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Manifesting the Things of The Spirit pt. 3

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  5. Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 from verse

    1 Corinthians 12 chapter mention

  6. 4, everybody. From verse 4, open your Bible,

  7. everybody, whether it's hard copy or... We believe

  8. in your growth, so very soon you will buy one

  9. hard copy. So for now you can use your phone.

  10. Now there are diversities of gifts, but what?

  11. Let's be echoing it together. Now there are diversities

  12. of gifts, but what? Same spirit, verse 5. And

  13. there are differences of administrations, but

  14. the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations,

  15. but it is what? The same God who do what? Who

  16. worketh all in all. Seven. But the manifestation

  17. of the Spirit is given to every man. To do what?

  18. Is it to every woman? Is it to pastors? Is it

  19. to only ushers? Is it to only prophets? Is it

  20. only to apostles? To how many men? To how many

  21. men? Let's echo it. To how many men? All men.

  22. Please. If you don't do that, I will close service.

  23. So respond. Verse 8. For to one is given by the

  24. Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word

  25. of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith

  26. by, to another gifts of healing by, to another

  27. the working of miracles, to another prophecy,

  28. to another the signing of Spirit, to another

  29. diverse kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation

  30. of tongues, but all these worketh that one and

  31. selfsame. Spirit dividing to what? To every man

  32. severally as what? As he will. Praise God. Hallelujah.

  33. Yeah, so now on Wednesday we stopped somewhere.

  34. We said, what does it mean to be filled with

  35. the Spirit? Amen. What does it mean to be filled

  36. with the Spirit? Praise God. And we read Acts

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  37. chapter 2, everybody. Let's go to Acts chapter

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  38. 2. Acts chapter 2. So if you're with us on Wednesday,

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  39. you'll remember this. Acts chapter 2 verse 4.

    Acts 2:4

  40. So the question we're handling is, what does

  41. he mean to be what? What does he mean to be what?

  42. Filled with. So in the scriptures, right, there

  43. is a reality for the believer that the believer

  44. should be filled with what? With the Spirit,

  45. with the Holy Ghost. Amen? So where did we get

  46. it from? From where? We're going to see it from

  47. where? From the scriptures. So which means that

  48. if it's in the scriptures, it's also our reality.

  49. Amen? Praise God. So let's read it all together.

  50. Acts chapter 2 verse 4. And they were all, read

    Acts 2:4

  51. now, everybody's with Bible. And they were all

  52. filled with the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. And the

  53. Holy Ghost held their tongue and began to speak

  54. through them. Is that what your Bible is reading?

  55. Is that what your Bible is saying? That the Holy

  56. Ghost held their tongue? What is your Bible saying?

  57. What happened to them? They were what? They were

  58. filled with what? Then who spoke? So which means

  59. that they have a choice not to speak, right?

  60. I hope you know. They can choose not to speak.

  61. Yes or true? So which means they can choose to

  62. what? Not to speak. But the scripture says that

  63. who began to speak? So upon filling with the

  64. Holy Ghost, they began to what? They began to

  65. speak with how many tongues? With other tongues

  66. as the Spirit gave them what? Other tongues.

  67. On Wednesday, I told us that we could read it

  68. this way. Amen? And they were all filled with

  69. the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost gave them other

  70. tongues and they began to speak with other tongues.

  71. Hallelujah. Do we understand how I just read

  72. it now? Okay, everybody, your eyes on the Bible.

  73. Let's see how I said. Let's read it now. And

  74. they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. As

  75. the Holy Ghost gave them utterance, they began

  76. to speak with other tongues. Hallelujah. Praise

  77. God. So as they continued to speak, there was

  78. or there is a source of utterance from what?

  79. From the Holy Ghost. So they were not just filled.

  80. With the Holy Ghost alone? But as they were filled

  81. with the Holy Ghost, utterance also came with

  82. the filling. Amen? Did we see it in the Bible?

  83. That all they did is to do what? All they did

  84. is to do what? Who gave the utterance? The Holy

  85. Ghost. Praise God. Praise God. Say, even now.

  86. Raise your hand. Say, even now. Even now. Even

  87. now. I believe and I know right now. The Holy

  88. Ghost is giving me utterance and I'm going to

  89. speak in other tongues. Hallelujah. Praise God.

  90. I just told you your reality now. Hallelujah.

  91. You can be in the school bus and be filled with

  92. the Holy Ghost. Because these men were gathered

  93. together in a room. They were not in a church.

  94. Oh, let me not use the word church. They were

  95. not in a building. Hallelujah. Here we are just

  96. in sort of one room somewhere and gathered together.

  97. Sir, do you mean that so, even in my room I can

  98. be filled with the Holy Ghost? Yes, sir. In the

  99. school bus, you can be filled with the Spirit.

  100. Hallelujah. On the street, you can be filled

  101. what? With the Spirit. Oh, as you are playing

  102. ball, you are about to score. I think in school

  103. I used to play football, yeah. Yes, I always

  104. see him. I don't know whether he has repented

  105. because I have not seen him in a while. Posts.

  106. You know, there are some people here, right?

  107. As you are about, you know you are in that ball.

  108. You are in that ball. You are chasing one small

  109. round thing and you are sweating. You know? You

  110. are still mindful of what? Of the Spirit of God.

  111. Do you know why? Because you just go and hit

  112. somebody's leg small, he will catch your collar.

  113. And then, oh, I caught your collar. Sorry, sir.

  114. You know? You just catch your collar. And then

  115. before you know, you catch my collar. You catch

  116. my collar. Bah, bah, bah. And they will see.

  117. Pastor, they fight on board. But let me tell

  118. you, because you're in that field, and you're

  119. not mindless, and not mindless or unconscious,

  120. but you're conscious of the Spirit of God inside

  121. you, you hit me, you hit me. Ah, the love of

  122. God has been shed abroad in your heart, Romans

  123. 5 .5, by the Holy Ghost that has been given to

  124. you. Amen? Oh, you say, I'm sorry now. I'm sorry.

  125. You're before you, before salvation. You won't

  126. apologize. I told you, you told me. Football,

  127. close. Even though we are coming to it, but write

  128. this somewhere. The more I am conscious to be

  129. filled with the Spirit of God, I will not give

  130. or yield myself to the influences of the flesh.

  131. The more I am conscious and mindful. To be filled

  132. with the Spirit of God, I will not yield myself

  133. or give myself to the influences of the flesh

  134. or the works of the flesh, right? Works of the

  135. flesh. Praise God. So they were in the room and

  136. they were filled with what? With the Spirit.

  137. Amen? So, probably some of you are just joining

  138. this Sunday morning. Let me just read the Scriptures.

  139. I read Ephesians chapter 5 verse 16 to 18. Okay,

    Ephesians 5:16–18

  140. let's read it all together. Ephesians chapter

    Ephesians 5 chapter mention

  141. 5. I'll just give us this because we are coming

  142. to some of these scriptures again. Ephesians

    Ephesians 5:16

  143. chapter 5 verse 16, everybody. Let your eyes

  144. be on your scriptures. We saw they were filled

  145. with the Spirit. And what was the next reaction?

  146. What was the next reaction? They spoke, right?

  147. Okay, Ephesians chapter 5, everybody. Verse 16.

    Ephesians 5 chapter mention

  148. Redeeming the time because the days are evil.

  149. 17. Wherefore, Be not unwise, but understanding

  150. what the will of the Lord is. Eighteen. Everybody,

  151. read together. We will not know that you are

  152. the one being drunk with wine. So everybody,

  153. let's chorus it together so that we will not

  154. find you out. And be not, and be not, and be

  155. not drunk with wine wherein is what? The next

  156. line, everybody. But be filled with. The Spirit,

  157. 19. If your Bible, you see, that's filled with

  158. the Spirit, you see a semicolon, a colon, a comma,

  159. right? See, 19. What's the next line, 19? Speaking

  160. to yourselves in what? Psalms and hymns and spiritual

  161. songs, singing and making melody in your heart

  162. to who? To the Lord, 20. Giving thanks always

  163. for how many things? All things unto God and

  164. the Father in the name of what? So in Acts chapter

    Acts 2:4

  165. 2 verse 4, we saw that they were filled with

  166. the Spirit and they what? They spoke. See now,

  167. in this verse we see that when you are filled

  168. with the Spirit, what and what will you be doing?

  169. Let's count it. Number one, you speak to yourselves

  170. in what? In psalms and hymns. That is the number

  171. one thing that will happen when you are filled

  172. with the Spirit, right? Second thing. Singing

  173. and what? Making melody where? In your heart

  174. where? Next thing that will happen to you, giving

  175. thanks how? Murmuring always? Complaining always?

  176. Insulting always? What will be happening? Giving

  177. thanks always for how many things? But all this

  178. is a product of what? The product of what? Being

  179. filled with what? With the spirit of who? Uh

  180. -huh. You say what? Yes. Ah, 21. Thank you. 21.

  181. It didn't stop there, actually. 21. Can we read

  182. it all together? One to another in what? So how

  183. many things? Let's count them. Speaking to yourselves,

  184. number one. Singing and making melody in your

  185. heart, number two. Giving thanks always, number

  186. three. Submitting what? Yourselves want what?

  187. Another in what? All as a product of what? Being

  188. filled with what? The Spirit of who? This is

  189. class now. Raise your hands, everybody. I believe.

  190. I believe. And I know that I'm always and I will

  191. always be filled with the Spirit of God. And

  192. I'll always speak to my brothers in psalms and

  193. hymns and spiritual songs. Oh, I will sing and

  194. make melody. In my heart unto the Lord, I will

  195. give thanks always for all things unto God. I

  196. will submit always to my brothers and sisters

  197. in the fear of the Lord. Hallelujah. This is

  198. what it means to be filled with what? With the

  199. Spirit of God. Praise God. I've just answered

  200. some questions now in our hearts. Amen? Okay.

  201. So write this as extra scriptures because we

  202. are not coming to it because we're going to come

  203. into it. On Wednesday, a couple of people, I

  204. know some of us were not there. So let me repeat

  205. the scriptures because we've read a good number

  206. of them on Wednesday. Acts chapter 19, verse

    Acts 19:6

  207. 6. You could write it down. Acts 19, 6. Luke

  208. 1, 41. Luke 1, 41. You realize that all these

  209. people, when they were filled with the Holy Ghost,

  210. they began to what? They speak. Some of them

  211. prophesied. Amen. Good. Acts 1, 67. And Luke

  212. 1, 67. Sorry. Luke 1 .67. Luke 4 .1. Luke 4 .1.

  213. Acts 2 .4. Acts 2 .4. Acts 4 .8. Acts 4 .8. Acts

  214. 4 .30 -31. Acts 4 .30 -31. Acts 9 .16 -17. Acts

  215. 9 .16 -17. Acts 7 .55. You see, most of the scriptures

  216. we are reading is all in Acts, right? Acts chapter

    Acts 7:55

  217. 7 verse 55. Acts chapter 13 verse 52. Acts chapter

    Acts 13:52 Acts 13:52

  218. 13 verse 52. Acts chapter 13 verse 9. And then

    Acts 13:9

  219. Acts chapter 6 verse 3. Hallelujah. Praise God.

    Acts 6:3

  220. And we establish a truth on Wednesday that to

  221. be filled with the Spirit of God means to allow

  222. for the demonstration or the manifestation of

  223. the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. We saw

  224. in Acts chapter 2 verse 4 that The Holy Ghost

    Acts 2:4

  225. gave them what? The Holy Ghost gave them utterance,

  226. right? Good. So we say being filled with the

  227. Spirit means to allow for the demonstration or

  228. the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

  229. So we can say again that being filled with the

  230. Spirit of God means the manifestation of the

  231. Spirit from within. The manifestation of the

  232. Spirit from where? From within. You're not writing.

  233. Are you recording it on your phone? You're not

  234. writing. You've been looking at me. Even collect

  235. pen. Take pen. I have pen. I dash you. Don't

  236. worry. It's not a success pen. It's a normal

  237. pen. Give a paper or something. So this is how,

  238. when I talk, I look at everybody's eyes. I want

  239. to see what is inside. So I want to see everybody

  240. is active. Put the recording. Okay. You listen

  241. to it after service and write and snap it and

  242. send me what you have written. Amen. Hallelujah.

  243. People that are being filled with the spirit

  244. of God, they pay attention during services. Hallelujah.

  245. Yes. Not you guys. The previous guys we used

  246. to have that come here. During service, you see

  247. them playing computer game. There was one guy

  248. there. He was playing computer game. Candy Crush.

  249. Let me say something jokingly. If you play Candy

  250. Crush, your life will be crushed. That was a

  251. joke. Praise God. Sir, this Pastor Koston, you

  252. like play? Of course. You just finished hearing

  253. now that we are going to be singing melody. You

  254. know, only my wife can marry me. I said, my wife,

  255. she's serious. She's carrying a serious face.

  256. Yes, that is it. That's the Spirit of God. You

  257. see, that thing that you have had somewhere that

  258. they say, because you are filled with the Spirit

  259. of God. Bless you, brother. They didn't teach

  260. you well about the Spirit of God. I said it here

  261. someday. Here. That even people in the office,

  262. they say, anytime we come and meet you, where

  263. we live, there is this energy. We just leave

  264. your office, sir. We live with energy. It's not

  265. energy. It's the Spirit of... It's called the

  266. joy of the Holy Ghost. Many a times, some of

  267. you will come and say, you put all your problems

  268. on us and say it. You don't know our problem

  269. is more than yours. But we come here, the Lord

  270. is good. He is faithful. Hallelujah. Glory. You

  271. say, these pastors, they're enjoying, you know.

  272. We're going to see it. You see, when you're filled

  273. with the Spirit of God, It defies every kind

  274. of difficult situations you are inside. Oh, you

  275. only see those situations the way Jesus sees

  276. them. So we said, that time means manifestation

  277. of the Spirit from where? From within. Hallelujah.

  278. Write this, that the feeling of the Spirit or

  279. the feeling with the Spirit of God is not a one

  280. -time experience. Hallelujah. It's not a what?

  281. It's not a one -time. This is the most beautiful

  282. part now. Write this. The feeling with the Spirit

  283. of God is for ministry. Hallelujah. It's for

  284. what? It's for ministry. It's for ministry. Hallelujah.

  285. When we say be filled with the Spirit, we mean,

  286. I'm going to use this term, actively stir up

  287. the gifts of the Spirit which is within you.

  288. Do what? Actively what? Stare up. You can replace

  289. that word actively with consciously stare up.

  290. Add another word. Mindfully stare up the what?

  291. The gifts of the Holy Ghost. That is where? That

  292. is within you. So, for example, as the Holy Ghost,

  293. you know that the Spirit of God dwells in you.

  294. As he gives you utterance, you actively do what?

  295. You actively do what? You speak. You consciously

  296. what? Speak! Hallelujah! On a Sunday morning

  297. like this, and then you just arrive to church.

  298. I know a large number of us are students here,

  299. so I'm going to give a student's kind of example.

  300. And then you arrive to church, you're trusting

  301. the Lord. Most of the things that most of you

  302. trust is finances for tuition fees. So that's

  303. why I'm going to use that example. It's not an

  304. insult or something. Well, you're trusting the

  305. Lord for finances, for tuition fees, and then

  306. you arrive Sunday morning to church, and then...

  307. The Spirit of the Lord, let... I just had now

  308. in my heart, right? I perceive now in my heart

  309. for somebody here. Learn to listen to the voice

  310. of the Holy Ghost much more when He directs you

  311. to the needs of your brothers. Pay attention

  312. because He will be showing you... Physical needs.

  313. For some of them is their shirts. For some of

  314. them is trousers. For some of them is shoes.

  315. For some of them is as basic as food to eat.

  316. They don't have. Pay attention to the leading

  317. of the Holy Spirit when he speaks to your heart

  318. to meet the what? To meet the needs. Praise God.

  319. Hallelujah. Because as I perceive more as I speak

  320. now, right? He's going to be increasing that

  321. leading much more in your heart. Every time you

  322. come around, fellow, brethren. He will be ensuring

  323. that your eyes are pointed to look out for the

  324. needs of the brethren that you're part of. Amen.

  325. Please pay attention. Praise God. So back to

  326. my example. So now it's a word for somebody.

  327. You're here. He has been putting it in your heart

  328. to reach out to meet the needs of people. Amen.

  329. Don't ignore it. Hallelujah. It happened to me

  330. sometime when I was in the university. I set

  331. out in my heart that I was going to be, I would

  332. start paying people's tuition fees and transport

  333. fare. Okay. Okay. Let me not say it. So transport

  334. fare. Amen. Hallelujah. Before I would see applicants.

  335. Soteria Bank and Customs Bank and all the banks,

  336. they are not yet dead. They are still, what do

  337. you call it, sir? There are no banks. They can

  338. only cater for only two people, a husband and

  339. wife. And it happens that the central executive

  340. officer and then the chief operations officer,

  341. they are only the people handling the system

  342. now. Amen? So now, this is what happens now.

  343. You arrive, okay, I set out that I was going

  344. to be doing that. But every time I get into,

  345. and you know, our church is somewhere and our

  346. school, he knows our school is somewhere. We

  347. are close to PZ. It's a long drive. So anytime

  348. I enter the bus, I will hear, I will see people

  349. that cannot pay this thing. But they've carried

  350. that initiative, having faith that when they

  351. get into bus, somebody will... You people, you

  352. are abroad. You don't exercise faith. I am in

  353. Nigeria. People live by... I know what I'm saying.

  354. So I will enter, sir. I will know somebody who's...

  355. You see? Please, can you just pay? I know church

  356. brethren, they will reduce their voice. Please,

  357. can you just pay my fares too? Somewhere I say,

  358. sorry, bro. You know, I'm not able to have sufficient.

  359. I lie, number one. Oh, I lied. Another time I

  360. will enter. I'll say, just ask. Or randomly pay

  361. people's fare inside the bus. I will be struggling

  362. with it. Until one day I got into that bus. Bro,

  363. I can't pull. He didn't think about it. And I

  364. realized, you know, from that day, I knew that

  365. he has been doing it. When we just enter, before

  366. everybody put hand inside pockets, you just talk

  367. to the conductor for everybody. I want to say,

  368. plus me. I said, no, no, no, no. You see, this

  369. thing there. In fact, let me show you my book.

  370. He told me, I even wrote it. See, he told me

  371. that I should start taking initiatives and then

  372. be conscious to pay some people's fare. Okay,

  373. what we'll do, we'll start sharing it. You see,

  374. from that day, because we attended a good church,

  375. And in that church, they taught us giving, giving,

  376. giving. However, they went a little bit extreme.

  377. They told us to carry one dollar and put inside

  378. our purse and be calling dollar every morning.

  379. That church, we call money, I used to share it

  380. with them. In that church, you hear us, they

  381. say it's time to call for money. Money, money,

  382. money. Money, in dollars, in pounds, in euros,

  383. from different locations, in truckloads, come

  384. to me now in the name of Jesus. You know, I saw

  385. the picture of the place some weeks or some months

  386. ago. Some of them are still there. And I have

  387. some privilege to have some information about

  388. some of them. They are still struggling so much.

  389. They love the Lord. They are believers, tongue

  390. -talking. They are doing a lot of exploits. Hear

  391. this. If you don't take initiative on your finances,

  392. you're going to be a poor, tongue -tucking, filled

  393. with the spirit of God believer. I mean legal.

  394. Don't go and do Yahoo. Don't do Yahoo. Don't

  395. sell your body. Don't give anything. There are

  396. legal ways to have finances. You may not be on

  397. Forbes list, but you will not beg for bread.

  398. You may not be on top list, but you will not

  399. be around walking naked. Do you hear what I said?

  400. Be hard working. If you can't use your brain,

  401. use your hands. That's a word for somebody. So

  402. take initiative. I got here because I was saying,

  403. take initiative. Be conscious. As the Spirit

  404. of God leads you to solve people's needs, right?

  405. Do it. Hallelujah. Praise God. You understand

  406. because we are reading some scriptures about

  407. that. Okay, that's why the Holy Ghost even led

  408. me here. Amen? Say, I'm filled with the Spirit

  409. of God. So being filled with the Spirit of God

  410. is a function of your choice. Say, it's a function

  411. of my choice. Being filled with the Spirit of

  412. God is a function of my choice. Yes, it's a function

  413. of your choice. Yes, it's a function of what?

  414. We saw it in Acts chapter 2 verse 4. They were

    Acts 2:4

  415. filled with the Spirit of God. The Spirit of

  416. God gave them ultras and they made a choice to

  417. do what? To speak. Amen? Acts chapter 4 verse

    Acts 4:8

  418. 8. Acts chapter 4 verse 8. It's a function of

    Acts 4:8

  419. your choice. It's a function of your choice.

  420. Acts chapter 4 verse 8. Very fast. Then Peter

    Acts 4:8

  421. filled with what? Acts 4 verse 8. Acts chapter

    Acts 4:8 Acts 4:8

  422. 4 verse 8. Then Peter, everybody, filled with

  423. what? With the Holy Ghost. And he what? He was

  424. filled with the Holy Ghost. What's the next thing

  425. he did? He what? He said to them. He spoke. You

  426. guys are not fast in opening your Bible. It shows

  427. that you don't read your Bible at home. Yes.

  428. Acts is not after Malachi. You know, I sat down

  429. beside somebody in this church. I won't show

  430. the location. They said, let's open to Acts.

  431. A full grown woman. She went to the front content

  432. and check for the number of the page. And check

  433. Acts. Acts. Acts. Page 941. Somebody say Jesus.

  434. It's true. 900. But she's not coming to church

  435. now. She opened to 941 and said she found Acts.

  436. Exploit. At the back. I asked exploit. Open to

  437. Zechariah. She opened it. Open to Zephaniah.

  438. She opened to Haggai. She opened it. Exploit.

  439. I'm not saying today, oh, she's more wiser now.

  440. It was last year. I said, oh. But even at this

  441. age, okay, we're in Sunday school trying to do

  442. Sunday school competition. Bible open. She could

  443. not. It just shows that you're not reading your

  444. Bible. People that are filled with the Spirit

  445. of God are always close to God's Word. You know

  446. what I said? They are always close to what? Yes.

  447. Say today. And always, I will always be close

  448. to my Bible. I will open it and I will read it

  449. and I will study it. Somebody say he's attacking

  450. me. I attack you. If you fail to attack men,

  451. I will attack you again. You can't be in this

  452. church and be opening to page, page, contento,

  453. content, sir. I will tell you, I will tell you

  454. people, the lady. Yes, I will. This is what we

  455. do. We label over your soul. Definitely we can't

  456. leave this job. You have to leave this church.

  457. That's just it. Because we know in every church

  458. there are stubborn people. They never leave.

  459. They're in every church. No matter how tongue

  460. speaking and spirit filled the churches is or

  461. the churches are, you'll find one stubborn person

  462. there. He's always everywhere. And the pastors

  463. are patient with them. We'll be patient with

  464. you. Amen? Why is he talking like that? Yeah,

  465. because I have to talk to you. Acts chapter 6

    Acts 6:3

  466. verse 3. See what the scripture says. Wherefore

  467. brethren, look ye out among you. How many men?

  468. Look ye among you. How many men? In any CF, look

  469. ye out among you. How many men? Seven men of

  470. what? Honest report. So which means these men

  471. must be known within the brethren. Right? When

  472. we say honest men, what do we mean? When we say

  473. honest men, what do we mean? It means that these

  474. people are known everywhere. Their life is not

  475. hidden. They know them among the multitudes.

  476. In fact, the scripture says that they grew from

  477. 120 to 3 ,000, 3 ,000 to 5 ,000, from 5 ,000

  478. to multitude. Multitude, which means we could

  479. not what? We cannot count them. But among the

  480. number that they cannot count them, they still

  481. know that there are people that are what? Having

  482. honest what? Report. Question to you. Can we

  483. say you have a honest report? One. Two. These

  484. men should be what? Full of what? The Holy Ghost

  485. and whom we may appoint over what? So which means

  486. that these people being filled with the Spirit

  487. of God, they were not hidden. Probably, I just

  488. imagine now because they chose Stephen, verse

  489. 5. They chose Stephen. They chose Philip. They

  490. chose Prochorus. They chose Nicanon. They chose

  491. Timon. They chose Parmenas. They chose what?

  492. Nicholas. I just imagine now among them, right?

  493. That they just saw Stephen one of these days,

  494. you know, giving a word of prophecy, you know,

  495. and then going around because it shows, because

  496. in the next verse he did that. They know that

  497. Stephen was not only full of faith and full of

  498. the Holy Ghost, he was just one of those evenings

  499. you see in one corner. And his character and

  500. conduct within the multitude was always commendable.

  501. Oh, they see Parmenas and Timon. You know, they

  502. are just moving. They say, I think today we need

  503. to go to, let's go to Gilne for evangelizing.

  504. Because we saw Philip. Philip did that in Acts

    Acts 8 chapter mention

  505. chapter 8. Him alone. Nobody pushed them. Nobody

  506. told them to go and do it. They left on their

  507. own choice. And they took a city. Hallelujah.

  508. Oh, a man filled with the Spirit of God is limitless.

  509. What you will do for Jesus is limitless. The

  510. power of God through you is limitless. Let me

  511. say that it's coming to my heart. A man that

  512. is filled with the Spirit of God can take a city.

  513. Don't underestimate yourself. Don't despise your

  514. youth. So it's your choice. For the responsibility

  515. to be stirred and flow in the things of the Spirit

  516. is in the hands of the believer. Hallelujah.

  517. The responsibility to be stirred up and to flow

  518. in the things of the Spirit is where? It's in

  519. the hands of who? The believer. It's in your

  520. hands. Hallelujah. The choice is yours. The Holy

  521. Ghost is in you and all the gifts of the Holy

  522. Ghost is also where? In you. Praise God. See,

  523. the Holy Ghost is in me. And all the gifts of

  524. the Holy Ghost is also in me. Hallelujah. Write

  525. this title somewhere. All believers have all

  526. the gifts of the Spirit and shall manifest and

  527. demonstrate them all. All believers have all

  528. the gifts of the Holy Ghost. and should manifest

  529. and demonstrate all of them. All believers have

  530. all the gifts of the Holy Ghost and should manifest

  531. and demonstrate all of them. Why should they

  532. manifest? And why should they demonstrate it

  533. like this? To profit everyone. Hallelujah. To

  534. do what? To profit what? Everyone. Why should

  535. you speak? To profit what? Everyone. Why should

  536. you prophesy? To do what? Profit what? Everyone.

  537. Why should you lay hands on the sick so that

  538. the sick will get healed? To do what? To profit

  539. everyone. Oh, say it. I am a huge benefit to

  540. the body of Christ. I am a huge benefit. Oh,

  541. to my brothers and sisters. Say, I only bring

  542. benefit to everyone I need. Hallelujah. Yes.

  543. The word manifestation, right? It is. In Greek,

  544. what is phanerosis? The word manifestation is

  545. phanerosis. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. Phanerosis.

  546. The word manifestation means what? Phanerosis.

  547. Phanerosis. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. S -I

  548. -S. S -I -S. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. It

  549. means to make bear. To reveal plainly. To not

  550. to hide. Not to hide. It means to make bare.

  551. To reveal plainly. Not to what? Not to what?

  552. Not to hide. Hallelujah. Manifestation. So which

  553. means that I have the Spirit of God. All the

  554. things of the Spirit are where? Are in me. All

  555. the gifts of the Holy Ghost are where? Are in

  556. me. But I need to do what? Manifest them. When

  557. we say we are making things bare, it means that

  558. the two natural, plain, physical eyes can do

  559. what? Can see them. The five senses can perceive

  560. them. Write it down. When I manifest the gifts

  561. of the Holy Ghost, the five senses can be able

  562. to perceive it. Hallelujah. Praise God. That

  563. word, phanerosis, was gotten from a root word,

  564. faneru. And faneru means to make visible what

  565. has been hidden, whether by words or deeds, in

  566. any other way. Hallelujah. Faneru means what?

  567. To make visible what has been hidden, whether

  568. by words or deeds, in any other way. To meet

  569. the eyes. Faneru. To meet the eyes. To shine,

  570. to display. When we read that 1 Corinthians 12,

    1 Corinthians 12:7

  571. verse 7, everybody. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7.

    1 Corinthians 12:7

  572. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7. 1 Corinthians 12,

    1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 12:7

  573. verse 7. See what the scripture says there, everybody.

  574. But the what? 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7. But

    1 Corinthians 12:7

  575. the manifestation of what? Is given to how many

  576. men? To do what? To profit what? So which means

  577. that no believer is supposed to stay hidden when

  578. it comes to the things of the Spirit. Hallelujah.

  579. No believer is what? Is supposed to stay what?

  580. Hidden. The more you hide the gifts of the Holy

  581. Ghost. You are not bringing profits to the body.

  582. The more you hide the things of the spirit, you

  583. are not becoming beneficial or you are not being

  584. beneficial to your brother. So what is my position

  585. as a believer that is filled with the spirit

  586. of God? That I do what? I manifest. Hallelujah.

  587. Say I manifest. Daily I manifest. I manifest

  588. what? All the things of the spirit that are where?

  589. That are locked up from where? Within me. Praise

  590. God. Hallelujah. Verse 11. Verse 11 says, That

  591. word there is Hekastos. Hekastos means to each

  592. one. Hekastos. H -E -K -A -S -T -O -S. Hekastos.

  593. To each man, to every man, and that what every

  594. man, whether woman or what? Or man. Hallelujah.

  595. Hekastos. H -E -K -A -S -T -O -S. But he say

  596. he divides to every man severally. As he what?

  597. As he will. That as he will is not the will of

  598. the Holy Ghost. Now is the will of the man that

  599. has received. Hallelujah. Now, let's read it

  600. carefully this way. Everybody, can we read together?

  601. Verse 11. Hallelujah. As what? As He will. Who

  602. is the receiver? The believer is the receiver.

  603. Amen? Who act on his will to manifest it? Who

  604. act on his will? The believer acts where? On

  605. his will. To do what? To manifest it. Write this

  606. somewhere. That word, as he will. Write it somewhere.

  607. He divides severally to every man as he will,

  608. based on purpose or needs. Hallelujah. Based

  609. on what? Purpose or what? Or need. As he will.

  610. That word is bulamai. It means based on the desire

  611. of the receiver. Praise God. So which means that

  612. based on my desire, I can prophesy. Based on

  613. my desire, I can give word of prophecy. I can

  614. give word of wisdom. I can give word of knowledge.

  615. When you go home, you can take as he will. So

  616. you are the receiver. John chapter 6 verse 11.

    John 6:11

  617. And we'll stop here. You will see it there. John

    John 6:11

  618. chapter 6 verse 11. And Jesus took the loaves.

  619. And when he had given thanks, he distributed

  620. to the disciples. They received it, right? And

  621. the disciples, to them that were set down, right?

  622. And likewise of the fishes, as much as what?

  623. As much as what? As they would. So the disciples

  624. are the ones that have received it. And they

  625. are the ones that will do what? Act on their

  626. will to share it out. Matthew 11, 27. You will

  627. see that same word there. So you are the one

  628. that would will. Say, I have the will. I have

  629. the will. I act on my will to manifest all the

  630. gifts of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 11, 27. All

  631. things are delivered unto me of my Father, and

  632. no man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither

  633. knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and

  634. he to whomsoever the Son will. Do what? Reveal

  635. him. Praise God. Acts 5 .28 Oh, be so conscious

  636. that when you get to places, act on your will,

  637. act on your will, act on your will, that every

  638. manifestation, every gift of the Holy Ghost in

  639. you must be made bare. Acts 5 .28, see what happened.

  640. Saying, did not we straightly command you that

  641. what? That ye should not teach in what? In this

  642. name. And behold, what happened? Ye have filled

  643. Jerusalem, what? With your doctrine. And what?

  644. That same will is the same with intention. And

  645. ye intend to bring this man's blood, where? Upon

  646. us. Make deliberate intention. Hallelujah. Make

  647. deliberate intention. Oh, make deliberate what?

  648. Intention. Make what? Deliberate what? Intention.

  649. Never have a day. Even if you are chatting with

  650. people, you can prophesy to them. Praise God.

  651. Lastly, now Acts 12 .4. Oh, beautiful. Acts 12

  652. .4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him

  653. in what? In prison and delivered him to what?

  654. Four quaternions of soldiers to keep him. Can

  655. you say another word? Do you what? Intending.

  656. Willing that after Easter. To bring him forth

  657. to what? To the people. Praise God. Hallelujah.

  658. Hallelujah. The diversities of all the gifts

  659. of the Holy Ghost are in us. Amen? Praise God.

  660. All the operations are based on your decision.

  661. Praise God. Hallelujah. See, I make decision.

  662. I make daily decision to manifest the gifts of

  663. the Holy Ghost. Praise God. Yeah, so we're going

  664. to come to... The next place where we said to

  665. walk in love when it comes to the gifts of the

  666. Holy Ghost. Write it somewhere. That's the next

  667. thing we'll look at. Walking in love when it

  668. comes to the gifts of what? The Holy Ghost or

  669. the things of the Holy Ghost. And we'll give

  670. some points there. And have a great time manifesting

  671. and seeing the demonstration of the things of

  672. the Spirit. Can we rise to our feet? Thank you

  673. for listening to today's sermon. Your journey

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