Jan. 20, 2025

Disregarding Sons, Kings, and Priests - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 45

Disregarding Sons, Kings, and Priests - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 45

Send us a text Skepticism about the Holy Ghost's manifestations: blasphemy or caution? We confront this provocative question and unravel the compelling themes of spiritual maturity and intercession in the modern church. Revisiting the transformative Azusa Street Revival of 1906, we discuss its pivotal role in the Pentecostal movement's explosive growth and the subsequent skepticism that arose. Young preachers today might be unaware of these historic events and the powerful concepts of the bap...

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Skepticism about the Holy Ghost's manifestations: blasphemy or caution? We confront this provocative question and unravel the compelling themes of spiritual maturity and intercession in the modern church. Revisiting the transformative Azusa Street Revival of 1906, we discuss its pivotal role in the Pentecostal movement's explosive growth and the subsequent skepticism that arose. Young preachers today might be unaware of these historic events and the powerful concepts of the baptism in the Holy Ghost and the gifts of the Spirit. We promise a deep understanding of how this lack of awareness has led to stagnation in traditional denominations, disconnected from the kingdom of God.

Explore the resistance faced by prophetic and healing revivals of the 1940s and 1950s as we underscore the importance of restoring prophetic and priestly roles in the church. We lament the spiritual blindness that has kept many congregations from embracing these awakenings, highlighting the mercy shown to those drawn out of traditional boundaries to experience the Holy Ghost firsthand. The narrative doesn't stop there; our journey includes a critical examination of the "Babylonian church" and its ignorance of sonship, critiquing organized religion and its impact on genuine spiritual life. Personal experiences illuminate the path to understanding true sonship and the essential ministries of the prophetic and apostolic.

We challenge the church's reluctance to embrace spiritual revelations, contrasting true shepherds with hirelings, and emphasizing spiritual leadership over personal gain. The episode dives into the necessity of restoring sonship - prophetic, priestly, and apostolic ministries, vital for spiritual warfare against adversarial forces. This is not just a conversation but a call to action: God's plan for His sons, prophets, and apostles will proceed, regardless of obstacles. Join us for an enlightening journey that calls for apostolic restoration and authentic governance within the church, as we set the stage for understanding the maturation of sons and the restoration doctrine in future discussions.

00:00 - The Battle for Spiritual Maturity

17:06 - The Church's Rejection of Spiritual Revelation

29:24 - The Restoration of Prophetic Revivals

35:32 - The Babylonian Church's Ignorance of Sonship

48:00 - The True Shepherd and the Hireling

58:45 - The Call for Apostolic Restoration

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Well, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory to God.

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Let's turn to John, the first chapter.

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We're going to go back to a verse that we've been looking at for a couple of weeks, but in a different context.

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We really spent some time looking at that verse so that we could come back to this and this discussion of what the Antichrist is trying to do in this century.

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We know what he did in the last century and that we have laid the groundwork and I hope we have that firmly in our spirits that because the church, what was called the church, in that day, in the spring of 1906, when God, in his great mercy, poured out the Holy Ghost for the second time, amen and changed the planet, amen, there were no.

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If I say no, there were zero Pentecostal churches in the world in the spring of 1906.

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There are now close to a half a billion Christians who profess to believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

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The evidence of speaking in tongues, the operation of the gifts, the moving of the Holy Ghost, the evidence of speaking in tongues, the operation of the gifts, the moving of the Holy Ghost, and all of that that the outpouring brought, amen has resulted in a half a billion 500 million believers coming into that way of believing.

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However, they are outnumbered by a factor of eight to nine to one, because two billion Christians don't believe it at all.

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Amen, and that I was talking to somebody the other day who has heard me preach for years about the need to summon and call up intercessors to pray amen, because what God is giving us to pray for is way over our pay grade as individuals.

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I'm sorry, I don't mean to question your level of faith or anything else, but you simply cannot lift up the degree of intercession that is going to result in the kind of power that God wants to release upon the earth.

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And God has put it in the hands of his people to lift up that level of intercession.

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That's what God wants to do.

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It is God's will.

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Everybody say it's God's will.

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It's not God's will to just intervene because he wants to intervene.

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It's God's will to allow his sons and his daughters to be a participant in this thing that causes a mighty upswell of intercession from off the planet and results in a mighty release of power from the throne of God.

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This is how God has set it up to be.

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This is how it's going to be in this day, and it is the only way that we can offset the outnumberedness that we face.

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Because if you just consider Christians, we're outnumbered about nine to one.

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If you consider the whole planet, then we are outnumbered by almost a factor of 16 to 17 to one.

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If you consider the whole planet, then we are outnumbered by almost a factor of 16 to 17 to one.

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Those are not good odds.

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To go to war with folks, we have to have something that's going to level the playing field, and that thing that's going to level the playing field is intercession from us by the Holy Ghost, resulting in the release of power from on high Amen.

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You can read about that in the book of Revelation, how the prayers of the saints come up before God and there are thunderings and lightnings and releases of power that come upon the earth because of that intercession Hallelujah.

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But anyway, I was talking to somebody about that the other day.

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I'm just telling you this that 80 to 90 percent of the Christian world does not believe that, and it's actually higher, because most Pentecostal churches don't believe that, and the reason that is is because the church, because the church has brought a curse upon the earth because of their unbelief.

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Listen, jesus said this.

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You need to remember what Jesus said.

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Jesus said that all sins will be forgiven, men, even against the Son.

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But there's one sin that will not be forgiven, men, even against the Son.

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But there's one sin that will not be forgiven, and that is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.

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Now you can say whatever you like, but the out-and-out rejection of the manifestation of the Holy Ghost that has been so evident upon the planet for the past 120 years amen.

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I don't know how that does not qualify for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, amen.

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And the evidence of the judgment that has come upon the earth in the 20th century is overwhelming.

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And so now we are looking at a manifestation of this spirit of Antichrist coming more precisely against the body of Christ, looking to destroy the body, giving it a knockout punch, because he has 90% of what calls itself the church in his grip.

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Now I told you many weeks ago, and I've been telling you ever since I'm going to say some things in these last messages on this and I'm not holding any punches.

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I got no reason to.

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I'm too old and been too long in this thing.

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I counted up the other day that this year is 45 years in ministry, so I've come way too far and too long a road to start pulling punches.

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Hallelujah, glory to God, praise the name of Jesus.

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This attack of Antichrist has produced ungodliness in the church.

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Antichrist, anti-god, anti-spirit, anti-body, ungodliness, anti-godliness in the church.

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It has produced a weak and carnal church, a church that exalts Adam and mere men at a higher level of importance than the transformation into the spirit man or the pneumaticus man.

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Hallelujah.

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This is what's happening in the church all over the planet, with the exception of a few churches in isolated places Africa, asia, eastern Europe, some places in Latin America where the move of God is strong because they are listening to the Holy Ghost about how to organize the church.

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Hallelujah.

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Today I want to open up another topic, and that is that, as the Antichrist brings this attack, what is happening is that there is a disregarding of the doctrine of the maturation of sons, of the doctrine of the restoration of the prophetic and the doctrine of the restoration of the apostolic.

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Now the Holy Ghost was given amen to bring the children of God into a level of maturity in the Holy Ghost so that they could operate as the sons of God and be the priests and the princes of God, amen.

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Let's go to the book of John, chapter 1, verse 12, where it says as many as received him.

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We spent two weeks talking about how important it was to receive this Jesus.

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It's not enough to believe in him, but if you're going to be in him and he's going to be in you, then you have to receive him.

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Receiving is something different than believing, amen.

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Receiving is a measure of the grace upon grace that Jesus came to bring Hallelujah and those that received him.

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To them he gave the right, the exousia, the authority to become.

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So.

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There's a phrase that teaches you what you need to know, or something that you need to know about transformation, or something that you need to know about transformation he gives you the authority, the right, the power, the exousia, to bend your will to his will, so that you can be transformed from a mere man, who is a child of God, into a pneumaticus man who is a son of God.

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Amen.

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This is very important because he says he gives you the right to become what the sons of God.

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So this is something that the Holy Ghost is committed to do.

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He is committed to this transformation process.

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Amen.

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It says in 2 Corinthians, chapter 3 and verse 17,.

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Now, the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord there is, there is liberty.

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And we with an unveiled face do behold as, in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are being transformed from glory to glory, as by the spirit of the Lord.

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So the spirit is the one who is doing the transforming.

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We are being transformed from one level of glory to another level of glory so that we can, with an unveiled face, look Jesus face to face and be transformed into his very image.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So it's clear that we have a ministry to fulfill as sons and daughters of God not as children, but as, according to the book of Hebrews, paul wrote this that we have a message to the mature.

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We have a message to the sons and the daughters.

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We have a message to those that have been trained by the use of the meat that they eat, amen To discern between good and evil, and those are being transformed into sonship.

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Glory to God, are you hearing this?

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Not everybody's going to be transformed into sonship.

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The first requirement is what we talked about for the past two weeks you have to be a receiver.

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You have to be a receiver of this Jesus so his image can get all over you.

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Amen.

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Listen, look at me.

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Sons and daughters, do not try to be like Jesus.

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Sons and daughters are being formed and being transformed in a process and they are becoming Jesus.

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They don't have to worry about what would Jesus do.

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They know what Jesus would do.

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Jesus lives inside of them.

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Amen.

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It's the obedience unto the Spirit that we've been talking about for several weeks.

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This obedience unto the Spirit produces this image of Jesus in you.

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Glory to God, you're not trying to be like Jesus.

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Give it up.

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You can't be like Jesus.

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You can't try to be like Jesus.

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I wish somebody'd say at least say amen, let me know.

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Your wave at me, or something.

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Glory to God, you can't.

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You can't try to be like Jesus.

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You might as well just go back and be under the law of Moses.

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Be like Jesus.

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You might as well just go back and be under the law of Moses.

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Amen.

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Jesus in you is trying to get you to bend your will to his will.

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Once you do that, once you come under his exousia.

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Amen.

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There's no effort in it.

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He's going to do it.

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You know who knows how to be Jesus better than anybody.

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I'll give you 10 guesses, and the first nine don't count.

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Glory to God, you know who does so, he's not going to.

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Let you try to figure it out.

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Oh, hallelujah, glory to God.

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Now let's turn to Revelation, the fifth chapter and verse 10, revelation five and 10 gives you this additional piece of information that we are being.

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We are being transformed by a process of called, becoming, be called transformation the sons and daughters of God.

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Now, this is important because verse 10 of chapter 5 in Revelation says that you have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth, praise God.

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I'm going to read it again you have made us kings and priests to our God.

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I'm going to read it again you have made us kings and priests to our God.

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I want to read you one verse of scripture, because John had this context in mind.

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Verse 18 of chapter 14 of Genesis says this then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine.

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He was the priest of God.

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What was Melchizedek?

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He was king and he was the priest of God.

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What does this scripture say?

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He has made us kings and priests to our God.

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John was not talking about something that had not happened upon the planet.

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John was not talking about something that had not happened upon the planet.

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He was talking about something that had happened on the planet in the days of Melchizedek and was passed on to our father, abraham and everyone who has come into this.

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Believing of the Christ and the receiving of the Christ and the formation of sons and daughters in this Christ, amen have also been made, according to the order of Melchizedek, kings and priests to God.

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The exact same words, in other words, exactly as Melchizedek functioned as a king and priest to God when he was on the earth, but it talks about our mission here on earth as kings and priests to God.

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I'm going to lay out something today, and these two scriptures are the foundation of what I'm going to teach you today is that those three things have been totally disregarded by the church that rejected the Holy Ghost.

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The church that rejected the Holy Ghost and, for a large part, the church that came out of Azusa Street but didn't pursue the fullness.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Are you hearing this?

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So I have a question for you when is Asusa in these days?

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Where is the Holy Ghost in these days, in this thing that calls itself the church?

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Where is the evidence of Asusa and where is the Holy Ghost?

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So not too many days ago, I have a dream and I'm conducting a seminar and I've got a whole bunch of young wannabe preachers in this seminar.

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Just, you know, I look out and I just see a whole bunch of you know kids that look like they still should be in junior high, but they're.

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You know, I look out and I just see a whole bunch of you know kids that look like they they still should be in junior high, but they're, you know, 19, 20 years old or something like that.

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They're just a bunch of kids and they, they're in.

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They for some reason they're in this seminar and I'm teaching them.

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And I I said I want to see a show of hands of those that know what happened in Holy Week of 1906 in Los Angeles, california, at a place called Azusa.

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Nobody raised their hands.

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Next thing I said I want to see how many of you know can give me a functional definition of what the baptism in the Holy Ghost is, of what the baptism in the Holy Ghost is.

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Nobody raised their hands.

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I want somebody to tell me what the nine gifts of the Spirit are in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12.

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Nobody raised their hands.

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Nobody knew about Azusa, Nobody knew about the singular, most important event on the planet since Pentecost.

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I'm going to tell you that the devil got into the church in the early days and stripped the church of the significance of Pentecost.

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And you can tell that because you're still celebrating Christmas and you're still celebrating Easter, but you're hardly ever even mentioning Pentecost.

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And the most important thing that's happened in the church since the first Pentecost was the second Pentecost, and none of these people that God had assembled before me even knew what I was talking about.

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They didn't know about a Sousa.

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They didn't know about the spirit baptism.

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They didn't know about Asusa.

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They didn't know about the spirit baptism.

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They didn't know about the gifts of the spirit.

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They didn't know anything about this because the churches that they came out of had not taught them anything about these things.

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It's not like you know, if we talk about evangelical churches, we'll say, well, they believe about Jesus pretty correctly and they believe about this pretty correctly, but they don't believe about this and they don't believe about that.

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At least we'll tell you what they believe and what they don't believe.

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They haven't even brought that to anybody's attention.

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These young would-be preachers were all out of non-Pentecostal or non-active spirit-filled belief systems and they didn't know.

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They didn't know they hadn't been taught.

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It wasn't like they just weren't interested, they had never been led into it.

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That's why I'm saying the church by and large, has disregarded teaching the people about this thing called the transformation of sons, the ministry of kings and the ministry of priests.

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Those things are not anywhere on anybody's radar.

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And yet here's Melchizedek in the road who is king and priest, and he's anointing a son whose name is Abraham, because almost all of the church has rejected the outpouring of the Holy Ghost to the Sousa Street in April of 1906.

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Now here's something else.

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You just need.

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You just need to get a hold of this.

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Okay, in Los Angeles, california, before Los Angeles, california ever became Los Angeles California, before Hollywood became Hollywood, before there was anything like this, when it was just a little Southern California thing that had out, that had grown out of submission places, amen, los Angeles was not the predominant city in California, san Francisco was.

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And San Francisco was a first-class hellhole and had been since its early founding.

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I mean, it was the major port on the West Coast it had.

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You know, all the hell coming out of Asia would find its way there.

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All the hell coming out of across the continent would find its way there.

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All the hell coming out of across the continent would find its way there.

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All the hell coming around South America would find its way there.

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It was just one of the worst places on the planet, and Los Angeles would become one of the worst places on the planet.

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And yet God poured out his spirit in Los Angeles and at the same time poured out the worst earthquake in North American history in San Francisco.

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They all happened within a matter of hours.

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The Holy Ghost gets poured out in Los Angeles and San Francisco almost falls into the ocean.

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Didn't quite fall into the ocean, but it almost burned to the ground.

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Are you hearing any of this?

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These two things aren't disassociated, they're closely associated.

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Do you think anybody in that group knew anything about all that stuff?

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They might be able to tell you a little bit about the earthquake in 1906 in San Francisco, but only because they've seen a movie or heard it mentioned, or you know they never studied it.

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They never studied the relationship, because they don't even know about a susan street, because almost almost the entirety of the church has rejected the outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

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There is no revelation Everybody say this no revelation of subsequent revelations that have been given to the church.

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If you could look at the Methodist church or the Baptist church or the Lutheran church or the Episcopalian church or anything that they believe today as opposed to what they believed in 1906, there's been no change, except they've got more liberal and more ungodly.

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Hello, they haven't woke up and said wait a minute, what we've been believing can't possibly be right, because it doesn't make sense with these scriptures.

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We need to pray and fast and seek God and see what's going to happen and listen.

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If they'd have done that, god had sent them somebody full of the Holy Ghost and got them filled, and then they could have been relevant for the kingdom of God.

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Instead, they're stuck in the mud.

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They're the same as they were in 1906, only worse.

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You know why?

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Because they didn't get that revelation, they didn't get that restoration of the Holy Spirit and they didn't get any of the other major things that have happened in this past century.

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They have no revelation of sonship.

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All of their people are still children and they're proud of it.

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They think it's almost blasphemy to be considered a mature son in the Lord.

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No, we're just children.

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They don't have any thought, they don't have any concept of sonship.

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And yet in 1948, there was a major revelation given to the church called the manifestation of the sons of God.

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That was the framework of that restoration and it brought about that revelation that we were being transformed.

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I'm talking some of the people that were impacted by that.

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If I rattled off the names, you'd know who they were 48, the manifested sons of God.

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And the main doctrine there was that God was raising up sons to be manifested on the earth and those sons would do great things.

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Amen.

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And it was coincident listen to this.

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It was coincident and preliminary to the greatest healing revival that had ever been seen in North America.

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So God said I'm going to manifest my sons.

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And here comes Oral Roberts, here comes Kenneth Hagin, here comes AA Allen, here comes Branham, here comes, here comes, here comes, here comes Jack Coe, here comes all of these guys and they start raising up tents and they start pulling people out of these dead religions and bringing them into an environment where God is moving by his spirit and miracles upon miracles.

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These are things, listen, these are things we do not see anymore Church services tents where a whole section of the tent or the sanctuary is full of wheelchairs and crutches and ambulance beds and things, where people have come in and they were on the verge of dying and they walk out healed and left all of their support system at the altar.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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I'm talking about a man who prayed for so many people it's estimated that Oral Roberts prayed for over 2 million people that his shoulders literally decomposed from being in this position so much they were getting people I mean all over the planet, people were going to what was his name?

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Tl Osborne Getting people saved by the hundreds of thousands, great healing ministries, but there's no revelation of that in these churches, in the churches that rejected.

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Now I'm going to say something, and this is the proof of the pudding, because you?

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Because if you look at the equation of 2 billion Christians that don't know anything about the Holy Ghost versus 500 million that do, but in that 500 million there's a lot of them that got stuck and didn't come into fullness of the Holy Ghost, and I can prove that to you because a lot of those denominations that came out of Azusa Street rejected what God did with the manifestation of the sons of God and the great healing revivals.

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They would not let their people go to an Oral Roberts meeting.

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They would not let their people go to an AA Allen meeting.

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They would not let those people go to a William Brandon meeting.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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They stopped their people from going into the next revelation.

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And so you know what God did to those movements.

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He cut them off and they're in the same belief bucket as the Episcopalians and the Baptists and everybody else, because they rejected the Holy Ghost.

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How in the world can you call yourself the flagship Pentecostal denomination and yet keep your people from going to be healed at an Oral Roberts meeting or a Catherine Kuhlman meeting because she was a woman or because she ministered to Catholics or whatever the excuse was.

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Glory to God.

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These people have no revelation.

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I say when I don't say when I mean no, I mean no revelation of the priestly office or the prophetic office.

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The prophetic office is really the office of the priest and the anointing for healing that came with that Amen.

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The prophetic restoration in the 40s and the 50s amen was a manifestation.

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The healing revival was a manifestation of that restoration.

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Are you hearing me?

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The healing revivals of the 40s and 50s were a manifestation of the restoration of the prophet or the priest he has made us to be what?

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Kings and priests to God.

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But you can't be a part of that if you're keeping your people from it, and that's what happened.

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That's what happened, and what I'm saying is that those people that rejected the Holy Ghost at Azusa Street or the subsequent manifestations of the Holy Ghost through the last century are willfully disregarding these restorations of sons, kings and priests.

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And yet this is what God did to his real church, in spite of the curse that he had placed on the earth because of the rejection of the Holy Ghost, hallelujah.

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I'm talking about a God that is so merciful that, in spite of the rejection of his spirit and the rejection of his ministry, he was pulling people out of those dead churches by the multiplied hundreds of thousands and bringing them to these healing meetings, bringing them to full gospel meetings, bringing them to Women's Aglow meetings, bringing them to someplace where they could get baptized in the Holy Ghost.

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They couldn't get it in their churches, amen, but they brought them into these meetings.

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You know who was not there in those meetings?

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The major Pentecostal denominations.

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They would not allow their people to go.

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Look, I have been involved in this for most of the 45 years.

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I came in to this as it was starting to wind down and I saw what it was doing when I came into this.

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Schambach still had his tent Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Allen was gone, branham was gone, coe was gone.

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Oral Roberts had stopped his traveling ministry, but Schambach was still doing it.

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Others were still doing it, we were still doing it overseas Glory to God.

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But the churches that reject it have no revelation of it, and so you know what that means.

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People don't get healed in those churches anymore.

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There's no call for healing, there's no call for people to come to an altar and be prayed for.

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There's no move of healing in those churches.

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They can't wait to get out of church on time so they can beat the Baptists to the restaurants.

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The prophetic was restored in the late 40s, moved on through the 50s and 60s, and some of the greatest prophetic voices that have ever walked the planet have just been released in the last quarter century, in the 1900s hallelujah, praise God.

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But at the end of the last century, in the 90s, god took it a step further and he restored the apostolic to the church.

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On top of restoring sonship and then restoring the prophetic, he restored the apostolic, and he restored the ministry of kings.

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So now we have these three things all being restored to the church the ministry of sonship, the ministry of the prophetic and the ministry of the kings, the apostolic.

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Amen.

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But those churches that rejected the Holy Ghost back at Azusa Street and subsequently rejected him in these subsequent outpourings, amen.

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They are blind, literally blind, to what God has been doing for the last two centuries.

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They don't understand a lick about any of the great awakenings.

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They don't understand a lick about the prayer movement that happened in the latter part of the 1800ings.

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They don't understand a lick about the prayer movement that happened in the latter part of the 1800s.

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They don't understand anything about what happened at Azusa or any of the meetings or any of the movements that happened out of that, that involved Lake, that involved Smith Wigglesworth, that involved all these others, the great men of God, amen.

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They don't know anything about what happened in the 40s and 50s.

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And yet there's a Bible college over in South Dallas that came out of all that called Christ for the Nations, amen.

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They don't know what.

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They had no clue as to how that got there.

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They don't.

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You could talk to a hundred preachers in this town and they wouldn't have a clue that what is now a parking lot and a small Spanish church at one time was one of the biggest revival centers in the United States, right here in Fort Worth, right here on the north side of what's now the stockyards.

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Seven years that thing went on right in the middle of this great healing revival.

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But they're blind to this.

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They don't know.

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Why don't they know?

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Because they don't have the Holy Ghost and they've rejected him and they've been made blind.

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Amen.

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What does it say?

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What does it say in 2 Corinthians 3.18?

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But we with an unveiled face.

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They still have a veiled face.

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They still have a veiled face, and so they can't see.

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They can't see the glory and they can't see the restorations that God's doing in his church.

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They call what they do church.

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They call the you know the three hymns and a little 10 minute sermon and take up the offering and get everybody out in 37 minutes.

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They call that church and then we come back next week and do it again.

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They call that church.

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They come, they come back next week and nobody, nobody.

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They do the.

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The pay no attention to the man behind the curtain routine.

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They don't understand or they're not talking about the fact that the preacher doesn't even do his own sermon.

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He gets those things from headquarters and they call that church.

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They call that the body of Christ.

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Can you imagine Jesus doing that?

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Can you imagine Jesus treating his people with that level of abuse, keeping them in total functional illiterance?

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They call what they do as church, but it is not what the Bible calls church.

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The Bible calls church the called out ones, the elect of God, the ones that are in him, the ones that are not only believers but receivers.

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Amen, this is the true church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And if I stood up in their congregations today all over this great country, amen.

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And said this is what the real church is, they would run me out on a rail.

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Amen, because it is exactly contrary to anything that they believe.

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But it is not contrary to what the Bible says, because what they have is a man-made version of Christian religion.

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And God knew listen to me, god knew that the only remedy for that was an outpouring of the Spirit.

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The only remedy for hardcore religion is a dose of the Holy Ghost.

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I mean, if you get the Holy Ghost, it'll fix your denominational religionism.

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If that's even a word Amen, it'll fix you.

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Glory to God.

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I have spent most of those 45 years, amen.

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I have spent most of those 45 years running as fast and as hard as I can from religion and when I get a good safe distance, I turn and attack.

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In other words, I get out of the church and then I let them have it, because you're never going to reform it from within.

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Those people are just those people.

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Those people are so blind they don't know they're lost.

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They think that everybody that's really saved is lost and they're the only ones that are going to heaven.

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But they can't back.

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They can't back it up.

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I said they can't back it up with scripture.

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Glory to God.

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Here's what here's here's.

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Listen to this.

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This transformation into sonship is largely ignored.

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But the worst thing is it's unknown.

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It'd be bad enough if it was, if they'd been taught it and they just ignored it.

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But they have not even been taught it, it's just been.

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It is this great unknown thing.

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I remember when I was a boy raised up in a Lutheran church, amen.

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We had no clue what Pentecostals were all about.

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All we knew is that they were funny.

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You know, we used to go and hang out back in the day when they'd had the windows open, we used to go and just listen because we never heard anything like that.

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You know, I mean nobody had ever told us that there were people who called themselves Christians who did such things.

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I mean, every once in a while you'd find out something about snake handlers in the Appalachians and stuff like that and I there weren't any of those in our town that I knew of.

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But you know, there were a couple of churches that you know, on kind of on the other side of the tracks and little, not not the best of buildings and stuff, but they looked like they were having a good time.

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But boy, I mean, they sure did make a racket and they got up and they danced and they did Nobody doing that in my church and I couldn't figure out what in the world was going on.

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But we thought it was funny, you know, because you don't know, you're just a kid, you don't know.

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But thank God God didn't keep me in ignorance.

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He would not leave me alone.

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I said he would not leave me alone.

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I said he would not leave me alone.

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He kept saying I didn't know he was saying this to me, but later on he told me he said I just kept shouting in your ear come out from among them and be ye separate.

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Come out from among them and be ye separate.

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Come out from among them and be ye separate, amen.

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And until I finally came out from among them several times and became separate, amen.

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He started telling me something else.

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That's how serious it was.

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I had to get completely out.

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I mean completely out.

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I had to get to the point where we were.

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This is the honest truth.

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My wife, sarah, and the kids, all of us were sitting on boxes in a house in Panama and we had been kicked out of the last place, amen.

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And I remember saying to them I don't know what we're going to do, but, bless God, we got enough to have church here this morning and this is what we're going to do.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Because the church, or the so-called church, is really, if you really want to know it is a Babylonian church.

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This Babylonian church that calls itself a church has ignored and rendered unknown this ministry of sonship and, consequently, if you don't have the ministry of sonship, you can't step into the ministry of the prophetic nor the ministry of the apostolic, because those two ministries are not for children.

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They are for the manifested sons of God.

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But because that ministry has not been given, taught to the church, that church, that Babylonian church, is in perpetual stillbornness.

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They look like they're going to give birth but they never do.

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What they give birth to, because it's a tremendously contaminated seed, always results in stillbornness.

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They don't bring forth any new life.

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It's a documented fact that in this country all churches do is swap people.

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They don't, they don't, they don't.

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They're not winning any any new believers to speak of.

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They're just swapping people on their interest level.

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They, they, they entice them with a new band, they entice them with more programs, entice them with fancier this and all that kind of frills and nonsense.

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And so they get a few here and then some of their people don't like that.

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So they go over here and they just play shuffle the flock.

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You can document it.

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They're in perpetual stillbornness.

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They're in perpetual.

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If they do get born.

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They stay in infancy or in nursery school.

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They're basically being told stories in those little 10 to 12 minute things.

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They get stories.

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What does Jesus say about teaching people parables?

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He said to them who are without, who are outside, it is given to them in parables because that's all they can receive.

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They are never taught the mysteries of the kingdom because it's not given to them, because they don't have the spirit.

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The spirit speaks in mysteries, amen.

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So if you want to get into the deep things of God and the mysteries of God, you're going to have to get into the Spirit.

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But if you don't believe in the Spirit amen then you're never going to get into that level of revelation.

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All you're going to get is stories.

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So how many times do you need to be told the parable of the sower?

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How many times do you need to be told the parable of the pearl of great price?

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Or the lost coin, or the one sheep, or the you know?

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Can I just go on and on, and on and on?

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How many times are you going to hear that stuff?

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How many times do we have to preach flannel gram Jesus?

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But that's what children.

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They don't care, they love it.

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When you repeat something, do you not remember your kids?

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They couldn't wait for you to read that story.

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But we've read that story.

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I want to hear it again, daddy, over and over.

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And they would hear it so often that if you, if you misread it, they'd correct you.

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Is it that the church.

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If you miss, if you miss, if you miss, teach the parable.

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Oh, my goodness, if you bring another doctrine on the parable, oh Lord, they'll get they'll.

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They'll bring out your contract and says it says right down here, paragraph 17, point a and b thou shalt not teach any other doctrine about the parable of the lost sheep other than that approved by the, by the, by the glory to god, hallelujah.

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I mean what, what, what you know?

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I don't, don't say don't, don't say the obvious to this, but what would you do if you sent your kids to school and, year after year after year, they came back with basically kindergarten level intelligence.

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Oh, wait a minute, that's what's happening.

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And look at what's happened to our society because of that.

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Oh, hallelujah, there's no maturation in the church.

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We don't put any emphasis on maturing, we just put emphasis on attendance.

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We don't care whether people are growing in grace.

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We don't care if they're growing in their relationship with God.

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We don't care if they're growing in their faith.

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We don't care if they're producing, with belief and with faith, the things that God wants us to produce.

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Amen, they're not interested in all that, they just want you to come to church.

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They don't even care as long as you give something, they don't care if you come.

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All they want to do is make sure that they've got enough surplus of bodies that they're going to generate a certain level of income to cover the note and the operating expenses.

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They don't care.

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I said they don't care because if they cared, there'd be a different product, and I'm going to tell you what would happen in that product the numbers would shrink.

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To tell you what would happen in that product the numbers would shrink because if you start caring about people maturing and developing in the Lord, you're talking about transformation.

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As soon as you start talking about transformation, they're going to hit the door faster and you can count.

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And then, what are you going to do with your bank note?

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I'll tell you what you're going to do with your bank notes You're going to go default.

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Amen, because you didn't plan on losing people.

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You planned it on attracting more people out of other churches, and tough luck for them If they can't pay their note.

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Glory to God.

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There's no there.

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If there's no maturation, there's no headship, ministry of the five fold.

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While you've got your Bibles open, I want you to turn to the 10th chapter of the book of John.

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I just want to read something to you.

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So you know I'm not making it up.

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Glory to God.

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If you still think I'm making it up after all these years, shame on you.

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Hallelujah.

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Well, it'd help if I'd get in the right book.

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Jesus said in John, chapter 10, verse 11, I am the good shepherd.

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The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

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But a hireling he who is not the shepherd, and one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees.

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The wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

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Now here's what I want you to hear the hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

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Do you hear that there are two kinds of shepherds?

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Amen, there are real shepherds and there are hirelings.

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You know how you tell the difference.

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The hireling does not own the sheep.

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In other words, the church is not under the headship of the shepherd.

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The shepherd owns the sheep and he has the headship responsibility for them.

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Amen, because he has headship responsibility for them.

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He's part of the sheep and he loves the sheep and he cares for the sheep Amen.

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A hireling is a professional person who manages sheep, amen.

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And if danger comes, he runs away.

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If trouble comes, he runs away.

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If trouble comes, he runs away.

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If the boss says, preach this, they preach that.

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Amen.

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You know one of the other signs of a hireling A hireling you can hire and a hireling you can fire.

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A shepherd you can do neither.

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You cannot hire them, you cannot fire them.

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A shepherd belongs to God.

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Nobody even said amen, amen.

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Most people have never heard this.

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If you were to preach this in a church that only has professional hirelings for preachers and pastors, if you were to preach this, they would.

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I mean if they didn't take bricks out of the floor and start throwing them at you.

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They don't have any.

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You know what I mean?

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This is such a foreign concept.

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Amen.

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But back in the day this wasn't too unusual.

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I mean, people would bring their tithes to the preacher and the preacher was supposed to take care of the church.

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That was his job.

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He was the headship pastor.

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Amen, glory to God, hallelujah.

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There's no headship ministry in these churches.

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They all have professional hirelings, amen.

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They're all professional ladder creepers.

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They're all looking for a promotion.

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They're all looking to move from a 200-member church to a 400-member church, to a 600-member church, to an 800-member church.

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You know why?

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Because the salary goes up commensurate Amen and the influence that you have in a community goes up.

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Nobody pays attention to a pastor of a church of 50 people, nobody cares about that.

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But if you've got 5,000, amen, that's a lot of votes You'll be on the mayor's speed dial.

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If that's an important thing to you, then you better be a professional hireling, because you're not going to get there by being a shepherd, because we don't have headship ministry amen.

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We can't bring the people any kind of meaningful revelation, like the revelation of the seed.

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We can't talk about that because inevitably it'll start talking about things that they've never heard of, and that's not allowed, because you know what happens If we start letting that happen, then next month's hireling is going to come in and he's going to teach something different, and then the hireling well, we don't like that, so we're going to get another hireling, we'll hire another one, and then, if he teaches what God's saying to him, nobody wants to hear that either.

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What God's saying to him Nobody wants to hear that either.

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Wait a minute.

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We better talk to the bosses and get a hireling that they recommend, and then we'll know that they'll just keep teaching us the same old stuff, week after week after week after week after year after year.

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But we will be happy because there's no conviction, there's no contrition, there's no repentance.

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Amen.

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We're swatting at gnats.

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You know, if I didn't hang the towel up in the kitchen after I dried the dishes, I got to go repent to my wife, or else I'm going to go to hell.

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What kind of a nonsense doctrine is that?

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Can you imagine Jesus wasting his time?

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If he can't teach you better manners than that by the Holy Ghost, he's not going to teach you manners by some written code that comes out of a doctrine in a denominational church.

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Glory to God.

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We don't have any.

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We don't have, we have no true revelation of this Jesus anymore.

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I saw something on television the other day.

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They were talking.

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They were talking about the immigrant problem and they had a picture of Mary and Joseph and the donkey and the baby Jesus.

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And after all, jesus was a refugee.

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And I said what?

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Jesus was a refugee where?

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Because Jesus was going from Galilee to Bethlehem.

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That made him a refugee.

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He was sent to his own.

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That doesn't sound like a refugee to me.

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He was sent to his own, amen.

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He wasn't out of country, he was in Galilee.

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He went to Bethlehem, he went back to Galilee.

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Okay, he went to Egypt for a while and he came back.

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Amen.

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That doesn't make him a refugee.

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It means he's coming home.

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Glory to God.

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I wish somebody could grow a brain.

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There's no revelation of who this Jesus is.

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The doctrine of who this Jesus is has been so twisted by a lack of revelation.

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Exactly Without the Holy Spirit, nobody can know this Jesus, because it's the job of the Holy Ghost to introduce him.

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He will testify of me.

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He will not testify of himself, he will only testify of me.

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So if you want to know about this Jesus, you're going to have to learn it from the Holy Spirit.

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If you don't have the Holy Spirit, then I don't know what you're learning.

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But it can't be a real revelation of Jesus Now, you don't know that until you get the Holy Ghost.

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I mean, that's just one of those things until you get the Holy Ghost.

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I mean that's just one of those things.

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I mean it's like you don't know math until you learn arithmetic, because at some place in all of that higher level of math, you're going to have to know that two times two equals four.

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You know, you have to know something, amen.

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If you don't know who this Jesus is, then you can't go into the deep things of God because you haven't allowed the instructor to teach you in the elemental principles of Christ so that you can move from those into the meat of the word.

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That's exactly what it says in Hebrews, the fifth chapter Amen, glory to God.

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And then finally, there's virtually because of this, there's no ministry of true shepherds or God appointed headship.

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If you don't have God appointed headship, I mean that you know headship, I mean that you know God sent somebody.

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You don't have to hire them, you don't have to fire them.

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God sent them to be the set man or woman over the ministry.

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Amen, because there's no true shepherds, hardly in the church.

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There's not a God-appointed headshipship, there's not any New Testament authentic government.

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I taught, I taught for for many, many sessions in Costa Rica.

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So the pastor is there about the necessity of God centered government in the church and one of those places is in.

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How do we deal with discipline when somebody does something in the church?

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Okay, well, matthew, the 18th chapter teaches specifically what we're supposed to do If someone offends you.

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You go to that person and you say you offended me.

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Bible says if they repent, you've gained a brother and that's the end of it.

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If they don't repent, you get to bring two or three witnesses, not witnesses to what you've said happened, but actual witnesses to what happened.

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Okay, and I stop right there.

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Now that means that if somebody offended you and there were no witnesses, if they don't repent when you do the first step, it's over.

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You don't get to say another thing about it because there's no witnesses.

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It's your word against theirs.

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If they don't repent, then you've got to release them, you've got to forgive them and you've got to go on.

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You don't get to harbor it and you don't get to go and try to find witnesses that will bear up your story.

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It's not a witness to your story, it's a witness to what happened.

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Oh, I mean to tell you about that point.

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You could start seeing them get mad, because that's not how it's done.

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We judge people by gossip.

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I had a preacher tell me once well, brother, you know, where there's smoke there's fire.

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I said well, you show me that in the Bible.

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Just go ahead, find that scripture and you show me that that's in the Bible.

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Well, you know, that's just good common sense.

00:57:36.452 --> 00:57:40.878
I said we are not dealing in common sense we are dealing in the written word of God.

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It says first step go to the brother.

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Second step take two or three witnesses.

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Third step take them before the church.

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Fourth step treat them like a tax collector.

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We want to go right to step four and skip steps one, two.

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Right to step four and skip steps one, two and three.

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We want to drag people before the church and let everybody know about their sin.

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Amen, when you haven't done anything, I've taught, I teach this.

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I said if you do that, all you don't.

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Nobody gets to entertain what you have to say about that point anymore.

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You have rendered the whole thing mute.

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Well, what if they did this?

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It doesn't matter.

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You didn't follow the procedure.

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You didn't do what God said to do.

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Amen.

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There's no authentic government in a church anymore.

00:58:34.155 --> 00:58:50.440
We just saw a nationally exposed case of that right here in our backyard, where none of the steps of the procedure were followed and because of that, it got to be a huge problem.

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That problem was able to be dealt with if it had been dealt with according to Matthew 18, but it was not.

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And so, god, let it just explode, because that's what they deserved.

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They didn't follow the procedure and the procedure is there to protect everybody, but if you don't have a God-given authority and you don't have an apostle around that's willing to stick to that stuff to the letter to protect the church, see, that's the mark, that's the mark of a real shepherd.

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A real shepherd will put his neck on the line to make sure that the church is preserved.

00:59:32.577 --> 00:59:34.599
And I didn't see that happening.

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Amen, glory to God.

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I'm not going to say anything more about that.

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That's not important, god, I'm not gonna say anything more about that.

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That's not important.

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What I'm trying to get a point across is that when the church doesn't make any room for authentic government, there's no room for sons, there's no room for priests, there's no room for prophets, there's no room for Kings, there's no room for an Apostles and there's no room for the Holy Ghost, and that's just about as simple as it gets, and there's no room for the Holy Ghost, and that's just about as simple as it gets.

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And that's the reason that the Antichrist is attacking these points so strongly, so that the church, in a large part, will disregard this important restoration that God's bringing to the church of restoring sonship ministry, restoration that God's bringing to the church of restoring sonship ministry, prophetic priestly ministry and apostolic kingly ministry to the church.

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If the church is not allowed to receive those things, the church will not step into the warfare position that is absolutely necessary in these last days.

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The Antichrist knows it, the dead church knows it, the Babylonian whorish church knows it, amen.

01:00:46.461 --> 01:00:58.402
But you know, who doesn't know it Are the ones who belong on our side that should be stepping into sonship and prophetic and apostolic ministry and giftings, amen.

01:00:58.402 --> 01:01:00.898
And they don't know anything about it.

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Praise God.

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And I'm going to tell you something God's going to have his sons, god's going to have his prophets and God's going to have his apostles, and there's not much you can do about it.

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And I don't care if the church, if the church, the Babylonian church, rejects it.

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God is not dependent on them.

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He's already written that off.

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Glory to God.

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I know this is harsh, I know this is strong, but somebody's got to preach it because it is sure enough happening.

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And if we know it's happening and we don't cry loud and spare, not amen, then the blood is going to be on our hands and God has given us a platform and God gives us the grace and the people to help.

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We're going to get this out in a way, amen, that people will hear it and they can respond as God, the Holy Ghost, moves on them.

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Hallelujah, amen, praise God, let's stand.