 Are you called to the mantle of a prophet? What does it take to carry out this mantle? Stay tuned because my guest is going to share with us how to be pure in the prophetic. If you look around, obviously, we've covered this ad nauseum. There are so many people who call themselves prophets. The question is going to be, we're going to dive into this, is are there any such thing as prophets? Is there an office of an prophet? Can someone prophesy today? What is a biblical prophet? Which means, to be said, what is a true prophet? A true prophet, a biblical prophet, those that we see in the Bible, what they are not, are false prophets. However, the Bible warns about false prophets. So we need to make sure that we also heed the warning and that we look and see and know exactly what a false prophet is. So let's go ahead and jump into the scriptures and let's deal with one. The first time that we hear this warning about a false prophet, we see it in Deuteronomy 13 as well as we see it in Deuteronomy 18, but I'll start in Deuteronomy 18 first. I'm sorry, Deuteronomy 18 says verse 20, but the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. What it says, that prophet, the one who presumes to speak for me, but he is really speaking for or on behalf of other gods, that same prophet shall die. Now, we don't think that God has decided that his word is not as important, that his reputation is not as important. By the way, when he talks about speaking in the name of God or in the name of other guys, the word name is to be taken also as reputation. It can also be nomenclature of the person's proper title, but it also refers to their reputation, who they are. And so they are to be put to death under this understanding from Deuteronomy 18. Now, we wanna find out why would God even allow there to be false prophets? Why not you just deal with them, Lord? How about this, God? How about you kill them? That way you'll make it easier for us. But look at what he says in Deuteronomy 13, verse one. He says, if a prophet or a dreamer, we can just stop there for a second, if a prophet or a dreamer. How many people come around and say, I've got a dream, the Lord gave me a dream, a vision from the Lord, a dream, a dream, a dream. Okay, same thing. So this prophet, this dreamer, if any of those show up and they arise among you and gives you a sign or a wonder and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass. And if he says, let us go after other guys which you have not known and let us serve them, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. So let's stop there for a second. That means that there will be false prophets who will give or will have some signs, some wonders, who will have something tangible to show. See, look at what I've done. This is how you know that I am legitimate. There will be those and look what he says about them. He says, they will turn around and they will say, let us go after other gods. Well, some of the false prophets that we see today don't necessarily say it that openly. Let us go after other gods. But we can see what they're selling. We can see if they're selling a different type of God, a God that gives them power. If it's a God that gives them wealth or fame, that's a different type of God. Again, it's not always as easy to see. It's not that easy sometimes to notice it, but if you just follow them after a while, you will because they're gonna have these different doctrines. Now, two things I wanna show you or talk to you about how you can know what a false prophet is, two things. One, in the name of God, doctrineally sound if they are not doctrineally sound or they go against God's word. How do we know that? Or why would we say that? Because if God has put out in his word what we ought to do, what we ought to think, how we ought to follow him, what he said, then we turn around and this so-called false prophet who may have had some signs is speaking something that's contrary, well, then we can know that that person is not of God. And he is testing you. As he said, he's testing you to see are you gonna follow them? Secondly, we wanna know if a person is an actual prophet, if what they said is true, which also kind of harkens back to this issue of doctrine being sound. If what you said is true, also if it's something foretelling, then it has to come to pass. So you need to understand, let's be clear, what a prophet is and to prophesy or prophesy, whether it's the Hebrew word or the Greek word, both mean to utter, to inform, to instruct. It is giving a divine revelation. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that the divine revelation has to come directly from God. How do I know? Because this Bible that we have is also a divine revelation. That's literally what the word means. Now, when someone says that, and we'll see this later when the Bible talks about prophets, especially in the New Testament, we're gonna see that some of these prophets aren't giving a foretelling word, aren't giving the future. It's hard to judge a prophet who tells us that something is gonna happen in the future and we've gotta wait and wait and wait and wait and wait to see it come to pass. We have nothing to go off of because of this prophet. There's no track record, no nothing. And so we take their word, they say some things that sounds spiritual, that sounds powerful, okay. And by the way, here, here's the offering, prophet be gone and by the time that we see it hadn't happened, well, the prophet's made his fame, made his fortune and so forth and then he's off to the next thing. You have seen some of these false prophets arise in the past. We've covered a couple of times as some glaring opportunities to show and demonstrate how they are false. These prophets that are speaking about this bit, not Bitcoin, but this crypto coin that's gonna shoot up and it's gonna cause this great wealth transfer that all the believers or the believers have bought into it, they'll receive all this, in other words, invest in this coin that we've bought into and then it didn't happen when they said it was gonna happen. False prophet. Most famously, those false prophets that spoke of Donald Trump winning the election and being president. Well, we have none other than prophet Jeremy Johnson, prophet Jeremy, who was also one of those. It wasn't until October of 2020, literally one month before the 2020 elections that I had another series of dreams. And in this dream, I saw three visions. This was October the 20th. The first vision that I saw was the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the World Series. The second vision and the dream that I had was Amy Coney Barrett being set in as a judge on the court before the election day. And then the third part of the dream was Donald Trump being re-elected. Well, let's just be honest. Now, he was two out of three. Well, prophets don't bat 75%. Prophets are 100%. The other two, were they really prophecies since the Dodgers were the favor, weren't they the favorite? And then Coney Barrett, when he is going to select a Supreme Court justice, she was a front runner even by secular people who were not prophets. They just read the tea leaves they understood. Her name was brought up previously the last time that Donald Trump had a Supreme Court nominee. And so here we've got her. So she was the favorite even amongst people who weren't Christian. Everyone knew that that's one of the ones that she was the top choice at that time. So it's not like you stepped out there on a limb but you did with Donald Trump and you were wrong. Now, he's got videos explaining why he was wrong and he's got these other dreams. He goes on a day start, he's saying why he was off. But again, false prophet, you're wrong. Prophets don't get it wrong. Prophets of God are 100% accurate. Then we've got these prophets who now this lady, she is probably in the false prophet Hall of Fame. She really didn't need an introduction. I won't go into all of her shenanigans with the $1,500 prayer school or whatever this is. Miss, none other than Miss Juanita. Y'all, I can't be nobody but myself. Some of y'all too arrogant to know it. Some of y'all too important in your unimportant self to know it. But when you're really in the presence of a Lord and you really who you say God called you to be, you would be the first one that's broken before the Lord. You would be sitting up there all the important with your phone. Oh God, come on somebody. Why do false prophets, the ones today, they always have these extracurricular, they do things to seem to be, to make it seem to them that they are extra holy, that the spirit of the Lord is just all over them and all around. They just have these little, these gyrations, these movements, these things they do. I don't know what that is. Something else you notice about false prophets, the prophets of the day. Now, I haven't gotten into these prophets, whether they're false or not. We'll cover that and deal more specifically what prophecy is, what prophets do, what a prophet is and then what the Bible says about them. But have you noticed how many of these prophets are pretty arrogant? I mean pretty arrogant, to the point to where if you don't look at them, if you don't trust them, if you don't follow them, something's wrong with you. By the way, don't question them. When you learn the ways of God and you learn to walk in love, then you also learn to love them that have the rule over you. You learn to respect and you learn to appreciate the prophets, the apostles, you learn to appreciate the prophets. You don't despise your deliverer. The one who hold in the keys. And I thought Jesus was holding the keys. Oh yes, he is. But the last time I checked, he needed to use a man or a woman. Because I know you want to be that woman or not now, but you ain't reached yet. So until you reach, I got next. We'll look past what she's wearing. I have no idea what the get up is. But she said, you will not despise your deliverer. I hope you caught that. And she meant that. Well, she at least meant for you to hear that. I don't know if she necessarily believes that at home. I'm pretty sure she doesn't. But to call herself the hour deliverer or a deliverer, the level of arrogance is just there. Now, keep in mind, you really didn't see, when you just look at how people act today and then compare that to the scriptures, to how they acted, how they behaved in the scriptures, it doesn't seem to fit. There's no matching. They are a little bit more arrogant. Whereas in the Bible, these prophets, they were servants. Now I'm speaking of really, for the most part, the Old Testament prophets. I'll get to the New Testament prophets and kind of what they are and what they do. By the way though, I want you to remember, think about what type of prophecies did the average prophet give? Just put that in your holster, just for the time being, put it on the shelf, put it aside, think about that question again. But the level of arrogance in these people is just, it really is something else. Their arrogance is amazing. And if you don't do what they say, or you do anything to counteract them, or you do anything to make them look bad, to make it seem like they don't have the power, oh, they will go off on you. Jesus, Jesus, why do you come up with me to pray for you and lock your knees? Don't sit down if you don't want me to pray for you. I don't mean lock your knees over there. You pray for somebody to lock their knees. Don't you come up here for it? You don't come to receive, don't come. God ain't making you get nothing. So good old false prophet, Brian Karn, who put my hands on you. If I put my hands on you, you better fall back. So every time I lay my hands on you, even if it's legitimate, I've got to fall back. Where is that in the Bible? I've got anything, if I get a word from you, if I touch you, if I bless you, what have you, got to fall back. So if she didn't feel the power, she's supposed to fake it. Okay, again, the level of arrogance is amazing, but then you've got people, you've got this thing where false prophets want to breed other false prophets. False prophets want to connect with other false prophets, one because it gives them legitimacy in the false prophecy circle and they can encourage other false prophets because what happens is there is this, it's not like the Chitlin circuit back in the day. What this really is is the false prophet circuit and they go from church to church to church. Many times it's the same network of churches and what they also try to do is infiltrate some of these newer churches. We won't get into that today, but if you notice, you'll see some of these false prophets showing up in churches that don't even usually deal with prophecy. There's a guy by the name of, he's a prophet and apostle. Of course, you know, that goes back and forth with possibly a prophet at the same time who he's networking. I mean, he's one of the better networkers. He is growing, he's all on the different television stations now and he's hobnobbing with other false prophets. And the way that you hobnob with another false prophet is you've got to tell that false prophet how much God is doing something for them. Now, before I go to this particular false prophet, I wanna pull up what Jeremiah says. He says, Thus says the Lord of hosts, do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, it shall be well with you. And to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, no disaster shall be upon you. So they only have good prophecies. When was the last time a prophet got up and said, I don't know, they prophesied a crash. They prophesied a natural disaster. That would be something. The Lord has told me to tell you that an earthquake is coming. And then the earthquake hits. And well, you know what? I might wanna listen to you now. But you only prophesy good things. The Lord is gonna do fresh wind, fresh anointing, a fresh oil, all that kind of good stuff, right? Well, shoot, who doesn't want that kind of prophecy? If I wanna pay to go to a fortune teller, that fortune teller better give me some good news or I'm getting my money back. I wanna refund, because you didn't prophesy or you didn't tell my fortune the way I wanted to. I might as well go to a Chinese restaurant and get a fortune cookie. If I'm not gonna get the one that I want or the little eight ball thing where you shake it up, I'd rather have that. If you don't give me a prophecy that fills my head with the visions that Jeremiah's speaking of, then I don't want that kind of prophecy. And you know what? They know that. They know that I better give you a good word. Even if I'm doing to another prophet. Trust, another thrust says God. And there are those that have tried to attack your name. God says over the past couple of years, they've tried to attack your name. They've tried to call you a heretic. They've tried to tear you down in areas. And the Lord says your heart is so for the people that even though you have thick skin, tough skin, it still bothers you. God says I'm pouring in fresh oil. And they will call you mama. And they will call you papa. They will call you mama. And they will call you papa. Because the Lord says I've given you a fathering spirit for the nations. And the Lord says the next chapter and facet of your ministry will be in the nations. And God says, even those that were trying to speak negatively against you, God says I will cause them to eat their words. I will cause them. God says there are even some that are gonna have to come back and apologize to you. Well, maybe he's talking about me. And I'm gonna have to come back and apologize to him. I'll come back and apologize to you if I can see all the false doctrine that you've been preaching if it's right. If I get turned upside down and I see that, yeah, I'll come back and apologize to you. Yeah. I wouldn't hold your breath on it. I would not hold your breath for that. But that being stated, I want to deal with the gift of prophecy. Before I go there, I'd be wrong in stating and just reiterating the warning for the people who are engaging in this foolishness, for the people who are buying it up, listening to it and following it. I would be remiss in, if I did not once again, warn you. You are playing with fire. You are playing with your soul. Many people have literally, literally soul their soul to the devil. Well, I wouldn't use it. Yeah, that's kind of how it is. I sold my soul, I traded my soul anyway. I wasn't using, I wasn't doing much with it right now. And so, but listen, no, I'm not gonna call them papa. That's not happening. Though they want us to. How much mileage would I get with the prophet? How much, how much mileage would I get with the false prophet, the false apostle, false teacher, if I call them mama or papa? If I said something great, what? How much, I might get a little bit of a financial kickback. I might, I might get a little bit of something here there. I might get brought on there. That's what I should have did. I should have did that. I should have, you guys have given me some good teaching here. I should have called them papa, called them all these wonderful names. That way, that way I could have got on to the platform with all of them and they've got their 200,000 or 400,000 people that are subscribing and watching new videos and so forth. And it gives me an opportunity to, while they're waiting to hear this word of the Lord from them, I'd give it to them. I'd give them the word of the Lord and I'd call all of them out. Wouldn't it be something if I was brought on to bring a word and the word I gave them was the people that you guys are listening to, the guy that brought me on, this guy's a heritage and he's going to hell. And he has sold his soul to them. What, I should have done that. I wish that I would have listened to you guys. No, it's not worth it because you're not, the people that are following them in many cases aren't going to listen. There are some that will and that's why we keep the word up. But rather than just saying warning about them, we need to just really discover what it means to be a prophet. I don't think that the office of prophet is around anymore. However, do I think that prophecy is around? Ah, that's something totally different. A prophet and one who prophesies can be two different things. I told you that the Hebrew word for prophet in the boom and the Greek word for the prophet or prophesying is prophetuete, it just simply means to utter, to inform, to tell, to give a revelation of something divine. Which is in our case, there's two, remember there's two types. There is a foretelling, what's going to happen in the future, be it in one day, in one year, in seven years, that's foretelling, F-O-R-E. Then there's forth telling, F-O-R-T-H. That is kind of giving the indicative of what it is, what's now, what the Lord has said, what the Lord has stated. So if I say that Jesus died on the cross, that is a divine revelation that we get from the Scripture. And indicating who he is, is that a future, a foretelling? No, it's a foretelling, it's the indicative, it's a fact, it's what it is. I ask you a question and here's the answer. The Bible gives, of all the prophets, when they utter a word, the majority of what they speak, the overwhelming majority of what they speak is not a foretelling, that the Lord is going to do this. The fourth telling is typically what they operate in and this is how it is, what the Lord has said and what's happening. Well, you don't see a lot of prophets today wanting to give a fourth telling prophecy. Why? Because that's not profound. Because if I'm going to be a prophet today, worth my weight in any kind of false prophecy salt, and I've got to give you something profound, something new, something fresh, something you haven't heard yet, something that the Lord is going to do and something that tickles your ear. So I've got to do those things. That's what a false prophet has to do, but a true prophet, someone that offers up real prophecy is going to give the word, thus saith the word. That doesn't sell for a lot of people. Now I've heard that before. Been there, done that. We need something new, a new revelation. Well, if you want a new revelation, turn the page that you haven't read yet. That's the best way to get a new revelation. That's what you ought, if you're looking for a new revelation because clearly many of you have not read the Bible, not you guys, you guys are smart Christians, but those that are following them, they have not. And so if you want a new revelation, turn a page, a new page that you have not read. There you go. I just helped you. I just saved you a bunch of money, a bunch of trips going to this church to hear this guy preach some nonsense. Now we know that matter of fact, Jesus tells us that there are going to be people who are going to bring these false prophecies, these false prophets. Let's look at what Jesus says in Matthew 24, 24. He says, for false prophets, for false Christ and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders. And so even Jesus is letting us know that they're going to be performing great signs and wonders. What sort of great signs and wonders? Don't know. But a surefire way of a false prophet is he is going to tell you the things that he says or claims to have done. We don't see the prophets of the Bible walking around saying, look at what I've done. We don't see that do we? But we see these false prophets today always trying to validate themselves by what they've done and by who's listening, who's following. They love to do that. But correct me if I'm wrong. I don't recall hearing Jeremiah spending a lot of time about how great he is and what he's done. But same thing with Ezekiel. As a matter of fact, what they've done is evident. Remember when Naaman, the man with leprosy goes to Elisha? Elisha wasn't offering up instances, examples of how great of a prophet he was. And as a matter of fact, a young little slave girl there says, hey surely my master, if he knew that there was a prophet in Israel he would be healed and so she tells him. That's how it works because if you are a true prophet, if you are a true apostle, if you are a true man of God and have these powers amongst you, then people know these things and the word would get out just like Jesus. Jesus did not go around saying, hey guys, look what I've done. He didn't do that, nor did his true men of God as well. So let's go back to it. He says that they will have these signs and wonders. So as, look what he says, so as to lead a straight. And if possible, even the elect. Now, it's not possible the elect wouldn't be led astray, they'll get close. Their goal is to lead many astray. The signs and wonders that they'll put up, the things they say are gonna cause some people to say, wow, I'm after that. I'm after that. I like that. Can you tell me some more? And Jesus warning about these false prophets. So if Jesus warns that there are going to be false prophets, then what do we know? There are going to be false prophets. There will absolutely be false prophecies or false prophets and false prophecies, but we know how to test them. Now, we're told, we are told by Paul in first, excuse me. Uh-oh. Paul tells us not to despise prophecies. Now, he didn't just say not despise prophecies and leave it at that. Look what he has after that. He says, but do not despise prophecies, but test everything. Hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil. So, when he makes those statements, when he says do not despise prophecies, he says test everything. How are we testing the false prophecy with the word? If it does not line up with the word, then we know it is false. That is key indication number one. So we've got these false prophets who have no understanding of documents. Matter of fact, they make it up. Everything is a spirit. There's a spirit of this, a spirit of that. There's going to be a technology spirit. I promise you, if it hadn't come yet, they're going to name an evil spirit of technology. Now, a lot of these guys have this blocking spirit down, this banning spirit down. I know what that's like, the spirit of being blocked. I know what that's like. That doesn't bother me though. But you're going to see everything's a named spirit. Spirit of September, the spirit of October, the spirit of December, the spirit of Apple, the spirit of Samsung, the spirit of Android. There's always something named, yeah, knuckle-cracking demons, thumbs-sucking, spirit of thumbs-sucking demons. Demoners or spirit of sleeping too long. Everything is a demon. And they do, now they're going to say, they go by the word of God. They'll open up the Bible, and they'll pursue to mangle it and give us something that it doesn't say. And people who don't know the Bible will, that makes sense, and they'll use fancy words. The Lord is birthing something and he's pregnant. You are pregnant with your destiny. Something is all right, okay, that sounds good. Ooh, girl, did you hear what he just said? I'm pregnant. Words that kind of just fill you up, makes you feel good. So make you feel good words, but that's what the Old Testament says. That's what Jesus says. These are the things that a false prophet is going to do. Now, when we talk about a false prophet, look what Peter says. He says, but false prophets also rose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly, secretly, guys, look, secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who brought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. How are they denying the master themselves? When they have the power and the master does it. When they have the ability to deliver, but God doesn't. It's not God. It's not the power of the Holy Spirit. It's not the name of Christ that does it. No, it's me laying my hands on you. It's me and my power and my fake blowing on you. Matter of fact, not even blowing on you, blowing to the microphone so that you can hear the sound and then you fall. Let me touch you. I'm looking for the passage. Book chapter verse from these people. I wanna see, show me which book you're reading from. Show me the chapter in the verse. You didn't have to give me the chapter in the verse. Just give me just the book. We'll go find it. You know what? Give us the name of the prophet, the name of the apostle, the name of the teacher who's doing just what you guys do. What you guys, give us that. Now, they love to be, they love to be well spoken up. He says, woe to you when all people speak well of you for so their fathers did to the false prophets. False prophets do not like for anyone to say anything bad about them. They do not. That's, it does something to their soul. How dare you? One, think it, but two, say it. Do you know who I am? And of course we see that in these clips. They don't want you to think anything bad of them. They wanna keep their image pressed and clean. Now, I wanna read something because I told you earlier that there is, I don't think there's any office of the prophet, but that doesn't mean that there cannot be anyone who can prophesy. So let's look at Romans chapter 12. Look what it says. Paul is speaking, he says, So we, though many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another, having gifts that differ according to grace given to us, let us use them if prophecy in proportion to our faith. Well, this word here, prophecy, that's the word we're gonna camp on. This word again, just means to give a declaration and utterance to inform, to tell or give a revelation of or from God. Do we have people who can prophesy in that regard? That's the fourth telling prophecy. Yes, yes we do. As a matter of fact, to some degree, all of us, as a matter of fact, will give a divinely inspired prophecy, the fourth telling prophecy, not the foretelling prophecy, by the way, do you all think that when the Bible says from Joel and then repeated and acts that these people are prophesying, these people prophesied, do we think that the Spirit Port on all these folks and they're all saying, they're all talking about some foretelling some future event. The Spirit came on them and they all spoke about some future event. And it was so important, they do so that the future events, none of the future events they prophesied about was written, not one. No, they're not given some future event. They're speaking of what Jesus has done. Could not be anything else. One, because Jesus said so. Jesus has says that the Spirit of God will be in him and they will be his witness that will testify of him, testify of all of his goodness, the things that he's done. Because he said, remember Jesus had this conversation and he's saying that I don't have to testify or witness of myself. Well, we're gonna do that for you, Jesus. We'll testify on your behalf. We'll witness, we'll let everyone know. Now, to the same degree as the next person, not necessarily, someone may spend eight hours a day testifying of Jesus. Another person may spend 30 minutes. Another person might just as they're passing by someone in the hallway at work, just testify of how good God is and how he can help them get through whatever it is they're going through. We're gonna testify of Jesus in something. If you are a believer, I want you all to hear this. If you are a believer in Christ, you've got the Holy Spirit in you, then you are going to, you are going to tell somebody, magnify Christ, you are going to give some sort of fourth telling prophecy of the scriptures about God and them. It's just in you. You can't see someone struggling and not try to give them some sort of a word. That's hard, it's not hard that is to do. You know, hard that is to do, someone has is a fourth telling, is a fourth telling prophet called a preacher today. A preacher today must give prophecy. A preacher today must give the fourth telling prophecy. He must give a divine revelation. These scriptures did not come from, from Hendrickson. These scriptures did not come from the Baptist. These scriptures did not come from Crossway. These scriptures did not come from some Bible bookstore or some Christian organization. These scriptures were God breathed from the Holy Spirit into man to write them as God had ordered them, they are divinely inspired. And so we take that, we say that and we preach it. That's why Paul says that I wish that you all spoke in these language in order that you would forth tell in order that you would let people know the goodness of the Lord. He's not saying I want you all to do this in order that you would all tell the future. That's not, that is not now. If you feel like you have that gift of prophecy, fine. Amen. You have the gift of foretelling prophecy to tell what's gonna happen in the future. Now to some degree we can all say what's gonna happen in the future if we just read some of the foretelling prophecies about what's gonna happen to Israel, about what's gonna happen in Revelation. We can say that, but that's not something that God just told us specifically individually. But if you feel like that you've got the ability to give a foretelling prophecy or another out extra biblical divinely inspired foretelling prophecy, okay, we're gonna judge you. That's why, because have you ever noticed they always bring up this passage, do not despise prophecy. How many times have you heard a false prophet try to validate and vindicate themselves by quoting Paul in 1 Thessalonians when he says, do not despise, they always say, don't despise prophecy, but they never read the next portion which says, but test everything whole fast to what is good. When was the last time you heard one of these modern day prophets tell people to test them, test their word, but to test everything, that includes you. That includes me. Anything that a person says, I say, if you hear it come out of my mouth, and I'm not calling myself a prophet, but if you hear it comes out coming out of my mouth, test it. They did Paul, they did Paul. As a matter of fact, you should feel so confident in what you say that it's from the Lord that you don't have any problem with, hey, test it. Matter of fact, if I'm wrong, you help me out, please help me out. I would love it. I'm not going to say, now this is what a prophet up to date, someone who's prophesying, but they're not claiming the office, what they won't say. They won't say the Lord told me I had a dream or the Lord is leading. They won't say that. I spoke with a younger pastor who would, who was, you know, from time to time would say the Lord, the Lord is leading me. I feel like the Lord is saying, and he's not one of these false prophets of the day. He just has a feeling, but we have a feeling sometimes. And I said, I just want to encourage you to be careful. As a matter of fact, choose your words carefully. Why? Because someone can take that you are prophesying, that you are being led. You're saying that you're being led from the Lord. So rather than saying, I just feel like the Lord is leading me here just like, I just feel led to say this. I just, this is kind of what I think. This is what I feel. And that way you put all the onus and pressure on you rather than claiming God as the one that's given or making it seem like that. I understand that we can feel like, I just feel led to tell you that if you keep going out in these streets at three in the morning, dressed the way you're dressed, you're going to find some problems. Well, I don't have to say, I feel like the Lord is telling me that this just common sense of wisdom. I just feel like it's just wise if you don't wear all your gold jewelry out at night in the hood. The Lord is telling me to tell you that you might not want to have different sexual partners. That might not bode well for your psyche, your health and the other four children that you have at home by five different men. That might not, the Lord is telling me that. No, you don't need, some things are just evident. And so don't act as though, we had this saying when I was an investment advisor, just don't confuse brains for a bull market. That means this, the market is going up, everything is going up in a bull market. Everything is going up and you've given out some great advice. All your stock recommendations and so forth, they've gone up, well, because everything else has gone up. So don't confuse brains with a bull market. Everything is going up. It's not you, that's everything else. What happens is we might say something that's apparent, that's obvious and it comes true. Like yeah, and you feel like the Lord is saying that and you want to back it up. Well, no, no, because when you're wrong, now you're going to want to hide. You're going to want some shelter, some cover. And this is just giving just a little extra wisdom. Now, if you feel like the Lord, no, not if you feel like, no, don't speak and say you feel like, but if you know the Lord has given to you, well, fine, stand up, stand up. As they say, say it with your chest. The Lord said, God told me, okay, and we're going to hold you. So why don't you hear them saying, they'll say, don't despise prophecy, but they will not come with that with verse 21, but test everything. They won't do that for a good reason. When we prophesy, we give this word. Let me move this out the way, I got jumped on top of this Bible. I've had a busy day. This is our word of prophecy. Isn't that neat of God? How neat is it that we got a God who gave us prophecy? He put it in a nice little boat. Some of your prophecies may have even come in a nice box. Take the box off, take the cover off the box, and inside there, there's a book, because he has bound his prophecy up. In many cases, leather bound. Now, this leather bound, or, that's probably been fake leather, but I don't know, but it was bound together. He bound together, put it in a nice little order, put it, he composed it for us, or I had it to where it would be composed for us, in a collection of 66 books. There really aren't 66 books, but we divide them into these 66 books. But we got it this way. We even have, look, somebody even had the idea to put chapters and verse over that. Yeah, look how God gave us little prophecy that we were given. And so I repeat this prophecy, because oh, by the way, in the Bible, we see prophets repeat another prophet's prophecy. So we're repeating this prophecy. We're prophesying, because tell me this isn't divinely inspired. Tell me this isn't divinely inspired. Jesus asked Peter and the gang, not just Peter, but Peter was the one that spoke up and they all agreed. Who do you say I am? You said thou art the Christ. I actually like the King James version of that. Thou art the Christ. You are the Christ. He says, well, flesh and blood didn't tell you that. Well, you know what flesh and blood didn't tell me either. Because to know that Jesus is the Christ, you can read it and not know it, but something about up there tells me down here that he is the Christ. Flesh and blood, now it might have been on paper, but how I know that is because it was revealed. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna back this book up with what I understand the Holy Spirit, giving me clarity of reading his word. I prophesied that way, won't call myself a prophet, because if I do, now I'm held to the standard of a prophet, which is 100%. Did you know, I take it back. I was gonna say I've never had a time where I've batted 100%, but for one time in my life, for one year, my fourth grade, fourth grade, I got 100% on everything. I didn't, I didn't, I can't say that, I can't say that. No, I can't say that. There were a few questions that I missed as a fourth grader. You know, you get like a 95%, a 96%, 92%. I did, I did. And you can go and take extra credit. I was one of those kids that my fourth grade year, I had more points than you had to get. So I took extra credit. Now, enough of that stuff. I'm not studying that hard anymore. So fifth grade, sixth grade, so it kind of went downhill. I just wanted to prove that I couldn't. But after that, though, I can't recall ever, ever getting 100% on anything. Never. But if I read this, it's 100%. And if I say I'm speaking from the Lord, if I say that what I'm saying is from the Lord as a prophet, it has to be 100%. None of this, well, in hindsight, I should have said this or I was wrong. No, you are lucky we are not exercising due to running the 18 judgment on you and not killing you. And if you don't repent, I know someone who will kill you. Just being nice about it. If you don't repent, you're going to be killed. You who sold your soul to the devil, you sold your soul to the devil for some clicks, some likes, some views, some money, a new car. I saw my buddy with a brand new car. I don't know why as an apostle or as a prophet, a good friend for God, it would go and put that on YouTube, have a Lord has blessed him to get this brand new Mercedes SUV. Some of you guys are selling your soul to the devil for a few extra dollars, a few extra coins or shekels in your pocket. It's not like the movie clip though that I played. It's not. Traded your everlasting soul. Well, I wouldn't use it. Truth is you are using it. You are using it. And you're not going to lose it. It will just be moved to a location where the temperature's up a little bit hot. Yeah, that's what's going to happen. So I'll give a prophecy from the scriptures. A fourth, F-O-R-T-H prophecy. Not a four, I ain't got it in me. Wouldn't need, I would be afraid to do that. I would be afraid to tell someone that I'm a prophet one out of embarrassment, but out of fear, out of fear. The Bible tells us not to even say what we're going to do tomorrow. Don't say you're going to do this, this and this tomorrow. We don't have that. We don't have the kind of power over our lives. Rather what should we say if the Lord is Lord willing? But we got people that know the Lord to, okay, fine. All right. Let me stand over here. No, I said I take it back. We used to say, let me move out the way, so I don't get hit by lightning that the Lord is going to throw at you, no. Because the Lord is actually pretty accurate, pretty deadly with his aim. So if he's going to take you out, he can take you out with you in my arms. I can put my arm around you, you just die. I would not, I don't understand why you guys who are into these signs and wonders and so forth can tell us about it, how you would play with God, how you would make absolutely sure. Again, tell, tell sign that many of you guys aren't prophets because you don't know the word. You say some absolutely foolish, let's just call it. Let me just not be nice. Some dumb stuff. That's just some dumb stuff that people say. Well, God didn't give in dumb prophecies to people. He's not given it. What Bible am I, am I, oh, this Bible, this is an old John McCartney study Bible. Someone gave me this, when I was in prison, I had an old beat up Bible. And there was a brother there, there was a few brothers there, but one brother in particular who, I guess he took a shine to me like me, thought I was a pretty decent guy and guy named Destin, big guy like 350 pounds. We call him tiny. He gave this to me, made me cry. Cause at the time, what was he like, 80 something dollars, he said, man, I wanna bless you with a better Bible than what you had. The Bible that I had was raggedy. And so that's where that Bible came from. So anyway, guys, anytime someone says, big worm, no, what big worm, but when someone says that they're a prophet, don't automatically deny them. Fine, fine, prophesy, wait, let's see. What was your latest prophecy, sir? Can I, you got a website I can go to, you got a YouTube account I can check out. Let me just hear some of your prophecies. Or better yet, rather than me hearing your prophecies, let me hear what God has said to you. Give me your understanding of these scriptures. Tell me some, tell me, because I can promise you this, God is not giving a false prophet good doctor. So one thing they have in common. These false prophets have bad, how could that be? How could that be? False prophets with bad doctor, yeah. The Lord has told me about KFC and Chipotle, okay? They're always having drinks about silly stuff, about Bigfoot, about KFC, about McDonald's, about who's the billionaire with Tesla guys. I can't think of it, but just utter nonsense. God has given you all that power. You're not out there sharing the gospel. You're gonna pay for that, that's all I can say. So guys, make sure you do exactly what they're not telling you to do, but what God is telling you to do, and that is don't despise prophecies. Don't despise someone saying it's the word of God. Rather, rather, Elon Musk, thank you, Seco. Elon Musk, but test everything, everything, everything. Test me, test them, test yourself, test everything. By the way guys, the word that's used for everything, the Greek word for everything, it literally means everything. Test that and you won't go wrong. Amen.