Let All Things Be Done Decently and in Order

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[00:00] True. Sabbath peace. Sabbath peace. [00:08] Another opportunity for us to hear and learn of the word word of truth that's given to us by the most high God. All [00:14] honor goes to the father through the son whose name is Yahushua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. We know that it [00:21] is obtained by grace through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast, and given freely as a gift to all who obey [00:27] him. We understand that if you do not obey him, it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe. In this [00:34] state, you should expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything that you do get, whether it be a gift of [00:39] tongues, a gift of prophecy, or any supernatural experience that you may have, it can and it will be used against [00:45] you in the day of judgment. With that said, peace to the saints that are not in the room right now. peace to the [00:51] saints that are watching in on the camera, to the saints on the in the chat, to the saints scattered around the world that we don't even know about. But [00:57] no peace to the wicked. The only thing we say to them is repent that they might [01:03] live. So last week we talked a little bit about um uh well we are reading through [01:09] 1 Corinthians chapter uh 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and uh we talked about several topics [01:18] uh well it wasn't just 1 Corinthians chapter 10. It was 1 Corinthians I think we read like from from maybe 1 [01:25] Corinthians chapter 5 all the way to 10 something like that. Uh but we covered several topics. One of the topics that [01:31] we that we kind of ended off with is we got to see in uh 1 Corinthians chapter [01:36] 11 how sometimes Paul will give his opinion. So we talked about the head wrapping, praying with your hair covered [01:43] and all that. Um and in addition to that, we talked a little bit about um uh [01:49] in first Corinthians uh uh uh what was it? 1 Corinthians. [01:59] I think that was 1 Corinthians 10. I can't remember. But you know, we talked about the head wrap um and a few [02:07] other topics from Paul in uh 1 Corinthians. Now, what we about to do is we about to jump into uh the rest. We [02:14] going to try to finish out first Corinthians and then next week we'll probably try to get into uh 2 [02:20] Corinthians. Um we stopped intentionally last week [02:25] just before we got into the gifts of the spirit. So, I didn't want to like start to cover part of that and then have to [02:33] pick it back up later. So, what I want to do now, y'all willing, is cover first [02:39] Corinthians chapter 12 on to about 14. Um, and then next week we'll start [02:45] second Corinthian. So, as y'all see so far, the book that we've lasted the longest in, just, you know, stayed in [02:51] one book is Corinthians just because it's a lot in here, a lot of a lot of stuff to go over in here. Um, so let's [02:59] go ahead and pick it up. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Let's do verse [03:07] one. This 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse one. All right. Give me one second. [03:27] He one second got off of the screen. Well, uh, let's make some small talk then, I guess. Uh, how about those [03:37] Lakers? Um, guess we can do [03:43] announcements. Y'all know about the fellowship call. All right, you back. All right. I try to, you know what I'm saying? I try to fill some space. You [03:50] know what I'm saying? I try to fill some space. You know what I'm saying? [03:57] Peace, Sister Bionica. Have a peace, Sister Sharon. Sister Sharon, I still got your gift. I was supposed to That's [04:03] my fault, though, cuz I was supposed to come drop it off to you. But it's also your fault because you never come. You [04:10] never All you And you right there, too. That thing cold bloodooded, boy. You [04:15] right there. But I'mma still bring it to you. I forgot that's my fault. Uh, Sab [04:20] Peace, Sister Pam, Sister Love. What else would God [04:27] say? Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. You know that ye were Gentiles carried [04:34] away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led. Wherefore I give you to [04:39] understand that no man speaking by the spirit of God can call Yahosua a cursed [04:44] and that no man can say that Yahosua is the master but by the Holy Spirit. [04:50] Right? So he's saying it's impossible that somebody can can speak by the [04:56] spirit of the most high God. It didn't say Yahosua is cursed. Right? Yahosua ain't nothing. Right? So you can't you [05:03] can't blaspheme Yahosua and at the same time say the spirit made me say that. [05:08] Then he said on the other side you also can't then speak against Yahosua and at [05:14] the same time or be speaking by evil spirit and at the same time say Yahosua [05:19] is the master. Right? And so I want to stop here because you guys might see [05:26] often right all over the place Christians saying Jesus is [05:31] Lord. Jesus is Lord. And that's basically what he's saying here. He's saying nobody can speak against [05:40] Yahushua, right? And then at the same time say no. You know what I'm saying? He [05:47] ain't he ain't he ain't the master. Right? You can't say he ain't the master [05:52] and at the same time be speaking by the spirit of God. And then he's saying you also cannot be speaking by a evil spirit [06:01] and then say that he is the master. He's saying the two don't agree. But we always see people say Jesus is Lord. And [06:08] I can tell you right now a lot of these people ain't serving Yahushua. Right? So we have to try to understand like how is [06:15] that possible? How are how are they able to do that? Right? And the way they able [06:21] to do that is going to be uh grab uh what is it? Galatians [06:27] uh Galatians chapter 1. Give me Galatians chapter 1 maybe [06:33] verse 10 probably what I want. [06:56] is Galatians chapter 10. I mean uh chapter 1 verse [07:10] 10. For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to praise men? For if ye if [07:17] yet I praise men, I should not be the servant of the Messiah. But I certifi I [07:23] certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of men, [07:30] neither was I. Try verse six. I marvel that you are so soon removed [07:36] from him that called you unto the grace of the Messiah unto another gospel. Uhhuh. which is not another, but there [07:42] be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of the Messiah. Right? So, he said, "Man, I marvel that [07:48] y'all moved on to another gospel, but it's really not another. It's somebody who perverted you." And it's the same [07:54] thing that they doing with Yahosua, right? They saying Jesus and they call they saying Jesus is Lord, but they [08:01] really not talking about Yahosua. But the reason why they say that phrase is because Paul said, "Nobody speaking [08:08] by an evil spirit can say that the Messiah is the master." In other words, [08:13] that Yahushua is Lord or in their case, Jesus is Lord. There's no way to do it, [08:19] right? But uh grab Luke, grab Luke 6. Grab Luke chapter 6 verse [08:28] 40. This is Luke chapter 6 verse 40. Right? I want y'all to understand that [08:34] because people people will use words but the meaning is what really is that's [08:40] what really like drives things. Remember Satan at the beginning said you will not [08:47] surely die. That's what he told Eve. He said you will not surely die. And sure [08:52] enough after Eve and Adam they ate that that fruit they did not [08:59] die. Right? In fact, everything that Satan said would happen happened, right? [09:04] Their eyes was open and they were like God, knowing good and evil. And God [09:10] confirmed both of those things. The book confirmed both of both of those things. And then they lived on, [09:17] Adam did, at least he lived on to be almost a thousand years old. So if you [09:23] look at it, by definition, Satan lied because they got cut off from life that [09:30] very same day when they got cut off from the tree of life. So by definition that Yahw was using, they died that very day. [09:37] By the definition that Satan was using, they didn't die until a thousand years later, almost a thou or Adam didn't die [09:43] until almost a thousand years later. We don't know when Eve died, right? And so [09:48] that's why definitions are important. On one hand, a Christian can be sitting here saying Jesus is Lord and then by [09:55] saying that they can say, "See, that proves that I'm not speaking by evil spirit." But we can't be deceived that [10:02] easily. Because how do you define Lord? Who are you talking about when you [10:08] say Jesus? Right? Are you talking about the the Jesus that brought our gospel? We [10:14] just saw Paul said, "Man, y'all moved on to another gospel that's really not another gospel." And watch what Yahosua [10:21] say here. This is Luke chapter uh 6:40. Watch what the book say. [10:27] The disciple is not above his master, but everyone that is perfect shall be as his master. Mhm. And why beholdest thou [10:35] the moat that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how can you say [10:41] that thy brother brother let me pull out the moat that is in thine eye when you [10:46] thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye thou hypocrite cast out [10:52] first the beam of thine own eye and then thou shalt see clearly to pull out the moat that is in thy brother's eye for a [10:58] good tree brings forth brings not forth corrupt fruit neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit for every [11:05] right so this is what Paul is saying right he's saying the exact Same thing Paul's saying. They just using different [11:11] words. Yahosua is saying if you got a tree, there's no way for that tree that [11:18] is made to produce good fruit, is no way that it's going to produce corrupt fruit. And in the same way, if you got a [11:26] a tree that's made to produce corrupt fruit, it's not going to produce good good fruit. So he's telling you, you got [11:33] to look at the type of fruit that's on there. It's the same way if you got a tree that's poisonous and a tree that's [11:39] good to eat. You do not go to a poisonous tree to get a apple. That [11:45] doesn't make sense. You don't try to pull a lemon off of a poisonous tree. You would never do it. You know [11:51] that tree is poisonous. You're not going to touch it. And in the same way, when a tree produces something that's [11:57] poisonous, you say, "Okay, that's a poisonous tree." If a tree produces a good lemon, you [12:02] going to pick that lemon and you going to peel it and you going to eat the lemon. You wouldn't expect for that tree [12:07] to pull anything poisonous from it. No, cuz it's a lemon tree. It's not a poisonous tree. And so that's what this [12:14] is talking about here. Paul is saying the exact same thing. Paul is saying, "Listen, if you are filled with the [12:21] spirit of the most high God, there's no way you gonna say something crazy like Yahosua is a cursed. [12:28] It can't come out of you because the spirit of a of the most high God makes you a good tree. Saying Yahosua is a [12:34] curse, that's bad fruit. That's corrupt fruit. So, you wouldn't be able to do [12:40] it, right? And then vice versa the other way as well. That's why he said, "And you can't speak by evil spirit and then [12:47] say Yahosua is master, right? Cuz Yahosua is master is good fruit." But [12:53] you being an evil spirit or having an evil spirit, that makes you a corrupt tree. It cannot happen. Right. Keep [12:59] going. Watch what y'all supposed to say next. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For a man for of thorns men do [13:06] not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings [13:12] forth that which is good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil. [13:18] For the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? So [13:26] now he said look why do you call me master master and do not the things that [13:32] I say when they say lord that's same as saying master right we like to use the word [13:38] master instead of lord because I like to you it's good for us to use words that [13:43] we're familiar with we don't walk around when we say lord Christianity has taught us to think about [13:49] god right but that's not that's not the message that he's saying he's not saying why do you call me god God. He's saying [13:56] master. In other words, I command you what to do and you do it. Why do you [14:02] call me master and you don't do what I say? Right? So that's the definition [14:08] that we have to work on. If you don't do what he say, then you calling a master [14:13] is pointless. That's why he's asking a question. He's saying, why you call me master and don't do what I say? So when [14:18] when Paul is telling you, Paul is saying, "Listen, nobody with a evil spirit is going to go and say Yahosua is [14:26] master, right?" Well, guess what? Yahosua already said, "Some of y'all call me master and y'all don't do what I [14:34] say because the definition is not right." Right? That's important. It's [14:40] not about just the word that come out of people mouth, right? It's about the meaning of it. If you calling Jesus Lord [14:48] and don't do what he say, you have the wrong definition. You don't really believe it. It's not coming from your [14:55] heart. And guess what? You can still do it by evil spirit. The key point, go back to uh [15:03] First Corinthians. The key point that I want y'all to understand here, don't let anybody confuse you into thinking that [15:09] evil spirits can't repeat words, right? Because they can. We seen [15:15] that already. We don't have to go back and get it. But y'all remember in Acts, the woman that was following Paul and [15:21] you remember she was saying, "These are the men of God." You know what I'm saying? That came to preach in the name [15:27] of Yahosua. All that was right. It was right. That was true words [15:33] that she spoke. That didn't stop Paul from turning around and casting that that demon out of [15:38] her. Right? Because it came from a evil spirit. It may sound good, but it come [15:44] from an evil spirit. Oh, we got grab uh Isaiah. Grab Isaiah chapter uh Isaiah [15:50] chapter 29. Give me Isaiah chapter 29. Give me verse [15:55] 12. This is Isaiah [16:01] 29:12. Right? That's why these people need to be taught the word. The spirit of the [16:08] most high God got to send somebody to teach these people the word because they'll get they'll get a shirt that [16:13] call Jesus. They say Jesus is Lord and they think they have their salvation in repeating that or in wearing their [16:19] shirt. That's not how this thing works, right? That's not how this thing [16:26] works. We We can't just repeat something and then it just happened. That's hocus poke. That's a [16:33] spell. The book don't teach us how to do spells. That's why I don't teach nobody to do no affirmation. I ain't going to [16:38] teach you stand no mirror and repeat something to yourselves. That don't make some We never seen that in the [16:44] book. We never seen one example where y'all told somebody, "Stand in the mirror and repeat that to yourself. [16:51] Repeat these words to yourself. Repeat after me." Where you seen y'all say, "Hey, repeat after [17:00] me." Right? That's what that's what these churches do. But they dumb us [17:05] down. Right? What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to teach y'all the book. I'm trying to teach y'all how to look at the book and get rid of all that [17:12] tradition. Right? That way when you speak something according to the book and you speak as to uh according to the [17:19] oracles that you're not just repeating something with vain and empty [17:24] words, right? You're saying it in a way that you believe it and it's in your [17:30] heart. It has to be in your heart. Watch the book say. This is Isaiah 29:12. Watch the book say. And the book [17:38] is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, "Read this. I pray thee, and he saith, I am not learned." Uh-huh. Verse [17:44] 13 is what I want. Watch this. Wherefore Yahweh said, for as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with [17:50] their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of [17:57] men. Right? So, you see what he said there? He said, "With they mouth and they lips, man, they definitely honor [18:03] me. They be praising my name. They saying things that sound right." With their mouth and with their lips, man, [18:10] they be saying all the right stuff. But what's far from their heart? Their heart [18:17] is far from him. So it got to be from the heart. Now it make more sense why Yahosua was [18:24] saying from the heart of the man is treasure and from that treasure then you [18:31] eat produces good things. it ha everything is from the [18:37] heart and when we talk about the heart I'm not talking about like something emotional right I'm talking about you [18:43] internally have the spirit of God in you when you saying when it's talking about the heart it's talking about you have [18:49] the spirit the heart is representative of like inside the part of you that can't be seen the hidden part of you [18:56] right you think about the heart you got to think of like the heart you look at our people and you when we say the heart [19:01] think about where the heart is the heart is like and nobody has seen a You can't look down and see your own [19:07] heart. You got to see it on TV or see it in science class or you know what I'm saying? Something like that. But you you [19:13] don't see a heart, right? The only way you see a heart is if you open somebody up. So it's it's it represents the part [19:20] of you that can't be seen. So when it says the heart or I felt it in my heart or he thought it in his heart, when we [19:26] read stuff like that, it's talking about it's internal, right? It's the internal. It's your thoughts, your mind, your [19:32] emotions, your feelings, all that good stuff. all that stuff that can't be seen, right? So, that has to come from [19:39] the heart. It has to come from the inside, from the soul, from the spirit, right? If it don't, then guess what? [19:46] There's no light in them. And that's what we trying to figure out here. Go back. This is uh 1 Corinthians [19:54] uh 1 Corinthians, where we is chapter 12. Chapter 12, verse three. [20:09] Yeah, the sister the sister asked she said, "What do you mean by the oracles?" Right. And we going we going Did we [20:16] already pass it? No, we going to get to that in Romans. I think it's in Romans. I think we I think it's in [20:21] Romans. Uh Romans say, you know what I'm saying? If you speak, speak as the oracles of God. But yeah, the oracles is talking about the word. They're talking [20:28] about the the the revelation that that Yah gave the prophets, right? So when whenever we speak, we supposed to speak [20:35] as the oracles. But remember, it's not about repeating words cuz we just read [20:40] Isaiah. Isaiah said, "Man, look, they saying all the right words, but they hearts are far from me." And he going to [20:45] reject people like that, right? So it's not about just saying the right words. And we have to get that. It's about [20:52] believing this stuff and believing it. The only way you know you believe something is if your behavior follows [20:58] what you talk about, right? If you get to if you get to talking about you believe something and your behavior [21:05] don't line up, then that mean you don't you know what I'm saying? You don't really believe it. You can't trust yourself. None of us can sit here and [21:11] trust ourselves be like, "No, I think I believe this." Why you think you do? I just feel it. I feel it in my heart. [21:17] That ain't your heart. You know what I'm saying? Ain't your blood pressure. You know what I'm saying? You got low blood pressure. That's all that is. You know [21:23] what I'm saying? what you feel in yard, you need to go to the darn doctor, right? You can't just go and believe it [21:30] just because you want to believe it. The only way you know you believe is because you look at your actions and you say, [21:35] "Oh, that lines up with exactly what I read." Right? And when something line up with how you read, well then, okay, now [21:42] my life reflects the belief of the word, right? It's just like we started off when we started off in the epistle [21:48] letters, we started off with James. And that's just like what James said. Remember James said, "You show me your [21:54] faith without your works. I will show you my faith by my works." Right? This 1 [22:00] Corinthians chapter 12. Let's see what the book says. Wherefore I give [22:05] you Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaks by the [22:11] spirit of God calls Yosua a curse, and that no man can say that Yosua is the master, but by the Holy Spirit. Now [22:18] there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit, right? So it's a diversity [22:23] of gifts but the same spirits. So he had to lead off like that. He's trying to Oh [22:29] man. The first thing he trying to do is he trying to let you know how do you identify, right? How do you ident? The [22:35] sister just asked about about the fruit. She looking like she like she like is it you know what I'm saying? I was in [22:41] church, right? She said, "I was in church and that's kind of what distanced me from the church because I saw that [22:47] their fruit, right, their behavior didn't line up with what the scripture [22:52] say. It didn't line up with the things that they said." So, she is like, "That caused me to be distanced." And her [22:58] question was, "Was I okay to judge that?" Like, "Is that an appropriate [23:03] judgment for me?" Right? Yes, that's exactly how you're supposed to judge. That's what Yahosua just told us, right? [23:09] When he said when he said, you know what, I'm saying know them by their fruits. That's what he's saying. He's saying the way you know who to follow [23:16] and who not to follow, who to who to move after, who not, is by the behavior, by what they produce, right? And what [23:22] they produce. I'm not talking about a lot of times people turn that into something um carnal, right? They be, [23:30] "Oh, well, no, that person got, you know what I'm saying? He a man of God. He got a bunch of cars and clothes and he a man [23:35] of God. He got a huge church and he a man of God. He got No, no, no, no, no, no. It ain't about that, right? It's [23:40] about the integrity of the man and how they line up with the book. The integrity of the woman and how she lined [23:46] up with the book. That's it. Right? Don't matter how much they got or how little they got, that part matters none, [23:55] right? All that matters is do they adhere to the book? And if we judge [24:00] people that way, then that's how we do it. Right? That's how that's that's what's going to lead us to make sure [24:06] that we group ourselves and we set ourselves apart from evil and and group ourselves with [24:13] righteousness. Right? So now after after Paul explains that part to you, now he's [24:18] like, "Okay, let me tell you about the spirits." The first thing he had to lay down for you is listen, the spirit of [24:23] God is never going to lead you to say Yahosua is not the master, right? Yahosua is a curse. The [24:31] spirit of God is never going to tell you not to obey Yahosua. That's the point [24:36] that he's trying to tell you. So the first thing he trying to get you to do is learn how to discern a good spirit [24:41] from a evil spirit. Right? That's the first thing he trying to teach you. Then after that he's like, "Okay, now there's [24:48] many gifts of the spirits." Why do you think it was important for him to teach you how to discern to kind of give you [24:54] like a baseline of look how you know a good spirit from a evil spirit? Why was [24:59] that important for him to start off [25:05] with? Right? Didn't he didn't he have to make sure that you about to interact [25:10] with spirits, you need to know how to determine which one is good for you and which one is not. Cuz it's going to be [25:15] evil spirits that's going to make you think you speaking in tongues, too. Right? Some of these people [25:21] speaking in tongues, they don't know nothing about no darn real tongues. These be evil spirits making these [25:27] people speak in tongues. We sit down in these churches [25:32] that don't teach us anything. You got a you got a congregation full of men and [25:37] women and you got a woman sitting at the front of the church and everybody speaking in [25:43] tongues. If you know the book, you know everything is wrong with this. [25:49] That's why it's important that we learn it and we understand it and we believe it and we believe it from the heart and [25:55] we walk in it because all this stuff will clear up at that point. We wouldn't have to sit in these churches and sit [26:01] here and waste so much of our lives just because these people want to tell us lies and have truths because they don't [26:07] think they don't think enough of us to to to actually labor in the word and teach us the truth to go find it. Go dig [26:14] it out. Go, go, go, go, go move to the to the to the drawing of the most high God to the areas that's being revealed [26:21] to you, right? To labor over it and carry it and bring it back and say, [26:26] "Okay, look, I found something new." That's what it's about for a man of God or a woman of God that's going to make [26:32] theirself a teacher. If you're a woman of God and a teacher, you wouldn't have no men in your congregation. You would refuse. You will [26:39] warn him and tell them, "Listen, if you choose to sit here and sit under my teaching, you are in error. You are out [26:46] of order." Cuz it has to be more about the [26:51] word of God than it is about us or than it is about our money or than it is about our our our perceived success or [26:57] anything that we It has to be about the word of the most high God. That's it. All this stuff is secondary. [27:04] Everything else got to come second. And if it comes sec, if you put the most high God in this word first and you make [27:09] everything second, it's going to be smooth for you. You going to feel like you taking some lumpings. You going to [27:15] feel like you being sacrificed. You going to feel like you being overlooked. You going to feel like nobody respect you like you should. You going to feel [27:21] like you don't get the accolades that you should. But that's okay. That's a good feeling to have cuz that mean you [27:27] leaving room for the most high God to recognize all the stuff that you do, to give you all the stuff that you earn. As [27:33] soon as you start getting your accolades from people, getting your praise from people and liking it and wanting it, [27:40] that becomes your desire. No, you done. You done. Ain't nothing wrong with [27:46] getting accolades from people, but you can't want it. That can't be your reason. And you can't lie to yourself [27:52] and be like, "No, I mean that ain't my reason." Yeah, it is. A lot of y'all that is your reason. You just looking [27:58] for somebody to pat you on the back. Somebody tell you you did a good job. You know what I'm saying? Looking for somebody to, you know, tell you how [28:04] great you are. No, man. You got to let leave that stuff alone. You don't need Don't let that ever be your reason. Let [28:10] your reason be the most high God guy. He going to tell you good job at he going to tell you well done. Right. That got to be what we do [28:17] it for. Everything else, if I get an accolade from one of y'all, okay, I appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? [28:23] But I'm really doing it for the most high God. So that way I can't be moved when a man come up to me or a woman come [28:29] up to me and be like, "You know what, man? I don't know what you teaching. It's confusing. I don't know what you teaching. It's wrong. I don't I don't [28:36] agree when you say this, that, and the other. You teaching false doctrine. That can't move me. Nor can it move me. When [28:43] a man or a woman come up to me and be like, "Well, you a man of God, boy. I ain't never heard nobody teach it like [28:48] you. Neither one can move me. I got to hear both of them be like, I appreciate that one." And well, you know what I'm [28:55] saying? If that's what you believe, brother, then go on and find you another teacher. And if you think, you know what I'm saying? You think I'm a man of God. [29:00] You think I'm teaching, right? I appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, stay stick around. But it ain't about me. It's about the most high God. Neither one can [29:07] move us, right? Nothing can take us whether it look good or look cuz it's [29:13] just words unless it line up with the book. Keep going. Watch this. [29:26] And there are differences of admir admin administrations but the same [29:32] lord. And there are diversities of operations but it is the same god which [29:37] works all in all. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit with all. For the one is given by [29:45] the spirit the word of wisdom. To another the word of knowledge by the same spirit. To another faith by the [29:51] same spirit. to another gifts of healing by the same spirit. So notice faith is a gift of the spirit. [29:59] I want y'all to understand all this stuff cuz it's like we get caught [30:05] up start at the beginning of of the spirit list. I just we let's take our time and let's let's understand these [30:11] spirits because we get caught up in speaking in tongues and prophecy and all this stuff. But I want y'all to see that [30:17] it's a lot more. Anybody who served the most high God is getting a gift of the spirit. It's just that some of them, we [30:23] want the stuff that that that that that shows something. We want the stuff that's going to get a response from [30:30] people. And it may be appropriate for some of us to get it, but you can't be moved by you can't your your goal can't [30:38] be I want that spirit, man. I just want to make it into the kingdom. Watch this. [30:46] Well, the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit with all. Okay. So, every man gets a manifestation [30:54] of the spirit and when you do that, it's made to profit with all. In other words, [30:59] it's made to give profit to everybody. So, one thing you got to know about getting the gift of the spirit, it's [31:05] never about you. And that should be an easy concept because nothing is ever [31:10] about you. If you get that through your head when you serving the most high God and just say nothing is ever about [31:18] me, right? God's plan is always bigger than my desires and what I want to [31:24] happen. He always working a plan. He always working like, "Okay, you're just a pawn. That's all you doing. You're [31:30] just a small little piece on this massive puzzle on this massive board." Right? Watch this. Keep going. [31:41] For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom. The word of wisdom. [31:46] That's one thing that's given by the spirit. That's something that a lot of people might desire. Not everybody, but [31:52] some people might desire. They might say, "You know what? God, just give me a spirit of wisdom, right?" And what is [31:59] wisdom going to look like? Remember, a spirit got to be manifest so that it profits everybody. So, if you got the [32:06] spirit of wisdom and it's manifest, what's that manifest mean? It means make obvious, right? So, it's made obvious. [32:12] It's made apparent. People can notice it. They can see it. If you had the spirit of wisdom and people were able to [32:19] notice it and see it and it was apparent to people, guess how that would look? You probably had good advice. You know [32:25] what I'm saying? You probably be able to coach people through things. You could probably figure out difficult problems. [32:30] Right? Somebody give you a problem, you'll probably be like, you know what, let me figure that out. Right? That's [32:36] what wisdom does. Wisdom is knowing right from wrong. Right? So it's like, [32:42] okay, I know these are the wrong ways to do it. Okay? So this must be the right way to do it, right? Probably going to [32:48] be a logical person, right? A wisdom, a person with wisdom going to be very logical, right? Very, very, very, very [32:54] understanding of things, right? Let's see what other [33:01] spirit hold on hold on. So the sister said, "Right choices, right decisions?" Not [33:06] necessarily. Right? Because think about think about one of the people in our book who had the most wisdom out of [33:12] everybody. Right? King Solomon, he didn't necessarily have [33:18] right choices and decisions. He just had wise words, right? He was able to he was [33:24] able to make choice. He was able to uh uh uh separate, right? Right from wrong. [33:31] So, an example of that, you remember when we we don't have to get it, but you remember when the two women, they both [33:36] had babies, right? They just had newborn babies and then one of their babies died [33:42] and then one of them stole the other baby and and and switched the babies out. And so she woke up, she looked like [33:49] that woman stole my darn baby cuz they lived in the same house. And they like, "Man, she stole my darn baby and she [33:54] gave me her baby that died and then tried to steal my baby." So they brought it to King Solomon. And Solomon in his [34:00] wisdom, he said, "You know what? I know how to solve this problem. Cut the darn the baby that remains. cut that baby in [34:07] half and y'all can just split them since y'all can't decide who it is. And then the real mom was like, "You know what? [34:12] Forget it. It ain't even that serious. I don't want my baby to die. She can have my baby if it mean my baby got to die." [34:18] And then when Solomon saw that, he like, "Yep, that means that's the real mama." Right? So Solomon could figure [34:26] out a problem, right? He could give judgment on a problem and he knew what the right [34:33] decision was. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he could follow through with the right decision. That's [34:38] a different spirit. Let's talk about the Let's talk about the other spirits. We'll talk about with the other spirit. The spirit that may cause you to follow [34:44] through with the right decisions is faith. But let's get to that one. [34:50] For one is given this given by the spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same [34:56] spirit. So now the word of knowledge is a little different from the word of wisdom. You remember Solomon got [35:03] knowledge and wisdom, right? So knowledge is something where you you uh [35:10] you remember things, right? You know what I'm saying? It's like you got information in here. It's a bunch of [35:16] information. It's just here and you can recall it and you can present that information. You may not even understand [35:23] the information. You just remember it, right? it comes back to you. That's [35:29] knowledge. You have a lot of information, right? So, you might have the spirit of knowledge that can help [35:34] people, right? You might have a whole congregation and it's like, "Ah, no, let me tell you about World War II. Let me [35:40] tell you about World War I. Let me give you context on this. Let me give you context on that. Let me teach you about mass." Right? Let me I just remember [35:48] everything. Right? Keep going. Watch this. So spirit of wisdom, spirit of knowledge, [35:58] [Music] another the word of knowledge by the same spirit to another faith by the same [36:03] spirit. So now you have faith. So faith is the one that's going to cause you to [36:09] make the right decisions. Right? So if a person has wisdom and faith, right? They're going [36:18] to be very clear. Not only will they already be clear about what the right right decision is, but they'll be able [36:24] to walk in the right decision with understanding. If you have faith and you don't have wisdom, you going to trust [36:29] the most high God to make the right decision even when you don't understand it. Even when you don't know why that's [36:35] the right decision, you just going to do it. Right? So faith is what causes you to make the right decision. If it's what [36:42] prevents you from doing things that are wrong, right? That's the spirit of faith. That is a spirit. That is one [36:49] that everybody has access to. The spirit of faith. Every single one of us has access to that spirit. Keep going. To [36:56] another the gifts of healing by the same spirit. To another the working of miracles. To another prophecy. So [37:04] hearing and uh not hearing uh healing and uh uh miracles, right? Those are two [37:11] other spirits. One you might have where a person like, "Hey, I can't see." You see that with Yahosua a lot and he [37:18] healed their eyes, right? The apostles started to do that as well. That's a gift of healing. That's one that all of [37:24] us want. The others so far that we talked about, they not the popular ones. You don't hear a lot of people saying, [37:30] "Oh, you know, I got the spirit of faith. I got the spirit of knowledge or the spirit of wisdom." But you hear a [37:36] lot of people on not a lot of people but you see a lot of these pastors the crooked pastors on TV talking about oh I [37:41] send you my personal prayer package and it'll heal you right keep going [37:48] to another working of miracles to another prophecy right so prophecy is another one that a lot of people want [37:55] right a lot of people want to be able to say you know what I'm saying this is what's about to happen most high God [38:01] thus says Yahweh right a lot of people like to say that right So prophecy, that's another one. [38:08] Discerning of spirits. Yep. So discerning of spirits. That means you can you can see spirits or feel spirits [38:15] or or or understand that it's an evil spirit versus a good spirit, right? Some [38:20] people have that gift. Some people some people at at young ages, right, had visions, visions of spirits or can see [38:28] the spirits in a room or feel the spirits in a room. Those are gifts, right? Those are gifts of the [38:34] most high God. But remember, all of these gifts have to be made to benefit [38:40] all. That's the that's how you know when it comes from God. Every one of these [38:46] gifts that we talking about outside of the spirit of faith, right? Outside of the spirit of faith, every one of these [38:52] gifts can be duplicated by Satan, right? Satan can create a version of you. [38:57] Remember when when Moses, we don't have to get it, but you remember when Moses, he threw down uh he threw down the staff [39:02] and it became a snake, right? What did Pharaoh's magicians do? Right? They also threw down the [39:10] staff and it became a snake. Now, they didn't do a miracle like Moses did, but they made it look like [39:16] it. Same thing with the water. Same thing with a few other things, right? They made it look like they was doing [39:21] the same thing as Moses, but really it wasn't. It was something different. Well, Satan does the same thing, right? [39:28] Satan to come to you and make you feel like you speaking in tongues. Make you feel like you heard from God. Make you [39:34] feel like you're a prophet, right? Satan to give people the power to be do miracles. We may not have [39:40] seen it yet, but that's what's described in Revelations. So, that's why it's [39:47] important for us. The one thing that Satan will never duplicate is the same thing that Paul led off with. He said, [39:53] "Listen, there's no way that an evil spirit going to tell you that Yahosua is [39:59] the master." And if you believe that and you walk in it, then you know that is [40:06] not that's the spirit of faith that make you obey Yahosua. Right? The spirit of [40:11] faith is the only one that's going to make you obey Yahosua. And that cannot be duplicated. Keep going. Watch this. [40:19] to another diverse kinds of tongues to another interpretation of tongues. Right? So you got diverse tongues. In [40:26] other words, you speaking in tonesues. You speaking in a language that other people don't understand by the power of [40:31] the most high God. It's not just walking up and say no. The power of the most high God is moving you to speak. But the [40:37] speak the speech is coming out of you in a way that you don't even understand in a language that you don't even [40:43] understand. Right? And then he said an interpreter of tongues. That means [40:48] that's a separate person that can hear what you're saying and they understand [40:53] it and they say, "Okay, this this person is saying the most high God is going to come and he's going to rescue all of [40:59] us." So then they interpret what the tongues say. Those are two separate [41:05] gifts. You have a person that speaks in tongues and then you have a an interpreter. Now, we all have seen [41:11] people claim that they speak in tongues, right? I can't think of many of us that [41:16] that that that had people that claimed that they was interpreter. When was the last time you was in church and they had [41:22] doing the thing and they start running around and speaking in [41:28] tongues doing all that extra stuff. When was the last time somebody popped up with a mic? Uh, excuse me, pastor. Uh, [41:36] what the lady is saying? You know what I'm saying? Like you you're not going to see that cuz it a lot of this stuff is [41:42] fake. It's not real. These people not I'm not saying that they intentionally doing it fake. They probably think [41:48] something is really making them speak. It just don't be God. It be other spirits. And that's why this stuff is [41:55] dangerous cuz it's not like it's not like sometimes it's not like you know, right? That's a misconception [42:02] about this. Sometime people just feel like I know just because I know. No, you won't know. You will feel like you're [42:08] doing the right thing. You think all these Muslims know that they're evil? All these Christians know that they [42:13] evil. No, they think they good people. They think they doing the right thing. They think it's really not that big of a [42:19] deal. Ah, yeah. I get drunk on the weekends. Yeah, but you know what? I always pay my ties. I always pay the [42:26] homeless. I always sacrifice myself for the people that I love. They looking at it like I'm not a bad person. I be doing [42:34] good stuff. So, in their mind, they looking like, "Yeah, God ain't tripping about me having a little drink, smoking [42:40] a little weed. God ain't tripping about me cussing here and there. God know I got a [42:48] temper, right? God know I got needs. He ain't tripping if I go lay with this woman. I mean, I'm probably going to [42:53] marry her anyway. He ain't worried about that, right? But that's where we go [43:00] wrong. When you get to thinking, when you get to telling yourself what God worried about and you're not reading a [43:05] book to define what God worried about, that is where you go wrong. [43:11] Right? So, you don't really know. Dealing with these spirits is the same way. You don't know when an evil spirit [43:17] is in you. It ain't like you feel different. The only thing you can do is look at your behavior. All All y'all had [43:24] evil spirits. Until you repent from all sin, you got an evil spirit. Forget it. Just I mean, don't even don't even you [43:30] know how people say, "Oh, that man, you know what I'm saying? Jay-Z, he got rich and signed his soul over to the devil." Y'all all signed y'all soul. We [43:38] and each one of us signed our soul over to the devil. And your but didn't have to get rich. My wife said and not rich. [43:45] Your butt didn't have to get rich to do [43:51] it. At least Jay-Z got a couple dollars out of it. We did it for darn [43:56] nothing. Anybody who commits a sin has sold their soul to the devil. Don't let these people like make it make nothing [44:04] seem grandiose to you like you got to you got to join the Illuminati to sell yourself. No, you sold your soul way [44:09] before you got there. The standard is the standard is [44:17] high for us. The bar for us is [44:23] high. All we got to do is live up to it. Keep going. Watch this. Interpret in [44:30] tongues. speaking in tongues, diverse tongues, what else? But all these workketh that one and the [44:38] self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will. For as the body is [44:44] one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body being many, are one body, so also is the Messiah. For by [44:51] one spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, [44:57] whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit. For the body is not one member, but [45:03] many. If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body. It is therefore is it therefore not of [45:10] the body. And if right, he's saying, do that make sense? So the person say, "Man, I only got the spirit of faith, [45:17] but I ain't got nothing like can't nobody see the spirit of faith." Well, they can actually if they pay attention. [45:23] But you know, the spirit of faith that ain't like glamorous doing is obeying God. That's boring. You know what I'm [45:29] saying? You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, okay. I don't cuss. I don't steal. I don't I don't lie. I don't That's me. [45:37] That's the spirit of faith. Oh, boring, man. Give me the spirit of tongues. I want somebody to know. I want somebody [45:44] to see God on me. Give me the spirit of miracles. You know what I'm saying? I [45:49] want to be able to walk on some darn water. I want to be able to command fire to come out the [45:54] sky. Right. Give me the spirit of healing. I want people to come to me. I'll lay my hands on them and they can [46:00] breathe again. They can see again. They can speak again. They can hear again. Right? I want to be able to lay [46:07] hands on them and they cancer gone. I want to be able to tell somebody, "Stand up." You know what I'm saying? They legs [46:13] start working. They ain't never been able to walk in the day in their life. Somebody with somebody with like, you [46:19] know what I'm saying? With like a disorder, autism or something. You know what I'm saying? You see them struggling. I want to be able to just [46:24] touch them on the head and they straighten up. You know what I'm saying? Just start walking. Of course, that's what we want. [46:31] That look crazy. That look, you know what? You know what my YouTube views would be? You know what I'm saying? Of [46:38] course that's what we want. However, you can't because you don't got [46:43] them other gifts be like, "Man, if I ain't got if I ain't got if I only got [46:49] the spirit of faith, then guess what? I ain't a part of the body." But that's how some of these [46:55] people will make you feel. They be like, "Well, now you got to speak in tongues. That's a sign that you [47:00] saved." That's not what Paul say. These people be lying. You know how long these people been lying to [47:06] us? No, brother. You got There are churches, I kid y'all not. Look them up. They don't look them up. There are [47:13] churches that will teach you you cannot be saved unless you speak in tongues. [47:19] Speaking in tongues is the sign that you saved. And they will teach you that. And our stupid butt. And some of y'all [47:25] sitting there tuning in and watching, y'all silly butt will continue to sit there even though you just heard the man [47:31] of God. And man of God just read it again. Touch this. [47:45] You reading it? Hello? My bad. But all these workketh [47:53] that the self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will. For as the body is one and has many members, [48:00] all the members of that body being many are one body, so also is the Messiah. [48:05] For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, [48:13] and have been all made to drink into one spirit. For the body is not one member, [48:18] but many. If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body. [48:23] Is it therefore not of the body? Right? Do it make sense because it say, well, I can't speak in tongues, so that means [48:30] I'm not a part of the Messiah. He's saying that don't make no darn sense. That's like the foot looking [48:36] at the hand like, "Man, since I'm not the hand, I ain't a part." Or the hand telling the foot, "Well, since you [48:41] ain't, you know what I'm saying? Since you ain't no hand, you know what I'm saying? You ain't really a part of the body." That's ridiculous. He going, [48:47] "Watch this. If the Wait, and if the ear shall say, "Because I am not the eye, I [48:53] am not of the body." Is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? The whole [49:00] were hearing, where were the smelling? But now has God set the members, every [49:05] one of them, in the body, as it has pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are [49:14] they many members, yet one body? And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no [49:19] need of thee. Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. [49:24] Much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary. And those members of the body [49:32] which we think to be less honorable upon these we bestow bestow more abundant honor and our uncom parts have more [49:39] abundant clanliness. For our comly parts have no need. But God has tempered the body [49:45] together having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked. That [49:50] there should be no schism in the body. But that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether [49:58] one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. Or one member be honored and all members rejoice with it. Now ye [50:04] are the body of the Messiah and members in particular. And God has set some in the congregation. First apostles, [50:11] secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, this [50:18] diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all [50:23] teachers? Are all workers of miracles? have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret, [50:31] but covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. He said, listen, covet earnestly [50:38] the best whatever gifts you think, this is what he's saying. He's saying, whatever gifts you think is the ones, [50:44] man, I really want to like speak in tongues and speak prophecy, heal, and do [50:49] miracles. He's saying, okay, whichever ones you think is the one, covet those. In other words, want those, desire [50:55] those. He said, "And when you do that, I'm going to show you the best gift of all." Watch what he say. Keep going. [51:00] This 13. Yeah. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter 13:1. Watch what he [51:07] say. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or [51:14] tinkling symbol. Mhm. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though [51:20] I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have no charity, I am nothing. Right? So he's telling you, [51:27] even though I have all these gifts, if I don't have love, then I don't have [51:33] anything. Right? Watch this. Keep going. And though I bestow all my goods to feed [51:39] the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing. [51:45] Charity suffers long and is kind. Charity envies not. Charity vaunted not [51:50] itself. Is not puffed up. Right? So when it say charity, just know it means love. [51:55] So he's saying love don't do any of these things. Right? Keep going. Watch this. [52:01] Charity envithth not. Charity vaunteth not itself. Is not puffed up. Does not [52:06] behave itself unseammly. Seeking not her own. Is not easily provoked. Thinking no [52:12] evil. rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth, right? Rejoices [52:18] not in what? Iniquity but rejoices in the truth. This is all [52:24] love. So what he's telling you is listen, if you don't have love, then it [52:31] is pointless. Y'all look whatever you think the best gift is, right? If you [52:38] don't have love, then it's pointless. And then he starts to describe love to [52:43] you. Right? Love don't do this and love do that. Don't do that. Right? Love don't puff itself up. Love don't seek [52:50] its own attention. Right? If you don't have love, then it's pointless. But he said one thing very clearly. A lot of [52:57] people think they got love. Be like, "Yeah, no. No. That's for sure. When I look at my wife, man, I don't be looking at I be looking after her. Not me. It [53:03] ain't about me. And when I be talking to my wife, man, I ain't about puffing myself up. It ain't about when I be looking at my mom. I love my mama. I [53:08] ain't that." So everybody be feeling like, "Yeah, no, I definitely got love, but look at the one that that get [53:14] everybody out the pain." Read it again. Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices [53:21] in the truth. Right? Love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. [53:29] And that's why our commandment is love, right? Love your neighbor as yourself. [53:34] That's what the commandment is. Because as soon as you have that commandment, that means that you have to get rid of [53:40] iniquity. Iniquity is sin, right? The two can't be together. Love is a happy [53:47] thing, right? Love is a thing that that you have to find joy in, right? Even [53:52] when it's not joyful. Love is that as soon as you get to sin, that's not love. [53:59] It disqualifies love. Any love you think you got, if there's sin, it's not love. [54:05] Because love does not rejoice in iniquity, right? It rejoices uh only in [54:12] the truth. That's why Yahosua said don't matter what what like it doesn't matter [54:19] if you do miracles, if you got the gift of prophecy, if you got any of that. That's what Paul trying to tell you. It [54:25] doesn't matter. And Yahosua told grab uh grab Matthew chapter uh what is it? Seven. Matthew chapter 7 verse [54:32] 21. Right? Matthew chapter 7 verse [54:38] 21. Your love is disqualified if you rejoice in [54:47] iniquity. You have to set iniquity to the side. You got to you got to push iniquity out. Iniquity is sin. You got [54:54] to turn from all sin. And if you listen to what Paul is [55:00] saying, what he's really telling you is, you know what? You can have all of these [55:05] gifts and still sin except for the gift of faith. Right? Outside of the gift [55:10] gift of faith, you can have all of the other gifts and still sin. [55:17] Right? You can speak in tongues and be a sinner and go right to hell. You can prophesy, be a sinner, and go right to [55:23] hell. You can heal people, be a sinner, and go right to hell. You can move [55:29] mountains with miracles and be a sinner and go right to hell. You can have wisdom and be a sinner and go right to [55:34] hell. Have knowledge and be a sinner and go right to hell. Right? This is Matthew uh 7 [55:44] 21. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of [55:50] my father which is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And [55:56] in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works. Right? So look, in thy name we've [56:05] prophesied. And in thy name we've cast out devils. That means that they had the [56:11] spirit to discern spirits, right? And in thy name have done many wonderful works. [56:17] That means that they've done miracles, right? And then what happened after that? [56:25] And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that [56:31] workity. He said, I never knew you. Depart from me. Ye that work [56:39] iniquity. In other words, ye that steal sin. So it all comes down to love. You [56:46] remember love requires that you don't rejoice in sin and that you rejoice in the truth. So you got to get you got to [56:52] get sin out before you can love. And Paul is telling you it don't matter which of these gifts you got outside of [56:58] the spirit of the spirit of faith. It don't matter which of these spirits you got. Right? If you don't have love then [57:05] it's pointless. Let's go back. I think Peter said love covers a multitude of sins. [57:12] Was that Peter? Yep. [57:20] Let's go back. Uh so the sister asked, she said all these spirits combined supposed to be one one assembly, one uh [57:28] one congregation, right? We don't we don't typically say church, right? Because you know what I'm saying? [57:34] Sometimes when we think of church, we think of like a building, right? We always like to use words that that make [57:40] stuff real to it. You'll see another thing that we don't really use much even though it's in the scripture. You don't you don't see us use ministry or [57:46] minister and all that because that's been I like to say it's been overchristianized. You know what I'm [57:52] saying? When you think of a minister now, what you think of is you know what I'm saying? Like a prestigious position, [57:59] right? But that's not what a minister really is. Like a minister is a servant, right? Think of it like a slave, right? [58:06] That's that's like we've pretty minister up into meaning a pastor or a ranking [58:11] member of the church or something like that. Yeah. That's how we look at it. But in reality, a minister is a [58:17] servant, right? So we try not to use certain words that that where the meaning of we don't want the meaning of [58:24] words to be diluted because we know that salvation is in the definitions, right? [58:29] Salvation is in the meaning of these words. So the sister asked, she said, you know what I'm saying? Is it going to [58:35] be, you know what I'm saying, that like a combination of all these spirits makes up the congregation? Kind of, but not [58:42] exactly. It's a con combination of God-fearing people that make up the [58:47] congregation, right? And what the point that he's trying to make is God-fearing [58:52] people may or may not have one or one of the other [58:57] spirits, but it your focus shouldn't be what spirit do I have or not have. He's [59:04] saying your focus should be on being god-fearing, right? On having love, on [59:09] turning away from iniquity. So, it's the people that love God that make up the [59:15] body of the the congregation, the body of the Messiah, right? And then those [59:22] people also have these spirits. But it's not the spirits themselves that make up the body. It's the it's the uh it's the [59:29] people that have the spirits that make up the body. That makes sense. [59:40] Keep going. Beareth all things, believes all things, and hope all things, endures all things. [59:47] Charity never fall. When it's talking about believes all things, endure all things, all that. It's talking about the [59:52] word, right? It's not saying that love is gullible. It ain't saying that you can walk up to, you know what I'm saying, love and be like, "Yo, hey, [59:59] look, got this million-dollar play. All you got to do, you give me $50. I'mma turn that." Y'all remember that that [60:05] thing that was going around on uh on social media? I forgot what they called it, but you know what I'm saying? They [60:10] like, "Okay, look, you send me $20." You know what I'm saying? And if we get five [60:17] people to send me $20, I'mma give y'all back $50. You know what I'm saying? And then [60:24] I'mma send this and it was just like a big pyramid scheme where you you start to give people all this money, but [60:29] somebody always lose in the end, right? So people just collected a whole bunch of money. Love is not going to fall for [60:35] that type of stuff. That's not what that's not what it's saying when they say believe all things. It's talking about believe all things in the [60:40] scripture. Right. Keep going. Charity never fails. But whether there [60:47] be prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there right prophecies are going to fail. Why are prophecies going to fail? [60:53] Because they wrong? No. Because after it happen, it's over. That's it. He saying prophecy going to fail. Watch them. [60:59] Watch what he say. prophecies they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, [61:05] it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that [61:12] which is in part shall be done away. Right? So that's why he's saying it fail. Because the prophecy is going to [61:18] say, "Thus says Yahweh, the dark the darkness will be [61:24] strong, the darkness will be felt, and the moon shall change its color. [61:30] And it will be as if a bear met you around a darn corner and you ran and when you hit the other corner it was [61:36] like a snake bit you. So we look at that be like dang what God mean by that [61:42] right? I think what he's saying is it's gonna be a day where the moon change color and then you know what I'm saying [61:49] things going to be so hard it's like we running from a bear and running into a snake right and so we know in part it's [61:55] a riddle and then when that day actually come like oh crap this the day that Yahosua was talking about this the day [62:02] that Yahw was talking about when it comes no longer important that [62:09] prophecy right because the prophecy already passed it came to past and you knew it only in part. But then once you [62:15] start to realize what really happens, then it's like, okay, good. I have the full knowledge of that. I no longer need [62:21] that prophecy. So the prophecy is temporary. The prophecy is only good until it happens. We don't have to get [62:27] it. But in Matthew chapter 5, Yahosua say, "Not one jot or tit of this law [62:33] will pass away until heaven and earth pass away." Right? The law and the prophets [62:40] won't go anywhere until heaven and earth pass away. And guess what? The law and the prophets is all leading up to heaven [62:46] and earth going away. So guess what? As soon as all the prophecies are fulfilled, then we don't need it no [62:52] more. That's why he says it won't go away until it happens. So the prophecy he's telling you, he looking like, man, [62:59] listen, a lot of stuff is good, but prophecy don't last forever. Speaking in tongues don't last forever, right? But [63:06] love does. Keep going. Watch this. When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a [63:13] child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to [63:21] face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even also I am known. And now [63:26] abideth faith, hope, charity, these three. But the greatest of these is charity. Right? So he told you he told [63:34] you the three that's going to last forever. faith, baby girls. Faith, hope, [63:40] and love. Those last forever. Those is no point is there's no point in which they [63:47] stop. Faith, hope, and love. But he says, of those three that last forever, [63:54] the greatest of them is love. It's important that we understand [64:00] what he's like what he's breaking down for us right now. Right. Keep going. Watch this. [64:11] Follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. For he, right? He said, [64:18] listen, follow after charity. In other words, continue to love. Continue to [64:25] keep the commandment of Yah and turn away from sin. Right? So, follow after charity. In other words, follow after [64:30] love and desire spiritual gifts. Right? So, he just got done telling you, don't [64:38] be let let's let's summarize what we read so far. He's telling you first, you [64:43] got to know how to discern a evil spirit from a a a good spirit. Even if you don't got the gift of discernment, you [64:50] still got to learn how to recognize the difference. Here's how you know. A evil spirit ain't never going to tell you [64:55] that Yahosua is the master. Right? And a good spirit is never going to tell you [65:01] that Yahosua is a curse. So in other words, the spirit that causes you to obey the book, that's a good spirit. The [65:09] spirit that causes you to disobey the book, that's a evil spirit. So that's the first thing he let off with. Then the next thing he said is stop fighting [65:16] over the gifts of the spirit. Don't make somebody feel like they not a part of the body just because they don't have a [65:22] particular gift. And don't you get to worrying about having a particular gift to the point that you feel like you not [65:28] saved because you don't have a particular gift. that you not gonna be a child of the most high God because you [65:34] don't have a particular gift. He say stop focusing on that. What you should be focusing on is love and obedience and [65:40] hope because out of all those things the greatest one is [65:46] love. So then he he ends it off by saying keep going after love. In other [65:51] words, keep being obedient and keep turning away from sin and keep loving your neighbor as yourself as we [65:57] commanded to. And then he says, "And desire what spirit?" Remember, he [66:02] started off telling you, don't be fighting over the spirits. Don't let these spirits stress you out. Just follow after love. But now, as you [66:09] follow after the love, make sure that's the priority. Let me tell you what spirit you should want after that [66:16] priority. Right? Don't your priority shouldn't be the spirits, the gifts of the spirits rather, right? Your priority [66:23] should be following in faith, which is going to be love, right? and turned away from all sin. But now after you got that [66:31] priority in line, he's saying, "Let me tell you which spirit gift of the spirit you should want." Watch this. [66:39] Desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaks in an [66:44] unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God. Right? So he said, listen, the one that you should want is the gift of [66:52] prophecy. Because if your butt speaking in an unknown tongue, you speaking unto [66:58] the most high God. Right? Watch this. For no man understands him, but [67:03] how be it in the spirit, he speaks mysteries. But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification and exhortation [67:10] and comfort. He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he that prophesies edifies the [67:16] congregation. I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied. Right? He [67:22] said, "Man, listen. If if I had it my way, all y'all would be speaking in tonesues. But guess what? I prefer that [67:29] all y'all prophesy." Right? In other words, he's saying everybody wants to speak in tongues. [67:35] That's clearly what he's trying to say, right? So, everybody wants to speak in tonesues. And he's like, "Listen, I I I [67:42] want y'all to want I want y'all to have what y'all want. If I had it my way, I would give all y'all what y'all want. [67:49] But what I would prefer is that all y'all prophesy. Watch him explain why. [67:55] He that speaketh with tongues except he interpret that the congre congress congregation may receive ed edifying. [68:03] Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you except I shall speak unto you [68:09] either by revelation or by knowledge or by right? So he's telling you remember what remember his principle at the [68:14] beginning. He said look the gift of the spirit are manifest for to help to benefit [68:20] everybody right that's the first principle that he gave us about the gifts right he said listen the only [68:26] reason God has given us these gifts is to benefit everybody so now he's telling [68:32] you which gift he thinks that you should prefer he's like man all y'all fighting about tongues and if person don't speak [68:37] in tongues you not saved man put that silliness behind you that's crazy what you should be focused on is love but now [68:43] after you get that down You know what I'm saying? After you get the love part down, now let me tell you which gift you [68:49] should be want. It should be to prophesy. Then he coming back to he telling you because if you speak in [68:54] tongues, don't nobody understand you, right? Can't nobody get nothing out [68:59] of that. And remember his principle is you have to do it for all. So speaking [69:05] in tongues, he's like generally unless there's an interpreter, you only are benefiting [69:11] yourself, right? So he's like, "The better gift is prophecy." Let's hear him [69:22] out. Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you except I shall speak to you [69:27] either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine? Right? He [69:32] said the only way it's going to profit you if I speak to you by revelation or by knowledge. Right? So in other words, [69:39] revelation is going to be God revealed to me your thoughts. You want to you you want to [69:45] leave here right now and go hurt somebody, right? God said don't do [69:50] it, right? Or by knowledge, right? Saying, "God showed me what's about to [69:56] happen. He gave me some information." You know what I'm saying? Let me let me let me explain this to you. Let me teach [70:02] it to you. Right? Somebody who got knowledge, they usually are going to be teachers, right? They going to teach [70:08] people, give to people new information, right? Or what else? [70:15] Or by prophesying or by doctrine. Even things without even things without [70:21] lifegiving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is [70:27] piped or harp? Right? Right? So he said, "Listen, if you if you got a [70:33] instrument," he said, "How do you know what the sound means in that instrument in instrument if it don't have a [70:39] distinct sound? If it's just a bunch of random sounds, it ain't going to mean nothing to [70:44] nobody. It has to have like a distinct sound. And that's he's relating like a [70:50] instrument with a very distinct sound and a meaning behind the sound. He's relating that to prophecy because [70:56] prophecy is something you can understand and you can do something with that information. Whereas speaking in [71:01] tongues, you don't understand. So it's just noise. Watch, he'll explain it. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, [71:08] who shall prepare himself to the battle. So likewise you, except ye utter by the [71:14] tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air? There are it [71:22] may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without significance. Right? So he's he's saying [71:28] that based off of our law, right? When he said the trumpet, you know what I'm saying? If it give an uncertain sound, [71:34] who going to prepare itself for war? Remember our law graumbers 10, right? Remember what our law told us that it [71:41] was very particular sounds that the trumpet had to make and we were going to do very particular things as as as a as [71:48] a response to that trumpet. So he's talking about our law here when he's like, "Man, look, if the trumpet [71:53] don't sound right, who who going to do it?" Because that's what the prophecy is like, right? The prophecy is like a [72:00] trumpet with a very particular sound, right? Think when I say trumpet, think of an alarm, right? You might you might [72:07] know exactly what a tornado alarm look like or what's it called? A tornado warning sound like, you know what I'm [72:13] saying? You go to some of these places, they got tornado and you know what I'm saying? From what I heard or read, you know what I'm saying? That thing go [72:21] And everybody knows what that means, right? It's like that is a very particular sound that only means a [72:28] tornado is coming. So when you hear it, you already know. Okay, I got it. Now [72:34] what if it it was just a random sound every time. Sometimes it's blinging bling bling bling bling. You know what [72:40] I'm saying? Sometimes sometimes, you know what I'm saying? [72:45] Every time it's something different. How you supposed to know? Now, I thought that was a darn rooster on my I didn't know a tornado was darn coming. You [72:52] wouldn't know because it don't have any distinct sound. Well, that's what speaking in tonesues is like. Speaking [72:58] in tonesues is like, I don't understand it. It's random. There's no distinct sound. There's nothing I can hear in [73:04] speaking in tongues that I can do something with. So, he's saying, I would prefer that you prophesy. Watch what our log say. This is uh Numbers chapter 10. [73:11] Uh let's start at verse one. I don't know what I want. It's probably like verse 9 is what I want, but let's start at verse one. [73:19] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver, and a whole piece, that thou shalt make them, [73:24] that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. Mhm. And when [73:29] they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to there at to the at the door of the [73:35] tabernacle of the of the congregation. And if they blow with one trumpet, then the princes which are heads of the [73:41] houses of Israel shall gather themselves unto thee. All right? So look, if I blow, look, we we all got trumpet. All [73:48] the priests got trumpets, right? But if I blow with only one of one priest stand up, he [73:54] say, guess what that mean? That mean the heads of the tribes got to go. So when [74:00] we hear one trumpet, that's a very distinct sound. We say, "Oh, okay. That ain't got nothing to do with me. I ain't [74:06] the head of a tribe." Right? Let's see what else. When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east part [74:11] shall go forward. Will you blow an alarm the second time? Then the camps on the south side shall take their journey and [74:17] shall blow and take their journey. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. But when the congregation is to be [74:23] gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm in the right. So listen, when you blow an alarm [74:30] one time, that mean who go first? I think the east. The east, right? That [74:35] mean the east go first. Like come on, let's go. You heard the alarm. All right, it was only one. Okay, let's go. [74:41] It's a very distinct sound. That mean you blowing it. You know what I'm saying? You blow [74:48] the alarm, it's like, "Okay, it's only one alarm. All right, let's go." Then the second one, who's supposed to go [74:53] next? The west, the south. The south got to go next. Right. So, as you blow the [74:59] alarm, it's a very distinct sound and it's a count. Okay, that was the first one. That was the second one. That was [75:05] the third one. Okay. Boom. And then we go out in order. Keep going. [75:10] But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm in the same. So when now it's time for bring [75:17] everybody back together, now it's it's not an alarm. It's just a [75:23] blow. Everybody is dispersed. When they hear the one, oh, we disperse. Okay, we [75:29] hear the blow. All right, that mean we got to go back in. These are the distinct sounds. So that's what Paul is [75:35] talking about. He's saying, listen, if go back, go back to what Paul said. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter uh 14 verse [75:41] what uh 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse what? [75:47] 10. Verse 10. Watch the book [75:55] say. There are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification. Therefore, if [76:01] I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a barbarian in the in No, go back a little [76:08] bit. So likewise, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood. [76:13] How shall they? Go back a little bit more. For the trumpet is for the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall [76:19] prepare themselves for battle themselves for battle. Right now, if you get to blowing that trumpet, you got an amateur blowing the trumpet. One of the the new [76:26] priests, he blowing trumpet. I think, you know what I'm saying? He his lips, you know what I'm saying? Say, you know [76:31] what I'm saying? He might got like little white people lips, you know what I'm saying? You know, you can't, you know what I'm saying? He can't really get, you know what I'm saying? So, it's [76:38] an uncertain. Ain't nobody heard that sound before. Who going to get up and go to war at that point? Like, man, I don't [76:45] know if that was alarm, bro. I think uh you know what I'm saying? I think that was a glitch in the system or something. That might have been a bird. You [76:51] wouldn't know. Keep going. Watch this. So likewise you except ye utter by the [76:57] tongue words easy to under easy easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into [77:03] the air. There are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. [77:09] Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks [77:15] shall be a barbarian unto me. Right? When you say barbarian, think of that like being a foreigner, right? Being [77:22] somebody who speak a different language. Even so ye, for as much as ye are [77:27] zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the congregation. Right? So he's saying any [77:33] gift that you want, just make sure your thought process is, how do I benefit my [77:38] congregation? How do I benefit my people? Right? Keep going. Wherefore let [77:43] him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit [77:50] prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and will pray with the [77:57] understanding also. I will sing with the spirit and sing with the understanding also. Else when thou shalt bless with [78:04] the spirit, how shall he that occupies the room of the unlearned say amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he [78:10] understands not what you say. Right? So he but basically what he's saying is when I speak in tonesues, I'mma speak in [78:17] tonesues and I'm going to be praising God or sing in tonesues and I'm going be praising God. But he says, "I'm also [78:23] going to come back and I'mma speak and sing in a way that people understand me also." Because otherwise, how can [78:30] somebody if I'm sitting here and I'm praying in tongues? Oh, I'm praying in tongue. He's saying, [78:36] "How in the world can somebody say amen to whatever I said?" Because amen is saying, "So be it." It's acknowledging [78:43] what was said. He's saying like, "How can you do that if you don't even know what I said?" Right? So he's saying, [78:49] man, look, any any any gift that y'all get, just desire that it benefits [78:54] everybody. When you speaking in tongues, you can't even really understand it yourself. So really, you're the only one [79:00] getting the benefit and you don't even know what you're talking about. Right? Keep going. For thou verily give thanks [79:06] well, but the other is not edified. I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. Yet, right, he said, look, [79:12] I appreciate the most high God for letting me speak in tongues more than you all, but watch this. Yet in the congregation, I had rather speak five [79:19] words with my understanding than by my that by my voice I might teach others [79:24] also than 10,000 words in an unknown tongue. Right? He said, even though I [79:30] can speak in tongues more than all y'all, man, I appreciate the most high God cuz I rather speak just five words [79:37] that I can understand in the congregation rather than speaking 10,000 words that nobody can understand. Right? [79:44] He just showing you like the prep. It ain't nothing bad with speaking tongues. There's nothing wrong with speaking in tongues. What he's saying is, man, I [79:51] would prefer to have understanding of what's being said so that people can use it so I can edify the congregation. [79:59] Again, his whole case is they're all focused on speaking in tongues right now. And what he's trying to show them [80:05] is that's not even the one. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, y'all y'all y'all stressing out over that one? [80:10] That's really not even the one that y'all should want. Y'all should want to prophesy. Y'all should want knowledge. [80:15] Y'all should want, you know what I'm saying? Be able to uh teach doctrine, right? That which is going to be wisdom and knowledge, right? Keep going. [80:23] Brethren, be not children in understanding. How be it in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. [80:29] In the law it is written, with men of other tongues, and other lips will I speak to this people. And yet for all [80:35] that they will not hear me, says Yahweh. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to [80:41] them that believe, but to them that believe not. Right? So, notice what he used. He used uh Isaiah chapter 28. And [80:48] he he used Isaiah chapter 28 for a reason. You know, we those of us that have been around a lot, we used to start [80:54] off every study with Isaiah chapter 28, right? But in Isaiah chapter 28, he says, "With another tongue, right, with [81:02] stammering lips and another tongue will I speak to this people." And then it goes on to say, [81:08] "But they would not hear." Right? So the the the point that he's trying to make [81:14] is you speak in another tongue when you don't want someone to understand it. [81:20] Right? God spoke to us in another tongue when he when he didn't want us to understand. So that's what he was trying [81:26] to prove with using that. He's saying here's proof that speaking another tongue is not the best for [81:33] understanding. See Yah even said he was going to speak to us in another tongue when he didn't want us to [81:39] hear. Right? when he was trying to make this thing a little bit more, you know what I'm saying, challenging for us so [81:44] that he could trap those who don't have faith, who not going to persevere, who's not going to endure all [81:49] things. Right. Keep [81:58] going. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not. But right, so he said [82:04] the read the purpose of tongues is not for the person that believes. So he talking to all believers. He's talking [82:10] to all saints, all disciples. So he's saying, listen, honestly, it's not a sign to the person that believe. All us [82:19] believers, right? It's more beneficial to the person that believes not. Watch this. But prophesying serves not for [82:26] them that believe not, but for them which believe, right? And then prophecy, [82:31] that's for the people that believe. So like if you don't believe you might want to see somebody speaking in tongues [82:38] because then that becomes a miracle to you. Then after that once you start [82:43] believing now you need somebody that that got prophecy that will teach you [82:49] and give you understanding. Right? Grab uh Acts chapter [82:56] 2. This is Acts chapter 2. Let's start at verse one. I just want y'all to pay attention to exactly how look at what [83:02] Paul said and then watch exactly how Acts chapter 2 plays out. This is Acts chapter 2 verse [83:25] one. And when the day of the Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one [83:30] accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house [83:35] where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of [83:41] them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them [83:47] utterance. Right? So now they were speaking in other tongues. And then watch this. And there were dwelling at [83:53] Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came [83:59] together and were confounded because that every man heard him speaking his own language. Every man heard what? [84:05] Every man speaking his own language. So every one of them heard the the people [84:10] speaking in tongues in their own language. So if I speak French, when I heard the people speaking in tongues, I [84:17] understood it in French. But that same person was understood by the person next to me in German because they spoke [84:24] German. Right? So one person is speaking in tongues and everybody heard that [84:29] individual in a different language. So you know what God did to them? He made [84:35] each one of them interpreters. He gave them the gift of interpretation and then he caused he [84:41] gave the uh the disciples the gift of speaking in tongues. And then watch what happens after that. And they were all [84:48] amazed and marveled, saying one to another, "Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans?" Right? So he's [84:54] looking at like, "Wait a minute." Cuz remember, these people don't believe. And remember, tongues benefits those who [85:01] don't believe, but prophecy benefits those who do believe. So now look, they [85:08] looking like, "What? What's going on? Ain't these people from Galilee? How do I hear them in my language? I know they [85:14] people in Galilee never leave Galilee." You know what I'm saying? You ever meet somebody from the hood, they never been [85:19] nowhere. You know what I'm saying? That's like Galilee cuz you you when you poor, you don't go nowhere. He look [85:25] like, man, people in Galilee, man, they ain't going nowhere outside of Israel. That's crazy. How in the world they speaking in my language? Keep going. [85:31] Watch this. And how we hear every man in his own tongue where we were born. [85:37] Parththeians and Mes Elummites and the dwellers of Mesopotamia and Judah and Capidosia and Pontius and Asia, Pergia [85:44] and Panilia and Egypt and the parts of Libya about Sirene, the strangers of Rome, Jews and proelites, priests and [85:51] Arabian Arabians we do hear them in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed and were in [85:57] doubt saying one to another, what does this mean? Others mocking, right? So then they asked the question, h what [86:04] does this mean? because they did not believe. So now they're becoming [86:10] believers. They looking like, "What's the meaning behind this? What is God trying to tell us with this? This is a [86:16] miracle. This is a very strange thing that's happening. How do we make sense of this? What's happening?" And watch [86:23] what they say. Others mocking said, "These men are full of new wine." But [86:28] Peter standing up with the 11 lift up his voice and said unto them, "Men of Judah and ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be [86:34] known unto you and hearken unto my words, for these are not drunken as drunken as you suppose, seeing as the [86:40] third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel." And it came by the what? Joel. [86:47] No, by the prophet. So now already we got two gifts, right? One gift was [86:55] tongues and that got their attention. Then he made all of them interpreters. [87:00] They looking like how in the world do we hear them in our own language? Each one of us hears them in a different [87:05] language, but it's only it's only we only hearing one person talk at a time, right? So it's like, how do we [87:12] hear them in our own language? They looking like, man, what's the meaning of this? Some of some of the other ones was [87:17] looking like remember it's not the same crew. The ones that saying what's the meaning of this are not the same people that was like man they must be drunk. [87:25] When the dude said they must be drunk that's when Peter got involved and he started to give [87:31] prophecy. Right. Keep going. Watch what happens after he get a [87:37] prophecy. But this is that. Oh wait. And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my spirit [87:43] upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men [87:49] shall dream dreams, and on my servants and on my handmaids, I will pour out in those days my spirit, and they shall [87:56] prophesy, right? He said, "On my servants and my handmmaids." [88:01] Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people try to tell you, "Oh, no. It ain't appropriate for a woman." You know what I'm saying? She [88:08] can't speak in tongues or she can't she can't prophesy. A lot of these Hebrew Israelites. That's a lie. He said, [88:13] "I'mma pour it out on my servants and my handmaids." Watch what the book say. Keep going. [88:22] And I will show wonders in heaven above and the signs in the earth beneath and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun. Jump [88:27] on down to verse uh 17. We way past 17. [88:33] We past 17. Yeah. What verse we on right now? Uh 20 20 uh what verse what verse you [88:41] say the 3000 got [88:53] converted 41 41 I didn't realize it was that far down. Uh jump on down to verse 41. [89:01] Then they that gladly received his word were baptized in the same there in the [89:07] same day there were added unto them about 3,000. Right? So now them being unbelievers who witnessed tongues became [89:14] interpreters and then heard prophecy from the book of Joel. They then were [89:20] benefited much. Right? They were not believers and they became believers in [89:26] her prophecy. So this is exactly what Paul is talking about in 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Let's [89:32] go back. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. What verse did we leave [89:38] off? 23. This 1 Corinthians chapter 14 23. [89:43] Let's see if we can finish this up. If therefore the whole congregation be come together into one place and all speak [89:49] with tongues and there come those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? Ain't that what [89:55] they said? Right? They looking like, "Man, no, man. They drunk." Right? It [90:01] wasn't until Peter jumped up and was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, they not drunk. This is [90:07] prophecy, right?" Just notice how how exactly what he said lined up with Acts [90:12] chapter 2. Keep going. But if all prophecy But if all prophesy and there [90:18] come in one that believes not or one unlearned, he is convinced of all. He is judged of all. And Right. And ain't that [90:25] what happened? The people heard him and they because they they were made interpreters, they heard him in their [90:31] own tongue. And so they looking like, "What's the meaning of this?" And then Peter jumped up and he gave them [90:37] prophecy. And then they all believed, or not all, but 3,000 of them believed. [90:42] Right? Keep going. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest. And so falling down on his face, he shall [90:49] worship God and report that God is in you of a truth. How is it then, brethren, when you come together, every [90:56] one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, and has a revelation, has an interpretation. Well, now he's about [91:02] to talk to us about order, right? Order is very important because in the order is where we see the most high God. All [91:08] of us who who read through the Bible last year, we went through the law. And one of the things that we marvel at is [91:14] the the strict order of God. So, we know God is a God of order. So when we get to [91:19] seeing stuff that's all out of order and people just doing whatever they want to do, we can that's just one sign that the [91:25] spirit of God is not necessarily leading everybody, right? This is about order. [91:31] So he's saying, listen, the order is why in the world do everybody come here with [91:38] a psalm and with a teaching, right? Everybody, you mean everybody trying to [91:43] teach, everybody trying to sing, everybody trying to do everything? Watch here. We'll keep going. Let all things [91:49] be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or three at the most, and that by [91:57] course, and let one interpret. Right? So now he's giving you an order to follow. [92:02] He said, look, if you got people that's going to speak in tongues, let it let it be by two, three at the most. So in [92:09] other words, he's telling you it shouldn't be a congregation full of people speaking in tongues. [92:15] As soon as we see that, we should be like, "Okay, this ain't the order of the most high God." At the very least, even [92:21] this re, let's say all these people truly got the gift of the spirit, they're not using it according to the [92:27] order of the most high God. Period. Cuz you got a whole bunch of people just jumping around. So he said, "Listen, if [92:33] y'all got people, let's say you got 20 people that speak in tongues, you got to pick three of them." Like, uh, y'all [92:39] three, y'all can come up. And he said, "Let them speak, but let them do it in course." In other words, let them take [92:45] turns. So you first go ahead speak in tongues. Okay, you get done. Okay, next [92:50] you speak in tongues. But then what else got to [92:57] happen? I'm about to show you how y'all can find out that all this stuff fake. All this stuff that y'all be seeing [93:03] fake. Show you using right here out of the book. I didn't put it here. They going to act like I put this stuff here. [93:08] They going to act like I just wrote this before Bible study started. No, no, no, no, no. I've been here the whole time. Watch this. [93:15] And let one interpret. Go back. Go back a little bit. Read the beginning of the verse. If any man speak [93:21] or an unknown in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or three at the most. Right. Three of them at the most. At the [93:27] most and that by course and let one interpret. You got to take turns. And [93:33] you got to have one interpreter. That's the order. You've never seen it. You've never seen it. You [93:40] got to have three people at the most. No more than three, right? And they can't [93:46] be the church that we go to, these people speaking in tongue all at the same time, right? They can't do that. [93:52] They got to take turns. And then after they done taking turn, or not after they done, but as they taking turns, you got [93:58] to have one person interpret. Sit down, baby girl. You got to have one person [94:03] interpret. One person got to tell you, okay, this is what he's saying. This, that, and the other. Okay, this that. [94:09] Okay, he's saying this, that, and the other. Okay, in other words, they got to translate what he's saying to everybody [94:15] else. Right, keep going. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation and let him speak to [94:21] himself and to God. So, hold on. If I got 20 people that want to speak in tongues, but I ain't got no interpreter. [94:28] What got to happen? Let him keep silence in the congregation and let him speak to himself and to God. You shut your darn [94:35] butt up. So, every time you see these people speak in tongues and they act like they [94:40] can't control it and they losing control, do that sound like what what Paul is describing, I'mma tell y'all the truth. [94:47] Y'all may not have ever seen nobody really speak in [94:52] tongues. He not talking about somebody who's out of control. He talking about somebody who who who can turn it on, [94:58] turn it off at will. And no, no, I can't use it in this [95:06] situation cuz I ain't got no interpreter. Y'all have never seen a darn interpreter. People make a fool out of [95:13] us. And the book say right here. We got the whole book right here to help us [95:18] discern what a real spirit is and what a real spirit ain't. And we haven't even [95:23] looked at it. Keep going. That's a prophet. So you [95:30] shut your darn butt up if you ain't got no darn interpreter. Why you darn standing up running around darn? You ought to be ashamed to your darn self. [95:36] Sit your darn butt down. Ain't even got no darn interpreter and you running your darn [95:42] mouth. Keep going. Let the prophet speak two or three and let the other judge. If [95:47] anything be revealed to an to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by [95:54] one that all may learn and all may be comforted. Right? If you prophet same way, you know what I'm saying? You got [96:00] to speak at the most three. You know what I'm saying? And you got to take your darn turn so that everybody can [96:06] learn, right? Everything got to be done in order. You can't be out of all out of order. It can't just be doing the most. [96:13] Keep going. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. He [96:18] said the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophet. What that mean, brother T? That means everything that he [96:25] say has to line up with all prophecy that has been written. We got we got a mountain of prophecy in [96:32] the scripture, right? And each prophecy got to stand on the next prophecy. [96:38] That's how it always work, right? So if we start off with Abraham, we start off, [96:44] let's say we start off with Noah, right? The prophecy that came from [96:49] Noah gota got to stay I mean uh the prophecy that came from Abraham got to [96:54] be consistent with the prophecy that that that started with Noah. And it got to keep going. You can't have [97:01] one prophet that invalidate the prophet before that. You can't have one prophet [97:06] that contradicts the prophet before that. Right? The prophecy has to line up [97:14] with the other prophet. That means the prophet has to be subject to the other prophet. So if I come up and I say I'm a [97:19] prophet and I say I am the prophet Muhammad. [97:25] The angel Gabriel came to me and he told me that [97:31] actually Jesus didn't die on the cross. When nobody was looking, God took [97:38] him down, hit him away. When we hear that, we supposed to [97:43] say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa." But that don't line up with the prophecy. Like, forget the gospel. Even if we don't even if we [97:49] don't take the gospel, that don't line up with the prophecy. That don't line up with what what Daniel [97:56] told us. Daniel told us the Messiah must be cut off and not for his own sin. How the Quran going to come back [98:03] and tell us that no man can die for another man's sin? [98:08] Right? The prophecy tell us in Isaiah 53 that he has to be cut off. He has to be [98:16] smitten for our iniquities. How the prophet How the so-called [98:21] prophet Muhammad supposed to come back and tell us something different, right? If Muhammad heard [98:28] something, he was supposed to say, "You know what? That don't make sense because Paul told me I have to be subject to the [98:36] other prophets." So all the prophets that came before me, I have to be subject to them. In other words, my [98:42] prophecy got to fit with their prophecy. If it don't, then whoever I'm hearing, [98:47] man, that wasn't that was no spirit of God. That was no angel of God. That's what Paul is trying to tell us right now [98:53] is that a prophet has to be subject to the prophets, right? Anybody who's been [99:00] confirmed to be a true prophet, then the next prophet has to be subject to all of them because everything got to fit [99:06] together in in in the in the word of the most high God. And if that's not the case, we can't accept him as a prophet. [99:12] Keep going. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all the congregation of the saints. Let your [99:19] women keep silent in the congregation, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be [99:24] under obedience as also saith the law. Right? A woman is not is not commanded [99:30] to speak. And I and and a lot of people try there's some Hebrew Israelite, they take this, you know, you can't say [99:35] nothing. Shut your darn mouth. No, that's not what it mean, right? He already told you in Joel that he going [99:40] to pour out his spirit on the handmaids also. And if he poured out his spirit on the handmaids and called them to speak [99:46] in tongues, then are they silent? No. Right? So when he's saying silent right [99:52] now and not permitted to speak, he's talking about they cannot preach. They cannot teach. They cannot usurp [99:58] authority over men. So when you got a congregation full of men, the woman that can't stand up and be like, "Okay, let [100:05] me teach y'all what Exodus chapter 34 saym your darn. Just sit down now. You [100:12] just like the You just like the man that that that that got some got some tongues and he want to speak his tongues and [100:17] ain't no interpreter. Guess what? He got to sit his butt down too. Just like your butt as a woman got to sit your butt [100:24] down, right? Remember Paul Paul tell he going to tell us in uh or he already did [100:29] we already read Timothy? Yeah, we already read Timothy. He already told us that that a woman cannot use sort [100:35] authority over a man in the context of the congregation. All right. cannot teach or [100:42] usurp authority over a man. We didn't read Timothy on our weekly study, but we [100:47] read it in our Bible in the year. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah. All right. We haven't got to Timothy yet, but when we [100:53] get to Timothy, that's what we going to read. All right. Keep going. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their [100:59] husbands at home. For it is a shame for women to speak in the congregation. What? What? Came the word of God out [101:05] from you, or came it unto you only? If any man, Right. He's talking about a woman that's being contentious. He [101:10] talking about a woman that look at him be like, "What? I can't teach." He's like, "All right, if you don't believe that, go ahead and go ask your husband [101:17] at home." Right now he's Now he's he's kind of anticipating her argument. Watch [101:22] what he say. What came the word of God out from you? Or came it unto you only? [101:28] If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write unto you are [101:33] the commandments of the Lord. Right? So look, notice what he's saying. He said what? Came the word unto you only. Who [101:41] told us? Who said that? Uh pre uh the Levites. [101:46] You remember Kora? Mhm. In Numbers, we don't have to get it. But that's what he said. He like, "No, man. We all we all [101:53] we all pass through the water." He like, "No, man. We all we all, you know what I'm saying? God chose all of [101:59] us." Right? You think you the only one, Moses, right? So that's what that's what [102:05] Paul was trying to reflect. He looking like, you know what I'm saying? He like, he trying to anticipate what some of the women will say when they get rebellious. [102:12] Like, what you mean? You the only one, Paul? You the only one you think God can speak through? I can I can teach about [102:17] God, too. He's looking like, nah, go talk to your husband. I ain't about to hear and argue with your butt. Right? [102:23] And then he went on to say, listen, let any, watch this, keep going. If any man [102:28] think be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the [102:33] Lord. Yeah. You better understand what I'm talking to you. I'm not right now when I'm talking I'm not giving sometime [102:39] when Paul talked he give his opinion. That's what happened in verse what was that chapter 11 I think in chapter 11 [102:46] that was Paul giving his opinion right when he came back here he looking like be clear what I'm telling you right now [102:53] is the commandment of God. And if you think you call yourself spiritual and you call yourself a [102:58] prophet then you need to acknowledge that. Keep going. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. [103:05] Wherefore, if you don't believe it and you don't understand that, oh well. [103:10] Wherefore, brother, and coveret to prophesy and forbid not to speak in tongues. Let all things be done in decency and in order. All right. He [103:17] said, "Now, don't don't stop nobody from speaking in tongues. Just make sure it's done in decency and in order." That [103:22] means stop them if it ain't in order, but don't stop them all together. Right? So that's that's that's [103:30] 1 Corinthians chapter uh chapter 14. That's the whole book of 1 Corinthians. [103:35] What we'll do next week is we'll What happened? Still got 15 and 16. [103:42] Oh, it's two more chapter 1 Corinthians. Yeah, you know 15 talk about the resurrection. Well, I thought it ended [103:47] at 14. All right. Well, then we'll finish out [103:55] first Corinthians next week then. We'll do 1 Corinthians 15. Yeah, because [104:01] you're right. We definitely got to get 15. I don't know what I was thinking. 15 hitter. Yeah, we definitely got to get 15. But we'll finish out first [104:07] Corinthians uh next week. I can't believe I forgot about 15. That's crazy. [104:13] 15 is a hitter. I don't know why my brain was saying it ended ended uh 14. But yeah, we'll we'll [104:21] finish out first Corinthians next week and then uh it's actually some good stuff in 16 too. stuff I want to go over [104:28] with y'all in 16. So, yeah, we actually Yeah. No, we we'll talk about a lot of this stuff next week. Uh, any questions? [104:35] Any questions? [104:43] [Music] Sister Tia say she tapping out. [104:51] Information overload, huh? That thing is heavy when you go word for word. You know what I'm saying? He's saying a [104:56] whole lot. Yeah, buddy. All right. Well, let's pray out.