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I'm a Prophet

December 15, 2020

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Pastor Robert continues the Frequency series with a message titled, “I’m a Prophet,” where he shares that we can all hear what God is saying and encourage other people through prophecy.,#=#,Robert Morris,Prophet/Prophets;Prophecy;Word of God;Gifts of the Holy Spirit;Future;Holy Spirit;Visions/Dreams,Numbers 11:26-29;Acts 2:16-18,Religion;Series,HD-PRMM205102,1229569

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Prophecy is oftenmisunderstood.
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The Bible clearly tells usthat all can prophesy
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so that we mayencourage others.
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With practice,we can all prophesy
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because we can all hear God.
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Join my pastor,Robert Morris,
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as he clarifies the roleof prophecy in our lives.
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ROBERT MORRIS: The title ofthe message this week is:
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"I'm a Prophet","I'm a Prophet".
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Now, I want you tounderstand, I'm using I,
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the first person here,but I'm referring to you,
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as if you're saying this.
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So I'm not talking aboutthe office of a prophet, like,
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apostle, prophet, evangelist,pastor, and teacher
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that are for theequipping of the saints,
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those five offices.
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But I'm talking about,
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and I'm going to show youthe scripture in a moment,
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that you can all prophesyand that's what the Bible says.
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So, let's go back here,Numbers 11.
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This is right after Mosessaid to God the prayer,
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what I call the prayerof ever burned out pastor,
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if you love me, kill me.That's what was his prayer.
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[laughter]
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And God said, "You need help.You need some elders."
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So, this is the firsttime we have elders
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coming in to play inthe congregation of Israel
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and so that happensand then here's what he says,
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Numbers 11:24.
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"So, Moses wen out and told thepeople the words of the Lord.
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'I was to set in elders.'
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And he gathered the 70 menof the elders of the people
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and placed themaround the tabernacle.
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Then the Lord came down inthe cloud and spoke to him."
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Again, I just want youto notice, God speaks to people.
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It's all through scripture.
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"And God, again, is the subjectof this sentence,
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took of the spiritthat was upon him, Moses,
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and placed the sameupon the 70 elders."
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By the way, that's when youhave problems in the church,
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is when an elderhas a different spirit
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than the pastor.That's a problem.
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But God came and putthe same spirit on the elders.
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"And it happened whenthe Spirit rested upon them
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that the prophesied althoughthey never did so again."
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It's very important,when the Spirit rested,
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the word rested, on them,they prophesied,
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although they neverdid so again.
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So, we'll come back to that.
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"But two men hadremained in the camp.
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The name of the one was Eldad
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and the nameof the other Medad",
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and they hada brother named Yodad.
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[laughter]
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I just could not resist.
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Okay, "and the spiritrested upon them."
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That's the two in the camp.
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Now, they wereamong those listed,
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they were among the 70,
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but who had not goneout to the tabernacle,
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yet they prophesied in the camp.
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And a young man ranand told Moses and said,
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"Eldad and Medadare prophesying in the camp."
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So, Joshua, the son of Nun,"
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-- that's sad;he didn't have a mother.
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Okay, never mind, son of “none”.Okay, all right.
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Ask someone laterif you didn't get it.
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All right, "Moses's assistant,
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one of his choice menanswered and said,
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"Moses, my lord, forbid them."
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So, Joshua says,"Forbid them to prophesy."
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Then Moses said,"Are you zealous for my sake?"
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Now, watch this statement.
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"Oh, that all the Lord's peoplewere prophets and that the Lord
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would put His spirit upon them."
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Okay, three pointsabout us being prophets.
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Here's number one:All can prophesy.
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All can prophesy.
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Look at verse 29 again,of Numbers 11.
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Moses said, "Oh,that all, I wish,
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I pray that all the Lord'speople were prophets
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and that the Lord would putHis spirit upon them."
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All of them.All of God's people.
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Wouldn't it be greatif God put His spirit
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on all of His people?
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Anyone remember the Bible?Acts 2, it happened.
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And it's in the context here,“I wish everyone would prophesy,
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and that God would putHis Spirit on everyone.”
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Because when God's spiritcame on them, what did they do?
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They prophesied.
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Acts 2:16.
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This is what was spokenby the prophet, Joel.
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This is Pentecost,when the Holy Spirit came,
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"and it shall cometo past in the last days,
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says God that I willpour out My spirit on,"
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what's that word?
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"...all flesh.
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You sons and your daughters."
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Okay, that's everybody.
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You're one or the other.
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You're either a sonor you're a daughter,
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shall prophesy.
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"Your young menshall see visions,
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your old men shall dream dreamsand on My men servants,"
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servants who are men,
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"and My maid servants,"servants who are women.
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Again, let me explain,that's everybody.
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"I will pour out My spiritin those days
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and they shall prophesy."
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And then in I Corinthians 14,if you're over there or save
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that as a place, verse 31,"For you can all prophesy."
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There it is rightthere in the Bible.
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"You can all prophesy,
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one by one, that all may learnand that all may be encouraged."
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All.All can prophesy.
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And look at the words you can.
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You can.
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So, God says,"You can prophesy."
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Now, here's whatyou can think about.
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We're talking about hearing God.
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So, prophecy is giving a messagefrom God to someone.
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So, doesn't it make sensethat if you can all prophesy,
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then you can all hear God?Right?
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If prophecy is a messagefrom God and you can do it,
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according to the Bible,you can do it,
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then you can hear God.
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In other words, if I saidto the ladies
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“Hey, Debbie wanted meto tell you,”
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okay, right there implies thatshe told me something, right?
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So if I say, “The Lordwanted me to tell you,”
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then I heard the Lord.
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I mean, obviously human element,we could miss it and all,
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but my only point is to makea point that if God says
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you can all prophesy,then you can all hear God.
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That's the pointof our whole series.
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Can we hear God todayand how do we hear God?
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So, we can hear.
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Acts 2, Pentecost is thefulfillment of Moses's prayer.
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Oh, that God would put HisSpirit on all of His children.
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And that all of God'speople are prophets.
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Now, notice somethingabout the 70.
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It said, "The spiritrested upon them
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and they prophesied butthey never prophesied again."
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Here's why: Because the HolySpirit came on them,
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but He didn't remain.
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The baptism in the Holy Spiritis when the Holy Spirit
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comes on you and remains.
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And the first person to everexperience the baptism
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in the Holy Spiritwas Jesus, Himself.
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John 1:33, John the Baptistis speaking.
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He said, "I did not know Him,but He who sent me
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to baptize with watersaid to me,
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'Upon whom you seethe spirit,'" watch,
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"'descending and remaining.'"
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Not just descending.
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See, in the Old Testament,He descended on Saul,
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Saul prophesied, but thenthe spirit was taken from Saul.
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Descending and remaining on him,
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this is he who baptizedwith the Holy Spirit.
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Now, when I sawthe Holy Spirit remains,
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it doesn't meanyou always yield to Him.
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But it does meanHe's always there.
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The Holy Spiritwalks beside you.
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I've told you before in theprevious series, "parakletos".
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"Para" means alongside."Kletos" means to come.
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The Holy Spirit wantsto come alongside you.
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But what you need to know isHe's not going to walk
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beside you, and neversay a word.
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I mean, I don't even understandthe illustration that someone
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has in his mind that, youknow, here you're walking,
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the Holy Spirit's walkingbeside you like this,
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“Mm mm mm mm mm.”
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He wouldn't do that.He's not mute.
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And He's not playing games withyou, He's not playing charades,
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you know?
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“Lord, what should I do?
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Two words, first word,two syllables.”
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[laughter]
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Jesus said it clearly,"When He comes, He will speak."
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He will tell you things.He wants to speak to you.
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I was in a restaurantone time having lunch.
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This guy walked in,it was a cafeteria
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and he came in and whenhe came with his tray,
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he was just huge.
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I found out later,after talking with him,
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he was either, and Ican't remember which,
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either Mr. America,previous Mr. America,
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former Mr. Americaor Mr. Universe.
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So, obviously, when he walked inthe room, everybody noticed him.
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But when I walked in the room,the Lord spoke something to me
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and, so I went over to him.I just walked over.
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He and his wife are having lunchand I walked over to the table
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and I said, "Hey, I don't wantto interrupt your lunch,
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but I just wantedto ask you a question."
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I said, "I'm a prettyperceptive guy.
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Have you everlifted weights?"
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[laughter]
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And of course,he did what you did.
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He laughed a little bit.
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See, if you have a wordfor someone be a human
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when you deliver it.
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Don't go over in a restaurant,"Thus sayeth the Lord."
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Don't do that.[laughter]
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It kind of ruinsthe whole thing, you know?
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So, I just said to him,I made that little joke
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and he said, "Yeah, I've liftedweights a few times," you know.
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And so, I said, "Well,I could tell you did and,"
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I said, "but the reasonI came over is because
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I feel like the Lord spokesomething to me to tell you."
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And he looked over at his wifeand he looked back at me
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and I said to him,"Would you mind if I told you?"
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And he said, "Please tell us."
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I'll tell you why in a momenthe looked at his wife.
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But, he said, "Would yousit down and tell us?"
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I said, "Yes."
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So, I sat down atthe table and I said,
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"I saw you as a little boy,you were sitting
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in your grandmother's lapand you were crying
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and your grandmother had a Bibleand she read to you
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the story of Sampsonand she told you
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that if you would commityour life to Christ,
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he would make youstrong like Sampson."
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And I said, "And the Lordtold me to tell you
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that He's kept upHis end of the deal,
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but you haven't kept upyour end of the deal."
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And when you tellMr. Universe that,
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you want to makeyou're right, you know?
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But here's what happened:His eyes swelled up
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with pools of tears.
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And he said to me,"When I was a little boy,
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I was raised by a single mother
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and my grandmotherraised me a lot
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and one day I was walking home,and some boys threw rocks at me.
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One hit me in the head and Iwent crying to my grandmother
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and she put me in her lapand she read to me
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the story of Sampsonand she told me
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that if I would givemy life to God,
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He would make mestrong like Sampson."
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And he said to me,"I told my wife that story
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for the first time on the wayto the restaurant today."
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And he reached over, and he tookhis wife's hand he said,
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"We need to commitour lives to Jesus Christ."
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And I led them in a prayerright there at the table.
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God speaks.
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God speaks, and I want youto know that God can speak
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through you.[applause]
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So, all, all can prophesy.Here's number two.
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Prophecy is not manipulative.Prophecy is not manipulative.
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In other words,prophecy is not to get people
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to do what you want them to do.
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You don't just feelsomething for someone
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and want them to do somethingand add, "the Lord said," on it.
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Let me read you some verses.
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Jeremiah 23:25-25, "I've heard",this is God's speaking.
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"I've heard whatthe prophets have said
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who prophesy liesin my name
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saying, 'I have dreamed,I have dreamed.'
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How long will this be inthe heart of the prophets
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who prophesy lies?
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Indeed, they are prophets ofthe deceit of their own heart."
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Jeremiah 23:30-31,"'Therefore, behold,
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I'm against the prophet,'says the Lord,
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'who steal My words,everyone from his neighbor.'"
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In other words,someone else said it,
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now they're going to say it asif they heard it from the Lord.
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"'Behold, I'm againstthe prophet,' says the Lord,
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'who use their tonguesand say, 'He says.''"
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Ezekiel 22:28,
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"Her prophets plasterthem with untampered mortar
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seeing false visionsand divining lies for them
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saying, 'Thus saysthe Lord God,'
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when the Lord had not spoken."
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Please be careful.You can prophesy.
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But be careful saying,"Thus says the Lord."
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I think it's actually betterto say something like,
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"I was praying for youand I felt like
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that the Lord impressedme with this."
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And I just want tosubmit this to you.
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By the way, I said, notice,"I was praying for you."
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I'm taking it for granted thatyou actually pray for people,
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not about peopleor against people,
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but that we pray for them.
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And so, you justsubmit it to them.
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And I think, by the way,that I'm going to give you
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maybe a little new understandingof the third commandment.
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I think it does meanwhat we think it means,
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but I think that it couldmean even more.
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It says that we're not to takethe name of the Lord in vain.
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The word "vain" there,means selfishness.
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Now, this about,don't take or don't use
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the name of the Lordfor selfish reasons.
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I do think it means not to useHis name as a profane word,
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but I also wonder if it meansthat you say His name
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and then say what your desireis or a vain desire,
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which is simply a selfish desireand I think when someone
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comes to give you a word,you need to have an antenna up
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and not a critical antenna,but a discerning antenna.
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I think you need to discern.
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Does this bear witness?
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Is this whatGod's been saying?
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I literally saidto a guy one time,
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he said, he told me this word
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and I said, "Brother,that's not a word from God."
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And he said,"Well, how do you know that?"
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I said, "'Cause I wasjust talking to Him."
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[laughter]
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"But that's okay.That's okay."
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Because scripture says,"We can all prophesy,"
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listen to this one,"so that we can all learn."
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We're all learningto hear God's voice.
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It's okay.
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So, it's never manipulativeor to get our own way
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and here's number three.
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Prophecy is encouraging.
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It's encouraging.
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I Corinthians 14:1 says,"Pursue love
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and desire spiritual gifts,
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but especiallythat you may prophesy."
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Now, notice three actionsout of this verse.
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"Pursue love and desirespiritual gifts,
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but especially," desire,
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would be the implicationfrom grammar here,
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"that you may prophesy."
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Desire, especially
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that you may prophesy.Okay.
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So, I'd like to ask youto raise your hands on this.
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Every campus,every affiliate church.
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I just read you a versethat said pursue love,
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desire spiritual gifts,especially desire to prophesy.
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So, let's do themone at a time.
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How many of you,to the best of your ability
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will pursue love?Can I see your hands?
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How many of you,to the best of your ability,
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will desire spiritual gifts?Can I see your hands?
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'Cause we just read thisin the Bible, okay?
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Alright.
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So, how many of you,we just read it,
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will desire especiallythat you may prophesy?
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Can I see your hands?See?
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And we just read it.
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Look at verse 3,"For he who prophesies
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speaks edificationand exhortation
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and comfort to man."
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So, I summed it upwith one word, encouragement.
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And I'll show you in a moment
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the Bible actuallyuses the same word.
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I'll show you that, alright?
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But here, exhortation,or edification,
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that means youbuilt up, exhortation,
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that's a strengthening for youand an encouragement
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and comfort.
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I had a couple come meetyears ago, and they said,
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"Pastor, we got this prophecy.
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We haven't slept since then,it's really bothering us.
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We don't understand it.We don't think it's right.
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We're in turmoil over it."
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And I said to them, "Well,then it's not from God."
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I can tell you right nowit's not from God.
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And they were like,"Well, how do you know?"
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I said, "Well, let me put itto the scriptural test.
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Did it edify you?"
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They said, "No."
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I said, "Did it exhort you?"They said, "No."
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I said, "Did it comfort you?"They said, "No."
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I said, "Then it'snot from God."
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Wouldn't God correctus sometime?"
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Sure, He would.But that's not prophecy.
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God might correct us throughspiritual authority
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and God might correct usthrough a brother or a sister,
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but don't call it prophecy.
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Prophecy edifies,and it exhorts and comforts you.
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So, the summary wordis encouragement.
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Let me show you a versewe already read
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but show it to you again.
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Look at verse 31.
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"For you can all prophesy oneby one that all may learn,
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and all may be," what?
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Encouraged.It's encouragement.
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By the way, a couple thingsto tune in on this again.
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You can all prophesy.
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It says you can.
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Listen, why would God sayyou could if you couldn't?
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He wouldn't.You're right.
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Wouldn't that bea cruel Father?
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And He's not a cruel father.
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And remember, if He saysyou can prophesy,
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which is give someonea message from God,
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then you'd have to be ableto hear God to be able to do it.
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We can hear God becausewe can encourage someone
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with God's Word.
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And notice again itsays that all may learn.
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Remember the veryfirst message, I said,
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“I'm a Sheep.”
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It's innate, the abilityto hear God is innate,
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but it's also learned.
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So we learn,we grow in this area.
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And it is encouragement.
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Let me show you a verse here.
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Everyone's heardof Paul and Barnabas.
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Paul and Barnabas, the mostfamous missionary team ever.
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Paul and Barnabas.
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Did you know though,
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that Barnabaswas not named Barnabas
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by his mother or his father?
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That was not his birth name.
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Acts 4:36, "And Joses,"by the way, Joses means exalted.
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"Joses, who was also namedBarnabas by the apostles.
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[Which is translatedson of encouragement]."
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So, he's named exaltedby his mother and father,
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but he is such an encouragerthat the apostle said,
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"If encouragement had a son,it'd be you."
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That's what prophecy is.Encouraging people.
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By the way, encouragement,just to remind you,
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the "en" comes from the Latin.
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In English we say I-Nto put something in.
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Encourage means to putcourage in someone.
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To put courage in.
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Discourage meansto take courage out.
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So, are you putting couragein your children
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or are you taking courageout of your children
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or your friends or your family?
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I'll show you one moreverse on encouragement.
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Acts 15:32.
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"Now, Judas and Silas,themselves being prophets
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also exhortedand strengthened,"
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edified, built up,"the brethren with many words."
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It doesn't say that theyrebuked, corrected,
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and tore down the brethren.
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It says since they wereprophets, they built up,
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strengthened and exhortedthe brethren.
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And by the way, we knowthey're preachers
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because it said with many words.
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[laughter]
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Is it possible that you'vealready moved in prophecy
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and you don't even know it?I think it is.
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Have you ever felt ledto send someone a card
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to encourage them?
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If prophecy is encouragement,and prophecy is a word from God,
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what does that tellyou about God?
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He wants to encourage you.He wants to.
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He wants to putcourage in you.
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But what He wants is a wholebunch of field agents
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who will go around puttingcourage in people.
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But in order to give someonea message from God,
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you have to hear God.
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A few years ago, I had a dreamabout a pastor friend of mine.
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It was a very encouraging dream.
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And when I woke up, I stillremembered the dream.
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That's how I know it'sfrom the Lord, you know,
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because if -- andthat it made sense.
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You know, I mean, I've builtgo-karts with Goofy before,
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and I thought,“Okay, that's not from God.”
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But I had this dream,and it was so encouraging.
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And so, when I wentwalking that morning,
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I just kept prayingfor this pastor.
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And I spent nearly theentire time praying for him.
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And I remember I wokeup with the dream,
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and it was about 4:33 a.m.
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That's, to the best that Iremember to, it was 4:33.
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This happened about 4 years ago,so -- 6 years ago, pardon me.
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So, but I rememberedjust looking at the clock
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and seeing 4:33.
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And I prayed for the guy,and then went back to sleep.
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And then when I got up later, Istill had the dream on my heart,
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and so when I walked,I prayed for him.
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And I remembered what day it wasbecause it was my grandson's
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birthday, and we were gettingready for the party that day.
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So, about 3 weeks later, Ithought about it, and I thought,
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“You know, I'm going tocall that guy.”
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And so, I calledthis pastor friend of mine,
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and I said, “Hey, a few weeksago, the Lord gave me a dream
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for you, and I just want toshare it with you.”
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So I shared with him, he said,“Man, that's encouraging.
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That is so encouraging.”
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And so, then we talked fora while, and then I said,
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“What's going on?”
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He said, “Well, I don'tknow if you heard,
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but my father passed away.”I said, “I didn't hear that,
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I'm sorry,”and we talked for a while.
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And all of a sudden,it hit me, and I said,
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“Did your father pass away onAugust the 5th at 4:33 a.m.?”
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And this pastor saidto me, “Yes.”
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He said, “I gotthe call at 4:35.
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And on his death certificate,it says 4:33 a.m.”
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And I said, “That'swhen I had the dream.”
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Here's what he said.
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He said, “I'll rememberfor the rest of my life
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that God gave my frienda dream at the same time
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my father was enteringinto heaven.”
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He said, “Now,that's encouraging.”
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You can all prophesy,you really can.
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Just start encouragingpeople and let God
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take it from there.
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ROBERT: God wantsto speak to you today.
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And He might want to speakto you to speak to someone else.
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He might want you to senda scripture or send a card
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or call someone and encouragethat person in the Lord.
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I want to encourage you,listen for God's voice
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and listen for His voicenot only for yourself
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but so you canencourage someone else.
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Hey, I'm really enjoyingthis series, I hope you are.
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We're going to continuethis series next week.
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I'll see you then.
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ANNOUNCER: Thank you forwatching today's program
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as Pastor Robertshares a message
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Have you ever found yourselfasking, "How can I hear God?"
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"Does God still speak?"
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Or, "Is He reallyspeaking to me?"
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The good news is, yes,God is speaking.
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And like a radio hostbroadcasting His voice
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The question is, are you tunedit to the right frequency?
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In this series Pastor Robertexplains how you can connect
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with God and hear His voice.
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ANNOUNCER: Throughoutthe Bible, the number seven
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appears repeatedly to signifycompleteness or perfection.
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It's no wonder that Godheralded the entry of His Son
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into the world with sevenunique, prophetic words
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that still speak to us today.These words are gifts
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He wants to give eachone of us as we celebrate
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the birth of Jesus.The "Seven Words of Christmas"
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is sure to be a blessingenjoyed by the whole family.
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♪ ♪
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I'm a Prophet

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