1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,680 You're very welcome to today's Triumph Church podcast. 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,440 We pray that you enjoy the message. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,560 Well, I'm really excited about today. 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,920 This morning I'm going to be introducing a a new topic. 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,720 We've been on the book of Ephesians for a lot of weeks. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,720 I actually don't know when we begin that, but we just finished 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,120 that this past weekend. I hope it was a blessing to you. 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,400 If there's some weeks that you missed, I really would encourage 9 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,600 you to go back and listen to those because every week was 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,840 just really power packed and it'll be a blessing to your 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,960 life. This morning I wanted to reduce 12 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,400 the topic of spiritual gifts. It's not really something that 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,520 we've talked a lot about before in the church. 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,040 There's just been a lot of other things that the Lord has had on 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,920 my heart to talk about. And really we only have one 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,680 service A A. Week. 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,240 On Sunday mornings predominantly. 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,520 So there's just so much what we can get through and I've been 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,920 wanting to talk on this subject for a long time. 20 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,560 And finally, the Lord is like, OK, talk about it, now's the 21 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,320 time. But there are different ministry 22 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,880 gifts. These are different. 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Sorry. Then the ministry gifts that we 24 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,360 talked about in Ephesians chapter 4 and verses 11 and 12. 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,520 That's the apostle, the prophet, the teacher, the the evangelist. 26 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,920 And I think I'm leaving one out there, the pastor, the apostle, 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,840 the prophet, the teacher and the evangelist. 28 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,960 But spiritual gifts are ministry gifts. 29 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:45,240 The the, the other things are like a position. 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,600 It's an office in the body of Christ, but spiritual gifts are 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,200 for everyone. Those are those other things are 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,560 ministry gifts in the body, but spiritual gifts are things that 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,280 the Holy Spirit gives to everyone in the church. 34 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,360 And we're going to talk about those things. 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,040 And both the ministry gifts and the spiritual gifts, those are 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,199 decided and distributed by the Holy Spirit. 37 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,680 It's not something that you can decide one day. 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,800 I'm going to be a pastor or I'm going to be an apostle, or I'm 39 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,600 going to be a prophet or a teacher, or I'm going to walk in 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,720 this spiritual gift or that spiritual gift. 41 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,320 These are things that the Holy Spirit gives. 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,880 He decides. All right. 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,040 It's not like you can go. And you know, like my son Aiden, 44 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,160 he's getting ready for university and he has to. 45 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,680 Choose, you know, kind of what field that he wants to go and 46 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,600 he's picking, you know what I want to go to university for. 47 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,000 All right, but in the body of Christ, it doesn't work that 48 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,960 way. God's the one that picks those 49 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,080 things for us. He's the one that determines 50 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,320 those things. But we're going to begin here in 51 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:55,360 One Corinthians chapter 12. The Apostle Paul spent a a a lot 52 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,880 of time in the book of Corinthians, his letter to the 53 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,360 Corinth church talking about. Spiritual gifts really, because 54 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,960 the. Church in Corinth was kind of a 55 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,200 mess, all right. They had a lot of things going 56 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,320 on. They were very excited about the 57 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,680 things of God and and operating in the things of God, but they 58 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,680 kind of did it recklessly and without order. 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 And so the Apostle Paul. Spent a considerable amount of 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,480 time in this first book of Corinthians addressing those 61 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,120 issues in chapter. 1213 and 14 and it begins in one Corinthians 62 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,160 chapter 12 and verse one saying this. 63 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,680 Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about 64 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,400 the spiritual abilities the Spirit gives us, I don't want 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,240 you to misunderstand this. And it's really not that 66 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,000 surprising that there are misunderstandings about 67 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,320 spiritual things. It's not like something that we 68 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,880 can we can see or or or really go to school. 69 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,440 And and and study and see these things and experiment like we 70 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,640 can with things in the natural right? 71 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,280 Like it's easy to experiment with gravity. 72 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,760 I can take this tissue box and I can drop it and see the law of 73 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,079 gravity happened. It's something we all can 74 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,920 observe, right? Well, spiritual gifts are a 75 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,040 little. Different, but there's 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,600 misunderstandings with spiritual things sometimes if they're not 77 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,920 taught biblically or if they're not taught at all. 78 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,160 And you have that happening in a lot of places where things 79 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:43,400 aren't really taught biblically. In other places, they actually 80 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,160 don't teach on those things at all because it's spiritual. 81 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,840 There's some misunderstandings there, and it's something that 82 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,040 people have a difficult time wrapping their mind around, 83 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,320 right? But it's not something you can 84 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,720 wrap your mind around. These are. 85 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,840 Spiritual things, not natural things. 86 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,880 It's easy to wrap. Ourselves, our minds around the 87 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,880 law of gravity, isn't it because we see it, we can touch it, we 88 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,400 can experience it how many of you have fallen that's the law 89 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,760 of gravity happen right? But spiritual things are are 90 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,080 different. So it's important that we. 91 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:21,440 Stick with scripture, this is what God has given us as our 92 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,320 manual. I can go to IKEA and I've done 93 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,640 this a few times. Oh, this is going to be an easy 94 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,400 enough piece of furniture to put together. 95 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:30,960 I don't know how many times I do this. 96 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,360 You think I'd learned my lesson, right? 97 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,960 Go to IKEA, you know, and the, and the instructions are really 98 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,560 simple. You don't have to read anything. 99 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,360 It's just pictures, you know. It's pretty simple and easy. 100 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,800 Right. But I don't know how many times 101 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,760 that I started. It's just simple enough. 102 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,480 I start putting something together, I get, you know, like 103 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:52,160 through it a little bit, and then I realize I did that wrong. 104 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,600 I probably should have just stuck with the manual, You know, 105 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,680 don't have time to do it right the first time, don't have time 106 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,800 to do it right the third time, but you have time to do. 107 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,320 It right the you know the the third time, right? 108 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,560 It's better just to do it right the first time. 109 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,720 Just. Stick with the manual, right? 110 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,280 Is there any other people that have? 111 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:12,560 That same issue and and problem right? 112 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,000 It's like I've got this one. Just stick with the manual, 113 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,080 it'll save you a lot of time and energy. 114 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,520 I just actually experienced this not too long ago. 115 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,000 I put on some piece of a Kia furniture. 116 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,760 I put the board on wrong and I'm like I have to. 117 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,280 Go through an undo, you know, literally like 40 minutes of 118 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:37,560 work to put it back together the right way. 119 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,040 So let's just stick with the manual. 120 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,160 It's the same thing with the things of God, all right? 121 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,000 This is our manual, right? This is the beginning point. 122 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,320 This is the end point, right? This is everything. 123 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,440 This is what as Christians, we are supposed to live our lives 124 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,800 by, right? This is what we stick with. 125 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,600 If we don't stick with this. Then what are we putting our 126 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,240 faith in, right? This is what we put our faith in 127 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,480 because this is the word that God has given us. 128 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:13,200 You know, don't put your faith in someone's opinion, right? 129 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,800 It's OK if someone's opinion is founded on the word and it lines 130 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,080 up with scripture, right? If their opinion differs from 131 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,400 this. Then stick with the Bible, 132 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,720 right? Don't stick with an opinion that 133 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,720 isn't biblical, right? So here in the the New Testament 134 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:40,120 church in Corinth, Paul is instructing this church in verse 135 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,720 in chapters 12/13 and 14 in his letter and to every other church 136 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,960 by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on spiritual gifts. 137 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,960 And it begins by saying, I don't want you to misunderstand 138 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,400 spiritual gifts and I don't want our church to misunderstand 139 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,840 spiritual gifts either. So we're going to spend some 140 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,080 time talking about this. So to begin this topic, so there 141 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,800 is no misunderstanding, we're going to talk about these three 142 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,960 points today. First, we're going to talk about 143 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:16,120 what are spiritual gifts. The second thing we're going to 144 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,920 talk about is the box that Jesus operated within. 145 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,280 And then the third thing is we're going to talk about the 146 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:24,480 box that. We. 147 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,840 Operate within. All right, so let's go to this 148 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,600 first point. What are spiritual gifts? 149 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,520 What the apostle Paul began to line out for the church in 150 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:39,240 Corinth and for all future generations is he's lining out 151 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,840 that box all right. He began to line out the the 152 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,880 framework, the guidelines, the rules that govern these 153 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,840 spiritual gifts. All right, Not to control them, 154 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,760 not to suppress them, but that they would. 155 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:58,000 Be a blessing to a. Church, you know, there's a lot 156 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,680 of different, different churches that because there's either been 157 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:07,960 some strange things that people haven't been responsible with 158 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,920 spiritual things and have done different things and really they 159 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,960 were acting naturally, not spiritually. 160 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,560 There's been some churches that OK, we're just done with 161 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,800 anything spirit. No spiritual gifts happening in 162 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,920 in this church, right? But spiritual gifts are of God. 163 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,920 Spiritual gifts are something that the Holy Spirit. 164 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,320 Places in the body of Christ that places in each one of us, 165 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,640 and its purpose as we're going to. 166 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,720 See is to be a. Blessing to us. 167 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,800 To help us, to encourage us. So to cut that off is to cut off 168 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,280 a part of the Holy Spirit. Blessing and encouraging us. 169 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,720 So we don't want to do that. Listen, I know there's a lot of 170 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,080 weird. People out there, right? 171 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,480 There's a lot of people that drive crazy. 172 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,200 Does that mean that I'm not going to drive? 173 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,160 Right. You just want to rely on public 174 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,920 transportation the rest of your life. 175 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,200 Good luck. It's a blessing, right? 176 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,920 But sometimes it's just nice to drive somewhere, isn't it? 177 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,160 So Paul's lining out some guidelines, some rules to govern 178 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,240 these these spiritual things. Everything that God does all 179 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,000 right has an order to it. Right. 180 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,480 Everything that God does works within some kind of box. 181 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,360 All of nature, everything we see. 182 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,640 All right, has an. Order to it, a very specific 183 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,080 order to it. If anything in nature operated 184 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,720 outside of what it was specified to work within, life would cease 185 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,560 to exist. On this planet, right, there's 186 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:51,520 an order, there's a box that everything operates in. 187 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,240 That's what God does. Scripture provides us with this 188 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,000 guidance, beginning with the pastor and then the 189 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,760 congregation, so that. We can keep. 190 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,920 The church within a biblical framework so that everything is 191 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,880 a blessing. To the church. 192 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,120 Right, We want things to be a blessing. 193 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:12,480 So Paul states the purpose of spiritual gifts in One 194 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,680 Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 7. 195 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:22,000 He says a spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can 196 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,880 help each other. Do you know you all been given a 197 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,720 spiritual gift? Whoa. 198 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,480 I didn't know I'd been given a spiritual gift. 199 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,400 I just found out this morning, Pastor Brad, that spiritual 200 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,000 gifts are actually a thing. This is the first time I've ever 201 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,400 heard about them. All right, well, the Holy 202 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,680 Spirit. He gives you a spiritual gift. 203 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,440 And that spiritual gift is for the purpose. 204 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,200 Of helping each other to be a blessing, right? 205 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,680 The gifts the Holy Spirit distributes to believers in the 206 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,880 body of Christ are for the purpose of building his church 207 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:04,360 up and advancing the. Kingdom of God, but what are 208 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,960 those gifts? Pastor Brad, you're talking 209 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,960 about these spiritual gifts. You've mentioned spiritual 210 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,600 gifts, spiritual gifts, spiritual gifts. 211 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,120 What are those spiritual gifts? Would you like to know? 212 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,280 Paul lines these out clearly in one Corinthians chapter 12 and 213 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:26,120 verses 8 to 10. He says, for one is given the 214 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,040 word of wisdom through the Spirit to another, the word of 215 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,360 knowledge through the same Spirit to another, faith by the 216 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,440 same Spirit to another. Gifts of healings. 217 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,000 By the same spirit and verse 10 to another the working of 218 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,240 miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of 219 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,400 spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another 220 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,480 the interpretation of tongues. So there's nine different. 221 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,080 Gifts listed here and there really can be grouped into three 222 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,760 different categories. All right, you have the 223 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,480 Revelation gifts. These are. 224 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,320 God revealing something. This is the word of wisdom. 225 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,960 This is the word of knowledge. This is the discerning of 226 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,160 spirits. All right, it's God revealing. 227 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,280 Something. And that's for the purpose of 228 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,640 helping someone, isn't it? Then you have the. 229 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,080 Power gifts. It's God doing something. 230 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,480 This is the gift of faith. It's the gift of healings. 231 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,920 It's the working of miracles. And again, that's God doing 232 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,680 something to help. Isn't it to be a blessing? 233 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,440 Then you have what's called the utterance gifts. 234 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:41,560 This is God saying something to encourage, to exhort, to 235 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,880 comfort. This is the gift of prophecy. 236 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,160 It's the gift of tongues. It's the interpretation of 237 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,040 tongues. You ever read this the book of 238 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,120 Corinthians before? How many of you? 239 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,320 Have ever heard. Any teaching on spiritual gifts 240 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,280 before raise your hand? Yeah. 241 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,480 How many of you have never heard any teaching on spiritual? 242 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,040 Gifts. Yeah, few of you. 243 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:14,600 Hey, I get it to introduce you a scriptural, biblical spiritual 244 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,640 gifts. So this is a privilege. 245 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,040 After listing these things, Paul gives a very important, 246 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,880 important statement which is really key here to all of these 247 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,880 spiritual gifts. He says in One Corinthians 248 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:32,120 chapter 12 and verse 11, he says, but one in the same spirit 249 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,200 works all these things, distributing to each 250 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,360 individually as he wills. It's an important key there. 251 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,720 That's in the new King James translation and the new Living 252 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,000 translation. It says it is the one and only. 253 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:52,560 Spirit who distributes all these gifts, He alone decides which 254 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,920 gift each person should have, right? 255 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,960 He alone decides, not me, not you. 256 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,560 Not a personality test. Not some spiritual gifting quiz 257 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,400 that you might have taken on some social media thing. 258 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:16,080 The Holy Spirit alone determines what gift he gives you. 259 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,280 And scripture says that he's given us all a gift, right? 260 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:23,360 At least one, right? We're each of us the Holy Spirit 261 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,080 gives us. When we become baptized in the 262 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,160 Holy Spirit, He gives us at least one gift for us to operate 263 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,160 in, to be a blessing to people around. 264 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,440 US, it's he alone who decides that. 265 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,800 And this is very important for us to keep in mind. 266 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,520 We can't simply decide I'm going to operate in the gift of 267 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,440 prophecy, right? Sounds really cool. 268 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,160 I think I'm going to operate in this gift. 269 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,480 No, it's the holy. Spirit who decides, right? 270 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,800 We can't just decide I'm going to operate in the spiritual gift 271 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 of the Word of Knowledge. It's the Holy Spirit that 272 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,600 determines which gift that we operate in. 273 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,040 He alone decides. They are given as He wills. 274 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,320 And each of these gifts fall inside a framework. 275 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,720 They fall inside a box that God intends for them. 276 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,080 To. Operate within all right, and 277 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,440 that box begins and ends. With Scripture and we'll go over 278 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,640 some more more things here in Scripture, but the. 279 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,400 All those spiritual. Gifts operate within Scripture. 280 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,800 Scripture is what? Defines that anything outside of 281 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,280 that is called unscriptural, right? 282 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,440 You want to remain within the confines, the box of Scripture. 283 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,240 This is where God. Those things are a blessing and 284 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,600 are a help to people when people. 285 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,320 Operate outside of Scripture. That's when things start to not 286 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,080 be a help, not be a blessing to people. 287 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,760 So that box begins in the framework of Scripture. 288 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,079 All right. Now, the second point here is 289 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,560 the box that Jesus operated within. 290 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,119 It's kind of hard to picture Jesus operating within a box, 291 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,079 isn't it? But he put. 292 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:19,800 Himself in that box he came down from heaven and operated as a 293 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:25,599 man in humanity right he operated within a box so let's 294 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,040 look at John chapter 3 and verse 34 this kind of shows some 295 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,960 different things here John chapter 3 and verse 34 and it 296 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,480 says for. Jesus is sent by God. 297 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,080 He speaks God's word, for God gives him the Spirit without 298 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,640 limit. So Jesus was given the Spirit 299 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,480 without. Limit. 300 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,480 Isn't that amazing? Wow. 301 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,920 Imagine having no limits on anything. 302 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,840 Would you like to have like a debit card without? 303 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,080 A limit on it right? Like. 304 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,280 Anything. Everything you needed, wanted, 305 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,720 you could just use it. Could never ran dry. 306 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,320 It was without. Limit That would be amazing, 307 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,600 wouldn't it? I'd. 308 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,520 Like that kind of debit card? But Jesus, God gives him the 309 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,120 Spirit without. Limit right now, soon as. 310 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:20,200 Jesus begin his ministry is 30 years old and he was filled with 311 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,800 the Holy Spirit. Scripture says that he operated 312 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:28,560 in the Spirit without limit, but we'll see here that even Jesus 313 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,160 operated his ministry within a box. 314 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,920 So let's look at that box, all right, in John chapter 5, just a 315 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,400 couple chapters later, John chapter 5 and verse 19, it says, 316 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,040 then Jesus answered and said to them, most assuredly I say. 317 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:51,480 To you all right, the Son can do nothing of himself but what he 318 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,760 sees the Father do for whatever he does. 319 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,320 The Son also does in like manner. 320 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,480 Then a couple of chapters later here in John chapter 8 and verse 321 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:08,800 28, then Jesus said to them, when you lift up the Son of Man, 322 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,080 then you will know that I am. He, for I do nothing of myself, 323 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,080 but as the Father taught me, I speak. 324 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,640 These things I first noticed the the parameter of this box. 325 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,320 Here I guess this. Is the box that Jesus is saying? 326 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,920 This is the box, lads, that I operate in all right? 327 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:34,480 I do nothing of myself. That's the first thing. 328 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,000 Like he put a limit on himself. He was given the Spirit without 329 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,080 measure, right? That's what Scripture says. 330 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,000 That's what we. Read. 331 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,960 But he says here that I do nothing of myself. 332 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,040 He only ever did these things, what the Father directed him to 333 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,600 do. That's the first thing. 334 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,600 And what the? Father directed him to say. 335 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Right. That is the box that Jesus 336 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,320 operated within. Whatever the father shows. 337 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,360 Me, whatever he tells me, whatever he wants me to do that 338 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,360 I'm going to do, I don't do anything outside of that. 339 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,920 If he hasn't told me to do it, I'm not going to do it. 340 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,520 And what the father tells me to say, those are the things that 341 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,640 I'm going to say. If he has not told me to say 342 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,600 these things, then I'm not going to say them. 343 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,880 That's the box. That Jesus operated within, 344 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,800 right? Do you see that now? 345 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,080 Could he have done things outside of the Father's 346 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,720 direction? He could have, right? 347 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,120 That's a really. Good question, but what would be 348 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:50,640 the reason and what would be the motives for him operating 349 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:56,400 outside of what God told him to do and outside of what God told 350 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,440 him to say? Why would Jesus do that right? 351 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:04,640 Everything that the Holy Spirit does is to help people and to be 352 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,080 a blessing to people. The Holy Spirit knows the 353 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,200 perfect things to do to be a blessing to people. 354 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,200 The Holy Spirit knows the perfect things to say to be a 355 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,440 blessing to people, right? So we should want to stick 356 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,400 within that box, right? Because we trust that the Holy 357 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,320 Spirit has the perfect way to do the perfect things, to say 358 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,360 anything outside of that, I'm not moving. 359 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:37,400 If Jesus didn't move outside of those parameters, all right, 360 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,520 then who am I to think that it would be OK for me? 361 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,320 To operate outside of those parameters. 362 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,840 I'm not. I'm following Jesus. 363 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,520 Example. Right. 364 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,360 He's who I'm emulating. He's who I'm following. 365 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,800 So that's the box that Jesus operated within. 366 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,640 Does that make sense? The third thing is the box that 367 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,880 we operate within. All right, so let's look at this 368 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:13,680 box because this box is smaller and it's tighter than Jesus box 369 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:18,600 is Jesus was given the Spirit without measure. 370 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,920 Jesus operated at different times in all of the gifts of 371 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,640 the. Spirit in his ministry. 372 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,920 Well, the Holy Spirit distributes us to at. 373 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,440 Least one, but the odds of word? Probably not ever. 374 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,960 Going to be operated in all of the gifts of the spirit in our 375 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,720 life Jesus operated in those all the time right he was given the 376 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:43,880 spirit without measure but we. Have it in measure all right so 377 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,520 our. Box is is a little smaller and a 378 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,720 little tighter, right? Jesus had this bigger box. 379 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,160 The parameters that he operated within, well, ours is a lot. 380 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,560 Smaller, I move this way, I move this way and that's the 381 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,280 confines. That's where I'm supposed. 382 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:04,160 To operate within, when we try to operate outside of that box, 383 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,080 you know, maybe step into a spiritual gift that the Holy 384 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,000 Spirit. Hasn't placed in our lives? 385 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,800 Well, that's outside of our box. Let's not do that, OK? 386 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,320 It never turns out good for the people that you're trying to 387 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,320 minister to, and it never turns out good for you. 388 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,360 Just stay within your lane. Stay in your box. 389 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:27,400 Amen. So Paul kind of talks throughout 390 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,200 chapter 12 about these amazing gifts, but ends this chapter 391 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,080 with this. In One Corinthians chapter 12 392 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:40,000 and verse 31 he says so you should earnestly decide desire 393 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,600 the most helpful gifts, but let me. 394 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,760 Show you a way of life. That is best of all. 395 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,560 So all these spiritual gifts are amazing, right? 396 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,440 But the apostle Paul says well. Let me show you. 397 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,880 All right, the best way of all. And then he goes right into one 398 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,560 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse one. 399 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,720 All right, we put chapters and we put verses in here, so it's 400 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,320 easy to find, right, If you're trying to thumb through 401 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,560 someone's letter and find the exact place. 402 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,240 You know, it can be kind of difficult. 403 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,800 It's nice having easy reference points where we can just go to 1 404 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,720 Corinthians chapter 13, verse one. 405 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,680 We can all. Go there really shortly, right? 406 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,880 But this is a continual letter that the apostle Paul was 407 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,320 writing. So in One Corinthians chapter 408 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,640 13, verse 1, he tells us what the best way of life is. 409 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,400 He says. If I could speak. 410 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,360 All the language of earth and of angels, but don't love others. 411 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,680 I would be. Only a noisy gong. 412 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:42,640 Not kind of funny, a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 413 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,840 Now, if you're a drummer like my son is, you know, like most, 414 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,400 most cymbals, most gongs, like it's a, you know, music to his 415 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,880 ears. You know, he'd love to wake up 416 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,920 to that every morning. He'd love to go to bed with 417 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,920 that, you know, every night, you know, others of us. 418 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,280 It's like, that's just annoying just to hear Dong Dong Dong 419 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,080 Dong. My daughter, we went to the zoo 420 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,160 yesterday and she got this, this, you know, new little 421 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,680 stuffy, a bird, you know, and it's pretty cool. 422 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,160 It's, you know, it's like looks like the actual bird and they 423 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,640 recorded the sound where you push a button, you know, and 424 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,200 it's the, and it's the sound that that bird makes and it's 425 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,680 really loud, right? And it was really cute at the 426 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,320 zoo. And I'm thinking I'm going to be 427 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,960 listening to. This a lot coming up here like 428 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,520 you know where I take her downstairs before church. 429 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,240 We're going to Dunn's, you know, and she's doing it down the 430 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,440 lift. We're walking through the the 431 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,040 car parked in the basement, pushing that button, the birds 432 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,800 making it sound we're going up. Going up to the shop, you know, 433 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,080 making that sound, I'm like you might want to when we get in the 434 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,440 shop, you know, just keep your bird quiet. 435 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,560 You know, people are going to be looking around to see if there's 436 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,080 a bird. Around, you know. 437 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,960 Whoa, what was that? You know so, but sometimes 438 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,680 things can just be loud and and obnoxious. 439 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,000 That's not what we want to be. That's what we don't want, the 440 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,120 spiritual gift that the Holy Spirit is having us operate in 441 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,720 to be loud and obnoxious. Right, and so part of that box, 442 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,640 all right, we, we have, you know, that's the same thing that 443 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,800 Jesus whatever, you know, we see the Father do whatever he 444 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,720 directs us, whatever he tells us to say, whatever he tells us to 445 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,760 do. That's the box that we operate 446 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,120 that within. But also it's the motive, you 447 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:22,480 know, in there and it's love. Everything that God does is 448 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,840 through the motive of love. Spiritual gifts operate through 449 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,000 the motive of love. You have chapter 12, you know, 450 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,240 the apostle Paul. Whoa, lad, you guys are a 451 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,080 serious mess. You're like, you guys have some 452 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,600 serious misunderstandings about spiritual gifts, right? 453 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,360 Let's start, you know, trying to tighten this up. 454 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:43,960 Let's start giving you some framework and some guidelines. 455 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,480 And he starts giving, you know, those framework and those 456 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,040 guidelines in in chapter 14, right? 457 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,920 But in the middle. Of that chapter 13, it's all 458 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,800 about love. Right, that's that cream, that 459 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,640 cream feeling in the Oreo, right? 460 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,040 You have those crunchy outsides, you know, but you have that, you 461 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,360 know, like my my daughter, sometimes she'll take the Oreo 462 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,000 part. She just eats the cream feeling 463 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,480 and like discards the, you know, the crunchy part on the outside. 464 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,360 You know, that cream feeling is nice. 465 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,680 Well, what is that? Cream feeling in One Corinthians 466 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,160 chapter 13. It's love, right? 467 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,800 That's how everything is supposed to. 468 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,640 Operate is through the motive of love and the apostle Paul is 469 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,200 saying listen if you're. Not operating with that motive 470 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,760 of the spiritual gifts operating through that, being filtered 471 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,760 through that. Then it's just an annoying 472 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,080 noise, right? Am I the only one that sees it 473 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:38,600 in that light? That's how I, when I read that, 474 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,200 that's how I see it, you know, So in chapter 14, Paul begins 475 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,320 defining our our box further. This box is kind of getting a 476 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,480 little tighter and tighter, isn't it? 477 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,720 It's supposed to. In chapter 14, Paul begins 478 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,320 defining our. Our box and he says that that 479 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,880 box begins with order, right? Everything that the Holy Spirit 480 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,160 does is to help is to be a. Blessing. 481 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,320 And it has an order. All right. 482 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,960 With that in mind, Paul gives us this instruction in One 483 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,720 Corinthians 14 and at the end of that chapter in verse 40 he says 484 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:19,160 this One Corinthians 1440. But be sure that everything is 485 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:24,000 done properly and in order, right? 486 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,560 Spiritual gifts should be operated in properly and in. 487 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,040 Order and a massive part of doing everything properly and in 488 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,240 order. Paul gives this rolling things 489 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,720 back a few scriptures in one Corinthians 14 and verse 26, he 490 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,600 says well my brothers and sisters, let's summarize. 491 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,600 When you meet together, one will sing, another will teach, 492 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,480 another will tell some special revelation God had given them, 493 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,000 one will speak in tongues, another will interpret what is 494 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,840 said. But everything that is done must 495 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,080 strengthen all of you. The apostle Paul has given this 496 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,480 instruction because the Corinthian church was coming 497 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,280 together and they were all wanting to give a. 498 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,360 Song and all, wanting to give a word and it was just crazy and 499 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,480 chaotic. Can you imagine if all of us 500 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,760 came together and all of us came? 501 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,640 I'm going to give a. I'm going to this morning, I'm 502 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,440 going to have a song, I'm going to teach, I'm going to give 503 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,760 someone a special revelation. I'm going to speak in tongues 504 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,480 and I'm going to interpret right. 505 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,080 Like if all of us. Came with that. 506 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,640 This is going to be a crazy meeting, right? 507 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,080 And it's going to go a long. Time, if you have your, if you 508 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,480 have your roast in the oven, it's going to be burnt by the 509 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,680 time you get home. This thing is going to go a long 510 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,880 time, right? The apostle Paul is telling us 511 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,760 that these spiritual gifts operate within a box. 512 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,640 They operate in order, right? They're not disruptive. 513 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,680 They're not going to detract. Or take away what the holy? 514 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,200 Spirit is wanting to accomplish in a service, right? 515 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,640 And, and every service can be different because we're bringing 516 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,680 in different needs. We all, we all have different 517 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,080 needs. We're all living complete 518 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,960 different lives, right? And sometimes we need to hear 519 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,000 something. We need to be ministered in a 520 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,880 way. Sometimes the Holy Spirit may 521 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:14,240 tailor and design a service for one individual and everyone else 522 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,120 is like, wow, that was an amazing service. 523 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,720 But one individual is like, Lord, that was that was for me. 524 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:21,560 I needed that. Thank you. 525 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,600 Right. But if we're coming together and 526 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,720 we're just running this thing with no order, right? 527 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,440 There's not going to be that ministry that's going to be able 528 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,920 to take place. That's not going to be helpful 529 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,040 to us. It's not going to be a blessing 530 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,480 if it's chaotic. Right. 531 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,760 Everything the Holy Spirit does has an order to it. 532 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,360 A massive part of doing everything in order is, as Paul 533 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,920 said in One Corinthians 1426, US doing our part in turn, right. 534 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,920 You ever, you ever been to like an orchestra? 535 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,040 You know, you have the the maestro, the the director of the 536 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,440 orchestra stand up there. You know, they, they're not even 537 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,280 playing an instrument. You know, sometimes you're like, 538 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,760 what do they do? Actually, you know, they have 539 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,760 this little wand. What are they like a magician? 540 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,840 You know, like. What are they doing with that? 541 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,560 With that thing, you know? Well, they're directing the 542 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,800 entire orchestra, aren't they? They're keeping in time. 543 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,480 You know, they're pointing sometimes to a section. 544 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,200 Oh, our cues coming up, you know, pointing to another 545 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,960 section. They're direct and everything. 546 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,760 And sometimes if you watch a director, sometimes they're 547 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,840 really into it. Like, aren't they? 548 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,000 It's fun to watch them. I spend half the time watching 549 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,680 them than the than the orchestra because they're like. 550 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,920 Really into their their job, you know, but that's kind of like 551 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,120 what, what a pastor does, right? There's the behind the scenes 552 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,080 things that no one else has been seen. 553 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,560 You know this. Isn't the first time the 554 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,960 orchestra got together was the performance right They've been 555 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,040 getting together a long time, they've been working out the 556 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,000 parts, they've been working out different things well. 557 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,200 Well, the director is the one that's directing that, so on 558 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,320 the. Day of, he's just really helping 559 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,480 them keep time and help keeping them in the place that they're 560 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,600 supposed to be. They all know their parts, 561 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,280 right? They all know what they're 562 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,960 supposed to do. They practice it. 563 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,480 You know who knows how many times before that performance, 564 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,360 right? Well, that's what a pastor does, 565 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,200 equipping you like right here in a church service, right? 566 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,040 We're coming together, being equipped, and then you go out 567 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,160 there in your life and you're doing your ministry, and I'm 568 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,760 just standing here watching you. All right, All right, you do 569 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,760 your part. Oh, spot on. 570 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,600 He nailed it. All right. 571 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,520 That's really good. All right. 572 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,520 You nice? All right. 573 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,120 Yeah. But it's all. 574 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,240 With order, the Holy Spirit's amazing, right? 575 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,160 We all do our part right. It's a. 576 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,000 It's a really. Boring performance, you know, if 577 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,840 only one, if only one instrument is playing. 578 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,280 Well, why isn't all the rest of the organs? 579 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,640 They're just sitting there, right? 580 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,280 We all have a part. The Holy Spirit has given us 581 00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:01,000 each a part to play, all right, But all of these things have to 582 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,600 be operated in responsibly and in order. 583 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,400 All right, so I'm about ready to close here. 584 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,080 But before we we close, there's something else that I want to 585 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:12,760 get into. Then. 586 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,800 This is really just an introduction to spiritual gifts. 587 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,400 There's no way that you could really talk about spiritual 588 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,080 gifts on just one Sunday morning. 589 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,720 I promise this isn't going to be a 20 part series, all right, but 590 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,280 we will talk about this. Some more and kind of go through 591 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,040 those spiritual gifts because we listed, you know, gave the list 592 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,720 of the 9 spiritual gifts there and kind of told a little bit 593 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,240 about it. Well, OK, you told me there's a 594 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,640 word. Of wisdom what is word of of 595 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,000 wisdom right well, we'll get into some of those things but 596 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,840 before I end this morning I want to zero in a bit on properly and 597 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:53,480 in order within Triumph church all right I pastor Triumph 598 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,760 church. I don't pastor another church. 599 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,200 They may they're properly and in order may be a little different 600 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,680 than our properly and orderly might be. 601 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,520 You know, as long as it's scriptural, like that's cool, 602 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,360 right? Like your personality is 603 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,679 different than mine. If you. 604 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,199 You know, like Sean's come up here and he's preached different 605 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,840 times and he does a great job. He he preaches differently than 606 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,719 I do, doesn't he? Right. 607 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,440 And I enjoy listening to him because he is different. 608 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,639 I don't want to look in the mirror and just listen to myself 609 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:27,679 preach. I can do that at at home, right? 610 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,480 Like I love listening to Sean preach. 611 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,239 We'll have him minister again here soon. 612 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,679 Or Pastor Amy, when she ministers, she ministers 613 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,239 completely different than I do, right? 614 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,400 Right, we, we each. Operate differently. 615 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,159 Well, churches may have like a different flavor, a little bit 616 00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:44,880 different of a personality. And that's fine as long as it 617 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,960 remains within that box of of Scripture, right? 618 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,679 But it's the Holy Spirit. Who gives these gifts? 619 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,520 And all of them are for our benefit and within the church, 620 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:01,480 they come under the biblical authority of that church and 621 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,520 within a church they're subject to. 1st the authority of the 622 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,120 pastor OK, and then the authority of. 623 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,840 The congregation, right? And it's everyone holding things 624 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,320 accountable that make sure it lines up, that those things 625 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,520 operating are scriptural and biblical. 626 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,600 What does that mean, Pastor? Anything that's done under the 627 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:29,280 umbrella of a church is subject to the authority of that church, 628 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,840 all right? Because it represents that 629 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,560 church, right? So if we have someone come, come 630 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,520 in here who's never been here before, and they start going 631 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,640 around and giving a prophecy to everyone after service, right? 632 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,960 Well, people don't know. Like it's within. 633 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:50,480 Triumph Church, right? And so if they're giving some 634 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,880 things that are really strange, you know, spend everything on 635 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,840 your, you know, credit card limit, you know, thus saith the 636 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,000 Lord, and then you go out and spend your credit card limit, 637 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000 you know, and then you're like, well, Pastor Brad, you know, 638 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,440 that was someone came in Triumph Church. 639 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,600 And you know, yeah, that would be wouldn't be a blessing to 640 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,520 you. It wouldn't be helpful, right. 641 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:15,040 So there's things that operate under the authority, under the 642 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:20,480 umbrella. Of a church in Hebrews chapter 643 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,880 13 and verse 17 because we want spiritual gifts to be a 644 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,560 blessing, right Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 17 says obey your 645 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:34,800 spiritual leaders and do what they say their work is to watch 646 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,440 over your souls and they are accountable to God. 647 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,400 I'm accountable. To God for you, dear Lord Jesus, 648 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,400 help me. Just kidding. 649 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,920 Just kidding because this next. Part, you know, give them reason 650 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,400 to do this with joy. You guys are such a joy. 651 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,880 Like really honestly, we have a really great. 652 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,800 Congregation. But then he goes, and not with 653 00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:00,520 sorrow. All right. 654 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,480 But really quickly, before we. Close I want to give direction 655 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,640 for any anybody operating in a spiritual gift within Triumph 656 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,600 Church. All right, Firstly, churches 657 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,760 should desire that gifts of the Holy Spirit be present within 658 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,440 our services because those things are to build. 659 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,960 Us up. They're to encourage us, they're 660 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,960 to help us. We want spiritual gifts in 661 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,400 operation within Triumph Church. Right. 662 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,440 And that means that all of us have been given. 663 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,760 A spiritual gift. Not just me, not just Pastor 664 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,120 Amy, not just Sean. All right, God's given. 665 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,920 Our church, every person, every believer, a spiritual gift, and 666 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,480 we're supposed to walk in those, but in that box because the Holy 667 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,760 Spirit has a purpose. For them, all right, but that 668 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,600 purpose is never going to violate the order and the 669 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,000 authority of a church. So let me give you a few. 670 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,720 Steps. Some guidelines, and I'm going 671 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:03,080 to just use the word of knowledge, the Word of wisdom 672 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,160 and prophecy as examples because you see these real commonly. 673 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,360 The word of knowledge is the Holy Spirit revealing something 674 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,400 to you either present or in the past. 675 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,480 All right, that's what the word of knowledge is. 676 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,880 The Word of Wisdom is the Lord revealing something to you in 677 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,680 the future. OK. 678 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,080 And then prophecy is a message. To edify, to build up and to 679 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,440 encourage. The word of knowledge is the the 680 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,760 Holy Spirit revealing something so. 681 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,280 If you receive. Something from the Holy Spirit. 682 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,760 It might be in a dream, it might be in a vision, it might just be 683 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,920 that in your spirit you're, you're receiving something from 684 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:43,520 the Lord. All right. 685 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,800 A good rule of thumb for you to follow is never to act on that 686 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,600 immediately, all right, Unless the Holy Spirit is. 687 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:59,880 Telling you now you know. Otherwise you just sit on it and 688 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,400 this is the first thing that you should do. 689 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,560 The first thing is ask the Holy Spirit what he what does he want 690 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,280 you to do with what he's revealing? 691 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,040 OK, often times it's. Just that he simply wants you to 692 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,600 pray to intercede. He's given you some information 693 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,680 about something so that you're equipped to. 694 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,360 Pray for that, all right? Sometimes he may have you take a 695 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,080 step further. He may want you to. 696 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,280 To tell. Someone, something all right, 697 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,920 but the first step. Is we we take a step back and 698 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,320 say, OK, Holy Spirit, what do you want me to do with this 699 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,360 right because Jesus, how did what box did he operate it in? 700 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,000 I only do what the father tells me to do. 701 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,800 I only say what the father tells me to say. 702 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,040 So we're. Operating within that box. 703 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,640 Holy Spirit, what do you want me to do with this? 704 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,880 Do you want me to say something? Do you just want me to sit on 705 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,320 this? Do you want me to pray about it? 706 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,440 What is that you want me to do? 2nd, if it's something major 707 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,080 concerning someone within the church, you should consult your 708 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,080 pastor, the Holy. Spirit likely has already been 709 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,040 dealing with your pastor. About things. 710 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,880 I pray for you all the time, right? 711 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,280 The Holy Spirit reveals sometimes some things to me 712 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,640 about you that you're going through that I pray for. 713 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,000 Not to talk. To you about. 714 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,360 That, you know, ring, ring, ring, ring. 715 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,040 Hello, this is Pastor Brad. The Lord was telling me 716 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:20,560 something. How? 717 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,920 About we we meet up. For a coffee and talk about. 718 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,680 No, it's for me to. Pray about right. 719 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:31,240 I'm your pastor, right? Thirdly, if it's praying or 720 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,040 speaking a spiritual word over someone within the church, you 721 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,360 should have another trusted person with you. 722 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,120 All right? Don't minister to someone alone. 723 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,280 This is for the benefit of you and for the person you're 724 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,000 ministering to. It's accountability. 725 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,640 All right. We have some friends that pastor 726 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,600 in a church in, in the States, and there's been a number of 727 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,640 occasions where they've talked to Pastor Amy and, and myself 728 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,480 where they have someone who's come in, they start coming to 729 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,640 the church and they're going around and they have a word for 730 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,240 everyone, right? How do you? 731 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,560 How do we deal? With this like they're a really 732 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,480 nice person and stuff, but they're going around and and 733 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,720 giving a word to to every person that breathes in the church. 734 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,960 Well, listen, the box that we operate in is if the Holy 735 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,680 Spirit, if God, what are you telling me to do with this? 736 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,080 I'm only going to do. What you want me to do, I'm only 737 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,800 going to say what you want me to say. 738 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,680 Right. But anytime someone comes into a 739 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,360 church, all right, you're operating under that umbrella, 740 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,960 the authority of that church, there's accountability there, 741 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,240 right? You know, so it's, it's a good. 742 00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:39,560 Practice that if the Holy Spirit does have a a word, give us a 743 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,560 word for someone. You know, if it's something 744 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,880 major, like I said, come talk to the pastors about it, all right? 745 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,560 If it's, if it's something that's that's not major. 746 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,640 You know, and, and we love you and we, when we trust you and 747 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,520 we're cool with you going around and, and giving words to people, 748 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,920 then that's cool. But take someone with you all 749 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,160 right? Because sometimes there might be 750 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,800 someone who comes from the outside, right? 751 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,760 They're not of Triumph Church. They don't have, they're not 752 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,240 operating necessarily with the motive or love. 753 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:14,840 They're not trying to be necessarily a, a help or a. 754 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,520 Blessing to people in the church. 755 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,320 And so if you see someone all right, who's not operating 756 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,120 within that system, the buddy system, right? 757 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,360 If you see. Someone from the outside OK, 758 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,760 well, they're operating outside of the guidelines. 759 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:33,080 The framework that we have that Pastor Brad is if if that's you, 760 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,480 someone comes up and gives you a word and there's they're not 761 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,360 coming with a buddy, you know, hold on, hold on a minute. 762 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,520 Invite someone over, you know, or. 763 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,080 If you have a word for someone, all right before you go over and 764 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,920 give that word, invite someone with you. 765 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,360 Hey, you know the Lord, I've been praying and Lord's given me 766 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,440 something for this person, you know, can you come over with me 767 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,760 while I'm ministering to them and praying for them? 768 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,080 All right, like that's a blessing that's a help. 769 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,680 There's there's trust in that right. 770 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,440 Like it makes you makes you feel good because listen, another 771 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,200 thing is the way we've been taught and I'm going to close 772 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,840 with with this here is when someone. 773 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,400 Gives you a word you know before we were traveling. 774 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,000 But before we moved over to Ireland many years ago, in 2000, 775 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,240 we were traveling around America and it was really interesting. 776 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,920 You know, we'd stop and we'd meet different people. 777 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,920 We were raising support to move over to Ireland and that three 778 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,760 different places like some. Places gave us a a word. 779 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,800 From the Lord you know they. They told us that. 780 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,240 You know, it was going to be hard at first, but then it was 781 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,320 going to be fun, right? And so Pastor Amy and I joke all 782 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,240 the time, you know, Well, when's the fun part? 783 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,360 You know, but it was like 3 different places right? 784 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,960 Like was. That from the Lord, I don't know 785 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,200 you know, but it's you know when someone gives you a. 786 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:48,920 Word. It's I. 787 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,240 It's going to do one of two. Things, you know, either it's 788 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,480 going to bear witness with things that you've already been 789 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,520 praying about and talking to the Lord about, and that is 790 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,600 confirmation from the Lord. All right. 791 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:05,720 If it doesn't, then you put it like in a metaphorically like in 792 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:10,520 a jar and you and you put it up on on the shelf and you don't. 793 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,480 Move on it, you know, and and you pray about it and you ask 794 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,680 the Lord, you know. Well, if that was from you, you 795 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,720 know, Lord, what should I do with that? 796 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,640 You know, and if you don't get anything, you do nothing with 797 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,920 it, you know? Right, that's good sound device, 798 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,320 isn't it? But usually if someone if 799 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,360 someone, someone has a word or something's for you, let me just 800 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,920 give one more more example. You know, before Pastor Amy and 801 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,560 I moved over to this part of the country, we were working with 802 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:48,640 her, her parents in her church, her parents church, right? 803 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,120 And a lot of you probably have heard this example before, but 804 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,280 it kind of bears in line with this, you know, and over and 805 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,920 that was like, I don't know, 2015, I think. 806 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,720 And I always move really slow. I don't make quick decisions. 807 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,240 I don't move really quick. I like to spend time praying. 808 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,520 I like to make sure that it's the Lord that's leading us in a 809 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,640 direction or telling us to do something. 810 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,520 It's that box again, right? There's safety there. 811 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,520 You don't have to make rush decisions, you know, unless the 812 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,440 Lord says I need. You to move right then you move 813 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:20,920 but we. Were kind of, we were kind of 814 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,920 struggling because there was a lot of emotion. 815 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,840 We were working with Pastor Amy's parents and we loved it. 816 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,040 We loved Limerick. Where we were, we really thought 817 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,560 that we would. Spend the rest of our lives 818 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,720 living and ministering in Limerick, right? 819 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,720 And so when the Lord told us, you know, we really felt like 820 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:42,680 the Lord was leading us away from that. 821 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,120 We're like, OK, Lord, what do we do with this? 822 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,960 Like we were really struggling emotionally with it. 823 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,160 The Lord. Didn't give us a lot of. 824 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:53,200 Direction, you know on the. Way that we where we should go, 825 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,760 what we should do. You know, so we were at this 826 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,160 meeting and I don't know if you remember Pastor Sam, who was 827 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:03,720 here in September speaking at our church, but he had a word 828 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,240 from the Lord. He didn't know it. 829 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,160 Who, who he was talking to, you know, but he was reading our 830 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,040 mail the exact situation that Pastor Amy and I were in and he 831 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,680 was saying if you don't move, you're going to miss the window. 832 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,880 You feel like a square, square peg trying to fit in a, in a 833 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,480 round hole. You know they're. 834 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,400 Like, these are all exact words that I was talking to Pastor Amy 835 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,800 about, you know? And as Pastor Sam was talking, I 836 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,200 just felt the Spirit of the Lord. 837 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,560 Come on me. Like such a thick. 838 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,800 Presence. I've never, you know, it's only 839 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,200 a handful of times that I felt the holy. 840 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,440 Spirit like physically? Naturally, you know, like, come 841 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,960 on me like that. And I just started bawling like 842 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,480 a baby just crying uncontrollably. 843 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:51,480 You know, I was thankful that I didn't like fall on the on the 844 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,000 ground because I felt like it, you know, and I'm seated on the 845 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,760 front row, right, crying uncontrollably. 846 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,280 You know, Pastor Sam is probably like like here to Pastor Amy 847 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,720 from me and I'm crying uncontrollably. 848 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:10,400 He probably knew at that. Point who he was talking to, you 849 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,440 know, it was to me, but I needed. 850 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,200 That. All right, because we were 851 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:19,040 dealing with a, a situation that was very emotionally difficult 852 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,440 for us to do, to separate ourselves from her parents so 853 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,800 that we could. Walk in the call of God that He 854 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,760 had for us. Right. 855 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,040 And so it was really difficult. I needed. 856 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,600 That all right. So sometimes the Lord the Lord 857 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:40,120 will minister to someone else. With a a word of knowledge, a 858 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:44,280 word of wisdom, you know whatever it is so that you know. 859 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,680 That's the Holy Spirit talking to me. 860 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,640 I need to begin to. Move on this right? 861 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,800 We didn't move that quick because of the next year. 862 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,680 We went to this meeting and Pastor Sam was there again. 863 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,120 He knew it was us now. He actually called us to the. 864 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,640 Front right And he turned off his mic and just had a 865 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,760 conversation with us. If you guys. 866 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,760 Don't move, you're going to miss the Lord, all right? 867 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:14,600 And the cool thing was all right. 868 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,640 Like the Holy Spirit was trying to talk to us. 869 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,760 I need you to start moving, you know? 870 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,040 I know. You move slow. 871 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,120 You want to follow me? Well, this is me. 872 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,200 Hello. What do I need to do here? 873 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,760 All right, you know, And it wasn't long before, you know, 874 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,680 like too many. Years afterwards, all right, we, 875 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,000 we moved over from Limerick, you know, stepped down from the 876 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,280 church there, moved over here to the, the Dublin area to, to 877 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,560 Klain here. And then COVID happened right. 878 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,400 And we started the church after right after COVID. 879 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,960 Well. We could have missed that 880 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,360 window, right? Like if we didn't move, you 881 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,160 know, COVID happened and we know what the lockdowns were here in 882 00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,760 Ireland. Like we had to move before 883 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,080 COVID. The Lord knew that He started a 884 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:06,680 process in 2015, right? Wow, Pastor Brad, you move slow, 885 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,160 don't you? I do all right, but I needed 886 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,760 that. All right, so these spiritual. 887 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,520 Gifts are to be a help to you, to be a blessing to you, and 888 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,160 when someone operates in them, all right, it's going to be a 889 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,200 blessing to you if they're operating within that box, all 890 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,000 right, and if they're operating through the motive of. 891 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,880 Love. To help you and it's so good 892 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,640 when a when a church body is operating like that. 893 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,840 We need that all right. We want to not. 894 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,560 Be just us four and no more. There is a lost world out there 895 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,760 who needs equipped believers, right? 896 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:52,720 Who are founded on God's. Word and know how to follow the 897 00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:56,560 Holy Spirit. In their life and ministry. 898 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,920 That's so important. Amen. 899 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,600 Well, I have gone long enough here, Children's. 900 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,280 Workers are probably like Pastor Brad, when you going to end? 901 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,640 All right, so I need to I need to wrap this this up here. 902 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,240 Let's close our eyes. We're going to pray here. 903 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,080 Definitely, Father. Lord, I'm so, so thankful for 904 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:24,040 your word, so thankful for the the Holy Spirit. 905 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:27,800 I'm thankful for all these members in our church, Lord, 906 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:32,120 Father, who are being equipped, who are being sharpened, who are 907 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,520 being prepared for the ministry that you've called them to and 908 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,840 their lives. Lord, thank you for what you're 909 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,360 doing through us at Triumph Church. 910 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,680 Thank you for what you're doing through the the congregation at 911 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:53,040 Triumph Church, Lord, and we just welcome you, Holy Spirit, 912 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,200 to move in this church, to move in our lives. 913 00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,960 Lord, use us. Let us be a vessel that you used 914 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:07,520 Lord Father, to reach those around us, whether it's our 915 00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,360 neighbor, whether it's our Co worker, whether it's someone on 916 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,640 the street. Lord, help us to be sensitive to 917 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:18,040 the Holy Spirit. Help us to walk through those 918 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:24,200 doors with boldness that you open and help us to know not to 919 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,520 walk through doors that are closed. 920 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:32,680 Lord, we just give you all the praise and all the glory and 921 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,800 honor. Jesus name Amen. 922 00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,800 Thank you for listening to the Triumph Church podcast this 923 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,360 week. If it was a blessing to you, 924 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:48,240 share it with someone you know. 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