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00:00Good evening, UNF Covenant Church and all our viewers around the world.
00:15Thank you for joining me for our midweek Bible study.
00:21I'm dealing with the Holy Spirit and leading into the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
00:28And so we'll do a little bit of a recap, but we'll read our scriptures first for this presentation.
00:351 Corinthians 12, verse 1 to verse 11.
00:39The Apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, a church he started in Acts chapter number 18.
00:44And while he was in Corinth, the Bible says the Lord spoke to him and said,
00:47I have much people in this city, many people in this city, and Paul remained there for just over two years.
00:55And the Corinthian people were very liberal.
00:59It was basically a coastal town, a port town, where it was basically ships coming in for trade
01:07and a town where there was a lot of illicit behavior and so on, lots of idolatry.
01:14But it was there that Paul performed some outstanding miracles.
01:17And so as the years rolled by, it was needful for the Apostle Paul to correct a lot of their behaviors
01:23and to place significant spiritual activity in categories in which they could wrap their hands around
01:32and align their lives to move from just being people that were free and liberal.
01:40Corinth would be like San Francisco, just very liberal.
01:45Anything goes. If you feel it, if you love it, you do it.
01:49It's like Epicureanism, hedonism, you know, just do what you want to do.
01:54So the Apostle Paul then had to move these people simply from one level to the next.
01:59And he says to them, I'm writing to you in 1 Corinthians chapter number 3.
02:03He says this book is basically a milk book. It's a milk book.
02:08And he goes on to say, you know, that we have been entrusted as apostles and prophets in chapter number 3,
02:16verse 1, 2, 3, 4, with mysteries, but I can't deal with mysteries of deep things with God
02:22because I have to get you material.
02:24And so from reading the first book of Corinthians and even the second,
02:28Paul says in 2 Corinthians, I'll come to mysteries, revelations and deep things in the future,
02:34which means that those deep things, this church and these people weren't quite ready for.
02:40And so when we read 1 Corinthians 12, verse 1 to 11, the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
02:46and then after that, the structure of the body of Christ where we are joined together,
02:51all of these are milk, which stuns me that if the gifts of the Holy Spirit are milk
02:59and basically Pentecostal charismatic churches, including New Life Covenant Church,
03:04we don't practice often the gifts of the Holy Spirit outside of prophecy or miracle sign and wonder there and there.
03:13It means that we have a long way to go in terms of maturing into Christ.
03:20Verse 1, now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
03:27You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led away by the dumb idols that are among you and around you.
03:36And whosoever was leading you, you followed and were led.
03:43Wherefore, I make known to you that no man speaking in the spirit,
03:49that's the Holy Spirit, can say that Jesus is accursed or anathema.
03:54And no man can say Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
04:00Now, there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit.
04:06Verse 5, there are diversities of ministrations, but the same Lord.
04:11Verse 6, there are diversities of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.
04:18But each one is given the ministration of the spirit to profit everybody.
04:25Verse 8, to one is given through the spirit, the word of wisdom.
04:32To another, the word of knowledge according to the same spirit.
04:37To another, faith in the same spirit.
04:42To another, gifts of healings in the one spirit.
04:49Verse 10, to another, workings, plural of miracles.
04:55To another, prophecy.
04:57To another, discerning of spirits.
04:59To another, diverse kinds of tongues.
05:02To another, the interpretation of tongues.
05:05But all these work the one and the self-same spirit, dividing to each one severally as he will.
05:19And so the Holy Spirit, to recap from last week's presentation,
05:2550 things we mentioned thereabouts of what the Holy Spirit does.
05:29The Holy Spirit is designed to build and unite the body of Christ.
05:36So build and unite the body of Christ.
05:39And in doing that, empowers the believer in so many entities,
05:46so that we are whole, we are developed, and we grow to maturity.
05:52Because it's only when we are mature, Hebrews chapter number 5 says that
05:56when you ought to be teachers, you have somebody teach you again,
06:00the basic principles of the doctrine of Christ, and so on.
06:03And he's saying you ought to be oracles of God.
06:07In other words, to speak ambassadorally, maturely, as statesmen, on behalf of God.
06:15And so the Holy Spirit then, as he builds and then grows us,
06:22wants to take us into fully experiencing the fullness of who Christ is.
06:28Which means, when Jesus came, through his death, his burial, his resurrection,
06:35the Holy Spirit wants us to understand the purpose for that.
06:39And the purpose for that is to take us back to God's original plan for mankind,
06:44which was the first Adam.
06:46So we ought to gravitate and grow towards the state and the status,
06:51the structure, the function, the being, the wholeness, the dominion of Adam.
06:58When God gave him dominion over the whole earth, crowned as king of the earth.
07:06And so the Holy Spirit's function and job basically is to build the believer,
07:13build the body of Christ, into a full and perfect man.
07:19And so until we come into a full and perfect man, as a person,
07:24and a full and perfect body, as a church, and a full and perfect body,
07:29as the body of Christ, we're never ever really going to enjoy the full benefits
07:34of what Jesus came and did for us.
07:38And so the whole history and the story of Jesus, starting from Genesis
07:44all the way to the end of Malachi,
07:46Jesus said, I've come to fulfill the law and the prophets.
07:50I'm not doing away with it, I am the embodiment of that.
07:54And so, for us as believers, printed in our lives, on our hard drive,
08:03in our spirit, is Genesis all the way now to the book of Revelation.
08:09All 66 books, that word is printed on our spirit,
08:15and then becomes manifest through our soul into becoming victorious individuals.
08:21And so because that's embossed and it is basically printed in our spirit,
08:27the Holy Spirit then comes to activate what's printed there.
08:31Part of that is to empower our spiritual gifts, that's our ability to do things,
08:38but also then to quicken the gifts of the Holy Spirit that function in a church environment.
08:48So the gifts of the Holy Spirit, there are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
08:54And so when we look at the gifts of the Holy Spirit as they function,
08:59we'll mention the gifts of the Holy Spirit very quickly.
09:04The gifts of the Holy Spirit start with,
09:08the order I've placed here is the word of wisdom,
09:16Romans chapter number 11 verse 29, let me go there first.
09:20Romans 11 verse 29, for the gifts and the callings of God do not require repentance.
09:27And so once you've repented and you've been full of the Holy Spirit,
09:32you don't need to repent or pay a price to have access to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
09:39They just need to be activated and initiated in your life.
09:43And so the first gift of the Holy Spirit, nine of them,
09:48the word of wisdom, number two, the word of knowledge,
09:54number three, discerning of spirits, number four, faith,
09:59five, workings of miracles, six, gifts of healings,
10:08seven, prophecy, eight, tongues and interpretation,
10:17nine diverse kinds of tongues, which is a multiplicity of tongues.
10:25So let's look at some Old Testament pieces here and look at individuals
10:32that are known for performing major miracles.
10:37And so you look at Elijah, significant miracles to his list,
10:42Elisha, many, many miracles there. Individuals like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel,
10:48attached to their list of reputable functions as prophets.
10:55Ezekiel, so many miracles, signs and wonders there.
10:59Even amongst the minor prophets, Jonah, Haggai, Zechariah, Joel,
11:03we see significant miracles there.
11:07In the seventh year between those and New Testament miracles,
11:11the miracles there were empowerment by the Heavenly Father
11:16to empower the children of Israel.
11:19They were actually to keep Israel together, to make sure that Israel
11:23moved away from idolatry and came back to serve the Lord.
11:27Whereas in the New Testament church, the Holy Spirit,
11:31he's not moving us from a position of idolatry in the church
11:35or from following after other gods and strange things
11:38or from submitting to witchcraft and all its vices.
11:42The function of the Holy Spirit in the church is to grow, strengthen the church.
11:49And one of the tools the Holy Spirit uses are the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
11:55So the way the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit work,
11:58they also matched with the nine callings of God.
12:02So you have nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, you have nine callings of God.
12:07The nine callings of God are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastor, teacher.
12:17Six, governmental gifts, such as elders.
12:21Seven, administration or administrations.
12:26Eight, helps.
12:29Number nine, hospitality, as 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 28 and 29.
12:36The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit and the nine callings of God
12:41are also matched with the nine fruit of the Holy Spirit.
12:45It's one fruit for one gift, one fruit for one calling.
12:51In my view, an apostle and a prophet must manifest all the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
13:03A pastor, teacher may not, an evangelist could,
13:11but an apostle and a prophet must manifest and function with all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
13:19In my life as an apostle, and I hardly use that terminology,
13:23but for 50 years of ministry, I was told in 1974 that I must desire the best gifts.
13:31And whatever gift I desire, God would then lean into me with that gift.
13:38So two gifts I've desired the most.
13:40The first one, I've always desired discerning of spirits.
13:45And the second one, the gift of wisdom, the word of wisdom.
13:51And so wisdom is something I pray for just about every day.
13:54But I had no idea back then that desiring the gift of discerning of spirits,
14:00that it would be so active in my life.
14:03So sometimes at church on a Sunday, suddenly my eyes open,
14:08and I can see very clearly what people, some on the platform, some in the church,
14:14very clearly what they were doing in that week.
14:16I can see sinful acts.
14:20I can see basically spirits around them.
14:25And it's quite an interesting gift.
14:27I was sitting on a flight in 2021.
14:29It was an Emirates flight.
14:31And I just got comfortably in my seat.
14:35And suddenly as people were coming in,
14:37I was seeing all kinds of, you know, different heads.
14:41You know, somebody that was functioning in sexual debauchery.
14:46They had the head of a pig.
14:47You know, there's another person.
14:49They look like a dinosaur.
14:51It was really weird.
14:52Eventually, after about maybe four or five minutes,
14:55I just took a blanket and covered my head.
14:57Because I was seeing so many things.
14:59I was seeing naked people, even though they were fully dressed.
15:04I was seeing vulgar.
15:06I was seeing snakes.
15:07I was seeing witchcraft.
15:09That's discerning of spirits.
15:11And even sometimes on a Sunday or whenever I am in a church,
15:14suddenly that gift will activate.
15:16And suddenly right there, I'm discerning spirits.
15:21Sometimes when people come to me, I meet for the first time,
15:24the Holy Spirit then opens my eyes, and I discern their agenda.
15:28But also it's not just on the negative side.
15:30There are many times when God opens my eyes,
15:32and I can see people who have an honest, just, righteous spirit.
15:36Agenda's pure.
15:38I can see sometimes once or twice.
15:42Maybe in the air I can see an angel or angels around people.
15:46I can also sense a person's gift.
15:50Earlier, 2024, somewhere in the month of February,
15:55I was in a certain service, and a woman walked in to the service.
15:59I saw her coming in, and as she was walking towards me,
16:03she wasn't wearing a hat or some sort of a head covering,
16:06but as she was walking towards me,
16:08I saw on the top of her head a big basket with all kinds of fruit.
16:15And the Lord said to me,
16:16This woman is very, very, very fruitful.
16:18I need you to pray for her so she can learn how to use the fruit in her life.
16:24Because she's mixing all of them.
16:26She needs to make a banana, do what a banana does, an orange.
16:30It was all kinds of fruit, both wild fruit and also domestic fruit.
16:37And then also the word of wisdom is a gift that the Lord has put in my spirit,
16:43and I desire that and pray for that all the time.
16:47And so when we're dealing with spiritual gifts,
16:51as opposed to the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
16:54let me run through a few spiritual gifts.
16:57Visions, dreams, arts, creativity, music, prayer.
17:07You know, everybody ought to pray,
17:09but there's people that have the gift to pray.
17:12In 1978, when my dad took us to Cape Town,
17:16I met a lady there whose gift was fasting and prayer.
17:22And twice a year she'd do 40 days water only,
17:25and they were praying for finances for their church.
17:30And she had just come off a 52-day fast, just water.
17:36On her 40th day, she started taking juice before she started going on to solids.
17:41But she said what had happened was in her prayer for financial breakthrough,
17:47on the 21st day, the financial breakthrough came.
17:52And a voice said to her, the financial breakthrough has come,
17:55you don't need to continue with your fast.
17:57Then the Holy Spirit said to her, you must continue your 40-day fast,
18:02because that's what I've commanded you to do.
18:04My sister-in-law has a gift for fasting.
18:08My mom had a gift for fasting and prayer.
18:11Everybody ought to fast,
18:13but there's people that are actually assigned and given a gift to do that.
18:17I pray very heavily and strong,
18:19and there are scenes when I'm stronger in prayer than others.
18:22But Pastor Chichi has a gift for prayer.
18:24My mother has a gift for prayer.
18:26Some of the greatest intercessors I have met in my lifetime,
18:29praying was their gift.
18:31Spiritual gift is oration, the ability to communicate.
18:35Exhortation, finance is a gift.
18:37Business is a gift.
18:38Writing is a gift.
18:40Poetry is a gift.
18:43Filming, building, academic gifts and so on,
18:48those are spiritual gifts.
18:50Now, let's look at the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
18:54Let's look at the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
18:57The gifts of the Holy Spirit will start here with...
19:03Let me demonstrate the tabernacle.
19:07The tabernacle is in three compartments.
19:10Hopefully the camera guys can follow me.
19:12So when Moses made the tabernacle, there's the courtyard,
19:17there's the holy place,
19:19and there's the holiest of holies.
19:22So the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are placed into three categories.
19:26The first category, in the lowest order of gifts,
19:30are the inspiration gifts.
19:33These are courtyard gifts.
19:35These are, from the lowest, divers kinds of tongues,
19:40interpretation of tongues, and prophecy.
19:44So that would be divers kinds of tongues coming into the tabernacle,
19:49which is the door.
19:50The next place is the lever.
19:53That will be interpretation of tongues.
19:56The third thing you'd see, rather, is the brazen altar.
20:01That's interpretation of tongues.
20:04And then there would be the lever in which the priest would wash.
20:09That would be prophecy.
20:11Those are called inspiration gifts.
20:14Then you come into the holy place.
20:17The first thing you would see on the left
20:21would be the golden candlesticks.
20:24The golden candlesticks would be gifts of healings.
20:29Then you would see a table with showbread, twelve loaves.
20:33These would be workings of miracles.
20:37Then you would see the altar of incense.
20:40This would be the gift of faith.
20:44Then you go beyond the veil.
20:47In the veil was the Ark of the Covenant.
20:50Inside of the Ark of the Covenant were three things.
20:54Aaron's rod that budded,
20:56a golden pot with manna,
20:58and the tables of stone.
21:00And so, Aaron's rod that budded
21:06would be discerning of spirits.
21:09Because everybody was saying that Moses appointed his brother.
21:12It was nepotism.
21:14It was a family business.
21:16So he was commanded to bring all the rods.
21:19And overnight, Aaron's rod budded.
21:23Aaron's rod, all the others stayed dead,
21:26but Aaron's rod had three things.
21:29Number one, it had leaves,
21:31which meant that Aaron was the spiritual covering.
21:34Number two, it had flowers,
21:36which meant that Aaron's rod was providing fragrance
21:40for all of Israel in the midst of the stench of their lives.
21:44And number three, almonds.
21:47Aaron's rod was going to grow fruit for those individuals.
21:51And that is discerning of spirits.
21:55The second thing in there was a golden pot of manna.
22:00And so, that's the word of knowledge.
22:03The manna is knowledge.
22:05Knowledge comes new every day.
22:08And so, give us this day our daily bread.
22:11Give us this day our daily revelation.
22:14That's the golden pot of manna.
22:16And then the last thing, the tables of stone.
22:20Those are the foundational forces of wisdom.
22:26Wisdom says in Proverbs 4 and in Proverbs 8,
22:31that I was with God from the beginning.
22:35God sought me and found me.
22:38Solomon says to his son,
22:40seek wisdom and wisdom will come.
22:44And with wisdom, wisdom will bring.
22:47Wealth and riches are with her.
22:50So wisdom is the female gender.
22:54Knowledge is the male gender.
22:57Knowledge makes wisdom pregnant in your life
23:01and produces fruit.
23:03And so the revelation gives then,
23:06revelation gives discerning of spirits,
23:09word of knowledge, word of wisdom.
23:13Those same gifts in those categories
23:17the inspiration gifts are also called the vocal gifts
23:22because these are spoken gifts.
23:26The second category, the power gifts,
23:29are also called the demonstration gifts.
23:33The demonstration gifts.
23:35The revelation gifts are also called the royal gifts.
23:40So they are vocal gifts, they are spoken,
23:43they are demonstration gifts, they manifest by an action.
23:48And then the royal gifts,
23:50which are gifts that are those to control
23:53and designed by spiritual atmosphere.
23:58So what is key and important here,
24:00sisters and brothers,
24:02is the fact that when we work in the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
24:08they are designed to produce the following things.
24:11Signs, wonders,
24:17manifestations of God's power through miracles.
24:24They are designed to bring unique miracles.
24:30I got a video from one of our members.
24:34They were driving to take their daughter to school
24:39and a building had some video footage
24:43of how a car came and hit their car
24:47and how their car was rolling
24:49and they came out literally without a scratch.
24:52In other words, they said this was a miracle.
24:56And so there are all kinds of miracles that take place in our lives,
25:00many we may not be aware of.
25:04Or some of the signs of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
25:07are basically in mighty deeds,
25:11in mighty deeds,
25:13in visitations,
25:15in open heavens.
25:17And so we're sitting right now at New Life Covenant Church
25:21in a very fascinating anointing,
25:24just fascinating.
25:25And all things are happening.
25:27There's a lady that came to Pastor Tichy
25:29and said that she was very, very ill
25:32and had cancer.
25:35They confirmed she had breast cancer.
25:38And before they assigned her to chemo,
25:40she then went.
25:41And when they checked, it was totally clear.
25:44That happened about three weeks ago.
25:46Also in this anointing, there's a couple
25:48that for 15 years had been trying to have children.
25:51They came to tell me on Sunday,
25:53that two Sundays ago,
25:57that they had just come from having a scan
26:01and it was confirmed.
26:02She thought she was just having a baby.
26:04It was confirmed that they are twins
26:06and they are identical twins.
26:08So those are things that happen
26:10with the gifts of the Holy Spirit
26:13and what they do.
26:15The gifts of the Spirit create
26:17a supernatural environment.
26:21A supernatural environment for God to move actively.
26:25Creates an environment for great anointing
26:28to break yokes.
26:30Creates an environment where people actually believe,
26:34where a person believes in themselves.
26:37Believes that God is able to do
26:39significant and mighty things.
26:43I was in a meeting in Nigeria many years ago.
26:48I mean, there were possibly
26:53just under 2 million people
26:56on the Thursday night.
26:57The night before, they said
26:58there were about 1.2 million people.
27:00I was speaking at both those meetings.
27:03But the second night,
27:08we were sitting on the platform
27:10and the platform seats 5,000 people.
27:13And so Papa Adibuya hadn't come onto the platform.
27:17So we were facing the auditorium.
27:19The furthest point of the auditorium
27:21was three kilometers away.
27:23And so sitting there,
27:26I felt, I felt Papa Adibuya step onto the platform.
27:32And I felt the power of his anointing,
27:35his apostolic grace.
27:37And in those meetings at about 11.30,
27:39just before he gets up to preach,
27:41ambulances start coming in.
27:44So I asked somebody,
27:45so one of these ambulances coming here,
27:47they said, no, they're emptying out the hospitals.
27:49They're bringing in people for healing.
27:51And we saw some extraordinary things,
27:53but the Holy Spirit does that.
27:55And the gifts of the Holy Spirit
27:57in that environment activates the power
28:00and the move of the Holy Spirit.
28:02And so as we begin to come to a close
28:05in this particular session,
28:06as we lead into the next session,
28:09we're going to lead you now
28:11into how to get the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit
28:14functioning in your life,
28:16how to desire those,
28:18and how those gifts will operate
28:20and function in your life.
28:23For us here, and for you watching,
28:27the Bible says, the Apostle Paul says,
28:30at the end of 1 Corinthians,
28:33chapter number 13,
28:35he goes through chapter number 12.
28:41He says, desire honestly the best gifts.
28:47So what are the best gifts
28:49in that hierarchy I gave you?
28:51What are the best gifts?
28:53And then he goes on to say,
28:54but I also want to show you a more excellent way.
28:58And so for every person here,
29:00as we come to a close in prayer,
29:03start desiring the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:05to work in your life.
29:07Desire the best gifts.
29:09Pray every day for the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:12to be made manifest in your life.
29:16Every day, it's a prayer.
29:18I pray for wisdom every day.
29:20I ask God for the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:22to function in my life every day.
29:24Heavenly Father, thank you for this session.
29:27I pray for every person
29:29that the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:32would function, be active in their life,
29:35that the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:37be so powerfully demonstrated in their lives.
29:40For every man and for every woman,
29:43wherever they are watching this,
29:46however far in generations they're watching this,
29:50let the gifts of the Holy Spirit
29:53function with power and with demonstration.
29:58We thank you in Jesus' name.
30:00Guys, thank you for being with us this evening.
30:02Thank you for taking the time.
30:04Please follow the notes.
30:06Make sure that you are not just listening,
30:08but you are doing.
30:10Be a doer of the word and not a hearer only.
30:13We'll see you guys next week.
30:15God bless.