Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast
from st. Augustine Florida.
Now enjoyed this message. So last week, we talked about
the spirit of God, amen. Amen, D, enjoy Sunday, Pastor
Marcy, preaching. Amen.
And I appreciate any time that You know, she has a word is able
to get in the Pulpit. It allowed me to be able to help
another church, that's going through some transition.
And, you know, as the day draws near, you know, more and more
opportunities and different things that will have to be on
assignment here and there. But I'm thankful that God has
given us depth in our church. And that the gifts that are here
for us to be at a minister anchor.
Faith Church is not built on the personality of Earl glisten.
So whether I'm in the pool, Pit or not is irrelevant.
The vision goes on. The vision of Anchor Bay church
is not Earl glisten. It's ignite the city impact, the
nation and influence the world. Amen.
So, you know, like the past, I just love the way he preached.
Great, thank you, but it's the word.
I don't care if you like on preaching.
Are you doing what I'm saying? Right?
I mean, I'm trying to be engaging so that you'll do it.
Not just enjoy, hearing it all right?
Because a man if dry and never moving around and sound like the
old Ferris, Bueller guy, Bueller Bueller, right.
I mean if if that made you here, I would preach like that and do
right, so that's what's important, but it's not built
around a personality. It's built on Jesus Christ, and
so when God allows others, to be able to minister here because we
have assignments, then we do now, I do want to go ahead and
mention this real quick for we get into the word is that I did
book flights to India. Okay.
Now if you want to so towards that still we haven't
technically left. No, you can still so towards
that. I mean, I've pulled money from
other parts of the ministry in order for us to be able to
accomplish that trip because we need to go over and see our
orphanage. We need to do this, we need to
graduate some Kingdom Institute graduates, we need to be there,
okay? And so we've pulled the trigger
on that and so, you know, you can continue to so towards that
and we appreciate it because it just really just gives us a
resource to be able to do all the other things that we still
need to do with the ministry, okay?
And so, but while I'm gone, the Lord spoke to me and because
we're coming to the end of the year and there's quite a few
things, we're gearing up for 2023. 2023 is going to be a
powerful year for anchor feature church.
I'm just letting you know right now.
I mean the only way. Yes not is.
If Jesus comes tomorrow but should the Lord tarry 2023 is
going to be a powerful Year, Frank, Rafi Church.
All right? And so I wanted our staff to be
a to be highly focused. Just on its preparation for our
January first service, getting ready for that.
So I asked Pastor Daryl Huffman to come and Minister while my
wife and I are in India, so he'll be with us for two
Wednesdays and a Sunday, he'll do three services, all right?
And so he's going to come in and minister to the body.
He was real excited by said it's just like home.
Amen. I mean I really think there's a
niche with him. There is a niche with him, it's
Miss Bonnie, that we need to get in touch with that, they would
move here, but I'm just saying, all right.
So, with that being said, let's get in the word.
Amen. So, in John chapter 16 verse 17,
I'm not going to do a review of last week.
I'll just touch base on a couple of things we talked about, but I
want to kind of Center in on this scripture.
It says this in the Amplified John chapter, 16, verse 17 but I
tell you the truth so he's not lying.
Jesus can't lie anyway. All right.
Jesus said, I tell you the truth.
It is to your whose advantage Manage whose Advantage.
It's your advantage. So this is advantageous.
Alright, we are the most. We are people that have the
greatest advantage in the planet And we always need to look
through the lens of. I have the advantage.
I always have the advantage. I never not have the advantage.
I am in the seat of Advantage, okay?
It is to your advantage that I go.
And has Jesus gone, aren't you? Glad he left.
You need to be because he said, it's to your advantage.
I'm not here. Okay.
It's to your advantage that I go away for.
If I don't go away the pair of Cletus, that's the helper.
The comforter. The Get the intercessor, the
council to the strengthener, the standby will not come to you,
but if I go I will send him the Holy Spirit to you to be in
close fellowship with you. He is not to be a casual
relationship. He is to be in close.
In fact, you should be able to hear his voice better than a
human being standing in front of you.
You need to get yourself, fine. Tuned to know the voice of the
spirit. Now, if you want to know what
the spirit, the Holy Spirit sounds like read the Bible,
because the holy spirit says, I don't, Jesus said, now when he
comes the next in John 16, if you jump down to verse 12 and
13, He said now look when he comes he know Speak of himself.
He's going to he's going to talk to you about what he's hearing
me say, okay. So in essence, the spirit of God
is our direct communication to the throne of God.
Throne room of God in heaven where Jesus is physically seated
and we are spiritually seated with him in the same seat.
And so he speaks to us in our spirit by the holy spirit that
lives in us and has come upon us.
And Given us power. Can I get an amen.
So, the holy ghost, man, he is the third person of the godhead.
We need to have an intimate relationship with him.
He will guide us direct us. He is so awesome.
He is to our advantage in any situation we ever get into.
He has the way of escape and answer.
He knows how to empower us. He knows how to give us fruit,
he's amazing. I said he's amazing and so it's
Again, an advantage to us. Now, I heard Pastor Mark, not
Brady, but another Pastor from Colorado.
When I went to call to arms last week he said this and it
resonated with me that I not only did I take the note but
then I copied it and pasted it into this message.
He said this, it is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit,
not of the devil. We are carriers of the spirit.
I mean, when you get into the society, we're in today, the
last of the last days, will people be lovers of self and all
these horrible things? Lawlessness things are taking
place. You would think that the devil's
winning And if you look at that perspective, will complain and
talk about all the bad going on. I can't believe there's and I
can't believe that and I can't believe they're I mean in
essence we're not even focused on.
We are in the dispensation of the Holy Ghost.
I mean, it's our greatest, our is his greatest time to shine.
We have the Holy Spirit and it is the dispensation, where the
spirit of God has been poured out on his church and his church
is still in the Earth today. So, the most powerful thing on
the planet is the Church of Jesus Christ, full of the Holy
Spirit, full of the Holy Spirit. Now, you can't really be the G
Church of Jesus Christ, without the spirit of God.
Can't be it. So again if you are tending I'm
talking not to this church. Obviously I'm talking to those
who are in our podcast. Now, if you're attending a
church that they have no regard to the Holy Spirit, you need to
leave. You don't have to pray about it.
You leave and find one that has honor and respect for the holy
spirit. Because the holy spirit is not
competing with Jesus. Now, if you're in a church
because you're listening to us on podcast and you're like, it
seems like the spirit of God moves all the time and they
never preached. You need to get out of that
church because that's not the spirit of God.
Those are other Spirits. You need to be in a place where
the preaching of the word lime by line precept upon precept and
the moving of the spirit is welcomed and done though, that's
the healthy place to be. Alright healthy, place to be and
so that's what we endeavor. And that's what we yield to and
want to do. And there's so many expressions
of the spirit that take place in our services all the time,
right? And because we honor the Holy
Spirit, we value him and his assignment in the earth through
us. All right.
So we were talking then as a church, then then then the
church should be full of the spirit and the Bible has a lot
of expressions of the spirit. The last time we came Together.
We talked about the spirit of Truth and we read off some
scripture there, John, 15:26 and John 16:13.
I'm not going to go back. You can just write them down.
If you weren't here then we talked about the spirit of
power, okay? That was in 2nd, Timothy 1:7 and
acts 10:38, there we have a spirit of power about us, you
know, we're not scared, we don't have a spirit of fear.
We don't have a spirit of fear. Now, we have the fear of the
Lord, but that's odd that is reverence.
And that is this attitude that I do not want to live or conduct
my life in such a way that its displeasing to my heavenly
father. I don't want to act in a way
behave, in a way to treat. Someone in a way respond in a
way, that would be displeasing have a lifestyle in a way that
is contrary to the Culture of the Kingdom, because I have the
fear of the Lord. Are you hearing me?
That's the only fear that's associated with us, the fear of
the Lord, but fear in general, is not a part of our Lives.
Now, when I say that, that doesn't mean, you know, you
know, you get those little tingly, just when you're about
to, you know, fall off a thousand foot cliff, you know,
that's a natural deal, okay? I'm talking about being afraid
that you're going to catch things, you're gonna die, you're
gonna be ran over your, your family's gonna fall apart.
You're gonna lose you die. Anything bad.
News, it's going to happen. In fact, the person I was
talking to the gas station when he asked me, you know, what do
you think? How do you think we're going to
fair? I said, well, I'm hot.
I'm highly hopeful, I said yeah, I believe I just listened to a
thing that it's, you know, looks like we're probably going to get
it to develop some disorder, over the islands in the Bahamas.
And, you know, I think once it comes on is just going to be a
lot of rain. He didn't know how to respond to
me. So wait a little bit then he
came back. He says, well it could be worse.
Well yeah, it could be worse but in an amazing how people lean to
the bad, they lean there. They think they're they you
know, they don't they restrain themselves from having hope.
Right? Because the spirit of fear has
tried to make hope where people like it's not going to be as
bad, you're gonna like an idiot when it's bad, so we're
intimidated to even speak hope, but if you don't start speaking,
What God Says, then you can't prove that Faith Works.
That means you gotta call those things that be not as though
they were. That means you're calling it
when everybody else is saying, it ain't that way.
But you've heard God's voice Amen.
And the last storm even when it came through.
Again, Tuesday morning, prayer. We said we're going to call that
front down and it's going to disrupt that thing and it's
gonna push it in a direct and sure enough it did not affect us
in any real man. Or I mean, again, you get
rained, you're going to get flooding, I get it.
You're going to get Storm surges in general, I get that.
But as far as a Direct Hit or are all the amount of rain, they
said that would come it didn't ever came.
It'll it is, as we said, now, it's not because we have that,
we have the spirit of power, and the Holy Ghost said, say it this
way? Oh, hallelujah.
Amen. We also talked about the spirit
of wisdom, you know, we are the wisest people on the planet and
that doesn't mean we shouldn't study because we should.
Okay. But it does mean this that we
can tap into places that the world can't even tap in.
We can come up with ideas on the spot because we're tapped into
the creator of Heaven and Earth and we can get answers
immediately. We can get insight that no one
else can remember. Daniel Daniel jumped up there
when he had to bring the King's dream.
I had to tell him what the dream was and then interpret it
member. His Bose was listen, I'm not any
smarter than anyone else in the room.
Naturally Speaking, although he was ten times smarter than them,
all right? In his own personal study, but
what he was saying, is what I'm about to say to, you did not
arrive from a textbook. You couldn't have gotten it from
the textbook, but there is a God, the creator of Heaven and
Earth, and he has allowed you King to see something in the
future. So this is what you saw because
he was giving God credit for that.
Now, how did he had a spirit of wisdom about it?
He could tap into something that nobody else could now you had to
ask, but what does the Bible say?
If a man lacks let him ask nor what do we need to do here,
you're asking for wisdom and guess what?
He's going to answer you just keep seeking glory to God.
Amen. All right, let's go on to the
next things because again, this church is a church that has the
spirit of Truth, the spirit of power, the spirit of wisdom, But
we also have the spirit of Life In Christ.
Look at this in Romans 8:2 and Romans chapter 8 verse 2.
It says this for the law, wait a minute.
Dude, that's a law. Surely that didn't say law.
We're not under the law. Are we?
Whew. We just destroyed a lot of
Doctrine right there, right? A lot of things being said right
now because they're not reading the Bible.
Now, this is New Testament scripture to the church in Rome.
By Paul who wrote over half of the New Testament.
Says, there is a law in effect. It's the law of the spirit of
life in Christ Jesus. And when you're under that law,
guess what it does. It sets you free from another
law? The law of sin and death.
So if you're not under the law of the spirit of Life In Christ,
then you're under the law of sin and death.
Aren't you glad you're under the law of the spirit of Life In
Christ? Now again Christ is the Greek
equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah, okay.
And that is the anointed one in his anointing.
And now again, if we don't explain this, if you read that
in the Greek like well that's the end only one in his
anointing. Well, what Does that even mean?
It means that when a king was placed into Power, he was
anointed. And we see that with King Saul
because God said they've rejected me as king.
They want a man king. So what did he do?
Samuel go anoint him. That's my anointed one and he
has my anointing. And remember what they said
about saw when the anointing came on him, that he was like,
one of the prophets because the spirit of God Came Upon him
because of the anointing. Well, what did Jesus say in?
Luke chapter 4, he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me
for he has anointed me. So Jesus is the anointed one and
has the anointing. The good news is that when we
become children of God, we receive the anointing of Christ
because we're the Little King's of the key.
He's the king of All right. So we are in under the law of
the spirit of life. We're in the king because
whatever the king says life gets associated with it.
Are you hearing me we get to follow live because of what
Christ did his death, burial resurrection, and poured his
blood on The Mercy Seat. He is given the opportunity for
us to have life and life more abundantly.
And so we come up underneath this long that I've been bought
and paid for my life is not my own.
Christ owns me. I'm his property and I'm a Child
of God. Hallelujah, and it's a legal
transaction that the devil can never come up to the father's.
Say that was my boy. He used to lie, cheat, steal,
Rob murder. All these things.
When I say murder, I'm not talking about physical really
murdering. You can just hate somebody and
it's okay. You can have attributes in your
heart even though you don't carry out the action.
Okay? And so, you know, he can acute,
but he's like, no, he's legally mine.
I bought and paid for it. He confess me as Lord.
Are you, are you hearing me? So we have the spirit of Life In
Christ. Bondage is when you don't want
to do, what the king says. Liberty comes from whom the son
sets free, their free indeed and you know, sent understand.
Jesus is doing more than freeing you from a sentence of damnation
or Hell. The Lake of Fire.
Okay. He's done more.
He's here to liberate. You entirely your spirit, your
soul and your body. Hallelujah.
So I'm under this law which means then whenever I get in any
And I can go and seek for life because the spirit brings life.
Amen. And we have that, you know, what
else we have? We have the spirit of Christ.
All my gosh, we have the spirit of Christ and more and more.
We're discovering that we have the spirit of Christ.
Look what it says in Romans chapter 8 9.
It says, however, you are not in the flesh.
But in the spirit, now that doesn't mean we don't live in a
body. It just means we don't operate
according to fleshly things anymore, right?
Indeed, the spirit of God dwells in.
You does the spirit of God dwell in you.
That's the Holy Ghost. He Bears witness with your
spirit. You are a, What Child of God.
But if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not
belong to him, which tells me a person born again, is going to
have the desire and drive to one to understand and walk out their
Authority in the Earth because the spirit of Christ.
If we Buddy, Christ's life. He only wants to do the will of
his father, he functioned in full Authority, even the people
and the Pharisees and scribes says, who is this?
God, it preaches with such Authority, even the demons,
right? Even the winds and waves, right?
So when you have the spirit of Christ, you have this atmosphere
of authority, when you walk in a room, you're not intimidated
with anything. I said, you're not intimidated
with anything. And if you have intimidation,
it's a sole issue. Not a spirit issue and you need
to renew your mind. Right.
You have inferiority or insecurities.
That is a soul problem that you need to renew because Christ
doesn't see you that way. He sees you complete in him.
So, when you have the spirit of Christ to the world and to the
religious, you look arrogant and cocky, but did Jesus, you'll be
confident. And you have to be confident
because if you're not confident, you're not going to ever be in
faith. Now, Faith is Right, Hebrews
11:1 now. Faith is things, what Hope by
definition means what confident expectation.
So if you don't ever get over into confidence, then you'll
never be in. You'll never get to faith.
Faith, cannot Blossom without you getting having hope or
confident expectation. It is as God says, As right.
So when you get to the place man, I know it has to be as it
was said that hope rises up. That's why I told that guy said,
I'm hopeful, I have confident expectation that it will be.
As I have spoken because I've heard what I've spoke.
Are you hear me Ben? I've got others that were in the
room that day that touched in agreed.
And the Bible says, if any two people on Earth touch and agree,
it will be well, I believe that more than I believe.
Anything else? Hallelujah.
Well, praise the Lord glory to God.
Thank you, Jesus. Hmm.
Well, praise the Lord.
Thank you, Jesus. Okay, Spirit of Faith, the
spirit of faith. We have the spirit of Faith.
Amen. I said, we have the spirit of
Faith. Are you hearing me second
Corinthians 4:13 wants to say, but having the same Spirit of
Faith, according to what is written, I believe.
Therefore I Now, if you believe what are you going to, do you
going to talk people who believe, talk?
If you're not talking you not believe it.
You talking. I believed therefore I spoke.
We also believe therefore we also what speak.
And because we're here faith comes by hearing and hearing
from the word of God. That's how belief is formed in
your life, because you hear God's word and then you become
firmly persuaded. That's it.
Which means that I can say what God says, because I'm not saying
it. God said it will pass.
That's what, you know, it's not what I said.
It's what God. It said to say, so it's really
not me speaking. It's God speaking, I'm just
representing his him in the Earth by saying what he said.
Now, we've done this before, right, where you go to someone
and say so, and so sad. Now that your is your mouth is
your words, it's your tone of voice but you're actually
talking on behalf of someone else, you're representing them.
We are to do the same. All right, and it is the spirit
of faith. I mean we should be like when we
finish one Faith project where I give me another please, give me
another. I just have to I need to be
constantly believing God for something, right?
I mean if we need to be Faith addicts, Right addicted to
Faith. Right?
We need to become that because if you don't watch out after
you've won a few Faith battles, meaning you fight the good fight
of Faith. There's only two fights we have,
right? We have the fight of faith in
the fight of culture. The culture of the Kingdom would
fight for that because we know how the culture of the Kingdom
should be. So we fight for it as brethren,
we make a demand that we love one another, according to
scripture, we forgive one another, we walk at peace with
one another, we have bear the fruits of the spirit that I'll
get to hearing it. Bit.
So my point is, is we fight for that because we want the
Kingdom's culture to rain, but in faith, we fight meaning we
stand. When we've done all to stand, we
stand. And there's such a bombardment
in the time of you coming from the the beginning of your faith
where Jesus is the author. He tells you what to believe.
Now you're in the middle standing believing and you're
hearing all the stuff. Contrary finally you get to the
end, it comes to pass this. Like, it's exactly as I said and
you praise God, but you do You will feel a bit exhausted.
You will I mean it'll work on you so then when God starts to
drop something else, you're like, ooh, now I know what kind
of fight that might be, can we go from Faith to Faith?
And a lot of times, we know the cost, Of the last battle, we
need to count the cost of the next battle and sometimes we
don't want to count that cost. We much rather start living in
his faithfulness only. And then we go and we revert
back to man back in such-and-such.
God did this with me and did this?
And I remember God did and there it did services.
Instead of doing services. I said they're did services.
Now we can grow by someone's faithfulness, don't get me
wrong, but but recently just because of what anchor Faith
Church did at 21-21 US1 South I had a minister at call to harms
come up to me and said pastor all been want to talk to you.
I listened to your podcast with Craig on.
Y'all purchase in the mall and he says I've got this property
and think they're in South Dakota.
That is couple of hundred thousand square foot buildings
at Citibank used to own. They've been vacant for 22
years, about 15, 20 acres. I've been on the parking lot
sitting and dreaming Now, why does he want to talk to me?
Because we're a now we're today. I mean it's happened in 2021,
you understand I'm saying we're not too far removed from
fighting the good fight of faith and possessing the land.
And so there's this kind of like out-of-the-box thought process
for church. And he's like, I want to talk.
Let's talk. I said, because he's well able
to do that. Now, why can I say that?
Cause I know his faithfulness and we're not talking about God,
50 years ago, doing something for someone on a piece.
We're talking about last year. Amen.
This is why you want to stay in the faith battles because you
want to be in a stable last week.
I'd kick sickness and disease knocked it off my body.
You know, last week I got rid of poverty and lack you know, last
week. You know, I got rid of that, you
know. Well, you know I walked into
this because I believe God and how I've in the Overflow.
Are you hearing me? So we have to have the spirit of
Faith, the spirit of his life, you know.
I hear people. And it's just so, you know, they
just don't understand what they're saying that like.
Well, we just don't want to wear the people out.
I just want to strengthen you constantly to take territory and
everything you're doing. And how can I wear you out?
If God's Champion us to believe, because he's the one who
strengthens us in the first place?
Are you hearing me? Which brings me to the next one,
called the spirit of Grace. We have a spirit of Grace about
us. Now, let me explain this a
little bit before I read this scripture.
Don't put that up yet. Okay?
The spirit of Grace is God empowering you to be able to
live this Kingdom lifestyle. Holy and separated from this
current world in a way that people literally, when they look
at you and they get around you, they have to conclude, you are
not like everybody else. And that's what they would
typically say. But we know the scripture says
we're not of this world, right? Not of not of the planet,
because we're of the planet, but we're not of the systems and the
emotions, and the way the world Funk were not a part of their
reality TV. Okay?
We're not, we don't live in their reality, they have an
alternate reality from us because we've been brought out
of the domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
I mean, we are peculiar. So own it, just go ahead and on
it. See if you trade peculiar for
popularity, then you're going to lose your agape.
That's what you going to do. I want peculiar not popularity
because peculiar will keep me with grace and grace will give
me favor and I must rather have favored in popularity because
favor will get me into places that popularity can, but will
not sustain. Favor will give you places that
I don't even have to be popular. Right, cuz that's what Grace
will Grace. We already know in our first
experience of Grace was an unmerited favor.
Meaning we deserved an alternative but God being rich
in his Mercy, gave us away into the family.
The minute we got into the family, then he closed us with
the same Grace that was on him because the grace on him.
The Bible says he grew and grace and favor with man.
Which means then Jesus could not have had unmerited favor, Grace,
show me where he sinned and he deserved to die.
It doesn't exist. So anytime people preach Grace,
only from an unmerited favor, only perspective, they are
missing. All the other facets of Grace
that the Bible. Clearly says it's multifaceted,
okay? It has many other workings
associated with it. It has a Saving Grace with it.
It has a serving Grace with it. It has giving Grace.
I mean, there's all kinds of things other Graces but there's
definitely an empowering 11 that will Empower you to be.
To resist the Temptations of the world.
Whoo, glory to God. Okay.
And so, we have the spirit of Grace about us many.
Now that I'm in his kingdom, I'm going to use that Grace to live
this in Christ's existence and lifestyle.
Every day of my life, it will consume my thinking, my actions,
my behavior, my mouth, able even dictate my body.
In a dictated, you understand the spirit of Grace can help you
get out of addiction, it can Empower you to break addictions
that get stuck in your body because your natural body will
want the addiction. Well, whatever.
You're feeding it and it's in your D, you know, not DNA, but
it's in your, you know, yourselves, it's in your
membranes. I mean, sometimes it hides out
and then it manifests in your, like, I was good for so long,
but not like having his maps of crazy.
Like, I'm going through withdrawal and if you don't
emotionally handle that, That then you go back into whatever
it was, you were addicted to. Are you hearing me?
And I'm not just saying substance only.
I mean, it can be visual addictions, but Grace has the
ability to strip that break that Empower you to overcome that.
Amen. And it will do it even with food
food that you partake in the Lord's.
Like it's really not helping your body to go, the long run
and you're like, okay I'm at a Crossroads I'm going to choose
to you know with stain from that personally not anyone else.
These are personal convictions you can't go tell people don't
eat that. All right, so don't do that.
Don't come around. Talk to me about diets.
Okay, whatever diet is good for you.
You do it but don't be trying to shove that on someone else.
I'm just saying you can keep yourself in a Peak Performance,
physically as well because the spirit of Grace will help you
say I'm putting that to the side right?
When I say it, I'm not talking about I'll never eat that again.
Although some people have that capacity and want to To some
say, I don't eat that at all except on occasions and when I
do, I decide when and it will never dominate me or hear me.
Okay, so the spirit of Grace, we want to embrace the spirit of
Grace honor that we have, the spirit of Grace recognize that
God has through the unmerited, favor of God brought us into the
family, then empowered us with the same Grace.
He had upon his life to walk through the Earth.
Without failing you said? Well, what if I fail in the
process? Well, you have an advocate with
the father, man, just for pink, get up and go and get back
underneath the grace. That has the capacity to keep
you from falling. Don't walk around and say, well,
I'm just so sorry sinner saved by grace.
You know, we all sin? Well, we don't all sit.
We don't all have to sin because the spirit of Grace kit, gives
you the capacity with the Holy Ghost in you to say, oh, hold
on. Now, don't say that, don't do
that, don't respond. That way, don't act that way,
don't look at that, don't eat that.
Don't Drink that, right? And then if you yield to it, he
will Empower you. And now he's strengthen you to
actually overcome And you'll know, man, if it was left to
myself, I'd it done it, but God I said, but God, come on.
But God you know what? I love about the spirit of
Grace. He'll let me talk.
Meaning, I'm praying the Holy Ghost and help that Grace remind
me. I'm not my own.
Amen. And Empower me.
But, you know, there is a little warning about the spirit of
Grace and it is this verse Hebrews 10:29.
It says, is how much severe punishment.
Do you think he will deserve, who has Trampled Under Foot, the
Son of God and has regarded as unclean the blood of the
Covenant by which he was Sanctified and has insulted?
The spirit of Grace. Okay.
Now, if you had a read this in context, it was talking about
the law of Moses, okay? When the Israelites were under
the law of Moses, the priest every year only, there were
sacrifices throughout the year, okay?
There was Festival different things they had to do, all
right? If they found themselves in sin
knew they were sin or intentionally sand or whatever.
The case may be, you know, they were sacrifices, they could do
to maintain cleanliness, but then every year once a year, the
high priest would go in and basically put the Blood On The
Mercy Seat to help cover the whole nation, right?
Okay. And but he said now, if someone
disregards the law of Moses, the laws that were written in more
than 12. Okay.
The laws of Moses, they disregard it, they were through
the witnesses of two or three people.
Punished Some of that was, they died.
Okay, because they refuse to live under that law, which means
then if you don't live under that law, which is the only
thing they help keep you alive. In right standing with God's
covenant. Then you're out and judgment was
quite a bit swifter then. Are you hearing me?
Okay. Then he jumps over to the New
Covenant and he's saying now don't think that getting born
again that you can disregard the law of the spirit of life in
Christ. Jesus, now it's a law.
Because if you're not under the law of the spirit of life in
Christ, Jesus, you're under the law of sin and death. so he's
saying now if you disregard the law of the spirit of life in
Christ Jesus, that you've been Grace now to live and basically
you're living as if you're not even saved, but act like you are
now, this is the problem. And it brings an insult.
To the spirit of Grace. And unfortunately there's a lot
of bad teaching out there where people are living under this
grace and act like they're free cuz you know, I didn't do
anything to deserve it, okay? So I there's nothing I can do to
deserve now. Okay.
And that again it is a word that we're using in such a capacity
that we're making in a general sense and it's still not even
true. You can't say God, if I do it
this way, you have to accept it. Can't do it.
Unless you said this God I'm going to do it your way so you
have to accept it and God says you got it.
Now hows it God's way son, you're going to have to believe.
not Jesus, believing I mean because it's without any earning
at all. Any effort on your own.
Then there's no reason to confess Jesus as Lord.
We might as well accept the doctrine of inclusion.
There is an effort. You had and every one of you
done this, some sooner than earlier others.
You had to put forth this effort.
I am going to admit That I am not right with God.
And that Jesus is the only way and I'm think I am, I am going
to submit to him and I'm going to call him Lord and I'm going
to repent and say no longer the way I do it.
That's effort. And that's your faith because
it's by faith. Not Jeep.
God's faith. It's your faith.
That causes salvation as you had, you had to do it.
You had to believe if you don't believe even though God's
already paid the price. It doesn't show up on your
behalf. So again, these General words
that we end up using in the English language, does not
literally qualify exactly what's taken place.
And people who basically want to live, like they're lost, and God
accepts it because of what he did on the cross is a lie.
It's an insult to the spirit of Grace Christ.
Did not die for you because Christ died for you.
Yes. Cuz left alone, you're
incapable. I get that.
But once you accept Christ, incapable is not a part of your
vocabulary anymore. Capable in Christ is a part of
your vocabulary. Now you can do Paul said in
Philippians, right chapter 4, who can do all things, who wait
a minute. Only God Can that's not what
Paul said by inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
He said I can do all things. How through Christ that's
through the Kings Authority. See what he tells me.
As he leads me by the spirit, I hear his word.
I believe in, I'm firmly persuaded.
Then I declare and speak of myself with a spirit of Faith.
Operated underneath, the spirit of Grace.
It will nothing's impossible for me.
I can do all things because I've been empowered.
I'm not a weakling anymore. I'm not a has been, nobody can't
get nothing, don't deserve nothing, don't it?
I'm a Child of God, I deserve access to the throne.
I deserve that my dad would talk to me because he loves me that
much and won't shut me out. In fact, my dad said, if you
seek, you will find me if you ask, I'll give it to you.
If you'll knock on door, open the door.
But who has to ask you do, who has to see, you do?
Who has to not you do. That's called effort.
And he doesn't do it independent of that.
Cess doctrines of demons. For us to believe where we don't
do anything or just underneath Spirit of Grace.
We do it all. We're good.
It's not true. This church has a spirit of
Grace rightly divided that has capacity to be able to look at
Temptation in the face. And say You Don't Own Me
Anymore, right? The flesh doesn't know me
anymore. You don't owe me.
I, you're not my master, I have Grace on my life, I have faith
in my life. I have the spirit of life in my
life. Are you hearing me operate on
our whole different law? How are you hearing me?
Alright then we have the spirit of Glory.
Y'all doing all right. The spirit of Glory means a
whole lot to say about the spirit of God.
Amen. And here's what's so crazy.
Jesus was absolutely giddy. Can I say it that way?
I mean, it's almost like he was like exciting.
And John chapter said, do you understand is to your advantage
that I go, so that he may come. You just don't understand how
jacked excited I am that. I'm about to lay my life down,
pour out the blood so that I can inaugurate the dispensation of
the spirit of God and the church age so that I can pour out my
spirit that was prophesied through Joel, on All Flesh.
Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. Wow, he was so excited.
And we have the Holy Spirit. I'm so thankful for the Holy
Ghost without him I wouldn't know Jesus.
You can't even know Jesus without the Holy Ghost says you
can't even come to Christ. Save the spirit draw you.
Now, this doesn't diminish. The role Jesus Isn't Our Lives.
He's the king. He's our Lord.
We honor and worship him. We're hanging on every word that
comes out of his mouth because he is the word, but it's the
spirit that brings that word to power.
Then God said, member in the beginnings, there was God, the
Creator and then he said, let there and the spirit of the Holy
Spirit was hovering waiting for a sound.
He's waiting for South, waiting for the word to be spoken, so
that he could do it. Make it happen, perform it.
And that word lives in us. That's his Spirit lives in us.
He wanted to get these things connected.
Man. What an exciting life, we live
Spirit of Glory. Okay, the spirit of Glory.
Look at this First Peter chapter 4, verse 14.
This is really awesome. Spirit of Gloria says, if you,
if you are revealed in the Name of Christ, you are blessed
because the spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Now I want to define this word Glory here because we always
talked about a glory cloud. And I'm be honest with you, we
really religious about this and we need to stop All right,
because you are the glory. Okay, now I'm not going to say
and I'm not here to discredit, nor am I not what I squelch if
this place filled up. With a glory Cloud, right?
I have no problem with that. But that's not a greater.
Manifestation are you? Hey Sammy.
How Believers like that? I just saw a cloud like that.
So more amazing than you have the spirit of Glory.
Now, where do we get this? From this concept of a glory
Cloud coming in, right? Right now.
Again in the old, Covenant, the God would descend down like a
cloud over the Tabernacle, right?
But they will have to know the presence of God.
Both the cloud and a and fire for that matter.
Okay. Right, I get that.
But we typically grab this from the passage where Solomon
sacrifices to the temple. and it says that the glory of God came
in, Now, what's it say? Because it doesn't just say that
his glory filled. The temple is says his train
says his train filled the temple.
Well, what's the train is that a choo-choo?
Obviously it's not a choo-choo train, it's his robe.
That's righteous. And it has a train behind it.
And this thing so long because he has all of there's not a
territory, he doesn't have lordship over.
So this word, Glory means Majesty, a thing belonging to
God, it means this, the kingly Majesty which belongs to him as
supreme ruler. It means kinglee Majesty of the
Messiah. So in Says we have the spirit of
Glory which tells us this. We are carrying Majesty because
we're Kings, you just got. Imagine when you walk in the
room, a train, a train. Is following you?
Instead of trying to get the world to see a cloud live by the
spirit, when you walk in the room of fresh win will show up
and when you go by your train will be.
So I mean your fragrance, your majesty, the Holiness of your
life, the purity of who you are in Christ, will just all of a
sudden people are, who's that? They will be affected by your
majesty. Now again, we're not trying to
get people to look at us but we want them to be identified with
the glory of God that rest on us.
Wow, we've got to be a tangibly. See these things, it's in the
spirit, but God robed you in his righteousness, which means
you're wearing a robe and it has a train and the more you're in
the spirit. I said, the more you're in the
spirit, the bay, the longer your train is going to affect a place
that it will fill the whole room.
You're in And it can feel it so much.
That the people around, you can't even stand in it.
You should just do this with each other, just to help each
other out for the next few weeks.
When you go to get in the chair, you know, when you go to get
him, you just walk in and say, excuse me, can you pick your
train up? I need to get by, can you train
your training? You're trained is can you get?
Thank you right. I mean let's imagine because we
have been robed in righteousness.
Robed in Majesty we have the spirit of Glory about us because
Just made me key. He made me King.
He calls me his own. He calls me Royal Blood.
He put me in a Royal bloodline. Ooh, amen.
I mean I just love being who God says, I am Right.
Amen. You may not see my train but
it's nice. Amen, I can tell you this when I
get out around the world, they know they can't articulate it
but they know. And that's what it is.
When you encounter people that and you would like, they're
like, kind of acting a little different weird are, you know,
are they saying in your life? That's the glory.
I know my wife and I recently in multiple occasions, we've been,
we were in Charleston, West Virginia.
One time walking in primarily almost a dead mall.
I mean, didn't have a whole lot of stores.
Three stories, tall, hardly anybody in their walking all of
a sudden this lace top. She I mean she kind of like
called herself. She goes Char them, you are such
a beautiful couple like you know now natural beauty.
I'm like she's looking at my wife.
What's Happening Here, Right. But it, but I knew we knew it's
like, that's the glory, that's the glory, that's the glory.
I've been in place of with my wife on more than one occasion
where someone comments, I'm not talk about a guy.
I'm just talking about other people.
Just, there's Something up, they will say that it's the glory.
It's starting to fill the room. Are you hearing me?
We have this thing called the spirit of Glory.
We have the spirit of Holiness, y'all doing.
All right? Look at this in Romans. 1:4
says, who has declared the Son of God with power by the
resurrection, from the dead, according to the spirit of
Holiness, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
Now this word Holiness, we know Holiness.
Just literally means to be holy as to be set apart.
Okay, set apart separated unto Oh God.
Okay, you know we've made that a religious term, you know?
Oh, holy we at like holies Perfection.
Okay. Whole he's not being perfect.
Holy is your separated unto God. That means, you know, my life's
not my own, and I am doing my best to be led by a spirit
through the reading of his word, and to accomplish the purpose.
He has for my life, okay? But Holiness by definition,
Mission Again has this word to it, Majesty.
So we have the spirit of Holiness, the spirit of Glory,
there's a Majesty about you. In fact, the word Holiness means
moral purity, Moral Purity. So you're going to have a moral
Purity about you. The way you conduct the way, you
talk your speech, you'll Behavior, your interaction.
You're going to know that you're separated unto God.
I mean, have you ever been around somebody that cussing and
they find out? You're a Believer and they go
Master out. Cussed like, Why did they ask?
Why did they apologize? I'm not a priest but you
shouldn't, you know, go to a father and do that anyway.
Okay, I'm just saying don't treat me like I'm Catholic right
now and forgive me, Father for I have sinned, okay?
You told you to wrong Daddy. You need to talk to Father God,
right. Okay.
But it is interesting how they'll want to cause they why?
Because they identify your set apart.
That there's a moral Purity about you.
Okay? Now that doesn't mean you can't
blow it, I get it right, we can boil it but when we do, we
repeat quickly, we don't hang out there.
We don't want to go back and live there.
No, we want to live in the Kingdom as children of God and
stay in, right standing with him all the time, which brings us to
the fruits of the spirit. Now, the fruits of the spirit.
Because again, we're Holy Spirit Church.
All right, all listen. Let me recap these before.
I get in these last two and we'll be closing.
We have the spirit of Truth. We have the spirit of power.
We have the spirit of wisdom, a spirit of Life In Christ.
We have the spirit of Christ, the spirit of Faith, the spirit,
of Grace, the spirit of glory, and the spirit of Holiness.
I mean, my gosh, Look how powerful we are as children of
God. This is amazing and a half
possessing all of that should produce the fruits of the
spirit. Now what are these fruits of the
spirit, you know, and Galatians 5:22-23, it says this but the
fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness.
So get rid of your religious tradition and quit saying you
know, I don't want to I don't want to pray to God for
patients. Well, that's so stupid.
Have you ever heard? Someone say that don't pray for
patience because that just means the devil is going to come and
try. You know, it's a fruit of the
spirit, not a way to resist an attack of the devil.
You don't develop patience because the devil is trying to
beat you up. Okay.
Oh Lord, give me more patience. If you have the spirit, you got
a lot of patience. Promise you need to start
eating. And identifying because I'm
going to show you something else here in a second, but the fruit
of the spirit is love joy. Peace, patience.
Kindness goodness, faithfulness. Gentleness self-control against
such, there is no law. Okay, so we see them, the fruit
of the spirit, we see these particular ones that we say.
Now again, in the realm of fruit, typically, we think of,
you know, like going to a tree, right?
Pulling its fruit off a plant, right?
And then you're eating the fruit, okay?
And that is fruit. I have no.
I'm with that. But here, this word fruit also
has this definition that I believe has way more application
and it means fruit of the loins. For the law as well.
What's that offspring? So we can look at this, two
ways, one the Holy Spirit. Only produces love joy, peace, o
if you're not operating. Which is a second way, you're
not stemming strating, I'm an offspring of the spirit.
Because if you're mad all the time and blow up all the time
and get upset all the time and self-control, well then you're
saying I'm not an offspring of the spirit.
If you can't be patient with anything then you're saying I'm
not an offspring of the spirit. No, I'm born again Pastor.
Then where's your fruit? Where is it?
Because if you're a child of God love joy, peace, patience,
kindness gentleness faithfulness and self-control.
Jim Chi, all those are right here.
Ready to be deployed in as an offspring of the spirit.
Because I'm born of the spirit of God, I can't help, but to do
love, I can't help. But to give over enjoy, I can't
help it. Now when I say I can't help it,
yes, you can help and cause you can resist the spirit.
Side with the flesh. But now you're at like, you're
of the different offspring. And I thought you left that
existence. Are you hearing me?
What I'm saying? Tonight is tweak your thinking
and quit acting like? This is hard to obtain and see
it as that's easy. Cause that's my nature.
So my nature, I'm an offspring of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit calls me to be born again.
Wow! And now I'm born of the spirit
of God and he lives in me. And he Bears witness with me
that I'm a Child of God, born of his Spirit, which means love
Manifests Joy. Here it is.
Peace. Right?
So you're not yelling at the TV. If you're the election, didn't
go the way you want it to. You think the whole world is
going to fall apart because it didn't go the way you thought it
was. My kingdom.
Can't be shaken. I couldn't have been at more
peace. Amen.
And if you voted yesterday, thank you.
If you did not register to vote for next time because we should
have 100% participation in voting Because the king wants
our voice heard. Are you hearing me?
If every person that was truly born of the spirit of God and
called Jesus, their lord would vote Kingdom.
Meaning the culture of the Kingdom.
Our whole society would look totally different right now.
It's Lancelot. It's the Lancelot.
But because of the illiteracy of Believers because of the wrong
teaching to Believers because you know, Believers just want to
go to heaven and die, die and go to heaven.
Right? We have problems.
Instead of them becoming disciples followers of Jesus
Christ, all right? But this is what you have.
Period. You should keep this.
Listen in front of you say this is part of me is to my
offspring. I produced this.
So, don't ever say something contrary?
Well you know you know my family, they just have hot
tempers. My family doesn't, in fact, my
dad. He knows how to man.
He holds it so long. Oh my gosh.
But when it goes, You don't want to be on the opposite side.
Go 1-0. Rath shows up.
The ones deserving of his wrath will get it.
Are you hearing me? But he is long-suffering.
One translation says that. That way he is long-suffering.
I just can't put up with this anymore.
Yeah, you can. I should have probably put
multiple translations up here actually, and you should you
should go through multiple translations.
So, you can understand these fruits that you have.
One is long-suffering in another translation, which means, but I
sure have suffered a lot. Well, is it long enough?
It could be longer. I mean, Jesus had these moments.
How much longer must I suffer with you?
He said that, but obviously on the inside is, like, little bit
longer. It's gonna be a little bit
longer, which means he had capacity.
It was an offspring. All right, we see over in Romans
15:30, on we give you a few more concerning the fruits of the
spirit, just so you can see it. It says, now I urge you Brethren
by our Lord Jesus Christ by the love of the spirit to strive
together, with me, in your prayers for God to God for me,
Romans 14:17. 19 for the kingdom of God is not eating and
drinking, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost,
right? Holy spirit, Galatians, 6:1
Brethren. Even if anyone is caught in a
trespass, you who are spiritual restore, such a one in a spirit
of what gentleness each one looking to yourself.
So that you too will not be tempted again.
We have this capacity in us because we are of The Offspring
of the spirit, which brings us to the last spirit that we are
here in this house. So I make a demand.
The fruits of the spirit. Make a demand.
Right. Go.
Well, I just yes you can. if you have the spirit of Christ you
can, it's a la, you can do all of those nine, gifts, are fruits
of the spirit period you can If you're not, it's because you're
choosing not to you need to stop because you're saying Jesus is
Lord. This is our nature.
This is how we act, okay? But the last one, is the gifts
of the Spirit. Because not only do we have the
fruits of the spirit. We do have the gifts of the
Spirit. It's amazing how the gifts of
the Spirit have moved into a lust.
In the body of Christ. Is sad lustful.
They're very lustful for specific.
This myth specifically scuse me a handful, right?
They'll-they'll of the, the spirit of the the give this fear
of the working of Miracles, the gifts of healing, right?
And the word of knowledge and Word of Wisdom, they love those,
especially the word of knowledge of the word of knowledge is
present or past. So when they begin to operate in
them into that towards that individual, those people like
only God knew that, right? When you get into the spirit of
the gift of the word of wisdom, it's a future thing.
That, you know, it's got a prove itself.
Found that could take decades, you know.
So you know, a lot of those most people, unfortunately, I say
most, I mean, most, I really mean most, most people who are
operating in, what they are calling a word of wisdom is
really witchcraft, you know, they're just fortune-telling
because they have no foundation in the word, all right?
And again, you do not have to be spiritually mature to function
in a spiritual gift. But the more spiritually mature
you are. The more access of that
operation you would and then certain fivefold Ministry, gifts
function in them, a little more based upon that anointing,
right? Which means then a saint that
doesn't have one of the five anointings of the ministry.
Gifts should not lust to operate in it.
Like they do just be used of God period.
Okay. But we see in First Corinthians,
chapter 4 verse 12, verse 47. Now there are a variety of gifts
but the Same Spirit, okay? And we know there's not, you
know, typically, you know, the gift of tongues, you know, in
once this can be one of the easiest to operate in because,
you know, when you're baptized in the spirit are filled with
the spirit, he comes upon you and you begin to speak in
another tongue, gets your prayer language.
It can Move over to the gift of tongues.
Meaning it's going to be more. It's going to be audible enough
that everyone hears that now requires an interpretation, all
right, at that juncture, okay. And you know at that point you
know if you're in that and you know that's it then you don't
have the responsibility of now. Interpreting it although you
could but say you don't you can step off and now it's on someone
else. Now if you get that wrong then
you know it just kind of hangs out there right now when I say
that you should never be afraid of stepping out Are you hearing
me again? We do this in the realm of work
Athletics, different things, will risk certain things maybe
make a mistake, right? We hate it that we did it, but,
you know, we keep on, you know, we even make it with our kids,
you know, our kids, first time they fall off a bike.
What do we tell them? Get on it.
Let's go again. We don't say well you stink You
should have never got on that bike.
Right. Do we do that?
But yet, if someone tries to move with a gifts, and someone
who's mature and and developed in them, say maybe not know what
I mean. It's okay.
I remember one time, you know, someone that used to be without
years ago, years ago, would move with the gifts and did pretty
good was fine, but there's one particular service, a jumped-up,
And I said not at this time. It went right Tom And now I went
to Metro said, listen mode. I said, you know, Mark majority.
Tom. You're on.
I said it's just what right this time.
So don't let that discourage you.
It derailed them. Literally derailed.
And it became a pretty big challenge in their life.
I don't even if they're going to church today at all.
I mean, but it's just because why why do you do that?
Just let's move on. This is why in our services, if
you have something we asked you to come down because at the end
of the day, I may not know that the Holy Spirit wants to do that
yet. You show up.
You're the pastor surely, you're going to know really.
Not all the time. Does the fivefold minister know
exactly what's happening at the time.
I mean, when the woman whose son died that Elijah and get hazed,
I right, we're there. And he said, you're gonna have a
child. Will that child dies?
Member, she comes to find the man of God, and she has, he gets
closer falls down at his feet, and the servants might to beat
her off him, and he's like, no, the Lord hadn't.
Let me know, right? But you know we just want to
pick up what the religious say. Well if Jesus were a prophet, he
know what kind of woman this is right. whether Jesus needs to
know what kind of woman is there, not what he did know is
what she doing is way better than what you did, because you
didn't kiss me, you didn't offer to clean my feet, but this woman
right here, Though, her sins may be many.
Everybody going to remember her. And no one else he was saying,
everybody go remember you the one who did do it, right?
Right, I don't know, maybe we'll look over in the lake of fire
safe. You did Guy.
You should have got the alabaster box, bro.
Right. Okay, so the gifts of the
Spirit, you know, they function, they operate and again why are
they here to point people to Jesus?
Not to you. So anyone who begins to operate
in the gifts that all of a sudden people start coming up
and saying, hey, you know, can you pray that you better be like
better, get off me. You need to learn how to no, no.
Don't do that. But, you know, how many people
love that and now you're taking an anointing, that's Jesus's.
That's the spirit and you trying to call claim it as your own.
That's wrong. It's the point people to Jesus.
Because they always have to come to you.
I know of some that have come to me and I've definitely given
them a word of knowledge about certain things and they've acted
on it and it's worked and then they come every time Pastor you
say and I do it is actually you say it works.
But then they've come and I said and I'm like, I ain't got
nothing. even if I had some I don't have nothing. then they
come back, you know, I did this, I said well and that awesome you
heard the spirit of God because that's the goal.
The goal is not for me, become your personal Seance person.
Let's call it for what it is. They get out in the lobby and
they want to say, aunts over people.
Get little guests come in and act like they thought a little
titles around. Didn't want to try to pin you up
and prophesy over? You, you need to say, get thee
behind me. Satan don't even know who you
are. Are you hearing me so much
goofiness? I'm not saying a person couldn't
come in and do something. I understand that, but a person
who's really useful. Yielding is submitted to God.
I'm Telling you they'll resist as hard as they can because they
don't want to undermine the authority of the house.
In fact, they be like, you know, I believe the Lord has given me
a word for you, but can you go get your pastor?
it's right, and honorable Are you hearing me now?
Again? Most of us know each other and
we commune enough that you're not like, hey Pastor, I got two
were for. So and so on, you're coming to
me, I get that. Because some of y'all are saying
stuff, this people I'm aware. And just because I'm not correct
to, you doesn't mean you're right.
But I will tell you this, you better be right?
But goes don't think God takes it lightly.
That you say thus, saith the Lord to somebody, you better be
right? I remember Pastor Mike and
Angie, we were in Gamble Rogers and Angie had a miscarriage.
And so I was laying hands on people to be healed and I'll
never forget that service and I was going down.
The Lord said, tell Pastor Mike and Angie that this time next
year, they'll have a child. I said I'm not doing it.
Know why I'm resisting calls, man.
You better be right. It, you better stop and talk
with the Lord. A little bit so I did because
I'm like man and I lay hands on a few more people and it just
keeps coming up, right? So I'm talking because I'm like
I got to know that I know, I gotta know that I know And then
I said it. And then later on, I give
another, I said, you have as many children if you as you
want, if you wanted them. Right?
But I've not said that. I don't know that I've ever said
that. Did anyone else?
Be honest with you? Which means I'm not looking to
continue to do something. And oh, by the way, by that
time, that last next year, she had a child, she was with child.
Her name is Abigail. I said her name is Abigail.
You can meet her today, she's alive.
Okay. My point is is that you need to
know. So when you're operating the
gifts, we should be in awe and understand the responsibility of
that, okay, we want to move but we got to do things decent in
order. In fact, Paul is talking to the
Corinthian Church, not because they didn't exercise it.
I mean, I could literally call some people out right now that
have given words and it's been extremely accurate, but I have
to be cautious because the middle I do.
I put undue pressure on these individuals that the immature
will start running around, but I will call one out, mr.
Barry, would you stand? He's with our he's on my board.
Stand up mr. Barry.
I'm mr. Berry is number one in
encourager and extreme encourager.
Okay, he has that gift. He's like a, he's like Barnabas.
If you feel bad just show up and talk to mr.
Berry, he'll get you right now, mr.
Barry has battle wounds though. Not just here because all
churches have this issue because the enemy wants to destroy the
church, all of them, but at other ones where people come to
him and badmouth things and he has track record of keeping it
straight, it doesn't mean he gets them turned but he shall
keep it straight. He won't let the negative things
be spoken about people are you hearing me?
God has used him. To communicate a word of
knowledge in people's lives. It has happened.
It has happened, we had one. And again I'm just want to I
want to bring this up because very important he gave a word to
an individual that they would be promoted.
They went up for promotion. They did not get it.
And they got mad about it offended.
Quit coming to church. and then in the National was trying to do
and they died, They died and at their funeral, they were
promoted. Because God made sure his word
was truth. The problem is is that he didn't
tell him, he would get promoted at the next opportunity.
The problem with words of knowledge or these words of
wisdom that come out as well, is that it doesn't mean it's the
next time. Right.
Amen. So reason I pulled him up
because if I see y'all over there talking to him, I'm
thankful for his ministry. I'm thankful for his gift to our
body because you know, through the years, you know, people they
they struggle at Tom's, your flesh gets you.
You know, and mr. Berry has a way of helping you
stay straight without having to be the one that actually
corrects you. That's my job.
Right. That's my job.
I do that, right? Other leaders do that.
Mr. Barry even though he's correcting, he just does it in a
way that can help you along. If you listen, I remember one
particular person that got off bad in the Lord, spoke to mr.
Barry said, go see maybe in our church for months.
And was able to get them back in and once they got back in, we
got their family, got restored and that family still with each
other today. Now, they're not here.
They've moved to another state. But you know what, I'm thankful
for that, right? Because we're being led by the
spirit, the opportunities of the gifts of the Spirit, but Paul
had to correct. And here's what he said, he
said. Now when you're in service,
we're only going to allow three expressions of gifts of the
Spirit to get an operation, and we going to preach the word.
So make no mistake about when people are starting to move.
I'm counting. Now, sometimes the gift of the
spirit of function when Pastor Marcus is ministering Hill, all
of a sudden, get unction. And say something by unction by
all. Why is the gift of Prophecy?
Which is an edification for us. So I'm like, there's one.
So there may get a couple. So then you by the time you come
down, I'm like the Bible says man to no more than three.
So you could have had something that's just your for now.
And at the end of the day, we're just not going to let it fly,
but then there are other times guys.
I'm just going to be honest with you.
You're here in the Holy Ghost but it's not for the
congregation. It is for you.
It's really just for you and I'll be bold enough to look at
you and say, I think that's for you.
Now some I've known where service is going.
Here's another thing I'm teaching now I know that I'm
fixing a minister, multiple services on something specific
and they'll come and say man I've got this to seem like
you're something here, okay. And they tell me and I'm like,
that's not this week that's next week.
I said, hold that. Because I know that's not for
here, but God's already giving you something.
For the next week. Right.
Now here's another thing when it comes to the gifts, some of you
may get something, but you don't move.
And it's not that you don't want to move, you just don't.
But then once it's given your like I have that you know why
God does that to give you confidence because there's going
to come a day now that he's going to say.
Now you go up Because in that moment you're like I had that.
I mean I could have done that in the Lord's, like you could have
done that, that's right, you heard me.
So when I called on you bingo, Which then brings me to this
correction, if you get something, don't move.
You may be affecting somebody. Because what you have is not for
you anyway. Amen.
Okay, so we have the gifts of the Spirit.
And for me, we're not this super mega church, right?
I can't tell you, we'd ever be that But if we are, I'm at
there's got to be a way that the gifts can still operate in a
service, because I've been to too many large churches where it
doesn't happen except with a few and the Saints, in general.
Can't. Now, there are more challenges
with that. Don't get me wrong.
But I'm like, Lord, if the gifts are for the church, it doesn't
matter how big the size is then there should because it's as you
will. And that doesn't mean only on
the Pastoral staff. So we have to be to have just as
much capacity to be able to say well okay dondon.
Stand up so everybody can see who you are.
Don. Yes, that's you lady.
Work out the gym all the time. Yes thank you.
Don here, right. All of a sudden the Lord is
speaking to her. I have just as much to say have
to say does she have it and discern that So we can release
it and she can get up here and do it.
Thank you, Don. I appreciate it.
Amen. Okay.
But we are a church that loves and values and earnestly
desires, spiritual gifts. Amen.
And I close with this verse just to remind you first.
John 4:4. You are from God.
Little children. And have overcome them.
Because greater is he, who is in you than he, who is in the
world, right? And he, who is in the world, God
has made, given made us a church, that's full of Truth.
The spirit of Truth, Spirit of power, Spirit of wisdom,
Holiness, Grace. All those that I've said, we
have his fruits, we're going to function in his fruits and we
can yield, as he Wills to his gifts, to edify the body and
strengthen people. And to be at a speak to those Is
that are outside God's Kingdom in such a way like God, did like
Jesus did. Yeah, you don't have a husband.
In fact, the last five, you've had five and the one you're
wearing now you're not, she's like I perceive your profit
right, but she gave him to the kingdom that day because of a
word of knowledge. And we need to function that
way. In fact, I would encourage you,
you should earnestly desire, it more for where you're at day, in
and day out, then just in church.
There's a place in the church to do it.
We know that cuz Paul talks about it in First Corinthians,
he's talking to the church but we also know that you can
function just in everyday life and you can really help someone
come into the kingdom because you have the greater one on the
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