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Signs, Wonders, Miracles and Gifts

May 2, 2019 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church

Transcript of a published teaching by Raymond Sloan, transcribed from YouTube. An attributed primary source — not Acts 2:38 Life doctrine text.

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Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

Give the More Earnest Heed

  • The month of May's Wednesday series is Apostolic living; tonight's subject is signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts — while the teacher and his wife are out of town later in the month, the Samuels will teach two sessions and he will pick up the last one.
  • The lesson opens with testimonies of answered prayer from the congregation — healings, a job situation, children, restoration — because if you ever forget that God is a healer, you may never ask him to heal you again.
  • Hebrews 2, read at his direction: give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip — the early church began with the miraculous, and the church body has to continuously expect the Spirit of God to work in the church.

Scriptures: Hebrews 2:1-4

Confirming the Word with Signs Following

  • In the Great Commission Jesus sent them to go, preach, and teach — and the miraculous would follow: they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following.
  • The thought experiment: a clinic somewhere in Chattanooga with no medication and no physician, where you tell your need at the desk and a touch makes you completely whole — we have that place here; it is called the church, established by Jesus himself.

Scriptures: Mark 16:20

One Spirit, Many Gifts — 1 Corinthians 12

  • Read at his direction and expounded: diversities of gifts, diversities of administrations, diversities of operations — but the same God who works all in all; the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
  • The gifts named: the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, divers kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues — all worked by the same Spirit, because the body is not one member but many, and by one Spirit all are baptized into one body.
  • His own testimony: as a youngster he was told he would be in a wheelchair — he could not hold a pencil or feed himself, and his mother hid his penicillin in applesauce; his father, years later, told him of kneeling by the tree in the backyard and walking around it seven times at God's word — "I'll heal him if you'll get up and walk" — God healed through a process he did not know was happening.

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:4-14

Born of Water and the Spirit

  • Nicodemus came to Jesus knowing he was a teacher come from God — nobody could do the things Jesus did except God be with him — and Jesus jumped past his question: verily, verily, it is the water and the Spirit that will make the difference in your life.
  • In the flesh, you are what you eat: what we consume becomes part of our makeup; so it is spiritually — God gives spiritual things to the spiritual body in the church, and the Spirit's working is what separates a living church from mere oratory.

Scriptures: John (book-only, as spoken)

Given to the Church — Ephesians 4

  • He gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers — for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, and for the edifying of the body of Christ.
  • The purpose runs until all come in the unity of the faith: no more children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men — unbelief and doubt stand in the same line as the things we would abhor, because they keep the body from maturing.
  • Miracles, signs, and wonders are for the edifying of the body and the glory of God before the people watching our lives; the open question is not whether God can, but whether we will submit our flesh to what he is doing and stay connected to the body so the signs follow.

Scriptures: Ephesians 4:11-14

Scripture index: Hebrews 2:1-4; Mark 16:20; 1 Corinthians 12:4-14; John (book-only, as spoken); Ephesians 4:11-14.

Transcript

Lord bless you all you can be seated if you feel like you need to good to be here tonight thank you brother dawn thank you so much as always he may if you have a Bible tonight we'll be needing those we are beginning tonight Wednesday night series I think you might enjoy it we are going to over the next few weeks we're going to talk about the differences between WWF and the MMA fighting that's not true because I don't even know the difference some of y'all are like I don't know what just happened no is mom making sure you're listening the month of May we are going to talk each Wednesday night about Apostolic living how many of you glad you're apostolic I'm thankful for the Apostles doctrine and teachings I'm thankful for the the the things that Jesus accomplished with his closest the time he was here on planet earth and then the closest to him continues to move that forward and here we are today in 2019 God is still pouring out his spirit aren't you thankful for that let's go to the book of Hebrews that's where we'll begin tonight I am going to talk about signs wonders miracles and gifts we call continue and then while we are out of town while my wife and I out of town where the Samuels gonna be teaching a couple of sessions and then I'll pick up the last one at the end of May when I get back in so but tonight apostolic living let's go to Hebrews chapter 2 Hebrews chapter 2 and Grille Jos you can type fast enough we'll we'll read them otherwise you need your Bible out your phone I'll wait for you Logan just just anytime you Hebrews - you ready verse one somebody read for me please mm-hmm bears to someone verse three first for someone all right that's a question mark God did there there's something happened something transpired me ask you a question to begin tonight if I can has God ever answered a prayer for you if you can identify with that would you raise your hand you can waive it if you feel like you mean to - make sure you identify has God ever answered a prayer for you everybody in here pretty much raised their hand so I will tag along with that what prayer did he answer what do you anybody care to share quickly yes ma'am okay sister Mandy still praying I'm joking she pointed to little Jayden that's right that's what she prayed for that that's right anybody else what prayer did he answer who healing [name redacted] oh that's the back row yeah okay yeah healing [name redacted] [name redacted] bless his heart this guy's gonna be he's got such a tough life first word out of his mouth is vacuum that's just blows my mind not I love you daddy mom's back you all that kids gonna be anyway sorry [name redacted] I'll tell you about later when you grow up healing [name redacted] sure anybody else says God ever ends what prayer did he answer yeah yeah just yesterday certainly someone else beautiful job situation someone else children yeah for your kids what else there you go sure what else sister Stacey on Sunday I tried heal her yes ma'am restoration yeah good what else he healed me as a child he held me up a disease that they told me I'd be in a wheelchair but I haven't been anyone yet anybody else I don't know about you but those things are exciting thankful that God does those things he provides he heals he delivers he restores he makes hold he makes complete now the reason that I brought that up is because tonight for an example in our study we read here in the book of Hebrews this is a letter written to the Hebrews that we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should what let them slip the things that we hear we need to give earnest attention to because if not they slip they pass they go by the way they're forgotten if you've ever forget that God is a healer you may not ever ask God to heal you again if you ever let it slip the great things that God has accomplished in your life you may never ask him for anything else and then you will not ever have him work in your life again now stay with me for just a little bit as a church body we have to continuously expect the Spirit of God to work in the church in the Great Commission jesus said to what go and to do and the miraculous would follow a mark chapter 16 verse number 20 you all know this you've studied it many times they went forth preached everywhere the Lord working with them and confirming the word with what with signs following a man closed the book so let it be where they went the word the spirit the power the anointing of God was going behind them going in front of them coming up beside them and was confirming what they were doing the early church began with the miraculous as Jesus sent them out now a question for you if I may 2019 what would it be like to have a clinic set up somewhere in Chattanooga that had no medication whatsoever but it was a clinic what would it be like if in that clinic that had no medication that basically had no physician or doctor but you could go into that clinic and you could tell your need to whoever's there attending there at the at the desk and that they could simply touch you speak to you something happen and and your need your element your disease or sickness your problem would be done away with what would that be like you wouldn't have to file a claim with Blue Cross and Blue Shield you just simply would walk into that office and say I have this problem can you do something for it and instantly something would happen somebody would say something or whatever and your situation would be dealt with wouldn't that be a cool spot to go to anybody here ever had a physical ailment and just couldn't get past it what if there was that office somewhere in downtown Chattanooga you could drive to park your car hobble in and walk out completely restored completely whole well guess what we have that place here in Chattanooga it's called the church it's called the church it's not called the building but it's called the church it's established by Jesus himself listen to me apostles listen to me disciples listen what I'm telling you followers go preach teach do this and signs will follow you it's connected to the Spirit of Almighty God okay notice what Paul when he wrote letters into the churches he would write how that the Spirit of God was accomplishing great and wonderful things as he was making his rounds through the churches let's go forward here to first Corinthians chapter number 12 first Corinthians chapter number 12 let's look at how Paul addressed the Church of Corinth in trying to help them understand in their establishment how that order and the way things got the way God did things was with a purpose 1st Corinthians chapter 12 somebody began reading please at verse number 4 keep going please keep going please diversities of gifts diversities of operations but it's the same God capital G that works in all somebody continued verse seven please verse eight someone someone verse 9 uh-huh versed in someone I'm on verse number 11 for as the body is one hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ for by one spirit capital s we are we all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit for the body is not one member but many Paul is trying to establish and to confirm with the church there are several things that the spirit capital s the spirit the representation the very power and essence and anointing and and an unction of God there are several things that transpire with that one of those things is diversities of how spirit interacts with flesh another one is diversities of givings and gifts that the spirit capitalist gives to humanity something else you have to understand is that it's the same God that works all of those things because God is one stay with me just a little closer the manifestation of that spirit is given to every man for the purpose of profiting that's why God's Spirit works in the church that's why the power and the anointing of God works in the church listen to me carefully if God has touched you healed you answer to prayer like we talked about a moment ago you need to know something that's not because you're just a cool person it's because the Spirit of God works in humanity the Spirit of God works in humanity and what is written here to the church and Corinthians it's simple there's manifestation of these things and there's working of these things but there's differences and how these things come to the church there's there's word of wisdom word of knowledge the the same spirit of God is doing this for the church so there there's things that's happening there's there's faith there's there's a gifts of healing there's working of miracles there's prophecies there's discerning of spirits there's different kinds of tongues there's interpretation of tongue but all of these work in the same spirit kept the lass of God so paul confirming to the church he is letting them know listen everything that you desire in the body and the church in the in the corporation in the corporate facility of the people that gather together is God working in the midst of you listen to me carefully please if you want to go to the house of God if you want to go to a church if you want to go to a building and simply hear good music and then have talented things and and people who are very equipped and very able and educated to accomplish things you can go just about anywhere stay with me there are some folk in our world that have the ability to speak they are orators man they can connect their word smiths they can hammer out ways and things I've said this many times from this pulpit but when I began in ministry I was trying to get my imagination under control and trying to get the way that I present myself in the pulpit and and I had an old dear pastor preacher friend say to me you know what I did when I was younger as I would read books I said okay I like to read what do you recommend he said little more true story I said what he said that's right you don't read them for the content read them for the ability that Louella more has to paint a picture they may here every blue in a more book it's okay you it's okay huh okay ready for trial ease luck anybody and that dude I've read probably 200 of his books of Lula Moore's books and he has the ability to makes and appear in your teeth like you've been trotting across a desert and Lowell Mack has been chasing after you and the hiko watch off tribe has been try next thing you know you're right in the middle of this book and more I read I'm like this is good stuff and it appeared and it just it just kind of came to me you know what his ability is is to get people to connect with what's being said it's no it's no longer than just a series of connected words but it's actually drawing the person in so what I began to learn stay with them well I began to learn in that is that it's one thing for me to be able to learn how to put words together but in the church if I will give myself to understand the meanings of words in the Greek and the Hebrew and the Aramaic and the ways and the means and the floors and all of that and when I present that to the educated they can sit there and go you know what this guy doesn't know we've talked about no or they could say wow this guy's done some study and all of that has value until I say I'm finished and when I say I'm done with my thought with my message with my lesson everybody's sitting there going hmm Wow can we leave them but if I do that same thing and I do it because the Spirit of God has given me unction to do so and the anointing of the Lord is touching my life as I'm going into the word then what I have learned from the Louella more style of presentation is is I don't need to preach about the Indian tribes I don't need what I need to do is learn and understand how to present something in a way that captures somebody's attention but more than that God I need your spirit to work in and through me to speak to the spirits of the people sitting in the room you know there's some times that you listen to a preacher or teacher and you're we're very quick to just turn them off huh you may know I'm talking about some of you are nodding because you're tardy turn me off I see it a lot of times on faces of people even that sit in this room this is what I see sometimes Oh oh you mean I'm talking about you ought to be up here right brother drawing sometimes looking that way instead of looking this way because it's very intriguing how somebody's sitting right next to you doesn't matter who doesn't matter where can be at the bottom of the barrel of life and they desperately need an unction an anointing of flow and they just begin to cry to God and they begin to reach in their spirit pushes and and it springs up like rivers of living water and it begins to move and God reaches down and blows into their spirit and they begin to breathe and have feeling and liberties and the Holy Ghost and standing right next to them right next to them stay with me when when Paul was writing the letters to the churches why is it that he had to write two letters to the church at Corinth why did he need to address Galatia or Ephesus or Philippa why was it necessary for him to write do you think he was saying you know one day they're gonna put all these words together and called the Bible no they didn't know you know what he was doing there were circumstances and the situation's going on in these churches that he was so vital he was so powerful in their establishment that Paul would get in in a jail cell somewhere they locked the door and he'd say I the Spirit of God is moving in me to write a letter to the Galatians because their situations going on there and I think I can help them and he would begin to write under the unction of the Spirit of God and he would take the lady through the window or there were times when he was in a Roman Jail he couldn't write because they wouldn't allow that in so others would stand on the outside of the prison walls and he would speak it to them and they would write Luke did that many times for him different ones that would enter inner inner intermixing and try to help them get words from point A to point B the reason I'm telling you this is because we all spoke raised our hands a little while ago and say God has answered prayer for me do you realize that was a work of the Spirit and do you realize that the only difference between this and that is the Spirit of God the spirit of God is anywhere and everywhere can somebody say man but until we learn how to allow God's Spirit to move we can't see the miracles the signs and the wonders and the things that God truly desires let me ask you a question if God could accomplish something in your life right now what would it be what would it be besides the lottery what would it be what is something that right now at this moment that you would simply say God if you could take care of this right now my life would be forever changed anybody yes sir what clearly know his voice anybody else what what could he do right now that would make you beyond a shadow of a doubt know that he's doing something job situation sure what else anyone or is everybody else's life already perfect some of your life well I don't even want to say because I have too long of a list some of you're like well which one do I put first uh-huh let me ask you a question if I may if you're in that boat what do you think the world does well they don't even have any spiritual understanding how lost do you think they may feel you've got the if you're full of the Holy Ghost you've been baptized in the name that's above every name Jesus you have the ability for the Spirit of God to work in your life and perform the miraculous in a moment in a moment in a moment now that what we do as humans is is we become very discouraged at times because God doesn't always answer in a moment sometimes sometimes we don't trust the process but instead we just simply want to believe in the power truth honestly Apostolic living that's what we're talking about this month what I'm telling you is simply this is that the workings of the Spirit capital S is for a purpose they're different they're distinct I am truly convinced that if we can understand as the church body that the Spirit of God wants to manifest itself and work itself in a service in a midst of where people are or where there's a single person or where it doesn't matter anywhere God can move you believe that if we truly understand that then we could walk in the spirit and in the spirit God would display himself if you will through his children and the working of miracles and the healings and the discerning of spirits and the different kinds of tongues and the interpretation of tongues all of these things the wisdom and the knowledge and those things that happen in are vital for the Spirit of God to flow in the body if we could ever truly tap into that and realize it's not about us it's about us trusting him question if you so desire for miracle signs wonders things to happen in your life the gifts to be evident in your life then then may I ask you a question which one of those gifts that we talked about tonight in first Corinthians which one of those would you want which one well there's many of us that would say man well I could I could just touch somebody they'd be healed oh not what I do you know I'd if I can you just touch them they'd be healed well everything well I'd open me a clinic down town I wouldn't charge anybody I just let him come in and I touch them and they'd be healed okay there so we want that one a lot of times why do you can can I say something as pastor you won't know why many times healings don't happen it's the same thing when Jesus was walking in shoe leather because of unbelief I can't do it can't do it and there's some times that you pray for God to use you in healings in God saying I can't because I can't trust you with it yeah how quickly you would take the credit for it has anybody ever been healed how did that happen did you stand in line for 35 minutes and wait and then when you got up there did you prostate but put yourself in a position to say okay breathe blow whatever whatever that way I'll know and I'll be all part of this show that's going on is that what you did hmm I can I don't mind telling you that when I was that youngster that was sick and the doctor said that I'd be in a wheelchair that when God healed me I didn't know it I was only 12 11 I didn't know it you know what I knew was the next doctor's visit I went back and the doctor said to my parents that penicillin those four tablets a day that he's taken let's cut him back to two and see what happened something's changing in his system I didn't know all I knew is I didn't have to take that applesauce anymore as a kid I couldn't swallow the pills I throw them up so my mom tricked me sister Kathy she put the penicillin in a thing of applesauce so I asked my wife do I eat applesauce today no because they may have a pill any you don't want that yeah yeah and then a week or so later went back to the doctor and he said you know what let's back him off and just give him this amount of day and my mom put the bottle in the closet shut and said I'm not giving him anymore I didn't know that you know what I knew is I no longer had to eat applesauce all I knew is the doc said he can go back to school if he wants to all I knew is I had to have a homebound teacher teach me how to ride over again because I couldn't right with the disease that I had I couldn't hold a pencil I couldn't walk down the hallway without bouncing off the walls a haircut was out of the question I was jerking it they would come hold my own spoon to feed myself was out of the question that's all I knew and then one day something changed I didn't know I joined the military I went away I come back and I just you know the I told you all that story the file that being the doctors in the recruitment station said there's no way you should be here and I said well I'm steady as a rock now oh well go so I did and it wasn't until my dad was diagnosed with cancer and was dying that he's got me in the car one day I was taking him someone he said son I'm gonna tell you something I never told anybody else I knelt by the tree out in the backyard one day and said God what are you doing at my kid God said I'll heal him if you'll get up and walk around this tree so my dad said I got up walked around the tree on the seventh time I come around God said now lift your hands if you believe I've taken care of it I didn't know that I didn't know my dad told me said buddy that was a process and then you know what I said I said you know what Dad I know God heals and I know the process God we still I didn't know when the guy was standing in the crowd at a crusade that I didn't know that he didn't have eyes before and now all of a sudden eyeballs appeared and I said I didn't know the story I didn't know the boy's legs were crooked I didn't know the one baby had a kidney that was undeveloped and my wife I'm not pray for him and took him to the doctor and both kidneys were perfect I didn't know I didn't know you know what I knew I knew that God could if we truly believe that God has answered prayers in our lives and we raised our hands do you want to know God why God restores you didn't know you just simply one day it was okay I didn't know what was gonna happen to my wife Lee in the hospital bed with a stroke all I knew was this ain't good and then things changed I mean story you God point I'm making is this those things the spirit capital s the representation of God they are to move and to work in the church see there's a lot of us that that wood wood home and and and and sting and just cry out God I want to see the miraculous and after we get up off the floor in prayer and holding our head in a headache we're like whew where's that Tylenol can see we're all human right you understand what pastor saying the question is not whether God can the question is is will God here will he do it here let me continue I'm trying to watch my clock and only get in trouble the Spirit gives the abilities and the functions to the body and it all confirms the working of God that is done so that human mindset can wrap itself around the fact that God great big ass is working in the church let me ask you a question yeah if God can't heal if God does do miracles if God does let signs happen if things happen and these difference things that were spoken of here Paul wrote to the church if that's the case for what purpose do you think that's done wouldn't it be just easier if nobody ever got sick wouldn't it be just a lot easier if nobody ever had a need we could just simply live and utopia and walk around we could all just look like butterflies and chase the Unicorn then wouldn't that be easier that being silly the fact of the matter is is that our world is in such dire problems now do you want to know why God wants to do miracles in the church it's for the edifying of the body let me ask you a question if you had a certain circumstance or a situation going on in your life and it was really bad I mean terrible and you've got people in your family or people on your job or people that you rub shoulders with and they know about this problem that you have and everything that you're trying to accomplish and do to get rid or you take care of our deal with this problem it's just not happening but you go to the presence of the Lord either in a church in somebody's house on the street whatever it is and God moves in intervenes and your life is changed and restoration and healing happens and and you're made completely whole what difference what impact would that make on those folks would it make a difference did it make a difference when you were restored did it make a difference when you were healed did God get glory out of that and somebody say wow there's something going on over there huh where's their encouragement one to another fact of the matter is if we don't have the working of the Spirit of God in the body of Christ in the church then we are missing the entire point of the church let me continue here our lives become very different because of the glory of God that resides within us and because of his moving in and out of the pews and the aisles in the in and out of the group of our friends and our loved ones and our family that spirit that's moving there listen I don't I don't know how long it's been since you've not felt the Spirit of God I'd be afraid to death not to feel him you know lost you would be without that anointing that unction but our world lives in that state of chaos confusion question fear we wonder why people have literally lost their minds is because they don't have the capital S spirit working in their lives they come into contact with it and they're not really sure what's happening what did Nick oedema say to Jesus and in the book of what he's saying book of John what'd he say we know that you're a rabbi we know you're a teacher nobody could say and do the thing you're doing except they come from but what I want to understand is this and Jesus didn't even didn't even didn't even bad as I didn't even answer the guy's question he buys jumped right over the top of it and he said verily verily I say Nick además sitting there going without anything at all what I asked you I'm not I'm not here to entertain that I want you to know what salvation is what how can I be well how can I go a second time it's the water and the spirit capital s the spirit is what's gonna make the difference in your life Nicodemus our lives become different because that spirit that lives within us we understand that in its context it can wake us up in the morning it can go down when we lay down to go to bed at night if you wake up in the morning and you breathe the name Jesus do you realize something is different about your day if you wake up and you breathe the name oh my goodness the whole world fall apart and all the negativity and things going on what just happened to your day takes a negative turn have you noticed that now in the flesh ask you a question what is something that they teach so it is something that you parents teach your children in the flesh when it talks when you talk about what you consume what you eat you are what you eat some of us are really good-looking hamburgers now we know that it doesn't turn us into a pizza or something right what we know is in the flesh what happens the nutrients the chemicals the makeup and all that of what we consume becomes a part of our makeup if you will is that okay is that simple enough that's just science one on one if that's the case the fruits vegetables the meats the breads the grains the poultry the milk and all those kinds of things that that we put into our bodies and they begin to process and go through that that is what we become agreed don't you think then if the makeup of the human body is that way that there are effects spiritually in our lives there are things that are happening spiritually and they're demonstrating themselves in the spirit if you if you eat in your fleshly body all sweets and all the chemicals in all of the stuff what's going to happen to your your makeup what's going to happen to what you've been built with what will happen I'll tell you what happened is you'll have to take a pill for that I can eat all the doughnuts I want I got a pill for that stuff you know because it'll counteract what you're putting in your body and then we go off on this tangent trying to do away with or change what is actually coming in let me tell you something to stay the same is exactly the truth and the spiritual body say with me God gives spiritual things to the spiritual bodies in the church Ephesians 4 and 11 you all know this he gave some apostles some prophets some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for what what was the purpose in giving those things what's it say for the what for the perfecting of the Saints that's why God gave to the church those things the perfecting term it translates to what maturing growing moving forward apostles prophets evangelists pastors teachers for the perfecting of the saints comma and for what else for the work of the ministry and comma for the edifying of the body of Christ how long what should we why should we tend with this why does it matter because verse 13 says what somebody Parcells prophets evangelists pastors teacher they are for perfecting of Saints to do work of ministry to edify the body till until that place that we all come to the unity of faith the togetherness of belief let me tell you something for him if we want the supernatural miracle signs wonders and things to work in the church you know what we need to do we got to get an understanding that if we can ever get unified in the faith the Spirit of God can flow and can move and can have its being and when some sickness or disease or problem or situation comes in in the contact with the body the body says oh no we don't allow cancer here in the spiritual therefore we were going to raise up and pray against that and we're not gonna allow it to come in and take over that henceforth what does it say we henceforth be no more children we're tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men cunning craftiness they lie and wait to deceive isn't it interesting that the letter that was written to the Ephesus church was to say you've got ministry things you've got purposeful things that God has given to the body the church for edifying to bring together to unify in the faith why because you can become a child that is tossed to and fro when you believe all these false doctrines and teachings oh I'm not I'm not bowing down to some pagan God no but the fact is if what is disbelief what is unbelief what is denying God isn't that the same as witchcraft isn't the same as the things that keep you come on if you're doubting what God can do brother drawn would you come if you're doubting that God can heal doubting that God if you're afraid that what God's doing your life is gonna just that's in the same line as things that you and I would just abhor why because the the body the body that the church god knows what we need and he wants us to become mature Saints he wants us to do the work of ministry administrating the things of God and he wants us to understand that edifying lifting up exalting right raising up the body of Christ will bring revival its purpose is to bring believers to a unified faith in the knowledge of who God is now I'll ask you this and I'm done if God could truly do anything and we believe that right then why doesn't he do everything because many times even as the body we're afraid we doubt we question we we fear we would chew up one another let jealousy and strife come and we let confusion push us the winds of doctrine push us this way that way and one Sunday we're on fire for God and it doesn't take just a night or two or day or two or whatever and and I've even seen it from the time you walk from this altar to the backdoor a doctrine a teaching will change in a wind war and you knew standing here God could heal you but by the time you get to the back doubt settles in you ever been prayed for for an ache in your body and after it was prayed for you went let me just check it and see and then the pain was still there what did you do how did you respond I knew I knew it wouldn't happen God's just about to say it's done and because we're in the flesh and because of what we've put in our flesh it begins to stand up and then where we should submit our flesh to what God's doing instead we we submit our spirit and our flesh wins and we walk out of here saying wow where you going sis where you going bro I'm gonna take a Tylenol when up there got prayed for God to heal me but he didn't so I'm gonna have to back up punt Oh past you're being silly I'm just telling you I believe I believe that God could raise the dead I believe that if we truly believe in the spirit capital s working in our lives that there are things that God has in store for us we just simply have to continue to stay connected to the body stand with me please signs wonders miracles gifts an apostolic life in your living day-to-day you got to understand church body of Christ those baptized in Jesus name that's us that's us right we got to understand that he didn't just change our lives save us if you will take away our sins fill us with a spirit for us to just simply glide along but he has such great plans for you it's interesting that we have confirmation to the F to the Ephesians apostles prophets evangelists teachers and pastors were given to the church Wow to the church yeah I did that for a reason really what was your reason because I want you to mature and grow now wouldn't be just easier for for God to just simply say be mature and everybody go whoo oh we're not be easier but God knows us the same same reason that God would make a garden call it Eden until his creation it's all yours everything in here's for you you name the animals enjoy it I'll come and be with you but there's one tree that I don't want you to touch everything else you can have and what did Adam and Eve do they touch the tree point I'm making is this what I've been easy for God just say well just let me remove that tree that way y'all can just do what you do and this is no longer an issue now when sin came on the scene why did God rain judgment down on Adam and Eve because of their disobedience if you would have just simply obeyed and now here we are 2019 I don't know about you but tonight in this service is quiet and peaceful as it is I have felt the Spirit of the Lord that lets me know he's here you truly are hungry for the miracles and the signs and the wonders that God has in store for the church then we have to submit ourselves to the Spirit of God as his spirit works in us and we yield to him we let him work through us for the maturing of the Saints for the edifying of the body until we come to that time when we're unified pray with me Jesus akela teru bozu Shia your glory is in this room right now you have such a desire to move in the church the body you have such a desire to do miracles and to allow signs to happen and to allow wonders to unfold give gifts to the church to accomplish things it is your desire Lord to let them move in and out of the body I pray tonight Lord as apostolic that we would yield ourselves to what you do - your plan and your purpose and to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that as we grow and mature you have great things in store for us Lord I yield myself to you pray God that you would help my unbelief let me believe you more for the great things that you have in store for the church I pray for every home and every heart and every family that's in this room I speak against confusion I speak against it in the name of Jesus I rebuke doubt and fear in the name of Jesus take dominion over the enemy that is trying to confuse and baffle the church great God you are in control and you are not confused whatsoever help us to believe your Lord and to know God that if we will follow you signs and wonders will follow things will happen in the world in which we live you are not slack concerning your promises as some men count slackness but you are forever exalted on the throne we're gonna come back this week and loving you and serving you believing you for great things in the name of Jesus we pray before you go home why don't you just love him for a moment come on lift your hands to him love it I love you I believe in you I trust you I submit myself to your Lord I desperately desperately need you in the name of Jesus I pray somebody say man hey man I love you all thank you so much for being in the house of the Lord tonight be challenged let God work in your life let him work in your home let him work in your family let the big ass spirit have its way what he's doing in here shake hands be friendly greet one another encourage somebody before you leave let them know you love them and believe in them and I'll see you guys this weekend what time do we have to be here Saturday or Friday Friday at 6 p.m. okay what time Saturday do we begin okay okay rain or shine on Saturdays our churchyard self come and be a part of it you'll enjoy it amen if you got something to donate bring it we'll take it love you all

Scripture references as spoken: Hebrews 2:1-4; Mark 16:20; 1 Corinthians 12:4-14; John (book-only, as spoken); Ephesians 4:11-14.