 My point is, stop lying on God. I'm not saying that the spirit didn't move. He does move. But do you know how he wants to see, how we ought to see the spirit moving people by you going to your neighbor and helping him, by you going to someone and sharing the gospel with him, by you praying for someone, by you being a godly light. So God is not looking for him to show us miracles. He's looking for us to show him and others his love. I don't believe that the miracles and all of that stuff is cease, but I do believe that a lot of the foolishness that we do see in the churches where people, you know, got their heads on the forehead and flipping up and down the aisles and all of that stuff. I do believe that that stuff is, you know, is not a God and it's not the spirit moving. But there are some people who still will consider a person who holds my position in yours as a continuationist. So how would you kind of explain that position to where we believe that God can still use people, but we're kind of skeptical of some of the stuff that we do see in churches? How do you believe that a person can't? Well, I think you said it the other night, spoiler alert, but how would you explain that a person, you know, who does believe that a person can't speak in tongues and still, you know, miraculously heal a person, you know, by the workings of the Holy Spirit? I tell them and I don't, if I'm talking to someone who doesn't know me, who's not familiar with me on the channel or just in general, I just tell them, yeah, God can move. I agree with that. I absolutely believe that without even a but. And then I'll ask him, and don't you think that when he does move, everyone will know it. It'll be obvious. And they're gonna say, yes, what charismatic or what continuation is gonna say that when he moves, it's not obvious. And then we look at the Bible every time he moves. And I mean, every time he moves. God is not a secret agent of power. He doesn't just do stuff, let me just do this and no one knows. Now there's a lot of things that he does that no one knows about, or we don't pay attention, we take for granted, such as keeping this dog on globes spinning and keeping the sun hot and keeping gravitation right where it's supposed to be. He does those things we take for granted, but there's other things that he does that we don't think about, that we don't even realize. Like for example, I know for a fact, I'm not a prophet, but I know for a fact, God kept eating everybody that wanted to kill Alton at bay last night. How do I know? Because exhibit A, you're right there. And so we don't think about that, that maybe someone had designs on us and the devil does. He desires to set all of us, he desires to destroy all of us. And so I would say, so let's just make sure we don't misrepresent God. Meaning if someone comes and pretends to be our father and they show him as a clown or as a buffoon, we're not gonna accept that. We're not going to accept someone misrepresenting our own family member, father or mother or us or our children and so forth. And so we're not gonna accept someone misrepresenting God as well. When he shows up, we don't have to worry. And this is why I say the whole cessations continuations argument is really not a, it's kind of a moot point because for those who are continuationists, you don't have to worry about cessation is not believing in the move of the spirit. If that's what you think, cause they do though, but you don't have to worry about that because when he does move, everyone knows it. You don't have to worry about cessation is thinking that they can't speak in tongues or thinking about that there is no gift of healing. There's no process. You don't have to worry about that because every time it happened, it happened at the behest of the spirit, not the person. The person didn't conjure that up. The spirit moved upon them. The first folks speaking tongues in the Bible, they didn't know they were gonna speak it. Matter of fact, every time someone spoke in tongues in the Bible that we see an actual biblical account, they didn't know ahead of time. They didn't say, Lord, give us this ability to speak in these languages, they just happened. That is as the spirit moved when someone was healed. That is as the spirit moved. They didn't decide, I wanna heal. If that were the case, then Paul would never say, tell someone, tell Tim, take a little alcohol, get you a little wine for your stomach or trophomess is still sick. That wouldn't be the case because they know the move of the spirit is not on command. So we don't have to worry about, if you're a continuations, you don't have to worry about someone actually stopping the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit moves, he moves, irrespective of what you want to do. So if tongues are legitimate, the tongues that we see, when the Lord moves on me, then I'll speak them. I will speak in tongues when the Lord moves. You will too, but if you wanna go do it in tongues, that is not biblical. There's no where in the Bible where someone speaks in tongues on command. Let's pray in the spirit. You're a liar and you're ignorant of the scriptures. Laying your hands on someone, that was never on command either. If the spirit moves, he moves, irrespective of you. Do you think you and me have the ability to stop the spirit if he moves? If the Lord wants to use Alton's hands to bring someone back to life and Alton's kinda, I don't know, but no, I guess what Alton's gonna do. If the spirit comes upon him, Alton's hands, bam, he's alive or he's healed. Whether I think it or not, whether I feel like it or not, that's not the case. And so, so the cessations don't have to worry about what continuations believe. Continuation, I'm sorry, continuations don't have to worry about cessations believe. So since the charismatic movement is growing, then that means that God is doing something and God is working. So therefore we shouldn't be questioning the move of the spirit and all of that stuff. So how do you address those claims that, well, this must be of God because it's moving and people are starting to accept Jesus now and it's only majority through the charismatic. It's literally the dumbest argument that you can make. Really? So because it's large and growing, that means that it must be the Lord. As though all of these warnings that we have about people, about false prophets and about people in mass being led astray, that's not, so if this, because the charismatic movement is growing, well, tell me, apply what God is saying. Apply this passage, these passages speak about how people will not endure sound doctrine. Where does that come from? So touting numbers is a silly thing. Again, few are they that find it, these are Jesus' word. So if when Jesus says that there will be few, irrespective of whether they're charismatic or not, continuations of cessationist or biblical continuations, it doesn't matter, there's only gonna be a few. But the majority of people that wanna call themselves Christians are going to hell. And so the mere fact that you've got a large number and it's growing, well, think about this. If it was so much, but if charismatic, if the whole notion is this is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon people, the Lord is moving through His Spirit upon people on the earth, that's a lot of folks that are saved. And if that's the case, well then, shouldn't the world be affected? Because even the detractors of Christianity early on said that these people, these apostles, these Christians, they are what, turning the world upside down. That was then, there's more Christians now. And so if the Holy Spirit is even in greater usage and the power is greater now, or just like it was then, then shouldn't we see the world still turned upside down? But we don't see that. Now, I'm not blaming Charismatics on this. I want you all to hear me. I'm not blaming Charismatics on this. But I was using this to prove a point. If the charismatic movement is so powerful, and even in America, or Africa, or Asia, or Europe, two things I want to ask them, why is the place, the places that you see the least amount of Charismatics are the places where there's the most persecution? In other words, in Northern Nigeria, you don't have a whole lot of Charismatics in the Central and Southern part of Nigeria, you do. You don't see a whole lot of Charismatics in North Korea or in China. You know why? You don't have to have time for that. So if it's gonna be true, it better be true. But more to the point though, what we have seen in the world is an increase in lawlessness, like the Bible said. What we see is the love of many waxing coal. We see more crime, more debauchery. Wait a second, how is the presence of the Holy Spirit so great, so thick, so powerful, but it's not affecting society? We got a problem then. So my point is, stop lying on God. I'm not saying that the Spirit doesn't move. He does move. But do you know how he wants to see, how we ought to see the Spirit moving people? By you going to your neighbor and helping him. By you going to someone and sharing the gospel with him. By you praying for someone. By you being a godly light. That's why he said, let your light so shine that men will see your good work and then glorify God. Not by you, hominah, hominah, hominah, and missing that and falling out. That is not how it's done. It's by your actions in your, through your heart happening, people see your light shining by what you do. Hey, can you pray for me? No, I'll do you one better. I'll pray with you. By you showing love for them. The love of God compels us to do these things and also the terror and the fear of him. And so God has never been interested in seeing. God is not impressed by himself, I'm sorry, not by, God is not impressed by his own miracles. That's what it, that God's miracles, you know what that is for him? A regular day. So God is not looking for him to show us miracles. He's looking for us to show him and others his love. To show the power of him in us, how in spite of what we're going through, let me tell you what the Holy Spirit, true power looks like. And some of y'all might wanna go ahead and take a pen and write this down. True power, the Holy Spirit really looking like something in someone's body, in someone's life, is when you're going through something and you still keep your peace. You're going through something and you still keep your joy. You're going through something and you're still talking about the goodness of the Lord. The power of Paul is not his power, not the Lord working through him, but the power of Paul is what he said while he's going through. Paul's writing these letters while he's going through something in prison. Paul's writing this stuff even while he's being persecuted. That's the power of the Holy Spirit. And if your Holy Spirit doesn't cause you to show joy, irrespective of your situation, I submit to you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. You might wanna lift the hood up, look in there and examine yourself to see if you actually have Christ. Because your Christ seems to be dependent on things, seems to be dependent upon signs like a wicked and adulteration generation looks for. That's what seems to be your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit doesn't keep you calm when your world is crashing, check your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit can't keep your mouth at bay when folks are talking and yammering at you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. If your Holy Spirit doesn't hold your fist, your feet, your hands, and your mouth back when other things are coming at you, you might wanna check your Holy Spirit. I submit to you that you are either not a Christian with no Holy Spirit or a very weak one. And if that's the case, sit back, relax, and watch the others that are filled with the Spirit do the job of a true believer. That is to live out the gospel in word and deed. Amen.