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So pray for me as I teach this 
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It's a very challenging chapter,
First Corinthians 14. 

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I know we have people in our 
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gifts are still here today, and 
we have some folks that believe 

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they aren't. 
Some of them aren't anymore. 

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And I pray the way I teach this 
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division or anything like that. 
I'm just going to teach the 

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Bible as the Bible is clearly 
written and I'm not going to add

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my own thoughts in or anybody 
else's. 

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I just want to teach what Paul 
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this way. 
So a little bit of background in

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regard to the church in Corinth.
It was a mess. 

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A lot of activity. 
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here. 
I feel like I'm under 

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inquisition. 
Turn that down a little bit. 

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So anyway, the church was really
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It was full of all kind of pride
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People were using the gifts to 
make themselves seem spiritually

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important and other people not 
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They had issues of drunkenness 
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when they had the Lord's Supper.
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the church where certain people 
followed, certain leaders, this 

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all kind of stuff, sexual 
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Hard to believe this was going 
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So Paul had to bring correction.
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written, the spiritual gifts for
being abused and taken advantage

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of and being used in an 
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And so Paul needed to address 
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Now we talked a little bit about
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Corinthians 12 and Paul clearly 
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everybody has the same gift and 
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Some people have more than one 
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times the same gift, especially 
in regard to the gift of tongues

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and the gifts of gift of 
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healings. 
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see in the book of the Acts in 
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things were really rolling. 
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things happened, thousands of 
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energy, a lot of activity. 
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there was usually a miracles 
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time. 
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affliction himself. 
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Lord to bring healing to other 
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of his own need. 
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issue. 
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Corinthians 12 regarding the 
body of Christ that were members

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individually and God has 
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At that time there was apostles.
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anymore. 
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originally raised up to lay the 
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Second, prophets in the early 
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Scriptures were written, 
prophetical utterings would come

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forth, and some of them were 
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them were from this human flesh 
as kind of stuff. 

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So the apostles had to discern 
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and excuse me, which ones 
weren't. 

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Now we have the Bible, so we 
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of everything that God wants us 
to know. 

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It says that God has given us 
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and godliness in Christ Jesus, 
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lacking. 
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Scripture is given by 
inspiration of God, and is 

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profitable for doctrine, for 
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instruction and righteousness, 
that the man of God may be 

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thoroughly furnished unto all 
good works. 

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It tells us to study, to show 
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workmen that need not be 
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The word of truth. 
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do every time we teach in this 
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Whether it's the women teaching 
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men teaching to kids or young 
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show ourselves approved unto 
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We don't want to be ashamed of 
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don't want to teach things that 
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So we take these things very 
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So then he says there's other 
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still on in place and on on the 
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We have many gifted teachers 
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the gift of teaching has the 
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The Bible in a way that. 
Feeds the flock of God and 

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builds them up and strengthens 
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of all come to know Jesus, but 
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occur. 
Some of you have had miracles in

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your lives. 
You've prayed for something 

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whenever the doctor said that 
you had a certain amount of time

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to live, and you've outlived 
those years because God's 

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touched you for a season and 
you're still alive and you're 

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well. 
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That's sort of a simple 1, isn't
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have so long to live, that's 
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For prayer and miracles, right? 
You want God to intervene, you 

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want him to act. 
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if any are sick among you, let 
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Elders of the church. 
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with oil. 
And the oil is a symbolic 

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picture of the Holy Spirit. 
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but the oil represents the fact 
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touching you in the way that he 
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And it says that the person will
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their life, if there's a problem
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they shouldn't, they'll repent 
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brought on because of our 
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human being. 
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person and pray for them. 
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of faith will save the sick. 
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healing, a spiritual healing, an
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psychological healing. 
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able to do that. 
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ill or if you have illnesses, 
let us know as elders in the 

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church. 
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we'll have you come up and 
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But if you have specific needs, 
we'll, we'll pray and counsel 

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you and pray and, and see what 
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your life at that time. 
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bring healing right. 
Sometimes he supernaturally 

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touches us as well. 
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a rare type of cancer years ago.
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but could become lethal 
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But I had a platelet issue where
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what they need to raise. 
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and. 
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that, I thought, well, Lord, I'm
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heal me and give me more time if
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And he did. 
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stable for the last five years. 
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And I give him praise. 
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still does miracles. 
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church who have had serious 
illnesses that we've prayed and 

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intercede for. 
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cancers. 
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this isn't circumstantial. 
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The ministry of helps our sister
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we, we can use helper all the 
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ministries. 
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powerful gifts because it's 
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No one sees what you're doing, 
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the church become better what it
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My wife Cindy has a ministry of 
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She's always wanting to help, 
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the church or whatever. 
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like you got to take a break. 
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everybody, but she just has that
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people. 
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need a lot of help. 
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you're helpless. 
I said, that's right. 

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You're my wife, right? 
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administration is the ability to
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whether it's in a job, a career,
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everybody moving together in the
same direction and and helping 

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everybody be connected. 
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and those gifts in this church 
and we're so grateful for them 

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and their administrative gifts. 
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types of tongues, and we're 
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that this morning. 
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this section, are all apostles, 
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teachers, are all workers of 
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Do all have the gifts of 
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Do all speak with tongues, do 
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desire the best gifts. 
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excellent way. 
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that not everybody has the same 
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We'll study about tongues this 
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Not everybody has that that 
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known dialect of your own 
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praying in a supernatural prayer
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Either of those accomplish the 
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But then in chapter 13 he says 
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of men and of angels, and have 
not love, I've become a sounding

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brass and a clanging symbol. 
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prophecy and understand all 
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though I have faith that I could
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love, I'm nothing. 
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that the most important thing in
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and our ministries is the love 
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that he puts into our hearts or 
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that love to love one another. 
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most important aspect of being a
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will people know you're my 
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And so we all have to ask the 
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love. 
It's it's it's part of the gifts

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of the Holy Spirit and it's the 
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5 Lovejoy, peace, 
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goodness, meekness and 
self-control. 

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in pursuing, as he'll tell us 
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Corinthians 14, spiritual gifts.
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Love. 
It's easy to love people when 

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everything's going good, but 
whenever things aren't going 

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good, you have to make a choice 
to love your your flesh or human

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ability. 
Wants to get mad? 

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You want to smack someone off 
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You got road rage, whatever you 
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And then you had to say, Lord, 
this isn't the way I'm supposed 

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to behave. 
I'm, I'm a child of God. 

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I'm supposed to love. 
Help me, Lord, to love my 

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enemies. 
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that. 
I can't do that apart from your 

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empowerment and your strength. 
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verse 1. 
He says pursue love. 

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That's the most important thing 
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Make sure that's happening and 
occurring in your life and 

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desire spiritual gifts. 
It's not wrong to desire 

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spiritual gifts to ask the Lord 
to enable you to be able to flow

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in these spiritual gifts if it's
His will. 

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But remember that the Holy 
Spirit gives the gift severally 

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as He wills, not as we will. 
He chooses and determines what 

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he wants to do in each of your 
lives and through each of your 

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lives. 
So don't be jealous if you don't

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have this one or that one or 
someone else has something you 

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want this be content with 
whatever it is that the Lord's 

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given you and allow him to use 
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So he says, but especially that 
you may prophecy. 

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Now this gift of prophecy isn't 
so much this idea of, of 

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foretelling the future. 
Of course, sometimes God will 

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give someone an insight if 
something that's going to 

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happen, perhaps not so much the 
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the Lord. 
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that's that's a a done deal as 
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concerned. 
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the time or the hour, but we 
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you'll tell someone something 
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possibly occurring. 
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something like that to you is on
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listen to him and, and you 
consider it whatever, but you're

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you're not going to look at it 
like the scripture that's black 

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and white. 
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ability to have that intuitive 
skill to descend something that 

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something about something you're
dating or what what something 

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looks like in the future if you 
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person. 
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obviously in in the scripture 
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yoked and those kind of things, 
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Sometimes someone just has some 
discernment that we need to hear

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from the Lord on. 
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is the ability to edify. 
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church. 
So what we do here Sunday 

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through the word of God is to 
teach in a way that builds your 

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faith up in the Lord. 
OK, to edify you, to build you 

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up exhortation, that's to lift 
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the things of God and to help 
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Basically not to give up, not to
get discouraged, not to get 

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depressed or despondent or 
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But to this, keep staying in the
word and staying close to Jesus 

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so that you can just keep 
walking with him and enjoy your 

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relationship with him. 
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come along, someone who needs 
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They're in some kind of tragedy.
Maybe they lost a loved one or 

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they got a diagnosis that they 
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they're dealing with something 
that they just had surgery with.

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them. 
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them for a little bit. 
Maybe you're going to hug on 

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them a little bit. 
You're just going to provide 

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that comfort. 
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church with one another. 
Many of you have this gift of 

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prophecy in that sense. 
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I believe, have that gift too. 
Not only they teach the 

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Scriptures, but the Holy Spirit 
put something on their heart to 

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build them up and to encourage 
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persevere and to comfort them 
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discouraged. 
So Paul says that's the one you 

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really want to go after. 
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he who speaks in a tongue does 
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for no one understands them. 
However, in the Spirit he speaks

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mysteries. 
If you have a pen underlined in 

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your Bible. 
He who speaks in a tongue does 

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not speak to men, but to God. 
This is a conversation to the 

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Lord and it's about him. 
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It's not trying to communicate 
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another person. 
That's not the purpose of it. 

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And if if you heard someone 
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beside someone, you're not going
to understand what they're 

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talking about. 
But the Lord understands, He's 

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listening. 
He knows. 

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something over in Romans chapter

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8, whenever we live in times of 
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right now, even as we live, no 

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matter how good your life might 
be right now, Paul says in verse

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18 of chapter 8. 
I consider that the sufferings 

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of this present time are not 
worthy to be compared with the 

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glory which shall be revealed in
us. 

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For the earnest expectation of 
the creation eagerly waits for 

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the revealing of the sons of 
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For the creation was subject to 
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because of Him who subjected it 
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bondage of corruption into the 
glorious liberty of the children

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of God. 
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creation groans and laborers 
with birth pangs together until 

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now. 
Not only that, but we also who 

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have the first fruits of the 
Spirit, even we ourselves grown 

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within ourselves, eagerly 
waiting for the adoption, the 

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redemption of our body. 
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but hope that is seen is not 
hope. 

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For why does 1 still hope for 
what he sees? 

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But if we hope for what we do 
not see, we eagerly wait for it 

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with perseverance. 
And so when I was reading that 

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and thinking about this, how 
earnestly are you waiting for 

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the redemption of your body and 
wanting to be with Jesus? 

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That's usually not the first 
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Career, new car, house, I'm 
going to date this woman, I'm 

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going to marry this person, 
whatever. 

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I'm going to go to this Steeler 
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Nothing wrong with that. 
But where's our focus is our 

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focus? 
Like I can't wait, Jesus to you,

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you Take Me Out of here. 
Not that I don't like life and I

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don't enjoy life and all that, 
but like you put in me wanting 

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to be with you, right? 
When I listened to the worship 

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this morning, I thought, boy, 
that was just like a sort of a, 

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a preview what it's going to be 
like in heaven one day when 

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we're going to be like shot now 
Jesus's name and excited to be 

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there. 
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bored of it. 
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enthralled with his beauty and 
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But I, I, I read this section in
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AI, meet a lot of people and 
let's say, let's, they're in the

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hospital getting ready to die 
and they're like, Hey, I can't 

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wait to get out of this body, 
right? 

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But usually healthy, wealthy, 
successful people, they're not 

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usually talking about waiting 
earnestly for this adoption and 

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redemption of their body. 
And maybe that's something we 

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need the Holy Spirit to put in 
US, right? 

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And a deeper way because this 
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We're looking for a city. 
Like it says in Hebrews, his 

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builder and maker is God. 
We have to think about that. 

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So it says likewise. 
Then the Spirit in verse 22nd 26

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also helps in our weaknesses for
we do not know what we should 

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pray for as we ought. 
You ever in a situation where 

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you just don't know how to pray,
you're so overwhelmed that 

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you're just, I'm just crying out
to God, help me, oh Lord, have 

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mercy. 
I don't know how I'm going to 

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get through this. 
I'm so broken. 

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I'm so desperate or whatever. 
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Spirit himself makes 
intercessions for us with 

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groanings which cannot be 
uttered. 

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I'm so thankful that the Holy 
Spirit knows how to really 

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intercede, right? 
He knows how to get a hold of 

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the Father, God the Father, God 
the Son, God the Holy Spirit. 

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He's saying, God, look what 
Clark's going through or look 

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what this sister's going through
or this brother or this person. 

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He's praying in groanings that 
can't even be comprehended or 

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uttered. 
Now he who searches the hearts 

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knows what the mind of the 
Spirit is, because he makes 

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intercession for the Saints 
according to the will of God. 

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So when you have this gift of 
speaking in tongues and you're 

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basically speaking in a language
to God that he understands, it's

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not gibberish. 
It would be that way maybe to me

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if I heard you or you heard me, 
but to God, it's making sense. 

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And the Holy Spirit's involved 
in this. 

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And and so God's allowing this 
to go on and he's unburdening 

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the person's heart and their 
soul and the pressure that 

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they're under. 
And he he does that too. 

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When you pray in English and you
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need your strength. 
You're quoting Scripture, you're

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reading Scripture, you're 
reminding God of his promises to

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you. 
And you hold on to this verse 

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and it sustains you and it lifts
you up. 

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But we'll see another benefit of
the people that have this gift 

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of tongues here it it's a 
blessing. 

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And verse 3 it says, but he who 
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exhortation and comfort to to 
men. 

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So that is what is most 
important here today is that you

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guys are edified and encouraged 
and comforted in your 

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relationship with the Lord. 
In verse four, he who speaks in 

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a tongue edifies himself, but he
who prophesized edifies the 

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church. 
So a person that has this 

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opportunity to pray this way in 
the Spirit is building 

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themselves up. 
They're getting strengthened, 

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they're there. 
It's just a blessing to them and

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their relationship with the 
Lord. 

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That's a individual quiet thing 
in your prayer closet. 

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You're praying to the Lord and 
you're being built up as you 

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pray in the Spirit. 
And Paul says in verse 5, I wish

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you all spoke with tongues 
because he spoke with tongues. 

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He loved it. 
But he also said, do all speak 

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in tongues? 
No, they don't. 

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But don't feel like if you do or
you don't, one's better or 

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whatever than the other. 
OK, there's an advantage to a 

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lot of these different gifts in 
different ways and how God uses 

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them in your own life and in the
church. 

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I wish you all spoke with 
tongues, but even more that you 

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prophesied. 
So he puts the elevation of the 

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emphasis on. 
Not myself, even though if I'm 

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praying in the Spirit, I'm 
building myself up. 

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His emphasis is on I'd rather be
edifying you guys. 

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I'd rather be edifying the 
church. 

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It's not the self-centered thing
then, he says. 

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For he who prophesizes greater 
than he who speaks with tongues,

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unless indeed he interprets that
the church may receive 

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edification. 
Now I, I got saved when I was 

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20. 
I grew up in the frozen chosen 

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church, Presbyterian. 
You know, I didn't know what 

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anybody believed or what they 
felt or it was like, it was like

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uptight man, uptight. 
We're good people, love the 

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Lord, many of them, don't get me
wrong. 

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But anyway, I, yeah, I start 
reading the Bible and the New 

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Testament and I'm as a young guy
and not knowing anything about 

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anything at the time, I'm 
reading things like this and I'm

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saying, well, I never heard of 
this kind of stuff. 

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I never was around any of this. 
What, what's this mean? 

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How does this work? 
Most of the churches I was 

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involved in after I got saved 
were Baptists. 

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Good churches, but they were 
cessationists. 

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They believed that the gifts of 
the Spirit were over and that's 

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just the way it was, right? 
We, we wouldn't spend much time 

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in first Corinthians 12 or 14 
because it was almost like you 

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just cross those chapters out 
and just move on. 

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And to be honest with you, I 
wish I could move on today. 

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This is a, this is a challenge 
here, but I, I got to be 

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faithful because we, we brag 
about how we talk about every 

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verse, every chapter, every 
book. 

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But believe me, there's a lot of
us as pastors. 

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Lord, can I skip that 1 today? 
You know, I do a topical and 

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they'll forget that last time I 
was in chapter 13 and they're 

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waiting for me to go to 14 and 
well, how come you didn't talk, 

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talk on 14, You know, so I'm not
going to do that. 

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I'm talking on 14. 
But anyway, so I'm in this 

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element of my early Christian 
development. 

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But I often said to pastors, and
I mentioned it last time I 

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spoke, but why can't like where?
I don't know, Clark, is this the

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way it is? 
You know, that's what he told 

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me. 
So then I got involved in the 

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Pentecostal side for a while, 
the charismatic side. 

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And it was funny, man, I, I was 
out there and I like, I hate to 

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say, very little teaching a lot 
of emotional emotion. 

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People running around with flags
and hype and dancing and, and 

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singing and, and boy, God really
moved today. 

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We worshipped and we praised 
God. 

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We didn't have time to teach the
word. 

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I'm thinking like that's the 
most important thing. 

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Teach the word right. 
So you have the, the other 

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extreme, right? 
And, and I'll just, I'll just 

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tell you this, I was so 
desperate for these gifts and I 

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didn't know whether I had that 
gift or not, but I went to 

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Assembly God Church one Sunday 
when I was like 23 years old. 

451
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,480
Cindy, no way was she going with
me, right? 

452
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,240
And I was in there and the 
church sort of seemed dead. 

453
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,320
So I figured I'll speak in 
tongues. 

454
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,400
So I stood up and I spoke in 
tongues. 

455
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,440
But I was smart enough to know 
that I need to give the 

456
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,280
interpretation. 
So I gave an interpretation of 

457
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,720
who knows, you know, I didn't 
know anything about when an 

458
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,000
interpreter. 
I can hardly. 

459
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,680
Even speak Spanish, I learned 
Spanish and I don't even know 

460
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,240
how to interpret what I was 
learning how to speak right. 

461
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,680
But anyway, the pastor was so 
gracious he didn't have dead 

462
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,040
silence. 
And he says this is an. 

463
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,120
Example in the book of the acts 
of and he's going on and on like

464
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,200
that so. 
I didn't go back to that church.

465
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,360
And he was probably glad I 
didn't, you know, But anyway, 

466
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,440
that's sort of like my learning 
experience. 

467
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,040
And, and then, you know, I, I 
don't know, at times I thought I

468
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,040
was and at times I thought I 
wasn't. 

469
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,720
And, you know, I was so messed 
up in so many ways in, in my 

470
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,360
early Christian development. 
I mean, I was dealing with all 

471
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:36,320
kind of personal issues as a 
man. 

472
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,960
I wanted a quick fix and if I 
could speak in tongues and all 

473
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,000
my problems were gone away and I
was a perfect Christian, no 

474
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,080
problems, I'm all in, right? 
Well, I found that wasn't the 

475
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,800
case. 
There is no easy path. 

476
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,000
It's death to self. 
It's denying self. 

477
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,080
It's living in continual 
repentance and humbling yourself

478
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,240
before God and before others. 
That's how we grow in the grace 

479
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,520
and the knowledge of the Lord 
and. 

480
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:15,520
So I come to Calvary Chapel. 36 
years ago and I knew they 

481
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,080
weren't cessationists. 
I knew they believed the gifts 

482
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,480
were still here. 
So I, I, I sort of took a, a 

483
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,520
breath of fresh air there. 
Like, wow, I can be in a church 

484
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,120
where there's some balance, not 
extremes over here and over 

485
00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,880
there. 
And all the times I was with the

486
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,120
pastors and the leaders, some of
them had a a prayer language, 

487
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,040
some didn't. 
And it was never the issue 

488
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,040
whether they did or you didn't. 
We didn't talk about that stuff.

489
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,880
And we never in all the meetings
I was in, ever had anybody 

490
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,640
publicly stand up and speak in 
tongues in a meeting. 

491
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,560
And we'll, we'll get into why 
Paul doesn't recommend that in 

492
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:57,120
this chapter. 
In a small group, maybe you have

493
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,480
6-8 people and 10 people and you
know the people, you know their 

494
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,920
walk, you know their lives. 
Maybe the Lord shows up 

495
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,200
sometimes in a small group in a 
different way, but not in a 

496
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,720
larger audience. 
And, and people come here, I 

497
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,240
don't know who they are. 
Say someone stood up and they 

498
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,520
started speaking in tongues. 
And I'm like, you know, there's 

499
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,360
no interpretation. 
Well, first of all, you can't do

500
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,320
that here. 
I'm sorry. 

501
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,560
Please sit down and then and 
then say there's an 

502
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,640
interpretation, but the 
interpretation isn't what what 

503
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,280
is supposed to be in the sense 
it's supposed to be language and

504
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,600
praising and worship to God, not
like my little children. 

505
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,280
God wants you to know today that
if you follow him, he will bless

506
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,920
you and he's going to prosper 
you. 

507
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,560
You know that that's not the 
point of, of the interpretation.

508
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,800
And, and, and so you can get 
into this study much deeper than

509
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,920
I'm going to go through it 
today. 

510
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,680
I'm just giving a sort of an 
overview of, of my studies and, 

511
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,920
and my experiences in these 
things. 

512
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,040
So he says. 
And, and in these churches I've 

513
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,320
been in with Calvary, they're 
never once in a pastors 

514
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,840
conference anywhere. 
I hear any of that as someone 

515
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,320
drawing attention to themselves 
in a meeting and and then some 

516
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,240
kind of interpretation. 
And I, I believe, to be honest 

517
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,280
with you, it is less today than 
it was in Acts. 

518
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,960
It's just the nature of the 
development of the church. 

519
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,200
It's not the priority is it was 
in that early church because 

520
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,760
they didn't have any Bible in 
the early church, you know, and 

521
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,480
it must have been really 
complicated to be an apostle and

522
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,360
an elder to try to discern what 
was of the Lord and what wasn't 

523
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,200
of the Lord testing the spirits 
as the Bible says. 

524
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,840
And so he says in verse 6. 
But now, brethren, if I come to 

525
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,560
you speaking with tongues, what 
should it profit you unless I 

526
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,840
speak to you either by 
revelation, by knowledge, by 

527
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,560
prophesying, or by teaching? 
He's saying what would be the 

528
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,480
preference? 
Because he already said if I 

529
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,720
spoke in tongues, you don't 
understand what I'm saying. 

530
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,080
But he's giving these other 
alternatives, even things 

531
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,080
without life, whether flute or 
harp, musical instruments here 

532
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,760
that make a sound, unless they 
make a distinction in the 

533
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,240
sounds, how it will be known 
what is piped or played. 

534
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,920
So these worship people up there
so gifted in their instruments, 

535
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,960
and if you put me up here on a 
Sunday to fill in for them, 

536
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,440
they'd be like, what's Clark 
playing up there? 

537
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,920
I know what the song sounds like
or what it's supposed to sound 

538
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,600
like, but when he's playing that
keyboard, it doesn't sound like 

539
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:27,240
anything but insanity, right? 
So the the musical instruments 

540
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,440
are specific sounds for specific
purposes. 

541
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,160
For if the trumpet makes an 
uncertain sound, who will 

542
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,440
prepare for battle? 
So the the bugle was you'd used.

543
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,920
So let's go forward and go to 
fight, right? 

544
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,040
And if the bugler doesn't know 
how to play the bugle, right, 

545
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,920
they don't that sound. 
Are we supposed to go to dinner 

546
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,320
now? 
Are we supposed to like relax 

547
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,000
for a while? 
Are we supposed to go to battle?

548
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,800
Who will prepare for battle? 
So likewise you, unless you 

549
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,720
utter by the tongue words easy 
to understand, how will it be 

550
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,120
known what is spoken? 
For you will be speaking into 

551
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,000
the air. 
There are, it may be so many 

552
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,760
kinds of languages in the world,
and then none of them is without

553
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,400
significance. 
And this made me think, think 

554
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,120
about how many languages are out
there in the world. 

555
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,080
If you travel on the different 
parts of the world, you go to 

556
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,480
France, you know, Paris, they're
speaking French. 

557
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,080
Now, if you haven't been 
studying French, you you like, 

558
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,720
hey, how do I get over here to 
this restaurant? 

559
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,640
They just smile and look at you.
They don't know what you're 

560
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,360
talking about unless they know 
English, right? 

561
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,680
And and they speak back to you 
in French. 

562
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,480
And now you get these phones. 
This is sort of cool. 

563
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,040
You can hit the phone and it'll 
interpret what they're saying. 

564
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,200
That'd be fun to do with someone
speaking in tongues. 

565
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,640
Let's get the interpretation 
from Google right. 

566
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,880
I never thought about that. 
But anyway, therefore, if I do 

567
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,000
not know the meaning of the 
language, I shall be a 

568
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,880
foreigner. 
I'm in France, I'm an American. 

569
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,560
They're they're French. 
We can't relate to each other, 

570
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,240
to him who speaks, and he who 
speaks will be a foreigner to 

571
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,920
me. 
Even so you, since you are 

572
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,560
zealous for spiritual gifts, let
it be for the edification of the

573
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Church that you, that you seek 
to excel. 

574
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,840
So what can I do and what can 
you do to make this church 

575
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,400
stronger and more of a blessing 
to one another? 

576
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,280
Prophecy. 
Pray that you prophecy and and 

577
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,720
that is the ability to build 
people up. 

578
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,280
You know, I really appreciate 
John Kirkland. 

579
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,040
I was Tuesday at his study and 
I'm usually on the road working,

580
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,040
but I was able to go and listen 
and see the other deep 

581
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,440
Christians that were in the 
meeting. 

582
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,120
Brian, this guys a brain and 
languages here. 

583
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,400
If you want to know Hebrew, 
Greek, this guy in the front 

584
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,920
row, talk to him. 
He really knows how to pull out 

585
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,040
the Nuggets of the word of God. 
But anyway, I was listening to 

586
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,840
these guys and I was a so 
overwhelmed the women and and 

587
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,040
the men that were in that study 
and the gifting of John as he 

588
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,000
was in first Samuel chapter 3 
with Eli and his sons getting 

589
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,440
wiped out and all that because 
of the false teaching. 

590
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,120
So I say to John, John, thank 
you for serving. 

591
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:17,080
Thank you for using your gift to
build up the church and I know 

592
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,480
that that blesses him to hear 
him. 

593
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,000
That's what I'm to do to him. 
I'm for him. 

594
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,520
His wife Amy teaches women Amy, 
thank you for the hours you 

595
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,200
spend in studying the word and 
rightly dividing the word of 

596
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,840
truth. 
Thanks to Lord, glory to God, 

597
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,320
right and many others here. 
I could thank everyone of you 

598
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:43,160
for everything you do. 
That's just an illustration that

599
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:50,920
means much more than if I was A 
and John's like, what's Clark 

600
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,040
saying? 
You know, that's ridiculous. 

601
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,640
You know, that's what happens in
somebody. 

602
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,280
And that was not a tongue, by 
the way. 

603
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,000
I was being facetious, you know,
But you know, it's just like 

604
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,640
goofy. 
It's weird. 

605
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,280
You know, someone said they got 
they want they want to get 

606
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:07,760
saved. 
I kind of come to your church 

607
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,880
and the person's like, and I 
don't want you to come to my 

608
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,239
there's another church down the 
road. 

609
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,000
And the guy said, if you don't 
want them to come to your church

610
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
because a lot of weird stuff 
going on, why are you still 

611
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,520
there? 
And some of you are here because

612
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,880
you left weird churches. 
It abused the spiritual gifts. 

613
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,920
Maybe I'll get a testimony once 
in a while for my brother John 

614
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,760
back there. 
You know, it took a month before

615
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,360
his anger went down because of 
the false teaching and the 

616
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,120
craziness that he had to sit 
under in the church that he was 

617
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,320
in. 
And I'm not going to mention the

618
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:41,360
church. 
But anyway, so he says if I pray

619
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,040
in a tongue, my spirit prays, 
but my understanding is 

620
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,360
unfruitful. 
What's the conclusion then? 

621
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,360
I will pray with the Spirit, and
I will also pray with 

622
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,159
understanding. 
So he had the gift of praying in

623
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,440
tongues, but he also prayed like
most of us pray in this normal 

624
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,480
English, right? 
I will also pray with the 

625
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,680
understanding. 
I also sing with the Spirit, but

626
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,600
I will also sing with the 
understanding. 

627
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,040
Otherwise, if you bless with the
Spirit, how will he who occupies

628
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,720
the place of the uninformed say 
Amen at your giving of thanks, 

629
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:14,840
since he does not understand 
what you say? 

630
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,160
For you indeed give thanks well,
but the other is not edified. 

631
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,320
And then listen to this. 
Verse 18 is very important. 

632
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,800
Paul says I thank my God I speak
with tongues more than you all. 

633
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,360
Yet in the church, I would 
rather speak 5 words with my 

634
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,960
understanding that I may teach 
others also than 10,000 words in

635
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,520
a tongue. 
The some of you came out of 

636
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,120
churches where everybody, OK, 
let's everybody pray in the 

637
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,400
spirit and everybody's speaking 
in tongues. 

638
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,160
My, my brother told me last week
it was funny that I was down in 

639
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,600
Florida years ago. 
He's not a follower of this guy 

640
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,240
anymore. 
He said I went to a Benny Hinn 

641
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,920
conference, right? 
And you know, I don't know 

642
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,120
what's going. 
I'm just sitting there all of a 

643
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,000
sudden Benny, everybody's 
speaking in tongues. 

644
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,920
He said he ran out of there 
quick. 

645
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,080
He never, never went bad. 
I'd run out too. 

646
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:08,840
It's insane. 
That's not biblical, and if you 

647
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,640
follow what the Bible teaches 
here regarding these gifts, 

648
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:19,240
you'll understand why. 
Paul was grateful for his gift, 

649
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,400
but he never used it in the 
church setting. 

650
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,600
It was in his private prayer 
closet that he prayed this way. 

651
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,080
Someone said in some of these 
churches because egos and 

652
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,520
psychological imbalance of 
people, they feel they need to 

653
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,120
speak in tongues publicly and 
the pastor says well how many 

654
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,800
hours you spend in your prayer 
closet praying that way. 

655
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,600
Some people are the spiritual 
show offs and they draw 

656
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,000
attention to themselves and they
take the glory from the Lord. 

657
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,520
Brethren, do not be children and
understanding, however, in 

658
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,160
malice be babes, but an 
understanding be mature. 

659
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,600
And the law, it's written with 
the men of other tongues and of 

660
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,440
other lips. 
I will speak to the people, and 

661
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,640
yet for all that they will not 
hear me, says the Lord. 

662
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:18,880
What happened in this particular
section of Scripture in Isaiah 

663
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,680
was the fact that the Lord was 
bringing judgment on Israel. 

664
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,920
They weren't listening to the 
prophets anymore. 

665
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,000
They weren't listening to the 
word of God. 

666
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,880
And so the Lord had to send in 
Assyrians into that place of 

667
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:45,360
where they lived, and they heard
tongues of the enemy. 

668
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,360
That was to their judgment. 
It wasn't for their good. 

669
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,720
Therefore tongues for a sign, 
not to those who believe, but 

670
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:00,160
the unbelievers. 
The prophesying is not for 

671
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,280
unbelievers, but for those who 
believe in the book of the Acts.

672
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,160
When the Holy Spirit descended 
was poured out and all those 

673
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,240
people were praying in this 
language, it was something that 

674
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:17,040
could be understood by all the 
listeners because it says they 

675
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,520
heard these people worship God 
in their own tongue as a 

676
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:26,400
miracle. 
It was a real language and they 

677
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,560
heard whether they say they, 
they said we heard them 

678
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,840
magnifying the wonderful works 
of God. 

679
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,600
Therefore, if the whole church 
comes together in one place and 

680
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,600
all speak with tongues and 
they're coming, those who are 

681
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,320
uninformed or unbelievers, will 
they not say that you are out of

682
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,000
your mind? 
To your point, our brother that 

683
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,960
went to the Benny Hinn thing, 
they were out of their mind, 

684
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,360
right? 
That's what you thought and you 

685
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,640
were right. 
You were a prophet man. 

686
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,400
But if all prophecy and an 
unbeliever or an uninformed 

687
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:10,880
person comes in, he's convinced 
by all and convicted by all, and

688
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,040
that's the secrets of his heart 
are revealed. 

689
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,920
And so falling down in his face,
he will worship God and report 

690
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:23,440
that God is truly among you. 
I don't know how many times and 

691
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,480
this has happened to different 
people here that teach someone 

692
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,640
will come and they'll say, did 
my mom call you or did my wife 

693
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,160
talk to you? 
I said, what are you talking 

694
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,000
about? 
What you said went right to my 

695
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,560
heart today and I need to deal 
with something in my life. 

696
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,040
I'll say, well that was the Lord
because I had no clue what you 

697
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,480
were dealing with, nor do I know
you personally. 

698
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,280
That's how the Lord uses His 
word to bring the knowledge of 

699
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,560
their need of Christ to their 
hearts. 

700
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,000
And when that happens, the 
secret of their hearts are 

701
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,240
revealed and falling down on 
their faces. 

702
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,160
They'll worship God and report 
that God is truly among you. 

703
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,680
So order in church meetings, 
verse 26. 

704
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,200
How is it then brethren, 
whenever you come together, each

705
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,240
of you has a Psalm. 
This is this church was so 

706
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,920
self-centered like I want to get
on the platform. 

707
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,120
So I got a Psalm. 
I want to share my Psalm. 

708
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,120
I want to give my tongue. 
I want to give the 

709
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:26,920
interpretation. 
I want to give the prophecy Has 

710
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,160
a teaching, has a tongue as a 
revelation has an 

711
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,960
interpretation. 
Let all things been done for 

712
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,760
edification. 
If anyone speaks in a tongue, 

713
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,200
let there be two, or at the most
3 each in turn. 

714
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,320
Let one interpret. 
But if there is no interpreter, 

715
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,480
let him keep silent in the 
church and let him speak to 

716
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:50,320
himself and to God. 
If you're praying in the Spirit 

717
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,280
and you have the responsibility 
to minister, that's between you 

718
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,280
and the Lord. 
And so your intercession with 

719
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,640
the Lord and your time with God,
he's, he's putting things into 

720
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,600
your heart and your mind that he
wants you to use as you teach 

721
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,760
the Word. 
It's just the way the Holy 

722
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:15,680
Spirit many times rolls. 
But if there's no interpreter, 

723
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,520
just be quiet. 
Let two or three prophets speak 

724
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,840
and let the others judge. 
I find like in our pastors 

725
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,360
conferences, there'll be 6-8 
guys that'll teach. 

726
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,960
They're called to teach. 
They're not told what they're 

727
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,880
going to teach on. 
They pray and bring what the 

728
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,840
Lord has put on their heart to 
bring. 

729
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,240
It always flows together. 
I've never been there thinking 

730
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,520
like, why did they have that 
person speak? 

731
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,400
Because if this was out of 
order, it wasn't like part of 

732
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,680
like what we believe God was 
wanting to say or to do. 

733
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,480
That's not how the Holy Spirit 
works. 

734
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:03,440
It's it all comes together and 
and as the the different people 

735
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,840
speak, the the leaders judge 
whether this is of the Lord or 

736
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,800
not. 
If anything is revealed to 

737
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,440
another who sits by, let him 
first keep silent. 

738
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,440
For you can all prophecy one by 
one that all may learn and all 

739
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,520
may be encouraged. 
And the spirits of the prophets 

740
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,720
are subject to the prophets. 
For God is not the author of 

741
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,320
confusion, but of peace is in 
all the church and of the 

742
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,760
Saints. 
So it isn't like some people 

743
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,640
say, Oh, the Spirit came upon me
and I couldn't control myself 

744
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,280
and I I just had to blurt out 
what that's not biblical. 

745
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,200
The fruit of the Spirit is 
self-control. 

746
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:47,120
You're never in a position where
God is like, you know, making 

747
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,840
you do something that is strange
and weird that you don't 

748
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,840
understand and you have no 
ability to discern whether God 

749
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,720
is moving you to just be quiet 
or to actually say something 

750
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,520
about something. 
The benefit of teaching the 

751
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,760
Bible verse by verse and line 
upon line is it keeps us out of 

752
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,000
the weeds and beginning to say 
things that we have no business 

753
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,240
saying. 
As speakers on behalf of the 

754
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:14,640
Lord, we bring his message to 
you guys, not our message. 

755
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,560
And I've been in churches where 
I never know what the person's 

756
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,120
going to begin to start teaching
and talking about. 

757
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,760
And sometimes I'd walk out and I
said, Cindy, what was that all 

758
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,200
about? 
You know, sad. 

759
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,920
There's a famine for the Word of
God, and everything the apostles

760
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:39,360
taught was teach the people my 
word. 

761
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,480
That's what the Lord wants. 
That's the only thing that's 

762
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:49,520
going to change your life, the 
Word of God and the Holy Spirit 

763
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,760
applying it to your everyday 
life and living it out as he's 

764
00:43:53,760 --> 00:44:01,120
directed you. 
So Paul wrote this because the 

765
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,200
church was abusing all these 
things. 

766
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,680
I'm thankful. 
Maybe you aren't. 

767
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,160
Maybe you think we should be 
moving more in Signs and 

768
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,400
Wonders. 
But this is who we are as 

769
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,240
Calvary Chapel. 
We don't, we don't try to create

770
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:23,520
any kind of activity up here to 
tickle ears or to get people all

771
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:28,320
excited. 
You know, if the Word of God 

772
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,800
isn't enough, then this isn't 
the place that tells us in 

773
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,800
Hebrews. 
The Word of God is sharper than 

774
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,960
any 2 edged sword, nothing 
sharper than the word piercing, 

775
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,800
dividing asunder of the soul and
the Spirit, and is a very 

776
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,440
discerner of the thoughts and 
intents of the heart. 

777
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,520
That's the Holy Spirit's job, to
cut what needs to be cut out of 

778
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,040
my heart and yours and to change
us and transform us. 

779
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,040
So my favorite part as we begin 
to wind down is let your women 

780
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,000
keep silent in the churches. 
Amen. 

781
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,560
Now we're going to have like, 
we're going to have like a 

782
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:13,520
revolution here now. 
Well, first of all, the context 

783
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,080
of the culture was in the Jewish
church in the beginning, which 

784
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,880
was made-up of Jews primarily. 
The women sat on one side and 

785
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:25,600
the men sat on the other side. 
And so whoever's up there 

786
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,640
teaching, maybe the woman didn't
understand something and she 

787
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,840
agreed something and she's going
to yell over, you know. 

788
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,480
Hey, hey, Steve. 
But you hear what that guy said.

789
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,240
What do you think in the midst 
of the meeting? 

790
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,160
Steve's like, we'll talk about 
it when we get home. 

791
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,400
Well, I want to know now. 
I mean, it was that kind of 

792
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,040
stuff being interrupting in the 
in the service, right? 

793
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,440
It didn't mean that a woman 
couldn't prophecy because Paul 

794
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,760
said in First Corinthians 12 
that they had that gift as well 

795
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,040
to be able to teach and to 
prophecy and to edify, exhort 

796
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,840
and comfort. 
We have women here that lead to 

797
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,160
worship. 
It's totally biblical and they 

798
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,880
pray and they encourage us. 
They talk. 

799
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,800
That's totally OK. 
This was the out of order kind 

800
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,320
of communication that the women 
were having. 

801
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:23,200
And so he said that they are to 
be submissive as by the law also

802
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:24,280
says. 
And if they want to learn 

803
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,640
anything or something, let them 
ask their own husbands at home. 

804
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,960
For it's shameful for women to 
speak in the church. 

805
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,120
And it wasn't that a woman can't
give a testimony or give 

806
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,120
announcements or or pray or 
encourage or come up here when 

807
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,520
we have intercession for people 
who are sick and lay hands and 

808
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:44,720
pray, that is totally within the
confines of of biblical church 

809
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,000
order. 
But it was whenever they were, 

810
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,040
you know, creating some havoc 
here. 

811
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,000
And then he says in verse 36, or
did the word of God come 

812
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,800
originally from you? 
Or was it only you that reached?

813
00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:01,880
If anyone thinks himself to be a
prophet or spiritual, let him 

814
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,240
acknowledge that the things 
which I write to you are 

815
00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:07,400
commandments of the Lord. 
So these aren't suggestions here

816
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,280
that I'm sharing today in regard
to order of spiritual gifts. 

817
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:14,600
These are commands of the Lord. 
And if you want to do stuff 

818
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,240
different, you know you'll be 
called out on it here because we

819
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:21,680
won't allow it to happen because
it's not within the confines of 

820
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:28,200
church order and church worship.
But if anyone is ignorant, let 

821
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,240
them be ignorant. 
Therefore, brethren, desire 

822
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:34,680
earnestly to prophecy, do not 
forbid to speak with tongues, 

823
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,080
and let all things being be done
decently in an order. 

824
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:43,880
What is that? 
OK, How did I do on a scale of 1

825
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:49,800
to 10? 
What's what's funny, you know, 

826
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:54,080
some people say I like that 
Calvary Chapel, but they're 

827
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:58,920
they're too Baptist. 
And then someone else to say I 

828
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,080
like, I don't like that Calvary 
Chapel because they're too 

829
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,840
Pentecostal. 
Like you can't please everybody.

830
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:09,680
But I believe that in these last
days, when you only have certain

831
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,800
choices to make and where you 
want to serve and where you want

832
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,600
to fellowship and where you want
to bring your families, I think 

833
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,920
it's critical more than ever, 
you know, to find a church that 

834
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,680
teaches the Bible. 
Simply simply teach the Bible. 

835
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:30,760
Simply not any. 
Don't add anything to it. 

836
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,560
Don't subtract anything from it.
Teach the whole council of God. 

837
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:40,800
And it's hard to find. 
That's why Cindy and I planted 

838
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,800
this church in ignorance 30 
years ago. 

839
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,080
We had no idea what we were 
doing. 

840
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,480
We just knew there needed to be 
a church like this in this 

841
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:52,320
community. 
And we had attended a lot of 

842
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,160
churches, nice people and all 
that, but we there was like very

843
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:56,680
little teaching of the Word of 
God. 

844
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,680
And I'm so thankful that the 
Lord brought me and Cindy and my

845
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,800
family into this part of the 
body of Christ. 

846
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,760
And I'm not saying we're better 
than anybody else, but I believe

847
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,000
that we are on track with what 
God wants his church to be like 

848
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,640
and to look like. 
And he's using all of you in 

849
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,640
different ways here. 
And there's more opportunity to 

850
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,360
be used. 
I'm thankful for the men that 

851
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:26,000
teach her Wednesday night. 
And they can have different 

852
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,520
views on these positions. 
No one's signing a report here. 

853
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,600
You must agree with everything 
this way. 

854
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,800
Some people have different end 
time views here. 

855
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,040
Some people believe in a little 
rapture. 

856
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,120
Some people don't believe in a 
little rapture, some people 

857
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,640
believe in the pre Trib rapture.
Some people believe in a mid 

858
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:50,280
Trib, a no Trib, all millennial.
I mean, but those are secondary 

859
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,080
issues. 
The primary issue is to preach 

860
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:59,560
the gospel and teach the word 
right and sometimes to be able 

861
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,200
to agree to disagree and not 
make a big deal of it right. 

862
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:10,080
So that's my prayer. 
And if you could come up for a 

863
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,000
minute, brother, just come up 
here and say hi to everybody. 

864
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,120
Come on up, Anita. 
Matt. 

865
00:50:27,210 --> 00:50:29,210
Matt has the gift of 
interpretation. 

866
00:50:29,210 --> 00:50:31,130
So we're going to do a little 
thing here now. 

867
00:50:34,970 --> 00:50:37,050
So tell everybody how you're 
doing, what's going on. 

868
00:50:37,050 --> 00:50:40,410
Yeah. 
OK, so we have a testimony from 

869
00:50:40,410 --> 00:50:44,130
the Lord 3 1/2 years ago. 
The doctors told me I only had 

870
00:50:44,130 --> 00:50:47,600
two years, so we're a year and a
half ahead of them. 

871
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,000
Every day is a blessing. 
So we all need to think about 

872
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,720
that, though we all could be 
gone tonight. 

873
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,320
That's right. 
So. 

874
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,080
Like Clark said, if you're not 
right with the Lord, you need to

875
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:06,800
get there big time. 
So my cancer, I had six months 

876
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:12,240
of chemotherapy. 
We ended that up in June and my 

877
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:16,440
blood numbers were way down. 
And then in September we had 

878
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,520
blood samples and they're going 
up again. 

879
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,720
So in December we're starting a 
new treatment with this new 

880
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,320
treatment method that's out 
there called Pluvicto, and they 

881
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,600
inject radioactive material into
your blood and it attaches to 

882
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,800
cancer cells and kills cancer 
cells. 

883
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,240
So we're looking forward to that
one. 

884
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,560
The only problem with that is 
I'll be radioactive for two or 

885
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:45,280
three days and if we're in the 
car, I got to sit in the back 

886
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,040
seat on the other side and sleep
in a separate bedroom. 

887
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:55,080
So, but we're just so blessed. 
Every day is a blessing. 

888
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:55,720
Amen. 
Thank you for your. 

889
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,320
Prayers. 
Yes, thank you so much for your 

890
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,160
prayers. 
We know that many of you still 

891
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,800
pray for us and we really 
appreciate it. 

892
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,440
We live in Kerrville, TX. 
If you've heard about Kerrville,

893
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,200
this summer, there was 
significant flooding and right 

894
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,440
across the street from where we 
live, 28 girls were killed at a 

895
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:19,440
Christian camp. 
So we're still in a recovery 

896
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,280
mode. 
I think Tim at West Elizabeth is

897
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,560
going to send some A-Team down 
in January. 

898
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,840
If anybody feels led to come and
help us, we could use your help.

899
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,680
The community is still hurting 
big time. 

900
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,640
There were 120 people that 
perished during the flood. 

901
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,080
So our little Calvary Chapel is 
pretty small. 

902
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,360
It's really a loving church. 
We're really blessed there. 

903
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:47,040
We miss you guys like crazy. 
We're we're so happy that we 

904
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,000
could come and visit and say hi 
to everyone. 

905
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:53,080
So yeah, just keep up, keep on 
keeping on and. 

906
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,080
Chugging along with the Lord. 
Amen. 

907
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:57,840
Thank you. 
Is John around? 

908
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:58,880
John Morris. 
You. 

909
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,280
John is. 
Where's John at? 

910
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,840
He was here. 
He must have left after my 

911
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,840
message. 
He went back to a Pentecostal. 

912
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:10,280
Steve, Steve. 
Steve, come up. 

913
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:16,320
Steve, come up here. 
John, come up here. 

914
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,160
John, come on up with Steve 
there. 

915
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:20,080
Come on over. 
Brother. 

916
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,200
Please, please lay hands and 
pray. 

917
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,200
Pray for our brother as your LED
of the Lord. 

918
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:33,480
OK? 
Heavenly Father, we do gather 

919
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,400
before you. 
We do thank you for our brother 

920
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,560
Matt and Nina. 
We do thank you, Lord, that 

921
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:43,200
you've provided for them in many
ways that are unknown to us. 

922
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:45,960
But we thank you Lord for his 
presence. 

923
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,920
We thank you, Lord for his 
testimony. 

924
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,720
Lord continue to guide him and 
and bless him and continue to to

925
00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:56,840
lead that only can come from 
you. 

926
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,880
It's not us, Lord, that that 
provide and, and direct and 

927
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,440
leading guide. 
It's you, Lord, and we give you 

928
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,680
the glory and we give you the 
honor and the praise, Lord, that

929
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,360
you deserve in this man's life 
and in his wife's life, Lord, 

930
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,600
that you've, you've put him 
where he needs to be. 

931
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,440
We miss him and we miss his time
with us. 

932
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,320
But Lord, we ask that you just 
continue to guide and direct and

933
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:22,960
give him the wisdom that he 
needs. 

934
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,560
Thank you, Lord, for His 
presence. 

935
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,040
Family, Father, we just truly 
thank you for this couple, Lord 

936
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:40,240
God, and what an example of who 
they are. 

937
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,680
And you, Lord God, that you are 
all over them. 

938
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,840
Lord God, in the midst of 
adversities and problems and 

939
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,320
difficult situations, Lord God, 
they come up here with smiles on

940
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,240
your face. 
Lord God, they come up here 

941
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:53,680
thanking you for who you are in 
their life. 

942
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,640
Lord, we thank you for that. 
Lord God, we ask you, Lord God, 

943
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,440
just to continue to touch them. 
Lord God, continue just to your 

944
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,360
provisions in their life. 
Lord God, they come with even 

945
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,920
concerns for others, Lord God, 
as they're going through things.

946
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,400
Lord God, Lord, we just thank 
you. 

947
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,840
What an example of who you are 
in them. 

948
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,640
Lord God and Lord, just bless 
them. 

949
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,440
Bless them in all that they do 
in Jesus name. 

950
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,720
Yes, Lord, God, we do thank you 
for Matt the need of here, Lord,

951
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,840
Lord, when when they were here, 
Lord, the example that they gave

952
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,240
Lord, I know in one instance 
when we had to move, Matt showed

953
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:37,200
up and helped us move. 
And Lord, we're a huge family. 

954
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,520
And he didn't, he didn't care. 
He just stepped in there and he 

955
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,160
helped Lord. 
And so Lord, now it's it's our 

956
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:47,000
time to lift him up and his and 
Matt and he's both Lord and just

957
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,240
as he would just bring healing 
Lord, this new medicine coming, 

958
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:53,280
Lord, he looks forward to it and
we just ask he would just work 

959
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,080
through this medicine. 
Lord, we know it's not the 

960
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,200
medicine, Lord, it's you working
through Lord. 

961
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,440
So we just ask you to just lift 
him up and. 

962
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:06,520
Thank you. 
OK so one more thing. 

963
00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:11,280
Some of you guys might disagree 
with me but the Lord blessed me 

964
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:20,440
with the best wife in the world.
OK, Gina, come on up. 

965
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,560
Gina and the team will close 
service. 

966
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,320
Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. 
I'm going to do that. 

967
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:33,880
Yep. 
Thank you. 

968
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,560
You got the help. 
Thank you for helping me. 

969
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,560
Thank you, Lord. 
So much for your goodness, Lord.

970
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,480
And it was wonderful. 
Family here of God, what you're 

971
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,440
doing in people's lives and how 
much they love you and love one 

972
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,600
another. 
And that's the greatest example 

973
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,320
of your Holy Spirit working in 
this church. 

974
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,880
Lord, we're all learning. 
We're. 

975
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:04,920
Desiring to be closer to you and
to follow you 100%, Lord. 

976
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:09,240
And we just pray you'd help us 
in our struggles, our 

977
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:13,720
downfallings, Lord, Times of 
doubt, Lord, times of being 

978
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:16,800
overwhelmed, all the things that
can happen to us as human beings

979
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,080
on any given day. 
Lord, we're so thankful that you

980
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:23,760
tell us You're always there for 
us to call upon you. 

981
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,160
You say if we draw near to you, 
you'll draw near to us. 

982
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,640
And that's what we do every 
Sunday when we gather here to 

983
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,360
draw near to you. 
And Lord, the the one of the 

984
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,760
most amazing ways you've given 
us to draw near to you is taking

985
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:41,160
the supper with you, Lord, in 
your presence, remembering what 

986
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,440
you've done for us and how much 
you love us. 

987
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,760
And Lord, how we can deal with 
our heart even a few minutes 

988
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,920
before we take this, we can say,
Lord, this has to be changed. 

989
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,960
And when I turn from this, I 
repent of this Lord. 

990
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,640
I want to be yielded to you. 
I want to surrender to you. 

991
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,800
I want it to be more about you 
and others and less about me and

992
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,960
myself. 
We just want to be more like 

993
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,000
you, Jesus. 
And we know that's your will for

994
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,400
us, Lord, that you conform each 
of us more to your image and 

995
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,120
likeness because we can't do 
that ourselves. 

996
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,400
It's got to be you. 
Work your Holy Spirit. 

997
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,640
On the night that Jesus was 
betrayed, he took the bread in 

998
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,680
his hands and he broke it and he
gave thanks. 

999
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,280
He said, take, eat, this is My 
body which is given for you. 

1000
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:35,040
Eat this in remembrance of me. 
On the same manner in that night

1001
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,600
he took the cup. 
He said this cup is a new 

1002
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,720
covenant in My blood which is 
shed for the forgiveness of sins

1003
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,160
of many. 
Drink this in remembrance of me.

1004
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,400
For as often as you eat this 
bread and you drink this cup. 

1005
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,680
You show forth the Lord's death 
till he comes again. 

1006
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,720
God bless you guys. 
Thank you for putting up with me

1007
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:58,120
today.