Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000047
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00:41 Hello and welcome to "Behold the Lamb Presents."
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton, your host 00:45 and I want to thank you for tuning in. 00:48 Today we're going to present 00:50 the completion of a two part series of messages 00:53 that we have entitled 00:55 "Promised Blessings of believing God's Prophets." 00:58 In our first program Pastor Kenny Shelton discussed 01:01 that for centuries this was one of God's chosen methods 01:05 to communicate to his beloved children here on earth. 01:08 Yet with all this spiritual confusion in our world 01:12 many are leery to accept or believe that this is a gift 01:15 that could still be active in today's New Testament Church. 01:19 So let's quickly review for a few moments 01:22 what was taking place in Paul's day 01:25 in the early days of the New Testament Church 01:27 and we will begin with Acts Chapter 19. 01:30 I'm going to read just parts of the few verses 01:33 beginning with verse two. 01:35 Here Paul asks a question of disciples in Ephesus. 01:39 He asks them, 01:40 did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? 01:43 They replied, we have not so much as heard 01:47 whether there is a Holy Spirit. 01:49 We find in the next few verses that these disciples 01:52 decided to be re-baptized into Jesus Christ. 01:56 Verse six reads, "And when Paul had laid hands upon them, 02:01 the Holy Spirit came upon them 02:03 and they spoke with tongues and prophesied." 02:06 What about Paul's council to the Corinthians 02:09 in First Corinthians 14:5 where we read. 02:13 "I wish that you all spoke with tongues, 02:16 but even more that you prophesy for he 02:19 who prophesies is greater than he 02:22 who speaks with tongues." 02:23 My point, my point in reading these few texts is to show 02:27 that many men and women who were filled with the Holy Spirit 02:32 prophesied with instructions from heaven. 02:35 And several were officially labeled 02:37 as prophets here in the New Testament Church. 02:40 So again what about prophets, what about prophecy today. 02:45 I believe that Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:48 has been given insight through the guidance 02:51 of the Holy Spirit to address this question 02:53 more fully as we conclude our two messages entitled 02:58 promise blessings of believing God's prophets. 03:02 But first we have the opportunity 03:04 to visit the 3ABN Worship Center and listen to 03:08 "Amazing Grace Medley" as sung by Angela Bryant-Brown. 03:28 Amazing grace shall always be 03:36 my song of praise 03:41 For it was grace 03:46 that brought my liberty 03:53 And I do not know 03:59 just how He came to love me 04:04 so He looked beyond 04:11 all of my faults and saw my need 04:19 I shall forever lift 04:26 mine eyes to Calvary 04:31 To view the cross 04:36 where Jesus died for me 04:44 How marvelous that grace 04:50 that caught my falling soul 04:56 He looked beyond my faults 05:02 and saw my needs 05:10 Amazing grace, 05:18 how sweet, how sweet the sound 05:25 That saved a wretch like me 05:40 I once was lost, 05:48 but now thank God I'm found 05:55 Was blind, 05:59 but now I see 06:09 I shall forever lift 06:18 mine eyes to Calvary 06:25 To view the cross 06:31 where my Jesus 06:33 He blooded and died for you and me 06:40 How marvelous oh yes, 06:47 that grace that caught my falling soul 06:55 He looked beyond all of my faults 07:04 He loves, He looked beyond all of my faults 07:12 He looked beyond 07:18 all of my faults 07:22 and saw my needs 07:41 Praise the Lord. It's good to join, 07:42 join us today for Behold the Lamb. 07:44 Very important subject. 07:47 Now prophet, how does a prophet operate in the church 07:49 and especially in a New Testament Church. 07:51 This is second part of our series 07:53 as you've been following along we pray and we're going to as, 07:57 you know, before we start this we gonna have prayer. 07:59 But I just want to remind you that 08:01 we will not have time to go back 08:02 and to go over like we usually do in the several part series 08:06 the things that we studied previously. 08:07 Because we wanna cover as much as we can today, 08:10 so you may wanna call and get that first part of the series. 08:13 This is the vital subject. 08:16 Life and death subject of God's last day church. 08:19 And so I cover that you pray with me right now 08:22 as the Holy Spirit begins to open up 08:24 these beautiful truths to us. 08:26 Would you pray with me and ask for the Holy Spirit 08:28 to open our hearts and our minds. Let's pray. 08:30 Mercifully father in heaven, we thank you for Your love today 08:33 We thank You for Your sweet spirit. 08:35 We just ask now that we be covered 08:37 in the blood of Jesus Christ that these scriptures 08:40 that we read today will be made plain by your power. 08:43 You said the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth. 08:46 Bless we pray those who listen and who watch 08:49 open their hearts and their minds. 08:51 Help them desire to know what truth is. 08:53 Shocking as it might be to some. 08:55 We pray now that you will consume us 08:58 by Your spirit in the precious name of Jesus, 09:01 we pray and we thank you, amen. 09:04 Again it's always good that we get, you know, 09:06 pencil and paper and jot down these passage of scripture. 09:09 Again because of our time we'll move as quickly as we can. 09:12 We talked about in the first part 09:13 about the Old Testament, 09:15 even mentioned New Testament prophets, 09:16 but we gonna switch rather go with all the list 09:18 and you can take it concordance, 09:20 you can go by and look up the prophet 09:21 the activity of a prophet 09:23 in the church in the Old Testament. 09:25 We gonna skip quickly to the New Testament. 09:27 But remember this, we're offering 09:29 a free book called the "Prophet of the End" 09:32 one of the best concise books 09:34 I've ever read on the Spirit of Prophecy 09:36 or prophet operating in New Testament Church. 09:39 Over 200 pages that you can read, 09:42 over 100 passage of scripture dealing 09:45 with Spirit of Prophecy. 09:47 Two hundred of passages of scripture 09:49 that we can go dealing with spiritual issues 09:51 leading up to this study. 09:54 It's yours free, you just need to give a call. 09:57 Only a couple of hundred, 09:58 first callers get this book free. 10:02 But may I remind some of you though 10:03 when you say free here's nothing free in this life. 10:05 It does cost for the book, it cost to ship them out. 10:08 And so there will be someone I know maybe several bodies 10:11 that hear this and say you know what 10:12 I'm gonna send a nice love gift to help 10:14 to get these into the hands of people 10:16 who desire, who want to know 10:18 what truth is, and how God wants 10:20 to speak to His people. 10:22 I hope you're one of those who pray about it 10:23 where you send what you can 10:24 so that we can get these books into the home 10:26 of everyone who is requesting it. 10:29 But you need to call quickly as you can. 10:31 Now, we're gonna go to New Testament quickly. 10:33 Paul, man of God hence we read it in New Testament. 10:37 Paul had no problem with a prophet 10:39 operating in the New Testament Church 10:42 Now I'll be bringing up New Testament quite often here 10:44 because many people Christian say, 10:45 I'm a New Testament Christian believer. 10:48 Good, that's wonderful, I'm too. 10:50 But, you know, that doesn't negate what or where we jot 10:54 --just throw out the Old Testament not at all. 10:56 But as we look at New Testament believer 10:57 we find that Paul here and he said this is, 11:00 he said in 1 Corinthians 14:37, 11:03 "If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, 11:07 let him acknowledge the things 11:09 that I write unto you, 11:10 they are the commandments of the Lord." 11:12 So prophet then is going to what? 11:14 Just going to say okay, this is the truth. 11:17 And so a prophet then helps to lead and helps to guide 11:19 and to what, encourage us to what 11:21 truth is and then to follow that. 11:23 It's a word from God. 11:25 So then a New Testament Church then cannot possibly have 11:28 a problem with a New Testament teaching. 11:31 Can we? Oh, we can't 11:33 because Luke pens these words here. 11:35 We're gonna have to deal with scripture. 11:36 Our mind may be set against it we may have been 11:39 --we're told that this is not the truth, 11:41 but we're going to see what Luke has to say. 11:43 Luke Chapter 1 we're gonna read verses 70 through 73. 11:46 Pen those down quickly. 11:48 "As he spoke God, says God spoke. 11:50 He spoke by the mouth of his" what? 11:52 "Of his holy prophets." 11:53 So God has chosen to speak through what? 11:56 His holy prophets. Can a prophet be bad? 11:59 Well, if they are speaking what God wants them to speak 12:01 its all good, we need to hear it. 12:03 "Which has been since the world began." 12:05 So God has used prophets how, to what? 12:08 Good since the world has begun. 12:10 Now for what purpose of the prophets? 12:12 Why did God give them to us? 12:14 Well, verse 71 there of Luke Chapter 1 makes it real clear 12:17 "That we should be saved from the enemies, 12:20 of the hand of all that hate us." 12:22 And then verse 72 remind-- 12:24 and the prophets reminds us to remember his holy covenant 12:29 that God has made with his people. 12:32 Now we need to remember this. 12:33 In the New Testament, Old Testament and New Testament 12:37 God said in the last days 12:39 that there would be prophets among us. 12:41 You read it in Joel Chapter 2:28 and 29. 12:44 You read it also in the Book of Acts 2:17 and 18. 12:48 As we read these we find out God said that 12:50 He's going to pour out His spirit, 12:52 right, here in these last days. 12:55 He said, I'm going to pour out on your sons and what, 12:58 and your daughters and He said they will prophesy. 13:01 Again I want to encourage you this many people take the word 13:04 and say prophesy and they kind of say well, 13:06 they're just giving a word in deu season. 13:08 We're going to expand on that 13:09 what prophesy what it really means in New Testament 13:13 and scripture in the regional language. 13:15 It's very, very important. 13:17 And then we're going to see here 13:18 that Bible says that the old men will do what? 13:20 Oh, they are going to dream dreams 13:22 and young men's going to have vision. 13:24 Three area's here God said 13:25 I'm gonna communicate through men, what? 13:27 Prophets holy men they would speak 13:28 what God tells them to speak. 13:30 He's going to do it through dreams 13:31 and going to do it through vision. 13:32 So a dream can't be bad, vision can't be bad, 13:34 a prophet in a church can't be bad 13:36 as long as they match up with scripture. 13:38 Now, notice what Jesus said in Luke 11:49 and 50. 13:43 Jesus stated this, He said 13:45 "Therefore also said the wisdom of God, 13:47 I will send" what "prophets and apostles." 13:51 God himself sent prophets to His church 13:55 and His people to help them, to encourage them. 13:58 But he say all the sad thing is what "A some of them shall 14:01 --you shall slay them and you shall persecute." 14:04 And then verse 50, He says, 14:05 "That the blood of all the prophets, 14:07 which was shed from the foundation of the world, 14:10 may be required of this generation." 14:13 He talking what? Not only Old Testament, 14:15 but He's talking about New Testament too. 14:17 So He's establishing the fact that the prophets, 14:20 what, work in the church. 14:24 It was just--it was a common occurrence here. 14:26 And notice this passage that pertains to New Testament, 14:29 Christians do today in Luke 16:31. 14:32 The Bible says "And he said unto them" 14:34 notice "If they will not hear Moses" 14:38 Jesus thought they are not going to hear Moses 14:39 or the saying of Moses "and the prophets" 14:41 that means the old and what, and the New Testament 14:45 "Neither will they be persuaded though one rose from" 14:48 what, "Rose from the dead." 14:51 That mean's there's no hope. 14:52 Oh, if you don't hear God's prophets his mouthpiece. 14:56 If you don't listen to what's being said, 14:58 He said there is no hope. 15:00 Because you won't believe the one rose from the dead. 15:02 There is no hope. Again Luke 24:25 and 27. 15:07 "Then he" Jesus said this, notice. 15:09 He said "O fools, and slow of heart 15:13 to believe all that the prophets have spoken." 15:16 How much are we to believe? 15:17 All that the prophets have spoken. 15:20 "Beginning" and here's what Jesus did, 15:22 Jesus said "He began at Moses and all the prophets, 15:25 and he expound unto them all the scripture 15:28 the things concerning himself." Did Jesus believe in prophets? 15:32 Yes, He ordained them. Yes, He did. 15:34 He said, here He expoundly told 15:36 all the beginning of Moses and all the prophets. 15:39 Oh, friend, listen if God want's to use a prophet 15:41 to guide His church, He has that right. 15:45 But if we reject this means of communication 15:48 that God has chosen Jesus says to us. 15:52 He says "O fools and slow of heart." 15:55 We need to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 15:59 Therefore our benefit. 16:01 God wants to have them in the church 16:02 to speak towards it like, 16:04 something we need to be encouraged today. 16:06 We need help today. 16:09 See the New Testament Church, I have come to find this out. 16:11 New Testament Church, lot of them loves 16:13 the Book of Acts and of course I do too. 16:16 And here we find the importance of the church 16:18 needing guidance and counsel. 16:21 Even in prophesying or in prophecies 16:24 in concerning Jesus. 16:26 So friend we see a New Testament Church. 16:28 Notice what Acts 3:18 says to us. 16:32 "But those things, which God had shewed" 16:34 notice "by the mouth of all his prophets" 16:37 still establishing, still saying 16:39 God chooses how to speak to us 16:41 to communicate here by his prophets 16:43 "that Christ should suffer" 16:45 and notice this "and he has so fulfilled." 16:49 Prophets will tell things before they happen. 16:53 They are going to reveal things, 16:55 that's what the Bible said in Amos, verse 3. 16:58 He's going to speak through His holy prophet. 17:00 They are gonna reveal things. 17:01 He doesn't want us shocked 17:03 and so He tells us things before they happen. 17:06 Now notice these verses are powerful, 17:09 we're gonna read them so you have your Bible 17:11 quickly Acts 3:22 through 25. 17:15 These are, they tell of a need of God's prophets 17:18 for the time in which we live 17:20 and he said beginning what at Samuel. 17:22 Beginning at the beginning here but notice these verses. 17:25 Says verse 22 "For Moses truly" what "Said unto the fathers, 17:30 A prophet shall the Lord 17:31 your God raise up unto you of your brethren." 17:35 Now next follow. 17:36 "Like unto me" it says here 17:38 "Him shall ye hear of all things 17:40 whatsoever he shall say unto you." What? 17:43 God said I'm going to send a prophet. 17:45 We know He's talking about Jesus. 17:46 That interesting referred to here, 17:49 but I'm gonna send him. 17:50 Notice, "And it shall come to pass that every soul, 17:52 which will not hear that prophet, 17:55 shall be destroyed among the people." 17:58 Having a prophet in the church is very, very important. 18:00 "Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that" 18:04 listen "And those that follow after, as many as have spoken, 18:08 have likewise foretold of these days." 18:11 Notice "Ye are the" 18:13 what "The children of the prophets." 18:15 Who? New Testament Church 18:17 "Ye are the children of the prophets, 18:19 and of the covenant which God made 18:21 with our father saying Abraham, 18:23 and in thy seed shall all the kindreds 18:24 of the earth be blessed." 18:26 We're the children of the prophets. 18:29 Now again we wanna share a few more passages 18:31 so we don't become confused here, 18:32 but we don't want to miss the part 18:34 that the prophets played in the New Testament Church. 18:37 See that way if we establish that 18:39 beyond a shadow of a doubt 18:40 we can't throw out the need of a prophet 18:44 operating in the church, God's mouthpiece. 18:47 And remember Paul was going on his first missionary journey 18:50 in Acts 13:1 it begins to give this account. 18:55 But it indicates that there were prophets 18:58 that were operating in the church of Antioch, 19:01 a New Testament Church. 19:03 And so as we look at this Paul made no rebukes 19:06 he made--that was not a surprise to him. 19:09 It was a common occurrence that took place. 19:12 So again if he had no rebuke it must be all right 19:14 and it was a common thing to take place. 19:17 In fact the Holy Spirit said something very, very important. 19:20 It said in fact the Holy Spirit puts his approval upon 19:23 the prophets in the church and of calling men and women out 19:25 to do a special work, you remember that. 19:28 It said separate me Barnabas and Saul 19:32 for their appointed work. Now let's read Acts 13:1. 19:36 Here's what it says "Now there were in the church 19:39 that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers." 19:42 Now are we getting this in the New Testament Church 19:45 there were what? Prophets operating. 19:49 When you say that today 19:50 in today's society people close their mind, 19:53 they close their eyes, they just, 19:55 oh, it can't possibly be. Why not? 19:56 It's the New Testament teaching. 19:59 There's too much information here for us to deny. 20:04 There was no rebuke by Paul. Nothing he said. 20:07 He just simply said, they're operating 20:08 in the church in Antioch. 20:10 So it seems to me if we neglect this gift, 20:13 if we throw it out, then we're throwing out 20:15 how God wants to communicate with us 20:17 and speak to His people. 20:19 It's a gift that God has given. It's interesting. 20:22 We're interested in special spiritual gifts, aren't we? 20:26 Whether a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist 20:28 and so you talked about end prophets. 20:31 We named them all, but we don't say whole lot 20:33 about prophets it's like we're afraid. 20:35 Devil doesn't want you to understand the subject. 20:38 He's afraid you're going to understand it. 20:40 And that you'll understand more, you see of scripture 20:42 if you get into and listen to His prophets 20:45 those He's talking to. We need help today. 20:47 We need to be enlightened today. 20:49 We need to have spiritual things pointed out that 20:51 we just can't seem to comprehend. 20:53 We see through like a darkly, 20:55 spiritually and we just can't see things all around it. 20:58 Sin--we can just be swimming around as we're in sin. 21:01 And we can't see that it's sin, we think it's all good. 21:04 Oh, friend, we need the voice of God 21:06 operating in the church today. 21:08 Oh, friend, look God's last day people. 21:11 His church--you know, we find in Revelation 12:17, 21:15 it said, "The dragon was wroth with" what? 21:17 "With the woman, and went to make war 21:19 with the remnant of her seed" who do what? Good. 21:21 "Keep the commandments of God, and the testimony of Jesus." 21:25 and Revelation 22 21:27 and Revelation 1:9, we have to-- 21:29 I'd like to be able to read all those 21:31 but I can't really do that. 21:33 But friend, as we read all of these passages of scriptures, 21:35 Spirit of Prophecy we're talking about testimony of Jesus. 21:39 is the Spirit of Prophecy. 21:42 God's last day church will promote two things. 21:44 They will move keeping all ten of the commandments 21:47 by the grace of God. 21:49 We knew salvation is gift, but we're going to be obedient 21:51 and we'll have, what? 21:53 A prophet operating in the church 21:55 to guide his church. It's very clear. 21:58 That's what scripture says here. 22:00 We don't want to miss this. 22:01 The witness of Jesus will be in the midst of His people, 22:05 don't throw Him out. 22:08 Now once again if this gift is not in operation 22:11 if it's missing, the people will go backwards. 22:15 The Bible said in Proverbs 28, you remember 19 that we read 22:18 or 29:18, remembered what it said. 22:21 It said the people will perish. 22:23 That means we're gonna backslide. 22:25 That means we're gonna go backwards. 22:27 That means we're going to-- the word there in Hebrew said, 22:29 we're gonna loosen up. 22:31 We don't need to loosening up and sliding backwards right now. 22:35 But you know, there're still people 22:37 that do not believe in prophets. 22:39 We can read all of these. 22:40 Read all the instances in the Old Testament 22:42 and in the New Testament and the approval of God, 22:44 the approval of Jesus, 22:45 the approval of New Testament Church 22:47 and all the Bible writer and still we say, 22:49 "Oh, well, now look if you still have a problem with that, 22:53 what do you do with this passage?" 22:55 What am I gonna do with it? 22:57 Are you Bible believer? 22:59 Then let's start believe in the Bible, shall we? 23:01 First Thessalonians 5, I'm not trying to be too difficult, 23:04 hard on you, but listen I wanna get your attention. Why? 23:07 Because I believe that many, many, many by the millions 23:09 are missing what God wants to give us. 23:12 He wants to talk to you. He wants to communicate to you. 23:16 First Thessalonians 5:20 and 21, 23:20 here's that's what the Bible said, 23:21 "Despise not prophesying." 23:25 What does that word mean? 23:26 Here is what it mean in the New Testament Greek. 23:28 Prophet, despise not what? Prophesying. 23:30 Last stage he said they're gonna be 23:32 prophesying in the last stage. 23:33 They'll say, "Well, yeah, there's gonna be 23:34 a word from God." it's deeper than that. 23:36 It's broader than that. 23:38 This word here means in the New Testament Greek. 23:40 It means do not despise listen predictions. 23:44 Do not despise prophecy. Do not despise prophesying. 23:49 Do not despise, listen, an inspired speaker, 23:54 or do not despise a prophet. 23:57 Did you get it? 23:59 Don't despise a prophet. 24:03 Please remember this definition as we go on in this study. 24:07 It's very, very important. 24:09 Don't despise what? 24:10 A prophet, prophesying, predictions, inspired speaker. 24:14 The passage continues and it says, pay more attention, 24:18 "Prove all things." Here's the key. 24:20 "And hold fast that which is good." 24:23 Too many people are not holding on fast 24:25 at those things that are good. We're letting go. 24:28 We're nearing the time of the coming of Jesus 24:31 we're in the judgment hour and we're letting go 24:34 of the hand of God, our only helper, 24:38 only way that we're going be saved in God's kingdom. 24:40 We're throwing Him out. 24:42 We're throwing out the way which He wants to communicate 24:45 to His--remember God has always communicated 24:48 with His people, has He not? 24:50 So why would He not in the last days? 24:53 So I'm just--I want to challenge your mind here. 24:55 And just to say in other words, we're not going to-- 24:56 it is a gift. 24:58 It's proven in scripture in New Testament as we will know. 25:01 Now, let's just dissect a little bit this word. 25:04 It says, "Do not despise." 25:07 Despise means what? To make of no account. 25:12 So don't discredit a prophet. 25:15 Don't discredit an inspired speaker. 25:18 Don't discredit what prophecy. 25:21 Please listen to that. 25:22 Don't discredit prophesy, don't discredit predictions. 25:28 Well, it's a line up with the word of God, do you see that? 25:30 This is expanding this, don't despise. 25:33 You know what- don't despise these things. 25:35 You realize this that the spiritual gifts were displayed. 25:40 I mean this is one of the ways that God used 25:43 the spiritual gifts in the formation 25:45 of the New Testament Church. He used all of these gifts. 25:50 In Thessalonica the Bible is very, very clear on that. 25:53 Now let's look though quickly, First Corinthians 14:1, 25:57 the Bible says, and everybody loves 26:01 and certain people more than others, 26:03 but we love the word of God, don't we? 26:04 First Corinthians 14 says right here, "That ye may prophesy." 26:09 This is one of the gifts. 26:11 Paul here said, well I want you to be prophesied. 26:18 Want God to be speaking, 26:21 He'll speak to you making predictions 26:24 could be a prophet, could be a spiritual speaker. 26:29 A word in due season but it said, that ye may prophesy. 26:33 First Corinthians 14:3, "but He that--" notice this, 26:37 "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men." 26:41 All we need to hear today is the word spoken to us, right. 26:44 The person is prophesied. 26:45 First Corinthians 14:5, he said, 26:48 "I would rather that ye prophesied" 26:51 and of course you-- look, jot these down and read them all. 26:54 He said rather than what? 26:57 Speaking tongues must have in what? 26:59 An interpreter. 27:01 Wow, rather that ye prophesied. 27:03 Interesting enough as we study that--listen the church 27:08 that was focusing on prophesying and prophets, 27:13 you know what their messages were? 27:14 You know what the messages were? 27:16 They were focusing on the second coming of Jesus. 27:20 Wow! And the signs of His coming. 27:24 The events that would be taking place before Jesus would come. 27:28 They were focusing on that. Is that sound familiar to you? 27:33 That God's last day church will be what? 27:36 That has the prophet. 27:38 Prophesy gift of prophecy will be focusing 27:40 on the second coming of Jesus. 27:42 How we can be prepared for His coming? 27:44 Signs and the events that would be taking place. 27:47 It needs to sound familiar. 27:50 They did in the New Testament Church, you remember. 27:53 And interesting, First Corinthians 14. 27:55 I am just using few of these because a lot of people 27:57 love these passages of scripture. 27:59 They love First Corinthians 14, 28:01 but they're overlooking somethings, 28:03 First Corinthians 14:22 says, 28:05 "Prophesying serveth for them which believe." 28:10 What was it? 28:11 Prophesying serves for them which believe. 28:14 Are you a believer? 28:15 Oh, I am a believer, I am New Testament believer. 28:17 Then prophecy you see, the gift of prophecy, 28:20 a prophet in the church is for you then 28:22 because that's what it's for, that's what the Bible says. 28:24 First Corinthians 14:29 said, "Let the prophets speak." 28:30 Wow, how powerful. 28:32 "Let the prophets speak" and then it says 28:35 you know two or three or so on. 28:38 So no one was rebuking a prophet in the New Testament Church. 28:41 Why should we be rebuking them now? 28:43 Acts 15:32 says, 28:46 "And Judas and Silas being prophets also themselves, 28:51 exhorted the brethern with many words, and confirmed them." 28:55 Or they did what? 28:56 They supported, they established-- 28:59 reestablish the truths. 29:01 This is part of a-- a prophet's work is to exhort, 29:05 part of the prophet is to comfort, is to lead, 29:08 is to guide, is to pray for, 29:10 is to call for, to give commands as it were. 29:13 To tell the events that are soon to take place, 29:16 is to warn, a mouthpiece of God. 29:19 Now if we get time to go into all not but let me tell you, 29:22 a prophet can only say- true prophet of God 29:24 can only tell you what God tells him 29:28 and nothing more of thus saith the Lord. 29:32 Friend, in Acts 21:8 through 11, 29:35 here in the New Testament we find Philip. 29:38 There's getting a New-- we find Philip here 29:40 because well that was a prophet, that was a man. 29:42 Philip was the evangelist, but he had four daughters, 29:44 do you remember that? 29:46 And he said-- the Bible said, 29:47 and these four daughters they did prophesy. 29:50 Look up that word. You know what it said they did, 29:52 they said they did what? They did prophesy. 29:55 That means they would foretell events 29:58 before they took place. A word from God. 30:02 They would speak under inspiration of the Holy Ghost. 30:05 They would exercise the prophetic office of a prophet. 30:10 Men and women God will use here in this last day. 30:14 So why are people afraid 30:16 of a prophet in the New Testament Church? 30:19 Well first of all you said there's true prophet 30:21 then that also means what? 30:22 That they're gonna be false prophets. 30:24 So we have to-- the Jesus gave some simple rules 30:27 to distinguish between the two. 30:29 And he stated very, very plainly 30:31 in Mathew 7 verses 15-20, 30:35 He said, A good tree bringeth forth" what? Good fruit. 30:39 And a bad or corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." 30:45 In the First John 4:1 it says 30:48 "We must prove all things 30:51 and we must try or test the spirit." 30:54 So we've to try the spirit, 30:56 we've to test them, what? Test them by the word of God. 30:59 Everybody pops up and says, I am a prophet. 31:01 They aren't more of a prophet. 31:03 I am not prophet, I don't claim to be prophet 31:05 but God gives me a word dear friends, 31:06 we need to let that word out. 31:08 And then whatever that word comes out 31:09 we've to test it by the Bible. 31:12 Isaiah 8:20 really brings to light 31:14 and it just so much time is--some of us wants to says, 31:17 to the Lord, to the testimony, 31:19 if they speak not according to this is because 31:21 there is no light in them. Someone comes up and says, 31:24 I'm a prophet of God. I've got a message 31:26 and they down chart the Ten Commandment Law of God. 31:30 They down chart the testimony of Jesus 31:32 Spirit of Prophecy, 31:33 one of the witnesses of Jesus Christ. 31:35 Dear friend he is not a true prophet of God. 31:37 He's a false prophet. 31:38 The law on the testimony, there be no light in them. 31:41 Friend there's a way and the world has--basic Christian 31:45 world is thrown out this gift because they are afraid, 31:48 because you know what, because they're not studying the Bible, 31:50 because you don't know what is truth 31:52 and you don't know what is false, 31:53 because you're not studying to show yourself, 31:55 approved unto God. 31:56 I want you to encourage today to do that. 31:59 How do you define a prophet? 32:00 I mean let's say, how do we really define a prophet. 32:03 We've been talking about them. Can we so do it simply today? 32:07 A prophet will simply be what, good, 32:10 a mouthpiece for God, good. 32:14 God uses them to do what? To guide His church. 32:17 Oh, how beautiful that is. 32:19 And friend we need that help today, do we not. 32:23 See God has always--from the very beginning He's had what? 32:26 Prophets in the church. So once again 32:29 I am pleading with you why not now? 32:31 Rather to turn it off and say it doesn't exist, 32:33 you are denying dozens and dozens and dozens 32:37 of clear scripture in the New Testament, 32:40 upholding the gift of prophecy 32:42 or prophet operating in the church. 32:45 But now when you say whether prophet operating 32:47 this church is a cult, cult. 32:51 Oh friends, that's what that is. 32:55 That what they said in the New Testament times, 32:57 Paul never said that. 32:59 Now we realize there's a line which you cross and hopefully 33:01 we will be able to discuss little more about that. 33:04 But if we think about this, 33:06 you see the enemy has so many ways 33:08 to cause diversions here in the last days. 33:11 There are so many ways in which the enemy tries 33:14 to captivate us and to caring for things of the world 33:17 and being involved in the world 33:18 and we just can't get winged away from the world 33:20 where I've been in the world, do you get it. 33:23 Taken us captive. 33:25 Listen, we need to communicate with God 33:27 more than ever before in a history of this world. 33:31 We need to hear God's voice and He said, 33:34 I am going to speak through my prophets. 33:37 I want to give dreams and visions. 33:39 You remember this account of scripture. 33:40 We got to go away back here but remember 33:42 this account of scripture given in Exodus 4:16. 33:46 God call Moses to do a work 33:48 and you remember what Moses said, 33:50 I must me be dried out, I am short of speech. 33:54 And God said to him, 33:55 He said, "Aaron, shall be thy spokesman." 34:00 Now remember Moses, oh be careful 34:02 somebody may not have heard this and others have, 34:04 Moses was a type of what? Of Christ. 34:08 But he said what? "Aaron shall be thy spokesman." 34:12 And notice what he said, "And he shall be to thee, 34:16 even he shall be instead of a mouth, 34:19 and thou shalt be to him instead of God." 34:23 So Moses what? Was a type of Christ. 34:26 And Christ will speak through what as it were. 34:28 Moss will speak and the prophet of God, 34:31 Aaron would take what he wants 34:32 and then he will give it to the people. 34:34 Very interesting. God made it very clear here. 34:38 Aaron was to Moses' words. Get the point, 34:42 Aaron was to Moses' words as the word of God. 34:47 And everything that He told him. 34:49 And later what did God say? He called Aaron a prophet. 34:53 Exodus 7:1, he said, "Aaron thy brother shall be a prophet." 34:58 God said He's gonna be a prophet. 35:01 Of course you remember Moses was even afraid 35:03 to go before the farewell, you know, the second time 35:06 and so on and God reminded him and I am reminding you today 35:09 as a representative of Jesus Christ. 35:11 You are superior to any Pharaoh or any king. 35:16 We need not be afraid. 35:18 God has joined together, He has given us information. 35:20 He has given a solid word of truth. 35:23 Divinity and humanity working together cannot lose. 35:27 We cannot lose this race, this battle 35:30 because we're working together with Jesus Christ. 35:32 But we've to communicate, we've to listen, 35:35 we've to what not throw out what God has given us. 35:39 Oh, it's interesting, you remember 35:41 that God used a prophet to deliver what? 35:43 To deliver Israel. Do you remember that? 35:45 And then to preserve--listen not only deliver Israel, 35:48 but He preserved Israel. 35:52 You remember reading that in Hosea 12:13, 35:57 and when we say Israel we say His church. 35:59 Here's how it read, it say, "By prophet God 36:02 brought Israel out of Egypt, 36:04 and by a prophet that he was preserved." 36:08 So God's church then was--can be delivered 36:11 by a prophet is gonna be preserved by what? 36:14 By a prophet. 36:15 May be many churches today is not being preserved 36:17 because they don't have what? The mouthpiece of God. 36:19 They are not hearing from heaven, 36:21 they're hearing from man. 36:24 And Moses here was the prophet 36:26 that was speaking about here. 36:28 Israel was preserved by obeying what? 36:31 God's prophet. 36:33 Today God's people will--is going 36:35 to be preserved by what? 36:38 By listening to God's appointed messengers. 36:42 We cannot afford not to listen to God. 36:44 He has appointed messengers 36:46 and we need to listen to them today. 36:49 God tells us that when He uses a prophet 36:51 that His spirit then must be what? 36:54 His spirit must be upon them. His spirit must be upon them. 36:59 First Peter 1:10 and 11 says this, 37:02 "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired" 37:06 that means they sort out. "They searched diligently" 37:09 that means researching the scriptures diligently. 37:13 Really trying to find out. 37:15 Here it says, "Here they who prophesied of the grace 37:18 that should come upon you searching what, 37:21 or what manner of time 37:22 the Spirit of Christ was upon them. 37:25 " Oh friend, think about this. " 37:28 And did signify, notice this, signify 37:31 when it was testified beforehand 37:34 that the sufferings of Christ 37:36 and the glory that should follow." 37:38 Wow, the prophets here, they're gonna to tell what? 37:42 Gonna tell in advance the things 37:44 that were going to take place. 37:46 How awesome, when what? 37:47 When the Spirit of God, 37:49 Spirit of Christ was in them. 37:52 They were searching, they were prophets, 37:54 they've inquired, they want to know, 37:55 they are telling you things that should come to past. 37:58 The spirit kept pointing out significance 38:01 facts concerning the mission of Jesus Christ. 38:05 Oh, may I mention again a prophet knows only 38:10 what God reveals and only this. 38:16 I mentioned a while ago, I simple thus saith the Lord. 38:19 So it's not man's word, 38:21 when a prophet was anointed by Jesus 38:23 and a message was given to prophet 38:25 and gave that message just exactly 38:26 the way it was given to him. 38:28 No deviation from it, that's the true prophet. 38:32 Prophets going to be underneath 38:33 the influence of the Holy Spirit. 38:35 Second Peter 1:21 and Second Samuel 23:12 38:39 are two you can read that. 38:41 It says, "For prophecy came not" what? " 38:42 In old times by the will of man, 38:45 but holy man of God spoke as they were moved" 38:47 by what, "by the Holy Ghost." 38:49 So we've Holy Spirit power here, 38:52 uniting as together and then they may begin 38:54 to speak as God gave him utterance. 38:58 Prophecy, friend is a revelation from God. 39:03 He decide what is made plain to the church, 39:06 He decides what the church needs what we need today. 39:10 The prophet then is entirely under 39:13 the control of the Holy Spirit. 39:16 That's so, so important. Let's look, 39:19 we'll have time to look at some of the areas of communication 39:22 that God used from the beginning. 39:26 Are we getting this? 39:27 We're going to look at some of the areas of communication 39:30 that God used from the very beginning of time. 39:33 Now how did God communicate with Adam and Eve? 39:38 How did he do? Well you know as you take scripture, 39:40 you began to read in Genesis 3:9, 39:43 you just turn back scripture and you say we're here " 39:45 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him." 39:49 So how did God communicate with Adam and Eve? 39:54 Yeah, He spoke to them, didn't he? Bible says here, 39:57 he called them and he said to them before sin right, 40:00 "Where Art Thou?" 40:03 So God spoke to them before the fall. 40:08 Now, so how did God speak to man after the fall? 40:13 Now, what we're establishing here? 40:14 We're establishing in that once God had-- 40:16 He spoke to them before the fall 40:18 but He still need to communicate to His church, and I say, 40:21 church as his people but after sin came in, 40:25 a lot of things changed, but God still wanted to do what? 40:28 Communicate with His people. 40:31 And so how did God do it? 40:33 Well the Bible would go over the Old Testament, 40:35 Hosea 12:10 says this. He said, 40:38 "I have also spoken by the prophet, 40:43 I've multiplied" Listen, 40:45 " Visions and I've used similitudes." 40:48 What is that means. 40:50 He said I've used lightnesses, 40:51 I've used things that are similar, 40:53 I've used things that resemble something else. 40:57 And he said, notice, I've done this by the--listen, 41:00 "The ministry of the prophets." Wow. 41:05 God spoke before sin to them directly. 41:07 Sin came in, God's coming. 41:10 Say, I am gonna use what? Prophets. 41:12 I am going to use what? I am gonna multiply visions. 41:16 So God said, okay he's gonna use visions then. 41:19 And we talked about Joel, 41:21 it's gonna be dreams and then he's gonna use likenesses 41:25 and things that are similar, He's gonna make comparisons. 41:27 And then He says what? By the ministry of the prophets. 41:32 Heaven approves of prophets or prophecy, 41:35 the gift of prophecy in the church. 41:37 Listen, the devil does not want you to understand the subject. 41:42 He doesn't want you to receive the help that is available, 41:44 that God has made available through New Testament teachings, 41:48 through the gifts that He's left to the church 41:50 for the edification of the church, 41:52 for the building up of the church, 41:54 for the church getting ready 41:56 for the grand climax of the coming of Jesus Christ. 42:00 If you feel like I do difference, 42:01 I need all the help I can get. 42:03 Oh, God help me to see, help me to understand, 42:05 we live in a smoke filled world as it were. 42:08 It's hard to understand what is truth and what is not. 42:10 What's real and what's not. We need all the help 42:14 that we can get. I am so thankful 42:17 that God has chosen to still communicate with us, aren't you? 42:22 What if He had stopped? There will be no hope for us. 42:25 But He says I am going to go ahead, 42:27 I am gonna speak through men, holy men. 42:30 And they are gonna write down through women. 42:32 Gonna write down things that we need to know 42:34 to prepare for the coming of Jesus, 42:36 because we are so spiritually dull today 42:39 and we don't--sad part is we don't know it. 42:42 We say, we're increased with goods 42:43 and we're well and everything is going good, 42:45 we've all these things going and this is happening, 42:47 and that's happening. We're naked. 42:50 We need help and we don't realize it. 42:55 Ministry of the prophets means the-notice, 42:59 it means the directions or the work of the prophet. 43:02 God said, I am going to do what? 43:04 I am going to work through a prophet. 43:07 Now if your church doesn't have prophet 43:09 you are missing out on something. 43:12 Instead of looking at the people and say well, 43:14 we're careful and then they say they have the gift of prophecy. 43:16 They have a prophet in the church. 43:18 I am looking at you and I am saying, 43:20 oh my, you don't have. 43:22 Why becaus the Bible is teaching here, 43:23 clear teaching here. We can't miss this right here. 43:28 Prophet is going to be what? 43:30 The direction in the work of God. 43:32 They're doing what God was speaking to the people. 43:37 We must realize that God has information 43:39 that He wants to impart to us. 43:42 And He has information that belongs just to Him, 43:44 you remember reading that. 43:47 He's made information available to us. 43:51 What to make spiritual things clearer, 43:54 because we need to discern it. We see through a glass. 43:57 You remember Deuteronomy 29:29, 44:02 they said, "The secret things belong" to who? " 44:05 Belong to the Lord our God. 44:07 But those things which are revealed belong to us 44:11 and to our children for ever." 44:13 The things that God has inspired 44:14 to be written in the Bible and it's what? 44:18 Spirit of Prophecy, prophets, the things are revealed. 44:23 Then we go back, remember the prophet said, 44:25 I am a prophet then we test him to see. 44:28 It's very clear. So that we understand 44:30 what he saying is from God, because God said, 44:33 He will use this means in the last days 44:36 in the New Testament Church if you don't have it, why not? 44:39 It's a gift. 44:41 All of the gifts will be in operation 44:43 in God's last day church. 44:44 It's clear as we read. Hopefully 44:45 we've little time to get to that. 44:48 If not remember this free offer this book of 200 pages, 44:51 you are going to need that. First 200 callers get it free. 44:56 It goes in deep, I am talking about deep. 44:59 You'll love it because if you don't have 45:02 it operating in the church dear friend, 45:04 you're been cheated by the devil. 45:07 God want you to have this. 45:09 The secret things belong unto, what? 45:11 The Lord our God, but He reveals those things to us 45:14 and to our children. What He's revealed, 45:16 they are forever. See this is God's promise to us. 45:19 He's made this promise, He's going to keep it. 45:22 We alluded to it in the first of the program 45:24 but in Amos 3:7 he said, "Surely the Lord God" 45:27 come on you know this one, come on say it with me, 45:30 "Surely the Lord God will do" what? 45:31 "Nothing but he revealeth his secret 45:34 unto his servants the prophets." 45:37 God calls a prophet a servant. They are His servants. 45:43 They are to speak when God says to speak, 45:46 may not be nice about it, 45:47 they keep their mouth shut when God says keep it shut. 45:51 They're obedient to God. 45:54 That's all they have to say is what God tell them, 45:56 I want you to reveal this, 45:57 I want you to go in this situation 45:59 or that situation. I want you tell the people. 46:01 Most generally it's a woo wow, 46:03 rough situation these things are meant to for being obedient. 46:09 See how long will God use this gift in the prophecy. 46:14 A prophet guiding his church. How long will it be? 46:18 Well, first of all in First Corinthians 13:8-10 46:21 when you have time read that. 46:22 It says whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. 46:27 Now when will the prophecies fail, 46:29 when there is no need for a prophet operating anymore, 46:32 when Jesus return. So it's gonna operate until what? 46:35 Until Jesus comes, it's very, very clear. 46:38 So it is a gift in the New Testament Church, 46:41 it will be in operation. Now please remember this, 46:44 a true prophet-- let's just do 46:45 a couple of this--may be kind of quiz 46:48 to you may be new to others, 46:50 but if you say now what is a true prophet. 46:52 What are some identifying marks of a true prophet? 46:56 Number one they are called of what? 46:59 Good, they are called by God. 47:02 You read that in Isaiah 6, you can read it Jeremiah Chapter 1, 47:05 Amos 7. Take time to read all of these things. 47:08 Remember you just don't say, I am a prophet, 47:10 I've decided to be a prophet. Not all God calls the prophet. 47:17 And number two that prophet's life will be 47:21 they live is a godly life, Mathew Chapter 7 47:26 They would be living a Christian life, 47:29 they would be like Jesus. 47:32 Number three, their words and their writings 47:35 are always in harmony with scripture. 47:39 They never like go against what scripture has already revealed. 47:43 They are not the lesser lie 47:45 leading us to always the great lie. 47:47 They're both lies. They always reveal 47:51 what's already revealed in scripture 47:53 so that we can know that it's from God. 47:57 Four, they make prediction Deuteronomy 18 48:00 reads that every prediction that they make will come true. 48:05 Prophet of God, you have too many prophets 48:06 around call self proclaim prophets in the world today. 48:09 Oh they are prophet, they are prophet, 48:11 you know, about half of their prophecy prediction 48:14 they make they fail. 48:16 They can't be a true prophet of God. 48:19 Number five, we notice here 48:20 that they are going to--many of them will have visions. 48:24 Read that in Numbers 12. They're gonna have dreams, 48:28 they gonna be taken overcompletely 48:30 by the Spirit of God. 48:32 You think about when the God takes over 48:33 the spirit--Holy Spirit takes control of you 48:36 that you're in vision. 48:37 God is speaking to you and you gonna relay that message 48:39 that you don't even breath. 48:41 It may be an hour or may be two hours. 48:43 See that's impossible without God. 48:47 Supernatural human strength. 48:51 Oh dear friend let's think about this. 48:53 Who gave this gift to the church? 48:56 Ephesians 4:8 says that, "When He ascended up on high, 49:01 He led captivity captive, and He gave gifts to men." 49:06 Jesus said I am gonna leave gifts to the church. 49:09 So what He promised it, but because of His ascension, 49:14 Christ guarantees His ability to give 49:17 the New Testament Church these gifts. 49:20 His ascension, read that in First Corinthians 15 49:22 and 15 through 22. 49:24 What were these gifts that Christ gave to us? 49:27 Oh you know these one's you read over and over Ephesians 4, 49:31 you know, 11through 14. First Corinthians 12:28, 49:36 see we cannot deny a prophet operating 49:40 in New Testament Church and in the last days 49:42 and in his what? Remnant Church. 49:45 It says--the Bible says he gave some 49:47 apostles and some prophets. 49:50 Very interesting how he even-- how he listed the Holy Spirit, 49:53 listed the gifts you need a prophet in the church. 49:56 And then he said evangelists and teachers 49:58 and pastors you remember that. 50:00 Now notice they were giving for verse 12, 50:02 the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, 50:06 for the edifying of the body of Christ. 50:10 How long will these gifts last? 50:11 We've been talking about it. 50:14 Bible says until we come what? Verse 12, 50:16 "Until we come into the unity of faith 50:19 and the fullness of God." 50:22 So the answer is simply the gifts will be 50:24 in operation in a New Testament Church 50:26 until Jesus comes. 50:28 And if you're still denying it friend, pray. 50:31 You're denying a wonderful, wonderful truth here. 50:34 The Bible is clear of the gift of prophecy, 50:38 prophet operating in the church until Jesus comes. 50:41 Now let's say again why these gifts? 50:45 And why the including a prophet? 50:48 Well verse 14 talks about that. 50:50 It says so that we be no more like what? 50:54 Children toss to and fro 50:56 and carried about by every wind of doctrine. 51:01 Gift of prophecy in the church, 51:02 well, we're not--oh, some believe this, 51:04 some teach this some--oh so 51:05 that we're not blown by every wind of doctrine. 51:08 We know what we believe, It's truth in God's word. 51:11 It's the right foundation is here in the Bible. 51:14 First Corinthians 12:28 say, 51:15 "God hath set some in the church." 51:17 and how he do, "First the apostles, 51:19 second the early prophets" we're at the head of the list, 51:23 he said prophets in the church and it goes onward. 51:26 See today the enemy. 51:28 Oh, he has people believe in that 51:29 prophet operates in the church 51:33 that they are a cult. 51:34 Do you realize what that means you say--being a cult 51:37 simply means that you follow a person 51:40 or you follow principal, 51:43 some kind of you call a religious nature 51:45 above scripture. 51:48 We don't follow anything above scripture here, in God. 51:53 Can't say because you have prophet 51:54 in the church, then you are a cult. 51:56 No one should even come up with that, 51:57 you shouldn't even dream that up. 51:59 But yet what, the devil is making sure that happens. 52:02 If you put what you believe above the scripture, 52:08 yeah right cult might bit you. 52:10 If you believe scripture, and you take a right arm 52:12 along with scripture that could be a man, 52:16 that could be a woman, God chooses to help 52:18 to guide His people, to guide His church. 52:21 They're gonna lift up the scriptures, 52:23 the truth of God's word. 52:25 Scripture, I smite you well is a great light. 52:28 Everything is to be tested by God's word. 52:32 People are afraid you know, about prophet, 52:35 there's nothing wrong with the prophet operating 52:37 we talked about that in scripture. 52:39 We also talked about First John 4:1, you remember, 52:42 just few minutes left here, but it said that, 52:44 "We are to try the spirits whether they are of God." 52:48 Why is that then the Spirit of Prophecy--the prophet 52:50 in the church is one gift that challenge 52:53 you see by the world and another Christians? 52:57 Because what it points out little pet sins in our life. 53:00 It gives us what? Insight to the word of God. 53:03 Helps to stay on a close track with 53:04 what God would have us to--if we fail and we fall short 53:10 is because we would not listen to God's mouthpiece, 53:12 or the holy prophets. 53:14 Numbers 12:6, Jesus said, 53:16 "If there be a prophet among you," notice what " 53:19 I the Lord will make myself 53:21 known unto him in a vision" or what? 53:23 "Or in a dream." God say, I am gonna speak to him. 53:26 Daniel said he was in vision, there was no strength, 53:29 there was no breath left in him. 53:31 God said in the last days 53:32 He's gonna have men dream and visions, 53:34 there will be prophet operating the church. 53:35 It's so clear. 53:37 If you do not have a prophet operating 53:39 in the church today you cannot possibly be 53:41 God's last day church of Revelation 12:17. 53:45 Why, because this gift will be in operation. 53:48 If you don't, your church is in trouble brother and sister. 53:50 Its worth examining. Don't you want to examine? 53:54 I realize there's a lot of information 53:57 the verses of gifts. 53:59 But the Bible says it's the same spirit 54:01 First Corinthians 12:4, 54:04 prophetic gift prophets were indispensable 54:07 in the foundation of New Testament Church. 54:10 Be in operation till Jesus comes. 54:13 If we reject the prophets' words, we reject God. 54:17 Oh, friend you don't want to do that today. 54:19 Test the prophets and then it will be true, 54:21 follow the prophets. Friend, you know 54:22 I remind you about this book. 54:25 We over just scratched in and went over-there's 54:27 mountains of information to try to condense it down 54:30 to hopefully whet your appetite say oh God 54:32 I need that book. 54:33 Don't forget to call, get that free book 54:36 Two hundred pages of their book 54:37 that will help you to understand this gift. 54:39 The devil doesn't want you to understand. 54:40 He's gonna put it off, don't put it off. 54:43 Don't put it off. We are gonna pray 54:44 about this right now that you-- 54:45 that the Holy Spirit will help us understand 54:47 what we've been talking about here. 54:49 And then you gonna call for that free book and then you go out? 54:52 God's gonna open avenues and doors for you. 54:54 Let's pray right now, shall we together. 54:56 Merciful Father in heaven we thank You 54:57 for Your precious word today. 54:59 We thank You that You are enlightening us 55:01 and You have helped and many of us rejected 55:04 that help because we didn't realize it was there. 55:06 Oh Lord, help up as we see it today. 55:08 To reach out and say, oh Lord thank you for that help, 55:10 thank you for that communication 55:11 that we so need here in the New Testament Church. 55:13 and I thank you for in Jesus name, amen. 55:17 Friend, don't forget to pray for us here at Behold the Lamb. 55:20 Remember the only support that we've coming 55:22 in here is a free will offerings of God's people. 55:24 We've to got keep these programs going. 55:26 We depend upon you. 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