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So the truth is, over the years, much has been made out of the concept of spiritual gifts.

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Spiritual gifts have been called superpowers, miracles, blessings of all kinds.

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Basically when you follow God, God makes you able to do something that you otherwise could

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not do.

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In the Corinthian church, they had begun to think of a certain superpower, a certain

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gift as more important and even as a sign of whether or not the Holy Spirit was in you.

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And that gift still to this day has some of that, let me call it, stink to it.

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And it is the gift of speaking tongues.

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Now we're not going to dwell on that today, but we are going to look at the passage of

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scripture today where Paul talks the Corinthians through what spiritual gifts actually are.

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Now you could get lost along the way, get wrapped up in what the names of them are and

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what they do and so on, and we will not dwell on each spiritual gift, what it does and so

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on like that as we gloss over them in the text.

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But we will look at them the way God actually intended them and the way Paul is teaching

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they are actually intended, and they are indeed gifts, they are presents from the Lord.

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But we will see even before we are through today that a greater present from the Lord

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exists and that this present comes with instructions.

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So grab your Bible if you would and turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 12.

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This is God's word, this is the letter to the Corinthian church from the apostle Paul

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as he was led along by the Holy Spirit to write it.

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And that's what we're going to read.

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We will read 1 Corinthians 12, 1 through 30 as I've already told you when we hit the names

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of the gifts, I'm not going to dwell heavily on them because that's not really what this

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passage of scripture is about for us today.

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It's in there and it could be a whole other sermon and we will read the text so as not

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to leave it out.

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But we're not going to dwell too heavily on what the various gifts are, we're going to

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look at what God meant by sending them if you will.

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Alright, so this is 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1.

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It says in the New American Standard Version, now concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I

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do not want you to be unaware.

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Now why did I stress the version?

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Not because one version is better than another but because your wording may be slightly different

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there and I want to dwell down just for a second on what it actually says in the Greek.

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So where we see our word spiritual gifts in the New American Standard Version, you'll

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notice that the word gifts is in italics if you're following along in the same version.

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If you have gifts in your version, it probably might be in italics or it might not even be

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there in some versions.

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The reason for that is because the word there is actually pneumaticos and you don't need

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to remember that necessarily but it's kind of an easy one to remember.

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Pneumatic having to do with air, right?

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So a pneumatic pump, right?

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Having to do with air.

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So pneuma is the Greek word that means spirit or wind.

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And so what we have here is an ending to the word spirit that indicates that it's a thing

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of the spirit.

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Something of the spirit.

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Things of the spirit.

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That's the ending.

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Tikas or ikas means something to do like the spirit possesses, controls, doles them out,

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whatever, these things.

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And so the text translates them as gifts because then when you get into later talking about

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it, like these are the things, the skills, the abilities, supernatural abilities that

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God gives people but also you're talking about apostles, preachers, teachers and so on who

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are gifts, right?

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So there's a broad cross section of the meaning of the word gifts but these are things of

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the spirit.

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So now you could technically have interpreted this passage of scripture this way.

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You could say now concerning spiritual things, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware

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but it's not like that because spiritual things could be anything, right?

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It could be going to church or worship or a feeling that God is present or it could

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be anything.

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So we're talking about things that were given to us by God and so they use the word gifts

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even though gifts is not in the original text.

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It's not in the Greek.

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It's things of the spirit.

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Now I think you'll see as we unwrap the chapter a little more that the word gifts fits really

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nicely but I don't want you to get hung up on the word gifts because by the time we're

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done I'm going to show you something about spiritual gifts that maybe nobody else would

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show you, okay?

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And I think maybe God would show you and I think he's going to do it through me today.

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So this is what it says again, now concerning spiritual gifts, quote unquote, brethren,

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I do not want you to be unaware.

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In other words, don't be surprised about the things that I'm about to say about the things

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of the spirit.

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You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to dumb idols however you were

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led.

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So however they went about it they were led to worship things that were not God, false

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gods, right?

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A lot of times they would bow before a statue, they'd carry around a figurine in their pocket,

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whatever.

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We have in our day we have people working, worshiping sex, drugs, money, relationships,

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family, hobbies, the list just goes on and on.

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And he said I know that before you were saved, before you came to Christ you were led astray

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to worship these things.

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Notice the word dumb there, okay?

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This word dumb has a lot more meaning than just like they don't have a high IQ, that's

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not what we're talking about, you realize that, right?

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Dumb means they don't speak, they don't actually do anything, right?

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They're worthless or useless to actually carry out any communication with you or make any

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difference in your life.

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And so it's not that you were dumb to follow them and it's not that they're dumb as

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we think of like having a low IQ, as they're dumb as in they really don't have anything

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to offer.

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There's really nothing to them, right?

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And those of us who have invested our lives when we were younger in certain things, for

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example I used to drink almost two liters of Mountain Dew a day.

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And while I was drinking almost two liters of Mountain Dew a day it would make me feel

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pretty pepped up and I felt pretty good, a lot of sugar, a lot of caffeine, whatever,

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you know, and that was all good.

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But guess what?

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Mountain Dew actually doesn't do anything for you.

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It doesn't answer your prayers, it doesn't carry you along.

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If anything it consumes your resources and burns your body, okay?

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So I'm not speaking against Mountain Dew specifically but if it were an idol to me and I submit

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to you it was because I felt like if I didn't have my Mountain Dew I couldn't function for

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that period of time when I was doing that, that's a dumb idol.

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It doesn't actually do anything.

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So you get the idea.

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Verse 3 says, therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God

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says Jesus is accursed and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

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And so before we get into, he says before we go anywhere here is the key in the lock.

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It's not a spell, it's not a trick, right?

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Basically he's asking you who owns you?

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Who's in charge of you?

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You get into the body of Christ and that's what we will be talking about.

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You get into the body of Christ by who is in charge of you.

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So when we talk about the person joining the church for example, the first qualifier of

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somebody joining New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo is they must be a professing

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Christian.

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Now they are examined at the time of their joining the church to figure out as a professing

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Christian do they talk the walk and walk the walk, right?

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So in other words I say I'm always here, they might say I'm always here, I always worship,

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I want to serve God, whatever, but the truth is they're only here half the time, okay?

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That's not walking the walk they're talking.

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So then we have questions of why is that so?

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And if we get good answers or whatever that doesn't stop them from being a member.

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But before we ever got to the discussion was the question who is Lord of you?

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Now I'm fond of saying a Lord is a person who tells you what to do when you do it, but

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let's break it down for one second.

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A Lord is something more than that.

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A Lord is a person who literally owns you.

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He literally owns the servants on the land, the servants of the kingdom.

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The king tells somebody to do something and they do it because he owns them.

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And he says to you go and do it and you refuse to go and do it, then the very next breath

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you might say well I'll take your head then, right?

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So this is what he's saying.

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You get into the kingdom, you get into Christianity, you get into the church and that's what we're

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going to be talking about today.

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You get into the church by having Jesus as Lord.

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And if somebody has Jesus as Lord then by very nature they will not use their mouth

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to say that he is accursed.

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If you belong to Jesus you will hold up at the moment you go to say Jesus is accursed.

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Probably, in their day, there was a challenge in this because you know the Bible says in

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the Old Testament, when a man hangs upon a tree he is accursed.

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Paul will say elsewhere that Jesus became the curse for us, took our curse if you will.

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That's a pretty good way of understanding it.

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But there were people that were arguing and saying that Jesus was accursed because he

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hung on a tree.

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And he says a man will not say that if he is walking in the spirit, if he is owned by

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the Lord.

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He will rather say Jesus is Lord, Jesus owns me, not only is he not accursed but whatever

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he says goes.

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So I'm not going to go any further on that right at this second because we'll come back

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to it to make sure we understand it in the context of talking about the church.

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But what I am saying to you is Paul was saying that's the door and I want you to picture

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it like this.

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If this is a lock and this is a key and you put the key in the lock, if it fits or not

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determines whether it's the key or the lock.

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Now if it goes in and it fits, it might be a quick set lock and a quick set key and it'll

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fit but whether or not it turns the lock will determine whether or not it is the key for

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the lock.

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It may fit in, it may look like it's good.

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In other words there may be those who profess Jesus and they say yeah, I'm a follower of

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Jesus.

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Yes, I believe.

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Yes, I receive salvation.

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Yes, I'm living for the Lord.

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But then when it comes time, if they were examined and we don't do that, it's not our

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job but when God examines them, they do not fit.

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The key does not fit the lock.

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It's in there, it slides in but it won't turn, the tumblers don't move.

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So either the lock has been reset or the key never belonged there in the first place.

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This is the lock says Paul.

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Jesus is Lord and you must say that then by the Holy Spirit.

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And if you're following Satan for example, you will have a hard time saying Jesus is

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Lord.

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You certainly wouldn't be able to mean it.

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Verse four.

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Now there are varieties of the gifts but the same spirit.

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This is where that list is going to start and I'm not going to dwell too heavily on

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it as I said before.

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There are varieties of the gifts but the same spirit and there are varieties of ministries

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and the same Lord.

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Notice that a ministry is different from a gift.

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A ministry is different from a gift.

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And there are varieties of effects but the same God who works all things and all person.

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But to each one given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good.

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So now we'll begin the list but before we get there, look at verse seven.

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To each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good.

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Ministries are manifestations.

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Gifts are manifestations.

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And works are manifestation or effects or manifestations.

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That's what he just said.

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Each of these things are manifestations.

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They're manifestations of who?

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I didn't say what.

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They're manifestations of who?

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The Holy Spirit.

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So when a person exhibits a spiritual gift that is a manifestation of God's Holy Spirit

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in them.

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Now, can they mimic a Holy Spirit gift?

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Yes, that can happen.

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People can act like they have it.

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Can they mimic a ministry?

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Yes, they can act like they have it.

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Can they seem to have an effect or works that honor God?

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Yes, they can.

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But the actual works, gifts, and ministries are given as a manifestation of the spirit

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of God and the key, we got another lock and a key here, is for the common good.

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So what you'll find is when somebody is mimicking a gift of the Holy Spirit, it will not work

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for the common good.

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So you have a speaker.

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He's glorious.

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He's a great speaker.

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Much better than me.

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Way better.

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He's able to publicly show himself to a crowd.

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He looks good.

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He could be a movie star.

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And the crowd begins to grow.

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But the edification doesn't take place.

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It's not for the common good.

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It's for his good.

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Pretty soon, he's got a thousand books out there.

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He's making millions of dollars.

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He's flying across the country in a jet, landing in Korea preaching to 50,000 people.

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It's all over the world doing all kinds of things.

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Because why?

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Because the gift was not for the common good of the church.

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We're talking about the church.

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That would propose a problem because if people come into the church for Jesus as Lord and

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then they use the gifts that come from Jesus for something other than the common good,

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that would be a break in God's justice.

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God says that's not the way it works.

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You receive a spiritual gift.

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You receive a ministry.

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You receive activities, works, or effects.

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And these things are manifestations of God's Holy Spirit to be used for the common good.

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Verse 8.

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For one is given the word of wisdom.

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There's a gift.

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Through the Spirit.

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To another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit.

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To another, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit.

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And to another, the effecting of miracles.

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And to another, prophecy.

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And to another, the distinguishing of spirits.

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To another, various kinds of tongues.

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And to another, the interpretation of tongues.

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So there's your kind of list, if you will.

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And we could go through and break them down.

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We're not going to do that today because we're looking at kind of the rest of the chapter,

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if you will.

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But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually,

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just as He wills.

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In other words, God does this exactly the way He wants to do it.

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So your spiritual gifts, your ministries, your works are given to you just exactly the

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way the Holy Spirit of God laid them out to you, so they can be used in the church for

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the common good.

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Verse 12.

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For even as the body, now that's what we're talking about now, this is going to make it

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real clear by the time we're done here.

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For even as the body is one and yet has many members, all the members of the body, though

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they are many, are one body.

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So also is Christ.

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So it's like this.

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If you take five colors of Play-Doh, you got red, green, blue, yellow, purple, pink.

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And they're all laid out there right in front of you.

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And then you put those together, and so you see different shapes of red and yellow and

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green and you make a man, an effigy, a foot tall, Lee Majors or something, right, that

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you made yourself.

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Now you'll still be able to see the colors, right?

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And if you take the color pink out, the man will have holes in him.

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It's like that.

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So we're taking God's manifestations in the people and we're putting them together to

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make the body.

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So all put together, one body.

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So also is Christ.

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Back to the top of verse 12.

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For even as the body is one and yet has many members and all the members of the body, though

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they are many, are one body.

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So also is Christ.

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For by the Spirit we are all baptized into the body.

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Now this is talking about the spiritual baptism and people have done it where they've tried

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to say that there is a baptism of the Spirit that takes place after salvation.

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And we talked about this on Tuesday night and drilled down on it pretty hard.

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And the bottom line is it's really not taught in scripture that people are baptized by the

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Spirit at a different time than they get saved.

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It's really not taught that way.

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And so he's talking about God immersing you in the Holy Spirit, filling you with the Holy

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Spirit, bringing you into the body at the point of salvation.

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Verse 13 again.

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For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether

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slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

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Now so far this could be talking about what people like to call the universal church.

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So every Christian everywhere.

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Every believer in everybody everywhere.

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So far it could just be like if you're saved, you're brought into the body, baptizing the

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Spirit, given a spiritual gift, a fact, ministry, whatever, to manifest the Holy Spirit in you

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for the common good of the universal church all over the world.

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That's a little weird, right?

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Because even though like our podcast might get out to as it did last month to 1,100 plus

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households all over the world in 21 countries, that's great.

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That's hardly for the common good, right?

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Because there's a lot more than 21 countries that have churches.

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There's a lot more than 51 cities in the United States that have churches, right?

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So it's not the common good of the full universal church per se.

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That's a little bit of a stretch, but he's going to make it a little more clear by the

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time we're done.

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Verse 14 says, for the body is not one member, a member being a part, but many.

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If the foot shall say, because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body, it is not

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for this reason any less a part of the body.

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So in other words, they start to feel bad about themselves and say, well, I really wish

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I was the preacher.

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I really wish I was the servant.

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I wish I was the giver.

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I wish I had more money to put in the pot.

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I wish I was the one doing the cleaning, or I wish I was the one doing that over there.

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And I'm not.

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I'm not good at those things, or I can't do those things for whatever reason.

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And so I'm not even a part of the body.

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And he's saying, that's not how that works.

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So basically he's saying, once you're brought in to be part of the body, you're part of

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the body, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not.

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Verse 16, and if the ear should say, because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,

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it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.

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If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be?

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If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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So in other words, he's saying, we need all the various parts of the body.

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But now God has placed members, each one of them, in the body just as he desired.

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So far still, we kind of could be talking about the universal church, so far still.

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But it's going to get real specific.

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And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the

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feet, I have no need of you.

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So in other words, we need all those other people in the body.

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On the contrary, it's much truer that the members of the body, which seem to be weaker,

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are necessary, and those members of the body, which we deem less honorable, on those we

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bestow more abundant honor.

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And our unseemly members come to have more abundant seamliness.

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So you can kind of picture this if you think of your private parts.

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So if you go out in public with your private parts disclosed to the general populace, they're

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going to be a little upset about that.

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In fact, depending, you probably get arrested is probably what would happen.

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Certainly get a ticket for sure.

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And people are going to be upset because you're exposing parts of your body that are not supposed

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to be exposed.

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So that's what he's talking about.

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We have parts of our body that need to be cared for, covered up.

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But we realize that those parts of our body are just as valuable and important for everything.

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It all works together.

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So we walk around with our hands and our arms uncovered all the time.

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Why?

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Because you've got to reach for stuff.

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You've got to do stuff.

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People see you doing stuff.

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People are helped by that.

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But I'm here to tell you right now that if somebody would take a shotgun and blow out

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your midsection from your right leg to your left leg and from your crotch to your navel,

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your hands are going to stop working because that's how that works.

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So the bottom line is all parts of our body are uniquely important.

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Yes, some parts need to be covered up, but that doesn't make them less important.

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Some parts we can put out there and everybody can see it like our faces.

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Most people are comfortable with their faces.

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Some people are not.

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But most people are comfortable.

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They see your face.

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That's fine.

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But your face is not a more important part of your body than your feet.

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So the pastor might be on TV talking and everybody's like, I wish I was on TV talking, for example,

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but that person who's not on TV talking is not less important.

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In fact, based on this, they're actually more important.

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So it said, but now God has placed members, each one of us, verse 18, in the body just

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as He desired.

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And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

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But now there are many members, but one body.

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And the eye cannot say, I have no need of you.

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Or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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So now He's saying, you might think you're all that in a bag of chips, but you can't

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dismiss anybody who's actually a part of the body.

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Just because you're good, you're strong or neat or intelligent or capable in some area

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does not mean you can say to somebody else who's not like that, that you don't need

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them because that's just not true.

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On the contrary, it is much true that the members of the body, which seem to be weaker,

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are necessary.

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Someone said, and I agree with this sentiment completely, if no one in the body is disabled,

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the body is disabled.

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If the no one in the body is non-functional, there's no healing to be done, there's no

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overcoming to be done, there's no struggling to get through, the body is dysfunctional.

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If there's nobody struggling in the body, the body is struggling.

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You follow?

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But if there's somebody struggling in the body, then the body is struggling and it's

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a positive thing.

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Does that make sense?

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Okay, almost done.

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And those members of the body, which we deem less honorable on those we bestow more abundant

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honor, and our unseemly members come, that means the part that's not, maybe don't want

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to be seen, they come to have more abundant seamliness, meaning we can lift them up amongst

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ourselves to see them more clearly.

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24, whereas our seemly members have no need of it, but God has so composed the body, giving

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more abundant honor to that member which lacked.

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Okay, so now I think we've moved away from, if you hear it in the conversation, we've

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moved away from talking about the universal church to talking about very clearly the local

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church because we're talking about lifting up individual people who are having problems.

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Okay, that's not really a thing that happens in the universal church.

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I don't know about the people that are having problems in the church of Malaysia or First

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Baptist Church of Dallas.

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I wouldn't even have known about that except I saw their building burnt and I don't know

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if anybody was hurt and I don't know how they're going to rebuild it.

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I don't know anything.

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That's the universal church.

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It's 4,000 miles away or something and I'm not going to have anything to do with that.

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But when somebody in our body is struggling, I'm supposed to know about that and desire

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to do something about it.

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That makes a lot of sense to me.

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Verse 26, nope, got to go 24, whereas our seemly members having no need of it, but God

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has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked.

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Now 25, that there should be no division in the body, but that the member should have

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the same care for one another.

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We'll talk about this a little bit later.

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Bottom line, it means you should care the same about everybody in the body.

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That is the goal.

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Simply put, 26, and if one member suffers, all members suffer with it.

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Now we're definitely talking about the local body because we don't even know about the

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suffering across the world.

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We're talking about our church.

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When somebody suffers, we all suffer.

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If one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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So it should be popular known and everybody can be excited about what God has done because

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everybody sees that that person is being honored.

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Verse 27, now you are Christ's body and individually members of it.

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So he was telling the church at Corinth, you are Christ's body and individually members

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of that body.

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This same thing could be written up.

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New heights, you are Christ's body and individually members of it.

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God has appointed in the church, now he's going to give a list of titles that are gifts,

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first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps

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administrations, various kinds of tongues.

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Two things I want you to see here.

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One, he does not give this list in order of what's good, like this is better than this

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is better than this is better than this.

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It's not like that.

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He's just making a list.

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Two, these are gifts.

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They're given to the church.

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So notice on the list is teachers.

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The church is given teachers.

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When you're given a gift, you're supposed to do something with that gift.

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Verse 29, on this list he says, all are not apostles, are they?

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All are not prophets, are they?

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All are not teachers, are they?

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All are not workers of miracles, are they?

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All do not have gifts of healing, do they?

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All do not speak with tongues, do they?

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All do not interpret, do they?

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And that's where we stop.

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Those are what are called rhetorical questions.

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He was kind of asking them out loud, but the truth is they're all answerable, aren't they?

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So from that list we know that a person who has a gift of healing is not necessarily a

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prophet while a prophet is not necessarily an apostle, and the apostle is not necessarily

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a teacher and a worker of miracles, right?

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So none of those don't, people don't have all the same things.

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And so he was arguing against one gift that marks people to make them better than another.

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I submit to you that in our day, in the world today, and I don't say this to have anything

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to do with me, the gift that most prominently takes that role is actually the gift of preaching.

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That in the preacher, in the church, is the guy who winds up on TV, winds up in the books,

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winds up in the newspaper, right?

469
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When they come to talk to the church, the preacher is the one who typically talks to

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them.

471
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That's wrong.

472
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No single gift is any better than any gift.

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In fact, if I was going to favor a gift, I would choose the gift of service, because

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Jesus said, the greatest amongst you shall be your servant.

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But that being said, in the Pentecostal church, for example, it's quite often the gift of

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tongues.

477
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,040
If you can't pray in tongues, you can't speak out in tongues, you're just not saved.

478
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That's what they say.

479
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,320
Also, a falsehood, right?

480
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,320
That's not true.

481
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,360
And it's very clear here that that's not true.

482
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All right.

483
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So there's three things essentially I want you to see in this text and then a conclusion.

484
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The first one is this.

485
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The first test.

486
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The first test was very simple.

487
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If a person does not say, cannot say that Jesus is Lord, they are not the church.

488
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I'm sorry, that's a reality.

489
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Jesus is Lord of the church.

490
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And if you will not accept that he is Lord, that means he owns you.

491
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,720
That means he leads you.

492
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,840
That means he is the sovereign God of the universe, Jesus in the flesh and our God,

493
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,680
the heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus.

494
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,560
If you will not recognize them as Lord, you got no place in the church.

495
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,560
How does one do that?

496
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,920
Well, first of all, you have to realize you needed a savior.

497
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:26,920
You needed a Lord.

498
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,560
You need somebody to be in charge because you screwed it all up.

499
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,920
You were going to hell.

500
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,480
That's the reality of it.

501
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,560
And because of what Jesus did, there is a free gift of salvation available.

502
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,960
We believe and trust in God and God through his grace delivers it.

503
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,400
You don't receive that gift because you bought it.

504
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,920
You don't receive that gift because you asked for it.

505
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,680
You don't receive that gift because you prayed for it.

506
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,760
You don't receive that gift because you memorized certain verses or conducted certain experiments

507
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,120
in the kingdom of God to figure out how to get saved.

508
00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:58,240
There is absolutely no way to get saved except by the grace of God.

509
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,760
At the moment that you receive the grace of God, you become saved and he becomes your

510
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Lord.

511
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,400
You become a child of the living God.

512
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,600
He is your Father.

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00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,400
You're part of the kingdom of God.

514
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,880
From that moment on, even as we can clearly see laid out in this text, you are part of

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00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,880
a local church.

516
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:16,880
Now, which local church?

517
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:22,000
Well, that's up to God as the spirit wills so the spirit gives.

518
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:28,640
Now you get in the local church and you begin to act in your gifts, your ministries, and

519
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,400
your works or effects.

520
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,760
But they're not your gifts and they're not your ministries and they're not your works

521
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,000
or effects.

522
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:44,120
They are rather manifestations of the Holy Spirit of God which belong in the church.

523
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:48,240
And God wanted to put them there and because he wanted to put them there, he chose for

524
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,160
himself a people.

525
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,200
The believer becomes the church.

526
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:58,760
The believer receives not the gifts, not the ministries or the effects of the works, but

527
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,880
the manifestations of the Holy Spirit of God.

528
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,480
Now the church that isn't the church will just as much want the manifestations of the

529
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,800
Holy Spirit of God, but they can't have them.

530
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,200
So they'll think on the floor and they'll blabber like idiots pretending to be overwhelmed

531
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,000
by the Holy Spirit or maybe even feeling like they are or being overwhelmed by an evil spirit

532
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,840
that is taking the place of the Holy Spirit or a human spirit which is dominating their

533
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:29,480
physical being or however you want to get there, they'll fake it so it looks like the

534
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,280
church has the gifts when in reality what has happened is a chaos fostered by the Lord

535
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,360
as is seen by those who would say that the Lord is accursed.

536
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:44,480
So a church that mimics the gifts will look at every other church that faithfully follows

537
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,120
and gives and serves and has manifestations of God's Holy Spirit inside of it and say

538
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,120
they're all illegitimate.

539
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,640
They're all illegitimate.

540
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,560
If you're not like us, if you don't have this gift, if you don't have this thing, you can't

541
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,020
go to heaven when you die.

542
00:28:58,020 --> 00:28:59,020
You can't be saved.

543
00:28:59,020 --> 00:29:01,920
We're the only Christians who've got it.

544
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,200
But the manifestations of the Holy Spirit do exist in the other churches.

545
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,200
Whether or not you're saved is not determined by your denomination.

546
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,160
Whether or not you're saved is not determined by the name of your church.

547
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,280
Whether or not you're saved is determined by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and

548
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:22,600
His ability to save you and your willingness to receive that salvation directly from Him.

549
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,680
However, having received that salvation, the Holy Spirit comes upon you at which point

550
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:32,200
in time there are certain things, at the very least of which is saying Jesus is accursed,

551
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,400
that you cannot do.

552
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,040
You can't.

553
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,400
You won't.

554
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,400
You would never allow.

555
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:44,960
There's an old question of like, can God make a rock that's too big for God to move?

556
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,400
The answer is yes, He could, but then He could move it.

557
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,440
The character of God is such that there is nothing that God cannot do.

558
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,640
There is nothing that He cannot do.

559
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,400
And that's the same way in you.

560
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,400
There's nothing that He cannot do.

561
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:05,400
And if you are called His child and if He is called your Lord, then you are a believer

562
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,120
and you belong in the church, Paul says.

563
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,940
Second test.

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00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:16,240
The manifestations for the Spirit for the common good of the local church arising out

565
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,200
of a Holy Spirit assignment.

566
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,280
The Holy Spirit says that person needs this gift.

567
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,000
That person needs this ministry.

568
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,240
That person needs this work or effect.

569
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,360
He decides what it is and He implants it in that person.

570
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,920
It germinates and it blossoms and it becomes an incredible thing.

571
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,840
The best gift of the Holy Spirit, wait for it, I'm about to tell you which one it is.

572
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:43,720
The best gift of the Holy Spirit is the one that the Holy Spirit gives.

573
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,720
That's the one.

574
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,080
That's the one.

575
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,320
Now obviously one of the greatest gifts is just His presence, just His being in you.

576
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,320
That is awesome.

577
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:52,880
That's the thing you want more than anything else.

578
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:59,440
But in His presence and in His being in you will come the manifestation of His presence.

579
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,480
Something will be known.

580
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,440
Something will be seen.

581
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,120
And when you see that, you go, oh there's something.

582
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,560
And you look for what caused the something.

583
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,920
And the cause is not a what, it's a who.

584
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:12,920
It's the presence.

585
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:13,920
It's Him.

586
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,320
It's Him being in you.

587
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,960
That gift that He has given you, He gives you so that you can exhibit it so that people

588
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,120
can know that He's present and so that you can know that He's present.

589
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,440
The job is to apply or to live His presence.

590
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,840
To apply or to live and manifest His presence.

591
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,400
This gift is not given to the world.

592
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,720
This gift is not given to the false church.

593
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:45,560
But as we saw in our study on signs and wonders, we know that even the Antichrist, even in

594
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,640
Revelation it says that the Antichrist will perform amazing signs and wonders and attribute

595
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,120
them to God.

596
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,600
I submit to you, you had better know when that time comes whether those manifestations

597
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,480
are manifestations of God's Holy Spirit or evil spirit power.

598
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,120
I submit to you that the ability to know that is found in the church.

599
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,280
It is the restraining power of the community of the church because these Holy Spirit assignments

600
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:17,440
as they are displayed, as the manifestations take place, they help the common good.

601
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,160
They promote the common care.

602
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,120
The world does not do that.

603
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:32,080
Be very aware that occasionally we worship the gift.

604
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,880
We worship the preaching or the teaching or the serving or the giving.

605
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,600
We worship our gift and we think, man every time I do this thing I start to feel good

606
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,920
and we start to think that the worship of the gift is the way to go and that is not

607
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,920
the case.

608
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:51,240
It is given to the body to recognize the manifestation of the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ is Lord,

609
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:58,760
not a curse and that these things were given to us for the common good of one another.

610
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,560
Test number three, the common good of one another.

611
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:08,720
The same care for one another, not some worldly value.

612
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:13,480
The truth is in our church we talk about care this way, courtesy.

613
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,160
In other words we show everybody a measure of respect and it ought to be the same measure

614
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,160
of respect.

615
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,680
We should show, this will step on your toes a little bit if you are not careful, we should

616
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,960
show the same measure of respect to a disobeying child, a child that is breaking the rules

617
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,920
and doing something they are not supposed to be doing, as we should through a 60 year

618
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,720
old man who has been faithful in the faith for his entire life.

619
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720
That does not make any sense to me.

620
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:36,720
How can that be?

621
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,000
He has always been faithful in the faith for his entire life.

622
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
I know God is in him.

623
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,120
I have to show him respect.

624
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,440
Courtesy and respect are due to all human beings because all human beings were created

625
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,760
in the image of God to represent God.

626
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,880
That child in his disobedience is actually showing us something very valuable and important

627
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,880
about who God is.

628
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,880
Part of that is the need of a savior.

629
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,400
Whereas that 60 year old man, what is he showing us about a savior?

630
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,520
Well, he is also showing us the need of a savior.

631
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,760
The bottom line is courtesy and respect is due to everyone in the church, even to visitors

632
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,320
just the same.

633
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,600
But then there is another aspect of accountability.

634
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,060
So we hold one another accountable.

635
00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:19,720
When you lie, there ought to be a Christian in the church who is willing to step up and

636
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:20,720
say, hey, you lied.

637
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:21,820
You got that wrong.

638
00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:24,560
When you don't serve, there ought to be a Christian in the church who is willing to

639
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,200
step up and say, hey, you didn't serve.

640
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,200
You got that wrong.

641
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,760
And accountability is a thing.

642
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:36,160
Now, do we hold visitors or the world accountable the same way we do Christians in the church?

643
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,160
No.

644
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,160
That is definitely not the case because Christians in the church are empowered by God.

645
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,300
And I submit to you that a Christian who is outside the church is not empowered the same

646
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,880
as a Christian who is inside the church because the gifts are not working for their common

647
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,000
good.

648
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,680
They don't have that constantly being poured into them.

649
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:52,680
Why do we show up?

650
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,600
We show up because we are working together as a body, practicing courtesy and accountability

651
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,680
and responsibility.

652
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,600
Now I'm responsible for the other members of the body, even to the point that I'm willing,

653
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,040
if necessary, to die for them.

654
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,200
I know there's a lot of people in the world that would like me to die for them.

655
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,000
You say, no, that doesn't make any sense.

656
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
But it's actually true.

657
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
People call me up.

658
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
People ask me for money.

659
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000
People ask me for food.

660
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,160
At times I have to divorce myself of what I think is important.

661
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,880
I have to give up my allowance or my entertainment money or my whatever.

662
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,800
And I've got a spending plan where God comes first in every area.

663
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,040
And I give those things up so that I can help that person.

664
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,520
Does that make sense inside the church?

665
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,500
Yes, because I'm responsible for that person.

666
00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:29,880
Does it make sense outside the church?

667
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,520
No, because I am not responsible for that person.

668
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,720
How am I responsible for them?

669
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:38,600
I'm responsible that they hear the gospel, that they see Jesus represented, and that

670
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,440
they know where to go to church and where to get it plugged into the body if they want

671
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,440
to.

672
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:43,440
That's how I'm responsible.

673
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,840
Now, are people able to partake of the overflow that falls off the master's table?

674
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,080
Do the dogs eat from the crumbs under the table?

675
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,080
Why, yes, they do.

676
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,160
And isn't that a wonderful thing?

677
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:54,160
Anybody can take it.

678
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,360
People all over the world who don't know Jesus listening to our podcast, people all over

679
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,760
the world who don't know Jesus could tune into our Facebook and see it live.

680
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,920
People all over the world who don't know Jesus could buy my book Think Again Online, which

681
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,920
is real cheap.

682
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:05,920
And they could buy that.

683
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,440
And they could read it and learn how to get saved.

684
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,440
Right?

685
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,320
So all of those things are out there.

686
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,640
It all can happen.

687
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,120
But all of the gifts of God were given so that we would provide the same care for one

688
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,720
another in the body, courtesy, accountability, and responsibility.

689
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:24,080
Now notice, that 60-year-old man who's walked with Jesus his whole life has the same responsibility

690
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:29,160
in the body as that nine-year-old child who just got saved, or maybe hasn't even got saved

691
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,360
if they're a member just because their parents are members.

692
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:32,360
You understand?

693
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,120
The responsibility is the same.

694
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,400
When there's a piece of garbage in the hallway, whose job is it to pick it up?

695
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,180
Whoever sees it.

696
00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:43,400
When there's a bill to be paid for the church, whose job is it to pay it?

697
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,400
Everybody's job.

698
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,080
Not just one person steps up and says, I'll take care of that, and they take care of it.

699
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,080
It ought to be everybody.

700
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,640
We all work together because we are the body.

701
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,080
Submitted to the Lord, filled with manifestations of the Holy Spirit for the common good.

702
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,760
Subject to care, courtesy, accountability, responsibility, and finally encouragement.

703
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,040
That we encourage each other, exhort each other all the time, loving one another, to

704
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,800
lift each other up to do the things that God would have us to do.

705
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,160
If you don't encourage that person, they may fail to exhibit their Holy Spirit gift, which

706
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,560
was given for your common good.

707
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,040
The manifestation of the Holy Spirit may wane.

708
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,040
People may not join.

709
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,040
People may not step up.

710
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,820
People may not show up because no one's encouraging them.

711
00:37:24,820 --> 00:37:29,880
But it also happens that people worship the care.

712
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:30,920
I need this.

713
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,240
I need that from the body.

714
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:33,840
I want the body won't do for me.

715
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,080
People tell me, well, nobody ever came to visit me.

716
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,840
I don't come to church anymore because nobody ever comes to visit me.

717
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,360
And the very person that told me that thing had never come to visit anyone ever.

718
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,920
We get wrapped up in we want it to go the way we want it to go.

719
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,440
So we start to accuse the other members of the body, saying, you're not doing, you're

720
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,800
not manifesting the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

721
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,080
It's not their job to manifest the gifts of the Holy Spirit for you.

722
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,280
The manifestation of the gifts is for the common good.

723
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,820
We all do it so we can all be blessed by it.

724
00:38:02,820 --> 00:38:04,480
That means that there was only two people there.

725
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,640
Both people manifested the Holy Spirit gifts.

726
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,960
They would be hugely blessed if they were the local church.

727
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,080
So the bottom line is this.

728
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,280
We practice courtesy, accountability, responsibility, and encouragement for one another.

729
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,680
But we don't use those things as an excuse.

730
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,440
We once had a member of ours say, I so desperately need, I need somebody to encourage me seven

731
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,760
days a week, every single day.

732
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,800
I need somebody to reach out and encourage me.

733
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,440
And the truth is that's not fair.

734
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,480
That's not right.

735
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,160
And now I understand that.

736
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:36,640
Because you raised your hand if somebody from the church encouraged you seven days a week.

737
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,640
OK.

738
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,600
Nobody's getting that.

739
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,620
So it's the same care for everybody.

740
00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:46,160
So when somebody says, I need to be encouraged seven days a week, that's not a fair request

741
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,880
because nobody's getting that.

742
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,640
Now should we all be encouraging each other every Sunday, every Tuesday, and in between?

743
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:53,960
Absolutely.

744
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,260
That's fair.

745
00:38:55,260 --> 00:38:57,360
Should we be responsible for each other's needs?

746
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,360
Absolutely.

747
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,840
Should we be praying to each other, giving, practicing spiritual gifts so that everybody's

748
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:02,840
lifted up?

749
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:03,840
Yes.

750
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:04,840
Absolutely we should be doing that.

751
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,280
But when somebody comes out and they say, I need something that nobody else is getting,

752
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,960
we have to ask ourselves, is that something that everybody should be getting when they

753
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:13,960
need it?

754
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,840
And if it's something that everybody should be getting when we need it, then we give it.

755
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,080
And if it isn't, then we say no, because we're practicing the manifestation of the

756
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,080
Holy Spirit.

757
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,080
It's not ours.

758
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,080
Right?

759
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,800
Somebody could call me up and they say, I need you to come 9 o'clock and preach a sermon

760
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:26,800
in my living room.

761
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:27,800
Because I'm really strong in spirit, shall we?

762
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,960
Which I ought to say, I'm sorry.

763
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,960
I'm not sure that's going to happen.

764
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,960
Especially if they ain't coming to church.

765
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,600
But I can say, hey, you know what?

766
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,200
We got 300 podcasts online.

767
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,960
There's 300 sermons you can listen to right there.

768
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,160
We got the Facebook feed for the last 50 weeks up online.

769
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,720
There's live, you can watch video with worship.

770
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,000
You know, you can do that anytime you want.

771
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,760
But you're not willing to do it then.

772
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,280
But you're willing to call on me to do it at 9 o'clock tonight in your living room when

773
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,520
you want it, when you need it, and you think you've got a problem.

774
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,080
But I'm not talking about me specifically.

775
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,080
I get it.

776
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,080
We all have it.

777
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,080
We have a Holy Spirit gift.

778
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,720
We have a Holy Spirit work, a Holy Spirit ministry, a Holy Spirit effect that is supposed

779
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:07,040
to be manifested.

780
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,560
And we need to manifest those things in the body.

781
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,400
We need to do it for the common good.

782
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,440
We need to do it to have the same care for one another.

783
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,120
Am I talking about socialism?

784
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,120
No.

785
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,200
You're still responsible for all of the resources that God has made you responsible for.

786
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,320
Will your gift sometimes be the one that's needed and no one else's gift is needed?

787
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,320
Yes.

788
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,040
You can't go, oh, somebody else will take care of it.

789
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,800
The church will take care of it because you might be the only person in the body that

790
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,080
has the gift, the ministry, the effect, or the work that needs to be done.

791
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,080
Right?

792
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,960
So that does happen.

793
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:42,920
But it occurs that some ask for something more and this too is a sign of trouble.

794
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,640
If you need more than the manifestation of God's Holy Spirit in your church, then either

795
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,320
A, your church is defective, or B, you ain't in it.

796
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,640
And that's just the reality.

797
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,120
The church has the manifestations of God's Holy Spirit.

798
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,120
That's what Paul said.

799
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:08,640
When Paul started off by saying, I do not want you to be ignorant, concerning, and the translation

800
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,520
comes up with the word spiritual gift, but it's pneumatikos.

801
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:17,280
When brethren, I do not want you to be unaware, he was saying, you have a responsibility and

802
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,320
you have a responsibility and you have a responsibility and you are supposed to deliver courtesy and

803
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,760
you are supposed to deliver accountability and you're supposed to act in that responsibility

804
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,600
and you're supposed to encourage one another and the church ought to step up and be the

805
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:28,600
body of Christ.

806
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,520
And I used the analogy of Plato coming together and you can see the pink still and you can

807
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,760
see the red still and you can see the yellow still, but when we get this right, it's going

808
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,760
to be all brown.

809
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:42,360
It's going to be so mixed up and so confused that the whole man is brown.

810
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,560
Because there is no more red, there is no more pink, there is no more green, there is

811
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,240
no more yellow, there is no more blue.

812
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,680
We are no longer divided, we are unified.

813
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,720
And when a person has a problem and they raise their hand and I need something that the body

814
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:58,160
doesn't normally give, but maybe the body can give it, then everybody goes, yeah, I

815
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,480
can take care of that, that's no problem, that's nothing.

816
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,240
I'm happy to die to make sure that that happens.

817
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:11,920
But the problem is in the body, we've got our spiritual gift and God gave me the gift

818
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,920
of service and then I want to serve the way I serve.

819
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,680
I want to do it my way.

820
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:19,680
But that's not it.

821
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,000
It's a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

822
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,560
The next time you think about whether or not you're going to act on your spiritual gift,

823
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,240
this is what I want you to think.

824
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:35,040
I want you to think, do I want the world to know that the Holy Spirit exists?

825
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:45,920
Do I want people in my church to know that the Holy Spirit is working in me?

826
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,680
Now it ought to be yes.

827
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:55,200
I want God's Holy Spirit to be obvious and the manifestation of the Spirit, which includes

828
00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:00,280
the gifts, the works, the effects, and the ministries as we talked about, and these people

829
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:06,920
who were named, these roles, those are gifts, those gifts exist for that purpose, to show

830
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,040
God's Holy Spirit at work in the church.

831
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,900
Why is God's Holy Spirit at work in the church?

832
00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:16,160
Because Jesus prayed the Father and the Holy Spirit was sent into the church.

833
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,280
Jesus said, you should be glad that I go because I go, I'll ask God and he'll send his Holy

834
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,080
Spirit and the Holy Spirit will exist in the church.

835
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,280
Where the Holy Spirit is not in the church, the church ain't in the church.

836
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:28,280
Yes we want the Holy Spirit.

837
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,800
So you go out to dinner and you don't pray before you eat and you eat your food and you

838
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,960
enjoy it and you thank your waitress and you leave.

839
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,560
Is the Holy Spirit in you?

840
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,200
Yeah, because you're saved, it's in you.

841
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,200
But does your waitress know it?

842
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,720
No, because you're just like anybody else.

843
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:49,000
Is she supposed to guess that you're a Christian because you tip 16% instead of 15?

844
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,640
Should there not be praying at your table?

845
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,120
Should there not be worshiping at your table?

846
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,120
Should there not be witnessing at your table?

847
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,120
Should there not be serving at your table?

848
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:59,160
Should in that 40 minutes if she visits your table four times, should she not be able

849
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,840
to figure out that there's something a little bit different about you?

850
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,240
Something a little bit different from the other 30 clients that she's had that day?

851
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:11,580
Whether it's your doctor, your nurse, your lawyer, your waitress, you're at the gas station

852
00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:13,360
when you buy your slurpee.

853
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,880
Should there not be something?

854
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:21,080
The question you have to ask yourself is do you want the world to know that God's Holy

855
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,440
Spirit exists and more importantly exists in you?

856
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,520
And the answer is yes, you do.

857
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,280
And the gift of God is that it can be so.

858
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:41,560
And the instructions are that He is Lord of your life, that He will manifest through you

859
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:46,960
gifts, effects, works, and ministries may make you even into something specific for

860
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:54,480
His Holy Name and through those manifestations the same care will be exhibited across the

861
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,880
body for all of our people.

862
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,060
That brings us to our conclusion.

863
00:45:03,060 --> 00:45:05,480
We should be put together.

864
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:12,640
So look around this room, mostly what we have are very intelligent people.

865
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,620
So where's our not so intelligent people?

866
00:45:15,620 --> 00:45:20,440
Mostly what we have are handsome men and pretty women.

867
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,400
So where are the rest?

868
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,160
Most of what we have are capable individuals.

869
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,160
We can do whatever is inside our mind-stream.

870
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,160
We can figure something out.

871
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,400
We're like, okay, if I've got instructions I can pretty much put it together.

872
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,040
Or if I've got, you know, that's mostly what we have.

873
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,880
And so where are the rest?

874
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,440
Most of us can make it up the stairs.

875
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,720
Nobody, to my knowledge, nobody that's here today had to take the ramp.

876
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,520
Where's the disabled people?

877
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,240
Now great grandma tunes in sometimes, but where are the 90-year-olds?

878
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:51,440
Now I'm not saying we have to have some of everything.

879
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,640
It's entirely up to God who's in what church.

880
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,720
But the bottom line is if what we have, we should be put together.

881
00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,920
And as people come in, we should seek to put them together with us.

882
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:01,920
That's the whole point.

883
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:02,920
We share the gospel.

884
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:03,920
They get saved.

885
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,240
He begins to manifest through them for our common good.

886
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,160
That's why Jesus said the resources are in the harvest.

887
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,540
He wasn't talking about money, although that's true too.

888
00:46:11,540 --> 00:46:14,800
He was talking about the manifestations of His Holy Spirit.

889
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,200
The manifestations of God's Holy Spirit are in the harvest because when you see somebody

890
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,680
get saved, have you ever noticed how Christians are super excited to be around when they first

891
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,680
get saved?

892
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,120
Or when somebody repents of their sin and there's tears in their eyes and they're praying

893
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,120
fervently?

894
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,880
They never pray like that time, right?

895
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,500
You ever notice that?

896
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:32,000
That's a manifestation of God's Holy Spirit.

897
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,760
That's Him at work in a young believer and He draws us in and we get excited and we join

898
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,560
and you join together with that person, embrace that person.

899
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,000
We should be put together.

900
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:53,260
We should be one as the body representing Jesus as He manifests through us to the world.

901
00:46:53,260 --> 00:46:57,680
We should not overly value or devalue one part of the body.

902
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,920
There's that person over there, kind of annoying in the way they talk and the way they act.

903
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:01,920
I don't quite get them.

904
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,560
I'm going to just go in this room while they go by and then I'll go back.

905
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,080
No, every part of the body is valuable.

906
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:14,000
In fact, based on that, you should do the most to be around the people who annoy you

907
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,000
the most.

908
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,480
That's what you should actually do because that's going to grow you.

909
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:23,600
That's going to manifest the Holy Spirit through you for the common good and through them for

910
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,480
your good and you may just find that they have a word or a thing or that they do or

911
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,640
a service or a factor, a ministry or a gift.

912
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,040
That's exactly what you need.

913
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,680
After a while, you may go, whoa, I've been fed.

914
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,400
I've been cared for.

915
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,600
Now I get it.

916
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:44,160
I was dodging my responsibility or dodging my encouragement that I was supposed to be

917
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,520
delivering and I stopped doing that.

918
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,320
Now all of a sudden, it happens.

919
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,720
I had a friend of mine who's a youth pastor at a church down south and their church had

920
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:59,000
11 or 12 beacons and it got to be that the sanctuary was pretty full and so they were

921
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,920
gracious and they just stayed out in the hallway.

922
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:07,440
Then they started walking the church building and after about six months, eight of the 11

923
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,240
beacons hadn't heard a sermon in six months.

924
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:15,200
It was before they put everything on Facebook and they weren't doing that then.

925
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,960
You can imagine what that started to do in their lives.

926
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,360
They thought they were serving by being out of the way.

927
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,600
That was their excuse but the truth is they were dodging the sermon.

928
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,600
We have had that in our church at different periods of time over the last 20 years where

929
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,920
people volunteered to work in the children's department because then they don't have to

930
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,440
be in the sermon every single week.

931
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:39,560
I'm not saying anybody's doing that now but we've had that.

932
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,200
We have people who say, I want to be a member of this church but they don't show up on Sunday

933
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:47,880
when anybody in the family is sick or anybody in the family has a problem or there's any

934
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,040
distraction or any opportunity to work or make a quick buck or whatever.

935
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,480
That's just not how the body works.

936
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:55,480
This is us together.

937
00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:01,320
If nothing else, this sermon is me exhibiting my Holy Spirit gift so that the body and the

938
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,040
common good can be benefited.

939
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,440
But it is an exhibition of the Holy Spirit.

940
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,120
You understand I could not be a public speaker if I were not saved.

941
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,700
So I know this is a Holy Spirit thing.

942
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:15,720
It's a ministry that's been given and I'm so blessed that you allowed me to do it.

943
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:19,700
But it cannot be overly valued nor can it be devalued.

944
00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:21,800
There is no place for belittling yourself.

945
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,040
Oh gosh, I can't figure out what my Holy Spirit gift is.

946
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,400
I can't be a member of the church.

947
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,000
I can't be part of this or I'm a member because they put me on the roll.

948
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,400
But I can't really do anything.

949
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,840
I'm just the guy in the back or I'm just the one that's around and maybe I'll figure something

950
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:34,840
out.

951
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,200
It's all a bunch of crap.

952
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:41,920
You are gifted by the Holy Spirit not for you to figure out what it is or for you to

953
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:46,280
act a certain way so you can feel better about yourself, but so that the Holy Spirit of God

954
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:47,760
can be manifested through you.

955
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:54,460
And I submit to you that if you are a willing channel, that will never fail.

956
00:49:54,460 --> 00:49:59,400
The gun is already loaded, the hammer is already back and the trigger has already been pulled.

957
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,960
The shot will go off.

958
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:05,960
All you have to do is show up and stop belittling yourself and stop thinking somebody else is

959
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,360
better than you and just go, what can I do?

960
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:09,360
What can I do?

961
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,960
When we joined our church in Michigan after the Lord moved us to Michigan miraculously,

962
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,800
I was an ordained deacon at East Little Baptist Church and Sherri and I were serving in a

963
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,800
bunch of ministries there and doing all kinds of stuff.

964
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,560
And so we went to church and we said we want to serve.

965
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,440
We want to do whatever we can.

966
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,080
Just give us something to do.

967
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,080
I would be a deacon if that's what it is.

968
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,440
And then it's a little kind of you know, no, can't do that.

969
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:31,880
Okay, well, what can we do anything?

970
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:32,880
Can we teach something?

971
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:33,880
Can we share?

972
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,880
Can we get something special?

973
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:37,880
What can we do anything?

974
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:38,880
We're always coming.

975
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:39,880
What can we do?

976
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,200
Finally, after we asked like three, four times, they said, well, you can come in between service

977
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,200
and serve the cookies.

978
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,200
Like that's not much.

979
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,200
Like we're talking about we want to serve the Lord like multiple days a week, but we'll

980
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:51,200
do it.

981
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:52,200
So we did.

982
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,200
We went and served the cookies.

983
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,720
We got to talking to the children's and Sherry found out that the children's pastor there

984
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:00,160
had been searching for workers in the children's department for years.

985
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,400
She said, well, I only got about three volunteers ever and half of them don't show up.

986
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,120
I don't know what half of three is.

987
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:06,480
So like half of them don't show up.

988
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,680
So then Sherry started showing up.

989
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,880
She started working in the children's department.

990
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,280
And then we found out only six kids were coming and my heart was broken.

991
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,480
They were teaching the Bible and only six kids coming on Wednesday night.

992
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,240
And I'm like, what?

993
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:19,240
That's crazy.

994
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:22,680
Now we were bringing like two because we had a leash on Amalia, which I don't think went

995
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,040
in that class as she was younger.

996
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,120
But the point is like, OK, so we got to bring one.

997
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,800
So Alicia went to school and she said, would you come to church with me?

998
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:30,800
Would you come to church with me?

999
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,840
So we took my big blue conversion van, rusted out at the bottom and sat eight.

1000
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,640
And we started picking people up on Wednesday night.

1001
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,560
We got to the point where I brought three and a half loads of kids.

1002
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:48,480
And the children's department went from being six kids counting Alicia to being 30 kids.

1003
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:49,480
And then they started bringing kids.

1004
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,840
And then some of the people were bringing started coming on their own because they got

1005
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,480
tired of waiting for me to come in the second and third load, pick them up or bringing them

1006
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,920
home an hour and a half after it was over or whatever.

1007
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,160
And so they started coming on their own.

1008
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:04,200
And the day that we found out God was going to miraculously move us back to Toledo, the

1009
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:12,120
church recognized us and gave us a certificate as the most like meaningful and honoring that

1010
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,560
has stand up in a crowd of people.

1011
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,320
We're like thinking the whole time we're moving back to probably going to be moving back to

1012
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,320
Toledo.

1013
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,320
We'll see what's going to happen.

1014
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,120
And they're like, we want to honor you because you came on.

1015
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,560
You really lit a fire under the children's department after they told us three or four

1016
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,040
times there was nothing that we could do.

1017
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,640
And finally said, you can serve the cookies.

1018
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:28,640
You get it?

1019
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,320
We are not that church.

1020
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:31,800
You plug into this church.

1021
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:32,800
You can work.

1022
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:33,800
You can work seven days.

1023
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:34,800
There is work to be done.

1024
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,800
The life stations open five days.

1025
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:41,040
We go there, the bag groceries every single day, deliver groceries all over the city, share

1026
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,720
the gospel with people who say they need to hear about Jesus.

1027
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:45,380
I need a new church home.

1028
00:52:45,380 --> 00:52:46,920
You can serve and serve and serve.

1029
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,000
We've got cleaning that can be done right now.

1030
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,280
You can walk up out of this room after I'll stay for an hour and clean and I'll give you

1031
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,080
clean that clean that clean that we have people cleaning all the time.

1032
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:56,520
But we got to what is this?

1033
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,200
A 10,000 square foot building.

1034
00:52:58,200 --> 00:52:59,800
There's always work to be done.

1035
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,680
We are not the church that will tell you can't work.

1036
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:02,880
You want to come and work.

1037
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,160
You can find your ministry.

1038
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,400
You can find your effect.

1039
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:06,900
You can act in your gift.

1040
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:08,620
You will not be dispersed.

1041
00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:13,240
You cannot belittle yourself and say, I can't do what others are doing.

1042
00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:17,160
Nor can you dismiss somebody else because their gift seems insignificant.

1043
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,520
There are people in this room that just come here and sit and they're attentive.

1044
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,000
They're attentive to the preacher, attentive to the teaching.

1045
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,840
And you don't know how much that blesses me.

1046
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:30,800
There are people that are not here this morning and there's a part of my heart that is aching

1047
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,360
because I don't know why they're not here.

1048
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,400
And I knew they were going to be here and now they're not here.

1049
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,400
And that hurts.

1050
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,600
And it probably hurts you too because you probably know who some of them are.

1051
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:41,680
And the point is this.

1052
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,760
You cannot dismiss any part of the body now because you're somebody special.

1053
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:50,680
Nor can you dismiss yourself because you're not somebody special.

1054
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,760
These gifts, these manifestations, they are not given for advancing oneself.

1055
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,000
They are given for growing as a part of a body.

1056
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,080
Yes, they lead us to die to ourself as we see the Holy Spirit manifested through us

1057
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,400
more and more.

1058
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,360
The final conclusion is this.

1059
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,280
There is a greater thing still.

1060
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,280
That's what Paul says.

1061
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,760
That's all what I'm talking about.

1062
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,320
There is a greater thing still.

1063
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:17,680
It's the last verse of the chapter.

1064
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,520
I stopped just short of reading the entire chapter and it says this.

1065
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:27,040
But earnestly desire the greater gifts and I show you a still more excellent way.

1066
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:32,080
And beginning next week we'll go into 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and you already know then, right?

1067
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,800
You already know what the greatest gift of God is, don't you?

1068
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:37,360
It's not a Holy Spirit gift.

1069
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:38,360
It's not a ministry.

1070
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:39,360
It's not an effect.

1071
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:40,360
It's not a work.

1072
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,360
It's not a prophet or an apostle.

1073
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,520
It is the love of God in you, in me.

1074
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:47,520
That's what it is.

1075
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,680
And that's what we're going to look at in 1 Corinthians 13.

1076
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,160
But the bottom line is this.

1077
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:55,000
If you're going to use your Holy Spirit gift even when you feel like a dirt bag, you messed

1078
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,300
up, screwed up, whatever, in the body for the common good and care for each other equally,

1079
00:54:59,300 --> 00:55:03,720
then you're going to have to love beyond your own stupidity, beyond your own weakness, beyond

1080
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,960
your own failing, beyond your own depression, anxiety, or health concerns.

1081
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:08,680
You're going to have to love beyond that.

1082
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,080
And if you have God in you, you can.

1083
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,840
Now we'll talk about what that looks like as we look at 1 Corinthians 13.

1084
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,780
But the bottom line is this.

1085
00:55:16,780 --> 00:55:20,400
The Holy Spirit Himself is the gift given by God.

1086
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:25,600
It is not your Holy Spirit gift, the manifestations of the Holy Spirit gift, or your particular

1087
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,600
effect, ministry, work, gifting, title in the church.

1088
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:30,600
It's none of that.

1089
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,920
It is the Holy Spirit Himself.

1090
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,960
He is the gift.

1091
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,600
And He comes with a set of instructions.

1092
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:42,900
And that set of instructions is this, that you act out in the manifestations of His presence

1093
00:55:42,900 --> 00:55:44,880
in you.

1094
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,980
The disciplines are supplied by that fuel.

1095
00:55:47,980 --> 00:55:53,640
The spiritual gifts, effects, ministries, works, manifestations of all kinds are supplied

1096
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,040
by Him as He sees fit.

1097
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,720
You don't get to say, I think I might have the spiritual gift of such and such and then

1098
00:56:00,720 --> 00:56:01,880
just do it.

1099
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,200
That is a disobedience to God.

1100
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,240
That is the same as saying that He is a curse.

1101
00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:06,240
Don't do it.

1102
00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:10,680
You sit your butt in the church and you serve the Lord with all the might that He has placed

1103
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:11,680
in you.

1104
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:12,680
Not your strength.

1105
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:13,680
You've already screwed up your body.

1106
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,160
You've been alive long enough to take a substance that you shouldn't have.

1107
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,480
You've been alive long enough to eat things that you shouldn't have.

1108
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:19,720
You've already screwed up your body.

1109
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:21,080
It's not about your body.

1110
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:22,320
It's about your spirit.

1111
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:26,200
The Holy Spirit presence in you was given so that He might manifest Himself to the world

1112
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,640
through the body of Christ, that being who we are.

1113
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,160
Close the two illustrations and then we'll have an opportunity to respond.

1114
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,160
The first is this.

1115
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,880
I think about how close we can be.

1116
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,440
How close we can be.

1117
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:45,040
We can be saved professing the Lord Jesus Christ, going to heaven when we die, but never

1118
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:50,280
actually get to the place of actually manifesting the Holy Spirit.

1119
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:51,680
Am I talking about speaking in tongues?

1120
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:52,680
No, I'm not.

1121
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,640
Am I talking about acting out at a certain spiritual gift?

1122
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,080
No, I'm not.

1123
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:01,480
Talking about manifesting the Holy Spirit that's in you, which is done in the local

1124
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,960
church for the building up and the edifying of the entire body for our common good.

1125
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,760
We work together and we can be so close.

1126
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:16,080
We can be learning, growing, receiving, but not putting it out, not showing it because

1127
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:20,560
we feel inferior or because we feel superior.

1128
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:25,200
It might be that you could worship like nobody else can, where you've got a broken, crappy

1129
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,160
voice that nobody really wants to hear.

1130
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:32,960
Then you start singing and the angels of heaven join in and the Holy Spirit is manifested

1131
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:38,360
and people start to go, whoa, God is in that.

1132
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,320
But you're going, I don't like the way I sound.

1133
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,440
I'm a little too reserved.

1134
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,040
I'm a little too shy.

1135
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:50,680
It could be that you could pick out and detect things that need to be done, discerning the

1136
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,920
works of God that need to be done better and more than anybody.

1137
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,080
But you're too worried about being perceived as a busybody.

1138
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:02,640
You're too worried about people saying, oh, she or he is stirring up trouble.

1139
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,480
So you're not saying anything.

1140
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,680
And your Holy Spirit gift is not being exhibited and the manifestation of the Spirit is being

1141
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:09,680
left out.

1142
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:13,920
I submit to you that is a sin against God and you and I need to repent how close people

1143
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,200
can be.

1144
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,400
One time when Arden was younger, he was about 12, yet it might have been his first ever

1145
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:20,400
cell phone.

1146
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,720
It was definitely an early on cell phone.

1147
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:27,360
In fact, the first, I think it was the first two cell phones he had, he lost them, like

1148
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:28,960
lost, gone, can't find them.

1149
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,320
And one of them he lost while he was outside playing in the snow.

1150
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,240
You know how hard it is to find a cell phone when it drops into the snow?

1151
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,120
It ain't easy, right?

1152
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:39,120
But I was determined.

1153
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,400
I said, Lord, I'm going to try to find this for him.

1154
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:43,760
And I went outside.

1155
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:47,400
And out in the side yard was an area where he had played a lot, snow angels and snow

1156
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:48,840
was all busted up and stuff.

1157
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:53,200
And then there were steps that led to there and there were steps that led back and they

1158
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:54,200
were not the same steps.

1159
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,680
And I went and I searched all around in the snow where it was all jumbled up and messed

1160
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,600
up and whatever, no cell phone.

1161
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,960
I searched on the steps on the way there, no cell phone.

1162
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,920
I searched on the steps on the way back, no cell phone.

1163
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,000
I was about to give up and I thought, you know what I'm going to do?

1164
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,760
I think there's enough metal in that cell phone.

1165
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,960
It might be metal detector detectable.

1166
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:17,860
So I went and got my metal detector and I had to fiddle to come up with the right batteries

1167
00:59:17,860 --> 00:59:21,440
because my metal detector worked off of C size batteries, which if you don't know this,

1168
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,840
you can temporarily substitute AA batteries for C batteries if you put them in there.

1169
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:25,840
They're the same length.

1170
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:26,840
You can put them in there.

1171
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,240
And so I put it in and I got it working.

1172
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:32,320
And I went outside and I searched briefly the area that was all in turmoil.

1173
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:33,840
I thought pretty much it wasn't there.

1174
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:34,980
It was about six inches of snow.

1175
00:59:34,980 --> 00:59:37,920
But I've been through that whole area pretty good and it was all busted up and stuff.

1176
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,720
And so I was pretty sure it wasn't there.

1177
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:44,640
And I searched the steps on the way back to the house and I found the cell phone.

1178
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:47,680
I found it in the snow under six inches of snow.

1179
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,480
Under the completely undisturbed snow.

1180
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:55,000
There was no hole in the snow where the cell phone had fallen through.

1181
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,440
The cell phone battery had not melted a hole in the snow, which probably only would have

1182
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done if it had been used a lot because that's when they really generate heat.

1183
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:05,300
But somehow or other the cell phone had fallen through one of the footprints, slipped its

1184
01:00:05,300 --> 01:00:09,680
way over and it was about a foot to the side of one of the footprints under the snow.

1185
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:14,680
So I'm walking with it and I get beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,

1186
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:15,680
beep, beep, beep, beep.

1187
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:16,680
I'm like, oh, there's something there.

1188
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:20,280
The snow is not, it can't possibly be there because the snow has not been penetrated at

1189
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:21,280
all.

1190
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:22,280
It's not been ruffled.

1191
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:23,280
It's not been broken.

1192
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,240
There's no hole in the snow.

1193
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:29,760
I reached my hand down through unbroken snow and felt what found like, what felt like a

1194
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,480
cell phone and it was the cell phone.

1195
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:36,080
I took it inside, we dried it out and it worked for a while after that.

1196
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:37,480
Now you tell me how that happens.

1197
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,720
Well, I'll tell you.

1198
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:46,920
Because sometimes along the path we don't realize we're missing the thing.

1199
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Listen to me church.

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01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,040
You've been given a ministry, you've been given an effect, you've been given a work,

1201
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,560
you've been given a gifting, you've been given a title maybe, you've been given a job to

1202
01:00:56,560 --> 01:01:02,080
do and it is given for the edification of the building up of the church.

1203
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:06,840
We are to care for one another and we are to build the church up and as we exhibit those

1204
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,360
manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

1205
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:09,680
You know what sometimes happens?

1206
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,920
People get babbling in the church and spouting tongues and somebody goes, I don't know what

1207
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,240
that is but it's kind of cool and they keep coming back for a while and they're interested

1208
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,760
and the Pentecostal church grows.

1209
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,480
Somebody gets up at the altar and they get slain in the spirit.

1210
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:22,480
Down they go.

1211
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:23,480
They catch them.

1212
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:24,480
They lift them up.

1213
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,480
I feel crazy.

1214
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:26,480
It's awesome.

1215
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:28,360
I passed out when the pastor touched me on the forehead.

1216
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:29,660
I don't know what that's all about.

1217
01:01:29,660 --> 01:01:31,040
Maybe it is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

1218
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,200
I don't see it in scripture but the bottom line is this.

1219
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,600
People are interested.

1220
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:40,840
Build manifestations of the Holy Spirit will interest people eternally.

1221
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:42,760
They'll get saved.

1222
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:49,240
Start manifesting the Holy Spirit that's in you and He'll see people saved.

1223
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:51,160
Hold each other accountable.

1224
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:52,440
Care about one another.

1225
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:56,920
Practice courtesy, responsibility and encouragement in the church and if you're not in the church

1226
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:01,480
you need to understand you can do all of those things but they will not function the way

1227
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:02,480
they're supposed to.

1228
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,600
You're not going to be edified in the common good if you're not in the church and you're

1229
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:09,040
not going to be able to edify others in the church if you're not in the church because

1230
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,120
Paul was clearly talking about the local church.

1231
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:17,720
We are like the church in Corinth but we are the church in Toledo and we need to do it

1232
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:22,600
because you can be right on the path and it can look real good but if you're not manifesting

1233
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,760
the Holy Spirit your snow is unruffled.

1234
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:29,600
Ain't nobody ever going to find him and they're not going to come with a Holy Spirit detector

1235
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,040
and go hey Michael stand still.

1236
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:35,080
Oh Holy Spirit is in there.

1237
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,080
That's awesome.

1238
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:37,080
That's not going to happen.

1239
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,040
You've got to manifest.

1240
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:44,400
You're going to manifest the Holy Spirit not in some freaky way but in the way that he

1241
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,720
sees fit through you.

1242
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,960
Your snow should look ruffled.

1243
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,400
There's something in there.

1244
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:52,760
It's God's Holy Spirit.

1245
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Now let's say you feel like I don't think he's there.

1246
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,840
I never felt the testimony of the Holy Spirit.

1247
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,440
Then you need to admit that you need him.

1248
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,800
You need to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord.

1249
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,360
That means he paid the price for your sins and he now owns you.

1250
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:09,520
He leads you and he owns you and he's your savior.

1251
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:14,840
And let yourself become a child of God and receive his Holy Spirit and begin to manifest

1252
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:38,280
the gifts, the works.