So quick question for you guys and I didn't get a chance to as a matter of fact Let me look at it right now. I want to see what does the little poll looks like so right now It says that 27% of the people who ever responded in the poll Say that all gifts have continued 42 believe that some gifts have seized 32 Say that not sure So let me ask you guys a question. I got a couple questions for you guys and when we talk about spiritual gifts We don't there's some elements of spiritual gifts that we really don't think about some things that maybe we ought to for example If I ask you and I just want to just see in your by your responses What were Paul's spiritual? What was Paul's spiritual gift or gifts? Have you ever thought about it? Well, what were the spiritual gifts that Paul had? or if you're not sure about Paul What about John? What was John's spiritual gifts? What about James or Philip? Bartholomew what just champ says teaching I Like think about have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about what were the actual apostles who certainly had spiritual gifts? Their gifts were without question authentic. No one questions whether they had gifts not even not even the people that were against it We think about that for a second though think about that for a second. Yeah, what what were their spiritual gifts? What was what was Paul's what was James? Even Philip as he goes down to Samaria clearly had spiritual gifts. What was his? I think about it for a second And when you guys are saying some of these names Did John have the same spiritual gifts as Paul? Or Peter's spiritual gifts the same as James. What about Philip? We don't even know what we don't even we don't even hear a fatty us and his spiritual gifts. Think about it for a second though that Because I think if we're gonna talk about spiritual gifts We need to first see some of the people who after the cross What their spiritual gifts for like? But now that being the case though Spiritual gifts did not start with the apostles Remember, we've got some gifts of the spirit some movings of the spirit From some Old Testament prophets If you think Elijah or Elijah didn't have any spiritual gifts any Giftings by the spirit where you got another thing coming because they certainly did What about Moses? All spiritual gifts mean we've covered this before the word Spiritual gift that we see in the Bibles actually from the word pneumatic cone Which is spiritual things or of the spirit or spirituals. So that being the case What it really is what it really refers to is movement of the spirit Right. It's what the Holy Spirit does in us So coconut just walk in the room. I'm sorry. I think she she's I'm the only one here And so coconut decided to come in so I don't know what she's doing She might she might mess up something well actually if she's in here She can't really mess up anything although she could bump up against the camera the tripod. It's pretty sturdy, but Give it to coconut. She will she will try matter of fact. Come on coconut and Just have I'll just have her just sit by me now. She's stubborn. She's gonna sit there until she anyway But does it also seem as though these Apostles had multiple spiritual gifts They didn't just have one right that they they seem to have one or two or three or four or five Also, they didn't seem they didn't seem to have all spiritual gifts and Then whatever spiritual gifting they had they didn't have it in totality meaning that they could use it whenever they wanted to How do we know? Well, we know that Paul could heal We know that because even his his shadow or Hankerships from him his ink his apron would heal people But he couldn't he'll always he had counterparts that he couldn't that he couldn't heal We know that Paul understood some things, but he didn't understand everything That that we do know and so it seems to me That it would be safe to assume because the Bible doesn't set all the parameters that we would like to set But it seems as though that the spiritual gifts that we do have It's the Holy Spirit because of the word that's used in tico It is the Holy Spirit working in us to do whatever his will is To accomplish his purpose at that moment. Does that make sense you guys? Does that does that make sense to say that the Holy Spirit works in us to do what he wants to do Rather than what we want to do because could you imagine if We all had the Holy Spirit in us to work in such a way that whatever our gift or gifts Giftings were that we can use them whenever we want to however we want to with impunity. I Mean think about that for a second If I've got the gift of healing, I'm just throwing it out there. I got the gift of healing and I'm a little down in my luck money's not doing so well Instead of the little kid going outside of the hospital with a lemonade stand I'll go outside the hospital with a healing stand and I would heal for a small nominal fee Nothing too much far less than what your insurance would charge matter of fact I'd get so good at it that your insurance providers would be looking at me instead of the local hospital Could you imagine we have that kind of that kind of ability? That's not the way it works. It works so that whatever God wants you to do He will use a spirit in you Which is why I don't think that when he talks about spiritual gifts. It's though that we all have one gift Now however, the spirit wants to use this and work in us If it be that particular thing then use it according to the measure of faith as a matter of fact Yeah, time white heels for free As a matter of fact, let's go to Romans 12 and let's listen to him talk about these gifts But he's gonna tell us the mindset, which is very important the mindset that we have to have matter of fact before I go there Let's also keep in mind that when we talk about spiritual gifts or spiritual giftings We don't see Because outside of acts think about this for a second also. I don't think we think we even really talk about this a lot, but outside of acts We don't really see a large number of these gifts being used In first Corinthians second in these letters, we don't see them being used now We see them talked about as far as the misuse of them But we don't see a lot of these we hear them talked about but we don't see them in action Like in first Corinthians we have them talking about Interpretation, but there's only one place in the Bible where we see interpretation actually being used and that is in acts We don't see a whole lot of healing post-cross now after the cross We don't see a whole lot of healing after the book of acts We don't hear a lot. We don't see a lot of languages. We don't see a lot of foretelling prophecy Except obviously in Revelation We don't see a lot of dead being raised so Maybe there's a reason why we see a large Portion like a an explosion of it in one particular book now Obviously the book covers a long period of time and so we have it nice and neatly within the confines of the book of acts But still it's a lot happening right there at the founding of the church So think about that for a second maybe maybe just maybe The gifts that we ascribe to as being the better gifts the more important gifts We'll come to that the gifts that are more desirable Maybe they aren't so desirable after all cuz after all if they were so desirable make we see them more now There are some gifts that we do there are some Moveings of the spirit that we do that we don't think of as being movements or gifts of the spirit Now you know me let me just say this off off the top Because somebody's gonna want to assume That I am a cessationist You all have heard me say this before That I am not a cessationist. What am I? I am a Biblical Continuation is what Corey what in the world is a bit of a continuationist Since some of the people that I like to hear preach and speak They call themselves cessationist and I say no, they're wrong. They are wrong. The reason why I say they are wrong We're gonna look at this again is because Most of the people If not everyone who would call themselves a cessationist will say that They are also solar scriptura problem is we don't have a single solitary solar scriptura That tells us that the gifts have seats, but fear not we don't need a Passage that tells us that they've ended no all we need to do is just to see how the spiritual gifts are to operate This is why I am a biblical continuationist I'll drill down more on that later on as we come to a particular passage But I believe that The gifts however the spirit wants to move us are still there are still available However, it must be done biblically If you're gonna prophesy well, you know what get you get to prophesy in a way Your prophecy needs to look like it looks like in the bible Meaning 100% not vague but specific accurate and to the hearer Somebody needs to be rep be representative of the person that the prophecy is for in other words Somebody's somewhere like the star wars in a galaxy far far away. No Whenever we see prophecy at least one representative of the person that's going to be affected is there Now I want to see that kind of prophecy I want to see the kind of languages where someone is being told the god for being testified of christ in their language I want to see healings that happen. Bam. Just like that Fine, if you want to do it like jesus the one time where the guy where he spits on the guy and then he And then he touches him again fine, but it didn't take long It's kind of healing. I want to see I'm a biblical continuationist. You should too We'll get to that in a second, but before we do Going into Romans 12 think about acts we don't ever see The spiritual gifts in acts any of them ever being used on themselves Peter never said that I'm so great. I'm so awesome with my spiritual gifts that I'm going to use them on moi on myself Peter Peter is not like a lot a lot of these people that we see today A lot of these people today if they could they would be like they would what who's the guy Some of you guys don't remember this but this was back in the 90s a guy that I'm too sexy for my shirt I'm too sexy for my cat these guys. I'm too sexy for this gift I'm too sexy for these spiritual gifts. And so I'm gonna let them make it. I'm gonna make it rain on me I don't know who that guy was. I don't know why that song was even It was a hit. Listen back in 91. I I'll never forget on the college campus I don't know why the kids were playing it right here, right? Senior Conrad Wright said friend. Is that your man for it? I gotta ask you this correct. Okay fine fine fine friend. We need no friend Do you have that in your playlist for it? I'm gonna say with my gift of prophecy and understanding and discernment I'm gonna go out on not on a far limb assume that it's probably in your playlist It's probably in your playlist But is that not how some of these people today when they use their so-called spiritual gifts? It's for themselves to magnify themselves But Jesus says when the helper comes in you that is the Holy Spirit. He will testify of him of Jesus That's not what we see today And then we go to Romans 12. We see how paul kind of couches it. He's let's start start off in You know, let's start in verse one. Let's start in verse one. Good. Good place to start He says therefore I urge you brethren by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice Meaning you're giving it up It's it's it's not about you already. He's it's not about you mr. Mrs. Apostle prophet Bishop whoever it's not it's not about you Then he says Which is your spiritual service of worship and do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is there it is What we're doing in the spirit is going to be based on what the will of God is not mine That which is good and acceptable and perfect verse three Here it is for through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself Then you ought to think but to think so as to have sound judgment or some of your verses may say So reminded as God has allotted to each a measure of faith Then he says for just as we have many members in one body And all the members do not have the same functions So we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another This is it should always make sense It should always fit together that these spiritual giftings are not for you Therefore the body and he just said that We ought to be thinking of others, but sometimes our spiritual gifts are for ourselves Listen, there's not one time not one time not one time not one time Do we find a spiritual gift being used on our self? There's one time where somebody might bring it up in 1st Corinthians 14 But remember Paul is admonishing them. He's not saying good job guys. He is giving a rebuke about a misuse And if we don't think that's the misuse Well, the only alternative is the ones where he said where they're edifying the church We might get to that. There's not going to be I promise you not going to be about tongues But if in 1st Corinthians 14 if he's rebuking something If it's not that misuse of tongues about the edifying of yourself, then what is he rebuking? There's nothing else left to rebuke except for the The positive way that they're not doing which is to edify the body The prophecy the the given the revelation That being stated though We always see and it's it's not it's not something that we ever see change Even throughout any other part of scripture Before the Holy Spirit came to rest in man and to dwell in him even when the spirit came upon man It was always for the benefit of God's people. It was never to be selfishly used for yourself. Never We see prophets mighty men of God who suffered in the Old Testament They didn't say, you know what? Let me use my powers for my own great gain Now there was one person or every time every now and then we see somebody with some power Or the spirit would come upon them and they would use them selfishly and then what would happen? That spirit would leave them How do I know? How do I know? As Saul asked Samson So the However, the Lord moves in us. It's not it's never been for our benefit is for the building up of the body That's always been the case I would seem kind of rabbit if I do I will be there for an hour Will be there for an hour I might I might get to it. I might get to it. I might let me mark that and I may I may get to it I'm hoping that I don't because I know I'll be there forever I don't I don't know what it is And maybe this maybe this video is going to help you some of you guys to shake that Maybe this video is going to call some of you guys to rethink your position on Some of the gifts that you favor because when paul is writing the letter in first Corinthians in 12 He comes up.  You think that this particular gift is the one Deserving of more honor while this one is deserving of less honor You think just like certain body parts are a body part of honor Another part is a body part of dishonor and there are none I promise you stub your your toe Or cut your little pinky And watch how your entire body suffers And so sometimes we think that the person that's leading the song the person with the greatest voice Is better than the lady over there in the corner playing the violin Not so not so so let's continue. He says for just we have many members in one body And we all members do not have the same function So we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another Here it is since we have gifts that differ According to the grace given to us Each of us is to exercise them accordingly Now again, I said this a lot of us do not read the bible well A lot of us don't know how to read when I say I'm not a read we can spell We can put the words together and make sense of the sentence But we don't think that these sentences that these words that these letters these books Are spelling out a greater thing and we don't keep things in context He's just talked about how we we are part of the same body And now he's he's relating it now to these spiritual giftings. He says we are we are to use them We are each of us is to exercise them accordingly accordingly to what according to what he just said in regards to the entirety of the body Are you with me continuing if prophecy According to according to the proportion of his faith Prophecy away and get to prophesy in a way if if a service In his serving or he who teaches in his teaching or he who exhorts in his exhortation Or he who gives with liberality with with liberality He who leads with diligence. He who shows mercy with cheerfulness By the way, he's just talking about some things that he's gifted to the body And he didn't say that there's there's no passages to say that he has given a spiritual a single solitary Spiritual gift and that is your gift forever. The bible just does say we'll get to in 1 Corinthians 12 that he gives as he wills So whatever gift is upon you at that time, it may change today It might be because think about it look at the the apostles even look at the old testament prophets When the spirit moved upon somebody however god wanted to that person might speak in a language That person might then turn around and heal someone next that person might Give a prophecy or give a revelation that person the the gifts that we see often In the new testament because I kind of said it in a Anyway, maybe I should not have said maybe have may have confused some folks when I said that the majority of the gifts That we see we see them confined for the most part in the book of acts except for a prophecy and revelation But that's not necessarily true. That's not totally true The gift that we don't think about that much We see those the majority of those outside of acts The gifts that we don't think about that much we see those Mostly outside of acts we see the majority of those happen outside of acts He names some of them right here go back to them some of these gifts that we don't think we don't value some of these gifts I know not you guys you guys are smart christians But as a whole as a body the entirety of the church We don't value a lot of these gifts. We don't value gifts such as service No, we don't we don't now we value prophecy But we don't value the the forth telling prophecy. We don't value the actual word the indicative of the word We don't in value. We don't value the say at the word of the the scriptures We don't value those we'd rather hear someone give up a foretelling prophecy The lord is going to do this the lord has got some mighty wonders you this the lord is doing something new He's going to bless you like never before And then we'll start speaking tongues. That's those are gifts that we like but but this did not we don't like that kind of gift we don't like the kind of prophecy or Excuse me. We don't also we need no need to be like service who who likes service Who out there likes the gift likes being used by the spirit to serve others Make us use that gift just one time too much lord.  We don't we don't we don't we don't like that. I know we don't like that because when God causes us to exercise that gift We have a big problem with that And we take it out on the people that we're supposed to serve Think about how stupid that is on our part. That's us.   No, no, I'm not. No, God. No, no, the devil is a lie But it's the holy spirit working through us That's one way we quench the spirit. We suppress the spirit continuing. We don't like serving. What about teaching now? I'll be honest. I'll be honest I do like this one. I do like this one, but let's give me also be honest Most people who like teaching don't like being taught. You know why? You know why? You know why that's the case because if you're a teacher at heart You're kind of making sure that people say the wait a second. Hold up. Wait, I can't no. No, I can't job with that It took me a while to kind of get past that To not look at everybody's doctor. You're gonna find this out.  I wish your internet connection would go down some some of the way that we treat each other the way we talk about because we want to Parse and cut everyone's document if they're not right that person is going to hell We are some of the biggest clowns In the body we we really are can I can I just tell the truth and shame the devil? Let's just let's just be let's just be honest Us in the chats us behind the cameras on both sides of cameras. Sometimes we are the biggest clowns on the planet the way we treat and act act towards each other because They didn't get that part of the dot now. I don't have a problem with you critiquing the doctor I don't but to dismiss somebody As though that person's unworthy or we have a personality clash and I'm through with him Who in excuse my language, but what in hell has gotten in you? To where you think that you are so great You've got it together. He don't he's dismissed you the new thing in town. No, you're not I know what it is though. Can I and I don't mean to get on this ramp, but I know it is You haven't been humble at least not enough You've gotten a spanking and that wasn't enough for you, but I can promise you I'm telling you with experience I'm trying to help somebody out God has a belt that's long enough and has got enough strength in it. Listen, don't get tired He's got time to he's got time to punish him He's got he's got enough time to punish you to get you right and you might not get right on this side of eternity It would behoove you to get right on this side. It just would it just I'm a living witness To how bad it can get But now anybody play music Is anybody I know I I used to play the drums or you may play the piano or the guitar And sometimes it's hard To listen to a song it used to be hard for me to listen to a song and not pay attention I could not enjoy a song because I'm listening to the drums Either I love it or I'm like, ah, right Same thing if you are teaching or if you call yourself a teacher Even if you don't call yourself a teacher, but you set yourself out there like that You want to be critical? Listen, I know that everybody out there. No, listen, nobody out there can teach the Bible like me How how did the guy say in uh Can't nobody sing like Eddie King jr Can't nobody teach like Cory we all feel that way we all feel like I've got it right but the fact of the matter is I'm wrong on something I'm wrong on something you're wrong on something and we should not hold over somebody's head because we disagree Again y'all again and and when I when I When I get my ammunition together and when I say I get my listen, I try to shoot when there's all saying don't Don't pull it if you ain't gonna use it Do not pull it if you're not going to use meaning do do not pull that gun out if you're not going to use it And so I tend to if I want to shoot at you I meant to But I'm gonna I've I've got some bullets lined up for some people Some who I love some more don't love some who I who I agree with a lot some why don't But man, we got this thing all wrong. We we really do The gift that we see more at play and that paul is begging us to Adhere to for the most part throughout the new testament. We we just don't do that. That's one the gift of this This is loving Just being brothers and sisters of one another we are Now that's not the reason why I won't let anyone say this also. That's not the reason why people don't come to church Our foolishness is not the reason why they don't come to church if that were the case Then why would anybody go to a rap concert? There's more foolishness there? Why would anyone why would anyone join a sorority or or fraternity? Why would anyone go eat? There's there's foolishness everywhere So foolishness in one place is not the reason why they don't come to church So we're not gonna let them do that either, but we should know better We should know better and so And I'm I'm praying I'm praying how to how to shoot everybody. I'll shoot myself too.  No, some folks need a killing As they say in the western he needs a good killing. There's some folks that do need it There are some and I'm gonna say something rough later in the week I think it's later in the week when I talk about the need for punishment There are some people who we need that person this criminal this killer This person that's a menace and is not going to change God takes him out. God kills him and we say that's unfortunate God was the one that killed him who are we to turn around and say that's unfortunate Especially the guy that's menacing the Sometimes Christians need some good discipline And then there's some folks that we need to mark as not being Christian tell everyone to avoid that person So we are we are negligent in some of the greater gifts because we think them to be the lesser gifts The one who exhorts how come we don't have enough people out there exhorting people People out there saying hey man, listen, I'm with you But can I can I say this let me just say this because I I do believe I Let me use my king jane voice. I duff I don't know what to say. I duff believe That mine eyes have have seen her there. She is This lady right here. I don't listen There's not a lot of folks that you that you'll come in contact with that just encourage people You can just see their heart. That's that's her That that's her.  What's your spiritual gift? By the way, throw those away Throw Those away those are so silly But if you had one if hers doesn't come out as exhorter, that's what she does Wonderful sister in the lord now As far as we can tell she listen Dina might be at home. She might have some kids chained up in the basement. Who knows she listened Her husband might be missing and they just need to go check the basement I'm kidding dina. I'm I'm kidding. No. She is super sweet Godly sister. We need more people like that. We we really do that's Man, if we just had those What about the one who gives with liberality? There are some people out there who love to give Some folks like to help some folks. I ain't helping nobody I told you all the story the other day I was watching Sanford son and bubble came up to Fred said Fred I need five dollars back in the 70s. There's a lot of money Fred said bubble. You caught me at the wrong time Why was that Fred because I got it Some folks don't like to give Some folks some folks love to give In view of what God has given us. Yes, and it doesn't have to necessarily have to be money. It can be your time or anything else Those who everybody likes to lead everybody likes to lead and then those who show uh-oh uh-oh that last one right there paul paul Want you to come back and erase that I want you to come back and erase that last part right there where it says He who shows mercy with cheerfulness Now there's something interesting about that about he who shows mercy Do it with cheerfulness first of all How many of us like to show mercy What about showing mercy even in private? Yeah, I don't I don't care what you say when the camera's on you when you but they're Now i'm talking about when you just buy yourself or when you with your friends you running down this other christian You just talking bad about the person whatever you Yeah, and but look how he says he says show mercy how with cheerfulness with cheer Don't just Here you go. No with cheerfulness That's like in other words fix your heart If you see me Okay, all the dogs are here now If you see me In anybody's chat You're gonna notice one thing that I tend not to do i'm not not always But I tend not to get too controversial in someone else's chat Well, I don't want to have to apologize for it That's one Um, I like to kind of keep it light I don't I don't want to I'm not gonna sit there and just I'm not trying to just just bash folks I'm I'm just not because it's not always appropriate So I always answer because guess what the same measure of judgment that you give out is the same one that's coming back to you And if you don't think it's fair well, then you better be fair with how you give it out That's just but that's the spiritual gift that we we might need to work on that particular spiritual gift now Let's go to first Corinthians chapter 12 Where do I want to start it? Where do I want to start it matter of fact? Now the dog closed the door Hold on one second guys. Let me go move this thing out of the way of this dog Who's gonna knock something down probably my way Over over this way. Give me one second Okay guys, I'm sorry. I'm back. But let's start in chapter chapter 12 verse 1 now concerning spiritual gifts And there's that word pneumatico the word for spiritual gifts is the greek word pneumatico And so he says I do not want you to be unaware or ignorant We've covered that part before so let's move down and let's start looking at some of the actual gifts Now paul said I don't want you to be ignorant Now some of you guys have claimed to in the spirit say some Blasphemy stuff that jesus occurs But how could that be? if In the same spirit you've called him lord That necessarily tells us now we we know that he's speaking about how there's something that's come out of their mouth That and how could that be because they're saying they're speaking in this gibberish But even if you don't believe that's what's happening You at least have to believe that they're doing something saying something acting ignorantly Meaning that you can have the holy spirit and be ignorant or act ignorantly Or unknowingly in some of the things you do but now go to verse 4 He says there are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit and there are varieties of ministries But the same or and the same lord Why would he have this variety of ministries there? Because god is going to use you in various functions not necessarily always with the same gifting But with various functions So one day let's just say let's just say all of us. Let's pretend we are in I don't know 40 ad It's 40 ad and the church is brand new. It's still being founded We're still spreading the gospel and so forth and these gifts are working in us and all of us have these outward gifts So even if you're a cessationist, you're not a cessationist Even if you are a cessationist, you're not a cessationist yet. You'll be one later But right now you're not now we'll go to the pastors. I think that they should end this this whole It should but it won't but it should end the whole cessationist discussion but at this moment today Today carol has the gift of heli Then tomorrow next thing we know. Uh, she's she's using a different gift, right? Dutched over here is prophesying and then he goes over this way and he's raising the dead. I don't know The point is however the lord wants to minister through us It's going to vary from person to person from time to time And it's not I don't think because we don't see scripturally where it's always the same We just have it in our head that the spiritual gift is always the same Show me a scripture in acts where they spoke in tongues And they did it in turns and not and no more than three Well, we don't know how they did it in acts All we know is that they were speaking in these different languages And so it could have been that three words because do do we think? The entire town this is so sometimes we need we sometimes we need a camera crew to put this together Do we think that on the day of pentecost everybody in the entire town came at one point? You don't have a big enough spot for everybody to come to at one time So do I think that all of the 12 apostles that are standing right there are speaking at the exact same time? I don't think so Because I don't know that all the people that they'd be speaking to are there at the exact same time We act as though this happened. Bam at one moment in in the span of five minutes or 10 minutes or 20 or 30 minutes This could have taken hours for it to happen Here we've got two or three speaking over here. Then we've got some over We don't know we just know there was enough of a commotion that folks started coming and they were coming So we don't know how this went and so we can't I can't show you a scripture That tells you where they did it in turns no more than two or three But I can't tell you but there's no also no scripture says that they did not do it that way What we do know is what the directive is the directive is for us Because whether they did or didn't if they didn't do it the way that we're told to do it They're apostles And this is the founding of the church All we do know is the directive for us is to do it that way are you with me? So all we got to go off of is in our scriptures So he says but each one is given verse as far as verse six There are varieties of effects, but the same god in other words Some of these things work differently And the word for effects is the word we get the word for air god for workings different operations But the same god who works all things in all people. Did you see that? He works all things in all people That might that's helping me to shape this view that However, he wants to work in me spiritually May vary it might not be the same day. So he works me however he wants to Various ways in me all things through all people Verse seven here it is but to each one is given the manifestation of the spirit Why for the common good in other words again Don't ever leave this thought This is a part that settled this part right here if you violate this You don't have or you're not in in leagues or in concert with the lord with the word of god with the holy spirit If what you're doing spiritually whatever your gift is if it's benefiting you building you up you are in error This theme keeps getting what and I won't go through it like I did the other day with with the video over The times that he talks about All of our gifts our spiritual gifts are for one another first peter four ten i believe Five times in chapter 14 here Romans 12 Jude so we've got enough time Jesus also said it in john We've got enough times where we see that these spiritual gifts are not for you, but for others again What I do with my finger is for or my hand is for the rest of my body Okay, so that being said let's go back to it Give me one more second because now I've got a dog acting up one more second Sorry about that. I got a lot going on. Um, and I had to bring company in here with me. So anyway I don't know if you all can see the top of her head. She is sitting there just looking wanting me to to rubber So now let's go back to it Verse eight for to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit And to another the word of knowledge according to the same spirit and to another faith by the same spirit And to another gifts of healing and to one I'm sorry by the one spirit and to another the effects of Effectings of miracles and to another prophecy and to another distinguishing distinguishing spirits and to another various kinds of tongues and to another the interpretation of tongues But to but one and the same spirit Works all things all these things distributing to each one Individually as he will now the problem is this part right here Where it says distributing to into each one individually We used to take that as though it meant that You get one individual gift But we don't see that Is you don't get one it? No, it's not that you get one individual gift You get the gifts individually. He is the one that's doing so as he wills are with me But again, if you start noticing these passages or these these gifts Do some of these gifts look like they may kind of lap or overlap? For example the one with teaching and and wisdom and knowledge Do they kind of go together? Yeah, it'd be kind of had it'd be kind of hard to have teaching Without there also being knowledge attached to it And then if you're leading there should be some some wisdom or with me so When we talk about the spiritual gifts Something else that ought to jump off the page is that this is not an exhaustive list All he's doing is giving us how the Lord works how he moves If there was ever a need ever a need For I don't know for you to fly Through the spirit, I believe you would now I can't think of a reason why and I'm and it might sound like I'm being a little silly But he is going to use you how he wants to use you Are you with me? So now that being the case let's continue Verse 12 for even as the body is one and yet has many members and all the members of the body though They they are many are one body So also as Christ so for by one spirit We were all baptized into one body whether Jews or Greeks whether slaves or free and we were all made to drink of the spirit So that's so that being the case remember all of us who are in christ have been baptized There's not one person who's a christian who has never Received the holy spirit. There is no second outpouring of it. There is no tearing for the holy spirit If you are a believer Paul says all by one spirit have been baptized into the body All of us Whether saved for one second one minute one hour one year one decade. It does not matter Are you with me? Let's continue verse 14 for the body is not one member but many if the foot says because I am I am not a hand I am I'm sorry. I am not a part of the body It is not for this reason any the less a part of the body And if the ear says because I'm not an eye I am not a part of the body It is not for this reason any the less a part of the body in other words There is nothing that God is working in you that makes you less adequate now if you think that If you want the same sort of gift That another person has Well, first of all He didn't have a specific gift He's just been used or she's been used And it showed up in that particular gift Now for whatever reason we don't know We don't know why god used frank over here to do this Use the spirit through frank or Mary the spirit went through mary or the spirit went through bob and this way we don't we don't know We don't know what was going on behind the scenes always happening in bob or mary's life as well Because maybe them them also being used maybe they're being used To talk to someone who has been molested The lord is working through through through bob or through mary And the person they're ministering to had been molested You don't know that and you're warning that gift. Well, that means you want what they had to go through to be used by god So we shouldn't covet what somehow someone else is being used also We need to think about that as well too. Sometimes we want what someone has not realizing what they had to go through to get there Thank you We used to always say hey, man I I admire this football player that football player that used to Growing up in the day used to love earl Campbell We thought earl Campbell was the biggest and he was the biggest baddest running back out there He just would knock knock over defensive lineman. He linebackers. He was a bad boy Earl Campbell needs a he's got problems with his hip got problem with his legs and his bones needs a needs a crutch or a cane All that comes at a price And so we're we're we're envying what we saw not knowing what what his body's going through Maybe even what his mind is going through Bruiser I received the holy spirit the same way as in the book of acts Uh, no, you didn't First of all Sir with all due respect, you did not in the book of acts they believed and then later on they received the holy spirit That's not you The day you believe the moment you believe you receive the holy spirit. That's just the fact So anyway, so now we see those gifts. Let's go down to verse 28 and see if we see more Now verse 27 you are christ bodies and individually members of it and god has appointed in the church look what he says First apostles second prophets third teachers then miracles then gifts of healings then helps administrations various kinds of tongues What he says are all are not apostles. Are they All are not prophets. Are they all are not teachers. Are they all are not workers of miracles? Are they all do not have gifts of healing? Do they all do not speak with languages or tongues? Do they all do not interpret do they but earnestly desire the greatest gift Wait a second paul. Why are we desiring gifts? If all don't well, what's the greatest gift paul? What's what's the greatest gift?  Well, that's why he says after that he says And I will show you a more excellent way and we go to chapter 13 The reason why chapter 13 is there not because it follows chapter 12 and comes before chapter 14 The reason why it's there or the point is that he wants to show you what the greatest gift is and he says The greatest gift is love But we go we're going to chapter 13 because we want to deal with this issue of gifts cc paul makes a statement says if I speak with tongues of men and of angels He's being hypothetical and he's being hyperbolic How do we know? There's never been in the history of the bible anyone ever speaking in the tongues of angels Nor have we ever heard an angel speak in a tongue other than the language of the person they're speaking to So he's being hyperbolic His point is whatever you can do if you can fly to the moon if you can swim 3000 miles without taking a breath If you can do that, but you don't have love doesn't matter. That's his point. He says if I have if I have no love I have become a noisy gong or a clanging symbol If I have to get the prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge if I have all faith So let's remove mountains, but do not have love. I have nothing again Hypothetical and hyperbolic. Why do we say that because he does not have all knowledge He's never removed mountains. He doesn't have the gift of healing of healing any and everybody. We've seen that are you with me? Uh continuing verse three And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor Um And if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love it profits me nothing Did paul give his body to be burned? No, you give his body up, but I have to be burned His point is he's making a point That whatever it is that I do if I do not have love now here is where here is where hold on Let me answer this still searching for my spiritual calling. No, you're not I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you what your spiritual calling is right now You're ready for it. It's the same as as everyone else is in chat. Your spiritual calling is to be a like to others Best you know how Your spiritual calling is to be a like to share the gospel when you can The best way you can If it's writing something down if it's helping people out if it's showing love If it's exhorting people if it's serving others If it's just letting him know what cry by the way all of us need to let somebody know what crisis done for us Now Is he gonna increase that? To do more in the body. I don't know or how he's gonna do so.  There's there's no such thing as saying that your ministry has to be the exact same all your life Right My ministry is xyz and that's what's going to be forever Okay, I don't I don't know where we get that from didn't have to be It fluctuate it can fluctuate Look at how we see the the apostles doing look look now. They did some mighty things But they weren't always doing the same thing in the same way That's just how it is And so we've got to retrain our mind to look at spiritual gifts at least the way that they did them in the bible Are you with me? So as long as you love the lord and you want to share the love of the lord with someone else That's your ministry. That's all of our ministry and it's going to show up differently What happens is we start comparing what I see this person's ministry First of all, you see someone doing something they may or may not be acting In accord with how god has gifted them a word god wants them to be We don't know that for sure but even if they are It doesn't mean that that's what they're going to stay forever Okay, continuing. He says love is patient. Love is kind and is not jealous Uh-oh Yeah Yeah, I'm getting my bullets ready I'm getting my bullets ready because we got the body. We got some problem with these right here Love is patient. Love is kind. We aren't always so patient and certainly not so kind Now if you're heretic If you got it coming you got it coming that's different We we are not called to be kind to wolves But we are kind to be we are called to be kind to our own brothers and sisters Again, I'm not treating a christian like a non-christian. I don't care what he's done because what have I done? Anyway, continue It's not jealous does not love to brag does I'm sorry does not love Love does not brag and is not arrogant does not act unbecomingly What does it mean to act unbecomingly? Well, just ask people are looking at you If the people I did this one time before I've been in several times I might be due to do it again But if you ask people who like you and don't like you, what do you think of me? Uh matter of fact, I recommend you out. You all try that one day Just ask people I don't care if they're your friends your families your haters your enemies ask What do you think about them? What's my biggest problem? You're gonna get the truth from all of them All of them are going to give you the truth now. You might not like it matter of fact, have you ever noticed that Even when our our enemies tell us about ourselves It's not like we turn around accept what our our friends and loved ones tell us too If our friends and loved ones told us the truth and we accepted it then our enemies wouldn't have to so They're all gonna tell you the truth now. They may tell you a little harsher Your enemies might throw a little extra on top of it, but there's probably some truth into it Especially if you're singing everybody's saying this the same thing If everybody's saying the same thing Yeah, don't go If everybody if you listen if you have a large crowd of people saying the same thing I'm not saying well. They wait. Okay. They might call you a false teacher. Okay. There's listen There's a crowd of folks are gonna call me a false teacher I know there's a whole lot more who don't and the ones that call me false teacher can't spell bible I'm not worried about them, but I'm talking about your personality.  You're so sweet. Okay, cool But yeah, there's always some truth and what they say even your enemies We got we we went to get this we're gonna get this right. We're gonna get this right. Hopefully. Yeah, I said dog Dogs, I need I need to put that on a shirt. Don't I need I need to I need to trademark that Does not act unbecomingly. It does not seek its own is not provoked Does not take into account a wrong suffered does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Let me say let me just Speak on a couple of these things Let me just speak on a couple things Does not seek its own in other words, I'm not trying to be the biggest badest the greatest person that you've ever seen or met No, or I don't want you to think that It's not provoked You say something bad about me. I got something bad about you that I'm not four years old anymore.  Thank god for a lack of technology back in the day Praise god and by the way, we had we had way more freedom than you guys have Growing up way more freedom. We would have done if we'd have had a cell phone When we're on our bike driving right halfway across town First of all, we never would have made it back in time. We just never would You talk about these kids sending these pictures to each other. Oh, we would have been bad, but We're not love is not to be provoked It does not take into account a wrong suffered. You did me wrong and hold it against you. No, that's not that's not what love does Stop saying you love god and you don't love his people stop that stop that One of them ain't true. Either you don't love god um, or you don't love this or you One of them says ain't true There's not taking it to account wrong suffered does not rejoice in Right, so let me just say this some of you guys watch some of these videos where somebody's getting hurt and just rejoice Just laugh at it. Let's that should be us But rejoices with truth Someone says something that's truthful. It hurts your feelings. Doesn't matter. It's the truth It bears all things believes all things not any and everything like some of these Uh, the hyper charismatic movement does no hopes all things endures all things Now we're going to get to the good part So we ought to know that's a song Now we're going to get to the good part verse eight Love never fails never fails but There are gifts But if there are gifts of prophecy They will be done away with If there are tongues they will cease if there is knowledge It will be done away with for we know in part And we prophesy in part But when the perfect comes the partial or what we do in part will be done away with Let's go ahead and break that down now for my cessation as friends This passage does not say that spiritual gifts have cease or will cease It doesn't say that I know a lot of folks wanted to say that but it doesn't say that the reason why a lot of people wanted to say that Is because they see someone over here giving this little goofy prophecy just abusing They're positioned in front of people and what do we do we overcompensate to the other way all they're all done away with well We do not differentiate between what we call the sign gifts Or the apostolic. No, we don't do that. We don't do that. I don't care what teacher what preacher told you that He didn't have a he does not have a scriptural basis. Let me tell you why If the sign gifts are so great, then why did paul just tell us that there's no gift as great as any other gift He literally just told us that there's no gift to be desired about the other They're all the same, but the sign gifts are the greater gifts.  All we've got to do is judge those so-called gifts by the book How do I know these gifts have not ceased? Let's go back to the passage verse eight Love never fails. So that's not going away. But then look what he what he groups together But if there if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with if there are tongues or languages They will cease if there is knowledge. It will be done away with You have three things grouped together First of all, I want you to notice what these gifts do I think we missed this part. Remember, I said all this stuff is not just thrown out there for any reason It's put together for a reason Prophecy Prophe tuete, which is giving a revelation of God Then we've got languages what we're languages for to give a revelation of God to someone in a different language Three the third one knowledge What I'm saying the word All these things are necessary to give someone the truth about God to magnify Jesus to testify of Jesus These three things are necessary Not all the same time Are you with me? Especially languages But they work together. We're talking about we're still at the beginning of the church And so these three things work together, but if tongues have ceased And if prophecy has ceased which it has not If it has ceased well, then so too has Knowledge they're all in the same grouping prophecy in verse eight Tongues in verse eight and knowledge in verse eight. So we're going to say that tongues languages And prophecy has ceased but knowledge has not no They're all linked together. And if we treat them the same way move dog move dog move come on Please don't not please. Oh, don't knock this quarter. Ah, this dog will knock this quarter. Come on. Come on. Come on I should have put her out. I should have put her out She's so cute If we're going to say one stays Why is it the one that we think that we we have in space? Why is it that? I'm a cessation. It's not I read the bible the knowledge is good, but I don't believe in tongues I don't use tongues and so because I don't use tongues then that means that if it's It's She is something else That means it's gone. I don't use it. I think they're abusing so it's gone out of here Not knowledge though But if I and I've spoken to people who are cessationists and I've asked them come on They said show the puppy. Come on. There she is She's not if she licks me. I'm a I'm a puncher. There you go. Looky But If we believe that tongues are a language well If we believe the tongues are a language Then why would they cease? There are people that don't have the bible in their language. There are people that we have not given the gospel to so there might come a point in time where we have to give it to them in their language or or What happens if someone let's say the world's getting pretty bad? Bibles might be done. Who knows if bibles are going to be done away with You can't be a a teacher in arizona in a certain school district if you graduated from a certain christian college Praying outside of certain places get you tossed in jail if you're praying silently so Is there gonna come a point in time when bibles are outlawed?  I can't and I start speaking Because could you imagine could you imagine if the world's greatest cessationist began speaking in the actual language? Not the Not not that not that because we know in the bible. It's an actual language So I don't think that it will cease or prophecy What is prophecy? Prophecy means to give a revelation for telling or foretelling has that ceased? No, if we're reading the scripture that is literally prophecy that is literally prophecy guys That hasn't ceased and so it says well where we what we know in part we prophesied in part That does not mean for some of these people out here these heretics that want to tell us that we can just get Part of the prophecy right That's wrong The same way we can't get part of the preach word right it works both ways where whether it be the foretelling Predictive prophecy or the fourth telling indicative. We don't have the right to get any of that incorrect It's supposed to be given a hundred percent correctly Are you with me? now That's why I believe this this passage does not say does not say that those gifts are going to be now says they will at some point time Yeah, at some point in time You won't need to give prophecy at some point time or fourth telling at some point time You won't need to get rid of I mean you won't need to have languages at some point time You will not need your knowledge You'll always have love You'll always have love All you need is love Some y'all don't know that song either That's gonna always be from now until eternity, but the rest no not so much When the perfect is coming I think that's jesus. I think that's jesus not the canon The reason why it's not the the reason why it's not the canon the reason why you can't say when when the perfect has come Couple of reasons Well, I'm not I take I take I'll take one of the reasons way But when the canon came and closed when there was no more writings Did everybody have the bible? No Everybody did not have the bible So since everybody did not have the bible then how would they hear the word prophecy?   I'm catching one myself Because let me let me back up again though guys in case some of you guys might have missed this Our job is to be christians not necessarily the best christian, but loving christian. That's our job Our job is to magnify christ to resemble christ Now we're not going to do it perfectly and we don't have perfect knowledge and so forth and there are times There are times where we are going to roar like lions when we when we should speak like lambs There are times that we're going to act like lambs when we should have acted like lions We get that messed up a lot We tend to want people to treat us to act like lambs toward us And like lions toward our enemies. That's typically how that works and we're typically wrong But if you do things in love, it's kind of hard to it's harder to mess up We don't do a good job of loving guys. We we really don't I I'm guilty of it as well I mean the way listen the one The way I the way I treat cowboy fans It's just it's appalling the way I treat cowboy fans Oh, I'm sorry. I got the wrong the wrong part not showing the way I treat cowboys fans It's just sometimes it's just downright ungodly It's deserving but Who am I to judge them? But dawg on he's sitting there saying it if you just love people If you just love people Yeah, but not our enemies. Yeah, love you. He literally said love your enemies Does is loving somebody a move of the spirit? I just want to know Would you would you would you say yeah detox? I'm on the cowboys You guys had all that tough talk You cowboy fans had all that tough talk now.  You got it all that tough talk I told you February is coming February is coming.  I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. I tried but I could not I've got to grow But if we just love everybody including our enemies the ones what if you practice loving the people that you don't like What if you just practice loving the people that you can't stand I mean, I want to punch this guy so much so bad It hurts, but I'm because isn't that what god did for you? Isn't that what god so if we just practice remember The majority of the gifts that we see outside of acts are the ones that we don't think about knowledge The body hates including christians. We don't like now. We don't like the teaching of the word wisdom and so forth We don't like love. We don't like patience. We don't like serving people We don't like we don't like giving The majority of the gifts that we see outside of acts because think about the gifts We talk about the most that we have a problem with tongues. We only see it in one book We only see tongues in one book Not the the mentioning of it, but I mean the actual use of we only see it or read about it in use in one book What about interpretation we only see it in one episode the only time that we actually see Interpretation being done is on the day of pen and cost We don't see a whole lot of dead bodies being raised or a lot of healing happening after acts But we do see a whole lot of love We do see a whole lot of teaching We do see a whole lot of giving We do see a whole lot of fellowship. We see all of those things So now let me ask you guys a question. What if you're going to be a biblical continuation? Why don't you continue in that? Why don't we all just continue in that? In striving to be the best at loving each other. Why don't we why don't we do that? I know some people thought that hey Cory about to get on these hyper charismatic folks about the way they use the spiritual gifts No, no, no, no, no It's like a promise you this I've seen a whole lot of charismatic folks that that's shown up know how to love Might be bad on doctrine, but wonderful when it comes to love Because wouldn't it be bad if you got all your doctrine right?  You have no love Don't say that you love God. You don't love your fellow man. Don't don't say that Leave that lie for the devil.  You everybody in this chat including myself should be bothered because and I haven't I haven't even started shooting the bullets off yet This is this will come later either later this week or next week Because we need to we need to fix some things y'all this this is Those of us who what do they say if you know better we should do better We sweep we report to know better, but we don't do better. We just don't We just don't we make a mockery of other folks not showing or misusing gifts and we don't show any gifts And and can I show all the question? I just I just need to know take a temperature Am I making sense? Am I making any sort of sense if if no, let me know then I'll just I'll Push the button. We'll start all over or I'll come back tomorrow But is any of this making sense Maybe maybe it's not Maybe it's not Throwing coconut.  Come on.  Listen. I could kick coconut And she's gonna come back and just lay beside me. She Would I say we should love like a dog? We should love. Why is it?   She keep coming back. Did did Jesus have a beard? I don't know I don't I don't know what made you ask that question. B. J. I'm talking about love. You tell him about Jesus having a beard I don't know. He had he had a beard. Jesus had a beard. They pulled it out When he was Good girl. Good girl Um But that but but love caused that Jesus could Jesus could have whooped him when they when they snatched at his beard Yeah, she's free. The problem is she she knows she's pretty that that's the problem She she thinks she's all that This dog She had listen, I don't I'm not a proponent of this belief of white privilege except for her Yeah, she's got she's got white privilege bad. She thinks she is all that Open the door.  She's the first to Where are you going?  Come on. Come on See she just she thinks she belongs everywhere white privilege And I did her that and then she comes right back for some for some rubbing love But shouldn't we be like that though sit down We should be like that I just told her to sit and lay down and what she did she come right back over here. She's not the she's not the best train She's not the best train. She's like us She's like us sit sit girl I the although although I would much rather have the dogs than to have the grandbabies They are harder. They are harder Do y'all hear her She man She's she she's something else. She is she is something else. She is so and it's my daughter's dog She is super spoiled now. She she's rolling. I want me to the river stomach.  She got to go you'll she She's like us I guess But it's coconut saved Uh coconut is catholic Yes, uh, we're working on her Coconut is catholic. She she she likes her religion kind of yeah You know, so yeah, coconut is catholic. We're working on it.  Ain't no question about it. He exhibits all the sign gifts Yeah, yeah, but coconut coconut catholic, uh, the cat is pentecostal The other dog is just dead. She just she can't hear So But in all seriousness guys The whole point of these gifts are to be used to to promote christ That's it if you aren't promoting christ And the spirit is and you claim the spirit is in you because the spirit is going to promote christ And you're not promoting christ Did y'all see the camera move did y'all see that the now she is laying on the edge of the tripod this this dog She's got to go. She has got to go I can't see her but I know I just saw the tripod move. So she's she's on it You think coconut's imaginary You think coconut is imaginary just like those cowboy playoff victors are imaginary Sorry maria But If the goal is to promote christ if that's the goal and you say you have the holy spirit then you should be doing that If not, what's up? So anyway guys, uh, thank you so much I appreciate you all guys. I look there will be another video out later. I forgot what it is There's one. It's already queued up. I can't think what the I can't think what it was about. I have no idea I've been I've been moving I've been moving I've been while I was moving and I was typing and I was getting some work done I literally have three videos up and I was in the chat just saying hey, hello everybody Trying to listen to three different videos and so forth sometimes I I watched the videos Sort of halfway To get in there. I was watching sir. Walter jones video about uh, there's a horrible pastor I was catching a little bit of marlins preaching From the gospel truth. I was listening to uh, k-devil was giving a response And um, and so and then I was just to a few other things. I think I was listening to uh, uh What's the pirate's name? uh, rosin ball And a few other things while typing and doing it and I got a ton more to go. No deacon I'm not going to drop the mic. No And you you're not the boss with me. So you don't get to tell me to drop the mic deacon. How about that deacon?


Hello Earth citizens! In this video I will show you a 10-minute routine for tinnitus. Tinnitus is ringing in your ears. So first of all before I show you the exercises I want to briefly explain why someone experiences tinnitus from an energy perspective. So yeah keep that in mind this is based on energy principles. This is not to replace the consultation or advice of a doctor. If you have literal physical problems with your ears it's a whole different story. What I'm sharing with you is just a general energy principle that explains why you have ringing in your ears if there's nothing physically wrong with you. Okay so the optimal energy flow in our body is called water up fire down. We made a video on our channel that explains more in detail about water up fire down so I'll link that video in the description below so you can watch more in detail about water up fire down but in a nutshell water up fire down is the condition where my head is cool and my abdomen is warm. Most people in our modern society the head is hot from so much stress and thinking so many things to consider and and fix and problems and people to deal with that our head gets hot like an overheated computer while our abdomen from our sedentary lifestyle diet stress our abdomens are cold which is why people have a lot of digestive issues these days.   So when you experience heat coming out of your eyes a symptom you have is dry eyes.


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