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Turn over to 1st Corinthians 
chapter 12. 

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First Corinthians chapter 12, 
we're going to talk about the 

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five fold effect. 
We've been talking about finding

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your fit in the body, Amen. 
And so I want to kind of talk 

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about 5 specific fits within the
body because the Bible talks 

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about these five specific fits, 
OK? 

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And, and so I want to kind of 
center in on these, but we let's

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look at First Corinthians 12 
starting in verse 18. 

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We'll go to verse 20 and it says
this now. 

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But now God has placed the 
members, each one of them in the

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body just as he desired. 
OK, if they were all one member,

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where would the body be? 
But now there are many members, 

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but one body. 
So when you look at us, you have

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to see one. 
Although we're many, right? 

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It's good. 
It's true. 

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Amen. 
When you look across the 

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sanctuary right now, from my 
vantage point, I see many 

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members, but yet I see one body.
Just one again, when you, when I

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introduce myself to you, I do 
not introduce you, you know. 

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Hi, my name is Earl and I'm 
going to place my hand in front 

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of you so that you can shake my 
hand that happens to have 

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fingers associated with it and a
thumb. 

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All right. 
And it will grasp your hand and 

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fingers and thumb, and we'll 
shake it vigorously for a couple

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of times and then I will release
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OK, That's Germany. 
OK. 

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And so we do not talk like that.
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Because we just extend us. 
Now, I'm not a hand and fingers 

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only. 
It's part of my skin, suit of 

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which isn't the entire me 
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Because I do have a soul, mind, 
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And I also have a spirit that 
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inside. 
But all three of those together 

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function as one. 
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sake of, you know, whatever the 
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Like if I wasn't feeling well, 
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Well, I've got this pain in my 
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of me and it's affecting me and 
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in the area, 'cause my brains 
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And this is discomfort. 
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isolate. 
But again, it's part of the 

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whole body. 
And if it's messed up, it can 

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affect the whole body because 
again, even though it's a 

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member, it's I'm still 1. 
Are you hearing me? 

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Paul obviously used this as an 
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we are the body of Christ. 
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But I was talking with Steven 
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I'm going to give him credit 
because this is really good. 

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He says, you know in my thinking
using Paul's example that we are

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body. 
He said I just assumed if I was 

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an elbow, I'll always be an 
elbow. 

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But the reality is God places 
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First of all, there is a call in
your life that goes without you 

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even repenting. 
The gifts and callings of God 

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are without repentance, the 
gifts plural and callings or 

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calling or without repentance. 
Meaning God does have a purpose 

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for you. 
Before you ever met, you were 

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placed in your mother's womb. 
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ultimate place or assignment 
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your purpose, you may go through
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body. 
Because again, Stephen was like,

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if you were just an elbow then 
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you would have been there 
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But that was the place that 
developed me for the next 

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assignment, for the next 
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arrived at where I'm at today, 
which even now there are 

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additional assignments that 
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Hallelujah. 
Amen. 

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This is why I say I'll be a 
better pastor in five years 

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because I'm growing and 
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And as you grow and develop, 
then your influence and that 

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which God is allowing you to 
oversee, because again, what's 

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the Scripture? 
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well, what's a byproduct of 
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You'll be faithful with man and 
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So again, your faithfulness can 
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sphere of influence. 
Which means one place you are 

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functioning within the body 
currently does not mean 10 years

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from now you'll be doing the 
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although it's still in the body.
Say Amen. 

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So as we see here in First 
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18 through 20, as we kind of 
breakdown these verses, it's God

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that places the members. 
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something that is overlooked 
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United States, because the 
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mindset of independence. 
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monarchy. 
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associate independence with 
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So the minute we make this 
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conflict in the church because 
freedom in the Kingdom is not 

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independence. 
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Kingdom is rebellion. 
I'm going to say that again. 

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Independence in the Kingdom 
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Hallelujah. 
Now God places you in the body 

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because he knew you before you 
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world knew you. 
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creator of you. 
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We are the So how can the clay 
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going to go to church? 
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But we do it all the time in the
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Now, I'm not saying you'll be in
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life. 
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I'm just saying if the Lord's 
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missing it. 
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accidentally fall into the right
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It's true, but not highly 
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OK. 
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spiritual, then we should hear 
God say go here because God 

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knows where He can grow you, 
develop you, and put you on the 

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right in the right body where 
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most. 
So it's God who places the 

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members, each one of them, not 
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God's not overlooking you. 
This is not like red Rover, red 

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Rover stuff when they're picking
teams and you're like, well, 

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nobody really wants me. 
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placing you in a body, each one 
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And it's where he desires. 
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And again, when we say God will 
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God will give you the desire of 
of what local church you should 

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be connected with. 
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all going to have the same 
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members. 
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Kingdom. 
You do not lose your 

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individuality. 
In fact, your individuality is 

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actually demonstrated more so 
because you are gifted and God 

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wants to showcase you in your 
gifting with the grace he's 

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given you in this amazing 
because he loves every one of us

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when we obey God at his word, 
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my daughter. 
He loves and is well pleased and

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has no problem put you up and 
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I mean, he loves us and he wants
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Amen. 
Come on as a proud parent, like 

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that's my boy. 
That's my boy, right? 

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They win a championship, they 
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They they do great in school, 
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bragging on man, the father will
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exactly. 
He's like, that's my child right

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This is my beloved son in whom 
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Well, well, there's only one way
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The Bible tells us without faith
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So if the Father was pleased 
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in faith. 
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Faith comes by hearing and 
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So he heard what the Father said
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acted on it. 
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said John baptized me. 
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baptized by you. 
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me. 
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righteousness in can be 
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In essence, I read the word and 
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Dad has assigned this task to me
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baptize me. 
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pleased. 
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word by faith, and he is pleased
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that. 
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individuals with with graces in 
our lives to accomplish great 

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and mighty things. 
They are different, but they 

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complement. 
We're not competing, we are 

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complementing, and God is 
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one than us being separated out 
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own. 
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Now I'm going to quote a few 
authors today based upon the 

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teaching that we're going to 
have concerning the fivefold 

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effect. 
And 1st, I want to quote a 

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particular author by the name of
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Ernest Gentile said this. 
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much? 
Very simply, because the local 

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church is the key messenger of 
Christ to the secular community.

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The people of a local church 
become the heart, the hands, and

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the voice of Jesus Christ. 
This brilliant strategy is God's

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way of maintaining active 
spiritual life in His Saints and

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then through them, impacting the
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When the people of a community 
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church body, they hopefully will
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Isn't that amazing? 
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when a group from Anchor Faith 
Church shows up at a track meet,

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a community, a secular community
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society called sports, can see 
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group that functions as one? 
Are you hearing me? 

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I mean, this is evangelism at 
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You know, we love personal 
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But what about group evangelism?
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I mean, could we pull up a tent 
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crowd and get a lot of and those
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But you understand then people 
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this one person and you should 
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But you understand the church 
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of society with groups that are 
anointed to do these various 

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types of areas, and as one 
descend upon the place where the

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light of God invades darkness, 
Hallelujah. 

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And that's what God always 
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of the earth just because the 
Bible says we are not of this 

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world. 
That's just saying we're not of 

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the system of the world we've 
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out of the domain of darkness. 
We are in the Kingdom of His 

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beloved Son. 
We are in a world we're not of, 

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but we can invade those sectors 
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light of Jesus Christ and the 
church was always intended to do

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so. 
All right, there is a gift that 

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empowers the body to do just 
that. 

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First Corinthians chapter 12, 
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Jump down to verse 27 to 29. 
It says now you are Christ's 

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body and individually members of
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Again, you do not lose your 
individuality, but you do lose 

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your independence. 
He goes on and say, and God has 

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appointed in the church first 
apostles, second prophets, third

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teachers, then miracles, then 
gifts of healings, helps, 

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administrations, and various 
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All are not apostles, are they? 
And the answer is no, obviously.

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They're not all. 
All are not profits, are they? 

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And the answer is obviously no. 
All are not teachers, are they? 

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And the answer is obviously all.
They're not workers of miracles,

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are they? 
The answer is obviously no. 

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OK, now that doesn't mean that 
you would be. 

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I would never work a miracle 
because there are things that 

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can happen in the believer's 
life should the Holy Ghost move 

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upon them with the gifts of the 
Spirit. 

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In this same chapter that the 
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St. to minister to someone 
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It can happen now. 
With some, it may happen more 

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often based upon the grace in 
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But the working of miracles is 
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Jesus is the big deal because if
Laura works a miracle, George 

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works a miracle, Brianna works a
miracle, they didn't work a 

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miracle. 
It was the grace of God and 

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their obedience to do what God 
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God through them that did it 
because they themselves cannot 

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work a miracle. 
Yet how many people in the US 

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church flock to the person as if
only God can work miracles 

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through? 
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reason this passage is that he 
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body there's individual members,
but there are some very specific

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tasks or assignments or we would
call giftings. 

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Why would we call them giftings 
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Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19 to 
20. 

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Again just kind of look and I'm 
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foundation here. 
He says so that you will no 

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longer so you are no longer 
strangers and aliens, but you 

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are fellow citizens with the 
what Saints and are of God's 

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household having been built on 
the foundation of the what 

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apostles and prophets. 
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chief cornerstone in whom the 
whole body being together is 

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growing into a holy temple in 
the Lord, in whom you also are 

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being built together into a 
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So in these two passage of 
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communicated twice. 
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communicated twice. 
That's the apostle and the 

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prophet. 
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apostle today. 
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this. 
The object of the fivefold gifts

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is to enable the whole church to
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truly function as 
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Kingdom. 
That is the object or the 

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objective. 
That's the objective. 

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The objective of the fivefold 
ministry is not for you to come 

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follow it. 
The objective is for those gifts

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to equip you and mature you so 
that collectively are all 

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together are as one. 
We in turn represent Christ's 

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Kingdom, and again, we came out 
of the Kingdom that looks 

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nothing like the Kingdom of 
heaven we were in, thinking that

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was contrary to the word of the 
King. 

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It requires training. 
I said it requires training. 

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And as we saw in Finding Your 
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training centers. 
They are recruiting people to 

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come together for A cause so 
that they can accomplish 

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something within their local 
community and then expand beyond

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that. 
That is the intent. 

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It is not so that you can sit 
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you're going to go when you die.
That was never the church Jesus 

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was building assignment. 
It was to be a training 

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facility. 
I said a training facility. 

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It makes me want to make all of 
y'all stand up and do 10 jumping

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jacks, right? 
But that's a little tight and 

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some of you would be hitting 
people, you know, and I don't 

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want anyone to get hurt, you 
know. 

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All right, it's a training 
center. 

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So let's look at Ephesians 
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We'll look at the latter part of
verse 8 and let me read this one

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verse and then we'll go on to 
11:00 and 12:00. 

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And the latter of this verse 
said, and he gave gifts to men. 

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He gave gifts to men. 
Now verse 7 tells us that we all

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received a measure of grace. 
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received a measure of grace is 
because we all are gifts. 

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Say I'm a gift. 
Say I'm a gift. 

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You are a gift. 
You are a gift not only to the 

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body of Christ, but to the 
world. 

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God has made you a gift. 
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Gifts are only good if given and
opened because a gift given 

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that's never opened is as good 
as not having the gift. 

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I mean, y'all bless me. 
This last week I've received 

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gifts. 
And when I received those gifts,

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you know, if I just would have 
left every card in the envelope,

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I could have said look at this 
gift, but I would have not been 

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able to enjoy the benefits 
contained within the cards. 

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Are you hearing me? 
And I could go my whole life 

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saying, wow, I wish I had 
something today. 

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I wish I and I would really love
to do. 

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And all the while I have 
benefits within gifts that I 

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haven't even opened up yet. 
Amen. 

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So you have to see yourself as a
gift. 

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And unless you allow the five 
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your life, you are a gift to the
Church and the world left 

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unopened. 
And the benefits that you have 

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as a St. does not take effect. 
Say that's not me. 

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Come on, say that's not me. 
Now let's just pretend a little 

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bit that I had a gift in front 
of me and it was not one of 

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these Sissy gifts that we have 
today, which is a bag with a 

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little fluff fluff in it that 
you throw out and there it is. 

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No, we're talking about the ones
wrapped up. 

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Because the truth is, y'all all 
wrapped up anyway. 

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I, I, I would love to be around 
the person that gets born again 

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that all I had to do is pull the
fluff out and there I could see 

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the gift. 
And it was that easy, right? 

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I wish it was that easy. 
But the renewing of the mod is 

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like a well wrapped package with
much tape. 

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You're like, I, I mean, you 
understand, you got to RIP that 

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stuff open. 
I said you got to RIP it open. 

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We got to RIP this stuff and 
man, when that stuff starts 

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ripping, it starts screaming. 
People start screaming. 

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But again, we're just trying to 
get to the gift because you've 

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come in here like a pretty 
package all taped up, but the 

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real gifts on the inside. 
And it's time to tear the 

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package off and get to what 
everyone can receive benefits 

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from. 
So you got to pull down your 

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flesh. 
You got to get rid of your 

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carnality. 
You've got to put on, you know, 

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the love of God and the fruits 
of the Spirit. 

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Amen. 
So sometimes you're like, wow, I

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feel like I'm a little ripped 
today. 

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Well, that's good. 
Your gift's starting to come 

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out. 
Say thank God, pastor's 

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unwrapping me. 
Come on now, let's unwrap you so

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that your gift can be served. 
But he said he gave gifts to 

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men. 
So everyone has a gift. 

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But then in verse 11 he said, 
and he gave some and he gave 

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some, which means not all have 
this gift. 

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And this gift comes from God. 
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Man cannot appoint this gift. 
Man can label himself, yet what 

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is associated with the gifts as 
outlined in the scripture will 

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determine whether or not they 
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anointing of that gift or if it 
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OK. 
And he gave some as apostles, 

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some as prophets, some as 
evangelists, some as pastors and

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teachers for the equipment of 
the Saints, for the work of 

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service to the billing of the of
the body of Christ. 

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Now leave this scripture up for 
a moment because I want to show 

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a few things now. 
How many groups are are listed 

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in this passage? 
Six. 

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It was a trick question. 
Why? 

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Because Saints are gifts. 
Saints are gifts. 

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OK. 
The difference about Saints is 

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we do not get a whole lot of 
context of the gifts that are 

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associated with just being a St.
Because Saints the the variety 

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of those gifts are something the
Lord would have a. 

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It would be exhaustive for him 
to try to describe each and 

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every gift he has placed within 
his Saints because gifts are 

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related to the area that they 
are in, the geographical 

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territory of which those gifts 
are released. 

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The variety is we can't even we,
we can't calculate it. 

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The Lord knows it, but we 
cannot. 

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However, there are 5 gifts. 
There are 5 gifts. 

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Put that scripture back up 
please and leave it. 

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There are 5 gifts that are 
mentioned and there are is a 

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description of how those gifts 
function. 

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All right. 
And this is and all five of 

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those gifts, their purpose is 
the first 3 letters, 3 words of 

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verse 12. 
Why are they there for the 

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equipping, not for people to 
follow. 

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So quit looking for a prophet 
because you're not supposed to 

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be following a prophet. 
And if you're around a real 

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prophet, then they will equip 
you, which means they're going 

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to hurt your feelings at some 
point because no equipping comes

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without some form of pain. 
Say Amen. 

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So again, I want to be right up 
close to the pastor. 

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You want to be close to the 
person who is going to initiate 

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pain and suffering. 
Come on now. 

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I mean, let's just be honest now
that again, say, wait a minute, 

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now, you're supposed to be 
caring. 

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That is caring. 
But don't you think that a 

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pastor is not going to also lead
you in places contrary to where 

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you want to go? 
Because again, we'll talk about 

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the pastor next week. 
The pastor is overseeing a flock

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of sheep, and sheep, 
unfortunately, have a bad sense 

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of direction when left alone. 
However, they talk back to the 

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Shepherd often. 
Where are you going? 

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Why are you going there? 
Why are you heading that 

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direction? 
And it just looks back and go 

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back. 
Don't talk to me say Amen. 

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I mean, it's all good. 
Man, I'm going to preach real 

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here. 
Everybody wants it real till it 

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gets super real, all right? 
But we're real people, OK? 

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So he gave some ad. 
All of these are not for 

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following before equipping. 
They're for equipping. 

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All right, now, the next thing I
want us to see in this passage 

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is they are for the building up 
of the body of Christ. 

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And in this context with Paul, 
he's obviously talking to the 

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church at Ephesus, a local 
church. 

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He was not saying that these 
gifts, although they may be in 

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places, you get to pick which 
one you get to. 

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All right, Well, come on, help 
me out. 

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I got a lot to preach here, man.
Coach Hurley, would you stand 

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up? 
Coach Hurley is the baseball 

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coach for Saint Joe's. 
OK Academy. 

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Dayton, are you here? 
Dayton, stand up. 

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Dayton is a senior on this 
baseball team. 

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OK, Dayton, did you pick your 
coach? 

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If he's going to go to Saint 
Joseph St. 

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Joe's, he has a coach. 
Now that doesn't mean that his 

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parents didn't look for one. 
I understand all that cuz it's a

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private school, but we get into 
public schools. 

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If you were just district there,
then you get who you get. 

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That's right. 
So the player doesn't pick the 

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coach. 
Now why do I say cuz you get 

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into into get into college. 
We even get into professional 

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sports. 
Is it the player going to the 

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coach and saying I've picked 
you, I'm going to come play for 

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you? 
Is that how that works? 

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Or is it that the coach says I'm
interested in this player here, 

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I'm going to go try to recruit 
them. 

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Now, I understand that you get 
multiple recruitment going on, 

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then the player can ultimately 
pick a program, but you don't 

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even get to pick the program 
unless the program first came to

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you. 
You can be seated. 

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Thank you so much. 
Do you understand what I'm 

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saying? 
So again, it looks like oh, 

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Dayton gets to pick wherever he 
wants to go. 

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No, unless they have an interest
in him. 

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I mean, I know Dayton was 
eyeball in Tennessee for 

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baseball. 
We'll forgive you bro, but the 

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point is if they don't call, the
only other way he's going on is 

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he would have to be what they 
call a walk on. 

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He would have to show up 
somewhere and try to get on the 

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team and get them to know. 
But even it doesn't matter even 

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if he does all that, they still 
have to recognize him and give 

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the invitation. 
So the five full ministry here, 

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as Paul is saying, is that 
Saints do not pick the fivefold 

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ministry because Saints are in 
the body where it pleases God, 

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of which God has the coaching 
lineup. 

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Now this is going against all 
USA preaching. 

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I understand that, but I'm not 
from the USA solely. 

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I'm from the Kingdom first, I'm 
from the Kingdom first, My 

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citizenship is first in the 
Kingdom. 

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And that culture runs contrary 
to US culture and US 

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Christianity for that matter. 
So Paul never intended for the 

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Saints to hire their coaches. 
I mean, what professional team 

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are the athletes actually 
picking their own coaches and 

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telling the administrations or 
the owners of the team, hey, you

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hire this for? 
I know they have some input. 

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I recognize that some athletes 
have aspired, but you know what,

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Even when they have, those teams
usually don't do great anyway 

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because again, there's personal 
selfish ambition, interest 

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there. 
And again, if the owners like, I

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really want to have a winning 
team, I'm not going to have my 

455
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,120
players dictate who can oversee 
this organization. 

456
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,960
I'm going to bring the right 
person in to pull them up as 

457
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,440
players. 
That's the intent. 

458
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,880
Now that's just using a natural 
example. 

459
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:12,280
God is not even considering 
Saints getting involved in 

460
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:22,320
determining the five fold effect
coaching team because God knows 

461
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,040
how to put a winning team 
together. 

462
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,920
Come on, say, say, say, you know
that's true. 

463
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,320
You know that's true, which 
means now when we first come 

464
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,600
together, we may look like the 
bad news bears initially, but we

465
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,440
just stayed with the program. 
We going to be a championship 

466
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,880
for this thing's over with 
because we guaranteed to win. 

467
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,840
I mean, all we have to do is 
submit to the program that the 

468
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,800
head of the church is 
orchestrating through the 

469
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,160
fivefold ministry, fivefold 
effect of the coaching staff to 

470
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,200
the Saints to equip us so that 
ultimately we get to maturity 

471
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,760
and we dominate on a global 
scale. 

472
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,480
The things that are hit that's 
happening. 

473
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,760
All right, OK, so what's the 
original meaning of we're just 

474
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,800
going to look at this one of 
five fold effect, which is the 

475
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,240
apostle. 
We're going to look at it and 

476
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,720
it's original meaning. 
OK. 

477
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,440
The very nature of Apostolic 
ministry lends itself to being 

478
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,080
relational, geographical and 
territorial. 

479
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,680
All right. 
During the ancient Greek times, 

480
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,960
the word apostle was a was a 
naval term. 

481
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:39,400
So before Paul pinned this Greek
word for apostle back in 300 and

482
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,640
something BC, the Greeks were 
using the exact same Greek word.

483
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:50,240
But it was in terms of a it was 
a naval term that described an 

484
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,200
Admiral, the fleet of ships that
travel with him and the 

485
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,880
specialized crews who 
accompanied and assisted the 

486
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,520
Admiral. 
In essence this term was that an

487
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:06,080
Admiral would have a group of 
people and would go into non 

488
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:11,760
civilized territory of which 
then the team he had with with 

489
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,280
him or her. 
But back then it was only a him 

490
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:21,120
OK with him would then come in 
and create an infrastructure, a 

491
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,320
community and a culture. 
Right? 

492
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,360
Amen. 
That then the ones that were of 

493
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,560
that land would become a part of
that culture. 

494
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,120
And once they created that 
culture and they established 

495
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,920
that culture and caused the ones
that were in that territory that

496
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,800
they that was non civilized and 
came in and brought them a 

497
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,080
culture and they assimilated and
grew in that culture and could 

498
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,440
reproduce that culture. 
Then he would grab his team and 

499
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,200
go find another territory to 
bring that culture there. 

500
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,360
And this is what Paul penned 
when he said the apostle. 

501
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:09,960
So this gift is relational, 
geographical and territorial. 

502
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,719
Rick Renner, Greek scholar, said
this out of his Sparkling Gems 2

503
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,719
books said the word apostle was 
a term of great honor that 

504
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,679
referred to a person who was 
personally selected Commission 

505
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,239
and sent on an assignment on 
behalf of a very powerful 

506
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,360
government. 
Do you happen to know a very 

507
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,880
powerful government right now? 
I do. 

508
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,040
It's the Kingdom of God. 
It says this person wasn't 

509
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,760
merely sent off, he was 
empowered, invested with 

510
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,280
authority, and then dispatched 
to accomplish a special task. 

511
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,159
So when we talk about apostles, 
we are discussing individuals 

512
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,800
who are appointed, empowered, 
invested with authority by the 

513
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,960
Lord and then dispatched to do a
special task. 

514
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,400
And their task is the 
establishing of the Christian 

515
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,960
community in places where it had
not existed theretofore. 

516
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:13,920
Now you could say, and I would, 
I understand the US church 

517
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:19,440
thinking we say, well let's go 
into places where Christ has not

518
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,920
been preached. 
First of all, no one can 

519
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:29,040
honestly say that because the 
planets been around a lot longer

520
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,280
than we've been alive. 
So when we act like there are 

521
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,520
actually nations that have never
heard, in fact, the ones that 

522
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:43,880
are the least converted or 
knowing Christ, actually it was 

523
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:50,640
their first. 
When the original apostles went 

524
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,920
out, they went through the 
Middle East. 

525
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,600
So the gospel has been in the 
Middle East for 2000 years. 

526
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,440
Can I help correct a few things 
here? 

527
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:13,760
OK #1 is the Lord King of Israel
OK? 

528
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,320
Did he not say when he 
established this nation? 

529
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,840
It originated with Jacob, who 
became Israel, 12 tribes. 

530
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,560
Then ultimately it went into 
Egypt, of which a man named 

531
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,880
Moses brought it out. 
Then he created a law, some laws

532
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,160
concerning his nation that would
make them stand out different 

533
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,800
from the other nations of which 
he's king. 

534
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:43,680
He does not leave his kingship 
or he, when I say that he was 

535
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:52,240
he, he let go of direct kingship
and released it to a man. 

536
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,640
When Israel rejected him in 
First Samuel chapter 8, they 

537
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,840
said we want to see our king. 
Now, although God's king, we 

538
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,680
want to see him and remember 
what the Lord said. 

539
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,080
He said they've rejected me as 
king, not you, Samuel. 

540
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:09,000
Give the people what they want 
all right, but he let them know 

541
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,080
you take a man king. 
Here's your problems and did 

542
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,480
they have problems, But now he 
also laid out within the within 

543
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Moses's writings concerning the 
nation that this is what will 

544
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,360
occur with this nation. 
Deuteronomy 28 if you obey what 

545
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,600
I say because he's king, his 
words life, you'll be blessed 

546
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,200
coming in, blessed going out, 
heading out the tail. 

547
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,680
Your enemy come for you one way,
leave before you seven ways. 

548
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,320
I mean, he's letting know this 
is the strategy on how we'll 

549
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,320
deal with other nations. 
All you have to do is obey me 

550
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,960
and I got you, he said, but if 
you don't obey me, then all 

551
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,040
these curses have come. 
Now God is long-suffering. 

552
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,280
He's merciful. 
And so we pick up and see the 

553
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:54,440
rebellion of his nation page 
after page after page, and we 

554
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,920
see nations conquer. 
And then they cry out to him. 

555
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,600
And guess what he does? 
He comes back in and he delivers

556
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:02,840
them. 
We see this through the book of 

557
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,640
Judges. 
Then we see this when he 

558
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,200
establishes kings. 
He sees this with David. 

559
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,360
We see this with other kings 
that rise up. 

560
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,640
You know, we have a split of the
Kingdom that takes place 

561
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,880
between, you know, in the nation
of Israel through the tribes. 

562
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,960
And so we see this thing going 
up and down. 

563
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,680
But there comes a time frame. 
It's not in the lifetime of one 

564
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:28,320
person, but through the history 
books that the Lord comes to a 

565
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,520
time with his own nation that he
has delivered after their 

566
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:39,720
rebellion multiple times, that 
he sends a prophet by the name 

567
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,760
of Jeremiah and say preach to 
him again. 

568
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,720
But let me tell you what's going
to happen. 

569
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,760
They're not going to repent. 
I have been with them for 

570
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:57,520
hundreds of years. 
I, my word, has been with the A,

571
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:03,040
have seen the miraculous. 
It is through it has traveled 

572
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:10,040
through every generation and yet
this generation has risen up and

573
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,880
are so stubborn and stiff necked
that they're not going to 

574
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,880
repent. 
Here's the thing you preach, 

575
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,760
they're not going to come. 
And even if they cried out to 

576
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:27,640
me, he says I won't even listen.
Now, again, ministers aren't 

577
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,240
going to touch that, but I'm 
touching because it's in the 

578
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:36,560
Bible. 
So there comes a point where the

579
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Lord has to act on Deuteronomy 
2815 and the rest of it. 

580
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,920
If you do not obey me, these 
things are going to happen. 

581
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,280
So much so that he he did it in 
part. 

582
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,960
He let him see it. 
Every once in a while they were 

583
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,680
turned over to certain, but this
time he's like we're done. 

584
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:59,000
In fact, it's in Jeremiah that 
this scripture says this the 

585
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,280
Lord divorced Israel. 
In essence, he said the covenant

586
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,080
we're in. 
You've broken it so many times. 

587
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,760
I'll never leave you, forsake 
you, but you have played the 

588
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,560
Harlot so many times. 
You want to be out of this 

589
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:22,080
covenant, fine, we're done. 
And Babylon crushed Israel. 

590
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,840
Now, that didn't happen 
overnight. 

591
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:31,200
So again, when we come to the 
end Times, although there are 

592
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:36,120
billions of people on the 
planet, that doesn't mean those 

593
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,200
regions have not heard, nor does
it mean it's not in those 

594
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:46,360
regions. 
Now, that doesn't relinquish our

595
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,000
responsibility to go. 
I'm not saying that God sent 

596
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,880
Jeremiah even though he knows 
they're not going to repent, 

597
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:58,560
because God is masterful. 
No one will ever be able to 

598
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,880
stand before him and say he's 
not just and full of mercy. 

599
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,040
It's never going to happen. 
It's never going to happen, all 

600
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,920
right? 
And so he'll still send to 

601
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:14,160
nations that he knows they have 
had thousands of, in this case, 

602
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:20,240
a couple thousands of years of 
Christ the King, the gospel. 

603
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,720
But those nations have rejected 
it. 

604
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:30,400
They hate it. 
They kill people who love it and

605
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,760
there is a tribulation period 
awaiting their lives. 

606
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:41,080
Say Amen. 
Anyway, so I say all this 

607
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:49,360
because the apostle. 
It can go to an area that a 

608
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:55,120
church may be there, but is the 
culture of the Kingdom there 

609
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:10,060
'cause the Admiral was sent to 
bring a culture and we 

610
00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:15,460
understand in our nation that's 
a be 275 years coming up. 

611
00:42:18,460 --> 00:42:20,740
Not every church has the Kingdom
culture. 

612
00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:30,020
In fact, there are a lot of US 
churches that people don't even 

613
00:42:30,020 --> 00:42:32,180
know the Kingdom is even a 
reality today. 

614
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,440
The only thing they actually 
know is where they're going to 

615
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:43,680
go when they die. 
And that was never what God 

616
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,720
intended. 
So the apostle can move into a 

617
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:52,000
territory for this purpose to 
establish Kingdom culture. 

618
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:59,760
Are you hearing me? 
Rick Renner went on to say when 

619
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,680
the word apostle was applied in 
the New Testament apostles or to

620
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:08,360
the early New Testament apostles
and applied that an apostle was 

621
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:13,600
a spiritual passport that gave 
believers right, gave believers 

622
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,560
rite of passage into heavenly 
realms and into deeper spiritual

623
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,440
truths. 
One can certainly see that those

624
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,960
who were under the apostleship 
of Paul were taken into realms 

625
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,600
of revelation that they could 
have never attained on their 

626
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,960
own. 
His ministry was a spiritual 

627
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,520
passport that gave them rite of 
passage into spiritual 

628
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,280
revelation. 
It should be noted that any 

629
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,120
person who operates in a genuine
Apostolic calling will lead 

630
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,360
people into new spiritual 
realities. 

631
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,160
Now look what it says here in 
Acts 242. 

632
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,920
They were continually devoting 
themselves to the apostles, 

633
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,560
teaching and the fellowship to 
breaking the bread into prayer. 

634
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,280
Now let me say this about 
revelation again. 

635
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,000
We were instructed at Rhema that
we should pray the Pauline 

636
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,800
prayers because the Pauline 
prayers talk are for the church 

637
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,760
today. 
And and that means that we are 

638
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:14,120
to ask the Lord that we will 
receive revelation knowledge 

639
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:20,920
that we would receive a 
spiritual insight, wisdom, 

640
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,880
revelation, these things that 
are all through these particular

641
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,560
scriptures that are eyes of our 
understanding would be 

642
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,880
enlightened. 
Yet if you don't watch out in 

643
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,520
the US church, if you start 
speaking something not 

644
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:42,280
everyone's heard yet. 
Why are we praying the prayers 

645
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,520
if we don't expect to hear 
something different than what 

646
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:49,640
we've always? 
What's the reason for praying 

647
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,720
them? 
Now let me say it this way. 

648
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,600
There is no such thing as new 
revelation. 

649
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,600
This is what I loved about 
Doctor Miles Monroe's book. 

650
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:07,800
He called it Rediscovering the 
Kingdom because it wasn't new, 

651
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,720
it was known. 
It just became lost through 

652
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:19,160
tradition. 
Paul spoke a mystery concerning 

653
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,440
the church, but it wasn't new 
because the Old Testament talked

654
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,520
about the light was going to 
come to the Gentiles. 

655
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:32,040
So it wasn't a new revelation. 
It was a rediscovered hidden 

656
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:36,320
truth that was already contained
within the old covenant 

657
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,920
scriptures that Paul by the Holy
Ghost was able to communicate. 

658
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:45,320
This is what God meant when you 
read this. 

659
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,640
This is why Jesus after his 
death burial in the resurrection

660
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,960
came up on a couple of disciples
remember? 

661
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,120
And they were he was like why 
y'all so upset? 

662
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,680
He goes like bro where you been?
I mean you didn't hear about 

663
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,320
Jesus. 
I mean, are you the only person 

664
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,640
in Jerusalem that know about the
prophet that was killed? 

665
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,440
And it said that Jesus as he 
walked with them, began to 

666
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:14,040
reveal to them from the the law 
that's the writings of Moses and

667
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:20,600
the prophets who he was. 
Notice it wasn't new revelation,

668
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,600
it was a rediscovered 
understanding of what already 

669
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,120
existed in Scripture. 
So you understand, in our 

670
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,200
society, when someone starts to 
minister something like, oh, I 

671
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,640
haven't heard that before, why 
do we get resistant? 

672
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,480
Because if it's in Scripture and
you can prove it with two or 

673
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:45,200
three, I tend to go through the 
whole context of the Bible if 

674
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,320
I'm dealing with something. 
Why is it that we don't think we

675
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,760
can't see it more clearly? 
And why would we think that God 

676
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,760
would not want to reveal more 
about His Kingdom, since that's 

677
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,480
what this dispensation is coming
to? 

678
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,040
It's not coming to a suffering 
servant. 

679
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,000
It's not coming to the lamb that
was slain because the lambs been

680
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,520
slain and the lambs poured out 
his blood. 

681
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,840
No, we're coming to a king now. 
You don't like want to 

682
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,720
acknowledge him as king, but 
he's king nonetheless. 

683
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,000
You might not want to see the 
Father on the throne as a king, 

684
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,640
but he is 1 nonetheless, and 
he's coming to rule and reign 

685
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,000
with his son. 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 

686
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,800
So we're not learning new 
revelation. 

687
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:36,880
We are rediscovering truths that
exist but we had not been taught

688
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,960
because tradition squeezed it 
out. 

689
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:48,840
And the apostle will bring those
types of spiritual insights. 2nd

690
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,680
Corinthians 1212 says this 
concerning the apostle as well. 

691
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,000
It says truly, the signs of an 
apostle are wrought among you in

692
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,880
all patients in signs, wonders 
and mighty deeds, which again, 

693
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,920
sometimes, sometimes I would 
love to say, OK, Lord, give us a

694
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,280
description of Saints. 
Well, there is a description of 

695
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,640
Saints. 
It's a general purpose. 

696
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,200
You're supposed to function in 
the fruits of the spirit. 

697
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,480
You're supposed to walk in love 
towards one another. 

698
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,200
You're supposed to reconcile. 
There's plenty that we can judge

699
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:21,560
fruit concerning Saints, whether
you're functioning as a true St.

700
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,520
or not. 
All right, you're to be a 

701
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,880
disciple actually, not a 
convert, which means you are to 

702
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,200
be a studier of the word. 
This is what Saints do. 

703
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,440
So we can find some things 
generally concerning the Saint 

704
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,160
when it comes the apostle. 
They wrought in them all 

705
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,040
patients, signs, wonders and 
mighty deeds. 

706
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,480
Now again, reading from Rick 
Renner because he's a Greek 

707
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:45,680
scholar, he said this patience 
is an attribute that most people

708
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,600
overlook, yet is just as 
supernatural as healings and 

709
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,400
miracles. 
Put that scripture back up. 

710
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:58,440
I want them to see this. 
Truly the signs of an apostle 

711
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:06,000
were wrought among you in all 
patients now because Saints in 

712
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:16,360
their carnality lust for power. 
You left around where you only 

713
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,240
wanted power cause your daddy 
was power hungry. 

714
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,880
And sin makes you power hungry. 
But when you come over to the 

715
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Kingdom, you're no longer power 
hungry because you have power. 

716
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:31,840
You have power. 
It's just whenever God wants to 

717
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:36,880
release that power through 
faith, not so that he can, so 

718
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,920
that you can become God over 
here. 

719
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,800
You're already a child of God, 
and again, you're not competing 

720
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,840
with your brothers, you're just 
doing your assignment. 

721
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,120
So it says the signs of the 
apostles now are patience. 

722
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,640
Patience. 
So it's just as supernatural as 

723
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,280
healings and miracles. 
It comes from a Greek word which

724
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,200
when seen, depicts a person's 
supernatural ability to hang in 

725
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,640
there and to stay put no matter 
what forces try to stop them. 

726
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,440
This is the number one sign of 
apostle. 

727
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:19,320
They don't go and pastor for 
three or four years and then 

728
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:25,320
pick up and leave. 
Now, some apostles are extremely

729
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,320
dedicated to just the planting 
of the church, raising up a 

730
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,760
culture and doing another, and 
we're going to talk about that 

731
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,080
here in a second. 
However, when they come in, no 

732
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,280
matter what comes to say the 
church can't be there. 

733
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,000
They will stay till it's 
established. 

734
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,920
This is what Paul did when he 
came into a community and they 

735
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:52,240
grabbed him and threw him in 
jail, right? 

736
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,320
Well, after this whole turmoil, 
they're like, OK, you can go. 

737
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,120
He said no, no, no, no. 
You tell them to come in here, 

738
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,480
they going to come. 
In essence, he says, I just 

739
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:07,320
planted a church, and I am not 
sneaking out of this place to 

740
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,560
make it look like, you know, 
hey, when trouble comes, you 

741
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,080
just got to go. 
No, they're going to come in. 

742
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,160
They're going to escort me out 
because he was showing the 

743
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,920
church. 
We have authority here. 

744
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,040
We have a place here, and we 
will not be intimidated with 

745
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:23,400
people who try to shut us down. 
And that's what Paul did. 

746
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,320
Come on. 
That's what Paul did. 

747
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:29,600
All right. 
He goes on to say Rick Renner. 

748
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,160
He says people mistakenly get 
the impression that Paul's 

749
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:38,680
ministry was continually visited
with miracles of this nature or 

750
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,960
of of miracles, signs and 
wonders, he said. 

751
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:46,080
But one careful if, but if one 
carefully and honestly examined 

752
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,240
the book of Acts to determine 
the regularity to which these 

753
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:53,600
types of supernatural signs 
occurred, you will find that 

754
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:58,640
these events did not occur 
non-stop in Paul's ministry, but

755
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,960
rather at pivotal and crucial 
moments when miracles were 

756
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,640
needed to open the door for the 
gospel even wider. 

757
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,360
These were supernatural signs 
intended to grab the attention 

758
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,560
of the listeners and to serve as
proof that the gospel message 

759
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:19,080
they were hearing was true. 
See, in the USA church, we're 

760
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:24,040
looking for one person to work 
miracles in every service at the

761
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,520
expense of you keeping your gift
unwrapped. 

762
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,000
But it's the apostles job to 
say, look, I'm not the only only

763
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,800
one who's going to raise the 
dead, lay hands on the sick, 

764
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,040
cast out devils. 
You do it and you do it and you 

765
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,360
do it and you do it. 
OK, let's give a little moment 

766
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,160
here for the Spirit of God move.
Why? 

767
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,520
So that God can use somebody 
else. 

768
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,280
Because here's the thing. 
How regular would it look if you

769
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,720
laid hands and you laid hands 
and you laid hands and you laid 

770
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:53,280
hands. 
Because if you did it this week,

771
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,920
you did it next week, you did it
the week after you did it 4 

772
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,000
weeks later, you did it 5 weeks,
six weeks. 

773
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,520
We could go through a whole year
where every week the miraculous 

774
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,160
was happening, but it just 
wasn't happening with one 

775
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:08,160
person. 
But again, we idolize. 

776
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,320
Yeah, that's good. 
Come on now, you know where the 

777
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,880
church went wrong. 
The church went wrong because it

778
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:20,960
called these five fold effects 
or these ministries titles. 

779
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,880
The Bible doesn't call them 
titles, calls them gifts. 

780
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:34,840
Subtle, but it's profound 
because the minute we called it 

781
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:44,640
a title, then anyone who truly 
operates, all of a sudden people

782
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:49,040
think they just want power. 
Because in the corporate world, 

783
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,200
well, their title is CEO, Their 
title is this. 

784
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,240
Their title is that, their title
is this. 

785
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,560
So that rebellious nature of not
submitting, oh, y'all don't want

786
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:00,280
to hear? 
OK, that's fine. 

787
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,360
It's easier to kick because 
nobody's going to be over me. 

788
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,880
Well, the Lord's over you. 
But then he has overseers. 

789
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,960
Amen. 
Now ultimately you are in 

790
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,000
control of your own personal 
destiny because how you submit 

791
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,280
to how God's put it together is 
up to you. 

792
00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:24,240
But God has a way of doing it, 
period. 

793
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,400
And let me just say it this way.
There are plenty of churches 

794
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,920
that will let you have church 
your way. 

795
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,160
Burger King. 
Yeah, they're Burger King 

796
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,600
churches out there. 
Have it your way, you rule. 

797
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:41,040
Well, when you have it your way,
you actually don't rule. 

798
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:48,760
You'll be in bondage because you
think freedom's independence. 

799
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,040
And that may work in the US, but
it does not work in the Kingdom.

800
00:54:54,200 --> 00:55:00,200
True power works submitted to 
the king and his way of doing 

801
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,960
things. 
Hallelujah. 

802
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,600
And we know I was talking with a
young minister this week, 

803
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,080
talking about, you know, 
different churches wondering, 

804
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,080
you know, will they continue? 
And I said, I'm going to be 

805
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,080
honest with you. 
The answer is yes, because the 

806
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,400
Bible tells us in the last of 
the last days they're going to 

807
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,760
be seducing spirits and 
doctrines of demons and seducing

808
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,880
spirits are not just associated 
with the church. 

809
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,080
Seducing spirits will seduce you
to get into places of 

810
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,680
employment, seduce you into into
places of raises, seduce you 

811
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,720
into other things to take you 
out of the church. 

812
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,440
A seducing spirits there just to
get you out of the church, to 

813
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,200
gossip, to do all kinds of 
things just to get you out, get 

814
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,680
you disconnected. 
All right. 

815
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,080
However it goes on says that 
these last days that there will 

816
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:51,960
be congregation members that 
will heap teachers to themselves

817
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,400
because they have itching ears. 
In essence, we're going to tell 

818
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,480
you what to teach, we're going 
to tell you what to preach, and 

819
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:04,320
we will pay you to do it. 
Hallelujah. 

820
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,640
Amen. 
So it's going to happen. 

821
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:11,640
It's going to be here. 
But the true churches, they'll 

822
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,160
function differently, Amen. 
They'll function differently. 

823
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,600
So again, these things are not 
just with regularity. 

824
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:25,200
However, if all of us came 
together, we would see more 

825
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:29,800
things being done because all of
us together can work the size 

826
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,600
period. 
Now I know in my own personal 

827
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:39,080
life there was a child that had 
died when we were over in 312 

828
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,600
laid hands. 
By the grace of God, she was 

829
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:45,840
raised from the dead. 
OK, we've laid hands on people 

830
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,200
with cancer. 
They've been healed. 

831
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,760
We've I remember one time in 
India, we gave an altar call. 

832
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,240
These people came up and I had 
to communicate to them because 

833
00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:56,920
in India they, they'll just add 
Jesus to their God. 

834
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,640
So I said, you have to denounce 
every other God. 

835
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,720
Now the minute I said this, this
woman was here and her husband, 

836
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:09,920
they had a child who was 
crippled and I said you're going

837
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,320
to I said you must denounce 
every other and Jesus is Lord. 

838
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:18,320
Her eyes rolled back in her head
and she fell out the men. 

839
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:23,480
I said the name Jesus, that 
spirit that was on her left. 

840
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,560
I had a nurse that was on the 
trip with me. 

841
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,560
She came up. 
I knew it was a spirit that 

842
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,680
left. 
I said she's fine, leave her 

843
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,440
alone. 
She came to, I told that couple 

844
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,560
specifically. 
You go home, you burn every 

845
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,640
idol, you get rid of it. 
The next year they were still in

846
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,680
church and their daughter was 
healed. 

847
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,200
The reason she was healed 
because that spirit of infirmity

848
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,520
that was associated with the 
idols couldn't keep her crippled

849
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,240
anymore. 
Hallelujah, are you hearing me? 

850
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,680
Amen. 
Now, I know in my own personal 

851
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,400
life, Paul on the road to 
Damascus had this encounter with

852
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,760
God that pulled him into his 
apostleship. 

853
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,000
And when I was studying Rick 
Renner concerning these 

854
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,720
particular things because he 
said one aspect of the apostle 

855
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,760
is that they'll have a divine 
revelation moment with God. 

856
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,440
And I never equated it with 
this, but when I was called to 

857
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,960
ministry for the first time as I
was driving to Atlanta, GA, I 

858
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,520
had a 89 Ford pickup and I was 
driving to work and my whole 

859
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:26,040
windshield disappeared and I saw
myself ministering to thousands.

860
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,480
I mean, sea of people had an 
open vision. 

861
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,800
It was undeniable. 
And I knew I was called. 

862
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,440
I knew I was ministering the 
word of God. 

863
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:41,320
All right, so these miracles 
that function with the apostle 

864
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,440
are not just for tours. 
It also brought him in 

865
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,320
deliverances. 
I mean, he was supernaturally 

866
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:53,920
delivered for some major trouble
by the Holy Ghost because of the

867
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,560
Apostolic call on his life. 
Look at this in First 

868
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:00,560
Corinthians 1510, nine to 10. 
He says, For I am the least of 

869
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,360
the apostles and not fit to be 
called an apostle because I 

870
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,760
persecuted the Church of God. 
Well, that's how he felt. 

871
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:12,640
However, he said, But by the 
grace of God, I am what I am. 

872
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,760
And His grace towards me did not
prove vain, but I labored even 

873
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,680
more than them, than all of 
them. 

874
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,320
Yet not I, but the grace of God 
within me, which tells us Paul 

875
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,960
was driven. 
And he was driven not because he

876
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:39,000
was personally driven, but the 
grace on his life caused him to 

877
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,920
drive. 
It was part of his Apostolic 

878
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:45,920
anointing. 
And when it came to being called

879
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:56,800
that he didn't aspire, but he is
what he is because again, we are

880
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:03,320
what we are because God picked 
us and made us that at the end 

881
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,040
of the day. 
And so Paul was saying here 

882
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,800
prior to this whole deal way I 
persecuted, I shouldn't even be 

883
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,120
enlisted for service. 
But God knew before he was in 

884
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,000
his mother womb this was his 
destiny. 

885
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,480
And the fact that he tried to 
destroy the church didn't change

886
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:26,640
God's mind on his appointment. 
His assignment, he just needed 

887
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,320
his repentance. 
I mean, so he could really walk 

888
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,480
in it. 
Now, if he didn't repent, he 

889
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,200
could have done what he did die,
and the Lord would have said, 

890
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:38,480
well, my apostle and he'd been 
like, I'm obviously not. 

891
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,320
He said, yeah, I know. 
So what you were supposed to be 

892
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,280
and you didn't repent to do it. 
But this is what I'll judge you 

893
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:48,160
in based upon what I call what I
destined you to be, not what you

894
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,400
did. 
Are you hearing me? 

895
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,800
But he did repent and he says I 
labored more than them all. 

896
01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:01,080
And man, when he put his his 
list out, I mean, he started 

897
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:04,840
throwing his resume out in 
Scripture so all of us could 

898
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:08,600
read today. 
If you start talking about your 

899
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:13,680
resume, people call you arrogant
when really you're just talking 

900
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:23,160
about the grace of God on your 
life, the grace of God, and when

901
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,560
you function in the grace of God
that's on your life. 

902
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,720
Well, then things will occur. 
What are some Apostolic 

903
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,600
attributes again? 
Ernest Gentile said it this way.

904
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:37,960
An apostle initially has a 
relentless that relentlessness 

905
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,840
that cannot be stealed, a drive 
to see God's Kingdom advance, a 

906
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,800
determination to reach new towns
and new cities and new cultures 

907
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,480
and new peoples. 
Apostles want to plant the flag 

908
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:53,000
of Christ in people groups. 
They have long been captive to 

909
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,520
the Prince of darkness. 
They cry out with Peyton or 

910
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,000
Patton. 
My God, I was born for this 

911
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,800
hour. 
Now here's the challenge. 

912
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:13,560
In the US church specifically, 
we love pastor, we love teacher,

913
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:21,000
and we accept evangelist. 
But the other two gifts we do 

914
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:25,440
not talk about. 
There are some denominations 

915
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,640
that function there and there 
have been abuses on all 5. 

916
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,000
But again, just because there's 
been abuses doesn't mean there 

917
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,840
aren't those who are functioning
in them properly. 

918
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,600
Because can I just, can I let 
you in on a little secret? 

919
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:50,640
There's been abuses from the 
Saints, been a lot of abuse come

920
01:02:50,640 --> 01:03:01,960
from the Saints. 
It's amazing how a St. will 

921
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,360
don't want to be around none of 
the fivefold just because they 

922
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:10,360
get around an abusive one if 
they're faults and that like I 

923
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:15,000
don't have to do God's way now. 
I mean, the God of heaven and 

924
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:20,400
earth can bring you to the gifts
that are functioning in 

925
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:25,600
obedience and right. 
Because if you're that good of a

926
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,560
St. you ought to be able to hear
from heaven and get to the ones 

927
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:34,800
that are doing it. 
Because if you're the Saint that

928
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:40,280
says you don't need it, you may 
be just as abusive as the ones 

929
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:47,200
you left. 
Hallelujah. 

930
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:51,760
We are to grow together. 
You are not to grow individually

931
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:56,600
independent by yourself. 
Hallelujah. 

932
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,280
Are you hearing me? 
So apostles are big picture. 

933
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:04,880
They're casting a wider vision 
of the church. 

934
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,040
I remember, and I'll give you a 
couple instances myself 

935
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,200
personally, I went to Pastor 
Jack Meyer's church down in 

936
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,120
Plant City. 
He invited me to come minister a

937
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,240
couple of days. 
And so I came in and I, I mean, 

938
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:21,640
I was honestly there 15 minutes,
15 minutes, all right. 

939
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,200
And the grace of God started to 
activate my life. 

940
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,360
They started talking about how 
they had run, was running out of

941
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:31,960
room, didn't have a size based 
upon their building the property

942
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,320
wasn't a whole lot, you know, 
thinking about how they, you 

943
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,400
know, what are they going to do?
They can't really grow in this 

944
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:37,920
location. 
There's another little piece 

945
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:44,000
that another pastor ended up 
getting on a, you know, secret 

946
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,280
bid. 
He put in Pastor Jack put in a 

947
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:49,480
dollar. 
The other guy I think did $1.50 

948
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,800
and one I'm like, bro, she 
should have dropped $100 bill, 

949
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,840
man. 
I mean, what's $100 anyway? 

950
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,200
So he has this other that he 
that this new pastor has, he 

951
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,280
can't even build a building 
there and he wants him to, you 

952
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,920
know, trade not happening. 
So got this little quandary. 

953
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:08,160
The grace kicks in. 
I walk in, right, we're talking 

954
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:12,200
and I said, well, do this. 
And I started explaining how he 

955
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,560
could change his sanctuary, how 
he could pull this wall, move 

956
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:18,200
this here and move that. 
That's the anointing of the 

957
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:21,720
apostle, big vision, bigger 
picture. 

958
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,920
And they, him and his wife both 
looked around and they're like, 

959
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,360
we've never, they never saw it, 
didn't consider it. 

960
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:33,240
Now they are pastor evangelists.
That's what they are. 

961
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:37,560
That's their gifting. 
So then when I came in under the

962
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:43,040
Apostolic anointing, they have 
literal plans built that way 

963
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:45,320
now. 
And when Pastor Marsh and I go 

964
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,240
minister there in September, 
they're hoping to have it 

965
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,720
finished, built out as we spoke 
it, by the grace of God. 

966
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,400
But that's what I've gone into 
some churches where there's 

967
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:58,000
pastors, and they're talking 
about how they're not growing, 

968
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:02,360
and yet they have 80 seats. 
They have enough aisle space 

969
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,240
that you could put a whole 
nother row in between it. 

970
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,800
And they have enough seats for 
everyone who's currently coming.

971
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,080
So if anyone else comes, there's
nowhere else for them to sit. 

972
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:11,560
I'm like, you need to tighten 
this row. 

973
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:13,760
This is Apostolic. 
You tighten this row up. 

974
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,240
How many more chairs do you 
have? 

975
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:17,800
Let's bring in another 20 or 30 
chairs in here. 

976
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:18,960
Yeah, but we don't have that 
many people. 

977
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,480
Well, how are you going to get 
that many people if we do not? 

978
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:27,080
That's the Apostolic. 
I was around another minister 

979
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,280
not too long ago, didn't even 
say anything, but they wrote me 

980
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:34,840
back and said, listen, just 
being around you gave clarity of

981
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,640
some things we had, why it was 
the anointing. 

982
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:41,400
It's not me. 
It's the grace of God to release

983
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:45,200
into those gifts. 
That's what it does. 

984
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:48,600
And the things that we do today 
are not because I pastored 

985
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:53,000
Anchor Faith Church is because I
was an apostle for Anchor Faith 

986
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,480
Church that also pastors one of 
its locations. 

987
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:01,440
Hallelujah. 
So in First Corinthians 92, it 

988
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:06,360
says if to others I'm not an 
apostle, at least I am to you, 

989
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,480
for you are the seal of my 
apostleship in the Lord. 

990
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:16,000
Earnest Gentile said it this 
way. 

991
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:20,200
Every Apostolic Church should 
equip, mobilize for people's 

992
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:25,240
conversions, numerical growth, 
church planting, spiritual 

993
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,840
maturity, penetration of secular
marketplaces, and global 

994
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,800
expansion. 
Apostolic describes the 

995
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:36,800
ambassador function of the local
church moving outward from the 

996
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,520
local setting, planting churches
near and far, reaching the 

997
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:43,800
nation's as well as the local 
marketplace, impacting culture. 

998
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:49,000
Now, if you've been with us very
long, you realize we do that. 

999
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,480
That's what we were ordained to 
do. 

1000
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,240
When I first came into Saint 
Augustine, the Lord clearly 

1001
01:07:56,240 --> 01:08:00,520
spoke to me, said he said, Earl,
do not buy 5 acres. 

1002
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,080
Don't do it. 
You are not going to find 5 

1003
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:08,520
acres and build a church. 
We're doing something else, and 

1004
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:12,280
I did not realize at the time it
was the Apostolic call on my 

1005
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,000
life. 
Why in the world again does the 

1006
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,560
Lord want us to purchase them 
all? 

1007
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,760
Takes us 17 years to buy land. 
Why? 

1008
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:24,160
Because I'm not just pastoring. 
We are changing cultures. 

1009
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,439
We are in every sector of 
society. 

1010
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,960
We have deployed into every 
sector of society. 

1011
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:32,120
We've been government, we've 
been in sports, we're in 

1012
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:35,640
business, we're in education. 
I mean, there's not a sector of 

1013
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,840
society we are not currently 
infiltrating because the 

1014
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:43,040
Apostolic anointing on my life 
is filtering over into your life

1015
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,520
to where we're having this 
Apostolic move. 

1016
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:54,240
And then because of that, people
have come to me and say we want 

1017
01:08:54,240 --> 01:09:01,439
your culture. 
And so initially we transformed 

1018
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:06,240
existing churches to our 
culture, like an Admiral who 

1019
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:10,000
went in with a special team to a
location and say this is the 

1020
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:11,800
Anchor Faith way. 
Why? 

1021
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,760
Because they saw themselves in 
that vision. 

1022
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:18,040
They wanted to be a part of that
culture. 

1023
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:21,080
They basically said, I'm not an 
island. 

1024
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:24,040
I am Anchor Faith Church just in
Nicaragua. 

1025
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,279
See, this is what you have to 
understand. 

1026
01:09:26,399 --> 01:09:29,000
Anchor Faith Church is not me, 
it's you. 

1027
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:35,040
You are, and that's what the 
Apostolic anointing does. 

1028
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:40,520
It causes you to see you. 
You're not doing the vision for 

1029
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:44,920
me because the minute you see 
yourself doing the vision for 

1030
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:52,000
me, you're not of me because you
see yourself outside of me doing

1031
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,440
something for me. 
I am Anchor faith. 

1032
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,440
You're anchor faith. 
We're just doing us. 

1033
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,760
You do your part. 
I'm doing my part. 

1034
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:03,240
And we accomplished some great 
things. 

1035
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:05,200
Why? 
Because Anchor Faith was never a

1036
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:08,160
man or a woman. 
It was all of us. 

1037
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,240
And this is what the Apostolic 
vision will do. 

1038
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:14,480
But you know what? 
If you don't watch out, You want

1039
01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:21,840
me to be just pastor where I 
just care for you and your 

1040
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:26,160
family and think about you and 
you alone And like, why in the 

1041
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:27,960
world we trying to get something
else? 

1042
01:10:28,440 --> 01:10:31,080
Why do they want to plant 
churches all on every coast of 

1043
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,600
Florida? 
Why can't they ever be 

1044
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:39,920
satisfied? 
Come on, are you hearing me? 

1045
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,320
I mean, these things take place.
Paul himself had challenges 

1046
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:50,560
because of taking territory. 
In fact, Rick Renner said this 

1047
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:56,600
because you push drive, you go 
after things, you're after the 

1048
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,360
world for the sake of Jesus 
Christ and expanding his 

1049
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:01,440
Kingdom. 
Listen, you have to admit, the 

1050
01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:03,160
Kingdom culture is not in the 
planet. 

1051
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:07,080
Very well. 
Let's just to me, let me just 

1052
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:09,160
get real. 
The Kingdom culture is not 

1053
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,120
extremely huge in Saint 
Augustine. 

1054
01:11:18,190 --> 01:11:22,120
And This is why God has you 
here, so you can deploy it. 

1055
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:24,520
And you know, you feel that, 
don't you feel that alien you 

1056
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,720
don't you feel that thing just 
rise up and you're like, my 

1057
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,280
gosh, man, I got to take some 
territory. 

1058
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:32,280
I've got to bring this Kingdom 
somewhere. 

1059
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,600
I mean, you sense that, Rolanda 
inside you, You're like, my 

1060
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:38,400
gosh, man, we have other 
expansion to do. 

1061
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,320
Sabrina, don't you feel that on 
the inside? 

1062
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,040
It's what attracts you, is what 
pulls you. 

1063
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,080
And that's what the Apostolic 
gift does. 

1064
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:54,160
Now, I pastor this location, but
if you leave me only in the 

1065
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:57,080
pastoral role, you're going to 
be highly disappointed. 

1066
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:03,160
And you'll be disappointed 
because you don't want me to run

1067
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:04,680
here or there or do this, that, 
and the other. 

1068
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,280
But you're telling me to deny 
the grace of God on my life. 

1069
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:12,040
And here's the thing. 
God has the fivefold ministry 

1070
01:12:12,480 --> 01:12:17,120
right here in Saint Augustine. 
We have the apostle, the pastor,

1071
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:26,160
the prophet, the evangelist, and
the teacher, and you get to grow

1072
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,000
underneath every one of those 
gifts. 

1073
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:34,280
Wow, how amazing is that? 
It's not common, I understand 

1074
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:40,280
that, but we need to value it. 
Are you hearing me? 

1075
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:45,160
But when you get into this 
Apostolic position and you start

1076
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:47,520
taking territory and you start 
doing things in different 

1077
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,280
places, you will create 
conflict. 

1078
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:54,760
Conflict comes. 
In fact, let me read about some 

1079
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,320
conflict Paul had. 
It says this. 

1080
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,920
Paul frequently had to defend 
his apostleship because of 

1081
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:03,000
deceitful workers who swarmed in
trying to exert authority over 

1082
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,840
entire regions of churches that 
he and other apostles had 

1083
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,280
established to which they had 
imparted their lives. 

1084
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:13,760
Apostleship was power, so those 
with impure motives sought to 

1085
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,520
invade Paul's territory and 
claim his fruit, seeing it as an

1086
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,760
effective way to exploit someone
else's work for themselves. 

1087
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:25,480
Says Those who coveted the 
Apostolic position used every 

1088
01:13:25,480 --> 01:13:30,000
imaginable method to attract, 
tempt, lure, entice and seduce 

1089
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,600
the churches under the realm of 
authority of genuine apostles. 

1090
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,360
In Paul's case, the impostors 
could not find a legitimate 

1091
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:41,560
reason to accuse the apostle, so
they use slanderous and even 

1092
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,000
stupid accusations as they tried
to persuade the churches to 

1093
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,440
reject Paul and submit to their 
authority instead. 

1094
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:55,240
So every five fold ministry is 
going to have an attack of a 

1095
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,360
false one and Saints are going 
to come against it. 

1096
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:04,440
However, those that are true 
will endure because the apostle 

1097
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:16,050
#1 supernatural is patience. 
I can endure the season of 

1098
01:14:16,050 --> 01:14:23,730
slander and overcome. 
I can endure the season of 

1099
01:14:23,730 --> 01:14:31,890
attacks and not be moved because
the grace on your life is to 

1100
01:14:31,890 --> 01:14:47,740
accomplish it. 
I'm really excited about where 

1101
01:14:47,740 --> 01:14:51,740
we're going and I'm more excited
about where God's taking us and 

1102
01:14:51,740 --> 01:14:55,540
I'm more excited about the next 
season we're in and get ready. 

1103
01:14:56,420 --> 01:15:01,140
Just going to fill on up because
of the call, because of the 

1104
01:15:01,140 --> 01:15:03,980
assignment, because of the 
culture of the Kingdom. 

1105
01:15:06,140 --> 01:15:12,960
I'm not looking for followers, 
I'm looking for workers, those 

1106
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,080
who want to be deployed, those 
who want to get in every sector 

1107
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:18,560
of society, those who want to 
take territory, those who want 

1108
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,800
to release their gift and get 
unwrapped and do something 

1109
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,960
significant in their workplaces,
their secular markets, their 

1110
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,200
community. 
This is what we're doing and we 

1111
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:30,000
will continue to do it and we 
will not be stopped. 

1112
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:40,320
So, concluding, Ernest Gentile 
said this apostles are able to 

1113
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,480
lay biblical foundations and 
keep the New Testament pattern 

1114
01:15:43,480 --> 01:15:45,880
of work among the churches. 
They strengthen and encourage 

1115
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:49,600
pastoral leaders, mobilize 
churches for action, and and 

1116
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,280
present the global vision of 
Christ and his church. 

1117
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:55,720
They inspire greater faith and 
empower workers to reach the 

1118
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,200
secular marketplace. 
Apostles present the big picture

1119
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:02,200
in an impressive way, often with
miraculous confirmation. 

1120
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:06,720
They hold fast the standard of 
members to be saved, water 

1121
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:08,400
baptized, filled with the Holy 
Spirit. 

1122
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:12,760
And I add this, live a life 
holy, separated unto God. 

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01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,240
Amen. 
And so the role of the apostle 

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was functioning right here in 
Anchor Faith Church. 

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01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,720
And I'm just going to say I am 
what I am. 

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01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:29,400
Now listen, I do not ask you to 
call me Pastor Earl, and I've 

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01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:30,880
not asked you to call me Apostle
Earl. 

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01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,320
You can do whatever you want to 
do yet in this place. 

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01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:36,880
I've had both people, both 
acknowledgements. 

1130
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:39,120
I do say this though you want 
to. 

1131
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,520
The Bible says if you see 
receive a righteous man in the 

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01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:45,800
name of righteous, you'll 
receive a righteous reward. 

1133
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:49,200
And if I'm brother Earl, you're 
going to receive righteousness 

1134
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,480
from me. 
That's right. 

1135
01:16:51,480 --> 01:16:56,160
The Earl's received that. 
But if you want the anointing a 

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,800
pastor, well then you have to 
acknowledge the gift. 

1137
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,160
And it's not I, but it's the 
gift. 

1138
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,080
I am what I am. 
But sometimes you need to 

1139
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,920
acknowledge the apostle because 
at times you need that gift. 

1140
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,520
Especially business owners and 
people want to take territory 

1141
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:19,080
because there's a gift and it's 
God who gave the gift. 

1142
01:17:19,440 --> 01:17:22,720
So the minute if you disdain 
saying it to someone's name, 

1143
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,480
you're really disdaining God 
because it's his gift he gave. 

1144
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:32,640
At the end of the day. 
Now you can do what you want to 

1145
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:34,480
do. 
I'm going to do what I'm, I'm 

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01:17:34,480 --> 01:17:37,280
called to do because I am what I
am by the grace of God. 

1147
01:17:39,440 --> 01:17:41,360
I said I am what I am by the 
grace of God. 

1148
01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:46,280
And because of that, we're 
taking territory. 

1149
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:51,200
I said we're taking territory 
and we're going to take more, 

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01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:56,680
not only in Saint Augustine, but
in our state, our nation and the

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01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,800
world. 
And This is why I know the 

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01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:04,800
Lord's talking to you, because 
He is settling you in to your 

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01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:09,920
fit. 
Because whatever you release 

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01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:14,440
locally, it has a more profound 
effect than just local.