WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.259 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 00:00:03.259 --> 00:00:08.080 heart, with all thy soul, all thy mind. This 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.199 is the first and great commandment. And the second 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.060 is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:18.500 as thyself. On these two commandments hang all 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:22.379 the law and the prophets. On these two commandments 00:00:22.379 --> 00:00:26.079 hang all the gifts. Oh, that too. Yeah. That's 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:38.820 well put. So we hang everything. on love. God 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:42.520 promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.700 on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:48.759 where we contend for that promise outpouring, 00:00:48.859 --> 00:00:52.100 we equip for that outpouring. so that we may 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.700 engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. 00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:58.359 And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:00.659 We're so glad that you're with us. We're going 00:01:00.659 --> 00:01:04.120 to talk today about revival and outpouring and 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:07.659 how important it is that we have to maintain 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:11.459 the love of God in our lives, because when the 00:01:11.459 --> 00:01:18.549 love of God ebbs, revival ebbs. Thanks so much 00:01:18.549 --> 00:01:20.909 for joining us today. We're so delighted that 00:01:20.909 --> 00:01:24.480 we can do this thing together with you. And before 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.579 we get started, let me just encourage you, if 00:01:26.579 --> 00:01:28.859 you haven't already done so, that you go to our 00:01:28.859 --> 00:01:32.060 website, globaloutpouring .net, and that you 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:34.719 make sure that you are on our mailing list so 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.579 that we can stay in touch with you. It's just 00:01:37.579 --> 00:01:40.359 really important to be able to stay connected. 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.140 And if you're enjoying this content, we would 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:45.659 love to hear back from you. We are delighted 00:01:45.659 --> 00:01:48.959 when we receive some email or from the feedback 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.939 form. It just really means a tremendous amount 00:01:51.939 --> 00:01:56.260 to us. like to read one of the emails that we 00:01:56.260 --> 00:01:59.700 got recently from someone who writes from time 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:02.260 to time. And we're just delighted to hear from 00:02:02.260 --> 00:02:05.659 Cheryl. And she says, I'm still really enjoying 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.659 your podcasts as well as Friday night live worship. 00:02:08.819 --> 00:02:11.780 Now, in case you're listening to our podcast, 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.639 we never think to mention that we do on YouTube 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:18.000 and Facebook on the Global Outpouring channel 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.199 and Global Outpouring Facebook page, every Friday 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:26.539 night at 7 p .m. Central Time, we do a... I hate 00:02:26.539 --> 00:02:28.819 to call it a program. We do a service. Let's 00:02:28.819 --> 00:02:31.560 call it a service. We do a service called Friday 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:34.819 Night Live Worship. And most of the time it's 00:02:34.819 --> 00:02:37.340 live. Once in a great while, we have to pre -record 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:41.680 it. But it's live and it's worship time and the 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.060 word and testimonies and whatever. So she said, 00:02:45.139 --> 00:02:47.860 I'm still really enjoying your podcast as well 00:02:47.860 --> 00:02:50.870 as Friday Night Live. They are all so good. I 00:02:50.870 --> 00:02:52.930 especially like the Friday night live worship 00:02:52.930 --> 00:02:57.349 from October 3rd, 2025. The new song that you 00:02:57.349 --> 00:03:00.229 sang was over the top. I like to start my day 00:03:00.229 --> 00:03:02.550 by praying in the spirit about 30 minutes before 00:03:02.550 --> 00:03:05.530 I do anything else. Since that night, I've listened 00:03:05.530 --> 00:03:08.289 to your worship almost every morning just to 00:03:08.289 --> 00:03:10.449 keep my mind on track while I pray in tongues. 00:03:10.870 --> 00:03:13.550 It has helped me so much. There was one part 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:16.509 where Sharon said, I totally blew that. Let's 00:03:16.509 --> 00:03:19.409 start over. Then she responded to Philip, you 00:03:19.409 --> 00:03:21.990 can't, because you said, right? I said, we'll 00:03:21.990 --> 00:03:24.689 take it out of the mix. Yeah, or we'll edit that 00:03:24.689 --> 00:03:26.830 out. Live recording. Yeah. I said, you can't 00:03:26.830 --> 00:03:31.189 edit this. We're live. Let's try again. One morning, 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:33.889 now this is her going on. One morning, the Lord 00:03:33.889 --> 00:03:37.830 responded, life is live and you can't edit, but 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:40.069 you can repent and start again and get it right. 00:03:41.099 --> 00:03:43.439 Repenting is like editing. Your sins are made 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.039 white as snow by the blood of Jesus, giving us 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.759 a chance to get it right. And then she says, 00:03:48.819 --> 00:03:50.699 you always ask for suggestions for podcasts. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.159 For a long time, I've been thinking about how 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.560 much I enjoy when you share tidbits of what the 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.219 Lord has brought you through. I would enjoy a 00:03:58.219 --> 00:04:00.439 podcast of y 'all telling more about yourselves 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.819 and your experiences in the Lord. Testimonies 00:04:02.819 --> 00:04:05.800 are always good. Love and appreciate you so much. 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:07.639 Thanks for all the spiritual food that you freely 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:13.039 give. Blessings to you both. After that, I was 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.780 thinking about something that Philip actually 00:04:15.780 --> 00:04:20.100 brought last week on our Friday Night Live worship. 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:22.879 It would have been, I guess it might be two weeks 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:27.129 from the time that you hear this. He shared an 00:04:27.129 --> 00:04:30.209 experience that I want him to share again. And 00:04:30.209 --> 00:04:33.610 I think that it will be like a foundation for 00:04:33.610 --> 00:04:36.149 a springboard, shall we say, for this podcast, 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:38.449 for this episode. We'll tell the background to 00:04:38.449 --> 00:04:42.399 it. Yes, go ahead. We talk about Sukkot. Well, 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:46.600 now, just to retrace our steps, we did an episode 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.040 about how to celebrate Sukkot. Yeah. And I think 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:53.360 we told the story about how we got to start celebrating 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.399 Sukkot. Yeah. God gave you this love to go camping. 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.959 Yes, exactly. Wow. And if you didn't hear that, 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.680 you can go back to episode, I think it was 285, 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:06.600 where we talked about that. Go ahead. Yeah, I 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.420 got it. Actually, here's the notes right here. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.430 Yes. So anyway. So we are going to celebrate 00:05:12.430 --> 00:05:15.990 Sukkot in a couple of days. And we have a favorite 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:20.170 spot we go to. We book it six months out. And 00:05:20.170 --> 00:05:22.029 you have to book it, you know, because other 00:05:22.029 --> 00:05:24.750 people do the same thing. And we have a spot 00:05:24.750 --> 00:05:27.970 that we like. And it's right next to a wonderful 00:05:27.970 --> 00:05:32.410 fishing river. We catch trout and freeze them, 00:05:32.449 --> 00:05:36.170 bring them home. And so anyway, I'm looking at 00:05:36.170 --> 00:05:39.689 our spot. And we're like a month out. And I realized 00:05:39.689 --> 00:05:42.569 that they're letting water out of the dam for 00:05:42.569 --> 00:05:45.269 over like a month. They're draining the lake 00:05:45.269 --> 00:05:47.790 down because there's too much water, getting 00:05:47.790 --> 00:05:51.269 ready for the fall season. And so that makes 00:05:51.269 --> 00:05:53.410 fishing not very good if you're on the shore, 00:05:53.589 --> 00:05:55.889 which is how we fish. But if you have a boat, 00:05:55.990 --> 00:05:58.329 you know, you can go with the current and fish 00:05:58.329 --> 00:06:01.230 that way. So anyway, I'm watching that. I thought, 00:06:01.290 --> 00:06:03.189 oh, well, there's other stuff I'm geared up to 00:06:03.189 --> 00:06:06.509 fish for, you know, in the rapids. And we get 00:06:06.509 --> 00:06:09.990 this. Think from the Army Corps of Engineers 00:06:09.990 --> 00:06:13.209 campground we're going. Two more days, you know, 00:06:13.209 --> 00:06:17.050 just two more days. Hey, we were excited. Yeah, 00:06:17.110 --> 00:06:20.129 and so that night at about 8 o 'clock at night, 00:06:20.209 --> 00:06:23.410 we get another email from them saying that our 00:06:23.410 --> 00:06:27.050 reservation, the second day of our reservation 00:06:27.050 --> 00:06:30.290 on, they're closing the campground so they can 00:06:30.290 --> 00:06:33.209 repave it. And they're stating it's not anything 00:06:33.209 --> 00:06:36.550 to do with the government shutdown. And our experience 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:40.089 from a year or so before, we set up our tent 00:06:40.089 --> 00:06:43.410 in faith, you know, and we had one day till the 00:06:43.410 --> 00:06:46.610 shutdown and the campground is empty. And then 00:06:46.610 --> 00:06:48.790 all of a sudden, two hours before the shutdown. 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:51.860 They got it resolved. Yeah, that was the previous 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:54.180 time. And we had a nice, quiet campground. I 00:06:54.180 --> 00:06:58.100 had the river to myself. It was great. And we 00:06:58.100 --> 00:06:59.500 just enjoyed that. I think we caught a lot of 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:01.379 fish that time, too. We did. It was a great time. 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.620 So that's how the mindset has kind of been along 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:07.639 that way. It's all about fishing. Yeah, catching 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.399 fish and trout. And so now we find out we have 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.079 to go somewhere else. I thought, where can we 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:17.189 go? For eight days straight, there's a lot of 00:07:17.189 --> 00:07:19.430 spots available in different campgrounds, but 00:07:19.430 --> 00:07:23.470 not for that long of a stretch. And then we find 00:07:23.470 --> 00:07:26.230 one all the way down south of us by Hot Springs 00:07:26.230 --> 00:07:30.029 on a lake called Lake Ouachita. And it's like, 00:07:30.209 --> 00:07:34.230 okay, it seems to be our only choice. So we book 00:07:34.230 --> 00:07:37.389 our reservation there, and we get to this campground, 00:07:37.490 --> 00:07:39.970 and we come to the little thing you enter in, 00:07:39.990 --> 00:07:42.870 you know, where you sign in. There's nobody in 00:07:42.870 --> 00:07:46.620 it. Just take this tag and put it on a little 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:50.800 post by your campsite. And we have a reservation 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.959 and we get to it. And we are in the woods. It's 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.959 a national forest, actually. And there's a lot 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:01.639 of... Woods, it's all woods behind us and next 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.399 to us to the next camp spot. And just before 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.720 we left, we had bear attacked by our place. Yeah, 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.980 I mean, it was within our county. Within our 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:13.920 county, someone got killed by a bear attack. 00:08:14.970 --> 00:08:16.850 And 30 days before that, there'd been another 00:08:16.850 --> 00:08:20.389 bear attack in Arkansas. Yeah. And so one of 00:08:20.389 --> 00:08:23.509 our friends texted me and said, you don't want 00:08:23.509 --> 00:08:25.670 to go camping because of the bears, you know. 00:08:25.689 --> 00:08:27.810 And, you know, that's pretty discouraging to 00:08:27.810 --> 00:08:29.389 hear that because we're in a tent. We're not 00:08:29.389 --> 00:08:32.409 in a camper. I'm not concerned about a bear if 00:08:32.409 --> 00:08:34.909 you're in a camper, you know. But a tent's another 00:08:34.909 --> 00:08:38.590 story. Right. So anyway, we get to this spot 00:08:38.590 --> 00:08:41.529 and I'm looking, you know, and the only signs 00:08:41.529 --> 00:08:45.809 of life is across from us. trailer there. It's 00:08:45.809 --> 00:08:48.850 the camp host and he's a volunteer. He just got 00:08:48.850 --> 00:08:51.690 there and, and I thought, well, and I'm kind 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:54.809 of, I'm not happy. Yeah. You know, because I 00:08:54.809 --> 00:08:58.070 was geared on catching fish, different, different 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:02.250 kinds of fish, walleye, striped bass, hybrid 00:09:02.250 --> 00:09:05.269 bass, hopefully. And all of a sudden here we 00:09:05.269 --> 00:09:08.570 are at this campground and a few spots down and 00:09:08.570 --> 00:09:10.909 away, there's the shower and all that. And it's 00:09:10.909 --> 00:09:15.580 closed because Because of the shutdown, there's 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:18.580 not enough government people. You know, the contracts 00:09:18.580 --> 00:09:20.519 are not there for those that come in and take 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.120 care of it. So the park rangers have to, so they 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.759 closed that one. And we had to have to go with 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.539 this for another one. So everything is not looking 00:09:28.539 --> 00:09:31.379 good in my eyes. It was kind of falling apart. 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.519 Yeah. And so a few days later, you know, we thought, 00:09:35.659 --> 00:09:38.440 okay, let's go fishing at the lake here. It's 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.480 dusk. That's when the fish come to shore. I use 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.639 every strategy that I can think of for bait, 00:09:44.779 --> 00:09:47.820 for walleye, for anything that would come to 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:50.759 the shore at night. I got one bluegill about 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.539 the size of my hand, you know, and, you know, 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.039 it's just really. And so we're walking back, 00:09:56.100 --> 00:09:58.679 and the next day we're going by, and there's 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.200 a guy that caught some catfish on a trout line 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.830 that he put out there. And we look up and here's 00:10:04.830 --> 00:10:07.509 the sign up there saying warning. And it has 00:10:07.509 --> 00:10:09.149 a fish with a line through it, you know, the 00:10:09.149 --> 00:10:12.570 warning signs thing with a slash. The fish in 00:10:12.570 --> 00:10:16.730 this lake have higher contents of mercury because 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:20.110 of mining and other natural stuff in the lake. 00:10:20.230 --> 00:10:22.929 Yeah, it's just natural. It's natural. So, you 00:10:22.929 --> 00:10:25.730 know, we don't want to, you know, keep any fish. 00:10:26.350 --> 00:10:28.649 And it's just like it took the wind out of my 00:10:28.649 --> 00:10:31.149 sail to even try to catch anything to turn it 00:10:31.149 --> 00:10:35.730 loose. And so every morning and every night we 00:10:35.730 --> 00:10:39.029 had a campfire. And normally my normal routine 00:10:39.029 --> 00:10:40.950 in the morning on the other river, I'd get up 00:10:40.950 --> 00:10:43.850 about 6 .30, 7 o 'clock, and you hear a lot of 00:10:43.850 --> 00:10:46.230 ruckus out there because guys are getting in 00:10:46.230 --> 00:10:49.450 their boats or whatever. Everybody's going fishing. 00:10:49.470 --> 00:10:51.309 Everybody's going fishing. And I'd just cross 00:10:51.309 --> 00:10:55.190 the road in front of us, go about 70 feet, and 00:10:55.190 --> 00:10:57.250 walk down the bank to the river and just fish 00:10:57.250 --> 00:10:59.990 from the shore and do very well. You know, probably 00:10:59.990 --> 00:11:03.330 as good as the guys in the boats, you know. And 00:11:03.330 --> 00:11:06.389 so we can't do any of this. And so I'm just kind 00:11:06.389 --> 00:11:09.070 of a little bit of a pity party, you know, and 00:11:09.070 --> 00:11:13.169 all that. So I'm reading the Bible, and I got 00:11:13.169 --> 00:11:15.950 a book, and I was reading this book called There 00:11:15.950 --> 00:11:19.710 Shall Be No M. That was by Arthur Burt, who has, 00:11:19.889 --> 00:11:22.029 you know, he's over 100 years old, and he has 00:11:22.029 --> 00:11:24.970 lived through revivals, and he's from Wales. 00:11:25.389 --> 00:11:28.269 You know, so he knows all about the Welsh revival. 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.039 All the marvelous moves of God they've had. So 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.500 I'm reading that and what it takes and how the 00:11:36.500 --> 00:11:39.740 downfall of revival is pride. Pride gets in the 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:43.620 way. And when man thinks, I can do this myself. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.259 I've got this now, God. I see how you're doing 00:11:47.259 --> 00:11:50.740 it. I'll do it that way. And we've read all kinds 00:11:50.740 --> 00:11:53.500 of books on the Welsh revival. And other revivals. 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:56.740 And other revivals. And I never understood what 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:59.539 happened in the Welsh revival. And I read there 00:11:59.539 --> 00:12:02.320 was Evan Roberts. He made this statement that 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.519 God is never going to move at all in this particular 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.679 denomination. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He said God's not 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.000 going to move. Some of the church people were, 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.259 because he's saying this publicly, and said, 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.679 can you please change your mindset on that? You 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.139 know, the way you're saying this. He said, no, 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.919 God's not going to use this organization for 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.559 revival at all. And what Arthur Burt says after 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:32.179 he said that, the Welsh revival started to ebb. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.679 Wow. I thought, wow. And I never knew why. Yeah. 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.100 You know, we've heard all the different moves 00:12:39.100 --> 00:12:42.539 like Pensacola. The elders, church people got 00:12:42.539 --> 00:12:46.460 together. We want our church back. And they didn't 00:12:46.460 --> 00:12:49.940 want to have the schedule of revival. I think 00:12:49.940 --> 00:12:52.399 similar things may have happened in Toronto, 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.519 and that move went on a long time. It was powerful. 00:12:55.820 --> 00:12:59.309 But every revival that we have seen. Move of 00:12:59.309 --> 00:13:02.590 God has ebbed, you know. So, you know, I'm reading 00:13:02.590 --> 00:13:05.169 this book, reading what it takes to be an instrument 00:13:05.169 --> 00:13:07.889 for revival. You know, how you've got to get 00:13:07.889 --> 00:13:10.230 rid of pride, and he dealt with his own circumstances. 00:13:11.289 --> 00:13:14.710 And he talked about his own downfalls when he 00:13:14.710 --> 00:13:17.389 would get proud. Yeah, he mentioned things, and 00:13:17.389 --> 00:13:19.879 I thought... He humbled himself. And I remember 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.559 our founder, Sister Gwen, said, don't ever put 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.779 me on a pedestal because I'll have to get knocked 00:13:24.779 --> 00:13:29.679 off. And we understand that very, very much. 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:34.840 So anyway, I'm reading one morning and I just 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.340 hear this thing, glowworm. I thought, are you 00:13:38.340 --> 00:13:43.399 a glowworm? A glow worm, you know, okay. So what's 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.519 a glow worm? So it's a worm that glows. So anyway, 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.200 my first thought that comes to my head is Isaiah 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.879 chapter 41. And, you know, Israel has had its 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.179 wars. It has its good kings, has its bad kings. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.240 And when they have a good king, everything prospers. 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.440 And when they have a bad king and he lets in 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.419 idolatry or doesn't do anything about it, you 00:14:06.419 --> 00:14:08.750 know, things start going downhill. And it might 00:14:08.750 --> 00:14:11.970 take 30 years or so. And then things get just 00:14:11.970 --> 00:14:14.730 really bad. And all of a sudden, nations are 00:14:14.730 --> 00:14:17.409 coming in. They're robbing the harvest. And all 00:14:17.409 --> 00:14:19.830 kinds of things are going into captivity. And 00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:22.610 that happened after four bad kings in a row. 00:14:22.769 --> 00:14:26.190 I think Zedekiah was the last bad king. And I 00:14:26.190 --> 00:14:28.250 think they put his eyes out and then marched 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:31.429 him to Babylon. It's sad endings when you read 00:14:31.429 --> 00:14:35.809 that. It's about what happens. But Israel is 00:14:35.809 --> 00:14:39.110 God's chosen people. Right. From way back when, 00:14:39.190 --> 00:14:41.870 thou art mine, I've called you by my name, you 00:14:41.870 --> 00:14:45.029 are mine. That's out of Isaiah also. So God, 00:14:45.110 --> 00:14:49.990 even talking judgments, has great mercy. Absolutely. 00:14:50.509 --> 00:14:53.509 Long suffering. I mean, he lets stuff go a long 00:14:53.509 --> 00:14:56.460 time. I've been looking at that. There seems 00:14:56.460 --> 00:15:00.679 to be something like a 400 -year cycle where 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:04.899 God makes promises, and he tells the people to 00:15:04.899 --> 00:15:09.559 obey him, and there'll be a generation or two 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.100 that'll obey, and then they go into idolatry 00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:15.519 and the sins that bring the curse on the land. 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.139 God is very patient. I mean, I think 400 years 00:15:20.139 --> 00:15:23.379 is very patient. That's very, that's very, very 00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:25.679 patient. So it's, you know, it's 430, 400 this, 00:15:25.860 --> 00:15:29.080 400 that, you know, almost 400. But there's this 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.580 kind of cycle that, you know, people that read 00:15:32.580 --> 00:15:35.159 the Old Testament and think that God is just 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.639 mean and just judgmental, they don't realize 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.519 the amount of time that goes by in between these 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.940 things before God actually brings the hammer 00:15:43.940 --> 00:15:46.899 down. Yeah. So I went to the book of Isaiah. 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.940 I just love the book of Isaiah. Oh, yes. How 00:15:50.940 --> 00:15:54.519 many people have, you know, kings and government 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.779 officials, you know, they quote from this a lot 00:15:56.779 --> 00:15:59.259 of times not even knowing, you know, where Scripture 00:15:59.259 --> 00:16:04.879 comes from. So anyway, Isaiah 41, and in verse 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.799 10, so this is the Lord speaking through Isaiah, 00:16:09.059 --> 00:16:12.370 Fear thou not. This is King James. Fear thou 00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:15.350 not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for 00:16:15.350 --> 00:16:18.850 I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea, I 00:16:18.850 --> 00:16:22.210 will help thee, yea, I will uphold you with the 00:16:22.210 --> 00:16:24.750 right hand of my righteousness. You know, because 00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:28.649 God is all about righteousness. Behold, all they 00:16:28.649 --> 00:16:31.169 that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed 00:16:31.169 --> 00:16:35.529 and confounded. They shall be as nothing, and 00:16:35.529 --> 00:16:38.509 they that strive with thee shall perish. Sounds 00:16:38.509 --> 00:16:41.700 like what's happening in... Gaza. Yeah. Thou 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.379 shalt seek them and shall not find them. Even 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:47.100 then that content with thee, they that war against 00:16:47.100 --> 00:16:50.659 thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught. 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:53.399 We have seen that through Israel. Yeah. Modern 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.000 day. For I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.639 hand. Hallelujah. Saying unto thee, Fear not, 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.080 I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, 00:17:03.340 --> 00:17:06.400 and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, saith 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:10.039 the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.279 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.220 instrument, having teeth. Thou shalt thresh the 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:20.440 mountains and beat them small, and thou shalt 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.460 make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, 00:17:23.579 --> 00:17:26.480 and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.819 shall scatter them, and thou shalt rejoice in 00:17:28.819 --> 00:17:32.220 the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of 00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:35.579 Israel. And so you have the Jewish nation, which 00:17:35.579 --> 00:17:38.839 has survived over 3 ,000 years. No other people 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:42.380 grew past. This is just God's Word. He's fulfilling 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:46.220 His Word. So you go back to verse 13. Fear not, 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.160 thou worm, Jacob. Now, when you think of a worm, 00:17:49.869 --> 00:17:52.930 I think of worm fishing. Oh, sure. You know, 00:17:52.990 --> 00:17:55.190 let's put this worm on a hook, you know, we're 00:17:55.190 --> 00:17:57.579 gonna... It's going to get something, you know. 00:17:57.740 --> 00:18:01.299 And so what are worms? What are they? They crawl 00:18:01.299 --> 00:18:04.180 under the ground and they eat dirt, you know. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.319 And it's good. They fertilize the soil, you know. 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:12.039 So God is calling Jacob a worm. But he's taking 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.900 this worm and he's thrashing a mountain. Right. 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.440 And that's what we have seen Israel do. You know, 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.099 though all the nations are warring against it 00:18:21.099 --> 00:18:24.900 politically. And militarily, I mean, you got 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:28.059 arms from Russia, arms from Iran, you know, and 00:18:28.059 --> 00:18:32.039 all that. They're fighting against Israel. And 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:35.599 usually the fights between Israel and their neighbors 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.859 are testing grounds for manufacturers of new 00:18:39.859 --> 00:18:42.940 weapons, like from the U .S. and from Russia 00:18:42.940 --> 00:18:46.279 and China. Very interesting. But we're seeing 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:49.119 many of these nations get thrashed by Israel. 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:52.950 You know, it's very powerful. But so he's taken 00:18:52.950 --> 00:18:55.789 this worm and thrashing a mountain. So I go back 00:18:55.789 --> 00:19:01.109 to my glow worm. Yeah. So I just, you know, looked 00:19:01.109 --> 00:19:04.309 at Wikipedia, you know, and what it says, it's 00:19:04.309 --> 00:19:07.349 any member of various groups of insect larva 00:19:07.349 --> 00:19:11.349 that glow through the chemical thing while it's 00:19:11.349 --> 00:19:15.509 a larva. You know, that's the crawly stage. Yeah, 00:19:15.509 --> 00:19:17.630 it's the next stage after the egg. Yeah. The 00:19:17.630 --> 00:19:19.569 egg hatches into a larva, and the larva eats 00:19:19.569 --> 00:19:21.410 and eats, and then it becomes an adult. Yeah, 00:19:21.430 --> 00:19:24.369 and, you know, a caterpillar wraps himself in 00:19:24.369 --> 00:19:27.450 a cocoon of green goo and turns out this magnificent 00:19:27.450 --> 00:19:30.789 butterfly, you know. So anyway, so you have the 00:19:30.789 --> 00:19:34.450 glow worm. But this worm is not an adult stage. 00:19:34.750 --> 00:19:38.970 Right. It's in its infancy. Or maybe teenage 00:19:38.970 --> 00:19:41.250 years. Or maybe teenage years, but, you know. 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.380 But it glows, you know. Wow. You know, so if 00:19:45.380 --> 00:19:49.339 you actually go to Isaiah chapter 60. Yeah. And 00:19:49.339 --> 00:19:53.539 it's, Arise, shine, for the light has come, and 00:19:53.539 --> 00:19:57.420 the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Behold, 00:19:57.539 --> 00:20:00.240 the darkness shall cover the earth and gross 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.680 darkness the people, which we are seeing on all 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.140 fronts. But the Lord shall rise upon thee, and 00:20:07.140 --> 00:20:11.279 his glory shall be seen upon thee. So arise, 00:20:11.660 --> 00:20:14.259 shine. Yeah, be a glow worm. Let your light shine. 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:19.200 Be a glow worm for Jesus. When our light touches 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.849 God's light, there's an explosion. Yeah, that's 00:20:21.849 --> 00:20:24.150 true. You know, kind of like when conception 00:20:24.150 --> 00:20:26.490 takes place. They've seen under a microscope 00:20:26.490 --> 00:20:29.809 when the egg and the sperm connect, there's an 00:20:29.809 --> 00:20:32.529 explosion of light, just a flash of light. Yes. 00:20:32.690 --> 00:20:36.829 And boom, life has started. Yes. You know, so 00:20:36.829 --> 00:20:39.750 even though sometimes we might feel like we're 00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:42.690 worms, you know, we felt, man, I just really 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:47.269 blew that. Real good. I remember one of the first 00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:50.829 times I ever preached, we were in Taiwan, and 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:54.289 I'd been saved. you know, like four or five years, 00:20:54.369 --> 00:20:57.069 four years, maybe, you know, and so all of a 00:20:57.069 --> 00:20:59.789 sudden I'm preaching in this church in Taiwan 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:02.269 and I'm kind of struggling through it. And I 00:21:02.269 --> 00:21:04.549 see Sister Gwen kind of got her head down and 00:21:04.549 --> 00:21:08.630 thought maybe repenting for having me, you know, 00:21:08.630 --> 00:21:12.349 I felt like a worm trying to glow. I'm really 00:21:12.349 --> 00:21:15.990 trying to glow, you know, you know, but I'd been 00:21:15.990 --> 00:21:19.109 a backslider for years. I knew the lot of things 00:21:19.109 --> 00:21:20.930 in the Bible, but I didn't know a lot of scriptures. 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.740 But you have to start somewhere. Exactly. I mean, 00:21:24.779 --> 00:21:27.740 we all start like a glowworm. Right. You know, 00:21:27.779 --> 00:21:29.839 no matter where you come from, how high your 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:32.819 education, you can have all these degrees and 00:21:32.819 --> 00:21:35.079 all that, but all of a sudden you're put in front 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.180 of a bunch of people and your notes just get 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:40.859 blurry and you get stage fright, you know, or 00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:44.680 maybe something along those lines. But, you know, 00:21:44.700 --> 00:21:47.359 as we grow in the Lord. That's how we get our 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.400 wings. Amen. You know, sometimes you have to 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.920 go through a cocoon different times, you know, 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:54.880 in order to get... Can I add something about 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:57.519 the worm? Yeah, go ahead. So I looked up the 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:01.279 word from Isaiah 41 and verse 14, where it's 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:04.339 talking about the word worm, and it's the Hebrew 00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:09.440 word tola, and it is referring to a certain worm, 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:12.599 a certain... one in particular. It can also mean 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:15.319 maggots and things like that. But it is referring 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:19.400 to this certain female, and I'm going to try 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.440 to say the Latin name of it, Coccus illicis. 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:26.720 And it is a worm that, it's called the scarlet 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.880 worm. And when she's ready to give birth, you 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.220 know, to lay her eggs, she attaches herself to 00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:35.180 the trunk of a tree. And it's a permanent detachment, 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:37.740 like, this is it. I'm going to die here. And 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:41.480 she lays her eggs and covers them with her body, 00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:45.619 and then she dies. And as she dies, this crimson 00:22:45.619 --> 00:22:48.960 fluid comes out of her, and it stains the tree. 00:22:49.059 --> 00:22:52.660 And that was what the ancient people would use 00:22:52.660 --> 00:22:56.359 in antiquity for a scarlet dye. They would collect 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:02.079 these little bodies of these female worms. And 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.779 that was the crimson stain. So any place where 00:23:04.779 --> 00:23:07.240 you see in the scripture where it's talking about 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:12.000 scarlet and making the tent of meeting the tabernacle 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.779 in the wilderness, they're looking for scarlet 00:23:14.779 --> 00:23:19.039 thread. It comes from this worm. So there's something 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:23.279 about the idea that she lays down her life and 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.000 it's like she's covering with the blood. So it's 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.599 kind of a picture of Jesus that came to give 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:33.599 us life. And gave his life for us and the power 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.039 of his blood covering us. I just think that's 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:39.660 such a beautiful picture. So that's one way that 00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:43.960 the Lord can use this worm to thresh a mountain 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:48.000 by the blood of Jesus. Yes, amen. So back to 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.980 where you were going. I'm sorry for the bunny 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:51.960 trail, but I thought you'd enjoyed that little 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.259 piece. So that's kind of a nice thing. You're 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:57.740 sitting by this nice campfire, you know. I feel 00:23:57.740 --> 00:24:01.980 like a glowworm, you know. And what I realized 00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:05.220 through this, you know, it's like it's a time 00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:08.240 of celebration, Sukkot, you know. And actually 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.180 when they put the tent up or they put their sukkah 00:24:11.180 --> 00:24:14.799 up and they always have a spare place sitting 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.000 there. Yeah. And that's for Elijah. Right. And 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.799 I remember when earlier years on a Friday night. 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:25.279 at our devotions around the table at Ingletal 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:27.119 here. You know, we would have dinner and Sister 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.579 Gwen would have her basket of letters. And we 00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:33.380 would have this book, Tales of Elijah. You know, 00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:36.099 this is from Jewish folklore. Yeah, that's a 00:24:36.099 --> 00:24:40.220 good way to put it. And some very, very interesting 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:44.079 things. That is just... Really major thing. So 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:46.420 they would always have a place for Elijah to 00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:49.720 sit if he just happened to show up. Because everyone's 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:51.700 expecting that in the last days, Elijah's going 00:24:51.700 --> 00:24:54.839 to show up and lead the hearts of the fathers 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:56.660 to the children and the hearts of the children 00:24:56.660 --> 00:24:58.599 to the fathers. Some of the last scriptures in 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:03.039 the Tanakh, it's Malachi. So I had to kind of 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.319 get my perspective right. When you start thinking 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.160 of fishing, more than I do than getting away 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.519 with God, something has to change to kind of 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:16.660 get you on course. So this was kind of God's 00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:19.920 way of doing it. Close the campground, water 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:22.940 levels are high, no fish, and then to put the 00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:26.180 icing on the cake. After we get back, I thought, 00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:28.599 well, we'll get up there soon, maybe again, or 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:32.099 maybe for a day. I get this notice sent from 00:25:32.099 --> 00:25:35.849 my nephew. that two of the hatcheries that we 00:25:35.849 --> 00:25:38.009 have that provide all the trout for the rivers 00:25:38.009 --> 00:25:41.170 here, one got flooded bad and another had real 00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:46.430 bad water in it. And all fishing, all the way 00:25:46.430 --> 00:25:48.650 from the last dam down the river to where we 00:25:48.650 --> 00:25:52.170 go, you cannot keep any trout. You have to turn 00:25:52.170 --> 00:25:54.210 them all loose. That hatchery, all the fish were 00:25:54.210 --> 00:25:56.009 poisoned and they died. Yeah, that's the one 00:25:56.009 --> 00:25:59.279 right where we camp. It's just magnificent. hatchery, 00:25:59.299 --> 00:26:01.319 and they got some nice -sized trout in there. 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:03.779 Oh, it's beautiful. And the river they release 00:26:03.779 --> 00:26:06.740 them in, it's not very wide, and they'll let 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:11.039 people like under 16 or handicapped with a barbless 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.880 hook catch and release these magnificent trout. 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:17.440 I mean big trout. I wonder if those were killed 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:20.119 too. Possibly, unless they're all just in the 00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:22.640 river. They might just stay in the river, but 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.319 they tend to go up in there. And it's just like 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:28.299 there's no new trout, and they provide trout 00:26:28.299 --> 00:26:30.980 for the lakes all and the rivers nearby. Could 00:26:30.980 --> 00:26:33.619 be years before there's good fishing again. So 00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:37.000 we may end up going back to that same campsite. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.980 Who knows? Because even this campsite where we 00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:43.859 always go, it's noisy. And people are right here 00:26:43.859 --> 00:26:46.880 next to each other, and it's a noisy campground. 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.660 So I kind of enjoyed where we were. The quiet. 00:26:51.819 --> 00:26:53.799 And I thought, well, maybe if fishing's lousy, 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.500 maybe we'll just go back there again. But God 00:26:56.500 --> 00:26:59.180 had to change my whole perspective on that. Yeah. 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:03.440 But one thing I was really studying in this book 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:08.859 about revival, too, is God gives us gifts, all 00:27:08.859 --> 00:27:11.539 the gifts of the Spirit and that. And there's 00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:14.589 an emphasis on the gifts. You're very strong. 00:27:14.730 --> 00:27:17.230 Yeah. Many churches, a lot of them, they're in 00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:20.029 the prophetic, and you have the word church, 00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:23.829 and you have the apostolic church, you have the 00:27:23.829 --> 00:27:27.210 bishops, you have all these titles and all these 00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:30.599 things. And many of them, they strive in that 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.240 stream. But there is one thing that has to happen 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.819 to make those actually flow to what they're designed 00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:41.019 for, and that's to have the love of God. Very 00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:43.940 true. And the Lord quickened me to 1 Corinthians 00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:50.660 12. And I'm going to start in verse 6 here. This 00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:53.640 is in the Passion Translation. Oh, okay. Yeah. 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:57.140 The same God distributes different kinds of miracles 00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:59.920 that accomplish different results through each 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:03.259 believer's gift and ministry as he energizes 00:28:03.259 --> 00:28:06.660 and activates them. Make a note of that as he 00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:08.660 energizes and activates them. With a capital 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:11.460 H. Yeah. They don't have a capital H here. It 00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:14.490 should be, though. Yeah. In our opinion. In our 00:28:14.490 --> 00:28:19.890 opinion. We're backseat translators. So every 00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.950 believer is given continuous revelation by the 00:28:22.950 --> 00:28:26.009 Holy Spirit to benefit not just himself, but 00:28:26.009 --> 00:28:30.150 all. And verse 8, for example, the Spirit gives 00:28:30.150 --> 00:28:33.509 to one the gift of the word of wisdom, and to 00:28:33.509 --> 00:28:35.650 another the Spirit gives the gift of the word 00:28:35.650 --> 00:28:38.490 of revelation knowledge. And to another, the 00:28:38.490 --> 00:28:41.670 same Spirit gives the gift of faith. And to another, 00:28:41.849 --> 00:28:45.450 the same Spirit gives gifts of healing. And to 00:28:45.450 --> 00:28:48.789 another, the power to work miracles. And to another, 00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:51.970 the gift of prophecy. And to another, the gift 00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:55.109 to discern what the Spirit is speaking. And to 00:28:55.109 --> 00:28:57.329 another, the gift of speaking different kinds 00:28:57.329 --> 00:29:00.630 of tongues. And to another, the gift of interpretation 00:29:00.630 --> 00:29:04.630 of tongues. And we see these being activated 00:29:04.630 --> 00:29:08.849 and used today. Remember, this is verse 11, it 00:29:08.849 --> 00:29:12.450 is the same Holy Spirit who distributes, activates, 00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:15.950 and operates these different gifts as he chooses 00:29:15.950 --> 00:29:19.470 for each believer. You know, and then it goes 00:29:19.470 --> 00:29:22.009 on, just as the human body is one, though it 00:29:22.009 --> 00:29:25.410 has many parts that together form one body, so 00:29:25.410 --> 00:29:28.589 too is Christ. For by one Spirit we all were 00:29:28.589 --> 00:29:31.809 immersed and mingled into one single body. And 00:29:31.809 --> 00:29:34.130 no matter our status, whether we are Jews or 00:29:34.130 --> 00:29:37.569 non -Jews, oppressed or free, we are all privileged 00:29:37.569 --> 00:29:41.069 to drink deeply of the same Holy Spirit. Amen. 00:29:41.109 --> 00:29:44.250 All the different denominations. It's one Holy 00:29:44.250 --> 00:29:47.769 Spirit. There's only one. And it goes on saying, 00:29:47.950 --> 00:29:50.509 if I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body. 00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:53.529 Or if I'm an ear to say, since I'm not an eye, 00:29:53.569 --> 00:29:56.259 I'm not really part of the body. You know, that 00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:58.640 goes on all the, you know, speaking in different 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:02.000 ways. But we need the whole body. Your whole 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.619 body has to function to function perfect. You 00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:07.160 know, what it's designed for. Exactly. You know, 00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:10.700 like you better have two eyeballs than one. You 00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:13.500 know, because you get focus. Right. Depth perception 00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:15.599 with two eyeballs where you don't get with one. 00:30:16.329 --> 00:30:19.230 And every part of our body, you know, is designed 00:30:19.230 --> 00:30:22.130 to do something. And the same it is in the body 00:30:22.130 --> 00:30:24.069 of Christ with all the gifts, you know, and when 00:30:24.069 --> 00:30:26.569 they all flow together, you're going somewhere. 00:30:26.769 --> 00:30:30.569 Right. But too many times, just like we read 00:30:30.569 --> 00:30:34.150 in the moves of God, flesh gets in the way. Pride 00:30:34.150 --> 00:30:36.970 gets in the way. Yeah. So things are not going 00:30:36.970 --> 00:30:41.029 to really work as well as they could. So let's 00:30:41.029 --> 00:30:44.430 go down to verse 27. and the title here is One 00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:47.890 Body with Different Gifts. You are the body of 00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:50.450 the anointed one, and each of you is a unique 00:30:50.450 --> 00:30:53.410 and vital part of it. God has placed in the church 00:30:53.410 --> 00:30:57.089 the following, first apostles, second prophets, 00:30:57.369 --> 00:31:00.630 third teachers, then those with gifts of miracles, 00:31:00.930 --> 00:31:04.029 gifts of divine healing, gifts of revelation 00:31:04.029 --> 00:31:07.309 knowledge, gifts of leadership, and gifts of 00:31:07.309 --> 00:31:10.529 different kind of tongues. Now, we know people 00:31:10.529 --> 00:31:13.470 that operate in all of these. To a certain extent, 00:31:13.690 --> 00:31:16.269 you know. For others, it's just their focus. 00:31:17.250 --> 00:31:21.369 Verse 29, not everyone is an apostle or a prophet 00:31:21.369 --> 00:31:24.490 or a teacher. Not everyone performs miracles 00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:27.710 or has gifts of healing or speaks in tongues 00:31:27.710 --> 00:31:31.349 or interprets tongues. But you should all consistently 00:31:31.349 --> 00:31:35.049 boil over with passion in seeking the higher 00:31:35.049 --> 00:31:38.410 gifts. And these are good. You know, this describes 00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:40.589 all this in this whole chapter. It talks about 00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:44.289 the gifts. But really what caught my eye was 00:31:44.289 --> 00:31:48.390 this last verse. And now I will show you a superior 00:31:48.390 --> 00:31:52.630 way to live that is beyond comparison. And that 00:31:52.630 --> 00:31:57.049 goes immediately into chapter 13. And many times 00:31:57.049 --> 00:32:00.049 when we're reading the Bible, we'll read a chapter 00:32:00.049 --> 00:32:02.670 a day or two chapters, and they'll get to that 00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:07.160 point and they will stop. And they'll start a 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.920 next chapter the next day not realizing this 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.680 is a continuous letter. Right. I just want to 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:17.799 point out that when I was young and, you know, 00:32:17.819 --> 00:32:20.279 I was raised in the church. When I was a child 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.220 and thought as a child. Yeah, that's part of 00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:26.900 that chapter. But I learned chapter 12. I learned 00:32:26.900 --> 00:32:30.720 about the gifts. And I think probably even before 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.059 I heard about the gifts, maybe back in my Baptist 00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:38.680 days. I learned about the love chapter. It's 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.900 the love chapter. Chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians, 00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:44.059 it's the love chapter. And you just talk about 00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:46.059 love, and it's about love, and it's about love, 00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:48.359 and love, and love. I mean, if you do this, but 00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:50.880 you don't have love, da -da -da -da -da. All 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:53.859 you need is love. Well, that was another story. 00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.460 Anyway, I never saw until, and please excuse 00:32:59.460 --> 00:33:02.589 me, maybe you always saw it. Maybe, listener, 00:33:02.670 --> 00:33:06.269 you always saw it, but I was absolutely dumb 00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:10.329 about this, that I didn't really see it until 00:33:10.329 --> 00:33:12.849 Philip brought it out. I understood that last 00:33:12.849 --> 00:33:15.450 verse, yet I show you a more excellent way, and 00:33:15.450 --> 00:33:18.069 you just move into love. And love is the more 00:33:18.069 --> 00:33:21.150 excellent way, but I never saw it before that 00:33:21.150 --> 00:33:25.029 it's referring to those gifts of the previous 00:33:25.029 --> 00:33:29.349 chapter. I hadn't seen it, and it just became 00:33:29.349 --> 00:33:33.430 profound to me. that you can go on with where 00:33:33.430 --> 00:33:35.890 you're going, but it was profound to me to realize 00:33:35.890 --> 00:33:38.670 that it's talking specifically about those gifts 00:33:38.670 --> 00:33:42.490 and operating them without love. Yeah. So when 00:33:42.490 --> 00:33:45.710 we continue with the chapter 13, so it goes right 00:33:45.710 --> 00:33:49.890 from what we were reading in chapter 12 on to 00:33:49.890 --> 00:33:53.130 13, and it says, I show you a more excellent 00:33:53.130 --> 00:33:58.049 way. And so then it goes, if I were to speak 00:33:58.049 --> 00:34:01.410 with eloquence in earth's many languages and 00:34:01.410 --> 00:34:04.029 in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn't 00:34:04.029 --> 00:34:07.569 express myself with love, my words would be reduced 00:34:07.569 --> 00:34:10.289 to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging 00:34:10.289 --> 00:34:13.659 cymbal. And if I were to have the gift of prophecy 00:34:13.659 --> 00:34:16.039 with a profound understanding of God's hidden 00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:19.340 secrets, if I possessed unending supernatural 00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:22.639 knowledge, if I had the greatest gift of faith 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.800 that could move mountains but have never learned 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.280 to love, I am nothing. If I were to be so generous 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.179 to give away everything I own to feed the poor 00:34:32.179 --> 00:34:34.739 and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr, 00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.159 without the pure motive of love, I would gain 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.460 nothing in value. It goes on speaking, you know, 00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:45.639 all these marvelous things of love. And in verse 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.559 8, love never stops loving. That's good. We'll 00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:51.900 pause right here a minute. In the Greek, there's 00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:55.780 three words for love. And the love, this is agape. 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:59.320 You know, it's more like the God love. Would 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.519 you want to, you have it right there. Yeah, I 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.960 have it right here. The word agape. What's nice 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.659 about the Hebrew Greek key study Bible. Yes. 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.119 So the word agape, agapau is to love. That's 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.099 the verb. So this is the, this is the noun. It 00:35:15.099 --> 00:35:19.039 is translated charity, meaning benevolent love. 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.019 It's benevolence, however, is not shown by doing 00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:26.849 what the person love desires. but what the one 00:35:26.849 --> 00:35:32.349 who loves deems as needed by the one loved. For 00:35:32.349 --> 00:35:35.530 instance, God so loved the world that he gave. 00:35:36.130 --> 00:35:39.409 He gave not what man wanted, but what man needed 00:35:39.409 --> 00:35:43.090 as God perceived his need, namely his Son, who 00:35:43.090 --> 00:35:45.409 brought forgiveness to man. God's love for man 00:35:45.409 --> 00:35:48.309 is doing what he thinks best for man and not 00:35:48.309 --> 00:35:51.230 what man desires. It is God's willful direction 00:35:51.230 --> 00:35:54.539 toward man. But for man to show love to God, 00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:58.280 he must first appropriate God's agape, for only 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.340 God has such an unselfish love. Isn't that beautiful? 00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:04.800 Beautiful. So that's agape love, which is what 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.659 we press into. But it comes from him. You have 00:36:07.659 --> 00:36:11.320 to get it from him. And then there's the filial 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.320 love, and that's the love like you have to each 00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.929 other. That's a brotherly love. It's where the 00:36:16.929 --> 00:36:19.050 Church of Philadelphia, that's where that comes 00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:22.190 from, Filio, the Church of Brotherly Love. Yes. 00:36:22.389 --> 00:36:25.289 One of the seven churches of Revelation. Right. 00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:30.030 And even Philip is a lover of horses. Yeah. I 00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:33.010 love the white horse that Jesus is coming on. 00:36:33.030 --> 00:36:36.250 There you go. That's the one I love. And I remember 00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:39.190 there was even a church in Chicago that was part 00:36:39.190 --> 00:36:42.809 of our chain, if you want to call it. That was 00:36:42.809 --> 00:36:47.369 the Philadelphia Church. And then there's another 00:36:47.369 --> 00:36:51.469 word, eros, which is the love like a husband 00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:54.909 to a wife. But in our English word, all that 00:36:54.909 --> 00:36:58.739 is combined in one. And what are, and we don't 00:36:58.739 --> 00:37:02.079 listen to it, but what are 90 % of all the songs 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.179 you hear on country and western stations? Love 00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:08.500 or lack of it or lost it. A lot of stations. 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.420 A lot of the music is all about love because 00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:13.139 it's really important to people. It's important. 00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:16.079 And it strikes people when they're going through 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.659 something because music is emotionally very strong. 00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.780 It works on your emotions. And especially when 00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:26.349 you use the title love. And there's so much music 00:37:26.349 --> 00:37:29.369 is based about it or what happened when I had 00:37:29.369 --> 00:37:32.170 it and lost it and said goodbye to it and getting 00:37:32.170 --> 00:37:34.909 it back again. You know, play your LP record 00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:37.570 backwards. You know, in country western, you 00:37:37.570 --> 00:37:39.929 get your car back, your dog back, you get your 00:37:39.929 --> 00:37:41.869 house back. Get your wife back. Get your wife 00:37:41.869 --> 00:37:46.449 back. Yeah. That's a joke. That's a joke. So 00:37:46.449 --> 00:37:50.329 moving right along, we're back in verse 8 here. 00:37:51.150 --> 00:37:54.469 So love never stops loving. It extends beyond 00:37:54.469 --> 00:37:57.429 the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades 00:37:57.429 --> 00:38:00.130 away. You know, I have a thought about that. 00:38:00.289 --> 00:38:03.449 It eventually fades away because eventually all 00:38:03.449 --> 00:38:06.650 prophecy will be fulfilled. Fulfilled, uh -huh. 00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:08.429 And then there's no more need for prophecy. And 00:38:08.429 --> 00:38:10.469 if it's of God, it will be fulfilled. Exactly. 00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:13.389 And if the vision will tarry, wait for it. Exactly. 00:38:13.389 --> 00:38:20.320 Some visions take a long time. Okay. So it is 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.719 more enduring than tongues, which will one day 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:26.880 fall silent. Yeah. You know why? Because when 00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.920 we get to heaven, we'll speak thought to thought. 00:38:29.059 --> 00:38:33.579 Yeah. Yeah. So love remains long after words 00:38:33.579 --> 00:38:37.099 of knowledge are forgotten. And, you know, it's 00:38:37.099 --> 00:38:39.300 kind of like that theme song that came out of 00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:43.300 the Titanic, My Heart Will Go On. You know, and 00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:46.599 when a loved one dies, sometimes, you know, people 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:48.420 have been married for a long time. Oh, yeah. 00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:50.880 The spouse will not survive. That's true. And 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.380 they die very quickly because, you know, even 00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:57.840 an animal sometime, if the dog's master passes 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:00.719 away, the dog a lot of times just goes in the 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.900 morning. Sometimes they die of a broken heart. 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.119 And some people will never recover it all their 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:12.300 life from the loss of love of a loved one. So 00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.699 love is powerful. Can I stick something in here? 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.780 Yes. Well, I think it's important to share this 00:39:17.780 --> 00:39:20.820 little testimony that Pastor Tony Kemp shared 00:39:20.820 --> 00:39:24.059 of a couple that he knew, and the husband passed 00:39:24.059 --> 00:39:28.820 away, and the wife was mourning, and then she 00:39:28.820 --> 00:39:31.940 had a dream. And in her dream, she saw her husband. 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.940 Might have been a vision. But she saw her husband 00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:37.400 in heaven worshiping the Lord. And she walked 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.880 up behind him. He became aware that she was there. 00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:43.579 He turned around and hugged her. But it was a 00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.760 hug more like a brother -sister hug. It wasn't 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.119 a husband -wife. It was a filial hug. Yeah, it 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.800 was a filial hug. And then he turned back around 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.260 and he went back to worshiping again. And the 00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:56.260 Lord spoke to her and said, whatever his name 00:39:56.260 --> 00:39:59.380 is, let's call him Charlie. Charlie has... a 00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:04.119 new life. You need to get one too. And she came 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.760 back and she woke up from that dream or the vision 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.420 or whatever it was. And her heart was really 00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:13.840 healed from the loss of her husband because she 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.219 realized that God had given her something that 00:40:17.219 --> 00:40:20.019 she could work with. You need to get one too. 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.599 So in this little moment when we're talking about 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:26.579 lost love, if you have had that experience where 00:40:26.579 --> 00:40:29.480 you're mourning the loss of someone, that person 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:32.340 has a new life, and you need to get one too. 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.059 That's very good. Wow. So I'll go on in verse 00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:41.780 9 here. Our present knowledge and our prophecies 00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:45.420 are but partial, but when love's perfection arrives, 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.880 the partial will fade away. When I was a child, 00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.840 I spoke about childless things, for I saw things 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.880 like a child and reasoned like a child. But the 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:58.519 day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish 00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:02.480 ways. For now we see but a faint reflection of 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:05.579 riddles and mysteries as though reflected in 00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:08.719 a mirror, but one day we will see face to face. 00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:12.840 My understanding is incomplete now, but one day 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.980 I will understand everything, just as everything 00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:19.460 about me has been fully understood. Until then, 00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:23.440 there are three things that remain, faith, hope, 00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.800 and love. yet love surpasses them all. So above 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.739 all else, you know, and this is above all the 00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:35.260 other gifts. Yes. Let love be the beautiful price 00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:38.500 for which you run. And when we get the love of 00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:41.400 God, the love of Jesus in your heart, it will 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:45.039 help to perfect the gift that you are walking 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.340 in. It says like, be ye perfect as I am perfect. 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.500 You know, Jesus spoke those words and it really 00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:55.150 is be complete. Like I am complete because we 00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:57.769 are complete in him. Exactly. Paul says that. 00:41:58.010 --> 00:42:02.230 So every gift we have must come through complete 00:42:02.230 --> 00:42:05.989 in Jesus for it to be accurate because you don't 00:42:05.989 --> 00:42:09.090 want to give a prophecy to something that's tainted. 00:42:09.269 --> 00:42:13.000 Right. And if you're not walking right. and you're 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.739 prophesying, you know, you could be given tainted 00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:18.960 prophecies because if there's other voices speaking 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:21.920 to you, that can go into your prophetic word. 00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:24.300 It's true. You know, so the greatest of these 00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:27.840 is love. And if we go over to Matthew chapter 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.940 22 real quick, you know, so, you know, Jesus 00:42:31.940 --> 00:42:35.119 has the last word. Yes. That's what I would say. 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:40.800 And in Matthew chapter 22 and verses 36 to 40. 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:43.940 Of course, you know, Jesus always gets confronted 00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:47.840 by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they're 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:50.699 always trying to catch him to say something that 00:42:50.699 --> 00:42:53.659 they can take back to put fuel in the fire of 00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:56.460 the chief priests and all that. So one of them, 00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:59.400 a lawyer, asks a question, tempting him, saying, 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.400 Master, which is the great commandment in the 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.420 law? And of course, they know what the great 00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:07.500 commandment is, but they want to hear his interpretation. 00:43:08.659 --> 00:43:12.150 Jesus said unto them, Thou shalt love the Lord 00:43:12.150 --> 00:43:16.550 thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, 00:43:16.730 --> 00:43:20.789 all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. 00:43:20.889 --> 00:43:24.289 And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love 00:43:24.289 --> 00:43:28.409 thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments 00:43:28.409 --> 00:43:32.710 hang all the law and the prophets. On these two 00:43:32.710 --> 00:43:35.670 commandments hang all the gifts. Oh, that too. 00:43:35.789 --> 00:43:39.349 Yeah. That's well put. So we hang everything. 00:43:41.340 --> 00:43:44.980 Amen. Amen. And if you don't have the love of 00:43:44.980 --> 00:43:47.340 God and you're operating in the gift without 00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:50.159 the love of God, you're going to hurt people, 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.980 you know, and you're going to do things and say 00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:55.820 things that you shouldn't say. You know, there's 00:43:55.820 --> 00:43:59.039 this thing about some people that have a gift 00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:04.719 of prophecy that have used it unlawfully, I would 00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:08.989 say. by saying, okay, if you'll give such and 00:44:08.989 --> 00:44:11.170 such an offering, I'll give you a prophecy. I 00:44:11.170 --> 00:44:15.469 mean, that's just totally wrong motives. That's 00:44:15.469 --> 00:44:18.849 not how you do it. But if you have a gift, you 00:44:18.849 --> 00:44:22.210 can operate in the gift, but don't operate in 00:44:22.210 --> 00:44:25.150 the gift without the love of the giver who gave 00:44:25.150 --> 00:44:29.349 you the gift. You have to operate in that love 00:44:29.349 --> 00:44:34.409 of God because that is his nature. I mean, the 00:44:34.409 --> 00:44:37.739 book of 1 John says that, verse John 4, 7 and 00:44:37.739 --> 00:44:41.719 8 says that God is love. In verse 8, I think 00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:45.800 it is. And so it's his nature. If you look at 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.760 the fruit of the Spirit at the same time that 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:50.440 you're looking at the gifts of the Spirit, the 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.880 very first one from Galatians chapter 5, the 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.539 very first one is love. So it's the first, most 00:44:58.539 --> 00:45:01.460 important thing. And if you go all the way back 00:45:01.460 --> 00:45:05.170 to Sinai, where Moses is up on the mountain with 00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:07.590 God. And, you know, he said, show me your glory. 00:45:07.949 --> 00:45:11.329 And the Lord comes to him and covers him in the 00:45:11.329 --> 00:45:14.949 cleft of the rock. And he roars his name. And 00:45:14.949 --> 00:45:17.429 his name means the one who was and who is and 00:45:17.429 --> 00:45:21.050 who is to come. Yehovah! And so he roars it twice. 00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:23.670 And when you have something twice in Scripture, 00:45:23.869 --> 00:45:28.500 in the Hebrew, it's like multiplied. Like, for 00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:32.019 instance, when you say perfect peace in English, 00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.920 it's really shalom, shalom in Hebrew. So when 00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:41.139 he roars his name, he's saying, I was, I am, 00:45:41.300 --> 00:45:44.699 I always will be what I am. I was, I am, I always 00:45:44.699 --> 00:45:47.619 will be what I am. It's like more than doubling. 00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:50.820 It's like multiplication, exponential multiplication. 00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:56.320 And so he roars his name and then he says. The 00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:59.539 first thing he says about him is from the word 00:45:59.539 --> 00:46:03.519 racham or rachum, and that comes from the same 00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:08.960 root word as the word womb, a woman's womb. So 00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.079 God's womb, it's like womb love. It's like the 00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.480 love that a mother has for her baby. You know, 00:46:16.539 --> 00:46:18.780 I've only had one pregnancy. We just have one 00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:22.260 child. But there's something that goes on in 00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:25.929 a mother. During this pregnancy where you're 00:46:25.929 --> 00:46:30.030 just being knit to that baby. And in reality, 00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:33.349 they have found that the mother's DNA remains 00:46:33.349 --> 00:46:36.630 in the child and not just the DNA that makes 00:46:36.630 --> 00:46:41.989 them. But the mother's actual DNA is still floating 00:46:41.989 --> 00:46:44.570 around in the child and the child's DNA is in 00:46:44.570 --> 00:46:48.349 the mother. So there's a connection there that 00:46:48.349 --> 00:46:53.260 is so strong. A mother's love for her child, 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:56.739 no matter what the child does wrong, mom can 00:46:56.739 --> 00:47:00.820 see the good. Like the mother saying to the judge, 00:47:00.980 --> 00:47:03.340 oh, no, no, he didn't mean to hurt that guy. 00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:08.619 Grant that my two sons will sit with you on your 00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:10.760 throne, one on the left, one on the right. So 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.440 the first thing that God says about himself on 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.719 Mount Sinai is that he loves, that he loves like 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:19.199 a mother. You know, we think of him as father, 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:22.739 but first thing he says about himself, more so 00:47:22.739 --> 00:47:25.059 than a father love. Father love is wonderful, 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:29.019 and father love is powerful and important, but 00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:32.059 there's something about mother love that, you 00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:35.619 know, you hear these stories about men, soldiers 00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:37.820 dying on the field, and they're crying out for 00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:42.079 mom. Crying out for mom, yeah. Yeah. Mommy! You 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.219 know, there's something about that. connection. 00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:47.980 And that's why it's so important when we're learning 00:47:47.980 --> 00:47:51.059 about the gifts. And, you know, we came up into 00:47:51.059 --> 00:47:53.900 the charismatic mover. I did. And you kind of 00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:56.320 joined a little bit later. But you were there. 00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:59.559 You saw it happening. And your parents were full 00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.840 on in it. But there's something about the charismatic 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:07.039 move that we were focusing on the gifts. Really 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.980 focused. I can't tell you how many sermons I 00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:13.460 heard about the gifts from chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians. 00:48:14.510 --> 00:48:17.190 Over and over and over, we were focusing on the 00:48:17.190 --> 00:48:21.449 gifts. And in chapter 14, you read it. It says, 00:48:21.630 --> 00:48:24.769 you know, covets to my prophesy. Prophecy, just 00:48:24.769 --> 00:48:26.849 go for prophecy. Prophecy is so important. You 00:48:26.849 --> 00:48:30.070 need to learn how to prophesy. But this place 00:48:30.070 --> 00:48:34.670 of love that you read about in chapter 13, I 00:48:34.670 --> 00:48:38.849 was stunned to realize that as I kind of dug 00:48:38.849 --> 00:48:42.090 into this after you started bringing this message. 00:48:42.730 --> 00:48:45.889 this idea of speaking with tongues. You know, 00:48:45.909 --> 00:48:48.389 speaking in tongues is the first thing that we 00:48:48.389 --> 00:48:52.550 focus on. You know, the baptism in the Holy Spirit 00:48:52.550 --> 00:48:54.909 with the evidence of speaking in tongues. I'm 00:48:54.909 --> 00:48:58.469 not against that. I'm for that. But you have 00:48:58.469 --> 00:49:04.309 to get it from the lover of your soul and connect 00:49:04.309 --> 00:49:07.550 with the lover of your soul as you speak in tongues. 00:49:07.730 --> 00:49:10.449 One of the things that I've been doing recently 00:49:10.449 --> 00:49:14.400 is really focusing, because it's easy to speak 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.199 in tongues mindlessly without your mind being 00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:19.719 on it. And there's a time and place for that, 00:49:19.739 --> 00:49:23.699 to just be continuously praying in tongues. But 00:49:23.699 --> 00:49:26.780 when I really want to connect, I say, Holy Spirit, 00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:30.260 pray through me. Holy Spirit, pray through me. 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:33.360 That Romans 8 prayer, because we don't know how 00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.920 to pray as we ought to. And that love that comes 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.280 with it, it's a different experience praying 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:42.820 in tongues with the Holy Spirit. But if we just 00:49:42.820 --> 00:49:46.340 pray in tongues without the love of God, what 00:49:46.340 --> 00:49:49.739 are we accomplishing? It's just noise. And then 00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:53.400 having the gift of prophecy. But this little 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:55.579 line here, it says, understand all mysteries. 00:49:56.679 --> 00:50:01.059 As I was looking up the gift of the word of wisdom. 00:50:03.279 --> 00:50:06.679 The word wisdom there is Sophia in the Greek, 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:13.059 and it also indicates wisdom, and it's well translated 00:50:13.059 --> 00:50:15.179 as wisdom, but it also indicates understanding 00:50:15.179 --> 00:50:18.260 mysteries. So I didn't know that understanding 00:50:18.260 --> 00:50:20.360 mysteries actually goes with the word of wisdom. 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:23.699 Great. Okay. And having knowledge. Well, that's 00:50:23.699 --> 00:50:25.500 the word of knowledge. That's the gift of the 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:27.719 word of knowledge. But if you don't have love 00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:31.809 and having faith, it's a gift of faith. so that 00:50:31.809 --> 00:50:33.949 you can move mountains. I mean, there's a real 00:50:33.949 --> 00:50:36.929 story about that. But if you don't have love, 00:50:37.110 --> 00:50:40.510 when it says, it profits me nothing, it means 00:50:40.510 --> 00:50:44.650 that there's no eternal value. And the eternal 00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:49.530 value comes from receiving the love of God so 00:50:49.530 --> 00:50:52.469 that you can operate in the love of God. And 00:50:52.469 --> 00:50:55.809 that's where maturity comes. You're going to 00:50:55.809 --> 00:50:59.550 step into that place of maturity where your gift 00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:05.440 is actually introducing the one who loves. That 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:07.739 it's not about the pride, like that's what you 00:51:07.739 --> 00:51:09.960 were talking about at the very beginning. The 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.699 pride that stops a move of God. It causes the 00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:18.320 move of God to ebb. It's the love of God that 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:21.239 keeps it going. When you're filled with the love 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:24.059 of God, you're not going to be standing up in 00:51:24.059 --> 00:51:27.840 pride because the love of God recognizes his 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:32.320 greatness. And it causes us to humble ourselves 00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:36.360 in his sight and walk in that awe and reverence 00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.860 of him that will cause his name to be known. 00:51:39.980 --> 00:51:41.880 When we don't take any of the credit ourselves, 00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:44.260 when we don't take any of the glory ourselves 00:51:44.260 --> 00:51:47.639 and we give him all the glory, that's what keeps 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.719 revival going. That's what brings this revival 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.380 where there will be no ebb. Let's just close 00:51:54.380 --> 00:51:57.679 with that prophecy that Arthur Burt wrote the 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:01.099 whole book about. It was a prophecy that he heard 00:52:01.099 --> 00:52:05.559 given in Manchester, England in the 1930s. No 00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:08.840 one's exactly sure of whether it was 34 or 35 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.519 or 39 or whatever it was. But this is the quote 00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:16.820 from his book. It shall come as a breath. And 00:52:16.820 --> 00:52:19.940 the breath shall bring the wind. And the wind 00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:23.340 shall bring the rain. And there shall be floods 00:52:23.340 --> 00:52:28.539 and floods and floods and torrents. And torrents 00:52:28.539 --> 00:52:32.500 and torrents. Souls shall be saved like falling 00:52:32.500 --> 00:52:35.780 leaves from mighty oaks swept by a hurricane. 00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.639 Arms and legs shall come down from heaven, and 00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:42.659 there shall be no ebb. And he remembered later 00:52:42.659 --> 00:52:45.639 that there was also a part about where the rich 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:48.960 and the poor will embrace each other on the streets 00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:52.420 of New York City. Wow. Wow, wow. You know, that's 00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:56.650 love poured out. That is love poured out. You 00:52:56.650 --> 00:52:58.150 want to close with prayer? Yeah. Well, Father, 00:52:58.210 --> 00:53:01.250 we thank you for these words, Lord, and the words 00:53:01.250 --> 00:53:04.230 that you give. And, Lord, that the greatest of 00:53:04.230 --> 00:53:08.530 these is love. That, Father, that in our quest, 00:53:08.769 --> 00:53:11.889 O God, for more of you, that, Lord, you would 00:53:11.889 --> 00:53:14.809 be the focus of it all. You would be the center 00:53:14.809 --> 00:53:18.829 of it all. And that, Father, we can fulfill our 00:53:18.829 --> 00:53:22.289 plan that you have for us in earth, O God. Yes. 00:53:22.289 --> 00:53:24.449 And, Lord, by loving you, because when we love 00:53:24.449 --> 00:53:27.449 you, Lord, with everything that we have, with 00:53:27.449 --> 00:53:30.210 all our heart, mind, and soul, we will be walking 00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:33.369 out our destiny. So we just pray, Lord, I pray 00:53:33.369 --> 00:53:35.869 for all our listeners that, Lord, they would 00:53:35.869 --> 00:53:38.989 find their destiny, Lord, that only comes from 00:53:38.989 --> 00:53:42.550 knowing you intimately, oh God. Lord, many things 00:53:42.550 --> 00:53:46.130 are handed down, but Lord, to truly know you 00:53:46.130 --> 00:53:49.210 will be the fulfillment of it all. So we thank 00:53:49.210 --> 00:53:52.369 you, Father, and we just bless each one listening 00:53:52.369 --> 00:53:55.170 and give you all the glory. In your name, Lord 00:53:55.170 --> 00:54:21.289 Jesus, amen. Amen. Check out our website at globaloutpouring 00:54:21.289 --> 00:54:24.590 .org to find out more information, read our blogs, 00:54:24.730 --> 00:54:27.570 connect with us, and donate. You can also browse 00:54:27.570 --> 00:54:30.150 our web store for life -changing anointed books. 00:54:30.570 --> 00:54:33.989 Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. 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