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Put The Toys In The Toy Box - Bro Jeremy Howell 6-11-2023
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You're happy, you know, and say, many, let's turn to the
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book of First Corinthians. If they're the first Corinthians, there must be a
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second Corinthians. I've heard preachers before call it one Corinthians and two Corinthians.
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I'm not really sure which is proper, but for years I've heard preachers say
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first and second Corinthians. So I appreciate this blessed book that we've been able
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to select a golden text from the Holy Ghost has whispered something into my heart.
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I do feel like this is a message given to us from the Lord.
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Isn't it different when you get something from the Lord? How many of
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you had that certain grandparent that you just could not wait to open the gift
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that they had regot for you at Christmas time? Anybody? I had a
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grandmother, and she's still living and I don't get gifts from her anymore.
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But I used to love to receive gifts from Grandmother Dampier, Granny Dampier,
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because she just had this ability to know what we would like, and everything
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she got us throughout the years was just perfect. I remember if it was
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a little monster truck or if it was a car, a little remote control
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car, or boat. Whatever it was she got, it was perfect,
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and I often wondered, how did she know that this would please us so
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well? She always hit the target on the bull's eye. I don't know
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if she was that observant because she knew that much about us, that she
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knew what we liked, but she always pleased us. Well, now,
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my other grandmother, Granny Howe if you hear this, Granny, I am
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sorry, but I never liked anything she bought me. Never did because it
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was Haynes undershirts or a sweater, things like that that she just went in
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there and she had so many people to buy fle or she just bought something
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about everybody's sweaters. They none of them fit us, none of them were
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a good color. And she'd tell us, as we're open them, you're
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probably not gonna like that, and I've got the receipt, go get something
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you want. So it told me she just didn't like shopping and she didn't
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like figuring out what people like. Just didn't want to go through that effort.
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So my other granny, though, Grannie Dampers, she liked to go
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through that. She always pleased us. And a gift from Granny Damper was
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wonderful, and this is a gift from God for you all this morning.
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I do know that this is sermons specific for the Bethel hole in this church,
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not to slight any minister that is an evangelist or that has been an
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evangelist, that this is not one that I'm pulling out that I have preached
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fifty to one hundred times. A lot of you don't realize that happens,
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and it has to happen. They travel, and that's why they become the
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great speakers and orators that they are. But well, most of them go.
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Some of them do. But I am a pastor and I have to
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preach something the fresh out of the every service. So here we are this
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morning. Fresh biscuits are in the house. That's right, brother road Caps.
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First Corinthians, chapter number thirteen. Somebody said, yes, that's the
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love chapter. Yes, that's the lovely chapter. We met sister Debbie's dad,
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brother gem, and whenever he heard my wife's name, Charity, he
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said, oh, that's a good name. First Corinthians, chapter number thirteen.
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And yes, you will find her name a lot in this chapter.
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Brother Nathaniel, would you turn to the Book of Isaiah, chapter number twenty
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eight versus number nine and ten. Brother Jesse, First Printhians, Chapter number
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fourteen, in verse number twenty, Brother Nathaniel Isaiah twenty eight nine and ten,
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Brother Jesse, First Corinthians, Chapter number fourteen, in verse number twenty.
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You all look so good this morning. It's so good to see you
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all in the house of the Lord. How many appreciated that revival? Oh
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yes, wasn't it wonderful? Brother Gabriel received a gift from the Lord,
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the sweet Holy Ghost. Praise the Lord, Brother Nathaniel Isaiah twenty eight nine
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and ten. Please, sir, whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom
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shall he make to understand doctrine? Then that are weaned from the mill and
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drawn from the beasts, A precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
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line upon line, and line upon line. Here a little and they're
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a little, amen, Brother Jessie. First Corinthians, chapter number fourteen and
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verse number twenty. Rather be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice,
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be children, but an understanding beating it all right, let's stand for the
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reading of our golden text with the Holy Ghost has for us this morning.
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First Corithians, chapter number thirteen. In verse number eleven, the Bible said,
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when I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood
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as a child. I thought as a child. But when I became a
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man, I put away childish things. Let's read that together. When I
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was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child,
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I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I
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put away childish things. I think if Apostle Paul was living in this day
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in alber he would have the kid that's sitting on the couch with his hat
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turned sideways, playing an Xbox for ten hours. That's who he'd be preaching
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to. You know, when I was a child, it's been great to
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have a childhood, but it's greater to be an adulthood. And there are
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three mental points I will be following as I'm preaching. I will reach for
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those at times when I'm taking a breath. The first one will be I
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spake as a child. The second one will be I understood as a child,
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and the third one is I thought as a child. Apostle Paul,
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the great Man of God, gave us those points, and I appreciate those.
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Apostle Paul and the good Holy Ghost. It was these points. Maybe
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we pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you. We thank
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you for your presence it's been here this morning. I do thank you for
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how you have blessed this church family. I thank you for those that you
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have gifted by giving them your son. I'm glad that they have received it
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so freely and gladly. I pray Lord that you would help us in this
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place this morning. Anoint this thy servants, set a guard at my mouth,
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and help me to say the things that you would have me to say,
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nothing more or less. Anoint the ears of this thy people, that
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they might hear what it is the spirit saith unto this church for discermon a
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sermon specifically this people. I pray that they would allow these sayings to go
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below the shoulders tid Oh, God, let h saturate their spirit, heart,
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mind, soul and being. Let us get whatever it is out of
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this that we need to get. May we not be hears one who would
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doors. We pray Lord for an anointy upon each and everyone in this place,
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and may we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus name
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name Man look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, put the
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toys back in the toy box. I want to preach a sermon. The
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Holy meost title put the toys in the toy boss. Looking at our text
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again. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
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understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became
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a man, I put away childish things. Our text is found in a
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New Testament book of the Holy Bible, the first Book of First Corinthians.
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Our text has been selected by the Holy Ghost. I appreciate this text this
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morning. There's been a lot of times that I have encouraged myself in the
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Lord with this very verse. There were times that I would say to myself,
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Okay, come on, Jeremy, just pick yourself up by your bootstraps
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and stand up on your feet and be just rock solid for old time,
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holdingness, truth and righteousness. And there's been a lot of times that I've
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encouraged myself in the Lord through this verse, assuring myself that I no longer
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speak as a child, I no longer understand as a child. I'm no
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longer thanking as a child, and I realize I really am growing in grace
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and in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Because there is
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certainly a difference between immaturity and maturity. There are some of you that work
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with people at your workplace. Those co workers can be labeled as immature co
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workers or mature co workers. Do you know also in this building this morning,
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there could be some among us that are labeled immature Christians while others are
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labored mature Christians. And I don't want to be the one doing the labeling
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of my brother or sister, But I do know that the beloved Apostle Paul
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was letting these people of correct, these new Christians, these believers that were
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hot and fiery and passionate for the gifts of the spirit. He was letting
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them know that there is a difference between spiritual immaturity and spiritual maturity. If
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you'll notice, this chapter is sandwiched right between the twelfth and fourteenth chapters of
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the Book of First Corinthians. To me, this thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians
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dislike the cream in the Oreo cookie. There's a lot of you would rather
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read this thirteenth chapter than you would the twelfth and the fourteenth brother rick Jacob
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was telling me the other night in the fellowship Paul that he is one of
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those that separates the two chocolate cookies and first licks the cream off of the
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cookie. I am not one of those. If my wife is one of
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those that I've seen her do that for years and it just aggravates me.
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Brother Ricky, wouldn't aggravate me if you were doing it. But to me,
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it is meant to go together. It is not to be eaten separately.
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And if we study this blessed book that is addressed to these blue believers
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at corinth you will realize that at some point the Apostle Paul gives them a
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wake up call, or if you will, an attitude check. Right here,
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the thirteenth chapter of the Book of First Corinthians is an attitude check.
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What's going on in the twelfth and fourteenth chapters. The apostle Paul is admitting
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that they have been powerful in God. He's admitting that they have been zealous
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in the grace of God and within the gifts of God. He admits that
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they are speaking with tongues, that they are a revival church. He's admitting
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that they are passionate and fervid and fiery in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
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But right here in this thirteenth chapter he begins to talk about if you have
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all of those gifts and you don't have love, it will be unprofitable for
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you, unprofitable for the church, unprofitable for the world, and especially unprofitable
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for the sake of Jesus Christ. So I do appreciate this thirteenth chapter of
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the Book of First Corinthians. But I also appreciate the twelfth and the fourteenth
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chapter. And I feel like if we could just study it, the twelfth,
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thirteenth and fourteenth chapter of the Book of Corinthians, we would realize that
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there is some growing to do. Even though that we have been saved by
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grace, even though faith has helped bring victory into our life, I'm so
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thankful for those things. Or yes, we are more than conquerors through Jesus
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Christ, our Lord, and yes we have been sanctified and we're now spirit
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filled, possessed of the whole e Gohost, the holy Egos that we sought
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after for so long now lives in us. When he moves within us,
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we shake or quake, And whenever he speaks through us. It flows out
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of our very mouth. We hear the Holy Egos speak out of our very
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mouth. And I want to remind you you feel a tendency to speak as
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a child, I want to remind you that you're also speaking at times as
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the oracle of God, the Holy it goes, is speaking through you.
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Now, I'm laying a foundation right here this morning, as is my custom
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because I'm a pastor, I'm trying to bring into life this Book of First
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Corinthians for you before we preach on our topic here this morning. I feel
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like this Bible is specific for all believers. There's a lot of people that
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discount and discredit the words of this blessed Book. They feel like they're not
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applicable to them or their life or their situation. But the Bible said,
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every word of this blessed Book is profitable for doctrine. I feel like this
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morning you're gonna find that it's gonna be very profitable if you're very careful how
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you speak as a believer. It's gonna be very profitable for you and the
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ministry and for the family of God. If you're very careful how you interpret
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scripture or how you understand the preacher when he's preaching. Also, you're gonna
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find it it's gonna be very profitable that you are thanking correctly and clearly.
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That y'all notice those three points that I'm following mentally this morning, points given
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to us by the Apostle Paul and the Holy Goost. So is it possible
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for you to be spirit feeling and spirit led and not to be speaking correctly,
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not to be understanding correctly, and not to be thinking correctly. Absolutely,
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you will find that every person in this building needs a pastor. In
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fact, the church has always been gifted with apostles and pastors and teachers and
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evangelists for the perfecting of the saints. And I feel like God has spoken
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into my heart art on this break of this revival, before the next wave,
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that we all need to be cognitive of this fact that we could stumble,
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even though we are spirit field and spirit lad. If we do not
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stumble, we could put a stumbling block in the way of someone else.
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So Apostle Paul intercepts some things that are going on in this local assembly,
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and he inserts himself through his writing and gives them a directive of you need
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to be careful. You need to make sure that you have a love in
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your heart. Even though I admit that you're speaking with the tongues of angels.
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You need to have love in your heart or or else this sounding brass,
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it's as sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. I understand that you have
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the gift of prophecy, and I understand that you understand mysteries now. And
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I understand that you think you have all knowledge and that you have a faith
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that will remove the mountains, and that you're unshakable. But I want to
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let you know that there's something going on here and you all need to slow
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down just a little bit and let somebody speak the prophetic word to you.
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The word of God needs to be preached and needs to be spoken clearly.
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There needs to be a directive come down from Heaven. Somebody needs to hear
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from God and issue a warning. Hey, let's teach a lesson on a
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gambling our Sunday's gonna teach her this morning, talk a lesson on gambling.
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If I had ever heard the voice of God, I heard it that night
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during our revival. When God spoken to my heart. I jumped around and
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I turned and looked at Brother root Cap and just with a quick sentence and
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a few words, I said, teach Sunday morning on the woes of gambling.
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And he done that this morning. A lot of you did not know,
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as there's already been a testimony that has gone forth of a sister in
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this precious congregation that had a dream some weeks ago. And she said,
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in that dream her husband had went to some sort of convenient store and bought
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a scratch off for a lottery ticket, and they had won seventy seven dollars.
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And upon closer observation of those tickets that were in hand, there was
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some more things to be scratched off, and they scratched them off, and
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one another seven hundred and seventy seven dollars, And said that lying spirit came
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by and said, see it's okay to gamble. It could be of God,
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for seven is God's perfect number. Oh, thank God for somebody that's
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not a hirling. Somebody's standing at the post of duty, somebody perched up
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as a watchman on the wall, watching for wolves and listening for the voice
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of the enemy, and also listening to the voice of God. We take
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that as though as just water off products back. It's not shotness this morning.
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We're not flopping like fishing the floor. We're not having caesars in our
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seat, We're not running around the walls of Jericho, so to speak.
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We're not having a victory march over that. But I'm telling you that was
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just as important as anything that has happened this year. I'm talking about those
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that have received the Holy those that gift operating the gift of prophecy, the
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gift of knowledge, the gift of understanding, is just as important as any
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other spiritual gift in the Word of God that we find that we can possess
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as believers. So I believe that this is an assembly or place where the
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believers are gathered together. This is just like this church here at Corinth.
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We have assembled ourselves together as believers and saints, and possibly even there's a
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sinner or two among us this morning, and thank God, that's indicative of
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our church. Is a functional church or place where people are receiving Hell,
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a place where people are willing together together, where the saints and the sinners
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can receive whatever it is they need to receive from God. And so I
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believe that Apostle Paul is speaking to these new believers about how they are feeling
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in their soul. No doubt they started feeling that they were superior to others.
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They got too big for their riches. Now this will save some of
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our young men and young preachers in the future. Again, you have no
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idea how important this message right here is, or how God has imparted wisdom
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under your pastor this morning to run interception to a lion spirit, the same
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kind of lying devil that tried to light our sister and tell her that it
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would be okay to gamble, to want something for nothing, you know,
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to get a lot a little bit. I feel like there's gonna be some
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that sometimes you'll get a pad on the back because they got annoyed it somebody
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else say wow, you're operating in the gifts of the spirit more than somebody
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else, or really, you know, the Bible talked about those that would
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minister to us and operate within the local assembly and within the church corporately,
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that we would not have to worry about being envious of them if we properly
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understood what's going on in their life, and if we interpreted it. It
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was just simply a gift given them by God. I know there's a lot
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of times people come up to me and they say, pastor, how or
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how do you preach like that? My sons who are preachers say, Papa,
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how do you preach like that? And I let them know right quickly.
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I am not the preacher. I told the Lord just before I walked
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out of that office, I said, if you do not preach through me,
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I will not each to your people this morning. I said, we
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must feed them, Lord, And if you will allow me, I'm putting
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the bag on my shoulder and I'm gonna try to go out there with handfuls
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on purpose and give them to this precious people. But if you do not
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feel the bag, we will not have anything at all to feed anybody.
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There are people that are simple in their mind. If you want their childish
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and I do not want to be outspoken or two plane spoken, or be
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offensive with the words of my mouth, but they are very childish. Sometimes
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they'll see somebody shout a little bit, Let's see somebody shake a little bit.
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Y'll see somebody quack a little bit. They'll hear somebody speak in tongues
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and they'll say, wow, look at the spiritual giant that they are,
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look at what they have become. And I want you to know there have
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been little children that have been possessed of the whole only ghost, the spirit
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of God has come into that life that has filled them with His glory,
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and they have spoke at times as the oracles of God. I've seen twelve
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year old boys before received the Holy Ghost. And while the Holy Ghost was
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present and in them and speaking through them, I said, surely this is
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a young man that can be used of God. But I realized when they
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went outside of the church they were still chilled or and yes they were not
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speaking like they spoke before they were filled with the Holy Ghost. Yes they
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were not thinking as they had talked before prior to be feeling with the Holy
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Ghost Tom and they certainly didn't understand things and the like they did prior to
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receive it. The Holy understand that. I realized that their mammas and daddy's,
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that our church people and myself included, that would still have to look
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at them as not as concerning the things of life. We realized we would
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not trust to that true your herd to lead the church of the Flock of
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God. We realized we would not trust to nor allow that trump your horn
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to leave this leader, this nation. We realized there was some growing to
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do. At that moment, we knew there still a need for spiritual development.
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Could I tell you this phone, and just because you're now operating in
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the gifts of the spiritual does not mean you do not need a spiritual head.
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I said in a little while ago that the apostle power had recognized that
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these believers had got too big for their bridges. Everybody's walking around and the
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speaking in tongues, and people are saying, that's great, and that's wonderful.
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An apostle power eyes that us should be holy, gusta cand dot pnd
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upon him. He's actually invicted a general confusion right here in the local assembly
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and the center comes. They're not gonna understand anything that's been said. Are
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you paying attention this morning? One of the things that we need people to
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do to speak clearly, clearly and understand clearly. And the same thing is
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applicable for us. And then as there was with them of yesteryear, that
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when they come to church, say they hear let us said the word of
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God. And then there's somebody who right the dividing get word the truth that
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some of you are preaching to you this morning. Just because he saw somebody's
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speaker gonna talk for a few minutes, just because you saw somebody could anoint
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it for a few and it does not mean they're gonna be a role model
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for you. It does not mean they're gonna be an example for the belief
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dayhood the day out. It's the Holy Ghoster, let change somebody's life very
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using will. If it doesn't, it wasn't the Holy Ghoster that I want
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you to know that the Holy Ghost to persist somebody that you still need and
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apostle Paul to come yet the midst of that holy roll of the meeting that
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say, remember everything should be decent, Remember everything should be an ardor there's
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a little babies and need to be taught to the right way. There's some
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steal in the early stages that developments. And be careful how much you operator
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in this gifts that when you operator in this kisser, you gonna make sure
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you have love. I said, you better make sure that you have love.
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I've seen people before say, well, praise the Lord. God answered
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my request, and he gave me exactly what I had petitioned him for.
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He gave me what I needed. And then I go away and say,
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but why is the meanness still there? I have said for years? And
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when you get possessed or filled with the hole, egoes to third part of
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the Godhead to try you. Godhead begins to living you and working you,
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and operate through you that there will be a natural born sweetness when he is
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born in you. And I saw brother Jesse, I operate properly in the
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gift of the Holy Eghost. Yesterday we were sitting at the Red Lobster restaurant.
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Some twenty one of us said, suddenly has little boy Malachi got sick?
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And how many of you have ever seen a little water fountains with a
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little statue boy, out of his mouth comes water, right, I saw
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about a two inch diameter circle a cylinder of water come out that boy's mouth
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at arch and went down. It was probably about eighteen inches long, brother
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Philip, And then there was another another spout of it to come out,
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and I thought that boy's gores. He just drinking and eating it. That's
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by way that much fluid should be in his belly. He likes to eat.
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I saw it go old Jesse's arm go all down, his shoulder,
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down, his elbow on his hands. There would have been a time his
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brother Jesse's life, even as a Christian, he would have got very upset
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at that boy. And that boy would not have heard a cuss word or
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swear words, but he would have certainly known Dad's disapproval of the situation,
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even though the little boys just being a child that is sick and did not
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know how to convey it to its father. I'm sicking about to throw up.
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There was a time him brother Jesse's life. He would have been grossly
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impatient with that situation and would have reacted not necessarily sinfully, but improperly.
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And that's a type of situation. He wouldn't have been nearly as considerate as
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he was yesterday. And I saw him just sit there, knowing that vomit
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was running off his fingertips, that he plays the Ivory's over here on the
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piano so many times, I realized it wouldn't ivory on his fingertips, it
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was vomit. And I saw him sitting there and I thought, brothers,
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there he is acting way too calm for Jesse David Howell and only would have
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jumped up and saying, get this stuff off of me, deal with that
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handa. But A handed that little boy over there to the moment after why
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I picked up his hand with all that vomit. He said, I got
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to go and change my shirt. And he said, normally I wouldn't have
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had another shirt, but my wife told me I needed to buy one just
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before we got here. And so he went out there and got that shirt
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that his wife insisted he needed to buy, and he put it on and
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he come in and I noticed when the baby come back, little Malachin come
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back. Jesice said, are you okay, buddy? Can I hold you?
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I'm sorry that you feel sick. Brother Jesse would rather minister to that
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child that heat, the stink, and the lobster that was on his plate.
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And I knew right there, this is a young man that Unnattalie has
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been possessed of the Holy ghost. Come on, I'm preaching to you.
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If you've got meanness in your heart, I want you to pray as we
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come into these autars. Momentarily and asked God to replace that meanness with sweetness,
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because I saw it exemplified in the life of Brother Jesse yesterday that the
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Holy Ghost will make you sweet. How many of you are thankful for the
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gift on the whole only ghost, there's no doubtless needful. The apostle said,
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have you received the Holy Ghost? Since you believed? He knew it
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was very important that they received the spiritual gifts. And after they received the
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spiritual gifts that come down from heaven, he knew that they had to recognize
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her that they were given to them by God. Young preachers, you will
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never be envious of another preacher in your life again, if you'll understand her
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what I'm about to tell you, if you'll put both hands in your pocket
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when he's preaching, if you start battling jealousy and in me, if you
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look at it now, listen to this vice pastor. I'm fixing the help
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you have a victory in your life if you'll just look at it as he
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should be able to preach like to have it. That is a gift that
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God has given you. You want to struggle with it there when you realize
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it. God that gives to every man that as he even give the cold
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Peter, what is it to you? If I do this for child,
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you just take Carder that I love you. That you just take Carder that
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I'm with you. The preacher say, I want you to know that this
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morning that you need to focus on is not the guilty of your brother.
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It's not a spiritual competition. All that makes me sick when I see us
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thill a camp meeting, that I see preachers compeach with one another, that
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makes me sick. But poss Paul said that it's not how much you speak
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it talking. It's not how much to get an operating in the church.
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And it's love present. I said, it's love present preaching Holy Ghost.
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Use it Holy Ghost because we need some in our congregation to possess certain gifts.
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Because the devil is given somebody a dream that it's okay to gamble.
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The devil can make you dream much business can make you dream. It doesn't
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matter how real you think it is, how much you shot along after you've
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had that dream. If it is misaligned with the Word of God, it
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is not of God. Is it wonderful to be able to say, in
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the year twenty twenty three you receive the Holy Ghost? Is it Isn't it
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wonderful to say yes, Apostle, yes, I have received the Holy e
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Ghost since I believe it was a process and it took a little while,
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but I can say yes, it is a wonderful thing, and it's a
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gift and a blessing that has come down to us from God. I feel
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like this has been a blessing to our church family seeing so many receive the
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gift of the Holy Ghost and being possessed of the Holy Ghost. What a
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blessing it is to the Bethel Holiness Church. What a blessing it is to
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our brothers and sisters in Christ worldwide. Already, people that have businessed our
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church have said, Bethel has always been a safe haven for the weary.
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It's always been a place of spiritual rest and renewal for the faith of heart.
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They said, But even now it's got even better, it's improved because
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of the Holy Ghost operating within these people. What are they doing different?
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Apparently the only thing that these people have seen them do is worthship God with
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everything that is within them. They've detected an annoying because of the dwelling of
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the Holy Ghost. One of the things I must often to get the Holy
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gust operating a menifesting God. If my life persists holy he goes. So
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I need her help to help me praise Jesus the way he deserves to be
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praised. Because I don't have the words, I don't possist the spirit,
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I don't have the right attitude always. But if you little help to praise
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Him the way he ought to be praised, then we can praise him.
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Come on now, The truth tis sometimes we need a little heaven before we
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get to heaven. Our heller preach other I care. That's why you need
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the Holy gost, because you need to take Him for his care, his
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resurrection, the way he does to me. Take. No, you need
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not appreciate it, but what he did for you. We must always remember
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that. It is just that what he did for us, not what we
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did from him. We must always remember that that preacher could preach like that
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because he received that gift from God. A preacher that's doing the preaching like
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that. Whatever it is, you must always remember that it is something you
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received. It's not something you deserved, and it's not something you learned,
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and it's not something you earned. We received these spiritual gifts from the Savior
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Jesus Christ on purpose. He knew that we must be about to his business.
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This is a pastoral message this morning, God helping her sleeping love.
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Here crickets preach. But anyhow, earlier in this writing we see that Apostle
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Paul reached again to the church at Corinth. And Paul had tried to straighten
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out believers. Now you only go feel safe. Might not like this,
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but he tried to straighten out spiritual believers. He tried to straighten out Holy
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Us feel believers. Just because you knock a holding ghosta who does not mean
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you no more than your spiritual leader. You can fine Old Testament examples of
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this and the life of Chassea Waa. He was submitted to Moses and caught
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it until the time that God took Moses from him. I'm talking to somebody
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that God spoke to me and said that don't get too big for your preachessa,
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because you still got to chase in your head. Let pass the preacher
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to you. Then after we get the chessa out of your head, howter
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you couldn't die. You're gonna tell Boxer. Then you'll be reading the spiritual
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servant. You know, we have so much confidence in the twelve year old
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preaching. Some of you do. Some of you would make up a pastor
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of the church. And here's what you would say and receive correction and the
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love of Jesus. Receive it. I'm not trying to be mean. You
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would say, if the Holy Ghost is in him, is not the Holy
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Ghost, the Eternal One, is not part of the Godhead, is not
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the eternal God capable of leading us. Wouldn't that twelve year old boy against
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a season his sermons with stories of how he played with his remote control car
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before he came to the pulpit, and when he begins to talk about how
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he used his red rider be begun to kill a squirrel. After about six
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months, you're going to develop a disrespect for him, and you're gonna see
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that he still got some childish ways even though he is Holy Ghost Field,
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and you're gonna start disrespecting him. This is why I talked for years that
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somebody should probably be at Lead East at the age of thirty before they attempt
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to pastor a church. Are come on, I love and your crickets preacher,
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because there's just things that we learned in this thing called a life simply
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from experience. This visions right here's not only number one on your playlist,
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but I'm telling you this is the one that might help you in the days
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ahead. You got to Realiza that God gifted you. Yes, it's wonderful
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to be gifted, but God also gifted people to help the gifted. Have
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come on now that you get talker, I'm telling you that this church that
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was so explicit with the heart that ghost time had been gifted when the Apostle
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Paul to product them and the chastising is that look of church. And I'm
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talking to somebody this morning. You should never get too big for your bad
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chest first greet the chapter number four and verse number seven, the Apostle Paul
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dealer with his church earlier on in his writing, he said, for who
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maketh you to differ from one another? Who made you distinguished from your brother?
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Who chose you David over your siblings, who chose you Elijah over your
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siblings, who chose you Nest over your family, Who chose you Naomi over
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your family? What calls you to differ? What calls you to me distinguish?
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Sister? Who pray for memory to fill in? Right now? And
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what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now thou didst receive it?
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Boy, dost thou cary, as if thou hast received it? Eliza would
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never get too big for Elija if he realized just that cycling writing received from
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crying, they're Elija? Why glory that? As though that didst not receive
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it? I fed the burden the prayer Brother Gabriel, I cried equivalent to
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that of a woman in travail. There was no difference in intensity. It
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was just as strong and just as severe. The spiritual labor and the spiritual
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pain was tremendous. Brother Caleb told me yesterday morning he was thinking about her
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all that was involved. As pastor helped Brother Gabriel go through, I was
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saying these words, God, he needs the Holy Ghost. If him,
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Canvas and Luther are gonna make it, I said, because if he does
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not receive it, he is not going to make it. I might not
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say that to her about every person. And I don't believe in Holy Ghost
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for nothing. I don't believe you half to have the Holy Ghost to go
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to heaven. But I am concerned with the Holy Ghost has to me will
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to gifting me and say you gotta love him more than cheesecaker. I am
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concerned about whatever it is from I teach you from receiving revival. I have
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to revival, I t Apos said, Paul knew that Timothy would become somebody.
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I thought he knew that, but he said, with the cant that
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is in there, he reminded them that I preach to you that I prayed
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to you. I prayed to talk with you. I minister thereach other here
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this high you received it, and freely you have received, freely give.
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I've seen people before received of the goodness of the gree so the blessings of
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God, and then bestands you with it. Now I got it. I
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don't need to pray with anybody. I don't need to praise for anybody else.
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I will just come to church three minutes before church starts. I love
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to hear crick is preaching there ain't trying me better than you are this morning.
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All But I'm telling you right here, why would we glory as though
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we have not received it? If we can understand and remember, understand as
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a child, or understand as a man. Say that with me, understand
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as a man understand ours and a woman. If we can understand and remember
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that all these blessings we're given to us freely, Oh the Lord Jesus Dead,
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we will never have a problem remaining humble, I said, we will
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never have a problem remaining Sorry, did not have the right spirit. That's
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why I needed to change hard to operate. But David had the right hard
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from the very beginning. And that's why what he said he hard by himself.
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He knew he was not worthy. But on the kingdom, he knew
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he did not deserve it. He knew he did not err especial treatment that
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made him so distinguished. That's so significant. Oh, yes, you that
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deserve that, give up that too big granted? Would we think him properly,
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that had the right horble attitude and spirit. We won't look down on
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the hobow or the balls. We will understand that the Holy Ghost was given
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to us to encourage that homeless person, to lift up that resident and rehab,
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to lift up that inmate in the prison system, to lift up those
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feeble hands, to reach to those people in the nursing homes, to reach
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to the least, the loss and the lonely. That's why You've been gifted
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a burden brother stare to nobody else seems to have nowadays. It's God that
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worketh in you both to will and to knew it was good pleasure sometimes just
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easy for us to operate out of the Christian the criteria First Corinthians, chapter
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number thirteen, and step out with meanness. They say, well, I'm
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gonna preach anyway. I'm gonna preach a prophecy in anyway. If you ever
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start comparing yourselfer one with another, you are unwise in doing server. You
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are unprofitable for the Master, and you are unproductive for that church family who
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You've been giving that burden for a reason. I've talk people before. You
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can possibly share my burden. You cannot possibly understand that my burden. Then
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I don't expect you to have it my burden, then to go to foreign
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countries not knowing anything, then to try to get something out. I will
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never expect you to have it that burden. But if you ever get a
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tame, you better not get the big head. Be good and feel like
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you've done something. You didn't do nothing. You're just operating with the chilter
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that God has given you. You've never seen a novice looked it up in
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pride. The apostle pots about time and the preachers would be good to that
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point. Then pride then lose out. Well, f y Carba for your
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information, Camba. The young preachers he's speaking of had been gifted, Well
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the Holy ghost. Tell me one time where the apostles let anybody preach in
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those days without the Holy Ghost. That's why you see me very little,
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Come here, man, that was great, Man, that was great.
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You're a chip off the old block. I don't know how much of that
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he can take, So I just shake his hand and saying, good preaching,
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son. I don't know that I've ever told any of my son said
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they're a chip off the old block, because we need to be a chip
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off of that block. And if what's operating in me it's not operating in
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them, then we are ineffective. Anybody, Hey, whatever was in me
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got over here, that there's scripture for that. By the putting on of
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my hands, they come on, now, Mama, did you have anything
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to do with the birth of that child? You would be terribly insulted if
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somebody said they didn't have anything to do with it. But somebody grabbed their
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knees and somebody is strained and grown trying to produce something or come on mount
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sigh and sigh. It has come to trumpell and the mother fell unable to
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give for brothers, and I want happens with a pastor and a church take
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gift in property. They're not able to cry, They're not ain't gonna multiply,
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They're not able to have food that remains. I'm telling you we're nothing
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without cord, that we're nothing without these gifts we high perceived. I see
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people they act as though they did not receive it. I got it,
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I got it, I earned it, I worked for it. Sometimes,
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Sister, when I walked through not trying to get attention, I can't stand
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whining and pouting, and we'll be preaching on these childish things. I can
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turn sideways right here and run this vestige. I can't stand whining and pouting.
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But I never say God, why me, Just so God to tell
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me because they're wonderful. Brother Ld Moore said, God has never patted me
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on the back and said great job, Ld. And that's the truth.
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Sometimes when we headed to the house, it's just the house saying money that
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was wonderful preaching, and I said, I'm glad you said so, because
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I have no idea my phone could be ringing and going on. I remember,
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I to remember, I to remember that was great, pastor that was
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great, and I'm thinking I had nothing to do with it. I barely
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even know what I said other than just a few words in these notes saying.
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ILL said, Dad, if you don't even spend hardly any time at
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your notes, I said, son, if you just knew all of the
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times on the back side of the link over there was snakes trying to intercept
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my prayer, Snakes trying to intercept my prayer, snake trying to interrupt my
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prayer time. There was one time I as a prayer and I felt like
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I was being watched, and I said, Devil, I know that you
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distracting me because God's presence is here. And I heard the Holy Gol say
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open your eyes, and right in my face was a serpent. There was
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another time I was in the woods, laid down prayer and I felt like
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something was near by, and I said, Devil, that's just you trying
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to distract me from getting an answer from God. I kept praying, and
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after thirty minutes, a big snake come up over my legs and laid on
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my legs and I jump. I'm telling you ain't no snake, Candler.
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But God had let me know that the enemy was President, brother Gavel,
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and that's what I'm trying to tell you this morning. And I feel so
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good at my soul that the enemy is present, and I want you to
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identify it as childishness. You're too big to be thinking like that. You're
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too big to be listening to the devil. You go out there, you
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will find out just how big you are. When you are ready, I
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will push you out of the nest. I guarantee you that I've got an
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eagle spirit, and I want to see the eaglets fly. But I don't
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want to see them fly but to you, and they're ready. It is
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true that God can fly faster than you can fly. It is true that
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God can help you if you fall out of the nest. But brother Jesse,
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I'm not gonna push any of our preachers out of the nest of prematurity.
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Because but come on now, you miss a house right here this morning.
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When you're ready, your pastor will know you are ready. There will
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be some things that have been childa said that gift to a life. You
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won't coss up, You won't talk about everybody. You won't call anybody after
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dinner they hunt who ain't us gossip? We won't have any problem remaining humble,
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Brother Ethan, those spiritual lessons and gifts that you received from God,
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they are the best. But even you, brother Ethan, still are teaching
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yourself not to be childish. Our text said not to think as a child,
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not to speak as a child, and not to understand as a child.
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Look at your neighbors, say hey, neighbor, are you being childish?
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Are you pouting for a tension? Are you looking at somebody else there
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in a service and say why are they spasional? Or why is God getting
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them? Or why is God doing this or doing that? How many of
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you adults still are a kid at heart? Anybody in There's sometimes that I
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feel like I'm a kid at heart, But I had to remind myself I
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am no longer a teenager. Why do you feel like that? Because sometimes
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I feel great energy. There's some of you you still feel like a child
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because you still have good looks. But I'm thankful you don't act to immature
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like a child. Come on now. In my lifetime, I've heard old
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timers talk about her being robbed of their childhood, and they didn't speak of
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it to negatively. This generation will talk about her how they were robbed of
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their childhood. And some of them I have valid reasons for concern because of
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childhood sex trafficking, because of child abuse of their parents towards them. But
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I'm talking about her. Them old timers, which it around the fellowship parls
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and in America, the churches in America talk about how their daddy was childish,
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how their daddy was our truckers, his old humanizer, how he'd leave
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the mama and the child and told kids and go missing. And come on
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now, boch on my granddaddy. Talk about the daddy that's been romanizing.
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So talking about to be an alcohol that said, both of my granddaddies stepped
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out of childhood with an eighth crane. It's a case of and to come
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the provider, so in their house, will come on now, My pastor
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was stop raised bossing me my childish, I said, my granddaddy's he put
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a ray trying to stay something after the eighth grade. Then yes, he
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went to put the gorda. He told the rates other commercial fisherman who put
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a man light in his head, and he provided for Mama and their sisters
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said by telling knew child. My great grandmother gave me a picture of my
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great granddaddy. I think his name was Joseph. I'm not sure. Handsome
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guy, she said, our favor him in a lot of ways, brother
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Jesse, And I didn't mean that. Sorry, I ain't brand I'm sorry,
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but anyhow, it's holdis, wasn't it? Those childish so Jesse said
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it was good to say I love you Jesse, I love you Jess.
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But she said, I didn't see much of him, but that was my
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first love act. He married me. He take off. The same thing,
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was sister Howells Grandpa. She didn't get to know him really, neither
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did her grandmother. After the Holy ghost had used the preacher to warn her
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of him. She married him anyway. She married him anyway, and he
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would be gone from what twelve months to eighteen months at the time, and
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come home to have a little off, suffer and some other things, and
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then go off again. That generation produced some young men and flat out become
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mature people. I had somebody tell me recently. I think it was brother
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Rick Jacob. He said, he said, you know, it used to
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be that somebody was ready for marriage and ready for the workplace at fifteen.
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I can relate to that because by the time I was fifteen, we were
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building a two story house, and I was laying out every piece of drawing
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wall in that complicated piece of architectural work in that house. At the age
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of fifteen, come here, Ethan, I'm gonna try to look at that.
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Him and I was about the same size. I was this size of
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working with men thirty and forty years old. Knew how to read a tape
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measure, knew how to work within the sixteenth of it. It's tolerant.
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I'm not talking about a little kid going out there with daddy screw gun and
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put some chicken coop together then gon withstand the storm. I'm talking the back
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building, a two story stand out stick out like a sword throghol home.
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Hey know why, because some of us just wanted to lead childhood and get
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to work. Some of us wanted to lead childhood and get to work.
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I'm preaching right here. So at the age of fifteen, and a half.
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I had my first interview and stepped right in the position of being a
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layout man in the prefab department, laying out plates and things and setting babbels
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and striking arcs and angles, and setting templates for center punching the holes,
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and then growing men out there in their thirties, forties, fifties and sixties
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or something that have been in the construction business for twenty or thirty years,
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or out there taking that template that I had grown and taking a soap stoll
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to tracing it out and then center punching the holes and I had laid out.
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And then the welders would weld up plate out to the fitters and located
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the place. Then the iron workers would take the art and bolt the angle
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brace and went into that play. Your daddy at that age right there,
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was doing that. The other night we were laying in bed since the house
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that Jeremy, I've never seen anybody in my life where it's stronger mind as
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you got her. A multitask in your mind is divided, she said,
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you can process so many things at one time, Brother Jesse, that is
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not me. That is a gift of God. I remember when I prayed
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for it. I remember when I asked God for it. But when I
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was fifteen years old, I said God, I want to work among the
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men. I want to be able to be one of those that has a
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mind to work. I want to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder,
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not with my peers, but with them older men that her craftsmen and skilled
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workers. Come home. Now, I'm telling you. My parents would testify
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and tell you I was never fascinated with her little toys. I was never
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fascinated with playing counters and meeting in my bedroom. Before I tell you what
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I was doing, I was on the south prone for the out of fire,
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playing Rambo. I was laid up in the mouth and looking for the
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enemy, brother Jesse, trying to sneak up. Oh, somebody that played
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ems four games. I've always speed my Home Warrior. Every toy and my
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parents bought me would be put in the close at They'll tell you that if
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you call them right now. They bought me a toy truck ten years later,
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Andy looked just kid as it did when they bought it. I was
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interested in fishing. I was interested in hunting. I was interested in swimming.
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I was interested in building a rout swee. Come on, now,
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are you get childest things? I've never interested me. I'm not unset about
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reason that my childhood, I was running to work. I can only preach
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my story. I can only preach my story. So fifteen years of age,
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my dad said, you're going to an interview? Oh really, okay,
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great. I had already been working for a commercial hand, getting up
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at five thirty, going and being there while was still dark, and working
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about fifteen fourteen and a half. And he said, being such a such
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place at such such time, he didn't call ahead. You got the receptionist
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desk, receptionist desk in her office if you asked her to speak with someone
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such. And I remember walking through an engineering department and walking by draftsman,
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good day, how are you doing? Sing good day? And with my
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hand is shaking like this, I said, I'm looking for Rob Summer.
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They said. The end of that hall. In that hall looked very long,
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maybe sixty feet long. I don't know if he was even now forty
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feet long. It looked like the table to marriage up at a lamb.
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I saw Rob sitting there like this and just shaking his head like this,
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and I thought, man, I'm nervous because his desk sat right there behind
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that norway where he could see all the engineers and addressment and brother, I
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felt so out of place and out of touch. The drawings on the wall
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and everything intimidated me. But they knew from the time as a kid,
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I love geometry. I loved math, and that's what I was born to
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do. Now I'm telling you all that a prestructor off. God knows you
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were born from ministry. God knows you were born to be possessed of the
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Holy Ghost of feel with a goodness and the grace and God. And I'm
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glad that we have taken that next step. But there are some things that
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we have to remember. We have to enjoy these years. We have to
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enjoy these early developmental years. It's going to be critical that you do not
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get the cart before the horse. I'm gonna say this again. Sister Cheryl
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takes to me about a week ago, and she said, I prayer for
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her young preachers. I'm so concerned for him because sometimes evangelists that mean well,
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and they do mean well, they mean no harm. They will come
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in and they will speak to somebody and concerning their ministry you're gonna make a
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good evangelist, you're gonna make a good missionary. And if you listen to
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them, when they come back, they've already forgot what they spoke to you,
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and they change it up. And so you've got to just take that
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with a grain of salt that it'd be like water off a duck's back.
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As Brother Gabriel said a couple of days ago, he said, I believe
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my pastor will be the first to know. But there are young men that
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are childish, that do not process things or think clearly. All that will
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take is a certain countifer man to point at them and say you're gonna be
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the next grain evangelists and the holiness movement. And they take off and they
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head out and they make shift correct. Their marriage is disolved, their family
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falls apart. Then they get bitter and they blame God. I'll tell you
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who they should blame is that preacher that operated out of the gift that he
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had been given. We treasured the childhood years of our children, even though
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we were involved in ministry at a very high level and a great degree since
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to how and I sought out opportunities to create memories and give special attention to
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our children as the Lord forged informed their identities. There were a lot of
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times on our way back we stopped at a park. There were a lot
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of times on our way back we stopped, got a hotel between here and
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Mulberry, and then on Monday we just spent it at the park. We
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were not going to let them lose their childhood. Because they were so enveloped
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and wrapped up and involved in ministry, it had been really easy for them
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to have lost their childhood. Although they did learn to labor and the ministry
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to work on the House of God, we didn't allow circumstances and ministry to
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deprive them of the normal experiences of childhood. You let that preacher speak to
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you one word, and let your wife get working on you. We need
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a truck and trade and we need to go. You're going to deprive your
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family of very important things. You will rob them of their childhood. I'm
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telling you, if you only knew the casualties, the number of the casualties,
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and the extreme consequences of somebody moving out to do God's work too,
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Sam, if you only need and all it takes is at the church,
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somebody that's childish and simple minded to approach one of these preachers and say,
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stick pon us, that is a message if I've ever heard of one.
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You're a chip off the old blog and you're going to be a mighty evangelists.
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And if that seat has planted and he don't realize, wait a minute,
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if he don't look for this message into archives and realize, do y'all
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realize that in even saying that to Samuel Howell, the preacher of the great
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message stick ponies, that even the title of his message slaps you to your
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knees, or slaps you boy. Do y'all not realize that that message was
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exactly about what I'm preaching this morning. Stay in your respective places, and
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don't get too big for your preaches. Once we have all of the toys
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back in the toy box. As long as you keep losing your temper,
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as long as you keep having attitudes, as long as you keep pouting rather
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than shouting, you're unprofitable for ministry. You're a John Mark that apostle Paul
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does not want. But when John Mark has put all the toys in the
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toy box, and when he can say I'm no longer going to mommy who
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has the best prayer of meetings in town, and she did. John Mark's
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mother was great friends with all the apostles. She was the one who could
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hold a prayer of meeting that liberated Peter. John Mark walked shoulder to shoulders
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with Peter, and he could tell Paul, I don't care a brother Peter
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will take care of me. Brother Peter will Moore has hide out. So
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it took a part of us to say, pick up your toys, john
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Mark, pick up your toys. And so later, the great apostle Paul
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is getting ready. Imagine him putting on his right side, imagine putting on
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his boots, getting ready for another missionary journey. Somebody says, what about
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John Mark? He said, yeah, I need it. He's profitable.
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Now part of us has made a man out of it. You could leave
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out tomorrow and face shipwreck and lose everything, or you can leave out ten
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years from now and be greatly blessed. Psama said, my soul is even
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as a wean child. I've got about halfway through this message. I don't
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know whether to keep preaching or not, but childhood memories bring smiles to our
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faces. You need to learn how to deal with difficult situations, about watching
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your pastor watching the elders in your church. There's just some things you cannot
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learn except through experience. I remember when I was at my twenties, thinking
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what could I love? Lear? I could learn anything, announces to him.
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And here I am near fifty, and I'm thinking, oh, okay,
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so that's what they mean. There's just some things you have to live
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in order to understand. And I'll keep about speaking tongues. Here a good
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holiness preacher tells the story of how he had played baseball in high school and
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there was a certain picture that loved for him to catch. He said he
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played catcher for years and said that whenever he got into a senior year of
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high school, he was supposed to play catching. And he said he got
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to thinking about the responsibilities of being a husband and a father, and he
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decided in his senior year he entered the DCT work program. Somebody don't know
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what that is. You go to school for half of the day and you
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work for half a day. That's me. I'm that guy. My senior
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year I had every credit I needed. I could just literally sit there.
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You were like that too, right, just sit there in high school.
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Your pastor and your teachers ain't dumbage. I literally was coaching through my senior
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year, sitting there doing us, and I said, might as well work
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makes them money. They wouldn't even let me fail either, just sit there.
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So I went to work. But this preacher entered the DCT work program
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his senior year, learning a trade. The coach of the baseball team came
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to him and said, we need you this season. We need you to
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play catcher. You're the press catching we have. You're the best catcher for
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that picture. You and him know each other. It's sad, you know,
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and he said that. He told that coach. He said, coach,
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it's time to hang up in rose and it's time to go to work.
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He said, I've never looked back. And that's what I'm saying.
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For you that are seeking the Holy Ghost. Put to toys in the toy
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box and kid after it. Brother Jesse, would you come to the PM.
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I really feel like this sermon right here not because of me, but
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because of what God has given me for you. It will be the catalyst
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to an amazing radical change in your life. When you start working spiritually,
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you will begin to transition from depending on others to get in your shower to
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working on it yourself. When you start working spiritually, you will transition from
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depending on others to feel better about yourself, and you will get in a
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position where others can depend on you. When you start working and stop playing
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church, we will be able to trust you not have to worry about you
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falling out of church, being in and out and up and down. When
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you really stop playing church and you really start working church, it's a service.
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A services work. You ask those that have joined the armed forces that
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have joined the service, it's work. What about those spiritual gifts that we
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have received? You see us working with those gifts. How many could say
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I felt a spiritual transition from a spiritual childhood to a spiritual adulthood when I
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got the Holy gist? Anybody notice? Paul addressed the believers that Christ with
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these words, I spake as a child Christians, mature Christians and immature Christians
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will not swear and cuss. You're not profitable for the ministry or for the
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kingdom. You're not productor for your local assembly. If you're still losing your
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tent for your cool fouting off at the mouth, And if you've got a
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hotty mouth, brother, tyler, what would you think of that person that
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you worked with who professes to be a Christian When they get into a difficult
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situation, they use words that are offensive to you and your lord, you
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would say, there's certainly not a but you're a Christian. And you would
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dare to say they're not even an immate or a Christian, they're not even
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saved for the tyler would say, how could they be custom like a sailor
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the apostle Peter, who has been erroneously and false accused for abusing swear words
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and vulgarity and custom. Whenever the young damsel accused him of being a follower
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of Christ, that is not correct. He had been a very diligent student
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of Judaism and had been a religious man. And whenever they told him,
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you've been in Christ, you're follower of Christ, you're one of his secret
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followers, he would get to speak immaturely and very aggressively and pretty much denounce
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Christ as deity and denounce him as savior. In other words, he used
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the same verbiage the Pharisees scribed as sadus. He's used. He was an
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essence saying I want to guys, that's why you got to be careful getting
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out there too fast, because right now you can say I'm one of you,
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guys, I'm old time holding as I'm an old time preacher. But
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when the pressure comes on, if you're still childish and you still respond to
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peer pressure that brother Jacob was talking about the other night, we'll be crying
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our eyes out. Me and brother Thomas Stare will be saying, how did
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we birth a liberal charismatic pasture because you went out too soon, very sober
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messages on the heels of a wonderful revival for a pastor to slow down and
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say, let's do an analysis, and let's look and see. Are we
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speaking like men? Are we thinking like men? Are we understanding like men?
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In First Printhia's fourteen and twenty he said, brethren be not children and
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understanding. How be it in malice be chill, but an understanding be men?
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Do you all understand? I love holy ghost services. I love this
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shouting. I love when a preacher puts his hand on a brother like this
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and says, see you the holy ghoster. He says, God's going to
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use it. A little man like this goes off shouting that's grained, but
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I love it a whole lot better. Whenever a pastor speaks a word of
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prophecy and says somebody like this is abody get in trouble. Somebody don't stop
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whispering in their ear right. So let's stand here. I dedicate this message
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to brother Ethan this morning. In Isaiah chapter number twenty eight versus number nine
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and ten. You see the question is ask who will he teach knowledge?
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I'm paraphrasing. He said, those who are freshly weaned from their mothers,
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who understand the message or the judgment. Those that have set in the class
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of just a road cap, those that have set under the pastor of Jeremy
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how or any other pastor that's preaching the truth, who will understand that God
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does not play and then sin requires judgment. Isaiah was trying to tell the
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people, Brother Caleb. He was trying to tell the judgment's coming, and
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he says, they don't even understand it. They haven't been taught. They
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don't even understand even though their ignorant judgment is coming. And this is why
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you have a pastor. Sometimes at you stand up testifying and say they don't
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know God loves them. I used to not know either. The difference in
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you and them is you were a truth seeker. That's why you found it,
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because if they were really seeking truth, they would find it. That's
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how you found a Brother Gabriel, That's how I found it in high school.
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That's how you found it, Brother Jeremiah. But I know we stand
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up in a romance and false who plant seeds in these young pastors and preachers
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minds? They're just innocent people, Brother Gabriel said other night. They're not
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nearly as sweet as we go crow it. For those of you that are
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seeking the holy ghosts, there's some growing to do. Those of you that
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have the Holy ghost there's some growing to do. And I got so much
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more to preach. But we will hold right there. If you're in this
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building this morning, and you admit I've got some spiritual development yet to go,
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would you raise your hand? I raise them, mind, I'm the
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first to raise mine. Looks like it's unanimous. All of us feel that
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way. Could Could we gather around and ask God to help us have a
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love for His house. Could we gather around and realize we need pastors We
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need faithful church attendance. We need teachers, We need to be edified.
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We need to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Savior Jesus
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Christ. Because we are judgment bound people. Let's have understanding. I see
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things now, Preacher, that I didn't want to see, so clearly I
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understand things seeing it burn. He's molding you, He's molding you. Put
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the toys back at the toy box. Put the toys in the toybox.
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Yes, I love having new converts in the church. I appreciate each and
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every one of you. You're such a blessing. It's wonderful to witness the
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way the Lord is blessing the church. She is. I want to tell
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you all the growing up spiritually isn't always a fun process, but it can
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be very rewarding. It can be very rewarded. What really bothers me is
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what I've seen people in church for decades, and there's no spiritual development.
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There's no spiritual growth, there's no impatience of an experience. That's what bothers
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me. So for the young to the old, for the maturing to the
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immature, I ask you, let's put the toys in the toy box.
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Let's have church. Let's take church attendance seriously. Let's take of our body
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will shously. Let's take growing in the face seriously. Why don't you thankful
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for these moldy years. These molding bears are not unfolds. Lord, Thank
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you God for dealing with us regarding the ways of gasbling. Thank you God
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for dealing with us. Thank you, Thank you for caring enough for us.
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Thank you for guys. Thank thank you for slowing down speaking clearly for
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prophecy through the preaching of the world. Thank you for making up for me.
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Thank you for helping me understanding. Thank you for speaking us a head.
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There's somebody in this building. You want to learn. That guy's going
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to teaching. He loved Natasha. I am mooding in his IDEs. He
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want speak to speak, and I stop, and by so brave. He
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just picks it up the pieces. He doesn't throw the play hand over.
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He moves me and makes me his his. He fast the play a h
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throw the play you te broke and I came at a vessel unworthy and shops
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godwach. But he did not bespend. He started over again, and I
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bless the day he didn't throw the over. He holds me and makes me
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likeness be Fasha, lovely lis he calls and go, he hos me.
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It makes me to he like this. That's this, he calls hes the
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pater. I can't play holding it is eb. He won't sweep to speak
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my queen and I stumbled, and by a green he just speaks up the
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pieces. He doesn't throw play