Is He Charismatic?
January 17, 2021
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Pastor Robert continues The God I Never Knew series with a message titled, “Is He Charismatic?” where he describes the different gifts of the Spirit.
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Is He Charismatic?
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- ROBERT MORRIS: Would it bealright with you if you were
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- going through a difficult timeand the Holy Spirit
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- just gave you faith that youwere going to get through it?
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- See, what I'm trying to tell youis the Holy Spirit's good
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- and His gifts are good.
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- Don't be afraid of Him and don'tbe afraid of any of His gifts.
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- ♪ ♪
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- ROBERT: Okay, so, I want you toturn, though, now,
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- to 1 Corinthians 12.
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- Turn your Bibles1 Corinthians 12.
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- We're in a series called"The God I Never Knew."
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- Talking aboutthe Holy Spirit.
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- Can I just ask you, areyou enjoying the series?
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- I think it's fantastic.
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- We've been answering somequestions about the Holy Spirit.
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- And last week was, "IsHe is Pentecostal?"
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- And I enjoyed that message,sharing that with you.
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- This week I likethe title, too.
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- This week I've entitled themessage, "Is He Charismatic?"
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- So, what I'm trying to do inthis series is take away
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- the miscommunicationabout the Holy Spirit.
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- Another way tosay it is, fear.
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- I mean, a lot of people areactually afraid
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- of the Holy Spirit.
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- And that's horrible.
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- So, 1 Corinthians12, look at Verse 1.
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- It says, "Now concerningspiritual gifts, brethren,
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- I do not want youto be ignorant."
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- Now, here's the reason Iwanted to talk about
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- this verse just for a moment.
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- A lot of believers areignorant about the Holy Spirit.
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- Now, He didn't say stupid.
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- It doesn't mean stupid.
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- It just means that youhaven't been taught.
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- If you're ignorant about asubject, you just have not been
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- taught about that subject
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- or you've been taughtmisinformation.
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- He says, "Spiritual gifts."
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- This word "Spiritual," isthe Greek word pneumatikos.
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- Pneumatikos means empoweredby breath or wind.
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- Look at the firstpart of it, pneumatic.
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- You probably sometime heardabout a pneumatic drill
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- or something.
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- It means it'spowered by air. Okay.
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- "Now, concerningspiritual gifts."
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- Let me say it another way.
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- Now, concerning gifts thatare empowered
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- by the breath of God.
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- And we'll say it one moretime because it's got
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- to really catch you.
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- You've got to catch this.
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- Now, concerning gifts thatyou can only move in if you
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- allow the Holy Spiritto breathe in you.
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- That's what He's saying.
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- Those are spiritual gifts.
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- The words, "Now concerning,"just to give you --
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- again, a littleBible lesson here.
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- They're in the 1Corinthians six times.
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- The reason they're there isbecause Paul wrote a letter
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- to the Corinthian churchbefore 1 Corinthians.
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- First Corinthians is actuallythe second letter that he wrote.
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- I don't know -- we don'tknow what happened
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- to the first letter.
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- I personally think that theLord said to him,
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- "That's not getting inthe Bible, buddy.
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- You're going to have to getbetter if you want
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- it to get in the Bible."
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- So, he writes a letter andthen they wrote one back.
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- First Corinthian 5, he saysin the epistle, "Earlier letter
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- that I wrote you,"and in Chapter 7, it says,
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- "In the -- now concerningthe letter you wrote me."
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- And this is all in 1Corinthians, alright?
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- So, when it says, "Nowconcerning," he's answering
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- the question that they had.
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- Did you all follow all that.
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- I know this isn't a Biblecollege class, but I just wanted
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- to give you alittle background here.
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- So, "Now concerningspiritual gifts and I don't
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- want you to be ignorant."Okay.
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- I want to say thesame thing to you.
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- I don't want you to beuneducated about
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- spiritual gifts.
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- I can't do it allin one message.
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- You need to know that.
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- So, we have other classes.
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- You need to take classes.
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- You need to learn.You need to study.
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- But, many, many people haveno clue how many gifts
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- there are or how they work.
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- And I'll just tell you, Iput the gifts
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- into four categories of gifts.Okay?
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- There are themotivational gifts.
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- And those are in Romans 12.
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- You have one of those,they motivate you.
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- There are themanifestational gifts,
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- which we're going totalk about today.
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- They're in 1 Corinthians 12.
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- There are theministry gifts.
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- They're in 1 Corinthians 14.
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- And there are the ministerialgifts in Ephesians 4.
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- Those are not gifts of theHoly Spirit, they're gifts
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- of Jesus, apostle, prophet,evangelist, pastor, teacher.
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- Again, I don't have timeto go into all that.
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- But -- so, we're goingto talk about
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- the manifestational gifts of theHoly Spirit today,
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- charisma of the Lord.
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- All right?
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- So, 1 Corinthians12, look at Verse 7.
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- There are ninemanifestational gifts
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- of the Holy Spirit.
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- "But the manifestation of theSpirit is given to each one."
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- Just a question, I've askedyou this before,
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- but it's really important,are you an each?
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- Yes, you are.So, these are for you.
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- All nine of theseare for you.
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- "Is given to each onefor the profit of all.
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- For to one is given the wordof wisdom," this is one
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- of the gifts, "through theSpirit, to another, the word
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- of knowledge, through thesame Spirit; to another
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- faith by the same Spirit, toanother gifts of healings,
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- by the same Spirit, toanother the working of miracles,
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- to another prophecy, to anotherthe impart," pardon me,
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- "to another discerning ofspirits, to another different
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- kinds of tongues, to another theinterpretation of tongues,
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- but one and the same Spiritworks all these things,
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- distributing to each."
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- One more time,are you an each? Okay.
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- "To each one individuallyas He wills."
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- Now, let me explainsomething about this.
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- You don't have oneof these gifts.
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- Don't go around tellingpeople, "I have the word
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- of knowledge."
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- Or, "I have theword of wisdom."
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- You don't have any of them.
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- The Holy Spirithas all of it.
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- And He distributes to eachone for the profit of all.
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- You can minister in the giftof the word of knowledge at any
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- time that the HolySpirit allows you to do that.
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- So, any person -- so, I'veheard people say,
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- "Well, I have this."No, you don't.
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- The Holy Spirit does.
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- He has all nine of theseand He manifests, the word
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- "manifest," means to makeknown, He makes them known
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- through each one, everyone as Hewills for the profit of all.
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- Alright?
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- So, what I did was, thereare nine gifts, many theologians
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- do this, we divide them intothree categories.
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- That works out well for me,because a good sermon always
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- has three points.
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- So, it's going to workout great.
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- Alright?So, here's the first category
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- and the first three gifts.
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- The discerning gifts.
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- I'm going to go throughthree gifts that are what we
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- call the discerning gifts.
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- And I'll go through each ofthem, but they're,
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- just so you know, the word ofknowledge, word of wisdom,
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- and discerning of spirits.
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- These are discerning gifts.
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- So, let me give you theword of knowledge first.
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- Here's what a wordof knowledge is.
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- A word of knowledge is toknow something specific without
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- having learnedit by natural means.
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- To know something specificwithout having learned
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- it by natural means.
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- Now, because I'm goingthrough nine, I can't do
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- like I would normally do.
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- I could spend a classon each of these.
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- But, Jesus moved in thesegifts because He moved
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- with the power ofthe Holy Spirit.
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- When He was talking to thewoman at the well, He said,
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- "Go call your husband."
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- She said, "I don'thave a husband."
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- He said, "Well, you saidthat right, because you've
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- had five and the one you'rewith is not your husband."
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- Okay.That's a word of knowledge.
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- Now, what many people wouldsay is, "Well, He was Jesus
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- and Jesus knows everything."
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- You have to remember though,He laid down His divinity
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- and He pickedup His humanity.
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- When Jesus was on this earth, Heministered in the power
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- of the Holy Spirit.
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- He came out of thewilderness and the power
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- of the Spirit.
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- When He was baptized, theHoly Spirit came upon Him.
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- He said, "I cast demonsout by the Spirit of God."
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- So, He moved by thepower of the Holy Spirit.
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- Here's the secondone, a word of wisdom.
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- This is a divine answer orsolution for a particular event.
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- A divine answer or solutionfor a particular event.
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- In John 9, this man getshealed and they said,
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- "We don't even know wherethis guy's from."
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- And He said, "Well, thisis a marvelous thing.
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- You don't know where He'sfrom, yet He opened my eyes.
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- He said, since the beginningof time no one has opened
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- the eyes of someoneborn blind."
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- And then he says this, "Ifthis Man were not from God,
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- He could do nothing."
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- And you know what happened,they couldn't answer him.
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- That was a word of wisdom.
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- I mean, God gavehim a wise answer.
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- You need to go to --start going to prayer
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- and let the Holy Spirit speakto you about.
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- Would that be okay?
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- Because He knows a lot moreabout your business than you do,
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- by the way.Okay.
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- So, and here's the thirddiscerning gift
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- and it's discerning of spirits.
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- Discerning of spirits meansto be made aware
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- of the presence of ademonic spirit.
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- To be made aware of thepresence of a demonic spirit.
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- This happened when there wasa girl following Paul around
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- and saying, "These men areservants of the Most High,"
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- but she was afortune teller.
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- And you say, "Well, she'ssaying the right thing." Yes.
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- But, he didn't want a witchconfirming their ministry.
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- So, he knew it was a demon.
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- He turned around and castthe demon out of her
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- just like that,because he was aware.
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- He became aware.
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- Now, I want you to lookat this for a moment.
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- Discerning of spirits.
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- That's -- this gift iscalled discerning of spirits.
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- Now listen to me carefully.
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- It is not calleddiscernment.
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- It's calleddiscerning of spirits.
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- Now, listen.
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- There is no gift ofdiscernment in the Bible.
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- Look and see.
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- We're supposedto be discerning.
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- We're supposed to have oursenses trained
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- so we discern good and evil.We're supposed to discern.
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- Not saying that's wrong.
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- I'm going to make a statementand it's going to get some
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- of you, so just laugh about itwith the rest of us.
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- Okay?
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- But most people that I'vemet, most, not all, but most,
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- that I've met, that say, "I havethe gift of discernment,"
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- actually havethe gift of criticism.
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- Boy, I saw some nudges.
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- Wasn't that --praise the Lord.
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- I started some fights.
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- So -- alright.Now, listen.
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- You may be adiscerning person.
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- But, you don't have thegift of discernment.
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- There's not a giftof discernment.
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- The reason I say criticismis because people seem to say,
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- "Well, I have the giftof discernment," and they're
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- actually very critical andvery judgmental of other people
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- and they think that theiropinion is God's opinion.
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- And they blame it orvalidate it on,
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- "Well, I have this giftfrom the Bible."
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- Well, I'm just letting you know,that gift's not in the Bible.
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- But there is a gift ofdiscerning of spirits,
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- and I just discerned that someof you have a critical spirit.
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- So, Okay.
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- But let me ask you this,would it be alright with you
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- if the Holy Spirit showedyou a demonic or evil spirit
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- that was coming against yourmarriage and you
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- prayed against that?
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- Or coming againstone of your children?
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- Or coming againstyour business?
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- I'm telling you, I'm talkingto some business --
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- Alright, let's keep going.Here's number two.
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- The second category.The declarative gifts.
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- The declarative gifts.
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- Under here would beprophecy, tongues,
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- and interpretation of tongues.
- 00:10:56.471 --> 00:10:57.639
- And, again, we'll goover each one of them.
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- Prophecy, tongues, andinterpretation of tongues.
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- In other words, all threeuse the tongue to declare.
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- Alright?
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- First of all, prophecy isa message of encouragement
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- from God through a person.
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- A message of encouragementfrom God through a person.
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- Now, please hear me.
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- One who prophesies speaksedification, exhortation
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- and comfort.
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- It never says correction.
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- The spiritual New Testamentgift of prophecy
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- is encouragement.
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- You will see many,many times the word,
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- "encouragement," or"encourage," used with this.
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- Here's why I say this.
- 00:11:37.178 --> 00:11:38.213
- It's because, again, manypeople say, "Well, I have
- 00:11:38.313 --> 00:11:39.781
- the gift of prophecy andthey think that they can correct
- 00:11:39.881 --> 00:11:42.917
- other people and tag, "Thus saysthe Lord," on the end of it.
- 00:11:43.017 --> 00:11:48.490
- And I'd like to warn youabout saying,
- 00:11:48.590 --> 00:11:50.358
- "Thus says the Lord," when theLord didn't say.
- 00:11:50.458 --> 00:11:55.530
- Scripture is 1 Corinthians14:31, notice this,
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- "For you can all prophecy."
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- I don't ask you to do thisa lot, but I just wanted
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- to today, could yourepeat the word, "all."
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- Because this is the Bible.
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- "You can all prophecy."
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- You can all prophecy.
- 00:12:14.349 --> 00:12:15.450
- "One by one that all maylearn," I want you to notice
- 00:12:15.550 --> 00:12:19.788
- the word learn, "and thatall may be encouraged."
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- It doesn't say corrected.
- 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.194
- It says, "that allmay be encouraged."
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- It also says, "Allmay be learn."
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- Prophecy's a learning.
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- We learn.
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- We learn to hear God's voiceand we learn to speak
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- it in an encouraging way.
- 00:12:33.735 --> 00:12:35.603
- And I know that you probablyheard some prophecies
- 00:12:35.703 --> 00:12:38.106
- that they just weren'tGod, you know.
- 00:12:38.206 --> 00:12:41.009
- I understand that.
- 00:12:41.109 --> 00:12:42.177
- People are learning.
- 00:12:42.277 --> 00:12:43.545
- I heard about a fellow inAlabama and he prophesied --
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- he said, "Thussays the Lord.
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- I know your scared.
- 00:12:49.150 --> 00:12:50.885
- Sometimes I getscared myself."
- 00:12:50.985 --> 00:12:53.021
- Well, that's not God.
- 00:12:53.121 --> 00:12:57.692
- I know this is not good grammar,but God don't get scared.
- 00:12:57.792 --> 00:13:00.795
- Okay.But, he was learning.
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- He's trying to say,God was saying,
- 00:13:03.031 --> 00:13:04.132
- "Hey, I know how you feel."But, He don't get scared.
- 00:13:04.232 --> 00:13:06.334
- Alright?So, we're learning.
- 00:13:06.434 --> 00:13:08.603
- So, I'll say more aboutprophecy in a moment,
- 00:13:08.703 --> 00:13:10.305
- because I'm going to linktongues and interpretation
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- of tongues to prophecyand you'll see why
- 00:13:12.974 --> 00:13:15.210
- in scripture in a moment.The next is tongues.
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- Tongues is a message fromGod in a language unknown
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- to the person throughwhom the message comes.
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- Tongues is a message fromGod unknown to the person
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- through whom the messagethe message comes.
- 00:13:29.991 --> 00:13:31.292
- Now, I'm going to spend awhole message on tongues
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- in two weeks.
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- The next two messages willbe the last of this series.
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- You don't want to missthe next two weeks.
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- Alright?
- 00:13:39.434 --> 00:13:41.202
- But, in -- I'm going --we're going to talk about.
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- This is talking about themanifestation of tongues,
- 00:13:43.238 --> 00:13:46.507
- not a prayer language.
- 00:13:46.608 --> 00:13:47.976
- So, we're going to talkabout a prayer language.
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- So, the next one isinterpretation of tongues.
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- This is understanding andexpressing the thought
- 00:13:53.615 --> 00:13:57.552
- or the intent of themessage in tongues.
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- Understanding and expressingthe thought or the intent
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- of the message in tongues.
- 00:14:06.327 --> 00:14:08.529
- Now, I have a scripture, butI'm trying to give you all time
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- to write down the, youknow, write the definition down.
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- I know some people want to.
- 00:14:17.305 --> 00:14:18.473
- So, let me say something.
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- It's the interpretationof tongues, not the translation.
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- It's the interpretation,not translation.
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- You say, "What'sthe difference?"
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- Oh, it's a verybig difference.
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- Interpretation is expressingthe thought or the intent
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- of what the person just said.
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- Translation isword for word.
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- The U.N. doesn't haveinterpreters.
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- They have translators.
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- That's because if somebodysays something about a bomb,
- 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.668
- they want to know exactlywhat he said about a bomb,
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- not what you think hisintent was, but what his
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- intent actually is.
- 00:14:53.041 --> 00:14:53.975
- Do you understandwhat I'm saying?
- 00:14:54.075 --> 00:14:55.276
- Like when I travel overseas,I don't have translators.
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- I have interrupters.
- 00:14:58.346 --> 00:14:59.681
- Pardon me, interpreters.
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- I was in Poland preachingone time and this --
- 00:15:03.785 --> 00:15:07.221
- the interpreter didn't show up.
- 00:15:07.322 --> 00:15:09.223
- And this guy said to me, "Iam learning English,
- 00:15:09.324 --> 00:15:16.364
- I will interpret for youtonight."
- 00:15:16.464 --> 00:15:18.366
- Well, I didn't haveanother choice.
- 00:15:18.466 --> 00:15:20.635
- So, I was speaking, I'd saya phrase, he'd say a phrase.
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- I'd say a phrase,he'd say a phrase.
- 00:15:23.204 --> 00:15:24.539
- And then about every fiveminutes, he would say,
- 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.375
- "Wait a minute," no, no, hewould do like this, I remember,
- 00:15:27.475 --> 00:15:29.444
- he would go, "Oh."
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- And then he'd say,"Just a moment."
- 00:15:33.815 --> 00:15:35.516
- And then he would talk forlike three or four minutes
- 00:15:35.616 --> 00:15:37.085
- and then the wholechurch would go, "Oh."
- 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:42.690
- So, I got to wondering,"What was he actually saying?"
- 00:15:42.790 --> 00:15:46.594
- Like I would say, youknow, "Jesus' blood
- 00:15:46.694 --> 00:15:49.630
- is the propitiationof our sins."
- 00:15:49.731 --> 00:15:51.466
- And he might have said, "Idon't know what he just said."
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- Okay.
- 00:15:56.137 --> 00:15:57.171
- So, let me show you a versehere about prophecy
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- and the interpretation oftongues, alright.
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- First Corinthians 14, it'sprobably just one page over,
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- if you want to lookat it, Verse 5.
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- It says, "I wish you allspoke with tongues."
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- Now, I just want tostop for just a moment.
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- That's in your Bible.
- 00:16:11.419 --> 00:16:14.255
- And you say, "Yes,but Paul wrote that."
- 00:16:14.355 --> 00:16:16.491
- Paul wrote that, buthe didn't author it.
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- The Holy Spirit authored it.
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- This Book was God-breathed.
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- God breathed the phrase, "Iwish all of you spoke
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- in tongues."
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- Now, that's pretty strong.
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- I just like to say, nomatter what your religious
- 00:16:33.775 --> 00:16:35.309
- background is, you're goingto have to come to grips
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- with that scriptureat some point.
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- I wish all of you did.
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- Then I want to show you therest of it, because, again,
- 00:16:40.748 --> 00:16:42.717
- we have so demeaned this gift oftongues and interpretation.
- 00:16:42.817 --> 00:16:47.188
- Look, watch this.
- 00:16:47.288 --> 00:16:48.389
- He said, "I wish all of youspoke with tongues,
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- but even more that youprophesied.
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- For he who prophesies isgreater than he who speaks
- 00:16:53.361 --> 00:16:57.465
- with tongues," I've had alot of people quote that to me.
- 00:16:57.565 --> 00:16:59.634
- But watch the very nextword, "unless -- unless,
- 00:16:59.734 --> 00:17:06.274
- indeed, he interprets thatthe church may receive
- 00:17:06.374 --> 00:17:08.876
- edification," or strengthand building up.
- 00:17:08.976 --> 00:17:12.046
- Okay.
- 00:17:12.146 --> 00:17:13.114
- Do you understand whatthat said?
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- The one who propheciesis greater unless
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- it's interpreted.
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- If it's interpretedthen it's the same.
- 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.522
- That's what he's saying.
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- See, you don't have to knowtheology to understand
- 00:17:23.224 --> 00:17:24.926
- this verse, but you doneed to know grammar.
- 00:17:25.026 --> 00:17:31.332
- So, don't tell me the onewho prophesies is greater than
- 00:17:31.432 --> 00:17:33.501
- the one who speaks in tongues,unless it is interpreted.
- 00:17:33.601 --> 00:17:37.138
- And here's what he's saying,"I wish you all, I wish you
- 00:17:37.238 --> 00:17:39.273
- all spoke with tongues and Iwish all of you prophesied."
- 00:17:39.373 --> 00:17:41.275
- Why?Because it is encouragement.
- 00:17:41.375 --> 00:17:44.378
- Here's what he's saying,I wish all of you would
- 00:17:44.479 --> 00:17:45.980
- encourage each other."
- 00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:49.484
- Well, that was betterthan you thought.
- 00:17:49.584 --> 00:17:50.885
- Let me just say it again.
- 00:17:50.985 --> 00:17:52.086
- "I wish all of you wouldencourage one another."
- 00:17:52.186 --> 00:17:55.690
- Alright.
- 00:17:55.790 --> 00:17:56.691
- So, interpretation,not translation,
- 00:17:56.791 --> 00:17:59.927
- not word-for-word."Okay.
- 00:18:00.027 --> 00:18:01.262
- So, someone might give ashort message in tongues
- 00:18:01.362 --> 00:18:05.266
- and someone might give along interpretation.
- 00:18:05.366 --> 00:18:09.704
- Or the other way around.
- 00:18:09.804 --> 00:18:11.005
- There may be a long tongue andthen a short interpretation.
- 00:18:11.105 --> 00:18:13.174
- And people abuse that totry and invalidate and say,
- 00:18:13.274 --> 00:18:15.743
- "Well, see, it's not truebecause that was a short
- 00:18:15.843 --> 00:18:17.778
- message and thiswas a long one."
- 00:18:17.879 --> 00:18:19.380
- No, again, it's notword-for-word."
- 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.116
- It's interpretation.
- 00:18:22.216 --> 00:18:23.484
- It's trying to express thethought or the intent
- 00:18:23.584 --> 00:18:25.820
- of what was -- what the personunderstood by the Holy Spirit.
- 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.023
- All right, let me giveyou an illustration.
- 00:18:29.123 --> 00:18:30.992
- If you asked my son,"How was your day?"
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- I'm talkingabout James, now.
- 00:18:37.165 --> 00:18:38.266
- If you ask James, myson, "How was your day?"
- 00:18:38.366 --> 00:18:40.735
- His interpretation ofhis day was, "Fine."
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- That is all you will get.
- 00:18:47.909 --> 00:18:51.612
- If you ask my daughter, "Howwas your day," she'll say,
- 00:18:51.712 --> 00:18:58.286
- "Well, I woke up about six.
- 00:18:58.386 --> 00:18:59.520
- I'd a little bit ofa sinus headache.
- 00:18:59.620 --> 00:19:01.088
- I think it's because there'ssomething in the air.
- 00:19:01.189 --> 00:19:02.456
- But, I had greatpancakes this morning.
- 00:19:02.557 --> 00:19:03.758
- Really good pancakes.Both the girls slept well.
- 00:19:03.858 --> 00:19:06.127
- Of course, Kate got up twiceand Addie got up one time.
- 00:19:06.227 --> 00:19:08.362
- But they are sleepingthrough the night now.
- 00:19:08.462 --> 00:19:09.864
- I stayed up work late.
- 00:19:09.964 --> 00:19:11.265
- I was working ona new message.
- 00:19:11.365 --> 00:19:12.333
- Have I told you aboutthe new message, Dad?"
- 00:19:12.433 --> 00:19:13.868
- Okay.You better have some time.
- 00:19:13.968 --> 00:19:20.808
- Because her interpretation,are you following me,
- 00:19:20.908 --> 00:19:25.913
- of her day is going to be long.
- 00:19:26.013 --> 00:19:29.016
- My son's interpretationof his day is going to be short.
- 00:19:29.116 --> 00:19:36.157
- So, you can have along interpretation.
- 00:19:36.257 --> 00:19:37.925
- By the way, I said, youknow, my son says, "Fine."
- 00:19:38.025 --> 00:19:40.194
- Sometimes he doesn'teven use words.
- 00:19:40.294 --> 00:19:44.899
- We were at the table onenight, had all the family over,
- 00:19:44.999 --> 00:19:47.735
- and we were goingaround talking and I said,
- 00:19:47.835 --> 00:19:49.537
- "Hey, James, how was your day?"This is what he did.
- 00:19:49.637 --> 00:19:52.506
- He went --[Laughter]
- 00:19:52.607 --> 00:19:56.744
- And then I said to him,"Hey, did you have that meeting
- 00:19:56.844 --> 00:19:59.013
- you weresupposed to have today?"
- 00:19:59.113 --> 00:20:00.114
- He said.
- 00:20:00.214 --> 00:20:01.649
- Kept right on eating.
- 00:20:01.749 --> 00:20:02.750
- So, I said, "Howwas the meeting?"
- 00:20:02.850 --> 00:20:07.188
- And, you know, God marriesus to the perfect woman?
- 00:20:07.288 --> 00:20:09.490
- His wife, Bridgette said,"Use your words, honey."
- 00:20:09.590 --> 00:20:12.493
- [Laughter]Okay.
- 00:20:12.593 --> 00:20:22.570
- These are thedeclaratory gifts.
- 00:20:22.670 --> 00:20:23.604
- Here's the last category,the dynamic gifts.
- 00:20:23.704 --> 00:20:26.841
- The dynamic gifts.
- 00:20:26.941 --> 00:20:29.410
- The dynamic comes and thiswould be faith, healings,
- 00:20:29.510 --> 00:20:31.912
- and miracles.Okay.
- 00:20:32.013 --> 00:20:33.648
- Dynamic comes from the Greekword from Acts 1:8, it's inside
- 00:20:33.748 --> 00:20:36.617
- other places, too, but that'sthe one we're familiar with.
- 00:20:36.717 --> 00:20:38.552
- "You shall receive powerwhen the Holy Spirit
- 00:20:38.653 --> 00:20:40.655
- comes upon you."
- 00:20:40.755 --> 00:20:41.856
- Power is the Greekword, dunamis.
- 00:20:41.956 --> 00:20:44.358
- We say, dunamis is theway we would say it.
- 00:20:44.458 --> 00:20:46.193
- But dunamis the way itwould be pronounced.
- 00:20:46.294 --> 00:20:48.429
- And it means power, butit means explosive power.
- 00:20:48.529 --> 00:20:53.634
- For instance, there'sanother word we get from this
- 00:20:53.734 --> 00:20:56.003
- and that is dynamite.
- 00:20:56.103 --> 00:20:58.406
- That's what it means, "Youshall receive dynamite
- 00:20:58.506 --> 00:21:01.175
- when the Holy Spiritcomes upon you."
- 00:21:01.275 --> 00:21:03.377
- Power.
- 00:21:03.477 --> 00:21:04.412
- So that when you'rewitnessing, this power
- 00:21:04.512 --> 00:21:05.813
- just explodes out of you.That's what He's saying.
- 00:21:05.913 --> 00:21:08.716
- So, here are these three.
- 00:21:08.816 --> 00:21:10.351
- Here's the first one, faith.
- 00:21:10.451 --> 00:21:12.119
- Faith is a supernaturalimpartation of belief
- 00:21:12.219 --> 00:21:16.257
- and confidence for aspecific situation.
- 00:21:16.357 --> 00:21:20.394
- Now, I'm talking about --I'm not talking about faith
- 00:21:20.494 --> 00:21:22.063
- in general, I'm talkingabout this manifestational
- 00:21:22.163 --> 00:21:24.899
- gift of the Holy Spirit is asupernatural impartation
- 00:21:24.999 --> 00:21:29.270
- of belief and confidencefor a specific situation.
- 00:21:29.370 --> 00:21:32.006
- Let me say it this way.
- 00:21:32.106 --> 00:21:33.240
- Would it be alright withyou, if you were going through
- 00:21:33.341 --> 00:21:35.609
- a difficult time andthe Holy Spirit just gave you
- 00:21:35.710 --> 00:21:38.045
- faith that you'regoing to get through it?
- 00:21:38.145 --> 00:21:40.614
- See, what I'm trying to tellyou is the Holy Spirit's good
- 00:21:40.715 --> 00:21:44.218
- and His gifts are good.
- 00:21:44.318 --> 00:21:45.653
- Don't be afraid of Him and don'tbe afraid of any of His gifts.
- 00:21:45.753 --> 00:21:48.189
- Here's the second under thedynamic gifts,
- 00:21:48.289 --> 00:21:50.791
- gifts of healings.
- 00:21:50.891 --> 00:21:52.993
- Gifts, plural, ofhealings, plural.
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- Gifts of healings aresupernatural endowments
- 00:21:57.631 --> 00:22:01.035
- of divine health.
- 00:22:01.135 --> 00:22:02.937
- Supernatural endowmentsof divine health.
- 00:22:03.037 --> 00:22:06.574
- I read this summer abiography of Oral Roberts.
- 00:22:06.674 --> 00:22:11.846
- And I know people have goodand bad, and I understand that.
- 00:22:11.946 --> 00:22:14.415
- And so, just for a momentlet's forget whatever
- 00:22:14.515 --> 00:22:16.984
- you've heard or whateveryou feel personally.
- 00:22:17.084 --> 00:22:20.054
- But one of the reasons thathe preached healing
- 00:22:20.154 --> 00:22:21.989
- is because he was healed.
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- When he was 17-years-old, he hadtuberculosis and at that time,
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- they did not know ofany person that had been healed
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- from tuberculosis.
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- It was a death sentence.
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- There was no vaccinationand he was going to die.
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- And his uncle or hisbrother, I've read two
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- different accounts, buttook him to a meeting
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- to be prayed for.
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- And he was lying in thebackseat, he was --
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- from weeks within dying, and theLord said to him, "I'm going
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- to heal you tonight, but Iwant you take my message
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- of healing to the world andI want you to build
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- a university where youngpeople can be trained
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- in a Christian atmosphere."
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- And he built, of course,Oral Roberts University, ORU.
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- So, but that's whyhe preached healing.
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- So, whether you like him ornot, the reason he preached
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- healing, it's becausehe got healed.
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- And let me just say this, Iknow many people
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- had this negative connotation,"Well, we shouldn't talk
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- too much about healing."Okay.
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- People have that connotationuntil you --
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- they get sick or someone intheir family gets sick.
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- And it's not a badthing if God heals you.
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- That is not a bad thing.
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- That's a good thing.
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- And this is one of thegifts of the Holy Spirit.
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- And again, this doesn't meanthat you have a gift that you
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- go around and everyoneyou pray for gets healed.
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- This means thatyou get healed.
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- This is -- gifts ofhealings, plural,
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- it means every one of them isimportant to God.
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- And here's the last one,working of miracles.
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- Working of miracles, divineintervention that alters
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- our natural circumstances.
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- Divine intervention that altersour natural circumstances.
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- How many of you, at sometime in your life,
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- have experienced a miracle?
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- Would you put your hand up?
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- Now, keep themup for a moment.
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- Look around.
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- Isn't that amazing?Okay.
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- You can put your hands down.
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- How in the world would weever believe that God
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- quit doing miracles?
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- Let me just say something.
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- There's no way He can stopdoing miracles,
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- because He can't stop being God.
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- And God is a miraculous God.
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- When He gets up in themorning, He does a miracle.
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- If He wants coffee, He says,"Let there be coffee."
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- That's the way Hegets His coffee.
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- He is a miraculous God.
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- He did miracles all throughthe Old Testament,
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- all through the New Testament.
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- Why would He haveever stopped?
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- And let me justsay something.
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- If you've been saved,you've had a miracle.
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- You've had a supernaturalintervention in your life
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- that altered yourcircumstances.
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- [Applause]
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- So, I want us to notbe afraid of these.
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- Any believer can movein any of these anytime
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- when the Holy Spiritempowers us.
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- ROBERT: God is a God of miraclesand He's also a good God
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- that gives Hischildren good gifts.
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- The Bible says, "That everygood and perfect gift
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- comes from the Father."
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- And that's where the wordcharismatic comes from that we
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- talked about that God isa God who gives us gifts
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- and the gifts of the Holy Spiritare absolutely nothing to be
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- afraid of, but they aregifts that help us to live
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- I'll see you then.
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