WEBVTT 00:00:00.101 --> 00:00:03.939 Let's lift our bibles up and wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:03.939 --> 00:00:08.987 Let's say this together say Heavenly Father, I'm intentionally here this morning. 00:00:08.987 --> 00:00:19.760 I'm hungry for more of you, more of your spirit, more of your glory, more of your anointing Lord. 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.190 I want to sparkle with the supernatural. 00:00:23.190 --> 00:00:36.387 This world needs Jesus and they need the same Jesus that was here yesterday, he's here today, he's here forever. 00:00:36.387 --> 00:00:42.454 We want to manifest Him in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation. 00:00:42.454 --> 00:00:47.067 In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:47.067 --> 00:00:52.786 Thank you, worship team, beautiful job, wow, praise God. 00:00:52.786 --> 00:01:06.552 Let's turn into our bibles, to the book of Acts, and we'll read a few verses there, and Acts verse chapter 19. 00:01:06.552 --> 00:01:18.947 We'll start with the very first verse. 00:01:22.468 --> 00:01:42.787 And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth, paul, having passed through the upper coast, came to Ephesus and, finding certain disciples, he said unto them have you received the Holy Ghost? 00:01:42.787 --> 00:01:49.984 Since you believe, you know that's a good question to ask every person who claims to be a Christian have you received the Holy Ghost? 00:01:49.984 --> 00:01:53.629 I asked that question on my Facebook page. 00:01:53.629 --> 00:01:56.328 I got all kinds of crazy responses. 00:01:56.328 --> 00:01:59.706 Well, of course I've got the Holy Ghost. 00:01:59.706 --> 00:02:01.406 I got the Holy Ghost when I got saved. 00:02:01.406 --> 00:02:03.266 Well, I'm not talking about that, darling. 00:02:03.266 --> 00:02:08.426 Now let's keep reading, see, because that's not what Paul was talking about either. 00:02:08.426 --> 00:02:15.908 But he said if you received the Holy Ghost, see you believers, your disciples, have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? 00:02:15.908 --> 00:02:18.007 See, he's not talking about them getting saved. 00:02:18.007 --> 00:02:21.084 He assumed they were saved because they said they were disciples. 00:02:21.084 --> 00:02:24.423 Are y'all following it now, reading your Bible? 00:02:24.423 --> 00:02:26.770 Let's read our Bible with both eyes open, amen. 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:33.046 And they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 00:02:33.046 --> 00:02:35.462 Oh, that's dumb. 00:02:35.462 --> 00:02:38.480 They didn't know much, did they Just about? 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:39.967 Like, a lot of people don't know much. 00:02:39.967 --> 00:02:43.204 A lot of people that say they're Christians don't know very much. 00:02:43.204 --> 00:02:48.806 And he said unto them what Under that? 00:02:48.806 --> 00:02:50.510 What then, were you baptized? 00:02:50.510 --> 00:02:51.966 He said you were baptized. 00:02:51.966 --> 00:02:53.604 What are you baptized under? 00:02:53.604 --> 00:02:56.486 And they said John's baptism. 00:02:56.486 --> 00:03:01.022 Oh, there you go, I see now. 00:03:01.022 --> 00:03:04.487 And so Paul said John barely baptized. 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:13.506 The baptism were repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him, which should come after him, that is Christ Jesus. 00:03:13.506 --> 00:03:15.747 In other words, he was preparing the way for Jesus. 00:03:15.747 --> 00:03:21.907 He wasn't the end of the journey, he's just getting you ready for the real thing. 00:03:21.907 --> 00:03:25.608 You ain't ready for the real thing, see. 00:03:25.608 --> 00:03:27.907 So then they realized they needed to get saved. 00:03:27.907 --> 00:03:31.004 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:32.705 So they got baptized in water. 00:03:32.705 --> 00:03:34.126 Why did they get baptized in water? 00:03:34.126 --> 00:03:46.622 Because they accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, and that we know from the word that when you accept Jesus Christ as your savior and you're born again, you get the Holy Spirit and regeneration. 00:03:46.622 --> 00:03:48.068 Otherwise you wouldn't be saved. 00:03:48.068 --> 00:03:51.663 Your body becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost which you have of God. 00:03:51.663 --> 00:04:02.008 You're bought with a prize and, just like I've got water in this glass you're trusting me that I do you can't see it because the glass isn't full. 00:04:02.008 --> 00:04:05.163 Right, if it was full now. 00:04:05.163 --> 00:04:06.829 Oh, you see it now, don't you? 00:04:06.829 --> 00:04:11.110 So they had water in their glass. 00:04:11.110 --> 00:04:15.187 So they got baptized in water to show forth the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. 00:04:15.187 --> 00:04:15.661 Amen. 00:04:16.939 --> 00:04:23.968 And then Paul laid his hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 00:04:23.968 --> 00:04:27.447 That's a whole different matter entirely. 00:04:27.447 --> 00:04:35.507 In other words, you have a well of water springing up into everlasting life, which is what Jesus told the woman at the well. 00:04:35.507 --> 00:04:44.028 But in John chapter seven, he talked about rivers of living water that those who believe on him should receive. 00:04:44.028 --> 00:04:51.000 But he had not yet fallen on any of them, because Jesus had not yet been glorified, of course. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.906 That was before he got, went to the cross and was raised from the dead, and all of that. 00:04:54.906 --> 00:04:55.802 So there wasn't possible. 00:04:55.802 --> 00:04:57.062 What was he doing? 00:04:57.062 --> 00:04:58.000 He's a prophet. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.567 He's speaking ahead of time. 00:04:59.567 --> 00:05:01.245 What believer should have? 00:05:01.245 --> 00:05:10.610 Every believer should be filled with water, overflowing with the Holy Ghost, and have what Rivers of living water coming out of them. 00:05:10.610 --> 00:05:12.928 Is there a difference between a well of water and rivers? 00:05:12.928 --> 00:05:21.899 Yes, I mean, when I think of rivers, I don't just think of the Mississippi, because the Mississippi is just one river. 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:29.040 We gotta add a bunch of rivers together to get the idea of what the power is and the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.651 And this is what these believers 12 believers. 00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:33.326 This was a church at Ephesus. 00:05:33.326 --> 00:05:39.505 Their birthplace was birthed in men receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:05:39.505 --> 00:05:43.865 We've got I don't know how many churches that don't have squat. 00:05:43.865 --> 00:05:49.307 They might not even have the Holy Ghost period, much less the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:05:49.307 --> 00:05:53.160 So how much really is legitimate? 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.168 Well, I don't know the answer to the question, but my job is to wake whatever's alive up. 00:05:57.168 --> 00:06:02.526 Sometimes I'm kicking corpses and so they don't respond. 00:06:02.526 --> 00:06:05.264 That's not my fault. 00:06:05.264 --> 00:06:08.966 I can't tell the difference between a corpse and a person that's asleep. 00:06:08.966 --> 00:06:14.326 I guess if I hung around long enough I could probably tell the difference, because I'd smell something. 00:06:14.326 --> 00:06:17.026 Amen, are y'all with me now? 00:06:17.026 --> 00:06:19.911 I thought we were talking about healing. 00:06:19.911 --> 00:06:21.406 Well, you know, it's all tied together. 00:06:21.406 --> 00:06:24.225 We've got to have the whole package. 00:06:24.225 --> 00:06:32.463 So all the men were about 12, verse seven. 00:06:32.550 --> 00:06:41.516 And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God, just like he did with the 12. 00:06:41.516 --> 00:06:50.216 But when divers were hardened and believed not but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them. 00:06:50.216 --> 00:06:51.634 He didn't waste any more time. 00:06:51.634 --> 00:06:54.898 He gave them three months and they couldn't convince them. 00:06:54.898 --> 00:06:58.911 So he said okay, I'm out of here, have it your way. 00:06:58.911 --> 00:07:02.882 You don't wanna listen. 00:07:02.882 --> 00:07:09.062 You don't wanna listen to God's word, you don't wanna listen to what the Spirit is telling you. 00:07:09.062 --> 00:07:11.137 I'm not gonna spend any more time with you. 00:07:11.137 --> 00:07:15.401 And he departed from them and separated the disciples. 00:07:15.401 --> 00:07:16.153 What disciples? 00:07:16.153 --> 00:07:20.298 Well, the ones that went along with him, that's, these 12 and everyone else. 00:07:20.298 --> 00:07:22.939 We don't know how many disciples there were at that point. 00:07:22.939 --> 00:07:25.197 But there were some in three months. 00:07:25.197 --> 00:07:28.529 And why did he separate them? 00:07:28.529 --> 00:07:37.862 Because he didn't want them ruined with a bunch of unbelief and a bunch of mockery and a bunch of people that are filled with criticism. 00:07:37.862 --> 00:07:48.735 So he separated them and he went to the school of one tyrannous where he disputed daily. 00:07:48.735 --> 00:07:51.379 In that school daily, I mean, he had classes every day. 00:07:51.379 --> 00:07:53.637 He preached every day. 00:07:55.529 --> 00:07:56.654 Man, you talk about work. 00:07:56.654 --> 00:07:59.552 Apostle Paul was not. 00:07:59.552 --> 00:08:01.055 He was not playing golf. 00:08:01.055 --> 00:08:08.190 You know, he was not part of the bowling league, he didn't. 00:08:08.190 --> 00:08:10.699 You know listen, he worked hard. 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:13.074 And what was he doing? 00:08:13.074 --> 00:08:17.119 He continued by the space of two years. 00:08:17.119 --> 00:08:19.278 See, that's what apostles do. 00:08:19.278 --> 00:08:22.653 The apostles will start a work, they'll start a church. 00:08:22.774 --> 00:08:26.490 And this type of an apostle he was not an apostle of the lamb, why? 00:08:26.490 --> 00:08:29.230 Because he wasn't present when Jesus was on the earth. 00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:31.237 He had a personal visitation of the Lord. 00:08:31.237 --> 00:08:38.615 He saw the Lord in heaven, evidently, but he was not of the same rank as Peter, james and John and the 12. 00:08:38.615 --> 00:08:44.450 But really, when you see this work, he did more than the rest of them. 00:08:44.450 --> 00:08:48.181 He really, his work speaks for itself. 00:08:48.181 --> 00:08:51.559 He wrote two thirds of the New Testament by revelation. 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:56.921 Visitation upon visitation of the Lord came his way. 00:08:56.921 --> 00:08:57.191 That's. 00:08:57.191 --> 00:09:02.758 You know, that's the mark of a prophet, which he was first, and then he became an apostle. 00:09:02.758 --> 00:09:13.202 In this case he's an apostle, and he had already been sent out in his ministry, and so he. 00:09:13.202 --> 00:09:38.832 This went on for two years, and verse 10, and so that all they which dwelt in Asia talking about Asia minor, everyone in that whole region heard the word of the Lord Jesus, jews and Greeks or Gentiles, jews and Gentiles, everyone heard. 00:09:38.832 --> 00:09:59.049 Two years, and God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul, so that from his body were brought under the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them and evil spirits went out of them. 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:03.660 I want you to notice, though, that the ministry was built on what? 00:10:03.660 --> 00:10:06.619 The word of God. 00:10:06.619 --> 00:10:09.169 The word took the preeminence. 00:10:09.169 --> 00:10:14.143 There's no mention of miracles until two years and three months. 00:10:14.143 --> 00:10:17.470 I mean, yeah, there's no emphasis. 00:10:17.470 --> 00:10:19.990 I'm not saying there weren't any miracles, but I'm saying they weren't. 00:10:19.990 --> 00:10:27.298 They didn't take the forefront, but then, after he'd been faithful that length of time, god began to grant miracles. 00:10:27.298 --> 00:10:28.400 To do what? 00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:37.592 To uphold the ministry that was started there and let everybody know, including the unbelievers, believers. 00:10:37.592 --> 00:10:39.985 But this was God. 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:46.982 And if you keep reading, is one of my favorite chapters, you find out the Seven Sons of Sceva. 00:10:46.982 --> 00:10:50.272 They, they wanted to take a strawberry shortcut into the ministry. 00:10:50.272 --> 00:10:56.015 They didn't even want to get saved, they wanted to keep their Judaism and. 00:10:56.015 --> 00:10:59.070 But they were exorcists, cast out demons. 00:10:59.070 --> 00:11:01.081 That's what they. 00:11:01.081 --> 00:11:02.184 That was their ministry. 00:11:02.184 --> 00:11:03.847 I give them credit. 00:11:03.847 --> 00:11:06.153 At least they realized that people needed to deliver. 00:11:06.153 --> 00:11:07.163 So I'll give them that much. 00:11:09.681 --> 00:11:17.544 But then they, just they, instead of getting saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, like and they could have been possibly effective If they had done that. 00:11:17.544 --> 00:11:26.245 Instead they just go out and they say in the name of Jesus that Paul preached, come out that this young man had demons. 00:11:26.245 --> 00:11:29.753 In the name of Jesus that Paul preached, come out. 00:11:29.753 --> 00:11:33.320 Was their ministry based on the Word? 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.029 Were they full of the Holy Ghost? 00:11:36.029 --> 00:11:41.192 No, not only were they not full, they didn't even have any Holy Ghost, because they're not even saved. 00:11:41.192 --> 00:11:45.735 And yet they're trying as members of the Kingdom of Darkness. 00:11:45.735 --> 00:11:47.821 Oh what? 00:11:47.821 --> 00:11:48.562 No, they were Jesus. 00:11:48.562 --> 00:11:52.070 No, jesus told the Pharisees you were of your father, the devil, see. 00:11:52.070 --> 00:11:56.466 So they're not in the kingdom, you have to be born again. 00:11:56.466 --> 00:12:17.905 And so so, as members of the Kingdom of Darkness, here they are trying to cast out one of their brothers and the young man in whom the demons were said hmm, let me see now, jesus. 00:12:17.905 --> 00:12:22.383 I know check Paul, I know check. 00:12:22.383 --> 00:12:25.565 But who are you? 00:12:25.565 --> 00:12:28.533 Who are you? 00:12:28.533 --> 00:12:45.966 And so the young man in whom the demons were jumped on, seven strapping young boys Jewish boys probably knew how to fight to you and Whip them, stripped them, chased them out of town, and everybody heard about it. 00:12:46.005 --> 00:12:49.572 And the Bible says the fear of the Lord multiplied. 00:12:49.572 --> 00:13:03.509 Oh my goodness, if the church would just manifest the power of God, the fear of God, which this world, this nation, is in trouble Because the fear of God is not there. 00:13:03.509 --> 00:13:08.751 It's not there at the top, it's not in the bottom, it's not in the middle, is nowhere. 00:13:08.751 --> 00:13:12.765 Paul, we need the fear of God. 00:13:12.765 --> 00:13:13.589 Where's it gonna start? 00:13:13.589 --> 00:13:20.011 In the church, with people who know and Are filled with and controlled by the Holy Ghost. 00:13:20.011 --> 00:13:31.347 But I wanted you to see this morning as we we talk about this and, and today I Want to preach a different slice of this message. 00:13:31.808 --> 00:13:37.826 Last week, as you know, we we preached on cooperate With the anointing. 00:13:37.826 --> 00:13:39.683 That's what you're gonna do. 00:13:39.683 --> 00:13:45.220 You're gonna cooperate with the anointing by those of you that want to have a need for a prayer cloth. 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:46.182 You're gonna get one. 00:13:46.182 --> 00:13:49.250 You're gonna either use it for yourself or a loved one or something. 00:13:49.250 --> 00:13:50.826 You're gonna cooperate. 00:13:50.846 --> 00:13:53.919 You have to know what you're doing to have an able to cooperate. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:55.202 You have to know what basis is. 00:13:55.202 --> 00:13:57.870 Is it's just pine the sky or is it in the Bible? 00:13:57.870 --> 00:14:01.769 It's in the Bible and it's by faith that we're operating. 00:14:01.769 --> 00:14:08.889 Faith has to be based on what the word Can't be based on just a testimony of somebody. 00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:10.774 It can't be based on some story. 00:14:10.774 --> 00:14:13.923 It's got to be based on God's word Amen. 00:14:13.923 --> 00:14:18.500 And faith has got to be believed in your heart and you've got to say something with your mouth. 00:14:18.500 --> 00:14:21.365 And then you've got to act on what you believe. 00:14:21.365 --> 00:14:28.888 You've got to do something, which in your case, means you're gonna use that cloth but you're gonna speak over, you're gonna say something about it. 00:14:28.888 --> 00:14:29.910 Are you with me now? 00:14:29.910 --> 00:14:33.149 So cooperate with the morning and then Sunday night. 00:14:33.631 --> 00:14:35.620 If you weren't here Sunday night, see Sunday night. 00:14:35.620 --> 00:14:37.225 You know we're gonna have church here Sunday night. 00:14:37.225 --> 00:14:39.692 It won't be on live stream and I say some things. 00:14:39.692 --> 00:14:44.385 I'm pretty bold even on On live stream and on Facebook and all that. 00:14:44.385 --> 00:14:48.154 I'm pretty bold, but you hadn't heard bold till you come Sunday night. 00:14:48.154 --> 00:14:52.764 I Mean it's dripping with bold Sunday night. 00:14:52.764 --> 00:14:56.432 Nobody can take me off the air because I ain't on the air. 00:14:56.432 --> 00:15:03.049 I just get rid of my filter. 00:15:03.049 --> 00:15:08.826 I throw my filter out in the backyard as soon as I roll up to the parking lot is there goes the filter. 00:15:08.826 --> 00:15:24.948 So If you weren't here last Sunday night you ought to get the media, because I preached on leaning on the anointing, depending on other word, depending on God's Anointing to help you minister to people. 00:15:25.230 --> 00:15:29.985 I'm not talking about leaning on the anointing for your personal life, see, remember we're anointed inside of us. 00:15:29.985 --> 00:15:34.293 The anointing within that means we're saved and God will help you. 00:15:34.293 --> 00:15:35.706 He's your helper first. 00:15:35.706 --> 00:15:40.250 If you're not help, if you're not help, you can't help anybody else. 00:15:40.250 --> 00:15:47.614 So you got to spend some time getting your own life in order and get and get yourself built up and so forth. 00:15:47.614 --> 00:15:54.261 So then when you're breathing your oxygen free until then, you can help your neighbor with a his oxygen mask, are you? 00:15:54.261 --> 00:15:54.503 Amen? 00:15:54.503 --> 00:15:55.807 That's kind of the illustration. 00:15:55.807 --> 00:16:00.750 And so Leaning on the anointing. 00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:05.624 And today I'm gonna talk about valuing the anointing. 00:16:05.624 --> 00:16:11.508 Valuing the anointing there's a seven sons of ski. 00:16:11.508 --> 00:16:15.746 For they didn't value the anointing, they didn't even recognize. 00:16:15.746 --> 00:16:17.051 They just wanted a ministry. 00:16:17.051 --> 00:16:19.725 They wanted to do what Paul did. 00:16:19.725 --> 00:16:23.682 I mean, you know people want to buy the anointing he limits. 00:16:23.682 --> 00:16:25.184 The sorcerer tried to buy it. 00:16:25.184 --> 00:16:36.283 Your money perished with you because you thought you could purchase this. 00:16:36.283 --> 00:16:41.115 Woo Now, as you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. 00:16:41.115 --> 00:16:43.835 Well, you know the anointing, you don't trifle with that. 00:16:44.850 --> 00:16:57.841 We need more of that kind of anointing, maybe dealing with some of these people that are so bold to speak their wickedness and their blasphemy out loud. 00:16:57.841 --> 00:17:11.297 Maybe we need some prophets and apostles and pastors and teachers and evangelists to rise up and say a little bit more harshly to these people and quit treating them like they're worthy of respect. 00:17:11.297 --> 00:17:16.031 Well, the Bible says that they couldn't be in office unless God. 00:17:16.031 --> 00:17:21.976 Well, this is the country that the government is of the people, by the people, for the people. 00:17:21.976 --> 00:17:26.355 So you're stretching it a little too far to say that God put them in office. 00:17:26.355 --> 00:17:28.016 No, you put them in office. 00:17:28.016 --> 00:17:30.775 God didn't put them in office. 00:17:30.775 --> 00:17:33.717 I reject that completely. 00:17:33.717 --> 00:17:36.511 For all the Facebook people out there, I reject. 00:17:37.634 --> 00:17:39.597 Biden was put in office by God. 00:17:39.597 --> 00:17:43.692 Okay, he doesn't kill babies, he doesn't. 00:17:43.692 --> 00:17:45.238 God doesn't kill babies. 00:17:45.238 --> 00:17:49.536 God doesn't work against himself. 00:17:49.536 --> 00:17:52.375 So God didn't have anything to do with that. 00:17:52.375 --> 00:17:54.582 Well, he permitted it. 00:17:54.582 --> 00:17:57.239 Well, he permitted it because the church permitted it. 00:17:57.239 --> 00:18:04.074 I wish you'd lose that idea that God permits that, god allows that. 00:18:04.074 --> 00:18:10.259 No, you See, cause, he transferred all of that authority to us. 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:18.615 Amen, quit blaming God for what the devil does, and sometimes for what we do by our lack of any kind of action. 00:18:18.615 --> 00:18:24.459 That's why this church I won't let you go to sleep, I keep kicking till you wake up or leave one of the two. 00:18:24.459 --> 00:18:28.611 It's not a church growth seminar, all right. 00:18:28.611 --> 00:18:31.780 So where was I? 00:18:31.780 --> 00:18:34.679 Cooperate, lean and value the anointing. 00:18:34.679 --> 00:18:38.136 We sang about the anointing this morning. 00:18:38.136 --> 00:18:39.476 God's presence and freedom. 00:18:39.476 --> 00:18:48.097 See, we value it enough to just dedicate a service, even though some people that've never been in the service like this, they might even feel a little uncomfortable. 00:18:48.097 --> 00:18:52.239 Well, I understand that, I've been there before, but it's still the truth. 00:18:52.239 --> 00:18:56.039 You need to experience what they had in the Bible. 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.759 So, value the anointing. 00:19:00.809 --> 00:19:18.815 In Mark, chapter six, the Bible says that Jesus went to his own country and his own hometown and his family and his brethren and people that knew him, that he grew up with, and they started questioning. 00:19:18.815 --> 00:19:23.131 He says is not this the carpenter Didn't? 00:19:23.131 --> 00:19:23.613 We don't? 00:19:23.613 --> 00:19:26.575 We have his mother and his brothers and sisters with us. 00:19:26.575 --> 00:19:28.415 Then they start naming his family. 00:19:28.415 --> 00:19:31.354 They're all living right here. 00:19:31.354 --> 00:19:34.376 And what about all these miracles he's doing? 00:19:34.430 --> 00:19:36.978 So they didn't deny that he was doing great works. 00:19:36.978 --> 00:19:39.717 They couldn't deny it because they were there. 00:19:39.717 --> 00:19:40.854 They couldn't deny it. 00:19:40.854 --> 00:19:45.619 But yet they said who does he think he is? 00:19:45.619 --> 00:19:48.557 Well, he told you who he is. 00:19:48.557 --> 00:19:53.373 You doofus, he's the Messiah, see. 00:19:53.373 --> 00:19:58.419 But that didn't line up with their doctrine, didn't line up with their idea of who the Messiah was. 00:19:58.419 --> 00:20:01.069 I mean, he said it plainly. 00:20:01.611 --> 00:20:05.801 He came into his own synagogue in Luke, chapter four, verse 18. 00:20:05.801 --> 00:20:11.196 And he found the place where it was written about himself and Isaiah. 00:20:11.196 --> 00:20:17.796 He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to five groups of people. 00:20:17.796 --> 00:20:22.136 And then he shut the book after he talked a little bit and sat down in the chair. 00:20:22.136 --> 00:20:22.878 What was the chair? 00:20:22.878 --> 00:20:23.789 The Messiah's chair. 00:20:23.789 --> 00:20:24.653 It's supposed to be empty. 00:20:24.653 --> 00:20:27.617 He filled it right in front of all of them. 00:20:27.617 --> 00:20:32.575 He let them all know they heard about it and they didn't like it. 00:20:32.575 --> 00:20:36.056 They didn't value the anointing, they didn't value him. 00:20:36.056 --> 00:20:36.894 Are you with me now? 00:20:36.894 --> 00:20:44.574 And the Bible says that he could there do no mighty work because of their unbelief. 00:20:44.574 --> 00:20:51.256 He said you know, a prophet's not without honor except in his own hometown, among his own people and in his own home. 00:20:51.256 --> 00:20:53.511 He said it. 00:20:53.511 --> 00:20:55.494 I didn't say it, he said his own home. 00:20:55.849 --> 00:21:00.979 So for those of you Catholics that still looking to marry to heal you, I would look somewhere else. 00:21:00.979 --> 00:21:09.355 Because she wasn't really on the reservation for quite some time, even though God highly honored her, called her the blessed virgin. 00:21:09.355 --> 00:21:11.516 She brought forth the man child. 00:21:11.516 --> 00:21:16.939 At some point in time she started doubting who he was and she should have known. 00:21:16.939 --> 00:21:23.814 If anybody should know, it should have been her, and if her boys and girls didn't honor that, she should have rebuked them. 00:21:23.814 --> 00:21:24.757 But she does no quit. 00:21:24.757 --> 00:21:26.976 Hey, there's nothing in the Bible, says she did. 00:21:26.976 --> 00:21:29.596 Y'all are looking at me kind of funny. 00:21:29.596 --> 00:21:33.640 I think you ought to burn your scapular. 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:38.234 It's a waste of time. 00:21:38.234 --> 00:21:40.537 Now, I'm not saying she stayed that way. 00:21:40.537 --> 00:21:44.755 She finally got right and she got filled with a Holy ghost on the day of Pentecost. 00:21:44.755 --> 00:21:51.570 She's fixing tongues, but she's not God and she's not somebody you ought to pray to there. 00:21:51.652 --> 00:21:57.637 I said it and I went to Catholic school eight years, so I do know a little bit about Catholics. 00:21:57.637 --> 00:22:02.269 I wish somebody had told me a long time before I finally heard that. 00:22:02.269 --> 00:22:11.549 Now, where I heard it, brother Ovestain told me All right, so he could there, didn't say he wouldn't, he said he couldn't. 00:22:11.549 --> 00:22:12.182 Why? 00:22:12.182 --> 00:22:15.905 Because of a lack of valuing or honoring Jesus. 00:22:15.905 --> 00:22:18.190 And the anointing. 00:22:18.190 --> 00:22:30.368 Jesus says the anointing Christ, the anointed one and all of his anointing, you can't honor the anointing without honoring Christ, or honoring Christ you don't honor him. 00:22:30.368 --> 00:22:32.854 You don't honor the anointing If you don't honor him. 00:22:32.854 --> 00:22:37.798 And the anointing, you know, really God can't do very much for you. 00:22:37.798 --> 00:22:39.301 He couldn't. 00:22:39.301 --> 00:22:51.557 Jesus himself could there Do know mighty work, except one version says he laid his hands on a few people and healed them of minor ailments. 00:22:51.557 --> 00:22:54.395 That's as far as it could go. 00:22:54.395 --> 00:22:57.922 I said, that's as far as it could go. 00:22:57.922 --> 00:23:13.930 So I'm teaching on valuing the anointing today because I want all to stir ourselves up and realize that this is a Bible based effort today to get people healed. 00:23:13.930 --> 00:23:14.797 I'll tell you what. 00:23:14.797 --> 00:23:17.769 We ought to not just be healed, we ought to walk in health. 00:23:17.769 --> 00:23:20.021 I mean healing. 00:23:20.021 --> 00:23:21.208 We ought to not even need healing. 00:23:22.736 --> 00:23:26.280 You know, in James, chapter five, james, james the pop, and he's the large brother. 00:23:26.280 --> 00:23:28.794 You know he was one of the doubters. 00:23:28.794 --> 00:23:33.681 You know Jude, another one, you know they did survive. 00:23:33.681 --> 00:23:35.550 They didn't die early. 00:23:35.550 --> 00:23:38.250 I mean, they did get into the ministry and they're a lot harder. 00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:39.730 They sound more like Jesus to me. 00:23:39.730 --> 00:23:44.291 You don't see Jesus saying, oh brother, come over here and give me a hug. 00:23:44.384 --> 00:23:48.571 He was always kind of hmm, how is it that you have no faith? 00:23:48.571 --> 00:23:53.150 Oh, you have little faith. 00:23:53.150 --> 00:23:55.911 I mean, you know he was measuring and looking at faith all the time. 00:23:55.911 --> 00:24:02.852 He was evaluating and giving evaluation to his disciples on a constant basis. 00:24:02.852 --> 00:24:05.693 Well, jesus, why couldn't we cast him out? 00:24:05.693 --> 00:24:06.528 He came to us. 00:24:06.528 --> 00:24:12.438 We couldn't cast Because, if you're unbelief, bam left a mark. 00:24:12.438 --> 00:24:14.769 Are y'all with me now? 00:24:14.769 --> 00:24:20.354 He got so mad at the Pharisees that he took time to make a whip. 00:24:20.354 --> 00:24:23.084 Read it in your mom he made a whip of cords. 00:24:23.084 --> 00:24:24.731 He still was so mad at the time. 00:24:24.731 --> 00:24:29.492 By the time he put all that leather together and put little metal tips in the end of it and all of that. 00:24:29.492 --> 00:24:34.551 And then he went into the temple and he overturned their tables and whipped them out of there. 00:24:34.551 --> 00:24:38.172 He was enraged. 00:24:39.625 --> 00:24:46.611 We just think that Jesus looks like that a little Italian Jesus, so meek and mild and weak. 00:24:46.611 --> 00:24:56.916 No, he's the king of kings, he's the Lord of lords and he is expecting something when he comes back. 00:24:56.916 --> 00:25:03.310 He said well, I find faith on the earth and my job is to make sure that in our case he does find some faith. 00:25:03.310 --> 00:25:17.005 So I'm teaching on this so that your faith will grow, that we can get out of this sickness syndrome where we're sick, you know, constantly sick, and this I don't accept COVID as an excuse. 00:25:17.005 --> 00:25:37.088 I don't care what's spreading out there, I don't care if the worst plague in the world John G Lake had I think it was bubonic plague killed a bunch of his people and he went to the Lord, says what in the world? 00:25:37.088 --> 00:25:45.740 So he started teaching on healing and he saw healing in the Bible and of course he lost some of them. 00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:51.166 But then he would go and pray and minister to them and some of them he'd raise up off the death bed and everything. 00:25:52.005 --> 00:25:58.792 And so the doctors came to his church and came to him and says you know, pastor, how is it that you don't take any precautions? 00:25:58.792 --> 00:26:00.209 What in the world? 00:26:00.209 --> 00:26:08.691 You're not wearing a mask, you're not socially distant, you ain't mm-mm. 00:26:08.691 --> 00:26:12.852 How is it that you're protected? 00:26:12.852 --> 00:26:19.953 He said oh, the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 00:26:19.953 --> 00:26:22.333 You want me to show you how it works? 00:26:22.333 --> 00:26:24.250 Well, yeah, I'd like to see that. 00:26:24.250 --> 00:26:25.871 And he said get some of that foam. 00:26:25.871 --> 00:26:26.755 And I said I don't want to see. 00:26:26.776 --> 00:26:30.432 Some of the people would die and their lungs would fill with this foam filled with bacteria. 00:26:30.432 --> 00:26:39.512 I guess I'm not sure if the virus or bacteria I'm not a doctor so I don't know but whatever it was, they could see it under a microscope. 00:26:39.512 --> 00:26:50.570 And so they put that foam and put it on a slide, looked at it under the microscope and then they took some and put it in his hand and put that under the microscope and it was dead. 00:26:50.570 --> 00:26:56.390 Every virus, every germ died upon contact with his skin. 00:26:56.390 --> 00:27:01.256 So, oh, come on, let's lift our hands right now. 00:27:01.256 --> 00:27:07.873 Let's quit putting up with sickness and disease and let's take advantage of the anointing. 00:27:07.873 --> 00:27:16.888 Let's value this anointing that we're gonna release today and let's put an end to this cycle of sickness, one after another. 00:27:16.888 --> 00:27:24.627 If it's not this, it's Omicron, it's this, it's that, it's Delta, it's blam, blam, blam, it's you know what. 00:27:24.627 --> 00:27:25.952 I don't accept any of it. 00:27:25.952 --> 00:27:28.368 None of it has any hold on me at all. 00:27:28.368 --> 00:27:32.979 Glory to God. 00:27:37.268 --> 00:27:40.192 James went in there and he said is there any sick among you. 00:27:40.192 --> 00:27:43.771 If you need some help, we're here to help you. 00:27:43.771 --> 00:27:51.309 If you can't get healed and healthy on your own, we don't wanna see you sick Call for the elders of the church. 00:27:51.309 --> 00:27:58.028 They'll come over and they'll anoint you with oil, and the oil will heal you. 00:27:58.028 --> 00:27:59.071 No, that's not what he said. 00:27:59.071 --> 00:28:02.452 The oil is holy and it's got a certain quality. 00:28:02.452 --> 00:28:09.670 No, he said the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord will raise him up. 00:28:11.684 --> 00:28:13.451 So what is behind all healing? 00:28:13.451 --> 00:28:14.665 Faith? 00:28:14.665 --> 00:28:16.311 What's behind health, then? 00:28:16.311 --> 00:28:17.528 See, we ought to be. 00:28:17.528 --> 00:28:23.968 We've just allowed ourselves to just be sick most of the time, and then we, you know, we get healed. 00:28:23.968 --> 00:28:25.826 And then we get sick again, we get healed. 00:28:25.826 --> 00:28:27.313 And we get sick again, we get healed. 00:28:27.313 --> 00:28:29.792 Listen, we need divine health right now. 00:28:29.792 --> 00:28:31.992 This is when the church ought to be sparkling. 00:28:31.992 --> 00:28:40.733 We ought to be so healthy that people ought to be beating our doors down looking for how in the world can you be so healthy in the middle of all this going on? 00:28:40.733 --> 00:28:46.133 Because this thing right that they've engineered right now is not the end of things that they're gonna engineer. 00:28:46.133 --> 00:28:47.590 They're gonna engineer some more things. 00:28:47.590 --> 00:28:49.913 You can just rest assured. 00:28:49.913 --> 00:28:55.935 They found the key to success these people have. 00:28:55.935 --> 00:28:59.571 But I say we've got the antidote. 00:28:59.571 --> 00:29:02.712 I say we got the antidote, don't we? 00:29:02.712 --> 00:29:06.955 Hallelujah, we've got the Holy Ghost antidote. 00:29:06.955 --> 00:29:12.673 All right, I've idle my motor line. 00:29:12.673 --> 00:29:14.028 Better get into the message now. 00:29:14.028 --> 00:29:28.194 So they were offended at him His mother, his brothers, his neighbors, his hometown. 00:29:28.194 --> 00:29:32.833 They were, the Bible says, offended at him. 00:29:34.644 --> 00:29:46.451 See, familiarity can kill the anointing, which is why I try to be more careful about being too close to you. 00:29:46.451 --> 00:29:49.892 I don't go out to eat with everybody. 00:29:49.892 --> 00:29:51.590 I don't go to everybody's house. 00:29:51.590 --> 00:29:56.307 I don't visit with people as much as I love to do it, as much as I enjoy. 00:29:56.307 --> 00:29:59.190 I try to keep fellowship to a corporate fellowship. 00:29:59.190 --> 00:30:12.537 What I enjoy going to dinner with, yeah, what I would, what I love it if you'd invite me over and give me some fried chicken or some cook me up some seafood gumbo like Manola Bennett. 00:30:12.537 --> 00:30:14.226 Where are you, manola man? 00:30:14.226 --> 00:30:15.130 That was so good. 00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:21.030 Yeah, I'd like that. 00:30:21.285 --> 00:30:29.472 But I mean, you know, what I've learned over the years is that I've got to be, I've got to take a step back because it's not needful for you. 00:30:29.472 --> 00:30:38.691 It could be that you'll be around me so much that you begin to get too familiar and you don't value the anointing on my life because the anointing that I know. 00:30:38.691 --> 00:30:41.090 See, you have to tell me about my anointing. 00:30:41.090 --> 00:30:48.089 I know all about it and I have total confidence and I do honor that. 00:30:48.089 --> 00:30:56.296 One of the reasons I don't associate closely with everybody is because I honor and I value that anointing. 00:30:56.296 --> 00:31:01.055 I don't want to lose it and I don't want it to wean on your behalf. 00:31:01.055 --> 00:31:18.530 What if you got so familiar that you say, ah, well, he's just pastor, ah, that's what they did, that's what they did, and I've seen this, I've tested this out. 00:31:19.704 --> 00:31:34.888 I mean, I've seen men of God, women of God that get too familiar with people around them and next thing, you know, they're just out the door, they've lost their influence, they've lost it and I think that's because the anointing was not any longer valued. 00:31:34.888 --> 00:31:40.407 I've seen young preachers, you know, trying to start a church and just, you know, you start in a church. 00:31:40.407 --> 00:31:41.411 We started this church. 00:31:41.411 --> 00:31:43.449 I still remember how it was. 00:31:43.449 --> 00:31:46.847 It's very difficult and I knew those things. 00:31:46.847 --> 00:32:05.875 When we started, we took pains not to get to involved with each individual person, but sometimes it happens and you'd see, when people lost the value and they lost the appreciation. 00:32:05.875 --> 00:32:06.919