Sermon
Unseen Seen - Kingdom Spirit
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. All right, if you have your
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models, turn to 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4, 2nd Corinthians
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chapter 4, verses 16 to 18, when we get to verse 18, it'd be
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pretty common scripture, as you know, that you've heard from the
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platform multiple times. But I want to kind of set some
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context with it tonight, because this year, you know, we've been
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talking about the reigning spirit, right?
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And the the spirit that we have it, it reigns supreme.
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There is not one above it. We have the conquering spirit,
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the spirit that's above any other spirit, and there is a
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spirit world out there. You know, I was actually going
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back a little bit on, you know, because we've done some
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travelling here at the front of the year.
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There's some gaps in my sermon folders.
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You know, I usually go over and look at my month and then look
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at my and I say, OK, what have I done on the last few Wednesdays?
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I'm like, and I don't have a whole lot of Wednesdays out
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there because I'd been out of town.
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But, you know, I looking back at some things that we've taught
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already this year, I saw where we spent some time talking about
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willpower, the power of will. And we have to understand the
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context that all God's created spirits have a will.
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Amen. It's going to be really
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important as we continue to go and talk about things that are
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beyond the veil. When I say beyond the veil,
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beyond what you see with your natural eyes, OK.
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And so as we embark on some of these teachings, we need to, you
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know, put ourselves in remembrance of some things that
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we've taught. Why do I say that again?
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If you just came to Anchorage Church, you should go back to
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the beginning of the year and catch up because we are building
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context. The sermons we preach are not
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just because, well, what do we want to do?
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You know, I got my got a board up there in my office.
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I got a, you know, like a dart board, right?
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And I got my, my little dart. And I'm like, OK, I can preach
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on healing, prosperity. I can talk about forgiveness,
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you know, yadda yadda, not just close my eyes, toe and say, oh,
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the Lord wants me to do this, and then we just preach on it.
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No. When I preach, I have cohesion.
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The majority of the time that I minister, most of the stuff is
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building to something else. And so, you know, willpower.
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When the Lord began to speak to me, I realized, oh, this is
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really important for us to understand.
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When we start getting into the things of the Spirit, we start
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talking about angels and demons and things that are out there in
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the realm. Because again, what prompted
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this? The Bible said in the last of
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the last days. Some will fall away and they
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will give attention to or heed. They'll listen to seducing
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spirits and doctrines of demons, and there is a realm out.
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There, that you know it isn't commonly taught.
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There is teaching on it, and I'll be honest with you, some of
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the teaching is just as spooky as the things that we think they
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look. Like because it's not really
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grounded in the word, is what I'm saying.
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So with that being said, you know, we want to come from a
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very biblical perspective where we're letting God define these
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things. We're not adding our own sci-fi
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or fantasy. To the spirit world, OK, and so.
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But we have to understand that in the realm of the spirit, they
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have a will and and and and for us to get beyond the veil, then,
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you know, we needed to deal with that subject.
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So we've kind of continued to move forward in this thought
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process. So I realized because Pastor
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Marsh and I were talking some of the context that I will teach
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this year, I've never taught now.
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Some of you have been with us for quite some time, but you
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know, Sunday morning, we have a quite a few people that have not
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been with us. Sunday typically is their
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service. They're not, you know, yet
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developed and grown enough to where they see the necessity of
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the midweek. And, you know, so typically your
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midweek is people who, you know, have established themselves to a
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degree that, you know, I got to be where God's talking and I'm
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going to be in the house where he's talking.
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So it would be easier to navigate some subjects on a
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Wednesday night. However, I believe they would be
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at such a timely teaching that I did not want to limit it to
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audio only. So we've, we've intentionally
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started to film now on Wednesday nights like we do on Sundays.
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OK. And So what happens on Sundays,
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happening now on Wednesday that when we get into the subject
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matters, we can release those as well.
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Because I do want to release things that are operating in the
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spirit realm, rightly divided. You know, people tend to like to
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watch what they're hearing more than just listening.
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OK. So with that being said, because
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we are at home and typically, you know, we're such a large
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family Wednesday, we haven't had to think about cameras.
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You need to think about cameras because every time you need to
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go use the bathroom, make sure you're not in front of the
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camera. That's what I'm saying.
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Do everything you can. Now we understand if you're up
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here, you're like, what am I going to do?
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There's a camera behind me. How?
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How do I get out? Don't do this.
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Roll out and roll low. Crawl.
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Don't do that. OK.
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Yes, It may be that no one sees you, but you will, it will be
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very, I will have to pull the crowd back in.
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The congregation will be distracted by that action.
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OK. We do have multiple cameras.
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So typically when one pops up, what they do is they'll flip to
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another camera anyway and we can do, you know, post editing.
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We're just wanting you to be aware, obviously you don't run
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around the front. We have a camera right here.
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And so again, if you look where it's at, you say, OK, how do I
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can go to the restroom potentially so that I don't
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you're just in the line. I saw the line of one.
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It is what it is. So you know Coach Hurley, you
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know don't raise your hands too high because you'll take my
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shots out. So you get now if you get super
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excited about what I appreciate, you want to jump up and shout, I
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don't mind, we'll move, we'll we'll do in post.
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So please jump and shout. I just don't want you to be
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going like that. And then all of a sudden they're
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like, I can't see it. There's a hand.
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And that's why you understand we almost painted a line here so
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Pastor Marcy wouldn't quit worshipping over here.
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But she's learned her side. And you know, 'cause it's like
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Pastor Marcy's in the camera. Can you tell her to move?
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You tell her to move. That's what they're doing, you
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know? And then all of a sudden, Usher
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come down, your your wife's in the camera.
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Pastor Marcy, get over. Nobody wants to tell her that.
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OK, all right, all right, OK, here we go.
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Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verses 16 to 18.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. But though our outward man is
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decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.
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For momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal
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weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at
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the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
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seen. For the things which are seen
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are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.
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Now you've heard me, minister, on this verse 18 multiple times.
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But the context that I like here, starting in verse 16, is
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that we are not to lose heart. Though our outward man is
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decaying, our inward man is being renewed day by day.
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Now in the realm of the Spirit, we are extremely strong, and as
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we renew our minds with the word of God and and then in
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fellowship with the Spirit of God through prayer and praying
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in the Spirit, we are building up our inner man.
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We are to grow up. I know.
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So let me say this The minute you're born again, everything
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that God placed in your spirit is there.
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You cannot be any more righteous, OK?
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But you have to understand your spirit is like a natural babe
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when giving birth. That's why Paul said that they
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were babes in Christ. In essence, your kingship is
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still like a babe. In fact, he went on in another
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letter and he said now a child of a king and the servant of a
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king, if they're both born, they can grow up together.
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You can't tell them apart, but the tutor helps the one he he's
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like a child. But then eventually the tutor
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develops him so that when he's older, he can take his kingship.
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All right, he can function as a king because he's been trained
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in it. So when a child is birthed,
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everything that child's going to be is in there.
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But there's a development. You have to grow.
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So even though your spirit man has been made righteous, you are
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royal and holy. If you do not allow that spirit
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to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit that's in you and
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get your mind to think like that from the spirit, you can be a
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reigning king that never develops, period.
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So you can grow spiritually. All you're doing is releasing
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everything God put it in you at the new birth, but it is a
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growth none the less. All right, So when people act
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like, they basically act like God's giving birth to full blown
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mature Christians. He is not.
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The Bible is very clear about babes.
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Both Peter and Paul reference babes, and Paul says that you
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need to desire the sincere milk of the word so that you may
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grow. OK, now the the greatest place
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that you grow will be in your soul realm, in the renewing of
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your mind, so that you will think, respond and behave like
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your spirit is created to do and wants to do and loves to do.
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That's all somebody post. On Instagram.
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So it's probably somebody in this room even maybe I don't
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know but posted something about working out you know and instead
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of seeing working out like it's you know, I I work out so that I
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lose weight. No.
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I work out because. It it's it strengthens my body.
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Instead of looking at it as a something I have to do, it's
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something I get to do. So your mindset of why you do
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something is very significant most of the time because we came
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from a lost and existence. Being dead to Christ, we come
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from a very negative perspective anyway, and then we pull that
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same perspective over into the Kingdom of God to where we
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always look at the negative. 1st instead of it looking it through
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a positive lens. So again I see the cup half
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empty, you could see it half full.
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It's the same cup, same measure, but it's the attitude, attitude
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behind it. So a person's like hush, I got
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to get up and go work out is going to be more prone to I'm
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staying in. But a person says what a
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privilege to be able to keep my body in a position so that I'll
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be strong when I'm and I get I get to do it.
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I'm not. It has to submit to me.
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Well, that person is going to be more disciplined to continue to
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do so. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So if you don't change your thinking about things, then the
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reality is you're going to get the sum of what you're thinking
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and you're going to live that lifestyle.
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But I also want us to look at it from this because though our
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outward man is decaying, our inward man is being being
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renewed day by day. Verse 17 says, for momentary
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light, affliction is producing for us a eternal weight of glory
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far beyond all comparison. Then Paul gets into what we're
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seeing. You could almost conclude that
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Paul is saying look, don't lose heart.
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So the outward is decaying. And are we not looking at a
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world that is outwardly decaying, but the Kingdom we
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serve is renewed day by day? In fact, because we know the
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scripture says that once the rock that is made without hands
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crushes, hits the planet okay, it's going to grow into a great
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mountain, It's going to ultimately take over.
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So the Kingdom we're in, once it's in, it doesn't leave.
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And the Kingdom of God will never leave.
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I said it will never leave the planet.
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It is. It is the most dominant
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government in the planet today. It's behind the veil, in the
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realm of it, spiritually speaking.
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It's functioning. We can't physically see it.
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It will physically manifest one day, but it can manifest by the
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spirit in the natural, through us and by faith.
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And it is growing at an enormous rate.
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I said it's growing at an enormous rate.
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It's already taking over nations and they don't even know it, OK.
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And so we have more that are with us in power than the number
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of people that think they have power.
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Now our numbers may not be as much as being reported as far as
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the plan is concerned, but the power of 1, the power of two
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has, does a lot. I mean, one sends 1000 anyway, 2
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will send 10,000. I mean, we exponentially are
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greater in numbers. And God has proven this with his
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nation. You know when he took Gideon, he
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said give me 300 guys, man, at the end of the day we gonna
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reduce this to 300 'cause they meet the character and
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qualifications of what I need to be able to demonstrate my power.
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So they won't take credit. So the nation won't take credit.
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And they wiped out just by turning lights on an amount of
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people that they say you weren't counting them.
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Now, we counted how many were on the hill or, you know, on the
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mountain, but we weren't counting how many were down in
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the valley. And all they had to do is turn
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the light on, right? So we are the most powerful
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force on the planet. We really are.
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So again, I while we don't look at what we're seeing and it's
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decaying because we have something that is powerful in
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this momentary light affliction. So the trials of life, you have
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to change your thinking and say this is light.
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I don't care what report you get, it's light 'cause there's
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no name greater than the name of Jesus.
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I don't care what report you could get from the world.
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I don't care what decaying report you have life in you.
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You have the word of the king about any particular thing that
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can overcome any situation, right?
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So This is why Paul referenced then, why we look not at the
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things that are seen. So we don't want to get so
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fixated in our minds or with our eyes on the same realm more than
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what's in the unseen. Because there's more there than
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here. I said there's more there than
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here. So we need to learn how to see
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the unseen. We need to learn how to see the
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unseen to where we're so good at seeing the unseen that we pay no
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attention to the scene. Amen.
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Amen. Pay no attention, because this
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temporal it will change to what we are viewing in the unseen.
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OK, but the question we have to ask ourselves is how do we view
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it? Because First Corinthians 12
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verses 1st Corinthians 2. Excuse me?
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First Corinthians 212 through 14 says now we have not.
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Well, now we have not received, excuse me, now we have received
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not the spirit of the world. But the Spirit who is from God?
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So that we may know say no, the things freely given to us by
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God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human
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wisdom. So you're not going to learn
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this at the university, but in those taught by the Spirit,
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combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
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But a natural man, say, natural man does not say, does not, does
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not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are
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foolishness to him. He cannot understand them
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because they are spiritually appraised.
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One translation says spiritually discerned.
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So again, notice in verse 12 we do not have the spirit of the
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world, OK, but we have the Spirit who is from God.
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So that we may know, which means there's something that we can
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know, something we can see that is of God.
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But it's because we have the Spirit of God in the natural.
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You're not gonna see, right? That's right.
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So you're gonna have to get over in the Spirit.
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And again, when you don't know how to view the Spirit, you'll
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make things up. When you can't see something you
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imagine. But God's letting you know.
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I'll let you know what's on the other side.
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It's not guesswork. It's the ability to see into the
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unseen, and you cannot do it outside of the Spirit.
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See, Christianity in our nation has been reduced to where you go
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when you die in the majority of congregations.
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And they're not discipling new believers babes in Christ on how
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to see the unseen. That's right, they're not doing
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it. And as a result of that, they're
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born again. But they still live by what they
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see, and then they behave by how they see, and they make
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decisions by what they see. Yet the Lord's like, I want to
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raise up your view. I want to pull the veil back for
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you. But you can only do this by the
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spirit, can only do it by the spirit.
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Yet most people don't want to know nothing about the spirit
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realm. They only want to know about
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where am I going to go when I die.
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Because it really doesn't matter what's going on in the spirit
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realm. Well, the minute you take that
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conclusion, then the spirit realm can dominate you because
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God's not the only one in the spirit realm.
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And what you don't know about that spirit realm because you're
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not willing to access it, the way God can train you to access
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it can kill you, He says My people perish due to lack of and
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God says, now I'll show you things of the spirit By the
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spirit I want you to know some stuff so God wants us to know.
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Now, with that being said, that doesn't mean you know that I
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want to become proficient in demonology.
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But that doesn't mean I don't. I can't know by the Scripture
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and by the through the Spirit how that how evil spirits work
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and function, how they talk, how they try to engage you,
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manipulate you, 'cause there's plenty of things in there that
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lets us know that way. When we say, well, the Lord
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said, we actually know the Lord said instead of someone else
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saying all right. So we have to conclude we cannot
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even begin to deal with spirit realm stuff if we do not know
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how to 1st be led. By the Spirit.
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So being led by the Spirit is imperative to understand the
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spirit. The problem is, people want to
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learn about the spirit realm only from a natural perspective.
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I don't care if you know there's demons, nor do demons care that
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you know they exist. And demons don't even care that
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you know Jesus's name they have to submit to.
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They don't care that you know. In fact, they hope that you will
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take that knowledge and apply it without revelation.
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Because they'll do to you what they did to the seven sons of
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Skiva. Seven sons of Skiva knew they
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were demonic realm out there, knew that people were demon
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possessed, obviously saw Paul do it.
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That's the reason why they went and found one and said we rebuke
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you in the name of Jesus, the one whom Paul preaches about.
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We were in his meeting. It was amazing.
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We wanted to do that. They had knowledge in the
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natural number one. They were not led by the spirit
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to go run down a demon possessed guy.
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That was their own selfish ambition to try to look
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powerful. These seven guys were really no
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different than Simon the sorcerer who wanted to pay Peter
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and John for the laying on a hand so that people can receive
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the baptism of Holy Ghost. You're like, wow man, this is a
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man. He was born again.
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He received the he believed what Paul or Philip was preaching and
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saw the miracles of healings that were taken with Philip.
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But yet then when Peter and John came down and started laying
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hands on people and they got baptized in the Holy Ghost.
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And how did he know? Because it says he saw they were
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speaking in other tongues and he's like man let that in
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essence because he was sort of, that's a good trick.
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I would pay to have knowledge on how that works.
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And man, did he get rebuked. So it's amazing because here's
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the thing, everybody wants to be spiritual.
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Everybody. This is why we love fantasy
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movies. Some of you are saying I don't
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like them. That's not true.
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Everybody likes to be spiritual, and there's a there's a point in
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time in your life now, Some of you grew up enough, like, you
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know that stuff is wizardy, you know where that realm comes
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from. But at a child you didn't think
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that way. You just enjoyed watching
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because we wanted the power to be able to throw someone against
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the wall or pick somebody up or, you know, those types of things.
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We want that kind of, you know, that's why we get enthralled
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about superheroes, because it's supernatural power.
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The whole world wants this. But the problem is when they
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just try to naturally engage, there is a spirit realm that
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will accommodate the Lord. Saying to you, I want you to see
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the unseen, but in order for you to do that, you're going to have
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to be in the Spirit, which is why Romans 814 says for all who
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are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
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So the sons of God are not, are not identified by their
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knowledge of God. I'm going to say that again,
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they're not only identified or they're not identified by their
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knowledge of God, they are identified by the leading of the
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Spirit. That's a very important point
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because we do know the Bible says that if any man call on the
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name of the Lord, he is saved. We hear that and then we know
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that the Bible says that the minute you the action of being
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caught calling on the name of the Lord means you become a new
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creature in Christ. The old pass away, Behold, all
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things become new. Then we know another scripture
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says that your that his spirit bears witness, which we'll read
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it here in a minute, testifies that we are children of God.
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Once that confession takes place, a union happens with the
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Lord. But what is the evidence that
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you are opera or that's occurred?
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Is that a real son? Who by all right is a son
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because he has made Jesus Lord supreme in authority?
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I follow you. So we have to carry on the
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conversation and say sons of God follow the Spirit, yet most just
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want to be a son of God through a confession and never follow.
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This is a problem you're not carrying on your sonship 'cause
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God expects that sons follow the Spirit.
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In fact, the Greek of this sentence is actually reversed.
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It should read this way, for as many as by the Spirit of God are
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being LED. They are sons of God.
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Are you hearing me? So it puts the Holy Spirit at
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the first of the verse and we are placed behind him.
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Our picture of response. It's our picture of
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responsibility as children of God to follow the leader.
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It also carries this idea Romans 814.
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Following the leadership of the Holy Spirit is one of the
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privileges of being a son of God, although it may be
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agonizing to learn how to defer to him and to really let him be
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your leader. Now the word lead.
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In Romans 814, the Greek word means this.
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It means to simply lead. It means to gently to be gently
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LED about and. Was the same word used to
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describe a man leading his cow about on a rope.
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The farmer is a leader. The cow is merely the follower.
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The cow doesn't argue with the farmer.
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The animal simply trusts and follows.
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Are you hearing me? So Rick Renner says this.
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He says the leading of the Holy Spirit is often subtle, taking
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the form of impressions or nudging in our hearts to do
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something. So again, taking the picture of
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the farmer, he's got the rope around the cow and he's leading
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it out right, he's And typically what do they do?
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You know if he wants it to go one way, he'll nudge it, turn
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his head, and it begins to follow that path.
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He can turn the head another way.
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Follow that path is just sitting there.
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He can pull, which would pull his head forward.
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It's a nudge and now we're moving.
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Are you hearing me? So again, the leaning, it's like
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a nudge in your spirit. It's not a dragging, it's not a
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picking you up on their shoulders.
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So they're carrying you like footprints in the sand.
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Says are you hearing me? See, Most believers say, well,
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if the Holy Ghost wants me to do something, then he just needs to
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make me do it. Demons make you do stuff.
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God leads you well. The Lord made me do it.
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The Lord did not make you do anything.
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The devil made me do it. The devil will put way more
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pressure, but you still will consent.
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At the end of the day, you're consensual.
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In both cases, one's just more violent than the other.
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Are you hearing me? I said one's more violent.
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So again, the devil made me do it.
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Yeah, 'cause he's violently pursuing you, he's trying to
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destroy your life and he is pushing you around and you're
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letting him 'cause you actually have authority over him.
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Hallelujah. But the Lord will say, well,
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come on. And if you don't want to come,
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we'll come on. Well, if that's.
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What you want to do? But I'm over here, Lord, come
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help me Lord. Lord, I need some help.
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Lord, Lord, would you do something?
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Lord's like I'm talking. To you, I've given you a nudge.
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I need you to move. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, all right, he said. Goes on, goes on to say.
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However, his leaning can be more dramatic, as though through a
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prophecy, a dream, or a vision, or simply through a voice
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speaking clearly to our spirit. The truth is, learning to know
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the voice of the Holy Spirit and being led by him should be one
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of your primary concerns as a growing, maturing child of God.
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It's all part of the lifelong pursuit to know him, the power
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of his resurrection. As you press towards the mark of
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his high word calling, the Lord can use other options.
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He could speak with a loud voice, there's no doubt about
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that. Again, he can do dreams, he can
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do visions, He can do open visions, he can do it through
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prophecy of someone else. And it is the Spirit of the Lord
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speaking to you which gains your attention.
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But in all cases you still have to consent.
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Are you hearing me? So Romans 814 really means those
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who follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
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They are the sons of God, right? So again, Romans 816 two verses
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later, the Spirit himself testifies with our Spirit that
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we are children of God. The Passion says it this way,
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for the Holy Spirit makes God's fatherhood real to us as he
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whispers into our innermost being.
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You are God's beloved child and the Holy Spirit when announced
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by Jesus in his prayer in the Book of John, when he's talking,
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first they've heard that he's coming and that that he's going
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to bring some fire because he's going to burn away some stuff.
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But when Jesus talks about him, he says this, He said, Now when
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he comes, that is the spirit of truth.
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First thing he's going to do, he's going to remind you.
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What I said. So guess what he's going to do
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first, talk, then he's going to teach you all things.
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Guess what's the second thing he's going to do?
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He's going to talk. Then he's going to guide you
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into all truth. Now that you've learned a voice,
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he's going to give directions so that you can begin to yield and
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navigate. Then he'll disclose which is
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still talking, things to come. So it's very important that we
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learn the voice of the Spirit. And so many believers today are
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just all I care about is I know where I'm going to go when I
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die. Most have no discernment of the
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Spirit and because they have no discernment of the Spirit.
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In fact, a scripture in Hebrews literally tells us that unless
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you're trained in righteousness, which is a form of getting over
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into maturity, then you cannot discern good and evil because
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evil will sound good and nice and to your benefit, but it
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still be from the devil. And if you're not doing the
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things necessary to rightly understand the voice of God
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because we start getting over into angels, you understand.
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The challenge here is that I'll introduce you to a realm that
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you could try to worship. And there's plenty of Scripture
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says don't do it. In fact, the Angel say don't
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worship me. Or because you become aware of
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it through knowledge, then the devil can show up as an Angel of
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light and totally mislead you. So we get into the subjects of
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angels. Or you know, evil spirits,
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right? Don't be lusting to know this.
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Want to know it because you want to be at a see into the unseen
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so that you can navigate that realm effectively.
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In the New Covenant 'cause you understand the Old Covenant,
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there was a a way that realm operated, and it does operate
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that way in part still. But in the New Covenant there's
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some things different. Do you understand?
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I'll just say this real quick, 'cause we talk about again.
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Daniel. Lord, I need an answer now.
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Daniel's in the Old Covenant. He is a prophet.
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But the prophets have the Holy Spirit come upon them.
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He didn't live on them. Means he would come upon and
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then he would go. Come upon and go.
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Why he? Why can't he stay 'cause he's
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sinful. He's sinful, man.
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His spirit man's not alive unto God now.
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He can be living by faith, doing the principles of God, and
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righteous based upon the knowledge of God.
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That's in that dispensation. But by all rights he's still a
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sinful man that he's going to go to the grave.
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He'll be in Abraham's bosom because he's got to wait for the
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blood of Jesus, so he doesn't have a direct connect to the
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throne except when the spirit comes down.
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Will God use other messengers during the Old Covenant as well?
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So he asks. And because the spirit of God is
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not readily in him, God sends an Angel that gets detained because
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the devil still has authority. I mean, he has the dominion in
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Daniel's day of this realm. Don't let it through.
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But God's realm is obviously more powerful than the dominion
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that he's will throwing. Wielding.
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That's the word I just want to say.
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Wielding. Right?
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And then Michael comes down, holds him.
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What happens 21 days later? Daniel gets his answer.
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And what's what's the Angel say? The Lord sent me on the 1st day.
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You know what we do in the new covenant.
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You know, it may take 21 days. OK, I'm not telling you that.
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It may not take time. And it's not taking time because
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we're waiting for an Angel. Because you now have the Holy
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Ghost in you. You don't have to wait for an
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Angel to get through. God just may be wanting to spend
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time with you. It's part of the seek in the
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relationship. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So again, what we do when we start talking about angels, we
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it's just like the new. We got to keep the Old Testament
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in light of the New Testament, and that is the spirit realm as
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well. The spirit realm as well.
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In Malachi it says if you'll bring the tithe in and the
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offerings to the storehouse, that God would rebuke the
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devourer. In the new covenant, you get to
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rebuke him. The Lord doesn't have to rebuke
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him. That's your assignment.
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Now. Submit to God.
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Resist the devil. God didn't have to resist the
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devil. You have to resist the devil
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because you've been given authority over him, right?
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You can't say, Lord, I wish you rebuke the devil for me.
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Rebuke. He's like you.
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Say something. OK, so there's things that we
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get to do in the spirit because we now have a connection to the
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throne by the spirit. OK, Y'all doing.
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All right, OK, now why is all this important?
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Because man always was originally designed to have the
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spirit in bath. In Genesis 126 and 29 it says.
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Then God said. Let us make man in our image
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according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
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sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the
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earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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God created man in his own image.
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In the image of God, He created him, male and female, He created
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them. Then we get over to chapter.
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Two. And we know that he forms man
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out of the dust of the earth, and he breathes into his
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nostrils. The what?
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Breath of life. So his spirit man was alive to
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God. The Holy Spirit was in Adam.
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He was a carrier of the Holy Spirit.
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Why is this? In this way human beings were
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created by God to live from the inside out.
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The very spirit of the King himself was given a humanity.
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Human beings were made in the image and likeness of the King
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with his own personal presence living within them.
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Human beings were designed to function like their creator
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King. It is soon it assured that they
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would be able to rule on earth as he rules in the heavenly
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Kingdom, having the very nature of love, mercy, kindness and
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forgiveness. Are you hearing me?
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The Holy Spirit, as a governor of the human spirit, was
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humanity's bridge to the home country.
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We're in the Kingdom. The bottle's about a king, his
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Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
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So it was the presence of the Holy Spirit within the human
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beings that gave them the authority and ability to have
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dominion over their environment. They were to exercise dominion
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over the earth under the direction of the spirit of the
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King. Are you hearing me?
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In every person's search for power and meaning in life is
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this. They are actually seeking the
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return of the King's spirit. I'm gonna say that again.
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In every person's search for power and the meaning in life is
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this. They are actually seeking the
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return of the King's spirit. A human being without the King
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spirit is dysfunctional because he's never complete.
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His very purpose requires the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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His very purpose requires the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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And when the Holy Spirit shows up, he tells you who you are.
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Amen. Because he comes from the
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Creator, the Potter. Well, this is what type of
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vessel you are. This is why you're here.
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This is your function. This is what you are to do.
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You're not to look at what others do and want to do what
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they do. You're only to hear from inside,
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from the spirit of the King, who will tell you what the Creator
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designed you to do. Because that's the question
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everyone's asking. Why am I here?
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You can only find out when the Spirit's there.
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And he wants to talk to you. So we've got to get our
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Americanized conversations gone. I'm going to ask a question.
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I want to know. Answer.
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Period. Right.
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Amen. We just finished a marriage
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conference. We know, men, that your wives in
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the realm of romance is not fast.
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Yet we want it fast. It don't work like that.
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God built them different. Are you hearing what I'm saying
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yet? We want to tell God you're going
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to talk to me the way I want you to talk.
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He's like, you don't even understand relationship.
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You've been cut off. I'm going to teach you
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relationship. So we come to our relationship
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with God with our own preconceived ideas.
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Yet the Lord's the one who says you need to change your
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thinking, right? The restoration of the King's
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spirit to humanity is the scent is central to the restoration of
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his Kingdom on earth. So here you got to understand.
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When Adam fell from dominion, when he ate the fruit of the
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his spirit died and he
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was led only by his soul, his mind, emotions.
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His will then made decisions based upon his mind emotions, So
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he's and his body how he felt. So he his.
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All of a sudden all of his decision making got reduced to
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his five senses. And humanity is proficient at
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making decisions on their five senses.
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That's why the Lord says, But you don't live by sight, you
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live by faith. And what is faith and how does
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it come? Faith comes by hearing and
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hearing from the word of God. So we are to hear God's word
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through the Spirit of the King that lives within us, and we are
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to make the decisions based upon that, not based.
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Upon the soul realm. So Adam's decision making got
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reduced to only the soul. Are you hearing me?
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AW Tozer said this. If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn
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from churches today, 95% of what they do would go on and no one
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would know the difference, he said.
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Though if the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New
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Testament church, that means the Book of Acts, 95% of what they
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did would stop and everybody would know the difference.
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Now here's the. Kicker.
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The latter church, the the church that Jesus is coming
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back, is going to be greater than the former.
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And if it's going to be greater than, we must know the realm of
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the Spirit. And we are going to know it
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because we know the Spirit King. Come on, are you hearing me?
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We need to know the Holy Spirit because a lot of times we're not
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taking the time we do a really good.
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I mean, most of you are really good at getting me information
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through Google and you become very knowledgeable in the
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natural well, where we're going, we're going to go here.
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Well, now I'll look it up and you get direction.
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You know what you're not showing me.
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You're not showing me the accident that will occur in the
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future that Google doesn't show that is there at now the
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traffic's going, but you know who can the spirit say don't
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take that route and he don't have to tell you why, but he
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can't tell you. I mean, he could or he doesn't
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just say don't take that one, take this one.
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But that one is 15 minutes longer.
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So what do we do in the natural? I don't want to go 15 or 30
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minutes longer. Yet the Holy Spirit knows an
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accident's going to occur on the one that's 30 minutes faster,
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which is going to make it 2 hours longer.
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Oh. You don't want to hear me?
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We've become so proficient in this and even Smith,
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Wigglesworth communicated. The more science or or natural
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things become a a a prevailing option to the things of the
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spirit. People will not turn to the
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spirit for an answer. So he said it this way.
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He said the more medical science advances, more and more people
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will not trust God for their healing.
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They'll just go to medicine. In fact, most believers today go
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to medicine 1st, and the only time they're talking to God is
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when medicine says or they're talking to God while taking the
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medicine, but they're more firmly persuaded in the medicine
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they're taking. Then God heals them.
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They just throw the tag on, Well, I'm just believing God I'm
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healed, but they're really believing that that pill is
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going to do it. Now at the end of the day, if
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you put your faith in the pill and God uses the pill to do it
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because again, God has used natural things in order to be
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able to do stuff. But ultimately, he wants you to
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know his word is the ultimate source.
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I'm not saying for you to abandon your medication.
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I am saying make sure you start with the spirit first.
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I know a particular lady who's not with us today.
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She was older, got diagnosed with cancer.
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And so they. Ran her through chemotherapy, I
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think it was. And she did awesome.
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She was prayed up, believing God physically.
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She handled it amazing. It's awesome.
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I heard that. They're like, you know, it took
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an effect. We want to do another round just
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to make sure we got everything, I literally told her on the
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phone Don't do that. Wait, your body needs more time
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to recover. You don't have to rush this.
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Don't do it. The daughter came in, convinced
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her to do it. She died 'cause it was too hard.
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Cancer didn't kill her. The effects of the chemo did,
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because they rushed it. But by the spirit we knew, it
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can work. Less weight.
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No rush. They already think they've
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tackled it. This is for in the abundance of
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caution, Yeah. And she fought till the end.
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I'm telling you, she fought the best she could, but it was
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really, it was too much on her body.
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It's like, what? Come on, Lord, thank you.
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I see his face. I need his name.
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Jim Hockaday. Jim Hockaday said this when he
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was doing the prayer and healing school.
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He says. You know, it's never too far for
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God, but sometimes. It's too far for them because by
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the time their mind can get connected, to actually get in
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firm persuasion, their body don't have the time to be able
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to do it. And here's the next thing,
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sometimes they can get the body so far that they didn't medicate
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you and then you can't keep your mind to fight the good fight of
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faith. So I wasn't there that day, but
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they put me on the phone to the person's ear and I said to them,
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it's going to be all right. You can go see Jesus.
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We got it here. We'll take care of it. 10
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seconds later she was gone. 10 seconds later, I'll see her in
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heaven. See, sometimes when we don't
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listen to the Spirit, it can cost us our lives.
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And God was warning us, But there's our voices out there and
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we're going to see that it's impossible to worship God from
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your soul, although many people are doing it.
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Lot of soulish praises going on. Very emotional, very exciting,
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but hadn't touched the spirit of God once.
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I'm telling you, seeing someone cry, seeing someone run and jump
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and shout, does not indicate that that's the spirit.
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It can be the spirit. I'm not saying that it sure can
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be, but I can tell you there's plenty of times it's not.
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And when you learn to know how to see into the unseen, you'll
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know if that worship service was spiritual or if it was just the
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soul, if that display that just took place was spiritual.
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Or was it just the soul? I'm going to tell you right now,
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Brother Hagan said this. He said, you know, I've come off
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the platform in the flesh, meaning in the natural.
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I I felt nothing of the Spirit, but it was a by faith.
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And he said, when I hit the ground, I was in the Spirit.
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So from here there was a calculated soul realm that was
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trying to connect to the spirit, but I had not entered it yet.
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But I perceived that if I acted on what I had not yet
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experienced, by the time I get there, I'll be in it.
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And he did that. That's different than someone
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just out of their soul crying out to God, giving a bunch of
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emotional expressions, trying to get, in essence, conjure up God
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to notice them. It's not going to happen.
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So worship can only produce religion.
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So Adam could only all humanity now can only worship God from
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the realm of soul. And that's not worshipping.
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That's why they have false gods. That's why religion shows up.
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Don't you know? Religion was in full swing when
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Elijah showed up to the prophets of Baal, he said.
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Let's find out who has the real God, right?
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You go first. Now.
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They had a praise service going on.
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They were dancing, shouting, screaming, cutting themselves.
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I mean, it was the most, you know, passionate display.
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Passion doesn't necessarily mean it was connected to the spirit.
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Then Elijah dig a ditch. Put water on it.
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Do it again. Do it again.
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Right. And then he's like, Lord boom,
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there's the fire, right? God move without him having to
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do all that. But then his passion really
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manifested because I've been on that mountain where that event
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took place in Israel and the. Brook that he killed all those
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prophets. It's not right here.
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It's a pretty good, pretty good walk, and with his passion in
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the spirit, he was able to rally and take them against their will
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down a long mountain to a brook and kill them.
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Have them killed because of the zeal of the Lord because God
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hates. Idol worship Loving God hates.
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You worshipping other gods? He's jealous.
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He's the only one who deserves that, and to him it shouldn't
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even be in the earth. Especially if it takes people
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off course from me because I'm life.
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Their worship only leads to death.
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That's why the Bible says there's a way that seems right
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to a man, but in the end lies. That's why we got to live life
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beyond just seeming what's right.
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We need to have a Holy Ghost knowing what's right.
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Because the time we hear the word seem in the book of Acts,
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James said it this way. It seems right to us and the
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Holy Ghost, not just to us. And the Holy Ghost.
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And the Holy Ghost. We believe we've heard the voice
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of the Holy Spirit about this particular issue.
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This is what we're going to do. Are you hearing me?
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So, Adam's first sole response. Was to cover himself with leaves
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so he could be in the presence of God when he heard him coming
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in the cool today. Did it work?
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No. But look at this in Luke 2.
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This is why it's so important for us to understand the things
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of the Spirit. Because we were always destined
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to know the home country, to be able to connect to the Kingdom
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in heaven, to bring that realm into this realm.
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But it's only done by the Spirit.
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We have to be able to get into the unseen, see the unseen, in
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order for us to be able to access what's in that realm.
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So we have to take the leading of the Spirit, a very serious
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business, to our growth and development.
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We cannot get complacent in just knowing where we're going to go
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when we die and the end's going to work itself out.
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Well, it's going to work out according to what God said.
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The question is where you'll be out?
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Where are you going to be at in the working of it?
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Come on, 'cause some people are assuming they're going to be in
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places that the Bible says. You're not going to be in that
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place. All right.
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That's good. Hey man.
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But Luke 2 four, verse 40 and then verse 52, verse 40 says,
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and the child, this is Jesus grew and became strong in
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spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.
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Look at verse 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom
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and statute and in favor with God and man.
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Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom.
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See, he's strong in spirit. Why he was filled with wisdom.
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So Jesus is first recognized for his wisdom in scripture before
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his supernatural miracles. So when we talk about the spirit
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realm, most of the time people are thinking about the
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miraculous. I don't know why it got so
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quiet. I mean, y'all want me to pop a
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vein or something. Here I mean.
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What we got to do here? What's going on?
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I mean, you know, Arnell, when Vanessa and Arnell were in
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Puerto Rico, it was it was horrible.
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I mean I see the man standing in the pulpit, line upon line,
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precept upon precept. And he would say, you know, Luke
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240 And the child grew and came strong in spirit, filled with
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wisdom. And they would all come to the
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service at Anchor Faith there, and they would look at him and
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say, we've never heard this teaching, this is amazing, but
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they wouldn't stay. Why?
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Because he didn't scream and yell like all the other pastors
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that were on the island. Now at the end of the day, I
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don't care if it's part of your gifting to scream and yell.
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I do it myself. However, if it's not attached to
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the Spirit, then all you're doing is screaming and yelling,
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and there are congregations full, especially in Latin
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American countries that think they have the spirit there and
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all they have is a soulless service, very emotional.
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All right, it's fine. Jesus is the greatest example of
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hearing the Spirit because he was well equipped to rightly
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divide and discern the word. This is why Jesus first preached
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repent which means change your thinking.
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Jesus did not first preach you need the Holy Ghost power for
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the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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He did not say that you need the power so that you can cast out
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devils for the Kingdom of. No, that's not what he said.
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He said repent, for the Kingdom of heaven has at hand.
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You got to change your thinking. And when you change your
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thinking, you'll hear the spirit right.
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And guess what? You'll cast out devils.
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He's a man if I. Cast out devils.
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By the finger of God, that's a little thing.
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Yeah, we make it the big thing. Psalms 14310.
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The New Living Translation says that this way teach me to do
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your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me
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towards a firm footing. So how do you become proficient
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at following the Holy Spirit? You become well equipped at
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rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
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Are you ready for this, John? 423 to 24 says this, but an
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hour's coming. But an hour's coming.
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And now, yeah, so that hour's here been there when true
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worship say what? Which implies false ones.
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So not every congregation has true worship.
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OK, when true worshippers will worship the Father in and and
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and truth, not just in spirit. So you get fanaticals that have
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been in expressions of true spirit LED services that they
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want that. This is what I loved about
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Pastor Rotti Kingdom Rise of Valdosta.
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When we were celebrating in the Spirit, we did a demonstration
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of just by Scripture and and his encouragement and monishment and
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showing things in Scripture. Then we acted on it.
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And you know what? Many of them acted, not feeling
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it, but they in faith believed what he said.
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And the Spirit got called up in the praise, the dance, the the
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running, the shouting. And it manifested so much that
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without giving an altar call, people started running and
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saying I want to get born again without even doing an officer
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call. It was literally this Acts
Acts 2 chapter mention
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Chapter 2, what must we do? Moment in Valdosta and Roddy's
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like what is happening and he would pray with the one and hug
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him and he was so excited. Then all of a sudden I wanted,
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oh, and then he prayed for next to you.
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Seven people later, no obstacle. We're just, I mean, it's like
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the if you weren't used to that, you'd be like, what is going on
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in here? But the Holy Ghost was drawing
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lost people in that environment, 'cause it was a spiritual
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experience. It was not natural or soulless
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or we're just conjuring up something.
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Now I'm just going to be blunt, honest.
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The gifts of the Spirit are as he wills, not as I will.
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So if a minister has the exact same expression of the Spirit in
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every service they do, you might want to question whether it's
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actually the Holy Ghost. Brother Hagen literally dealt
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with a minister in the times of the healing revival that he said
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you need to repent and stay with the Lord because you are coming
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to the service, because he could give words and knowledge, he
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could do operating the gifts. And he says, you're in one
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service, you're yielding to the Holy Spirit, the next service
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you're yielding to familiar spirits.
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And he said this to Brother Hagen.
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I have to because the people expect me to perform, because
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familiar spirits can tell, give you by all rights in a
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definition, a word of knowledge. For the word of knowledge is
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something presently known or something in the past.
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And you know what? Familiar spirits have been
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around some people's families a lot knows what they are.
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They wore on Tuesday because they've been leading them and
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influencing them for generations.
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So they can show up in a service and say, talk that person out,
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tell them that their uncle was wearing a a denim shirt on
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Tuesday. Then you can do it.
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And they're like, why do you think sorcerer or card reading
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and all that stuff, people actually go there.
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So you know what? People have sent on to me
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before. They're like, now listen, Pastor
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Earl, if your daughter was kidnapped and was somewhere and
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A and a fortune teller could tell you, wouldn't you use them?
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I'm like, no, I don't need to consult the devil to tell me
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where my daughter's at the minute.
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I consult the devil to find out where my daughter's at.
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By the time I get there, she's dead.
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But when I consult the Holy Spirit, he can send an Angel
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ahead, kill the person, translate her to me and I'm all
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right, 'cause that's stuff that actually happens in the realm of
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God's spirit. Go ahead and preach that.
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Like all of a sudden just because they know you wouldn't,
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I have the reigning spirit. I'm not going to give in to that
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hypocrisy. So now is we'll worship the true
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worship will worship the Father and spirit.
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And true for such people, the Father seeks to be his
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worshippers, which tells us if you have no seriousness about
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becoming a disciple and rightly divided, you have no seriousness
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in wanting to rightly divide the word of truth.
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Daddy's not looking for you, doesn't mean he doesn't love
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you, but he's not looking for you.
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He's not seeking after you. God doesn't violate his word.
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Well, I don't care what you do, I'll.
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I'll come. Come see you anyway.
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He's serious of and he gives us what to do.
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He said. Look this, I want you to be a
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true worshipper. I've given you the spirit of
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truth. He's going to guide you in all
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truth. He's going to teach you all
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things. He's going to disciple you.
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He's going to get you so that you can be trained and
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righteous, so that you'll know how to function, flow, live in
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the fruits of the spirit man. And then he'll give you access
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to things that are beyond your He'll, he'll pull back the veil
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of the unseen so you can see as you grow.
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And then you can literally worship me because you'll be
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tied to the Spirit and you'll know the word, so there'll be no
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complication in hearing the right voice.
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Man, I'm looking for you. He's telling us how to do it.
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Then he says God is spirit, and those who worship him must
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What's that word not maybe? So that tells me, if you're
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singing songs and the church doesn't teach the word, then we
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don't have true worship there. And I don't care what your best
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intentions are. Let me tell you something.
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A person who truly wants to seek God, God will move you out of a
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congregation that is not seeking spirit and truth.
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I know that for a fact because I was in them.
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I got hungry for him, he said. It ain't here.
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They've only spoke this truth. They're not going to give you
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nothing else. Let me take you to another place
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that's got more truth. They told me another place that
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had more truth. Glory to God.
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And we're not withholding any truth from you because about the
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minute we receive the revelation of the truth, we're trying to
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get it out. Except for the stuff you choke
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on. It takes me a year to get out,
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but we eventually get there because we've learned about
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love. All right, John 10, four and
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five says this. But when he puts forth all his
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own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because
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they know his a stranger they simply will not follow, but will
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flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.
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Now let me show you what it doesn't say.
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Leave that up, the. Sheep hear his voice.
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A stranger. They will simply not follow,
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which implies strangers are talking.
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It doesn't say in verse 5. The minute you hear the voice of
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God, you'll never hear another voice.
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Doesn't say that. In fact the devil and his whole
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realm is always talking. They're that person.
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When you get in the room, they talk and they won't let you
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talk. This is why you got to tell them
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to shut up and come out, right? Shut up, come out.
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You're talking too much, right? You're talking way too much.
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Amen. So they talk.
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So a stranger, they simply will not follow.
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Doesn't mean they won't hear a stranger.
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Now how do they flee from a stranger?
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When they hear what the stranger says, they take that 'cause that
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thought come. You can't stop thoughts from
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coming. You can stop them from being
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entertained. OK.
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So when the thought comes, because you're trained in truth,
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you can say that thought doesn't line up with the word.
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I take you captive. I I won't listen to that Next
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voice comes that doesn't line up with the word.
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I take that captive. I cast that down.
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I won't entertain that. And all the while you're just
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throwing down thoughts. And then all of a sudden one
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comes and you're like, that's the word, that's the spirit.
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Now I'm going there. And now that you're tuned in,
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you can get so tuned in that things can be talking.
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Because again, seriously, how many times are you not around
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people and other people are talking, but you're talking to
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them, which you're all these other voices around, but you
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have. Tuned them out and you've given
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your full attention to the one you're listening to.
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Well, if you can do that in the natural, you absolutely can do
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that in the spirit when you can see the unseen.
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But if you don't see the unseen, then you won't be able to give
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attention. Because, again, if my wife's
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talking to me in the crowd, I can look at her, I can see her
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mouth, you know, I hear her words, you know, and I give
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great attention. I'm focusing all of my ability
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to only hear her vocal cords, her frequency.
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Well, how do I do this with Jesus that I can't see?
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In the beginning was the and the Word was.
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With God, the Word was and the Word became, and we call His
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name. So how can you stare Jesus in
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the face in the earth? You know, His word, and you get
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so focused on that word that nothing else you're listening
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to, 'cause you're looking at the face of Jesus, your king.
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Wow. So the Lord would not let evil
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spirit speak on his behalf. So don't use that realm to get
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information about God 'cause they will tell you about him.
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Paul himself by the Spirit shut up the advertising of someone
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who was following a demonic spirit.
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Because that girl who was a fortune teller was saying when
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Paul was walking in town, he speaks from the Most High God
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and that was truth. And the spirit that she listened
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to was that. If the spirit said to Jesus,
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remember. But the first time hit one of
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his encounters when he was in the synagogue, he shows up
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there, 'cause we I just read this in Mark earlier this week
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and he shows up there and all of a sudden an unclean spirit, said
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a man. And begins to say, what do we
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have to do? We know who you are.
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Shut up 'cause that spirit knows Jesus.
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Shut up. It was telling the truth.
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But don't you advertise for me? If if God would allow that
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fortune teller to advertise for him when Paul left the city, and
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they would have been convinced that what she said about Paul
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was truth, what else does she say?
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But you won't fall into this when you get trained in truth.
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So how do we become proficient in being led by the Spirit?
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We must be serious about being disciples of his word, doers of
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it, acting, believing it. Then we become more proficient
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at hearing his spirit, his nudges that we can't see.
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It's a leading Most of the time it's here.
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Sometimes it's a little more vocal, audible, a stronger
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impression. Again, could be a dream, could
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be a prophetic word that someone says something and you're like,
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that's God. I know that is, I understand
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that can take place, right? But you need to understand the
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last of the last days. Brother Hagan Kenneth E Hagan
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said it this way. He said.
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I guarantee you this as we move into the next wave of the
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spirit. We're going to see more and more
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excesses of fanaticism. Because there's always excesses
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in any move of the Holy Spirit Now, not by the Holy Spirit, but
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when the Spirit himself is moving, there are excesses, he
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says. Because he says, you may as well
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get ready for it. You'll not have any move of the
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Spirit without excesses. Why, you may ask?
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Because there will always be those in your midst who are
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unlearned. They're unlearned.
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Sunday had a powerful time from our praise singing to the Lord
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all the way to water baptism. Powerful time.
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Pastor Marcy obviously received a word concerning finances, and
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we're already seeing evidence of that.
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So you want to grab hold, so you'll be the next testimony.
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All right. Anjali got got an impression by
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the Spirit to speak concerning based upon the song we were
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singing. You need to basically put
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yourself in a Thanksgiving mode that what you've sought is
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already done OK? Matt Hunt comes up to me because
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the custom is, if you're in the sanctuary and you believe you've
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got something by the spirit that may be released to the
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congregation, there's an order to this.
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So he came down and he spoke to me.
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And what he spoke had a little more detail, but was primarily
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the same thing that Anjali had already said.
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And I had said to him, if you had been here first, you could
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have released that, right? But you're hearing what the
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Spirit's saying. Then I had Priscilla at Gilda
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House come, and her sister Sophia interpreted for that.
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And she had a context within the same thought process, a little
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different detail, but yet it's still what the Spirit was
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saying. But they had such an impression
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in the Spirit that they were. Maybe this is beyond me.
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Well, you understand what God was saying was making such an
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impression in. People.
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Because he was speaking very clearly to your spirit.
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Audrey had a particular word that my wife spent some time
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with. And you know what?
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She seemed like it was something that needed it, had maybe missed
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a moment or it was a different time frame.
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Whatever the case, because sometimes you can guys can get
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some things in the spirit they didn't for the service we're in.
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Especially sometimes when I'm ministering, along the lines
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that are going to go multiple weeks, you may actually have a
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word for the third week. Are you hearing me?
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Which means the word you have is not a word of knowledge as much
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as it is a word of wisdom, because it's for two services
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later, and I'll call you. I've had that happen before.
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I'm like, you know what? I know where I'm going.
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Next week, come get with me and I'll.
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Let you release that. Then Josh Kitchens came up, had
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a context again. Again, this He's having an an
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encounter with the Holy Ghost. He's talking to him and it's so
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strong that what are we doing We're we're training.
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There's nothing wrong to move and ask.
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Ultimately me being the overseer, I'm going to determine
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what's literally released or not OK.
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However this is part of the training exercise.
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This is how we get equipped because and those 3 they were
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basically had a another aspect of what Angie had Anjali had
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said and as a result of that I would just encourage you're
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hearing what the spirit say now honestly.
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If they had moved. First, then they would have
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released that first. Now the Bible is very clear on
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the gifts of the Spirit. How many can function in a
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service? Paul says two.
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No more than three. Because we need to get to the
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teaching of the work, because the teaching of the Word allows
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us to become more proficient at the spirit of of God.
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So again, you can do math on your own.
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You're back there and we've had one person do a tongue and
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interpretation tongue, and then somebody else give a prophetic
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word, whether it's a word of knowledge, word of wisdom or
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something. And then some other thing
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happened with the gifts. You can be, well, that's three
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times. We probably need to go on to the
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teaching of the word. It's not.
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Oh, I think I got something now you understand.
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I mean, there's a guideline already set in place because
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Paul was dealing with the church that was basically only trying
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to function with the gifts, and he's like the spirit of God, and
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his gifts will not compete with whom.
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He is identifying you to cause the Holy Spirit's here to do one
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thing to show you the king. OK, so there can be excesses.
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And again you may hear something that ultimately we may say,
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because I've had some come down and it is a word from God.
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I had one person, one service come down.
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They were shaking. It was obvious that something
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was on them, that God was speaking to them.
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It was clear as day. And they had never heard the
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voice of God so clear in their life.
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And because of that they concluded maybe it's for the
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church Now came to me. And as I heard, I said I knew,
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man, I heard it. That is for you.
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And God is clearly wanting you to know it.
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My and I applaud. I said, I am so excited that
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you're hearing the spirit of God and what he's saying act on it.
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I mean, it was a powerful word for them, for them, OK, So
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sometimes that'll happen. I am always.
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In expectation of the Gifts movie.
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Right now, not every service. The gifts will move 'cause this
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as he wills and Pastor Roddy. And that service says this at
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the end. Now listen, you can't have this
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kind of service, every service. In fact, this service is a
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byproduct of all the good teaching you heard this week.
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He literally says this. Most ministers that flow like
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that never say that. They just want to get to that
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moment so that you leave like that.
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Great. We shouted and danced and
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laughed and ran around, 'cause that's all we wanted to do.
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I'm telling you, I know him. Roddy had the wisdom, the
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insight to say, listen, this was my task.
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It's what I was asked to do. It's what God wanted me to do.
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But you don't do this in every service, he said.
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You know, you may do them once a quarter now, he said.
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Now if you never do them, that's a problem.
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But this is not in every service moment.
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So in conclusion, what the Lord is saying, I want you to become
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proficient at seeing unseen things.
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Because in the last of the last days, to avoid being some who
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fall away, you're going to have to be serious about your
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discipleship training in the word.
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And then yield to his leading so that you'll recognize the nudges
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and move with them. And when I say nudges, they're
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not just you delivering a gift like a tongue or interpretation.
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It may be the spirit nudges you and say go on down and you dance
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before me tonight. Today I've never left my seat.
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I don't care. Leave your seat.
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Get down, 'cause there's something in that act of
-
obedience that God wants to do that He's not going to do in
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your chair. You cannot conclude that every
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time you come to service that you can get everything God wants
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for you in the seat you picked. Cannot conclude that 'cause God
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has the right to move you, He has the right to move you, and
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you should obey. I said you should obey.
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That may not happen every time, but when it happens, just as
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Kenneth Estrada says now we don't always dance, you know,
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but but when he says when it's right, it's right.
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When it's Tom, it's time. We don't always shout.
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But when it's time, when it's necessary, it's necessary.
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It's not always necessary to shout, but when it's necessary,
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it ain't always necessary to run, but when it's necessary, it
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ain't always necessary to laugh. But when it's necessary, it's
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it's not always necessary to be quiet but when it's necessary.
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And this church is going to be proficient at pulling back the
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veil. Because it's been prophesied in
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these last days, we would flow. When the Spirit is natural as a
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bird flies in the air, it only becomes because we're serious
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about our discipleship, knowing the word, trained in
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righteousness, conquering every obstacle.
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We are not led by how we feel what we see.
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We are only convinced that the Word of God rules and reigns,
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and will never miss the voice of the Spirit when doing so.
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