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Speaker 2:Take your bibles, turn with me to first Corinthians, chapter number two. First Corinthians chapter number two. I've been making time to talk about decrees that we made in this house. I mean make decrees with me. We made decrees like this, my season of acceleration
Speaker 3:that God was going to speed up the timeframe between when I asked and when I received, we made a decree that we were in a season of acceleration. How many found out that when you made the decree of acceleration, you found that there were more hindrances, more obstacles? Interesting how that works, isn't it? You decree, I'm moving forward in the enemy. Throws an anchor on your spiritual life. Am I right about it? I came from war. Now you're looking for me to cuddle you. That's why I said you should've went on home. I'm, I'm, I'm, yeah. I'm getting in it because a season of acceleration is a decree were making and I believe God wants to accelerate, but every time you asked God to accelerate something, you're going to find yourself in some difficulties. That's why I taught you about the acceleration and understanding of it. That's why I spend time to teach us about it, and then a few weeks ago I talked to us based on our second decree, which was that God was. We were making a decree that God was opening doors for us. So I talked to you about the door keeper so you didn't get offended at God when doors didn't open that you thought, sure goes God sovereignly in charge of your life, and so we're trying to posture you in a place of faith. Today we're going to talk to you about the third decree, which is supernatural wisdom because we made the decree, Lord, we decreased supernatural wisdom over our lives. Watch supernatural wisdom is
Speaker 2:you're going to learn in a few minutes, reached down to grab your bibles if you don't have it open to first Corinthians chapter two. I want you in a posture of faith. I don't want you. We beat up, broke down. I don't want you broke, busted and disgusted in life.
Speaker 4:Nope.
Speaker 2:That's not God's best for you. Understand struggles. Struggles are part of life. But the reality is if I'm struggling everyday, um, there's never a season of relief than something they work in. Not Everyday should be bad. I'm a child of God. Not Everyday should be bad. Come on somebody, because decree is create movement. I want to move towards supernatural wisdom. Two verse four. I think they're putting it on the screens. If they don't have it on the screens, don't worry about it. Reach over and find somebody who's got a bible or something. Look at verse four. The Apostle Paul I read a few weeks ago, but I'm coming back to it because there's some more here. I need to dig out. Verse Four, and my speech and my preaching were not with pervasive or enticing words of human wisdom. Paul said, I didn't come to preach with enticing intellect. I didn't come with the words of human wisdom is what he's saying. He said, I come to be a demonstration of the spirit and of power.
Speaker 5:Why that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men. The problem with us is we're so reliant on the wisdom of men. Paul said, I'm not preaching to persuade you to live, right. My preaching is a demonstration that you can live, right?
Speaker 2:Look, I held this for two weeks about like a pressure cooker. That little thing on top of the pot's been whistling for two weeks.
Speaker 5:Oh, we've had holy ghost church for two weeks. Yo. Those of you that know that if we have two weeks, a holy ghost service and pastor don't preach for two weeks,
Speaker 2:you better pull your toes, toes way up under them pews. Verse six, however we speak wisdom among those who are mature yet not the wheel stuff off.
Speaker 5:Oh, so we're going to speak to you, but we're not going to speak to you the wisdom of the age, nor the rulers of this age who are coming to nothing. Verse seven, but we speak what the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our jewelry, which none of the rulers of this age knew for if they had known it, they would have not crucified the Lord of Glory. He said, if they would've had supernatural wisdom, they never crucified him, but because they were operation operating in natural wisdom, they were subject to natural responses.
Speaker 2:I have not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.
Speaker 4:Hm?
Speaker 2:Uh, has not seen. Ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him. Oh, I can't even imagine[inaudible]. Verse Ten, I'm finished, but God, yeah, you got that but God, but God has revealed them to. He said, I hadn't
Speaker 5:seen an ear hadn't heard and hadn't even entered into the heart of man what God has prepared, but God revealed what I hasn't seen and ear hasn't heard. I don't not connecting the dots. I hadn't seen an ear, hadn't heard. God revealed it. When God reveals it, you see it. When God reveals it, you hear it, ah, I hadn't seen here, hadn't heard it, hadn't entered into the heart of man what God has prepared, but God revealed them. Them walk. What I haven't seen and what I haven't heard and what I haven't perceived, he's revealed it to us through his not the intellect of man, not the experience of man, but by the spirit
Speaker 2:have God. I'm going to tell you something here. I know you're standing, but I'm going to stand for a lot longer, so don't worry about it. Here's my thought, listening to my thought. How long are we going to rely on human wisdom to explain God? How long are you going to go to church and let the intellect and the articulation of man's words be your only source of wisdom? Where are the deep things of God? We're the mysteries of God. Where is the revelation of what he wants for your life? Father had your blessings over the next few moments. At the time we have together. There are people in this room today that needs supernatural wisdom. Today, I want us to be taught from the inspiration of scripture on how to release supernatural wisdom in our life that we might be better able to navigate life. I pray you'll move by your spirit. Give us ears to hear. Let us hear what we've never heard before. Let us hear what we've never heard before to the calloused heart, Lord, restore it to the ear that has not heard your spirit. I pray that their ears would become unstopped, that they might hear what your spirit say. May you release something in this House that absolutely infuriates my adversary because I want the wisdom to know how to win every day of my life. We asked you to add these blessings over the next few moments of time and we give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You can be seated in his presence. If you can stand it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3:I made this statement a few weeks ago and I don't know if anybody believed it or not, but I made it and I'm going to continue to make it that our problem is not always demonic spirits. In fact, my greatest problem in most of my life is not demonic. It's my own ignorance because hosea four six says, I was just waiting for y'all to quote it. My people are destroyed. Oh, so you know that by hosea four, six says, my people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge. So my ignorance is what destroys me. Now, that doesn't diminish the fact that the adversary wants you to destroy you. However, I should be more educated in the things of God so that I can deal with my adversarial battles. That's why the Bible says, be not ignorant of his devices. Why? Because the enemy is always devising a plan, but if I'm operating in the wisdom of God, then I'm going to understand his strategy before it's ever released. I should be able to see the blueprint of my adversary before I ever have to deal with it in the natural. See, the church has learned how to be reactionary, so we wait until the adversary shows up, does his work, and then we want to pray it away. Supernatural wisdom. Let's me see what he's planning in his board room so I can shut it down before it ever gets to my doorstep. See, we all have one thing in common. I'll agree with this. We all have one thing in common in this room. Everybody wants to be happy. Everybody wants to be happy. The problem with that is we all disagree on how, how or what happiness is, so I'm not going to argue with what happened is is for you or how to get it, but I will tell you what the Bible says. The Bible is real clear about happiness. It's in proverbs three, 13 happiest. Amanda finds wisdom problems. Three, 13 says, happiest. Amandit finds wisdom. I need wisdom in my life. Now, if you live in the culture like I live here, they will tell you. The key to wisdom is you pay your tuition and you get a higher education. Now, I believe in higher education. I have a few pieces of paper on my wall, Marcia and I made it very early in our life. Then when our children were old enough and they graduated high school that we parentally, we're going to require at least two years of higher education. Thankfully both of our children have exceeded that. Tyler completed his four years and and got a degree in church administration and now going back for a masters. Logan committed, committed himself has three years of liberal arts education and now he's in his second year of Bible College. So I believe in education. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I believe in higher education. I believe in being educated. Maybe that's maybe that's why I've got about 750 books in my library because I believe in learning, but I don't believe that higher education equate supernatural wisdom. Now you live in a culture like I live and they will say to you, experience is the educator. Then why have I met 80 year old alcoholics? You would have thought by 80 they don't learn. That ain't working, and they got silver hair, 80 years old and addicted to alcohol. So apparently education doesn't come through time because I done with cirrhosis of the liver, but I can meet an eight year old full of the Holy Ghost, smarter than an 80 year old. Why? Because you cannot equate wisdom with an educational plan. There are certain things you get through experience or certain things that you obtain through education. I get that, but our problem is the church has become so reliant on our education and our experience that we forgot to submit ourselves, our yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, my deposit of wisdom that goes beyond our intellect. So now we operate the church based on the book. We just look. So now we operate our church like a base. The last book we read or somebody else has got a successful ministry. So we make sure that everything fits up to that and we don't understand supernatural wisdom anymore. So when I. I taught us to make a decree. Really? Most people made a decree, but really they didn't understand what supernatural wisdom was because they're thinking, well, I just need to be smarter. No, you need to be more sensitive. I don't have to be smarter, I just got to be more sensitive, more sensitive to what? To the direction of the spirit. I'm not the smartest man in this room. Marsha say Amen. They were all afraid to like, I'd be offended. I don't have to be the smartest. I have to be the most submitted. See you. Don't get it at all because see, I can come here and I can give you a Greek and Hebrew. I can break down some stuff for you. I can unpack some revelation for you. I can reveal some stuff to you, but the reality is if I give you what I know in my intellect or what I've learned or what I've been educated with, then all I'm doing is transferring to you the intellect or the wisdom of man. Somebody needs to be sensitive enough to submit themselves to the spirit so that we can see what we've never seen and hear what we've never heard so we can step into supernatural wisdom. Most of what we get, and I don't mean to offend my contemporaries, but most of what we get on the American tracks, we get intellectually stimulated. There's no saturation of spirit. It's a download. My gifting is not that because if I yield myself and submit myself to the spirit, I should be able to release something so that you can see God. That's why Paul said, my my preaching is not eloquent. It's not enticing. It's not fleshly. It's not natural. He said, I want you to see. I'm not trying to think natural thoughts. I'm releasing spiritual deposits. Yeah, I gotta help you today because if it's all about intellect or experience or acquired skills or your own common sense, we're still deficient. Did you hear what I said? We're still deficient because we're still living based on a natural understanding and a natural law of, of, of earthly wisdom. Now, Paul said this, he said, look, yet not the wisdom of this age. He said, we speak the wisdom of God. He said, it's a mystery. It's a hidden thing, but we're, we're, we're understanding it because of the spirit of God in our life. God is revealing it through them so that it can be articulate, and I began to think about it. God is not silent in 2018. God's not silent, your assignment pasture. I scarcely hear him even when he's not speaking, he's still speaking and I would submit this to you. Just because you're not hearing him doesn't mean he's not speaking. You're not hearing, okay? That's where you say, ouch, because he's speaking
Speaker 4:time
Speaker 3:and when you understand God wants to speak all the time, you should desire that kind of voice in your spirit. Now, here's the thing I have to question. Who is speaking to you? You say, well, the voices speaking to me. Doesn't matter what it means, everything. Do you remember James and John? They were called the sons of thunder one a description. I mean, if I'm going to get something to put on my resume, I would like to be called Ryan Smith, a son of thunder. That sounds right to me. Who was the voice in their life? The voice that was in James and John's life is the voice of Jesus Christ, the son of God in like manner. There was also a disciple, Judas, who had the same voice in his life. Are you in this church? Jameson. John Heard the same voice that Judas hurt. Judas was in the same circle as James and John. How is it that became sons of thunder and one became a betrayer when they heard the same voice? How can that be so? God's never silent, but your ability to discern his voice in every day life, it's on you. Judas never honored the voice when James and John did, and because James and John honored the voice, they obeyed the voice. See, the voice you honor is the voice that sets the course of your life. I'm preaching and you don't understand what I'm saying. Was David a man after God's own heart? Was David passionate? Yes. Was David a warrior? Yes. What's David King? Yes. Did David Make mistakes? Of course, but two of his sons, one named Solomon. The Bible says he was the wisest of all men. Not to mention he was wealthy beyond description, but see, that wasn't the only son David had. He had one called by the name of Absalom. Solomon was the wisest of men and one of the wealthiest absalom, however, tried to take his down, tried to steal his kingdom, try to usurp authority and take away the mantle off his own. Daddy, they had the same voice in their life that grew up under the same influence. One herd, one didn't. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? You can sit in a service like this and one next to you will hear and the one next to you will not. I've come to this understanding. I preached a foul since and I preached it to. I preach to thousands of people and I've preached to as many as two. My wife reminded me of it this morning. There was a day when I stood on a platform and preached to her alone. That was only two of us in the room, but the number was not what God was concerned with. He was wondering if I could hear and honor. He has a voice in the midst of it because he's never silent, silent and I'm not hearing him. It's because there's something blocking the voice, so we'll watch blocking the voice. Your lack of honor. Oh, so you just got quiet in here. You said, can you prove that biblically? I think I will. If that's okay with you. Proverbs one seven. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. What do you mean? I mean, when you referenced and you honor and you put God in the right price, he said, wisdom comes because I've watched you on because what you honor, you can receive from and what you dishonor. You forfeit the right to receive from. Oh, help me. Jesus. I didn't expect an amended day, so thank you. So, so why? I'd decreed supernatural wisdom, but you still are not hearing him because you can't hear what you're doing on her. I'm not talking about on Sunday morning.
Speaker 4:Hmm.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about everyday of your life. Can you honor him in the workplace? Can you honor him on the way to work? Can you honor him after work? Can you honor him and your social time and your leisure? Do you honor him? Does he
Speaker 5:have a place, a priority over your life? Oh, would he be embarrassed of your behavior?
Speaker 2:Touchy. Inherently. So truth though, isn't it?
Speaker 5:We need to have supernatural wisdom, but supernatural wisdom doesn't come until we honor. He fixes it, and when you don't hear the voice of God, you make your own decisions and you rely on someone else's wisdom or someone else's experience,
Speaker 2:or you call pastor and say, can we talk? And then you want me to give you supernatural wisdom, but do you understand that even when you asked me to give you something, you still have to hear. I've become so frustrated over the years because people will want me to give them supernatural wisdom, but yet they don't have ears to hear because they walk right out and do exactly the opposite. And then they want to know why I'm cynical.
Speaker 5:They want to know why. Why? Why are you cynical, pastor, why are you? Why do you not want to spend time with me and tell me? Because you're just like everybody else. If you don't have an ear to hear
Speaker 2:because see, you can't hear what you're not submitted to. So what Paul taught us is what we need to re learn. God will reveal it to us through his spirit, but his spirit has to be hosted.
Speaker 5:He will reveal all the mysteries of the wisdom of God, but you and I have to host the spirit and the spirit doesn't cohabitate with flash. The spirit wants exclusivity over my life,
Speaker 2:so you're not getting me. No, you are. It's just so touchy. You don't want to a minute I get it.
Speaker 5:Does that make sense to you? Paul said, I hadn't seen here, hadn't heard, hadn't even entered into the heart of man what God has in store, but God will reveal it to us through his spirit. So if he's going to reveal it through his spirit, I've got a host, his spirit and his spirit wants
Speaker 2:exclusivity over my life. Oh God, man. How are you going to know what the enemy's planning against you if you don't host the spirit to reveal to you what the enemy's planning against you?
Speaker 3:How can you operate in supernatural wisdom aside from the spirit of God? Because the spirit of God is the part of the tune of God. So if you want to know God's will for your life and God's purpose for your life and God's wisdom for your life, you've got a hot host, the part of God, and God wants to be in a place that honors him sufficiently so he couldn't dwell there. Oh dear. Y'all think we open the altars yet how you go see opportunities. If the spirit doesn't have room to operate and reveal wisdom to you, you're going to be based on your own feelings, your own emotions, your own dictation of life, my own experiences. This is how it's always been. I mean, how long are you going to operate? The same way, expecting different results. That's insanity. I understand God does some crazy stuff. Jaw, so fat in great battle surrounded by the enemy, and God says, send out the worship team first. You better have the holy ghost on the inside of you. When you hear that voice, what are you going to do when God tells you, like he told Hosea to marry a prostitute? Mary, what you want me to marry? Gomer? What's her name? And do you know her reputation? Everybody knows who she is. God says, Mary, the prostitute, the Prophet of God had to marry the prostitute. How are you going to have to have the holy ghost so you hear a word like that
Speaker 4:already?
Speaker 3:You better have the holy ghost tell you you're crazy, but God was using it to show how much he loved, surreal, and how much he was attached to Israel. He said, I'll even love you when you live in like that. So you need the spirit. You can't do this with your intellect. You can't do this with your own experience. What if God speaks to you like he did? He kill any sense to me. I need you to lay on your side for 390 or 90 days because Israel had lived in sin that long. Yeah, that's the voice of God. He wants me to lay on my side, not move. Yeah. He did it for 390 days and then got said another 40. Read Your Bible. It's interesting book. Are you here? You want to. Let's talk about the ones. You know, Noah, build an ark and then God gives him an engineered drawing of what this thing should look like. No, I don't know. I read the book, but I'm not quite sure. I don't believe he had a degree in our building. Huh? God gives him the blueprint, not because he has a degree in it, but because he's sensitive and submitted to a spirit will speak to him about doing what he's never done. Are you here? You have to be a student of the spirit, student of the spirit, because his voice is always speaking. The problem we have is this. We've not been able to excuse ourselves from the noise. We'll preach right here. How many know what I'm talking about? Life's busy lives and noisy. There's always chatter. How many know there's always drama somewhere. Some of it you create and some of it just a byproduct of who you live with. Apparently that was sensitive moment for you. Think about it. Why do I not hear the spirit? Because of the noise? See if it pulls right that this thing is going to be revealed. This knowledge, this wisdom is going to be revealed through the spirit of God. These deep things of God are going to be revealed through the spirit and I know God's never silent. Then I've got to get rid of the noise in my life and see. I don't know how you feel, but I think most of us are addicted to the noise because we're afraid to be alone. I think we're addicted to the noise because we can't handle our own isolations. I think we're addicted to the noise because we don't trust our own thoughts. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2:It's amazing to me. I'm a studier of people, students, people and humanity, and it's amazing to me to watch a family of four sit down in a restaurant and all four of them on a device. All for mom, Dad, and the two kids all four. Soon as I sat down, it's almost like in every one of them are glued to their screen. Waitress comes up. Excuse me, can I take your order? What would you like to have to drink? Nobody looks up. I can even put that thing down long enough to place an order. Why? Because we're addicted to the noise. Can I get in your business? Touch your neighbor and make sure they awake. Just pinch them, poke them the phase of sleep that was embarrassing. One, we need supernatural wisdom in our life. Most of us would agree and most of us are facing situations in our life that we would require the wisdom of God,
Speaker 5:but yet the noise has our attention. The cellular device, the social media, the television has already attention and we're living dysfunctional, alive, spiritually. We have parents that are parenting their children because of the noise. We'd have fathers who are more addicted to the noise. Then they are to their spouse, to their children and to their call as priest over their homes.
Speaker 2:I told you I didn't. I didn't know my heart won't just know my heart. I didn't. I didn't figure nobody should. We ran last Sunday. We hoot and Holler and shouted last Sunday and so you can see how that's going right now. Y'all like a man. I don't really know much about all. I just. How can you not make me feel better? Yeah. If you'd hear God's voice,
Speaker 5:you'd feel a whole lot better about your drama and you wouldn't have to dial somebody else to get you some kind of word to prop you up. He'll speak to you himself, he'll talk to you exclusively. He'll put you on the one and only line.
Speaker 2:Most of what I get in my life in the way of wisdom. Yes. I read a lot of books and yes I submit myself, but most of it I just pray in the holy ghost a lot because I get thrown into all kinds of situations every single day of my life. All kinds of unique situations and hey, can you go check this and go talk to this and see this one and that one comes on, this one comes and someday I'm going to give them almost. You'd call her. Why? Because I'm responsible for what I give you
Speaker 5:and I don't know whether you like it or not, but if you aren't, if you come to receive, I ought to hear something from him.
Speaker 2:So how would you feel if you come into my office, a pastor, it's just terrible what's going on and you start laying it out and I pick up my phone. Then I start checking whatever you'd be like, do I not matter? Do I not matter pastor, I'm hurting. Sorry. The noise has my attention. You're the same way with God. Don't get all upset about that God trying to talk to you and you're more concerned about who likes you,
Speaker 5:God trying to talk to you and you're more concerned about your own selfish appetites. God's trying to get you something in your life that you desperately need, but you're so busy doing everything else to please everybody else. You're not pleasing him. Nah, don't get mad at me. He wants to demonstrate his kingdom through you, but you're trying to be so cultural. You can't even be kingdom. We're all addicted to culture. What? We need an invasion of the kingdom. We don't need another cultural expression blow out in our life. We don't need another intellectual pulpit or
Speaker 2:we need a demonstration of the holy ghost, the Holy Ghost. I ain't got time for the noise. Somebody's going to have to re re reestablished. Quiet place in your life. Anybody ever ride with me? You wouldn't even know I have a radio most of the time I wouldn't turn it on unless there's somebody in there that needs the noise, but the only quiet place I get when I shut the door on the truck, don't turn on you. Listen to this. Listen, listen, listen. That feels like home to me right there. I can't handle all that quiet. Why are you afraid to be alone with your own thoughts? Your own thoughts scare you. Don't you? Don't get you so I can't. I got to have noise because they need to distract me. No, you need the holy ghost.
Speaker 5:You don't need the distraction. You don't need the social media. You don't need the television. You need the holy ghost because they don't reveal the mysteries of God for your life. There's never been a shortage of the holy ghost. There's just been an attention for it.
Speaker 2:I got to finish. So what are you teaching them? Supernatural wisdom requires you to be sensitive to the spirit. Not to flesh to the spirit. Second of all, you've got to unclutter your own life. You've got to get rid of your own noise. Some of you know exactly what I'm humming right now. Can look at me, go past. I know exactly what the noise in my life. Okay? The rest of you liars.
Speaker 5:I don't mean to make you feel guilty. Let's try it again. I know there's some noise in my life.
Speaker 2:Rest of you in denial. God help you know, pastor. I've got it all together. Good. When you call the office, ask for appointment. I'll say, no, thank you. Nope, can't. I ain't got time for it. Why? Because you told me you got it all together. You know how many times I've had to ask God to help me? You're going to be services. I asked God to help us as a church. Why? Because I've done exhausted all the resources on my own intellect and I'll be honest with you, one of the greatest distractions in the body of Christ as the noise of our life. Just too much noise. Just too much stuff.
Speaker 4:Sure.
Speaker 2:I can't hear his voice anymore. It's not because he's not speaking or even in your solitude. He'll speak
Speaker 4:speed.
Speaker 2:Then what's the key pastor? I want supernatural wisdom. If you really want supernatural wisdom, you have to be sensitive to the spirit. Yes, you've got to get rid of the noise. Yes, I get it. What? You have to be willing to be a demonstration of what he says. See, that's what gets us is we want supernatural wisdom. We want him to speak to us about what to do and how to do it and to show us the mysteries of his kingdom. The problem is you can't have supernatural wisdom without a demonstration. Can I show you scripturally in mark chapter six, the Bible says this, that Jesus is in the synagogue teaching while he's in the synagogue teaching those that are around him and mark or a mark, chapter six, verse two says that while they were there, they were astonished at his wisdom and his mighty works. They were astonished at his wisdom and his mighty works.
Speaker 5:I didn't come with words of man's
Speaker 3:wisdom, but to be a demonstration of the revelation of the supernatural wisdom of God. So you can't separate supernatural wisdom from a demonstration of what you've learned or been revealed to.
Speaker 2:Let's stand. Let's stay. Let's say if all we have is wisdom without a demonstration,
Speaker 3:then we're willing to accept the cross without a resurrection.
Speaker 2:There has to be a demonstration of the wisdom.
Speaker 3:See, the problem with us is we want wisdom supernaturally without the obedience necessary to walk it out. So you want God to show you what to do and do it for you. And he says, I'm not going to do it for you. I'll do it through you so you don't understand. He doesn't want to do things for you. He wants to do them. Is he a healer? Then why does he ask us to lay hands on the sick? Because he wants us to reveal the wisdom that's in our spirit and then act it out so he can demonstrate it through us. How are you going to raise the dead? Well, first of all, you have to have a dead person. I mean dead.
Speaker 2:So I've never seen the dead raised. Just because you hadn't seen it doesn't mean it's not a reality. There's documented people raised from the dead all the time. I met one in Denver, documented dead seven minutes flatline, did seven minutes, seven minutes. The doctor said when he came back, then he'll never eat. He'll never speak. Then he will have very limited motor skills at all because of the depravity of oxygen to his brain.
Speaker 3:Dead. Seven minutes.
Speaker 4:Good.
Speaker 2:What about social media? Whatever that, whatever that thing is, and there's a picture of him
Speaker 3:because he's not on a ventilator. When the doctor said he'll never breathe on his own, but yet you don't have a ventilator, and the doctor says, he said he would never be able to eat, but yet he consumed food like you and I. Huh? His mind is working well for the seven minutes that he was dead and they documented it. He went to heaven. You believe it if you want, but
Speaker 2:I listened to him in heaven. I'm all for it.
Speaker 3:Is that a pastor? He's laying in a bed. It's been in the hospital the last three months with a broken neck.
Speaker 2:No mobility in his arms or legs. He's a quadriplegic.
Speaker 3:He's laying on a hospital bed and for three months he'd been laying there and
Speaker 2:alone with his thoughts, began to feel closed in, wouldn't open this door, stood at the end of his bed just a couple of days ago, and he was telling me about his seven minutes in heaven and then he was telling me that God sent him back to fulfill a purpose. He said, my problem is I have no mobility. I can't move my arms. I can't move my legs. I, I have no mobility. I am paralyzed. How can I fulfill a purpose?
Speaker 3:So I asked him, I said, what did God asked you to do? Who should share the Gospel? I said, you got all you need. He looked at me and I looked at him. I said, you got, you need.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but no, you've got all you need. Do you have limitations? Yes, but they don't diminish purpose. Do you have struggles? Yes. Pains? Yes. Do you have things that are against you? Yes.
Speaker 2:And he sits there and he listened to me from Atlanta, Georgia all the way out in Denver, Colorado. Never met him, never met me in our life, and we're standing there and for the next hour the holy ghost opens up things. Sit down.
Speaker 4:Hmm?
Speaker 2:The demonstration. It's on you.
Speaker 5:The demonstration is on you. You must demonstrate what he said, not what others say. How long are you going to live with the noise dictating how you demonstrate life? How long are you going to listen to the clutter and the chaos and the confusion,
Speaker 2:and when are you going to allow the spirit of God to have his place in your life again where he speaks to you and you do whatever the spirit of God says. Do. See I know today, see we hooped and hollered for two weeks we hooped and hollered for two weeks. Did we not?
Speaker 5:I mean y'all shouting, hooping hollering. In fact, some just absolutely had a fit and now I'm in here on a Sunday morning. Y'all looking at me like, well, you know what? Just I liked that better. Yes, but if you don't know how to be sensitive to the spirit of God, your shout, supernatural wisdom, your dance does not released supernatural wisdom. You must submit to the spirit of the living God in order to have supernatural wisdom, and if you're not willing to clean out the clause that of your life, when the clutter in your head to hear the voice of God,
Speaker 2:then you'll keep making decisions based on somebody's book you read. Somebody is education for you or somebody else's experience for you and you'll never hear God. How many has done that? I could raise both hand in both feet. God didn't bring you to this church today so that you could enjoy a song service. God did not bring you to this service so that you could worship. Since the revelation I got in Tito's room, Anthony White's room, the man that was dead for seven minutes. I got a revelation while I was in there. It's amazing how that works.
Speaker 3:If I was left on this earth only to worship,
Speaker 2:I should have went on to heaven.
Speaker 3:Am I here to worship him? Yes, but I'm going to do that in heaven for all of eternity. Okay, so he didn't leave me here just to worship. He left me here to demonstrate are you here? He left us to demonstrate what he's done in us. I'm not here to demonstrate the failure. I'm here to demonstrate the restoration. I'm not here to demonstrate the sickness. I'm here to demonstrate the healing. I'm not here to demonstrate the confusion. I'm here to demonstrate the clarity, so the wisdom of God supernaturally by the spirit of God should be released into your life so you have a willingness to obey and demonstrate what he's done in your life
Speaker 2:because you can't separate supernatural wisdom from a demonstration because supernatural wisdom will always require an obedience from you to act it out. Noah, I want you to build an Ark. No, thank you. I can't read the blueprints. I don't have the education
Speaker 3:better. Get submitted to the spirit so the spirit can reveal to you what I put on that
Speaker 2:because you can't do anything on your own.
Speaker 3:The sooner we realize we can do nothing on our own. I won't say that again because apparently y'all didn't hear me. The sooner I realized I can do nothing on my own,
Speaker 2:I can't make my marriage work on my own. I can't parent my children. On my own, I can't do anything opposite or away from God. How many have tried that?
Speaker 3:I heard somebody say how that workout
Speaker 2:leaves you in a mess. Don't it leaves you in a mess because we all think we go, we know best
Speaker 3:through the Holy Ghost. When you submit to the spirit of God, the Holy Ghost to wake you up and tell you what your kids are doing,
Speaker 2:oh, I'll ask. Our kids
Speaker 3:only goes to wake them up and make mom dad up in the middle of the night and they'll walk into your room, tablet logan say that wheel because they will. Why? Because if you submit to the whole negotiating be guided by supernatural wisdom. Supernatural wisdom will give you insight and strategies and plans and concepts. You still got to walk it out. You still got a
Speaker 5:demonstrated, but if you're so consumed with noise, how many? No, he can't speak.
Speaker 2:See, it's not good enough for us to decree the Lord. I decree supernatural wisdom over my life and then you allow noise to get in the way of the voice. You can't make a decree without understanding the requirements. How many do I got? Two more of these. I mean, I spent a lot of time on this because we made five decrease. How many still using them? Okay. I got one person in this whole building. Well, I'm going to cream for me. I'm old to Korean for me because I need some. So I had decreased supernatural wisdom. Okay, that's wonderful. How do I receive supernatural wisdom? Yeah. James one five says, if any man lacks wisdom, can I mess with you one more time? Ephesians one seven says, this says, ask for wisdom that he might reveal himself to you. Huh? Ask Wisdom. Why? So I'll know what to do so that I can see him. So I know how to do it. I'm tired of the church acting like what the world says. Act like, come on. We need holy ghost wisdom when need supernatural wisdom so that we demonstrate what kingdom life looks like regardless of what culture says. I'm not going to be a cultural church.
Speaker 5:I'm not going to be a cultural preacher. I'm gonna. Still be old school. Pin My ears back. Pre Pentecost. Because here's the thing.
Speaker 4:Hm?
Speaker 5:And I, you say, well, pastor, you can't reach my culture that way. He started it that way. He wasn't afraid of pentecost to start the church. Why should I be afraid of pentecost? Poured out his spirit on all flesh? Why? Because they said they can't do this. They can't do this with wisdom. They need a deposit of the Holy Ghost. Come on somebody. You need the holy ghost in your life. You need the holy ghost in your life.
Speaker 2:I'm Bob and I can't listen. Don't come to me for any counseling unless I've had time to pray in the Holy Ghost because I messed you up. I'll give you my wisdom and my wisdom, my lead you down the wrong path. Oh my God. Help me. Hallelujah. Father, in the next few moments that we have together, we need your spirit. We need your spirit to give us wisdom beyond our years, Lord, to be a recipient of that wisdom, I realized I've got to be sensitive to your spirit, which means I've got to clear out a place in my for your spirit to settle how realize, Lord, I've made some mistakes. I realized, Lord, I've, I've allowed my life to be Claudier, cluttered and noisy. Lord, I'm cleaning out some places in my life today who, Holly Lou, well, when I'm cleaning house some places in my heart for you, I'm putting you back in the right place. I'm not going to let my pursuits for the things of this world to be greater than my pursuit of you.
Speaker 5:I'm not going to let the things of my life be dictated by drama.
Speaker 2:I want it dictated by your spirit. Lord, I want supernatural wisdom in my life. I want to see what I have that scene. I want to hear God who want to hear what the world and cultures here,
Speaker 5:what I want you to release, supernatural wisdom.
Speaker 2:He didn't buy her life and I'm willing to demonstrate that wisdom,
Speaker 5:humbling to your voice, Lord, even when it looks ludicrous and ridiculous, all obey you, Lord. You tell me to go right. I'm going right. You tell me to go left. I'll go left. You tell me to go that route. Go Lord, I'll do it. Whatever it takes because I want to demonstrate that
Speaker 2:what you say.
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