Following Jesus: Embracing Gifts, Humility, and Community

"but who do you follow some follow Paul some follow paulus some Paul or Peter some say well we follow in Christ but are you gonna follow after the pope are you going to follow after Martin Luther are you going to follow after John Wesley are you going to follow after John McArthur you're gonna fall after me you know follow after this Mormon guy Jehovah Witnesses who are we going to follow after there's a lot of people preaching about Jesus but there's a lot of jesuses out there as brother shared already with a small Jade they have the words but there's no accompaniment of power" [00:46:48]

"and the brother shared these signs shall follow them that belief in my name they shall cast out evil spirits in my name they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover in my name they shall do many wonders and we want to see the power of God and we want to see his glory but we need a doctrine that Accords with godliness it's not our own righteousness but we have to be able to say we're working with the right Jesus it says in second Corinthians in Chapter 11 Paul says I'm afraid for you as the serpent deceived Eve or beguiled Eve by his craftiness" [00:55:18]

"these people who were delivered from demonic these people were filled with gifts these people who were speaking in tongues these people who were prophesying one after another that you can all Minister and that's God's plan for the church it's not to have one head of state and everybody else sitting in the pews that we all have a gift and a call of God which is irrevocable and we have to fulfill that purpose and call of God and that's on you to cultivate and to seek God and to ask for the Holy Spirit to make uh made manifest maybe sometimes even through the gifting receipts through the laying on of Hands by an eldership who have the right gospel who have a good spirit" [00:59:00]

"but if you have a gift that God has given you and then you just keep doubting that gift doubting that gift outing that gift you stick it in the sand and you bury it because you knew him to be a hard austere man who was going to require all this at your hand then you're going to find yourself having you can have all your doctrines right but not walking in faith you'll have no life to be the dead as opposed you'll be absolutely useless in the kingdom of God and so many denominations the same they have all their doctrines right but they have no power of God and so we're not seeing people born again" [01:03:42]

"it's not the problem with with Jesus there's a problem with us Jesus wants to see people born again but is there an authority that comes from the preaching of the word of God is there an anointing that breaks the yoke or is it just coming out of men's heads are we just speaking from a mental ascent you know brother shared about about the ezekiel's bones about being an army that rises up Ezekiel the Holy Spirit commanded him to preach to the bones and he said You Preach to those bones he said can they live Lord you know and you know we don't know there's nothing that we can do by our own righteousness but the Lord knows" [01:08:59]

"but when the holy spirit moves us we respond and we speak under the unction of the spirit if the spirit doesn't move us we can't do anything Ezekiel could have screamed at those bones till he was blue in the face and not one bone would move they would all just sit there when he saw the vision of the bones but at the word of God the bones began to come together and the sinew began to come on them until there there was a body there and we see that all over the place now there's a body that's coming together here and there there's all this body coming together but there's no life in them" [01:13:01]

"when the gospel changes the spirit changes there's a people today who rise up and they prophesy it says in Jeremiah 23 I was reading that brother dad and I we talked about that on Thursday and they say peace and safety and they never turn anyone back from their wickedness he says if my people had stood in my counsel these prophets and had heard my words they would have caused people to turn from their sin where are the prophets of today where are the preachers who are preaching the full Council of God not just telling people how much God loves them but telling them that they're going to be in trouble with a good God if they don't repent and turn from their wickedness" [01:19:40]

"and you can't have a penny cost unless there's first across there has to First be death Brokenness and deliverance before there can be an infilling of the Holy Spirit a lot of times we want to lay hands on people and see the action the power of God without their being repentance unless there's a Calamity people are not broken people don't call on the name of their God and we're seeing all kinds of counterfeit signs and lying Wonders that are happening because it says that's how it's going to be in the last days and this is how these prophets came in Corinthians second Corinthians 11 these prophets came God didn't send them they were super apostles" [01:25:39]

"they came and they brought an easy beliefism they brought another gospel the one that deceived Eve by his craftiness the serpent who came and said you can live exactly how you want you can disobey what God's word says and you surely shall not die they just Twisted one word you can rebel against God and you surely shall not die and Eve believed the serpent she took and she ate and she gave to her husband and he ate and their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked sin separated us from God it separated Adam and Eve from God and Paul speaks to the church that he planted who he was a father to" [01:30:00]

"and he said just as the serpent deceived Eve with this craftiness lying to you telling you you can rebel against what God's word says as brother shared a gospel which Accords with godliness cleansing ourselves from all the filthiness of the Flesh and in our Spirits perfecting Holiness in the fear of God but if we just soft sell the message to be more inclusive so we can become more popular so we can reach out to more people so that we can make a name for ourselves and we can be lifted up isn't that according to the working of Satan isn't that what Saul said when he said no he had built a monument unto himself" [01:35:34]

"he was once humble but now he was supposed to destroy the amalekites totally annihilate them and here he is building a monument unto himself and he's doing all this kind of offerings and stuff and it's all about Saul and all about an image unto Saul and then he says to Samuel the kingdom is going to be stripped from you Samuel says and he says okay okay I sin but honor me now in front of the brothers the flesh wants honor that which is highly esteemed among men it says an Abomination is sight of God we want to be used to the Lord but the flesh wants honor wants to be recognized as a man of God" [01:40:00]

"it's crafty the flesh is very crafty we think that we're walking in humility but we can reap with pride and I keep asking the Lord help me to walk in humility to be humble because so easy our tendency is to be proud because we have so much light because we have good gospel because we know that we've experienced the power of God and who are they and then we begin to forget that the Excellence the powers of God and all of ourselves so then we become hard-pressed on every side and we wonder why all these trials why all these tests don't think it's strange Brothers concerning the fiery trials that try you as though some strange thing has happened to you" [01:45:04]