 I want to find something in the Bible, or if you want to get an understanding, I should say, let's put it this way, if you want to get an understanding about something pertaining to God, if you want to get an understanding about what God is doing through His Spirit, that is the Holy Spirit, if you want to find out how the Spirit moves, if you want to find out what's the purpose of the Holy Spirit, and what's the purpose of Him moving, what He wants to do, what is God's goal, what is God's aim, what is God's in-game in using the Holy Spirit in us. If you want to find out what it is, I've got a question. Where would you go to find out what God means to do by the Holy Spirit? Where would you go to discover what the purpose of the Holy Spirit is? Where would you go to see how the Holy Spirit is supposed to be in our life? Where are you to go to find out how are we, if we have the Holy Spirit, how we should conduct ourselves? I wonder, is there such a place? Maybe what we ought to do is lift our hands and pray, Lord, will you send me some supernatural revelation? Nothing written, nothing written, I need to get it by the Spirit. I need you to just tell, matter of fact, if you could just send somebody to knock on my door, or someone to come and give me a, what do they say, a right now, Ramaward, if you can just do that, God, I would take that. Is that how we find out what the Holy Spirit is doing? What He's up to? Well, obviously not. And what I want you guys to see, I want you to notice, there is something really, really, someone said, turning up. Well, what I'll do is I'll move this closer. Let's see. Let's check this out. What I want you guys to do is to notice what nefarious activity is happening in the church. This is the biggest. It's not even close. It's not even close. The biggest problem that the church is facing. The biggest problem that the church is facing is this issue as it relates to the Bible, not reading the Bible, not understanding the Bible. Matter of fact, I wouldn't even say not even under. It's not an issue of not understanding the Bible. That's not an issue. Our issue is not that our issue is not actually reading the Bible or wanting to understand the Bible or take what the Bible says as true, not letting the Bible be the be all end all. See, it'd be one thing if our arguments, if our discussions, centered around how we saw the Bible, what we thought about it. I see the word this way. You see it that way. That'd be one thing. But what we see now are people who are not using the scriptures, even though they might say or hold to Sola Scriptura. And by the way, let me just say this to be clear. There's not a camp. There's not a doctrinal camp or theological discipline or a doctrinal group or confession that doesn't violate this. I don't care if you're the most liberal or the most conservative group. There are people that tend to violate this Sola Scriptura, as we say. There are those. But you see it more and more. There is an explosion in one particular group. And there's a reason why is because they're not beholden to the Bible. Now, this isn't, although we're going to cover it, this really isn't so much about things like being slain in the spirit. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about a lot of things, but we'll use some examples dealing with slain in the spirit, because there's a bigger point. And I want to see if you guys can notice this. We're going to look at why we have the Holy Spirit. What's the purpose of the Holy Spirit? But before we do, there was a man. There was a TV show that I used to watch even before I became a Christian because I thought that, OK, that's what any good Christian person should watch. And, of course, I wasn't a Christian, but I wanted to one day, maybe possibly when I slowed down, become a Christian. And that was the 700 Club with Pat Robinson. I mean, the man looks like he was around just after Jesus died. And so he surely knows what's happening. This man, I thought, was impeccable in his understanding of the word. But as I find out, as I listen to him, no, not so much. And so I want you to listen to him as well as his son. By the way, on these, I do have the the speed of all of these clips sped up. So if you're wondering why they're speaking so fast, that's the reason why I just kind of get through these. But they're talking about being slain in the spirit. They're going to talk about tongues and so forth and other aspects of the spirit. But you're going to find a common thread in there's four people that we're going to look at. We're going to hear from. You're going to find four. I mean, you're going to find a common thread in all four of them. So let's start with the Robinsons, Pat first, then his son, Gordon. And then we'll move forward and you'll hear them saying kind of a common theme. There's a common thread in all of these. They came to take Jesus. He's in the Gardening Assembly praying and he came out and they said, we're looking for Jesus and I'm the one. And they fell back. The power of God was so overwhelming that their human strength was taken away from them. We find also in the presence of an angel, somebody says they fall down like they're in a swing. They they they they can't stand it. Our human bodies can't stand in the presence of enormous power of the. Now, they're talking about, in this case, the question is, is being slain in the spirit, is that biblical? Without question, it's not biblical. And we're going to say, I'm going to tell you why it's not biblical. And even they will agree to it. But what they're doing is what he's doing is he's speaking of times where someone is on the ground because of God. And so to them, that's being slain in the spirit. Well, the counts that he's given on every account that he is given, he's given of someone who does not have the Holy Spirit. So that that person could not be slain in the spirit. But let's continue. I want to see if you guys can start hearing this common thing, this common thread. Invisible world. So is that biblical? Yes, it's biblical. I don't know what happens, but I do know that the anointing of God is sufficiently strong. And some people fake it. Some people, you know, they do all this and now he says, I don't know what happens. That's your first cue. That's your first clue. That's your first key. I don't know what happens. Should you know if something like this is happening, should you know what's happening? And that's not what we're talking about. But sincerely, when the power of God is present, it isn't unusual. The spirit is real. And then the whole expression slain in the spirit comes from Revelation chapter one, where I fall down as one is dead. And OK, now, before we continue, let's look at this. That is one, one passage that they can go to. Let's go to this passage briefly and let's just see Revelation one, 17. When I saw, by the way, this is John who is on the alipatmos and gets this revelation from God. And he says, when I saw him, I fail. And this word I fail is a payside, which is it's in the senior heiress active. It's not in the middle voice. It's not in the passive, which means he was not knocked down, which means he does this on his own. But look what he says. I fail at his feet like a dead man. And the Greek word for like is host, which means like. So he's trying to explain how he was. We know that when someone is supposedly slain in the spirit, they lose control. They're maybe out of consciousness or what have you. Clearly, John knows what's happening, because John's writing about what's happening. This is not being slain in the spirit. And by the way, it does not even say or anything remotely likened to slain in the spirit. But if you've got to search and find scriptures to try to back up your doctrine and you can't. And that's the best you come up with. Then you have no doctor. Because what you're going to find is there just are no scriptures they can point to. There are. Was John slain in the spirit? Well, this is not even what his father described. The presence of God overtakes you when you fall. No, this is John doing so on his own. We know so because this is him doing it. This is not it happening to him, such as when they came to arrest Jesus and he says, I am he and the presence knocked them back. Well, they weren't one of the ones slain in the spirit. One, because they weren't in the spirit. Number one, that happened to them. John did it on his own. So let's go back to what he's saying and let's see if we get some some more clarification. And so it starts with it was the Lord's day and I was in the spirit. And then John has this great revelation of Jesus as the alpha and omega. And he falls down as one dead. So that's where we get slain in the spirit. In the Old Testament, there are plenty of examples when people get in the presence of God, they fall down. Balaam being one, Danry of the spirit lifted him up, which means he was down. So there are lots of examples when God shows up, we tend to fall as an interpretation. Now, by the way, all of his examples, his examples are horrible. First of all, the examples that he brings up about Balaam and all the other folks in the Old Testament, these people, when they fail, they did so voluntarily. When he speaks of the spirit lifted him up, that clearly isn't the same as being slain. The spirit is that that's not the same. And so it is now you're looking for a text to plant your doctor. We don't have that. And again, none of these people have the Holy Spirit. So you cannot say slain in the spirit if they were not in the spirit. Now, I want to see if you guys are catching on. We're going to use Dr. Brown. He covers this issue as well. And he he gives a thoughtful. As close to scholarly position on this appointment on this as possible. However, you're going to notice something that's missing. Obviously, this one has a teaching. This one has you and allegedly the Holy Spirit overpowers you and you you fall backwards or sometimes fall to your knees or even fall on your face. Is that the Lord? If so, why don't we have it attested in scripture? Now, we know it's written first Corinthians chapter 14 verse 40. Paul talks about doing everything decently and in order or according to order. Now, it's interesting. Also, if you look a little earlier, a few verses earlier, Paul talks about the Spirit's order being this one has a tongue, this one has an interpretation, this one has a prophecy, this one has a teaching, this one has a revelation. So it may not be the order that we're used to in a lot of our church services. But the real question is, is this biblical? During the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, before he goes on, I want you to listen for his biblical proof for this being an actual occurrence by the Holy Spirit, theologian in the early 1700s, mid 1700s in America. He made the comment, we ought not to limit God, where he hath not limited himself. In other words, there are things that are unbiblical. They are contrary to the word. They are sinful. They are to be rejected. There are other things that are extra biblical. They are simply not spoken of in the word. They are not recorded in scripture and scripture. So now that's his point. His point is, notice not a Bible passage, not a scripture. But he says, well, because the Bible doesn't specifically say, don't do this, then it's OK. Well, my daughter would go and jump and get in the car and drive to her friend's house because I didn't specifically say, Bailey, do not go get in the car and go anywhere. Now, she didn't have a license either, by the way. But daddy, you didn't say not to go do so. This is tatamount to what we're having. And notice he's pointing to Jonathan Edwards. You're pointing to Jonathan Edwards. When you listen, point to John in the Bible, point to somebody in the Bible and there in lies our problem. Not give us specific guidelines. For example, if someone is shaking, can we evaluate? Is that the spirit or not based on how they shake? If someone is crying, can we evaluate? Is that the spirit or not based on the tears? Is the heart beating? These are some of the things Edwards talked about, that the Bible doesn't give us these guidelines. When the heart beats like this, it's the spirit like this. It's not the spirit. No, the things that are not explicitly recorded in scripture and that do not violate guidelines of scripture must be judged by the overall fruit. It's the same with quote being slain in the spirit. You say, well, hang on. There's always a precedent in church history. Well, there's been a precedent for many, many years now that this has happened when people are. So he says, hold on. There's a precedent and what does he say the precedence is? Church history, what's been happening throughout history? First of all, it hasn't been happening a whole lot, except now recently. That's number one. And so we don't look to what's been happening in the church as our model. We look to what's been happening in the scriptures and what the scripture says. So I understand that there are people that feel like that. I see in the chapter, some people, they feel like they have been slain in the spirit. I will say to you that Biblical, you have not. I get what you felt. I get the I get the emotional euphoria that surrounded you on one particular day and you were yearning and you was zealous for the things of the spirit and you fell backwards. Do you know how easy it is to fall? Do you know how easy it is to fall? Again, let's just think about our anatomy. Our feet go this way. Not that way. And so if you're standing there and let's just say you're just you're not trying to fake it, you're just really yielding and someone pushes you. It doesn't feel like they push you a lot. They just push you, lay their hands on you. And next thing you know, you're going backwards. You didn't feel the push. You didn't feel the subtlety of their push and you started going backwards and you didn't do it on your own. So it must be the. But again, we don't have a scripture for that. And I understand. Yes, he might be would you say, respectfully, he might just be leaving room for some things that we may not be able to understand. God gives us all that we need to understand in regards to our salvation and to what the purpose of the spirit is. Do y'all know what the purpose of the Holy Spirit is? What is the purpose of the Holy Spirit? Good question. Glad jazz. Let's go to Ezekiel. Let's go to a couple places in Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Ezekiel says, and I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them, and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statues and keep my ordinance and do them. Matter of fact, I wasn't going to go there, but the same thing holds true in 36. So let's go there as well. 36, let's start in 25. And he says, then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. And I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and you and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes or teachings and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. And Jeremiah says, he says, and I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of the children after me. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them and they will not and to them do good. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn away from me. Well, when he puts his spirit in us, the reason for it is because we are wayward. His spirit is in us to help control us, to guide us, to move us in order to work and move according to his teachings. Well, if the spirit is given for us to move in a course with his teachings, then should we find a teaching for us to move to? In other words, here's what I'm saying. He's not going to give us the Holy Spirit to move according to his commands, according to his teachings. And then there is no command of teaching for us to move to. We find something that's not commanded, something that's not taught, no teaching, and we move according to that. Well, moving according to how we feel or something that's not taught by God was the problem in the first place. They were moving according to their own feelings, their own emotions. That's the point, guys. God understands that we need. We're like children. Let's be honest, we need rules. We need to be told what is and what isn't where to go and where not to go. Otherwise, we are subject to our own dictates, our own notions. We'll move however we feel like moving and what we'll do. We will blame it on the spirit. The Lord, I just felt like the Lord placed it in my spirit. The Lord moved me how many times. Let's be honest, guys, and I know the number will be astronomical. How many times have you done something felt like when you did it? That the Lord was moving you that way only to find out it was not the Lord. It was you. That happens because what do we still have to deal with this flesh? I don't care how pretty you are. I don't care how wonderful your skin is. I don't care how silky smooth your skin is. I don't care how much aging, anti-aging cream you've got. I don't care. Your skin is still horrible and corrupted. And when we lean to it, we go all sorts of directions. And it's so good, so wonderful, our flesh that we don't even know we're being led by our flesh. We see stuff, we hear stuff, and someone can tell you the Lord wants you. By the way, have you noticed this? There are people that tend to blame the spirit that tend to be the most impatient people. Our impatience, we try to compensate for it by blaming God in the spirit. Here's what I mean. You want a blessing. You are in financial need. You're in a physical need, whatever it is. And then you hear someone that says something that's tickling your ears and moves your spirit. And you say, yeah, the Lord is speaking to me now. The Lord, I've been struggling with debt for the longest. And I hear someone giving a wonderful, motivating sermon about money. The Lord is speaking. The Lord wants me to the Lord wants me to have the Lord is moving. And I know it's the Lord. Well, no, no, no, you're just not good at saving. You just spend too much on McDonald's and every other streaming subscription. Yeah, you haven't figured out how to invest, how to save. It's not the Lord. What happens is this, what happens is you want something so bad that you'll speak in tongues about it. You want something so bad. You'll fall over over your neighbor and say that you were slain in spirit over that one thing. When people are having these emotional outbreaks, I promise you, without fail, there's something there's a there's a hidden issue behind it. And it might even be a legitimate issue. Might be something with the marriage, with the children, health, finances. But something tangible is moving an intangible response from you. I'm sorry, something intangible is moving a tangible response. Something that's going on back at home or at the job or what have you is causing this emotional desire, Lord, I'm seeking you. But you know how you really, really, really, really know that you're being moved by the spirit when you start trusting God. Yeah, you have a health issue and you're going to every faith healer rather than saying, you know what, give me the cane. I'll walk with the cane as long as I'm walking with the cane in the Lord. We don't want to do that. No, I want to get rid of this cane. I want to get out of this wheelchair. And if it means me falling over backwards and frothing at the mouth, well, then amen, then amen. And then you don't get it. And you go to the next person next, you know, well, where is God in all this? Why has the Lord forgotten about me? He hasn't forgotten about you. He's trying to keep you right there. Matter of fact, if you had two good legs, you'd run away from him. So he's trying to get you in a point to where you can see and hear him. And you find that in the scripture. You find all of this in the scripture. So when someone comes and tells you, no, no, no, I want to. I don't know what I just did. I just don't know what I did. My computer has asked me to empty something. I have no idea what he's asked me to empty. So let's hope my computer stays up. I hit a button, so I don't know what it was I just did. But I'll be careful, though. I'll start looking down and making sure I hit the right buttons. But when someone tells you that they can't find a scripture for what they're doing, that's a person that's going off of feelings. And that is not a person you ought to listen to. Because guess what children do? Children move off of emotions. That's what children do. And by the way, I'll come back to some of you all's responses just a little bit. I'm making note as we go. But let's continue listening to that. Did we end up? Did we finish with Dr. Brown? I think we did. Someone prays for you and allegedly the Holy Spirit over powers. That was it. But now I covered this before with David Diga Hernandez. Again, thoughtful in their responses. But again, they are missing the scriptures. As a matter of fact, not only are they missing the scriptures, they're telling us that they're not in the scriptures and just because it's not in the scripture. Just because it's not in the scripture, that's no reason to call it unbiblical. Let that sink in for a second, but I'll let you hear him say so. I believe that the manifestation should be rejected because it is extra biblical. Let me first address the concern that being slain in the spirit is anti-biblical. There is nothing in scripture that specifically condemns the manifestation itself. The manifestation cannot be considered anti-biblical as there is nothing in the scripture that labels it as demonic or of the flesh. Those who say it is anti-biblical say so without any justification whatsoever. Those who say it's anti-biblical or unbiblical do so without any justification whatsoever. Yeah, the justification is a real justification. That is, it's not in the Bible. That means it's literally not biblical. To be biblical means it's in the Bible. To be not biblical or unbiblical means it's not in the Bible. If I had a class of first graders and I presented them to them, I would say if it's in the Bible, it's biblical. The kids would say, yes, teacher, if it's not in the Bible, then it is not biblical or un-biblical. They would say, yeah, and I'd give them a quiz over it, two-question quiz, and they would all get 100%. So to come back and say there's no justification, really is a slap in the face of those who want to actually read the Bible. Why do you have a Bible? Why do you have a Bible if you're not going to yield to the Bible? But let's finish listening to them. Now, what about those who reject the manifestation because it is extra-biblical or not found in Scripture, as they would say? Here, I have to point out something. Just because you can't find an entire doctrine encapsulated in a specific chapter and verse of the Bible doesn't mean that it isn't biblical. Often skeptics will demand... Just because. Just because you can't find it in the Bible doesn't mean anything. Just because it's not in the Bible doesn't mean anything. My question is this, and my question would be the same for anyone. Why then do you have a Bible? Why then do you read it? But let's go back and let's hear him again. I want to have him in the right spot. Chapter and verse, please, as if every doctrine encapsulated in a specific chapter and verse of the Bible doesn't mean that it isn't biblical. Often skeptics will demand chapter and verse, please, as if everything they believe has a specific chapter and verse in the Bible. Let me ask you guys a question. Does everything that you guys believe about the Bible, is it in the Bible? Does everything that you believe about God, is it in the Bible? If there's something that you believe about the Bible or about God that's not in the Bible, then you don't know what you're thinking. You have misplaced understanding. Think about that for a second. If you believe something about God and it's not in the Bible, then where'd you get it from? I think God gave us what he wanted us to have or what he wanted us to know. But again, this is this new fangle teaching. This is new spiritual stuff. That's what this is. Guys, this is really living in the spirit. Yes. Do you know what I can say? I have hair in the spirit. I can use the exact same thing that they're doing. They'll find something that's not because you don't see it in the Bible. You have to see it in the spirit. Well, you've got to see my hair in the spirit. So right now, right now, I have a comb over in the spirit. Tomorrow, I'm going to brush it forward and have some waves and put a part in it in the spirit. That's right. I've got hair in the spirit. You know what I'm going to do this weekend? This Saturday? I'm going to get real southern in country. And in the spirit, I'm going to have a Holy Ghost mullet in the spirit. You've got to see it in the spirit. You don't have to actually see it. No. Thank you, Regina. And Monday, I'm going with Afro in the spirit. It's the same thing we're talking about because I don't see it. I've got to yield to the spirit, but the spirit literally gave us the Bible. What come to that point in a second because of how they are? Guys, listen, it is an intentional and intentional demeaning of the scriptures. We don't need the scriptures as much as... Well, if we don't need the scriptures, who do we need? You need me to tell you what I'm saying? That's really the point. That's really the point. Now, I'll say a lot of other things using the Bible. That way you'll trust what I'm saying. Then when I come to another part, I've gained so much trust in you. I've gained so much trust in you that it is easy for me to fool you. For example, the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture, which I absolutely believe, is a doctrine that isn't summarized entirely in a single chapter and verse. Sure, you'll find Bible verses that speak to the Word of God being perfect and unquestionable, such as 2 Timothy 3, verses 16 and 17. But that Bible verse itself doesn't define what books specifically should be in the Bible. It takes the study of the Bible as a whole to see that the... Okay, wait a second. That book specifically didn't tell... Okay, wait a second. First of all, it does tell us specifically, and it says that all the scriptures are. Do you know there's a way that we can know which scriptures belong and which scriptures don't? But look what he says, though. He says it takes the Bible as a whole, as if that makes his point. That doesn't make your point. So can we take the scriptures as a whole to prove or disprove how you see tongues? No, we cannot, because you go to one passage and you twist it, and that one passage you twist goes against everything else we've heard about, tongues and so forth, and the Spirit, as relates to being slain in the Spirit. You don't even have one passage to go to. Not much less saying the Bible as a whole. You can even find one passage when it relates to healing and so forth. How you guys do healing is not the same that we've seen in the scriptures and so forth. So you're now saying because it doesn't happen this way in the Bible, or because it's spoken of in the Bible, well, then we should just ignore it. That's blasphemous, guys. That is blasphemous, and that's a good way to get people inhaled. That's a good way to get other believers who are on their way to heaven. It's a good way to have them to have a life that's not abundant in Christ. I told you before, guys, my wife and I went to Hawaii. We flew to Hawaii, which was a long trip, by the way. We flew to Hawaii, landed in Honolulu, boarded a cruise liner, and we sailed around the Hawaiian Islands. Beautiful trip. I recommend you guys doing it. The problem is, first of all, those cruises aren't cheap. And they have these excursions. You know, the boat, dots or something, you go scuba diving, take a helicopter trip, you go whatever. Those cost money. Incidentally, by the way, do you want to know, guys, true story, true story, do you want to know the most visited place in Hawaii for tourists to go to? I promise you, you won't get this. That is unless you've been to Hawaii and one of the tour guys have told you this. But do you want to know one of those visited places in Hawaii for tourists? Walmart. Florida, I mean, when the guy said that. And so what do we all do on the tour trip? Go to Walmart and everybody's there. But do you know when we got there? We're paying for these excursions. Now, this stuff gets to be expensive. So we're like, okay, let's make sure we got enough here. Let's make sure that let's make sure because you don't want to get to the end of the trip is like, you know what? We're not going anywhere because we're kind of low on cash. We got back to Dallas. Had a good time unpacking. We're looking at the brochure. Did not realize as we went back to reading what we paid for went back and started reading what was paid for that that stuff was all paid for. Had we read, we would have understood. Had we just simply opened the book up and looked, we would have saw what we had coming to us. That's the problem that a lot of Christians have. That's a huge problem. And so what's happening though, there are many people who are just not reading the book. They're waiting for someone to tell you that. Books from Genesis to Revelation make up the perfect word of God. So my point here is that you're not going to find a single chapter and verse of the Bible, which specifically and completely gives us the foundation for the slain and the spirit manifestation. But the same is true about the doctrine of inerrancy. Eschatology. A couple things. One, he says that you won't find a single passage or anything. Well, you should. Number one, number two, number two, any of the other doctors that he's speaking of, we do find that name adopting that we believe that we hold to and we can't find scriptures for it. Even the ones that we disagree. Let's talk about eschatology at the end times. We've got folks that are pre millennial, post millennial, I millennial, pre trip, post trip, mid trip. We got. But guess what? Everyone will fall back on them. They will at least, even though we disagree, we will at least go to the Bible and come up with our conclusion. I read this in the Bible and came up with that. You didn't read this in the Bible and you came up with that. How? How can I then take your word? Everybody's not and I got everybody sitting and talking about Walmart. Because their souvenirs at Walmart are a lot cheaper. The exact same souvenirs as you go to this other place over here and over there, a lot cheaper. Walmart knows what they're doing. Walmart knows what they're doing. By the way, McDonald's is expensive in Hawaii. Oh, it's expensive. You think it's expensive over here. Go over there and eat McDonald's. Ridiculous. So anyway, I recommend going to Hawaii. Good trip. Save up, save up your trinkets, give some blood, fix some flats, whatever, cut some lawns and go to Hawaii. Now, I wouldn't live there. Ridiculously expensive. Plus, the timing is off. What time is it? It's five something here, right over there. It's what, nine, eight in the morning, ten in the morning. So hard to get used to. But anyway, let's get back to this though. But you have this dumbing down of the scriptures and the scriptures are not important. The scripture does not matter. Who goes to Hawaii to eat McDonald's? Well, when you're on the excursion in the middle of the excursion, as you're kind of moving around because you're off the boat, you know what? We're hungry. And so they got all these places lined up. And what happens is you think, I know McDonald's. I know what they have over there. If I'm going to spend $40 for some food, I may as well spend it on something that I know what I'm getting. And then what do we do? What do we do when we go to McDonald's? Now, I don't do this. My daughters do this. She said, no excuse. You know what? I think you would do it too. You'd be surprised at how long the line is at McDonald's. But do you know what happens? You go to McDonald's. I know what I'm getting. My daughters, my wife. Now, McDonald's hadn't changed a menu in 75 years. And she's going to get the salad. Or she's going to get the chicken. Chicken or the salad. Either way, but still. But you know the good thing about McDonald's? You know the good thing about McDonald's? Unlike these people, they have it written so that you can know what they have. You can know what's there by looking on the menu. You can read what's there. And you'll know what to expect because you read it. This is a chicken salad. This is chicken chunks with salad. So I should expect some chicken in this salad. In this Bible, there is no slain in the spirit. There is no what you're showing me, but I should expect it. Because of experience. Because the only thing that can tell me the reason why I should be slain in the spirit or speaking in these sorts of tongues or giving these sort of prophecies that are hit or miss is because someone's experience and someone's telling me to link to this. So let's hear this. Now, this is just as bad. And by the way, someone asked a question. Let me just let me answer this question. And I'll get to some other things that you guys have said. Someone asked this question says, Why don't you invite Isaiah Saldivar to your podcast to discuss his comments instead of showing only partial clip? Well, first of all, I cannot show. By the way, Isaiah is not on here. Or anyone else. I cannot show the end. Could you imagine how long this video would be if I showed all of their clips? But now if someone thinks that I've taken them out of context and someone would need to tell me what the actual context is, I'm not. You can go back and look yourself. But secondly, they've all been invited on. They all have every last person that I'm showing. They all have been invited on. They will not. Okay, so what do we do? Don't don't don't speak about something that's so pertinent because it's not just them that's saying these things. It's other people all over the globe. Now, so his final question was not put on the thing. He says, What makes you correct and others wrong? What actual scriptures? Well, let me tell you what makes me correct and what makes them wrong. See, it's not that I'm correct because I'm saying I'm correct. What makes me correct is I'm actually looking at scriptures. What makes them wrong is that they're not looking at scriptures. If you're not going to give me a scripture, well, then why should I listen to you? But if I'm giving you a scripture, what are the scriptures that relate to, let's say in this case being slain the spirit? Look what God says. God says like a city that is broken into and without walls is a man who has no control over his spirit. No control. No control. So that's what, by the way, look at the Bible says, the Bible says, is this is Titus one nine and man one nine? Yep. There it is. Holding fast the faithful word. By the way, this is the faithful word that we're reading. The faithful word which is, which is in accordance with teaching so that he will be able to exhort and sound doctrine and refute those who contradict. Now, if we go to chapter two, let me just move down into he says, but as for you speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. Teach what accords with sound doctrine. So you only do what is taught in the scriptures. That's literally what he's saying. Do those things that you've been taught. If it's not been taught, don't do it. Can I ask you guys a question, those that might be inclined to disagree. If you take this same tact, because the Bible didn't say so, it's open for us to do so. Do the same thing when you go to work tomorrow. When you go to work tomorrow or you go to school, wherever you go, do the same thing. Well, you didn't say I couldn't pull all the levers. You didn't say I couldn't do that. You might get sued. You're going to get fired. You might go to jail. Do what you're told to do. Don't go to start making stuff up. Anybody been an army? The Air Force? The Navy? The Marines? Coast Guard? ROTC? What happens if you start doing what you want to? Well, even though it wasn't specifically told not to do, what happens if you start doing what you feel like doing? Well, Lieutenant, Captain, Sergeant? Mainly Sergeant. You didn't say not to do it. You didn't say I couldn't. You didn't say I couldn't shoot my gun over there. All right. Do you know what happens if you do too wrong, if you mess up too bad in the military? You're going to the federal prison. You're going to the federal prison. Do something that you weren't told to do because you thought it might be a good idea. You will be in trouble. Do I believe the Bible is contextual or literal? I believe it's both. Because to take it literal, you have to keep it in context. I have a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic, which means I'm going to, as I'm looking in context, remembering that I'm going to take it literally as it says, until I can. Which, by the way, this is, by the way, guys, the same way that we do everything else. When we read something, we read it literally until we can't read it literally. Okay. So let's say if we're reading a menu and it says at a court of, I don't know, milk, at an ounce of flour, at a pinch of salt, what is a pinch? That we can't take literal. How much is that? What if you've got hands the size of a shack? Well, a dog on a pinch might be this much. So we have an idea. So we take it literally. The grammatical part is we understand that there are grammatical rules that go with the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Aramaic. And then the historical part, that there is a historical aspect of this. So when we look at the prophets, the prophets are saying something. Who are they prophesying to? The northern king, the southern king? Are they prophesying during the exile or during the restoration? Those sort of things. So that's how we do it. And everything is to be done in context. When we read, let's say, for example, the book of 1 Corinthians. Paul is writing for a specific reason. When we read the book of Hebrews, you must have read Leviticus and be thoroughly familiar with the law and understand the context who he's writing to in the book of Hebrews. He's not writing at Gentiles. Gentiles are not in play in the book of Hebrews. It's Hebrew believers. And so that's why you see all this imagery. Same thing when you're looking at the Gospels. Matthew has a real rich and distinct view of what Jesus is doing in view of the law to these Jews. John and Luke. Luke is the book that speaks the most about women. Why is that? So these things need to be taken into context or in mind when we're reading these things. And so, yeah, you take it literally as until you can't. Keeping in mind the grammatical and the historical implications, meanwhile, everything is kept in context. Okay? Let me give you an example as a matter of fact why you said that. If I say, if I say, seek and you shall find. Now, I do this in some Bible studies. Seek and you shall find. What does that mean? Well, somebody might say, well, if you seek the Lord, you'll find him. Amen. And we've got scriptures to back that part up. If you go after something, you'll find it. Amen. And we've got scripture, but that's not the context of that passage. So now we step back and look at it in context. He says, friend, say a friend of yours comes in town and he's got a friend, a friend of your neighbors comes in town and he knocks on your door and says, I have a friend that's coming in town and I need some bread. And you say, nope, everything's put up. My kids are asleep. Nope, everything shut tight. And he keeps asking. The Bible says, though you won't give it to him because he's your friend, but because of his persistence, you will give it to him. Therefore I say, seek and you will find. Now what does seeking you will find mean? Everyone ends up saying, oh, be persistent. That's the point of that passage that Jesus is making. And so we should be persistent in how we choose Christ, which shows us our faith. I'm going to keep knocking, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. I ain't going nowhere until you bless me. If you don't bless me, I'll still be here. That's the point that he's trying to get up to. So now that being said, that's how we ought to apply the scriptures. There's a primary application and then there's a secondary application. And the primary application too often is that we want to be like everybody that we see in the Bible. You know how when kids watch Marvel comics or DC movies or whatever, they want to be that person. When I was younger, I wanted to be Luke Skywalker so bad, so bad so that every girl I thought was cute had either one or two balls on the side of her head. She couldn't know. She couldn't have a ball in the back of her head on the top of her head. No, because Princess Leia didn't do that. Princess Leia had the balls on the side of her head, her little hairballs on the side of her head. So that's what I wanted. I wanted to be that person that I saw. Too often, too many grown men and women want to be Paul. Too many grown men and women want to be Peter. Some folks want to be Jesus. Some folks want to be God. Amazing, isn't it? But that's what we have. We need to learn how to apply the scriptures the right way. There's a primary application. There's a lot of primary applications for us. But there's also secondary applications for us as well. And we need to learn how to use the scriptures rather than our emotions. Now, listen to this and tell me, do you all feel like somebody or something's been blasting in this next comment? Typical, but it needs to be understood. Well, now, I want you to start like this. It is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And sometimes we can treat it like it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Scriptures. That's so cute. That's so wrong. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit versus the Father, the Son, and the Holy Scriptures. What that means is when people come and ask you, hey, well, give me a passage. By the way, he's one of the ones I'll ask. And I've asked him time and time again, give me a passage for what you're saying. I don't see this. Well, what does the Bible say? The Bible says, according to this Bible, these Scriptures, when you say Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit versus the Father, the Son, and the Holy Scripture, the Bible says all Scripture is inspired by God. Well, this word right here is Seah Nustas, which is God-breathed or by the breathing, by inspiration of God. And prophet for teaching and reproof for correction and for training in righteousness so that the man or woman, because it's anthropos, man or woman of God, may be adequate, equipped for every good work. So, guess what? It is by the Son, Holy Spirit, that brings us the Holy Scriptures. And so, no, we do not separate the Scriptures from the Holy Spirit or God, because this is literally his word. And so, to impute it in that regard, to make light of it, to push it down, because you think that your experiences matter, no, that your experiences do not matter. And remember that the Bible, at one point, the New Testament did not exist. It was inspired by God and written by men, and then it was canonized later. And when it was not written, what did we have? We had apostles and prophets. So, there we go. And by the way, whatever they did, as they were trying to figure things out, it still had to line up with what they did have. There was a time, though, they always had some writings, or they at least had people that literally heard the teachings from Jesus. And so, yes, we're going to look at Scriptures, but I would be remiss if I did an entire teaching about speaking in tongues, but didn't allow the Holy Spirit to be my guest of honor today. So, my guest of honor is the Holy Spirit, and I want you to, before I even jump into the Scriptures, to say I am willing to allow the Holy Spirit to teach me all things. What that is, is it feels good, it sounds good. The problem is, the problem is the problem is what I'm really saying is, I want to go ahead and rely on the Holy Spirit in place of the Word of God. Now, two Christians. Two Christians. We're going to talk about Christians here. Two Christians who have the Holy Spirit can disagree. I think this, and he thinks that. How do we know so? Paul and Barnabas. Both of them have the Holy Spirit. Disagreed over John Mark. Both of them did. Now, what happened, what the issue was, wasn't an issue of the Holy Spirit. When you disagree, how do you figure out what's right? Because it's not about who's right, it's about what's right. Well, what's right is literally written for us. Now, the question is going to be these manifestations of the Spirit that we keep seeing, are they necessary or unnecessary? Because what do they do? Other than nothing, what do they do? Nothing. Nothing. Now, as CG says, these videos are triggering him. Get used to it. Get used to it, CG and everyone else. You're going to see this more and more and more and more and more. It's going to become the norm. You have Mike Signorale. He's the one that says, we sit around snorting, trying to snort books. But it's going to become the norm. And so you better be prepared. Deal with it. How to deal with it. How to overcome it. Let me answer some of these questions. Uh-oh. Do I push it? Do I push it? I'm sorry. So what urges the people to be drunk or slain or to speak in these tongues? A desire to be... Paul says it this way. Their desire to be or their zealousness for spiritual things. I appreciate that. I get that. I was there too. I want to be so spiritual. Do you know how you know you're really spiritual? Do you know how you know you're really, really, really... Can I ask you guys a question? How many of you guys want to be really, really, really super duper, uper duper? I made up a word, uper and duper spiritual? I do. I want to be I want to be as spiritual. I want to be as close to God as possible. Well, if I am, let's look at how that looks like. Let's start in verse 18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the deeds of the flesh, here's how you know you're not under the Spirit. The deeds of the flesh, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, even jealous of dead apostles, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things of the like, will warn you that those who practice such things will not inherit from God's realm. But now here it is, right here. But the fruit, and the word for fruit is the Greek word karpos, which is the result. What emanates, what comes from the Spirit is love, joy, peace. Wow. We could preach peace. We could talk about peace all day long. Because how is it that so many people who have the Holy Spirit say they have the Holy Spirit don't have peace? How could that possibly be? I understand there are going to be some times where I'm bothered by this. I get that. I get that. But there's sort of peace that surpasses all understanding. You know, the kind of peace that you claim to have when you're in church around other Christians? That kind of peace. Patience. Instead of trying to force the Spirit, Lord, I'll do what you say. I'll work out, however you move me, that kind of patience. Kindness. Hmm. Goodness. Faithfulness. Now here comes the big one. Here comes the big one. How we know there's a problem. Self-control. Self-control. Self-control. Being slain in the Spirit or speaking in language, you have no idea what you're saying. That is not self-control. You don't know what you're saying or what you're doing. And the command is to know what you're doing. There it is. Again, such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ, Jesus, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. So if you are, you have crucified the flesh with both its passions and desires. If you don't manifest the Spirit of God through their fruit, then it doesn't exist within. Well, exactly. So if you say that you are full of the Spirit, then you know what you don't need. You don't need signs. You don't need outward manifestations. All you need is His Word and a connection with Him. Closeness with Him. That's all you need, guys. That's it. That's it. More questions. And by the way, guys, thank you for the Super Chat. Michael LeMay says, Korra, I've been dating a lady who is in the church of God. The only thing that we disagree on is tongues. She's like an amazing, proverbial 31 woman. Should tongues be a deal breaker? I'll cut her loose. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I said yesterday that I wouldn't, if I were at a church and it was a wonderful church and that was an issue that they were still, I wouldn't leave for that. No. If there are other doctrinal issues, sometimes a kink in the doctrinal armor might show if she's a wonderful lady, she's a wonderful lady. No problem. She might be right. I'm kidding. But no, that is fine because what it does gives you guys an opportunity to grow in the Word and the study and the learn and so forth. What you need to do, Michael, is make sure she's subscribed to the channel. Make sure she's watched. I'm kidding. But no, that's not a deal breaker. There's a lot of things out there that can be a deal breaker. That ain't one of them. There's a whole lot of deal breakers. Honey, this is my ex-boyfriend. He comes around from time to time but he's just good with the kids. My family loves him. You don't mind him coming around. That's a deal breaker. That's a deal breaker. And you don't need the Holy Spirit to tell you that. So that is certainly a deal breaker. Paradigm shift. Thank you for the Super Chat. Thank you also for the Super Chat. Interrupts 165. It says John 16. 7 through 14 tells you what the Spirit will do. Matter of fact, let's go there. Let's go there. John 16 because you're right. But I'll tell you the truth. It is for your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away, the Holy Spirit will not come to you. But if I go, I will send you and he will come. I will send you because they do not believe in me and concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you no longer will see me concerning judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged. What he's speaking of, guys, is what he said early in 15 and 14. You guys with the Spirit in me is going to reveal the gospel to people. Amen. He said, I've been slain in the Spirit not on my own doing. The anointing was so strong. How do you know? Now remember, guys, I'm saying this because that was me. I've been slain in the Spirit and speaking in tongues and so forth and then when I compare what I was doing with what the Bible says, because how many of you have ever told someone they were doing wrong and showed them the Bible? See, it's no good for me to tell someone that homosexuality is a sin. I show them in the Bible and say, no, that's just your interpretation or whatever. I've got to go with the scriptures. If I'm going to hold them accountable to the scriptures, I've got to hold me in my entire denomination accountable to the scriptures. B.J. Taylor, thank you for soup chat. He says, this pastor once told me he felt a godly presence around me. Is this biblical? If so, please provide you can feel something to be wrong. Again, Paul did not feel a godly presence around John Mark. He was wrong. We got a we got a gospel according to John Mark, and then John Mark is asked by Paul. Hey, y'all, can y'all bring him to me? I'm on my way out. I need to see him before I go. You can feel a certain way. You know what happens a lot of times though, B.J., and matter of fact, any man can testify of this. Any man, I should say, who has been active in church or constantly going to church. If you've got good attendance at church and you are male, somebody's going to say, oh, the Lord is all over you. I think the Lord wants you to preach. The Lord wants to use you. Why? Because I'm here? Yeah, because most other guys aren't there. It happens a lot. Especially if you're a young man. Now, you might have that. If you're saved, well, then you do have the spirit of the presence of the Lord over you. If you're saved, so that's not a that's not a real great spiritual epiphany. So but don't use that to get carried away. I've seen many of people been told the Lord is this, this, this, and this on you and the person goes and start a ministry and next thing we know, we got transformation church. So that didn't mean that. I hear that all the time. It does. If you are male, two things are going to happen if you are a male at church. One, everybody's going to see the Holy Spirit all over you. That's a good young man. Good godly man. Secondly, if you're single, you are now a prize catcher. If you're a single man and you're going to church all the time and you look like you carry yourself properly. Boy, you got to beat the chicks off you with a stick because they want a good godly man. I've told me in the past before, if you want to find a good godly woman be godly yourself because you're going to stick out. You'll stick out and women will say, hey, something different about that guy. There is something different about that guy. There is something different about that guy and because of that I need to go investigate further. If you are in the Lord a godly man, you stick out. This is the truth. So true. Truth be told. Fornication is a lack of self-control. If you have the Spirit one, you'll have self-control and then the moments that you do it will bother you. It will bother you. When a person has the Holy Spirit that person is born of the Spirit. Jesus makes a statement. Let's start in verse 3. Jesus said, unless one is born again he cannot enter or see the kingdom of God. Born again is the same thing as being born of the Spirit or born from born of water and Spirit. How do I know? Because he's going to equate those three things together. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, Kenny. Nicodemus is confused. Jesus said, truly, truly I said to you unless one is born of water and Spirit. So now he goes from being born again which is the Greek word for Gephanophon born again, born from above he equates that to be the same as being born of water and Spirit which is what we saw in Ezio 36. We know this is the case and the Old Testament testifies this so if you don't know this, how would you know this? Because it's been in the Bible all this time in the Old Testament. Secondly, he goes on to say that which is born of flesh is flesh that which is born of Spirit is Spirit. So we have born of the Spirit, born of water and Spirit and born again. He goes on to say do not be amazed that I said that you must be first born again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but you do not know where it comes from or where it's going. So it is of everyone who was born of the Spirit. So those three things mean the exact same thing. If you are born of the Spirit one, that's the only way to be saved. That is the only way to be saved if you are born of the Spirit. Now, what happens to those who are believing? What he says, John 1 John 5 1, whoever believes or the Pistuan, our favorite word here, the ones that are believing in Christ that person is born of God. Gigantite, which is the same word that's used being born of the Spirit, born of God and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and observe his what? Wait a second. So we do have to observe his teachings not make them up as we go. Yes. So yes, the Bible may not say this and because it doesn't doesn't mean open opportunity for you to go and do what it doesn't say for you to do. No, we're going to love and observe, keep his command or in other words, the word is appointment which means we're going to do that's the word for do or to make we're going to do or work his commands. You got enough stuff to do in the Lord to try to figure out something that he didn't say to do. You got enough work on your hands for whatever is born of God overcomes the world because you're born of God then guess what you naturally overcome the world and this is the victory in the world, our faith. Guys in the garden and we're going to say this forever and ever and ever, the scheme was simply diminish what God has said what did the enemy do? What did the devil say? Did God say? And then oftentimes we repeat what God says like Eve. Yeah, God said don't do this, don't touch and so forth. So that's not enough to get rid of the devil. Just because you repeat the words does not mean you're going to get rid of the devil. So what does he do? And he's been at it longer than you have that's not what it says that's not what it meant or because it didn't say that you can, no no and it's the same, he's got two tricks did God really say that or that's not what it means and so what have we been struggling with from Genesis up to 2023, the same thing can a person have the spirit and not or don't produce or not produce fruit? We can judge off that, we only judge well a person who has a spirit will produce fruit, the problem is we don't always see the fruit so it's not always outward and visible to us so it's not that Paul doesn't tell us, hey you guys examine others, no he says examine yourself so you know better than I do what sort of fruit if you indeed have fruit, I don't know I can see and say wow no, Dinah has no fruit I don't see it at all but then maybe someone who's by her yes she does yes she does Lisa has no fruit whatsoever, none that I can see she's always cussing folk out, she doesn't cuss folk out I'm just playing with Lisa and someone said no she does have a spirit listen she cusses cusses one person out a week down from ten a week I'm kidding there will be someone that will see it most notably you will see it you will know you will know if you're growing you will know if sin bothers you you'll know and you don't need an outward manifestation to prove to you or to others that you have the spirit, that you are led by the spirit because the things that you'll notice is that you loved his word if you don't love God you're not safe, you don't have the spirit the number one key to figure out if you're safe or not do you love God secondly secondly I don't know if you guys can hear that I don't know if you guys can hear that that's an ice cream truck outside I don't know I have to stop the show there's an ice cream truck outside if you guys weren't here I would get out, I would get up and go run and go get me something there's an ice cream, wow how long has it been since I've heard one of those things you want to see 40 kids in the 70s or 80s running into it running in traffic ice cream man, ice cream man what can I get for a quarter what can I get for 50 cent what can I get for 20 cent get back in the day you can get stuff for a quarter you should be able to get cigarettes for a quarter 50 cent you can send your child to the store at age 5 or 6 or 7 I'm off topic because I hear the ice cream man like I hear the Lord calling my name but you should be able to know if you're saved by your love for God you know what else you're going to love if you love God you're going to love his word because he says if you love me you'll keep my commands my teachings that's his word if you love him if you love him you won't go looking for this is why I have the best I don't care what he might say the best chats on youtube look what she did she put ice cream cones up there that's right bomb pop or with the superstar then they came up with the strawberry shortcakes oh man ice cream listen my main thing though guys because they were the cheapest and we didn't have a lot of money was the little push ups the little orange sherbet push ups but every now and then you get a push up and the little stick that you pushing up breaks off you're pushing up with your finger and your finger ain't long enough and so you got your whole mouth on your hands oh yeah good times good times again snow cones until we figured out we can make snow cones get you some Kool-Aid get you some Kool-Aid get you some ice crush it up and put a Kool-Aid on that's all these people have been ripping off kids for the wrongs with these snow cones but amen amen back on track see we can do a couple things at one time over here but if you don't love the lord you love his word if you love his word then nothing else matters nothing else takes premenence not your feelings not your emotions when you do feel a certain way when someone wants you to lead a certain way then what do you do you go to his word you go to his word thank you child young cat with a little ice cream picture we got some ice cream in there I'm going to get me some ice cream after I eat this bacon sandwich after I eat this bacon sandwich for dinner reading BLTs or is it turkey bacon clubs I don't know what it is there's going to be some bacon so we're good yeah I don't know who's bright idea was it but it worked though especially in the hood to have these little Kool-Aid straws on the ice cream truck it's ice cream but you're selling Kool-Aid they will make a dime off these kids in a minute yep so now everybody's going to get some ice cream so while you're going to get some ice cream make sure that you hold fast to your word don't let people do what the enemy has been trying to do get you to divert your attention off the word and look at these actions that people are doing it's fine if what they're doing is in line with the bible but you know it's in line with the bible if you check the bible amen