that you have. My
daughter ran and said
00:21:49.89\00:21:53.05
daddy did you
hear that 8 years old,
00:21:53.06\00:21:54.80
8 years old, daddy
did you heard that he said
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.83
he was gonna try to
heal people of diseases
00:21:57.84\00:21:59.85
that they didn't
even know they had, how
00:21:59.86\00:22:02.21
would they know if
they were healed, if they
00:22:02.22\00:22:04.08
didn't know that
they had them, she said
00:22:04.09\00:22:05.75
that's not God. And
I said it's not right
00:22:05.76\00:22:07.54
honey, and I
starting to turn off then he
00:22:07.55\00:22:09.51
said if you will send
me $100 did you get this.
00:22:09.52\00:22:12.71
These are people
that are sending me money
00:22:12.72\00:22:15.07
if you send me $100
dollars I will on my tour
00:22:15.08\00:22:18.79
bus, I will embroider
your name on my pillow.
00:22:18.80\00:22:21.82
God help us for the
people that fall for
00:22:21.83\00:22:24.94
things like that. Do
you know that there are
00:22:24.95\00:22:27.21
ministers now they
are on television that do
00:22:27.22\00:22:29.02
not even preach the
word, all the get on do
00:22:29.03\00:22:31.06
is get on and beg for
money. We see him time
00:22:31.07\00:22:34.97
and time again coming
on late in night, you get
00:22:34.98\00:22:37.07
at the middle of night
people they can't sleep,
00:22:37.08\00:22:39.04
they start, they
get up turn these things
00:22:39.05\00:22:40.42
only fall for this,
and say it's like send me
00:22:40.43\00:22:43.09
a $100 and I will
send you an anointed penny.
00:22:43.10\00:22:45.25
I want to tell, I'll
tell you what, you send me
00:22:45.26\00:22:47.15
a $100 and I will
send you now an anointed
00:22:47.16\00:22:48.84
quarter. We should
know better than this.
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The next thing is
that they have rebellious
00:22:52.35\00:22:54.53
unteachable spirit,
and will not acknowledge
00:22:54.54\00:22:57.71
a true authority of
the church. Rebellious
00:22:57.72\00:23:00.59
people are always
self seeking this is in
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Psalm 66:7: He
ruleth by his power
00:23:03.10\00:23:07.26
for ever; his eyes
behold the nations:
00:23:07.27\00:23:09.20
let not the rebellious
exalt themselves. Selah.
00:23:09.21\00:23:12.26
Rebellion sets one
up for demon activity,
00:23:12.27\00:23:18.48
if you want the
demon to come in then you
00:23:18.49\00:23:21.42
open the door and
they will come in. The word
00:23:21.43\00:23:24.59
of God says in Psalms
in Psalms 68:6 he says
00:23:24.60\00:23:29.00
God sets the solitary
in families; He brings
00:23:29.01\00:23:31.71
out those which are
bound with chains; but
00:23:31.72\00:23:34.70
the rebellious dwell
in a dry land. So if you
00:23:34.71\00:23:38.23
feel like that you
are in dry area place,
00:23:38.24\00:23:40.29
everything within give
yourself a check up from
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the neck up and then
check your heart to see
00:23:42.16\00:23:43.93
if maybe you have
been listening to things
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that you shouldn't be
listening to is garbage
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in and garbage out,
what it is which we could
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go and leaves some
down don't you. The next
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way is they
sometimes have a lot of work
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even a parent
healings and prophecy that
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appeared to come
true however they have
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no good foods,
their fruits will be the
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vision, confusion
and heartaches. I want
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you to look at the
scripture with me Mathew
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7:15 and 16, don't be
impressed by words alone.
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Beware of false
prophets, which come to you
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in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are
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ravening wolves. Ye
shall know them by their
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fruits; ye shall
know them by their fruits,
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ye shall know them
by their fruits. Do men
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gather grapes of
thorns, or figs of thistles?
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It is not by works,
it is not by works, its'
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about fruit. There
were two men in Lakeland,
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Florida they used to
come in churches, go to
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different churches and
supposedly be prophetic,
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and they tour
every church almost every
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church in Lakeland
up, except the people that
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refused to hear what
they were saying. A man
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in Tampa,
Florida, I remember this
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back years ago a man
in Tampa, Florida came
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in and was telling
people all these things about
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the sicknesses and
stuff, and he was right,
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and they followed
him out of the church,
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a whole group of
people followed him out
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of the church
because he was right about
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something. You
think the enemy doesn't
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know something
that's going on. The enemy
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would like to try to
use the false gifts of the
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spirit just like the
false prophets will. They will
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minister out of
deception, this scripture
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is very, very important
Mark the 13th chapter 5
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and 6 verse he
says, Jesus answering them
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began to say, Take
heed lest any man deceive
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you:" For many shall
come in my name, saying,
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I am Christ; and
shall deceive many. We
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understand that
lot of what, this
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misunderstand lot
about the scripture saying
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we think they come
in say like the guy from
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South America right
now that he is Jesus ever
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remained that he
was the Lord return and
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everything. This is
not exactly what this is
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saying, there is
gonna be people that come
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that are false
prophets, he says Jesus is the
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Christ this what did
he say that I am Christ
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not they are Christ,
but Jesus is Christ and
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because they
seemingly, profess the Lord then
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we're gonna say
whether they have got to be
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a true prophet. No
that's not the case that is
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not what's happening.
Now this the last thing
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that I have is they
have no root repetition
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or affiliation
with anybody to call for
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references when ask
about their past, they
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all of a sudden
they become very elusive.
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And you know the
amazing thing about to this
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they can come in and
the first time they come in
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they pay their tithes
and everybody say well
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they got to be
good Christians. I share
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some things with you
let me rehearse some right
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quick. Write down
the seventh steps to
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recognize these
and watch for it. How
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leadership in your
house regard. Don't wait
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for the pastor to do
something you let that
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person know that you
do not feel like that
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what they are doing
is of God. Next teach
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others who have been
deceived to watch after
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one and another, and
also stay in regular church
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attendance. Next
thing stay follow the
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Holy Spirit, so you are
able to recognized error
00:26:42.06\00:26:45.71
by comparing it with
truth. The next thing is
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grow up, you just
grow up. My daddy used to
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tell me that Hal
just grow up. Well God
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tells us that too, Hal
just grow up, just grow
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up not only in the
physical but also grow
00:26:57.82\00:26:59.41
up in the spirit
too. Grow up in maturity,
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so that you will
be smart enough to not
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be led astray and if
you think for one minute
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that the enemy is not
out to steal, kill and
00:27:08.48\00:27:10.68
destroy and
terrorize the denomination all
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the piece and you
are wrong because we
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are the remnant
church. We're gonna be there
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in the laddering,
we're gonna be there moving
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by the power of God
and there is gonna be
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false prophets,
they are not gonna be
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sitting in the
bars they not gonna be
00:27:23.12\00:27:24.39
sitting in the
taverns they goanna be sitting
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in the pews of
our churches, pastors,
00:27:26.69\00:27:29.36
leadership, laity,
we need to be aware
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of who they are,
how they work, and be
00:27:32.08\00:27:35.87
able to stand up
and say this is not good
00:27:35.88\00:27:39.19
and it's not God,
and that we're not gonna
00:27:39.20\00:27:41.89
stand for because
we are not just hearers
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of the word but
we doers of the word,
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and we will see the
glory of God manifest
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in this in time
by the Seventh-day
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Adventist denomination.
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