July 26, 2024 • 59 mins
Is God faithful to His Word or faithful to us, or us?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
God, bless you, and I mean God, the creator of
the universe. Elohem, bless now. Bless means happy, it means provide,
It means all manner of pouring out of things that
are good and what is good, not just things and you,
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not just everybody around you, not just you. And today
I want to deal with something that many people in
this day and time are going through and going through
in ways that you are aware of the horrendousness and
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the pressure, the circumstance, and the you're aware of your trial.
You're aware of what you're going through. Kind of like
when Jesus was on the boat and there was a
storm going and he's asleep in the boat and the
disciples like, what don't And they're professionals, by the way,
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They're not just scared because the boat's rocking. They were
professional fishermen and they knew that this thing is serious.
And Jesus, I mean, come up and help. When there's trouble, everybody,
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come around and help. That's what you want. I've been
telling you now, and I only noticed the other day.
I would have thought it was a year. It's been
about two years that I've been reminding you that you
talking about you who's listening to this broadcast at this time,
and that's whether or not you're listening to it live
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or some other time. And even if it's in another generation.
You are a person of excellence. And I always remind
you people of excellence go through stronger and harder than
other people. They also come out better, they also come
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out more. They also have victory that other people wouldn't
even make it through, go through trials. And one of
the things that I was just now telling you is
that I recognized that I've been telling this for two years.
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For two years, it's been for preparation, not just for
your life, but for the trial. I've been reminding you
of some one oh seven, and I probably will go
to it today, So if you're ready, go to it now.
But I want to remind you of God's promise to Jeremiah.
I want to remind you of Joseph's dream when he
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was probably just a teenager, and here he's probably in
his thirties and has gone through trial after trial, hardship
that's harder than hard and yet and oh, I remind
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you of Daniel exiled and in those days when you
exiled people of the of the kingdom of the royal family.
You castrated them the male How awful is that to
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live through? And yet Daniel remained faithful to God. Why
because God is faithful. And today, after two years of
reminding and preparing you that you're a person of excellence,
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you're anointed, appointed and equipped as such. We're in a
time were your trial. Oh we not only got going,
but it is so strong. It looks like it's gonna
destroy you. Looks like it could destroy you. Like the
other thing that I remind you that there was a
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great storm when Jesus said, peace be still. We love
the song. I always remind you that the Greek is
be muzzled when you go there. The scripture tells you it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Was a great storm.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And I like to remind you that in every situation
when God says, don't be afraid, it's something that could
probably kill you. The living through it, you want to
trust God. You want to know he is faithful. And
when it looks like not only it could kill you,
but it's about to kill you, you still want to
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know He's faithful. He is faithful. Oh yes, I hear
the little one singing. She's supposed to be quiet but
I hear singing, God is alive. Yes he is, because
he's a living and true God. My God is alive,
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God of the universe. He is alive, and he is faithful.
And when his faithfulness looks like it's not faithful in
your circumstances, when it looks like when it looks like,
when it looks like that, you aren't even in the circumstance.
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You want to know that God is faithful and all.
He's faithful to his word, and he's faithful to you.
Now off the cuff, I'm going to remind you or
have you go and read it, because you're going through
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and if you're only at the beginnings of it, you're
hoping that you don't have to go through this that bad. However,
if you started going through and it's already bad, it's
worse than bad, and you want it to be over
till it gets to that point. We each have these
this points. God told Jeremiah he'd take care of him,
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and I like to remind you, Yeah, you speak my word,
I'll take care of you. I thought I was going
to turn to it, and I might still. In Jeremiah
thirty one, Jeremiah spoke God's word, and the king got
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so mad at him and all the others. All the
other prophets were also mad at him, so they wouldn't
back up that he's speaking God's word. When you go
through you want people to be on your side, at
least to people close to you, at least people who
are about the same thing you're about. How about it, Pastors,
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You at least want other pastors to be on your side.
And Jeremiah found, I want you to know people of excellence.
This is what you're going to find. Jeremiah found that
the other prophets didn't like it because he wasn't prophesying
what they were prophesying. And I'm going to say this
out loud right now, we are living in a time
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where God's people are prophesying. I'm not talking about false prophets.
I'm talking about God's people are prophesying what they hope.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Not your prophecy, however,
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right now, and I hope it helps you wake up,
whether it's you doing it because you are a prophet,
or whether it's you hearing it wondering what to do
when the prophet prophesies something you want to hear, something
you want to know about that loved one who's sick
and dying. People God's people are prophesying their hope instead
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of recognizing that faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Faith is the substance, not your prophecy. You don't have
a hope, and then make it a prophecy. You want
to prophesy what God gives you. And I'm warning you
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now this is happening in several churches and a few
different denominations just that I have noticed, and it's happening
repeatedly in places so that without the warning we might
not notice. You might not notice because there's trial after trial,
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situation after situation, and you're so busy see hoping and
hoping and hoping and hoping, that you weren't recognizing that
the other one they died, and everybody was giving prophecies
that they would live, and they died before you have
time to think about it. There's another trial. There's another test,
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not separating you from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus, although that could be a theological issue,
but making it so that you don't remember that the
same ones or the same place you were hearing the
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same people you were around giving you all these prophecies
of how God is going to turn.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It around, and that one died, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Don't have time to think about it, time to adjust
it before another situation circumstance is upon you. Now, we
don't live under the circumstance. We live under God. However,
I'm giving warning. I'm giving warning. We're in those times,
in these last few years, we're in those times. I'm
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not talking about false PropheC There's plenty of those, and
there's those who the the truth has come out, pastors
who say they know the Lord and are speaking spells.
I give affirmations, and I like to give them according
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to the word us. An aff a spell is not
an affirmation. You want to speak God's word and you
want to make sure He's the one who said, I
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don't want I don't want to fuss. I want us
to be warned. I want us to be warned and
for us not to be the people of God. Prophesying
hope instead of God's word and the spirit of the
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prophet is not the same as the gift of prophecy.
In the listing of the gift of prophecy, and the
experiment in the listing is in a First Corinthians twelve.
More about it is in First Corinthians thirteen, and he
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lets you know the gift. It's for edification, exhortation, and comfort.
When you look at the prophets, they rebuked you us
God's people. They'd have comfort if we're doing what God said,
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and they had rebuke if we're doing otherwise, and they
had exhortation. The office of the prophet and the gift
of prophecy, and hopefully every prophet who holds the office
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of the prophet has the gift. However, when you look
in one Corinthians thirteen, we like to call it the
Love chapter. Don't overlook this. It lets you know that
though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels.
So I actually let me turn to it's that one
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I want to turn to right now, and I First
Corinthians twelve, and I generally remind you that that one
starts out now concerning spiritual gifts, Brethren, I would not
have you ignorant if you're looking in King James word
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gift is in italics because it's not there, and it's
not there because I mean, it's not put there as
a mistranslation. It just makes the English go better. But
the subject is spirituals. Now, concerning spiritual's brethren, I would
not have you ignorant. And then I'm not going to
read the through the whole thing because I don't want
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to forget why I even turned here. But when you
get down to two verses four, five and six, it
lets you know what chapters twelve, thirteen, and fourteen are about.
What spirituals are in this context. Gifts of the Spirit
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verse fourministrations of the Lord verse five, and operations of God.
And it has its parameters. And when you look at
the administrations of the Lord, we've looked at gifts of
the Spirit, and that lists there, and some of them
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are plural, yes they are. But for some reason or
other we don't list out administrations of the Lord. And
one of the things, and I was mentioning this in
prayer pastors prayer just recently that in firse Corinthians twelve, well,
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let me not miss first Corinthians twelve eight, I believe
might be twelve twelve four to one. Now he's just
finished gifts of the Spirit in verse seven. But the
man infestation of the spirit is given to every man
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to profit withal. And by the way, that is more
than just gifts of the spirit. Usually when I offer
the course, I show you that the word manifestation it
has the same root as the word utterance from Acts
two to four, when the Spirit gave utterance. And even
that our tradition has made the word of God of
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no effect. But verse eight the administrations of the Lord.
For unto U no I to went to the wrong place.
Verse twelve. For as the body is one, see Jesus
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is head of the body. We know that. So catch
this transition the way that you can see in a rainbow.
You can see the different colors, but one color next
to another, there's a hue in the changing. That's why
we have orange, because orange isn't red, and orange isn't yellow.
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But that in between that changing. So he says here
in verse twelve, for as the body that lets you
know we're moving went from gifts of the spirit to
administrations of Lord. For as the body is one and
hath many members, and all the members of that one
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body being many, are one body. So also as Christ,
so here he moves into administrations of the Lord and
I would like you to go back and read this
because I want to go to the thing that I
was going to show you about the office of the
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prophet and the gift of prophet. I don't want to
forget to do that. However, God has shown so much
in here. And when you go through verses thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
and eighteen, is that, Hugh, then that gives you the
change nineteen? There are things that the body is saying,
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and they're not so.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
God is the one. If you've listened to me before,
I always show you how in Genesis one, God said.
God said, God is showing us the way Jesus said,
I only do what I saw the Father do. I
only say what I heard the Father say. And actually
go look that up because you want to say it
the way Jesus said it. Did he say Saul or
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did he say see? Look it up? However, in this
one there's a list of things that are the body,
however the members of the body. Now God has already
said the body one body. However, the body in this
list of administrations of the Lord, the body is saying,
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oh I'm not this, or because I'm not that or
because I'm not this, I'm not And God asked a question,
is it not of the body? Is it not of
the body? And of course the answer we of the body.
We can get into times like this prophesying hope instead
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of prophesying what God said and letting hope be the substance.
I mean, faith, be the substance of the things you
hope for. Put faith to it, not prophecy. Not make
up a prophecy on your hopes. Yes, you want people
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to be healed of cancer. Yes you want this operation
to go. Well, we want God's faithfulness. You want Jesus's truth.
He's the way, he is truth, and he is life.
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We're so busy praying for healing, we forget he is life. Anyway,
let me remind you of this because we like to
skip that. You don't hear preachers preach about this. We
in the body, me included. And I like to keep
my body under and keep an eye on me. However,
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I'm always asking God keep an eye on me, because
one of the things that He showed me is that
the thing you're looking at can be you at one
stage or another, and whenever you're always seeing what's wrong.
What's wrong, what's wrong out there? To look in you,
you need to be in the presence of the Lord.
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If my people, which are called by my name, humble
ourselves and pray. Our prayers have turned into telling God
what to do and how to do it, and then
we say according to his word because we're quoting a scripture.
I want to remind you God promised I, uh, yeah,
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I was gonna say Isaiah, Yes he did. He promised
Jeremiah he would take care of him, and he told
him speak my word. And every time he spoke his word,
God's word. Jeremiah spoke God's word. The king and the
other prophets got angry and angrier, and they put him
in prison. And we today, oh, we think you don't
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go to prison. God's faithful. He's not going to let
that happen. God is faithful. Oh yes, he is not,
was not used to be, not gonna be. Remember the
part of who Jesus says he is, he who is
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who was, and he who is to come And look
that you pardon me. You want to look that up
and say it in the order that he said it,
and when he says it in different orders. You want
to see the context in which he was speaking, so
that you say what he said the way he said it.
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And I mean this about me too. Bringing this to
you right now, and I know I have it written down,
and I have it in my courses and such. Bringing
it to you now is why I'm reminding you look
it up and say it in the order that he says.
Some of us don't even notice that when the apostles
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asked him about his coming and when things are going
to be this way and that way. In one gospel
they asked a they asked a couple of questions, and
God Jesus answered in the order that the questions were asked.
In another gospel, they asked a few questions similar and
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the answer is given from the last question back to
the first, in order, but from the last to the first.
And that reminds you of a phrase in scripture. So
I want us to look at here. It is God's
people in the administrations of the Lord. It's God's people
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in this description. If the footshall say, because I'm not
the hand, i am not of the body, is it
therefore not of the body, that's just one of them.
God's people are saying things as if it is so.
And God is the one who gave us to say,
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to be like him, to say and create frame our world.
And here's a list in administrations of the Lord. Make
sure that we me I'm not doing this. I'm saying
what he said, not just saying because he said to say,
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not just praying because he said to pray. For example,
when he said to pray for leaders, and he says prayer, supplications, intercessions,
and by the way, each one is plural. He says,
with thanksgiving, and most of us in the times that
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we're in, and I can also go back to other times.
I'm someone who used to like to look up the
newspapers and what was being reported and said I got
curious about that when I saw and this is as
a teenager. I'm way past decades past a teenager now,
but as a teenager I could see that the news
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casters when there was only ABC, NBC and CBS, I
noticed that each one reported things a certain way. And
then later when I was in my twenties, we used
the word agenda a lot, and it made me go
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back and want to look up the news reports before
there was news like when I was a teenager and
see what the newspapers had to say. In my family,
there was tuberculosis, and like people think of cancer today,
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and people were experiencing it. Then one family member had
to be taken off the street because you were supposed
to not walk around with tuberculosis, and the state would
take you, take you off the street. And this one
was supposed to report and didn't, and they came and
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got him. And I saw the same things that are
going on now in the pandemic that we experienced. And
now that we speak of it, it's past, although we
recognize that there's still the lingerings, the same kinds of things.
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Drink alcohol and I'm not talking about whiskey and that
kind People were doing things that made no sense. People
had formulas, they were being written in the newspapers. And
by the way, this is the day right now. We
live in a day where you're supposed to if you
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walk your dog, you're supposed to to have something to
scoop it up and not leave it. This is the
day where horseman or was left in the streets, just
as the way we lived. We didn't put that together.
Should have, but we didn't, and we came up with
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different things. Oh, the people of God say things that
aren't so. And just because we're people of God, our
saying it doesn't make it so. Now God is faithful.
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I can say it over and over. It is so
because God is faithful. And you want to know, is
he faithful to you? Or is he faithful to his word?
Guess what, it's not an either or His faithfulness spreads
all over kind of like you're not gonna like this,
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You're not gonna like this. But the Malachi scripture about
giving the tithe and offerings, and by the way, he
didn't separate tithe from offerings in that Malachi scripture. He
said tithe then offerings, because the tithe has to do
with one thing, and he showed you offerings have to
do with another. However, in it, he lets you know
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that he'll pour you out, he'll rebuke the devourer for
your sake, not just for his name's sake, for your sake.
So God's faithfulness, he's faithful to you. And then and
in that he's way beyond what you think of as
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faithful because we just usually want the job done and
all that. Yeah, we think, oh, if I'm healed, i'll
be happy, I'll be blessed. Guess what God's faithfulness. He'll
heal you, give you life, and then make what I
call make you contagious, that everywhere you go you're ministering health,
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wholeness and life, and especially in that area he does that,
Oh yes he does. However, in that Malachi he says
he'll pour you out a blessing. He'll pour it out
and they won't be room enough to receive it. He
wants you to live from the overflow, kind of like
what he gave Jesus to tell us. Consider the lilies
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of the field. Look at the birds. They don't The
lilies are more arrayed than Solomon. And in Solomon's day
there was so much silver that they didn't even count it.
They counted the gold. They didn't even bother to count
the sewer because it was so much. Wouldn't you love
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for the trial that you're going through right now, were
there to be so much instead of so little. Even
on the way here, someone was letting me know about
a mother and a child that they had just passed,
that was homeless and hadn't eaten for two days.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh, and by the way, the offerings, God said, look
after the widow Uh huh, he said, look after the downtrodden.
Uh huh, he said, look after the orphans, and he
promises a blessing when you do so. I love the
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way that the alphabet is taught in Hebrew. At least
I learned that young. I hope it still is taught
that way that the gammel chases a dobalt, the rich,
chase down the poor, not make it that the poor
have to go begging. That's part of why in the
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old company, God says, don't glean your fields down to
the very last. However, if you look at modern technology
and why we haven't noticed it, I don't understand. But
we do these fields, and we plant hundreds of acres
or should I say tens of acres, We plant them,
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and we plant them, and yet huh, God bless you
on the broadcast. And yet we don't notice that we
plow them and we plant them, and we take every
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last bit, and don't notice that the very area that
we do that, in the very people that we do
that with in a generation, those people are poor, poorer
than poor. All this abundance from all that huge planting
and plowing, we don't even recognize. God said don't do
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your feel to the very last. Leave that for the traveler,
Leave that for the poor, so that they don't have
to go begging, that they can find food. And in
our time of industrialization, and this is all over the world, however,
look in your country and see when we do these
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huge plan and plowings and these huge harvestings in a
generation or two, those people are the poorest. Those people, Oh,
they get to eat because they work in the field,
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but they have become poor people. They don't own this,
that and the other. And sometimes it's because people did
like Joseph, I want to finish with Jeremiah, by the way,
I don't want to forget this. And as time has
gone on, huh, Jeremiah prophesied and the king got mad
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at him for what he prophesied and said he was
a trader. Yeah, people of excellence. When you don't say
what everybody else is saying, what everybody else wants you
to say, they're going to say that you're a trader,
and they might say it in different ways. And then worse,
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they came up with how to punish him and put
him in prison. And in the prison it wasn't just easy.
It wasn't just like where I live. There's jail. That's jail,
and then there's jail that's worse than that. Prison that's
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worse than that. Oh, they didn't just put you in
the park where all do you sleep on a cot?
He's sunk down in the mire. And then when you
read this story his situation, it got worse and worse
until the vermin were around him and he's sinking down
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in the mire. God, I thought you were going to
take care of me. You said you were going to take.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Care of me.
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What you don't know when you're going through is that
God is taking care of you. What Jeremiah had no
way of knowing. I can see it looking back, but
the same way he couldn't see it going through. You
can't see going through what you're going through because you're
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so busy going through. Things had gotten so bad among
the people of God that they had turned to cannibalism,
and they were First they're eating their children, then they're
eating each other. This doesn't happen all at once. People
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don't turn to cannibalism easily. That takes time. It takes deep, deep,
deep trouble going on and on and not remembering the
God who brought the children out of Egypt, not remembering
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his wonders because of sea, to they'll make a wall
for them, and dried the ground so that they could
get across and capsize the enemy coming after them. Remember
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the God who not only makes a way for you
for me, capsizes your enemy, who looks like he could
do you in and could like the great storm. Only
Jesus said peace. What he said is be muzzled. And
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the scripture tells us there was a great calm. Remember
the God who did that. Remember him and know that
he's faithful, not just to himself, not just to his word,
to you. Those things he did for his people. So
God tells Jeremiah, say my word, I'll take care of you.
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He said his word. King got mad through the scroll,
and the fire God gave him more prophecy. He gave it.
He got even angrier, and now other people against him,
and they threw him in the prison. Now they were
going through a king being against them, and kings being
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against them, and they forgot about Jeremiah in the prison.
He's sinking down in the mud, not just laying on
a cot in prison. One of the scriptures he says, God,
you tricked me. I feel like that a lot. The
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thing of it is, it's in a good way. Because
Jeremiah was a sweet soul. He'd have been one that
they easily would have gotten when they were eating one another.
They'd have eaten him, killed him, and eaten him. It
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didn't look like protection being in the prison. And it
wasn't just overnight. He was there a long time. And
then when people of God wanted to do right, realize
that Jeremiah prophesied. And before he even got this bad,
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he prophesied somebody go getting.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
And they had.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
To make a make a rope. I think out of
I'm gonna say out of sheets. But if the scripture
tells you what, they tied together and told him how
to bring himself up. And they did, by the way,
put him back in a prison. But at least he
got prison food. Oh, not a wonderful dinner, not the
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Psalm twenty three tables set before your enemies. No, but
prison rations was just enough to live, enough bread and
enough water to live, not to feel full, to live.
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Jesus is the way. He's the truth, and he's life
in your trial, he's ministering life. But we're so busy
going through and we're so busy wanting our miracle, and
we say how we want it. I want it like
this because you word says that we're telling God how
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to apply his word. And even in the coming out
of Egypt, God told Moses early on, you're going to
know that I said what I said to you when
you're back on this mountain worshiping. That's after the fact,
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you're going to look back and see because you're about
to go through so much stuff that it's going to
look like you're going to wonder where you even hearing God,
those of you who will study faithful to say what
he said and not prophesy hope, but lay your faith
in Him so that you have the substance and not
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disappointment that you don't know what to do with that
makes you ask such questions. God really faithful, Oh, really faithful?
Yes he is. He kept Jeremiah living. It is not fun. However,
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don't have to fail in faithfulness because God does not.
The children of Israel, we know that they went through
and when we think of them being thirsty, and God
brought water out of the rock. And you don't want
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to complain because Hebrews lets us know that they angered
God with their complaining, and he calls it an evil
heart of unbelief. You're not trying to have an evil
heart against God, and especially when he doesn't do it
the way you wanted him to do it, when you're
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going through stronger, harder, and longer than you think anybody
ought to go through. Remember, God was keeping Jeremiah's life
in the prison, sinking in the mortar with vermin yet
rats and mice running around him, just keeping him because
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outside the people had turned to cannibalism. They would have
eaten him. God kept him. Oh. And then when you
go to the end of Jeremiah when they called him
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back and wanted to hear what he had to say
and hear the prophecy. Look at Joseph. God gave him
a dream in his teens. Oh, and his brother's hated
him for it. Don't be so busy thinking that God's
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faithfulness is going to make everybody happy with you. And
did you hear me? His brother's not just the heathen,
not just the unbeliever. Brethren. Right now in my city,
we're dealing with things where brethren are publicly coming against
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one another and there's definite rebuke about that in the
scripture Old and New Testament. But when I'm doing it,
I don't think I'm wrong. I think I'm right. Let's
follow God's word his way and know his faithfulness, no,
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his faithfulness, and move in that and find live that
he's faithful to his word and he's faithful to us.
As a matter of fact. In the Psalm one O. Seven,
I remind you, oh, that men would give thanks unto
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the Lord and praise him for his wonderful works to
the children of men. And you can put your name
in there. Give thanks not anks. He told us to
be anxious for nothing, And I'm pretty sure the rest
of that verse is by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your request known unto God. And I think I
might have done the broadcast, but I know I shared
it with a person this way, thanksgiving, warnings and peace
of God afternoons, because that's Philippians four. I think it's
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six seven eight, it might be seventy eight nine. But
be anxious for nothing and then let your prayers but
with prayers. I need to go back and read it.
But he says with thankfulness prayers, not anxiousness, thankfulness. And
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then he lets you know the peace of God, which
passes understanding. We don't understand our circumstances, especially when they
get bad, got worse, and they're getting worse yet, And
don't think God didn't do anything. No, his peace will
pass your understanding. You can be a professional and know
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a great storm when you see one, and not understand
how the Master is asleep in the boat. How come
he's not up here helping. Oh, Peace, be anxious for nothing,
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even though there's a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Of thing.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
For no thing. Don't be anxious. Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.
Let and let is a word I don't think I've
dealt with on the broadcast in a very long time.
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God reminds me, and I'm most ashamed to say it
about me pushing myself and push myself instead of let
let of God that. And then he says, assess when
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the Philippians for one, that way, when you assess, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure? And here again
look up the order that he says, lovely, pure, just true.
Because I had noticed that, I memorized it out of
order or something. Actually what I'd noticed, and God brought
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this to my attention. I memorized it according to the
ways that I live it, and it made me know
something was missing. And I love that about God when
he corrects. If he's rebuking you, you're about to be
judged and you're about done. When you're at the point
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of correction, he's adjusting you on the inside. Because that's
what I ask. Teach me to love your will, teach
me to love your way so that I obey, so
that I do it, not have to understand it, so
that I obey because it's you. And every time I
think I am, I don't want to say every time,
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and here again, I want you to know this because
he does this with you. He lets me know get
off my case. He's not on my case. Remember how
he said, if any lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
who will give you liberally and will not upbraid you.
He'll give you the wisdom that you're asking for and
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not fuss you out about it. We as parents in
the earth, we fuss at our children. God gives the
wisdom so that it imparts into us so that we
are like him, not so we just know something. Yeah,
you want to know as a matter of fact in
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Jeremiah when he says, not the rich don't let the
rich man glory and is riches and the strong man
glory and his strength. Let he the glory glory in
this that he understand and know me. And I remember
I used to think anybody gonna know God. But that's
what he said. So I looked at it, and you
want to look at it some of the things. And
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I dealt with that on on on a broadcast. However,
you want to look at it, because judgment is the
last thing to know him. Yeah, he's about judgment, but
that's the last thing he said. Three things. Look it
up because he said he's of mercy. Mercy comes before judgment.
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Look up those three things. He told you told us
what he wants us to know about him. And and
the that reminds me when I was letting you know
about the spirituals that when we get to chat first
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Corinthians thirteen to know the difference between the gift of
prophecy and the prophet thirteen to one. We're so busy
calling it the love chapter, and it is, though I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
have not charity. I am become as a sounding brass
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or as a tinkling symbol. Now there's a whole lot there.
I hope I don't get distracted with the whole lot
that's there. But that sounding brass and that tinkling symbol
is not just a sound that we don't enjoy. But
remember on the bottom of the High priest robe when
he went in to make the sacrifice, there was a
bellon a pomegranate. A bell and a pomegranate because if
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you did something wrong in there, you could die, okay,
and they had a thing on him to pull him
out if he did. But the bell without the pomegranate.
I'm relating it to us today, being a royal priesthood.
To understand we sound the alarm and that sound also
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makes us known. But the pomegranate in between. It is
like the love, the love, and you have to have that.
You can't just always have rebuke. You can't just always
have it. But he says, if I speak with the
tons of men and of angels and have not charity,
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I become as a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
And though I have now while it says here gift
of remember that's in italics. Though I have prophecy and
understand all mysteries, these are prophets, not the gift of prophecy.
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Prophets understood mysteries and all knowledge. And though I have
all faith, so that I could remove mountains. Hello Elijah,
Hello Elijah, and have not charity, I am nothing. And
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basically I brought that to show us the prophet moved
in those things the gift of prophecy, edification, exhortation, and
comfort the prophet. And part of why in the school
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of prophets, the prophets covered one another because of a
prophet went into the spirit and spoke in tongues of
men and of angels. Remember on the day of Pentecost,
they were speaking tongues that men understood, languages of humans.
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This here the prophets they still do today. But I'm
going to say, for so it's not to mess with
your understanding. The prophets of the Old Testament spoke with
the tongues of men and of angels. We still do.
We still do. However, you've got to move in love
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just because the Spirit of God can come on you.
I mean, look, we love Elijah on Mount Carmel, but
look at how he was making fun of them. He
let them know, Oh, God must be out having lunch
or something. That was his personality coming through God. Doesn't
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do away with your personality because you're a prophet. Anyway,
I want to remind us Joseph had that dream as
a teenager, and his own brothers not equally because his
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oldest brother didn't want him to killing and he when
you read what his oldest brother had to say, it
looks like he had in mind to bring him back home,
but they ended up selling him the other brothers. And
by the way, we have the tendency in the body
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of Christ, the one body baptized into one body. If
you look at first Corinthian, I mean, yeah, one Corinthians twelve.
Just because everybody's saying the same thing doesn't make everybody right.
It doesn't mean what we're saying is right. Look at
Ephraim and Manassa, a tribe of Israel, and all through
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the scriptures they would agree on a thing and go
do it. And they were fierce. They were fierce, and
they'd kill you because all of them agreed, not all
twelve tribes, just them. Everybody around here we agree about this,
and so Joseph's brothers, while the oldest was gone, they
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agreed about this and they did it. Joseph went to
prison accused of something he didn't do. We believers today,
we'd think God's not being faithful to us. And he
was in prison for years. It wasn't over in a day,
just like your trials aren't over right now, right quick,
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right like you're saying and hoping and wanting. Have faith
in the true and living God and know that not
only does he keep his word and he's faithful to
his word, he's being faithful to you. And from prison
he went to the palace. Oh, it took years, and
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he went through. What was he saying every day that
he went through, every week that he went through, every
month that he went through, every year that he went through.
What are you saying? What are you saying in your trial?
Know that God is faithful, He's faithful to his word,
and he's faithful to you. And Joseph went from the
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prison to the palace. And if you look at history,
part of what God was working in that time is
the Egyptian, the pharaoh of the time when Joseph went,
he was of a different culture. God was working that
thing in the world. Because God so loved the world hello,
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that he gave his only begotten son. God works sings
in the world that agree with His eternal purpose. That
might not agree with you your politics or your this.
Because Egypt didn't like those politics that happened. That let
that particular pharaoh at the very time that Joseph comes
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out of prison, favors Joseph because the prejudice, Oh we
talk about prejudice, prejudice, prejudice. You couldn't even eat with
a Hebrew sit down to dinner. We had that in
the United States over a people. Oh we also had
it over Hebrews, but we don't like to admit it.
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Understand that God all the promises in Christ, all the
promises are yes, and they're all amen. He doesn't need
his yes, we do. He's faithful to us. In his
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being faithful, he is faithful to his word. Trust him,
Give thanks unto the Lord for his wonderful works. Praise
him for his wonderful works to the children of men,
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and put your name in there in your trial that
looks like it keeps going. His faithfulness is beyond and present.
God, bless you, and I mean God, the creator of
the universe. Elohem, bless now. Bless means happy, it means provide,
It means all manner of pouring out of things that
are good and what is good, not just things and you,
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not just everybody around you, not just you. And today
I want to deal with something that many people in
this day and time are going through and going through
in ways that you are aware of the horrendousness and
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the pressure, the circumstance, and the you're aware of your trial.
You're aware of what you're going through. Kind of like
when Jesus was on the boat and there was a
storm going and he's asleep in the boat and the
disciples like, what don't And they're professionals, by the way,
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They're not just scared because the boat's rocking. They were
professional fishermen and they knew that this thing is serious.
And Jesus, I mean, come up and help. When there's trouble, everybody,
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come around and help. That's what you want. I've been
telling you now, and I only noticed the other day.
I would have thought it was a year. It's been
about two years that I've been reminding you that you
talking about you who's listening to this broadcast at this time,
and that's whether or not you're listening to it live
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or some other time. And even if it's in another generation.
You are a person of excellence. And I always remind
you people of excellence go through stronger and harder than
other people. They also come out better, they also come
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out more. They also have victory that other people wouldn't
even make it through, go through trials. And one of
the things that I was just now telling you is
that I recognized that I've been telling this for two years.
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For two years, it's been for preparation, not just for
your life, but for the trial. I've been reminding you
of some one oh seven, and I probably will go
to it today, So if you're ready, go to it now.
But I want to remind you of God's promise to Jeremiah.
I want to remind you of Joseph's dream when he
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was probably just a teenager, and here he's probably in
his thirties and has gone through trial after trial, hardship
that's harder than hard and yet and oh, I remind
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you of Daniel exiled and in those days when you
exiled people of the of the kingdom of the royal family.
You castrated them the male How awful is that to
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live through? And yet Daniel remained faithful to God. Why
because God is faithful. And today, after two years of
reminding and preparing you that you're a person of excellence,
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you're anointed, appointed and equipped as such. We're in a
time were your trial. Oh we not only got going,
but it is so strong. It looks like it's gonna
destroy you. Looks like it could destroy you. Like the
other thing that I remind you that there was a
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great storm when Jesus said, peace be still. We love
the song. I always remind you that the Greek is
be muzzled when you go there. The scripture tells you it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Was a great storm.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And I like to remind you that in every situation
when God says, don't be afraid, it's something that could
probably kill you. The living through it, you want to
trust God. You want to know he is faithful. And
when it looks like not only it could kill you,
but it's about to kill you, you still want to
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know He's faithful. He is faithful. Oh yes, I hear
the little one singing. She's supposed to be quiet but
I hear singing, God is alive. Yes he is, because
he's a living and true God. My God is alive,
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God of the universe. He is alive, and he is faithful.
And when his faithfulness looks like it's not faithful in
your circumstances, when it looks like when it looks like,
when it looks like that, you aren't even in the circumstance.
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You want to know that God is faithful and all.
He's faithful to his word, and he's faithful to you.
Now off the cuff, I'm going to remind you or
have you go and read it, because you're going through
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and if you're only at the beginnings of it, you're
hoping that you don't have to go through this that bad. However,
if you started going through and it's already bad, it's
worse than bad, and you want it to be over
till it gets to that point. We each have these
this points. God told Jeremiah he'd take care of him,
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and I like to remind you, Yeah, you speak my word,
I'll take care of you. I thought I was going
to turn to it, and I might still. In Jeremiah
thirty one, Jeremiah spoke God's word, and the king got
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so mad at him and all the others. All the
other prophets were also mad at him, so they wouldn't
back up that he's speaking God's word. When you go
through you want people to be on your side, at
least to people close to you, at least people who
are about the same thing you're about. How about it, Pastors,
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You at least want other pastors to be on your side.
And Jeremiah found, I want you to know people of excellence.
This is what you're going to find. Jeremiah found that
the other prophets didn't like it because he wasn't prophesying
what they were prophesying. And I'm going to say this
out loud right now, we are living in a time
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where God's people are prophesying. I'm not talking about false prophets.
I'm talking about God's people are prophesying what they hope.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Not your prophecy, however,
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right now, and I hope it helps you wake up,
whether it's you doing it because you are a prophet,
or whether it's you hearing it wondering what to do
when the prophet prophesies something you want to hear, something
you want to know about that loved one who's sick
and dying. People God's people are prophesying their hope instead
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of recognizing that faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Faith is the substance, not your prophecy. You don't have
a hope, and then make it a prophecy. You want
to prophesy what God gives you. And I'm warning you
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now this is happening in several churches and a few
different denominations just that I have noticed, and it's happening
repeatedly in places so that without the warning we might
not notice. You might not notice because there's trial after trial,
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situation after situation, and you're so busy see hoping and
hoping and hoping and hoping, that you weren't recognizing that
the other one they died, and everybody was giving prophecies
that they would live, and they died before you have
time to think about it. There's another trial. There's another test,
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not separating you from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus, although that could be a theological issue,
but making it so that you don't remember that the
same ones or the same place you were hearing the
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same people you were around giving you all these prophecies
of how God is going to turn.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It around, and that one died, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Don't have time to think about it, time to adjust
it before another situation circumstance is upon you. Now, we
don't live under the circumstance. We live under God. However,
I'm giving warning. I'm giving warning. We're in those times,
in these last few years, we're in those times. I'm
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not talking about false PropheC There's plenty of those, and
there's those who the the truth has come out, pastors
who say they know the Lord and are speaking spells.
I give affirmations, and I like to give them according
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to the word us. An aff a spell is not
an affirmation. You want to speak God's word and you
want to make sure He's the one who said, I
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don't want I don't want to fuss. I want us
to be warned. I want us to be warned and
for us not to be the people of God. Prophesying
hope instead of God's word and the spirit of the
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prophet is not the same as the gift of prophecy.
In the listing of the gift of prophecy, and the
experiment in the listing is in a First Corinthians twelve.
More about it is in First Corinthians thirteen, and he
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lets you know the gift. It's for edification, exhortation, and comfort.
When you look at the prophets, they rebuked you us
God's people. They'd have comfort if we're doing what God said,
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and they had rebuke if we're doing otherwise, and they
had exhortation. The office of the prophet and the gift
of prophecy, and hopefully every prophet who holds the office
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of the prophet has the gift. However, when you look
in one Corinthians thirteen, we like to call it the
Love chapter. Don't overlook this. It lets you know that
though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels.
So I actually let me turn to it's that one
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I want to turn to right now, and I First
Corinthians twelve, and I generally remind you that that one
starts out now concerning spiritual gifts, Brethren, I would not
have you ignorant if you're looking in King James word
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gift is in italics because it's not there, and it's
not there because I mean, it's not put there as
a mistranslation. It just makes the English go better. But
the subject is spirituals. Now, concerning spiritual's brethren, I would
not have you ignorant. And then I'm not going to
read the through the whole thing because I don't want
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to forget why I even turned here. But when you
get down to two verses four, five and six, it
lets you know what chapters twelve, thirteen, and fourteen are about.
What spirituals are in this context. Gifts of the Spirit
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verse fourministrations of the Lord verse five, and operations of God.
And it has its parameters. And when you look at
the administrations of the Lord, we've looked at gifts of
the Spirit, and that lists there, and some of them
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are plural, yes they are. But for some reason or
other we don't list out administrations of the Lord. And
one of the things, and I was mentioning this in
prayer pastors prayer just recently that in firse Corinthians twelve, well,
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let me not miss first Corinthians twelve eight, I believe
might be twelve twelve four to one. Now he's just
finished gifts of the Spirit in verse seven. But the
man infestation of the spirit is given to every man
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to profit withal. And by the way, that is more
than just gifts of the spirit. Usually when I offer
the course, I show you that the word manifestation it
has the same root as the word utterance from Acts
two to four, when the Spirit gave utterance. And even
that our tradition has made the word of God of
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no effect. But verse eight the administrations of the Lord.
For unto U no I to went to the wrong place.
Verse twelve. For as the body is one, see Jesus
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is head of the body. We know that. So catch
this transition the way that you can see in a rainbow.
You can see the different colors, but one color next
to another, there's a hue in the changing. That's why
we have orange, because orange isn't red, and orange isn't yellow.
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But that in between that changing. So he says here
in verse twelve, for as the body that lets you
know we're moving went from gifts of the spirit to
administrations of Lord. For as the body is one and
hath many members, and all the members of that one
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body being many, are one body. So also as Christ,
so here he moves into administrations of the Lord and
I would like you to go back and read this
because I want to go to the thing that I
was going to show you about the office of the
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prophet and the gift of prophet. I don't want to
forget to do that. However, God has shown so much
in here. And when you go through verses thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
and eighteen, is that, Hugh, then that gives you the
change nineteen? There are things that the body is saying,
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and they're not so.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
God is the one. If you've listened to me before,
I always show you how in Genesis one, God said.
God said, God is showing us the way Jesus said,
I only do what I saw the Father do. I
only say what I heard the Father say. And actually
go look that up because you want to say it
the way Jesus said it. Did he say Saul or
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did he say see? Look it up? However, in this
one there's a list of things that are the body,
however the members of the body. Now God has already
said the body one body. However, the body in this
list of administrations of the Lord, the body is saying,
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oh I'm not this, or because I'm not that or
because I'm not this, I'm not And God asked a question,
is it not of the body? Is it not of
the body? And of course the answer we of the body.
We can get into times like this prophesying hope instead
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of prophesying what God said and letting hope be the substance.
I mean, faith, be the substance of the things you
hope for. Put faith to it, not prophecy. Not make
up a prophecy on your hopes. Yes, you want people
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to be healed of cancer. Yes you want this operation
to go. Well, we want God's faithfulness. You want Jesus's truth.
He's the way, he is truth, and he is life.
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We're so busy praying for healing, we forget he is life. Anyway,
let me remind you of this because we like to
skip that. You don't hear preachers preach about this. We
in the body, me included. And I like to keep
my body under and keep an eye on me. However,
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I'm always asking God keep an eye on me, because
one of the things that He showed me is that
the thing you're looking at can be you at one
stage or another, and whenever you're always seeing what's wrong.
What's wrong, what's wrong out there? To look in you,
you need to be in the presence of the Lord.
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If my people, which are called by my name, humble
ourselves and pray. Our prayers have turned into telling God
what to do and how to do it, and then
we say according to his word because we're quoting a scripture.
I want to remind you God promised I, uh, yeah,
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I was gonna say Isaiah, Yes he did. He promised
Jeremiah he would take care of him, and he told
him speak my word. And every time he spoke his word,
God's word. Jeremiah spoke God's word. The king and the
other prophets got angry and angrier, and they put him
in prison. And we today, oh, we think you don't
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go to prison. God's faithful. He's not going to let
that happen. God is faithful. Oh yes, he is not,
was not used to be, not gonna be. Remember the
part of who Jesus says he is, he who is
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who was, and he who is to come And look
that you pardon me. You want to look that up
and say it in the order that he said it,
and when he says it in different orders. You want
to see the context in which he was speaking, so
that you say what he said the way he said it.
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And I mean this about me too. Bringing this to
you right now, and I know I have it written down,
and I have it in my courses and such. Bringing
it to you now is why I'm reminding you look
it up and say it in the order that he says.
Some of us don't even notice that when the apostles
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asked him about his coming and when things are going
to be this way and that way. In one gospel
they asked a they asked a couple of questions, and
God Jesus answered in the order that the questions were asked.
In another gospel, they asked a few questions similar and
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the answer is given from the last question back to
the first, in order, but from the last to the first.
And that reminds you of a phrase in scripture. So
I want us to look at here. It is God's
people in the administrations of the Lord. It's God's people
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in this description. If the footshall say, because I'm not
the hand, i am not of the body, is it
therefore not of the body, that's just one of them.
God's people are saying things as if it is so.
And God is the one who gave us to say,
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to be like him, to say and create frame our world.
And here's a list in administrations of the Lord. Make
sure that we me I'm not doing this. I'm saying
what he said, not just saying because he said to say,
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not just praying because he said to pray. For example,
when he said to pray for leaders, and he says prayer, supplications, intercessions,
and by the way, each one is plural. He says,
with thanksgiving, and most of us in the times that
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we're in, and I can also go back to other times.
I'm someone who used to like to look up the
newspapers and what was being reported and said I got
curious about that when I saw and this is as
a teenager. I'm way past decades past a teenager now,
but as a teenager I could see that the news
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casters when there was only ABC, NBC and CBS, I
noticed that each one reported things a certain way. And
then later when I was in my twenties, we used
the word agenda a lot, and it made me go
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back and want to look up the news reports before
there was news like when I was a teenager and
see what the newspapers had to say. In my family,
there was tuberculosis, and like people think of cancer today,
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and people were experiencing it. Then one family member had
to be taken off the street because you were supposed
to not walk around with tuberculosis, and the state would
take you, take you off the street. And this one
was supposed to report and didn't, and they came and
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got him. And I saw the same things that are
going on now in the pandemic that we experienced. And
now that we speak of it, it's past, although we
recognize that there's still the lingerings, the same kinds of things.
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Drink alcohol and I'm not talking about whiskey and that
kind People were doing things that made no sense. People
had formulas, they were being written in the newspapers. And
by the way, this is the day right now. We
live in a day where you're supposed to if you
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walk your dog, you're supposed to to have something to
scoop it up and not leave it. This is the
day where horseman or was left in the streets, just
as the way we lived. We didn't put that together.
Should have, but we didn't, and we came up with
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different things. Oh, the people of God say things that
aren't so. And just because we're people of God, our
saying it doesn't make it so. Now God is faithful.
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I can say it over and over. It is so
because God is faithful. And you want to know, is
he faithful to you? Or is he faithful to his word?
Guess what, it's not an either or His faithfulness spreads
all over kind of like you're not gonna like this,
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You're not gonna like this. But the Malachi scripture about
giving the tithe and offerings, and by the way, he
didn't separate tithe from offerings in that Malachi scripture. He
said tithe then offerings, because the tithe has to do
with one thing, and he showed you offerings have to
do with another. However, in it, he lets you know
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that he'll pour you out, he'll rebuke the devourer for
your sake, not just for his name's sake, for your sake.
So God's faithfulness, he's faithful to you. And then and
in that he's way beyond what you think of as
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faithful because we just usually want the job done and
all that. Yeah, we think, oh, if I'm healed, i'll
be happy, I'll be blessed. Guess what God's faithfulness. He'll
heal you, give you life, and then make what I
call make you contagious, that everywhere you go you're ministering health,
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wholeness and life, and especially in that area he does that,
Oh yes he does. However, in that Malachi he says
he'll pour you out a blessing. He'll pour it out
and they won't be room enough to receive it. He
wants you to live from the overflow, kind of like
what he gave Jesus to tell us. Consider the lilies
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of the field. Look at the birds. They don't The
lilies are more arrayed than Solomon. And in Solomon's day
there was so much silver that they didn't even count it.
They counted the gold. They didn't even bother to count
the sewer because it was so much. Wouldn't you love
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for the trial that you're going through right now, were
there to be so much instead of so little. Even
on the way here, someone was letting me know about
a mother and a child that they had just passed,
that was homeless and hadn't eaten for two days.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh, and by the way, the offerings, God said, look
after the widow Uh huh, he said, look after the downtrodden.
Uh huh, he said, look after the orphans, and he
promises a blessing when you do so. I love the
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way that the alphabet is taught in Hebrew. At least
I learned that young. I hope it still is taught
that way that the gammel chases a dobalt, the rich,
chase down the poor, not make it that the poor
have to go begging. That's part of why in the
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old company, God says, don't glean your fields down to
the very last. However, if you look at modern technology
and why we haven't noticed it, I don't understand. But
we do these fields, and we plant hundreds of acres
or should I say tens of acres, We plant them,
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and we plant them, and yet huh, God bless you
on the broadcast. And yet we don't notice that we
plow them and we plant them, and we take every
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last bit, and don't notice that the very area that
we do that, in the very people that we do
that with in a generation, those people are poor, poorer
than poor. All this abundance from all that huge planting
and plowing, we don't even recognize. God said don't do
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your feel to the very last. Leave that for the traveler,
Leave that for the poor, so that they don't have
to go begging, that they can find food. And in
our time of industrialization, and this is all over the world, however,
look in your country and see when we do these
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huge plan and plowings and these huge harvestings in a
generation or two, those people are the poorest. Those people, Oh,
they get to eat because they work in the field,
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but they have become poor people. They don't own this,
that and the other. And sometimes it's because people did
like Joseph, I want to finish with Jeremiah, by the way,
I don't want to forget this. And as time has
gone on, huh, Jeremiah prophesied and the king got mad
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at him for what he prophesied and said he was
a trader. Yeah, people of excellence. When you don't say
what everybody else is saying, what everybody else wants you
to say, they're going to say that you're a trader,
and they might say it in different ways. And then worse,
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they came up with how to punish him and put
him in prison. And in the prison it wasn't just easy.
It wasn't just like where I live. There's jail. That's jail,
and then there's jail that's worse than that. Prison that's
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worse than that. Oh, they didn't just put you in
the park where all do you sleep on a cot?
He's sunk down in the mire. And then when you
read this story his situation, it got worse and worse
until the vermin were around him and he's sinking down
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in the mire. God, I thought you were going to
take care of me. You said you were going to take.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Care of me.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
What you don't know when you're going through is that
God is taking care of you. What Jeremiah had no
way of knowing. I can see it looking back, but
the same way he couldn't see it going through. You
can't see going through what you're going through because you're
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so busy going through. Things had gotten so bad among
the people of God that they had turned to cannibalism,
and they were First they're eating their children, then they're
eating each other. This doesn't happen all at once. People
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don't turn to cannibalism easily. That takes time. It takes deep, deep,
deep trouble going on and on and not remembering the
God who brought the children out of Egypt, not remembering
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his wonders because of sea, to they'll make a wall
for them, and dried the ground so that they could
get across and capsize the enemy coming after them. Remember
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the God who not only makes a way for you
for me, capsizes your enemy, who looks like he could
do you in and could like the great storm. Only
Jesus said peace. What he said is be muzzled. And
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the scripture tells us there was a great calm. Remember
the God who did that. Remember him and know that
he's faithful, not just to himself, not just to his word,
to you. Those things he did for his people. So
God tells Jeremiah, say my word, I'll take care of you.
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He said his word. King got mad through the scroll,
and the fire God gave him more prophecy. He gave it.
He got even angrier, and now other people against him,
and they threw him in the prison. Now they were
going through a king being against them, and kings being
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against them, and they forgot about Jeremiah in the prison.
He's sinking down in the mud, not just laying on
a cot in prison. One of the scriptures he says, God,
you tricked me. I feel like that a lot. The
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thing of it is, it's in a good way. Because
Jeremiah was a sweet soul. He'd have been one that
they easily would have gotten when they were eating one another.
They'd have eaten him, killed him, and eaten him. It
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didn't look like protection being in the prison. And it
wasn't just overnight. He was there a long time. And
then when people of God wanted to do right, realize
that Jeremiah prophesied. And before he even got this bad,
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he prophesied somebody go getting.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
And they had.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
To make a make a rope. I think out of
I'm gonna say out of sheets. But if the scripture
tells you what, they tied together and told him how
to bring himself up. And they did, by the way,
put him back in a prison. But at least he
got prison food. Oh, not a wonderful dinner, not the
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Psalm twenty three tables set before your enemies. No, but
prison rations was just enough to live, enough bread and
enough water to live, not to feel full, to live.
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Jesus is the way. He's the truth, and he's life
in your trial, he's ministering life. But we're so busy
going through and we're so busy wanting our miracle, and
we say how we want it. I want it like
this because you word says that we're telling God how
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to apply his word. And even in the coming out
of Egypt, God told Moses early on, you're going to
know that I said what I said to you when
you're back on this mountain worshiping. That's after the fact,
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you're going to look back and see because you're about
to go through so much stuff that it's going to
look like you're going to wonder where you even hearing God,
those of you who will study faithful to say what
he said and not prophesy hope, but lay your faith
in Him so that you have the substance and not
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disappointment that you don't know what to do with that
makes you ask such questions. God really faithful, Oh, really faithful?
Yes he is. He kept Jeremiah living. It is not fun. However,
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don't have to fail in faithfulness because God does not.
The children of Israel, we know that they went through
and when we think of them being thirsty, and God
brought water out of the rock. And you don't want
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to complain because Hebrews lets us know that they angered
God with their complaining, and he calls it an evil
heart of unbelief. You're not trying to have an evil
heart against God, and especially when he doesn't do it
the way you wanted him to do it, when you're
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going through stronger, harder, and longer than you think anybody
ought to go through. Remember, God was keeping Jeremiah's life
in the prison, sinking in the mortar with vermin yet
rats and mice running around him, just keeping him because
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outside the people had turned to cannibalism. They would have
eaten him. God kept him. Oh. And then when you
go to the end of Jeremiah when they called him
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back and wanted to hear what he had to say
and hear the prophecy. Look at Joseph. God gave him
a dream in his teens. Oh, and his brother's hated
him for it. Don't be so busy thinking that God's
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faithfulness is going to make everybody happy with you. And
did you hear me? His brother's not just the heathen,
not just the unbeliever. Brethren. Right now in my city,
we're dealing with things where brethren are publicly coming against
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one another and there's definite rebuke about that in the
scripture Old and New Testament. But when I'm doing it,
I don't think I'm wrong. I think I'm right. Let's
follow God's word his way and know his faithfulness, no,
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his faithfulness, and move in that and find live that
he's faithful to his word and he's faithful to us.
As a matter of fact. In the Psalm one O. Seven,
I remind you, oh, that men would give thanks unto
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the Lord and praise him for his wonderful works to
the children of men. And you can put your name
in there. Give thanks not anks. He told us to
be anxious for nothing, And I'm pretty sure the rest
of that verse is by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your request known unto God. And I think I
might have done the broadcast, but I know I shared
it with a person this way, thanksgiving, warnings and peace
of God afternoons, because that's Philippians four. I think it's
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six seven eight, it might be seventy eight nine. But
be anxious for nothing and then let your prayers but
with prayers. I need to go back and read it.
But he says with thankfulness prayers, not anxiousness, thankfulness. And
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then he lets you know the peace of God, which
passes understanding. We don't understand our circumstances, especially when they
get bad, got worse, and they're getting worse yet, And
don't think God didn't do anything. No, his peace will
pass your understanding. You can be a professional and know
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a great storm when you see one, and not understand
how the Master is asleep in the boat. How come
he's not up here helping. Oh, Peace, be anxious for nothing,
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even though there's a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Of thing.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
For no thing. Don't be anxious. Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.
Let and let is a word I don't think I've
dealt with on the broadcast in a very long time.
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God reminds me, and I'm most ashamed to say it
about me pushing myself and push myself instead of let
let of God that. And then he says, assess when
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the Philippians for one, that way, when you assess, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure? And here again
look up the order that he says, lovely, pure, just true.
Because I had noticed that, I memorized it out of
order or something. Actually what I'd noticed, and God brought
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this to my attention. I memorized it according to the
ways that I live it, and it made me know
something was missing. And I love that about God when
he corrects. If he's rebuking you, you're about to be
judged and you're about done. When you're at the point
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of correction, he's adjusting you on the inside. Because that's
what I ask. Teach me to love your will, teach
me to love your way so that I obey, so
that I do it, not have to understand it, so
that I obey because it's you. And every time I
think I am, I don't want to say every time,
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and here again, I want you to know this because
he does this with you. He lets me know get
off my case. He's not on my case. Remember how
he said, if any lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
who will give you liberally and will not upbraid you.
He'll give you the wisdom that you're asking for and
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not fuss you out about it. We as parents in
the earth, we fuss at our children. God gives the
wisdom so that it imparts into us so that we
are like him, not so we just know something. Yeah,
you want to know as a matter of fact in
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Jeremiah when he says, not the rich don't let the
rich man glory and is riches and the strong man
glory and his strength. Let he the glory glory in
this that he understand and know me. And I remember
I used to think anybody gonna know God. But that's
what he said. So I looked at it, and you
want to look at it some of the things. And
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I dealt with that on on on a broadcast. However,
you want to look at it, because judgment is the
last thing to know him. Yeah, he's about judgment, but
that's the last thing he said. Three things. Look it
up because he said he's of mercy. Mercy comes before judgment.
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Look up those three things. He told you told us
what he wants us to know about him. And and
the that reminds me when I was letting you know
about the spirituals that when we get to chat first
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Corinthians thirteen to know the difference between the gift of
prophecy and the prophet thirteen to one. We're so busy
calling it the love chapter, and it is, though I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
have not charity. I am become as a sounding brass
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or as a tinkling symbol. Now there's a whole lot there.
I hope I don't get distracted with the whole lot
that's there. But that sounding brass and that tinkling symbol
is not just a sound that we don't enjoy. But
remember on the bottom of the High priest robe when
he went in to make the sacrifice, there was a
bellon a pomegranate. A bell and a pomegranate because if
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you did something wrong in there, you could die, okay,
and they had a thing on him to pull him
out if he did. But the bell without the pomegranate.
I'm relating it to us today, being a royal priesthood.
To understand we sound the alarm and that sound also
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makes us known. But the pomegranate in between. It is
like the love, the love, and you have to have that.
You can't just always have rebuke. You can't just always
have it. But he says, if I speak with the
tons of men and of angels and have not charity,
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I become as a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
And though I have now while it says here gift
of remember that's in italics. Though I have prophecy and
understand all mysteries, these are prophets, not the gift of prophecy.
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Prophets understood mysteries and all knowledge. And though I have
all faith, so that I could remove mountains. Hello Elijah,
Hello Elijah, and have not charity, I am nothing. And
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basically I brought that to show us the prophet moved
in those things the gift of prophecy, edification, exhortation, and
comfort the prophet. And part of why in the school
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of prophets, the prophets covered one another because of a
prophet went into the spirit and spoke in tongues of
men and of angels. Remember on the day of Pentecost,
they were speaking tongues that men understood, languages of humans.
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This here the prophets they still do today. But I'm
going to say, for so it's not to mess with
your understanding. The prophets of the Old Testament spoke with
the tongues of men and of angels. We still do.
We still do. However, you've got to move in love
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just because the Spirit of God can come on you.
I mean, look, we love Elijah on Mount Carmel, but
look at how he was making fun of them. He
let them know, Oh, God must be out having lunch
or something. That was his personality coming through God. Doesn't
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do away with your personality because you're a prophet. Anyway,
I want to remind us Joseph had that dream as
a teenager, and his own brothers not equally because his
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oldest brother didn't want him to killing and he when
you read what his oldest brother had to say, it
looks like he had in mind to bring him back home,
but they ended up selling him the other brothers. And
by the way, we have the tendency in the body
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of Christ, the one body baptized into one body. If
you look at first Corinthian, I mean, yeah, one Corinthians twelve.
Just because everybody's saying the same thing doesn't make everybody right.
It doesn't mean what we're saying is right. Look at
Ephraim and Manassa, a tribe of Israel, and all through
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the scriptures they would agree on a thing and go
do it. And they were fierce. They were fierce, and
they'd kill you because all of them agreed, not all
twelve tribes, just them. Everybody around here we agree about this,
and so Joseph's brothers, while the oldest was gone, they
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agreed about this and they did it. Joseph went to
prison accused of something he didn't do. We believers today,
we'd think God's not being faithful to us. And he
was in prison for years. It wasn't over in a day,
just like your trials aren't over right now, right quick,
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right like you're saying and hoping and wanting. Have faith
in the true and living God and know that not
only does he keep his word and he's faithful to
his word, he's being faithful to you. And from prison
he went to the palace. Oh, it took years, and
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he went through. What was he saying every day that
he went through, every week that he went through, every
month that he went through, every year that he went through.
What are you saying? What are you saying in your trial?
Know that God is faithful, He's faithful to his word,
and he's faithful to you. And Joseph went from the
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prison to the palace. And if you look at history,
part of what God was working in that time is
the Egyptian, the pharaoh of the time when Joseph went,
he was of a different culture. God was working that
thing in the world. Because God so loved the world hello,
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that he gave his only begotten son. God works sings
in the world that agree with His eternal purpose. That
might not agree with you your politics or your this.
Because Egypt didn't like those politics that happened. That let
that particular pharaoh at the very time that Joseph comes
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out of prison, favors Joseph because the prejudice, Oh we
talk about prejudice, prejudice, prejudice. You couldn't even eat with
a Hebrew sit down to dinner. We had that in
the United States over a people. Oh we also had
it over Hebrews, but we don't like to admit it.
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Understand that God all the promises in Christ, all the
promises are yes, and they're all amen. He doesn't need
his yes, we do. He's faithful to us. In his
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being faithful, he is faithful to his word. Trust him,
Give thanks unto the Lord for his wonderful works. Praise
him for his wonderful works to the children of men,
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and put your name in there in your trial that
looks like it keeps going. His faithfulness is beyond and present.
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