7/30/25 - Discerning What's Genuine in Prophecy

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♪eyes and we see your greatness, God. We see your greatness,♪

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♪ How great is our God? Sing with me. How great is our God? ♪

♪ Oh we'll see how great, how great is our God. ♪

Come on sing that tonight. The Lord is great and greatly to be

praised. ♪ How great, is our God, is our God? Oh, you are. ♪

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♪ exalted.♪ Why are we saying highly exalted? Because when

we exalt Him above everything, above our workplaces, above our

nation, we exalt Him above our city. Guess what? The Spirit of

God comes in and things begin to change. They begin to rearrange.

They begin to shift. They begin to move. So we say, God, you

are highly exalted. Say highly exalted. Oh, just take a moment

and exalt him above whatever you're facing. Exalt him above

any sickness. Exalt him above disease. Exalt him above fear.

Exalt him above poverty. Exalt him above death. Exalt him above

life. Come on, say, ♪ you are, you are, you are exalted. You ♪

♪ are exalted. There is no one else like you, God. There is ♪

♪ none beside you. There is no one. (3x) There is no one, ♪

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♪ higher than You, Lord. (3x) Come on, shout tonight. Shout, ♪

♪ shout, shout. Say, God is good. (2x) Hallelujah. (3x) ♪

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So what are we doing tonight? We're exalting the name that is

above every other name. If you came in here with a need

tonight, just shout the name of Jesus. If you came in here

needing someone to pray for you tonight, shout the name of

Jesus. (congregation cheering)

'Cause when we say that name, that is higher than every other

name, I am telling you, bondages begin to break, chains begin to

fall off, sickness has to bow its knee. When we exalt Him, you

know what Pastor preached on Sunday? He said, "We don't cast

the care forward, we cast it behind us." So if you came in

here with care, cast it on God. I feel like, is there anybody in

here you're needing a job? Anybody you believe in God for a

different job? All right, raise your hands real high. If you're

believing, there's no shame in that. I want some believers to

gather around these people because the Bible says where two

or three of us are gathered together in his name. In his

name. There is power in agreement when we pray.

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So let's declare that Father, everything that they're

believing for, it comes to pass for them. Father, we declare

that Father, increase comes to them. Father, we declare

promotion comes to them. Father, we declare, Father, increase in

finances. Father, where there has been persecution, Father, we

say that it is broken in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If

you're watching online and you're believing God for a job

or you're believing God for an increase in your finances, I

feel like some of you, you're believing God for some bills to

get paid. So we stretch our hands to you right now, those of

you that are watching online, and we say the God that is more

than enough is working on your behalf. The God that is

exceeding and abundant above all that we could ask or think. We

say He is working, working on your behalf right now, and we

say it is done. It is done in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, how

many of you believe that God is good? How many of you believe

that in the prayer of agreement, something begins to change?

Amen. Well, find two or three people. Greet them in the love

of the Lord tonight, and we're going to get ready for a

powerful word from Pastor Brenda.

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- Amen. Well, before we get to prophetic school officially, it

is offering time. Amen. They're going to go ahead and put that

giving information up on the screen and got to put my hair

back out of my face. Praise and worship hair. How many of you

women get praise and worship hair? I know you can't see in a

few minutes but anyway, there's the giving information up there.

Text to give. I'm not going to share a scripture because we're

going to get right into prophetic school and uh want to

do some good teaching tonight. Try to get in as much content as

we can. I mean bless you guys, those of you that are in person,

I don't know what the weather's like where the internet

community's all from, but I mean we had like a deluge of rain

last night and so Pastor Hank's like, should we water any of the

plants? I'm like, yes, I said because when they say we're

going to get rain, you get nothing. And then if you do, if

I wouldn't have watered the plants, it would have been a But

because I went out and made the effort, I mean it was just, oh

my goodness, we lost a tree branch on one of our trees.

They're going to come clean it up. But anyway, I don't know, I

was sleeping in all that wind. I'm like, listen, God never

sleeps near slumber. Let's just get some, I didn't hear a thing,

not even the dogs, you know, so it was all good. But you guys

are here in church, I don't know, you could have been like

having a picnic somewhere. But I'll try to get you out at a

good time, but too bad, it's gonna be dark. You know, it's

getting dark early now. But anyway, just get the giving

information up. Do wanna just throw that back up one more

time. Just wanna make sure everybody knows that all the

different ways to give. And then for everybody that is giving

into building the Tavern Apco, I just wanna say to the internet

campus, thank you for helping us. And we are already talking

about all the exciting things we're planning for dedication

weekend. And we don't know the date yet. So we'll get it out as

soon as you know, we just need to go a little bit farther in

the construction so that we know kind of when it's done. because

there are variables that happen when you're building a building

of that size. How many think it's looking good when you drive

up to it? It is looking really awesome. I came by tonight. I'm

like, man, thank you, Laura. That just looks so cool. So

glorious for your kingdom. And just what a piece of excellence

that we have there. And then also, uh, got a little bit of

good news. I think it's still good news, Mark, right? It was

the good news email yesterday. This is the good news as of now.

I think it's still going to be a thing. But remember when I

talked to you Sunday about the asphalt versus the concrete, but

we had to find a person that could do it. Well, guess what?

We got an email yesterday. They found a concrete company. So too

bad for Pastor Hank. He won't be able to. Huh? Oh, they're

starting next week. So yes, I didn't I miss that part. So and

Pastor and Pastor Matt and the group, they are up getting ready

for Flashpoint Live. They're in the beautiful city of

Minneapolis. And of course, they that city needs a Flashpoint

Live, I think. Anyway, we'll leave it at that. But anyhow,

they are up there. And so honey, if you're watching, that means,

ushers, you can go ahead and start to serve the people. And

online, you can go ahead and do your giving there. But honey,

that means that you won't be able to put your swimming pool

in the parking lot of the church. I'm so sorry. Go, aww.

Amen. So, amen. All right, well, very quickly, as the ushers

serve you, and we'll get right into it tonight. I'm not being

in a place of delay. I have a lot of things I want to share,

so I want to get to it as quick as possible. And I know, and we

do try to be a little bit sensitive on a Wednesday night,

because I know it's a school night for kids and whatnot, but

how many of you are excited the kids are back in schools? How

you feel? Are you feeling it yet? Are you done? Are you ready

for summer yet? I don't know about that. So I see all of our

neighbors getting their little kids and I'm like, oh, I don't

miss those years. But anyhow, those were the days, those were

the times. So real quickly, all right guys, you can wrap up,

we're good. Just a couple reminders, I wanna let everybody

know, first and foremost, I came in tonight and found this little

gem, Pastor Newest Mutsvi Amilo. Mutsvi's longest day is here.

And so we're super, super excited about this. Now we are

going to be doing some things pertinent to children, planning

a night of ministry. I'm not going to give you the details on

that yet until we have solidified all the things we

want to do with that. But we're going to do a night of prayer

for the children and just talking a little bit more about

why we're so passionate. In fact, we're working on a book

right now, just a little prayer guide for parents with their

children because, you know, they're navigating things. I

hear a lot of people say this a lot, "I wouldn't want to be

raising kids in this season of time." These are older people

that say that just because there's so much to kind of get

through. But I'm so thankful for Pastor Hank who put the latest

Mutzvi book out. So awesome. Make sure you get a copy of

that. They'll have that. I think it's pretty much out on the

website. You can get it from Amazon, but we always say, get

it from us because then the benefit of it goes back to the

ministry and that is what is so important to our heart. But

Amazon probably get it to you faster. So if you're desperate,

if you're desperate and you just need it tomorrow because you

just had to have a children's book this week, then you can go

out and you can get that. And then also pastor's book, if

you've not gotten this, The Anointing of Preservation. I

will tell you, I don't know if anybody that has a revelation

better than pastor on the anointing of preservation or

anybody that called it that, I've not heard that. That's just

kind of a fresh take on scriptures of protection that

the Lord is preserving us and of course preserving us for the

season that we're living in. You're alive right here tonight

because you have purpose. You have, God has a reason for you

to be here. And I don't believe anything is by accident. I

always believe that it is absolutely ordained of heaven.

The anointing of preservation, you can get that, of course, on

Amazon, but you can get it from us, and I encourage you to go

get a hold of that. And then my latest daily decree book, Daily

Decrees for Government and Nations. And if you've not

gotten that as well, please get out there, get a hold of a copy

of that, because honestly, I really want to see us. We're

going into, I don't know, I guess I could always say we're

already in election mayhem. I mean this whole Speaker of the

House, anybody been watching that little drama going on?

There are some people saying that they're going to nominate

Trump as the Speaker of the House. I saw that on Fox today.

But anyway, and not that I always watch the news, but that

was interesting to me that people are making that

nomination because they believe what we feel about the election

too. But anyway, but I just think what happens if we're all

praying some of the same things at the same time and going

through this whole year, just think about all of the things

that God can do with our prayers if we all get in agreement. So

get out there, go to hankandbrenda.org, get all of

those materials and all the other stuff that's out there.

Um, we don't write them so we can make pretty covers. We write

them so that we can really, really encourage people and give

them hope and give them strength and the ability. Somebody asked

us or asked me years and years ago, they said, how did you get

strong in the word? I'm like, I read people's books. Isn't that

right, Janet? Okay. I think I had every Brother Hagin book

there ever was, and I read it from cover to cover to cover,

and life-changing it was for me. Amen? All right, well, let's get

into it tonight. I wanna get right to the teaching, and

hopefully just really kind of go back through some things. Now, I

talked a little bit on, tonight I wanted to talk about

recognizing genuine prophecy and prophets, genuine prophetic

ministry, and again, I always kind of open with this. I kind

of went a different direction the last time, I guess I'll say

it that way, talking about how to minister in the prophetic and

do it with taste and grace and class. But then I found these

notes that, I don't know, I hadn't preached it all the first

time, so I thought, well, I'd go back. And I know Pastor Hank has

talked a little bit on false prophets, true prophets, and I

mean, I couldn't even begin to match the revelation that he

carries in that. book. And if you didn't get a hold of that, I

think all of these are out on OVTV. So get out there and check

those out. It's just his understanding of the prophetic.

He really digs deep in just the anointing of the prophetic and

prophets and prophecy. And so get out there and check that

out. But I circled back on these notes and I found them. And I

was like, "Man, I didn't preach some of this." So I've got to

kind of go back and talk about just how to recognize genuine

prophecy and prophetic ministry. So I want to go to tonight to 2

Peter. Let's just read this Scripture and 2 Peter chapter 2.

2 Peter 2 · chapter mention

And let's just start at verse 1. I'm just going to read a couple

of these, but this is an important verse. And by the way,

I really encourage you to read all of this, this whole chapter,

because it really makes a description on how God views

those that are involved in error and those that are false. But it

says here in verse 1, "But there were false prophets also among

the people," talking about in the Old Testament, right? This

is in the Old Covenant. "There were false prophets among the

people, or among the people, even as there shall be false

teachers among you." Now, so it brings out false prophets in the

Old Covenant, and we see a lot of that mentioned. We don't see

it as much in the New Testament. It is mentioned, but it's not as

common as it is in the Old Testament. And interestingly, if

you want to just kind of put a little circle or a note around

the word prophet there, the Strong's kind of uses a phrase

or it uses the word in there, "impostor." Okay, so this is not

just talking about people that make genuine, honest mistakes.

How many of you know, not one of us is perfect. Not even as I get

up here and I preach the Word, teach the Scriptures, not one of

us knows the whole counsel of God. Not one of us is revelatory

perfect. Not one of us knows everything. And the reason in

the Bible Paul talked about that if a prophet prophesies, there

should be those that can bring a scrutiny or a judgment to it to

ascertain whether or not that prophetic word was legitimate or

not. And we'll talk about that here in a little bit as we get

into some of this. So, the prophets of the Old Testament

were really egregious, I should say it like this, egregious

impostors. They were deceivers. They were not people trying to,

when you're talking about the old covenant, it was not to, I

guess I'll say it this way, to, you know, make an honest

mistake. It was egregious, deliberate error. Okay. This is

the, the false prophets of the old covenant. And I want you to

understand that because I think in this time people are so up in

arms over the prophetic, like, is that a false prophet? Is

who's a false? I mean, I mean, the mayhem that went through the

2020 election over the Trump prophecies and all of these

things. And I'll talk about this as we get a little bit into it.

In my viewpoint, from what I can ascertain from scripture, was

really exaggerated. It was so brought out so extremely. First

of all, I'll just say this and that. So many people, prophetic.

Now, Pastor will tell you his prophetic journey in the 45th

president goes way back to 9/11. And so he's been prophesying a

journey. He didn't just rise up one day and go, "Man, I like

Trump, I'm gonna prophesy about him." He didn't do that. That I

know, I know for a fact. And I believe there were people that

did do that. So they couldn't hold to what they felt. But you

cannot tell me that there are this many prophets. Come on,

Christians. Come on, we all have the Holy Spirit. Christians,

intercessors. Come on, how many of you are intercessors? You

pray, you intercede for America. You can't tell me there are this

many of us that all felt what we felt. And when I say we, this is

a collective growing, a collective large number of

people felt what they felt about the anointing on Donald John

Trump and that we're all that crazy and we just missed it. And

it was because we just really wanted this guy. No, there were

visions, there were dreams, there were things people saw in

the spirit that you can't argue with, you can't deny. So that

doesn't make this whole group a false group. Okay? That's not

the point. The false of the Old Covenant, which you will read,

and in the New Testament, are those that have egregious,

purposeful intent to deceive. And we'll kind of talk about

that character as we go through some of this. But I want to set

that up because I feel like people get, and well let me read

the rest of this, because I'm, and then I'll say, make my

point. It said, "There were false prophets or impostors also

among the people, even as there shall be false teachers." Now,

this false teacher is people that propagate teachings of

error. "Among you who shall privately or secretly or

covertly bring damnable heresies or destructive doctrines, even

denying the Lord that bought them." Now, here's what I want

to say. When it comes to doctrine, when it comes to

teaching, when it comes to truth and understanding the truth of

the Bible, first of all, we have to get down the fact that not

one of us knows it all. Aren't we glad we're growing? Aren't we

glad we're all growing? Aren't we glad that we have the room

and the ability through the Holy Spirit? I was thinking about, in

fact, I read this, maybe we'll go to it. It was Apollos, if you

read this in Acts the 18th chapter, Apollos, the Bible

says, was a man of the Spirit. He knew the Scriptures mightily.

In fact, there they have it up there. It was a certain Jew

named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man. In

other words, he was a good preacher. And he was mighty in

the scriptures. So did he know the Word? He was a man that knew

the Word. He was mighty in scriptures. He came to Ephesus,

verse 25, and it says, "This man was instructed in the way of the

Lord and being fervent in the Spirit." So he was intense. He

knew the scriptures. So you would say this is a man that is

genuinely called of God. He spoke and taught diligently the

things of the Lord, but he only understood the baptism of John.

So look at verse 26, it says, "And he began to speak boldly,

he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, who when Aquila and

Priscilla heard him, they took him to them," or they got

together with him, and expounded unto him the way of God more

perfectly. Keep reading. And it says, "And when he was disposed

to pass into Aquila, and the brethren wrote," or they wrote

the brethren there when he was going to that region, "exhorting

the disciples to receive him." Okay, they did not get on

Facebook and say, "Oh my goodness, he preached that. I

can't even believe he said that." They didn't do any of

that. They didn't get all up in arms because he was preaching

something that needed adjustment. They didn't get

themselves all in a knot and start having, you know, letter

wars. I don't know how they had, what was social media back then?

I guess maybe, you know, they wrote each other notes. I can't

believe you agreed with that guy. And then passed it, took

them to each other's houses. If this was today, come on, if this

was today, I mean Facebook would be exploding. I can't believe he

preached that. And, but it, this whole section here, when here

they had given him some instruction to develop his

revelation, they said, now you receive him. Now this is no

different than the book of Acts, Acts the 17th chapter. The Bible

says the Bereans were more noble than those that were in

Thessalonica. That's what the Scripture says, they were better

because they received the Word. They didn't criticize it out the

gate. And this is what is so important in discerning whether

it be the prophetic, whether it be preaching, whether it be a

message you heard online, whether it be somebody's book

that you read, to understand the genuine is you take the Word and

you pull it. It's like Brother Hagin used to say, sometimes

you're going to have to pull the meat off and spit some bones.

It's going to be like that. But that doesn't make the delivery

person a false minister or a false prophet or a false

teacher. There's so much more that goes into it. And I say

that because I watch people so much get up, up in arms over

this person and claim that revelation. They had that

vision. They had that dream. They had that prophecy. And

people are just like melting over. And I'm like, come on,

y'all. Are you like losing your salvation here? Are we that dumb

that we're all just like falling off the planet and shooting off

in a shoot straight to the gate of hell because somebody said

something that we didn't think was right? Okay, so this is

important. If we're going to make it in the last days, we

have to know how to navigate. Now, I'm going to give you the

stuff that will help put your guard up when you need to. But I

think some of the things I'll say in Christendom, we get way

too - and this is why the world capitalizes on our divisions.

Because we're so busy and ready to go and crucify somebody

because we didn't like something they said. And the next thing

you know, we got to make a post, and we got to write a book, and

we got to send it out. In fact, I heard somebody say, you

marinate on something before you go preach against it. And the

Bereans did that. It said, and they went back after they heard

the preaching that they didn't understand and they went back

after the preaching and they searched the scriptures daily to

see if these things be so. Now say, but Pastor Brenda, I hear

people say things that they're not in the Bible. Well, yeah,

God, there are things that aren't in the Bible. I'm going

to talk about that. There are things that are not in the Bible

that God does reveal. Okay. Those of you that are believing

God tonight for to get a new job, you know, God's not going

to walk up, you know, or God's not going to walk up and show

you a scripture. There's not a scripture in the Bible says, go

apply a Walmart. Right? I mean, come on now. So there are

revelations and things that we see. The Bible says in 1

Corinthians 13, we now, whether you be a prophet, a teacher, a

revelator, an intercessor, a person with the gift of the word

of knowledge, whatever gifting of the Holy Spirit you might

carry, all of us see the Bible says, "Through a glass darkly."

That's why sometimes prophets will get up, you know, the

apostle John, we still don't know what in the world he saw.

He thought it was grasshoppers. I've heard the best scholars

say, "I'm sure it was helicopters." Well, we don't

know that. We don't know that. But what we do know is as people

revelate, more than just the word itself, you cannot judge

false, except under certain circumstances, which I am gonna

cover tonight. I told you this was a long preaching. But you

cannot assess the true and the false, most of the time, based

on just the initial thing that you hear. Because we go through

a whole lot of things. Listen, I mean, I told, I've told this

story hundreds of times that I almost missed a powerful word by

a prophetic minister that called us out because I didn't like

that man's hair. I thought, you know, looking all crazy. It was

in his eyes and he was in flip-flops. And as far as I was

concerned at that time, you don't wear flip-flops to church.

I mean, I've reduced to tennis shoes, but it's okay. But in my

mind, shorts and flip-flops was not the way a guest speaker

ought to dress. And I thought, I can't. And one of the prophecies

he gave was, "You are going to pastor a church, son and

daughter. You're going to raise up this." I thought, he is a

fool. He has missed it. This was years before Lord of Hosts

Church. I thought, "We're never going to pastor a church." Be

careful what you say never to. So just because I didn't like

him, I was ready to call him out as an error. And we have to be

so careful. And now, of course, I know I harp all the time on

social media, but social media has enabled so much bad

behavior. It has just enabled us. It has enabled us to

criticize, speak out, post things, and write things, and

all of this that sometimes we don't take the time to first of

all get counsel. We're going to talk about that. We don't take

the time to get other input. We don't take the time to be like

the Bereans and search the scriptures daily. And sometimes

we don't just wait and let things marinate. Come on,

because you didn't agree with somebody, does that really mean,

I mean seriously, you think the whole body of Christ is gonna go

to hell over that one person that you have just got to get

out your statement? All right, don't shut me down because I'm

preaching good tonight. This is prophetic school, we're

teaching. This is a good place to take notes. Now, here is

where you immediately get up in arms. And I'm gonna talk about

the characteristics of the genuine. I wanna really get into

that tonight, 'cause I think it is very important that we look

at this. Now, realize you're gonna add to this revelation as

you get home. If you take time to study, you can go back in,

take the things that I've been sharing and build upon it,

'cause I have 45 minutes or so to go through all this. But I

encourage you, take the time, take the bones of what I'm

saying, and then go back and study it out. Now, here is where

our alerters on whether it's a prophet, a preacher, a pastor,

any of the fivefold gifts and a claimed apostle, the Bible, Paul

said that there's some that say they're apostles, they're not.

Any person, let's take it the next step, a YouTuber, a

blogger, come on, any one of these, here's where we are alert

should come in. Number one is when they start to tap on

denying the basic tenets. Say, "Pastor, what are the basic

tenets?" Well, you could look at all the basic tenets out there,

but I'm going to just give you the eight that I put together.

Some of these could be separated, but I want to make it

easy for you. These are the important things everybody

should understand and know. And when you see false that goes

against the basic tenets of the foundation of the root of our

Christian faith, then, and believe me, they come disguised.

They're more common than you think. So here they are. Just

note them, mark them, study them. In fact, this is your

homework. I guess in prophetic school we can give homework,

right? Pastor Keith, can we give homework in prophetic school?

This is your homework, is to go and study, 'cause I can't give

you all the scriptures that support it, but then you can go

look them up. Number one, here's the basic tenets. There is one

God, manifest in three persons. So now that's a big one that's

come up again, because people are all saying, oh, well,

there's many gods. And that was something you didn't hear a lot.

Now you're starting to hear that resurface again a lot more. That

goes against my basic tenets. There's one God in three, the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And one scripture for

that is 1 John 5:7. There's three. These three are one, the

1 John 5:7

Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Scripture's plastered

with it. That is a non-negotiable, non-changeable.

Yep, people are changing it now. Here's another one. So be

listening for these things. Number two, Jesus is the only

and first begotten Son of God, born of a virgin. And he came in

the flesh in human form. 1 John 4:1-2, "Beloved, don't

1 John 4:1–2

believe every spirit, but test them whether they're of God,

because many false prophets are gone in the world. Hereby you

will know the Spirit of God, that every spirit that confesses

that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." Now, let

me just clarify that. Just, there are a lot of false that

will say, "Oh no, Jesus is the only way," or "Jesus is,"

they'll say, "Jesus has come in the flesh." But the ones that

are held to the fact that Jesus came in the flesh as a human

being, He came in the flesh in human form, and hold to that,

it's hard to remain false when you hold to that principle. Now,

Mark, note that. It's very important. The third one, the

death. Oh, and interesting, let me say another thing on that

second one, that Jesus is being the Son of God. There's a load

of religions out there that secularism, humanism is

promoting right now that will say, well, Jesus wasn't the Son

of God, He was just a prophet. Okay, He was a good man. And

there are Christian groups that are just making Him out not to

be so much the Son of God, but some philanthropist somewhere.

So we've got to be, of all the things we need to look for right

now, come on, the basic tenets, these are the non-negotiables.

So Jesus is the only and first begotten, the reason it also

says in the New Testament, the first begotten, 'cause there

were many sons and daughters to come, that's you and I. Number

three, the death and physical bodily resurrection of Jesus

Christ, right? Romans 10:9, if you confess that Jesus is

Romans 10:9

Lord and that believe in your heart that God has raised him

from the dead, you shall be saved. Number four, salvation is

through Jesus Christ alone. We're seeing that come up again.

Jesus said, "I'm the door. I'm the way, I'm the truth." John

John 14:6

14:6 "I'm the life. No man comes to the father but by me." And

I'm telling you, the culture right now wants to press us on

that topic. Okay they want to press us on that. "What do you

mean? I mean, what a bigot you are for saying that there's

only, that Jesus is the only way. How dare you say that?"

Come on, this is, we're seeing this come up again and again.

They're hitting our children with it in the schools. So, know

your basic tenets. Again, you guys are going to look up other

scriptures to all these. This is your homework assignment.

You don't have to turn it in. You can

give yourself an A or an F. It's whatever you

want to do. Prophetic school, you get to grade

yourself. How's that? The fifth one is the Bible is the

inerrant and inspired Word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16, all

2 Timothy 3:16

scripture is given by inspiration of God and is

profitable for doctrine, instruction, reproof, correction

and instruction in righteousness. I said that

backwards. Instruction, correction and instruction in

righteousness. So people that deny the word. I would be wary

of being in any church where the pastor was barely opening the

Bible. Okay. I would. And a lot of them are doing it. They're

preaching movie themes and I'm not here to down on pastors, but

you can drive by churches and they'll be like the latest movie

that's out, they'll make sermons that match it. And I'm like,

again, I'm not here to say maybe that's all bad. Maybe there was

something in it, but I'm just going to say, I don't know. If I

want to see a movie, I'm going to go to the movie, but I want

to hear preaching that I can chew on. I want to hear

preaching that'll challenge me. I want to hear the word. I want

to grow in the scriptures. Come on. I want some Bible attached

to what I'm hearing. And so if a preacher can, and there's no

preacher that can give you enough scripture to satisfy your

life on a Sunday or a Wednesday, but I want to hear the word

coming out of my pastor's mouth. That's a fact. Come on, folks.

So there's a lot of that that's just kind of gone out the window

in the American church, that pastors are, you know, maybe

touching on a scripture. Now, just again, let's not get crazy

here because there are times you might hear someone get up and

the way the anointing is flowing, they're not going to

open to 15 verses. I've seen that. That's okay. But normally,

but that's how, how are they normally? That's what we want to

have. The Bible is the inerrant inspired word of God. And of

course people are trying to chop that apart, take it out. Some

translations leave parts off. I mean, it's, it's so all right.

Number six, we're born sinners. Salvation is by grace and not

works. Ephesians 2:8-9 says for by grace are you saved

Ephesians 2:8–9

through faith, not that of yourselves. It's the gift of

God, not of works as any man should boast. So everyone is

born in sin. We can't work our way to heaven. We couldn't do

enough good things, right, to work our way. There's whole

religions that teach that. You're going to rise the ladder,

and somehow you might make it to God and all of that. So that is

very important. You must know that. In fact, I would study the

grace teaching, because there's imbalances that have gone on

with that. But you know, you can do whatever and still be saved

by grace. Number seven, the second coming of Jesus Christ on

earth to reign. Acts 1:11, know this scripture. It says, "For

Acts 1:11

you men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing to heaven? The same

Jesus that was taken up shall come the same way he left."

Second coming of Jesus. And by the way, and that's a good

reason to go and read 2 Peter 2-3. It all talks about people

that deny the second coming. So you need to know about that.

Number eight, heaven. And here's a big one, folks. Heaven and

hell are real. And all of us will spend eternity in one or

the other. All right. I won't spend time giving you scriptures

on that, but those are the basics of the tenets. You can

break them out a little bit farther if you want to. Some

people make ten. But those are the non-negotiables. And I

listen, when I listen, when I'm hearing preaching, and

especially preaching and teaching, when I'm hearing these

things, I look for things that deny those. And if a pastor gets

up and I try to separate, I try to be careful, you know, are

they saying that out of just a lack of knowledge, or is there

an underlying intent to break the basic tenets of the faith?

So it's so important. And I would just say this, I think

it's really important for the body of Christ to be up in arms,

but not up in arms. Can I say that? Because if we're too up in

arms, we become critics. You know, and sadly, there are many,

and now with the internet, there are so many people that can sit

at home like armchair pastors, and just criticize everything,

and pick apart everything, and yet they couldn't do half the

things that that pastor is doing. So it's really important.

I don't mean to sound negative, but it's just necessary, because

the world is looking right now at how we're treating each

other. And we need to be united. We need to be on one front. We

need to have one mind. Come on, the scripture says one accord.

We need to be united together. And I have found out, listen,

I've served God for 40 years. There's very few people I've had

to just walk away from because they were so egregiously

erroneous. They started denying fact, pastor and I years ago got

connected to one minister that somebody had recommended. And in

the early, early years, we even had them in the church. And then

they started knocking on the door of hell is hell. Hell is

just a place where maybe you don't get to talk to God every

day. I'm like, check. So I listen for those things, okay?

And of course, they went right out down the road into

universalism teaching there is no literal hell. So it's

important, be alert in the last days. Be alert as you listen,

but don't ride around in the van or the wheels of criticism all

the time because you can get in one ditch or the other. So this

is very important and I'm just setting this up and taking my

time in it because I have watched in recent times where

there is so much bickering and fighting. I mean, somebody can't

say anything on the internet without somebody coming in with

a criticism. I mean, it's amazing. And the reason that, in

fact, in this church, the reason we will kill those comments,

well, you don't want anybody to disagree, no. This is a church

service. You come in here, I mean, to me, getting online and

criticizing the preaching or the singing or the prophesying or

somebody's hair and saying those kinds of things, that would get

you banned. Plain and simple. Because we ought to know how to

behave in the house of God. To me, it's no different when

somebody gets on and criticizes online, any different than

somebody stood up in the church while Pastor Anka's preaching

and heckled him in the middle of the service. There's people

online that are desperate. They need to hear. They're trying to

get a word from God. They're trying to connect to the

anointing. Some of them can't get in a church. And the last

thing they need to see is somebody getting on the internet

and being an armchair quarterback critic, preaching

and teaching and trying to be a preacher. I know it all on the

internet. All right. Glad I got that off my chest. No, it's just

wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Okay. We don't have to pretend

we all know it all. It's really important. All right. Let's talk

about ways to spot the genuine. I talked a little bit about the

false and the basic tenants. I felt like that was important to

give that to you. So, let me just say it this way. The first

and I think the foremost important thing on any preacher,

minister, prophesier, it's important in the church, let's

just say. Not just people that are in the pulpits or have a

YouTube channel, but I'm talking about as you know one another.

That the most important thing is knowing people's character. Now,

this does not get said. I know ministers that have been flogged

online, and yet they have better character than the people that

flogged them. More Christ-like behavior. Come on, things that

nobody thinks about. More forgiveness, more

love, more kind words. You know, and of course

our love is going to be one of the things that's going

to get us in big trouble. If we don't have it, right? So the

character of the person, now let me just make note of a couple of

things. This is too heavy tonight. Am I helping everybody?

I want our church to be sharp. I want us to be people that know

how to do it right. So here's what we know from the Bible,

that false prophets are not just measured alone by the accuracy

of their prophecies. Now we'll get to talking about accuracy in

a minute, but that's not the only reason, but there's a way

to judge them. Even though that's a role, that's important,

their genuineness is measured by their character. Now, here's the

thing, we can't always know everybody's character, come on,

you don't know everybody's darkest secrets, you don't know

everything about everybody. You probably could look around this

room and don't even know what flavor toothpaste most people

like. You probably, people that you think you know well, you

probably, there's lots of things about them you don't know that

well. But there are certain character traits that do start

to come out as you build acquaintances. So as we listen

to preaching, as we listen to somebody with a YouTube,

somebody with a Facebook page, because goodness, I mean,

information is just coming at us at a record rate. I mean, it's

like a fire hose of stuff, just, you know, and sometimes you

don't have time to pause and think about it. And I'm learning

more and more. I pause and think about it. I'm not going to just

like something until I let it marinate. Okay. Steaks are

always better if you marinate them first. Isn't that right,

Pastor Shane? Or ribs or whatever else. Sometimes there

is value to the marinating. Just because they're your friend on

Facebook doesn't mean you have to like their post. They'll get

over it. If they don't, then there's unfriending them. You

can unfriend them then. But we need to be able to look at the

character of things and sometimes let it marinate a bit,

not just jump to conclusions. And this is so, so very

important. Now Pastor Brenda, how then can you know the

character of people, right? How can you know the character of

people like on the internet? Because internet ministry is a

real thing now. And there's a lot of people to listen to and a

lot of good people. Let's not, there's so many good people to

listen to and you should follow their pages and let that feed

your spirit. I mean, my goodness, how much better it is

to listen to some preaching pages and some of these stupid

things with these media outlets that do nothing but fire out

propaganda. So it's a good thing. It's a good thing that we

have all that coming to us and at us and the availability to

minister to people via the internet. It's all good. But

here is how you look at character, because you're never

going to know that person personally, probably through the

camera lens, right? Okay. You know, Pastor and I would love to

meet everybody that's online, but it's impossible. We can

barely meet the people right in here. Like 20 minutes, okay,

church is over. Hi guys. And we run out and come back and do the

11:30. It's very difficult. It's very difficult for some of you

to meet people that are sit, that always sit on this side on

a Sunday. From the ones that are set on the north side. Okay. And

people believe me, most of the time they're pretty set on their

chairs. I can look out every Sunday and I always know Bernice

is right nearby. So, it's a fact, right? So, here's the

thing. How do you get to know people's character? Because

there's a consistency that's developed. And this is very

important. As you listen to different preachers, as you

listen to people, look for the consistency and reliability of

their character. Character issues, if they're in there,

will eventually come out. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of a

person's heart, their mouth is eventually gonna talk," or

they're gonna do things. You're gonna start to see things,

right, that are gonna come out in a person's character. Yeah,

you may not get to know them personally, but if you listen to

them enough, you're gonna understand their message, okay?

Most people understand Pastor Hank's core message, okay?

People know that. It's prophetic, right? He'll preach

prophecy, okay? Listen, that's just gonna be the way he's gonna

roll. It's like Kenneth E. Hagen used to say, "No matter what

subject I try to preach, it always comes back to faith and

healing 'cause I just can't help it. That's who I am. It's what

comes out of me." That's why we do have many different voices.

It's why we have different types of prophets. It's why we have

different kinds of teachers and pastors so we can get a full

measure of what we understand. But look for their character,

okay? Look for their integrity. After you listen to somebody

long enough, you can start to see their intention and their

heart. And this is so necessary, okay? This is important. I mean,

that's always our prayer here at Lord of Hosts. So we want people

to see the character of the Kunnemans, that we do things as

uprightly as we know how to do, that we will get our heart right

if we have to. We will manage money correctly. In fact, that's

one of the signs of the false prophets, they mishandle money.

You know how many Christians probably do mishandle money and

just nobody knows, okay? We worked very hard to handle the

money of this house with impeccable integrity, with

auditing, outside firms, we worked very hard. It's important

that you get to know the character of the person that you

listen to. It's impeccable. 'Cause if there's a bend inside

of them that's deceptive, it's gonna start to arise and you'll

know it. And listen, you have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit

in you is gonna teach you. That's what the Bible says in 1

John. It says, "The Spirit within us will teach us all

things." So you'll listen to 'em long enough. In fact, I can tell

you a good story about this. There was this person that we

knew years ago. And they invited me to come to this women's

conference just to attend it. I wasn't preaching there. And it

was a pretty big group of people. And I went up there all

by myself. I drove and went to this. I told pastor, you know,

now he'd never even let me do that now. And I'm like, why? You

think I'm going to get lost or drive in the wrong street? I

don't know. He tells scary stories about it. But I got

there. And I went to this meeting. And the preacher at the

time, not the person that invited me, but it was another

person that was preaching that night, preached something that

it really did great against the Word. How many of you ever been

in a room like that? Now, listen, there is full liberty.

If you hear something preached, you don't have to stand and

shout an amen to it if you're not sure about it. Doesn't mean

it's necessarily wrong, okay? Sometimes you just gotta go home

and study, okay? I've had that many times. I've heard that a

lot. Sometimes like, "Man, I never heard that before." I

mean, really, do we really think we come to church and we've

heard everything there is? No. So I heard what this person said

and I'm like, "Man, that's, I'm not sure about that." And of

course the whole place is standing up and just screaming.

I mean, they're shouting. I was kind of in the back and I,

because I was a little bit late, but I got in there in the back

and I'm sitting in there and the whole place is just shouting and

they're screaming, this person is saying this and I'm thinking,

Lord, I don't know about that. I just don't know about that, I'm

not sure. And it just kind of goes against something that I

think that I knew. And so I felt a little uncomfortable to just

get in agreement with it. But then the more I began to listen

to that person, I'd watch their character, I watched their

associations, 'cause that's another thing, you know, you

don't need somebody, we'll talk about accountability, Pastor hit

on this so well a few weeks back, but you don't need

somebody that is a lone ranger maverick, that it's their way or

no way. And so I watched this person and watched who they

communicated with and then it began to just let me know, okay,

well maybe that was just a development spot for them. We

have to be very good at this in this hour. And realize folks,

when people get out there on the internet, most people don't know

half of what goes on behind the scenes. It's very important. So

character is, it must abound in folks. Anybody can be

well-spoken. Okay, there are, in fact, the Bible says, that

scripture we just read, that some of the false are the most,

they're best spoken. There could be some of the most, I mean,

amazingly spoken. Think about all of the prophetic people that

you've heard, and you've heard of them over the years, who sat

there and phonied prophecies, looked people up on the internet

and found their name and then pretended they had a word from

God. Okay, their character, character becomes important. And

believe me, if you watch somebody long enough, this is

why I kind of say, don't just listen to everybody. Get some

people that you're connected to and you listen to them. I had

one lady say, and I don't mean to quote Brother Hagin a lot

because he certainly isn't the only minister we've always

listened to, but I kind of cut my teeth listening and reading

his books, but I heard a person one time, I said, "You know, who

do you really listen to?" And she named him. This is a woman

pastor. She named him. And I thought to myself, "Well, I

mean, that seemed a little close that that's the only name that

you can name." That's what I thought to myself, but then I

thought it's kind of good that we kind of just we hone in with

a few key voices that we have built trust and we know their

character. This is so important. So character is just as

important as accuracy, right? Okay. Secondly, the

accountability, and so I'll just say this, it takes time to

ascertain that. Did I make that point clear? All right. So the

number two, the accountability of the messenger, and I think I

already just hit on that a little bit. Christianity, and

this is important because we're all gathered in this room

tonight, Christianity carries with it a sense of community,

okay, where we need each other. We build off of each other.

That's why the Bible says iron sharpens iron. We need one

another. Where none of us can survive as these loners

somewhere. Okay, you can't do it. I mean, you go through

something, I watch how the body of Christ rallies behind people.

And so the church, you think about the early church when they

were persecuted in Acts, the fourth chapter, remember that

they were persecuted. And the scripture says they went back to

their, their company, they went back to their people, they got

back with their group. This is why the local church is still

one of the safest places you can be in the end times. Because

it's not just about coming up and hearing Pastor Hank preach

on a Sunday. And hearing some music. It's also about rubbing

shoulders with each other. There are many layers of

accountability. We think of accountability as this like

negative word, like there's some ruler that we're accountable to.

And that's the farthest thing of what it should be. Really

accountability is I come to church. I make my, I build

relationships so that people, when I'm going through

something, there's other people in the world that know my

situation. And they can pray for me. They can help me. They also

might get in my face and go, "Stop." But aren't you glad for

that? Because that's the stuff that keeps us from going to

hell, people. Amen. Sometimes you just need somebody to get

and go, you know, settle down. Okay? And it's not just, we make

accountability about some authoritative overseer, when

really accountability is multi-layered. Okay? You become

accountable just by sitting in the seat next to people every

week. Think about that. We all need it, every one of us,

because it brings checks and balances to our life. You know

Pastor Hank, what I love about him, he's far more relational

than I am. And he has how many people, you know we have a

number of board members at the church, and people that he is in

relationship with, one of those is Pastor Gene Bailey, they're

very close. And if you're listening tonight guys, I said

that. In fact, you'll hear Pastor Gene say, "My very best

friend is Pastor Hank Kunneman." And they're very close. They

talk most every day. There are a few seasons in there after

opening the heavens and they were on the road, we're all like

nobody getting on the phone. But you know, but they talk a lot.

And Pastor Hank loves those accountability discussions. He

will ask people, "How did you like what I said? Is there

anything I need to change?" Now people don't see him do that.

They see his bold way and believe me, he is a steamroller

for what he knows to be right. But I've also watched a man who

will let people speak into him and he will change. And I'm

like, honey, you are very good at that. I need to grow. I need

to grow. We all need that. Iron sharpens our accountability. And

so look for people that you listen to who have that. Now,

whether it be the checks and balances of the church as an

institution, that's important, right? The church ought to

have... Some churches, I'm not being critical, they're just run

like sorry ships. It's terrible, okay? There's not

accountability. It was like Pastor Hanks said when he first

started in the prophetic, somebody invited him to this

little church and he went in there. I'm at the back and there

might've been 20 or 30 people in this little prophetic meeting

and they decide to do the offering. And the preacher gets

up and said, there's 20 people that are gonna give $100. He's

looking around, he's like, there are 20 people in here. And so,

you know, under compulsion, all of those people are pressured

until they're, I'll give the next, they don't wanna be the

guy that says no, and I'll be the next, and then it got down

to 19, and he's like, there's one more person that's gonna

give $100, and he was like, well, I didn't even have $4, so

he goes, I'm outta here. He went out the back door, he said, I

didn't know what to do, but I didn't have $100, I couldn't

commit to $100, I couldn't even pledge $100, I wasn't gonna be

able to give $100 in any time now or in the future that I knew

of. So he said, I just had to slip out. Now, come on, that's

sorry run, okay? Those are the kind of churches nobody ought to

go to, okay? And so accountability is very, very

important. So I think I exhausted that enough. So

genuine prophets, teachers, preachers, prophetic people will

make themselves accountable to somebody else besides

themselves. And I will say this, let me just say this last part I

told you this was going to be a long-winded message. But it's

good because I really want to break all this down for you.

This is prophetic school. That's why we do this Come on, this is

living room talk. This is chalk talk This is where we just get

down in the weeds and we go through some of these things

because these are things that people think It's just nobody

wants to bring it up in the pulpit. So we're gonna bring it

up in the ball, but let's just do it But accountability is a

community, it's multi-layered, it's multi-faceted. I forgot

what I was gonna say about that. Is, oh, we should want to be

around preachers and people that reflect that sense of wanting to

be accountable. And that is so important. I say that because in

the prophetic, people don't like the word accountability

especially, 'cause they feel they've heard from God. And

nobody wants to be questioned when they feel they've heard

from God. So we have to, if we're gonna be prophetic people,

come on, prophesiers out there, those of you online, if you're a

person that prophesies or you're prone to prophecy, 'cause some

people are just prone to prophesy. Okay, I'm not as prone

to prophesy as my husband is prone to prophesy. I mean, he'll

just walk up to people and prophesy. I'm like, how do you

do that? How do you do that? He doesn't always make it sound

like a prophecy, but it's a prophecy. And he'll prophesy to

them. It just comes out. Some of you are like that. I know I'm

seeing some of your faces. I know there's some of you that

are prone like that to prophesying. And so what we have

to know is that we even, the ones that are prone to prophesy,

I have to even want to be more accountable. You've got to let

people scrutinize your prophetic. Genuine prophets will

not mind being scrutinized by people that have earned the

right, this is important, earned the right to scrutinize them. We

don't scrutinize everybody. Pastor Hank doesn't go out and

just scrutinize somebody and call them on the phone, they're

minister, I've never met you, but I didn't like what you said

on YouTube. We don't do that. They've earned the right. Nathan

the prophet earned the right in David's life to say you're the

man. He earned it. He wasn't a stranger to David, he knew him.

Okay, there was a relationship there. Okay, number three,

enough about accountability. Did I say, I think I did the best I

could on that one. Number three, the message and prophetic words

should be able to be submitted or judged or scrutinized. Let me

read this scripture to you. 1 Corinthians 14:29-32.

1 Corinthians 14:29–32

Let the prophet speak two or three, so many things we could

preach on this, but and let the other one judge or let other

prophets judge it. Okay, it's not to be critical. It says, and

if anything be revealed that one or anything be revealed to

another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. Now what

he's saying is, it's not to be chaos of interrupting each

other. What it's talking about is be willing, be willing to be

submissive to other people in the room. It's really important.

242, this is even more important in a small group, because you'll

ruin the night. If you're the person that your jaw's always

got to be flapping the whole night. You'll ruin it, you'll

ruin it. You'll ruin it for the leader, you'll ruin it for the

people, right? You should always be submitted to the person in

charge of the group that night. Come on, they planned the

message, they got the authority, they bought the cookies, they

did all the, they cleaned their house. I mean, think about that.

People come into a home group and they didn't even do

anything, they just came in to keep talking. Yet that person

came, they cleaned the house, got a sitter for the kids, came

and made a meal and invited people over, and then somebody

just takes over. Okay, this is what this scripture is talking

about. It's talking about have a submitted way. Allow others to

counter you if need be. Husbands and wives, counter each other.

It's good, it's healthy. You know, just don't fight. Okay,

you can counter one another. Pastor and I do it all the time.

What do you think about this? And we're honest. Eh, I'm gonna

stretch that. I heard Marilyn Hickey say one time, somebody

asked her, they said, Marilyn, I've got this word I've been

really working on, and how does it sound to you? And she'd go,

hmm, well, it might be a little windy yet. You know, the Bible

talks about windy doctrine. I think you need to rein the wind

back in just a little bit. We all need it. Come on, every one

of us needs it. Okay, we need to be as submitted as we are

critical. We need to be as teachable as we are big mouths,

all of us, every single one of us. If we do, I'm telling you,

we would grow. Amen. All right, next one, next one, Rick. All

right, we could go on and on about that. Let's see, number

two, number three. Oh, scrutiny is different than criticism,

okay? Can I just say it like that? Learn to scrutinize

yourself, right? Remember, if you point the finger, how many

are pointing back? All good. It's very necessary. That's why,

I don't know, I did see a meme one time on Facebook and it said

this. it says when you type out your whole comment and the Holy

Spirit goes delete. Just remember that sometimes the Holy

Spirit will say do not post that. Do not write that in the

comments. Stop. I've had to grow in that myself. All right. I'm

just submitting that to you. Number four, prophetic words

should be uplifting, for the most part encouraging. 1

1 Corinthians 14:3

Corinthians 14:3 says, "But the one who prophesies

strengthens the others "and encourages them and comforts

them." That's the new living. So when you're prophesying, really

the majority of the prophetic is not to find out the skinny on

people, it's not to get in their business, and I had a dream and

this happened, and then there's negative in there. It's really,

that is not the front run of the prophetic. The front run of the

prophetic is to strengthen somebody, not make them feel

like, you know, they're worse than, you know, I mean, worse

than everything. That's not the point. It's to strengthen and

uplift people. People, if you're prophesying to one another, you

should prophesy in such a way that it's there to make that

person run with the wind at their back. Amen. Strengthen

each other. And then it says, and encourages one another.

Okay. You should, you should be able to walk away with

encouragement. Very few prophetic words that I have

watched Pastor Hank deliver over the years. I believe me, we've

traveled in stadiums, in conferences, preaching. I mean,

the Mid-America Center was not our

first arena. We went all over Latin America

for a decade. Preaching and preaching. And I only

recall in probably 30 years, one time he gave a word

of warning publicly to somebody. And that person was about to

split that church. And it was, and the pastor was like, Oh my

God, thank you. I couldn't go to that person. I tried, I did

everything. They've caused me so many problems. And I believe

that was a last ditch to save their life. But He has always

uplifted people. Listen, there's times that you can see things

about people, but you don't go call it out. You come on, you

can code it. The Lord says, you know, it's time to turn your

back on some stuff. You're not just say, you know, you fouled

this and you did that and call. You don't have to. It should

encourage. Okay? And most of the time you hear pastor and I will

do it like that. Come on. What sounds general to the audience

sometimes is very specific to the recipient. They know what

you're saying and to comfort them. Come on, the prophetic

ought to give people hope. That's what I love about the way

pastor, come on, he prophesied risky things up in here. He'll

prophesy risky. He'll take risks to give people hope and to give

them comfort so that they walk away going, "Come on, God,

you're not done with this nation. You're not done with

America. Come on, the body of Christ. We still have a harvest.

There's a harvest that's coming. A harvest of souls. There's

still something good happening." That's what I love that he does

that on Flashpoint. He's like, "Always brings the hope." I love

you for it, honey. It's awesome. So, prophetic should uplift.

Look for that. All right. What are we on? All right. Very

quick. Three minutes. I can do it in three minutes. Here's

another one that's so important. And there's so many things that

I could say about uplifting and encouraging. Oh, my goodness.

There's scriptures on that. We could talk about the disciples

that ministered to Paul that he shouldn't go to Jerusalem. But

anyway, you can read it. They did that, by the way, in a

group. It wasn't one person going, "Don't go to Jerusalem."

Okay? Only Agabus, a seasoned prophet, did that, by the way.

Number five, a messenger, all messengers, whether you are a

242 person, we call them a lay person, a person in the church,

a greeter, a prophet, a minister, an apostle, any

person, every single Christian ought to have a well polite

manner about them. I don't know what it is about prophetic

people that think they've got to be some, they're, you know, it's

crazy. It's crazy. I mean, it's, it's a turnoff to be honest. And

I talked about that last week, getting right in people's face

and cornering them and they can smell your breath and you didn't

have, you didn't brush your teeth on the way and it's

terrifying. And I mean, I'll be honest, it just gives the

prophetic a bad name. It gives church a bad name. Think about

that, you know, and there's people that have no discipline

whatsoever. They will go up to a brand new visitor that's never

been to the church before. And the greeters have worked hard.

They're out there trying to meet people, get to know them, love

on them, let them know where the bathroom is. I mean, some people

just wanna know where the bathroom is. They don't wanna be

cornered and told all their secrets. Yeah. So well-mannered,

I mean, speaking in an orderly manner. I mean, just polite. Can

we all just, can we just do that? Can we just, and you guys

are all so good, but I'm preaching to more than just

everybody in here. Can we just all be polite? Can we all be

polite? Can we be polite in the church? Can we be polite on the

internet? Can we be, you know what people say about, I know

I'm talking a lot about Pastor Hank tonight because I can,

'cause he's not here. And so then you can tell him all the

things I said if he didn't see it tonight. But you know what

they'll say, Pastor Hank, wherever, where you go on the

road, you just don't carry yourself like you're anybody

important. You're out there like making jokes with the guy that's

cleaning the tables. You're hanging out with the cooks.

You're like out in the back just saying howdy do to the person

that's like doing the hair and the makeup. And you're in the

back corner saying, I mean, he'll go to all these big events

and he's, I mean, yeah, he'll get in and talk with some of the

ministers and different things and share and get in

conversations, but he's out there reaching everybody. You

know, I mean, I watched him at Mid

-America Center, all the people that worked for the Mid-America

Center, here he was walking out, "How you doing?" I know, we kept

you up late. How are you? You doing all right? You doing good?

Patting them on the back, meeting their name, getting to

know them. And I know many of you do that, but that is how the

body of Christ ought to be. And if we're prophetic, we need to

even be more that way. We don't have to be weird to prophesy.

Okay? Some people are more demonstrative than others, but

that doesn't mean that we have to try to prove something. We

should be the most well-behaved, well-mannered people on the face

of the planet in the body of Christ. It ought to be the best

place for people to come on any given time we gather. Come on,

somebody. All right, last one. I'm closing with this. Now we'll

talk about accuracy, because I know you were waiting for me to

say it and you thought I might forget. So here's the thing. Are

you getting anything out of this? Am I helping you? Oh,

good. Cause I want everybody around the world that's watching

to hear some of this. Cause I think we ought to grow. I tell

you, I'm just going to say it like this. It discourages my

heart a little bit when I watched the world, who's got an

evil, evil message. Okay. Evil. Okay. And, and, and they are

united on their message. Yeah, they get in killing each other.

We know all those scriptures, but they're, they're united on,

on evil. Okay. I've watched them be one force to promote

abortion. And yet Christians can't even get in alignment.

I've watched them be one force to promote transgender ideology.

And you got Christians that will sit on the sideline and go,

well, we shouldn't say anything. You know, we can't, we got to

get an agreement. So accuracy, accuracy. Let me close with

this. You can stand. I can say this last one so short, you

won't mind standing. Accuracy, this is Jeremiah 28:9.

Jeremiah 28:9

It says, "The prophet that prophesies peace," in other

words, he has a good word. It's an encouraging word. "When the

word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet

be known or acknowledged. It'll be known of that prophet that

the Lord has sent him." In other words, there was an accuracy.

His words came to pass. Does that mean that any prophetic

person can't ever miss God? Absolutely not. I mean, anybody

can miss God, okay? Anybody can do that. We can all miss God.

The key is, is the general, same way with character, their words

in general should come to pass. That's the key. I mean, after a

while, you listen to somebody and everything, 80% of what

they're saying, it just ain't happening. Unsubscribed from

their channel. There should be a general accuracy to the

prophetic. There should be a general, and it's the same.

There should be a general accuracy. When I get up here and

teach the Bible, there should be a general accuracy in what I

have to say. Okay, does it mean that I'll always say everything

the right way? No, 'cause I'm growing just like all of us. And

it's the same way in the prophetic. And I will say it

like this, because one false prophecy doesn't make a person

false. Otherwise we ought to throw prophecy completely out.

And it's amazing, people will point to somebody else and say,

"Oh, that person missed it. Oh, that person shouldn't have

shared that vision. And that vision was kind of crazy. I

didn't agree with it. Yet, they would afford themselves the same

right to grow in their revelations and their visions.

Amen. Am I helping you? So I think it's very important. The

general consensus is a person should always be accurate. I

love pastor because he works very hard to be accurate and

take risks. And I would tell you, I have watched his words

come to pass, people. I'm telling you. And he's not the

only one. There's so many out there that you can trust 'cause

man, they're happening. But accuracy can't be the only judge

because there's a lot of false prophet. Listen, Balaam was an

accurate false prophet. Okay, so that cannot be the only judge.

That's why God taught him. He said, I'm closing my Bible now.

He told him, he said, the way you judge them, you better know,

mix character with their accuracy, 'cause you need both.

There's a lot of good preachers that can preach up a storm, but

they have no character to speak of. They live dirty lives in

secret, and yet they could preach up a word. I mean, they

can be just. So accuracy is not enough. It has to be mixed with

the other areas. And if you get that, and they are accurate, you

probably got a good vessel. It's probably genuine. And that's

what we're looking for. But don't get up in arms. Don't be,

just be discerning. There's a difference. I'll say this, last

statement. There's a difference between being discerning and

suspicious. And what I would do is I would avoid all the mayhem

out there of all the people that want to take shots at other

people and just hang back. Listen, the best thing I could

do is know for myself if something's wrong or right. I

don't need to prove that I think it's wrong or right to 18, 20,

30, 3000 other people, okay? I've watched articles get

written in recent times by the secular newspapers at the

fighting of the body of Christ. Nothing is more grievous, but we

can be accurate and genuine and still stay in the right spirit.

And that's what I want because God is using prophets now. God

is using it. We need the prophetic. God saves nations

through the prophetic voice and we need it. Lift your hands to

heaven. Say this, say, Lord, I'm gonna be one of the accurate

ones. I'm gonna have the right character, the right attitude.

Help me to discern things right, Lord. In this prophetic season,

I want to be one of the vessels that you can use for this time

in history. Amen. Did you get something out of that? All

right. Go home. Do your homework. Look up all those

scriptures, and we will see you on Sunday. I love you guys.

We'll talk soon. Bye bye, internet.

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