 Question is, and I would like to ask you all this question, let you think about it for a second. Some of you already may have an answer. Some of you all may be kind of thinking about it. Maybe you never even thought about it, but the question is, is this ability to impart to someone else, is that biblical? Well, in my belief, my understanding is no. Now, sometimes it may depend on what you're talking about, but what we're talking about is the ability to impart spiritual gifts. Impart, you name it, the gift of healing, the gift of tongues, the prophetic. Any of these things, do we have the ability to do so? And here's another question. Do we see an example of that? Obviously, we see an example of Jesus doing so. He's God. God is the one who is giving us these gifts. God is the one who will impart whatever. The question is, do we as men, human beings, on the planet Christians, do we have that ability also? Now, I wanna look at a couple of examples, and the reason why I played that clip in the beginning is because some people are gonna say that's not how it is, but you know what I cannot find? I cannot find anyone, and I mean anyone, who believes that the gift of impartation is true, but it doesn't happen like what we saw in the opening clip. I don't know of anyone. As a matter of fact, even one of the people, the one I'm getting ready to share right now who's going to explain what he believes impartation is, he will come across as someone who might be reasonable, not as extreme, but the question is, is it? Well, he's in the opening clip, and so he clearly thinks that that is okay, what we've seen, that sort of demonstrable outward, the way it looks, that someone is being imparted with some particular gift. So let's just hear what he has to say as he describes what impartation is. Impartiation is the spiritual transfer that takes place between believers. Knowledge can be imparted, ministry can be imparted, authority can be imparted, power can be imparted, spiritual gifts can be imparted. There are certain things in the spirit that are transferred. You've heard it said, certain things are not taught or cannot be taught, but they can be caught. There are certain things, certain flows to ministry that I have caught that I know I could not have possibly learned because when people... Now, I wanna just stop there. He says there are certain things that can be imparted. Well, you gotta have to kind of listen to what he's saying and how he's saying it. Can knowledge be imparted? Well, sure, sure, but now are we talking about kind of in a spiritual sense or just an understanding of something? In other words, can I impart to you, can I impart to you, I don't know, the ability to, I don't know the type or how to change a tire. I can impart that to you. I can, now I can't do it by osmosis, by just being close to you. I can't do it by laying my hands on you or breathing on you and telling you to receive that knowledge. We don't have that ability to impart it that way unless we spend some time like a father would share with his child or grandfather, something like that, where you're just kind of teaching them something. A teacher can impart what one plus one equals. But that's not really what we're talking about, but notice how he sets it up. He's setting up, okay, well, yeah, I can agree with that. I can agree with that sort of impartation. By the way, this word impartation that they're using and any derivation of it is not found in the scriptures. But then he goes on to say that other things can be imparted, spiritual gifts can be imparted. Problem is, I don't think that we see an example of that in the scripture. And I want you to hear, I want you to hear what he says towards the end. When people ask me, how do you flow in the thought? But they can be caught. There are certain things, certain flows to ministry that I have caught that I know I could not have possibly learned because when people ask me, how do you flow in this way or that way? All I can tell them is it's a sense in the spirit and that's the only way I can explain it to you. So his point is, I can't explain it to you and I don't have a scripture for you. It is, was they say some things are taught and then some things are caught. I just kind of catch this. Well, that clearly is unbiblical. But that's really a nice way of trying to cover up the fact that I don't have a scripture for that. I don't have a biblical basis to say what I'm saying. We're gonna come to a conclusion at the end that I think that it's really, I think it's pretty troubling. I personally think that it's almost, it's not borderline blasphemous. I think it really is blasphemous. I'm not saying they're guilty of blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I'm not saying that. But it's blasphemous, okay? It is, it paints God, it paints the Holy Spirit in a negative light. It almost paints it as some sort of mysterious thing that you can purchase almost the way that Simon the sorcerer tried to do next. Oh, by the way, we're gonna go to Acts 8 in a little bit as well. But when I was a new Christian, when I was a younger Christian and I didn't know much about the scriptures, this stuff would have appealed to me. This is something that would have just kind of, yeah, I'd get that, as a matter of fact, I like it. I saw the passion, I saw the fervor. What seemed like somebody was being genuine, I couldn't tell, now as I look at it, now it didn't look like it, it was very genuine. But when I was younger, as a younger Christian, there was a person and he's still around named Rod Parsley. And just to hear him speak like, okay, this guy is enjoying what he's doing and you will watch him. He was one of the main ones that you would turn on TV and see him, so-called imparting gifts of the spirit to people, how to speak in tongues, people being slain, people being healed, all these different things. And so when I saw him, because again, I was young, I did not understand the scriptures very well, I did not, I can't recall ever once as a young Christian seeing this kind of stuff and then going to my scriptures, going to the Bible and looking for validation. I just assumed, here's a guy who's a man of God, I just, I gave him a level of trust that really he had not earned. As a matter of fact, he really betrayed it, but I just didn't know enough to know that he had done so. And so when I saw him, I'm thinking, okay, that must be legitimate. That's how a true move of the word or how a true move of God is. And so when I saw that, I'm thinking, okay, well, yeah, that's how it's supposed to be done. Does that look like fun? You can say whatever you wanna say at the very least. It looks like he's enjoying himself. It looked like, listen, it looked like these people know how to party. And again, it doesn't sink, now I didn't know any better. And so he gets knocked down with the Holy Spirit. Here is a, what is he, a Southern Baptist preacher who wants to receive the Holy Spirit. My question is, what sort of preacher was he to where he didn't think he had the Holy Spirit? But he goes there and he gets slain or knocked down. He gets himself up, he gets knocked down again and they're just having fun at the time. I'm thinking, man, that's just, I want that sort of move of the spirit. And so he's being imparted with the spirit a lot. This preacher is being imparted with the spirit an awful lot. And so it begs the question, we need some more explaining of this impartation. Okay, cause fine, maybe the word impartation or impart is not in the scriptures, but maybe the concept is and so could you, could someone please explain the concept? And so David Hernandez attempts to explain the concept. Impartation has the power to accelerate your spiritual growth and to help lay a foundation for the future of your ministry and walk with the Lord. Okay, now we're going to ask, we have to stop and kind of move with this and kind of dissect it as we're going, but it has the power to accelerate your growth. And thank you Morningstar and everyone else who's given a super chat, but where is that? Impartation has the power to accelerate your growth. Okay, you're going to have to explain more. Impartation is the spiritual transfer that takes place through relationship. When I open myself to the teachings of or relationship with an anointed individual, I become a recipient of impartation. So all I have to do is hang out with someone who's very anointed or matter of fact, I don't have time to hang out with someone who's very anointed. Could you just touch me? Just give me whatever it is you got. Well, Jesus could do that. Jesus could touch you and heal you. But in terms of someone growing in the Lord, growing in their understanding, that was never a momentary thing. You think of all of the men of God, think of the apostles, think of Peter, think of Paul. They didn't learn of God in one day. It took them some time. As a matter of fact, with the original apostles, when Jesus left, of course they actually walked with him and got to spend time with him and hear his voice and so forth. But when he left, they still had maturing to do. But they did some maturing along the way as well. And then they received the Holy Spirit, but even Paul as well. Paul did not immediately go into preaching even though he had met Jesus on the road of Damascus. And so we're gonna need a little bit more education from David to help us understand his point. A portion of what's on their life begins to rub off on mine. Here are the three kinds of biblical impartation. Number one, given impartation. Number two, shared impartation. And number three, received impartation. Given impartation. So he says given impartation, shared impartation and a received impartation. I have never in my life heard of that, but that doesn't mean that it's not true, but still I've never heard of that. When I reach down, shared impartation is when I reach across. Received impartation is when I reach up. Now, all of those sound good. Given impartation is when I reach down. Okay, what he's doing is he's appealing to our just sense of understanding in the natural. But he's not appealing to our sense of understanding in the biblical or with me. Thank you brother for super chat. He's not appealing to, he's appealing to this and maybe this and maybe these are eyes or in my case all four of them, but he's not appealing to the actual scripture. And so the receipt or the, what is it, the given that's me reaching down. The shared is us walking together and he's gonna say how can two walk, I'm not to walk, but how iron sharpens iron and so forth. And then the receiving is receiving in relationship from someone who is more anointed. Given impartation takes place when I act as a mentor. Shared impartation takes place when I act as a fellow laborer. Received impartation takes place when I act as a student. Evangelism fundamentally speaking is a form of impartation. Now, this is where, because again, the trick of really the enemy, but the trick here is if you say it and it makes sense, think about it. If, what does he say? Evangelism is a form of impartation. Hmm, that kind of makes sense because if I share the gospel, imparting the truth of God. So you can see where if it partially makes sense, that kind of makes sense. Well, then the rest of it must make sense even if I say that that makes full sense. I can say I wouldn't have a problem with someone saying that sharing the gospel is imparting the word of God. I wouldn't have a problem with that. Now, do I think that's a spiritual gift in a sense? Not really, but I would agree that you can impart the word of God to someone. You can share. You can offer the word of God to someone. Now, the problem is though, and here's the issue with this. When you impart a spiritual gift to someone, they receive it. If I impart the word of God to someone, they don't always receive it. As a matter of fact, in most cases, they will not receive it. Are you with me? T-Man, thank you for the super sticker. Most cases, people will not receive that. That's just what we're told. We're told, thank you all so Vanessa. We are also told that most people will not receive it. So it can't be on the same level of impartation that he's speaking of. And certainly not when we see or we hear them speaking in the same vein as someone having spiritual gifts imparted to them. But again, the trick is, if I get you agreeing, yeah, again, I don't want to give away all my sales tricks, but this is what we used to do. I'll just do this for you guys. I told you in the office, when we bring in new advisors, guys in training, we're trying to, hopefully we're sharing with them good financial products, how to do financial planning and so forth, estate planning, all these different things. Even if we're selling a stock, even if we're selling mutual funds, there are things that we would do, that we would train them to do, how to get your point across it. Let me go ahead and do it with you guys as well. All right, this is sales 101. And I told you, there's two things that you want to do in sales. One, the old saying, confuse the hell out of them and then sell them. Make them think, wait, what's going on? But he said, he sounds so good. Must be true. You go to a doctor. The doctor says some stuff and you have no idea what he said. He says, you got this and this and this. I need you to take this and that. All right, doc, sounds good. Or if you're like a lot of men, ladies, this is true. A lot of men, when you go to a car dealership, the salesman's gonna open the hood and let you look at the engine. Most cases, we have no idea what we're looking at. Oh, I like the carburetor. Oh, no, let's go ahead and have a carburetor. It's fuel injection. A man looks at the engine like, yeah, that's good. That's good. He's shaking his head because he doesn't know. And so the guys got him hooked. And so you confuse them and you sell them, but you also have to create a problem. Create a problem then there also, you also will have to be the one that sells them on a solution. Well, they bought the problem. And man, are you telling me that as a 45 year old man, as a 50 year old man, as a 37 year old woman, as a 28 year old woman, I've been diagnosed with SIDS. I've been diagnosed with SIDS and you tell me, so I need you to take some of this. Now, SIDS is sudden infant death syndrome. I don't know, because I've been confused. So you told me I have SIDS, although I'm a grown person, can have SIDS, but anyway. And so you sell me on the cure. This is what you see oftentimes in the charismatic movement. Brittany, thank you for the super chat as well. But this is what you see. And so this is what he's doing. He is one, he's obviously there's a problem. I want to be super spiritual. Now, what we do is this. If I get you to agree, how do I get you to agree? How do I get, it's what's called the permission continuum. There's a line where here's yes and here's no. I start off on the no side. As long as I get you going this way, we keep going. It's almost like going downhill, you can't stop. All you can do is speed up. And so how do I do it? I will say some things that you can agree with. I start off saying things or giving things that you can relate with. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to use, obviously I've got to use voice inflection. I've got to come across as warm. I've got to come across as a counselor. And that I empathize or sympathize with you. And two things I'm going to do. One, I'm going to lean forward. I'm going to open my eyes and I'm nodding my head. And I've said things that you can agree with. You know what you're doing? You're going to nod also. Just like when someone smiles, you smile back. When someone looks up, what do you do? You look up and so that's kind of the art of selling. So if I tell you these things, if I get you to agreeing with me already, you know what you've done? You've already started yourself on the path of continuing to believe and agree with me. So since you agree with the first thing that evangelism is a form of impartation, yeah, that makes sense, yeah, yeah. Well then so was the next thing. Because again, you want to be more spiritual than you really are. Are you with me? So no matter where you are in your spiritual growth, there's something you can impart to someone who is coming along the path after you. Impartation doesn't just take place between a mentor and a disciple. It can occur between two spiritual peers. The anointing of your peers rubs off on you and the anointing on your life rubs off on them also. Now I like to see this scripture. Now does iron sharpen iron? Sure, sure, because I've got a friend who is well versed in the scriptures and I'm not. Or let's try it another way. I've got a friend who just seems to be wholly goes anointed when it comes to singing. And I hang out with him. Is that going to rub off on me? Is that, I'm not saying it's an anointing. I'm just using kind of their vernacular. But let's say this person just seems to be anointed from having to sing. And so we both have the Holy Spirit. I'm going to receive some of that anointing on me. No. And I'm using that example because we all know better. It's the same with what he's talking about. Again, we're not, we're going to look at the scriptures who actually does the imparting after we finish listening to him. Number three, received impartation. Now it's important to note that all power comes from the Holy Spirit within you. And that power works in you in proportion to your time spent in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. The more time you spend in the presence of the Holy Spirit, the greater the manifestation of power on your life. That kind of makes sense then. The more time you spend with him, the more of the manifest, that's partly true. The more you spend with the Lord, the more evident he's going to be on you. Without question. What do they say to the disciples, to the apostles and acts we perceive that they have been with Christ? Well, that should be the case. But he's going a step further. We're talking about imparting gifts on someone. Remember, and it's not just him. There's a lot of people that believe that you can impart spiritual gifts on people. Your gifts can be transferred. Take it! So even according to the great Dr. Apostle Prophet Lovie, you can transfer spiritual gifts and take it. Take it in the name of Jesus. And then I'll say something real spiritual over you. I may shake you or push you, hold your head a little bit, then push back a little bit, speak in tongues. And what do you want? Because you bought into the problem and I'm going to give you the solution. So you take it. Well, let's see what the scripture say. Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and let's talk about these giftings that can be imparted or so they say. It says, now there are a variety of gifts, but the same spirit. Now remember, Paul starts off this portion of the letter by saying, I don't want you to be ignorant. So let's just not be ignorant, but they will have you ignorant listen to them. Again, take what they say and go and compare it to the Bible. The interesting thing is when you try to compare what they're saying, you won't find a biblical basis. So he says there are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit. And there are varieties of ministries and the same Lord. And there are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things and all persons, but to each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good. We're going to come back to that in just a little bit because again, that's the more important thing to think about the manifestation of the spirit. All of these things are given for who the common good of others. We're going to read this here. We read it four or five times in chapter 14. Peter covers this. We are told that spiritual gifts are for others, not for you. And then we're going to see what the spiritual giftings, who and what, who they're supposed to magnify and why. Let's continue though. Let's drop down though, instead of going there. Now, you know what? I'm sorry, let's go ahead and keep reading. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit. And to another, the word of knowledge according to the same spirit. Verse nine, to another faith by the same spirit to another, gifts of healing by the one spirit and to another effecting of miracles and to another prophecy and to another distinguishing of spirits to another various kinds of tongues to another interpretation of tongues. By the way, how come it seems like we tend to focus on certain gifts but the issue of wisdom and knowledge and so forth, we don't, why don't we share that gift? Why don't people get slain in spirit with that gift? Well, because they had that gift they wouldn't get slain to begin with. It's kind of like, my God, thank you so much for the super chat or super sticker. So let's continue. This is where I wanna get you. But one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually just as he wills. Just as who wills, the person that wants to impart the gift? No, God, the spirit, just as he wills. Just as God wills. You don't get to tell the Lord what gift you want. That's not how this works. It is him who imparts these gifts. Now, before someone decides to say that, well, that video that you played of Rod Parsley, that was a long time ago and it was but it's how I got hooked in. And there are a lot of people that got hooked, that bought in to that and hadn't left it. Unless you think that Rod Parsley has changed, he has not, he is, he's the same. He's just more entrenched. Yeah, you know what, Joanne, let me, they do. They do use a lot. Matter of fact, he goes through a list of people that have one thing important but the thing is though, God chose both of them. And so this wasn't, this wasn't a case like we're speaking of now. Secondly, we're talking about actual authentic prophets and apostles. And so ultimately is God that gave, like for example, Elijah, he was the one that gave the portion of the blessing to Elijah, not Elijah but Elijah. Same thing with, they bring up Paul and Timothy. And we'll talk about Paul and Timothy in just a second. This whole issue of laying on our hands and what does it mean and is it like what we see today? We're gonna cover that in a little bit but I wanna cover this when we talk about the purpose of these spiritual gifts. Remember, all spiritual gifts, this is just a rule. They are for the benefit of others. Well, how so in what way? Because we said this before, when you see spiritual gifts being used, the target in the Bible, especially after the cross once the Holy Spirit is given, once we see these giftings, the target is unbelievers. We see unbelievers seeing these gifts and then they in turn are magnifying God. But now let's look at the purpose of what the Holy Spirit is gonna do in each of us, whether it be some sort of outward manifestation that we're thinking, wow, this is awesome. Or if it's something just, we would just kind of skip over everything. Eh, you know, no big deal. We all have that, which we shouldn't. The things, and it's the point that Paul was making, the things that we think of that have less honor, in many cases, in many cases are more honorable, but at the very least, but truth be told, they're actually on the same level. We don't think that loving someone or helping someone. We don't think that that's on the same level as someone prophesying. We don't think that at all. We think that the pastor in the pulpit is more anointed than the faithful person at the door or the faithful pew member. We just think that. We think that the more anointed person and the choirs are the one that's singing and not the person that's over there on the guitar. We tend to rank things, give a hierarchy to things when we should not, and that's the point that Paul is making in chapter 12, but each gifting should do one thing. Let's read what, what, I got it, is there really having the wrong? Oh, I know why. I went to the wrong verse. But Jesus says, speaking of the Holy Spirit, when He comes, He says, when the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is a spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, what will He do? He will testify about me. And so the Holy Spirit is going to testify of Jesus. You wanna magnify Jesus, but I wanna show you something else that He says He's gonna do. Let's go down to, you know what? Let's go down to verse 12. I have many more things to tell you, but you cannot hear them now, but when He, the spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth for He will not speak on His own initiative but He hears, but whatever He hears, He will speak and He will disclose to you what is to come. Look at this. He will glorify me for He will take of mine and disclose it to you. So the Holy Spirit is going to, He's not gonna do something different than us. Now, obviously more pronounced and then more known, but He is the goal of the Holy Spirit is to testify, to magnify, to glorify Jesus. Even in His ministry of giving us the word, well, the word both old and new, always point to who? To Jesus. And so if there's some sort of impartation that you think you're receiving, that is to glorify yourself. Even if you say it's not to glorify me, but let's be honest, when we look at these people on stage, blowing on people and pushing people over and swinging their jackets and so forth, who's getting the glory? That's not God. That's not God at all. That's them. And certainly in terms of enriching them, that's them as well. And so that's a huge issue. But when we look at what Jesus is doing, I mean, what the Holy Spirit is doing in the Bible, it's always referring someone to Jesus. Now the question's gotta be though, is the gift that you're trying to impart, first of all, we already know that the Holy Spirit does so, but then too, is everyone going to have those gifts that you're trying to impart? Sometimes you receive a prophetic word and then become discouraged because it doesn't seem to come to pass right away. I wanna show you from scripture, how to activate a prophetic word that has been spoken over you. Now for some reason, this issue of being prophetic or having prophetic words spoke over you, it's just big business. It's big business. And of course, it's one of those two things that Jesus mentioned in Matthew seven, men will say that Lord, we've prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your names, the two name things that are there and prophecies, one of those things where I'm giving you prophetic word received as well. Listen to the question and tell me what's wrong with this question or even just what he's posing, period. Sometimes you receive a prophetic word and then become discouraged because it doesn't seem to come to pass right away. I wanna show you from scripture, how to activate a prophetic word that has been spoken over you. Maybe you've heard something and you're wondering, was that a word from God or was that just the individual making it up out of their imagination? What am I doing wrong? So what do you do when you receive a prophetic word? How do you cultivate that word? How do you steward that word? How do you treat that word with honor and reverence that will ultimately bring it to pass in your life? Here's my question. This is my question. And I want you guys to think about this for a second. If, let's just say it is a true authentic word from the Lord. It's real prophecy. This is from heaven and someone gives it to you. What do you do with it? Well, what do you mean what I do with it? Is the prophecy not going to come true if I don't believe it? Now think about that for a second. A prophet gives me a word and I don't believe it. What's gonna happen? Well, if it's a true prophecy, it's gonna come true whether I believe it or not. I don't have to activate it. As he says, cultivate it. I don't have to grow with it. I don't have to do anything with it. I can take it or see if I can believe it or not. But the prophecy, if it's true, is gonna come to pass. If it's a foretelling prophecy like the word of God with an amen, I can take it or not. If it's a foretelling prophecy, amen again, I can take it or not. But if it's a true prophecy, if it's true revelation from heaven, then whether I believe it or not, whether I cultivate it or not, it doesn't matter. Now, if you're saying that I need to activate in me the gift of prophecy, the prophetic gift in me, again, that only comes from, that only comes from God. As a matter of fact, let's go back to, I didn't mean to go, let's go back to first Corinthians chapter 12. And let's go to verse, let's go towards the bottom. Verse 20, uh-oh, went too far. Verse 27. Now, you're all Christ's body and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps. No one, no one is imparting the gift of help. No one, no one, no one wants that gift. Administrations, no one wants that gift. You mean that's just you having me do some more work. Various kinds of tongues. Now, look what it says. All are not apostles. Now, some verses may say are all apostles or what have you, but it says, may pante. So the word may over here in the Greek to the right side is the word not. So not all are apostles. This is not all are prophets. So you cannot, if not all are prophets and you want to impart the prophetic within what you're doing is now literally, literally going against scripture. But again, when was the last time you saw someone or heard someone go and grab their Bible, immediately after they heard that and run to the scriptures. Again, when I was there, I just didn't do it. As a matter of fact, I don't recall very many. We would have our Bibles there because again, we're supposed to have our Bibles. So we care, we didn't have our Bibles on apps. We just had our actual physical Bible there. And someone will say, turn to a page. We read it, they cover that part right there. And then they would explain it, but they would explain it one, typically out of context, what it made since it sound good. Remember in sales, I'm already on the permission continuum. And I've already shook my head. Yes, I've already leaned forward. He smiled, I smiled, he shook, I shook. And so now, next thing you know, I'm going along with him because he was right on this thing. He was right on that thing. He was right on that thing. Now he's getting to the big stuff and he's totally off, but I don't care because I knew he was right the first one, two or three. By the way, let me give you something. We never did this, but the very first brokerage friend that I worked for, this was a boiler room. This was a horrible spot, horrible spot. Let me tell you what they would do, what some of the guys would do. Let's say you got, oh, I don't know, 800, you got 800 names. This was back in the day of good old fashioned cold calling. You would call 800 or you wouldn't call, but you would probably send 800 mailers out. You would pick a stock, pick a stock, let's say Eli Lilly or let's say Walgreens, let's say Lucent, Lucent's not running anymore. Let's say Lucent, Lucent Technologies. And so 800 of those, I'll take 400 and I'll tell 400 people in the mailers to buy Lucent. I really think that it's going up. The other 400, I'll tell it's going down. In about a week, Lucent goes up. The 400 that I told that Lucent is going to go up, I'll write them another letter with another mailer telling them to sell Lucent to 200. The other 200 I'll tell to buy, Lucent drops. So the 200 that I just told to sell Lucent, they've got me twice giving them correct advice. Of that 200, I will break the list in half again, tell 100 of them to buy, tell another 100 to sell. Whatever Lucent does, if it goes up, I'll contact those other 100 because I've got 100 people that have seen me be absolutely perfectly spot on accurate three straight times. This guy knows his stuff. Now behind the scenes, I didn't do anything. I just broke it down and just play the law of averages. It's gonna go up real down. And so I've fooled 100 people into thinking that I know what I'm talking about. This is what they're doing because I've agreed with this, I've agreed with that and I've agreed with that, something basic. Jesus is Lord, amen. I've agreed with some small things. Now this, that has no biblical basis because now by this point in time, I have not opened my Bible, I'm through, I've closed my Bible, I'm not opened up anymore. I'm not, oh, by the way, if y'all hear that little scam going on. But I've closed my Bible because now I've given him my trust. This is why you can call out somebody's biblical shenanigans. You can say that this person is lying, this person is false and then you'll have a thousand people come to their defense. This person's a true man of God. This person is, I literally had one person, I saw the comments. I literally had a person say that this guy is not a false prophet, but I think you are. This guy, everybody is wrong from time to time. And so I don't think that's right for you to call him a false prophet. But because you did so, because you're doing this, I think that you're probably the false prophet. So literally, I point out his false prophecies and you agree that they were wrong, but he's not a false prophet. But I'm a false prophet, not that I'm wrong about anything, but because I pointed it out. This is the twistic logic because people have bought in. And so us, and I understand this, that everyone is not gonna buy into reason. Everyone's not gonna buy into the true word of God. Even those that call themselves Christian. Sad I know, unfortunate I know, but that's the case. That is the case. That one beat says, thank you for what Chetty says. Hey, Corey, when you have a chance, can you explain the meaning of the word was with God? I know Jesus is the word became flesh. I'll do that. As a matter of fact, I'll try to remember to do that before I leave, but I will do that. That's my plan to do so. It won't take very long. So, where did it leave off? I'm trying to figure out where I left off at. And so there's this desire to want to activate or to, that's not biblical. Again, he says, not all have these gifts. Let's continue. Verse, the middle 29, all are not apostles. Are they? No, all are not prophets. Not all are teachers. Not all are workers of miracle. Not all have the gifts of healing. Not all speak with languages or tongues. Not all interpretive, but earnestly desire the greater gifts. And he's speaking the greater gifts that they all would end up ultimately preaching the word of God and doing so in love. So now, what has happened though, we have this phenomenon. I wanna make sure I have the actual one. We have this phenomenon going on where even in this, the two great ways, you see some people doing it with the swinging of their hands or blowing on people, but the dominant way that we impart to someone is how? How do we typically see these people imparting a gift? Well, they do so with the laying on of hands. Number three, the laying on of hands. Let me show you here. I'm gonna go to Timothy one, six. This is why I remind you to fan into flames. The spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. There's something spiritual about laying hands on people. When you have a man or a woman of God place their hand on you, it's possible that spiritual transfer takes place. And so Paul writes that there was something that was deposited when he laid hands on him. Now, make sure. Now, we're gonna come to that. We're gonna see, is that quite right? It might actually be right, what he just said, or it might actually also be wrong. We're gonna look at that in just a second. Sure, you understand this. Impartation doesn't come from individuals. It comes through individuals. And we receive of the mantle from those who have gone before us. Examples of this would be like Elijah and Elisha, Moses and Joshua, Jesus and his disciples. To some degree, and we'll talk about this in a moment, David and Saul. Yes, I know that's an odd one, but it's a real one. Paul and Timothy. So now what we wanna do is we wanna go ahead and look up the scripture that he brings up. Second Timothy one, six, let's go there. He says, for this reason, I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God, Paul's speaking to Timothy, which is in you through the laying on of hands. The laying on of my hands. Well, couple of things. We're gonna come back to this passage, but I wanna ask you all this question. Do you think that Timothy is who he is because of Paul physically laying hands on Timothy? Now, I wanna deal with this issue of laying on of hands. And the reason for laying on hands, first of all, we, there are examples in the scriptures of people receiving some sort of gifting, even the spirit, the evidence of the spirit after they had hands physically laid on them. So let's go a couple of examples. In Acts 19.4, Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance telling the people to believe in him who was coming after him, that is in Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they began speaking. And so this looks like an example of when physical hands were laid on them. However, this was not the pattern, this was not prescribed that you had to lay hands. We have an example here where people received the gift of the spirit, they received the Holy Spirit in Acts 10 without having hands laid on them. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. And it says, all the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed because a gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. So here's an example of them receiving the Holy Spirit and no one, at least according to the scripture, laid hands on them. Well, why is that? What does it mean to have hands later? Laying one of hands is just a way of validating or verifying. Almost like a stamp of approval. This is me saying that this person is who they are. Now, it's not so much of the physical laying on the hands, it's just the you giving credence to whatever happened. Are you with me? Recall back and let's do this. Let's go back to Acts chapter eight. Philip is a Hellenistic. He is not a natural born Jew. He goes down now, he is sent by the church. He goes down to Samaria to preach the gospel. Now, I want y'all to think about this. We've covered before why they don't receive the Holy Spirit under Philip. Let's go ahead and read. Now when verse 14, after they've heard the gospel and believe the matter of fact, let's go back even, you know, I'm sorry, let's start on verse 14. Now, when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit for he had not yet fallen upon any of them for they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. So here we've got, you've got these people and Samaria, these Samaritans who they believed, but they didn't receive the Holy Spirit under Philip's preaching. Now, what we need to remember though, Philip, there were some signs done under Philip's hand. You won't go back and read, but you all go back and read at your leisure, but Philip had these signs done so much so that Simon the sorcerer kind of got jealous and began believing himself and following, but not the real, not the actual authentic believing. He just like, okay, I see this. He was really, what he was really doing was believing in the signs, but the point is there were signs done at the hands of Philip. And so clearly Philip had the Spirit. So why is it that Philip who has the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel, they believe, why could he just physically lay his hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit? Well, there's a reason why for that. The reason why is because we're not, and we've covered this before, I won't go too far into it, but we're not going to have a divided church where we've got the Jews who are this type of Christians and then the Samaritans who are right there and then down here, the Gentiles. No, we want to make sure, or God wants us to say, we God wants to make sure that everyone understands that everyone who, every people group, which is what the prophet Joel is speaking of, every people group is going to receive the Holy Spirit. And what happens then? Because of that, the Jews, particularly those in Jerusalem could not come back and say, yes, we all are believers, we're all part of this body, but only we Jews have the Holy Spirit. No, because when the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit and even the Samaritans, they didn't receive the Holy Spirit under Philip's hand, but they sent who? Peter and John. The very same two who were part of the original 12 who everyone else received the Holy Spirit at their preaching on the day of Pentecost. So the Jews in Jerusalem could not come back and say, yeah, Peter and John said, so that's not good enough. No, Peter and John were the ones that gave validation that you all received the Holy Spirit as well. And so, and then by the way, by the fact that Samaritans received, okay, fine, fine. Us Jews have it, our Samaritan cousins, they have it as well. But then these Gentiles get the Holy Spirit. Wait a minute, because what did it say in Acts 10? The Jews were amazed that even they received the Holy Spirit. And so the identifying marker was that everyone who places their faith in Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit, like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12. And so now we've got not a divided body. We have a unified body, unified by what? By the Holy Spirit. And so after we see them given validation of who received the Holy Spirit, you know what we don't see anymore, what we do see. We don't see it to the same degree. We don't see this talk of having hands laid on anyone going further. Why? Because everyone has had some sort of validation, confirmation that they too have the Holy Spirit. The last people group were John's disciples running around the countryside, saying repent, to keep with heavens at hand and those folks that believed in just that. They were still waiting. They just were out of, basically out of touch. And so here they come and they preached the gospel to them in John 19. And then they also received the Holy Spirit. And then after that, you don't hear very much about having hands laid on them. But now let's go back to Philip. Let's go back to laying on, I'm not Philip, but laying on the hands of Timothy in 2 Timothy 1-6. For this reason, I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. And so the question that I asked was, are we absolutely sure that Paul imparted the word they want to use, imparted the Holy Spirit to Timothy by the laying on of his hands? Well, maybe, maybe not. Why do I say maybe not? Well, because it looks like that way. But then let's go to them talking about Timothy again in 1 Timothy chapter four, verse 14. He says again, the same thing, do not neglect the spiritual gift within you which was bestowed on you through the prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the Presbytery or the Presbytery. So, and by the way, this is the body of elders. Are you with me? The, so who laid hands on him? Well, it wasn't just Paul. It was the entire, it was the body of elders that laid hands on Timothy. Are you with me? So the question is, did Timothy, was he anointed? Because everybody laid hands. Well, if that was the case with the, who's the most anointed person? Who caused it? Well, the point of fact of the matter is it was none of their laying on of hands that did so. It was just them giving affirmation, confirmation and validation to him. Whether they did it either physically or not because the term laying on of hands is both physical as well as idiomatic. It's almost, it's a kind of a phrase that's used a figure of speech in many cases just like, I'm laying hands to him. I have, that's why the Bible says lay hold of no man, lay hands on no one too soon. He doesn't mean actually physically lay hands on anyone too soon. Don't validate anyone too soon. Don't take part in their sin. How does that happen? You're not putting your hands on them and transferring sin to them. No, it's just that when you give confirmation of validation to someone who turns out not to be who they say they are, well, then you're gonna be impugned. Your credibility is gonna be impugned and we're not gonna do that with God or his word or his people. And so that's the whole point of laying on of hands. Now, is it wrong to lay hands on someone? It's not wrong at all. But physically speaking, you can't lay hands on everybody that got, that became a believer in the body. You couldn't, there's not enough hands, nor is there enough time, excuse me. Furthermore, if it were necessary to lay hands on someone, you would find a command. We don't have a command where it says to lay hands on someone. We saw that they did so, but again, this is more culturally as well. They understood this. So that being the case, people have abused this. Again, there's no problem if someone is praying and you lay hand on someone, not a problem at all. It's all, whether you are kind of passing the, metaphorically passing the baton, that's fine. That's not a, it's not anti biblical. It's not, it doesn't go against scripture. It's perfectly fine. It's perfectly fine. So now that being stated, we see people who, for lack of a better word, are just playing with God. They're just, just playing with God. Crowd in the name of Jesus, fire, fire, through this crowd, through this crowd. That's right. It's all over in the crowd. Fresh fire, fresh fire, fresh oil. These are people that are really just playing. These people are just, it is blasphemous to think that one that through you, because of you that someone can receive anything spiritual, they can receive a word, that's it. But of course, when you have this desire to see something special, and the reason why you have people who desire to see something special is because you got to desire for people to wanna be special. And so they will give you what you want. So yeah, this Holy Ghost, this fake spirit, Domino's, guess what guys? Oh no. How about I see your Domino's and raise you a Holy Spirit wave. I'm gonna move to the right. You're gonna follow me. And a wave of the anointing is gonna hit everybody in here. The hand of God is gonna touch you. How many of you believe that? Now, what are you gonna say? How many of you believe that I don't, now I would, I know some of you guys would as well, but yeah, he is, he is Starboy, more fake than a $7 bill. But he would have people believing that the $7 bill came from heaven. Some of his followers, which is interesting, he's got a lot of followers all by the way, all by the way, you got a lot of people in this video who subscribe and are protégés of Benny Hinn, such as David D. Hernandez. But when someone asks that question in this setting, I believe the word of God and I want what God is gonna give me. And listen to how she gifts these people. How many of you receive it? Because a lot of people believe they don't wanna receive. Put your hands down. Don't grasp anybody. I'm gonna make a simple declaration. I'm gonna pray. I'm gonna transcend business in the realm of the spirit on your behalf. Keep your eyes open. I'm gonna move to the right of this stage. I'm gonna extend my hand. And as I extend my hand and I move across, a tsunami's gonna hit. It's gonna start on the right. It's gonna end up on the left. And every last one of you that are called to be promoted in this next move of God, the hand of God is gonna touch you. And you are gonna be slain from the front to the very back. Nobody needs to go down to the back. The anointing is wide enough and broad. You're gonna know God is gonna touch you. And I'm gonna tell you this, if the person on your right or left does not want the anointing, they're gonna be left standing up and a double portion is gonna hit you. You're gonna... Now you just guilt it, everybody. You've made everybody feel guilty because if I don't fall, then I won't have the anointing and the person to the right and left of me that falls, they're gonna get a double portion of the anointing. I'm gonna miss out. So what am I gonna do? Because I've already said, yes, I believe the Lord. We don't ask, they don't ask, do you believe me? No, do you believe? How many of you all believe the Lord? Of course, because my Bible's already closed. I'm not gonna open up anymore. So now I'm in, you've got me hooked. And so now I believe the Lord and I don't want to miss out on this anointing. As a matter of fact, I kind of hope the person in front of me or behind me doesn't fall. That way I can get a double portion of their anointing as well. And then if you believe, let's see this, listen, I gotta give it to her. This is the best multiple or mass slaying in the spirit I've ever seen. You're gonna pick up your ministries and go and turn around. I get clear and declare a supernatural anointing sweep. Fall down from my right to my left. I move everybody over your eyes. Here it is. Raba Sata, Raba Sata, Raba Sata, Raba Sata, Raba Sata. In the name of Jesus, we thank you, the viewers. She's got Benny Hinn beat. She's got the African guy beat. She's got everybody. Listen, when was the last time? Back in the day, they still do from time to time. Have the wave and the football stadiums. But that, she's got everybody beat. Question is though, can you give us a scripture, ma'am? Any scripture, anybody about being slain in the spirit. Now, I've covered David Hernandez in this explanation that our biggest beef with it is that it's not in the scripture. But he kind of brushes it off as though that's not a problem. It is a problem. It is a problem if what you're doing is not found in the scripture. If you can't find a biblical basis for it, but then you wanna teach it as though it is a doctrine. That makes no sense. You wanna teach it as though it's in the book and then get mad at us because it's not in the book. You can't find the Bible saying don't do it. Well, you can't find the Bible saying do it. So the problem is that we have people who don't care, who do not care and they make it up as they go. And they'll tell you what it looks like to be having the Holy Spirit imparted in you. They'll give all these colorful explanations of them receiving the Holy Spirit and others receiving the Holy Spirit. You're like, it's amazing. I go to the healing conference. And Randy's talking about something. And I'm like, I can't stop thinking about this baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire. And this thing hit me and gripped me and caused me to be electrified in a kneeling position with my hands on the chair in front of me, screaming like a baby. Help! Randy, he said, you won't die. More, Lord. Well, I'm not kidding. It sounds funny. There wasn't anybody in the whole place that was laughing. It looked like I was going through full deliverance is what it looked like. But I was delivered. But we don't have that. We don't have anyone in scripture doing that, but we have that today. We have that today. Neland says, thanks for super chatting. He says, Romans 111, Paul wants to impart a spiritual gift. I believe these guys are using this verse to develop their claim. Can you explain the verse? So I'll go to Romans 111. For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you that you may be established. That is, now let's go up for it. For I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. For God whom I served in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of his son is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you. Always in my prayers making requests of if, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you. Some, and matter of the word for spiritual gift is pneumaticone, so some spiritual thing that you may be established. That is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you each of us by the other's faith both yours and mine. I do not want you to be unaware or ignorant brothers. And there's that word again, brother that often I have planned to come to you and have been prevented thus far so far so that I may attain some fruit among you even as among the rest of the Gentiles. Now, who's he speaking to or who's he speaking about? He's speaking about, this is, remember Paul is, he's an apostle to who, to the Gentiles. Though he's Jewish, Paul has a problem. His problem is that the Jews at this time by and large are not coming to Christ. They're now shunning and turning their back. What's Paul's concern that his people, and he tells us in Romans 9, 10, 11, he's speaking specifically of his Jews. Now, there's two audiences in view here, obviously, but he's speaking of these Jews who he wants to, some Benny and Benny sin ministries, I like that. He's speaking about them and that he wants to impart some of them. Let's go back to this passage. Now, the word is diddami, which is the word to give. It's actually the word metadata to me. The word diddami, which we see in scriptures is to give. The reason why you'll see this word in part is mainly because of the King James Version. We will keep a lot of tradition from the King James Version, which is no problem. I don't have a problem with that, but he's not giving them an actual spiritual gift. He's not giving them the gifting. What he's wanting to give them is the gospel. He makes that clear because we go further in Romans and he tells that, are you with me? And so yeah, she was at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Charles Blake was there. He was there at the time when he was doing there. If he had a problem with that, don't know if he did or did not, don't know. I don't know, but anyway, Neil, that's the point. He's not trying to give off anything other than to the Jews to give them the gospel. We know that's what he said because he says so in Romans 9, 10, 11. But then he says, because he says, I wish I could be a curse for them, but he says a spirit of stupor has been given over them and a partial hardening. And so for that reason, they are going to come just not right now until, as he says, until the fullness of jid towels has come. When that's gonna be, don't know. Don't know. So by the way, someone asked a question. So let me go ahead and answer this question as well. The question was John 1, 1. Let me ask this question real quick. We're not gonna be in question answering phase today. We'll do that on, oh, tomorrow, I'm sorry, on tomorrow. So let's go over this passage real briefly. It's a bit off topic, but it's okay though. It's about the Bible. In the beginning, was the word, the word was with God and the word was God. I forgot the question that he asked. I honestly did, but let's just cover the whole thing. In beginning was the word. So that part is straightforward. We don't have any problem whether it's Jehovah's Witnesses, whether whoever it is in the beginning was the word. Then he says, Chai Halagos was up and the word, Halagos is the word, was pros. It can be with or to God. It makes no good English. For us to say it was to God, it means with God. No one has any problem with that. It's this third portion, the third clause of this that folks have an issue with. And the word was God. The problem is that we see, and I want you all to kind of look at this on the right and to the left. If we look on the English on the right and that's the word Chai, the word Halagos was God. The interesting part, and it might be a problem, but actually it's not a problem. It actually solves everything. The word was God. The Greek has the word order different. Look to the right over here. It says Chai and then Theos is the next word. So and God. And then this word right here is was and then Halagos is the word. So if you just kind of just get it just like the Greek was or the Greek has it was, it would say and God was the word. However, in Greek word order is not as important as it is in English. Word order can be moved or shifted. A word can be shifted to make a point. Well, the point is pretty much established already. Why is that? Because we have what's called, one we have two nouns. The problem is we've got two nouns. We don't know, we have to figure out which one is the subject. In English, the first noun is a subject. Okay? So, well, no, I'll take it back. I'll take it back. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. Let me slap myself. I can't say that because the first word is not always a subject. The subject can be established after another noun. If the story is about this giant tunnel and then I get to the next sentence and the next sentence says, a red Ferrari drove through the tunnel. Well, the Ferrari is not the subject of the tunnel, it's still the subject. But in this case, what we have here is we've got two nouns. At the very beginning, we've got to figure out which one is the subject. Well, the Greek tells us that the very first one that we come to, which is halagos. In our, in halagos, so that's the first noun. That must, that's the subject. We see it again. halagos, halagos, and the word ain pras tan fea. And so tan fea, or feas, the God is, what's called the predicate nominative. In this, the predicate nominative is going to describe what class or category or just know we're putting it is going to, this is a pre-verbal, an atherous noun. Now, it's going to describe what the subject is. Without getting too technical, the predicate nominative describe what class, category, or what the subject is. In this case, the predicate nominative is God. The subject is the word. And so what does that mean? The word is God. Now, the reason why you see in the last portion, the third clause of it, the reason why you see feas shifted to the front is because in this case, it adds extra emphasis to this passage. Are you with me? So that's the explanation of that. It's that third clause in that first verse that bothers the Jehovah's Witnesses and so forth and so forth, but let them be bothered all they want to. They don't determine what the Bible means. So anyway, there you go. He says, if y'all don't hit that like button, I'm gonna tell Tyler to lay hands on y'all. Yeah. I would appreciate if you guys do. I would appreciate if you guys did hit the like button. So can you impart a spiritual gift to someone? No. Can you impart the word of God to them? Well, we cover that. Yes, you can. You can share the gospel of as he said, I'm thinking a slick way, but acts as a true way as well. You can share the gospel with people. You can impart that to people, but in no way can you give. Can you give someone the gift of tongues? Can you slay somebody in the spirit and part that to them? Can you, no, you can't do that. That's not how that works. It's not God working through you. It's God may use you, but he works through himself. He determines who is going to get what gift if a gift. He decides that. Not us and me waving my hands around and doing all those other things like that and blowing on people. No, that is so unbiblical. And again, this is why I think this is also blasphemous because now it puts me in the position. It puts me in the position of being what God is. God is the one who distributes the gifts as he wills, but now I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm, well, wait a second. Now you're putting yourself in that's what men want to do. Men want to be somebody special and people want to see something special. So because people want to see something special, they have no problem with entertaining somebody who wants to be special. But the one thing that we all have, I have it, you have it, non-believers have it, believers have it, mature Christians have it, immature Christians have it. We all have this exact same gift in the same measure. What is that? It is the word of God. We've got the Bible. I have the exact same words that you have in your possession. The onus is now on you. The onus is on me to utilize it. If I'm wrong, hey, there's a Bible. Let's point it out. If that person's right or wrong, hey, there's a Bible. Let's verify it or let's call it. Let's ask them, hey, I've got an issue. If they don't want to respond, that's fine. But you and I are going to be guilty of holding onto the word of God, listening to it, letting it be our God. Amen. Amen, thank you all for being here. Oh, I'm on the wrong thing as well. I'm sitting here. Look, I'm trying to push this thing to lead out and I'm on a different page. But anyway, it'll work this time. Good night.