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Hallelujah. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 from verse
4, everybody. From verse 4, open your Bible,
everybody, whether it's hard copy or... We believe
in your growth, so very soon you will buy one
hard copy. So for now you can use your phone.
Now there are diversities of gifts, but what?
Let's be echoing it together. Now there are diversities
of gifts, but what? Same spirit, verse 5. And
there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations,
but it is what? The same God who do what? Who
worketh all in all. Seven. But the manifestation
of the Spirit is given to every man. To do what?
Is it to every woman? Is it to pastors? Is it
to only ushers? Is it to only prophets? Is it
only to apostles? To how many men? To how many
men? Let's echo it. To how many men? All men.
Please. If you don't do that, I will close service.
So respond. Verse 8. For to one is given by the
Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word
of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith
by, to another gifts of healing by, to another
the working of miracles, to another prophecy,
to another the signing of Spirit, to another
diverse kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation
of tongues, but all these worketh that one and
selfsame. Spirit dividing to what? To every man
severally as what? As he will. Praise God. Hallelujah.
Yeah, so now on Wednesday we stopped somewhere.
We said, what does it mean to be filled with
the Spirit? Amen. What does it mean to be filled
with the Spirit? Praise God. And we read Acts
chapter 2, everybody. Let's go to Acts chapter
2. Acts chapter 2. So if you're with us on Wednesday,
you'll remember this. Acts chapter 2 verse 4.
So the question we're handling is, what does
he mean to be what? What does he mean to be what?
Filled with. So in the scriptures, right, there
is a reality for the believer that the believer
should be filled with what? With the Spirit,
with the Holy Ghost. Amen? So where did we get
it from? From where? We're going to see it from
where? From the scriptures. So which means that
if it's in the scriptures, it's also our reality.
Amen? Praise God. So let's read it all together.
Acts chapter 2 verse 4. And they were all, read
now, everybody's with Bible. And they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. And the
Holy Ghost held their tongue and began to speak
through them. Is that what your Bible is reading?
Is that what your Bible is saying? That the Holy
Ghost held their tongue? What is your Bible saying?
What happened to them? They were what? They were
filled with what? Then who spoke? So which means
that they have a choice not to speak, right?
I hope you know. They can choose not to speak.
Yes or true? So which means they can choose to
what? Not to speak. But the scripture says that
who began to speak? So upon filling with the
Holy Ghost, they began to what? They began to
speak with how many tongues? With other tongues
as the Spirit gave them what? Other tongues.
On Wednesday, I told us that we could read it
this way. Amen? And they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost gave them other
tongues and they began to speak with other tongues.
Hallelujah. Do we understand how I just read
it now? Okay, everybody, your eyes on the Bible.
Let's see how I said. Let's read it now. And
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. As
the Holy Ghost gave them utterance, they began
to speak with other tongues. Hallelujah. Praise
God. So as they continued to speak, there was
or there is a source of utterance from what?
From the Holy Ghost. So they were not just filled.
With the Holy Ghost alone? But as they were filled
with the Holy Ghost, utterance also came with
the filling. Amen? Did we see it in the Bible?
That all they did is to do what? All they did
is to do what? Who gave the utterance? The Holy
Ghost. Praise God. Praise God. Say, even now.
Raise your hand. Say, even now. Even now. Even
now. I believe and I know right now. The Holy
Ghost is giving me utterance and I'm going to
speak in other tongues. Hallelujah. Praise God.
I just told you your reality now. Hallelujah.
You can be in the school bus and be filled with
the Holy Ghost. Because these men were gathered
together in a room. They were not in a church.
Oh, let me not use the word church. They were
not in a building. Hallelujah. Here we are just
in sort of one room somewhere and gathered together.
Sir, do you mean that so, even in my room I can
be filled with the Holy Ghost? Yes, sir. In the
school bus, you can be filled with the Spirit.
Hallelujah. On the street, you can be filled
what? With the Spirit. Oh, as you are playing
ball, you are about to score. I think in school
I used to play football, yeah. Yes, I always
see him. I don't know whether he has repented
because I have not seen him in a while. Posts.
You know, there are some people here, right?
As you are about, you know you are in that ball.
You are in that ball. You are chasing one small
round thing and you are sweating. You know? You
are still mindful of what? Of the Spirit of God.
Do you know why? Because you just go and hit
somebody's leg small, he will catch your collar.
And then, oh, I caught your collar. Sorry, sir.
You know? You just catch your collar. And then
before you know, you catch my collar. You catch
my collar. Bah, bah, bah. And they will see.
Pastor, they fight on board. But let me tell
you, because you're in that field, and you're
not mindless, and not mindless or unconscious,
but you're conscious of the Spirit of God inside
you, you hit me, you hit me. Ah, the love of
God has been shed abroad in your heart, Romans
5 .5, by the Holy Ghost that has been given to
you. Amen? Oh, you say, I'm sorry now. I'm sorry.
You're before you, before salvation. You won't
apologize. I told you, you told me. Football,
close. Even though we are coming to it, but write
this somewhere. The more I am conscious to be
filled with the Spirit of God, I will not give
or yield myself to the influences of the flesh.
The more I am conscious and mindful. To be filled
with the Spirit of God, I will not yield myself
or give myself to the influences of the flesh
or the works of the flesh, right? Works of the
flesh. Praise God. So they were in the room and
they were filled with what? With the Spirit.
Amen? So, probably some of you are just joining
this Sunday morning. Let me just read the Scriptures.
I read Ephesians chapter 5 verse 16 to 18. Okay,
let's read it all together. Ephesians chapter
5. I'll just give us this because we are coming
to some of these scriptures again. Ephesians
chapter 5 verse 16, everybody. Let your eyes
be on your scriptures. We saw they were filled
with the Spirit. And what was the next reaction?
What was the next reaction? They spoke, right?
Okay, Ephesians chapter 5, everybody. Verse 16.
Redeeming the time because the days are evil.
17. Wherefore, Be not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is. Eighteen. Everybody,
read together. We will not know that you are
the one being drunk with wine. So everybody,
let's chorus it together so that we will not
find you out. And be not, and be not, and be
not drunk with wine wherein is what? The next
line, everybody. But be filled with. The Spirit,
19. If your Bible, you see, that's filled with
the Spirit, you see a semicolon, a colon, a comma,
right? See, 19. What's the next line, 19? Speaking
to yourselves in what? Psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to who? To the Lord, 20. Giving thanks always
for how many things? All things unto God and
the Father in the name of what? So in Acts chapter
2 verse 4, we saw that they were filled with
the Spirit and they what? They spoke. See now,
in this verse we see that when you are filled
with the Spirit, what and what will you be doing?
Let's count it. Number one, you speak to yourselves
in what? In psalms and hymns. That is the number
one thing that will happen when you are filled
with the Spirit, right? Second thing. Singing
and what? Making melody where? In your heart
where? Next thing that will happen to you, giving
thanks how? Murmuring always? Complaining always?
Insulting always? What will be happening? Giving
thanks always for how many things? But all this
is a product of what? The product of what? Being
filled with what? With the spirit of who? Uh
-huh. You say what? Yes. Ah, 21. Thank you. 21.
It didn't stop there, actually. 21. Can we read
it all together? One to another in what? So how
many things? Let's count them. Speaking to yourselves,
number one. Singing and making melody in your
heart, number two. Giving thanks always, number
three. Submitting what? Yourselves want what?
Another in what? All as a product of what? Being
filled with what? The Spirit of who? This is
class now. Raise your hands, everybody. I believe.
I believe. And I know that I'm always and I will
always be filled with the Spirit of God. And
I'll always speak to my brothers in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs. Oh, I will sing and
make melody. In my heart unto the Lord, I will
give thanks always for all things unto God. I
will submit always to my brothers and sisters
in the fear of the Lord. Hallelujah. This is
what it means to be filled with what? With the
Spirit of God. Praise God. I've just answered
some questions now in our hearts. Amen? Okay.
So write this as extra scriptures because we
are not coming to it because we're going to come
into it. On Wednesday, a couple of people, I
know some of us were not there. So let me repeat
the scriptures because we've read a good number
of them on Wednesday. Acts chapter 19, verse
6. You could write it down. Acts 19, 6. Luke
1, 41. Luke 1, 41. You realize that all these
people, when they were filled with the Holy Ghost,
they began to what? They speak. Some of them
prophesied. Amen. Good. Acts 1, 67. And Luke
1, 67. Sorry. Luke 1 .67. Luke 4 .1. Luke 4 .1.
Acts 2 .4. Acts 2 .4. Acts 4 .8. Acts 4 .8. Acts
4 .30 -31. Acts 4 .30 -31. Acts 9 .16 -17. Acts
9 .16 -17. Acts 7 .55. You see, most of the scriptures
we are reading is all in Acts, right? Acts chapter
7 verse 55. Acts chapter 13 verse 52. Acts chapter
13 verse 52. Acts chapter 13 verse 9. And then
Acts chapter 6 verse 3. Hallelujah. Praise God.
And we establish a truth on Wednesday that to
be filled with the Spirit of God means to allow
for the demonstration or the manifestation of
the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. We saw
in Acts chapter 2 verse 4 that The Holy Ghost
gave them what? The Holy Ghost gave them utterance,
right? Good. So we say being filled with the
Spirit means to allow for the demonstration or
the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
So we can say again that being filled with the
Spirit of God means the manifestation of the
Spirit from within. The manifestation of the
Spirit from where? From within. You're not writing.
Are you recording it on your phone? You're not
writing. You've been looking at me. Even collect
pen. Take pen. I have pen. I dash you. Don't
worry. It's not a success pen. It's a normal
pen. Give a paper or something. So this is how,
when I talk, I look at everybody's eyes. I want
to see what is inside. So I want to see everybody
is active. Put the recording. Okay. You listen
to it after service and write and snap it and
send me what you have written. Amen. Hallelujah.
People that are being filled with the spirit
of God, they pay attention during services. Hallelujah.
Yes. Not you guys. The previous guys we used
to have that come here. During service, you see
them playing computer game. There was one guy
there. He was playing computer game. Candy Crush.
Let me say something jokingly. If you play Candy
Crush, your life will be crushed. That was a
joke. Praise God. Sir, this Pastor Koston, you
like play? Of course. You just finished hearing
now that we are going to be singing melody. You
know, only my wife can marry me. I said, my wife,
she's serious. She's carrying a serious face.
Yes, that is it. That's the Spirit of God. You
see, that thing that you have had somewhere that
they say, because you are filled with the Spirit
of God. Bless you, brother. They didn't teach
you well about the Spirit of God. I said it here
someday. Here. That even people in the office,
they say, anytime we come and meet you, where
we live, there is this energy. We just leave
your office, sir. We live with energy. It's not
energy. It's the Spirit of... It's called the
joy of the Holy Ghost. Many a times, some of
you will come and say, you put all your problems
on us and say it. You don't know our problem
is more than yours. But we come here, the Lord
is good. He is faithful. Hallelujah. Glory. You
say, these pastors, they're enjoying, you know.
We're going to see it. You see, when you're filled
with the Spirit of God, It defies every kind
of difficult situations you are inside. Oh, you
only see those situations the way Jesus sees
them. So we said, that time means manifestation
of the Spirit from where? From within. Hallelujah.
Write this, that the feeling of the Spirit or
the feeling with the Spirit of God is not a one
-time experience. Hallelujah. It's not a what?
It's not a one -time. This is the most beautiful
part now. Write this. The feeling with the Spirit
of God is for ministry. Hallelujah. It's for
what? It's for ministry. It's for ministry. Hallelujah.
When we say be filled with the Spirit, we mean,
I'm going to use this term, actively stir up
the gifts of the Spirit which is within you.
Do what? Actively what? Stare up. You can replace
that word actively with consciously stare up.
Add another word. Mindfully stare up the what?
The gifts of the Holy Ghost. That is where? That
is within you. So, for example, as the Holy Ghost,
you know that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
As he gives you utterance, you actively do what?
You actively do what? You speak. You consciously
what? Speak! Hallelujah! On a Sunday morning
like this, and then you just arrive to church.
I know a large number of us are students here,
so I'm going to give a student's kind of example.
And then you arrive to church, you're trusting
the Lord. Most of the things that most of you
trust is finances for tuition fees. So that's
why I'm going to use that example. It's not an
insult or something. Well, you're trusting the
Lord for finances, for tuition fees, and then
you arrive Sunday morning to church, and then...
The Spirit of the Lord, let... I just had now
in my heart, right? I perceive now in my heart
for somebody here. Learn to listen to the voice
of the Holy Ghost much more when He directs you
to the needs of your brothers. Pay attention
because He will be showing you... Physical needs.
For some of them is their shirts. For some of
them is trousers. For some of them is shoes.
For some of them is as basic as food to eat.
They don't have. Pay attention to the leading
of the Holy Spirit when he speaks to your heart
to meet the what? To meet the needs. Praise God.
Hallelujah. Because as I perceive more as I speak
now, right? He's going to be increasing that
leading much more in your heart. Every time you
come around, fellow, brethren. He will be ensuring
that your eyes are pointed to look out for the
needs of the brethren that you're part of. Amen.
Please pay attention. Praise God. So back to
my example. So now it's a word for somebody.
You're here. He has been putting it in your heart
to reach out to meet the needs of people. Amen.
Don't ignore it. Hallelujah. It happened to me
sometime when I was in the university. I set
out in my heart that I was going to be, I would
start paying people's tuition fees and transport
fare. Okay. Okay. Let me not say it. So transport
fare. Amen. Hallelujah. Before I would see applicants.
Soteria Bank and Customs Bank and all the banks,
they are not yet dead. They are still, what do
you call it, sir? There are no banks. They can
only cater for only two people, a husband and
wife. And it happens that the central executive
officer and then the chief operations officer,
they are only the people handling the system
now. Amen? So now, this is what happens now.
You arrive, okay, I set out that I was going
to be doing that. But every time I get into,
and you know, our church is somewhere and our
school, he knows our school is somewhere. We
are close to PZ. It's a long drive. So anytime
I enter the bus, I will hear, I will see people
that cannot pay this thing. But they've carried
that initiative, having faith that when they
get into bus, somebody will... You people, you
are abroad. You don't exercise faith. I am in
Nigeria. People live by... I know what I'm saying.
So I will enter, sir. I will know somebody who's...
You see? Please, can you just pay? I know church
brethren, they will reduce their voice. Please,
can you just pay my fares too? Somewhere I say,
sorry, bro. You know, I'm not able to have sufficient.
I lie, number one. Oh, I lied. Another time I
will enter. I'll say, just ask. Or randomly pay
people's fare inside the bus. I will be struggling
with it. Until one day I got into that bus. Bro,
I can't pull. He didn't think about it. And I
realized, you know, from that day, I knew that
he has been doing it. When we just enter, before
everybody put hand inside pockets, you just talk
to the conductor for everybody. I want to say,
plus me. I said, no, no, no, no. You see, this
thing there. In fact, let me show you my book.
He told me, I even wrote it. See, he told me
that I should start taking initiatives and then
be conscious to pay some people's fare. Okay,
what we'll do, we'll start sharing it. You see,
from that day, because we attended a good church,
And in that church, they taught us giving, giving,
giving. However, they went a little bit extreme.
They told us to carry one dollar and put inside
our purse and be calling dollar every morning.
That church, we call money, I used to share it
with them. In that church, you hear us, they
say it's time to call for money. Money, money,
money. Money, in dollars, in pounds, in euros,
from different locations, in truckloads, come
to me now in the name of Jesus. You know, I saw
the picture of the place some weeks or some months
ago. Some of them are still there. And I have
some privilege to have some information about
some of them. They are still struggling so much.
They love the Lord. They are believers, tongue
-talking. They are doing a lot of exploits. Hear
this. If you don't take initiative on your finances,
you're going to be a poor, tongue -tucking, filled
with the spirit of God believer. I mean legal.
Don't go and do Yahoo. Don't do Yahoo. Don't
sell your body. Don't give anything. There are
legal ways to have finances. You may not be on
Forbes list, but you will not beg for bread.
You may not be on top list, but you will not
be around walking naked. Do you hear what I said?
Be hard working. If you can't use your brain,
use your hands. That's a word for somebody. So
take initiative. I got here because I was saying,
take initiative. Be conscious. As the Spirit
of God leads you to solve people's needs, right?
Do it. Hallelujah. Praise God. You understand
because we are reading some scriptures about
that. Okay, that's why the Holy Ghost even led
me here. Amen? Say, I'm filled with the Spirit
of God. So being filled with the Spirit of God
is a function of your choice. Say, it's a function
of my choice. Being filled with the Spirit of
God is a function of my choice. Yes, it's a function
of your choice. Yes, it's a function of what?
We saw it in Acts chapter 2 verse 4. They were
filled with the Spirit of God. The Spirit of
God gave them ultras and they made a choice to
do what? To speak. Amen? Acts chapter 4 verse
8. Acts chapter 4 verse 8. It's a function of
your choice. It's a function of your choice.
Acts chapter 4 verse 8. Very fast. Then Peter
filled with what? Acts 4 verse 8. Acts chapter
4 verse 8. Then Peter, everybody, filled with
what? With the Holy Ghost. And he what? He was
filled with the Holy Ghost. What's the next thing
he did? He what? He said to them. He spoke. You
guys are not fast in opening your Bible. It shows
that you don't read your Bible at home. Yes.
Acts is not after Malachi. You know, I sat down
beside somebody in this church. I won't show
the location. They said, let's open to Acts.
A full grown woman. She went to the front content
and check for the number of the page. And check
Acts. Acts. Acts. Page 941. Somebody say Jesus.
It's true. 900. But she's not coming to church
now. She opened to 941 and said she found Acts.
Exploit. At the back. I asked exploit. Open to
Zechariah. She opened it. Open to Zephaniah.
She opened to Haggai. She opened it. Exploit.
I'm not saying today, oh, she's more wiser now.
It was last year. I said, oh. But even at this
age, okay, we're in Sunday school trying to do
Sunday school competition. Bible open. She could
not. It just shows that you're not reading your
Bible. People that are filled with the Spirit
of God are always close to God's Word. You know
what I said? They are always close to what? Yes.
Say today. And always, I will always be close
to my Bible. I will open it and I will read it
and I will study it. Somebody say he's attacking
me. I attack you. If you fail to attack men,
I will attack you again. You can't be in this
church and be opening to page, page, contento,
content, sir. I will tell you, I will tell you
people, the lady. Yes, I will. This is what we
do. We label over your soul. Definitely we can't
leave this job. You have to leave this church.
That's just it. Because we know in every church
there are stubborn people. They never leave.
They're in every church. No matter how tongue
speaking and spirit filled the churches is or
the churches are, you'll find one stubborn person
there. He's always everywhere. And the pastors
are patient with them. We'll be patient with
you. Amen? Why is he talking like that? Yeah,
because I have to talk to you. Acts chapter 6
verse 3. See what the scripture says. Wherefore
brethren, look ye out among you. How many men?
Look ye among you. How many men? In any CF, look
ye out among you. How many men? Seven men of
what? Honest report. So which means these men
must be known within the brethren. Right? When
we say honest men, what do we mean? When we say
honest men, what do we mean? It means that these
people are known everywhere. Their life is not
hidden. They know them among the multitudes.
In fact, the scripture says that they grew from
120 to 3 ,000, 3 ,000 to 5 ,000, from 5 ,000
to multitude. Multitude, which means we could
not what? We cannot count them. But among the
number that they cannot count them, they still
know that there are people that are what? Having
honest what? Report. Question to you. Can we
say you have a honest report? One. Two. These
men should be what? Full of what? The Holy Ghost
and whom we may appoint over what? So which means
that these people being filled with the Spirit
of God, they were not hidden. Probably, I just
imagine now because they chose Stephen, verse
5. They chose Stephen. They chose Philip. They
chose Prochorus. They chose Nicanon. They chose
Timon. They chose Parmenas. They chose what?
Nicholas. I just imagine now among them, right?
That they just saw Stephen one of these days,
you know, giving a word of prophecy, you know,
and then going around because it shows, because
in the next verse he did that. They know that
Stephen was not only full of faith and full of
the Holy Ghost, he was just one of those evenings
you see in one corner. And his character and
conduct within the multitude was always commendable.
Oh, they see Parmenas and Timon. You know, they
are just moving. They say, I think today we need
to go to, let's go to Gilne for evangelizing.
Because we saw Philip. Philip did that in Acts
chapter 8. Him alone. Nobody pushed them. Nobody
told them to go and do it. They left on their
own choice. And they took a city. Hallelujah.
Oh, a man filled with the Spirit of God is limitless.
What you will do for Jesus is limitless. The
power of God through you is limitless. Let me
say that it's coming to my heart. A man that
is filled with the Spirit of God can take a city.
Don't underestimate yourself. Don't despise your
youth. So it's your choice. For the responsibility
to be stirred and flow in the things of the Spirit
is in the hands of the believer. Hallelujah.
The responsibility to be stirred up and to flow
in the things of the Spirit is where? It's in
the hands of who? The believer. It's in your
hands. Hallelujah. The choice is yours. The Holy
Ghost is in you and all the gifts of the Holy
Ghost is also where? In you. Praise God. See,
the Holy Ghost is in me. And all the gifts of
the Holy Ghost is also in me. Hallelujah. Write
this title somewhere. All believers have all
the gifts of the Spirit and shall manifest and
demonstrate them all. All believers have all
the gifts of the Holy Ghost. and should manifest
and demonstrate all of them. All believers have
all the gifts of the Holy Ghost and should manifest
and demonstrate all of them. Why should they
manifest? And why should they demonstrate it
like this? To profit everyone. Hallelujah. To
do what? To profit what? Everyone. Why should
you speak? To profit what? Everyone. Why should
you prophesy? To do what? Profit what? Everyone.
Why should you lay hands on the sick so that
the sick will get healed? To do what? To profit
everyone. Oh, say it. I am a huge benefit to
the body of Christ. I am a huge benefit. Oh,
to my brothers and sisters. Say, I only bring
benefit to everyone I need. Hallelujah. Yes.
The word manifestation, right? It is. In Greek,
what is phanerosis? The word manifestation is
phanerosis. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. Phanerosis.
The word manifestation means what? Phanerosis.
Phanerosis. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. S -I
-S. S -I -S. P -H -A -N -E -R -O -S -I -S. It
means to make bear. To reveal plainly. To not
to hide. Not to hide. It means to make bare.
To reveal plainly. Not to what? Not to what?
Not to hide. Hallelujah. Manifestation. So which
means that I have the Spirit of God. All the
things of the Spirit are where? Are in me. All
the gifts of the Holy Ghost are where? Are in
me. But I need to do what? Manifest them. When
we say we are making things bare, it means that
the two natural, plain, physical eyes can do
what? Can see them. The five senses can perceive
them. Write it down. When I manifest the gifts
of the Holy Ghost, the five senses can be able
to perceive it. Hallelujah. Praise God. That
word, phanerosis, was gotten from a root word,
faneru. And faneru means to make visible what
has been hidden, whether by words or deeds, in
any other way. Hallelujah. Faneru means what?
To make visible what has been hidden, whether
by words or deeds, in any other way. To meet
the eyes. Faneru. To meet the eyes. To shine,
to display. When we read that 1 Corinthians 12,
verse 7, everybody. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7.
1 Corinthians 12, verse 7. 1 Corinthians 12,
verse 7. See what the scripture says there, everybody.
But the what? 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7. But
the manifestation of what? Is given to how many
men? To do what? To profit what? So which means
that no believer is supposed to stay hidden when
it comes to the things of the Spirit. Hallelujah.
No believer is what? Is supposed to stay what?
Hidden. The more you hide the gifts of the Holy
Ghost. You are not bringing profits to the body.
The more you hide the things of the spirit, you
are not becoming beneficial or you are not being
beneficial to your brother. So what is my position
as a believer that is filled with the spirit
of God? That I do what? I manifest. Hallelujah.
Say I manifest. Daily I manifest. I manifest
what? All the things of the spirit that are where?
That are locked up from where? Within me. Praise
God. Hallelujah. Verse 11. Verse 11 says, That
word there is Hekastos. Hekastos means to each
one. Hekastos. H -E -K -A -S -T -O -S. Hekastos.
To each man, to every man, and that what every
man, whether woman or what? Or man. Hallelujah.
Hekastos. H -E -K -A -S -T -O -S. But he say
he divides to every man severally. As he what?
As he will. That as he will is not the will of
the Holy Ghost. Now is the will of the man that
has received. Hallelujah. Now, let's read it
carefully this way. Everybody, can we read together?
Verse 11. Hallelujah. As what? As He will. Who
is the receiver? The believer is the receiver.
Amen? Who act on his will to manifest it? Who
act on his will? The believer acts where? On
his will. To do what? To manifest it. Write this
somewhere. That word, as he will. Write it somewhere.
He divides severally to every man as he will,
based on purpose or needs. Hallelujah. Based
on what? Purpose or what? Or need. As he will.
That word is bulamai. It means based on the desire
of the receiver. Praise God. So which means that
based on my desire, I can prophesy. Based on
my desire, I can give word of prophecy. I can
give word of wisdom. I can give word of knowledge.
When you go home, you can take as he will. So
you are the receiver. John chapter 6 verse 11.
And we'll stop here. You will see it there. John
chapter 6 verse 11. And Jesus took the loaves.
And when he had given thanks, he distributed
to the disciples. They received it, right? And
the disciples, to them that were set down, right?
And likewise of the fishes, as much as what?
As much as what? As they would. So the disciples
are the ones that have received it. And they
are the ones that will do what? Act on their
will to share it out. Matthew 11, 27. You will
see that same word there. So you are the one
that would will. Say, I have the will. I have
the will. I act on my will to manifest all the
gifts of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 11, 27. All
things are delivered unto me of my Father, and
no man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and
he to whomsoever the Son will. Do what? Reveal
him. Praise God. Acts 5 .28 Oh, be so conscious
that when you get to places, act on your will,
act on your will, act on your will, that every
manifestation, every gift of the Holy Ghost in
you must be made bare. Acts 5 .28, see what happened.
Saying, did not we straightly command you that
what? That ye should not teach in what? In this
name. And behold, what happened? Ye have filled
Jerusalem, what? With your doctrine. And what?
That same will is the same with intention. And
ye intend to bring this man's blood, where? Upon
us. Make deliberate intention. Hallelujah. Make
deliberate intention. Oh, make deliberate what?
Intention. Make what? Deliberate what? Intention.
Never have a day. Even if you are chatting with
people, you can prophesy to them. Praise God.
Lastly, now Acts 12 .4. Oh, beautiful. Acts 12
.4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him
in what? In prison and delivered him to what?
Four quaternions of soldiers to keep him. Can
you say another word? Do you what? Intending.
Willing that after Easter. To bring him forth
to what? To the people. Praise God. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. The diversities of all the gifts
of the Holy Ghost are in us. Amen? Praise God.
All the operations are based on your decision.
Praise God. Hallelujah. See, I make decision.
I make daily decision to manifest the gifts of
the Holy Ghost. Praise God. Yeah, so we're going
to come to... The next place where we said to
walk in love when it comes to the gifts of the
Holy Ghost. Write it somewhere. That's the next
thing we'll look at. Walking in love when it
comes to the gifts of what? The Holy Ghost or
the things of the Holy Ghost. And we'll give
some points there. And have a great time manifesting
and seeing the demonstration of the things of
the Spirit. Can we rise to our feet? Thank you
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