G.E. Patterson.... The Most Excellent Way

open your Bibles with me this morning I really want to talk to you god bless all of these wonderful ladies from the women's Department a man trusted mother's resting but knowing that like I do she may come in but we thank God for mother weather may rivers even in her absence a man of olive brown and others that are representing her this message today and I want you to keep your Bibles open with me in the book of 1st Corinthians and we are looking at chapter 12 I tried to get my wife sister Louise Patterson the state back at the hotel in the bay at the day but she disobeyed and came in and I'm so glad to see it first Corinthians chapter 12 want to begin reading with verse 27 if you have that say man and it reasons follows now er the body of Christ and members in particular and God had set some in the church first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles then gifts of healing helps government's diversities of tongues are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers are all workers of miracles have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues do all interpret but covet earnestly the best gifts and yet show I unto you a more excellent way I want to just read that 31st verse again but I want to read it from the NIV the New International Version it says but eagerly desire the greater gifts and now I will show you the most excellent way the King James Version says a more excellent way the NIV says the most excellent way so depending on which one you choose I'm going to talk to you this morning about a more excellent way off the most excellent way a man today we want to take a new look at the Holy Spirit Holy Ghost his gifts and that which Apostle Paul calls a more excellent way or the most excellent way in many Christian organizations today whether you call them searches ministries Bible study groups whatever they may choose to be called there is a great deal of excitement [Music] concerning the holy ghost and his giftings to the contrary many of the old traditional Pentecostal denominations and we hear the list who blazed the trail with the Pentecostal message a hundred years ago have now lost the excitement and have become somewhat cold and lethargic and that's really what this convocation has been about trying to get us stirred up again because you know if a person comes to the average one of our local churches and takes a text to bring a message concerning the Holy Ghost that's something that we almost go to sleep on before they get started and yet in those other churches where they used to shut down on Sunday night to come down the street to watch us dance they thought we were crazy they've stayed out of our way and in that churches if they raised up their hand and said hallelujah Russia was shown to the door now many of these people are starting to receive the Holy Ghost can they excited but if anything has been repeatedly done and repeatedly said yes there has been a new emphasis on Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and her Lord but there has also been a new and powerful exhortation to praise God and I just want to simply say it to you don't lose your excitement about Jesus and the Holy Ghost mission there is supervisors I mean if that missionary license calls you the lose your joy you need to give it back I mean I even need to say to our elders that if that clerical collar is choking you too tight to praise God you need to pull it off bishops I don't want to meddle with your own butt but I gotta say it bishop if you think that now that you have the title and the chain and it's beneath your dignity to praise God you need to resign that jurisdiction we should never get anything that diminishes our excitement about the fact that I know Jesus His disciples came back I mean you know it's easy you get off early you know we can get off track very early Jesus called to him twelve disciples and he gave them power preach the gospel told them that cast out Devils you read it in the tenth chapter of Matthew and you will sign that he gave the twelve the power heal the sick preach the gospel cure diseases and cast out devils but when you get to chapter 10 of Luke where he appointed of the seven ten and he sent them forth he told them to preach the gospel and cure diseases he didn't say a thing to them about casting out Devils but such is the nature of the world that when you go out proclaiming the name of Jesus you are going to run into demonic spirits and you've got to know that the same power they knew it that he had given to the twelve they also had it among the 17 you wouldn't weigh your pastors and preachers and leaders out if you knew that the same Holy Ghost power that he gave to the preacher that's in the pulpit that same power is in the beauty [Applause] because mark chapter 16 does not said these signs shall follow the divine healers doesn't say these signs will follow the apostles but these signs shall follow them that believe any believers in him and he says believers shall lay hands on the sick and when the 70 encountered the demons they cast them out - but they were kind of surprised and they came back master whoa we gotta tell you something spirits was subject to us now the twelve knew they had it but the seven it didn't that was sucked into us through thy name Jesus let him know fellas ain't no big thing every time you cast him out I beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven but don't rejoice because the spirits are subject but in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject but why rejoice because your name written in heaven now we can always get it cited when somebody gets a miracle when a demon is cast out but the Lord want us to return back to that point that I'm saving a know I am and if I don't have the money to pray the rent I'm will still keep on praising God don't lose your excitement about Jesus well one reason that we're losing people to the mega churches isn't is because they excited as a child with a new toy it's about the Holy Ghost and gifts of the Spirit while we are so preoccupied with positions and positions seeking that we've lost the plain simple joy of our salvation this message may be a little different this morning but I hope you're ready for not the Saints at correct were new to Christianity Apostle Paul that established this church on his second missionary journey the church was established amid controversy which surrounded both Paul and his message it was in corinth that paul met Aquila and his wife Priscilla a Jewish couple who had been forced to leave Rome by the Emperor Claudius they were by occupation tentmakers just as Paul and they invited Paul to live with them Paul continued to live with Aquila and Priscilla and to attend the Sabbath day meetings where he expounded the Old Testament Scriptures to the Jews and the Greece who attended you can check all of this out in Acts chapter 18 now it seems as though Paul's message changed we don't find any evidence of Paul having anybody who went with him to Corinth but once Silas and timotheus arrived from Macedonia Paul moved his message to another level he had been proclaiming God's promise of the Christ Israel's Messiah but now he goes on to personate that the Messiah was really Jesus Acts chapter 18 verse 5 from the King James Version says and when Silas and timotheus will come from Macedonia was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ but if you read this from the Revised Standard Version it says when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia Paul was occupied with preaching testifying to the Jews that Christ was Jesus what's the difference that Jesus was Christ no he's been talking to them about Christ about the Messiah God has promised to send a messiah Israel is looking for its redeemer but then when he got a few more sellers to say a man with him he said now I want to tell you that this fellow Jesus that you heard about a few years ago back in Jerusalem he is the Messiah that God said he was going to send you got a lot of people they don't mind you speaking just in the abstract they don't mean nine you just talking but they they get upset when you do too much personating I can remember the day when that was a gentlemen out of Chicago who came to Memphis for the first time and Christian preachers we had a pretty good thing going we were building a relationship across denominational lines and that was such a beautiful fellowship going between the Baptist and the Methodists and the seventh-day Adventists in the Church of Christ and the Church of God in Christ and we were getting ready to get some things done and mr. Farrakhan decided to visit Memphis and all of these Christian preachers got on radio stations and we're inviting everybody to come on out and I told him I said you fellows can have it because I cannot I'm full an American unity but if I'm going to have to compromise my Lord and Savior my African American unity I just got to stay out of this one he came down and then the old part over there there was a stage before they to all of that down and one auditorium the North Hall was sealed and they had to look the South Hall and when he got into his message he began to talk about well you know Jesus did not say that he was the one he says that cometh one after me now but what John talked about Jesus coming after him and then Jesus talked about the fact that the father is gonna give you another now he was talking about the Holy Ghost but when mister Farrakhan got through he had stepped into the shoes of the Messiah but I'm here to tell you we have no Messiah but Jesus we have no Lord but Jesus and I you know I came following anybody who is going to tell me well you see if you're going to have unity you gotta quit pushing this thing about Jesus is the only way and that's nobody but Jesus and you gotta kind of minimize the religious concept in order that we can get together but if I've got to push Jesus to the background to get with anybody I'm sorry I can't get with you [Applause] when Paul began to proclaim that the Messiah was in reality Jesus verse 6 of chapter 18 says and when they opposed and reviled him he shook out his garments and said to them your blood be upon your heads I'm innocent from now on I will go to the Gentiles now that's something I want you to notice it took rejections to make Paul do what God had sent him to do in the first place I'm getting ready to burn somebody real good right now Paul says just a morning in a number of places but if you read it from acts 26 verse 16 and 17 it says but rise and stand upon my feet for I have appeared under thee for this purpose to make the a minister and a witness both of those things which thou has seen and of those things in which I will appear under thee delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles on to whom I now send thee the Lord says I'm delivering you from the people from the Gentiles because once I deliver you from them then I'm gonna send you back now you got to understand that the Lord often sends us back to the ones he deliver us from everybody cannot have a drug rehabilitation ministry everybody cannot have a ministry - alcoholics everybody cannot have a ministry to prostitutes because you got some folk god saved them but they didn't gets a real good and if they go back around the crack house they may not come back out if they go down to the prostitutes corner they may not leave but when God totally delivers you you become the greatest ambassador but you can't deliver them unless you've been delivered yourself God said I'm delivering you from the Gentiles but then I'm sending you to them and after Paul was rejected Paul left the home of Aquila and Priscilla and moved in with a Grecian citizen named Titus justice who lived next door to the synagogue but it took rejection by the Jews to make him go to where God wanted him to go anyway how many of you presently enduring unnecessary persecution because of your stubborn refusal to do what you know God has told you to do Paul had an undying love for the Jewish people and he didn't want to go to the Gentiles and that some of you you are in places where your time has expired you ought to know it if you get preached on every Sunday every Monday but you refuse to get the message it could be that God is trying to move you to another place and then once you get to where God wants you when you finally get there stop questioning how and why am I here Moses arrived at Mount Horeb as an escaped murderer fleeing from Egypt but God had to let him go through all of that in order to bring him the way he wanted him to be and once God got him where he wanted him to be he could talk to him freely Paul continued to preach in Corinth for a year in six months well many believed but the controversy never ceased Paul left Corinth but the church continued to grow the growth wasn't in hell a healthy growth because the Apostle who established them wasn't there to nurture them being excited and zealous they accepted everybody's teaching one of the problems that we have now is that this grand old Church of God in Christ is not the Church of God in Christ that I remember as a youngster growing up because in those early days a lot of things had not evolved in civilization we had radios but that weren't a lot of us on radio television although what one of the networks is celebrating 75 years but the truth of the matter is television didn't really reach the commercial market where it was available to everybody until about 48 and then for the first few years we preached against them since we were preaching against the movie it was wrong to have a television and the earliest Saints that got televisions they didn't want nobody to come to their house unannounced does anyone know about to find out they had a part now in those days pastors really were the Shepherd's of that flop but brother bishops brother pastors I've got to tell you the truth whether you know it or not that name on your sign that says you are pastor it's a Miss Norma you're not really passed in your folk now you just preached into the reason being is before they get the church they have already heard on television all the week they've been feeding off of these tables and some of the stuff you hear on the religious network is pure lunacy now when people get through feedings from all of that craziness all week and get up on Sunday morning and feed from more craziness and when you get there and stand up as the pasta and open the Bible and proceed to try to teach a preach you are only on target if you say what bro so and so said early in the morning now this one isn't designed for you to shout not right through here but Paul established the church at Corinth and then he left there but they kept being exposed to all kind of teaching and when Paul started hearing the things that were going on he wrote him in first Corinthians 4:15 and said I know now you got a lot of teachers but though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ yet heavy not many fathers find Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel wherefore I beseech you I beg you Biggi followers of me why am I going this way I wanted to show you the background of the kind of church that the Corinthian church walls now I'm not bothering any of you all who name your church Corinthian but that's not that's never been a desirable name for me because the Corinthian church has so much stuff going on in it but that was the reason why that was so much going on another impediment to the healthy growth of the church and that was the influence of the secular environment Corinth was not a center of culture the city's most famous attraction was its lustful religion here was the temple of Aphrodite with this world-famous coat of unchastity involving at least a thousand religious prostitutes many Corinthian citizens joined the church but they never gave up their secular ways I still believe that it doesn't matter who you are where you come from once you step into the Church of God into the body of Christ you got to realize you got to give up something you left now I know some of you listen look at me funny when I talked about the lunacy and the craziness that goes on on religious TV but take for instance anybody who has been a popular figure what the in sports are in entertainment if that individual claims Jesus they stepped from the peak of popularity in the secular world into the peak of popularity in Christendom but between the peak of the world and the peak of Christianity there's a valley I don't care how much money you were making as a nightclub entertainer before you are eligible to step up to the top and began to teach God's folk you got to go down in the valley and get talk but anybody from the secular world that now say I'm saved the next thing turn on television there they are just said that they are Christian now haven't been nowhere to learn anything and here they are on television telling you how to trust God [Applause] you know God doesn't care that you were a secular recording artist he doesn't care that you well famous football player when God gets through with it he's gonna say to you through the words of Peter you just a baby now and as newborn babes you got to design a sincere milk of the word you got a grade [Applause] we had one who well he claimed to be a preacher for a while say he got saved and went through all this jewelry in the river and he tried it for a little while and everybody was trying to embrace it and oh yeah then the next thing he started back dressing like a woman but in spite of all of the disadvantages that existed in Corinth that was one powerful and positive fact existent in the church at Corinth Paul had preached the gospel of Jesus Christ believers had been filled with the Holy Ghost and spiritual gifts were being manifested after the Apostle finished dealing with the many problems that existed there well you go through the book when you get home look at first Corinthians he had to deal with division carnality fornication incest Saints fighting in civil courts marriage separation and divorce misuse of the chameleon line read it in Chapter 11 you know they were getting dropped off the communion wine the worst problem that he had to deal with comes in chapter 15 because they say if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some among you there is no resurrection those four can even start teaching that it wasn't o be a resurrection but in Chapter 12 he keels in on spiritual gifts now I'm not gonna go down this one by one I've already taken up even more time than I intended to take up this morning to get the proper view of the Apostles teaching on this subject you've got to study and always study first Corinthians twelve thirteen and fourteen together don't ever try to extract either one of them as the one of them stands alone they are together chapters 12 13 and 14 because there in 12 he talks basically about what we call the nine spiritual gifts but you find there were more than nine and then he talks about love and then he talks about prophecy and goes back County and all of the gifts but as Paul begins in 1st Corinthians chapter 12 he calls attention to the fact that the Holy Ghost is different to anything that they had ever experienced now you got to know that the Holy Ghost is different tell somebody the Holy Ghost is different to anything that you have ever experienced now listen at the way he does this and I hope you still have your Bible open chapter 12 now concerning spiritual gifts brethren I would not have you ignorant you know that you were Gentiles count away under these dumb idols even as you were led what do you really understand what he is saying here in that statement he is letting them know that being led of the Spirit of God the Holy Ghost involves much more than just following your emotions you had an emotional thing going he's saying to them before the gospel of Christ was preached to you emotional religion is not new now see if we understood that we would understand why that the preacher is not cutting off the spirit he's not squinting the spirit when he finally settles everything down and opens up his Bible to proclaim the word because when we get up caught up emotionally and the preacher gets ready to preach we think oh my goodness he's quitting the spirit getting ready to go into that old dual message but what you got to understand is the Word of God is the most important thing that happens in any of worship setting if you don't believe it bring Peter back in here when the day of Pentecost was fully come and they were all together in one place the one to call it and suddenly there came a sound from heaven and the rushing mighty wind appeared under them cloven tongues like as of fire and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance you read chapter one in the Acts and you'll find that 125 but they made enough noise until they woke up and aroused the whole town and people kept it all down in the street everywhere and right when the emotional thing was at its peak Peter stood up these are not trunking as you suppose only the third hour today it's 9:00 in the morning couldn't nobody consume enough liquor this early in the morning to make him act like these four guys but when he got through preaching 3,000 souls will add it as a result of one sermon Paul said I want you to know that that meant now I'm gonna have to deal with y'all with all of this talking in tongues and won't nobody listen to see if there was a message God's trying to get to everybody's talking at once and and you got new folk that you just heard about Christ and they're coming in and they want to them intelligence on what must I do to be saved but you're all like kids with a new toy playing with this thing everybody's speaking you need to slow down for why he said now his introduction was remember you didn't just get emotional when you got the Holy Ghost you were as Gentiles carried away with these dumb idols oh my god I don't think that there's any better place to see the picture of it then back in the book of first Kings chapter 18 down around verse 26 when the children of Israel had gone off in idolatry and finally Elijah got sick of it calling the Mount Carmel how long are you gonna hold between two opinions if God if Yahweh is God serve him if bale is God serve him and he invited them to a contest and you will find that those prophets of bail they got so emotional that the Bible said they leaped it don't mean that they were standing on the level and just jumped up on top of the altar but they were only all to leave him you saw some of that they cut themselves with stones do you remember when Iran the Shah of Iran failed to the forces of Ayatollah Khomeini and you saw those men going down the street with chains flocking themselves into some kind of ritual they were emotional but it wasn't the holy ghost III hate to tell y'all this but in case you don't know it whisper to the person next to you and tell them everything emotional isn't the hold it goes [Applause] the sad thing is now don't get me wrong but we grew up 4050 years ago when we saw a lot of strange demonstrations and we took all them strange demonstrations as being the holy ghost but some of that stuff that evening early days that we thought was the holy ghost operating in a strange way God didn't have nothing to do with it Lord how did you let me get in this the Holy Ghost is not wild and uncontrollable The Messenger of gods were the message of his word hallelujah messengers standing to proclaim the word but there's some folk too caught up don't worry I did it the Lord ain't talking to hear me talking to me we don't have a lot of that a lot of it we had some of it 56 years ago but we got a lot of it now it is so bad until the thing I used to love when we grew up as children I love testimony service but in most of our churches we had to stop having it because you didn't know what was gonna come across last month I felt the church was missing something by not having it so I proclaimed that we were going back to it on Sunday nights but until I know it's under control I'm the testimony leader right now [Applause] some of you may have heard the story of a lady that bishop mason was in the process of ministry and that was a sister so emotional and so called up until she's I can't be quiet I if I be quiet how best mission Mason just made us just shut up and went on and ministered for about hours so then he looked around has the lady burst yet [Applause] Paul reminds them that they were once under demonic influence worshipping false and Idol gods but you're possessed by a new spirit now that's what he's saying you know that you were Gentiles character one of these dumb house even as you were led then he goes on in verse three and says what why for I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God called it Jesus accursed and that no man can say that jesus is lord but by the holy ghost Moses Lall did say that a man that hangs on a tree is cursed by God Deuteronomy 21 verse 22 23 says and if a man have committed a sin worth of death and he be put to death and I'll hang him on the tree his body shall not remain all night upon the tree but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day for he that is hanging his curse of God now but Paul says also I want you to know that's what Moses Lall said but that's not so with Jesus he hung on the cross but he's not cursed he hung on the cross and the only curse that he assumed was the curse that should have been yours in mine second Corinthians 5:21 for he has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him some of those folk was so far out they thought once they got the Holy Ghost and stopped speaking in tongues and got emotional that they even went far enough after the curse even the whole Ministry of Jesus it was a messed up Church but if you really have the Holy Ghost you're not ashamed of this bloody sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and he felt the research no man can say that jesus is lord but by the holy ghost rich wait a minute now I know I got some folk out here too saved and you haven't pressed on to really be filled but I want to tell you you're missing something you're not only living beneath your privilege if the gifts of God are not operating in you but there is still a note of uncertainty in your life if you don't have the Holy Ghost well what are you talking about jesus told his disciples in the upper room he says I've got to go away from you but I will pray the father and he will give you another comforter and he will abide with you forever and when you read John chapters 14 15 16 he tells us what the Holy Ghost will do that he will teach us all things that he will bring all things to our remembrance that he will be the testimony of Jesus Christ that he'll guide us into all truth when he gets through telling us everything that the Holy Ghost is going to do but he says you can't get him until I get back and pray to the Father so when Jesus leads his disciples out as far as Bethany lifts up his hands and blessed them and all of a sudden gravitation releases him and he's gone up these two angels are standing there gazing hallelujah rather these disciples are gazing and the angels come and said why are you looking up in the heaven why are you gazing the same Jesus you see going up it's coming back in like man after Jesus had gotten up from the grave he on them and said receive the Holy Ghost and they wouldn't have ever known what the Holy Ghost was on the day of Pentecost if he had not said receive ye the Holy Ghost but when the day of Pentecost came the first thing they heard was rushing of a mighty wind and when the wind shield the place after while they looked and they saw cloven tongues like five sitting on each one and people who once fallen over one language stop talking all of the kind of language they were the thought that's what we're having just an emotional fit that they had taken leave of that senses if Jesus said receive the Holy Ghost and when they heard the wind and saw somebody speaking tar that's it the Holy Ghost well what does it mean Jesus said you get him when I get back to the Father and if you don't have the Holy Ghost you don't know what he made it enough [Applause] did anybody get the Holy Ghost God's special message I wish you tell somebody the Holy Ghost in the law of special message then you've made it back to the Father I got I gotta speed this up I gotta move forward with this Paul talks to them and he begins to enumerate what we call the nine gifts of the Spirit says first of all I want you to know that there is there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit differences of administration's but the same Lord oh you don't hear what I'm saying that's only one Holy Ghost but what does the Holy Ghost do to the church he gives to us what we call the gifts of the Spirit and if I had the time I would explain to you that spiritual gifts are really in three categories because we believe in the triune Godhead I want you to know that there are gifts of the Spirit that come from the Father gifts that come from the Sun and gifts that come from the Holy Ghost when Paul says according as God has dealt a measure of faith to every man he's talking about the father there are certain gifts that the father has given to every man well how does that qualify to be a spiritual gift go to John chapter 4 and Jesus is talking to the woman at the whale she wants to know from him why was the right place to worship the father you Jews in Jerusalem we say in this mountain Jesus let her know it's not a matter of geographical location hallelujah from what God is God is a man God is what so anything that comes from God if God is a spirit anything he gives is the spiritual gift when you get to Ephesians chapter 4 where it talks about what he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men and this talks about the gifting that God has given to the church some apostle he gave verse 11 chapter 4 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers who gave that you go back and read it that didn't come from the Holy Ghost that came from Jesus he led captivity captive and he gave gifts under man well how can you say the gifts of Jesus are spiritual gifts because Paul said the first man Adam was made a living soul but the second Adam the last out of rubber was made of what witness so I wish you tell somebody saw the gifts given by Jesus to the church they to a spiritual gifts I don't want to lose your but here Paul talks about the gifts that are given by the Holy Ghost and he names these nine gifts but after he names the nine he goes on through this thing and comes back to where we started at verse 27 you are the body of Christ and members in particular and God has set some in the church first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles then gifts of healing helps what will we find out that God didn't intend for everybody to be the leader every preacher came be the pastor every pastor can't be a bishop every bishop came beyond the general bullet every missionary can be the district missionary every district missionary can be the jurisdictional supervisor every supervisor can be the general supervisor everybody on the board can be the president some people God has given them the gift to help and I've seen some folk who God have made some of the most effective helpers but they were determined to be the front person and that person who was so effective helping creates the biggest mess leading none of y'all y'all never seen that you don't know about that I wish you seen some people that we just knew I mean the mantle of leadership is on and oh my god but when they got the biggest disaster if you are able to help if God has blessed you and gifted you to help tell three people abide in your calling about [Applause] well I'm gonna have to close this are all apostles and we live in the day when they everyone won't be an apostle and I've never seen the lacks man came past the ten members and then call in some folks and they lay hands on him in next name he's an apostle I had a dear friend of mine in the city that felt called to that particular area and I went over and preached but that was one thing I wanted to drop on them is the fact that the Apostle doesn't have a consecration the apostle is the one that is sent by Rick live directed by Jesus Christ if you're really an apostle your work will show when Bishop C Anderson the other day presented my speaker Otis locket he's an humble person he works in the office that he's assigned as a superintendent but any time a man has dug out about 30 churches and built 14 churches from the ground his Apostleship is certified having a wife three kids on a dog in the living room does not qualify you to be an apostle all apostles are all prophets Moses said on one occasion I wish all God's people were prophets y'all remember when the Lord called upon him to have 72 come to the tabernacle and two of them didn't show up at the tabernacle they were out there prophesying among the folk and people tried to get Moses to get on them one of them was named Eldad and the other was named me dad they were upset because instead of ministering at the tabernacle they were ministering out among the folk prophesying and Moses said I would all God's folk were prophets Moses said I wish it but all of us are not everybody is not a prophet but yet we are not to despise those who God has given that office all workers of miracles no have all gifts of healing no but you got to understand that now this does not mean that every believer does not at one time or another be blessed by God to lay hands on somebody and pray for somebody and they be healed because he did say these signs shall follow them that believe every believer has a right for the gift of healing or for the presence of healing to operate through them at some point or another but their other folk that have special giftings in healing a good example of that is Jesus it said he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up but that he could do none of his mighty works because they did not believe in him save he did lay hands on a few people sick people and heal them and simply meant Jesus gift was operating so powerful that even though he was in a town and the whole town didn't believe he healed anyhow when the gift is operating [Applause] then he also goes on you all speak with tongues this is what many of us get messed up on because people tell you now now you and Paul did miss him back don't speak with tongue that's not what he's saying he's talking about spiritual giftings everybody does not have the gift of tongues but we do believe in the Church of God in Christ that it is an initial evidence that every believer will speak as initial evidence when you receive the Holy Ghost some folk got got the Holy Ghost and spoke tonight they got the Holy Ghost and ten years later they hadn't spoken but two or three more times but then you got other folk who got a gift they've constantly speaking with tongues God has given them the gift tell somebody whether you got the gift or not you do need to make sure you spoke and lost you all speak with tongues do all interpret know everybody's not an interpreter but coming honestly the best gifts now he is a claiming here he is proclaiming that there are gifts that are greater than others and yet the next two chapters are going to be consumed with this one verse covet earnestly the best gifts and yet show I on the dilma excellently when he gets back to the best gift he's gonna be in chapter 14 chapter 14 he shows that prophecy is the gift that is greater than the others he's especially showing that prophecy exceeds tons if you go to chapter 14 and he talks about the fact he that speaketh with an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men but on the who under God howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries and no man understands him now look at the word that Paul used that unknown tongues when you get into the New Testament Paul talks about a rope of the Word of God talks about new tongues other tongues unknown tongues can I hear you said new tongues other tongues unknown tongues when you talk about new tongues I believe when Jesus said in mark chapter 16 they shall speak with new tongues that he is really linking that with the new birth that forth in the man be in Christ he's a new creature old things passed away behold all things are become new you speak with a new tongue when you're saved because the old tongue was full of lies full of profanity full of deceit but when you save the tongue that used to speak lies now speak truth the tongue that used to swag curse now praises God [Applause] other tongues in the chapter 2 of Acts means other languages of earth go back and read in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles when the day of Pentecost was fully come and when they got through speaking with tongues that was dwelling at Jerusalem devout men out of every nation under the heavens and they wanted to know it not all of these Galileans but how do we hear them speak in our language when we were born the wonderful works of God and the names a number of different ethnicities the Holy Ghost can give you to speak in another language that you haven't gone to school to learn you don't know nothing about Russia but the Holy Ghost can let a Russian dialect fall on you other tongues but when Paul talks about unknown tongues he's simply saying that if somebody would laugh from every nation under the heaven and if you're speaking in an unknown tongue they'd not go understand you unless the Holy Ghost gives an interpretation I know somebody said no it's unknown because there's nobody there at that time that understands it that's not what he says he says that if a man speaks in an unknown tongue he's not talking to man at all and the spirit he speaketh mysteries and no man understandeth him there is a language that heaven speaks is not French and it's not English and is not Spanish beginning of chapter 13 though I speak with the tongue of what men and angels hear angels around the throne of God speak in that language they'd have to bow low if they listening down here in the convocation and God let's somebody start talking in a heavenly language you ain't talking the man you're talking to God and an angel have to listen wait what's going on down there you can't learn it in school this shot table of oho see but when the holy God souls in the road don't worry about what somebody else don't understand and why is it that they hear this person they always going off it they talk yes sanajeh when I was a little boy growing up the tongs in the church didn't all sound alike [Applause] yeah in the Church of God right we had a whole different set of tongs but we start listening the PTL and TBN and all others and and then we heard how many of these folks who teach folks how to talk in tongues and all of them sound the light and now the Lord said I'm trying to baptize some folk so they can talk to me like the myrrh the Saints talk to me and here they up here imitating something they done heard on television I lost you but I'm gonna tell you the truth what whether you get it or not hallelujah Paul would later declare as I said in chapter 14 which gift it sells the other but what he says to them as he come to the end of chapter 12 I know you're wondering about spiritual gifts and he only deals with the most important fruit we all want the gift but who wants the fruit Paul said let me show you a more excellent way more excellent than having the gift to have a word of knowledge more excellent than being able to work miracles more excellent than having a powerful demonstration of faith no excellent than even being a divine healer I wanna tell you though I speak with the top of man and angel and don't have nothing but a rattling simple if I don't have love how powerful everybody think I am I don't have what God wants me to have if I don't have love [Music] tell you something what God is doing in this meeting I was saying it the other day then and please don't don't don't misunderstand him I'm not trying to take credit for anything God it's the one that have brought us to this hour but any of y'all who've been around for a while you know that was a time in this grand old Church of God in Christ when that was the in crowd and out crowd and if you were part of the out crowd you couldn't be seen talking to the full crew of the end crowd maybe late 'men don't know about it but the preachers know when I'm talking my many time we divide it by who we vote it's off that divide it because we're in the jurisdiction of a certain person that doesn't stand very high with the administration the one thing that I said and promised God that I will not stand in this office and be an instrument of division in his church that it don't matter who you support who you voted saw who you ain't in the boats off God came work in the midst of us unless we are baptized in love [Music] and too many of us try to take the other folks battles and get caught up in fights that's not ours God told us in the Old Testament that's all the Holy Ghost came the battle a Jew is no tell somebody quit trying to fight other folks battles if the battle is right it's the Lord's battle [Music] [Applause] [Music] have y'all seen it that's a coming together my god I can remember and yeah yeah yeah a lot of things about the old days we love but the convocation always was just to walk and talk in greeting time yet God was working but we were doing more walking talking greeting and so noisy and so out of control but look at what God is doing God is doing something he's bringing us together and it's the power of love that's causing miracles the slope it's the power of love where you turn around and hug anybody and tell them I love Jesus and I love you why don't you do that don't we look at who it is just close your eyes turn around look somebody tell me come over [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I got the clothes but he says the most excellent way is love I may have the gift of mysteries my gift of knowledge and understand all mysteries but if I don't have love it profits me nothing and then he goes on to tell me the nature of love love is kind love is gentle love rejoices in the truth you see when you got love you don't rejoice when you hear that that person who you felt was against you has now gotten sick when you got love you don't rejoice because of a rumor that's how long your brother or sister [Music] we'll give you a feeling of camaraderie ceiling of compassion ceiling of companionship and if anybody in the body of Christ is hurting then you yourself are hurt some of us didn't hear it but Jesus said this is the way that all men will know that you are my disciple not by how fast you can run down the aisle you can speak and tongue he wants love to be demonstrated because God demonstrated love we were on our way to a devil's hell not fit the lil [Music] Sagan deep in sin far from the peaceful show deeply stained with in sync and arrived [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I got the clothes mmm but when I get into the book of the revelation mmm the law condemns certain churches and complimented certain churches one church he said I know you've been Cecil you got a whole lot of things on the positive side but nevertheless I got somewhat against you you left your first love love that used to sent you the church 30 minutes before church Davi put you down on your knees and let you break through then if somebody in the congregation will then need you would take care of their needs without even bringing it before the church [Music] turning someone I said that you really want the gifts the start operating in you [Music] don't touch on somebody laying on their hands but it's not come from love waiting on your heart from within let me quit [Music] [Applause] [Music] how can a man says that he loved God whom he has never seen and hate his brother let me see daily the Lord left us a perfect emblem of love the perfect emblem of love greater love has no man than this that a man would lay down his life for his friend so he gave us a cross cross has a vertical bomb which is represented of God's love coming down to you your devotion going up to him but a cross is not just a vertical bar there is the horizontal and that speaks of you loving me and me loving you and if we don't have both of them we don't have it that cross is so important that Jesus himself talked about when he comes you're gonna see the sign of the son of man in the heavens do you know what their sign is across the same thing that other religions despise and frown on people who don't want to acknowledge him but one day Jesus is coming back all he cometh with clouds and yeah she'll seen him and even the folk that was at the cross they don't look on him whom they pierced [Music] I can't I gotta let this go but when he comes bright in the sky Jesus the king when the dead in Christ shall rise bless His name then to us death toll death my soul shall cry where is thy sting I shall meet him in the sky Jesus my king and we'll know how to have to introduce me to him I should know him [Music] I shall know a 3d by his side I shall stand [Applause] [Music] I shall [Music] I should loo [Applause] the print in his hand [Music] [Applause] god blessed us we were down there last night at the pure meeting old Saints will put all this out for stuff we do now I go to the pyramid some time to watch the grizzlies play ball [Music] but let me tell you God have blessed us we got money we can participate in our society around us [Music] well the time we didn't have nothing to put no church but I don't want you to get caught by jealous God who say I bless can you turn your affection in the wrong direction the most important thing for you and me is to keep on loving him and demonstrate I love for him by the way we reach out to one another I keep messing with this and I just heard the Lord speak in my spirit and he said you don't have to have no prayer line if the Saints begin to just now in Greece one another in love tell somebody the love of God in me destroys the sickness in you god [Music] - one to another just embrace in love the love of God in me relaxes you you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] now I'm just kind of mix it up a little bit and just tell them in the name of Jesus be healed please deliver be set free what the islets you got to tell seven people [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sun Jul 26 2020