 We surrender to the rhythms of grace. We ask you for a fresh revelation of Jesus. To see you as you are. We need a fresh anointing. Sometimes we gotta get out of the prayer room and do what God told you so that you can go back in and get a fresh word, a rainbow word. God just said this concerning you. I just heard the Lord say, look up. I'm about to do something new in your life. Come on in in a way so you can get a fresh word from God for me today. God has done in the past is not good enough. Apparently God's word as it exists is not good enough. Apparently what God gave as far as the spirit, as far as our identity is not enough. There are people and now when I say this, I'm not saying that these people are not Christians. I believe that they are. Now are all of them Christian? No, just like all of those who are not aren't Christian. Every denomination, every doctrinal, every theological stance is filled with probably a majority of people who are not Christians. So what I'm getting ready to tell you, I want you to understand that I'm not saying that these people are not Christians. However, this is the worst doctrinal branch of Christianity by far. There's not even a close second. And what I've done is I've just kind of combined two groups to make them one because their lines are blurred. And what I'm talking about, the group that I'm speaking of are Charismatics. Are Charismatics Christian? Let me just say it loud and clear. Charismatics are Christian. But in terms of doctrine, in terms of being light on doctrine, I don't think there's a close second. I don't think there's really even a doubt. Why do I say that? Well, we look at some weird things out there and we don't get an awful lot of pushback. You would think that if they were concerned about the word, and let's be honest, guys, again, I'll say this again, and I don't mind them giving pushback. Now, there are some that are thoughtful. There are some that wanna stick to the word, but by and large, you don't see this. Matter of fact, what you end up seeing for the most part is if someone were to make one video too many about some Charismatic, then that person that does so will be labeled a what? A heresy hunter. And so they should be the same way. They should police those that are in their ranks as well, just as much as a matter of fact. It shouldn't be that a non-Charismatic is more outraising Charismatic about the things of the Spirit or about the word of God. That is a problem. We'll deal with that even more so, but if you notice, there is this push that's kind of cloaked in doing something new, a fresh word, fresh Rhemer word, a fresh anointing, a fresh move of the Spirit, something new. Sometimes we gotta get out of the prayer room and do what God told you so that you can go back in and get a fresh word, a Rhemer word, because he can't give you a fresh word until you've done, you know, it's kind of like Abraham wouldn't have got the memo not to kill Isaac if he hadn't have been willing to kill Isaac. It took him being willing to do the first part before the Rhemer or the fresh word came. Now, what he said is not biblical. Now, it's possible that what he said might actually have some truth to it. And I think there is some truth to it. However, it's not biblical. And so, first of all, when you see those as in this particular move, they're looking for something new, which makes me wonder, what is wrong with what we have? Why can't we use the word of God? All of us may be gifted in different areas, maybe more than others. And I mean, in terms of talent, in terms of the Spirit, I believe the Spirit moves in us as we are being used. And so, however the numaticon, the spiritual things manifest in us, that's up to God. I'll deal with this issue of cessationism versus continuations a little bit later. But the one thing that we all have in the exact same measure, I keep saying this, it is a fact, is we all have the word of God in the exact same proportion. I don't have any more access to the word of God than anyone else does. As a matter of fact, we all have a healthy access. What we are not lacking is the ability to hear or to read God's word. As a matter of fact, you can just ask Siri to take you to some particular page or what have you and have someone, you can go to YouTube. Let someone tell you what the word is. So we're not lacking the availability of God's written word. What we are lacking is a heart of people that cherish his word. And so, because it hadn't worked for them, because someone told them that being a Christian means that you're gonna have everything that you want in life. Being a Christian means that you should have a silver plate. You should have whatever you want. There should be no problems, although the word says that all of us are those that desire to live godly, shall suffer persecution. But the way it's been going for me, I don't like that. And it's because I've been operating in the spirit the wrong way, because we're emotional creatures and we like to hear people say things in an emotional fashion. As a matter of fact, we like to kind of dress it up a little bit to make us feel good to kind of set the stage. Because what heresy doesn't want someone to kind of set the stage, we can do it with music. And so you're gonna keep hearing this theme, even with nice song and so forth, that we're waiting for God to do something new. Tonight I believe the spirit of God is just gonna rush through this room and just bring a fresh revival in this place and a fresh anointing and a fresh wind of the spirit of God. No, no, no, no, no, Jeff, I am not giving us a fresh word. Far be it from me, I know you're joking, but to me, that is almost blasphemous. That is to say that what the Holy Spirit did give us was inadequate, we need more. I wish somebody would give us this, give us where this is found in scripture, this fresh word, this new word, this new move. I have an idea of some of the passages. We'll deal with those in a second, but have you ever seen people kind of pit Christians, different types of Christians against each other? Well, they'll say things like, that's a dry, stale, almost boring religion, and it's not about religion, it's more about a relationship, which by the way, that is an unbiblical statement. To say that what we have in Christ is not a religion, it's a relationship, no, it's both. Read your Bible, it's literally in the Bible that we are to have a good, a pure religion. What is religion? Just kind of how we do things. Now, I won't go into the technicalities of what the actual word means, but it's just how we do things really over and over again. You know what? I want to pray religiously. I want to read my Bible religiously, even when I don't feel like it, even because I want to have pure and a good religion, then I'm gonna read it. I don't always want to, but I get to, and so because of that, I'm gonna do it, and God honors me being obedient. But then obviously we have a relationship as well, but you're gonna see this push about pitting one side of Christianity is kind of being thinking, but not, but lacking the spirit. They're so focused on the word and the languages and hermeneutics and theology and exegesis and so forth, but they don't have the spirit, right? My religion is not going to be able to contain the move of the Holy Spirit in these last days. You can't put new wine in old wine skins. Now, before I continue, I wish that they would actually read the Bible because what he just said about putting new wine in old wine skin has nothing to do with what he's talking about. He's talking to Israel. He's talking about a new covenant, but far be it from me to say we ought to read our Bible and go with that. Then you'll be able to receive that fresh outpouring and anointing that God wants to do in your life. Where is this fresh outpouring, this new thing that they keep talking about? Let's go to some passages. Let's go to some passages. By the way, by the way, someone's gonna say, great, we should, we should, let's pray from these are brothers, but no, again, let's just start with a word from the Lord. Let's start with our brother, Jude. And what does he say? We've covered this a thousand times. We've covered a million other times. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our comments, I just wanted to write you guys and tell you how wonderful our salvation is. It's just, man, God is so good. He's great, he's awesome. Can y'all almost hear my Joel Osteen voice trying to come out? But what does Jude say? I felt the necessity to write you appealing, appealing to you. Coming onto the word is paracalon. By the way, do you know what this word is made up of? You know what this word is actually made up of? It's the same two words where we get the word, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I almost messed up. I almost messed up and gave you something false. I was gonna say this is the same as we get the word paracletas, but it's two different words. The two, the claytas and kaleo, two different words. I'm sorry, but because I have the word in front of me, I can adjust, I can correct myself. Whereas, could you imagine if I were of a certain persuasion, sound good? I would have went with it. In my old Pentecostal Charismatic days, not to be offensive guys, but I'm just gonna be, this is me, I would have went with it. I would have made that stuff. I would have said these two Greek words right here. It means this and this, and most people would not have looked it up. Oh, you're right, Corey, but you guys would have, because you guys are smart Christians, you gonna go and check and make sure. But this word is para, which is alongside or with and kalon, so to call. So this is to appeal. He says, I'm writing you, this is how you urge, I'm begging you, please, that you contend earnestly for the faith. Contend earnestly, this is what Jude is saying. Now, when we hear these people talk about a new thing, let's go and look up. Now, we're not gonna know all the passages that deal with a new thing. There's probably three passages that deal with a new thing. And as far as I can tell, there might be one, I guess if you squint your eyes and look the other way, you might see it, not in Isaiah, but they're pretty much found in Isaiah. Well, what is Isaiah doing? Isaiah is a prophet to, let's put it on the screen, since this is what we do over here. Let's put this timeline on the screen so you can see who he is. Isaiah is a prophet to who? To the Southern Kingdom. They are, this is during the time where, remember, they're going in the exile, they're gonna be coming out of exile. He's prophesying to the Southern Kingdom. And look what he's telling them. He tells them, let's start in Isaiah 43, let's start in 14. Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel, for your sake I have sent to Babylon and will bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans into the ships in which they rejoice. I am the Lord, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king. Thus says the Lord who makes a way through the sea and the path through the mighty waters, who brings forth the chariot and the horse, the armies and the mighty man. Let me drop down in verse 18. Do not call to mind the former things, important, do not call to mind the former things. Behold, I will do something new or I will do a new thing. Any idea what he might be talking about? I just wanna see if you guys catch this. He says, behold, I am doing something new or I will do a new thing. Now he's speaking to Israel. What do you think the new thing that the Lord is speaking about when he's talking to them? And I understand we can always glean something from the Old Testament. It's not that we can't take what we see in the Old Testament and not learn from it. We are literally supposed to learn as a matter of fact, we're told in Romans that they're ridden, the former things were ridden so that we can learn from them. But he's speaking about something new. That's correct guys, this new covenant. He is going to do something with Israel, this new covenant. How do we know? Keep reading. Behold, I will do something new. Now it will spring forth. Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness. Huh, who's this roadway in the wilderness? Rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field will glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches because I have given water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to drink, to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself. I will declare my praise. Now, this new thing is with who? Israel, that part is clear. Yet you have not caught on me, O Jacob, but you have become weary of me, O Israel. You have not brought to me the sheep of your burnt offerings, nor have you out of me with your sacrifices. Let's drop down a little bit further. 24, you have brought me not sweet, came with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifice. Let's drop down a little further. 25, I even I am the one who wipes out your transgressions for my own sake and I will not remember your sins. What is he speaking of? About their sins being atoned for in a new fashion. What is this to Israel? The new covenant. The question is, he says, I will do a new thing. Did he do it? Yes, he did. Matter of fact, as we used to say in the Pentecostal Charismatic Church, won't he do it? Yes, he will. He did. You want him to do something new as though what he did wasn't sufficient. What did he do for us? He gave us his son, Jew or Gentile, that we all can be saved. And so there's this desire to have something new done because maybe the old hadn't worked for you. And so what are we gonna act as? As that the old, the reason why the old is not working is because it's not it, I mean, it's not me as it. We need something fresh. We need something new. Now, when you ask people who are, and again, guys, let me say this again, this isn't National Beat Up Charismatic Day, but we're gonna beat you up just a little bit. I'm gonna beat you up a little bit because I want you all to be, if you're Pentecostal and Charismatic, and again, I blur the lines between Pentecostal and Charismatic, I'll tell you why in a second, but I want you to be diligent for the scriptures. I want you to have a heart for the scriptures. I want you to fight for, as Jude says, fight for or contend for the faith. It's the now, contend for the faith. What we believe, what we hold to. Remember, Paul says that he's being poured out now. His death, his end is at hand. But he said, I fought the good fight. I finished the course. He says, I have kept the faith, the tenets of the faith, the word, what we've been taught. And if anyone were to teach against this, like Alexander, he says, avoid that person. Leave that person alone. Beware of that person as he says. And so for that reason, we've got a problem. We're calling, not just Charismatic, but not Charismatic as well, to defend the faith and call out foolishness. You should beat us. You should beat us to calling this foolishness out. Why? Why should you beat us first? Why should every Charismatic person on YouTube or every Charismatic church call this stuff out? Because you see it before we do. You guys literally see this stuff before. If there's a video that's ever on this channel or the other channel that's dealing with somebody saying something or doing something that's foolish, because it's Charismatic, you should call it out first. It's sent to me. Now, there's a bunch of videos and clips that get sent to me, but you should call it out. Now, there are a lot of bad things that are in all the different denominations, all the different doctrinal persuasions and so forth. At the foremost of every group is sin. No one has a monopoly on sin. In other words, Charismatics don't sin more than non-Charismatics and non-Charismatics don't sin more or less. No, we sin in the same amount. How many people who profess to be Christians that actually are not Christian, that are in Charismatic, probably the same that are in non-Charismatics? Sensations versus continuation is the same thing. Sin is an issue for all of us to deal with, for all of us to deal with. But when we talk about something that's doctrinal, just go and find something where someone has said something that is just egregious in their performance and in the words that they say, you're gonna find it in one of two groups. And one of them is a cousin to the Charismatics, either the Charismatics or the Progressives. Progressive Christians aren't typically Charismatic, but they get their marching orders from Charismatic because hey, if I can do this over, if they can do this, if they can depart from the scriptures, well, shoot, so can I. Now, Progressive Christians though, I would say the difference between Progressive Christians and Charismatic Christians is that Progressive Christians by and large aren't Christian. I can't say that about Charismatics. I believe that Charismatic brothers and sisters are just that, brothers and sisters. But the Progressive, those that are advocating for outright sin, no, no, sorry. I don't believe that anyone that's advocating for let's say an LGBTQ theology, I don't think that person is likely a Christian. Now, could you say something and just say it out of ignorance? Yes, so I won't make a sweeping declaration that all the folks that hold to a Progressive theology aren't saved, but I would have to say it's the, that's probably the most worldly of all groups. That is, if indeed they are, again, since I'm not God, I can't make the final statement to say that Progressive Christians are not Christians. There probably are some people that are in the Progressive Church that aren't, it's like, hey, this isn't, I wanna be nice. I wanna be sort of inclusive, that's maybe what we ought to do and don't know better. But I trust the Holy Spirit will work in them and after a while they'll end up leaving. But I don't think, I don't know that everyone that grows in the Lord ends up leaving the Charismatic movement. Because I think that they have intentionally turned a switch off to say, you know what, I'm gonna make what I'm feeling over here, even though it goes against what I'm thinking about, I'm gonna make it fit. Because I'm surrounded by other folks that think likewise and feel likewise. But when we go on YouTube, or we go to Facebook, or we go anywhere else, when we look all over the world and we see these outlandish things happening, nine times out of 10, who are they? They're Charismatic. When we talk about the Mike Todd's or the Todd White's of the world, we talk about the Benny Heans and so forth, we talk with these folks of the world, the Stephen Furry's, even those that are more egregious or those that are mildly egregious, they're Charismatic. Stephen Furtick, he's Charismatic. His seminary was not, but he is now Mike Todd, Charismatic, TD Jakes, Charismatic, his daughter, Charismatic. This is what we're seeing. And then you're gonna be hard pressed to find churches that have decided that everyone can either preach the gospel to be women, or everyone can have a title, prophet, prophetess, apostle. You're gonna find those for the most part that are gonna be Charismatic. I haven't found, and it might be out there, so I'm not saying definitively, but I just haven't seen. You guys, have you seen a church or a preacher out there that are doing Charismatic things that aren't Charismatic? Now, the question is, what is a Charismatic? Let me just kind of give a little brief, a really, really, really, really, really brief history of the Charismatic movement. You'll find the bulk of it, of its genesis. It didn't just start with Charles Fox Parham, but he's kind of the father of Pentecostalism. Before there were Charismatics, there were Pentecostals. The Charismatics are those that believe in the continuing of the gifts, Charisma. But Charles Fox Parham, born in the late 1800s, he is the one, he believed that what was happening in acts should be normative. And he believed that people should be able to speak in tongues. As a matter of fact, end up thinking that that was the evidence of someone being filled with Holy Spirit. So much so that he said he placed his hand on the woman, anointed her what have you, and she began to speak in perfect Chinese. Now he didn't know Chinese, she didn't know Chinese, no one in the room knew Chinese, so how they concluded that it was Chinese? I don't know, maybe they just thought that's what Chinese must sound like. But, which by the way, it wasn't Chinese because what do most Chinese speak Mandarin? But that's another story. How did he find out that it wasn't that because he believed that tongues were an actual language? Well, they sent missionaries over to China. What did the Chinese people say? That ain't Chinese, that's not our language. And so he had to kind of move some things around and kind of get understanding. Now there were those also who also believed in this supernatural moving, this healing as well. We'll talk about that later on as well, by the way, they died, their family died because they could not heal. We'll talk about the healing in a second. Now, full disclosure, because someone's gonna say, Cory, yeah, but you are a cessationist. Excuse me, I'm not a cessationist. Let me say that again. I'm not a cessationist, okay? Now, am I a continuationist? I'm not a continuationist either. More on that later, but I'm not a cessationist, I'm not a continuationist, I'm what you would call a biblical continuationist. There's a difference between a biblical continuationist and a continuationist, because a biblical continuationist, when you see what we're seeing, that ain't no. What I'm gonna do is hold you accountable. If you say you've got the gift of tongues, it better look like it looked like in the Bible. So you got the gift of prophecy, it better look like the gift of prophecy in the Bible. You say you got the gift of healing, it better look like the gift of healing in the Bible. It has to be biblical. So that being the case, I would like to see the Charismatics call out more Charismatic people. Now, you've got a different offshoots, and what's happened of late, Charismatics kind of came on the scene in the 50s, 60s, 70s, more so in the 70s, you sort of see them spring up more and more and more, that's just these gifts being more involved, more in use. And so you've got different groups that have kind of branched off from the Pentecostal movement. You got a lot of large churches that started as a result of the Pentecostal movement, like the Ascendments of God, Church of God and Christ, United Pentecostal Church and so forth. You have some heretical doctors that have also sprung up because of that, such as this one that's apostolic doctrine that came from that. Now, that being the case, you see a blurring and when you ask a Pentecostal what they believe, they're gonna have the same sort of beliefs that are Charismatic and vice versa. So what I've done is for the sake of this, I've lumped them all into one big group because it's hard to differentiate, it really is. And so I've heard people say, well, I'm mildly Charismatic, or I've heard the term, what is it? Charismatic with a C, but I've heard some people say that, well, what does that mean? What does that mean? Well, but see, I've seen some things, I've heard some things, okay, can I ask you guys a question before we continue? Before we continue, I've got a question. Have you ever, at any point in time, not in your life, because I'm not one that's really, really all that big on your experience, what you think you've felt, what you think you've heard or seen. I don't know if you're lying, I don't know if you're hallucinating, I have no idea. Some of you all believe in demons, working that way, I don't know if it was a demon. I have no idea what you're talking about. All I have to go off of is the word of God. And so as I look at the word of God, you all tell me, you have the exact same word. Have you ever, in your time of perusing the scriptures, in your study, have you ever seen the spirit of God move and people not know that it was a move of the spirit? And when I say not know, and when I say people not know, I mean including non-believers. All throughout the scriptures, when the Holy Spirit, when the Spirit moved, when the Lord moved, everybody that was there knew it. It was evidenced, they knew. As a matter of fact, what did you see the Pharisees and the leaders say? Well, even we can't deny that something has happened. This person was blind. We talk about these healings, these weren't injuries that we didn't quite know about. These were injuries that were clear. Someone who was lame for all their life and now they're not lame. Someone who was blind from birth and now they're not. Someone who, the one with the issue of blood. Now, did he also heal people who had a fever? Sure he healed Peter's mother, or his mother-in-law. She had a fever. Could we tell she had a fever? No, but he healed some folks that were dead. We could tell that. Some folks that were, as they say, sure enough dead. For four days we've seen that. So we've seen the outrageous being spoken of here and the reason why we would call it outrageous is because you don't give us any proof. The Lord miraculously grew back three of my toes or was it two toes? I forget how it was. Had some toes missing and now they're back. You know how you solve that? You know how you cause everyone to believe? Show the picture of the foot without the toes. Anyone that's got an amputated foot or toe or what have you. I know they probably, more than likely, I can't imagine not having a picture of it. Can't imagine not having a picture of it. But then after the toes grow back, I'm pretty sure you've got a picture. You're gonna take your phone and video of that thing and share. Look what the Lord has done. When you do that, amen, praise God. That's why I'm a biblical continuationist. That's why I believe if a healing is done, a healing is done and everybody as even the nonbeliever say it, even we can't doubt that a miracle has occurred. Now they might want to give credit to someone else, whatever they at least agree that something's happened today. We can't even agree because what are they gonna say? That's blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. No, it's not, it's blasphemy of you. We're not blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. We're blasphemy of you. We're not saying the Holy Spirit can't do miracles. No, we're saying that we want proof from you. Not even saying that you can't do them. The Spirit can't, of course you can't. You actually can't. Paul couldn't, Peter couldn't, James couldn't, John couldn't. The only one that could was Jesus. Everyone else, the Spirit threw them. But that's fine. Could the Spirit, the pneumatico, and the spiritual things work through you? Sure, give us proof so we can glorify God as well. Otherwise, please be silent. Now, that being the case, what about there's, there are even scholars out there that are testifying. I have the book, Miracles by Dr. Gregg Kinnear. Gregg Kinnear? Gregg, I can't remember. I can't remember. Now, I haven't gone through all of it. I'm making my way through and looking at his testimony and so forth. And all of these testimonies are this person, be they credible or not, giving their word that this happened. And some of these are later enough to where there are photographs that should be available. There are late enough where there are videos that could be available. Yet, instead, now, Gregg, I haven't gone through all of the books. So maybe if I read later, maybe I'll find something. Oh, by the way, no one is saying that God doesn't heal. No one has said that God is through moving. I certainly wouldn't say that. I would never say that the Lord is not moving. I even have gone on record to say that I'm not saying that all the gifts have ceased. I don't, no, they don't have to cease. The moving of the spirit is at God's prerogative. And we don't know what he's done. Certainly the move of the spirit hadn't happened. I mean, hadn't ended. We know at the very end there's gonna be at least two guys are gonna be dead and gonna wake up. So has the new matika on stop? No, I don't think so. But is it moving like it did then? Well, if you let other people tell us, there are more healings, more prophecy, more tongues, more everything else now than it was then. However, notice, though, here is the, this is the most important thing. This is the most, I should say important, the most amazing thing. Tell me guys, do you find this amazing? When, when you say that there's an outpouring of the spirit now like never before. And they say that, or let's say not, even if you don't agree that it's like not ever before, but just now it's like what it was then. When the spirit was poured out, let's say from acts on, what happened to the region? Did this region, did this region that these, that the move of the spirit was happening, was there a change? Was that, was that local community changed? Yes. You know who said it was changed? Now, obviously as we read the Bible, we see, yeah, people's lives were changed. But do you know who else said that they were changed? The enemies of Christ. They said these people who have turned upside down the world. So there was a change even in that community, but how come there are so many people with the Holy Spirit? So many people with all of these different gifts. And we haven't seen the world changed upside down, especially not for the good. We see what's happening in the world and things are going the other way around. That all of these people with all of these, all of these spiritual gifts being manifested and nobody's getting saved. And I don't mean nobody. I mean, obviously a lot of folks get saved, but still you can't, you can't walk, you can't walk a mile in any major city about bumping into a prophet and apostle and evangelist or somebody and look at the state of the neighborhoods. We didn't see that in the Bible. That's the problem. That's one of the problems. Yeah, I don't have to know what you're doing in your church. I just, I can just tell what your church isn't doing outside of its church. Now I know what the reason is with the rationale because the Bible tells us. And so when you say that the spirit is doing this, well, can we get some evidence? Where in the Bible? Where in the Bible is anyone witnessing a move of the spirit and it not be known? Well, you just don't believe. You're right. I don't believe you. I've heard your doctrine. You mess up the basic doctrine. So why should I believe that the Lord is working in people who can't even get his word straight? But John McCarthy said something and a lot of what he says here, I agree with. I don't know if I'd take it to the stint that he's taken it in the past, but I, well, let's play this and you tell me what you think. And then I'll back up. The charismatic movement is largely the reason the church is in the mess that is in today. And in virtually every area where church life is unbiblical, you can attribute it to the charismatic movement. In virtually every area, bad theology, superficial worship, ego, prosperity, gospel, personality, elevation, all of that comes out of the charismatic movement. Because once you give a place to bad theology, then theology is no longer an issue. Once you corrupt worship, then worship is going to fall to the lowest tolerable level. Now, what's happened is, now, what he stated, I don't know if everything, there are a lot of things that are happening in the body that isn't a byproduct of the charismatic movement, but there's a lot. And the things that we complain about the most, yes. Now, sin, again, sin has always been there. Sin has always been an issue. Now, what I ever, some people have said that he's spoken really harshly about charismatic, I haven't heard that, maybe he hasn't, I'm not saying he has, or he has, I can't say that. I'm just going off of what I have heard. That's a problem. Because what charismatics tend to do a lot, often, more than anybody else, is to condemn someone for their over-reliance on the word. That should never come out of anyone's mouth or their thought that there is an over-reliance on the word. Remember, we've heard people say that we snort books, that we read to overcompensate for trauma. That we shouldn't just use the word. Matter of fact, as a matter of fact, you've heard something like this in regards to the word. All that God wants to say is not in the Bible. No, listen. Listen, if somebody's like, that's heresy, no, listen to me. What God wants to go on record as saying is in the Bible. But in the Bible, the physical written word serves as a reference to every other word that God will give, a true fact. Now, I'm going to rewind that, but all that God has to say or wants to say is not in the Bible. Well, all that God wants to reveal to us is in the Bible. That part, all that he wants to do for all of us writ large as the Bible. Now, if you want to say that maybe that the Lord might guide someone, individual of their own different ways, you know what, let's say that's the case. Let's say that's the case. Problem with that is that you'll take what you think that he's told you and applied to everyone else. He's speaking to me, he's speaking to you through me. That's why he says, not every spirit has come from God. So test it how, by his word. I've never seen such a large and kind of a cancerous disdain for the word of God. The Bible says this. He says, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation. So you're saved, you're growing respect to it by what, by the word. He didn't say that the spirit is in us and should cause us to move towards what the spirit gave us. What did the spirit give us? Well, let's just remind everybody, all scripture is inspired or the word phaea, newstas, which is breathe out, inspired where we get this word from, breathe out by God and profitable for teaching. So where does this come from? Breathe out by the word newstas. This is from, literally guys, from the spirit of God. Why? Why is this given? It's given for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. But clearly Paul is wrong. We're not equipped for every good work because what we need now is a fresh word. We need a fresh word of God, the word that we have in enough. Wouldn't you say we need a fresh word? You know what you're really saying? You're saying God, you're not enough. Now the very same folks might even sing the song, more than enough. No, he's not. God is not more than enough for you if you think you need a fresh word. You haven't even mastered the old word. Now this is a very same word that is sharper, that any two-edged sword. I don't know what can cut between the soul and the spirit, but his word can. And you say you want a new word, a fresh word, but you don't listen to this word. You don't follow this word. You don't adhere to his word. This word literally comes from the Holy Spirit, but you want a fresh anointing, a new anointing. You want all this new stuff. That's because the old you ain't worth nothing. That's really what it is. You haven't found joy, love, and peace in his word, so let's try something new. Can we just be honest? You don't value the word enough to make it the foremost, the most important thing in your life. Tell the truth, shame it, give me, and by the way, you can't find passages for what you're saying. And this is the problem with the charismatic community. You don't have to have the scriptures for it. How do I know? Well, let's listen to this gentleman who will tell us one of the things that is normative in the charismatic movement is being slain in the spirit. It's not just slain in the spirit, it's other different things that we see in the charismatic movement. But listen to his defense of being slain in the spirit, but not just his defense of it, but how he says that anyone who disagrees with it, how they can't be right. Firstly, there are those who believe that the manifestation is anti-biblical. Second, there are those who 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. Now, before I continue, something else that's also interesting and rich, and as a matter of fact, if you were to ask, do a poll of a lot of different channels, Christian YouTube channels, you're gonna find that there are a lot of those that get these copyright strikes and these takedown notices, and everyone that I've ever had a copyright strike or a warning or what have you, or takedown notice, whatever, every last one has come from somebody who is charismatic. Now, I say that because I just received two notices the other day last week from David Hernandez. Now, they didn't work. He issued a takedown notice, but YouTube said, no, no, no, these are within the guidelines of fair use. But every time they've come, it's been, it has been one of them. It's been a charismatic person that did not like what was being stated. Why? We'll talk about that, but it has to do with their inability to defend the word. But notice what he's saying. 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. Now, so his argument is that there's nothing in the scripture that can make it anti-biblical. Well, it doesn't have to be anti-biblical. What it is is unbiblical. The very definition of something being unbiblical is that it's not in the Bible. So why would I say that the most, the most unbiblical Christians? And I'm careful to use that word. The most unbiblical segment of Christianity are our charismatic brothers. Now, there are some who are thoughtful and are fighting for the word. As a matter of fact, let me, I tried to give Ms. Flowers, I'll give it to him again because I'm pretty sure he'll come back and see it. There's a brother named Brother Christopher who comes on here. He's charismatic, but he's also thoughtful. He'll go through the scriptures and so forth. And he's not like that. As a matter of fact, there's times where he's even, hey, no, I disagree with this and that and so forth or whatever. But Chris will tell you, the overwhelming majority of his brethren are not like that. They are not. And so to be unbiblical means you're basing something that's not off the Bible. Well, who in the world should base their beliefs off the Bible? Christians. Christians. And so if you're gonna say something, someone says the Trinity seems unbiblical. Jesus is God. That's biblical. Now, if you have to fight that, then that wouldn't have to mean necessarily that a person's not Christian. By the way, where's that coming from? A lot of that is being also pushed by, I'm not saying those are all, only those that believe that are charismatic, but you're finding more and more and more and more and more and more charismatic that are pushing that. This oneness, I remember the United Pentecostal church, that's what they believe. These oneness apostolids. And so that being the case, you're seeing some vestiges of the charismatic movement kind of creep in, even in folks that aren't even charismatic. Now that being the case though, he's stating that because the Bible doesn't say you shouldn't be slain in the spirit, because the Bible doesn't say then we can go ahead and do it. In fact, the skeptics will say it's not even found in scripture. So if that were true, what grounds would they have in the first place of labeling it as anti-biblical? Those who say it is anti-biblical say so without any justification whatsoever. 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 in the spirit manifestation. But the same is true about the doctrine of inerrancy. Eschatology, salvation, dispensationalism, ministry leadership. Okay, this is where I'll, now a grant, when I originally did this video, this is where I got my first copyright strike or warning and then I had to fight it. All of those doctors that he's named are literally found in the scriptures. Every last one are literally found in the scripture. And then examples. So my question's always been to anyone about being slain in the spirit. Do we have even one example? How is the Bible is teaching something and is giving an okay to do something but we can't find an example? Give an example of someone with the Holy Spirit being slain in the spirit. There are none. There are none. There's no example of someone being so overcome in the spirit that they were just knocked out. I got back up and got knocked out again. What does that do? What does that do? Especially since the Holy Spirit overcoming you would lead to having self-control. The Holy Spirit in you is to get you to share the gospel. The Holy Spirit in you is to get you to build up the body. You falling over, like London Bridge is falling down, you falling over, how does that build the body? How does that build it? It doesn't, does it? The pneumaticon, as we've discussed before, is to build the body. But oftentimes, many of these folks are trying to build themselves up. Again, you want a fresh word, fresh knowing why for yourself. Now, Paul, interestingly enough, does not condemn these people for being ignorant as it comes to these spiritual gifts or spiritual things. He says, though, since you have a zeal, since you're zealous for these things, be zealous for what? For building up the body. Not building up yourself. I've been so forth. My point is that you have to look at the scripture as a whole. So I want you to really hear this now. We are not looking for a single instance in the Bible that completely demonstrates the slain in the spirit phenomenon. Those who demand a single chapter and verse aren't interested in what the Bible teaches as a whole. They're just interested in winning a debate. Just interested in winning the debate. Well, wait a second, wait a second. So if we use that same logic, then what if, what if someone were to say the Bible does not specifically outlaw bestiality or at least in the New Testament? There's a lot of things that people in the progressive mood will say, well, the Bible doesn't specifically outlaw. But as he says, looking at the whole of scripture, yeah, it does. Yes, it does. But those of us who are believers, who have the Holy Spirit, we are led by the spirit. Not off doing our own thing, we are literally led by the spirit. Someone said not dispensationalism. The word dispensationalism is literally in the Bible. Now, we get it from the Latin word dispensario, which comes from the Greek word, Oikonomeia, which is these house rules or house laws. And so yes, it's actually in the Bible. It's actually in the Bible. Otherwise, I don't think we would be teaching it here. Now we might disagree or misunderstand it, but it's literally in the scriptures. What I'm saying is what we're seeing, folks falling out, that's not in the scriptures. People speaking in ecstatic language, that's not, that's nowhere in the scriptures. Matter of fact, even changing, moving the goalpost, changing the words to it's an angelic language, there's no language, there's no such thing in the Bible, or it's a prayer language. We don't have one time someone praying in tongues. You don't have any of these things. What about prophets that didn't come true? Well, that means you're a liar, a lying prophet. A wrong prophet, what have you. That's what you are. Yeah, but you're still a prophet. Yeah, but you're a lying prophet. A lying prophet, a bad prophet, a false prophet. And Jesus says the time will come when false cries. And false prophets also are going to arise. Matter of fact, they are in the world now. That was then, certainly even more so today. Certainly even more so today. Now the issue is, we need to be able to look at the Bible and go off of that. And if we're gonna, it's okay to have an argument. It really is okay to have an argument. But if we're gonna have an argument, let's argue with the scriptures instead of over feelings. Well, you don't have the spirit. That's why you don't trust the spirit. Huh? Does the spirit make us do this? Now none of this, and I mean none of this is biblical. You can't find this in the scriptures. You can't find Paul, you can't find anyone here touch this Bible and watch what happens. Where does that, these are people who are so miserable. As far as I can tell, people who are so miserable when it comes to the scriptures. You know what, I'd rather hold the Bible than to read the Bible. That's what this is. The word of God isn't enough for me. I need something, I need to have an experience. These are the people that are struggling. These are the folks that no wonder you guys feel demonized. No wonder you guys are always followed by a demon because the one thing that can keep them at bay, you don't use, you don't use the word of God. So well, okay, I can see why a demon is cozy up right beside you. I get it now. I get it now. The one kryptonite to bad doctrine is sound doctrine. The one kryptonite to having these things affect you, you don't use. You would much rather because again, misery loves company, so too does foolishness. And so you would rather not keep at bay with the word of God, just go ahead and buy the NY because it makes you feel good. Like Richard Pryor said, can you tell me some more of those old lies to help me stop thinking about the truth? That's what some of these folks want. And that is okay. I guess it's okay, but listen, the Bible says, because all these folks always, if you get five charismatic people together, somebody's gonna have a prophecy, a revelation. By the way, how come when you speak in tongues, everybody sounds the same? Somebody's gonna have a tongue. Somebody's gonna have something new. But Paul says, why, how come, what is the outcome then? Brethren, every time you guys get together, when you guys get together, each one has a song. Each one has a teaching. Each one has a revelation. Each one has a tongue. Each one has interpretation. Let all things be done for etiquette. You always have something. How come you just can't have the gift of shut up? Yeah, I think that, why can't you just be quiet? Why can't you just sit and just soak in the word, just enjoy God's word? Why can't, I've gotta be something special. I wouldn't, you know what, I peaked too early in my life in high school, junior high, and I'm not as relevant, so now I can make myself relevant by saying the Lord is speaking through me. Yeah, I know, I haven't gotten one prophecy right. I've gotten one prophecy, well, halfway right in the last 10 years, but still, I'm a prophet. The Lord has given me the gift of discernment. I know, I know, I know I'm in debt up to my years. I got a 200 credit score because I cannot handle my bills. I've got no real good friends that's coming back from, but I have a gift of discernment. The Lord has blessed me to understand, yeah, I've got the gift of discernment. I've got the gift of healing. Yeah, I know, I know everybody in my house, in my household, they're all dead. They've got every disease known to man and my dog, even my dog Fluffy, he's struggling with something. He's got schizophrenia, but I got the gift of healing. Makes you wonder though, again, why can't you be satisfied with the word? You always have to have something. If anyone speaks in tongue, it should be by two or three at the most, but that doesn't happen when we see that one at a time. 28, but if there is no interpreter, he must speak. Nope, nope, we're not, we're not beholding ourselves to these rules. Yeah, I don't, I know there's no interpreter, but still, I don't keep speaking in tongues. But if a revelation is made to another who will see that the first one must keep silent, for you can all prophesy, and it's, I believe, is the word prophetuete, which is mean to give a revelation, one by one, so that all may learn. That's what revelation, true revelation does, and all may be exhorted. Because again, what's the goal? To build up others, not yourself. And the, now here it is. And the spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets. What does that mean? The spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Well, all that means is that prophet has some control. The spirit of the prophet has some control. You guys don't. You're not wise, you're not strong in the word, and you have no self-control, but you want us to listen. I wish those in the charismatic community would call it out. It shouldn't take a person that's non-charismatic to call it out. It should take someone who is charismatic to call it out before it gets here, that it's been dealt with. The problem is, guys just don't seem to want to deal with it. That's an issue, and because they don't want to deal with it, well, then what must we do? Well, we got to do a policy. We got to do a policy. He says, but what I'm doing, I will continue to do so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. I'm going to undermine the other verses, may say, for such men are false apostles, deceitful workers disguised themselves as apostles of Christ. Don't we see that matter of fact? Not do we just see that they literally call themselves apostles. No wonder, for even Satan disguised himself as an angel of God. How come? How come you rarely see charismatic Pentecostals calling them out? See, it'd be different if Pentecostals and Charismatics spent time calling them out as well, but they don't. Well, I'm just going to do what God called me to do. Well, God literally called you to do this as Ephesians 5 and 11, expose these things, contend for the faith. Again, every writer that I can think of, every writer that I can think of has called out bad teaching. Every writer that I can think of in the scriptures, old and new, has called out bad teaching. Matter of fact, Job's friend, they were going to be killed for their bad teaching until God says pray for them. He prayed for them and then they were okay. So, every teaching, every writer has called out bad teaching in the Bible, but we're not supposed to do so. We are, again, what does Paul do on his deathbed? One last thing he does is beware of Alexander. Now, we talk about God doesn't like this division and so forth, look what he says though. Chapter 16, verse 17, he says, I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause division or dissensions, but not just divisions, divisions, divisions, just know a specific type of division. Divisions or dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching, the decaying, the teaching which you have learned and turn away from them. Turn away from such people who have these bad or these contrary teachings. You know, contrary teachings like this. Are we allowed to listen to a girl preach? Yes, you are. And the truth of the matter is, is that many of the texts that are written about females preaching are all about cultural context and the entire Bible is to be read with context. What you'll discover all throughout the scriptures is that most of Jesus' ministry was funded by women. Jesus was sending out, in fact, the first evangelist in the Bible is a woman. Her name is. Most of Jesus' ministry was funded by women. You're so desperate to get women to buy into it that I gotta appeal to them. I must appeal to them one because they tend to be the majority of the church. Their offering is important. Their participation is important. Their promotion is important. So we need to say ignorant things, such as Jesus' ministry was funded by women. I'm gonna call a foul on that. I'm gonna throw a flag on the flag. I'm gonna say that his ministry was funded by himself, by God. That's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say that whenever he needed money, he could just go to a fish and pull a coin out. That's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say that he didn't need anybody for his ministry. And by the way, where is the example? Just a scripture of women funding his ministry more than anybody else. Where is that at? That's the point. You're gonna make up something fine, fine. At least make up something that's close to the scripture where it makes it difficult for us to look it up. And then the first evangelists were women. The first evangelists, now they say this thing that Mary was the first evangelist. Really? I seem to recall, I seem to recall a bunch of men going out and some of them two by two to preach the gospel. I seem to even recall one guy by himself dressed kind of raggedy, you know, the guy wearing camel's hair and just, you know, just, yeah, eating, I was gonna say eating courage and weight, eating honey, you know, the one preparing the weight, repent for the king. Now, of course that's not real evangelism. Okay, fine. I seem to recall a lot of folks coming to him getting baptized for repentance, waiting for this Messiah. I seem to recall Peter, James, and John going and others going and spreading the gospel. I seem to recall him speaking specifically to them, saying that you are gonna receive the Holy Spirit and then go and, and by the way, these are the pillars, these are the foundation of the church. I seem to recall that, but you want to, because you want to placate and appeal to these women who don't read their word, you're gonna make up a story and lie. Okay. Mary, we discover all throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament, God using women. So if you're new to our community, we believe in women preaching the word. Because all of those that clapping and cheering, that's what it's, that's what it's about. That's what it's about. And we know that's what it's about because again, on the other channel, we talked about it. He gives away one of these bad teachers whose charismatic gives away the secret. You're a pretty one-sided crowd. That's why they're flying here, driving here, taking about a secret or a cruise ship here because they like what I say because I'm saying what they feel. I'm scratching their itch type of deal. That's why Paul says, preach the word, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering. Why? The time will come when they will not endure a sound. Doctor, they'll have itching ears. And what did he say? He said it, I scratched their itch. He'll preach to them what they want to hear. They'll have itching ears and they will not, they will turn away from the truth and turn away to fables. Again, give me something to make me feel good. I don't care if it's a placebo. You can tell me it's a spiritual placebo as long as I feel good. Matter of fact, I will write a bigger check. I will cash out this ministry even more funds if I feel good. That is a problem. Because what it does ladies and gentlemen, is it moves people away from a reliance on the word. And I know someone's gonna come back and they're gonna disagree. And I simply ask them to do one or two things. Go back and look at your church that might be charismatic. And ask how many times just, just look at it. How many times, how often do they deviate from the word and their focus is on the move of the spirit. And then go and find the scripture to coincide with what they just said. You won't. Doing something new, something fresh as though what he did was old was stale. Because that's the implication. Doing something new because what was done previous is no longer working. It's not good enough. God didn't have the foresight to do that. He didn't tell us about that. So what he did, even in pouring out the spirit on Pentecost, what enough was not enough. We need something more. We need something new. So for me, I call foul. I would hope you all do it in any Pentecost or charismatic that disagrees with me, do the same thing. You should, I shouldn't have a disdain for people twisting the words or not using the word or making light of the word. I shouldn't have more of a problem with that than you. So if you disagree, prove it by upholding the word of God. Amen.