 Question is for you guys What actually is a profit? One what is a profit and the next question obviously has to go along with it is what is prophecy? So one 1a What is a profit? What is prophecy? So before we get to prophecy? Let's deal with profit and so I'd be interested to know what you guys believe a profit is now in the Excuse me in The poll 45% say that someone who speaks for God 5% anyone who speaks 7% one who gives the future from God 42% says that One who gives accurate revelation obviously accurate revelation from God. So What say you guys those who may not participate in the poll? Well, the answer might be a little bit Different than what you think Hold you there for just a second and I want to act to go and deal with some scripture first And this is going to bring up kind of an kind of an issue that has to be addressed Because if we know what profit what a profit is well, then we'll know what prophecy is we know about false prophets We hear it all the time I mean we hear them all the time and we hear false prophecy, but what about a true prophet or true prophecies, so Let's go and get from the scriptures what it says and let's see if we can glean something So let's go to Deuteronomy starting in 13 and then we'll we'll we'll kind of make our way through so Deuteronomy 13 if a prophet or dreamer of Dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or wonder and the sign or the wonder comes true Concerning which you spoke what he spoke to you saying let us go after other gods Whom you have not known and let us serve them you should not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the Lord Your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul Wait a minute We have a problem Yeah, we we have a problem here and we need to address that problem We typically don't address this problem because we're thinking when we bring this passage up We're thinking about all these false prophets that are out there who give false prophecies And we go to this passage and the other passes and do the run me but There's something in this passage that we probably ought to address and I think it's high time we address it So what better place to do it than here and why not today? So let's go to it. Here's the problem notice in verse 1 What does he say the word this use here is the Hebrew word not be so this word this use here The words highlight on your screen. That's the word for prophet notice. He calls this person a prophet Interesting Because when we drop down further we see that if this false prophet or this person leads you away from another god Tells you to go after other gods verse 2 and and tells you to let us serve them Verse 3 you should not listen to the words of that What does he call him? What does the word of god call that person that gives this false prophecy or that leads him away? Notice he still calls him prophet It isn't that interesting Isn't that interesting? Well, wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second A false prophet is not a prophet prophets don't give false prophecy Would you all agree? Would you all agree that prophets don't give false prophecies? What if a prophet gives a false prophecy? Is he a prophet? There's the question so now Let's ask that question and I would just be interested to see what you guys think If a prophet gives a false prophecy, is he or she indeed a prophet? They're not throughout she because there's a we got prophets out here all shapes, size and colors and genders so If the prophet gives a false prophecy Is he or she is that person still a prophet or are they no longer a prophet and do we just give them the label? of false prophet Brianna says nope Uh, they would be put to death for sure spider monkey says anola says no sierra says no Uh, ike says yes Layla says no not at all. David says no deacon says no Uh, yes, he is proclaiming a word. By the way, I don't care what anyone says. I don't care what anyone says Robert 2z The best he's got the best prison name not being in prison. So I just love love that name. I don't know what it is about robert 2z Don't ever get in trouble. But if you do you're gonna be safe on new york that name that name care. That's a good name I don't know. I like that robert 2z Uh tyrone says no Ddb says yes a false one. Okay. Meeksbury says a soothsayer. Okay. Devonte says no guys This is where it gets interesting. This is this is where it gets interesting Before we can figure this out, we need to just first deal with what the definition of a profit is And then we can determine because I've said to myself, listen, you're not a prophet You have given a false prophecy. So stop calling yourself a prophet And I'll try to explain what I mean in just a second But let's deal with what the word means the Hebrew word for profit is Naboo and to prophesy Naboo And there's different derivations depending upon the tense and so forth. What have you and then in the greek? It's uh prophetate Or prophetic tice prophet tice depends upon again voice Tense mood and so forth depending upon how you would say it. So What does that mean? What is the Hebrew definition? And the greek definition is similar. It's a little bit nuanced, but basically the same definition The Hebrew definition of is of a prophet Is someone who utters Who gives an utterance? Now think about that for a second the person who gives an utterance So If that's a definition and just trust me on this now you I tell you what you go look up yourself But the Hebrew word the definition of it is just a one who gives an utterance utterer A a herald, you know a herald someone making an announcement That's that's the actual definition of a prophet So now let's back up and ask the question again If a prophet gives a false prophecy Is he considered is that person still considered a prophet? The answer is yes and no Because it's going to depend upon where we're coming from. What what do we mean now? Let me just say this again. Let's let's let's go to some more passages And let's flesh this out because we've got to make a bigger point We have to make a bigger point as we go forward and you say wait a second Corey I we've always called these people false prophets. Okay, that's that's it's fine. I call a false prophet a false prophet That part is fine. Now Remember there are other people in the bible There are other people in the bible who are also called prophets Let's go to first kings chapter 18 And Let's start in verse 17 This is Elijah speak He just got through speaking to obadiah not the prophet obadiah But another man named obadiah who is actually a servant of ahab, but he's also a servant of the lord When ahab he tells obadiah to go to ahab. I'm here come see me or I'm coming to see you So verse 17 we pick up when ahab saw Elijah ahab said to him Is this you you trouble of israel? He said I have not troubled israel But you and your father's house have because you have forsaken the commandments of the lord Look what he says And you have followed the bales now then send and gather to me all israel at mount carmel together Look what he says with 450 prophets of bale And 400 prophets of the ashura who eat at jezebel's table So we've got 850 people who are called what called prophets How could that be now? This is the man of god speaking this so how in the world could elijah who Knows the lord knows whatever he's truly a prophet Why would he call them prophets? well You are a prophet or an utterer or a herald or an announcer or a speaker of whomever Now a true prophet in the sense of a godly prophet like them We'll call that person a prophet These other prophets they just simply utter or speak for bale So technically You can or truthfully you can be a prophet even as a false prophet That's not a good thing though See if someone comes back and says well, yeah, I'm a prophet even though even though I got it wrong I'm I'm still a prophet. No, no. Well. Yeah, you're right a prophet of who though Who are you? Who are you speaking for on whose behalf are you speaking? Because if you're going to say that I'm still a prophet even though I've gotten it wrong Well, then we've got a problem because the prophet is giving this revelation From god now let's back up. There's two types of prophecies So if we know what a prophet is then we know what a prophecy is a prophecy is similar It's giving an utterance now from our standpoint as we're talking about true prophets of god They're giving an utterance from god a revelation from god. And so there are two types. You have the four four-telling f o r e t e l l i n g Basically the prediction Predicting a future event telling what is going to happen. That's somewhere between 23 24 25 26 27 percent of the prophecies in the bible are this four-telling Okay The majority of prophecy. I think I got it right the majority of prophecy in the bible is not Four-telling the majority of prophecy is what we call fourth f or th telling admonitions disclaim disclaimers exhorting That's what the majority of them are the majority of these revelations from god Are not to say what's going to happen in the future Although a lot do but the majority of prophecies and prophets are speaking about what's happening right now at this moment When the prophet says the lord has says to get get ready Now he may have also a four-telling part or he may say that don't do this don't do that Then he may also give a warning as well Which is not four-telling But then he may go and say that because i'm going to do this in the future So so sometimes you may have both of them combined But the majority of prophecy And the majority of the prophets work has been just simply Proclaiming what is the fact the indicative what's happening right now. Are you with me? So that's why you can see in first kings 18 and other places you can see prophets of Bail, which is why when we go to ezekiel 13 18, we see this lying prophet this one who is I See yeah, ezekiel 13 this lying prophet who um, where am I at? I don't think I typed the wrong one in I think I typed is that the right passage. I think I typed the The uh, maybe I did not But there's no need to even go to but there's this false prophet who Um, the man of God goes to and he tells him something that of them what God has told him and he lies And so the man of God listens to this false prophet and dies. So now let's be clear Though there are other prophets You're not off the hook because the person calls himself a prophet Uh Portrayed himself as a prophet and when I say prophet I'm now speaking of a prophet of God You're not off the hook because you heeded the word of a prophet simply because he said it in a wonderful fashion His words were clear his words were dazzling. He made us feel so good because of what he said Oh, wow, his words. They were they were so profound. They were deep No No If you listen to the false prophet Still a prophet He's still uttering. He's still giving us some sort of declaration But who is he prophesying on behalf of and what is he prophesying? What is he? What is he uttering? I'm curious how well well it sounds how wonderful it sounds how good it makes you feel Does not matter you are still held accountable For the sin that comes as a result of it That needs to be clear There are people out here that will tell you that God said this the Lord said that the Lord said this And then you listen to them and then what happens? You're not you don't get off scot-free. God is going to still deal with you And That part needs to be understood look at the man of God Who does what the Lord tells him to do and one thing he disobeys God says do not eat here Don't stay here. Keep going don't go in anyone's house and this old line prophet Comes and tells the man Something that that goes contrary to what God said Which also helps us understand that We're responsible for what the word says All of us are responsible for what the word of God says and so that that party's been said too You are not necessarily absolved because There's not enough good preaching around and so forth, but you know what is around There's going to come a point in time where if it hasn't happened already I'm not sure there's no way to know at least right now I don't know that anyone's done a study But there's going to come a point in time where you're going to have more bad preachers and you are Going to have good preachers. I don't know if that's necessarily the case right now We talk about a lot of bad preachers and bad churches, but there are a lot of good ones as well They just may not be as big or as famous or as well known But there are a lot of good churches out. Let me just say that again. There are a lot of good churches out there Ran or not ran by but that are led by a lot of good godly men And in there there are a lot of good godly men and women in there So there are a lot of them just because there's a whole lot of bad ones doesn't mean that it's so bad We're not going to be like like matter of fact the prophet saying it's just me Everyone everyone out there is as they've gone astray. It's just me And god's word was this is my interpretation. It's my way of saying it shut up hush up Hush up. I've reserved 700 or 7,000 have not been bent the knee. Um She says uh from seer what is the difference between prophecy and words of knowledge? Oh, that's a good question It depends it depends if the word of knowledge comes from god, then it's prophecy It should be told it truth be told I guess there's a way that they can probably both be the same, huh? Um Because you're still uttering But let's just let's just for the sake of this saying that if we're talking about uh word of knowledge from god I would categorize this as prophecy a revelation from god if it's if it's if you're giving words from god It is a it is true revelation from god Which is obviously word of knowledge, then I would categorize that but now Can a person a human being give their own word of knowledge? They know something let's say we're talking about building a go-kart And he's very knowledgeable. Well, then he gave a word of knowledge about that But we will differentiate the two but A non-christian can give a word of knowledge Okay A non-christian cannot give a prophecy from god. Can I give it? Well, I take that back if you want it god could but he's not going to You know, but they could I guess if they're gonna if if they're going to do one thing And I'll share with you in the end or just a little bit about profits And then because of the definition does that mean that we have profits today? No pro no, um scooper No prophecy is not just relating to the future most prophecy in the bible Is not future looking most prophets in the bible is right now given instructions this this this this is what it is Do this don't do that It's a it's a revelant from true prophets true prophecy That comes from god is just revealing god's word revealing god's mind revealing what god has said on the matter And even sometimes if the foretelling the future what god will do That is important as a matter of fact We are told that in this church that we have The bible says that the church that we have is built upon The foundation of the apostles and the prophets Christ himself being the chief cornstone. Now the question is This these these apostles we know who they are We know the apostles are paul Peter John We know that andrew james. We know who the apostles are apostles are But what about the prophets and wait a minute? What do you mean built on the foundation the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets? Well, who's the who the who are the prophets? I mean, yeah, who are the prophets we're talking about because you notice a new testament We really don't hear a lot about these prophets. We don't hear their names Well, he must be he must be speaking about these old testament prophets isaia isaia He's a kind he's a kind I'll just look at these comments isaia Jeremiah Ezekiel Obadiah Is it is he speaking about those prophets? No He is not speaking about those prophets Because those prophets are not the foundation of the church now They do make way for the church to come about but they are not the foundation of the church These prophets are dead when the church shows up As a matter of fact one of the one of the things that that that the uh The jews knew of and they kind of cried out about is that for the last 400 years there had there have been no prophets There's been a silence from god. We're waiting to hear from god There are no prophets and then we're told that the next prophet that's going to come is going to be one It's going to make straight the way for Jesus Now they reject person they reject the person that's preparing the way And they're rejecting even the way the person who is the way But There's this cry out that there's this is a famine of the word. There is nobody preaching the word There's no there's no prophet and the reason I use that word preaching for a second I mean for a reason I'll come to it in a second, but So we got to go back to this question though. What are The prophets? How are they also part of the foundation of the church? well If a prophet is someone who gives who heralds or makes an announcement or gives a declaration or revelation And let's just use this word that I like to use all the time a revelation revelation from god A revelation from god, which means it has to be a true revelation Because if it's the actual revelation from god, then what is it? It's true if it came from god Okay, the question is how is that the foundation of the church? Well, let's go back. Let's go to another passage. Let's go to ax chapter 2 Peter is going to tell us something That was spoken of that is going to begin happening on this day at Pentecost He says and it shall be referring to joey shall be in the last days That I will pour out my spirit on all mankind And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy Well, let's just stop there says I'll pour out my spirit on all this is pasan, which is everybody or each of mankind Now the word that's used here is the word sarka. So So, uh, epic epic pasan sarka is literally mean upon All or each flesh So each type of person Is going to have this spirit put out not everybody not all people Not all flesh is going to have this poured out on them. Okay That needs to be clear But then look what he says that when he does so He says and Prop to prophet to susan, which is they will prophesy who will prophesy the sons and the daughters Are we are you saying that when the spirit is poured out on all these people They're all going to prophesy well prophesy. How well, do you all think the prophecy that he's speaking of is going to be Fortelling or forth telling is it going to be future? Or is it going to be some sort of admonition or some sort of right now revelation? It's going to be the fourth telling we're not going to have a bunch people with the spirit poured up We're out upon them or in them and then now all of a sudden giving the future We're not no we're not going to have a bunch the spirit poured out And then we're going to a thousand miss cloth miss cleos and all these fake note We're not going to have that We're going to have people that when the spirit comes upon them They will be able to give a revelation of god How is that? Well, what's in them the holy spirit? What does the holy spirit want to do? John 15 we see that that's going to happen through the apostles that Jesus speaks of and then he reiterates that and john I mean acts one They are going to testify or witness who Jesus So anybody that is a born again believer anyone that's a christian that has the holy spirit in them They are two in some way shape from a fashion. They are going to testify of christ How was that done? Well, it's different from person to person But they will prophesy they will speak they will talk about Jesus magnify the goodness of the lord What happened at the day of pentecost? Pour it out on the apostles and they do the same thing and as we see The church growing we see more and more people given these revelations. Well, the question is why? Why in the world would there need to be these prophets these revelations given? Why is that necessary for that to be the foundation of the church as well as The old testament we see these prophets the word still means the same Whether it be in the greek or the hebra whether it be in the old testament of the new testament It's still the same same function To give an utterance to give a declaration to give a revelation be it the old or the new These false prophets of prophets of ashura or the prophets of bail or any other pagan prophet. They're just uttering. They're just talking They're just saying some things Now you're going to find out that some things are going to say there's some truth to it There is some truth to what they say sometimes but oftentimes Oftentimes if not all the time I would say all the time But in most cases these prophecies from these false prophets They're prophets. They're given utterances, but they tend to be something that makes the person who they're saying it to feel good It tends to be someone saying that god is going to do this for you or bless you or it's going to be good times It's going to be paradise over here guys. It's going to be wonderful We're all going to have a brand new car in our driveway, but I don't have a house yet Well, you're going to get a new house too. You're going to get a you're going to get an increase on your job You don't like that wife guys don't give you another don't like that husband guys don't give you another You don't like those kids guys will use more These are the things that you hear when you hear false prophets today We we think that well, they didn't have to deal with this back then. Yes, they did Yes, they did have to deal with these false prophets as a matter of fact What does peter say in second peter two one? He says but false prophets also arose among the people that's past tense Arrows among the people just as there will also be false prophets false teachers Among you now look what he says. I want you to notice the shift in words I want you guys notice the shift in the word and don't think that that peter makes a mistake He says false prophets also arose among the people just as there will be false teachers Among you who just who would just who I can get it out who was secretly I'm looking at the e-ling was in the greek side-by-side. So i'm getting ready to use the greek word which is pseudo Didis callowy So i'm trying to say that word while i'm thinking of the english But there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce Destructive heresies even denying the master who bought them So now there are going to be these false teachers, but he waited a second. Is it false teachers or false prophets? Which is it false teachers of false prophets? Same thing Same thing I'm gonna show that how there's there's really these three words that are used they kind of come together Especially in the new testament and under the under this dispensation of the church You're gonna you're gonna see that a little bit, but he says they've always been here They're here now And they will continue to be and so you need to be aware These false prophets in the day What do they do? They said good things Oh, it's going to be wonderful. It's going to be amazing. What do they say today? It's it's going to be wonderful. It's going to be amazing And so we would think that the false prophets today are a little bit different Because guess what even though that there was a penalty for stoning and killing them They didn't always kill the false prophets. They did now Killing the false prophets amongst the jews. That was one thing But the majority of false prophets were not jewish Although we do see some false prophets that show up. But now before we go there. I want to go back to Uh, I want to go back to Ephesians and I want to go to a passage Because we're trying to figure out. Well, why does God have to give us prophets to begin with and why are they part of the foundation of the church? Well, he says so in Ephesians 4 11 He says and God gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors teachers Why for the equipping of the saints for the work of service to the building up of the body of christ? So they are given all these these four offices four offices Are given for the building up of the body But I don't get it still. What's what's the point of a prophet? We have the apostles Why the prophets? Well, there's two problems with relying on the apostles Two huge problems. Can anyone guess as to what the two huge problems are? And and they're two very important problems two huge problems that we That the apostles could not solve that it's it's not a problem that the apostles can fix There's two gigantic problems two big problems if we're trying to build this church What do you all think that that problem is and when I say big problems big problems? I mean necessary problems Well, yeah scuba said they will pass away in time. Well, well that is a problem But more more than that because at the we're talking about the problems that were there even while the apostles were there Even while the apostles were alive There's a huge problem too big of a problem as a matter of fact exigent says so few of them, right? There's only there's only Well 12 now because one gets killed so we've got 12 that is including paul Now the church also has apostles to the church when the church sends someone out Someone like a barnabas barnabas is an apostle of the church Acts tells us that the church sends out paul and barnabas a boat So paul is a as a possible of the church as well as an apostle price barnabas is just an apostle of of the church But we've only got these 12 that have been so endowed So there's a limited number, isn't it? And they can't be everywhere as a matter of fact We see paul setting up or or having younger men other men teaching them How to set up church matter of fact, he's teaching timothy how to teach people teaching titus how to teach pastors and elders and so For so that's one huge problem. They're limited. It's just not enough of them They can't be everywhere like we need them to be the church is growing The second thing other big problem and this is just as big Maybe even bigger just as big Maybe even bigger. Let's think about this Paul writes scripture peter writes scripture john writes scripture James well, even though he's not an apostle But james the brother cries he writes scripture We've got these people writing scriptures. We've got a we've got a problem though What's the problem that's that we find with these men that are writing scriptures Nothing wrong with them writing scriptures. The problem is just like we have with the apostles. It's not enough There are not enough scriptures every church doesn't have scriptures All of the locales don't have scriptures now. They're they're they have to write these things out by hand You can't scan them You can't screenshot them Take a picture go to go to Office depot or what have you to get some copies made they didn't have that So they do not have the ability to recreate or re or duplicate Copies of a text like we do today. They're doing their best they can But they don't have copies like we have Christopher you you're going somewhere christopher hold on dog on it christopher I'm about to put you in time out because you're making a good point. I'll get there in a second I will get there in a second Yes to your answer to your question, but The problem is we don't have words We don't have what thus saith the lord Do you all think and y'all just tell me raise your hand say yes Do y'all think that at the founding of the church in the midst of all these other pagan religions In the midst of this law that the jews want to bring about in the midst of what whatever pagan deities that The the gentiles or romans have do you think they need to have the word of god? What would happen? They don't have the word. So do y'all think that's a good idea as the church is being founded Do y'all think it's a good idea to have the word of god? I think the answer is yes Problem, what are we going to do about it if there is no word being printed? Oh, by the way, a lot of these words that were given by the apostles Weren't actually written down like for example luke writes down what he's heard from the apostles Mark writes down what he hears. He's done the apostle. Are you with me? And so what what could we possibly have in place of that until we actually get the word? Oh, I know how about these prophets? Well, where these prophets come from? Well Peter tells us it acts too. He's repeating what jules says when the spirit is poured out People, that's why it's it's necessary for a believer to have the holy spirit And then they do what they get the holy spirit and they can give revelation Now here's the question The revelation that these prophets have is at the same level of revelation that say you and I have Well, our revelation comes from us simply reading the bible So in answer to chris's question to chris's question matter of fact, let me see if I can find on his scroll back up Even though I could just type his name in there it is. So he says so is it okay that all christians should prophesy Yes But our prophecy has to be true. It has to be in line with the word So in truth chrisifer or anyone else when you give a word You are giving you are prophesying, but this is and this is godly. Especially if it's the truth You are giving revelation from the lord Well, that's just no, I know it should be something special says who? Why why does the revelation have to be special? You mean to tell me if a true prophet repeats what another prophet said? That's not true revelation Is is that what we're saying? So if peter repeats what what jules says, that's not that's not a true revelation. Yes, it is Repeat now. We just have the benefit of having written on paper They had it to where it was given to them now how much of a revelation were they given? Were these prophets these people that were that that were speaking of in Ephesians? Were they given all of the word of God? We don't know We don't know if they were able to give if they were supernaturally endowed with the ability to give Everything from genesis up to their time. We don't we don't know We know for a fact that they were able to give what christ had done for them on the cross because again That's the foundation of the church. We know so because it says that Jesus is the chief cornerstone And the church is built upon these apostles and prophets not the old testament prophets. They can't speak about Jesus They're not part of the church and oh by the way, they are dead But these other prophets who are not named But why is that important if they're not named? Well, because it indicates what that their name is not important But what they're saying is important which tells us the truth of the word is of the utmost importance Let me read something to you guys I want to read this from where's it at Jerob? There it is. There it is Read this passage from good old Jeremiah. By the way, I think this is important too I've given this before and I'm going to I'll keep putting up because I think I think this is just an invaluable tool I wish I could take credit. I can't take credit. This is not my work. This is acted from dr Dr. Cohn dr. Christopher Cohn, but I think this is an invaluable tool Where we see the prophets we see who they're prophesying to And when seeing who they're prophesying to and when they're prophesying it helps us understand what they're prophesying about What they're what they are giving now a lot of their prophecies are Fortelling are speaking of the future, but a lot of them are talking about what is And we see this battle between a true prophet of God That is Jeremiah and these false prophecies Here it is. Let's go to Jeremiah 23. He says woe to the Huh, wait a second Woe to the shepherds Why do you guys think that he's speaking about the the shepherds these Royine these these shepherds because These shepherds are also equivalent to these prophets It's an important point come back to that later But they've got these people who are going to do what scatter the sheep. There are these false prophets Really these wolves who come in and who say something that is just not correct Are you with me? Uh, by the way, thank you for the super chat. Jeff ellendor and child young cat. Thank you so much um I'm sorry. What'd you say you said uh work For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Amen You didn't jump it. You're fine. You're fine. So let's finish reading Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pastor Declares the lord Now right there was an indicative Prophecy he's given a revelation from god And it's right now now. Is he going to give something future? He's about to Therefore thus says the lord god of israel concerning the shepherds who are tending my people So they're these people that are tending them How could that be you mean tell me god you've less than folks to tend them Yeah, because guess what think about it even in those days you've got these prophets I mean these these uh actual these actual prophets They can't be everywhere. How many Jeremiah's were there at one time? How many Ezekiel's or how many Elijah's were there at one time? So They're needed to be other people who also were Given prophecy or given these utterances are you with me? So he says therefore thus said the lord the god of israel concerning the shepherds who are tending my people You have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not attended to them Behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil you You didn't you didn't you didn't attend to them. So now I'm going to attend to you Lord don't attend to me Lord Lord Instead of that song pass me not oh gentle say no pass me Don't don't tend to me. But no, he said I'm going to attend to you Um because the evil that you've done then I myself will gather The remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them And bring them back to their pasture and they will be fruitful to multiply I will also raise up shepherds over them And they will tend to them and they will not be afraid any longer nor be terrified Nor will any be missing declares of the Lord Wait a minute. Yeah, I made more syllables out of it than I should have Look at what he just said First of all, it's highlighted. Who are these shepherds? I will also raise up shepherds Well The the greek word for these shepherds is point point main us Which is the same thing that we see in in Ephesians These are going to be a little bit different These shepherds these Also prophets, they're going to be the ones that are going to tend to the flocks even locally We'll see that in just a little bit. But notice also what he says He says raise them over them and they will tend to them This is him giving a future prophecy and they will not be afraid any longer nor be terrified Look at that last word. I mean look at that last part Nor will any be missing Declares of the Lord You mean tell me even before the people were sent away even before this but this is they're getting ready to go to exile Even before then he says they're going to bring them back And not one will be missing. You mean tell me he's really speaking about eternal security even then. Yes. He is God didn't just start a plan at the at the moment that we started reading about it Anyway, so behold the days are coming to clear the Lord when I will raise up for david a righteous branch Well, he's speaking of Jesus And he will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land His day his days judo will will be saved and israel will dwell securely And this is his name by which we will be called the lord our righteous really Okay. Yep speaking of jesus Speaking of jesus therefore behold the days are coming to clear the lord when they will no longer say as the lord lives Who brought us or brought the sons of israel from the land of egypt? But as the lord lives who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of israel From the north land and from all the countries where I've driven them then they will have their own land So they'll stop saying about the lord who brought us up out of egypt They'll start saying eventually the lord who brought us back to our land hadn't happened yet As for the prophets look what he says as for the prophets. These are bad prophets now My heart is broken within me and my bones tremble I have become like a drunken man even like a man overcome with wine because of the lord And because of his holy words for the land is full of adultery. Now. This is this is Jeremiah speaking For the land is full of adulterers for the land mourned because of the curse because of the curse What curse well, they're they're this land this morning Remember let's put it back on the screen This land that he's speaking of the land this morning Remember they have violated The land portion of this covenant Where they're supposed to give this Sabbath and they violated 70 times And so they are on their way to be put out of the land This is the point that Jeremiah is making and there these other prophets are prophesying something good something better Jeremiah like nope. Nope. Nope. You are going you are going into exile Nothing's going to be done about that other than you just get comfortable make a family And now if you if you're alive with a time to come back. Amen. If not, hey, you had a good run. You had a good run you pagan so Uh, there he says the past I'm sorry. Let's back up for the land is full of adulterers For the land mourns because of the curse. This is what he's referring to The pastor of the wilderness have dried up Their course also is evil and their might is not right Look at uh, Jeremiah what they call it bars Is that what they would call Jeremiah with the bars? He says and their might is not right For both prophet and priests are polluted now You're going to see a kind of combination between the prophet and priests later on in the new testament because the priest is just somebody that That serves and attends to the needs of the people Ceremonially he says for both prophet and priests are polluted even in my house I have found their wickedness declares the lord now. This is god speaking now Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it for I will bring calamity upon them the year of their punishment declares the lord I want to drop down to Little verse 14 also among the prophets of Jerusalem. I have seen a horrible thing The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood and they strengthened the hands of the evildoers so that no one has turned back From his wickedness. This is important guys All of them have become to me like Sodom and her inhabitants like Gomorrah. So these prophets They're not causing anybody to turn back from their evil from their wickedness. They're not they're indulging and they're staying in A true prophet is going to cause his people to come back to God to turn from their sin They're not doing that indication You must not be given a true utterance from the word of God. Why Paul says that this word This gospel is powerful So continue verse 15 therefore thus says the lord of hosts concerning the prophets Behold I am going to feed them warm wood and make them drink poisonous water For the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has gone forth into all the land because of them Verse 16 thus says the lord of hosts do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you Look what he's saying. Look what they're saying. They are leaving you into futility. They speak a vision of their own imagination Not from the mouth of the lord. That's the important part This what they're what they're saying is not from the mouth of the lord They keep saying to those who despise me the lord has said you will have peace You will have peace As for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, they say calamity will not come upon you Nothing bad is going to happen to you Which is why you hear people say things like um No weapon formerly against you shall prosper. Well, first of all, that's not for you That's for israel too. That was for a time being But they'll save these comforting things to let you know that nothing bad is going to happen to you You're going to be all right. Okay All right, so god doesn't punish well, he does punish and so stop telling people that only good things are going That's what they're doing here And so why I put that chart up is because they're getting ready to go into the exile And you've got these prophets saying no, we're not going to the exile But you are going into the exile and so That's the point here and but even though he calls these prophets who are evil who are wicked Who are not giving the word of the lord? He is saying he is saying that these prophets are prophets They're just false prophets. They're giving utterances and they didn't come from my mouth Uh, doesn't that still apply today? Uh, mr. Nitty-gritty says, yeah Yeah, god hadn't changed and so anyone that corrupts his word Anyone that distorts his word anyone that turns his word for the sake of their own gain or make people feel good Anything that they say that goes against the word of the lord or as he says his counsel the lord They will be dealt with now Let's just say this because I think that needs to be said also What is a prophet and do we have prophets today? Well, again He says it acts to that I will pour forth my spirit and all mankind and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy They will give a revelation. They will give utterances from god Our way most commonly is going to be from the bible Just because you open the bible and give an utterance from it is the bible still from God's mouth Sure, it is and so i'm giving a revelation. So that part is fine Now does that make you part of the office of an apostle? No, you're not in the office I'm sorry of a prophet. You're not in the office of a prophet. No, that's a little bit different. Okay You will prophesy, but you won't be a prophet Okay Very big distinction Very big distinction But if someone calls you prophet Because you're doing these things so truth be told if a person calls him a prophet He could go he could go by that title But when they call themselves prophets today, they're not claiming it in a generic sense They're not claiming it in the sense that that we're saying right here. They're claiming in the same sense of Isaiah and Jeremiah someone that's literally hearing from the word hearing hearing the word from god They're in some special prayer room where the lord is always speaking to them They're getting all of these revelations these interpretations and so forth Well that person remember going back to deuteronomy If that person says something and it's false That person does not speak for me. That is a false prophet Are you with me? That is a false prophet So when someone says something God said this the lord said that didn't come to pass well Guess what you can do you can discount that person, but should I ever listen to that person again? Well, why would you? Why would you? It's not like that that the lord didn't have any anyone else to give you the word And by the way, you can go get it yourself Now if you're looking for words of wisdom or words of knowledge where you want answers to certain questions on How to do certain things a day that's different Because then you're not saying that this is coming from the lord We get together and we have a council. What do we think about doing this or Mary wants to do that. What do you guys think or frank thinks about this? What do you all think? Well, we're coming together. We're we're giving counsel, but we're not saying the lord said and so I caution I've caution Pastors before I've cost and just other preachers other people period Do your very best to not say the lord says because if he didn't say and then you say well, then guess what he's going to say You don't want to hear it. So If at all possible and it is possible do your best to not bring in God into the equation when he didn't insert himself It's okay for you to say I feel like this. I feel strongly about that But oftentimes you see someone said that the lord says because they want you to take their word. They want you to believe them But they don't want stuff of the consequence is the penalty for being wrong And then ultimately they'll say something like well, you didn't have faith Well when god gives prophecy how much how much when god gives foretelling prophecy future prophecy How much faith is required? How much how much faith do we see required when god gives a prophecy? When he says israel i'm taking you out of the land They didn't have to have faith for that. He's taking him out of the land when he's telling he's going to bring them back They didn't have to have faith for that. He's bringing them back So the prophecies aren't determined by your faith That should be evident. That should be clear. Just look at the bible. Look at the examples God has stated what he's going to do with or without you Irrespective of what you say or do or think or feel You don't move. He'll move you or move you out of the way Move right over you. Okay, so Why is all of this important? Here's why this is important In the church today You can call someone a true prophet but not necessarily having the office of a prophet But the person that's functioning most closely like a prophet would be who? It would be the pastor The pastor would be the one that's functioning most closely like a prophet And what did Jeremiah say he's going to have these prophets these shepherds gather their people And then what does he say notice remember what he says? None of them will go missing. Now he's speaking about Israel But it's going to be the same thing for us as well. None will go missing all of them will be kept and brought up Jesus tells Peter to tend to his sheep using that same word that's used there in Jeremiah for shepherds He's told that of Peter to do with his sheep Okay, same word that's used in Ephesians by paul This point may not see the shepherds to do that. So the prophet today Will Shepherd the people and teach them. How do I note? Let's go back to it really quickly to Ephesians 4 11 The word he was 411 says and he will leave some Prophets now not these prophets or could be those prophets, but I don't think so this word right here pastor teacher This word pastors the word promenades, which is what we see in the in Jeremiah and then teachers Which is the same word that he says in Jeremiah as well So these so these new types of prophets not the office of the prophets These folks that are given prophecy Are different than these prophets up here the ones that are given the as he gave some of his apostles and some prophets Their prophecy the the prophets in the first portion of this passage That it's different than the prophecy of the pastor teacher The pastor teacher prophecy is not saying the Lord told me the Lord. No This prophecy is just giving the word Shepherding the people guiding the people and teaching them Do I think there are prophets today? Well, I'm sorry. Let me take that off of there, but on the better screen Do I think that there are prophets today? Anyone that gives a revelation of God's word is a prophet Are there people in the office of a prophet? No There are no more people in the office of a prophet Matter of fact, even in that looking at that last verse we were looking at this is past tense that he gave So all of these things that he gave he gave apostles and he gave some prophets and he gave evangelists And he gave some pastors and teachers now All of these he's through giving. He's no he's no longer given anymore Unless he reiterates this and brings us up again We know for a fact that there is still talking discussion about people matter of fact Anyone who desires to be in this role So there so a person a man can desire to be in the role of a pastor So that part is still there. We still see the pomeanus. We still see those people today and called to be so We don't see anyone else after this being called to be a prophet or how to be a prophet Same thing for an apostle those two of this is done They were still in effect at this time But going forward. No, what about evangelists? Well, we're all called to be evangelists in some sort of way As a matter of fact, Paul says fulfill your um your role as an evangelist okay, so Those two parts of verse 11 are still in play the first two are not But in terms of a prophet who's just actually giving the word Well, then fine And as long as you do so faithfully it really doesn't matter If a person wants to be in the role of a pastor, I mean the role of a prophet He really wants to so bad. Well, then study the word study the word and give the word give it just like it says And then then no harm no foul and as a matter of fact the more you do so the more you realize I don't have to call myself a prophet I don't have to call myself anything. I can just be george The teacher george the shepherd george the bible suit George the guy down the street That's what I could be so What's the difference between pastor and teacher? There is no difference Well, there's a difference, but that's not two different two different roles You've heard people say that there's a five fold ministry and they get it from verse 11 Because they count five nouns They count five nouns and think it's talking about five different different things five different individual things The first one is apostle. That's one The second one is prophets That's two The third one is evangelist. That's three and then the fourth one is pastor teacher That's four It's not pastor for Teacher five. No, it's not that pastor teacher go together. Okay Depele manas chi the daskelus. That is the it's it's literally written That way in the greek where the two are the same So the pastor must be a teacher. There's no such thing was a pastor just given these topical sermons only He never opens the word never goes into it. No the pastor necessarily the shepherd necessarily has to teach And so if you have a church where a nice guy good guy was not teaching And you you just got a friend in the pool, but you don't have a got a buddy You don't have a pastor teacher Because that that's the important part that that we need to have an actual teacher. Now that that part is waning more and more as we move forward in the body, but That's what we have. So now why is that important since we all are called to Give utterances of the scripture. It could be our testimony, but whatever Something that magnifies the lord to give this prophecy to prophesy to proclaim to give a revelation With that in mind With all of that in mind, I hope this is making sense thus far. I hope it is Let me know guys if this is making sense because It needs to make sense so we can look at this last portion that is vitally important So While I drink my water Tell me hopefully this is this is making sense And you guys are understanding thus far because it's imperative As we go to this last portion vitally important So if that being the case If that being the case Why is it important? Let's go to this passage this passage is brought up a lot and we where we just miss it sometimes In 1 Corinthians 14 now we're told not to desire certain spiritual gifts We're not to desire spiritual gifts However, read 14 verse 1 Pursue love yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts or numitikon Now your english says but especially that you may Prophecy The word this shoes and I've covered this before My long day henna prof tuete it literally means there is no way around this But rather in order to prophesy That's that word again That's that word again. That's why when we have this discussion we get to 14 verse 1 and 14 verse 5 People aren't understanding what the passage is saying I understand that there might be a little bit of complication that's brought about by the english So that's why if there's any sort of discrepancy or misunderstanding Let's go as best we can to the actual language and it says my lawn day henna prof tuete But rather I want you to do so. I want you to desire these spiritual gifts In order that you prophesy This henna is a what's called a a purpose clause. This is why I want you to do this I want you to do this so that you will prophesy So that you will give an utterance a declaration a revelation from god. Are you with me? That's why it's important So these spiritual gifts Whichever the spiritual gifts are whatever this the numitikon is in you however the spirit moves It's in order so that you can give a revelation from god I will a revelation by god about god for god to bring people to god Are you with me? That's why this is so important The problem is in the church today people run of this passage and they don't want to give a revelation about god They want to actually talk they think it's talking to god That's the problem now that becomes a huge shift It becomes a huge Shift in what god so all this time god has been trying to give a revelation of him To people but when people go to this passage, they'll say no, I want to give I want to talk to you about me god That is not the that that changes the whole meaning from the beginning of of time to now Prophecy has always been given an utterance a revelation about god if it's not What have we seen in the past where prophecy was not about god was not about pointing people to god remember what Jeremiah just said About the false prophets They don't point people to god they they move people away from god and they give people good things to say they make them feel good That was the false prophecy That's what false prophets do He would not turn around and give us a spiritual gift to do exactly what false prophets did in the past But instead all prophecy true prophecy is from god is of god pointing people to god Are you with me? That's why he says Desire these gifts in order that you give a revelation in order that you give prophecy Not the gift of prophecy that you the lord came and Came in my heart and told me to tell you No Whatever you're going to do it's going to do it's going to be to give a revelation of god to glorify or to magnify god What he has done in your heart? Are you with me? That's why this is important. So if a person is a believer Persons are christian They have the holy spirit the holy spirit is going to move in them To cause them some sort of way shape from a fashion to give a revelation about god that will grow The body that will edify the body that will build the body That's the that's the problem that the false prophets had in the old testament They weren't building up the body. They weren't growing the body. They weren't doing any of those things This is why uh what peter talks about This is what jesus himself talks about this what paul talks about what these false prophets are not doing They do for themselves for the benefit of themselves And they lead people away from god That's the point guys so Yeah, count others more significant. That's what the prophet did the prophet's job was This is why he starts using this this word of shepherding Of keeping them together having them in this pastor and directs them to them Which is why it's important to teach the teachings are so important Given the word may not you may not be able to give a lot of fluff There are some pastors who don't have the ability to kind of Save the word a certain way to make folks feel good. That's okay. That's okay As long as you can teach the word You give the word and then watch what god does God then takes those words That literally came from him and the fact that you're honest And the fact that you are giving the word the right way. You're not trying to lord I wish I wish I could preach like this person or preach like that person. That's fine Maybe you can't no problem But the words literally come from god You put them out there watch what god does as the bible says it's god who Gives the increase somebody plants Somebody waters, but it's literally god who's giving the increase and so you put the words out there God is going to cause this to grow in somebody's heart It's his word and then watch how he deems you to be faithful Whether you're a pastor whether you're somebody on the subway train whether you somebody walking with somebody Doesn't matter god is going to work in what you do you being faithful and then watch how god blesses you now How's he going to bless you? I don't know. I don't know Is it going to give you a brand new job give you a 40 percent increase of 40 percent raise Is it going to fire your boss when you don't like and then make you the boss? I don't know I'm not saying that what I am saying is a one thing is going to do is give you some peace That's one thing he is going to do and then what you will have is somebody who has grown as a result of you being faithful to the word The word is what comes out as a result of true prophecy a true prophet will always give god's word Amen