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♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪

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♪ When your glory
floods the earth. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪

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♪ When your presence
fills the room. ♪

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♪Everything changes. (3x)♪

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♪ When your glory
floods the Earth. ♪

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♪ When your presence
fills the room. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (6x) ♪

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♪ When Your glory
floods the earth. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪

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♪ When your presence
fills the room. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪

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♪ When your presence
fills the room. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪

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♪ When your glory floods
the earth. (2x) ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (2x) ♪

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♪ Everything changes (11x) ♪

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♪ Everything turns around when
you come into the room. ♪

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♪ Everything changes when
you come into the room. ♪

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♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪

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♪ We lift our eyes and we see
your glory, God. We lift our ♪

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

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♪ God. We see your
greatness, God. (3x) ♪

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♪I see your greatness God. Over
my life, over my children. Over♪

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♪ my city, over my nation. I see
your greatness God. (2x) ♪

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

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

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

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

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♪ Sing to me how great is our
God. Oh, we'll sing how great, ♪

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♪ how great is our God. Sing how
great is our God. How great ♪

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♪ is our God. Sing it out. Sing
how great. So great are you ♪

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♪ Lord. Is our God. Ohh. How
great is our God? Name above ♪

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♪ all names. Worthy of all
praise. Come on, we'll sing. ♪

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♪ How great is our God? Come on,
sing name above all names. ♪

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♪ You are the name above all
names. Name above all names. ♪

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♪So worthy of our praise.
Worthy of our praise. There is♪

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♪ none else like you, Lord.
Come on, we'll sing, sing how ♪

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♪great is our God. Come on
sing it. Sing how great are you♪

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♪ Lord. How great are you,
Lord. How great is our God? ♪

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♪ Oh, oh. Sing with me, how
great. How great are you, ♪

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♪ Lord? Is our God. Oh, sing.
Oh, we'll sing. How great. How ♪

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♪ great. How great is our God.
How great are you, Lord? How ♪

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♪ great, is our God? Sing with
me. How great. How mighty are ♪

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♪ you Lord. How mighty are you
Lord. Oh we'll see how great, ♪

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♪how great is our God. How
great is our God. Sing with me,♪

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

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♪ is our God. So great. (3x) You
are highly exalted. You're ♪

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♪ Highly exalted. (3x) Come on,
tell the Lord, say, "You're ♪

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♪ highly exalted." (2x) Highly
exalted, are you Lord. Highly ♪

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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♪ higher than you, Lord. There
is no one. Higher than you, ♪

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♪ Lord, there is no one. No
one higher than you, Lord. ♪

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♪ No one higher than you, Lord.
(7x) There is no one higher ♪

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♪ No one higher than you, Lord.
(3x) There is no one. No one ♪

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♪ higher than you, Lord. You
say there is nothing. Nothing ♪

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♪ higher than you, Lord. (2x)
There is nothing. Nothing ♪

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

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

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(electric guitar playing)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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gather around these people
because the Bible says where two

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

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name. There is power in
agreement when we pray.

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(soft piano music)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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powerful word from
Pastor Brenda.

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(upbeat music)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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going to get right into
prophetic school and uh want to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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time. Just wanna make sure
everybody knows that all the

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

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

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

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about all the exciting things
we're planning for dedication

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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going to be doing some things
pertinent to children, planning

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

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that yet until we have
solidified all the things we

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

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for the children and just
talking a little bit more about

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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better than pastor on the
anointing of preservation or

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

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kind of a fresh take on
scriptures of protection that

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

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

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

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

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always believe that it is
absolutely ordained of heaven.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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House, anybody been watching
that little drama going on?

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

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

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

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was interesting to me that
people are making that

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nomination because they believe
what we feel about the election

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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recognizing genuine prophecy
and prophets, genuine prophetic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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because it really makes a
description on how God views

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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just talking about people that
make genuine, honest mistakes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ascertain whether or not that
prophetic word was legitimate or

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2020 election over the Trump
prophecies and all of these

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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a collective growing, a
collective large number of

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people felt what they felt about
the anointing on Donald John

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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this false teacher is people
that propagate teachings of

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error. "Among you who shall
privately or secretly or

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covertly bring damnable heresies
or destructive doctrines, even

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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genuinely called of God. He
spoke and taught diligently the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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something that needed
adjustment. They didn't get

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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they had given him some
instruction to develop his

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

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

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says the Bereans were more
noble than those that were in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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person a false minister or
a false prophet or a false

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

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

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this person and claim that
revelation. They had that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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after the preaching and they
searched the scriptures daily to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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of knowledge, whatever gifting
of the Holy Spirit you might

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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false, except under certain
circumstances, which I am gonna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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social media, but social
media has enabled so much bad

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

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

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

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

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

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the Bereans and search the
scriptures daily. And sometimes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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the characteristics of the
genuine. I wanna really get into

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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easy for you. These are the
important things everybody

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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of religions out there that
secularism, humanism is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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three, the death and physical
bodily resurrection of Jesus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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scriptures to all these. This
is your homework assignment.

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

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

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want to do. Prophetic
school, you get to grade

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

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

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scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is

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profitable for doctrine,
instruction, reproof, correction

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and instruction in
righteousness. I said that

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backwards. Instruction,
correction and instruction in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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preacher that can give you
enough scripture to satisfy your

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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especially preaching and
teaching, when I'm hearing these

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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at home like armchair pastors,
and just criticize everything,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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to just walk away from because
they were so egregiously

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

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connected to one minister that
somebody had recommended. And in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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time in it because I have
watched in recent times where

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

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say anything on the internet
without somebody coming in with

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

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

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

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

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criticizing the preaching or the
singing or the prophesying or

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

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

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

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somebody gets on and criticizes
online, any different than

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

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

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

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

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

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thing they need to see is
somebody getting on the internet

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and being an armchair
quarterback critic, preaching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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and I think the foremost
important thing on any preacher,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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nobody thinks about.
More forgiveness, more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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that false prophets are not just
measured alone by the accuracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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everything about everybody. You
probably could look around this

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

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

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

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well. But there are certain
character traits that do start

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Pastor Shane? Or ribs or
whatever else. Sometimes there

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

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

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

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

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character of things and
sometimes let it marinate a bit,

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

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

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

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people like on the internet?
Because internet ministry is a

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

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

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

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

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to listen to some preaching
pages and some of these stupid

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things with these media outlets
that do nothing but fire out

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

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

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

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

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going to know that person
personally, probably through the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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important. As you listen to
different preachers, as you

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listen to people, look for the
consistency and reliability of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You know how many Christians
probably do mishandle money and

01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:05.179
just nobody knows, okay? We
worked very hard to handle the

01:00:05.179 --> 01:00:10.128
money of this house with
impeccable integrity, with

01:00:10.128 --> 01:00:17.119
auditing, outside firms, we
worked very hard. It's important

01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:19.849
that you get to know the
character of the person that you

01:00:19.849 --> 01:00:25.128
listen to. It's impeccable.
'Cause if there's a bend inside

01:00:25.128 --> 01:00:27.768
of them that's deceptive, it's
gonna start to arise and you'll

01:00:27.768 --> 01:00:31.639
know it. And listen, you have
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit

01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:34.938
in you is gonna teach you.
That's what the Bible says in 1

01:00:34.938 --> 01:00:38.418
John. It says, "The Spirit
within us will teach us all

01:00:38.418 --> 01:00:42.378
things." So you'll listen to 'em
long enough. In fact, I can tell

01:00:42.378 --> 01:00:46.458
you a good story about this.
There was this person that we

01:00:46.458 --> 01:00:52.485
knew years ago. And they invited
me to come to this women's

01:00:52.485 --> 01:00:55.364
conference just to attend it. I
wasn't preaching there. And it

01:00:55.364 --> 01:00:59.025
was a pretty big group of
people. And I went up there all

01:00:59.025 --> 01:01:02.264
by myself. I drove and went to
this. I told pastor, you know,

01:01:02.264 --> 01:01:04.635
now he'd never even let me do
that now. And I'm like, why? You

01:01:04.635 --> 01:01:07.065
think I'm going to get lost or
drive in the wrong street? I

01:01:07.065 --> 01:01:09.795
don't know. He tells scary
stories about it. But I got

01:01:09.795 --> 01:01:16.454
there. And I went to this
meeting. And the preacher at the

01:01:16.454 --> 01:01:18.644
time, not the person that
invited me, but it was another

01:01:18.644 --> 01:01:22.485
person that was preaching that
night, preached something that

01:01:23.744 --> 01:01:26.744
it really did great against the
Word. How many of you ever been

01:01:26.744 --> 01:01:31.485
in a room like that? Now,
listen, there is full liberty.

01:01:31.485 --> 01:01:33.735
If you hear something preached,
you don't have to stand and

01:01:33.735 --> 01:01:37.335
shout an amen to it if you're
not sure about it. Doesn't mean

01:01:37.335 --> 01:01:40.994
it's necessarily wrong, okay?
Sometimes you just gotta go home

01:01:40.994 --> 01:01:43.755
and study, okay? I've had that
many times. I've heard that a

01:01:43.755 --> 01:01:46.094
lot. Sometimes like, "Man, I
never heard that before." I

01:01:46.094 --> 01:01:48.585
mean, really, do we really think
we come to church and we've

01:01:48.585 --> 01:01:54.045
heard everything there is? No.
So I heard what this person said

01:01:54.045 --> 01:01:58.155
and I'm like, "Man, that's, I'm
not sure about that." And of

01:01:58.155 --> 01:02:00.764
course the whole place is
standing up and just screaming.

01:02:00.764 --> 01:02:04.934
I mean, they're shouting. I
was kind of in the back and I,

01:02:04.934 --> 01:02:07.815
because I was a little bit late,
but I got in there in the back

01:02:07.815 --> 01:02:10.005
and I'm sitting in there and the
whole place is just shouting and

01:02:10.005 --> 01:02:11.985
they're screaming, this person
is saying this and I'm thinking,

01:02:11.985 --> 01:02:16.905
Lord, I don't know about that. I
just don't know about that, I'm

01:02:16.905 --> 01:02:21.255
not sure. And it just kind of
goes against something that I

01:02:21.255 --> 01:02:27.045
think that I knew. And so I felt
a little uncomfortable to just

01:02:27.045 --> 01:02:31.034
get in agreement with it. But
then the more I began to listen

01:02:31.034 --> 01:02:34.574
to that person, I'd watch their
character, I watched their

01:02:34.574 --> 01:02:37.934
associations, 'cause that's
another thing, you know, you

01:02:37.934 --> 01:02:40.994
don't need somebody, we'll talk
about accountability, Pastor hit

01:02:40.994 --> 01:02:43.784
on this so well a few weeks
back, but you don't need

01:02:43.784 --> 01:02:48.074
somebody that is a lone ranger
maverick, that it's their way or

01:02:48.074 --> 01:02:52.275
no way. And so I watched this
person and watched who they

01:02:52.275 --> 01:02:55.514
communicated with and then it
began to just let me know, okay,

01:02:55.514 --> 01:02:58.514
well maybe that was just a
development spot for them. We

01:02:58.514 --> 01:03:02.175
have to be very good at this in
this hour. And realize folks,

01:03:02.175 --> 01:03:05.204
when people get out there on the
internet, most people don't know

01:03:05.204 --> 01:03:09.675
half of what goes on behind the
scenes. It's very important. So

01:03:09.675 --> 01:03:14.715
character is, it must abound
in folks. Anybody can be

01:03:14.715 --> 01:03:18.195
well-spoken. Okay, there are,
in fact, the Bible says, that

01:03:18.195 --> 01:03:21.135
scripture we just read, that
some of the false are the most,

01:03:21.135 --> 01:03:25.994
they're best spoken. There could
be some of the most, I mean,

01:03:25.994 --> 01:03:30.614
amazingly spoken. Think about
all of the prophetic people that

01:03:30.614 --> 01:03:33.405
you've heard, and you've heard
of them over the years, who sat

01:03:33.405 --> 01:03:38.295
there and phonied prophecies,
looked people up on the internet

01:03:38.295 --> 01:03:40.905
and found their name and then
pretended they had a word from

01:03:40.905 --> 01:03:46.391
God. Okay, their character,
character becomes important. And

01:03:46.391 --> 01:03:48.824
believe me, if you watch
somebody long enough, this is

01:03:48.824 --> 01:03:54.494
why I kind of say, don't just
listen to everybody. Get some

01:03:54.494 --> 01:03:57.824
people that you're connected to
and you listen to them. I had

01:03:57.824 --> 01:04:00.824
one lady say, and I don't mean
to quote Brother Hagin a lot

01:04:00.824 --> 01:04:03.704
because he certainly isn't
the only minister we've always

01:04:03.704 --> 01:04:06.824
listened to, but I kind of cut
my teeth listening and reading

01:04:06.824 --> 01:04:09.494
his books, but I heard a person
one time, I said, "You know, who

01:04:09.494 --> 01:04:13.695
do you really listen to?" And
she named him. This is a woman

01:04:13.695 --> 01:04:17.175
pastor. She named him. And I
thought to myself, "Well, I

01:04:17.175 --> 01:04:19.635
mean, that seemed a little close
that that's the only name that

01:04:19.635 --> 01:04:21.764
you can name." That's what I
thought to myself, but then I

01:04:21.764 --> 01:04:25.034
thought it's kind of good that
we kind of just we hone in with

01:04:25.034 --> 01:04:27.974
a few key voices that we have
built trust and we know their

01:04:27.974 --> 01:04:32.324
character. This is so important.
So character is just as

01:04:32.324 --> 01:04:36.465
important as accuracy,
right? Okay. Secondly, the

01:04:36.465 --> 01:04:40.125
accountability, and so I'll
just say this, it takes time to

01:04:40.125 --> 01:04:43.811
ascertain that. Did I make that
point clear? All right. So the

01:04:43.811 --> 01:04:46.514
number two, the accountability
of the messenger, and I think I

01:04:46.514 --> 01:04:50.445
already just hit on that a
little bit. Christianity, and

01:04:50.445 --> 01:04:52.875
this is important because
we're all gathered in this room

01:04:52.875 --> 01:04:57.764
tonight, Christianity carries
with it a sense of community,

01:04:57.764 --> 01:05:01.215
okay, where we need each other.
We build off of each other.

01:05:01.215 --> 01:05:05.085
That's why the Bible says iron
sharpens iron. We need one

01:05:05.085 --> 01:05:09.315
another. Where none of us
can survive as these loners

01:05:09.315 --> 01:05:12.764
somewhere. Okay, you can't
do it. I mean, you go through

01:05:12.764 --> 01:05:17.054
something, I watch how the body
of Christ rallies behind people.

01:05:17.054 --> 01:05:20.295
And so the church, you think
about the early church when they

01:05:20.295 --> 01:05:23.715
were persecuted in Acts, the
fourth chapter, remember that

01:05:23.715 --> 01:05:27.434
they were persecuted. And the
scripture says they went back to

01:05:27.434 --> 01:05:30.945
their, their company, they went
back to their people, they got

01:05:30.945 --> 01:05:34.934
back with their group. This is
why the local church is still

01:05:34.934 --> 01:05:38.025
one of the safest places you
can be in the end times. Because

01:05:38.025 --> 01:05:40.244
it's not just about coming up
and hearing Pastor Hank preach

01:05:40.244 --> 01:05:43.815
on a Sunday. And hearing some
music. It's also about rubbing

01:05:43.815 --> 01:05:47.775
shoulders with each other.
There are many layers of

01:05:47.775 --> 01:05:50.324
accountability. We think of
accountability as this like

01:05:50.324 --> 01:05:54.014
negative word, like there's some
ruler that we're accountable to.

01:05:54.014 --> 01:05:57.434
And that's the farthest thing
of what it should be. Really

01:05:57.434 --> 01:06:02.264
accountability is I come to
church. I make my, I build

01:06:02.264 --> 01:06:05.445
relationships so that people,
when I'm going through

01:06:05.445 --> 01:06:08.385
something, there's other people
in the world that know my

01:06:08.385 --> 01:06:14.715
situation. And they can pray for
me. They can help me. They also

01:06:14.715 --> 01:06:20.324
might get in my face and go,
"Stop." But aren't you glad for

01:06:20.324 --> 01:06:23.085
that? Because that's the stuff
that keeps us from going to

01:06:23.085 --> 01:06:29.025
hell, people. Amen. Sometimes
you just need somebody to get

01:06:29.025 --> 01:06:34.034
and go, you know, settle down.
Okay? And it's not just, we make

01:06:34.034 --> 01:06:38.025
accountability about some
authoritative overseer, when

01:06:38.025 --> 01:06:41.985
really accountability is
multi-layered. Okay? You become

01:06:41.985 --> 01:06:44.894
accountable just by sitting in
the seat next to people every

01:06:44.894 --> 01:06:51.074
week. Think about that. We
all need it, every one of us,

01:06:51.074 --> 01:06:53.505
because it brings checks and
balances to our life. You know

01:06:53.505 --> 01:06:56.835
Pastor Hank, what I love about
him, he's far more relational

01:06:56.835 --> 01:07:01.094
than I am. And he has how many
people, you know we have a

01:07:01.094 --> 01:07:05.264
number of board members at the
church, and people that he is in

01:07:05.264 --> 01:07:08.025
relationship with, one of those
is Pastor Gene Bailey, they're

01:07:08.025 --> 01:07:11.864
very close. And if you're
listening tonight guys, I said

01:07:11.864 --> 01:07:16.130
that. In fact, you'll hear
Pastor Gene say, "My very best

01:07:16.130 --> 01:07:20.295
friend is Pastor Hank Kunneman."
And they're very close. They

01:07:20.295 --> 01:07:23.414
talk most every day. There are
a few seasons in there after

01:07:23.414 --> 01:07:26.445
opening the heavens and they
were on the road, we're all like

01:07:26.445 --> 01:07:30.675
nobody getting on the phone. But
you know, but they talk a lot.

01:07:30.675 --> 01:07:35.445
And Pastor Hank loves those
accountability discussions. He

01:07:35.445 --> 01:07:39.284
will ask people, "How did you
like what I said? Is there

01:07:39.284 --> 01:07:42.284
anything I need to change?" Now
people don't see him do that.

01:07:42.284 --> 01:07:48.554
They see his bold way and
believe me, he is a steamroller

01:07:48.554 --> 01:07:52.635
for what he knows to be right.
But I've also watched a man who

01:07:52.635 --> 01:07:56.054
will let people speak into him
and he will change. And I'm

01:07:56.054 --> 01:07:59.954
like, honey, you are very good
at that. I need to grow. I need

01:07:59.954 --> 01:08:05.114
to grow. We all need that. Iron
sharpens our accountability. And

01:08:05.114 --> 01:08:08.744
so look for people that you
listen to who have that. Now,

01:08:08.744 --> 01:08:12.164
whether it be the checks and
balances of the church as an

01:08:12.164 --> 01:08:15.614
institution, that's important,
right? The church ought to

01:08:15.614 --> 01:08:19.095
have... Some churches, I'm not
being critical, they're just run

01:08:19.095 --> 01:08:23.534
like sorry ships. It's
terrible, okay? There's not

01:08:23.534 --> 01:08:26.085
accountability. It was like
Pastor Hanks said when he first

01:08:26.085 --> 01:08:28.755
started in the prophetic,
somebody invited him to this

01:08:28.755 --> 01:08:33.645
little church and he went in
there. I'm at the back and there

01:08:33.645 --> 01:08:36.614
might've been 20 or 30 people
in this little prophetic meeting

01:08:36.614 --> 01:08:40.641
and they decide to do the
offering. And the preacher gets

01:08:40.641 --> 01:08:45.345
up and said, there's 20 people
that are gonna give $100. He's

01:08:45.345 --> 01:08:51.194
looking around, he's like, there
are 20 people in here. And so,

01:08:51.194 --> 01:08:55.454
you know, under compulsion, all
of those people are pressured

01:08:55.454 --> 01:08:58.125
until they're, I'll give the
next, they don't wanna be the

01:08:58.125 --> 01:09:02.657
guy that says no, and I'll be
the next, and then it got down

01:09:02.657 --> 01:09:09.614
to 19, and he's like, there's
one more person that's gonna

01:09:09.614 --> 01:09:13.664
give $100, and he was like,
well, I didn't even have $4, so

01:09:13.664 --> 01:09:17.024
he goes, I'm outta here. He went
out the back door, he said, I

01:09:17.024 --> 01:09:19.814
didn't know what to do, but I
didn't have $100, I couldn't

01:09:19.814 --> 01:09:23.925
commit to $100, I couldn't even
pledge $100, I wasn't gonna be

01:09:23.925 --> 01:09:27.614
able to give $100 in any time
now or in the future that I knew

01:09:27.614 --> 01:09:32.385
of. So he said, I just had to
slip out. Now, come on, that's

01:09:32.385 --> 01:09:36.074
sorry run, okay? Those are the
kind of churches nobody ought to

01:09:36.074 --> 01:09:39.885
go to, okay? And so
accountability is very, very

01:09:39.885 --> 01:09:42.975
important. So I think I
exhausted that enough. So

01:09:42.975 --> 01:09:48.465
genuine prophets, teachers,
preachers, prophetic people will

01:09:48.465 --> 01:09:51.734
make themselves accountable
to somebody else besides

01:09:51.734 --> 01:09:54.765
themselves. And I will say this,
let me just say this last part I

01:09:55.935 --> 01:09:59.595
told you this was going to be
a long-winded message. But it's

01:09:59.595 --> 01:10:02.145
good because I really want to
break all this down for you.

01:10:02.145 --> 01:10:04.664
This is prophetic school. That's
why we do this Come on, this is

01:10:04.664 --> 01:10:07.904
living room talk. This is chalk
talk This is where we just get

01:10:07.904 --> 01:10:10.845
down in the weeds and we go
through some of these things

01:10:10.845 --> 01:10:13.034
because these are things that
people think It's just nobody

01:10:13.034 --> 01:10:15.944
wants to bring it up in the
pulpit. So we're gonna bring it

01:10:15.944 --> 01:10:21.435
up in the ball, but let's just
do it But accountability is a

01:10:21.435 --> 01:10:24.734
community, it's multi-layered,
it's multi-faceted. I forgot

01:10:24.734 --> 01:10:29.534
what I was gonna say about that.
Is, oh, we should want to be

01:10:29.534 --> 01:10:34.305
around preachers and people that
reflect that sense of wanting to

01:10:34.305 --> 01:10:37.755
be accountable. And that is so
important. I say that because in

01:10:37.755 --> 01:10:41.864
the prophetic, people don't
like the word accountability

01:10:41.864 --> 01:10:45.465
especially, 'cause they feel
they've heard from God. And

01:10:45.465 --> 01:10:47.774
nobody wants to be questioned
when they feel they've heard

01:10:47.774 --> 01:10:52.395
from God. So we have to, if
we're gonna be prophetic people,

01:10:52.395 --> 01:10:55.425
come on, prophesiers out there,
those of you online, if you're a

01:10:55.425 --> 01:10:58.755
person that prophesies or you're
prone to prophecy, 'cause some

01:10:58.755 --> 01:11:01.454
people are just prone to
prophesy. Okay, I'm not as prone

01:11:01.454 --> 01:11:04.064
to prophesy as my husband is
prone to prophesy. I mean, he'll

01:11:04.064 --> 01:11:07.034
just walk up to people and
prophesy. I'm like, how do you

01:11:07.034 --> 01:11:10.260
do that? How do you do that?
He doesn't always make it sound

01:11:10.260 --> 01:11:13.498
like a prophecy, but it's a
prophecy. And he'll prophesy to

01:11:13.498 --> 01:11:17.159
them. It just comes out. Some
of you are like that. I know I'm

01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:19.710
seeing some of your faces. I
know there's some of you that

01:11:19.710 --> 01:11:23.970
are prone like that to
prophesying. And so what we have

01:11:23.970 --> 01:11:27.643
to know is that we even, the
ones that are prone to prophesy,

01:11:27.643 --> 01:11:30.689
I have to even want to be more
accountable. You've got to let

01:11:30.689 --> 01:11:35.579
people scrutinize your
prophetic. Genuine prophets will

01:11:35.579 --> 01:11:39.750
not mind being scrutinized by
people that have earned the

01:11:39.750 --> 01:11:45.210
right, this is important, earned
the right to scrutinize them. We

01:11:45.210 --> 01:11:48.807
don't scrutinize everybody.
Pastor Hank doesn't go out and

01:11:48.807 --> 01:11:51.930
just scrutinize somebody and
call them on the phone, they're

01:11:51.930 --> 01:11:54.060
minister, I've never met you,
but I didn't like what you said

01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:57.900
on YouTube. We don't do that.
They've earned the right. Nathan

01:11:57.900 --> 01:12:01.110
the prophet earned the right in
David's life to say you're the

01:12:01.110 --> 01:12:07.409
man. He earned it. He wasn't a
stranger to David, he knew him.

01:12:07.409 --> 01:12:10.439
Okay, there was a relationship
there. Okay, number three,

01:12:10.439 --> 01:12:14.131
enough about accountability. Did
I say, I think I did the best I

01:12:14.131 --> 01:12:18.510
could on that one. Number three,
the message and prophetic words

01:12:18.510 --> 01:12:22.260
should be able to be submitted
or judged or scrutinized. Let me

01:12:22.260 --> 01:12:26.789
read this scripture to you.
1 Corinthians 14:29-32.

01:12:26.789 --> 01:12:29.760
Let the prophet speak two or
three, so many things we could

01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:32.729
preach on this, but and let the
other one judge or let other

01:12:32.729 --> 01:12:36.780
prophets judge it. Okay, it's
not to be critical. It says, and

01:12:36.780 --> 01:12:40.199
if anything be revealed that
one or anything be revealed to

01:12:40.199 --> 01:12:42.631
another that sits by, let the
first hold his peace. Now what

01:12:42.631 --> 01:12:46.320
he's saying is, it's not to
be chaos of interrupting each

01:12:46.320 --> 01:12:51.810
other. What it's talking about
is be willing, be willing to be

01:12:51.810 --> 01:12:56.070
submissive to other people in
the room. It's really important.

01:12:56.070 --> 01:13:01.289
242, this is even more important
in a small group, because you'll

01:13:01.289 --> 01:13:05.189
ruin the night. If you're the
person that your jaw's always

01:13:05.189 --> 01:13:08.189
got to be flapping the whole
night. You'll ruin it, you'll

01:13:08.189 --> 01:13:11.159
ruin it. You'll ruin it for the
leader, you'll ruin it for the

01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:15.539
people, right? You should always
be submitted to the person in

01:13:15.539 --> 01:13:19.619
charge of the group that night.
Come on, they planned the

01:13:19.619 --> 01:13:23.189
message, they got the authority,
they bought the cookies, they

01:13:23.189 --> 01:13:28.170
did all the, they cleaned their
house. I mean, think about that.

01:13:28.170 --> 01:13:31.170
People come into a home
group and they didn't even do

01:13:31.170 --> 01:13:34.860
anything, they just came in to
keep talking. Yet that person

01:13:34.860 --> 01:13:37.739
came, they cleaned the house,
got a sitter for the kids, came

01:13:37.739 --> 01:13:40.350
and made a meal and invited
people over, and then somebody

01:13:40.350 --> 01:13:43.739
just takes over. Okay, this is
what this scripture is talking

01:13:43.739 --> 01:13:48.841
about. It's talking about have
a submitted way. Allow others to

01:13:48.841 --> 01:13:52.801
counter you if need be. Husbands
and wives, counter each other.

01:13:52.801 --> 01:13:57.282
It's good, it's healthy. You
know, just don't fight. Okay,

01:13:57.282 --> 01:13:59.970
you can counter one another.
Pastor and I do it all the time.

01:13:59.970 --> 01:14:03.539
What do you think about this?
And we're honest. Eh, I'm gonna

01:14:03.539 --> 01:14:06.420
stretch that. I heard Marilyn
Hickey say one time, somebody

01:14:06.420 --> 01:14:09.479
asked her, they said, Marilyn,
I've got this word I've been

01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:13.020
really working on, and how does
it sound to you? And she'd go,

01:14:13.020 --> 01:14:16.350
hmm, well, it might be a little
windy yet. You know, the Bible

01:14:16.350 --> 01:14:19.140
talks about windy doctrine. I
think you need to rein the wind

01:14:19.140 --> 01:14:23.039
back in just a little bit. We
all need it. Come on, every one

01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:26.189
of us needs it. Okay, we need
to be as submitted as we are

01:14:26.189 --> 01:14:30.600
critical. We need to be as
teachable as we are big mouths,

01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:34.801
all of us, every single one of
us. If we do, I'm telling you,

01:14:34.801 --> 01:14:39.030
we would grow. Amen. All right,
next one, next one, Rick. All

01:14:39.030 --> 01:14:41.489
right, we could go on and on
about that. Let's see, number

01:14:41.489 --> 01:14:45.600
two, number three. Oh, scrutiny
is different than criticism,

01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:48.180
okay? Can I just say it like
that? Learn to scrutinize

01:14:48.180 --> 01:14:51.570
yourself, right? Remember, if
you point the finger, how many

01:14:51.570 --> 01:14:55.890
are pointing back? All good.
It's very necessary. That's why,

01:14:55.890 --> 01:14:58.439
I don't know, I did see a meme
one time on Facebook and it said

01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:02.100
this. it says when you type out
your whole comment and the Holy

01:15:02.100 --> 01:15:07.829
Spirit goes delete. Just
remember that sometimes the Holy

01:15:07.829 --> 01:15:10.560
Spirit will say do not post
that. Do not write that in the

01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:16.289
comments. Stop. I've had to grow
in that myself. All right. I'm

01:15:16.289 --> 01:15:20.460
just submitting that to you.
Number four, prophetic words

01:15:20.460 --> 01:15:23.670
should be uplifting, for
the most part encouraging. 1

01:15:23.670 --> 01:15:27.030
Corinthians 14:3 says, "But
the one who prophesies

01:15:27.030 --> 01:15:30.180
strengthens the others "and
encourages them and comforts

01:15:30.180 --> 01:15:33.810
them." That's the new living. So
when you're prophesying, really

01:15:33.810 --> 01:15:37.199
the majority of the prophetic
is not to find out the skinny on

01:15:37.199 --> 01:15:43.020
people, it's not to get in their
business, and I had a dream and

01:15:43.020 --> 01:15:46.619
this happened, and then there's
negative in there. It's really,

01:15:46.619 --> 01:15:51.539
that is not the front run of the
prophetic. The front run of the

01:15:51.539 --> 01:15:56.699
prophetic is to strengthen
somebody, not make them feel

01:15:56.699 --> 01:16:01.829
like, you know, they're worse
than, you know, I mean, worse

01:16:01.829 --> 01:16:05.460
than everything. That's not the
point. It's to strengthen and

01:16:05.460 --> 01:16:08.850
uplift people. People, if you're
prophesying to one another, you

01:16:08.850 --> 01:16:11.520
should prophesy in such a way
that it's there to make that

01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:16.890
person run with the wind at
their back. Amen. Strengthen

01:16:16.890 --> 01:16:21.570
each other. And then it says,
and encourages one another.

01:16:21.570 --> 01:16:23.760
Okay. You should, you should
be able to walk away with

01:16:23.760 --> 01:16:27.930
encouragement. Very few
prophetic words that I have

01:16:27.930 --> 01:16:31.650
watched Pastor Hank deliver over
the years. I believe me, we've

01:16:31.650 --> 01:16:35.881
traveled in stadiums, in
conferences, preaching. I mean,

01:16:35.881 --> 01:16:38.020
the Mid-America
Center was not our

01:16:38.020 --> 01:16:41.028
first arena. We went
all over Latin America

01:16:41.028 --> 01:16:44.694
for a decade. Preaching
and preaching. And I only

01:16:44.694 --> 01:16:49.680
recall in probably 30 years,
one time he gave a word

01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:53.760
of warning publicly to somebody.
And that person was about to

01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.720
split that church. And it was,
and the pastor was like, Oh my

01:16:57.720 --> 01:17:00.210
God, thank you. I couldn't go
to that person. I tried, I did

01:17:00.210 --> 01:17:03.570
everything. They've caused me
so many problems. And I believe

01:17:03.570 --> 01:17:08.159
that was a last ditch to save
their life. But He has always

01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:12.360
uplifted people. Listen, there's
times that you can see things

01:17:12.360 --> 01:17:15.600
about people, but you don't go
call it out. You come on, you

01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:18.960
can code it. The Lord says, you
know, it's time to turn your

01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:23.939
back on some stuff. You're not
just say, you know, you fouled

01:17:23.939 --> 01:17:27.600
this and you did that and call.
You don't have to. It should

01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:32.460
encourage. Okay? And most of the
time you hear pastor and I will

01:17:32.460 --> 01:17:35.610
do it like that. Come on. What
sounds general to the audience

01:17:35.610 --> 01:17:40.289
sometimes is very specific to
the recipient. They know what

01:17:40.289 --> 01:17:43.920
you're saying and to comfort
them. Come on, the prophetic

01:17:43.920 --> 01:17:46.470
ought to give people hope.
That's what I love about the way

01:17:46.470 --> 01:17:53.699
pastor, come on, he prophesied
risky things up in here. He'll

01:17:53.699 --> 01:17:58.079
prophesy risky. He'll take risks
to give people hope and to give

01:17:58.079 --> 01:18:01.619
them comfort so that they walk
away going, "Come on, God,

01:18:01.619 --> 01:18:04.381
you're not done with this
nation. You're not done with

01:18:04.381 --> 01:18:08.131
America. Come on, the body of
Christ. We still have a harvest.

01:18:08.131 --> 01:18:11.579
There's a harvest that's coming.
A harvest of souls. There's

01:18:12.684 --> 01:18:18.060
still something good happening."
That's what I love that he does

01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:22.170
that on Flashpoint. He's like,
"Always brings the hope." I love

01:18:22.170 --> 01:18:26.670
you for it, honey. It's awesome.
So, prophetic should uplift.

01:18:26.670 --> 01:18:29.489
Look for that. All right. What
are we on? All right. Very

01:18:29.489 --> 01:18:33.390
quick. Three minutes. I can
do it in three minutes. Here's

01:18:33.390 --> 01:18:36.631
another one that's so important.
And there's so many things that

01:18:36.631 --> 01:18:40.409
I could say about uplifting and
encouraging. Oh, my goodness.

01:18:40.409 --> 01:18:42.750
There's scriptures on that. We
could talk about the disciples

01:18:42.750 --> 01:18:46.199
that ministered to Paul that he
shouldn't go to Jerusalem. But

01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:50.278
anyway, you can read it. They
did that, by the way, in a

01:18:50.278 --> 01:18:53.909
group. It wasn't one person
going, "Don't go to Jerusalem."

01:18:53.909 --> 01:18:56.610
Okay? Only Agabus, a seasoned
prophet, did that, by the way.

01:18:57.631 --> 01:19:02.520
Number five, a messenger, all
messengers, whether you are a

01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:07.619
242 person, we call them a lay
person, a person in the church,

01:19:07.619 --> 01:19:11.939
a greeter, a prophet, a
minister, an apostle, any

01:19:11.939 --> 01:19:16.470
person, every single Christian
ought to have a well polite

01:19:16.470 --> 01:19:21.390
manner about them. I don't
know what it is about prophetic

01:19:21.390 --> 01:19:25.530
people that think they've got to
be some, they're, you know, it's

01:19:25.530 --> 01:19:29.970
crazy. It's crazy. I mean, it's,
it's a turnoff to be honest. And

01:19:29.970 --> 01:19:32.341
I talked about that last week,
getting right in people's face

01:19:32.341 --> 01:19:35.820
and cornering them and they can
smell your breath and you didn't

01:19:35.820 --> 01:19:38.131
have, you didn't brush your
teeth on the way and it's

01:19:38.131 --> 01:19:41.881
terrifying. And I mean, I'll
be honest, it just gives the

01:19:41.881 --> 01:19:46.710
prophetic a bad name. It gives
church a bad name. Think about

01:19:46.710 --> 01:19:49.229
that, you know, and there's
people that have no discipline

01:19:49.229 --> 01:19:53.039
whatsoever. They will go up to
a brand new visitor that's never

01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:56.070
been to the church before. And
the greeters have worked hard.

01:19:56.070 --> 01:19:59.220
They're out there trying to meet
people, get to know them, love

01:19:59.220 --> 01:20:02.400
on them, let them know where the
bathroom is. I mean, some people

01:20:02.400 --> 01:20:05.789
just wanna know where the
bathroom is. They don't wanna be

01:20:05.789 --> 01:20:13.051
cornered and told all their
secrets. Yeah. So well-mannered,

01:20:13.051 --> 01:20:16.619
I mean, speaking in an orderly
manner. I mean, just polite. Can

01:20:16.619 --> 01:20:20.400
we all just, can we just do
that? Can we just, and you guys

01:20:20.400 --> 01:20:22.860
are all so good, but I'm
preaching to more than just

01:20:22.860 --> 01:20:27.390
everybody in here. Can we just
all be polite? Can we all be

01:20:27.390 --> 01:20:30.570
polite? Can we be polite in the
church? Can we be polite on the

01:20:30.570 --> 01:20:33.449
internet? Can we be, you know
what people say about, I know

01:20:33.449 --> 01:20:35.699
I'm talking a lot about Pastor
Hank tonight because I can,

01:20:35.699 --> 01:20:40.260
'cause he's not here. And so
then you can tell him all the

01:20:40.260 --> 01:20:43.591
things I said if he didn't see
it tonight. But you know what

01:20:43.591 --> 01:20:46.199
they'll say, Pastor Hank,
wherever, where you go on the

01:20:46.199 --> 01:20:48.989
road, you just don't carry
yourself like you're anybody

01:20:48.989 --> 01:20:53.489
important. You're out there like
making jokes with the guy that's

01:20:53.489 --> 01:20:57.180
cleaning the tables. You're
hanging out with the cooks.

01:20:57.180 --> 01:21:01.949
You're like out in the back just
saying howdy do to the person

01:21:01.949 --> 01:21:04.860
that's like doing the hair and
the makeup. And you're in the

01:21:04.860 --> 01:21:07.591
back corner saying, I mean,
he'll go to all these big events

01:21:07.591 --> 01:21:09.720
and he's, I mean, yeah, he'll
get in and talk with some of the

01:21:09.720 --> 01:21:11.670
ministers and different
things and share and get in

01:21:11.670 --> 01:21:14.699
conversations, but he's out
there reaching everybody. You

01:21:14.699 --> 01:21:16.110
know, I mean, I
watched him at Mid

01:21:16.110 --> 01:21:18.869
-America Center, all the people
that worked for the Mid-America

01:21:18.869 --> 01:21:22.216
Center, here he was walking out,
"How you doing?" I know, we kept

01:21:22.216 --> 01:21:25.275
you up late. How are you? You
doing all right? You doing good?

01:21:25.275 --> 01:21:27.574
Patting them on the back,
meeting their name, getting to

01:21:27.574 --> 01:21:31.395
know them. And I know many of
you do that, but that is how the

01:21:31.395 --> 01:21:35.086
body of Christ ought to be. And
if we're prophetic, we need to

01:21:35.086 --> 01:21:39.706
even be more that way. We don't
have to be weird to prophesy.

01:21:39.706 --> 01:21:43.126
Okay? Some people are more
demonstrative than others, but

01:21:43.126 --> 01:21:46.126
that doesn't mean that we have
to try to prove something. We

01:21:46.126 --> 01:21:50.086
should be the most well-behaved,
well-mannered people on the face

01:21:50.086 --> 01:21:54.105
of the planet in the body of
Christ. It ought to be the best

01:21:54.105 --> 01:21:58.456
place for people to come on any
given time we gather. Come on,

01:21:58.456 --> 01:22:02.176
somebody. All right, last one.
I'm closing with this. Now we'll

01:22:02.176 --> 01:22:04.725
talk about accuracy, because I
know you were waiting for me to

01:22:04.725 --> 01:22:09.135
say it and you thought I might
forget. So here's the thing. Are

01:22:09.135 --> 01:22:11.905
you getting anything out of
this? Am I helping you? Oh,

01:22:11.905 --> 01:22:14.716
good. Cause I want everybody
around the world that's watching

01:22:14.716 --> 01:22:17.685
to hear some of this. Cause I
think we ought to grow. I tell

01:22:17.685 --> 01:22:20.775
you, I'm just going to say it
like this. It discourages my

01:22:20.775 --> 01:22:25.364
heart a little bit when I
watched the world, who's got an

01:22:25.364 --> 01:22:31.305
evil, evil message. Okay. Evil.
Okay. And, and, and they are

01:22:31.305 --> 01:22:35.475
united on their message. Yeah,
they get in killing each other.

01:22:35.475 --> 01:22:38.445
We know all those scriptures,
but they're, they're united on,

01:22:38.445 --> 01:22:43.155
on evil. Okay. I've watched
them be one force to promote

01:22:43.155 --> 01:22:47.265
abortion. And yet Christians
can't even get in alignment.

01:22:47.265 --> 01:22:51.975
I've watched them be one force
to promote transgender ideology.

01:22:51.975 --> 01:22:54.135
And you got Christians that
will sit on the sideline and go,

01:22:54.135 --> 01:22:57.405
well, we shouldn't say anything.
You know, we can't, we got to

01:22:57.405 --> 01:23:01.815
get an agreement. So accuracy,
accuracy. Let me close with

01:23:01.815 --> 01:23:05.565
this. You can stand. I can say
this last one so short, you

01:23:05.565 --> 01:23:11.506
won't mind standing. Accuracy,
this is Jeremiah 28:9.

01:23:11.506 --> 01:23:14.595
It says, "The prophet that
prophesies peace," in other

01:23:14.595 --> 01:23:18.614
words, he has a good word. It's
an encouraging word. "When the

01:23:18.614 --> 01:23:23.595
word of the prophet shall come
to pass, then shall the prophet

01:23:23.595 --> 01:23:28.092
be known or acknowledged. It'll
be known of that prophet that

01:23:28.092 --> 01:23:31.666
the Lord has sent him." In other
words, there was an accuracy.

01:23:31.666 --> 01:23:36.945
His words came to pass. Does
that mean that any prophetic

01:23:36.945 --> 01:23:41.145
person can't ever miss God?
Absolutely not. I mean, anybody

01:23:41.145 --> 01:23:46.364
can miss God, okay? Anybody can
do that. We can all miss God.

01:23:46.364 --> 01:23:53.025
The key is, is the general, same
way with character, their words

01:23:53.025 --> 01:23:57.676
in general should come to pass.
That's the key. I mean, after a

01:23:57.676 --> 01:24:00.975
while, you listen to somebody
and everything, 80% of what

01:24:00.975 --> 01:24:05.746
they're saying, it just ain't
happening. Unsubscribed from

01:24:05.746 --> 01:24:10.216
their channel. There should
be a general accuracy to the

01:24:10.216 --> 01:24:12.975
prophetic. There should be a
general, and it's the same.

01:24:12.975 --> 01:24:15.376
There should be a general
accuracy. When I get up here and

01:24:15.376 --> 01:24:18.435
teach the Bible, there should
be a general accuracy in what I

01:24:18.435 --> 01:24:22.845
have to say. Okay, does it mean
that I'll always say everything

01:24:22.845 --> 01:24:26.326
the right way? No, 'cause I'm
growing just like all of us. And

01:24:26.326 --> 01:24:28.546
it's the same way in the
prophetic. And I will say it

01:24:28.546 --> 01:24:32.055
like this, because one false
prophecy doesn't make a person

01:24:32.055 --> 01:24:35.055
false. Otherwise we ought to
throw prophecy completely out.

01:24:36.698 --> 01:24:40.966
And it's amazing, people will
point to somebody else and say,

01:24:40.966 --> 01:24:43.605
"Oh, that person missed it.
Oh, that person shouldn't have

01:24:43.605 --> 01:24:46.305
shared that vision. And that
vision was kind of crazy. I

01:24:46.305 --> 01:24:49.155
didn't agree with it. Yet, they
would afford themselves the same

01:24:49.155 --> 01:24:53.746
right to grow in their
revelations and their visions.

01:24:53.746 --> 01:24:57.376
Amen. Am I helping you? So I
think it's very important. The

01:24:57.376 --> 01:25:01.185
general consensus is a person
should always be accurate. I

01:25:01.185 --> 01:25:04.573
love pastor because he works
very hard to be accurate and

01:25:04.573 --> 01:25:08.296
take risks. And I would tell
you, I have watched his words

01:25:08.296 --> 01:25:11.836
come to pass, people. I'm
telling you. And he's not the

01:25:11.836 --> 01:25:14.836
only one. There's so many out
there that you can trust 'cause

01:25:14.836 --> 01:25:18.105
man, they're happening. But
accuracy can't be the only judge

01:25:18.105 --> 01:25:23.536
because there's a lot of false
prophet. Listen, Balaam was an

01:25:23.536 --> 01:25:29.086
accurate false prophet. Okay, so
that cannot be the only judge.

01:25:29.086 --> 01:25:33.015
That's why God taught him. He
said, I'm closing my Bible now.

01:25:33.015 --> 01:25:38.086
He told him, he said, the way
you judge them, you better know,

01:25:38.086 --> 01:25:41.836
mix character with their
accuracy, 'cause you need both.

01:25:41.836 --> 01:25:43.996
There's a lot of good preachers
that can preach up a storm, but

01:25:43.996 --> 01:25:48.286
they have no character to speak
of. They live dirty lives in

01:25:48.286 --> 01:25:52.036
secret, and yet they could
preach up a word. I mean, they

01:25:52.036 --> 01:25:56.895
can be just. So accuracy is not
enough. It has to be mixed with

01:25:56.895 --> 01:26:00.315
the other areas. And if you get
that, and they are accurate, you

01:26:00.315 --> 01:26:03.555
probably got a good vessel. It's
probably genuine. And that's

01:26:03.555 --> 01:26:06.586
what we're looking for. But
don't get up in arms. Don't be,

01:26:07.756 --> 01:26:10.576
just be discerning. There's a
difference. I'll say this, last

01:26:10.576 --> 01:26:15.376
statement. There's a difference
between being discerning and

01:26:15.376 --> 01:26:21.555
suspicious. And what I would do
is I would avoid all the mayhem

01:26:21.555 --> 01:26:23.864
out there of all the people
that want to take shots at other

01:26:23.864 --> 01:26:28.485
people and just hang back.
Listen, the best thing I could

01:26:28.485 --> 01:26:31.426
do is know for myself if
something's wrong or right. I

01:26:31.426 --> 01:26:34.216
don't need to prove that I think
it's wrong or right to 18, 20,

01:26:34.216 --> 01:26:38.595
30, 3000 other people, okay?
I've watched articles get

01:26:38.595 --> 01:26:42.735
written in recent times by
the secular newspapers at the

01:26:42.735 --> 01:26:46.845
fighting of the body of Christ.
Nothing is more grievous, but we

01:26:46.845 --> 01:26:51.614
can be accurate and genuine and
still stay in the right spirit.

01:26:51.614 --> 01:26:54.676
And that's what I want because
God is using prophets now. God

01:26:54.676 --> 01:26:58.815
is using it. We need the
prophetic. God saves nations

01:26:58.815 --> 01:27:01.966
through the prophetic voice and
we need it. Lift your hands to

01:27:01.966 --> 01:27:05.565
heaven. Say this, say, Lord,
I'm gonna be one of the accurate

01:27:05.565 --> 01:27:11.235
ones. I'm gonna have the right
character, the right attitude.

01:27:11.235 --> 01:27:16.966
Help me to discern things right,
Lord. In this prophetic season,

01:27:16.966 --> 01:27:22.815
I want to be one of the vessels
that you can use for this time

01:27:22.815 --> 01:27:26.286
in history. Amen. Did you get
something out of that? All

01:27:26.286 --> 01:27:29.619
right. Go home. Do your
homework. Look up all those

01:27:29.619 --> 01:27:33.376
scriptures, and we will see
you on Sunday. I love you guys.

01:27:33.376 --> 01:27:35.385
We'll talk soon.
Bye bye, internet.

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