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You 
have your Bibles turn over to 

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1st Corinthians chapter 12. 
Today we're talking about the 

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prophet. 
Thank you, Pastor Mike, for 

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ministering on the teacher. 
Wasn't that powerful Come on, 

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wasn't that powerful? 
It's so important that we have 

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these gifts in the body and they
have not died out. 

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You know, the only gift is not 
the pastor or the evangelist. 

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They are not the two remaining. 
They all five are in effect and 

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the church, the local body 
church needs them all. 

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I do believe there is AUS model 
that has occurred that has 

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basically caused these gifts to 
move around where they're not 

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planted. 
There's a lot of people that are

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in the teaching gift that spend 
more time roaming around and 

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they are being planted in one 
local body. 

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Same thing with the evangelist. 
But God intended for these gifts

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to be planted locally. 
That doesn't mean the gifts 

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can't be used in other 
congregations and in other plate

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conferences. 
I'm not saying that I do not 

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believe when you look at 
Scripture that they were 

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designed. 
To to solely just be. 

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Not assigned to a locale. 
I believe when you look at 

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scripture, you'll find that they
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They lived among people. 
They were in a local area that 

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allowed them. 
Let's just think of Jesus 

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himself. 
Jesus, who is the king of all 

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His ministry, was confined to 
Israel. 

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That doesn't mean he didn't 
impact Gentiles, doesn't mean he

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didn't touch people that were 
outside of Israel, but he, his 

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ministry was confined to Israel 
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He came to visit them. 
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His ministry as far as his 
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opened the door for the world 
and he always intended that, but

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he kept himself mainly within a 
certain boundary. 

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Jesus didn't go to Rome. 
Jesus didn't say, you know what 

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there Caesar, he needs the word.
I mean, does Caesar need the 

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word in Jesus lifetime? 
He did not go. 

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He stayed in a location 
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exactly what he was called to do
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So it's more important to know 
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just. 
Go anywhere. 

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Amen. 
And in the local body, all of 

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these gifts need to be here. 
So First Corinthians chapter 12,

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verse 18 to 20. 
I want to cover a lot of ground.

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So we'll move and we have 
communion a little bit later in 

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this in the service, he said, 
but now God has placed the 

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members, each one of them, say 
each one in the body just as he 

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desired. 
That was horrible. 

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Say each one thank you, each one
that. 

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Means you. 
So nobody is outside this rule. 

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No one, no one is a special 
case. 

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God has placed each one of the 
members in the body just as he 

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desired. 
Now again he said, I'll build my

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churches of me. 
And so God will place you in a 

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local place, which means you 
have to have an expression 

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within that local place. 
If you do not have an expression

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in that local place, you are 
amputated from it. 

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I don't care whether you're 
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You are to have some kind of 
input within the local body, OK.

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And then out of that God can 
utilize you, but God is placing 

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you. 
You don't pick your church. 

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He does. 
He does. 

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OK, He does. 
So God places each one of them 

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in the body. 
And salvation is not is not 

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placement in the body, it's 
access to the family because 

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placement in the body is 
purpose. 

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Because this chapter here says, 
how can the eye say to the hand 

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or the ear or whatever the case 
may be, You understand, well, 

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all of us are saved. 
Every one of us call on the name

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of the Lord to be saved. 
Everyone has that. 

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So if if it's only about 
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an ear, all would be a nose, all
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it's not salvation is the 
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Then it gets specific and God 
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want you to grow and do these 
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Verse 19 And if they were all 
one member, where would the body

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be? 
But now there are many members 

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but one body. 
Aren't you glad there's many of 

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us? 
God is too creative for us to 

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all look alike. 
Never covet someone else's gift.

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Be the gift you are. 
We read this that Ernest Gentile

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said why stress local churches 
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Very simply because the local 
church is the key messenger of 

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Christ to the secular community.
The people of a local church 

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become the heart, the hands, the
voice of Jesus Christ. 

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This brilliant strategy is God's
way of maintaining active 

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spiritual life in his Saints and
then through them impacting the 

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secular world. 
When the people of the community

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see the members of a local 
church body, they hopefully will

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see Christ. 
You know, the Bible's about a 

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king, his Kingdom and his role 
offspring. 

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And it's very important that we 
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we do and we do the work of the 
Kingdom, then we can do some 

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pretty amazing things. 
Do you understand? 

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The President of the United 
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all power, does not hold all 
power, that the greatest power 

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actually resides within the 
local community. 

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We on a government level, we 
begin to press into general 

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elections for the big positions,
whereas school boards, county 

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commissions, and city 
commissions are creating all 

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kinds of policies within your 
local community that if you were

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active in it, you may be you 
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Now, why do I say that? 
Because during COVID, not every 

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state functioned the same. 
Yet the president will say 

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something, but the states are 
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Some states completely shut 
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Other states did something 
different and it even happened 

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locally. 
Even in our state that was a 

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little navigated COVID 
differently and in in many cases

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became an example of maybe how 
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During that time, there were 
counties that defied what the 

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governor said and had imposed 
different mandates. 

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Well, how can this be? 
So what we do is we look to 

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Jesus Christ when Jesus Christ 
says the power of me is in you 

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locally. 
Now think about that for a 

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moment, that there's such power 
that resides with us when we 

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unify to the point that we are 
going to do the Word of God, no 

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idols, because we are the 
expression. 

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Of God's Kingdom. 
And we're going to find our fit,

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do our part, and release our 
gift into our community. 

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And it won't matter what a 
president says. 

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It will not matter because the 
gates of hell cannot prevail 

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against the Church. 
He has given us a Kingdom that 

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cannot be shaken. 
No weapon formed against the 

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church can prosper. 
If God be for you, who can be 

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against you? 
That's the power of the local 

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body church. 
The power not because you 

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understand some local body 
churches are are making greater 

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advancements in their community 
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And it's when people come 
together unselfishly to release 

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their gift. 
Ephesians 47 says it this way. 

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But to each one of us, grace was
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of Christ's gift. 
So every one of us have a gift. 

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You are the gift that God has 
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And be that gift all right in 
Ephesians verse 11 of the same 

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chapter saying he gave some, so 
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And he gave some as apostles, 
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evangelist, some as pastors and 
teachers for the equipment of 

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the Saints, for the workers, 
service to the building up of 

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the body of Christ. 
If it goes on. 

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And it says till we reach to 
maturity, and the church 

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definitely hasn't reached to 
maturity, equipping is still 

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necessary in the earth. 
Discipleship is still the number

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one focus of the church, which 
then requires all five of the 

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five fold ministry gifts to 
still need to be in operation in

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today, in in, in life today. 
And so the responsibility of the

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apostles, the prophets, the 
advantages, the pastors and the 

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teachers is to equip the Saints.
My number one responsibility is 

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to you, anyone else's 
supplement, anyone else, this 

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particular individual that I 
said I had coffee with ask 

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permission to come to our 
services on Wednesday because 

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their church doesn't have them 
that they attend. 

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I said, I'm just going to be 
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You can come. 
But here's the thing, it'd be 

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very short that you're going to 
have to make a decision. 

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You cannot be in one church in 
another because what I'm I am 

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not here for you to come over 
here from somewhere else. 

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You cannot be in two local body 
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You need to connect with a 
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So ultimately you can come, but 
unless you hear God say your 

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gifts released here, you need to
go back to where you're at. 

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Amen. 
Because for me, I only want to 

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oversee the ones God has 
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I'm not here to save all Saint 
John's. 

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I'm here to save the ones 
assigned to me. 

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I'm here to equip the ones 
assigned to me. 

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And anywhere I go outside here, 
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Churches, I am supplement. 
I'm just a supplement. 

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All I'm there for is just 
supplement the real ones of the 

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local body. 
I'm there to supplement that 

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pastor. 
I'm there to supplement that 

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apostle. 
I'm there to supplement that 

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prophet. 
I'm there to supplement that 

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evange. 
I'm there to supplement that 

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teacher because they should have
those there. 

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And all I do should, all I 
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they're equipping them already. 
Amen. 

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Because the most important 
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churches all of us doing our 
part Amen. 

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So Ernest said this again. 
He said the object of the 

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fivefold gifts is to enable the 
whole church to become 

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spiritually mature and truly 
function as representatives of 

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Christ's Kingdom. 
Do we want to do that? 

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I said, do we want to do that? 
Well, let's talk about the 

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prophets today. 
In John chapter 6, verse 45, it 

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says this. 
It is written in the prophets, 

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and they shall be taught of God.
Everyone who has heard and 

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learned from the Father comes to
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So we see here here in John, New
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prophets because obviously there
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Testament and New Testament, and
we'll mention some names. 

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I'm not going to do an 
exhaustive study into these 

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prophets because it is not my 
assignment in communicating the 

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fivefold ministry to do an 
exhaustive study of each gift. 

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OK, that would be a different 
day at Anchor Faith Live class. 

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You would go to our Bible 
college on Sunday night. 

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You can receive extensive study 
into that. 

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Unless the Lord wanted me to go 
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a later date to break them down 
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That is not the intent of this. 
We are to see how they function.

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And that we should they should 
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Church OK. 
And so we see here that it is 

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written of the prophets and they
shall be taught of God. 

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So a prophet should be taught of
God. 

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Put that verse back up. 
They shall be taught of God. 

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Now I was reading Rick Renner in
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Prophets and I'll be honest with
you, I did not know the history 

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of Balaam like Rick Renner 
showed me because many of you 

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have read about Balaam and 
you're like I don't understand 

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what the problem is. 
He heard God. 

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Well, here's the history of 
Balaam. 

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Balaam is a prophet but not a 
prophet of God. 

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Prophet just means someone who 
has the ability to hear into the

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spirit realm and then speak on 
behalf of that spirit realm. 

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The prophet Elijah, remember 
him? 

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He came and challenged who? 
The prophets of Bell. 

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The prophets of Bell had the 
ability to tap into the spirit 

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realm where there are other 
voices beside God and they would

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channel is a term, a conduit 
where they would hear the 

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demonic, evil, familiar spirits,
unclean spirits even, and they 

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would hear that voice and then 
speak it. 

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Now we would call them false 
prophets, meaning they're 

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speaking not on behalf of God 
the Creator, but on behalf of a 

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different spirit, but they're 
hearing from the spirit realm 

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none the less. 
OK so he's telling us that the 

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prophets that God sends to 
rabbit should be taught by him, 

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not taught by some other 
religion, not taught by some 

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other spirit. 
This is why you under need to 

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understand why Paul had to cast 
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girl in the book of Acts. 
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guys who owned her and she had a
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upon her. 
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probably a familiar one that 
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she was in social witchcraft but
she would see Paul and that 

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spirit on her would have say 
through her. 

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These men preach from the Most 
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In essence that spirit is they 
cause those spirits know who God

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is. 
When Jesus came around, what did

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they say? 
Have you come to torment us 

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before We know who you are. 
You're the son of the most hot. 

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We know you. 
And he's like, shut up, right? 

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In essence, don't you advertise 
for me. 

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You're factual with your 
information, but when I'm out, 

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you'll use that as a deceptive 
tool. 

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So if this girl would have been 
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establishes this church in this 
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miracles by the truth God and 
only God, when he left to plant 

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another one. 
That girl could come in through 

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the immaturity of the church at 
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Christian and begin to say, did 
I not tell you that he was, that

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he operated with the power of 
God? 

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Did I not say that he was a 
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Now hear what I say. 
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that spirit and cast it out of 
the girl. 

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Come on, are you hearing me? 
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yes, there are false prophets, 
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into the spirit realm. 
It's who are they listening to 

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in the spirit realm. 
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other spirits. 
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prophets of Baal believe that 
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Yes. 
So when Balaam says I can only 

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say what God tells me, that 
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creator God. 
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other voices and say these 
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about my nation. 
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could. 
Balaam tried to get back to the 

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spirits that allowed him to 
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access to money, but God 
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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God those that are hearing from 
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Now look at what it says here in
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I want to show you something 
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They're to be taught by God. 
So what would they be taught? 

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Look at this in Revelations 
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Then I fell down at his feet to 
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do that. 
I'm a fellow servant of yours. 

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John seeing an Angel, you know, 
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He said no, don't do this, says 
your brother, who hold what the 

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testimony of Jesus worship God 
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The testimony of Jesus is. 
The Spirit of prophecy is the 

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spirit of prophecy. 
So do you need a prophetic word?

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Are you one of those females 
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I'm glad you do. 
Read your Bible. 

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I need a word from God. 
Read your Bible, man. 

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I just need God to speak to me. 
Read your Bible. 

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Because if anyone says something
to you that is not contained 

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within the word, then you've not
been prophesied to by God. 

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Because God only teaches his 
prophet. 

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It is written. 
That's what he teaches. 

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So if somebody is a prophet, 
their words are always going to 

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be in alignment with the 
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Hallelujah, I said. 
Hallelujah. 

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They are going to be in 
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What is prophecy? 
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to predict future events, but it
also means to declare the divine

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will, to interpret the purposes 
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way the truth of God, which is 
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So in essence, when someone is 
prophesying, they are giving you

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the divine will of God. 
His Word is His will. 

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I said. 
His word is His will. 

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Now in the old covenant, 
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live in man. 
Man was not born of God or born 

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again. 
So God spoke to man through his 

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prophets. 
But we're in a new and better 

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covenant. 
Amen. 

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I said we're in a new and better
covenant now. 

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Because we're in a new and 
better covenant does not mean 

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that the prophet gift is no 
more. 

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It's still here. 
The advantage is, is that you 

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have in you the Holy Spirit and 
your spirit man is alive to God 

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to know God's voice, that when a
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now test the spirits yourself. 
Amen. 

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You do not have to be like the 
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let's see if what he says comes 
to pass. 

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That was the test for the 
prophets. 

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Are you hearing me? 
It was the test. 

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If they were a true prophet, 
then it came to pass. 

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If it did not come to pass, then
they weren't in the Bible told 

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us to don't even be afraid of 
them. 

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But Samuel, not one word that he
spoke, it did not come to pass. 

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But here's the tricky thing 
about prophets is that prophets 

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could say things in future 
events that would go beyond your

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lifetime to see it exist. 
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Look at Deuteronomy chapter 
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It says this. 
And I will raise up, come on, 

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and I will raise up a prophet 
from among your countrymen like 

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you, and I will put my words in 
his mouth, and he shall speak to

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them all that I command him. 
So again, a prophet of God is 

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only going to speak what God 
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And the Spirit of God is never 
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Never. 
Amen. 

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It's not contrary. 
Matthew 122 says this. 

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Now all this took place to 
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Lord. 
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Through the prophet. 
So now we're in the New 

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Covenant, and some things are 
being fulfilled that had not yet

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been fulfilled by a prophet of 
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Covenant. 
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whether a prophet was of God or 
not was whether it came to pass,

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some of them spoke beyond their 
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of their hearers. 
So that can become even a 

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challenge there. 
But in the new covenant, it's 

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not the case. 
In the New Covenant, you have 

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the Spirit of God within you. 
You are alive to God with your 

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spirit because you are born 
again. 

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You are a new creature in 
Christ, and you do not have to 

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just receive what someone says. 
Thus saith the Lord, because if 

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it does not bear witness with 
your spirit, you can reject it, 

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just like you can reject any 
thought, any other thought that 

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would ever come to your end. 
Can a true prophet of God speak 

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to you, William, about what you 
are or ordained to do before you

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entered your mother's womb? 
Absolutely. 

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But if it doesn't bear witness, 
then you are not to receive it. 

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In the New Covenant, we have a 
check and balance. 

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Are you hearing me? 
Now? 

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Here's the thing. 
Prophecy is not so much to prove

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the prophet is right as much as 
it is to prove the Lord is 

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right. 
It's not about the prophets, but

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the word spoken through the 
prophets. 

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Put that scripture back up. 
Now all this took place to 

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fulfill what was spoken by the 
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In the US, we want to run after 
the Prophet. 

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It's not about the prophet, it's
about the word of the Lord. 

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It's about the word of the Lord.
I can tell you time and time 

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again that after a particular 
prophet left the earth, I heard 

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multiple ministers would come 
that I happened to be around at 

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various times and they would 
say, oh, I found minister so and

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so. 
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the one they used to follow. 
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And I'm like to my thinking to 
myself, what are we doing? 

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We have Jesus and the Holy 
Ghost, why do we want to 

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substitute our own intimacy 
hearing to run after a person 

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that I shouldn't even be 
concerned about the person, but 

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more concerned about the word 
spoken because what the person 

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speaking is more important than 
the person. 

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Matthew 217. 
Says. 

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Then what has been spoken 
through Jeremiah the prophet 

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was. 
So what's the purpose of 

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Jeremiah speaking? 
To release what God is saying? 

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It's not about Jeremiah. 
Now I use Jeremiah first because

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nobody wants to be Jeremiah. 
Everybody wants to be the 

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prophet Elijah. 
Let's call fire down from 

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heaven. 
Let's do these great miracles, 

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signs and wonders. 
None of that happened with 

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Jeremiah. 
Jeremiah just prophesied about 

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the doom and the captivity of 
Israel. 

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He preached to them to repent. 
Although the Lord says 

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everything you say, they will 
not repent. 

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So you would almost say, why 
even talk? 

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Because God is that awesome. 
Think about it. 

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God knows there's no hope for 
this generation to repent. 

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Zero. 
However, they'll never stand 

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before me one day and say if 
you, you, you thought I you 

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thought I was not going to 
repent this how man does God. 

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Oh, now, now you know, if if you
would have put me in this, I 

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would have come on. 
There is no condition that man 

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can find himself, that God will 
not have put man and proven that

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man needs him. 
He is airtight in his case with 

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all his creation, that he's the 
only righteous, the only one who

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keeps His word without fail, the
only One, just the only one 

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holy. 
And even though he knows because

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he's God, he won't leave it on 
his knowing, He'll have it 

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recorded. 
Well, now I. 

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Would have if you I sent 
Jeremiah shall I pull up that 

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day here's Jeremiah talking 
right now here you are oh let's 

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go ahead and get inside your 
heart let's hear what you were 

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saying inside well the Lord 
knows my heart yes he does let 

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me go ahead and let's play that 
he said they're stubborn 

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they're. 
Stiff neck. 

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Rebellious. 
You're going to be opposed so 

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hard, but I'm going to set your 
face like Flint and you're going

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to be just as opposition to 
them. 

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Man. 
Jeremiah wouldn't make it in the

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US today, not most churches. 
They'd be like running Jeremiah 

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at the church. 
Be like, you're mean guy. 

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Jeremiah's like you don't repent
because Jeremiah was not a mean 

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man. 
Jeremiah was a man, holy but 

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speaking. 
Truth. 

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To a rebellious generation, no 
conversion in Jeremiah's 

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ministry. 
Yet he was successful because he

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did the will of his Father. 
Oh my Mama. 

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And everything that he spoke 
came to pass. 

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Some came to pass when Jesus 
showed up. 

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Next one, Matthew 1817 says 
this. 

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This was to fulfill what was 
spoken through Isaiah the 

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prophet. 
He himself took our infirmities 

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and carried away our diseases. 
So something Isaiah said years 

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earlier, decades, 100 years 
earlier comes to pass when Jesus

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shows up. 
Why? 

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Because anything being 
prophesied, the majority of 

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things being prophesied are to 
glorify and recognize Him. 

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Anything being prophesied is so 
that we have a recognition of 

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Him. 
Prophecy is not to put emphasis 

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on the prophet, it's to put 
emphasis on the Lord. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Matthew 2415. 
Therefore, when you see the 

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abomination of desolation, this 
hasn't even occurred yet, even 

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in our lifetime, which was 
spoken through Daniel the 

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prophet stand standing in the 
holy place. 

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Let the reader understand. 
So there are things that Daniel 

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has prophesied that hasn't even 
occurred. 

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There are things Enoch the 
prophet has prophesied and it 

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hasn't even occurred yet. 
There are things John the 

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Apostle spoke of prophetically 
that has not occurred yet. 

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Yet there will come a time that 
it will be said it is fulfilled 

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as spoken by the prophet. 
Now, the prophet's not the 

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emphasis, it's just the gift 
that communicates the divine 

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will of God. 
Amen. 

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And you know what? 
God is so gracious to us that He

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really does. 
He really doesn't have any 

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problem by utilizing those gifts
to create the atmosphere of a 

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spiritual awareness so that God 
can let the Church know of where

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they're at and where they're 
going. 

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But let me say this It does not 
matter what a prophet says, 

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because a prophet's word to you 
means nothing unless you act on 

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it. 
If you don't act on it, they can

457
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,960
prophecy over you all day long. 
But what they say doesn't come 

458
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,800
to pass without your 
participation. 

459
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,000
Oh, I see you a preacher to the 
nation. 

460
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,280
Well, what are you doing to 
prepare? 

461
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,800
Yourself to do that then. 
Are you studying to show 

462
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,960
yourself approved unto God? 
Because God's not going to send 

463
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,600
you out without study, without 
being equipped, without being 

464
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,760
tried, without being, you know, 
tested without doing your part. 

465
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,120
Well, the prophet said I was 
going to do, I'm just waiting 

466
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,000
for it to occur. 
You're waiting for it. 

467
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,120
What are you? 
What are you doing to do your 

468
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:26,720
part so that it comes to pass? 
Jesus was prophesied that he was

469
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,120
the Messiah. 
He had to discover his own self 

470
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,920
in scripture. 
But here's the thing that Jesus 

471
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:40,040
had to do. 
He had to maintain holiness and 

472
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,120
not sin. 
So when he was tempted on all 

473
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:49,400
accounts like we. 
Were he chose not to sin. 

474
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,440
The prophetic words of him from 
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elijah, 

475
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:02,040
Isaiah, all those words spoken 
to him only came to pass because

476
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,240
he submitted his will to do 
God's word. 

477
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,719
Prophetic words don't come to 
pass. 

478
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:23,880
Just the prophet is not a wizard
that you see on TV, not some 

479
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:32,719
magic trick. 
The prophet is someone who hears

480
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,520
the divine will of God and 
speaks it. 

481
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,360
Prophets from Rick Renner's book
No, this is from Ernest Gentiles

482
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,480
book again he says this prophets
are to seek his face, hear his 

483
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,000
voice, and discern his will. 
They are called to edify, 

484
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,840
comfort, and exhort the churches
to inspire, direct, and inform 

485
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,080
in the ways and purposes of God.
They function most successfully 

486
00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,000
in conjunction with church 
leadership and apostles, which 

487
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,240
implies that if they are not 
connected with a local body 

488
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:07,040
church and functioning with the 
other gift of the apostle, they 

489
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,640
don't. 
They don't function as 

490
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,440
effectively. 
Prophets enable your church to 

491
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,200
experience divine direction and 
spiritual insight. 

492
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,320
Prophets are to build up 
churches, not take not control 

493
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:28,120
or take over. 
Prophets will not usurp the 

494
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:37,280
authority of the house. 
Prophets are special giftings to

495
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:42,560
discern demonic activity, reveal
divine strategies, recognize 

496
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,760
callings and giftings, and 
impart prophetic gifts. 

497
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,480
They preach as well as prophecy.
In fact, they are one of what 

498
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,600
Rick Renner says or Ernest, a 
class of teachers. 

499
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,680
They are in actually within the 
class of the gift of teachers. 

500
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,640
They prophets help work or 
excuse me, they preach as well 

501
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,120
as prophesied, declaring at the 
moment what God is saying to 

502
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,920
specific churches and 
individuals. 

503
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,400
Prophets will help work with the
people of the Church to bring 

504
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,000
them into a higher level of 
prayer activity and prophetic 

505
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,000
expression. 
You know you have a prophet 

506
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,600
among you because they pray a 
lot. 

507
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,800
If they say they're a prophet 
and they are not known with 

508
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,080
prayer, you should probably put 
false. 

509
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:46,200
In front of it. 
Are you hearing me? 

510
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:53,080
Let's look over to John Chapter 
4. 

511
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,760
John chapter 4, Jesus is the 
greatest prophet, right? 

512
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,200
Will we say that Jesus obviously
is thirsty? 

513
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,600
His disciples went to get some 
food. 

514
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,520
He's actually hungry. 
They went to get some food, 

515
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,400
leaves him out of well, and a 
Samaritan woman shows up. 

516
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,240
So he begins to have some 
discourse with her. 

517
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,560
All right. 
And so he said to her, go call 

518
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,160
your husband and come here. 
And the woman answered and said,

519
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,480
I have no husband. 
And Jesus said to her, you have 

520
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,480
said correctly, you have no 
husband, for you have had five 

521
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,560
husbands, and the one whom you 
now have is not your husband. 

522
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,760
This you have said, truly. 
Now look at this next verse. 

523
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:45,040
The woman said to him, Sir, I 
perceive that you that you are a

524
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,680
prophet. 
Now why does she perceive this? 

525
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,600
Because this guy I've never met 
in my life has now just told me 

526
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,560
my history concerning 
relationships. 

527
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:03,640
Now why did Jesus do this? 
Just to show off. 

528
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:13,960
There's a reason why a prophet 
would develop access to personal

529
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:20,480
accounts within your own 
personal life, because this 

530
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:30,520
woman actually has a yearning 
that Jesus perceived because he 

531
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,600
had spoken to her concerning 
water. 

532
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,640
He said Now if you knew the gift
that was before, you would have 

533
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,160
asked me for water and you would
have asked me for a drink and I 

534
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,440
would have given you living. 
Water. 

535
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:54,200
She's like. 
What, you don't have nothing to 

536
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,000
draw the water out? 
How's this even possible? 

537
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,280
He says Man, my water is 
everlasting. 

538
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,600
So then he ends up going into 
her history. 

539
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,440
The prophetic gift or the 
prophets gift shows up. 

540
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,480
So we understand that the 
prophet can communicate very 

541
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,000
specific things about God's 
plan, purpose, direction of a 

542
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,160
church, future events of things.
It was fulfilled by the by the 

543
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,200
word spoken to Jeremiah. 
It was fulfilled through the 

544
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,920
word spoken through the prophet 
Isaiah. 

545
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,680
We know those things occur 
concerning Jesus's life 

546
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,040
personally, but the prophet will
also be able to speak into very 

547
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:32,960
detailed things concerning your 
own personal life if it's for 

548
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,320
the purpose of directing you to 
the Messiah. 

549
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,760
See, the profit is not to be 
your fortune teller. 

550
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,160
Man. 
I went and they told me 

551
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,680
everything. 
Well, what did you get? 

552
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,520
Just that they know your stuff 
now. 

553
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,560
Because if the prophet says, 
here's this, come back later, 

554
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,320
I'll tell you more. 
Oh, you better not come back 

555
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,360
later. 
The reason they need you to come

556
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,040
back later because the familiar 
spirit they're operating on, he 

557
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,920
can deploy to send to go home 
with you and watch you. 

558
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,680
So when you come back and tell 
you what you were wearing the 

559
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,960
next day because you've given 
permission, see, this is what 

560
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,080
happens when you go to the 
little card readers and all 

561
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,240
these things. 
You're giving them the authority

562
00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:24,240
to send the spirits that they 
access to follow you. 

563
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:31,400
So then they can prophecy to you
and we get enthralled by natural

564
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,480
things. 
They how would they have ever 

565
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,920
known? 
Well, demonic spirits know if 

566
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,440
you let them follow you. 
Now, the devil and demonic 

567
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,200
spirits are not omnipresent. 
They're not everywhere. 

568
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,600
Most of them don't even know we 
exist because our carnality 

569
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,760
keeps us in a place that you 
know, they don't even have to 

570
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,560
touch us. 
They don't even have to attack 

571
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,480
us. 
We destroy ourselves through our

572
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,720
own flesh and lack of knowledge.
However, they will use you and 

573
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:05,400
destroy you and work their calls
more if you will entertain them 

574
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,440
or go to someone who entertains 
them. 

575
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,160
But Jesus ultimately in this 
passage of Scripture, because he

576
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,840
tells he said I perceive your 
prophet goes on and communicates

577
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,760
to her. 
This is the first person he ever

578
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,800
reveals that he is the. 
Christ, it was a woman at a well

579
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,920
who obviously wasn't living a 
perfect life, but she had a 

580
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,920
hunger. 
She wanted to know what about 

581
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,280
this Messiah? 
Since you're a prophet, all the 

582
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:39,080
prophets are talking about him 
and we want to know. 

583
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:45,120
He says you're looking at him 
now. 

584
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:50,760
What did it do to that woman? 
He calls her to go in to the 

585
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:55,800
community and say there. 
She didn't say there's a 

586
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,000
prophet. 
She said the King is here, He 

587
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,280
has told me intimate details of 
my life. 

588
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,680
The King is here, the Messiah is
at the well. 

589
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,040
He told me this, this would have
never known it. 

590
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,640
He told me this, he told me 
this, he told me this. 

591
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,120
And the whole town comes out and
say, who is this guy? 

592
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,880
Now they probably came after 
because they're thinking, well, 

593
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,920
he's probably some prophet or 
something, let's see ourselves. 

594
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:26,680
But then when they heard him 
speak, it says, we believe that 

595
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,200
you are the Christ now, not 
because of what the woman said 

596
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,440
to us, but we have heard with 
our own ears. 

597
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,280
So what was the value of him 
saying? 

598
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,120
You've said correctly that you 
don't have a husband. 

599
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,960
You've had five, and the one 
you're with now is not your 

600
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,480
husband. 
What was the value of him 

601
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:53,360
prophesying as a prophet? 
It brought her to the king. 

602
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,560
This is the number one role. 
The reason why a prophet is 

603
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,920
going to speak something over 
your life is so that you can be 

604
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,160
closer and walk more intimately 
with the king. 

605
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,840
If they're going to talk to you 
about your life and details of 

606
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,600
your life, it's to get you so 
that you'll move over to want to

607
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,080
put God first, move first in his
with him. 

608
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,280
Stay loyal and connected to Him.
That's the whole purpose behind 

609
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:26,120
the prophet so that you can 
fulfill destiny. 

610
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,440
You can do. 
That's why I know for me, I, you

611
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,040
know, you see the profit 
function in people and we all 

612
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,240
have these questions where we're
asking the Lord and asking the 

613
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,080
Lord and asking the Lord and you
know, because we're living by 

614
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,560
faith. 
Sometimes you're like, can 

615
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:45,480
somebody just be a confirmation,
which is all covenant? 

616
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,000
Because when you have an inward 
witness, you don't need an 

617
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:58,640
outward 1. 
And if you have an inward 1 and 

618
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,920
someone gives you an hour one, 
it better line up with your 

619
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,960
inward one, because many have 
had an inward 1 and got an hour 

620
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,400
one that was different from the 
inward 1 and they abandoned the 

621
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,160
inward 1 and followed the 
outward 1. 

622
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,800
And I said man never happened in
my life, never had anyone 

623
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,320
prophecy over me. 
No one spoke to me concerning 

624
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,720
prophetic things of my life, 
telling me about my past, 

625
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,760
talking to me about my future, 
nothing. 

626
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:33,280
Never happened as a believer, a 
St. someone following God to 

627
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,400
attain to the gift he's called 
me to be. 

628
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:42,880
But then once I came here and 
God released me to to be the 

629
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,320
apostle and pastor of Anchor 
Faith Church, then all of a 

630
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,480
sudden someone prophesied over 
me and when you hear the 

631
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,760
prophecy, you realize there's 
nothing to do with me. 

632
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,920
What I realized because I asked 
the Lord, I said, why is this 

633
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,200
first time that a word's ever 
been spoken over me and it has 

634
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,840
nothing to do with me 
personally. 

635
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,600
It has to do with your church 
that I'm a part of. 

636
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,760
He said, Son, you've always 
followed my word and it is the 

637
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,240
spirit of prophecy. 
I've not I have not needed to 

638
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:16,280
use any outside help for you to 
accomplish. 

639
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:25,260
The assignment thus far, 
Hallelujah. 

640
00:45:25,340 --> 00:45:29,900
And today when I get in meetings
where there's profits I have, I 

641
00:45:29,900 --> 00:45:36,820
don't care one bit. 
I want their gift to be, but I'm

642
00:45:36,820 --> 00:45:40,540
not wanting them to come to me 
if God. 

643
00:45:40,540 --> 00:45:42,660
Wants them to come to me. 
Fine. 

644
00:45:43,460 --> 00:45:46,140
But I'm not personally like, oh,
I want it. 

645
00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:50,880
I don't have that. 
There's a a prophetess we're 

646
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:56,360
going to bring to the Church, I 
said. 

647
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:03,800
In a meeting that she was in, 
because Daryl Morgan, who was on

648
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:09,160
our board, he just recently came
off, said man, Pastor Earl, you 

649
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,480
know, I would encourage you to 
come. 

650
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,720
You know, she obviously 
functions in this particular 

651
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:17,600
gift and you know, just really 
good teaching. 

652
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,160
I said, great, I'll come. 
And so we came, my wife and I, 

653
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:26,920
and she called me out years ago.
She pulled me out about where 

654
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,320
Marissa is, pulled me out of the
aisle, told me to stand up. 

655
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,560
And then she said these words. 
This, this today makes me laugh.

656
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:45,160
She says, are you a golfer? 
I said no, ma'am, but I am 

657
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,600
today. 
Isn't this crazy? 

658
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,160
I never would have golfed 
honestly, but the Lord told me 

659
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,920
to and I didn't even remember 
this till we were talking about 

660
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,400
having her come and we were like
are you serious? 

661
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:10,480
She said that because what she 
saw would only take place now. 

662
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,200
And now I golf. 
So she saw me in the future, she

663
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:22,960
says OK, she said, well, like a 
golfer, I see that as they 

664
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,880
they're swing. 
You have the ability to turn 

665
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:34,040
whole communities. 
You can turn them from One 

666
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,680
Direction. 
All you have the you have the 

667
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:37,880
anointing to turn. 
Whole. 

668
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:44,000
Communities. 
Now that's what was prophesied. 

669
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,080
Now again, does that sound 
personal, you taking it as 

670
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:55,400
personal, but I don't, I don't 
as an apostle of a church that 

671
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,680
has members that want to do the 
will of God. 

672
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:03,120
You don't change community 
unless you are a church. 

673
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:12,920
So what he she was saying is, is
that the gift in the ministry 

674
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,960
had the has the ability to 
change communities, not a 

675
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,200
community and Anchor Bay 
churches in a community, at 

676
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,560
least this one is. 
But there are other communities 

677
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,560
that we have and we're going to 
have additional communities, 

678
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,040
which means then it's those 
local bodies that are going to 

679
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,400
have the ability through the 
Apostolic anointing on the 

680
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,680
congregation that will be able 
to turn whole communities from 

681
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:42,880
One Direction into another. 
Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. 

682
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:47,040
Now why is it that we would get 
excited about a prophecy if all 

683
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,000
of a sudden I say, Brandon, thus
sayeth the Lord and we're like, 

684
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,920
wow, the Lord and I'm like, 
right on. 

685
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,640
I'm prophesying saying 
everything We're like. 

686
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,280
But then when, you know, 
sometimes we as ministers get up

687
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:57,520
and begin and people are like, 
no. 

688
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:14,880
OK, well look what he's saying. 
Mark chapter 6 Look at this. 

689
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,560
I can tell you why we're going 
to give it to you right here. 

690
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,440
Mark chapter 6, verse one 
through 6. 

691
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,600
Jesus went out from there and 
came to His hometown and his 

692
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,520
disciples followed him. 
When the Sabbath came, He began 

693
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:27,960
to teach in the synagogue. 
Why? 

694
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,880
Because prophets are a class of 
teachers. 

695
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,320
They have the teaching gift as 
well. 

696
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:47,320
A prophet will always have the 
teaching gift, OK, if they can't

697
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:51,560
teach their way through a paper 
bag, they are not the prophet of

698
00:49:51,560 --> 00:50:03,440
God, he said. 
A men and the many and the many 

699
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,640
listeners were astounded saying 
where did this man get this, 

700
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:10,720
these things and what is this 
wisdom he has given and such 

701
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:14,240
miracles as these performed by 
his hands. 

702
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,920
Now what have they noted 
concerning Jesus? 

703
00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:21,240
He's a he's taught. 
They're astonished at what he's 

704
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:23,200
saying. 
Man, I ain't never heard nothing

705
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:28,280
like this. 
They admit this, this word is 

706
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,200
something else. 
Then they see evidence of 

707
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,920
supernatural power associated 
with the individual. 

708
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:39,360
They've heard this dude. 
It is known that miracles have 

709
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,800
happened with this person. 
But look at verse 3. 

710
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:52,680
Is not this the Carpenter, the 
son of Mary, the brother of 

711
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:58,280
James, and all these boys? 
Are not his sisters here with 

712
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:06,240
us? 
And they took offence at him? 

713
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,600
What did they take? 
They took offense at him. 

714
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:13,920
Why did they take offense at 
him? 

715
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,800
I mean, they know the word that 
he preaches, has wisdom, 

716
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:31,840
authority, miracles, functions 
in power, but they're offended. 

717
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:38,040
Why are they offended? 
Because they recognize they're 

718
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:43,200
familiar. 
Oh, let's go on. 

719
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,000
Jesus said a prophet is not 
without honor except in his 

720
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,400
hometown, among his own 
relatives, and in his own 

721
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:55,000
household. 
You know what the Bible calls 

722
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,840
the church? 
The household of God. 

723
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,640
OK. 
And he could do no miracles 

724
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:02,840
there. 
He could do what? 

725
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,800
No miracles there, except that 
he laid his hands on a few sick 

726
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:12,600
people and healed them. 
Verse 6 And he wondered at their

727
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,040
unbelief, and was going around 
the villages teaching. 

728
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,160
The only remedy to unbelief is 
more teaching. 

729
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:22,320
More teaching means we're going 
to teach. 

730
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:23,600
We're not going to do any 
miracles here. 

731
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,680
We're not trying to perform. 
We're just trying to get you in 

732
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:26,880
faith. 
We're trying to get you to 

733
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,800
connect with God, see God for 
who He is, begin to recognize 

734
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,560
God for who he is. 
Put your eyes on him. 

735
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,280
Do you understand? 
They are actually looking at the

736
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,480
Christ, but they don't see the 
Christ, They see a Carpenter. 

737
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,160
So what's he saying? 
He said now the prophets not 

738
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,200
without honor, except in his 
hometown, the place he's at the 

739
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:53,480
most, the people he has grown up
with, the people who has heard 

740
00:52:53,600 --> 00:53:01,560
his voice the most, his own 
relatives. 

741
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:07,160
Well, who's my relatives? 
Who is your mother and your 

742
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,200
brothers and sisters? 
It's those who do the will of 

743
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,200
God. 
So I'm in the household of God 

744
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:20,480
with the family of God among my 
relatives, which tells us that 

745
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:28,800
if the prophet is among us, and 
they are the ones you'll have 

746
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,480
the biggest problem with is the 
one that you've heard the most. 

747
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,840
And the minute you begin to see 
yourself, and it's true that you

748
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:46,640
put your pants on the same way 
and that you can hear God too, 

749
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,920
then they all of a sudden become
familiar to you. 

750
00:53:53,160 --> 00:54:04,800
And familiarity breeds offense. 
And your offense doesn't remove 

751
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:10,200
their power, their authority, 
their wisdom, or their 

752
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:20,080
anointing, but it renders it 
ineffective in your life because

753
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:25,960
it's how you have received them.
See, they didn't receive Jesus 

754
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:32,680
as the prophet. 
Oh man, here's the thing. 

755
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:38,280
What if among us, someone began 
to move in that prophetic gift? 

756
00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:43,640
You're like, well man, that I 
was just in the nursery with 

757
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,200
them. 
Who cares? 

758
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,920
You were just in the nursery 
with God's using them as a gift 

759
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:55,040
to release a word. 
It's not about them. 

760
00:54:55,080 --> 00:55:00,360
It's about the words spoken 
through them by God to help you 

761
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,200
become all that you are supposed
to be. 

762
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,400
But the minute you get offended 
because you've made their voice 

763
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:14,800
familiar. 
And when you make someone 

764
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,520
familiar, you don't listen 
anymore. 

765
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,840
Familiarity is close proximity. 
One of the most dangerous words 

766
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:26,560
I ever hear from people. 
Man, I just want to be close to 

767
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,840
you, Pastor. 
In my mind, I'm like. 

768
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:35,120
Do you really? 
Because you're already admitting

769
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,840
you want close proximity, which 
you're going to have, you'll run

770
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,720
the risk of making me a familiar
voice in your life and 

771
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:43,680
abandoning the anointing. 
All my life, not because I made 

772
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,440
myself anointing. 
God has anointed me just like He

773
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:51,000
has anointed you. 
I do not despise anyone moving 

774
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:56,480
by the Spirit of God with the 
gifts, nor do I despise the 

775
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,720
fivefold ministry gift, no 
matter how much I've been around

776
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:04,080
a person because I want to 
receive the gift. 

777
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,560
And here's the thing. 
If. 

778
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,680
This is the case with the 
prophet. 

779
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,680
You would find it's the case 
with all 5. 

780
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,560
All of the ministry gifts. 
Why do people leave churches? 

781
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,440
Because they get familiar with 
their pastor's voice when they 

782
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,680
first come in, the pastor's 
voice, this, that, and the 

783
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:27,880
other. 
But all of a sudden when they 

784
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,240
sit around for so long, they 
hear the same voice, hear the 

785
00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:31,720
same voice. 
And what do they do? 

786
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,200
Next thing you know, they're 
going to YouTube. 

787
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:34,280
They're trying to hear another 
voice. 

788
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,360
I want to hear something else, 
want to hear somebody else. 

789
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,360
They quit coming to hear from 
God. 

790
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,880
They just started looking at the
individual. 

791
00:56:47,510 --> 00:56:49,670
I mean, what sin did Jesus 
commit that they should be 

792
00:56:49,670 --> 00:56:57,480
offended at Him? 
And it says he could work No 

793
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,560
miracles there. 
Well, see, the anointing is 

794
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,040
gone. 
No miracles are happening. 

795
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,920
What if in some churches, 
miracles aren't happening? 

796
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,840
And it's not because the 
minister is not anointing, It's 

797
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:09,920
because the congregation has 
made them familiar. 

798
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:17,360
Well, all they do is teach now. 
Well, I wonder why? 

799
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:22,480
Because it could be that you 
didn't come expecting to 

800
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,960
receive. 
Come on. 

801
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:27,120
Say Amen. 
Anyway. 

802
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:32,680
Hallelujah. 
Yeah. 

803
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,360
They are blaming Jesus Christ, 
the head of the church. 

804
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,640
You leave that meeting like, 
yeah, just a couple people got 

805
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,720
healed. 
Nothing really spectacular 

806
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,440
happened, nothing real 
supernatural. 

807
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,080
And it's. 
Jesus's meeting. 

808
00:57:51,600 --> 00:58:00,000
It's the Son of God. 
And Jesus is like, wow, wow, it 

809
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:05,720
says he wondered. 
And why did they have unbelief? 

810
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:13,920
Because they looked at a 
Carpenter instead of a prophet. 

811
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:17,360
Come on, are you hearing what 
I'm saying? 

812
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,640
For me, arity renders the 
anointing associated with the 

813
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:26,760
gift towards you ineffective. 
This could be said of all the 

814
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,680
gifts. 
When you become familiar, 

815
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:34,080
offense is inevitable. 
It's inevitable. 

816
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,680
Again, I'd never make anyone 
call me Pastor Earl. 

817
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,400
I never make anyone call me 
Apostle Earl. 

818
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,240
I never make anyone call me 
anything associated with the 

819
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,800
gift that I am. 
Not by you, not by title, but by

820
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:56,640
the Holy Ghost, period. 
God has no problem with calling 

821
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,440
people prophets. 
I'm not a prophet. 

822
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,840
I am not a prophet. 
I have moved in the gifts. 

823
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:08,680
I have seen things in the future
at times, but I do not function 

824
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:13,120
in the office of the prophet. 
I do not OK. 

825
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,200
I function in the apostle and 
the pastor's office, of which 

826
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,160
we've already taught on. 
Every once in a while I get over

827
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,320
into the teacher, but that's 
rare. 

828
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:26,880
I mean, the true teaching 
anointing. 

829
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,960
All right. 
And sometimes I do the work of 

830
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,720
the evangelist because it's 
something that the pastor has to

831
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,400
do. 
But I'm not an evangelist. 

832
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:42,960
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
But the minute. 

833
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,800
People, Brother Earl. 
Hey, Earl. 

834
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:50,440
Well, there's consequences for 
that. 

835
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:53,720
You can call me what you want 
to. 

836
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,200
You can call the staff what you 
want to. 

837
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,960
You can see us all as you know, 
we're we're just all just 

838
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,200
brothers here. 
Yep. 

839
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,360
Let me take you to a little 
scripture. 

840
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,200
Now let me read this first from 
Rick Renner out of his Apostles 

841
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,040
and Prophets, and then I'll read
the scripture. 

842
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,840
You can turn over there. 
It's Matthew chapter 10. 

843
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,120
True prophets then and now are 
not placed in the ministry to be

844
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:19,400
popular with their audiences, to
tickle the fancy or everyone who

845
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:23,720
heard, who heard their messages.
These men and women are set in 

846
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,280
place to obediently deliver the 
word of the Lord, even those 

847
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,320
words that many deemed 
unpleasant. 

848
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,480
Prophets of old often suffered 
at the hands of disobedient men,

849
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,480
those who mocked the message. 
Some prophets were ridiculed and

850
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,240
scorned, while others were 
imprisoned. 

851
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,640
Still others paid the ultimate 
sacrifice to deliver the word of

852
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,480
the Lord, But it was the prize 
they were required to pay if 

853
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,840
need be, in order to speak as 
God's mouthpiece and make the 

854
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:54,720
will of God known in certain 
situations or season or hour. 

855
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,600
This is no less true concerning 
the prophetic ministry today. 

856
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,800
Matthew 1041 says he who 
receives a prophet. 

857
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:08,480
In the name of a prophet shall 
receive a prophet's reward. 

858
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:14,320
Why could Jesus in his hometown 
not give a prophet's reward that

859
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:17,600
day? 
Because they did not receive the

860
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,480
prophet. 
In the name of a prophet, if you

861
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,400
receive a righteous man. 
In the name of a righteous man, 

862
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,800
you'll receive a righteous man's
reward. 

863
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:32,680
You like Pastor Earl, Brother 
Earl, brother Earl, and you can 

864
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,960
call me Brother Earl and I'm a 
righteous man, and you'll 

865
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,920
receive a righteous man reward. 
But when you need the anointing 

866
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,720
of the gift, it's not coming to 
you. 

867
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:46,320
And when it doesn't come to you 
and you're around me and you're 

868
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,880
around me and you're around me 
and around me, around anyone in 

869
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,920
the staff, for that matter, all 
the men that have been in a 

870
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,560
men's meeting or 318, please 
stand up. 

871
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:56,920
Please stand up faster than 
this. 

872
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,960
Now you need to understand this.
Pastor Mike, please come down 

873
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:07,120
front. 
Pastor Mike does not do this so 

874
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:08,960
that you become familiar with 
him. 

875
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:15,600
You'll lose out on the anointing
associated with his his life to 

876
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:20,720
to release a better father out 
of you, a better husband out of 

877
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:27,840
you, a better mentor, a better 
friend. 

878
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:34,200
One of the greatest risk is when
you become knowledgeable about 

879
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:38,040
that which has the teacher has 
given the pupil. 

880
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:42,320
And remember, the Bible says the
pupil is never rising above the 

881
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,760
master. 
But when do the pupils rise 

882
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,360
above their masters? 
When they get familiar with 

883
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:50,960
them. 
Take offense at them. 

884
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,120
And then they don't want to hear
nothing they say anymore. 

885
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:04,480
So you want to say, Pastor Mike,
you want to release, you want to

886
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,720
receive the pastor in the name 
of a pastor so you can receive a

887
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,720
pastor's reward. 
Because when you go through 

888
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:17,120
marital problems, you want the 
anointing associated with his 

889
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,480
life to help break the things 
off you. 

890
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,480
That's keeping your marriage 
bound. 

891
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:31,360
Can I get a 123 from somebody? 
All right, you can be seated. 

892
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:36,400
That was a. 
Good opportunity, Pastor Angie, 

893
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:41,960
stand up. 
I mean, this lady's around and 

894
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:48,120
about everywhere, right? 
See her so much you get tired of

895
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,800
seeing her. 
Now you say that. 

896
01:03:54,080 --> 01:04:01,040
But you know what? 
Well, Pat, you know when people 

897
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,200
are familiar with me is when 
they don't show up at service 

898
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:09,000
when I'm not here. 
No, I didn't tell you sooner. 

899
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,400
I'm not having the lady stand up
because she was actually falling

900
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,360
asleep, that's why. 
No, I'm kidding. 

901
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,040
I'm kidding. 
I'm kidding. 

902
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:24,160
She's she's not. 
No, there's an anointing. 

903
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,960
I said there's an anointing. 
Come on now. 

904
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,880
Now everybody's saying Amen 
today, but five years from now 

905
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,920
we going to say Amen. 
You see what I'm saying? 

906
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:41,520
Because when she is sitting in 
an office with you ladies and 

907
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:48,280
she's telling you about your 
stuff by unction of the spirit 

908
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:57,680
of what needs to change, and 
it's not because she's right, 

909
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,320
you're wrong. 
The word is what's right and we 

910
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,200
are trying to conform ourselves 
to it. 

911
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:07,120
Come on, come on. 
Because she's only communicating

912
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,600
with the word and you want to 
receive the gift. 

913
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,120
You don't want to be a third 
year Ki student, say, ah, Pastor

914
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,480
Angie's doing this class. 
You need to be like, thank God 

915
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,440
Pastor Angie is doing this 
class. 

916
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,960
And you draw on the anointing, 
you can be seated. 

917
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:27,800
Thank you. 
I don't have all the pastors in 

918
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:29,160
here anyway. 
Right? 

919
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:37,120
But the one that has the biggest
challenge is the one married to 

920
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:44,920
me. 
Because it isn't a statistic, 

921
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:50,360
it's reality. 
They are the most abused gift in

922
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:56,440
the body. 
They are. 

923
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,760
It's unfortunate. 
This is why a lot of them in her

924
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:09,000
position don't make it or try to
take over. 

925
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:17,320
Now I'm going to be very candid.
The Pastor Marcy and Pastor 

926
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:22,480
Angie function so well in the 
gifts, the gift that they're in,

927
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:28,600
confident, bold, submitted to 
God, but also submitted to their

928
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:39,040
husbands and to a Jezebel. 
This is problematic because they

929
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:48,200
long for the authority without 
ever submitting, and all they do

930
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:54,360
is display submitted authority. 
That's all they display. 

931
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,200
Come on, ladies, you know what 
I'm talking. 

932
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:02,880
Yeah, it happens. 
And Pastor Marcy functions. 

933
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:09,480
She started out, you know, 
teaching a whole lot, you know, 

934
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,800
But through the years, God has 
moved her a little more 

935
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,400
prophetically. 
She can get over into teaching, 

936
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:18,040
but she has very much gotten 
into prophetic utterances. 

937
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:23,240
And I can give you many. 
Why is it that Pastor Marcy does

938
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:26,240
our prayer? 
Not because I don't know how to 

939
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:30,240
pray. 
It's because it's the incubator 

940
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:36,400
of her gift. 
Now, again, you can do what you 

941
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:42,400
want to do. 
It doesn't matter, but we would 

942
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:50,280
be remiss to not receive people 
for their giftings because in 

943
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:56,200
order for you to be equipped, 
you cannot despise them and you 

944
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:57,840
cannot become familiar with 
them. 

945
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:05,280
Just because I play softball, 
flag football or tear down a 

946
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:09,480
wall with you doesn't make us 
equal. 

947
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:12,760
Because we're not equal people 
anyway. 

948
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:14,840
You're you. 
I'm me. 

949
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,279
I'll pull your gift, you pull 
mine. 

950
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:24,200
That's the purpose. 
Because the minute I see you as.

951
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:28,080
Just another congregation member
that I'm trying to figure out 

952
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,160
how to get them through their 
carnality and live in maturity. 

953
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:34,520
Then I've done you a big 
disservice. 

954
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,800
For me, it's never that way. 
It's only one way. 

955
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,439
You're a gift from God and we're
going to pull your gift out 

956
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,240
because that's our purpose. 
And we're going to deploy you. 

957
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:50,880
And if you mess up, we're going 
to talk about it because that's 

958
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:54,080
what we're here to do. 
Hallelujah. 

959
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:59,399
So that we all become better. 
Amen. 

960
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:06,479
There are plenty of prophetic 
examples that we can use Plenty 

961
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,920
that's happened within this 
house, not only through my wife,

962
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:12,520
but through other people. 
And I don't even talk about them

963
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:12,880
all. 
Why? 

964
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,200
Because the prophets, even in 
the Old Testament, there were 

965
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,720
minor prophets and they were 
what they call major prophets. 

966
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,240
And the and the only difference 
between them is not because one 

967
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,760
was more spiritual is that it 
was the gift associated that 

968
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,000
gave them a territory different 
that's. 

969
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,399
All it is. 
And you can't be something 

970
01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:32,000
you're not gifted. 
Stay within the anointing you 

971
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:36,080
are. 
Stay in the anointing that you 

972
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:41,720
are, but draw from every 
anointing and so. 

973
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,399
When we need When you need to 
draw on the pastor's anointing, 

974
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:47,160
pull on it. 
When you need to draw on the 

975
01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:52,240
Prophet's anointing, pull on it.
When you need the teachers 

976
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:56,200
anointing pull on it. 
Evangelist whatever. 

977
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,320
You pull on it and you'll get 
the reward. 

978
01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:05,120
What service is is more 
predicated on your receiving. 

979
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:08,840
Of the gift. 
Because when we read this 

980
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:15,760
passage, Jesus was not in 
control, The hearer was. 

981
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:28,480
The hearer was, and a hearer who
has made you familiar, that has 

982
01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:31,000
now offended at you, will 
attack. 

983
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:36,760
You just know that. 
But it doesn't matter. 

984
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,160
It doesn't. 
Stop you, you. 

985
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:42,120
Just be you and move. 
Do the will of God for your 

986
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,520
life. 
Hallelujah brother Hagin. 

987
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,360
I will close with a couple of 
his examples. 

988
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,400
Pastor Marcy's had multiple ones
where she's called out crack 

989
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,080
houses 1 summer that was 
exposed. 

990
01:10:53,360 --> 01:11:03,880
Another particular thing with 
some women, prostitution, I mean

991
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,160
there have been multiple things 
that just through prayers come 

992
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,280
up in the spirit. 
She spoke it out, we prayed 

993
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:11,440
about it and it did things. 
It's happened. 

994
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,760
Brother Barry has seen things in
the future concerning our 

995
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,240
service, and there's others and 
the. 

996
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,760
Reason why I don't talk about 
them a whole lot is because I'm 

997
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,800
not here to create a culture for
you to try to run and say hold 

998
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:29,840
and you hang out with them. 
Now why are you hanging out with

999
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:31,280
them? 
Well, you know they give words. 

1000
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:39,400
Your word is in the word, and a 
true prophet, if you do that 

1001
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:44,720
honestly, is not going to give 
you a word that's right. 

1002
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:47,600
And if one does start giving you
words because you're hanging out

1003
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,920
with them all the time because 
you want it, then they're not 

1004
01:11:50,920 --> 01:12:02,040
really a a prophet of God. 
All right, Brother, Hagin in 

1005
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:05,320
1979 said. 
What is this? 

1006
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,200
Sound of tramp, tramp, tramp. 
It's. 

1007
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:14,200
A prophecy that the ministry 
uses because they see that it 

1008
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:19,560
has been fulfilled or in 
fulfillment because all over the

1009
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:21,200
world. 
This particular prophecy of 

1010
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:26,480
those that had graduated from 
Rhema now is in 59 countries, 

1011
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:32,320
318 campuses globally. 
They used to say back in the day

1012
01:12:32,440 --> 01:12:36,600
there's not a place on the 
planet that the sun doesn't set,

1013
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,520
that a Rhema graduate isn't 
pastoring. 

1014
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:43,640
Now they say there's not a place
on the planet that the sun 

1015
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:47,040
doesn't set, that there's not a 
Rhema Bible training college. 

1016
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:52,920
Not only is there ministries 
there, but there is also a 

1017
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:56,320
school. 
Hallelujah. 

1018
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,440
Now here's another thing. 
We don't live by prophecies from

1019
01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:06,120
prophets. 
We live by the Word of God. 

1020
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:13,040
So even if a true prophet has 
delivered a word, we don't live 

1021
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:17,040
by that word. 
We live by the word of God That 

1022
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,840
then will produce that word. 
Whatever it is in our life. 

1023
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,920
Because you will not get the 
word the prophet releases to you

1024
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:29,600
to come to pass in your life if 
you are living by that prophecy.

1025
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:35,560
Because although it is a divine 
will of God for your life, it 

1026
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,400
will not come to pass unless you
live by the word. 

1027
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,920
Is it God's will? 
I close with this thought 

1028
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:43,280
worship. 
Team, would you come? 

1029
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:50,040
Is it God's will that none would
perish and that all would come 

1030
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:53,800
to repentance? 
We'll all come to repentance. 

1031
01:13:54,360 --> 01:14:01,760
So that prophetic word is not 
reality in the context that 

1032
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:05,200
everyone saved. 
It is a desire of God. 

1033
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,400
We know it's His will. 
For them to be saved. 

1034
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:12,880
But God will not override your 
will to be saved. 

1035
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,240
So it's the same when you 
receive a prophetic word. 

1036
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:24,680
If you do from a prophet, that 
word is released to awaken you 

1037
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:28,280
to God's divine will potentially
in your life or whatever you may

1038
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:32,360
have a destiny or purpose or an 
assignment for that matter. 

1039
01:14:32,480 --> 01:14:34,200
It may not be the whole scope of
your life it. 

1040
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,640
May just be an assignment for 
you. 

1041
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:43,880
You don't live by the prophecy, 
you live by the Word. 

1042
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,560
When you live by the Word, a 
prophecy can be fulfilled. 

1043
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:47,920
Amen. 
Amen.