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We've got about a minute more before we're going to start.

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Just a heads up, if everyone could make their way back to their seats, find their seats

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so we can start right on time, we'd appreciate that.

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So go ahead and find your seats and we'll start in just about one minute.

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All right, everyone, welcome back, go ahead and grab your seats, those of you joining us online,

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if you're listening, you can go ahead and run back into the room.

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I do want to say hi to one of my friends online, Kath Walden.

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Kath, it is so good to see you.

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I've seen you on the screen here.

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And for all of you in the room, you may not know Kath, but Kath has been joining us.

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It seems like every conference, every Sunday morning, she is online audience.

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She is one of our faithful, faithful family members.

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And this lady, she's a little more seasoned, Kath, and I hope I can say that to you.

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But Kath is probably the youngest at heart of all of our people.

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She is so passionate.

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She is so hungry.

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And I love the fact that she is a consummate learner.

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And I would hope that all of us would have that kind of attitude and wouldn't actually take distance as a limitation.

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And she has grabbed onto something.

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She's done our online school of ministry as well.

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And she is just an amazing woman.

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Kath, I love you.

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It's good to see you.

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And yeah, give it up for Kath.

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That's good.

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She deserves praise.

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Well, we get to hear from the one and only Chris Vallotton again, and we're really excited about that.

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Will you stand and welcome Chris as he comes to share with us?

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Thank you.

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I want to say I have a cold.

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So I got a cold like three days before I got here.

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I got a head cold.

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So I've been, thank you.

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Be healed.

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Yes, I receive it.

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Yeah, I took a COVID test.

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So I have some other kind of crud besides COVID, I guess.

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Yeah, it was negative.

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Yeah, I took a test.

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It was positive, but I decided I'd share the glory with you.

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Anyway, yesterday, this morning, I woke up and Kathy's like, hey, when you like use your handkerchief, don't take it out of your front part because we can see your belly button.

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So she told me that this morning.

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So I thought, well, you get a certain age and it doesn't really matter.

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You know, my grandfather used to wear coveralls when he was old and he didn't wear underwear.

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You're like, how do you know that?

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Because he didn't button the buttons on the sides.

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So I thought to myself, maybe I'm maybe I'm just getting to that age where it doesn't really matter.

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You know, I don't know.

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I hope not.

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And so, well, we should probably pray on that note.

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Oh, you want to?

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Yeah, bring those.

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Thank you.

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Kimberly is also single.

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Hey, I want to tell you something, like three of my PAs, I got married this way.

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So now they all want to be my PA.

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Like, I don't have to pay them.

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They're like, I'll be your PA.

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That's not why she works for me, but she doesn't know it.

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But that's why the Lord wants her to work for me.

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So I love to give away these books.

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So this is.

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riches and wealth, moving from a life of lack into true kingdom abundance. And this is actually about,

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I think Bethel has been accused of the prosperity gospel for years.

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You know, how many know that if you don't like prosperity, you're not going to like heaven?

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It's gold streets and pearl gates. And if prosperity, if wealth was inherently evil,

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would Jesus describe heaven as gold streets and pearl gates? I'm saying if it was inherently evil.

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So, you know, and people say things like, well, wealth has nothing to do with your relationship

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with God. And I would say, I understand what we mean by that, because we have very wealthy people

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who apparently don't know God. I mean, I don't judge anybody's relationship.

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But I think we all know people that don't know God and who are wealthy. So we say,

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well, obviously, just because you're wealthy doesn't mean you have a relationship with God.

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And we all know people who have no, they have no money, and they have a wonderful relationship

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with God. So when we look at it like that, we're like, yeah, I get, I get what we're trying to say.

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But the part that I think has been negative in the church is that oftentimes, wealth is directly

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connected to God. And the book goes through like seven or eight people that God said to Abraham,

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I'm going to make you wealthy. And God made him wealthy. And Solomon, and God made him wealthy.

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And Isaac, God made him wealthy. And then I'll say the Jewish people are still enjoying

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a level of wealth that no other ethnic group in my mind, you know, a broad stroke wise,

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because God said to them, Deuteronomy 818, I'm going to give you the power to make wealth that

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I would confirm my covenant with you. And Jewish people, like if you meet a Jewish person, I hope

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to sound like it could, you know, my heart. I mean, when you meet a Jewish person who's poor,

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it sort of surprises you. Right? Because there is something in the DNA of most Jewish people.

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I know I'm stereotyping a little bit. But my point really is that God made many people wealthy,

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and it was directly tied to the relationship with God. In the case of Jewish people, it was directly

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tied to their relationship with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And even when they don't know the Lord,

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they still carry this gift from, as we've been teaching, the gift and callings of God are

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irrevocable. So anyway, this is about poverty versus wealth. And you want to give that to

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someone? Yeah, maybe a guy you'd like to date would be good. Now, I guarantee she'll give it

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to a girl. I guarantee it. Told you. Predictable. I won't do that again. This is called Fashion to

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Reign, Empowering Women to Fulfill Their Divine Destiny. And this is actually, well, I think it's

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a good book. I wrote it. Yeah, I'm going to write a book on humility, too. How I became humble. I

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can't find anybody who's qualified to write the full word, so I'll probably write that, too.

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But this book is actually about empowering women, and it actually deals with the scriptures

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that seem to be disempowering with women. So the middle part of the book has a lot of

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theology in it. But it's a true accusation against the church that women can go out

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in the world and be a queen, a king, a president, a prime minister, but they can't be an elder in the

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church. And it's honestly a big misunderstanding in scripture. Because in the Old Testament,

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which was, you know, Hebrews, well, let me just say this. The Hebrew writer says that the New Testament

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is a better covenant, and that the Old Covenant actually, you know, was actually fulfilled.

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And so a better covenant means a better covenant for everyone, right? Not just for men.

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And why is it that a woman could be a queen in the Old Testament, but she can't be an elder in

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the New Testament? That feels more restrictive. And I believe that the blood of Jesus set everyone

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free, including creation, into the divine destiny. So this is a really good book. I'd like to give

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this to a woman. Your husband's with you, and he's oppressing you.

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And the last book, we just, this book is the latest book to come out, Spiritual Intelligence.

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And you know about IQ, and now we have EQ, emotional quotient, emotional intelligence.

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But I think that what the Bible actually teaches is a third dimension of thinking. In fact,

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Paul said, be renewed in the spirit of your mind. And I think that most Christians don't realize

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that you're the only creature on the planet that thinks tri-dimensionally. And you have

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access to the Google of God.

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Like the Google, like you have access

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to actually the thoughts of God.

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So you don't just think like Jesus,

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you can actually have access to what Jesus is thinking.

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And so this really good book,

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we also have a course that we just did.

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I don't know how many people we had in it,

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hundreds of people.

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And Dano and this team teaches in the course.

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And yeah, so it's a great course.

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Why don't you give that to someone?

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You pick whoever you think you might wanna give it to.

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Okay.

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Let's pray.

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Holy Spirit, thank you for what you've done for us already.

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And we ask for your leading in this next hour

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that we would literally share things

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that people need to hear.

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And that you would open up revelation

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and that each truth that we share would be a seed

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that opens up into other new things.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Could you give me that tea?

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I don't know where it went.

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It's behind there.

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I wanna talk about two things.

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So my subjects are in chapter seven and eight.

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You have a prophetic manual.

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So we're gonna talk about, thank you very much Ben.

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We're gonna talk about prophetic etiquette

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and we're gonna talk about false prophets.

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Prophetic etiquette and false prophets.

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And I think there was some of this prophetic etiquette

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probably already been shared in some ways.

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But in 1 Samuel 28, the first thing I wanna talk about

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is that you can make things happen in the spirit

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that God doesn't intend.

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And let me give you the examples in 1 Samuel 28,

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where Saul, King Saul, who is now out of relationship

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with God, goes to the witch of Endor.

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And he actually asks her, he disguises himself,

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because when Saul was right with God,

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he actually made witchcraft illegal,

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which it obviously is in the book of Leviticus.

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But and cauldron up the dead in Leviticus

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is actually against an assault against God.

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It's called an abomination actually.

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And if you need a verse for that, it's Leviticus 19 31.

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So Saul disguised himself, goes to the witch of Endor

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because Samuel has died and he has no connection with God.

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And much like Dana was talking about,

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his relationship with God ended up being through,

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like he didn't have a relationship with God

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towards the end of his life.

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And so when Samuel died, he lost his connection to God.

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So he goes to the witch of Endor and he asked her,

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and she doesn't know he's the king,

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and he asked her if he could speak to Samuel.

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And she cauldrons up Samuel.

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Now, I've heard lots of commentary on it,

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but let me just say exactly what the Bible says.

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Because people say, well, that was a demon.

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But the Bible actually says

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that Samuel came up from the dead.

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The Bible doesn't say it was a witch.

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He says Samuel came up from the dead

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and Samuel interacted with Saul,

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basically said, the Lord has cut you off.

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And he didn't have a good word.

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But Old Covenant, right?

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Thankfully, we're in a new one.

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My point would be that even though God,

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even though God did not want Samuel to come up from the dead,

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the witch of Endor was actually able to cauldron him up.

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Why am I using it, what does that have to do with us?

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Just because you can make things happen in the spirit

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doesn't mean God wants you to.

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You know, God could give you a gift.

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Let's talk about a natural gift

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because the Bible says all gifts, all gifts come from God.

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He could give you the gift to sing

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and you could sing about the devil.

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God didn't want you to sing about the devil,

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he gave you a gift.

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We should understand that God is in charge

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but he's not in control.

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This is a very, every time, if I put this on,

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every time I put this on any social page,

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it creates some of the most feedback, negative feedback.

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Well, that's not true, God's in charge of,

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God's in control of everything.

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God's ultimately in control of everything.

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But how many understand that if God was in control,

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there would be no murder, there'd be no molestation,

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there'd be, and we can go on.

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People ask questions like, if God's good,

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then why does he let these things happen?

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Because love, God is love and God wants also to be loved

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and God can, he could program you to like him

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but love requires free will

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and free will means you can make a choice.

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Remember, God planted two trees in the garden,

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have you ever thought about that?

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Why did God plant, I mean, obviously the devil,

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talked Eve, deceived Eve and Adam

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into eating the second tree that God said, don't eat.

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But how many understand God's the one who planted them?

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Have you ever thought of that?

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Yes, Chris, we have.

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No, Chris, we haven't.

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Okay, I'm teaching you how to feed back.

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This is day two, like a little bit of feedback,

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like even this is good or thumbs up or down

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or not the middle finger,

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we don't like to do that here at all.

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We don't do that in the kingdom, those kind of gestures.

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Thank you.

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The point is, is that the only way,

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you know, God is the God of reward, right?

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He says he's coming back and his reward is with him.

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The only way you can get a reward for doing the right thing

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is to have the opportunity to do the wrong one.

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So just because there's a door open,

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doesn't mean you should go through it.

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Have you ever noticed, I'm way off subject.

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I'm way off subject, I'll get there though,

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because I got notes right here, I'll get back.

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Have you ever noticed when you ask God for something like,

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let's say he tells you to leave your business

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and go do this other thing.

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By the way, I think business is ministry.

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So I think when you leave your business,

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you're not leaving the ministry to do something else.

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like we left our business to come here

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and people are like,

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how did it feel to go from business to ministry?

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I'm like, I didn't go from business to ministry,

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I went from ministry to ministry.

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But have you ever noticed when you decide

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to give up something because you feel God on it,

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that what happens the next week

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is you have the best opportunity

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in the old business you're in.

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And you're like, wow, this is, God must want me here.

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God wants to know how serious you are

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about listening to his voice.

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So he opens a door to a multi-thousand,

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maybe you make a hundred grand a year

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and he opens the door to a $300,000 job

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after you decide to follow God here.

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And now you get the reward for a $300,000 job

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you didn't have to give up because you never had it.

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You didn't get that.

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But anyway, my real point is that God is in charge

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and ultimately he's in control.

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but from the standpoint of daily life,

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God's in charge, but he's not in control.

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The heavens, the highest heavens,

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the psalmist wrote, belong to the Lord,

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but the earth has been given to the sons of men.

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So why am I sharing this with you?

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Because you can make things happen in the spirit

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just like you can make things happen in the natural.

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doesn't mean God wants it to happen.

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So we're talking about prophetic etiquette.

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So Proverbs 25, 11, we love this verse.

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Like apples of gold and settings of silver

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is the word spoken in the right circumstances.

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Like apples of gold and settings of silver.

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I want you to catch the second part, settings of silver.

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So sometimes you can have the right word,

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but it's the wrong season.

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Sometimes you can have the wrong word in the right season,

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but the goal is to have the right word

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in the right circumstances.

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So prophetic etiquette matters a lot.

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And I think that it's important to understand

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in 1 Corinthians 14, verses 39 and 40,

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therefore my brethren, desire earnestly spiritual gifts,

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do not forbid to speak in tongues,

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but let all things be done properly and in order.

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Well, let me point out that first you have to do them

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before you have to worry about order.

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So a lot of churches are like, we have order.

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You have order because you have nothing.

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And we, you know, Proverbs says where there's no ox

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in the manger is clean,

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but much increase comes with the oxen.

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We all know what's in the manger when the oxen are there.

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And I'd like to say a whole bunch of crap.

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Okay, potty, whatever.

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Anyway, I didn't make up the illustration, the Bible did.

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But my point is that yes, it's gonna be messy,

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but there should be some boundaries to the river

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because without boundaries, it's not a river,

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it's a flood, right?

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So the Bible says that the spirit of the prophet

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is subject to the prophet.

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What does that mean?

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That means that you can't say God made me do it.

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See, I grew up in a God made me do it culture.

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I was with the Jesus people.

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The Jesus people were awesome.

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I love Jesus people.

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They didn't know the Bible very well, but they love God.

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Their teaching was always weird.

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Like they'd like get a revelation

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that was kind of in the Bible

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and then add a bunch of stuff to it.

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And so I got saved in the Jesus movement.

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Then I was with the Charismatics.

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They were kind of cool

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because everything was like, dude, yeah, man.

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And then I hung out with the Pentecostals

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for about five years.

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And those guys, they had a whole different idea

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about how the spirit moved.

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And this is what I'm speaking to.

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They were like, they would call it

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when the anointing is on you.

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Like when the anointing comes,

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you have to do whatever the spirit tells you to do.

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might be in the middle of the preacher preaching.

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The anointing comes and you're like,

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okay, spirit's moving, and they literally get up

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and interrupt the preacher.

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When we were in Weaverville,

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when I first got to Weaverville,

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we were in this little Assembly of God church.

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It was very, Assemblies of God tend to be,

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they could be charismatic assemblies,

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they could be Jesus people, I mean, they literally,

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like, being in Assemblies of God

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doesn't really mean anything anymore

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as far as, because they're so diverse.

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with 40 people in it.

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Ben was raised there.

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And we had, and there was nobody

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who actually moved in the gifts,

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except for Grandma Kale.

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Grandma Kale was about, I don't know, 65, maybe.

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She was pretty heavyset.

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because she would stand up

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and she always began her prophecies with tongues,

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which is another Pentecostal trait, right?

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And so she'd get up and she would yell in tongues.

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Your heart would stop.

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I mean, nobody sat around her because it was like,

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it was like, so, she had such a reputation.

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So she'd stand up, Ben's just cracking up

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because he was really young when this happened,

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but she would stand up and she would go,

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shut up, I ain't got that much.

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And then she'd start shaking, shut up, I ain't got that much.

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She kind of had the kind of body,

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even when she stopped shaking,

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she was still like a little bit jello-y.

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I have a little bit of that now too,

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so I have to be a little careful.

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And then she would do that for, I don't know,

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a minute or two, yell, and then she would prophesy.

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And she had three themes.

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She didn't like movies, she didn't like women in makeup,

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and she didn't like women who wore pants.

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Ah, ah.

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So then Bill Johnson became our pastor.

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He's a hippie pastor from the Jesus Movement.

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you've probably seen him teach.

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He's the most unemotional,

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especially when you compare him to Pentecostals, right?

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And he just stands behind the podium

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and just sends one-liners out.

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Well, anyway, his very first Sunday, I'll never forget.

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And we're all like, oh gosh,

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Grandma Cale hasn't prophesied today yet,

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and Bill's preaching, this is not good.

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And Bill's, you know, we say Bill's preaching.

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He doesn't really preach, right, he just talks.

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So he's up there, like, sharing,

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and she stands up in the middle of his sermon.

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And she's like that, shut up, I did it!

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Bill's like, and everybody's like, yeah, well.

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Welcome to your new church.

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And the Lord saith unto you today,

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that if you are in the movie theater when he returns,

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you shall be left behind.

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Knoweth thou this, you shall be condemned to hell!

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Right, this is a true story.

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Anyway, she did that three weeks in a row,

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interrupting Bill's sermon every time.

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So the fourth week, Bill evidently had talked to the elders,

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so she got up and shabbad.

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Oh, I forgot to tell you this one part.

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The beginning of the fourth week,

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Bill said, hey, he opened the service by saying,

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if you have a prophetic word,

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write it down and send it forward.

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Well, you can't shabbad on paper.

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So we're all like, this is gonna,

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I don't even know if Grandma Cale can write.

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So like, everybody in the car,

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you know how you have things going on

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nobody else really knows about,

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but it's kind of an inside thing, you know?

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And we're all like, we all have this tension,

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because we know where this is going, right?

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There's no way that Grandma's gonna shabbad on paper.

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It ain't gonna happen.

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So this is not just about protocol, right?

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This is about a power struggle.

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So anyway, she stands up in the middle of service

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while Bill's preaching, and she shabbads.

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Shabbad, shabbad, shabbad, shabbad.

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You know, start doing her thing.

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And six elders come, and they ask her,

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you know, you need to leave.

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But she keeps screaming.

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So she doesn't want to move, so finally they pick her up.

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Literally, she's a very heavy lady, six men.

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They pick her up, and she's horizontal,

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going out, and she's still prophesying.

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Shabbad, shabbad, shabbad, shabbad.

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It's that old church where you have

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those slide slit windows,

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and you can see her going out the side.

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Shabbad, shabbad, shabbad.

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Shabbad, shabbad, shabbad, shabbad.

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Yeah she never came back. Let's talk about a few guidelines for prophetic

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ministry and some of them were kind of answered in the Q&A time, but here's a

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few examples of any inappropriate times to give a prophetic word. One, when you're

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angry or you have strong native emotions or feelings towards a person or towards

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a, you know, a government or whatever. Like you're, it's very difficult

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to separate you from the prophetic word, especially when you have strong feelings

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about it. Number two, when you use prophecy as a platform to validate your

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personal doctrines or belief systems. I can't even tell you how many times I've

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seen this. It's like someone doesn't agree with the pastor's whatever, you

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know, eschatology or doctrine on something and sure enough they stand up

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and prophesy and the Lord says, and what they're really saying is, I don't agree

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with you. So, you know, when we have to say the Lord says, let me just do this

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number three. The more you have to say, and thus saith the Lord, the more

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it's probably not the Lord. If I have to come to the podium and go, I'm a man, and

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pretty soon you're like, is there some reason why he's telling us he's a man? In

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California you might have to do that, but oh boy, politically correct, I am not. So,

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you know, I would recommend that you say something like this when you give

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in a prophetic word. It doesn't have to be these exact words, but you know, I feel

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like the Lord is saying, because what that does is it invites people in to do

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what they're supposed to do, and that is judge the prophetic word. That two or

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three prophets speak and let the others pass judgment. Listen, don't matter how

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you say it, right, it should be judged. You say it in first person, I the Lord say

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to you, and I've done that a few times in an appropriate way, I wouldn't say it

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quite like that, but what it does, let me say, what happens a lot is that people

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use the Lord to give their opinion, and I feel like the more you need to say,

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thus saith the Lord, by the way, when you say thus, it just tells us what Bible you

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use. Really funny that, I mean, this is a little history, right, when some of the

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older people know this, but you know, I grew up with the King James Bible

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because there was only King James and Message Bible when I was young, and my

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mentor said, Message Bible isn't a real Bible, Jesus didn't speak like that, he

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spoke like this, which I didn't realize until years later that he spoke, you know,

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Greek and Aramaic, so he didn't speak like that at all. So I mean, when you

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spoke for the Lord, you tended to like shift over to Shakespeare, and that's

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kind of how people were supposed to know, like, you're actually giving a prophetic

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word. I can't even do it anymore, like, I used to be able to kind of mimic it

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and be funny, but, you know, but I can't, I don't read those Bibles anymore, so I

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read the Bible, but anyway, okay, so, so it's important, listen, you dramatizing

485
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:30.680
the word doesn't make it God either. So shouting, yelling, whispering, none of

486
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.960
those things make it the Lord. That doesn't make it the Lord that you say

487
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.200
thus saith the Lord, doesn't make it the Lord that you sound like Shakespeare or

488
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.760
Orson Welles, it doesn't make it the Lord that, you know, that you shout, it

489
00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:45.440
doesn't make it the Lord that you have this big display, and by the way, I love

490
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:52.200
it all. Like, I like the drama, I'm Spaniard. I grew up the Pentecostals, like,

491
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:57.360
I love it all, it just doesn't make it prophecy. And the other thing it does is

492
00:28:57.360 --> 00:29:03.280
it narrows your scope or your sphere of influence, because if you're in a

493
00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:07.000
Pentecostal church, and I still go to them, I love them, I really do like the

494
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:13.440
drama. Like, I actually like all the, you know, I get it, you know, but the thing is,

495
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:18.400
is that the people who need the gifts of the Spirit the most don't come into the

496
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:25.160
building. And like, you go to the mall, and you shabba, and they're gonna think

497
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:32.680
you're having a seizure, and take you out. You go to the political world, and

498
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:38.000
you go in there, and you yell, and they're gonna call security. So, you know,

499
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:45.640
your etiquette does either open or close doors for you. And I don't know if you, I

500
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.880
think we gave you the book, School of the Prophets, but, you know, I think etiquette

501
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:55.280
down to, somebody shouldn't get, have to get past the way you dress to receive

502
00:29:55.280 --> 00:30:01.560
your word. So when we go to meet with political people, most of the time,

503
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.040
Especially in an official position, we wear suits,

504
00:30:03.040 --> 00:30:05.120
and we ask the ladies to wear dresses.

505
00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:09.460
In most countries, dresses are our only thing that's,

506
00:30:09.460 --> 00:30:11.720
whatever's appropriate is my point.

507
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:16.720
And modest, dress modestly for ladies and men too.

508
00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:21.280
My point is, we don't want them to have to get over you

509
00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:23.140
to get to the Word.

510
00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:24.000
That's the point.

511
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:35.000
I think we've already said this, but it's worth repeating.

512
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:42.780
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

513
00:30:42.780 --> 00:30:44.300
Proverbs 18, 21.

514
00:30:44.300 --> 00:30:47.000
The more anointed you are, the more dangerous you are.

515
00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:53.080
So, remember I said to you just in the opening

516
00:30:53.080 --> 00:30:55.200
that you can make things happen,

517
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.400
God never wanted it to happen?

518
00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:59.880
And I think Bethany, I think, was the one

519
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:02.480
that I walked in when she was finishing sharing this,

520
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.960
but when you prophesy negative stuff over people,

521
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:10.360
if you're anointed and gifted,

522
00:31:10.360 --> 00:31:12.780
it has a power that God didn't intend.

523
00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:16.160
And so, you know, we just did the flesh thing

524
00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:17.680
a few minutes ago.

525
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:20.020
Listen, I get prophetic words at least daily.

526
00:31:20.020 --> 00:31:22.080
I've gotten three since I've been here this morning,

527
00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:23.480
and that's very common for me.

528
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.320
Most of them are very encouraging, and I'm very thankful.

529
00:31:26.360 --> 00:31:30.340
But at least weekly, I get something that isn't.

530
00:31:30.340 --> 00:31:32.920
And I'll start to read it if it's a text,

531
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:34.660
it's by text or whatever.

532
00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:37.200
And if I can see where it's going, I just delete it.

533
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:39.080
I don't even read the rest of it.

534
00:31:39.080 --> 00:31:40.520
I get letters that are negative,

535
00:31:40.520 --> 00:31:42.800
and I have Kimberly open them.

536
00:31:43.800 --> 00:31:45.800
All my mail, she opens, so if you send me a letter,

537
00:31:45.800 --> 00:31:46.640
she's gonna open it.

538
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.080
And if she sees it's negative, I don't wanna see it,

539
00:31:49.080 --> 00:31:50.080
just throw it away.

540
00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:51.660
I don't wanna deal with it.

541
00:31:52.620 --> 00:31:54.340
And you're like, well, you don't let people

542
00:31:54.340 --> 00:31:55.180
give you feedback.

543
00:31:55.180 --> 00:31:56.940
Yeah, I have accountability system.

544
00:31:56.940 --> 00:32:00.580
They can tell me, and our accountability here is brutal.

545
00:32:00.580 --> 00:32:02.820
Like, I actually don't need someone who doesn't know me

546
00:32:02.820 --> 00:32:04.060
to tell me what I'm doing wrong.

547
00:32:04.060 --> 00:32:05.900
I have Nathan and Gads around me.

548
00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:10.380
And so does this whole team.

549
00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:11.940
So does our entire team.

550
00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:13.440
And we become that for each other.

551
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.460
But I have a leader who I'm accountable to,

552
00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:17.320
and I have leadership I'm accountable to.

553
00:32:17.320 --> 00:32:20.540
And I'll say honestly, and I mean it in a good way,

554
00:32:20.540 --> 00:32:23.660
that they are brutal when they see an attitude

555
00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:25.020
before it ever becomes an action.

556
00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:28.060
They're like, hey, you were in staff today.

557
00:32:28.060 --> 00:32:29.980
I don't know what that thing is on you.

558
00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:31.340
I didn't even do anything wrong.

559
00:32:31.340 --> 00:32:34.340
Just like your attitude, something's going on with you.

560
00:32:34.340 --> 00:32:37.920
And I wanna live in a culture that talks to my attitude

561
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:39.540
before it ever becomes an action.

562
00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:46.700
So I talk a little bit about judging prophetic words.

563
00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:51.100
There's a difference between a warning and a judgment word.

564
00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:52.860
Did you guys talk about this in any session?

565
00:32:52.860 --> 00:32:53.700
Okay.

566
00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:56.620
And a warning, well, let's talk about judgment.

567
00:32:56.620 --> 00:33:00.180
Judgment means that you're decreeing

568
00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:03.480
that somebody's action, mostly sin,

569
00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:06.420
is creating a judgment from God.

570
00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:11.900
So, and a warning, okay, so that's a judgment, right?

571
00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:15.020
So it's directly connected to God's gonna get you

572
00:33:15.020 --> 00:33:16.220
because you did this.

573
00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:22.660
A warning is attached to something bad's gonna happen,

574
00:33:23.260 --> 00:33:26.180
but the warning is there so that it doesn't happen

575
00:33:26.180 --> 00:33:28.440
and it's not related to God's mad at you.

576
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:29.740
It's related to like,

577
00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:31.900
someone's breaking into your house tomorrow.

578
00:33:31.900 --> 00:33:33.980
Be ready, stop them, right?

579
00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:36.540
Jesus said, if the strong man would have known

580
00:33:36.540 --> 00:33:38.420
when the thief was gonna come in, he'd be prepared.

581
00:33:38.420 --> 00:33:39.800
It's that kind of thing, right?

582
00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:41.900
So for example, Agabus,

583
00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:45.260
who's one of the only named prophets in the New Testament,

584
00:33:45.260 --> 00:33:47.220
he warned of a famine.

585
00:33:48.260 --> 00:33:49.840
Now, in the Old Testament,

586
00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:53.040
you would never get a prophet warning about a famine

587
00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:55.300
who didn't attach it to their sin.

588
00:33:55.300 --> 00:33:56.520
Like, there's a famine coming

589
00:33:56.520 --> 00:33:57.920
because you were worshiping Baal.

590
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.040
There's a famine coming because you did this.

591
00:34:00.040 --> 00:34:02.160
But Agabus doesn't connect the famine

592
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.840
to anyone's bad behavior.

593
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.000
And they immediately say, okay, there's a famine coming.

594
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.280
Let's take an offering.

595
00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:11.760
This is really powerful.

596
00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:16.320
Let's take an offering for our senior church in Jerusalem.

597
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.120
So their response to the famine was interesting to me

598
00:34:20.120 --> 00:34:23.600
because they apparently didn't seem to pray about it,

599
00:34:23.600 --> 00:34:25.900
which I think would be appropriate.

600
00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:27.880
But what they did do is say, what can we do?

601
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:31.320
Well, we can be generous to our senior leaders.

602
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:33.000
And they took an offering.

603
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:36.380
It's a kind of a strange response to a warning.

604
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:39.800
Are you with me?

605
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.199
But my point that I'm really making is Agabus

606
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:47.179
does not attach the warning

607
00:34:47.179 --> 00:34:49.760
to anything they need to repent for.

608
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:54.520
No Old Testament prophet would allow a bad disaster

609
00:34:54.520 --> 00:34:56.639
to not be attached to bad behavior.

610
00:34:57.520 --> 00:35:00.240
So I'd like to point out that warning.

611
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.360
you can do warnings in the New Testament.

612
00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:06.920
Now, you have to look at your own prophetic journal,

613
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.960
and if you have lots of warnings,

614
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:11.840
I propose that the problem's you.

615
00:35:13.560 --> 00:35:14.380
Here we go.

616
00:35:16.200 --> 00:35:18.620
You're gonna wear your leaders out with warnings

617
00:35:18.620 --> 00:35:19.680
if you do that.

618
00:35:19.680 --> 00:35:21.800
And what happens is you cry wolf so many times,

619
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:23.720
no one wants to listen to you anymore.

620
00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:25.620
When I first came here,

621
00:35:25.620 --> 00:35:28.280
there was no prophetic culture here when I came here.

622
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:30.760
It's one of the reasons why Bill brought us.

623
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.240
And person, I would say two-thirds of the prophetic words

624
00:35:34.240 --> 00:35:36.640
were what I would call old covenant words.

625
00:35:36.640 --> 00:35:40.160
They were warnings, they were, you know,

626
00:35:40.160 --> 00:35:43.000
this woman's gonna come in and seduce the pastor.

627
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:46.040
It was like this, it was continual.

628
00:35:46.040 --> 00:35:48.340
And we finally, you know, I was here a month

629
00:35:48.340 --> 00:35:50.000
and we started training people,

630
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:51.400
and we had lots of people get mad

631
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.840
and walk out of the trainings.

632
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.840
You know, when your ministry is built around

633
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:03.280
your, the power you feel by knowing things

634
00:36:05.720 --> 00:36:10.040
no one else knows, and most of them are like,

635
00:36:10.040 --> 00:36:11.920
there's a warning here, there's a,

636
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:14.680
and you take away the ability for people

637
00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:17.960
to make judgments, they kind of lose their ministry.

638
00:36:19.240 --> 00:36:21.840
We, the very first, I think it was the first

639
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.640
three or four years, I taught this message

640
00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:26.400
every time in the School of the Prophets.

641
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:29.000
The first message I taught was called Graceland,

642
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.600
and it was like two hours long.

643
00:36:30.600 --> 00:36:32.520
And we took you through the theology

644
00:36:32.520 --> 00:36:36.000
of moving from the old covenant to the new covenant.

645
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.280
And we would have people get up, yell at us,

646
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:41.120
and walk out of the room, over and over.

647
00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:44.360
We lost like 25% of our first class.

648
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:45.520
I think they came back, actually,

649
00:36:45.520 --> 00:36:47.040
but they left the session mad.

650
00:36:47.040 --> 00:36:48.760
Just got up and walked out.

651
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:53.360
And it's like, if you not being able to judge people

652
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.440
ruins your ministry, you never fricking had one.

653
00:36:58.380 --> 00:37:03.380
If you get a lot of joy out of bringing judgments

654
00:37:04.680 --> 00:37:07.360
to people so much that you get angry,

655
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.040
I can understand you may not agree,

656
00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:10.480
and you can stand up, and we've had

657
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.280
many theological debates, it's all good.

658
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:14.000
I told you, it's all good.

659
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.100
But when you get angry because someone takes away

660
00:37:16.100 --> 00:37:21.100
your right to bring judgment on nations and people,

661
00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:24.120
I would check what's going on with you.

662
00:37:26.620 --> 00:37:28.000
Okay, good point, Chris.

663
00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:34.740
Let's see.

664
00:37:34.740 --> 00:37:39.740
The last thing I'll say on etiquette is

665
00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:42.160
that you only have as much authority

666
00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:44.440
in your life as you submit to.

667
00:37:46.740 --> 00:37:48.940
And the greater your gift,

668
00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:51.340
the more accountability you need.

669
00:37:51.340 --> 00:37:52.820
Now, let me be clear.

670
00:37:53.700 --> 00:37:55.580
Most of what we call accountability

671
00:37:55.580 --> 00:37:57.420
is actually a count of disability.

672
00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:03.380
Like, we're actually, we feel like we're in someone's life

673
00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:06.020
to find out what's wrong with them.

674
00:38:06.020 --> 00:38:10.140
I used to have accountability group 40 years ago

675
00:38:10.140 --> 00:38:12.180
where we'd sit with, there was 12 of us,

676
00:38:12.180 --> 00:38:15.180
and we'd sit in a circle, and the first thing we would do,

677
00:38:15.180 --> 00:38:18.220
the first 10 minutes was confess our sins to one another.

678
00:38:18.580 --> 00:38:21.380
The thing is, it was all based on the idea

679
00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:22.420
that we were sinners.

680
00:38:23.820 --> 00:38:26.420
And if you didn't have a sin, it felt really weird

681
00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:28.100
that 11 other people confessed theirs,

682
00:38:28.100 --> 00:38:30.500
and you're like, well, I didn't do one this week.

683
00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:35.660
So you're confessing sins, you know, prophetically.

684
00:38:38.140 --> 00:38:40.900
Like, this is what I might commit, you know, next week.

685
00:38:43.180 --> 00:38:46.960
And we created an account for your disability.

686
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:50.600
But actually, if you think about it,

687
00:38:50.600 --> 00:38:53.840
the goal is to create a culture

688
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:56.360
that calls out greatness in people

689
00:38:56.360 --> 00:39:00.120
and empowers them to fulfill their divine destiny.

690
00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:04.080
So when Paul, for example, was discipling Timothy,

691
00:39:04.080 --> 00:39:07.320
he writes to Timothy about the gift that was in him.

692
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.480
He's calling him to account for his ability.

693
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:14.200
And he tells Timothy, take the gift that was given to you

694
00:39:14.200 --> 00:39:16.280
by the laying on of the presbytery,

695
00:39:16.520 --> 00:39:18.040
and I'll just put it in simple terms,

696
00:39:18.040 --> 00:39:20.040
and do something with it.

697
00:39:20.040 --> 00:39:21.780
And I want you to do something with it

698
00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:24.880
to the place where everyone sees your progress.

699
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:28.000
That seems really like anti the church.

700
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:29.880
Like, everyone sees your progress.

701
00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:32.680
Timothy, I want you to use the gifts

702
00:39:32.680 --> 00:39:35.520
that were given to you through the laying on of the hands.

703
00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:37.320
I mean, they were airdropped to him.

704
00:39:38.520 --> 00:39:40.680
Take the airdropped gift that was given to you,

705
00:39:40.680 --> 00:39:42.480
or gifts, he actually says gifts,

706
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.240
and work with them, labor with them,

707
00:39:45.240 --> 00:39:46.640
till you get really good at it,

708
00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:48.940
so everybody can see your progress.

709
00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:52.240
This is the culture that we need to have.

710
00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:58.120
And then if I'm giving an account for my ability to a team,

711
00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:00.040
and I have a disability, like I have.

712
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.140
bad attitude, or I'm mad at somebody, or whatever,

713
00:40:03.140 --> 00:40:05.280
then it's real easy to listen to that team

714
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:09.380
because they have been encouraging me all year long.

715
00:40:09.380 --> 00:40:11.420
So when somebody I know believes in me,

716
00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:14.420
tells me, man, that wasn't good what you did up there,

717
00:40:14.420 --> 00:40:16.740
or that you should've done that a different way,

718
00:40:16.740 --> 00:40:18.300
I'm not in defense mode,

719
00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:20.660
because I know these people love me.

720
00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:21.500
Are you with me?

721
00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:23.860
Good point, Chris.

722
00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:25.660
Amen.

723
00:40:29.560 --> 00:40:34.560
I'm gonna read you a non-politically correct scripture.

724
00:40:35.720 --> 00:40:39.200
Hebrews 13, 17, obey your leaders and submit to them,

725
00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:41.200
for they keep watch over your souls

726
00:40:41.200 --> 00:40:43.480
as those who would give an account.

727
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.280
Let them do this with joy and not with grief,

728
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:48.380
for this would be unprofitable for you.

729
00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:51.720
I've hardly ever heard this taught on,

730
00:40:52.100 --> 00:40:54.860
or even read in church.

731
00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:57.980
This is so anti, I know many of you are from other nations,

732
00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:59.900
but this is so anti-American.

733
00:40:59.900 --> 00:41:02.420
Like, the Lord is my shepherd.

734
00:41:02.420 --> 00:41:05.140
Well, he happens to be invisible, huh?

735
00:41:05.140 --> 00:41:07.620
So how do we know you're actually following him?

736
00:41:07.620 --> 00:41:10.420
The Lord has actually put leaders in our life,

737
00:41:10.420 --> 00:41:12.220
spiritual leaders in our life,

738
00:41:12.220 --> 00:41:13.940
and the Hebrew writer says that they actually

739
00:41:13.940 --> 00:41:17.020
are gonna give an account to Jesus for my soul.

740
00:41:17.020 --> 00:41:19.480
And I think whoever God has given oversight to,

741
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:20.760
he's given insight to.

742
00:41:21.720 --> 00:41:22.900
Let me say that again.

743
00:41:22.900 --> 00:41:24.060
Like, there's a great advantage

744
00:41:24.060 --> 00:41:26.440
to having someone have oversight over you,

745
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:28.620
because whoever God gives oversight to,

746
00:41:28.620 --> 00:41:30.180
he gives insight to.

747
00:41:30.180 --> 00:41:33.100
Now, I understand spiritual abuse, I get all that,

748
00:41:33.100 --> 00:41:34.980
I get someone's trying to control me,

749
00:41:34.980 --> 00:41:37.260
I've been abused, I've been hurt, I've been all this,

750
00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:40.380
and you know, I get that.

751
00:41:40.380 --> 00:41:42.420
But I mean, some people's idea

752
00:41:42.420 --> 00:41:44.180
is to defund the police department.

753
00:41:46.740 --> 00:41:47.580
It's a metaphor.

754
00:41:48.460 --> 00:41:49.980
It's like, police did bad things,

755
00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:51.100
so we should have no police.

756
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:53.520
I'm like, we're gonna have antarchy if we do that.

757
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:57.160
You know, I know that there's been lots of bad marriages.

758
00:41:57.160 --> 00:41:59.000
I hope you still believe in marriage.

759
00:42:01.120 --> 00:42:03.280
I've been, you know, I've been mistreated

760
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.440
at the grocery store, but I still go there.

761
00:42:07.640 --> 00:42:11.000
I wanna encourage you and exhort you

762
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.320
as a brother and a father,

763
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:14.880
I'm probably not your father for sure,

764
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:18.000
but you should have a local church

765
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:19.360
that you are submitted to.

766
00:42:21.160 --> 00:42:22.880
Well, you know, let me tell you, my pastor,

767
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.520
yeah, your pastor's not perfect,

768
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:27.400
and you're not in a perfect church,

769
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:30.920
and if you were, you going there would make it imperfect.

770
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.920
So, here's a question only you can answer,

771
00:42:37.720 --> 00:42:40.460
how righteous does the leadership need to be

772
00:42:40.460 --> 00:42:41.800
for you to be submissive?

773
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:45.320
Now, you guys know my story.

774
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:46.840
I grew up with two abusive fathers.

775
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:49.180
My first father beat me till blood ran down my legs

776
00:42:49.180 --> 00:42:50.480
on numerous occasions.

777
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.540
So, I get abusive authority, I get it.

778
00:42:53.540 --> 00:42:56.180
I get when somebody said, when I got saved,

779
00:42:56.180 --> 00:42:58.740
the day I got saved, they said, you need a father.

780
00:42:58.740 --> 00:43:01.540
The word father was all skewed and messed up in my life

781
00:43:01.540 --> 00:43:03.780
because fathers did not promote me,

782
00:43:03.780 --> 00:43:06.080
they actually rejected me and abused me.

783
00:43:07.140 --> 00:43:10.060
But I can't take my experience

784
00:43:10.060 --> 00:43:12.140
and let it override the truth.

785
00:43:13.100 --> 00:43:15.420
And thankfully, the Lord gave me three spiritual fathers

786
00:43:15.420 --> 00:43:18.540
in my life, and I've buried two of them,

787
00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:21.360
and we're just wonderful, godly men.

788
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:26.180
Not perfect, I didn't always take their counsel,

789
00:43:26.180 --> 00:43:27.760
but they love me well.

790
00:43:28.720 --> 00:43:33.520
And to this day, Pastor Bill still loves me well.

791
00:43:33.520 --> 00:43:36.040
So, I just want to really encourage you.

792
00:43:36.040 --> 00:43:38.440
What's scary, let me say this,

793
00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:39.720
how committed are we to this?

794
00:43:39.720 --> 00:43:41.960
Daniel and I, when we started school ministry,

795
00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:43.640
if you didn't have a letter from your pastor,

796
00:43:43.640 --> 00:43:45.000
you couldn't come to school.

797
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:45.840
Right?

798
00:43:48.060 --> 00:43:52.180
So, it eliminated hundreds of people over the years.

799
00:43:52.180 --> 00:43:56.100
And then we started realizing that there was a lot of people

800
00:43:56.100 --> 00:43:59.380
that couldn't get a letter from their pastor,

801
00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:02.100
not because they had a bad relationship with them,

802
00:44:02.100 --> 00:44:03.240
but because we did.

803
00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:07.820
Like, as Bethel grew, they were like,

804
00:44:07.820 --> 00:44:09.760
oh, those Bethel people are a cult.

805
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:12.040
So, they had a great relationship with their leadership,

806
00:44:12.040 --> 00:44:14.820
but their leadership's like, we're afraid of those guys.

807
00:44:15.640 --> 00:44:16.480
And so, we're like, yeah, you know,

808
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:17.360
I don't think this is a great plan.

809
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.280
And then we also had a lot of churches,

810
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:20.640
a lot of people who were going to churches

811
00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:22.440
that were not charismatic churches,

812
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:24.760
were anti-charismatic, and they maybe never heard of Bethel,

813
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:26.520
but they're like, you're gonna go to the school of prophets?

814
00:44:26.520 --> 00:44:31.200
That sounds like, no, they all died with the first century.

815
00:44:31.200 --> 00:44:33.220
You're gonna go talk to dead people.

816
00:44:35.540 --> 00:44:38.220
So, we got rid of that, we got rid of the recommendation.

817
00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:42.760
But my point is this, is that we still feel very much

818
00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:47.760
that prophets and prophetesses especially

819
00:44:48.140 --> 00:44:51.520
need to be connected to the local church.

820
00:44:51.520 --> 00:44:55.220
And your church doesn't have to be perfectly healthy,

821
00:44:55.220 --> 00:45:00.220
but if your church is so unhealthy,

822
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.960
that you can't submit your life to them. Under Jesus, of course, you're gonna

823
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:10.040
follow them as they follow Jesus. If they go right, Jesus going straight, of

824
00:45:10.040 --> 00:45:15.640
course you've got a brain. You shouldn't be going to that church if you

825
00:45:15.640 --> 00:45:21.840
can't trust the leadership. If you can't find any church to trust, you're probably

826
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:33.660
the problem. Because trust flows both ways. And we build cases against people

827
00:45:33.660 --> 00:45:38.040
we're afraid of. And I hear it all the time, you know, I've been to five churches

828
00:45:38.040 --> 00:45:41.680
and all the leaders are corrupt. I'm like, all the leaders are

829
00:45:41.680 --> 00:45:46.120
corrupt in five churches. Yeah, it might be that you're something like, you got

830
00:45:46.120 --> 00:45:56.920
boogers on your lens. You sneezed on your glasses. Something, anyway, okay. I

831
00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:02.200
understand there are, you know, there's six hundred people in here. I understand

832
00:46:02.200 --> 00:46:06.640
that there's six hundred different views of what that means. But if you can't find

833
00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:13.040
a place to be spiritually connected, I'm very concerned about your gift growing.

834
00:46:13.080 --> 00:46:18.960
Because people that sit on the outside of the church looking in, they're always

835
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:23.400
the people that have judgments against the church. I, you know, you guys are

836
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:28.040
probably on social media on some level, right? And, you know, if I say anything

837
00:46:28.040 --> 00:46:36.360
about submission to church, there will be literally an easy 500 comments. And 490

838
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:40.840
of them will be bad. And I guarantee you, almost all of them don't have a church.

839
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.720
And they have prophetic words for the church. And listen, if you're not a part

840
00:46:45.720 --> 00:46:50.120
of my family, you don't have any business. You have no authority where you

841
00:46:50.120 --> 00:46:56.080
have no responsibility. So I could give a rip what you think about the church if

842
00:46:56.080 --> 00:47:02.360
you're out there. As a matter of fact, I might agree with you, but don't talk bad

843
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:08.960
about my family when you're not a part of my family. Now our leaders, we

844
00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.960
talk bad about our family all the time. We don't talk bad about our family, you

845
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:15.000
know what I'm trying to say. I mean, we talk about problems in our family.

846
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:18.120
We're leaders. We're like, hey, we have an issue here. What are we gonna do about

847
00:47:18.120 --> 00:47:22.520
that? And everybody knows, like, no one's defending their opinion because we're

848
00:47:22.520 --> 00:47:28.160
like, I know Ben loves them, because he's committed to them. And so he's there to

849
00:47:28.160 --> 00:47:32.160
say, hey, this is a problem, let's solve it together. But if you're not a part of my

850
00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:36.440
family, you better not talk about my family. I could talk about my family, but

851
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:43.680
you better not talk about my family. Okay, good, you all right? Okay, now we're

852
00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:49.320
gonna shift gears and talk about false prophets. If you're a false prophet, could

853
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.520
you stand up? I'd like to talk to you.

854
00:47:52.520 --> 00:48:00.640
I just realized that's a big shift. We're going from prophetic, adequate, let's

855
00:48:00.680 --> 00:48:07.440
talk about false prophets. You know, there is a, well, you hear it all the time, right?

856
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.640
It's like, in the last days there'll be false Christs and false prophets. Here's

857
00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:18.200
how people outside of the charismatic world read those verses. Anybody who

858
00:48:18.200 --> 00:48:22.680
prophesies or thinks he's a prophet is false, because Jesus said, in the last

859
00:48:22.680 --> 00:48:28.080
days, all the prophets will be false. But he didn't say that. He said, in the last

860
00:48:28.200 --> 00:48:31.720
days, there'll be false prophets and false Christs. And by the way, he went on

861
00:48:31.720 --> 00:48:37.320
to say there'd be false teachers. You don't hear that very often. And the idea

862
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:43.360
in most of those circles are, if you prophesy or you believe in apostles and

863
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:48.280
prophets or anything like that, you're false because Jesus said you are. And I'd

864
00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:53.000
like to point out that if Jesus was saying, in the last days, all the prophets

865
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:59.680
would be false, that would be easy. Right? All Jesus had to say is like, in the last

866
00:48:59.680 --> 00:49:05.000
days, all the prophets will be false. But he didn't do that. The only reason why

867
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:11.040
there'd be false prophets is that there was true ones. If there were no $20 bills,

868
00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:19.880
if there was none, like they didn't print $20 bills, and there were false $20 bills,

869
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.560
be super simple because you're like, they don't print $20 bills, these are all

870
00:49:23.560 --> 00:49:31.120
false. But I'd like to point out that the reason why there's false prophets is

871
00:49:31.120 --> 00:49:37.320
because there's true ones. The reasons why there's false teachers is because

872
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:41.880
there's real ones. The reason why there's false Christ is because we have a Christ.

873
00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:48.980
And I think the greatest example, at least one of the best examples, is when

874
00:49:48.980 --> 00:49:54.340
Moses and Aaron, God talks to him in the bush, you know, not George, and he

875
00:49:54.340 --> 00:49:58.180
tells him to take his staff and throw it down. You know, I'm just trying to do this

876
00:49:58.180 --> 00:49:59.900
in two minutes, and it's a 15 minute

877
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.060
Story.

878
00:50:01.060 --> 00:50:03.080
And so they go before Pharaoh,

879
00:50:03.080 --> 00:50:06.600
and they say, let my people go, you know the story.

880
00:50:06.600 --> 00:50:09.640
And Pharaoh says, you know, no.

881
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:13.760
And Moses goes, Aaron, show them what we learned.

882
00:50:14.640 --> 00:50:18.280
And Aaron throws down his staff and becomes a snake, right?

883
00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:19.620
What do the sorcerers do?

884
00:50:21.040 --> 00:50:24.000
They throw down the staff and becomes two snakes.

885
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:26.120
Now, just think about this for just a minute,

886
00:50:26.120 --> 00:50:27.840
because this is really profound,

887
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:29.840
and we're in the middle of it right now.

888
00:50:32.040 --> 00:50:33.560
What did the enemy do?

889
00:50:33.560 --> 00:50:35.760
Duplicate what the Lord was doing.

890
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:36.600
Why?

891
00:50:36.600 --> 00:50:40.280
To change Pharaoh's mind about who he should follow.

892
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:42.540
They couldn't stop the move of God,

893
00:50:42.540 --> 00:50:47.440
so they falsified it by doing the same thing.

894
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:49.320
And by the way, isn't it interesting

895
00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:53.440
that they, the sorcerers, actually could make snakes?

896
00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:55.700
And you remember this?

897
00:50:55.700 --> 00:50:58.020
The first four plagues,

898
00:50:58.020 --> 00:51:01.780
every time Aaron and Moses did something,

899
00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:05.720
the sorcerers could duplicate the same miracles.

900
00:51:05.720 --> 00:51:07.100
I think it was the fifth,

901
00:51:08.020 --> 00:51:11.620
I think it was the fifth one that they did.

902
00:51:11.620 --> 00:51:13.720
They came again with the fifth.

903
00:51:13.720 --> 00:51:15.500
It was, there was 10, ultimately.

904
00:51:15.500 --> 00:51:17.500
I think it was the fifth one,

905
00:51:17.500 --> 00:51:19.300
when they performed the fifth one,

906
00:51:19.300 --> 00:51:21.780
the sorcerers looked at the king and said,

907
00:51:21.780 --> 00:51:23.640
we can't do these, this must be God.

908
00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:27.560
But for the first four, they duplicated the miracles of God.

909
00:51:27.560 --> 00:51:30.720
I'm pointing out that Moses and Aaron

910
00:51:30.720 --> 00:51:32.560
weren't duplicating their stuff.

911
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.460
They were duplicating God's stuff.

912
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:39.600
The scary thing for me is,

913
00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:42.000
the enemy only duplicates what's powerful.

914
00:51:44.040 --> 00:51:48.880
Like, I don't think anyone would ever make a $1 bill.

915
00:51:49.720 --> 00:51:50.560
Right?

916
00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:55.380
It's too much work for very little, right?

917
00:51:55.380 --> 00:51:56.880
You wouldn't forge a $1 bill,

918
00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:58.680
it's just too much work for not enough.

919
00:51:58.680 --> 00:52:00.560
I'm saying that most of the things

920
00:52:00.560 --> 00:52:03.200
that you see in the New Age,

921
00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:05.680
and in the demonic realm and the Satanist realm,

922
00:52:07.560 --> 00:52:11.560
there's almost everything God does that's powerful

923
00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:14.520
is duplicated in the occult and in the cults.

924
00:52:15.520 --> 00:52:16.800
And the Christian,

925
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.880
Christians are sometimes so stupid, they make me mad.

926
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.740
They run away from that, and they're like,

927
00:52:25.740 --> 00:52:29.560
well, I can't do that because the devil does that.

928
00:52:29.560 --> 00:52:31.040
Well, the devil's not a creator,

929
00:52:31.040 --> 00:52:32.800
where do you think he got the idea?

930
00:52:35.720 --> 00:52:38.880
A great example, trances.

931
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:40.680
And when you hear the word trance,

932
00:52:40.680 --> 00:52:42.080
if you've been at Bethel for the first time,

933
00:52:42.080 --> 00:52:44.680
you're like, oh my God, they're gonna teach about trances.

934
00:52:44.680 --> 00:52:48.100
Actually, there's only two trances listed in the Bible.

935
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:51.940
And Paul had one, and Peter had the other.

936
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:57.480
There's never a mention of a trance in a negative sense

937
00:52:57.480 --> 00:52:59.180
in the entire Old or New Testament.

938
00:53:00.240 --> 00:53:03.040
And yet we're like, well, the occult has trances.

939
00:53:03.040 --> 00:53:05.200
The Bible has trances.

940
00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:06.840
And Peter fell into a trance,

941
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.000
and it opened up the door to the Gentiles.

942
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:12.480
Paul fell into a trance, and it opened up the door to Asia.

943
00:53:14.120 --> 00:53:15.840
Or you're like, well, you teach on trance.

944
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:18.600
No, we don't teach people how to have a trance.

945
00:53:18.600 --> 00:53:21.480
I'm pointing out, and I don't think you should,

946
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:24.680
I don't think you should pray like, God, give me a trance.

947
00:53:24.680 --> 00:53:26.640
I think that's, you know, I know some people do that.

948
00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:27.880
It's just weird to me.

949
00:53:29.520 --> 00:53:32.040
But my point is, my point is,

950
00:53:32.040 --> 00:53:34.560
it is, when I just say the word trance,

951
00:53:34.560 --> 00:53:37.600
even though I've been in hard times,

952
00:53:37.600 --> 00:53:39.800
I've been in hundreds of meetings

953
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.020
where people fall into trances.

954
00:53:42.020 --> 00:53:43.280
When you just say the word trance,

955
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.000
people automate, that's the occult.

956
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.700
The Bethel people are teaching the occult.

957
00:53:46.700 --> 00:53:48.600
No, we're actually teaching the Bible.

958
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:54.240
Are you with me?

959
00:53:54.240 --> 00:53:55.080
Yes.

960
00:53:55.080 --> 00:53:57.840
So I'm like, check your sources.

961
00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:02.280
And my challenge is, is that most of the stuff

962
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:07.200
that the anti-charismatic people are running away from,

963
00:54:07.240 --> 00:54:10.400
and I'll say this, a lot of the anti-Bethel people

964
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:12.040
are running away from are things

965
00:54:12.040 --> 00:54:14.120
that are actually right there in the Bible.

966
00:54:14.120 --> 00:54:17.080
Like, it can take you through and show you these things.

967
00:54:17.080 --> 00:54:18.560
Open visions.

968
00:54:18.560 --> 00:54:20.000
And people say things like,

969
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:21.200
well, you know, God would never do that.

970
00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:23.400
I'm like, have you been reading the Bible?

971
00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:26.520
Like, God took Ezekiel by the hair

972
00:54:26.520 --> 00:54:27.840
and thrust him through the midheaven.

973
00:54:27.840 --> 00:54:29.600
Can you imagine your pastor?

974
00:54:29.600 --> 00:54:31.360
You're sitting, he starts, he's preaching,

975
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:32.960
and all of a sudden, he's like.

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I mean, listen, I'm not saying do that.

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I'm pointing out that when you try to justify

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your fear or your discernment by God would never do that.

979
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I mean, have you read Jeremiah?

980
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Yeah.

981
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God made Jeremiah.

982
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Jeremiah, I want you to strip for,

983
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and I want you for, what is it, three and a half years?

984
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And I want you to cook your food

985
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and I want you to put it in the oven

986
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and I want you to put it in the oven

987
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and I want you to put it in the oven.

988
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over dung. That's crap. And actually Jeremiah refused to do it, like, over your

989
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dung, and Jeremiah's like, I'm not doing that. God's like, okay, well you can do

990
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donkey dung then. But he literally had to sleep one side, this is in the Bible, he

991
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had to sleep on one side for a certain amount of time and cook his food over

992
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dung and sleep on it, totally naked. Totally naked. I mean, this is a God, this

993
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is people go, well God would never do that. I'm like, you are, what Bible are you

994
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:40.600
reading? Like, I'm always afraid God, like, I'm not afraid of what your ideas are, I'm

995
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afraid of his ideas. I can't even tell you how many times I'm like, have the

996
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three of you talked about this? This doesn't seem like a great plan to me.

997
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Have you noticed, like, in the Old Testament, almost every time the Holy

998
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Spirit, every time the Spirit fell on the prophets, they ripped all their clothes

999
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off. I'm like, I'm so glad I'm in the New Covenant, you know? You know what I mean.

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Like, yeah, when you're a guy, yeah, when you're a guy, you know, you want to look,

1001
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you know, and you're 20, you want to look good without a shirt, you know? When you're

1002
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40, you want to look good with a shirt. When you hit 60, you're like, just so much

1003
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easier to turn the lights off before you get to bed.

1004
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Yes, I want to be a New Testament prophet and part of the body of Christ. Okay,

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let's talk about false prophets, now that I only have 20 minutes. Okay, there's two

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kinds of false prophets. One of them's listed in Acts 16, verse 16 through 18,

1007
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and I'll just read it. It happened as we were going, this is Luke talking about

1008
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Paul. It happened as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl having a

1009
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spirit of divination met us, who's bringing her masters much profit by

1010
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foretelling. Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, these men are great

1011
00:57:04.640 --> 00:57:08.640
bondservants, no, these men are bondservants of the Most High God, who

1012
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are proclaiming to you the way of salvation. She continued doing this for

1013
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many days, but Paul was greatly annoyed and turned to her and said to the Spirit,

1014
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:18.920
I command you in the name of Jesus, come out of her. And it came out that very

1015
00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:24.600
moment. Okay, this is a woman who doesn't know God, who has the spirit of

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divination. I want you to notice something. She has a spirit of divination,

1017
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but what she's saying is true. So sometimes we say, well, you know what, the

1018
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:38.320
devil, you'll know it's the devil because he always lies. People, Christian

1019
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:43.160
simplicity is one of the reasons we're being killed in warfare. The devil is not

1020
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stupid, but he is insane. Are you with me? She was saying, these are great men of

1021
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God, and they're proclaiming the kingdom, the way of salvation to you. That's true,

1022
00:57:56.640 --> 00:58:01.320
but it was the wrong spirit. So I'd like to point out that there's one kind of

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prophet that literally has the wrong spirit. And here's the challenge, what

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happens, how do prophetic words come to pass? Have you ever thought about this?

1025
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Like, when you prophesy something powerful into the atmosphere, how does it

1026
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actually happen? Are you with me at all? You know, 1 Samuel 3, for example, and God

1027
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.760
was with Samuel and let none of his words fall to the ground or fail. How did

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00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:32.560
that happen? Here's how it actually happens. Here's how it practically

1029
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happens in the spiritual world, if I could say practical and spiritual. When

1030
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you prophesy when it's the Lord, angels actually go out and carry out his words,

1031
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Psalms 105, verse 20. They hearken to his voice and they carry out his word. So you

1032
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:53.920
have agents, Hebrews 11, that angels are the servants of those who receive

1033
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salvation. So when you prophesy, what's actually happening is you're sending out

1034
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:03.480
God's agents to bring about the prophetic word. What happens when a

1035
00:59:03.520 --> 00:59:09.080
psychic prophesies? Well, not only did you just get a word, but you just attach

1036
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yourself to the demonic realm. The scariest part of going to a psychic, a

1037
00:59:17.720 --> 00:59:22.760
sorcerer, any of those things, is not the word, because they often will have an

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accurate word. The challenge is who's making it accurate. So source matters.

1039
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Okay, I'm gonna read you a few of Jesus's words. Matthew 7, verses 15 through 27.

1040
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I don't know if we'll read them all. Beware of false prophets who come to you in

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sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravaged wolves. You'll know them by their

1042
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:50.880
fruits. He goes on to talk about fruit. He said, then you'll know them by their

1043
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fruits. Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but

1044
00:59:54.600 --> 00:59:58.920
those who do the will of the Father. Everybody say, do the will of the Father.

1045
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Who's he?

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01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.360
heaven. Many will say in that day, Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name?

1047
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:09.960
Didn't we cast out demons and in your name perform many miracles? And he will

1048
01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:15.480
say and declare to them, I never knew you depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.

1049
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:20.240
Okay, let me tell you about the second kind of prophet. The second kind of false

1050
01:00:20.240 --> 01:00:25.080
prophet is a person who receives a gift from God. Remember that there's a calling,

1051
01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:29.040
gifting, and anointing. Your calling gives your identity, your gifting gives your

1052
01:00:29.040 --> 01:00:33.000
ability, and your anointing gives your purpose. The gifts and callings of God are

1053
01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:37.840
irrevocable. Romans chapter 11 verse 29. The gifts and callings of God are

1054
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irrevocable. So if God calls you to be a prophet or prophetess, maybe from birth,

1055
01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:46.160
maybe after you receive Christ, maybe 20 years after you receive Christ, once you

1056
01:00:46.160 --> 01:00:51.280
receive that call, God never takes it back. That doesn't mean you're gonna

1057
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.920
always walk with God because God doesn't control you, remember that? So what

1058
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.160
happens when I get a call from God on my life, a prophet, or a gift from God in my

1059
01:01:00.160 --> 01:01:06.000
life, prophecy, remember? Haley taught us a gift is something I do, the

1060
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:10.560
call is something I am, and then I walk away from God. Guess what? I get to take

1061
01:01:10.560 --> 01:01:18.760
my stuff with me. I get all the stuff in my divorce with God. Now, I still have the

1062
01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:23.840
call as a prophet or the gift of prophecy on my life, but who's anointing

1063
01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:30.520
it? Are you with me? So how many understand that this isn't the spirit of

1064
01:01:30.520 --> 01:01:36.560
divination, this is the Spirit of God anointed by the devil? Are you with me?

1065
01:01:36.560 --> 01:01:40.800
Two different kinds of false prophets. Now, Jesus makes this statement about

1066
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:46.320
false prophets. You'll know them because they're in sheep's clothing, but they're

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01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:51.240
inwardly wolves. I want to just make some quick points. So they look like

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01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:57.760
sheep, number one. Number two, they can do signs and wonders, because Jesus never

1069
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:02.120
rebuked them, never said to them, no, you didn't do, you didn't prophesy in my

1070
01:02:02.120 --> 01:02:08.240
name, you didn't cast out demons. He said, depart from me, you lawless one, I never

1071
01:02:08.240 --> 01:02:14.600
knew you. I didn't say you didn't know me, I said I never knew you. And he goes on,

1072
01:02:14.680 --> 01:02:19.960
this is the story where he goes on to talk about how one man built his house

1073
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on a rock, and the other built his house on sand. This is a very, what I'm

1074
01:02:25.040 --> 01:02:29.680
getting at is, we seldom realize that Jesus is still talking about false

1075
01:02:29.680 --> 01:02:34.720
prophets and fruit. What is the fruit he's talking about? What is the fruit?

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01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:41.040
Well, remember he said that they are lawless. He calls them lawless. Now, what

1077
01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:45.040
does that mean, lawless? Like, they don't keep the law of Moses, they don't obey

1078
01:02:45.040 --> 01:02:49.280
the laws of the land. What is, when Jesus in that context is saying, here's how

1079
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:54.680
you'll know the fruit, they're lawless. And then he gives an example of what he

1080
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means by lawless. One person built his house on a sand, another built his house

1081
01:02:59.120 --> 01:03:04.560
on a rock. And the person who built his house on the sand was the person

1082
01:03:04.560 --> 01:03:10.080
who heard the word, but didn't do it. The person who heard, that built his house on

1083
01:03:10.080 --> 01:03:15.120
the rock, is the person who heard the word and did it. My point is, Jesus calls

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01:03:15.120 --> 01:03:21.920
lawless people, people who hear but don't respond. And he says, false prophets are

1085
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:26.280
like the person who builds on the sand. They hear the Word of the Lord, but they

1086
01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:30.960
don't do anything about it. And I'd like to point out that false prophets build

1087
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:36.280
on sand, they build on particles of truth. So they all had their pet doctrines,

1088
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:41.840
often taken out of context. They have pebbles of sand, but they don't have the

1089
01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:48.320
rock. They don't take the Bible in context. With our prophetic people, let me

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01:03:48.320 --> 01:03:52.920
tell you, there is a lot of pressure at Bethel to be revelatory, because of our

1091
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:58.120
leader. Like have heavy revs. You know, I don't know if you ever heard Pastor Bill

1092
01:03:58.120 --> 01:04:05.160
teach, but he'll like share one line, then he'll pause. And people are like, whoa,

1093
01:04:05.160 --> 01:04:08.600
where'd he get that? I used to do that when I first started teaching, because I

1094
01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:14.200
follow my leader. And I'd pause, and it'd be like, oh, they forgot his message.

1095
01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:23.320
There's a ton of pressure. There's a ton of pressure to be revelatory in this

1096
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:28.400
church. I want to tell you, I mean, I feel it. Everybody feels it. Everybody feels it.

1097
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:33.280
Like, I've been with Bill 45 years, and when Bill's in the front row, I got to

1098
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:37.880
say, I'm not nervous, but I am concerned.

1099
01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:43.760
It's like, we always, we secretly call him Moses. He knows that, but

1100
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:47.480
we call him Moses. Like he goes up, gets a revelatory word, brings it

1101
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:52.760
down, and we're all like... And what's really strange is, he usually just quotes the

1102
01:04:52.760 --> 01:05:01.760
Bible pervade him. And you're like, wow, where'd he get that? Somebody's like...

1103
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:11.120
It's Matthew 24, why does it sound so different when he reads it than when I read it?

1104
01:05:11.120 --> 01:05:17.800
And what happens is, and this is a warning, the pressure on our teams to be revelatory

1105
01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:20.000
makes you weird.

1106
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.720
And what I've watched over and over, Ben could tell you this too late, is that our

1107
01:05:23.720 --> 01:05:32.200
prophetic people pick weird verses, one-offs, and build a whole ministry around it.

1108
01:05:32.200 --> 01:05:35.840
Well the Neopham were sons of God, got to be with the daughters of men, and I'm like,

1109
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:40.120
I don't care if you teach that, but if that's all the kind of stuff you're teaching, you

1110
01:05:40.120 --> 01:05:43.400
scare the crap out of me.

1111
01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:50.780
If you can't teach John 3, 16 as part of what you do, if you can't, you know, teach things

1112
01:05:50.900 --> 01:05:59.060
that aren't obscure, like love your brother, do good to people, forgive, and your entire,

1113
01:05:59.060 --> 01:06:02.300
and you know, Ben could tell you, we're pastoring people out of this.

1114
01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:11.740
There's just pressure to find a verse that has, you know, the seven spirits of God.

1115
01:06:11.740 --> 01:06:15.140
Can't even tell you how many messages I've heard on the seven spirits of God.

1116
01:06:15.140 --> 01:06:21.420
And listen, listen, listen, some of them are good, but my challenge is, is that when

1117
01:06:21.420 --> 01:06:28.740
that's your meat and potatoes, you scare me, because you're getting weird.

1118
01:06:28.740 --> 01:06:34.300
And if you're going to do something weird, I want to know that you do eat meat and potatoes,

1119
01:06:34.300 --> 01:06:39.260
and that once in a while you eat, you know, whatever, sushi or something.

1120
01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:40.260
That's weird.

1121
01:06:40.260 --> 01:06:45.020
I don't like sushi, so it's easy for me to say.

1122
01:06:45.900 --> 01:06:47.140
Let me go a little faster.

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01:06:47.140 --> 01:06:49.700
They look like sheep, but they're called lawless.

1124
01:06:49.700 --> 01:06:51.260
What does lawless mean in the Bible?

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01:06:51.260 --> 01:06:54.340
It means they hear, but they don't do.

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01:06:54.340 --> 01:06:59.940
Number two, false prophets have pet scriptures that are usually way out there.

1127
01:06:59.940 --> 01:07:04.140
You can't really argue with them, because, I mean, how do you argue with the seven spirits

1128
01:07:04.140 --> 01:07:05.140
of God?

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01:07:05.140 --> 01:07:06.140
I don't know.

1130
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You know what, I get it.

1131
01:07:07.140 --> 01:07:12.120
False prophets have power, but unfortunately their goal is to use their influence to lead

1132
01:07:12.240 --> 01:07:15.240
people to themselves instead of to Christ.

1133
01:07:15.240 --> 01:07:25.320
Okay, I don't have very much time, so in 1 John 4, it says this,

1134
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:27.400
Beloved, don't believe every spirit.

1135
01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:29.240
Okay, let me stop.

1136
01:07:29.240 --> 01:07:30.720
John is writing to the church.

1137
01:07:30.720 --> 01:07:33.520
This was not written to the world.

1138
01:07:33.520 --> 01:07:39.880
So I have people all the time say, well, I'm blood washed, and the devil can't talk to

1139
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:40.880
me.

1140
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:42.600
Well, he talked to Jesus.

1141
01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:48.040
Jesus was kind of blood washed.

1142
01:07:48.040 --> 01:07:52.120
I'm saying people have theology they haven't thought through.

1143
01:07:52.120 --> 01:07:54.760
These are the same people I put on the forearmer of God.

1144
01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:58.180
Why do you need that if he can't influence you?

1145
01:07:58.180 --> 01:08:04.120
Why does Jesus warn you about false prophets if they have no influence on you?

1146
01:08:04.120 --> 01:08:14.160
So here John says, Beloved, Beloved, I'm stalling, Beloved, where did it go?

1147
01:08:14.160 --> 01:08:18.380
Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they're from God.

1148
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For many false prophets have went out into the world.

1149
01:08:21.060 --> 01:08:26.319
This is a direct warning to the church to not become a false prophet by listening to

1150
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:29.319
the wrong spirit.

1151
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:34.160
And then, I don't know if you know this, but this is the theme of 1 John 4.

1152
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I'm saying from the beginning of 1 John 4, where he opens with, Beloved, don't become

1153
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:42.800
a false prophet, Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they're

1154
01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:43.800
from God.

1155
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For many false prophets went out into the world.

1156
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That is the theme of the entire chapter.

1157
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You know that song, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God.

1158
01:08:53.240 --> 01:08:55.920
Some of you are not old enough to know this song.

1159
01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:01.920
You might, listen, I'm doing this with a cold.

1160
01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:05.640
If you thought that was good, you should hear me when my nasals aren't plugged.

1161
01:09:05.640 --> 01:09:07.479
No, you know that song, right?

1162
01:09:07.479 --> 01:09:08.920
How many of you know that song?

1163
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That's actually about false prophets.

1164
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loveth is born

1165
01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:17.080
of God and knows God.

1166
01:09:17.080 --> 01:09:21.399
He that loveth not, knoweth not God.

1167
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That's in John's discussion about false prophets.

1168
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And he's saying, how do you know a false prophet?

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If they don't love, I don't care what their word is, they're not from God.

1170
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I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you, how many am I going to give you?

1171
01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:45.080
I'm going to give you five signs of a false prophet according to John.

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The first one is, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is

1173
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from God.

1174
01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:55.760
Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

1175
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.920
This is the spirit of antichrist, which you've heard, that is coming and is now our

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01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.040
in the world. Okay, number one, does the prophet believe in the redemptive work

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of the Son of God? So these are five tests. Does the prophet, does the prophet,

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the supposed prophet, does he believe in the redemptive work of the blood of

1179
01:10:14.040 --> 01:10:19.440
Jesus? Let me tell you, that eliminates almost all the psychics. So we're like,

1180
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okay, we got those guys off, because if you don't believe that the blood of

1181
01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:27.400
Jesus frees people, redeems people, and transforms people, you got the

1182
01:10:27.400 --> 01:10:35.920
wrong spirit. Are you with me? Okay, number two, let me read the verse. Verse four

1183
01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:39.880
through six, you are from God, little children, and you've overcome them, because

1184
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:43.160
greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. Remember, he's still

1185
01:10:43.160 --> 01:10:47.320
talking about false prophets. They are from the world. Who? The false prophets

1186
01:10:47.320 --> 01:10:50.440
are from the world. They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the

1187
01:10:50.440 --> 01:10:55.920
world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and he who knows God, listen

1188
01:10:55.920 --> 01:11:02.720
to this, this is key, listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to

1189
01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:07.560
us. By this you'll know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. I'd like

1190
01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:11.720
to point out that false prophets are almost never connected to a church,

1191
01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:16.880
because they're more spiritual. They don't listen, because they're not in

1192
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:20.240
submission to anyone. This is what I was sharing with you when we talked about

1193
01:11:20.240 --> 01:11:23.960
prophetic etiquette. It is so important that you have accountability.

1194
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.120
Accountability means that you trust someone more than you trust yourself.

1195
01:11:27.120 --> 01:11:33.320
Okay, here we go. Do you know what it means to be deceived? It means you're

1196
01:11:33.320 --> 01:11:37.560
wrong and you don't know it. If you're wrong and know it, that's not being

1197
01:11:37.560 --> 01:11:45.040
deceived. That means stupid. Are you with me? If I know I'm wrong, just think

1198
01:11:45.040 --> 01:11:48.240
through this with me. I'm not trying to be, I'm trying to be a little funny just

1199
01:11:48.280 --> 01:11:55.160
to entertain you, but if I know I'm wrong and I do it anyway, I don't really need

1200
01:11:55.160 --> 01:12:01.160
you to tell me I'm wrong. I might need you to give me a kick in the butt to do

1201
01:12:01.160 --> 01:12:06.240
the right thing, but I know I'm wrong. And let me say this, three-quarters of us

1202
01:12:06.240 --> 01:12:09.400
know we're wrong when we do something wrong, right? Come on, you got the

1203
01:12:09.400 --> 01:12:12.480
conviction. You're like, I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna eat that anyway. I know

1204
01:12:12.480 --> 01:12:16.080
I'm gonna have a stomachache tomorrow. I'm gonna say that even though it's

1205
01:12:16.080 --> 01:12:18.720
gonna make my wife mad, and I know I'll regret it tomorrow, but I'm gonna do it

1206
01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:27.560
anyway. Like, and by the way, you can't sin unintentionally. Let me start, let me say

1207
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:33.880
that again. Paul said, when the law came, capital L, the law of Moses. When the law

1208
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:37.960
came, sin increased. Not because I did more wrong, but because now I knew that

1209
01:12:37.960 --> 01:12:43.640
it was wrong. You can't sin by accident. You can only sin on purpose. If I live

1210
01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:46.840
with my girlfriend, I never got connected to the Bible, I know

1211
01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:50.680
Christianity, I was, you know, I grew up in a commune, and I'm sleeping with my

1212
01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:57.600
girlfriend, because people can be that ignorant nowadays. How many understand

1213
01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:01.960
that unless I've had Holy Spirit conviction, well I'm living there in the

1214
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:06.400
world, and the Holy Spirit's like, get out of this relationship, I only, if I don't

1215
01:13:06.400 --> 01:13:12.280
have any way to know that's wrong, until the Holy Spirit convicts me, maybe it's

1216
01:13:12.280 --> 01:13:18.640
through the Bible, or a preacher, whatever, I actually am not sinning. What would be

1217
01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:23.880
sin for you isn't sin for them, because sin is an act of the heart. Are you

1218
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:32.240
following me? So if I'm deceived, the only way I can get out of deception is to

1219
01:13:32.240 --> 01:13:39.720
actually trust someone more than I trust myself. How do I know I'm deceived? Well,

1220
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:48.960
when someone confronts me, it feels wrong. Here we go. I'm saying, if you are truly

1221
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:52.760
deceived, if I'm truly deceived about something, and Daniel comes and says, hey

1222
01:13:52.760 --> 01:13:58.000
you know that thing, I see this thing in your life, it doesn't feel true.

1223
01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:04.080
Otherwise I'm not deceived. I'll tell you this quick story, I always tell on

1224
01:14:04.080 --> 01:14:09.320
myself anyway, but this is many years, this is probably 12 years ago. So I'm

1225
01:14:09.320 --> 01:14:14.800
perfect now, by the way, I fixed it all. Danny Silk, who's one of my very close

1226
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:20.400
friends, I led Danny to the Lord when he was 22, came into my office and he was on

1227
01:14:20.400 --> 01:14:24.600
his way, he says, hey I'm gonna fly out in 15 minutes, but I got to tell you this

1228
01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:30.000
thing. I said, what is it? He said, I see arrogance and pride in you. I said, okay.

1229
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.240
Sit down. He said, I just have a few minutes, so I don't have time to argue

1230
01:14:33.240 --> 01:14:38.520
with you. He's always saying that to me. Time to argue. Okay. So he sits down and he

1231
01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:44.040
says, and he talks about three incidents, one was in staff meeting, one

1232
01:14:44.040 --> 01:14:48.320
was with a traveling speaker who came, and one was an incident with one of our

1233
01:14:48.320 --> 01:14:54.360
staff. And he said, I saw arrogance and pride on you in those meetings, and you

1234
01:14:54.360 --> 01:14:58.260
were talking da da da, it's all about you, and da da da, he's telling me this thing. And I

1235
01:14:58.260 --> 01:15:01.960
said, I don't feel that's true. He said, well

1236
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:06.260
Listen, it's my job to tell you, it's your job to work it out.

1237
01:15:06.260 --> 01:15:08.900
And he left, and I was angry.

1238
01:15:08.900 --> 01:15:17.400
So I go to bed that night, and I'm like, okay, so, you know, Danny's wrong.

1239
01:15:17.400 --> 01:15:21.500
And I'm really thinking that my challenge is to forgive Danny for being wrong.

1240
01:15:21.500 --> 01:15:25.240
I thought, this is the big challenge right here, forgive your brother.

1241
01:15:25.240 --> 01:15:30.080
But when I lay down, the Lord said to me these words, if you don't trust someone more

1242
01:15:30.080 --> 01:15:33.360
than you trust yourself, you can't get out of deception, because the nature of deception

1243
01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:34.440
is you don't know you're deceived.

1244
01:15:34.440 --> 01:15:37.440
That was what I'd been teaching the students for 10 years.

1245
01:15:37.440 --> 01:15:44.300
He quoted me.

1246
01:15:44.300 --> 01:15:49.080
And I'm laying there, and I'm like, okay, so the nature of deception is it doesn't feel

1247
01:15:49.080 --> 01:15:51.800
real, this doesn't feel real.

1248
01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:55.080
And the Lord said to me, does Danny love you?

1249
01:15:55.080 --> 01:15:58.640
I know Danny would give his, he would physically give his life for me.

1250
01:15:58.640 --> 01:15:59.640
Yes.

1251
01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:00.960
Was Danny trying to hurt you?

1252
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:06.560
Well, it was painful, but no, that wouldn't be his intent.

1253
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:11.560
And so he took me through all these things, like, is Danny trustworthy in your life?

1254
01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:14.280
Not is he perfect, is he trustworthy in your life?

1255
01:16:14.280 --> 01:16:16.900
And all the boxes were yes.

1256
01:16:16.900 --> 01:16:21.480
So the Lord said, then why don't you trust him, meaning I had to agree with something

1257
01:16:21.480 --> 01:16:25.160
I didn't feel was true.

1258
01:16:25.160 --> 01:16:31.080
And so I'm laying there, and I said, all right, in tears, I trust Danny, that there's a problem

1259
01:16:31.080 --> 01:16:35.240
with arrogance and pride in my life, craziest thing happened.

1260
01:16:35.240 --> 01:16:37.560
I've never had it happen before.

1261
01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:41.360
I suddenly could see my sin.

1262
01:16:41.360 --> 01:16:43.240
I could see it, like, I could see it.

1263
01:16:43.240 --> 01:16:48.960
And not only that, but Danny pointed out three places, and I saw it like 10 places.

1264
01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:52.760
And I saw it here, and there, and there, it was like the Lord said, yeah, and Danny

1265
01:16:52.760 --> 01:16:56.000
wasn't here when you did all this.

1266
01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:58.440
And you know what happens when you're convicted?

1267
01:16:58.440 --> 01:17:01.880
You can't wait to make it right, right?

1268
01:17:01.880 --> 01:17:07.480
And I laid there, wept through the morning, and the Lord's like, okay, okay, you changed

1269
01:17:07.480 --> 01:17:09.720
your attitude, but you haven't cleaned up your mess.

1270
01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:14.120
And I wrote letters, and the next staff meeting, which was the next week, I stood up in the

1271
01:17:14.120 --> 01:17:18.160
staff meeting and said, this happened to me, I just want to ask you to forgive me for my

1272
01:17:18.160 --> 01:17:21.080
arrogance, and I just had to go clean up mess.

1273
01:17:21.080 --> 01:17:26.200
I'll tell you what happens is, you sin a lot less when you have to bring forth fruit of

1274
01:17:26.200 --> 01:17:29.920
repentance.

1275
01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:37.360
But my point is, is that you have to find people that you can trust more than trust

1276
01:17:37.360 --> 01:17:38.360
you.

1277
01:17:38.360 --> 01:17:39.360
And I want to say one more thing about that.

1278
01:17:39.360 --> 01:17:45.440
I know I'm taking a long time for this, but I think this is big with prophets.

1279
01:17:45.440 --> 01:17:50.440
You want to find someone you trust before you're in trouble.

1280
01:17:50.440 --> 01:17:55.040
Because when you're in trouble, it's really hard to trust anyone.

1281
01:17:55.040 --> 01:17:58.480
So this is a culture, like you want to build a culture around you.

1282
01:17:58.480 --> 01:18:04.580
And listen, I would say you need two or three people that you trust on that level.

1283
01:18:04.580 --> 01:18:10.160
And sometimes you need to get them all in the room at the same time to see if they agree.

1284
01:18:10.160 --> 01:18:15.400
Especially when it's a really big thing, where they think you have a really big mess, and

1285
01:18:15.400 --> 01:18:19.120
you get your three people in that you trust more than you trust yourself, and you say,

1286
01:18:19.120 --> 01:18:20.560
hey, Danny thought this about me.

1287
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:21.840
In this case, I didn't need that.

1288
01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:26.180
But I mean, if it would have been a really big mess, I'd be like, hey, Bill and Dan,

1289
01:18:26.180 --> 01:18:27.180
can you come in?

1290
01:18:27.180 --> 01:18:28.180
This is what Danny's thinking.

1291
01:18:28.180 --> 01:18:30.320
I don't see it at all.

1292
01:18:30.320 --> 01:18:33.280
Like I don't feel any conviction for it, I don't see it at all.

1293
01:18:33.280 --> 01:18:36.160
And they go, oh, yeah, well, we've been wanting to talk to you about that.

1294
01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:41.560
Okay, well, if it's a big mess cleanup, like it's going to be very costly.

1295
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:45.940
Now I have three witnesses that I actually have a problem.

1296
01:18:45.940 --> 01:18:47.200
This is really big, guys.

1297
01:18:47.200 --> 01:18:49.420
It's so missing in the body of Christ.

1298
01:18:49.420 --> 01:18:55.360
We have virtual reality relationships, we go to virtual church, with virtual relationships,

1299
01:18:55.360 --> 01:19:02.000
with virtual accountability, with virtually no one.

1300
01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:06.040
And have real problems, big problems.

1301
01:19:06.040 --> 01:19:10.440
And then we shoot at the people who try to bring us a new account.

1302
01:19:10.440 --> 01:19:11.440
This is what happens.

1303
01:19:11.440 --> 01:19:15.200
I can't even tell you how many times, I'm so far over my time.

1304
01:19:15.200 --> 01:19:17.600
I don't know how tight the times are.

1305
01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:19.600
Okay, I want to finish this.

1306
01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:20.600
I'm going to finish this.

1307
01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:25.000
It probably is going to take 10 minutes.

1308
01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:28.360
I want to tell you, this is something, this is an observation.

1309
01:19:28.360 --> 01:19:31.960
We've had seven false prophets here since I've been here.

1310
01:19:31.960 --> 01:19:32.960
That I know of.

1311
01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:36.520
I mean, there may have been 50, but I mean, somebody that actually caused a problem.

1312
01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:38.720
They all had one thing in common.

1313
01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:40.480
You should write this down.

1314
01:19:40.480 --> 01:19:43.880
They were hyper-spiritual.

1315
01:19:43.880 --> 01:19:49.360
I have never, personally, and I'm sure there are exceptions, I have never met a false prophet

1316
01:19:49.360 --> 01:19:51.240
who wasn't hyper-spiritual.

1317
01:19:51.240 --> 01:19:53.640
God tells them everything.

1318
01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:55.880
Like you sit with them and you're like, you don't even know if you have a relation with

1319
01:19:55.880 --> 01:19:57.960
God when you get done talking to them.

1320
01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:00.080
God tells them when to go to the bathroom, God tells them what to wear.

1321
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:01.100
Where in the morning?

1322
01:20:01.100 --> 01:20:03.580
No, you, I am not exaggerating.

1323
01:20:05.440 --> 01:20:06.880
God, yeah, this isn't meaning like,

1324
01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:07.720
I had to go to the bathroom,

1325
01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:09.180
but the Holy Spirit told me not to.

1326
01:20:09.180 --> 01:20:11.640
I don't even ask the Holy Spirit

1327
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:13.200
when I have to go to the bathroom.

1328
01:20:15.480 --> 01:20:17.280
Holy Spirit told me what time to get up.

1329
01:20:17.280 --> 01:20:19.680
Holy Spirit, listen, I've had seasons like that,

1330
01:20:19.680 --> 01:20:20.880
so let me be clear.

1331
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:23.480
I've had seasons where my,

1332
01:20:23.480 --> 01:20:26.380
the idea of spirit-led was morning to night,

1333
01:20:26.380 --> 01:20:29.160
even my menu, even what I wore.

1334
01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:30.740
I'm not talking about an exception.

1335
01:20:30.740 --> 01:20:34.620
I'm talking about they live a life of hyper-spirituality.

1336
01:20:34.620 --> 01:20:36.620
And let me tell you what it actually means.

1337
01:20:36.620 --> 01:20:39.060
It means I have such a good relationship with God

1338
01:20:39.060 --> 01:20:42.320
that he tells me everything and I don't need you.

1339
01:20:42.320 --> 01:20:46.980
It's actually related to no human is as spiritual as me.

1340
01:20:46.980 --> 01:20:48.620
And here's the real problem.

1341
01:20:48.620 --> 01:20:51.500
I'm freaking terrified of people.

1342
01:20:51.500 --> 01:20:54.660
Almost all, I'm trying to think of,

1343
01:20:54.660 --> 01:20:58.060
I'm trying to remember all the names that,

1344
01:20:58.060 --> 01:20:59.240
because I know there's been seven,

1345
01:20:59.240 --> 01:21:01.840
but I don't have them all in my mind right now.

1346
01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:05.120
But almost all of them were deeply abused

1347
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.240
by fathers or mothers or someone in authority.

1348
01:21:09.240 --> 01:21:11.680
And they grew in the Lord to a place

1349
01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:13.920
where they didn't trust anyone.

1350
01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:16.560
And so how do they keep from having to take

1351
01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:18.440
any input from humans?

1352
01:21:18.440 --> 01:21:21.580
That it's God tells them everything.

1353
01:21:21.580 --> 01:21:22.880
God tells them everything.

1354
01:21:23.740 --> 01:21:28.740
That in my mind, now that I'm doing this a long time,

1355
01:21:28.860 --> 01:21:30.820
for me, that's the first sign.

1356
01:21:30.820 --> 01:21:32.620
Yeah, and have you ever had a conversation

1357
01:21:32.620 --> 01:21:33.580
like this with people?

1358
01:21:33.580 --> 01:21:34.980
Some of you are in the room.

1359
01:21:38.980 --> 01:21:43.140
Yeah, like God told me to go to bed at 10, 10.01.

1360
01:21:43.140 --> 01:21:46.860
Okay, and get up at 7.15 specifically.

1361
01:21:46.860 --> 01:21:49.060
And it's out of Isaiah 7.15.

1362
01:21:49.060 --> 01:21:49.900
Oh.

1363
01:21:50.400 --> 01:21:54.000
Yeah, told me to get these shoes.

1364
01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:56.320
I paid $7.15 for them.

1365
01:21:57.520 --> 01:22:01.520
They don't fit, but I had to go with 7.15.

1366
01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:03.760
They're children's shoes.

1367
01:22:03.760 --> 01:22:05.840
Cut the toes out so I could,

1368
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:10.840
like ridiculous, ridiculous stuff.

1369
01:22:11.120 --> 01:22:12.360
I'll tell you another thing.

1370
01:22:12.360 --> 01:22:16.480
And this is kind of, this is a symptom.

1371
01:22:16.480 --> 01:22:18.460
They often can't hold a job down.

1372
01:22:20.040 --> 01:22:22.840
Because I mean, literally, nobody can tell them what to do.

1373
01:22:30.400 --> 01:22:34.560
Okay, false prophets, number three.

1374
01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:37.800
So number two is false prophets don't listen to anyone,

1375
01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:39.280
and they're often hyper-spiritual.

1376
01:22:39.280 --> 01:22:42.360
Number three is false prophets are not motivated by love,

1377
01:22:42.360 --> 01:22:44.920
but are motivated by the need to be noticed.

1378
01:22:46.120 --> 01:22:49.600
False prophets are motivated by the need to be noticed.

1379
01:22:50.300 --> 01:22:51.120
I don't know if I need to read you the scripture,

1380
01:22:51.120 --> 01:22:55.420
but number four, false prophets

1381
01:22:55.420 --> 01:22:57.500
commonly use fear to motivate people.

1382
01:22:58.500 --> 01:23:01.280
Oh man, this is the clickbait prophecies.

1383
01:23:02.980 --> 01:23:04.380
I'll tell you another thing.

1384
01:23:04.380 --> 01:23:05.860
Well, let me finish that one.

1385
01:23:07.060 --> 01:23:10.860
When people are using fear to motivate you,

1386
01:23:10.860 --> 01:23:13.160
it's almost always rooted in the wrong spirit.

1387
01:23:16.700 --> 01:23:18.100
Doom and gloom prophets.

1388
01:23:19.080 --> 01:23:22.920
Well, America, you know, this is kind of crazy stuff.

1389
01:23:22.920 --> 01:23:26.400
America is under the judgment of God for abortion.

1390
01:23:26.400 --> 01:23:28.360
So he's gonna kill a bunch of people,

1391
01:23:28.360 --> 01:23:30.720
like when the Twin Towers fell.

1392
01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:33.680
I can't even tell you how many prophets are like,

1393
01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:35.880
the Twin Towers fell because God

1394
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:38.560
is judging America for abortion.

1395
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:41.380
I'm like, okay, let's think this through, guys.

1396
01:23:41.380 --> 01:23:45.260
So God so hates that we are killing babies

1397
01:23:45.260 --> 01:23:46.760
that he's gonna punish us

1398
01:23:46.780 --> 01:23:48.340
by killing a whole bunch of people

1399
01:23:48.340 --> 01:23:50.760
to make the point that he believes in life.

1400
01:23:52.100 --> 01:23:52.940
It's pretty deep.

1401
01:23:54.660 --> 01:23:56.260
Pretty darn deep.

1402
01:23:57.780 --> 01:23:59.540
Yeah, yeah.

1403
01:23:59.540 --> 01:24:01.740
And he didn't do it to the Chinese

1404
01:24:02.980 --> 01:24:06.380
who only allow two children

1405
01:24:06.380 --> 01:24:10.180
in a board 100 times more than Americans.

1406
01:24:12.340 --> 01:24:14.420
But anyway, I could go on and on.

1407
01:24:14.420 --> 01:24:17.440
It's like, we find something goes wrong

1408
01:24:17.440 --> 01:24:20.760
and we're like, directly related to the judgment of God.

1409
01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:23.520
Let me tell you something, there's gonna be a judgment day.

1410
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:28.480
But right now, how many know that you're not in the last day

1411
01:24:28.480 --> 01:24:30.040
you're in the last days.

1412
01:24:30.040 --> 01:24:33.560
And the last days are the days of grace.

1413
01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:35.400
The last day is the day of judgment.

1414
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:37.720
Okay.

1415
01:24:39.160 --> 01:24:40.300
Here's another one.

1416
01:24:40.300 --> 01:24:43.000
How many have ever heard this?

1417
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:44.120
God told me some stuff about you,

1418
01:24:44.820 --> 01:24:45.660
but I can't tell you.

1419
01:24:46.980 --> 01:24:47.900
You're laughing, right?

1420
01:24:47.900 --> 01:24:49.060
You've heard it, right?

1421
01:24:50.260 --> 01:24:52.200
I had an encounter with God last night about you

1422
01:24:52.200 --> 01:24:53.100
and had this dream about you.

1423
01:24:53.100 --> 01:24:54.060
Oh yeah, what happened?

1424
01:24:54.060 --> 01:24:54.900
I can't tell you.

1425
01:24:54.900 --> 01:24:56.460
He told me I can't tell you.

1426
01:24:56.460 --> 01:24:58.460
Sealed up like the book of Revelation.

1427
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.000
What am I really saying?

1428
01:25:05.020 --> 01:25:08.820
I know things you'd like to know but I can't tell you

1429
01:25:08.820 --> 01:25:13.140
because I'm so spiritual that I know things about your life

1430
01:25:13.140 --> 01:25:14.580
you don't even know about your life

1431
01:25:14.580 --> 01:25:17.260
and the whole goal is I have power over you

1432
01:25:17.260 --> 01:25:20.060
because I have knowledge about you that you don't have.

1433
01:25:22.820 --> 01:25:26.180
Control, it's the spirit of manipulation.

1434
01:25:26.180 --> 01:25:29.460
And let me tell you, manipulation is witchcraft.

1435
01:25:29.460 --> 01:25:31.260
Witchcraft and witchcrap.

1436
01:25:33.860 --> 01:25:35.820
And I'll tell you that oftentimes Christians

1437
01:25:35.820 --> 01:25:37.740
enter into witchcraft.

1438
01:25:37.740 --> 01:25:39.420
Whenever you're manipulating someone,

1439
01:25:39.420 --> 01:25:41.980
you have attached an anointing to the wrong spirit.

1440
01:25:45.820 --> 01:25:46.660
Okay.

1441
01:25:48.500 --> 01:25:51.040
Okay, I'm gonna read you this last page.

1442
01:25:51.040 --> 01:25:56.040
I finished this manual and the original manual,

1443
01:25:56.100 --> 01:25:58.460
this was the last chapter of the original manual.

1444
01:25:58.500 --> 01:26:01.980
When I got all done, I sent it to the printer

1445
01:26:01.980 --> 01:26:04.780
and the Lord's like, there's no hope in that.

1446
01:26:04.780 --> 01:26:06.220
And that's your last chapter.

1447
01:26:07.900 --> 01:26:10.140
Great manual and let's finish with,

1448
01:26:10.140 --> 01:26:11.420
there's no hope for you.

1449
01:26:13.100 --> 01:26:17.100
If you see yourself in any of these things, hell bound.

1450
01:26:19.620 --> 01:26:23.900
So I actually called it back from the printer

1451
01:26:23.900 --> 01:26:27.300
and actually wrote this last couple of paragraphs.

1452
01:26:27.300 --> 01:26:29.580
Leading people out of prophetic deception.

1453
01:26:29.580 --> 01:26:33.020
Confronting those who believe that they are true prophets

1454
01:26:33.020 --> 01:26:38.100
but are not, can be rather difficult.

1455
01:26:38.100 --> 01:26:41.100
Most false prophets have been abused by authority

1456
01:26:41.100 --> 01:26:42.220
in much of their lives,

1457
01:26:42.220 --> 01:26:44.540
and therefore they do not trust anyone.

1458
01:26:44.540 --> 01:26:46.140
Fear is the number one reason

1459
01:26:46.140 --> 01:26:48.220
why people become hyper spiritual

1460
01:26:48.220 --> 01:26:50.700
and it results in religious deception.

1461
01:26:50.700 --> 01:26:51.700
To make matters worse,

1462
01:26:51.700 --> 01:26:54.380
many false prophets have a martyr's complex.

1463
01:26:55.260 --> 01:26:58.100
The more they are confronted about their weirdness,

1464
01:26:58.100 --> 01:27:01.700
the more it validates that, I'm sorry,

1465
01:27:01.700 --> 01:27:04.460
the more it validates how they feel.

1466
01:27:04.460 --> 01:27:08.300
They interpret attempts at correcting them as persecution

1467
01:27:08.300 --> 01:27:11.100
that proves that they are standing for God

1468
01:27:11.100 --> 01:27:15.780
and against the unrighteous religious system.

1469
01:27:15.780 --> 01:27:17.260
They say things like,

1470
01:27:17.260 --> 01:27:21.560
I don't believe in organized religion.

1471
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:25.560
When the real problem is they don't like boundaries.

1472
01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:28.440
Remember, Jesus calls them lawless.

1473
01:27:28.440 --> 01:27:29.960
Lawless people are those

1474
01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:32.760
who want to live outside of authority.

1475
01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:35.000
So how can they be helped?

1476
01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:36.640
First of all, the leaders of the flock

1477
01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:39.040
must not be afraid to confront these people,

1478
01:27:39.040 --> 01:27:41.440
even though they may appear to be more spiritual

1479
01:27:41.440 --> 01:27:44.280
than the leadership they may be intimidating.

1480
01:27:44.280 --> 01:27:46.960
Remember, all that wickedness needs to prosper

1481
01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:49.200
is for righteous men to do nothing.

1482
01:27:49.200 --> 01:27:51.080
It's also important not to react,

1483
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:53.000
but instead respond to these people.

1484
01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:55.840
Otherwise, the cure can be worse than the disease.

1485
01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:59.960
People like this are accustomed to criticism and rejection

1486
01:27:59.960 --> 01:28:02.680
and will use it to validate their ministry.

1487
01:28:05.920 --> 01:28:08.320
Then can, however,

1488
01:28:09.200 --> 01:28:11.640
boy, this isn't written very well.

1489
01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:12.740
How can they be won?

1490
01:28:14.120 --> 01:28:15.800
I'm sorry, they can, however,

1491
01:28:15.800 --> 01:28:19.360
be won by true godly discipline, not punishment.

1492
01:28:19.360 --> 01:28:21.560
The difference between punishment and discipline

1493
01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:23.540
is that punishment says I'll get you

1494
01:28:23.540 --> 01:28:25.080
for what damage you've caused,

1495
01:28:25.080 --> 01:28:28.800
but discipline says I love you too much to leave you broken.

1496
01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:30.280
The only hope for these people

1497
01:28:30.280 --> 01:28:32.340
is that they begin to feel loved.

1498
01:28:32.340 --> 01:28:34.160
As they experience the love of God,

1499
01:28:34.160 --> 01:28:36.600
they can begin to trust the leadership

1500
01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:38.780
to lead them out of deception.

1501
01:28:38.780 --> 01:28:41.880
If they refuse to repent and submit to correction,

1502
01:28:41.880 --> 01:28:44.140
they must, this is a big deal,

1503
01:28:44.140 --> 01:28:46.400
they must be removed from the fellowship.

1504
01:28:46.400 --> 01:28:49.000
Otherwise, they will lead others astray.

1505
01:28:49.640 --> 01:28:50.480
As mentioned previously,

1506
01:28:50.480 --> 01:28:52.480
the primary weakness of false prophets

1507
01:28:52.480 --> 01:28:55.800
is that they draw people to themselves instead of to God.

1508
01:28:55.800 --> 01:28:57.780
There is a very narrow window of time

1509
01:28:57.780 --> 01:29:00.280
for leadership to deal with false prophets

1510
01:29:00.280 --> 01:29:02.320
before they rally people to their defense

1511
01:29:02.320 --> 01:29:04.000
against the leadership.

1512
01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:06.580
Most of them have an uncanny ability

1513
01:29:06.580 --> 01:29:10.720
to attract to themselves the young and the hurting sheep

1514
01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:12.920
and are able to divide them from the flock.

1515
01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:15.860
Finally, like wolves, they devour the sheep in deception.

1516
01:29:16.860 --> 01:29:21.860
I just wanna say that,

1517
01:29:25.620 --> 01:29:28.120
I wanna emphasize how true that last line is.

1518
01:29:28.980 --> 01:29:31.340
Like false prophets come into the flock,

1519
01:29:31.340 --> 01:29:32.940
every single one of them.

1520
01:29:32.940 --> 01:29:35.860
And within weeks, I mean weeks,

1521
01:29:35.860 --> 01:29:39.100
they use their gift and they'll say things

1522
01:29:39.100 --> 01:29:40.540
like this is super common.

1523
01:29:40.540 --> 01:29:41.740
I bet there's gonna be people here

1524
01:29:41.740 --> 01:29:45.220
that you're actually being influenced by one right now.

1525
01:29:45.220 --> 01:29:47.340
Not right now, but before you came.

1526
01:29:47.340 --> 01:29:52.340
Be careful, very careful.

1527
01:29:55.140 --> 01:29:57.820
The online audience didn't think that was funny.

1528
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:05.000
They begin by telling you things like,

1529
01:30:07.200 --> 01:30:09.640
the Lord showed me that you're amazing

1530
01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:11.420
and your leaders don't see you.

1531
01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:16.720
They always have an angst with the leaders.

1532
01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:18.960
Their leaders don't see what I see in you.

1533
01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:19.840
And pretty soon they're like,

1534
01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:21.140
you know, I think you're a prophetess.

1535
01:30:21.140 --> 01:30:23.080
I think you're an apostle.

1536
01:30:23.080 --> 01:30:24.320
I actually think that, you know,

1537
01:30:24.320 --> 01:30:26.620
I think you're the true leader of this church.

1538
01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:29.120
I think you should be in leadership.

1539
01:30:29.480 --> 01:30:31.440
I bet your pastor doesn't see that.

1540
01:30:31.440 --> 01:30:36.440
And they will get in just very short time.

1541
01:30:37.080 --> 01:30:39.600
I'm not talking about months, I'm talking about weeks.

1542
01:30:39.600 --> 01:30:42.320
They will have people, 20, 30 people around them.

1543
01:30:42.320 --> 01:30:44.280
They will invite them to their home

1544
01:30:44.280 --> 01:30:46.520
and there's all these little seeds

1545
01:30:46.520 --> 01:30:48.600
of your leaders don't know you like I do.

1546
01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:53.240
And the crazy thing is, is that so quickly

1547
01:30:53.240 --> 01:30:56.040
the people will fall under the spirit of deception.

1548
01:30:56.040 --> 01:30:58.540
And when you come in to try to correct that person,

1549
01:30:58.540 --> 01:31:03.060
these people will gather around and they will defend them.

1550
01:31:03.060 --> 01:31:06.060
That's happened every single time in this place.

1551
01:31:07.200 --> 01:31:10.360
And it's sometimes takes years for,

1552
01:31:10.360 --> 01:31:14.560
after that person's, you know, asked to leave,

1553
01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:16.980
for these people to come around to realize like,

1554
01:31:16.980 --> 01:31:18.580
oh, that person was deceiving them

1555
01:31:18.580 --> 01:31:20.240
because ultimately he uses them.

1556
01:31:21.780 --> 01:31:23.920
He either draws them into a cult.

1557
01:31:24.900 --> 01:31:25.940
And by the way, I'm saying he,

1558
01:31:25.940 --> 01:31:28.100
but actually about four of those were women.

1559
01:31:29.140 --> 01:31:33.100
Draws them into a cult and begins to feed them

1560
01:31:33.100 --> 01:31:35.420
the pet peeves of his doctrine.

1561
01:31:35.420 --> 01:31:38.540
And the whole thing is about spiritual arrogance,

1562
01:31:38.540 --> 01:31:41.040
spiritual pride, like we know more than everybody.

1563
01:31:42.380 --> 01:31:45.500
And we go to heaven and we do these things

1564
01:31:45.500 --> 01:31:49.460
and we believe in, you know, my last one was,

1565
01:31:49.460 --> 01:31:52.740
he literally has been to Mars.

1566
01:31:54.140 --> 01:31:55.120
Sounds crazy when I say it,

1567
01:31:55.120 --> 01:31:55.960
but you should hear him say it.

1568
01:31:55.960 --> 01:31:57.680
Like he gets a whole bunch of amens.

1569
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:00.560
The UFOs are visiting him.

1570
01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:02.320
This is true, I'm telling, I'm not exaggerating.

1571
01:32:02.320 --> 01:32:04.400
I'm actually playing it down.

1572
01:32:04.400 --> 01:32:05.400
And he's like, yeah, you know what?

1573
01:32:05.400 --> 01:32:09.120
Bethel leaders, they don't know about the heavenly things.

1574
01:32:09.120 --> 01:32:11.240
They don't know about the heavenly things.

1575
01:32:11.240 --> 01:32:13.440
And you know, we finally had to ask him to leave.

1576
01:32:13.440 --> 01:32:14.580
He was the son of ours.

1577
01:32:15.500 --> 01:32:18.240
And he just got so far out there.

1578
01:32:18.240 --> 01:32:20.280
But from the very beginning, when he came to us,

1579
01:32:20.280 --> 01:32:23.340
he had one common thread.

1580
01:32:23.340 --> 01:32:25.360
He was ultra spiritual,

1581
01:32:25.360 --> 01:32:27.900
and he didn't like to be told anything to do.

1582
01:32:29.340 --> 01:32:31.160
And I warned him for three years.

1583
01:32:31.980 --> 01:32:33.300
And now he's so far out there.

1584
01:32:33.300 --> 01:32:36.220
His wife left him, his kids are gone.

1585
01:32:36.220 --> 01:32:38.380
He's just completely weird.

1586
01:32:39.700 --> 01:32:42.300
And so we don't want you to be completely weird.

1587
01:32:42.300 --> 01:32:44.320
We want you to be Bethel weird,

1588
01:32:47.020 --> 01:32:48.540
not completely weird.

1589
01:32:48.540 --> 01:32:50.340
Why don't you stand and I'll pray for you.

1590
01:32:53.340 --> 01:32:54.160
Thank you.

1591
01:33:01.500 --> 01:33:02.860
Thanks for sitting so long.

1592
01:33:04.740 --> 01:33:05.580
Come on.

1593
01:33:05.580 --> 01:33:06.420
Come on.

1594
01:33:06.420 --> 01:33:07.240
Come on.

1595
01:33:07.240 --> 01:33:08.080
Come on.

1596
01:33:08.080 --> 01:33:08.920
Come on.

1597
01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:09.740
Come on.

1598
01:33:09.740 --> 01:33:10.580
Come on.

1599
01:33:10.580 --> 01:33:11.420
Come on.

1600
01:33:11.420 --> 01:33:12.240
Come on.

1601
01:33:12.240 --> 01:33:13.080
Come on.

1602
01:33:13.080 --> 01:33:14.180
Okay, I want to remind you,

1603
01:33:14.180 --> 01:33:16.460
I'm not running around hugging you

1604
01:33:16.460 --> 01:33:17.460
or shaking hands with you

1605
01:33:17.460 --> 01:33:19.140
because I don't want you to catch my cold.

1606
01:33:19.140 --> 01:33:21.100
And some of you are like, well, I don't believe I can.

1607
01:33:21.100 --> 01:33:22.600
I'm like, oh, that's great.

1608
01:33:22.600 --> 01:33:23.500
I don't believe you can either

1609
01:33:23.500 --> 01:33:26.760
because I'm not going to touch you or hug you.

1610
01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:29.000
So I don't want you to interpret that as he's not friendly

1611
01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:32.760
because I'm Spanish and we usually hug and kiss everybody,

1612
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:36.400
which is politically incorrect to do now too.

1613
01:33:36.400 --> 01:33:38.300
So, but Lord, I just thank you.

1614
01:33:39.480 --> 01:33:41.060
And I pray again for this gift

1615
01:33:41.060 --> 01:33:44.240
of distinguishing, discerning of spirits.

1616
01:33:44.240 --> 01:33:48.360
Lord, I pray for people, maybe even people in the room

1617
01:33:48.360 --> 01:33:51.600
that may be have tendencies towards this.

1618
01:33:51.600 --> 01:33:53.400
And probably we all do in some way.

1619
01:33:53.400 --> 01:33:55.160
We all want to be loved.

1620
01:33:55.160 --> 01:33:56.560
We all want to be powerful.

1621
01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:58.520
We all love attention.

1622
01:33:58.520 --> 01:34:01.320
Lord, I pray that you would help us

1623
01:34:01.320 --> 01:34:03.360
to follow the spirit of truth

1624
01:34:04.640 --> 01:34:07.840
and that we would not be afraid,

1625
01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:10.400
but at the same time, we would be wise as serpents

1626
01:34:10.400 --> 01:34:12.200
and innocent as doves.

1627
01:34:12.200 --> 01:34:14.040
And Lord, where we see people like this

1628
01:34:14.040 --> 01:34:18.560
beginning to grow in our circles of influence,

1629
01:34:18.560 --> 01:34:20.840
that we could be that friend who sits down with them

1630
01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:23.960
and says, hey, can I tell you something?

1631
01:34:23.960 --> 01:34:25.680
I'm concerned about this.

1632
01:34:25.680 --> 01:34:29.800
And that we could verbalize concerns in love

1633
01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:33.200
and disciple people back into the truth

1634
01:34:33.200 --> 01:34:34.380
that makes them free.

1635
01:34:35.240 --> 01:34:37.640
And Lord, may we heal the brokenhearted

1636
01:34:38.720 --> 01:34:41.520
who have been so damaged by life

1637
01:34:41.520 --> 01:34:43.720
that they don't trust humans.

1638
01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:45.840
Lord, may you heal those people,

1639
01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:48.960
even those people that are in this room today.

1640
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:50.880
And Lord, I bless.

1641
01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:52.400
I bless this school.

1642
01:34:52.400 --> 01:34:54.560
And I thank you for it, in Jesus' name, amen.

1643
01:34:54.560 --> 01:34:55.840
Thank you so very much.

1644
01:34:55.840 --> 01:34:56.680
Thank you.

1645
01:34:56.680 --> 01:34:57.500
Thank you.

1646
01:34:57.500 --> 01:34:58.340
Thank you.

1647
01:34:58.340 --> 01:34:59.180
Thank you.

1648
01:34:59.180 --> 01:35:00.000
Thank you.

1649
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:05.000
Wow, powerful moments.

1650
01:35:05.400 --> 01:35:07.560
Hey, just quick announcements

1651
01:35:07.560 --> 01:35:12.400
before we send you off to dinner.

1652
01:35:12.400 --> 01:35:16.080
We will need you to grab all your stuff

1653
01:35:16.080 --> 01:35:17.400
because we're gonna close the doors

1654
01:35:17.400 --> 01:35:19.560
because we have a sound check

1655
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:22.360
and we wanna prep for tonight for dinner.

1656
01:35:22.360 --> 01:35:26.160
And then as well, we have our Arise and Build team

1657
01:35:26.160 --> 01:35:28.200
and they're gonna be out in the donut

1658
01:35:28.200 --> 01:35:30.960
that little informational lobby out there.

1659
01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:34.560
Our Arise and Build team is actually our team

1660
01:35:34.560 --> 01:35:39.120
who are pioneering and going after our new building

1661
01:35:39.120 --> 01:35:40.840
and it is so amazing.

1662
01:35:40.840 --> 01:35:42.560
And we wanna make you aware,

1663
01:35:42.560 --> 01:35:45.600
we're gonna actually talk to you more about it

1664
01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:47.500
during this evening session,

1665
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but we wanted you to be able to meet our team,

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hear what we're doing and really catch the vision

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for our new facility right out here.

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And some of you may have already driven past

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and you see our Collier property

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and they're breaking ground

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and they got big machines out there

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and there's amazing stuff going on.

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Every day when I drive in in the morning,

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I get so excited because of what God's doing

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for the generations through Bethel Church

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and through our Arise and Build project.

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So go meet our friends and our team out there,

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enjoy your dinner and we'll see you at seven o'clock.