(upbeat music)
♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪
♪ When your glory floods the earth. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
♪Everything changes. (3x)♪
♪ When your glory floods the Earth. ♪
♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (6x) ♪
♪ When Your glory floods the earth. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
♪ When your presence fills the room. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (5x) ♪
♪ When your glory floods the earth. (2x) ♪
♪ Everything changes. (2x) ♪
♪ Everything changes (11x) ♪
♪ Everything turns around when you come into the room. ♪
♪ Everything changes when you come into the room. ♪
♪ Everything changes. (3x) ♪
♪ We lift our eyes and we see your glory, God. We lift our ♪
♪eyes and we see your greatness, God. We see your greatness,♪
♪ God. We see your greatness, God. (3x) ♪
♪I see your greatness God. Over my life, over my children. Over♪
♪ my city, over my nation. I see your greatness God. (2x) ♪
♪ How great is our God? Sing with me. How great is our God? ♪
♪ Oh we'll see how great, how great is our God. ♪
Come on sing that tonight. The Lord is great and greatly to be
praised. ♪ How great, is our God, is our God? Oh, you are. ♪
♪ Sing to me how great is our God. Oh, we'll sing how great, ♪
♪ how great is our God. Sing how great is our God. How great ♪
♪ is our God. Sing it out. Sing how great. So great are you ♪
♪ Lord. Is our God. Ohh. How great is our God? Name above ♪
♪ all names. Worthy of all praise. Come on, we'll sing. ♪
♪ How great is our God? Come on, sing name above all names. ♪
♪ You are the name above all names. Name above all names. ♪
♪So worthy of our praise. Worthy of our praise. There is♪
♪ none else like you, Lord. Come on, we'll sing, sing how ♪
♪great is our God. Come on sing it. Sing how great are you♪
♪ Lord. How great are you, Lord. How great is our God? ♪
♪ Oh, oh. Sing with me, how great. How great are you, ♪
♪ Lord? Is our God. Oh, sing. Oh, we'll sing. How great. How ♪
♪ great. How great is our God. How great are you, Lord? How ♪
♪ great, is our God? Sing with me. How great. How mighty are ♪
♪ you Lord. How mighty are you Lord. Oh we'll see how great, ♪
♪how great is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me,♪
♪ how great is our God. Oh, we'll see how great, how great ♪
♪ is our God. So great. (3x) You are highly exalted. You're ♪
♪ Highly exalted. (3x) Come on, tell the Lord, say, "You're ♪
♪ highly exalted." (2x) Highly exalted, are you Lord. Highly ♪
♪ exalted.♪ Why are we saying highly exalted? Because when
we exalt Him above everything, above our workplaces, above our
nation, we exalt Him above our city. Guess what? The Spirit of
God comes in and things begin to change. They begin to rearrange.
They begin to shift. They begin to move. So we say, God, you
are highly exalted. Say highly exalted. Oh, just take a moment
and exalt him above whatever you're facing. Exalt him above
any sickness. Exalt him above disease. Exalt him above fear.
Exalt him above poverty. Exalt him above death. Exalt him above
life. Come on, say, ♪ you are, you are, you are exalted. You ♪
♪ are exalted. There is no one else like you, God. There is ♪
♪ none beside you. There is no one. (3x) There is no one, ♪
♪ higher than you, Lord. There is no one. Higher than you, ♪
♪ Lord, there is no one. No one higher than you, Lord. ♪
♪ No one higher than you, Lord. (7x) There is no one higher ♪
♪ No one higher than you, Lord. (3x) There is no one. No one ♪
♪ higher than you, Lord. You say there is nothing. Nothing ♪
♪ higher than you, Lord. (2x) There is nothing. Nothing ♪
♪ higher than You, Lord. (3x) Come on, shout tonight. Shout, ♪
♪ shout, shout. Say, God is good. (2x) Hallelujah. (3x) ♪
(electric guitar playing)
So what are we doing tonight? We're exalting the name that is
above every other name. If you came in here with a need
tonight, just shout the name of Jesus. If you came in here
needing someone to pray for you tonight, shout the name of
Jesus. (congregation cheering)
'Cause when we say that name, that is higher than every other
name, I am telling you, bondages begin to break, chains begin to
fall off, sickness has to bow its knee. When we exalt Him, you
know what Pastor preached on Sunday? He said, "We don't cast
the care forward, we cast it behind us." So if you came in
here with care, cast it on God. I feel like, is there anybody in
here you're needing a job? Anybody you believe in God for a
different job? All right, raise your hands real high. If you're
believing, there's no shame in that. I want some believers to
gather around these people because the Bible says where two
or three of us are gathered together in his name. In his
name. There is power in agreement when we pray.
(soft piano music)
So let's declare that Father, everything that they're
believing for, it comes to pass for them. Father, we declare
that Father, increase comes to them. Father, we declare
promotion comes to them. Father, we declare, Father, increase in
finances. Father, where there has been persecution, Father, we
say that it is broken in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If
you're watching online and you're believing God for a job
or you're believing God for an increase in your finances, I
feel like some of you, you're believing God for some bills to
get paid. So we stretch our hands to you right now, those of
you that are watching online, and we say the God that is more
than enough is working on your behalf. The God that is
exceeding and abundant above all that we could ask or think. We
say He is working, working on your behalf right now, and we
say it is done. It is done in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, how
many of you believe that God is good? How many of you believe
that in the prayer of agreement, something begins to change?
Amen. Well, find two or three people. Greet them in the love
of the Lord tonight, and we're going to get ready for a
powerful word from Pastor Brenda.
(upbeat music)
- Amen. Well, before we get to prophetic school officially, it
is offering time. Amen. They're going to go ahead and put that
giving information up on the screen and got to put my hair
back out of my face. Praise and worship hair. How many of you
women get praise and worship hair? I know you can't see in a
few minutes but anyway, there's the giving information up there.
Text to give. I'm not going to share a scripture because we're
going to get right into prophetic school and uh want to
do some good teaching tonight. Try to get in as much content as
we can. I mean bless you guys, those of you that are in person,
I don't know what the weather's like where the internet
community's all from, but I mean we had like a deluge of rain
last night and so Pastor Hank's like, should we water any of the
plants? I'm like, yes, I said because when they say we're
going to get rain, you get nothing. And then if you do, if
I wouldn't have watered the plants, it would have been a But
because I went out and made the effort, I mean it was just, oh
my goodness, we lost a tree branch on one of our trees.
They're going to come clean it up. But anyway, I don't know, I
was sleeping in all that wind. I'm like, listen, God never
sleeps near slumber. Let's just get some, I didn't hear a thing,
not even the dogs, you know, so it was all good. But you guys
are here in church, I don't know, you could have been like
having a picnic somewhere. But I'll try to get you out at a
good time, but too bad, it's gonna be dark. You know, it's
getting dark early now. But anyway, just get the giving
information up. Do wanna just throw that back up one more
time. Just wanna make sure everybody knows that all the
different ways to give. And then for everybody that is giving
into building the Tavern Apco, I just wanna say to the internet
campus, thank you for helping us. And we are already talking
about all the exciting things we're planning for dedication
weekend. And we don't know the date yet. So we'll get it out as
soon as you know, we just need to go a little bit farther in
the construction so that we know kind of when it's done. because
there are variables that happen when you're building a building
of that size. How many think it's looking good when you drive
up to it? It is looking really awesome. I came by tonight. I'm
like, man, thank you, Laura. That just looks so cool. So
glorious for your kingdom. And just what a piece of excellence
that we have there. And then also, uh, got a little bit of
good news. I think it's still good news, Mark, right? It was
the good news email yesterday. This is the good news as of now.
I think it's still going to be a thing. But remember when I
talked to you Sunday about the asphalt versus the concrete, but
we had to find a person that could do it. Well, guess what?
We got an email yesterday. They found a concrete company. So too
bad for Pastor Hank. He won't be able to. Huh? Oh, they're
starting next week. So yes, I didn't I miss that part. So and
Pastor and Pastor Matt and the group, they are up getting ready
for Flashpoint Live. They're in the beautiful city of
Minneapolis. And of course, they that city needs a Flashpoint
Live, I think. Anyway, we'll leave it at that. But anyhow,
they are up there. And so honey, if you're watching, that means,
ushers, you can go ahead and start to serve the people. And
online, you can go ahead and do your giving there. But honey,
that means that you won't be able to put your swimming pool
in the parking lot of the church. I'm so sorry. Go, aww.
Amen. So, amen. All right, well, very quickly, as the ushers
serve you, and we'll get right into it tonight. I'm not being
in a place of delay. I have a lot of things I want to share,
so I want to get to it as quick as possible. And I know, and we
do try to be a little bit sensitive on a Wednesday night,
because I know it's a school night for kids and whatnot, but
how many of you are excited the kids are back in schools? How
you feel? Are you feeling it yet? Are you done? Are you ready
for summer yet? I don't know about that. So I see all of our
neighbors getting their little kids and I'm like, oh, I don't
miss those years. But anyhow, those were the days, those were
the times. So real quickly, all right guys, you can wrap up,
we're good. Just a couple reminders, I wanna let everybody
know, first and foremost, I came in tonight and found this little
gem, Pastor Newest Mutsvi Amilo. Mutsvi's longest day is here.
And so we're super, super excited about this. Now we are
going to be doing some things pertinent to children, planning
a night of ministry. I'm not going to give you the details on
that yet until we have solidified all the things we
want to do with that. But we're going to do a night of prayer
for the children and just talking a little bit more about
why we're so passionate. In fact, we're working on a book
right now, just a little prayer guide for parents with their
children because, you know, they're navigating things. I
hear a lot of people say this a lot, "I wouldn't want to be
raising kids in this season of time." These are older people
that say that just because there's so much to kind of get
through. But I'm so thankful for Pastor Hank who put the latest
Mutzvi book out. So awesome. Make sure you get a copy of
that. They'll have that. I think it's pretty much out on the
website. You can get it from Amazon, but we always say, get
it from us because then the benefit of it goes back to the
ministry and that is what is so important to our heart. But
Amazon probably get it to you faster. So if you're desperate,
if you're desperate and you just need it tomorrow because you
just had to have a children's book this week, then you can go
out and you can get that. And then also pastor's book, if
you've not gotten this, The Anointing of Preservation. I
will tell you, I don't know if anybody that has a revelation
better than pastor on the anointing of preservation or
anybody that called it that, I've not heard that. That's just
kind of a fresh take on scriptures of protection that
the Lord is preserving us and of course preserving us for the
season that we're living in. You're alive right here tonight
because you have purpose. You have, God has a reason for you
to be here. And I don't believe anything is by accident. I
always believe that it is absolutely ordained of heaven.
The anointing of preservation, you can get that, of course, on
Amazon, but you can get it from us, and I encourage you to go
get a hold of that. And then my latest daily decree book, Daily
Decrees for Government and Nations. And if you've not
gotten that as well, please get out there, get a hold of a copy
of that, because honestly, I really want to see us. We're
going into, I don't know, I guess I could always say we're
already in election mayhem. I mean this whole Speaker of the
House, anybody been watching that little drama going on?
There are some people saying that they're going to nominate
Trump as the Speaker of the House. I saw that on Fox today.
But anyway, and not that I always watch the news, but that
was interesting to me that people are making that
nomination because they believe what we feel about the election
too. But anyway, but I just think what happens if we're all
praying some of the same things at the same time and going
through this whole year, just think about all of the things
that God can do with our prayers if we all get in agreement. So
get out there, go to hankandbrenda.org, get all of
those materials and all the other stuff that's out there.
Um, we don't write them so we can make pretty covers. We write
them so that we can really, really encourage people and give
them hope and give them strength and the ability. Somebody asked
us or asked me years and years ago, they said, how did you get
strong in the word? I'm like, I read people's books. Isn't that
right, Janet? Okay. I think I had every Brother Hagin book
there ever was, and I read it from cover to cover to cover,
and life-changing it was for me. Amen? All right, well, let's get
into it tonight. I wanna get right to the teaching, and
hopefully just really kind of go back through some things. Now, I
talked a little bit on, tonight I wanted to talk about
recognizing genuine prophecy and prophets, genuine prophetic
ministry, and again, I always kind of open with this. I kind
of went a different direction the last time, I guess I'll say
it that way, talking about how to minister in the prophetic and
do it with taste and grace and class. But then I found these
notes that, I don't know, I hadn't preached it all the first
time, so I thought, well, I'd go back. And I know Pastor Hank has
talked a little bit on false prophets, true prophets, and I
mean, I couldn't even begin to match the revelation that he
carries in that. book. And if you didn't get a hold of that, I
think all of these are out on OVTV. So get out there and check
those out. It's just his understanding of the prophetic.
He really digs deep in just the anointing of the prophetic and
prophets and prophecy. And so get out there and check that
out. But I circled back on these notes and I found them. And I
was like, "Man, I didn't preach some of this." So I've got to
kind of go back and talk about just how to recognize genuine
prophecy and prophetic ministry. So I want to go to tonight to 2
Peter. Let's just read this Scripture and 2 Peter chapter 2.
And let's just start at verse 1. I'm just going to read a couple
of these, but this is an important verse. And by the way,
I really encourage you to read all of this, this whole chapter,
because it really makes a description on how God views
those that are involved in error and those that are false. But it
says here in verse 1, "But there were false prophets also among
the people," talking about in the Old Testament, right? This
is in the Old Covenant. "There were false prophets among the
people, or among the people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you." Now, so it brings out false prophets in the
Old Covenant, and we see a lot of that mentioned. We don't see
it as much in the New Testament. It is mentioned, but it's not as
common as it is in the Old Testament. And interestingly, if
you want to just kind of put a little circle or a note around
the word prophet there, the Strong's kind of uses a phrase
or it uses the word in there, "impostor." Okay, so this is not
just talking about people that make genuine, honest mistakes.
How many of you know, not one of us is perfect. Not even as I get
up here and I preach the Word, teach the Scriptures, not one of
us knows the whole counsel of God. Not one of us is revelatory
perfect. Not one of us knows everything. And the reason in
the Bible Paul talked about that if a prophet prophesies, there
should be those that can bring a scrutiny or a judgment to it to
ascertain whether or not that prophetic word was legitimate or
not. And we'll talk about that here in a little bit as we get
into some of this. So, the prophets of the Old Testament
were really egregious, I should say it like this, egregious
impostors. They were deceivers. They were not people trying to,
when you're talking about the old covenant, it was not to, I
guess I'll say it this way, to, you know, make an honest
mistake. It was egregious, deliberate error. Okay. This is
the, the false prophets of the old covenant. And I want you to
understand that because I think in this time people are so up in
arms over the prophetic, like, is that a false prophet? Is
who's a false? I mean, I mean, the mayhem that went through the
2020 election over the Trump prophecies and all of these
things. And I'll talk about this as we get a little bit into it.
In my viewpoint, from what I can ascertain from scripture, was
really exaggerated. It was so brought out so extremely. First
of all, I'll just say this and that. So many people, prophetic.
Now, Pastor will tell you his prophetic journey in the 45th
president goes way back to 9/11. And so he's been prophesying a
journey. He didn't just rise up one day and go, "Man, I like
Trump, I'm gonna prophesy about him." He didn't do that. That I
know, I know for a fact. And I believe there were people that
did do that. So they couldn't hold to what they felt. But you
cannot tell me that there are this many prophets. Come on,
Christians. Come on, we all have the Holy Spirit. Christians,
intercessors. Come on, how many of you are intercessors? You
pray, you intercede for America. You can't tell me there are this
many of us that all felt what we felt. And when I say we, this is
a collective growing, a collective large number of
people felt what they felt about the anointing on Donald John
Trump and that we're all that crazy and we just missed it. And
it was because we just really wanted this guy. No, there were
visions, there were dreams, there were things people saw in
the spirit that you can't argue with, you can't deny. So that
doesn't make this whole group a false group. Okay? That's not
the point. The false of the Old Covenant, which you will read,
and in the New Testament, are those that have egregious,
purposeful intent to deceive. And we'll kind of talk about
that character as we go through some of this. But I want to set
that up because I feel like people get, and well let me read
the rest of this, because I'm, and then I'll say, make my
point. It said, "There were false prophets or impostors also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers." Now,
this false teacher is people that propagate teachings of
error. "Among you who shall privately or secretly or
covertly bring damnable heresies or destructive doctrines, even
denying the Lord that bought them." Now, here's what I want
to say. When it comes to doctrine, when it comes to
teaching, when it comes to truth and understanding the truth of
the Bible, first of all, we have to get down the fact that not
one of us knows it all. Aren't we glad we're growing? Aren't we
glad we're all growing? Aren't we glad that we have the room
and the ability through the Holy Spirit? I was thinking about, in
fact, I read this, maybe we'll go to it. It was Apollos, if you
read this in Acts the 18th chapter, Apollos, the Bible
says, was a man of the Spirit. He knew the Scriptures mightily.
In fact, there they have it up there. It was a certain Jew
named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man. In
other words, he was a good preacher. And he was mighty in
the scriptures. So did he know the Word? He was a man that knew
the Word. He was mighty in scriptures. He came to Ephesus,
verse 25, and it says, "This man was instructed in the way of the
Lord and being fervent in the Spirit." So he was intense. He
knew the scriptures. So you would say this is a man that is
genuinely called of God. He spoke and taught diligently the
things of the Lord, but he only understood the baptism of John.
So look at verse 26, it says, "And he began to speak boldly,
he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, who when Aquila and
Priscilla heard him, they took him to them," or they got
together with him, and expounded unto him the way of God more
perfectly. Keep reading. And it says, "And when he was disposed
to pass into Aquila, and the brethren wrote," or they wrote
the brethren there when he was going to that region, "exhorting
the disciples to receive him." Okay, they did not get on
Facebook and say, "Oh my goodness, he preached that. I
can't even believe he said that." They didn't do any of
that. They didn't get all up in arms because he was preaching
something that needed adjustment. They didn't get
themselves all in a knot and start having, you know, letter
wars. I don't know how they had, what was social media back then?
I guess maybe, you know, they wrote each other notes. I can't
believe you agreed with that guy. And then passed it, took
them to each other's houses. If this was today, come on, if this
was today, I mean Facebook would be exploding. I can't believe he
preached that. And, but it, this whole section here, when here
they had given him some instruction to develop his
revelation, they said, now you receive him. Now this is no
different than the book of Acts, Acts the 17th chapter. The Bible
says the Bereans were more noble than those that were in
Thessalonica. That's what the Scripture says, they were better
because they received the Word. They didn't criticize it out the
gate. And this is what is so important in discerning whether
it be the prophetic, whether it be preaching, whether it be a
message you heard online, whether it be somebody's book
that you read, to understand the genuine is you take the Word and
you pull it. It's like Brother Hagin used to say, sometimes
you're going to have to pull the meat off and spit some bones.
It's going to be like that. But that doesn't make the delivery
person a false minister or a false prophet or a false
teacher. There's so much more that goes into it. And I say
that because I watch people so much get up, up in arms over
this person and claim that revelation. They had that
vision. They had that dream. They had that prophecy. And
people are just like melting over. And I'm like, come on,
y'all. Are you like losing your salvation here? Are we that dumb
that we're all just like falling off the planet and shooting off
in a shoot straight to the gate of hell because somebody said
something that we didn't think was right? Okay, so this is
important. If we're going to make it in the last days, we
have to know how to navigate. Now, I'm going to give you the
stuff that will help put your guard up when you need to. But I
think some of the things I'll say in Christendom, we get way
too - and this is why the world capitalizes on our divisions.
Because we're so busy and ready to go and crucify somebody
because we didn't like something they said. And the next thing
you know, we got to make a post, and we got to write a book, and
we got to send it out. In fact, I heard somebody say, you
marinate on something before you go preach against it. And the
Bereans did that. It said, and they went back after they heard
the preaching that they didn't understand and they went back
after the preaching and they searched the scriptures daily to
see if these things be so. Now say, but Pastor Brenda, I hear
people say things that they're not in the Bible. Well, yeah,
God, there are things that aren't in the Bible. I'm going
to talk about that. There are things that are not in the Bible
that God does reveal. Okay. Those of you that are believing
God tonight for to get a new job, you know, God's not going
to walk up, you know, or God's not going to walk up and show
you a scripture. There's not a scripture in the Bible says, go
apply a Walmart. Right? I mean, come on now. So there are
revelations and things that we see. The Bible says in 1
Corinthians 13, we now, whether you be a prophet, a teacher, a
revelator, an intercessor, a person with the gift of the word
of knowledge, whatever gifting of the Holy Spirit you might
carry, all of us see the Bible says, "Through a glass darkly."
That's why sometimes prophets will get up, you know, the
apostle John, we still don't know what in the world he saw.
He thought it was grasshoppers. I've heard the best scholars
say, "I'm sure it was helicopters." Well, we don't
know that. We don't know that. But what we do know is as people
revelate, more than just the word itself, you cannot judge
false, except under certain circumstances, which I am gonna
cover tonight. I told you this was a long preaching. But you
cannot assess the true and the false, most of the time, based
on just the initial thing that you hear. Because we go through
a whole lot of things. Listen, I mean, I told, I've told this
story hundreds of times that I almost missed a powerful word by
a prophetic minister that called us out because I didn't like
that man's hair. I thought, you know, looking all crazy. It was
in his eyes and he was in flip-flops. And as far as I was
concerned at that time, you don't wear flip-flops to church.
I mean, I've reduced to tennis shoes, but it's okay. But in my
mind, shorts and flip-flops was not the way a guest speaker
ought to dress. And I thought, I can't. And one of the prophecies
he gave was, "You are going to pastor a church, son and
daughter. You're going to raise up this." I thought, he is a
fool. He has missed it. This was years before Lord of Hosts
Church. I thought, "We're never going to pastor a church." Be
careful what you say never to. So just because I didn't like
him, I was ready to call him out as an error. And we have to be
so careful. And now, of course, I know I harp all the time on
social media, but social media has enabled so much bad
behavior. It has just enabled us. It has enabled us to
criticize, speak out, post things, and write things, and
all of this that sometimes we don't take the time to first of
all get counsel. We're going to talk about that. We don't take
the time to get other input. We don't take the time to be like
the Bereans and search the scriptures daily. And sometimes
we don't just wait and let things marinate. Come on,
because you didn't agree with somebody, does that really mean,
I mean seriously, you think the whole body of Christ is gonna go
to hell over that one person that you have just got to get
out your statement? All right, don't shut me down because I'm
preaching good tonight. This is prophetic school, we're
teaching. This is a good place to take notes. Now, here is
where you immediately get up in arms. And I'm gonna talk about
the characteristics of the genuine. I wanna really get into
that tonight, 'cause I think it is very important that we look
at this. Now, realize you're gonna add to this revelation as
you get home. If you take time to study, you can go back in,
take the things that I've been sharing and build upon it,
'cause I have 45 minutes or so to go through all this. But I
encourage you, take the time, take the bones of what I'm
saying, and then go back and study it out. Now, here is where
our alerters on whether it's a prophet, a preacher, a pastor,
any of the fivefold gifts and a claimed apostle, the Bible, Paul
said that there's some that say they're apostles, they're not.
Any person, let's take it the next step, a YouTuber, a
blogger, come on, any one of these, here's where we are alert
should come in. Number one is when they start to tap on
denying the basic tenets. Say, "Pastor, what are the basic
tenets?" Well, you could look at all the basic tenets out there,
but I'm going to just give you the eight that I put together.
Some of these could be separated, but I want to make it
easy for you. These are the important things everybody
should understand and know. And when you see false that goes
against the basic tenets of the foundation of the root of our
Christian faith, then, and believe me, they come disguised.
They're more common than you think. So here they are. Just
note them, mark them, study them. In fact, this is your
homework. I guess in prophetic school we can give homework,
right? Pastor Keith, can we give homework in prophetic school?
This is your homework, is to go and study, 'cause I can't give
you all the scriptures that support it, but then you can go
look them up. Number one, here's the basic tenets. There is one
God, manifest in three persons. So now that's a big one that's
come up again, because people are all saying, oh, well,
there's many gods. And that was something you didn't hear a lot.
Now you're starting to hear that resurface again a lot more. That
goes against my basic tenets. There's one God in three, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And one scripture for
that is 1 John 5:7. There's three. These three are one, the
Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Scripture's plastered
with it. That is a non-negotiable, non-changeable.
Yep, people are changing it now. Here's another one. So be
listening for these things. Number two, Jesus is the only
and first begotten Son of God, born of a virgin. And he came in
the flesh in human form. 1 John 4:1-2, "Beloved, don't
believe every spirit, but test them whether they're of God,
because many false prophets are gone in the world. Hereby you
will know the Spirit of God, that every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." Now, let
me just clarify that. Just, there are a lot of false that
will say, "Oh no, Jesus is the only way," or "Jesus is,"
they'll say, "Jesus has come in the flesh." But the ones that
are held to the fact that Jesus came in the flesh as a human
being, He came in the flesh in human form, and hold to that,
it's hard to remain false when you hold to that principle. Now,
Mark, note that. It's very important. The third one, the
death. Oh, and interesting, let me say another thing on that
second one, that Jesus is being the Son of God. There's a load
of religions out there that secularism, humanism is
promoting right now that will say, well, Jesus wasn't the Son
of God, He was just a prophet. Okay, He was a good man. And
there are Christian groups that are just making Him out not to
be so much the Son of God, but some philanthropist somewhere.
So we've got to be, of all the things we need to look for right
now, come on, the basic tenets, these are the non-negotiables.
So Jesus is the only and first begotten, the reason it also
says in the New Testament, the first begotten, 'cause there
were many sons and daughters to come, that's you and I. Number
three, the death and physical bodily resurrection of Jesus
Christ, right? Romans 10:9, if you confess that Jesus is
Lord and that believe in your heart that God has raised him
from the dead, you shall be saved. Number four, salvation is
through Jesus Christ alone. We're seeing that come up again.
Jesus said, "I'm the door. I'm the way, I'm the truth." John
14:6 "I'm the life. No man comes to the father but by me." And
I'm telling you, the culture right now wants to press us on
that topic. Okay they want to press us on that. "What do you
mean? I mean, what a bigot you are for saying that there's
only, that Jesus is the only way. How dare you say that?"
Come on, this is, we're seeing this come up again and again.
They're hitting our children with it in the schools. So, know
your basic tenets. Again, you guys are going to look up other
scriptures to all these. This is your homework assignment.
You don't have to turn it in. You can
give yourself an A or an F. It's whatever you
want to do. Prophetic school, you get to grade
yourself. How's that? The fifth one is the Bible is the
inerrant and inspired Word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16, all
scripture is given by inspiration of God and is
profitable for doctrine, instruction, reproof, correction
and instruction in righteousness. I said that
backwards. Instruction, correction and instruction in
righteousness. So people that deny the word. I would be wary
of being in any church where the pastor was barely opening the
Bible. Okay. I would. And a lot of them are doing it. They're
preaching movie themes and I'm not here to down on pastors, but
you can drive by churches and they'll be like the latest movie
that's out, they'll make sermons that match it. And I'm like,
again, I'm not here to say maybe that's all bad. Maybe there was
something in it, but I'm just going to say, I don't know. If I
want to see a movie, I'm going to go to the movie, but I want
to hear preaching that I can chew on. I want to hear
preaching that'll challenge me. I want to hear the word. I want
to grow in the scriptures. Come on. I want some Bible attached
to what I'm hearing. And so if a preacher can, and there's no
preacher that can give you enough scripture to satisfy your
life on a Sunday or a Wednesday, but I want to hear the word
coming out of my pastor's mouth. That's a fact. Come on, folks.
So there's a lot of that that's just kind of gone out the window
in the American church, that pastors are, you know, maybe
touching on a scripture. Now, just again, let's not get crazy
here because there are times you might hear someone get up and
the way the anointing is flowing, they're not going to
open to 15 verses. I've seen that. That's okay. But normally,
but that's how, how are they normally? That's what we want to
have. The Bible is the inerrant inspired word of God. And of
course people are trying to chop that apart, take it out. Some
translations leave parts off. I mean, it's, it's so all right.
Number six, we're born sinners. Salvation is by grace and not
works. Ephesians 2:8-9 says for by grace are you saved
through faith, not that of yourselves. It's the gift of
God, not of works as any man should boast. So everyone is
born in sin. We can't work our way to heaven. We couldn't do
enough good things, right, to work our way. There's whole
religions that teach that. You're going to rise the ladder,
and somehow you might make it to God and all of that. So that is
very important. You must know that. In fact, I would study the
grace teaching, because there's imbalances that have gone on
with that. But you know, you can do whatever and still be saved
by grace. Number seven, the second coming of Jesus Christ on
earth to reign. Acts 1:11, know this scripture. It says, "For
you men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing to heaven? The same
Jesus that was taken up shall come the same way he left."
Second coming of Jesus. And by the way, and that's a good
reason to go and read 2 Peter 2-3. It all talks about people
that deny the second coming. So you need to know about that.
Number eight, heaven. And here's a big one, folks. Heaven and
hell are real. And all of us will spend eternity in one or
the other. All right. I won't spend time giving you scriptures
on that, but those are the basics of the tenets. You can
break them out a little bit farther if you want to. Some
people make ten. But those are the non-negotiables. And I
listen, when I listen, when I'm hearing preaching, and
especially preaching and teaching, when I'm hearing these
things, I look for things that deny those. And if a pastor gets
up and I try to separate, I try to be careful, you know, are
they saying that out of just a lack of knowledge, or is there
an underlying intent to break the basic tenets of the faith?
So it's so important. And I would just say this, I think
it's really important for the body of Christ to be up in arms,
but not up in arms. Can I say that? Because if we're too up in
arms, we become critics. You know, and sadly, there are many,
and now with the internet, there are so many people that can sit
at home like armchair pastors, and just criticize everything,
and pick apart everything, and yet they couldn't do half the
things that that pastor is doing. So it's really important.
I don't mean to sound negative, but it's just necessary, because
the world is looking right now at how we're treating each
other. And we need to be united. We need to be on one front. We
need to have one mind. Come on, the scripture says one accord.
We need to be united together. And I have found out, listen,
I've served God for 40 years. There's very few people I've had
to just walk away from because they were so egregiously
erroneous. They started denying fact, pastor and I years ago got
connected to one minister that somebody had recommended. And in
the early, early years, we even had them in the church. And then
they started knocking on the door of hell is hell. Hell is
just a place where maybe you don't get to talk to God every
day. I'm like, check. So I listen for those things, okay?
And of course, they went right out down the road into
universalism teaching there is no literal hell. So it's
important, be alert in the last days. Be alert as you listen,
but don't ride around in the van or the wheels of criticism all
the time because you can get in one ditch or the other. So this
is very important and I'm just setting this up and taking my
time in it because I have watched in recent times where
there is so much bickering and fighting. I mean, somebody can't
say anything on the internet without somebody coming in with
a criticism. I mean, it's amazing. And the reason that, in
fact, in this church, the reason we will kill those comments,
well, you don't want anybody to disagree, no. This is a church
service. You come in here, I mean, to me, getting online and
criticizing the preaching or the singing or the prophesying or
somebody's hair and saying those kinds of things, that would get
you banned. Plain and simple. Because we ought to know how to
behave in the house of God. To me, it's no different when
somebody gets on and criticizes online, any different than
somebody stood up in the church while Pastor Anka's preaching
and heckled him in the middle of the service. There's people
online that are desperate. They need to hear. They're trying to
get a word from God. They're trying to connect to the
anointing. Some of them can't get in a church. And the last
thing they need to see is somebody getting on the internet
and being an armchair quarterback critic, preaching
and teaching and trying to be a preacher. I know it all on the
internet. All right. Glad I got that off my chest. No, it's just
wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Okay. We don't have to pretend
we all know it all. It's really important. All right. Let's talk
about ways to spot the genuine. I talked a little bit about the
false and the basic tenants. I felt like that was important to
give that to you. So, let me just say it this way. The first
and I think the foremost important thing on any preacher,
minister, prophesier, it's important in the church, let's
just say. Not just people that are in the pulpits or have a
YouTube channel, but I'm talking about as you know one another.
That the most important thing is knowing people's character. Now,
this does not get said. I know ministers that have been flogged
online, and yet they have better character than the people that
flogged them. More Christ-like behavior. Come on, things that
nobody thinks about. More forgiveness, more
love, more kind words. You know, and of course
our love is going to be one of the things that's going
to get us in big trouble. If we don't have it, right? So the
character of the person, now let me just make note of a couple of
things. This is too heavy tonight. Am I helping everybody?
I want our church to be sharp. I want us to be people that know
how to do it right. So here's what we know from the Bible,
that false prophets are not just measured alone by the accuracy
of their prophecies. Now we'll get to talking about accuracy in
a minute, but that's not the only reason, but there's a way
to judge them. Even though that's a role, that's important,
their genuineness is measured by their character. Now, here's the
thing, we can't always know everybody's character, come on,
you don't know everybody's darkest secrets, you don't know
everything about everybody. You probably could look around this
room and don't even know what flavor toothpaste most people
like. You probably, people that you think you know well, you
probably, there's lots of things about them you don't know that
well. But there are certain character traits that do start
to come out as you build acquaintances. So as we listen
to preaching, as we listen to somebody with a YouTube,
somebody with a Facebook page, because goodness, I mean,
information is just coming at us at a record rate. I mean, it's
like a fire hose of stuff, just, you know, and sometimes you
don't have time to pause and think about it. And I'm learning
more and more. I pause and think about it. I'm not going to just
like something until I let it marinate. Okay. Steaks are
always better if you marinate them first. Isn't that right,
Pastor Shane? Or ribs or whatever else. Sometimes there
is value to the marinating. Just because they're your friend on
Facebook doesn't mean you have to like their post. They'll get
over it. If they don't, then there's unfriending them. You
can unfriend them then. But we need to be able to look at the
character of things and sometimes let it marinate a bit,
not just jump to conclusions. And this is so, so very
important. Now Pastor Brenda, how then can you know the
character of people, right? How can you know the character of
people like on the internet? Because internet ministry is a
real thing now. And there's a lot of people to listen to and a
lot of good people. Let's not, there's so many good people to
listen to and you should follow their pages and let that feed
your spirit. I mean, my goodness, how much better it is
to listen to some preaching pages and some of these stupid
things with these media outlets that do nothing but fire out
propaganda. So it's a good thing. It's a good thing that we
have all that coming to us and at us and the availability to
minister to people via the internet. It's all good. But
here is how you look at character, because you're never
going to know that person personally, probably through the
camera lens, right? Okay. You know, Pastor and I would love to
meet everybody that's online, but it's impossible. We can
barely meet the people right in here. Like 20 minutes, okay,
church is over. Hi guys. And we run out and come back and do the
11:30. It's very difficult. It's very difficult for some of you
to meet people that are sit, that always sit on this side on
a Sunday. From the ones that are set on the north side. Okay. And
people believe me, most of the time they're pretty set on their
chairs. I can look out every Sunday and I always know Bernice
is right nearby. So, it's a fact, right? So, here's the
thing. How do you get to know people's character? Because
there's a consistency that's developed. And this is very
important. As you listen to different preachers, as you
listen to people, look for the consistency and reliability of
their character. Character issues, if they're in there,
will eventually come out. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of a
person's heart, their mouth is eventually gonna talk," or
they're gonna do things. You're gonna start to see things,
right, that are gonna come out in a person's character. Yeah,
you may not get to know them personally, but if you listen to
them enough, you're gonna understand their message, okay?
Most people understand Pastor Hank's core message, okay?
People know that. It's prophetic, right? He'll preach
prophecy, okay? Listen, that's just gonna be the way he's gonna
roll. It's like Kenneth E. Hagen used to say, "No matter what
subject I try to preach, it always comes back to faith and
healing 'cause I just can't help it. That's who I am. It's what
comes out of me." That's why we do have many different voices.
It's why we have different types of prophets. It's why we have
different kinds of teachers and pastors so we can get a full
measure of what we understand. But look for their character,
okay? Look for their integrity. After you listen to somebody
long enough, you can start to see their intention and their
heart. And this is so necessary, okay? This is important. I mean,
that's always our prayer here at Lord of Hosts. So we want people
to see the character of the Kunnemans, that we do things as
uprightly as we know how to do, that we will get our heart right
if we have to. We will manage money correctly. In fact, that's
one of the signs of the false prophets, they mishandle money.
You know how many Christians probably do mishandle money and
just nobody knows, okay? We worked very hard to handle the
money of this house with impeccable integrity, with
auditing, outside firms, we worked very hard. It's important
that you get to know the character of the person that you
listen to. It's impeccable. 'Cause if there's a bend inside
of them that's deceptive, it's gonna start to arise and you'll
know it. And listen, you have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
in you is gonna teach you. That's what the Bible says in 1
John. It says, "The Spirit within us will teach us all
things." So you'll listen to 'em long enough. In fact, I can tell
you a good story about this. There was this person that we
knew years ago. And they invited me to come to this women's
conference just to attend it. I wasn't preaching there. And it
was a pretty big group of people. And I went up there all
by myself. I drove and went to this. I told pastor, you know,
now he'd never even let me do that now. And I'm like, why? You
think I'm going to get lost or drive in the wrong street? I
don't know. He tells scary stories about it. But I got
there. And I went to this meeting. And the preacher at the
time, not the person that invited me, but it was another
person that was preaching that night, preached something that
it really did great against the Word. How many of you ever been
in a room like that? Now, listen, there is full liberty.
If you hear something preached, you don't have to stand and
shout an amen to it if you're not sure about it. Doesn't mean
it's necessarily wrong, okay? Sometimes you just gotta go home
and study, okay? I've had that many times. I've heard that a
lot. Sometimes like, "Man, I never heard that before." I
mean, really, do we really think we come to church and we've
heard everything there is? No. So I heard what this person said
and I'm like, "Man, that's, I'm not sure about that." And of
course the whole place is standing up and just screaming.
I mean, they're shouting. I was kind of in the back and I,
because I was a little bit late, but I got in there in the back
and I'm sitting in there and the whole place is just shouting and
they're screaming, this person is saying this and I'm thinking,
Lord, I don't know about that. I just don't know about that, I'm
not sure. And it just kind of goes against something that I
think that I knew. And so I felt a little uncomfortable to just
get in agreement with it. But then the more I began to listen
to that person, I'd watch their character, I watched their
associations, 'cause that's another thing, you know, you
don't need somebody, we'll talk about accountability, Pastor hit
on this so well a few weeks back, but you don't need
somebody that is a lone ranger maverick, that it's their way or
no way. And so I watched this person and watched who they
communicated with and then it began to just let me know, okay,
well maybe that was just a development spot for them. We
have to be very good at this in this hour. And realize folks,
when people get out there on the internet, most people don't know
half of what goes on behind the scenes. It's very important. So
character is, it must abound in folks. Anybody can be
well-spoken. Okay, there are, in fact, the Bible says, that
scripture we just read, that some of the false are the most,
they're best spoken. There could be some of the most, I mean,
amazingly spoken. Think about all of the prophetic people that
you've heard, and you've heard of them over the years, who sat
there and phonied prophecies, looked people up on the internet
and found their name and then pretended they had a word from
God. Okay, their character, character becomes important. And
believe me, if you watch somebody long enough, this is
why I kind of say, don't just listen to everybody. Get some
people that you're connected to and you listen to them. I had
one lady say, and I don't mean to quote Brother Hagin a lot
because he certainly isn't the only minister we've always
listened to, but I kind of cut my teeth listening and reading
his books, but I heard a person one time, I said, "You know, who
do you really listen to?" And she named him. This is a woman
pastor. She named him. And I thought to myself, "Well, I
mean, that seemed a little close that that's the only name that
you can name." That's what I thought to myself, but then I
thought it's kind of good that we kind of just we hone in with
a few key voices that we have built trust and we know their
character. This is so important. So character is just as
important as accuracy, right? Okay. Secondly, the
accountability, and so I'll just say this, it takes time to
ascertain that. Did I make that point clear? All right. So the
number two, the accountability of the messenger, and I think I
already just hit on that a little bit. Christianity, and
this is important because we're all gathered in this room
tonight, Christianity carries with it a sense of community,
okay, where we need each other. We build off of each other.
That's why the Bible says iron sharpens iron. We need one
another. Where none of us can survive as these loners
somewhere. Okay, you can't do it. I mean, you go through
something, I watch how the body of Christ rallies behind people.
And so the church, you think about the early church when they
were persecuted in Acts, the fourth chapter, remember that
they were persecuted. And the scripture says they went back to
their, their company, they went back to their people, they got
back with their group. This is why the local church is still
one of the safest places you can be in the end times. Because
it's not just about coming up and hearing Pastor Hank preach
on a Sunday. And hearing some music. It's also about rubbing
shoulders with each other. There are many layers of
accountability. We think of accountability as this like
negative word, like there's some ruler that we're accountable to.
And that's the farthest thing of what it should be. Really
accountability is I come to church. I make my, I build
relationships so that people, when I'm going through
something, there's other people in the world that know my
situation. And they can pray for me. They can help me. They also
might get in my face and go, "Stop." But aren't you glad for
that? Because that's the stuff that keeps us from going to
hell, people. Amen. Sometimes you just need somebody to get
and go, you know, settle down. Okay? And it's not just, we make
accountability about some authoritative overseer, when
really accountability is multi-layered. Okay? You become
accountable just by sitting in the seat next to people every
week. Think about that. We all need it, every one of us,
because it brings checks and balances to our life. You know
Pastor Hank, what I love about him, he's far more relational
than I am. And he has how many people, you know we have a
number of board members at the church, and people that he is in
relationship with, one of those is Pastor Gene Bailey, they're
very close. And if you're listening tonight guys, I said
that. In fact, you'll hear Pastor Gene say, "My very best
friend is Pastor Hank Kunneman." And they're very close. They
talk most every day. There are a few seasons in there after
opening the heavens and they were on the road, we're all like
nobody getting on the phone. But you know, but they talk a lot.
And Pastor Hank loves those accountability discussions. He
will ask people, "How did you like what I said? Is there
anything I need to change?" Now people don't see him do that.
They see his bold way and believe me, he is a steamroller
for what he knows to be right. But I've also watched a man who
will let people speak into him and he will change. And I'm
like, honey, you are very good at that. I need to grow. I need
to grow. We all need that. Iron sharpens our accountability. And
so look for people that you listen to who have that. Now,
whether it be the checks and balances of the church as an
institution, that's important, right? The church ought to
have... Some churches, I'm not being critical, they're just run
like sorry ships. It's terrible, okay? There's not
accountability. It was like Pastor Hanks said when he first
started in the prophetic, somebody invited him to this
little church and he went in there. I'm at the back and there
might've been 20 or 30 people in this little prophetic meeting
and they decide to do the offering. And the preacher gets
up and said, there's 20 people that are gonna give $100. He's
looking around, he's like, there are 20 people in here. And so,
you know, under compulsion, all of those people are pressured
until they're, I'll give the next, they don't wanna be the
guy that says no, and I'll be the next, and then it got down
to 19, and he's like, there's one more person that's gonna
give $100, and he was like, well, I didn't even have $4, so
he goes, I'm outta here. He went out the back door, he said, I
didn't know what to do, but I didn't have $100, I couldn't
commit to $100, I couldn't even pledge $100, I wasn't gonna be
able to give $100 in any time now or in the future that I knew
of. So he said, I just had to slip out. Now, come on, that's
sorry run, okay? Those are the kind of churches nobody ought to
go to, okay? And so accountability is very, very
important. So I think I exhausted that enough. So
genuine prophets, teachers, preachers, prophetic people will
make themselves accountable to somebody else besides
themselves. And I will say this, let me just say this last part I
told you this was going to be a long-winded message. But it's
good because I really want to break all this down for you.
This is prophetic school. That's why we do this Come on, this is
living room talk. This is chalk talk This is where we just get
down in the weeds and we go through some of these things
because these are things that people think It's just nobody
wants to bring it up in the pulpit. So we're gonna bring it
up in the ball, but let's just do it But accountability is a
community, it's multi-layered, it's multi-faceted. I forgot
what I was gonna say about that. Is, oh, we should want to be
around preachers and people that reflect that sense of wanting to
be accountable. And that is so important. I say that because in
the prophetic, people don't like the word accountability
especially, 'cause they feel they've heard from God. And
nobody wants to be questioned when they feel they've heard
from God. So we have to, if we're gonna be prophetic people,
come on, prophesiers out there, those of you online, if you're a
person that prophesies or you're prone to prophecy, 'cause some
people are just prone to prophesy. Okay, I'm not as prone
to prophesy as my husband is prone to prophesy. I mean, he'll
just walk up to people and prophesy. I'm like, how do you
do that? How do you do that? He doesn't always make it sound
like a prophecy, but it's a prophecy. And he'll prophesy to
them. It just comes out. Some of you are like that. I know I'm
seeing some of your faces. I know there's some of you that
are prone like that to prophesying. And so what we have
to know is that we even, the ones that are prone to prophesy,
I have to even want to be more accountable. You've got to let
people scrutinize your prophetic. Genuine prophets will
not mind being scrutinized by people that have earned the
right, this is important, earned the right to scrutinize them. We
don't scrutinize everybody. Pastor Hank doesn't go out and
just scrutinize somebody and call them on the phone, they're
minister, I've never met you, but I didn't like what you said
on YouTube. We don't do that. They've earned the right. Nathan
the prophet earned the right in David's life to say you're the
man. He earned it. He wasn't a stranger to David, he knew him.
Okay, there was a relationship there. Okay, number three,
enough about accountability. Did I say, I think I did the best I
could on that one. Number three, the message and prophetic words
should be able to be submitted or judged or scrutinized. Let me
read this scripture to you. 1 Corinthians 14:29-32.
Let the prophet speak two or three, so many things we could
preach on this, but and let the other one judge or let other
prophets judge it. Okay, it's not to be critical. It says, and
if anything be revealed that one or anything be revealed to
another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. Now what
he's saying is, it's not to be chaos of interrupting each
other. What it's talking about is be willing, be willing to be
submissive to other people in the room. It's really important.
242, this is even more important in a small group, because you'll
ruin the night. If you're the person that your jaw's always
got to be flapping the whole night. You'll ruin it, you'll
ruin it. You'll ruin it for the leader, you'll ruin it for the
people, right? You should always be submitted to the person in
charge of the group that night. Come on, they planned the
message, they got the authority, they bought the cookies, they
did all the, they cleaned their house. I mean, think about that.
People come into a home group and they didn't even do
anything, they just came in to keep talking. Yet that person
came, they cleaned the house, got a sitter for the kids, came
and made a meal and invited people over, and then somebody
just takes over. Okay, this is what this scripture is talking
about. It's talking about have a submitted way. Allow others to
counter you if need be. Husbands and wives, counter each other.
It's good, it's healthy. You know, just don't fight. Okay,
you can counter one another. Pastor and I do it all the time.
What do you think about this? And we're honest. Eh, I'm gonna
stretch that. I heard Marilyn Hickey say one time, somebody
asked her, they said, Marilyn, I've got this word I've been
really working on, and how does it sound to you? And she'd go,
hmm, well, it might be a little windy yet. You know, the Bible
talks about windy doctrine. I think you need to rein the wind
back in just a little bit. We all need it. Come on, every one
of us needs it. Okay, we need to be as submitted as we are
critical. We need to be as teachable as we are big mouths,
all of us, every single one of us. If we do, I'm telling you,
we would grow. Amen. All right, next one, next one, Rick. All
right, we could go on and on about that. Let's see, number
two, number three. Oh, scrutiny is different than criticism,
okay? Can I just say it like that? Learn to scrutinize
yourself, right? Remember, if you point the finger, how many
are pointing back? All good. It's very necessary. That's why,
I don't know, I did see a meme one time on Facebook and it said
this. it says when you type out your whole comment and the Holy
Spirit goes delete. Just remember that sometimes the Holy
Spirit will say do not post that. Do not write that in the
comments. Stop. I've had to grow in that myself. All right. I'm
just submitting that to you. Number four, prophetic words
should be uplifting, for the most part encouraging. 1
Corinthians 14:3 says, "But the one who prophesies
strengthens the others "and encourages them and comforts
them." That's the new living. So when you're prophesying, really
the majority of the prophetic is not to find out the skinny on
people, it's not to get in their business, and I had a dream and
this happened, and then there's negative in there. It's really,
that is not the front run of the prophetic. The front run of the
prophetic is to strengthen somebody, not make them feel
like, you know, they're worse than, you know, I mean, worse
than everything. That's not the point. It's to strengthen and
uplift people. People, if you're prophesying to one another, you
should prophesy in such a way that it's there to make that
person run with the wind at their back. Amen. Strengthen
each other. And then it says, and encourages one another.
Okay. You should, you should be able to walk away with
encouragement. Very few prophetic words that I have
watched Pastor Hank deliver over the years. I believe me, we've
traveled in stadiums, in conferences, preaching. I mean,
the Mid-America Center was not our
first arena. We went all over Latin America
for a decade. Preaching and preaching. And I only
recall in probably 30 years, one time he gave a word
of warning publicly to somebody. And that person was about to
split that church. And it was, and the pastor was like, Oh my
God, thank you. I couldn't go to that person. I tried, I did
everything. They've caused me so many problems. And I believe
that was a last ditch to save their life. But He has always
uplifted people. Listen, there's times that you can see things
about people, but you don't go call it out. You come on, you
can code it. The Lord says, you know, it's time to turn your
back on some stuff. You're not just say, you know, you fouled
this and you did that and call. You don't have to. It should
encourage. Okay? And most of the time you hear pastor and I will
do it like that. Come on. What sounds general to the audience
sometimes is very specific to the recipient. They know what
you're saying and to comfort them. Come on, the prophetic
ought to give people hope. That's what I love about the way
pastor, come on, he prophesied risky things up in here. He'll
prophesy risky. He'll take risks to give people hope and to give
them comfort so that they walk away going, "Come on, God,
you're not done with this nation. You're not done with
America. Come on, the body of Christ. We still have a harvest.
There's a harvest that's coming. A harvest of souls. There's
still something good happening." That's what I love that he does
that on Flashpoint. He's like, "Always brings the hope." I love
you for it, honey. It's awesome. So, prophetic should uplift.
Look for that. All right. What are we on? All right. Very
quick. Three minutes. I can do it in three minutes. Here's
another one that's so important. And there's so many things that
I could say about uplifting and encouraging. Oh, my goodness.
There's scriptures on that. We could talk about the disciples
that ministered to Paul that he shouldn't go to Jerusalem. But
anyway, you can read it. They did that, by the way, in a
group. It wasn't one person going, "Don't go to Jerusalem."
Okay? Only Agabus, a seasoned prophet, did that, by the way.
Number five, a messenger, all messengers, whether you are a
242 person, we call them a lay person, a person in the church,
a greeter, a prophet, a minister, an apostle, any
person, every single Christian ought to have a well polite
manner about them. I don't know what it is about prophetic
people that think they've got to be some, they're, you know, it's
crazy. It's crazy. I mean, it's, it's a turnoff to be honest. And
I talked about that last week, getting right in people's face
and cornering them and they can smell your breath and you didn't
have, you didn't brush your teeth on the way and it's
terrifying. And I mean, I'll be honest, it just gives the
prophetic a bad name. It gives church a bad name. Think about
that, you know, and there's people that have no discipline
whatsoever. They will go up to a brand new visitor that's never
been to the church before. And the greeters have worked hard.
They're out there trying to meet people, get to know them, love
on them, let them know where the bathroom is. I mean, some people
just wanna know where the bathroom is. They don't wanna be
cornered and told all their secrets. Yeah. So well-mannered,
I mean, speaking in an orderly manner. I mean, just polite. Can
we all just, can we just do that? Can we just, and you guys
are all so good, but I'm preaching to more than just
everybody in here. Can we just all be polite? Can we all be
polite? Can we be polite in the church? Can we be polite on the
internet? Can we be, you know what people say about, I know
I'm talking a lot about Pastor Hank tonight because I can,
'cause he's not here. And so then you can tell him all the
things I said if he didn't see it tonight. But you know what
they'll say, Pastor Hank, wherever, where you go on the
road, you just don't carry yourself like you're anybody
important. You're out there like making jokes with the guy that's
cleaning the tables. You're hanging out with the cooks.
You're like out in the back just saying howdy do to the person
that's like doing the hair and the makeup. And you're in the
back corner saying, I mean, he'll go to all these big events
and he's, I mean, yeah, he'll get in and talk with some of the
ministers and different things and share and get in
conversations, but he's out there reaching everybody. You
know, I mean, I watched him at Mid
-America Center, all the people that worked for the Mid-America
Center, here he was walking out, "How you doing?" I know, we kept
you up late. How are you? You doing all right? You doing good?
Patting them on the back, meeting their name, getting to
know them. And I know many of you do that, but that is how the
body of Christ ought to be. And if we're prophetic, we need to
even be more that way. We don't have to be weird to prophesy.
Okay? Some people are more demonstrative than others, but
that doesn't mean that we have to try to prove something. We
should be the most well-behaved, well-mannered people on the face
of the planet in the body of Christ. It ought to be the best
place for people to come on any given time we gather. Come on,
somebody. All right, last one. I'm closing with this. Now we'll
talk about accuracy, because I know you were waiting for me to
say it and you thought I might forget. So here's the thing. Are
you getting anything out of this? Am I helping you? Oh,
good. Cause I want everybody around the world that's watching
to hear some of this. Cause I think we ought to grow. I tell
you, I'm just going to say it like this. It discourages my
heart a little bit when I watched the world, who's got an
evil, evil message. Okay. Evil. Okay. And, and, and they are
united on their message. Yeah, they get in killing each other.
We know all those scriptures, but they're, they're united on,
on evil. Okay. I've watched them be one force to promote
abortion. And yet Christians can't even get in alignment.
I've watched them be one force to promote transgender ideology.
And you got Christians that will sit on the sideline and go,
well, we shouldn't say anything. You know, we can't, we got to
get an agreement. So accuracy, accuracy. Let me close with
this. You can stand. I can say this last one so short, you
won't mind standing. Accuracy, this is Jeremiah 28:9.
It says, "The prophet that prophesies peace," in other
words, he has a good word. It's an encouraging word. "When the
word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet
be known or acknowledged. It'll be known of that prophet that
the Lord has sent him." In other words, there was an accuracy.
His words came to pass. Does that mean that any prophetic
person can't ever miss God? Absolutely not. I mean, anybody
can miss God, okay? Anybody can do that. We can all miss God.
The key is, is the general, same way with character, their words
in general should come to pass. That's the key. I mean, after a
while, you listen to somebody and everything, 80% of what
they're saying, it just ain't happening. Unsubscribed from
their channel. There should be a general accuracy to the
prophetic. There should be a general, and it's the same.
There should be a general accuracy. When I get up here and
teach the Bible, there should be a general accuracy in what I
have to say. Okay, does it mean that I'll always say everything
the right way? No, 'cause I'm growing just like all of us. And
it's the same way in the prophetic. And I will say it
like this, because one false prophecy doesn't make a person
false. Otherwise we ought to throw prophecy completely out.
And it's amazing, people will point to somebody else and say,
"Oh, that person missed it. Oh, that person shouldn't have
shared that vision. And that vision was kind of crazy. I
didn't agree with it. Yet, they would afford themselves the same
right to grow in their revelations and their visions.
Amen. Am I helping you? So I think it's very important. The
general consensus is a person should always be accurate. I
love pastor because he works very hard to be accurate and
take risks. And I would tell you, I have watched his words
come to pass, people. I'm telling you. And he's not the
only one. There's so many out there that you can trust 'cause
man, they're happening. But accuracy can't be the only judge
because there's a lot of false prophet. Listen, Balaam was an
accurate false prophet. Okay, so that cannot be the only judge.
That's why God taught him. He said, I'm closing my Bible now.
He told him, he said, the way you judge them, you better know,
mix character with their accuracy, 'cause you need both.
There's a lot of good preachers that can preach up a storm, but
they have no character to speak of. They live dirty lives in
secret, and yet they could preach up a word. I mean, they
can be just. So accuracy is not enough. It has to be mixed with
the other areas. And if you get that, and they are accurate, you
probably got a good vessel. It's probably genuine. And that's
what we're looking for. But don't get up in arms. Don't be,
just be discerning. There's a difference. I'll say this, last
statement. There's a difference between being discerning and
suspicious. And what I would do is I would avoid all the mayhem
out there of all the people that want to take shots at other
people and just hang back. Listen, the best thing I could
do is know for myself if something's wrong or right. I
don't need to prove that I think it's wrong or right to 18, 20,
30, 3000 other people, okay? I've watched articles get
written in recent times by the secular newspapers at the
fighting of the body of Christ. Nothing is more grievous, but we
can be accurate and genuine and still stay in the right spirit.
And that's what I want because God is using prophets now. God
is using it. We need the prophetic. God saves nations
through the prophetic voice and we need it. Lift your hands to
heaven. Say this, say, Lord, I'm gonna be one of the accurate
ones. I'm gonna have the right character, the right attitude.
Help me to discern things right, Lord. In this prophetic season,
I want to be one of the vessels that you can use for this time
in history. Amen. Did you get something out of that? All
right. Go home. Do your homework. Look up all those
scriptures, and we will see you on Sunday. I love you guys.
We'll talk soon. Bye bye, internet.
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