1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,280 Thank you. Thank the Lord for these 2 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:05,760 wonderful servants of the Lord serving in the armed forces. 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,600 Something I didn't have to do. Fortunately I had a high lottery 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,120 number, so I didn't have to go. But I remember the night that 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,120 the numbers were picked, my best friend said that was Vietnam. 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,280 He said I'm going to join the Navy tomorrow. 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,160 And that's what he did. He had number six. 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,800 I think I had 234, so Lord knew I probably wouldn't have been 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,640 the best of soldiers. I was a hippie at the time, so I 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,680 had other reasons. But I'm so grateful for the 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,720 freedom we have because of you guys serving as you have. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,560 So before I get into today's message, I'd like Sam and 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,120 Miranda Morris to come up front for a SEC, please. 14 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:56,320 So we talked a lot about Turning Point recently and that'll be a 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,560 continual theme in our ministry because we are at a turning 16 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,920 point in our lives. Personally, you go deeper with 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,959 Jesus. But Sam and Miranda, good to see 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,440 you, buddy. Good to see you guys. 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,760 I've taken the the order from the Lord to give their lives 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,600 completely to ministry. That's what they're planning on 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,240 doing, like Cason Harrell. So this is the future of our 22 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,280 church, so you guys can be encouraged, even though you got 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,560 Gray haired guys. And Louis, he's Gray now too. 24 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,400 We'll be here for a while, however long Lord has us. 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,760 But we're smart enough to know we won't be here forever, right? 26 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,720 And so we want you to know that the church will be in good 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,000 hands. These guys are pastoral interns, 28 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,680 so I wanted Sam just to tell a little bit about how he sensed 29 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,160 the call of God in his life years ago. 30 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,360 And when I met with him to talk to him about this, that was 31 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,160 really encouraged because the Lord had already spoken to him 32 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,200 about this. What you share a little bit? 33 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:55,720 Yeah. Just press that button. 34 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,920 There. There we go there. 35 00:01:59,400 --> 00:01:59,920 Thanks. You hear me? 36 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,840 OK, yeah, so Clark talked to me maybe a few weeks ago, a little 37 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,880 bit out of the blue, sent me a text message asking him to speak 38 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,480 about church leadership. And I thought, OK, so end up 39 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,360 talking to him about. I'll get a little bit of a back 40 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,680 story. So my wife and I, we got married 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,000 eight years ago now, and we moved out the Lancaster. 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,840 I was originally from this area, went to College of Saint 43 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,760 Vincent, went to College of Penn State for two years, had a job, 44 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,040 been cracking for six months right before I got married that 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,880 I'm still actually working for utility that is based on 46 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,160 Lincaster area. So we were out there for four or 47 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,960 five years, right? Yeah. 48 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,360 So the time we had out there was great, just us, newly married. 49 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,680 She was from Florida. So when we were dating it was 50 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,360 sporadic, One day, one week, maybe a couple weeks at most 51 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,680 together, right? So we got married, we got to 52 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,480 spend a lot of quality time alone, away from our families, 53 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,080 just us together. First year is a little rough 54 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,240 just being by ourselves, but we couldn't have asked for anything 55 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,600 better for us to grow with each other and with the Lord, but to 56 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,920 getting a little bit of Baxter Clark was talking about. 57 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,720 So when we were out there, we were looking for churches. 58 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,120 I grew up in the Calvary Chapel. I think we were here. 59 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,280 My parents probably test this when I was 5 or 6, maybe back 60 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,240 when I was at the Y. So I was familiar with Calvary 61 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,400 Chapel, went through through high school and college. 62 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,320 And then, you know, I went to Penn State. 63 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,360 I was there for two years and I came back and I was maybe here 64 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,920 for just for a few months and then we moved out there. 65 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,880 I was, we're looking for a new church, right. 66 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,480 So there's a couple of Calvary chapels in the area. 67 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,000 We tried a couple of them. We eventually went the one that 68 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,200 was down next in area, Calvary Chapel, Chester Springs. 69 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,800 So the pastor there, I think he actually worked for Cork when he 70 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,040 was younger, Right, Right. Yeah. 71 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,400 Chris Swanson. So it's kind of a weird 72 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,240 connection that Cork actually knew him. 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,000 So we were sitting under Chris for a while. 74 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,680 I was attending. We were going to his Wednesday 75 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:56,720 night. We didn't have kids yet. 76 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,920 We could go on Wednesday night. We're going to the Sunday 77 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,840 mornings with the so they had three services there. 78 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,920 They'd one at 8:30, I think 9:30 and then one at 11. 79 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,840 We were attending the earliest one. 80 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,920 We had no kids yet. We could get up early and go. 81 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,200 It was, it was kind of nice, but at that time, before we had 82 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,800 Grace and we just felt the Lord calling us more and more towards 83 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,959 him. And Miranda was going to dental 84 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,440 school and I was thinking, I need to do something with my 85 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,720 time, right? I'm, I'm kind of sitting there. 86 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,000 So I started taking Bible college courses for probably a 87 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,760 year, right? So I was taking those, but I 88 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,520 didn't end up taking them for a very long time. 89 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,000 I took maybe a year's worth. And then our pastor at our 90 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,560 church actually taught a Tuesday morning class and it was more of 91 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,240 like a biblical class for people who are doing church planning, 92 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,800 church leadership, leading ministries. 93 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,240 So actually still listening that today. 94 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,240 He has it on their app, so I can still kind of follow it. 95 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,600 So I spent a lot of time listening to that instead of 96 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,040 going, you know, paying money to take these courses. 97 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,200 It was the same thing. And he was in person or I could 98 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,840 talk to them and ask him questions, right? 99 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,840 And we were also involved with the young adults group out 100 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,680 there, Stephen Stauffer. He's still actually, he's 101 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,000 leading worship for Chester Springs out there. 102 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,200 He's also, I believe he's in their ministry leadership there 103 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,400 as well. So I had I had a good connection 104 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,080 with the group there. So at that time in my life, I 105 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,680 felt the Lord calling me possibly in the pastoral 106 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,240 ministry. And I said, no, why me, right. 107 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:23,920 I think that's everyone's question when they get called 108 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,840 into something, you know, what's this calling? 109 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,680 Why are you choosing me? And I kind of put it off for a 110 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,360 while. I said, OK, you know, I was 111 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,520 really interested, you know, I want to know more about God. 112 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,440 I was getting this word and I felt him calling me towards 113 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,920 that. But the same time, I never felt 114 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,000 like, oh, I need to go do a church plan. 115 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,840 I need to get my job and go here and do this or do that. 116 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,840 And I said, you know what, Lord, if you want me to do something 117 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,680 like this, I'll abide. And this was probably when I was 118 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:54,000 what, 2223, right? I'll abide in your word. 119 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:57,720 And if you want me in something like this, you need to call me 120 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,920 because I'm not going to go out on the ledge and put my foot in 121 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,720 something and go over, right? Because it has to be the Lord 122 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,320 calling you. Because if he's not calling you, 123 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,320 you're going to fail. It's of your own ability. 124 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,320 And you step into something, you're going to fail, right? 125 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,320 It's any, any ministry, right? I know Brad and Janelle could 126 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,040 probably test you in the children's ministry if they 127 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,680 weren't specifically called for that. 128 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,240 You won't be able to do it. You won't be able to sustain it. 129 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,440 So I told the Lord that ten well, not ten years ago, eight 130 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,480 years ago now about 7 years ago. So Clark reaches out to me a 131 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,320 couple weeks ago and, you know, he sent me a text message. 132 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,680 I'm thinking about it. OK, what's this going to be 133 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,640 about? I'm sitting down with him. 134 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,200 He's talking about it. And the Lord has on my heart. 135 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,280 And Clark says, is any of this ringing a bell to you? 136 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:45,160 And I'm like, I was like, man, I was like, I told the Lord if he 137 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,720 he wanted me to do something, he would have to be the one that 138 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,000 came and got me for it, right? Because I'm not going to go out 139 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,560 and do it. And that's what happened. 140 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,800 Court came out and he texted me and we had a, a lunch the one 141 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,400 day and he's he's asked me if I ring the bell and I said, yeah, 142 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,080 a little bit. You know, I think God laid 143 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,400 something in my heart, you know, eight years ago. 144 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,440 And it seems like right now it's it's coming up. 145 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,000 So I'm happy to be here. And I think from our end, we're 146 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,520 just, we're just here to serve, right? 147 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,760 I don't, I'm not one to put myself out there. 148 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:15,880 I don't like being on the front of things. 149 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,760 I'm done with pretty quiet reserved. 150 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,960 But yeah, we're just, we're here to serve and love on everyone. 151 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:27,600 That exciting, huh? Let's pray. 152 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,640 Father God, we just thank you. And Miranda comes from a long 153 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,040 ministry family. Her daddy's a pastor down in 154 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,640 Florida. So a wonderful family. 155 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,080 And we have our bass player. He's away. 156 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,880 Is he down there in Florida now? Yeah. 157 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,320 Yeah. It won't be too long before he's 158 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,280 going to be getting married to one of your friends, right? 159 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,600 It's exciting. So it's just cool how the Holy 160 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,000 Spirit works and puts all this stuff together, right. 161 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,880 So, Father, we just thank you for this dear couple. 162 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:54,640 And Lord, you've called them for them. 163 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,480 Lord, you, you come after us. We don't come after you. 164 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,520 You come after us first and teach us to follow you and and 165 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,880 you draw us to you. We pray, O God, your anointing, 166 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,960 your blessing, the power of your Holy Spirit on this couple for 167 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,960 the days ahead. Give them insight and wisdom. 168 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,000 Let Sam sense more and more your presence. 169 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,960 We look forward to the day that he'll be sharing your word with 170 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,520 the congregation as long as along with Cason and we just are 171 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,840 excited about the the new energy that will be coming through 172 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,720 these younger guys. And we just thank you for their 173 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,360 willingness to be yield to you and surrender to you. 174 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,840 And we pray these things in Jesus name, Amen. 175 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:45,260 God bless you guys. So exciting things, huh? 176 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,820 Exciting things here at Calvary Chapel. 177 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:57,780 So we're in the first verse of First Corinthians chapter 4 on 178 00:08:58,020 --> 00:09:01,460 spiritual giftings. So I want to delay some 179 00:09:01,460 --> 00:09:05,540 groundwork on this chapter before I just get in and teach 180 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:08,160 it. There's a lot of history behind 181 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:14,760 my own understanding of spiritual gifts and why I'm part 182 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,200 of Calvary Chapel and not another church group. 183 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,800 When I first got saved, I I got saved in the Jesus hippie 184 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,680 movement. And so I, I didn't understand 185 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:30,680 much about churches or anything like that. 186 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,240 I went to a Presbyterian Church and everyone and nice people, 187 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,560 nice, beautiful building, but I, I never heard the gospel there. 188 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,240 I never knew that I needed a savior. 189 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,360 I, I knew I was a Sinner, but I figured I was too far gone and 190 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,040 I'm just going to go my own way and try to do the best I can. 191 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,840 But I, I didn't really feel or sense a connection with the 192 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,200 Lord, but I always believed that he existed. 193 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,800 I believe that the Bible was real. 194 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,480 I believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and he was 195 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,160 buried and he rose again the third day. 196 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,080 But that was all mental. It wasn't internal. 197 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,200 And so I had to go through some tough times before I realized I 198 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,720 was lost and I needed a savior. And so I got saved by reading 199 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,880 the Bible, the New Testament. My brother gave it to me and 200 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,280 said you might find some answers from this. 201 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,200 And so I read it. And by the time I got through 202 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,840 the Gospels, I realized that like Jesus was like no one else 203 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,840 I ever met. And if I wanted to be close to 204 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,200 someone and have a friend, I wanted him to be Jesus because 205 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,080 no one else was ever a friend of me like that or ever has been 206 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,280 since that time. And so go to Atlantic City to 207 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,480 work. Cindy and I are living, get 208 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,920 married or live down there. And so I started going to First 209 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,480 Baptist Church of Atlantic City and it was amazing church. 210 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,040 The pastor was one of the most anointed, spirit filled godly 211 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,320 men I ever met in my life. Him and his wife. 212 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:04,080 I'd see this guy walking to me and I was so conditioned to 213 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,160 think about the New Testament, the Gospels, that when I, when I 214 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,360 saw this guy was so intimidating because he, he just had this 215 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,040 countenance of Jesus in his life unlike anybody I've ever met in 216 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,040 my life. I mean, whenever I was with this 217 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,880 guy, the Lord was all around the conversation and whether we were 218 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,400 playing tennis or they were over at our house mentoring. 219 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,000 Cindy and I are in their young years. 220 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,120 And so he's teaching the Bible pretty much like we teach it. 221 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,920 I didn't understand that there was a division in the body of 222 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,480 Christ between cessationists, people that believe that the 223 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,600 gifts of the Holy Spirit, the the sign gifts of miraculous 224 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:48,000 gifts ended at the at the time of Christ coming into the world 225 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 and then leaving and the apostles leaving eventually. 226 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,240 And this normal people like us on the face of the earth, 227 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,240 endeavouring to. Follow the Lord. 228 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:02,440 And and then I I met, you know, continue continuous with, you 229 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,760 know, what's a continuous with someone like we are in Calvary 230 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,240 Chapel that we don't believe that the miraculous gifts ended. 231 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,640 We believe they're still present and available and God can use 232 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,520 them as he wills. But we're we're also wise enough 233 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,920 to realize that we don't have Apostolic authority, nor do we 234 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,560 have Apostolic anointing in a sense of the miraculous gifts 235 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,680 like the apostles and just this is the way it is. 236 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,080 So there was a Pentecostal church there that got to know me 237 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,440 and was interested in me being on the radio, given my 238 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,000 testimony. And so I went to this place to 239 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,080 give my testimony. And I began to realize there's 240 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,960 these two sides of the of the story here and what we're going 241 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,160 to be teaching eventually here in this chapter. 242 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:59,240 And so my pastor at the Baptist Church is warning me of some of 243 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,760 the aberrant teachings that can come out of the Pentecostal 244 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,040 movement. And one of the advantages I 245 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,520 think you have coming to this church is that I've been in 246 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,240 every church group that you can name. 247 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,120 I've been with Catholics, I've been with Orthodox, I've been 248 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,480 with Reformed people, I've been with Baptists, I've been with 249 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,720 Pentecostals, I've been with Charismatic. 250 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,440 And God help me, I was a season of my life where I was with the 251 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,640 Word of Faith movement. And I'll tell you a little bit 252 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,160 about that. So one of the things I pray 253 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,760 you'll be open to as we teach on this. 254 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,160 And I was thinking as as I was waiting to teach today and 255 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:49,360 praying with Lewis and my brother and this guy over here 256 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:54,200 with a beard, always praying Ted for me and with me. 257 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,000 Thankful to these guys and all you guys that pray for us. 258 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,560 But as I was back there thinking and saying to the Holy Spirit, I 259 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,840 don't want to confuse anybody. I don't want to divide anybody. 260 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,440 I just want you because this is about you, God the Holy Spirit. 261 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,320 I don't want to quench you. I don't want to grieve you And 262 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,240 I, I pray because all of you have come from a lot of 263 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,960 different backgrounds. I'm sure that have some 264 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,760 different views, maybe positions. 265 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,520 But I thought in John chapter 3 verse 8 like the Lord put it on 266 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,600 my heart when I was praying. The wind blows wherever it 267 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,280 pleases. You hear its sound, but you 268 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,880 cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. 269 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,640 So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. 270 00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:53,070 Cell phone. Sometimes it just don't 271 00:14:53,070 --> 00:14:57,190 cooperate. Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, a 272 00:14:58,030 --> 00:15:01,990 religious leader who was a smart guy and knew a lot about a lot 273 00:15:01,990 --> 00:15:08,280 of things, but he couldn't grasp Jesus telling him that he needed 274 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,240 to be born again to enter into the Kingdom of heaven. 275 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:17,520 It made no logical sense to him whatsoever, and Jesus spoke this 276 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,160 verse to him regarding how the. The movement of the Spirit 277 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:27,480 works, and so in my early Christian experience, I said to 278 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,480 my pastor when I read through the book of Corinthians. 279 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,760 Especially chapter 12 and 14. I said, pastor, why can't the 280 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,960 church be like this? And he just looked at me and he 281 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,240 says I don't know Clark. I never saw him get frustrated. 282 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,840 I don't know Clark. That's just the way it. 283 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,440 Is well, he was in a denomination that would not 284 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,880 allow him to talk about some of these things, like we're going 285 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,120 to talk to him about the day. And so I'd been around long 286 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,120 enough and all these different churches to experience all these 287 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,480 different kind of people and, and belief systems and, and 288 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:08,120 pastors and, and different things that I, I just for years 289 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:13,280 this wondered, you know, why can't there be a church that has 290 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:19,200 people from both sides that can worship together and focus on 291 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,360 the essentials and not get uptight about the things that 292 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:29,320 are non essential? Pastor Chuck was an amazing man 293 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,400 of wisdom. He came out of the Foursquare 294 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,080 movement, which is highly Pentecostal, called taken away 295 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,360 Amy Semple McPherson and she was a female pastor, which we don't 296 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,720 believe is biblical. The Bible teaches it isn't 297 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,560 biblical. And she moved in a lot of what 298 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,360 would be called signs and wonders. 299 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:55,480 Some of them were conditioned by psychological manipulation and 300 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,920 and God, being faithful and sovereign as he is, would work 301 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,520 in that church in spite of her at times too. 302 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,800 So Chuck saw the good, the bad and the ugly. 303 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,240 So when he started ministering and pastoring, he was a 304 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:13,760 charismatic pastor. And, and so then this event 305 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,839 happened, the Jesus Revolution, the Jesus movement, and all 306 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,040 these hippies started coming to Calvary Chapel, this little 307 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,520 church that was about 25 people at the time. 308 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,720 And they were coming in with no knowledge of Jesus, no knowledge 309 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,120 of the Bible, no knowledge of anything other than they knew 310 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,440 they needed help. And Chuck simply preached the 311 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,880 gospel to them and began to teach them the Bible. 312 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,160 Chuck used to teach topical sermons. 313 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,560 And he said to his wife, you know, we got to move on in three 314 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:47,640 years because I'm running out of sermons. 315 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,200 I have nothing else to preach on. 316 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,880 And then he read in Haley's Bible handbook, if you want to 317 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,200 really do something good for the church, take the people through 318 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,200 a book of the Bible. He thought, wow, that's novel. 319 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,760 I never thought of that. So he took him through the book 320 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,760 of first John. It took him 13 months and he saw 321 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,920 the lives of the people changing because of the word of God 322 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,040 simply teaching the Bible. Simply, he sort of laid aside 323 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,440 his past preconceived ideas about. 324 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,600 The work of the Holy Spirit. Nonetheless, he still believed 325 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,400 that they all existed to gifts, but he wasn't interested in 326 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,280 manipulating or or or making these things happen in his 327 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,320 church meetings, and he also understood the confusion that 328 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,920 would occur at times. From aberrant movement of what 329 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,040 people would say would be the Holy Spirit. 330 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,040 He started reading Charles Spurgeon, who was a 331 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:44,080 cessationist, Martyn Lloyd Jones, who was a cessationist. 332 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,880 Pink. These guys are strongly Reformed 333 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:55,880 kind of thinkers. He began to read commentaries 334 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,640 that were rooted in the truths and the depths of the scriptures 335 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,760 and not taking one little teaching and blowing it out of 336 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:08,960 proportion. And so whenever we started going 337 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,200 to Calvary Chapel, I felt like I'd found a miracle church 338 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:18,400 because I am not a cessationist. I understand why people can have 339 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,160 those views, but I I could just never see blotting out certain 340 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:25,480 verses in Corinthians and saying with these things aren't true 341 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,400 today or they're not real. And, and I'm also more of a 342 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,040 reform thinker. You get this division between 343 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,120 Arminianism and reform kind of theology. 344 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,560 I realize very clearly that I can't bring anybody to Christ. 345 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,240 Christ has to draw them. He says clearly himself, no man 346 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,240 comes to the Father except I draw him. 347 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,760 So took a lot of pressure off of me as a pastor because I can't 348 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,000 save you. I can tell you how to get saved, 349 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,760 how to believe, how to trust in Christ, give the gospel, but I 350 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,720 can't make it happen. It's a work of the Holy Spirit 351 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,880 as Jesus said in John chapter 3, how the Holy Spirit moves. 352 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,440 I was able to then be with people that believed in the 353 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:18,120 gifts of the miraculous, gifts of the Spirit, and they were 354 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:22,160 humble and they weren't using these things to draw attention 355 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,880 to themselves, which is the biggest problem in regard to 356 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,800 what we would call the charismatic movement. 357 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:38,680 The spiritual gifts are given to us to edify the body, to build 358 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,640 the church up, not to build our egos up, or to make ourselves 359 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,680 feel like we have something that someone else doesn't have. 360 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,880 And I like Chuck's balance teaching on the fact that when 361 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,240 we get saved, the Holy Spirit comes into our life and we have 362 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,800 gifts as the Holy Spirit comes into our life. 363 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,040 And there are other experiences you can have with the Holy 364 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,080 Spirit. Not this one, but many 365 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,760 throughout your life. And that's called the filling of 366 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:12,240 the Holy Spirit, which is taught in the in the in the gospel of 367 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,600 Ephesians, that we're commanded to be filled with the Spirit. 368 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,560 We're commanded to walk in the Spirit. 369 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,000 We're commanded to have this deep intimate relationship with 370 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,960 God, the Holy Spirit. I was speaking to someone last 371 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,480 night. We had a little gathering of 372 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,200 some leaders and she just said, I want to tell you guys 373 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,560 something. And Lewis and I were in the 374 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,400 hallway. She says, I am so thankful that 375 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,040 this church talks about the Holy Spirit. 376 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,000 She said a lot of churches you go to now don't even mention the 377 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,760 Holy Spirit and they sort of ignore him. 378 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,600 We would never do that here. We believe that the work of God 379 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:56,080 is conditioned on the empowerment and anointing of 380 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,600 God, the Holy Spirit, to give us the ability to use our gifts for 381 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,960 the glory of God and the feeding of his sheep, his flock. 382 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:13,320 So we're going to get into 14 about prophecy in tongues, and I 383 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,240 wanted to read something about this Word of Faith movement, 384 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,120 which is very big in our country. 385 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,800 Unfortunately, in Pittsburgh, some of the largest churches are 386 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,160 part of what is called the Word of Faith Movement. 387 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,040 And I used to go to the conventions. 388 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,080 I knew some of the people, I experienced some of the 389 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:39,040 phenomena, if you may, and my wife Cindy was never a fan. 390 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,120 But I'm a seeker, so I'm always like God. 391 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,720 If I'm missing anything, reveal it to me. 392 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,680 Let me experience it. Hunger, where the Word of Faith 393 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,320 teaching is decidedly unbiblical. 394 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,400 It is not a denomination and does not have a formal 395 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,000 organization or hierarchy. Instead, it's a movement that is 396 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,480 heavily influenced by a number of high profile pastors and 397 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,120 teachers. And I'm going to name some names 398 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,160 and some of you might be following them or reading them. 399 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,840 I'm not trying to offend you, but if you want to hear more 400 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,840 about my own story and my experiences with some of these 401 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,680 people, I'll tell you why I'm not part of this. 402 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,960 Kenneth Hagin. Benny Hinn. 403 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,720 Kenneth Copeland. Paul and Jan Crouch and Fred 404 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,080 Price. The Word of Faith movement grew 405 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,000 out of the Pentecostal movement the late 20th century. 406 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,720 Its founder was EW Kenyon, who studied the metaphysical New 407 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,840 Thought teachings of Phineas Quimby. 408 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,640 These are cultic, heretic kind of teachings. 409 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,920 Mind Science, where name it and claim it originated, was 410 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,120 combined with Pentecostalism, resulting in a peculiar mix of 411 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:56,760 Orthodox. Christianity and mysticism. 412 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,880 Kenneth Hagin in turn, studied under Kenyon and made the Word 413 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,880 of Faith movement what it is today. 414 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,160 Although individual teachings range from completely heretical 415 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:11,240 to completely ridiculous, what follows is the basic psychology 416 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,320 most of Word of Faith teachers align themselves with. 417 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,520 At the heart of the Word of Faith movement is a belief in 418 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,800 the force of faith. It is believed words can be used 419 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,200 to manipulate the faith force and thus actually create what 420 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,320 they believe. Scripture promises health and 421 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,960 wealth. Laws supposedly governing the 422 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,560 faith force are said to operate independently of God's sovereign 423 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,880 will and that God himself is subject to these laws. 424 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280 You talk about a big heresy. It's frightening. 425 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,760 This is nothing short of idolatry, turning our faith, and 426 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:48,480 by extension ourselves into God. From here, it's theology just 427 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,760 strays further and further from Scripture. 428 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,560 It claims that God created human beings in his literal physical 429 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,160 image as little gods. Before the fall, humans had the 430 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,720 potential to call things into existence by using the faith 431 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,680 force. After the fall, humans took on 432 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,240 Satan's nature and lost the ability to call things into 433 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,240 existence in order to correct the situation. 434 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,840 Jesus Christ gave up his divinity and became a man. 435 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,440 Give up his divinity. God help us, died spiritually, 436 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,960 took Satan's nature upon himself, went to hell, was born 437 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,480 again, and rose from the dead with God's nature. 438 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 After this, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to replicate the 439 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,640 incarnation and believers so they could become little gods as 440 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,760 God originally attended. Following the natural 441 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,480 progression of these teachings as little gods, we again have 442 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,080 the ability to manipulate the faith force and become 443 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,120 prosperous in all areas of life. Illness, sin and failure are the 444 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,160 result of a lack of faith that are remedied by confession 445 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,480 claiming God's promises for oneself into existence. 446 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,920 Simply put, the Word of Faith movement exalts man to God 447 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,960 status, reduces God to man status. 448 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,560 Needless to say, this is a false representation of what 449 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,960 Christianity is all about. Obviously, Word of Faith 450 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,240 teachings does not take into account what is found in 451 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,160 Scripture. Personal revelation, not 452 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,640 Scripture, is highly relied upon in order to come up with such 453 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,520 absurd beliefs, which is just one more proof of its heretical 454 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,160 nature. Countering Word of Faith 455 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,840 teaching is a simple matter of reading the Bible. 456 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,840 God alone is the sovereign creator of the universe and does 457 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,680 not need faith. He is the object of faith, God's 458 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,560 God, His spirit does not have a physical body. 459 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,520 Man was created in the image of God, but this does not make him 460 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,000 a little God or divine. Only God has a divine nature. 461 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,920 Christ is eternal, the only begotten Son and the only 462 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,280 incarnation of God, and Him dwelt the fullness of the 463 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,000 Godhead bodily. By becoming man, Jesus gave up 464 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,920 the glory of heaven, but not His divinity, though He did choose 465 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,880 to withhold His power while walking on the earth is a man. 466 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,600 The Word of Faith movement is deceiving countless people, 467 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,920 causing them to grasp away a life and faith that is not 468 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,600 biblical. At its core is the same lie 469 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,560 Satan has been telling since the garden. 470 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,080 You shall be as God. Sadly, those who buy into the 471 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,560 Word of Faith movement are still listening to Him. 472 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,320 Our hope is in the Lord, not in our words, not even in our own 473 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,080 faith. Our faith comes from God in the 474 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,760 1st place and it is not something we create ourselves. 475 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,640 So be wary of the Word of Faith movement and any church that 476 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,200 aligns itself with the Word of Faith teachings. 477 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,400 Joel Osteen. Rodney Howard Brown. 478 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,200 Joyce Meyer. These people all flock together. 479 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,520 Their conventions are filled with each other, and they're all 480 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,120 multimillionaires at the expense of the people that blindly 481 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:07,600 attend their churches and follow their teachings. 482 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:16,840 Serious stuff. Kenneth Copeland I remember as a 483 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:22,680 young guy waking up in the morning, he would come on WPIT 484 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,800 or whatever, Bless God, glory to God, you're, you're not the 485 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,680 tail, you're the head, you know, and I'm thinking like I'm, I'm, 486 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,120 I'm in a job I hate. I'm in a marriage I'm struggling 487 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:40,000 with to see survive. I got little kids I don't know 488 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,080 how to raise. I, I needed a quick miracle. 489 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,080 And Kenneth Copeland at the time was my I thought my way to find 490 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,600 the quick answers in overcoming life and having no problems. 491 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,680 It was never about the money. So I ended up getting his study 492 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,120 Bible to Kenneth Copeland study Bible and starting reading some 493 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,360 of these heresies and and I was grounded. 494 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,440 I went to a really good Bible college and my wife would see 495 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,000 him on TV and she says, Clark, how can you listen to that guy? 496 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,360 Don't you see the devil in his eyes? 497 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:20,720 Cindy hated him. So I, I got to the convention 498 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,800 down in Philadelphia, you know, the Word of Faith convention and 499 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:30,280 Jerry Savelle and kind of Copeland and, and, and, and I 500 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,040 forget the name of some of these other people, some used car 501 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,160 salesman. He still preached like a used 502 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,120 car salesman, a comic committee kind of guy. 503 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,000 Kenneth is there talking and getting the audience all 504 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,320 exciting, starts speaking in tongues. 505 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,720 He has one of his buddies come up on the stage. 506 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,000 He's speaking in tongues of this guy. 507 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,920 This guy's speaking back in the tongues of him. 508 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,760 And then Kenneth has the audacity to say, God, you hear 509 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,040 what we're saying here? I'm thinking like, where? 510 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,920 Where do people come up with this stuff? 511 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,440 It's like a carnival. And they said everybody's going 512 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,440 to be healed here tonight by faith. 513 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,280 We're going to take an offering first. 514 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,960 And the more the offering is, the better chance you have of 515 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,040 getting healed. That was the bottom line. 516 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,800 And so I'm there as an usher in collecting offerings. 517 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,800 And this wasn't yesterday. Don't be afraid. 518 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,640 This is a long time ago my pilgrimage, OK. 519 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,920 So I said to the guy I'm working with, I said, if we have this 520 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,720 power here tonight, why don't we go to Children's Hospital across 521 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,360 the street where all these kids are dying and they got serious 522 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,880 illnesses and diseases and go lay hands on them and see them 523 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120 raised, raised up. And the guy looks at me like I 524 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,280 ruined his night. It was like the balloon popped 525 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,840 that night. I went home and I never looked 526 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,120 back. So I'm very, very, as Pastor 527 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:00,840 Lewis and John and George, very on guard with any kind of false 528 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,160 teaching. We've left. 529 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,360 We've had people leave the church because we mentioned a 530 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,920 name. Someone once, one time told me, 531 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,200 don't you touch my Joel Osteen. I think, what do you mean you're 532 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,000 Joel Osteen? You know, I mean, it's really 533 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,800 weird that they ended up leaving them and it's fine. 534 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,000 So what? What happened though, because of 535 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,920 this heresy, it put a real bad taste in people's mouths about 536 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,160 spiritual gifts. Like, you see this kind of 537 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,560 nonsense going on and the first thing you think I'm going to 538 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,000 have nothing to do with any church? 539 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,680 It even like closely mirrors that kind of false teaching. 540 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:49,200 Chuck Smith to this day I admire this guy because he never was 541 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,800 thus saith the Lord or he never tried to hype the audience up. 542 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,200 He just simply taught the word because he knew the power to 543 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,080 change a life comes from the the exposition of the Bible verse by 544 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,720 verse through the whole Bible so you hear the whole counsel of 545 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,320 God. When Chuck would have pastors 546 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,320 conferences he never divided between a cessationist and a non 547 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,680 cessationist. He loved where, where and 548 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,800 where's be we used some of his commentaries. 549 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,280 He was a cessationist. Alistair Begg spoke at our 550 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,240 conferences. He's a cessationist. 551 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,280 He had other people that he would learn from and, and and it 552 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,200 was never like, well, you don't believe the gifts are here 553 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,240 today, so I'm not going to have anything to do with you. 554 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,120 He never acted like that. So we we collaborated. 555 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,600 Jim Boyce, the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in 556 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,440 Philadelphia, very large Reformed Presbyterian Church 557 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,280 that Cindy and I attended for a period of time until they got 558 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,280 into infant baptism. And I, you know, I, I, I can't 559 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,120 swallow that. But, but anyway, it's a story 560 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,560 for another time. But anyway, when Jim died, him 561 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,120 and Joe were so close. Joe the pastor of Calvary 562 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,080 Chapel, Philadelphia. They loved each other and the 563 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,240 God used them both mightily and is using Joe mightily, but they 564 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,280 didn't have to draw a line in the sand. 565 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,520 They, they, they were able to, to agree on certain things and 566 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,760 disagree on other things and still have fellowship. 567 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,800 The Boyce's eulogy in his funeral was it was in Calvary, 568 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,200 Philly, because it was the largest place to have all the 569 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,000 people that would come to, to honor Jim's, excuse me, Jim's 570 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:32,400 life. And so that's sort of the long 571 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:37,960 and short of what I wanted to to talk to you about before I 572 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:43,360 actually get into the. The teaching Chuck Smith, the 573 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,360 founder of the Calvary Chapel movement, taught that all the 574 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,760 gifts of the Holy Spirit are available and active for 575 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,360 Christians today. A continuous view, but emphasize 576 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,600 their proper scriptural use for the edification of the church 577 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,800 and the glory of God, not for personal gain or drawing 578 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:04,040 attention to oneself. Smith believe the sign gifts 579 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,280 like tongues, healing, miracles and prophecy as well as service 580 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,639 gifts are still distributed by the Holy Spirit as He wills. 581 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,239 Not as you and I will, but as the Holy Spirit wills. 582 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,600 The primary purpose of spiritual gifts is to minister God's grace 583 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,400 to others, build up the body of Christ, and glorify God. 584 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,800 He warned against using them for personal notoriety or enrichment 585 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,480 while believing in the gifts. He stressed the importance of 586 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,199 order and church services, particularly regarding the use 587 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,840 of tongues. Based on 1st Corinthians 14, he 588 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,440 taught the public use of tongues, and we'll read this 589 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,480 later. Should be limited to two or 590 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,679 three people and must have an interpreter. 591 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,679 Otherwise, a person should speak only to themselves and to God. 592 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,639 He preferred the gift of prophecy, speaking and 593 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:57,520 understanding the Word from God in public assembly for the sake 594 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,720 of edification. Smith emphasized that the Word 595 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,040 of God, taught through the Enlightenment of Holy Spirit is 596 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,520 essential for spiritual growth. He believed that relying on 597 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,040 experience alone or seeking signs without faith in the Word 598 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,160 was a mistake. He highlighted the diversity of 599 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,480 the gifts teaching, helps, giving, showing mercy, 600 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,200 leadership, and taught that each is important and given grace by 601 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,440 God. He noted that some gifts like 602 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,400 helps often receive more honor from God even if they are 603 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,080 unnoticed by people. He taught that the power of the 604 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,080 Holy Spirit is referred to the indwelling and empowering of the 605 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,440 Spirit that's promised to all believers to experience. 606 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,280 Chuck advocated for a balanced approach, that approach that 607 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,600 embraced the full range of spiritual gifts for remaining 608 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,680 firmly grounded in biblical principles and focus on the 609 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,400 glory of God and the benefits of the church. 610 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,880 I was at Costa Mesa numerous times. 611 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,120 Never once did I ever see anybody speak in tongues in the 612 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,920 church. I've been to pastors conferences 613 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,400 with many of the leaders that have come with us from this 614 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,680 church to experience the conferences. 615 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,560 Never once have I ever heard anybody speak in this meetings 616 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,040 in tongues. I didn't hear anybody behind me 617 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,640 during worship speaking in tongues. 618 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,160 We don't believe that that's biblical within the confines of 619 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,680 the of the worship of the church. 620 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,680 Do we believe that people, some people have the gifts of praying 621 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,560 in the Spirit and tongues doesn't make them any better or 622 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,360 any less than any other Christian, but it's to be used 623 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,120 in your private prayer clause and alone with the Lord because 624 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,280 the Bible will teach us as we get into this. 625 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:53,000 That's he who speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks unto God, 626 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,640 not unto men. So sometimes people come here 627 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,360 and they wonder, well, in our worship, why can't we just have 628 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,040 people break into tongues? Well, because it's not biblical, 629 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,520 that's why. And you got some people like, 630 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,960 why is that person making a spectacle themselves? 631 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,720 They're getting my eyes off of Jesus and I'm hearing them. 632 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,960 And it's not what the Lord would want. 633 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:24,640 So that lays the foundation of I think who we are, where we are 634 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:31,680 and and how we function. I, I knew Chuck personally, he 635 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:38,520 was the most quiet, humble, meek, God exalting person that 636 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,080 I've ever met. Outside of that first pastor I 637 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,880 met. Chuck would tell us in a 638 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,280 conference is that the importance of the power of the 639 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,720 Holy Spirit that we need is pastors and men to do what it 640 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:51,760 is. It's an impossible job without 641 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,480 the Holy Spirit. His life first is Zechariah 46. 642 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,400 It's not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, sayeth the 643 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:07,000 Lord of hosts. And he wasn't into semantics. 644 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,360 Many times enters into the conversation. 645 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:15,520 He says, I don't care what you call the experience, baptism, 646 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,120 filling, outpouring, overflowing. 647 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,640 He says those are just definitions. 648 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,560 He says just make sure it's happening in your life, that the 649 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,560 Holy Spirit is filling you and that he's living out of you to 650 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,080 be a blessing to other people. How awesome's that? 651 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:39,800 So here we are in the city of Greensburg. 652 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,800 Very few churches teach the word of God anymore. 653 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,560 That's why this church is planted. 654 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:52,920 A lot of these churches are LGBTQ affirming, pro-choice 655 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,320 affirming. That's the way it is. 656 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,520 It's the last days. There'll be a famine for the 657 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,360 word of God in the last days. So when you find a church like 658 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:08,560 this, thank the Lord for it because they're few and far 659 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:15,640 between In California right now. Mike McClure is being sued still 660 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,000 for opening the church during COVID. 661 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,240 This is under Calvary Chapel magazine. 662 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:26,000 Coming up, Jay Sekulow and a couple other legal people that 663 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,960 work with churches for their rights or petitioning and 664 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,960 working to say that this is unlawful lawsuit. 665 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,760 It was a $5,000,000 lawsuit. Now it's down to 1.6 million. 666 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:51,040 Mike said in his interview that Calvary Chapel knew that it 667 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,960 needed to open during COVID out there because people had no 668 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,600 place to go. The sheep had no place to go. 669 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:04,400 And the church, instead of having 600, it had 4000 within a 670 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,400 period of a few months because all the other churches were 671 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,160 closed. And a lot of the people that 672 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,840 attended the church heard the gospel for the first time and 673 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,800 got saved and they had massive baptisms there. 674 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,640 And I talked to Mike at one of the pastors conferences a couple 675 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,840 years ago. I said, how in the world have 676 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,320 you been able to get through that? 677 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,800 Not just want to quit and move to a different state. 678 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:29,520 He says, Clark, it's, it's the Holy Spirit. 679 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,680 And this is what he's calling us to do. 680 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,400 And he says, I, I wish we could get in a car and go somewhere 681 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,600 else, but this is where the Lord told me I got to be. 682 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,960 He said in California. And you guys know what's going 683 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:48,760 on out there. He said it's hard to say this, 684 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:54,760 but he says there isn't a lot of alternatives for believers to go 685 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,680 to church anymore because of the false teaching and the heresies. 686 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,640 And Calvary Chapel is one of the few churches and we're not a 687 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,440 denomination, we're a fellowship of like minded believers is one 688 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,200 of the few churches that are holding to the simple teaching 689 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,760 of the Bible verse by verse. And I'm so thankful for the men 690 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,400 in this church and the women in this church that teach 691 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,720 expositionally the whole council of God. 692 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,640 Someone told me that they've been coming here and they've 693 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,720 become dear friends of ours. We had dinner with him a while 694 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:33,960 back and he's and, and, and the wife said I will never attend 695 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,240 one of those crazy churches again. 696 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,200 My life changed when I started hearing Grace FM and started 697 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:47,400 coming to Calvary Chapel. All my confusion dissipated and 698 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,840 I began to love the Word of God and see how the Word of God 699 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:57,320 changes me and changes us. I believe and this is the 700 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,120 challenge to you guys. You have friends and people who 701 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,680 are in dead churches that quench and grieve the Spirit. 702 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,760 You have friends that are in churches that aren't teaching 703 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,800 the Word anymore. Speak into their life and let 704 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,600 them know there's alternatives today and Calvary Chapel 705 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,480 Greensburg is 1. Invite them. 706 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,080 Tell them to listen to Grace FM Tell them to get into the 707 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,200 scriptures, get into the word of God. 708 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,880 If I die tomorrow, this church will continually be stronger and 709 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,080 stronger. Young men like Cason and Sam 710 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,120 growing up, the guys are teaching the church, just stand 711 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,320 up for a minute. The guys are teaching the 712 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,840 Wednesday nights and Bible states stand up. 713 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,360 Any guys they're teaching, stand up for a minute. 714 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:49,840 Stand up. Pastor Lewis, stand up back 715 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,680 there. Thank you. 716 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,640 Everybody knows you. But you, you know, you got to 717 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,160 you got to have my back all the time. 718 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,560 But OK, now, now the women stay up. 719 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,960 Stand up. Women that teach in the Bible 720 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:11,360 study in the church, stand up. Women, Karen, stand up. 721 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,400 Don't be shy. Who else are we missing? 722 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,840 Anybody else here? The people that teach our kids, 723 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,360 they're teaching the same way. Stand up, Brad and Janelle. 724 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,000 Isn't that amazing? Let's thank the Lord for these 725 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:40,440 people. So because of what they do, and 726 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,640 they're on, the guys are on Wednesday night, they're 727 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,760 recorded, they're on the radio live and Grace FM, thanks to 728 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,680 Kevin, he made that happen. Get your friends, get the people 729 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:55,560 that know you say, hey, listen to me on the radio at 7:00 or 730 00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:00,400 whatever on 91.7. They're going to come to this 731 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,960 church because they know your life and your example, your 732 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,400 testimony, and they're tired of not having the Word of God 733 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,360 available to them. That's the priority of of this 734 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:16,920 church is to have the word of God available to as many people 735 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,800 as possible. We have a lot of seats here 736 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,320 today that need to be filled, and we believe God's going to 737 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,160 fill them, but He's going to fill them because of your 738 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:30,280 influence and your invitation to have people come to this church. 739 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,440 We have the Guineon Bible app. It's wonderful. 740 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,240 Fred's provided these with AQR code along with the Calvary 741 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:42,720 Chapel Connect card, plus these little Bibles that you can give 742 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,480 out the people when you're out and about in the community, 743 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,080 going through a Starbucks or wherever, and ask them how their 744 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,840 days going. Ask them if there's something 745 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,040 you can pray for them about. Get the conversations going, 746 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,240 give them a Bible, tell them about the QR code. 747 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,560 They can connect with this and if they're having troubles in 748 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,440 their lives, they can find the answers in the Bible to the 749 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,480 troubles that they have for the solution. 750 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:10,960 And then our our connect card also QR code for the website. 751 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,880 It tells us where we meet, the time we meet the address and 752 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:22,640 it's you are invited. Is anybody willing to do that 753 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,360 here? Stand up if you're willing to do 754 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:35,590 this. OK, There's a few of you 755 00:45:35,590 --> 00:45:37,190 sitting. Is there any reason why you're 756 00:45:37,190 --> 00:45:40,270 sitting? That's OK. 757 00:45:40,430 --> 00:45:43,710 Well, Fred, Fred tells me, you know, Fred, like he's all 758 00:45:43,710 --> 00:45:47,230 excited about Turning Point. He says, Clark, you know, we got 759 00:45:47,230 --> 00:45:49,870 to get moving for the Lord. The time's running out. 760 00:45:49,870 --> 00:45:53,270 And he's right. We got to get active in the 761 00:45:53,270 --> 00:45:56,360 community. And as a side note, there's a 762 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,400 pamphlet out there for the food bank. 763 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,560 If you guys want to be part of Turning Point, you don't have to 764 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,800 come to the meeting. But Turning Point is just being 765 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,080 a Christian and caring about people and sharing the gospel. 766 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,680 That's what Turning Point's about, right? 767 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,040 And so there's a food bank is a flyer. 768 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,760 It tells you what they need. We're going to collect and put 769 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,360 it in the hallway back here wherever Karen wants it up until 770 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,400 the date that they're going to pick it up. 771 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,800 Someone's going to come in a truck and pick it up, I think on 772 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,920 Monday the 24th. So it tells you exactly what you 773 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,480 can get. No perishable items, but we can 774 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,400 help. A lot of people are hungry right 775 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,320 now. Government workers aren't 776 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,040 getting paychecks right now, right? 777 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,720 There's a lot of things going on in our culture. 778 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,920 People are having trouble with food stamps, all these kind of 779 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,200 things. We got to be salt and light and 780 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,080 be part of the solution, right? And this is a real simple thing 781 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:51,800 you can do to be part of this movement that's happening right 782 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:57,120 now in the country. So I gave you some background. 783 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,040 I don't recommend TBN. Be honest with you. 784 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,000 You might find one or two good pastors on there occasionally, 785 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,560 but you got to go. You sift through a lot of 786 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,640 garbage and your mind will get skewed, unfortunately, by false 787 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,680 teaching very easily if you're not careful. 788 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:22,080 Oh, it's 12:00 already. OK, I'm going to read this one 789 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:26,120 verse here. This is first Corinthians 13 790 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:35,160 before we go into the teaching next week and now abide faith, 791 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,920 hope and love these three. But the greatest of these is 792 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,040 love. Pursue love and desire spiritual 793 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:46,680 gifts, but especially that you may prophecy. 794 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,000 So read chapter 14 this week with an open heart. 795 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,920 I'll do the best I can by God's grace to give it to you straight 796 00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:01,400 and it's going to be exciting and ask the Lord to give you 797 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,680 whatever it is that he wants to give you to use for his glory 798 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,480 and to serve people and to build the church up. 799 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,080 Amen. Well, let's take the Lord's 800 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,280 Supper and they, I'm sorry I took a little bit longer than I 801 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,280 thought I would, but I felt like to go, to go into this teaching 802 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,480 without some background would be ridiculous. 803 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:25,840 I hope that helped a little bit, You know, did it help? 804 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,520 All right, good. So anybody mad at me here today? 805 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,000 That's a, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. 806 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,360 We'll take the Lord's Supper and at the end you can come up and 807 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:44,320 pray if you want pray for the movement of the Holy Spirit in 808 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,920 our city in your lives that we're going to pray for Cliff up 809 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,480 here. He's having surgery this week, 810 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,960 back surgery and Lewis's wife Terry's getting surgery, hip 811 00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,360 surgery. I'm getting a colonoscopy 812 00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,520 tomorrow. So please pray for me to my 813 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:05,880 colon doesn't get blown out. But anyway, it's fun serving the 814 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,480 Lord with you guys. It really is it's a blessing. 815 00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:15,440 I'm so thankful for all of you. Lord Jesus, we honor you today. 816 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:19,520 We worship you, we celebrate you, and thank you that you've 817 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:23,600 given us your word to guide us into all truth. 818 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:30,920 Holy Spirit, we're thankful that you were here with us and that 819 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,640 you're moving in our hearts and our midst to give us this desire 820 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:40,240 to know Jesus better and to praise Him and to lift him up to 821 00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:44,520 worship Him, to glorify Him. We thank you for the gift things 822 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,840 that you give us of your Spirit, Lord, because there's no way the 823 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,400 church would exist apart from you, Holy Spirit, and how you 824 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:56,800 empower each of us as believers. Help us to study, to show 825 00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:02,080 ourselves approved unto God, Rightly dividing the word of 826 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:07,960 truth. Workmen that need not be 827 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,160 ashamed, Rightly dividing the word of truth. 828 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:14,800 Help us to do that. Lord, on the night that Jesus is 829 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,480 betrayed, He took the bread in his hands and he broke it and he 830 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,960 gave thanks and he said, take heed, this is my body which is 831 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,760 given for you. Eat this in remembrance of me. 832 00:50:29,770 --> 00:50:33,810 The same manner in that evening He took the cup and he said, 833 00:50:33,810 --> 00:50:36,730 This cup is a new covenant in my blood which is shed for the 834 00:50:36,730 --> 00:50:40,890 forgiveness of sins of many. Drink this in remembrance of me, 835 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,320 for as often as you eat this bread, and you drink this cup, 836 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,240 you shall force the Lord's death till he comes again. 837 00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:49,720 Amen.