 who shares prophetic words, I don't claim to get everything right every single time. And sometimes I have a lot more confirmation about specific words than other times. I am not jumping on here claiming to get everything right every single time. And the reason is because I'm still human and I am not perfect at hearing from God. And also even when I hear very clearly and accurately, I'm not perfect at sharing it and interpreting what I've heard. And that's just the nature of prophecy. I've heard many teachers say, and I've even said this myself, that we shouldn't pursue the gifts, we should pursue the gift-giver, meaning we should be focusing on pursuing our relationship with God and allow Him to do what He wants when He wants. However, 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 1 says, pursue the gifts, desire these things, and specifically pursue the gift of prophecy. I have missed it a many times, but you know what? When I'm going to keep on speaking until I get it right. Earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. Now it's never wise, I've learned this after 48 years of ministry. It's never wise for the first time you're speaking at a new church to offend them, but I'm going to offend some of you. So just bear patiently with me. If you are not earnestly desiring spiritual gifts, especially prophecy, you are sinning. This word that's tossed around a lot, actually two words, actually a few words. One, false prophet, false teacher. Now we're going to find out that those words are actually in the Bible. They're used synonymously, but the question is, what exactly is a false prophet or a false teacher? As a matter of fact, I'm going to say something that is probably going to shock you. I'm going to go ahead and explain a little bit later as we go. What the question was asked, can a false prophet actually be a Christian? Is it possible that a false prophet can still be saved? Or to put it another way, can a safe person give a false prophecy? And since false prophet and false teacher are used synonymously interchangeably, can a Christian, a safe person give a false teaching? Can a false teacher be a Christian? Well, the answer to the question is yes, with a really big asterisk. And I mean a really big asterisk. As a matter of fact, 12, 13, 14, 15 asterisks. Because you don't want to find yourself in the position of being given false prophecies or false teachings, and we're going to split the Bible means in just a second. You don't want that to be named because the question then is, are you actually a believer? Because the Bible does tell us to check ourselves to make sure. There are people that actually think they are safe and are not. And therefore, there are people who actually think they are giving a prophecy or a teaching from God. And notice I said from God because that's the important thing. That's the real important thing. And so when we talk about someone who's a false prophet, is it possible that a person that a false prophet is doing it? Does it matter if the person is doing it intentionally or unintentionally? Now, this is what I would like for you guys to kind of. And you all can go ahead and feel like if you want to give me some feedback. Does it matter if they do it intentionally or unintentionally? Now, the question I always ask is how many prophecies must a prophet get wrong in order to be a false prophet? How many false prophecies make you a false prophet? Well, I submit to you the answer is one. The answer is one. One false prophet makes you a false one false prophecy makes you a false prophet. Now, there has to be something that's entailed there. And if a person who fits the definition of a false prophet, if that person fits that definition, then we are not, we should not listen to that person. That person needs to go somewhere and sit down. That doesn't mean that they're going to hell. That doesn't mean that they're not going to hell either. Let me say that again. If you give false prophecies and we're going to find out what it is, it doesn't mean that you're going to hell, but it also doesn't mean that you're not going to hell. So let's go to the scriptures as we do and look at what the Bible talks about about a false prophet or a false prophecy. Let's start off in Deuteronomy where I want to go. Let's go to verse 13. I mean, chapter 13 verse 1. And I don't know why my camera just did that. My camera just skipped. I don't know what's going on. My camera is behaving like a false prophet. If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder. Now, let's stop for a second. Notice how he puts together a false prophet, I'm sorry, if a prophet or a dreamer of dreams. Why do you guys, and I'll put it on the screen. I want you guys to interact with me. Why do you guys think that he puts, now this is God speaking through Moses obviously, what do you think he puts together? Prophet and a dreamer of dreams. That's an interesting question. Why would he put dreamer of dreams and a prophet? Anybody have any idea, any clue why he would string those two together? Well, I'll tell you why. Here's the reason why. Because the person with the dreams or the vision and guys, you need to know this for today. When you're getting dreams and vision, if you think that you're getting dreams or visions, they're not for you. They are not for you. Just like if you got, hey, I got a word from the Lord, I got a prophecy, it's not for you. Again, every, and I mean every, so much so that I mean to say it with three syllables, every, everyone is meant for the edification for the building up of the body. Amen. It's not just for you, it's for the body. And so when you have these dreams, these, when you, if you are a, what's called a dreamer of dreams, as the Bible says, well then that's not just for you, that's for the body. The Lord gave me a dream telling me that I'm gonna be something great. Now we see an example of that with Joseph, but that wasn't for Joseph, was it? What Joseph is going to do is his, now he didn't understand the fullness of the dream, but his dream benefited Israel. It was actually to bring about God's plan. It's not for you, it's not for your own. The Lord gave me a dream that I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a new husband or new wife by next month. Now I'm gonna have a new job, all these different things the Lord has told me what I'm going to have. No, that is not what's happening, okay? And so be clear, be clear, rest assured that is not the point of it. And so the reason why you see this here, the reason why you see these both mentioned here, the prophet or the dreamer of dreams is because this is God's word. God wants to disseminate a word. He wants to inform, he wants to tell. So they use synonymously. So if a prophet or dreamer of dreams among you gives you, excuse me, a sign or wonder and the sign or the wonder comes true concerning which he spoke to you saying, let us go after other gods whom you have not known, let us serve them. So if they do so and it causes people to leave God. Now, will they do so kind of blatantly? Will you know that? Will it be obvious? In other words, are they going to say something and it's clear, I want you to depart from the living God. I want you to leave the tenants of this faith. I want you, no. The devil is not trying to alert you to his schemes. It's a scheme, okay? So he says, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your soul. In other words, you need to make sure imperative that you want to show your love for him, but that your intent on making sure that what you listen to and what you follow is of God. That's why he says, love the Lord your God with all your soul, with all your heart, with all of your inmost being. Well, how do you do so? Well, that necessarily means you're going to have to go to the word, the very word that he left versus coach also somewhere else in Deuteronomy 18. He says, but the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, and we're going to focus on this word here in just a second, but the prophet who speaks presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. What does it mean, ladies and gentlemen, to speak presumptuously? That's the question, because that can help us to determine what a false prophet is. Similarly, what a false teacher is. What does it mean to speak presumptuously? Well, according to the Hebrew text, the word literally refers to someone who does so in an insolent, almost a disobedient fashion. As a matter of fact, if we go to Deuteronomy 1712, notice who else gets put to death by doing something presumptuously. The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to judge the man, I'm sorry, nor to the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. So the whole point is, obviously God's whole point is that there'd be no sin or no evil in the camp. Let's go back to verse 18, verse 20, about the prophet who speaks presumptuously. Let's see what he's speaking of just a little bit further. Now, he's contrasting this person with the true prophet that is Jesus, says the Lord said to me, they have spoken well, I will raise up a prophet among their countrymen like you, and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all that I command him. It should come about that whoever will not listen to my words, which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require of him, but the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him, or which he speaks in the name of other gods that prophet shall die. Now notice what he says, who speaks presumptuously in the name of other gods. So this in the name of has a lot to do with it. So presumptuously and in the name of. In other words, disobediently in an insulin fashion, not in my name, not in the name of God, not in the name of Jesus, which is in accordance with alongside based on through the power of versus someone who's just doing it, either in the power of something else, some other guys, their own self. And so to be a false prophet, to be a false teacher, it also focus on the intensity, not necessarily the intent, but the intensity. In other words, constantly over and over again, there's a desire to put more out and more out. Have you ever noticed that today's modern, modern prophets, they seem to not just give out one prophecy. They seem to want to give out several prophecies in the course of a week, in the course of months. Whereas in the Bible, when we go and look at the actual, now the one that we can all agree on who prophets are, those in the Bible, how many prophecies do we see? Oh, I don't know, Isaiah give it. How many prophecies do we see Jeremiah give it? How many prophecies do we see Elijah give it? How many prophecies do we see each one of these? We see some of them get more than others, obviously, but it's not as though that Jeremiah had a prophecy every day. It's not as though Ezekiel woke up every day and say, hey guys, I got to work from the Lord. No, but when they got to work, because again, there's only two things you have to do to be a prophet. Only two things, it's not a very difficult job. It really is. One, hear from God, hear what God says, two, repeat what God says. That's pretty much it. Listen, it's the easiest job you can, if you can get that job, amen, you have a cushy job. It's a sweet gig, if that's your job, because all you gotta do is hear what he says and then say what you heard. That's it. Problem is, when you say what you say he heard, I mean, when you say what you say you heard from him and it wasn't, now we got a problem. Now we have a huge problem. And so we're left listening to you thinking, okay, because the problem is not just on the false prophet or the false teacher, the one in error, but also on the people that listened. And so in doing so, it will cause them in many cases to go after other guys, even if the other God looks like Jesus. Even if the other God looks like our God, we think, because that's the whole point, Satan shows up as an angel of light. So it's possible that the guy that you're being steered to is not a God at all, but looks like our God. And so there's this consistent, erroneous revelation. And I say revelation, that's really what a prophet is, someone who brings a revelation, who tells, who informs, who teaches. They do so with conviction, with no repentance, no humility. And now it's possible to be bold in your teaching, but there has to be a level of humility that goes with that. There has to be a meaning, what if I'm wrong? Let me keep searching the scriptures just to make sure, like the Brains did, let me keep searching the scriptures to make sure that what I say is correct. And then we're gonna do in just a second, we're gonna kind of compare what we think a prophet is and what we think a teacher is. Now it's not always for money, but sometimes it is for money. It's not always for status, but sometimes it is for status. It's not always to intentionally lead you away from God, the true God, but many cases it is, ultimately it will be. And then ultimately what makes this a person, a false prophet or false teacher, is that they cover what they say as it's from God. And that's the key. Claiming to speak on behalf of God, claiming to teach on behalf of God. And this is where we're gonna see the difference between someone who might say something erroneously, false in a false fashion, but not necessarily be called a false teacher. And what do they end up doing? They also end up bringing these damnable heresies. Now the issue about being about their intent, again I say it can be with full intent of deceiving or it can be unintentional. And why do I say that? Because Paul brings this up. In 2 Timothy 3, 13, he says, but evil man and imposters, this word imposters, will proceed from bad to worse. And look what he says. He says deceiving and being deceived. So you can be deceived, not know you're deceived, but still be in the same camp being considered as old, who is an impostor, an evil man or woman going from bad to worse. Deceiving others and being deceived. Remember, the genesis of our fall, pun intended, was a woman was deceived and then her husband actually went and intentionally sinned. So we got one that did so, kind of ignorantly being deceived and one who knew full well. Doesn't matter, the result is still the same. Now we are left with the world that's fallen. And so it doesn't matter if it's intentional or unintentional. What they're gonna do is, what they're going to do ultimately, the false prophet in some way, shape, form of fashion is gonna lead people to heresies. Look what Peter says. He says, but false prophets also rose among the people just as there will also be false teachers. Notice how I put the same together. False prophets just as there will also be in the future of false teachers. So the two are synonymous. I'm gonna come back to that part in a second who secretly introduced destructive or some verse may say, damnable heresies even, not always, but even denying the master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. So if you are in the camp of a false teacher, false prophet, you will be bringing swift destruction upon yourself. So the question is, the question's gotta be then how do I know? Now, before we get to that, I wanna deal with something that is a problem. Why do we have, let me ask you guys this question. Maybe you can help me out. The question I'm asking is, why do you think we have so many false prophets and so many false teachers today? That's an interesting question. It's a good question to ask, what is the answer? Why? Because let's be clear. There are a lot of false prophets. There are a lot of false teachers. Paul says the time will come that we're not into a sound doctrine. So why do we have so many false prophets and so many false teachers? Faith Jarmin says money. That's a good way, yeah, yep. Listen, if you wanna make some money, become a false prophet. It pays good. You can just look and see. Jarmin says ego, yep, that's one. Greed and sin, yes. Tina says because we allow it, without question, they feed an appetite if there was no appetite for this, well then you wouldn't have people that would be listening for it. But they said they have itching ears and so somebody's gotta tickle them. Pride and greed, yep. No requirements for qualification. Yes, all of these are correct. All of these are correct. But what about those that do, what we're talking about, you guys are talking about the intentional false prophet, the intentional false teacher. What about the unintentional false prophet, false teacher? What about them? Why are there people that unintentionally offers false teachings and false prophecies? Well, part of it has to do with the teachers that we have today. Can I just be honest with you? I'm just gonna be honest with you. We have a lot of well intentioned and even educated people that sometimes talk too much. I'm sorry to put it that way, but sometimes, say it's stupid, yeah. Sometimes the teachers who are educated and are trained, as my former mentor told me, sometimes you get older and you begin to think too much. You start thinking too much for yourself and you start trying to figure things out that maybe God didn't want you to figure out or it's above your pay grade, who knows, but you go to thinking. And you misquote and mistake the scriptures and then cause other people to take it that way. And so matter of fact, Cliff Boland, I like how you put that, scriptural illiteracy, because we're gonna see an example of it. We are going to see an example of it. There's a guy who was early on, Sam Storms, Dr. Sam Storms, makes a statement. He says that if you're not desiring prophecy, you're a sin, you're in sin. Well, part of that comes from a misquoting of the Bible. Now, we're gonna talk later today about us doing these observations on a particular chapter of the Bible. So when you see the scriptures, do y'all believe that the scriptures are actually there for you to read? Do you all think that the words that are on these paper, the words that are on these in the text, do you think the words are there for a reason? Do you think, huh, that these words actually have a purpose in being there? Or are they just to dress up the page? You got this piece of paper, this vellum. You got this, whatever it is, this animal skin. Let's put some ink on it just to dress it up. Or no, they mean something, right? So let me play something and then let's look at the text and then you all tell me. I'll play the clip, you look at the text and then you tell me, you tell me if that's what the text says. But we are late in pursuing the gifts as we are told to in 1 Corinthians 12, 31 and 1 Corinthians 14, 1 to pursue the higher gifts, pursue the gifts, especially the gifts of prophecy and to really be normal biblical Christianity as you were describing it, Matt. 1 Corinthians 14, 1 says earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. Now, did you catch that? I don't know if you guys caught that. I'm gonna play it again because I want you guys to catch that. I think you probably did. Why do I think you probably did? Dog, go ahead, you guys are smart Christians but let me see, I wanna see if you caught that and caught the error. But we are late in pursuing the gifts as we are told to in 1 Corinthians 12, 31 and 1 Corinthians 14, 1 to pursue the higher gifts, pursue the gifts, especially the gifts of prophecy and to really be normal biblical Christianity as you were describing it, Matt. 1 Corinthians 14, 1 says earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. All right, now let's go to the text. Earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, especially the gifts of prophecy. We are taught to pursue the gifts, pursue the gifts. Well, huh, I'm sitting there and I'm just, I'm being a good little Christian and I love the Lord and I hear someone say this, pursue gifts, that sounds good. And then I go to the text because I wanna be good Berean because I'm a smart Christian and I don't know much. So I gotta go to the text, rely on the text because that's what a smart Christian does. And well, what do you know? It says, it says 1 Corinthians 14, 1 says pursue spiritual gifts. Is that what it says? No, it does not say, no, and there's the problem. Just by just maybe intentionally or unintentionally, misrepresent the text. It does not say pursue spiritual gifts. And someone gonna say, well, isn't that, that's what it means, that's not what it says. I'm not asking you or nor are you asking me to impose what I believe it means. Oh, it means the same. No, it does not. It does not pursue love. Then it says yet, desire earnestly, the spiritual, now the word, by the way, do y'all see how this word gifts is, let me make it a little bit bigger. Do y'all see the word gifts is italicized? Do y'all see that? The word gifts is italicized. What do y'all think that means when you look in your scriptures and you look in the Bible and a text or a word means or a word is italicized, meaning the words in italics. For those of you people, for those of you men that have hair. What, if you see a word in the Bible, that's italic, that's written in italics. You bald folks, you got that. But what does it mean? It means it's not originally, exactly Jonathan, it means it's not originally there. It's added what? So we can kinda get it, but it's not there. Now, these are supposed to be scholars. Supposed to be scholars. So let's go to that text. He says, earnestly desire spiritual and then gifts are italicized. So what? Well, the word is numitikum. It's not spiritual gifts, it's the spiritual. The spiritual things, things of the spirit. Desire that. Well, if I desire the spirit, exactly CG, if I desire the spiritual things or the things of the spirit or just the spirit, whatever you give me is whatever I'm good with. I'm cool with whatever you do. Whatever. Why? Because what I'm after, what I'm pursuing is love. That's what he says, pursue. As a matter of fact, diokite, that is in the imperative. That's what's in the imperative. Desire the spirit is also in the imperative, but especially that you may prophesy. Guess what? That is not in the imperative. So it's not a command to prophesy. So when the scholar, the great doctor says that if you're not desiring to speak in tongues, you're saying, no, what you just said was wrong. Now, I'm not saying that makes for a false teacher. If he comes back and he's saying, and he's stating that the Lord told me that you must prophesy, the Lord told me this is what the text is saying. Now you are speaking for God. Now, is he doing so presumptuously? Is he doing so in an intently intensified, insolent, disobedient manner? Don't know yet. Now, the sheer number of it happening over and over again without the lack of humility, I mean, I'm sorry, with the lack of humility might be an indication if that person is a false teacher, a false prophet. But again, it says pursue love, yet desire. And then these guys, no Greek. Probably a matter of fact, I'm gonna assume at least a couple of them, at least better than I do, deokate tain agape, agape, which is pursue love. And by the way, by the way, by the way, by the way, Greek students, Greek students, I got a question for you. Here's my question, Mr. and Mrs. Greek student and prospective Greek students. So even if you're not a Greek student, you can just act like you're one. You can say that's me, even if you're not there. This is where you get to name it and claim it. Greek students, the word tain is, does anybody know what tain is? It is if you're learning the Greek language, one of the first things you're gonna learn are the definite articles, the, the word the. And you'll have the masculine, nominative, genitive, accusative, data and so forth, singling, plural. You also have it in the feminine and you'll also have it in the neuter. Well, this word tain is actually the definite article, the. The, the, I said the, the, the, if you know it, pursue the love, but it's pursue the love. But why don't we pronounce the love? Why don't we pronounce the love? And guess, I learned this trick. I learned this trick from reading something from the great Daniel Wallace. Those the's actually mean something. We don't always, we don't always, we don't always interpret them, okay? For example, if we drop down, let me, let me give you a, let me give you a good example of what the word the means. In 1st Corinthians 14, as a matter of fact, speaking about tongues, we're not gonna talk about tongues, but it's something that you need to see that's there. Where is it? I gotta, I gotta find this word. Where is this word, amen? Where is this word, amen? Let me, let me move down the scriptures, so you all can see where I'm looking. I'm in 1st Corinthians 14, dropping down, mm-hmm, there I've been, I don't know the meaning of it. There I've been coming, what the hell is the outcome? Mm-hmm, there it is, there it is. Where it says in verse 16, notice this guys, cause I want you all to see, I'm going a long way. I want you all to see what the the actually means. It says, otherwise, if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who feels the place of the ungifted say the amen? Now, this the is actually interpreted. Why is the the interpreted here? Because the the refers to something, not just saying amen, but the, so it's referring to something definitively. There is, so I can say the amen, not just amen. I'll come back to that point about amen later, but the reason why the the is there, you'll see the the, and it literally means something in Greek again, because words are there for a reason. So we go back up to chapter 14, 1st one, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy, is there where I am? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, pursue the love, I'm sorry, pursue the love. Well, he's referring to something, a specific kind of love that is targeted, focused on God, not you, and is focused on others. How do I know? Because he just talked about that in chapter 13, where he speaks about love and this love is not self-centered, it's towards other people. So pursue the love, pursue that, desire, yet desire, desire the spiritual, the things of the spirit does not say, it does not say pursue spiritual gifts. So, but we are late in pursuing the gifts as we are told to in 1st Corinthians 12. And so we're not told to pursue the spiritual gifts, they may say that. And so what happens if there is a person who hears this, you've got doctor so-and-so here, doctor so-and-so there, doctor so-and-so there, or pastor so-and-so here, pastor so-and-so here, what about prophet so-and-so here, apostle so-and-so here, bishop so-and-so here, the people with the titles who are on stage and they say something and you're there because you love the Lord and you wanna learn, you hear that, I need to be pursuing spiritual gifts. But the text doesn't say that. So if I'm going to pursue spiritual gifts, here's the question, ladies and gentlemen, if I'm going to pursue them, then doesn't that mean that I have an opportunity to choose which one I'm going to pursue? Sure, if it's up to me to pursue spiritual gifts, though the text doesn't say that, then won't I determine which ones I desire to pursue? Absolutely. What's happening in the church of Corinth in 1 Corinthians 12, 13 and 14? They have decided to pursue certain spiritual gifts. This gift is better, that gift is better. And so now you've got people who are unintentionally, they've been misinformed, who are intending, who are trying to prophesy because the professor, the doctor, the pastor comes and says that if you're not trying to prophesy, you're sinning. Now what does that do to you? If someone tells you by not prophesying, you are sinning, because that's how I read the text. He went over so quickly, so smoothly, and I hear so many people saying that, well, yeah, I'm supposed to desire or pursue spiritual gifts, and I'm certainly supposed to pursue prophecy. Well, yeah, now we've got a problem. That's how this creeps in, because someone has called, I think they remember a lot of things, even amongst well-intentioned Christians, we take things the wrong way. We hear things the wrong way, and that's why I said we're doing these little examples of observing what the text says. Again, like we talked about before, how many, let me matter of fact, let's see if you guys learned. Let's see if you guys have not forgotten. So let's add, let's put it back on the screen. I'll ask you guys this question again. You ready? Here's the question. Pop quiz, pop quiz in the middle of this video. How many people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost? Now, we covered this before, did a couple of videos over this. How many videos, I mean, how many videos? How many people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost? And this relates to hearing something that you didn't hear. This relates to seeing something that you didn't see, meaning she looked at it right. Brother Brimstone, CG, don't know. It didn't say. I can't say how many people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost because who said they were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost? The Bible doesn't say that they were in the upper room. They were in a room, but not the upper room. It doesn't say. They may have been, may not have been, it doesn't say. And then it was not 120. We know reading later, it was just, it was just 12. Peter plus 11. But we don't know the reason why, and the reason why I make a big deal out of that because that's how a lot of us understand the Bible. Someone told us that we've heard it over. How many churches, be honest, how many churches good and bad? I mean, well, sound doctrinal churches as well as unsound churches, teach that there were 120 people in the upper room on the day of Pentecost. I've been to a lot of churches good and bad that said that. You keep hearing, but that is not what the text says. Just like 1 Corinthians 14, where it does not say pursue gifts, but a lot of people preach that and teach that, it doesn't say that. So what ends up happening, because I heard somebody say something, someone said something that I run along with it. And then that can cause me unintentionally also, if I'm pursuing spiritual gifts, especially pursuing prophecy, that I'm gonna prophesy too. I'm gonna prophesy too. That's why we get so many people who are unintentional false prophets, who are unintentional false teachers. Now, what they just taught was false. Does that put them in the category of a false teacher? Could be. It may very well be. I wouldn't go out and just say again, being a false teaching, giving a false teaching and a false prophecy doesn't put you in the category of a, and listen, let me just say this. I would say there are probably two different ways to look at a false prophet. The false prophet who gives the singular false prophecy, is he a false prophet? Yes, but not in the sense of a false prophet where he is on his way to hell. He could be, he may very well be, again, because you can be a Christian and give a false prophecy because you, someone told you to go pursue prophecy. Someone told you to go pursue prophecy and here you are saying the Lord it, because you're listening for the Lord. You can be. Notice what Paul says that in 1 Corinthians 14, you're so zealous for the spiritual gifts. You are so zeal, you want them so bad because you love the Lord. And you want the things that you are so zealous that everything that happens, you feel like it's the Lord. Everything that happens that feels like if you want, if you dream something, that's the Lord. If you heard somebody say something, oh, that's the Lord. Special, listen, let Lord help us if someone says the same thing two or three times. If two or three different people say the same thing twice or three times, what have you? Best confirmation, the Lord's spoken to me. I'm so hungry and oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. McDonald's, their lights are still on. The Lord is telling me I need to go and pull in the drive-thru. We can make it be the Lord if we want to be. We can cause something to be the Lord every day, every day. Every day, every day. I've got, how many y'all, how many y'all are in the South? How many y'all are in the South? My, well, not my family, my wife's family. Somebody dreamed about some fish. And in this family, if you dream about some fish, somebody's getting pregnant. Well, it's 87 people in this family that are of marrying age. 87 people in this family. And I mean, literally, literally a few weeks ago, a few weeks ago, somebody had a dream about a fish. That means somebody's pregnant. That means somebody's pregnant. Well, wait a second, wait a second. Get all these 20 and 30-year-olds. Yeah, somebody is pregnant. Somebody's gonna be pregnant. Nine months from now, yeah, yeah. So we do that, why? Why do we do that? Because we want the things of the spirit. I mean, well-intentioned. I want the things of the spirit. What I love to have the Lord speak to me. I mean, serious, somebody said, fish equals baby. Yep, yep. Who knew? But yeah, that's a thing. Am I the only one whose family does that? Not, well, my family, yeah, my family. They're my family, they're my family. Not my northern family, my southern family. But wouldn't you love, wouldn't you love to have the Lord speak to you audibly? Who would not want the Lord to speak to them audibly? I would, I would love the Lord to speak to me audibly. What, because first of all, you haven't had it happen before. It ain't like you know what it's like. So if it happens to me, wow, how awesome, how awesome would it be? Though the Lord spoke to me. That's an experience. Some of y'all saying, nope, not me. Yes you would, yes you would. You would feel so wonderful. How many of you would love to be overcome by the Holy Spirit in a way that you've never been overcome by the Holy Spirit? I would, sure. How many of you would love to see a miracle? How many of you would love to see someone's accident and someone lays hand on that person, that person gets up? I would love to see that. I would love to see those things. I would love to see a blind person have their sight restored. I would love to see a mute person get their voice. I would love to see that. Now, what if I really, really, really want to see that happen so much so that now I'm gonna cause, I'm gonna move it? There's a thin line between our desires and reality. We can see something the way it is. I can show you, I can show 10 people the same thing and 10 will see it different ways. I remember, I'll use my cowboy fans on this one. A few years ago, the cowboys were playing the Green Bay Packers. There's Brian Carter Pass. It looked like a pass. It was not a pass. It was not a pass at all. He didn't catch it. And the officials ruled correctly, not a catch. But the cowboy fans, to their blind eyes, they saw it as a catch. It wasn't a catch, it wasn't a catch. So we can see the same thing because you want something to be, it is. Or because you don't want something to be. How many of you have thought that this person loved you? Monkey Moosey, Monkey Moosey was a false prophet. It said that was a catch, it was not a catch. You can love somebody so much or think that's the right person. Tina said, watch it, he's the one. I just love him and he loves me and oh, he's so this and she's so that. And they're not. And they're not. Happens all the time, right? So imagine in the spiritual sense, you want these great things spiritually to happen and you've been told to pursue prophecy. Now, excuse me. Also we need to understand what does the word prophecy mean? Think about these words. Prophecy, we talked about dreams and visions. We talked about teachers. All of those are to inform, to tell. It's what a prophet does, inform or tell. And it's not necessarily a foretelling that in five days, this is gonna happen. In 70 years, we're gonna have a famine. We're gonna have famine in 70 years. In the next seven years, it's gonna be nothing but rain. No, no, that's not what the majority of prophecy is. The majority of prophecy is right now. What it is, like it is in the 70s. What it is, brother, what it is, bro. What it is, what it is, that's literally the majority of what prophecy is. That's literally what majority of prophecy is what's happening right now. So I've got a question for you guys. If prophecy is telling about what is, then what if someone were to say, well then if you can have false prophets, then don't we have unequal judgment and measurements as it relates to false teachings, not false teachers, but false teachings? For as much as you wanna say, well, because these guys get it wrong, we should get rid of it. It's like saying because you can't heal on command, we should stop believing in healing. Well, the people who did get healed, they're not complaining, you know what I'm saying? The people who got prophetic words that encouraged them and empowered them for ministry, like they're not complaining. But I would just encourage my cessation as brothers, you don't believe that about the gift of teaching. You don't have a teacher who, if they're teaching faithfully God's word and they err in one way, therefore they are a false teacher and we must get rid of them entirely. No, we acknowledge that the gift of teaching is fallible, but the word of God is infallible. Well, if God is speaking and leading his people through the gift of prophecy, can we not also say that God's word is infallible, but the people who are speaking on behalf of God are as fallible as teachers? Could we not say that? Well, so what do y'all think? Do you all think that this should also apply to teachers? Meaning, does it mean that, let me put this, where am I at? Does this also mean, where am I at? 15, verse 15 I think. Okay, does this also apply to teachers? So we talk about a false prophet getting things wrong, so let me put it on the screen again. I asked you guys earlier, how many false prophecies make someone a false prophet? How many false prophecies make someone a false prophet? You all, I think you all said one. I don't think prophets of God get it wrong, ever, ever. Now, the reason why we're talking about prophet and it's easy to go with a prophet because a prophet is declaring themselves as someone that's speaking for God. But what about how many false teachings? How many false teachings can a person get wrong? Now that's a bigger question. How many false teachings can a teacher get wrong to be considered a false teacher? Ah, now we might have a problem. Houston, we have a problem. How many false teachings can a person get wrong and be considered a false teacher? Because we saw where the word teacher and prophet, they are linked synonymously. Peter uses them synonymously because name your favorite teacher and I can promise you he's gotten something wrong at least once or twice or three times. The only one that you can think of that has never gotten a teaching wrong is me, not once. Not once in the history of America have I ever gotten anything wrong, not once at all. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Somebody's gonna clip that out. Yeah, not even, no. I wish that were the case and I tell my wife that all the time, baby, listen, I'm never wrong. Gets her so mad. Well, tell me the last time I was wrong. She's so rattled, she can't think. When the last, see, you can't do it, see? I'm kidding. So wouldn't that put us all in danger? If all of us, if all of us, someone said my arrogance, I'm joking. You got another difference between what I'm serious and what I'm joking? I'm joking. Yes, see, that would make all of us false teachers, wouldn't it? Now, first of all, we have to remember something. What James says, he says, let not many of you become teachers. My brother, knowing that as such, we will incur a stricter judgment. That means whether you're on YouTube or you're on stage, you're a pastor, whatever you are. And you have set yourself out as a teacher. There is a stricter judgment. But again, so let's answer the question, guys. I know some of you guys are wondering now, wait a second, I mean, name a teacher, name a teacher that you can think of that hasn't gotten at least one thing wrong, he'll even admit it. So let me ask you guys a question. And I don't want you to give me this, I don't know. See, a lot of you gave me I don't know stuff. Nope, no, I don't know. I asked you how many prophecies false prophecies make a person a false prophet, well, how many false teachings make a false, make a person a false teacher? Well, we gave some guidelines earlier. Let's go back and use those same guidelines because it's got to be, it's got to be the person that does so presumptuously. The person that does so in an insolent fashion, in a disobedient fashion, in the name not of God, but of another God, but claims to do so in the name of God. Here's what I mean. If I'm walking around saying the Lord has told me once saved, always saved, or the Lord told me you cannot, I mean, you can lose salvation. Now we just left what I think to what he said. Huge difference. We just left from what I think, what I feel based on me, look at the text to now, nope, sorry, God did it. So now whatever you say is wrong. Because if I say God said this about the text, then what I'm really saying is you disagreeing is in sin. Are you with me? If I'm saying, if I'm claiming that where this came from is the Lord, listen, you better be straight. You better be spot on. You better be as correct as correct and get. You better, it better be a perfect circle. It better be the straightest line. So if I'm going to say that God said this, that the Lord said this, that makes me a false teacher, if it's not, if it's not correct. Now, if it's correct, well, fine. You better be careful though. Now, there's some things I can say with absolute certainty. Now, even though the Lord didn't say so, but it's a dangerous thing to say, the Lord told me that if you don't confess him as Lord, you're going to hell. Now what I just said was a true statement. What I just said was a true statement. But now I'm speaking as though the Lord told me to say so. Now we got a problem. Now we have a problem because if I can do it one time, if I can do this one time, I can do it a second time. If I can do it two times, I can do it three. It becomes easier and easier. How many of you have ever gotten something right and just kind of felt yourself like, man, I got this. And then when I tried it again and it got, you know, never forget, I'll never forget. I'll never forget this. I think I told you guys a story about me and a guy named Pula. Pula was one of the bigger kids in the hood, me growing up. Pula, we were in second grade together, me and Pula. Pula, though I was in second grade, and though Pula was also in second grade, Pula probably should have been in fourth grade, maybe fifth grade. Pula was a big kid. Now I had just recently, just recently beat up two people as a second grader. I just beat up two people just recently. One of them was another second grader. Another one was, I kind of pushed around my little girl cousin. Yeah, I pushed around my younger cousin. I didn't beat her up, but I pushed her and put her in the head a lot. We were kids. And then another second grader. So I'm filling myself. I'm so tough. Man, listen, you don't want none of this. You don't want none of me. And here come Pula. What's up, Pula? You want some of this, buddy? Pula picked me up through, first of all, he spun me. When I say he spun me, Pula literally picked me up with my arm in this hand and leg in this hand, spun me around and threw me into bushes. I could not believe it. Does he know who I am? Does he know about my record of beating up other second graders and my younger girl cousin? Does he? So I tried, I tried him again, threw me into bushes again, said, don't come out of those bushes. I stayed in the bushes. I stayed in the bushes because I knew, but it didn't take long. But you can get to the point where you're filling yourself, where you think, man, I got this right. I said, the Lord said, and it was spot on. So now it's easy for me to do it again and again so now to the point where nobody can tell you anything. Nobody can tell you anything and you're speaking for the Lord. What are you? You are a false teacher now, my friend. You, my friend, are a false teacher, false prophet. Now it's easy, it's easy to identify the false prophet, the one that's giving the foretelling future. This is going to happen. We don't ever listen to that person. But the prophet, remember, the prophet is a person that informs and tells what does the preacher do? Inform and tell. But if he starts saying that, which going back to 1st Corinthians 14, pursue love. Pursue love, desire the spirit in order that you will give a revelation. That's literally the way, what did you say? Humble Corey that day. Well, he didn't humble me that day. I did, I did go back. See, I did go back and tell my brother, Chris. I went and told my brother, Chris, who then went and beat up Pula. So it helps to have a bigger brother. It helps to have a bigger brother. So, yeah. Then after Chris beat up Pula, I stuck my chest out. I stuck my chest out until Pula went and got his cousins, who were bigger than my brother. And then we had a little family war going on there. And then until our parents came out, our parents came out and gave all of us a whooping. Just back in the day, back in the 70s, you get a whooping in front of everybody. They didn't have a problem with bringing the belt out. I got a whooping, my brother got a whooping, Pula got a whooping. All of us got a whooping in the street. Out here acting a fool in front of these people. So, yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'll check him out, Andy. I'll check him out. I haven't checked him out yet, but I'll check him out. So that's what a false prophet, false teacher is. You're filling yourself, because you just know. You can either know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the guy hidden behind you, or you think, either way you are deceiving or being deceived. Whereas Pula today, I have no idea. He might be the president of some bank now, who knows? Or he might be the head of some large pharmaceutical company. Some of y'all can catch that. The head of a large pharmaceutical company. I think, I wanna say that's where he went. I think that's the direction that he went towards not banking, not finance, but towards pharmaceuticals. I think, I think. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about about pharmaceuticals? Yeah, off the book, pharmaceuticals. Yeah, covert pharmaceuticals, anyway. So that's what happens. Now, I want you, I wanna read something. Notice what he says. Matter of fact, let me listen to, let you listen to Dr. Sam Storm's description of a false prophet. Sam, that you would add on the, how would you defend prophecies can be missed in such a way that it doesn't make you a false prophet that needs to be cast out of the church? Well, one reason is because as best I can tell, the language of false prophet is always used of unbelievers, non-Christians, who deny the incarnation of Christ, deny the deity of Jesus. I don't see anywhere in the New Testament that a Christian in a church who prophesies and might miss it is ever called a false prophet. All of us prophesy falsely, that doesn't make, Okay, so now I'm back, I wanna cover what he's saying. He doesn't see where anyone in the New Testament is ever called a false prophet. Who gives a false prophecy? Nowhere, he doesn't see anywhere in the Bible where in the New Testament, a Christian might miss it and then is called a false prophet. You back that up, because I want you out of here that I want you all to tell me what is strange about what he just said. Make you a false prophet, incarnation of Christ, deny the deity of Jesus. Always used of unbelievers, non-Christians, who deny the incarnation of Christ, deny the deity of Jesus. I don't see anywhere in the New Testament that a Christian in a church who prophesies and might miss it is ever called a false prophet. All of us prophesy falsely. I never see anywhere in the New Testament where a Christian gets false, and it gets it wrong whatever it's called a false prophet. Do you all see the problem of what he just said? Does anybody see the problem of what he just said? The problem is there's no such example as a Christian given a false prophecy. That's why you never see that, because no one ever did that. No one was going around presuming to speak for the Lord, giving false prophecies. There were no Christians doing that. Then there were some non-Christians doing that, which is why we tend to believe that if you're doing that, you can't be saved. Now, if you do so once or twice, and like, okay, you know what? I recognize I was wrong. I should have never done that. I repent, Lord, forgive me. There's forgiveness, there's forgiveness. But we're talking about the other people who do this intentionally, insolent, disobedient with this intensity, okay? Let's continue. Let's prophesy falsely. That doesn't make you a false prophet. So we need to watch our language there. Before we teach wrong things. I mean, just think about when you first started teaching some of the things you... I have repented so many times from doctrines that I used to teach that are on tapes, went around the world. And I don't believe that anymore. I said, I'm sorry. Let me put this up. Kelly said this right. She did. She says, he is laying the platform for false prophets to keep going. Yes, as a matter of fact, here's what's sad. I don't know if y'all noticed this, but lately we've got people that are saying, one, true prophets can get it wrong, which we never see that in scriptures, which is literally an unbiblical example of thing to say. Then two, now not only are we, Kelly, giving passes to false prophecies, we are also going back and impugning true prophets. They'll say things like Agabus got it wrong or the people that were speaking to Paul got it wrong or Nathan got it wrong. You're impugning true prophets and you are, wait a second. So you want to impugn the ones that we know are prophets for the sake of false prophets today? Well, wait a second. Well, wait a second. Wait a second, that's a huge problem. That's a huge problem. Someone says preaching doctrine is not prophecy. I don't think these guys even know what a prophet is. Well, what is prophecy? What is prophecy? Either in the Hebrew or the Greek because both mean the exact same thing. The Hebrew word is Naboo or Nabim. And the Greek word is Prophetuete. They literally both mean the same thing, my friend, which means to tell, to inform. Do you all think that on the day of Pentecost or later on when people started, when people began to prophesy, do you think that all of those folks were just out there just saying, hey, in five days they were all giving future predictions? No, no, no, no. The reason why the foundation of the church is built on first the apostles and the prophets, what did the church not have, my friend? What did they have? What did the church not have? John Marcus is asking the question. What did the church not have? Let's think about this. Let's put it on the screen for you guys. Can anyone tell me what was missing if they had the death, burial, and resurrection? They had the Holy Spirit. They had apostles. What did they have? What's the one thing missing then that we don't have now? Thank you, Angela. Thank you, Sheila. Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, A. Renee. They did not have a Bible. They had no way to know I have any information. Somebody had to tell them something. Imagine being a church in, I don't know, Thessalonica. Imagine being a church in Philippi. Imagine being a church in Corinth. Every now and then they'll get a letter. Every now and before they got the letter or they have nothing, you needed the word. They have the Old Testament scriptures. Think about poor old Apollos. Think about Apollos. Oh, okay, okay, I think you're talking about them. Okay, think about poor old Apollos. Apollos is teaching correctly as far as he knows, but he has to get pulled aside and told this is what it is. He's preaching an incomplete gospel, which is not a gospel. We're talking about 20 years after the death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Christ. So they have to pull them aside. Okay, now, okay, fine. With all that them in vigor, Apollos, go at it and Apollos is great in the kingdom. But previously, faithful man loved the scriptures, but he's teaching that Jesus is a Messiah. Okay, he's a Messiah, but there's more. All he's got is the baptism of John. There's a whole lot more. There's a whole lot more because after the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I guess what you ain't, you ain't safe. So when Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5, 2022 don't despise prophecies, but test everything, hold fast, what is good, amen. Now, prophecy doesn't necessarily mean, does not necessarily mean foretelling. Cause again, the majority of prophecy in the Bible is foretelling right now what God says right now, what it is, what it is. I don't know why that takes me back to the 70s. I'm thinking of afros and leather jackets, what it is. That's what the majority of prophecy in the Bible is. What it is, not what will be. Amen. So therefore Paul says, don't despise that. First of all, remember, and sometimes, again, we have to go back to where they are. They have some scriptures, but not all the ones that we'll have. And then let's say if you live when, I don't know, three or four or five or seven, 10 New Testament books have been written. Let's say 10 New Testament books, let's say you're living at about 55 or 60, let's say 60 AD. 60 AD, you got four or five New Testament books. Does that mean that you have a book? No, you may not have one at all. Because in order for you to get it, someone's gotta make a copy of it. And so therefore it was a slow process. So what does God have to do to maintain his church, to maintain the word? I've got to give people the ability to share this word. I've got to have that. Did I have an Afro? Do I still have an Afro pic? I have no need of an Afro pic. I have no need of an Afro pic. Why can't I have an Afro? So you said these definitions are quite reaching which definitions? I'm literally, which definition is reaching? And I'll go ahead, for you my friend, just for you, for you only. Which definitions, you say, are quite reaching? And I have no problem pulling up. I have no problem pulling up the definitions because that's what we're here for. So we have the software here. Someone's gonna ask Corey, what is this Bible software? The Bible software that I'm using here is according to Bible software. Or I also have Lagos, whichever one you want me to go to. So it's literally what these words mean. And so what we need to understand is that they needed to have someone to inform them, to tell them. Now, okay, let me pull up something. Jesus says, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. So one of the indications of a false prophet is their fruit. Eventually, you'll see it. A good tree can not bear good, I mean, good tree bears good fruit does not bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. So eventually you're gonna see it. Amen. Then also here, and I didn't title this correctly, but for such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, distinguishing themselves as apostles of Christ. There it is guys, acting as though. Acting as though you have been sent by God. God is speaking to you. No, okay, you misunderstand. I'm not saying reading a scripture makes you a prophet. That's not what I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that those prophets there would give the word of God, okay? Because they didn't have the ability to read. However, in order to prophesy, if I gave, if I were to, a prophet is not a person that reads the Bible. However, just the basic definition of prophesy, if I inform you of something, because the word prophet, prophetuete ordne to be, doesn't necessarily refer to a prophet of God. You can be a prophet, you can be a false prophet, you can be an incorrect prophet, you can be an inconsistent prophet, you can be a lying prophet. Now the penalty of following one of those people can be hail, can literally be hail. So if I were to give something from the scriptures, I'm literally informing, I'm telling, is that me prophesying? Sure, does that make me a prophet? No, it does not, okay? In that particular office where that is what I'm doing, what I'm being used for. Are you with me? Just like if I go, if I go grab a orange basketball, brownish basketball and go play basketball, I'm playing basketball. Does that make me a basketball player? If there's a small fire on the stove and I put the fire out, am I a firefighter? I'm fighting a fire, am I a firefighter? No, that's not what I am. Are you with me? I can sing, I can sing. Lord knows I can sing. I can sing with the best of them and I can sing with the worst of them. Typically with the worst of them. Does that make me a singer? I can sing and depending upon who's listening, it doesn't sound very good. Now to me, it's, listen, inside my head, it's like Luther, Brian McKnight. You name it, you name all the singers, all in one. That's how I sound. I'm not a singer though. So correct, not every Christian is a prophet. No, it's not what I'm saying, correct. Not every Christian is a prophet. Reading the scripture is a form of prophecy, but you're not a prophet. And to say that I was prophesying, what you're really saying is to say so is I am, I'm trying to say what the Lord is saying. I'm not stretching what the word is, John Mark. I need you to pay attention. Matter of fact, John Mark, stop talking about that because you're not listening. You're not listening to the words that's coming out of my mouth or the text. The word prophet is simply to inform. And so we're informing what the text says. That's all. Am I saying I'm a prophet or someone that's not what I'm saying, okay? I'm saying that to inform in that, and we'll speak about someone in the office because to declare that you are just like a teacher. If you are a teacher, you are taking that office of a teacher, you're acting in that role of a teacher. And so just like the word prophet and teacher, false prophet and false teacher are used synonymously, because what are you doing? You are telling people about something that they presumably either don't know or don't know that well. And there is a consequence. Paul says, not Paul, Peter, but false prophets, all solar osmos, people just as they're all also will be false teachers. And so he's putting the two together. He's putting the two together. Now I wanna cover something that is just, this part bothers me. This bothers me so much, I can't tell you how much this bothers me. This is 1st Corinthians 13, 13, 8. You all have heard this passage before. Love never fails, there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away. Here is the one where we have a problem. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. We know in part and we prophesy in part. Well, someone's gonna say, well, wait a second, that's where we can give a prophecy and it might not be correct. I heard it correctly, but I gave, I didn't quite understand it. And so I interpreted and disseminated it incorrectly. That happens. Where in the scriptures did anyone ever get a word from the Lord, misunderstand it and disseminate it incorrectly? Wasn't quite sure. Wasn't quite sure what God said to me. Didn't know. I wouldn't really, hmm. Now, does that mean that the prophet who receives a word, that that particular prophet was unsure of how the word was? Yeah, but it can happen to where a prophet, how a prophet hears from the Lord, is uncertain about what it means, but still tells it. That can happen. Never do we have a prophet getting a word from the Lord, wasn't too sure, and then failed to give it correctly. I know of one prophet who got the word from the Lord, knew what it meant, and didn't wanna get, and did not wanna tell it, but he still went and did it. Do you all know who that is? I know a prophet who got the word from the Lord. I didn't wanna tell little people. But I gotta tell them anyway, because I don't wanna get swallowed by a fish again. So we have Jonah. All you gotta do again, hear what the Lord says, say what the Lord says, or grab your Bible, or grab the word of the Lord, grab a text. Same thing if I'm gonna be up teaching. If I'm going to be up teaching, or you're gonna be up teaching, or you're gonna be out sharing the gospel, take what the word is, and disseminate what the word is. But the moment that you come back and say, the Lord told me, the Lord said, oh, okay, all right, now you're speaking for God. Now you are speaking for God, and we've got a problem. Notice this passage. Let two or three, matter of fact, let's start in verse 27. If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two, excuse me, or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret, there has to be explanation. Gotta understand what's being stated. But if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent. So you're saying that, no one knows what you're saying, hush up, because what's the point that everyone be edified, and the word is brought out and exhorted. And let him speak to, I'm sorry, but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent, hush up, let him speak to himself and the God, 29. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment. So we are there, we hear what someone has given, and so we consider what he says. We're not despising prophecy, we are taking what he says, huh. But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent, here it is, 31. For you can all prophesy, we can all prophesy. Now does that mean that we're all prophets? No, because he says this particular gift, only the Holy Spirit gives the gift of prophecy, but prophesying, in other words, we do it as we're given revelation, he says you can all do that. Matter of fact, this might give me in trouble, but even women in Paul's day were able to give a prophecy, but they weren't prophets. Are you guys following me? Anybody can give a revelation. He just says, for you can all prophesy one by one so that all may, so why, so that all may learn and be exhorted, that's the whole point of it. But can everyone be a prophet? No, has everyone been given that gift of prophecy? No, there is a difference. We can all teach, but have we all been given the gift of teaching? So we're talking about being up here, this particular gifting, where the Lord has put you. And if you presume to be in that area and you do so incorrectly, whether a teacher or a prophet, because he puts them in the same category and you do so falsely, you are in danger of judgment. That's how that works. That's how that works. And so if you do so, hey, I'll say it the best way I can, good luck to you. I mean luck, I mean luck, because you're not relying on the Holy Spirit. Good luck to you. If you're going to presume to speak for God, if you're going to presume to speak for God and you're not, then you're relying on yourself and luck is about the best thing we can offer you. Now notice what he says. I want to go back to a couple Old Testament texts. Jeremiah 14, 14 says, then the Lord said to me, the prophets are prophesying falsehood in my name, in my name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoke to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own mind. Look what he says, and the deception of their own mind. Some of them know so. Some of them don't know. They are deceived just like he says, deceived and being deceived of their own mind. Look at Levitations 214. Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions. They have not exposed your iniquity so as to restore you from captivity. What's the whole point of the word of God? What's the whole point of these revelations from God? The whole point of these revelations as we wrap up is to point you one to your fall in this, your iniquity, your need of a savior, your need of God, and then to point you and bring you to him. In every case, when we see the word of the Lord going forward, that's what it's for. To show himself to bring people to him. Even if what you think you're doing is bring someone to him, because obviously nowadays false prophets are going to say I'm speaking in the name of the Lord, I'm speaking for the Lord, I'm speaking about Jesus, I'm speaking about the Holy Spirit, I'm speaking about the cross. Does that mean that you're not a false prophet? Does that mean that at all? Because oftentimes, especially a false prophet in the Christian religion, is going to use those words. They're going to say Jesus a few times. They're going to say Holy Spirit. They're going to say grace and faith. They're going to use all the buzzwords and may even think that they're right. But if you do so in an incident, this is where the humility comes in. No one can tell you anything. No one can show you anything. And on top of that, you're saying the Lord told me, now we got a problem. Whether you are a teacher or a speaker, I mean a teacher or a prophet, you're in the same boat. Amen. Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for that. I wanted to cover that because it's out there. Obviously it's going to get, it's a new profession, not a new profession, it's an old profession, but it's getting bigger. It's a lucrative profession. It's a lucrative profession, but again, and I think, let me just say it again, because some folks might have heard that. Yeah, stop. Don't, yeah, the guy told me, don't do the guy told me stuff. Don't do the guy told me the Lord said, but again, can a person who gives a false prophecy be safe? Sure, sure. I just, I'm never going to listen to you again in your prophecy ever again. But you can give a false prophecy or false teachings that the Lord told me be wrong and repent. It's not the unforgivable sin. But you might identify who you are, who you really are internally, if you keep doing so and you're out of the desire of your own mind to promote your own self, well then yeah. Yeah, you might be indicating who you actually are. Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. And I will see you, I will see you one for our later study, but then also the next time the Lord deems it necessary. In the meantime, God bless you all. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. Thank you.