WEBVTT 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.040 Welcome to the Low Start Church Podcast. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:15.359 Pastor CF and Nicole Ray are here to share the Word of God with you each week, helping you grasp the fullness of God's plan for your life. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.160 We hope you'll be blessed by this week's message. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:24.320 If you live in northwest Missouri or southern Iowa, we invite you to join us in person on a Sunday morning. 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:28.800 For more information about us, visit our website at hostartchurch.org. 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:38.159 Or find us on Facebook, Instagram, or teaching out of how you can be led by a spirit, Brother Hagin. 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.600 And uh in it, he shares the story of a man. 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.600 And I thought this was uh a good story to share before we take up our offerings. 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.280 And this is what Brother Hagin says. 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:49.359 He says, I knew a man down in Texas. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.200 He'd never worn a pair of shoes until he was 12 years old. 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:59.200 He only had a fifth-grade education, but way back when money was money, he was a millionaire. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.560 Brother Hagin tells the story he said two different people, one from California, the other from Minnesota, had stayed at his home as guests. 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.120 And uh the man told them both the same thing. 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:17.760 He said to both of them, in all these years and in all these investments, which is how he made his money, he said, I've never lost a dime. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.879 Can you imagine investing and never losing a dime? 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:26.799 The man said, Everything I've ever invested in has made money. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.680 He said, This is how I did it. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.719 Some of you may want to take notes. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.599 He said, I always do this. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:42.959 When someone comes along with an idea wanting me to invest in something, my first reaction is always mental, right out of my mind. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:52.079 He said, Now I know when Jesus said, when you pray, enter into your closet, that he didn't necessarily mean you have to get in a closet to pray. 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.799 I know he just meant for us to shut things out. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:56.159 Get quiet. 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:01.200 He said, but I have a large closet in my bedroom, and that's where I go to pray. 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.120 He says, when someone comes with an investment idea, I pray about it. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:10.000 He say, I he said, I wait long enough until I hear what my spirit says. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:12.960 Sometimes I'll wait as long as three days. 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.080 Now I don't mean I stay in there 24 hours a day. 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.240 I might come out and eat one meal. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:19.919 Usually I'll miss a few. 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:29.759 I come out and sleep a little bit, but the majority of time I'm waiting just by myself until I know inside by the inward witness what I'm supposed to do. 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.479 Sometimes my head says, Boy, you'd be a fool to put your money in that. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:35.759 You'll lose your shirt. 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.800 He said, But my heart says, go ahead and invest in it. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.759 So I do. 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.800 And in all these years, I've never lost a dime. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:45.039 Amen. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.599 Then again, someone comes along with the deal, and my head will say, Boy, you'd better get in on that one. 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.680 But I don't pay attention to my head. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.520 I get in that closet and wait. 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:57.840 Sometimes all night long, I'll wait. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.240 I pray, I read my Bible, but a lot of times I'm just waiting. 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.039 I get quiet until I can hear on the inside in my spirit. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.919 And my heart will say, No, don't do it. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.439 My head'll say, Yes, you better get in, but I still don't do it because of what I hear on the inside. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:17.039 Amen. 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.919 Brother Hagin said, What did this man learn to do? 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:28.319 He'd learned to follow the inward witness, and God had guided him in business until in the late 1930s and 40s, he was worth over$2 million. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.520 Here's the thing, that's a lot of money. 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.479 Today, that's a whole lot of money in the 1930s and 40s. 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.199 And you say, Why are you telling us this? 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:43.360 Because we've been talking about how to be led by the Spirit of God, and God wants to lead you in every area of your life. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.039 That means in your finances, in every area of your life. 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:52.159 And if you'll learn, right, to get quiet, if you'll learn how to do it, right? 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.199 A lot of people, how many know a lot of people have decisions to make? 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:06.080 But if you tell them, hey, here's here's the best way to make a decision, why don't you go someplace quiet, maybe for two or three days, uh, maybe skip a mill or two, read and pray your read and pray, right? 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.560 Read your Bible and pray and just see what God's saying. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.879 A lot of people are like, I don't got that kind of time. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.720 You know, a lot of people just don't think I don't I don't have that kind of time, Pastor C. 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:16.959 F. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:17.519 to just do that. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.279 I mean, I've got a job, I've got this. 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:19.920 Okay. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.519 I know you've got more time than you think. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:36.399 If you're like me, uh your phone once a week will send you a little report, and your phone will tell you how much time you spent on it. 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.879 Some of you may have turned it off because you don't want to know. 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:42.879 Anyone else? 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:44.639 They get that report once a week. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.079 Mine usually comes between services on Sunday morning. 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:58.480 And it doesn't just tell you how much time you spend on your phone, it'll tell you how much time you spent on Instagram or Facebook or whatever other junk you're you're spending time on, YouTube. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.879 I just don't have time to pray and read like that, Pastor C. 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:09.360 Well, those 26 hours you spent on your phone last week would say different. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.000 You ever you ever get that report and you're like, holy cow? 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.519 I'm like, I didn't even know I was awake that many hours. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.279 Decisions. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.600 I mean no, we all have decisions. 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.439 One of your decisions is what you're going to spend time on. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:35.199 People say, well, you know, Pastor Jeff, I I could do that, but that that guy just wasn't sleeping much and wasn't eating. 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.800 I don't know if I could go without eating. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.839 Well, none of y'all blew in here this morning. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:41.120 Right. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.040 I'm just wasting away. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.240 I think you could miss a meal. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:53.040 Think about this. 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.759 How much time do you just spend eating this last week? 00:05:58.480 --> 00:05:58.800 Right? 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.480 How much time do you just spend eating? 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.160 You waste a lot of time. 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:03.519 I waste a lot of time. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.199 We waste a lot of time. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:06.560 But, right? 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.600 If if I have important decisions to make, what should I do? 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:16.160 I should read the word, I should pray, I should pray in the spirit, pray in tongues, and I should learn to get quiet. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.839 There's some people just can't take quiet. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:21.920 I know you get real quiet. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.560 You hear stuff you can't hear otherwise. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.959 Well, same way with God, this man learned how to get quiet and how to hear. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.439 We're going to continue talking about that this morning. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:32.079 Amen. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.240 We're not going to read these, but if you're taking notes, you could write this down. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:45.120 In John chapters 14 through 16, Jesus is getting ready to leave this earth, and he does a whole lot of teaching about the Holy Spirit. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.240 The Gospel of John, chapters 14 through 16. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:57.199 And he says things like this He says, Hey guys, it's better for me to leave than to stay. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.439 You know, most Christians today would be like, I don't, I don't, I don't believe that's true. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:05.519 It would have been better to live with Jesus. 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.319 Jesus, in fact, said it's better for him to go. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:08.959 Why? 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:17.360 He says, because I'm leaving, God's going to send another one, just like me, to not only be with you, but live inside of you. 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:18.000 Right. 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:20.639 Live inside of you. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:25.920 I know now your your phone tells you all this stuff. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:26.800 Right? 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.759 Your phone tells you turn right, exit ahead, police ahead. 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:32.240 Right? 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.600 How many enjoy that little tidbit on Google Maps? 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.959 You can tell who's the fast driver in my house. 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:42.879 But your phone tells you all these things. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.360 Uh you leave your phone, right? 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.839 My kids, I love my children. 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:53.839 But but uh the two that can drive, they would be in trouble without their phones. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.360 If they were going somewhere that they didn't know, they'd be in trouble. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:10.079 In fact, we were coming back, we were down in Kansas City, and uh we we'd been somewhere, and uh Bo uh is seeing a nice sweet young lady that lives over in uh Overland Park. 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.759 And we were coming back, we'd we'd had dinner with her, and then we were coming back through downtown Kansas City. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.560 And I'd been through downtown Kansas City, I mean, since I was 18. 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:22.319 I lived in Kansas C for a while. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:34.080 I know my way through downtown Kansas City, and so we're coming through, and I had Google Maps on just because I just like knowing how much longer we got or if there is a policeman ahead. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:49.279 So I had it on, and we get right downtown, and it tells me to exit off of I-35 North, get on that little bypass that goes under uh the convention center, get back on 71 North to then connect onto I-35 North. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:52.000 And so we're there, and I said, Hey Bo, he's sitting up front. 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.120 I said, Bo, uh, I said, how do you go back when you're through here? 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:56.480 He goes, just the way it's telling me. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.559 I said, that thing doesn't know what I was talking about. 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:03.919 He goes, so you're saying you know more than Google? 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:08.159 I said, I'm telling you, in this instance, I know more than Google. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:09.360 I said, what road are we on? 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:10.559 I-35 North. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.559 What road takes us to Bethany? 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:14.080 I-35 North. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:14.720 Exactly. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:23.919 So I can exit and then exit again, then exit a third time, or I can just go around this corner and I'm still where I'm supposed to go. 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:26.720 He said, Well, I don't know, Dad. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.879 That's what I'm telling you right now, I know. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.679 And can I tell you, I could have left my phone that day and I still could have got where I need to go. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:38.799 The Holy Spirit knows where you're supposed to go. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.840 And he's never gonna guide you wrong. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:42.960 He's he's never gonna tell you. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.240 I mean, we were coming back from a ball game the the other day. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.840 We're on uh 36th Highway coming back towards Cameron. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:50.399 Well, guess what? 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:51.120 I live in Bethany. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:10:01.200 I'm gonna take 36th Highway from once I get uh north out of Gower, which is where we were, I'm gonna take it uh east till I hit I-35, and then I'm gonna go north and go home. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.799 Well, it kept wanting me to turn off on some blacktop roads out there. 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.159 I'm like, why in the world am I going on some blacktop? 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.879 I'm on divided highway, I'm gonna hit interstate. 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.200 Stupid computer. 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:17.759 But your phone will tell you where to go. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:18.639 And so what? 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:19.840 You don't have your phone. 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:20.399 Right? 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:26.240 I could go, I could go, you could tell me, you'd say, hey, meet me at uh Crown Center tomorrow at noon. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.519 I could leave the house, forget my phone, I can get to Crown Center. 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.080 She couldn't. 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.639 I'm pointing at the young one. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.840 I'm not sure about the older one, but I'm pointing at the young one. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.679 But but but but but you you you know what I mean? 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:47.840 Well, here's the thing if I'm born again, the Holy Spirit's on the inside of me, he's always with me. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.279 Jesus says, right when Jesus was on this earth and he said it's better that I go so he can come, what was he saying? 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.279 You're only with me if you're with me. 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:58.240 But the Holy Spirit, he'll be everywhere you go. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:00.159 That's why it's better. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.600 In fact, he said another one just like me, John 14, 15, 16. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.559 He's teaching on this, and this is what he says about the Holy Spirit. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.200 He says, uh, the Holy Spirit will be a comforter, a counselor. 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.120 Anyone in here need a counselor? 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:14.159 Amen. 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:20.080 Some of you need a counselor, not just an attorney, but for your mental health. 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:22.559 I mean no, we all do. 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.480 Yes, we all need a counselor. 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.480 He doesn't charge by the hour either. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.240 He says he'll be a teacher. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:30.639 Yes. 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.120 How many of you need a teacher, someone to teach you some things? 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.440 He says he'll be your guide. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:38.639 He'll show you things to come. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:44.639 He doesn't just know what has happened or what is happening, he knows what's going to happen. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:49.360 That's why that guy talking about investments says the Holy Spirit, I've never lost a dime. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:49.600 Why? 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.200 Because the Holy Spirit knows what's going to happen. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:52.480 Right? 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:56.799 You you all know about uh some of these people that have been in Washington, D.C. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.720 for a long time became millionaires. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:01.200 How do they become millionaires? 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.559 Because they know what's going to happen before it happens. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:09.919 And they call their uncle or their spouse, they say, put$100,000 in this. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:15.360 Then the laws change, like, oh, I didn't even know I'd be making millions of dollars this way. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:17.759 That's the Holy Spirit. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.600 He does it and he doesn't break the law. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:20.000 Right. 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.279 But he knows what's going to happen. 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:24.240 Right? 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.200 Anyone remember 9-11 when 9-11 happened? 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.879 I remember sitting there uh in our living room watching it all unfold. 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.879 And then we went out later that day. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:36.000 There were lines down the street getting gasoline. 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.120 Everyone panicked. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:42.480 And gas went from like a dollar and ten cents a gallon to over two dollars a gallon and never came back. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:49.759 Well, if you had known that that was going to happen and you'd need gas, would you have gone and filled everything up you had? 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.000 The Holy Spirit knows it. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.720 Think back to Joseph in the in the Bible, right? 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:03.200 Uh Joseph, his brothers had tried, they were going to kill him, then they sold him into slavery, then he ended up in prison, right? 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:08.159 And then he gets to the point where the Pharaoh, the king, has a dream and no one can interpret it. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.240 And Joseph can, and this is what he tells him. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:12.240 He says, hey, here's what your dream means. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.519 There's going to be seven great years of abundance. 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.480 Then there's going to be seven years of tough times. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:25.039 If you'll save up during those seven good years, you'll have more than enough to take you through the seven lean years. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:26.559 I know what is that? 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:27.519 That's the Holy Spirit. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.000 The Holy Spirit will tell you, hey, guess what? 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:33.120 Things are going good right now. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:34.799 Sock a little away. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:36.879 Put a little bit of that somewhere else. 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:37.279 Why? 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.039 Because in a year now, a year or so from now, things are going to be a little tough. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:41.759 You may need that. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.320 But what happens if you don't have the Holy Spirit? 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.120 When times are good, boy, you're out wine, women, and song. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.120 You're spending money like nothing. 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.480 Drinks are on me, steaks on me. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:53.279 I got it all. 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:54.639 We're flying first class. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.159 We're flying private. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:57.519 We're staying at the best hotels. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:58.320 We're doing it all. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.000 The next thing you know, you're sleeping in the teepee out in front of the hotel. 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:04.480 That's a true story. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.200 You should ask Kim about that sometime. 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:09.279 Or better yet, ask your dad about it. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:10.879 Ask your dad about it. 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:13.519 Wasn't because they're out of money. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:14.320 It's just the way it works. 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:15.360 It's a funny story, though. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:19.759 You see what I'm saying? 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.200 The Holy Spirit knows. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.960 And he wants to teach you, He wants to guide you. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:26.960 He wants to show you things to come. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:34.480 Jesus, uh, we're not going to turn there, but John chapter 10, verse 27, John 10, 27, Jesus said these words. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.240 John 10 27, Jesus said, My sheep know my voice. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:39.679 What's that mean? 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:40.799 He's talking to us. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.600 Everybody say, Jesus talks to me. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:44.960 Jesus talks to me. 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:46.080 Jesus talks to me. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:46.879 Man, he talks to me. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.000 He talks to me all the time. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:49.679 But I've got to recognize his voice. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:50.799 How do I recognize his voice? 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:52.159 I spend time around it. 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.480 Jesus is the word-made man. 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:57.440 He is the word. 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:01.440 So if I read my Bible, I get more in tune with his voice. 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.000 Because that's the way he sounds. 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:05.279 Here's the crazy thing. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:06.320 So AI. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.200 AI can clone your voice easily. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:20.000 In fact, I was with Pastor Mark Hankins, and uh they were working some AI stuff uh to uh turn his books into uh audiobooks. 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:25.600 And what they did was they took a bunch of samplings from his messages and they cloned his voice. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:26.960 And he let me listen to it. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:27.679 Can I tell you? 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:28.879 It sounded just like him. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.879 The tone, the inflection, the the cadence of it, just like him. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.919 That means AI, someone could type it up. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:45.279 I I I've used AI voices before to do some AI, you could type it up and it'll say it. 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:47.200 And it sounds just like him. 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.200 But you know what it can't do? 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.600 It can't give you the same message. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:57.600 All of a sudden, you could you you hear a voice that sounds like Jesus, you're like, Well, that sounds like Jesus. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.039 Sounds just like Jesus, but Jesus would never say that. 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:01.600 Come on. 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:02.240 Why? 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:07.919 Because I know his word, I know what the Bible says, and because of what the Bible says, Jesus is never going to tell me to go do that. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:08.879 I'm on, right? 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:14.080 You you've got these people, they're they're cloning voices, they're calling people and say, go empty out your bank account. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:27.360 There was a story years ago of uh these people prank called a fast food restaurant, and they got a hold of the manager, and they told the manager that one of their employees had broke the law. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:28.399 I'm a detective. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:32.000 Get your employee, lock them in this room, make them do all these crazy things. 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.240 I mean, it's horrible what they made this person do. 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.360 Why'd they do it? 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:41.600 Because the the voice on the other end sounded official, sounded like a policeman, and but get guess what? 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.799 They were telling them to do things that a policeman would never tell you to do. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.600 That's why not every voice that you hear. 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.240 It may sound like Jesus, but does it match up with what Jesus said when he was here on this earth? 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.399 Does it match up with what the Bible says? 00:16:55.039 --> 00:17:02.799 Jesus isn't gonna tell you to to steal from someone, he's not gonna tell you to to divorce, right, when when you there's no reason to. 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:06.559 He's not gonna tell you to go have an affair, he's not gonna tell you to go do something silly. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:06.799 Yep. 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.240 No, what's his word say? 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.000 What's his word say? 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:12.079 My sheep know my voice. 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.400 Let's go over to 1 Kings chapter 19. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:16.160 We're gonna look at a couple new things here. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:17.440 Thank you, Lord. 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.440 1 Kings 19. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:30.799 I want you to see this because a lot of Christians struggle with that inward witness, and they're always looking for outward signs. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:35.519 Notice Paul didn't say in Romans 8, you'd be led by outward signs. 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.480 He said you'd be led by an inward witness. 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.880 1 Kings 19, verse 11. 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.920 So this is Elijah, Elijah the prophet, and here God's speaking to him. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:54.400 And in verse 11, God said, Elijah, go out, stand on the mountain before the Lord, and behold, the Lord passed by. 00:17:54.559 --> 00:18:00.000 And a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:15.039 But the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire, a still small voice. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:22.880 So this is the perfect illustration of the inward witness before people were even born again. 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:28.799 Uh in the Old Testament, the only people that the Spirit of God rests upon were priests, prophets, and kings. 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:36.000 Elijah was a prophet, so he had this anointing of the Holy Spirit that others didn't. 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.400 And here, God wants to speak to him. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.400 And he goes out and the wind goes and rocks are crashing. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.599 You know how many Christians would be like, boom, I heard from God. 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:47.279 The wind is blowing. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:48.559 That is God. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:49.759 What's it say? 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:51.039 God wasn't in the wind. 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:54.559 After the wind, what? 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:55.839 An earthquake. 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:58.400 God, I know she's the one. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:18:59.680 I'm supposed to marry her. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:00.240 Why? 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.119 I felt the earth shake when I saw her. 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:06.640 Well, first of all, you live in Missouri. 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:08.559 We're we're we're on the fault line. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.359 The earth shakes sometimes in Missouri. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:13.200 Woo! I know it's her. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:14.880 Wow, I felt fire. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:16.640 Woo! 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.240 I got a little hot when she walked by. 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.960 That is the Holy Ghost. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:23.920 Tell me. 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:24.480 No? 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:29.279 You tell you tell that teenage son or daughter, God wasn't in the fire. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.000 God wasn't in the earth shaking. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:34.559 What was God in? 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:36.079 He was in that still small voice. 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.319 Well, how am I going to hear a still small voice if I don't get quiet sometimes? 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:45.359 No, still small voice, inward witness. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.920 Quit looking for outward signs. 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.799 And people will say, well, you know, Gideon, and we're not going to read it just for time's sake. 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.759 Uh, but Gideon, it's in Judges chapter six. 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.880 Remember, Gideon needed to hear from God there in Judges 6. 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:04.480 And he says, Okay, uh, God, if you really want me to do this, I'm gonna put out a wolf fleece. 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:08.000 And when I wake up in the morning, it'll be wet and the ground will be dry. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.359 And he woke up the next day and he could wring that thing out. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.880 There in uh Judges six. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.359 Then he said, God, don't get angry at me. 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.480 But just to make sure, I'm gonna put that wolf fleece out again. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.359 Tomorrow it'll be dry and the ground will be wet. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:24.160 And God did that. 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.680 And people say, see, CF, God can lead you through outward signs. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.799 And he can, and we even see it in different places in the Bible. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.400 But what do we know about Gideon? 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:33.440 He wasn't born again. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:33.920 Right, right. 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.279 He didn't have the teacher, the guide living on the inside of him. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:45.759 And, right, sometimes when we're young in Christ, when we're immature, God will give us mercy and grace and he'll do things to help us to grow and learn. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:46.480 Yes. 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:52.319 But as we mature, he wants to lead us by that still small voice, that inward witness. 00:20:52.799 --> 00:21:03.440 People, uh, the devil, the Bible calls the devil uh the prince of the air, the God, little g, not capital G, God of this world or world system. 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.720 How many of you believe uh the devil can open doors in your life? 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.319 He can. 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.599 Can he close doors? 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:10.240 Yep. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:14.240 Can he make things happen around you? 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:15.359 Yep. 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:18.799 I can't be led by any of this stuff out here, right? 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.640 What'd that guy say about investment? 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.319 He said, Boy, my mind would be like, boy, you'd be stupid not to invest in this. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:27.119 Or you you'll lose your shirt if you invest in this. 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.400 I know sometimes an expert will tell you what to do. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:33.440 Bible doesn't say be led by experts. 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.839 It talks about godly counsel and different things, but we're to be led by the Spirit of God. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:38.160 Why? 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.319 Because the Spirit of God will never make a mistake. 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:41.680 People will. 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:45.279 You ever have people that you trust tell you something and it was wrong? 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:47.119 People make mistakes. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:48.240 God never will. 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.480 When God created you, he didn't make a mistake. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.359 Devil will try to tell you otherwise. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:57.920 No, let's go over to Acts chapter 15. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.839 Thank you, Lord. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.319 We're going to look at just a couple more passages here. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.279 Get you out before we get a blizzard. 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:09.279 Some of you just start thinking about Dairy Queen. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.599 Because you're hungry. 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:13.759 You're like, man, a blizzard does sound good. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:14.960 Butterfinger? 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:15.680 I don't know. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.640 No, you don't want butterfinger sticking your teeth. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:21.519 Acts 15, verse 25. 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:28.160 When you're preaching the second service, you've got to be careful, mention anything that can remind people of food. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:30.880 First service, you're all right, because we're going to feed you afterwards. 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:32.319 This one you got to be careful. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:34.240