hi my name is Mary and I will be continuing any study on the redemptive a spiritual gifts that are found in Romans 1263 we are going to be talking about the gift of the exhort today which is the fourth gift out of the seven and we're just gonna jump right in I pray that if this is your gift that you aren't able to recognize yourself in this captain it's not your specific gift that you still find just an appreciation for people that have this gift and that your eyes are open to a different way that other people interact with the world and CCAP so the gift with the exhorter they had the principle of reality and all of this information that I'm going to be sharing with you is information that I have gathered from many many places and from other people's hard work so this is just me like trying to make it as concise as possible but there's so much information so I'm gonna talk kind of fast and hopefully you can you could pause it and you can rewind it if I say something too quickly but I'm just trying to speak quickly to get through as much of it as I can so that you might have a desire to go deeper and to go research all the other information that you could find and just dig into God's Word and find it for yourself as well so this is really just like a tip of the iceberg of the information but so they have the principle of reality and that is really interesting because if X orders have almost like a different reality than the rest of the gifts that they see things from like spiritual eyes that are like the whole we see like eternity like all of it all at once versus like where we are today so everything fits into like big picture versus what's happening here and that can be interesting to the people around us because I am sorter and I can be almost like flighty and like seem like I'm in a different world and because a lot of times we are like we're thinking of things in a totally different perspective and so we can come across that it's being flavor just in a different world but we just see everything from a viewpoint that is just God's eternity so like the things that are happening right now are as significant as what is going to be happening in eternity and these are people that are mature sorters there's plenty of eggs orders in the world that don't have necessarily I have to see that but they may still operate in a way that they see things in a big picture versus being wrapped up in the details of today so details are kind of my new to us we penned gloss over details were not as concerned with the exact timing of things we kind of just live in this ultra reality we're like it doesn't really matter if you're there on time like you'll get there eventually and you know what is it what is what's the difference in all of eternity this day versus tomorrow and said we can make him just see see things very differently we enjoy being around people 100 percent is extraverted this is the only gift it has to be extroverted like all the other gifts there's some that are introverted and some that I've extrovert like there might be one both in that gifting this gifting there are no introverts that are exhort us because we have very outgoing people with people we are a party looking for someplace to happen which is really good I really just love the dance I love to like be out of a dance floor and just have a party wherever I yeah it's a it's just funny that that is a description that somebody else came up with it is completely accurate like were the people that are the first ones Albany it's more like I was on a cruise in high school and there was nobody dancing yeah like hundreds of people and so I just went out there all by myself I just started dancing like just hanging out and then eventually people started joining me but for a while I suddenly was the only one on the dance floor I was totally friends like I didn't care if nobody else was going to but they all did eventually so that's I'm a person that would be an exhaust of to have a good time and kind of have a party wherever we are has the ability to cross every kind of barrier social racial economic religious and relate to people wherever they are and build relationships so this gift is very concerned with relationships we are looking to build relationships everywhere that we go and do it easily it comes naturally and it's something that God just flows through us Without Really Trying we just love to make friends and to meet people my family always laughs never I go to the store or I go to the park or wherever I go I'll come back and be like you will not believe who I met and they're like my husband oh good you meet your best friend I have all these ways that I've connected with them we can always find a connection with people like no matter how far or wide or different our lives are sorters are always looking for that point of connectivity wherever it is and it could be through interest or where we've lived or things we like to do or just whatever it is we are always looking for that connection with other people so we make friends quickly and we're always finding new friends everywhere there we go regards God's sovereignty as their favorite characteristic of God and that is so interesting to me as I read this that somebody else discovered something so there's like yes it is so true I would have never wrote those words or a never thought about myself but now that I have learned this it is absolutely 100 percent truly the thing that I love the most about is everything he's in everything and he's in control of everything and so no matter what's going on I'm always finding the way that he's in control of it and that gives me such acute security so we see every detail including the timing of every event as part of God's good and loving plan and that's like when we get a flat tire or when we get pulled over and we get a ticket and it seems like it's a bad thing we're always thinking or at least I've always thinking I'm guessing other exert as well are always thinking is the reason that I'm meeting with this person at this time in this situation and sometimes it's just for me to let me listen slow down other times to have a conversation with that person or maybe it's protecting me from something that I didn't realize was happening further down the road we just are always looking for the God moments of our life and so we don't see things as coincidence or as happenchance like every detail of our lives we see it as God is doing something and he's going to use this and this is the mature eggs orders again not every exhorter might not feel this way but this is what their mindset it's kind of driven towards is a horizontal and they're focused and intensely people oriented I've been told many times how intense because we really are just super intensely people oriented we love people and we love people hard and like we're kind of close and like what it grab you and touch you touch you feel again people because you just want to connect and we want to have that relationship so this mode of teaching people is like my least favorite option like I did not want to do this but this is just because we couldn't meet in person so I agreed to do it this way but I would rather be in class face-to-face with people so that I can see them I can get to know them I can touch to them it's just the way that were wired and designed they are no strangers we have no strangers we cracked the code to people and gets into their heart passive leadership style does not lead with a heavy hand this is true and that we're not like really super strict right off the bat I think that I have learned that I need to be strict because I am I used to be a teacher in a classroom and I learned that I was just really like I mean just like a nice person and so I could easily be taken advantage of because I just was just happy to be with them and hanging out with them and they're like oh well we can just walk all over this girl because she's doing it as like a substitute teacher so I learned really quick to be like very strict and very stern and that was just something that I had to do in order to maintain control over a classroom of people that I barely knew for the one day that I was in your class but with my actual classroom my when I had my own class I was much more lenient with things and like not as not as strict and so expresses love through availability this is similar to the servant gift that we talked about before both of us just want to be there for people so if they call us if they want to meet up like we drop everything and yes absolutely like I will be there for you you just love to be present for people and be available to them it's concerned with the presentation and typically dress well someone described them as like the car salesman's of the world like they just look nice and dressed nice and we're concerned with the way that they appear to other people because they're always meeting people and they're always around people so were aware of how we're being perceived by other people is able to give thanks in all seasons and circumstances including the darkest ones and I had a crazy scenario where I thought that I was going blind like legitimately my vision was just slowly getting cloudier and cloudier until I really couldn't read things that were right in front of me and I was progressing the progressively getting worse I was getting cat-scans I was getting like spinal tap like serious things were happening and they like it was like dire situation and so in all of that I have is obviously afraid and scared like I like under current under all of it was like this is how God is gonna use me because I haven't had that difficult of a life like he's just gonna I'm gonna become blind and then this will be my destiny not be able to tell all these people about who Jesus is through this blindness like obviously I didn't want to be played but like I was kind of quick to accept that that was my fate and see how God might want to use it which I don't know if that's how other people are but that this is like a legitimate thing that I walk through it oh okay I can see how how this could benefit get or how this could be used by him so that normal but that's the way that exhort us can think we're always seeing the silver lining and what God might want to do through circumstances and situations even the really dark ones even the ones that you wouldn't think there could be anything good coming out of it regarde trials as opportunities for growth they recognize that whatever happens has potential to glorify God and conform believers to the image of Christ and so right now we're going through this coronavirus situation where a whole pandemic the whole world shut down and I can't stop thinking about how God is using it to grow us and to stretch us and to reveal things in us that we may not be aware of and to reprioritize our realign our priorities see what things we have in places that they shouldn't be where we have idols lifted up that should be there like I just didn't see all of those aspects of this situation and I would assume that other exhibitors are also thinking the same ways capacity to form community quickly inline on an airplane or at a party be whoever is near us we just will start talking to them and start socializing and then we quickly feel like we're a group we've made friends it's so that's just something that God does through us it's not like our own thing it's just what he does to connect people through us emphasize our sympathizing with the suffering Christian but sees the pain through the lens of God's sovereignty rather than through the lens of suffering again we're always looking to what is it that God's trying to do through things through cancer through the death of somebody like what is his sovereignty how is he he's in control of all of it so we see how he is in control of everything so death life hardships everything he is using in some way to bring growth to reposition people to reveal himself in a new way like we're just always seeing the connections between things like that and it's so crazy hearing it read because I wouldn't have verbalize it's like I wouldn't have known this about myself but now I catch myself when someone's telling me something that's really hard in the real life like my mind immediately goes to how God's in control of it and how he's working it to do something that may not make sense to anybody and I didn't realize that that was just the weak wired me it's not that I'm like practiced and studied these aspects of who God is it's just the way that we see the world it's just to me that we see life and he made us to be that way because he wants us to speak forth those things so Conquest designed to lead a large group against the spiritual enemy so these are people that are leaders visionary sees the broadest picture wants to affect large numbers of people so some of the other gifts like a prophet will want to affect a group of people but their vision might not be quite as big as the exhort like they'll be like yeah let's have like ten people come over who will do this study and then the eggs orders mine like and this is true of any event I ever plan whether it's a birthday party a Bible study like a potluck dinner I just cannot stop inviting people at my list gets out of control so fast because I don't ever want to leave anybody out so we just keep inviting and inviting and it ends up being these massive groups of people that I'm trying to reach because there's there's never a limit who should be included or who should hear this message or who should whatever like it we just have a big vision how many people should be included in things prefers to offer spiritual help rather than meeting a physical needs like taking a meal or mowing their lawn so true I would much rather just pray with people and that's like my first inclination like when I hear of a need I want to text a prayer I want to speak a prayer I want to go lay hands on them and pray like that's just what comes out first again this may not be the case for someone it doesn't work that well they may not feel that inclination as quickly but they would probably want to give encouraging words first like we just would want to encourage before we would want to make a meal or like do a task where I've recognized that that actually is a good way to get your foot in the door to pray with somebody because if you don't know them that well what just praying somebody can be maybe to like invasive and so I have learned that I need to just bring the meal because that is a blessing to me I loved it when I had babies and people bring me meals and bring me food like such a sweet thing to do so I will do that and like have learned to like balance it but our first knee-jerk reaction is to pray or to encourage with words by his counsel flows from the heart of an ex order he was able to skillfully identify precepts and principles in the word so the person who initially recognized that there was a difference in all of the gifts like that are all instructions that I talked about in the first video recognizing like these are all speaking to the same things these are three distinct types of gifts was an exhort like to recognize something within scripture in a new way that will benefit the body given a choice of encouraging by empathy or exhortation they will exhort every time so true I will I have a hard time with empathy I have a hard time just sitting and weeping with somebody or just allowing the weight of what they're going through to sink in for then or me like our inclination is we see anybody down or depressed or going through something we just want to lift them out as quickly as we can so we just start encouraging with our words and with prayer and just wanting to pull them out of that pit and that's something that we that exhibitors have to learn how to give time and space for empathy to just allow someone to sit in whatever it is that they're going through and then hold them out because sometimes we want to do it too quickly we don't want to give them a chance to just feel the weight of what they're feeling and we often don't allow ourselves to feel the weight of what we're feeling so we exhort ourselves very quickly out of depression or anxiety or fears like once we feel a little inclination of any of those things we're so quick to like speak truth see the opposite not not allow our minds our hearts to go to that place and so there is a time and a place for that wait he wants us just to sit those emotions are that we're feeling because they were able to relate to people we can have tea and sympathy for other people when we felt it but so often we want to get ourselves out of it too quickly that we miss the gift that comes from it sometimes parallelled anointing for evangelism master communicator ministers the word more eloquently than any of the other gifts there's a lot of ministers and pastors that are eggs orders and just have the gift of gab speaking I guess knows exactly how hard to push people or limits recognizes the danger zone in people so that would be represented like when I was younger and I would know exactly how often or how many times I should ask my mom or my dad to whether or not they were gonna let me spend the night in my friend's house like I was aware of their limit like if I asked them one more time they are gonna blow up and it there's no chance I'd get to go but if I waited till the morning and I asked again maybe there so they can be obviously if manipulating like that could be used in a really wrong way but it's also just a good way of knowing how to communicate and recognizing people's limits and what they would prefer and how they would prefer to hear information so it's meant to be a good thing but it's very often used in a bad way and is not intimidated by new ideas and new truth so this is where they're very similar to the prophets because they love new ideas things don't intimidate them they're willing to like grapple with things that are new and like study them and explore them to see if it would be a good option and where the teacher gifting has a much harder time accepting new ideas and new truth can encounter significant disagreements and still maintain relationship so this is another difference between exhorter and profit because they can be very similar a lot of these qualities I'm describing will sound a lot like a more extroverted profit like if you were an extroverted profit you could probably I see yourself in a lot of these but this is one that might be different for you because the exhibiter advantages relationships so highly that we have a really hard time allowing a relationship to suffer so no matter what the disagreement is we find a way to reconcile to humble ourselves to find a way to continue to be friends of them and often don't allow the relationship to even get to that point like we will make out make amends before it even reaches a point where there's going to be a severing of the relationship we just really want to maintain those relationships and even when things go really bad and there's your bluey wounded and really hurt we're still able to forgive and be friends of them like somebody baby wounded me when I was younger and everyone in my life can't believe they did terrible and I was still like willing to be friends with it like I it was really upsetting and hurting like hurt me but we were able to kind of look past those things and we want to have relationships more than we care about you know if they had wronged us or if they were you know treating us really poorly we still would desire to have a relationship with them inspires and mobilizes people responds to problems by prescribing specific steps of action so they are a lot of times like life coaches and they're really good at helping people to get motivated and to move forward and they're just the mobilizers of the world and of the church and of their community or of their business that are always innovative thinking of new things and moving things forward and they do it in a way that is in incremental steps or like there is coming up with like the plans like a five-step plan three-step plan like all those books that you probably see her probably written by some exhort herbs that are just like simple steps to get you out of whatever it is that's kind of just the way their brains work extremely flexible and can adjust their plans so this could be another difference between profits teachers and eggs orders because a lot of times the some of the profits and definitely the teachers have very strict plans and ideas of how things should go and eggs orders are just not like that at all like we're super easy going go with the flow we're kind of like blown by the wind and a sense of like as a mature eggs order we're like what is God doing today like what's the holy spirit calling me to do so if I'm doing something but then somebody calls me and they need me to pray with them or they need me to come to their home like I will drop everything and go like it's very easy for us to just like be moved by the spirit wherever we're going and to not be so held to whatever our plan was for the day we're quick to adjust our plans but that can also be tricky because we can not have any plans and there not be a structure to our days there's always a balance it's not one is better than the other that's just the word sign is to be kind of like the method I like what do you do Dave be used wherever we go willing and eager to come alongside a brother or sister in Christ during difficult circumstances so we love that we love coming alongside someone and encouraging them in lifting them up and praying with them it's a master of reconciliation because of their tactfulness and sensitivity to people's feelings they are often ministers and like counselors a lot of profit eggs orders would be councilors ability to bring new revelation the missing piece of truth so that would be like what I was talking about before within the redemptive gifts but that's a lot of different things within scripture that they're able to help reveal that missing piece works hard and is intensely busy this is so true of exhorted side of me diligent like super hard-working we do not give up until the task is done functions on little sleep it is so true and is involved in mini projects if you even do all the things that I'm doing so many projects and yet I don't need that much sleep like it's so random that God would designed them to be this way because he does want us to be involved in a lot of things and we're in a lot of groups of people and he allows us to do all these things and not need as much sleep but she literally like weird or not as like yeah that's interesting that that's the way we're designed so that we can't do all the things that he's calling its to but that's also something where we have to be careful that our busyness is actually doing something that is God oriented and that he's calling us to do because we could just fill her time with a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the Lord but he wants we're gonna be busy either way but he wants us to be busy doing his work because we have an insane amount of energy like we don't even need that much sleep and we can just work and work and we are super diligent so this is against it works really hard and wants to accomplish Scottsville when they are mature so it's some of the words to describe our extroverted exhort nurse because they're all extroverted it would be high energy and if you know me yes I drink coffee but I really don't need I just like to hold the cut that legs go like this I should drink decaf but we have a ton of energy risk-taking not easily rattled or stressed which is like a marker of an exorbitant get stressed out by things and it's not because we're any better it's just the way we're wired things don't rattle if they don't stress us out or just kind of like cuz we see dad's big picture reliable it he's must be using this for some things that we always see this like there's a reason for it so I don't really need to be stressed about it which isn't the norm but the way that they operate free-spirited ingenious a natural leader and joyful and they could also be charming they can be excellent communicators intense inspirational deep thinker passionate and independent and so these are the potential weaknesses of exhibitors which again they can go in and out of and any given day this could be who they are all day or just who they are occasionally or when they're tired or hungry or just not close to the Lord so these are things that they could potentially have and this again is the thing that really helps you to identify your gift in a lot of ways because a lot of those positive things and even the words that describe people that describes like a good amount of people like except when it only be what an exhibitor is but this definitely these potential weaknesses are for sure then so people pleasing unwilling to confront because of fear of rejection and that is a marker for sure that we because we love people so much and we want to have the relationship with them we often will make decisions that will hurt other people or have people be upset with us so it can cause friction in that we don't make the best decisions all the time because we're just trying to please the people around us rather than pleasing god who might be calling us to do something but we don't do it because we don't want the lash back from the people in our lives can use influence to achieve their personal agenda and goals there's some very bad eggs orders in the world like Hitler who used his influence to achieve his personal agenda Engels they were super evil so even though this sounds like a great gift not good and that's for every one of the gifts they're like Darkseid is pure evil and it's just the way that it is exhibited so a Hitler would be like the worst version of the exert right we're like a Billy Graham would probably be the best version of so or a Moses would be a great they have reality of time where the people needed an effort needed to do things and this is so frustrating to me because I it's really true like we don't recognize like what time it is during the day how long things are gonna take us so we often take much longer than we think it's gonna take so we're often late to things and we're often like procrastinating or said we wait to the last minute to do it and then it takes way longer than we're thinking so then we're behind on things like this is then like cycle of my life or I'm just always behind but we want things to be excellent so then we're late but it has to be really good so I'm like a perfectionist procrastinator which is the worst combination like most people that are procrastinators like they wait to the last minute like Mack who care they just turn it in no I want it to be perfect but I bleed too who has minutes so it's very difficult scenario but we will have big ideas and big dreams not realizing how long it's gonna take how many people are gonna have to be involved to make this happen so if your boss were an exhort or they might have like unrealistic expectations of what you are capable of doing with the team of people that work there and they can put a lot of unnecessary pressure and tension on other people not realizing how long things take her how many people are needed to make it happen moving boundaries we can over-promised and underperform so we want to say yes to everything like because you want to be available so if somebody needs us we want to say yes so we'll just say yes to everyone but then we don't realize how long it takes to do all the things that we've said yes to so that we end up underperforming because we don't have enough time in our day to do all the things we said you're gonna do so that is a huge struggle for eggs orders to really be cognizant but how long does how much time do I have in a day like really break it down so you know and you can be more realistic with your time because it's very hard for us to recognize that overly it's sensitive to criticism I feel like as a little kid if my coach when I played soccer yell at me just for whatever like they could you let everybody and say the same things but if they yelled at me I would be devastated like I thought they hated me and I would never get to play get I don't know why I just would be it'd be really sensitive to in you and be angry with me or upset like a teacher they like thought that I had done something Reid if I had done it it they yelled at me I was like done like they will never like me again it just was devastated to my parents even when I was a kid like they would just have to say that they're disappointed in me they wouldn't have to spank me ground me or any of those things they all my dad had to say was that he's disappointed with me and I was just broken like that was the worst thing you could say to be what you're disappointed in me so criticism is definitely something that's hard for eggs orders to hear can avoid embracing pain and suffering that brings growth so because we're such positive silver-lining thinking people it's really hard for us to just embrace really bad situations when it's ourselves especially so like if we're going here's something we will just want to avoid it and like not take the time to grieve so if somebody passed away we could just be thinking oh like it's wonderful this is great and not actually take the time to grieve the fact that we don't get to see them here on earth anymore and hold our hand and pray with them or talk to them and so that's something that eggs orders have to really allow themselves to just feel broken to feel the weight of this world because then we're able to connect better with all the people don't we want to connect with if we actually feel the pain that the rest of the world feels so often we remove ourselves out of it so quickly that we don't get to feel the weight of it and so many of the lessons that God wants to teach all of us are in the midst of the valleys of the pit of the darkness that's where we kind of are matured and grown and that's where we gain grit and if we don't allow ourselves to be in there we don't get the blessings that come from walking through that so that's something that gods definitely been teaching me ever since I started learning about this when I am feeling really strong emotions to just allow myself to feel and to be there and to experience it but not to stay there so that's what we're really good at getting ourselves and other people out of it so we don't stay there for too long but we are meant to feel it and we are meant to experience though the weight of our emotions and our feelings for a little bit compromise may settle for doing what is good instead of God's best this is a lot of the gifts can do this tend to need visible evidence of acceptance and affirmation searcher my poor husband we first got married I would be talking to him and I am a very active listener so for you all were talking to me oh yeah and I would like the same lots of things that give you lots of eye contact and so I appreciate that in return if my husband is not that guy at all like he just kind of date like gazes past you and just kind of looks just like a blank stare it's so here first like do you hear what I'm saying do you are you here with me right now and like he's like yeah like he's like why would you think I'm not like it was like confusing to him that I didn't think he was listening and then he would respond with he's like deep and like amazing responses to what I was talking about so did I realize though he looks completely disengaged he is really thinking and processing everything that I'm saying but I do appreciate when I have eye contact or like the body language looks like you're looking or you're listening and so I it's funny we give what we want in return so I'm like a super active listener just because I appreciate it when people are really active listeners but I'm talking need can easily oversimplify solutions which ultimately results in discouragement rather than encouragement so there's three steps to wellness or five steps to whatever it can be oversimplified in some cases some cases it will work wonderfully but not for every situation not everybody fits into like a real strict if you just do this listen this then you'll have freedom like there's always the outliers there's always things that can happen that result in overcoming whatever it is are being effective and so they have to be careful not to over simplify things after naive and easily manipulated I definitely tried to give money to a princess in Africa in college and somebody sent me one of those skins like spam emails when they first come out nobody and I thought for real there was some princess in Africa or person in Africa that needed money from you oh my word I said it to my dad and like he was ready to do it so bad so we could definitely be easily we just see the best in people and we think the best of people so we can be manipulated by really corrupt like a swindler type of people that are probably our same gifting so what's doing this that are like able to like convince you you know that the churches that are a lot of money that means like they're being dishonest and they just are like you know swing-wing people's money we would be easily manipulated by that because we would think like there's no way this church would be trying to take our money like there's no way that this you know orphan or whatever would be like we can just be easily manipulated so I have to be very cautious in how I respond to certain people because I always assume the best and sadly that's not always the case I have to be careful as we mature we've learned not to be so naive it easily can be quick tempered and aggressive like Moses and salt and this is something that I think a lot of people miss in Scripture because we see salt as Paul when he's like this eloquent speaker writer like movement maker within the Gospels you need wrote most of this the books in the New Testament but we forget he was before he was transformed and he was a very quick tempered and jealous like he'd sell us for whatever they believed in it so if someone doesn't have a relationship with the Lord and they are an exhort like Hitler they can be zealous at whatever it is they're doing and be very aggressive and quick Tim Burton just not good so we also see that with Moses that was the reason he didn't get to go into the Promised Land was because he kind of lost his temper and he got he was kind of impatient with the Israelites and couldn't believe that they weren't doing what he told them over and over and over and over get it so I definitely seen this in myself as a mom now that I have kids when I can normally be like even-keeled and like don't really require that much of them like you can kind of be a relaxed mom in a lot of ways but then once they not listen to me for such a long amount of time like they continued to disobey they continue to disobey we can like reach our limit and then just snap and be very aggressive hot-tempered and all those things so this is definitely true of eggs orders and just recognizing that they can be impulsive and quick to act without always weighing all of the pros and cons which is similar to the Prophet where we will just take our ideas and run with it and not spend as much time thinking through all the possible consequences are all the possible ways that it could take longer than we're thinking so that is why I'm thankful for my husband who's a teacher because he slows me down so that I'm not just jumping to conclusions and running with information before I really have a good grasp of what I'm looking at so the mature eggs order on their best day the way that God designed them to be is to they mobilize and influence and inspire people to reach their full potential in that which is so funny because I became enamored and so into all of these gifts as soon as I learned about them before I knew what my gift was like I just wanted to know all the information and I saw how it would release people to be the best version of themselves so the fact that I love all of these things was totally evidence of this myself God please err with their mature instead of people-pleasing life-giving relationships earned authority and persevering and for embracing P and the carnal exhorter uses influence to achieve their personal agenda and goals unwilling to embrace pain and has self-serving relationships unwilling to address sin in the camp because of rejection which we saw with Moses allowing things to go on for too long and can be superficial the battlefield of the exhort or would be denial accepting responsibility for their own failures so just having that mirror if from recognizing I feeling how am I the one that's contributing to whatever this mess is that is happening and it's very true that we can be in denial of our own faults within a situation legitimacy lie is what we believe is true about us but is it is that I am legitimate when people want and need to be around me because we love people so much so it can feel like oh if I have all these people around me like then whatever I'm doing is good they want what I have and it's not true it's not based on whether or not people want to have this around or not God wants to use this for girlis of how people perceive us the biblical examples of an exhort all in second Corinthians Moses Jeremiah and Solomon so it would be wise to go and look at those people's lives to receive how God uses them and how he teaches them and what things they struggled with them what things they had really did really well for God's kingdom the birthright and the exhorter is to reveal God to others and it's interesting because the creation date would be the Sun the Moon the Stars the shiny stuff shows God's extravagance and his domain over time which is funny because we have such a lack of understanding of time but I feel like in some senses we actually have like a really good understanding of time but just not in this world like the timing that we see doesn't fit the timing that we live in because our time frames are like be fine my dad's in control he can figure out all of these things where like in the day-to-day there's like times that everything have to be done and when they need to be done every just can be oblivious to those types of times so it's interesting that the Sun the Moon the stars are all those things that help to dictate time and how long things taken so these are all things that kind of wants us to wrap our heads around like how she loses time what time is and all of those things but then we're also the Sun the Moon the Stars are the things you see in the sky that are bright and shiny and that kind of reveal God's nature eggs orders have that same ability to just show God's extravagance to go out the tab and Tabernacle ID item because they list seven into the fourth one would be the candlestick sheds light again this brightness is late in the oil needed to be pure so in order for the exhort to actually show God's extravagance to reveal God to others they have to know God they have to spend time with God they have to remove themselves from all the people in spend time with God so that when they're with people that's what people are seeing not their own sinful nature and not being manipulated by the things that they would do but actually have God's heart for people and for the world so they need to be pure in order to do that so that the light that's shining forth is uninhibited by our own sin so that's something that he will continue to do and exhort us throughout the life is to continue to purify them so that when they shine they're shining his brightness without anything hindering or covering that brightness to go deeper if you are an exorbitant City the art of God's timing how long it took to grow and prepare people and these are from Arthur Berg Noah and the Israelites and King David to get to where they were didn't happen overnight each of them had a process that they had to go through what does God use to shape and mold people from one point to another and to learn the reality of how transformation comes about because we are agents forgot to trim out to transform people but often our timelines are so different from God's like we think people can change and be brought to wholeness or brought to like reconciliation much quicker and it actually isn't meant to happen and that process is there for a purpose if you wants things to take longer so that you appreciate them worth everybody just got complete healing complete restorations everything happened just like this we wouldn't clean and we wouldn't we wouldn't desire a relationship with God because we just get it and be done and we wouldn't need that but when it takes longer you have to walk through these seasons of reconciliation these seasons of healing and restoration through the process of all of those things so these are all things that God is continuing to teach me but that I need to learn and functions within the body of Christ would be to encourage believers to mature in Christ to grow spiritually they often seek to stimulate that development by teaching what I do right out counseling and disabling others God's premier change agents to give hope by sharing a biblical perspective of the situation and reminding people of God's power his love and faithfulness they create community bringing together all the other gifts which causes great life to flow in the body so that's something the reason I love the body of Christ I love the gifts is because I'd love to tell people how amazing they are and how much we need you to be your gift so that you can bring the richness that the whole body has no more missing one of them it's just not the same said then I'm gonna share with you the mature and the carnal like surgery and I encourage you to read the carnal first and then see what it looks like when it has been redeemed in its mature and do that all the way through the church I hope that you took the time to read through all of those things and to help you get a better understanding of what the exhorter is like in the ones that are in your life or if that really resonated with you I pray that you would just really mean it and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal ways that you can grow up to Eve mature so let me just close in prayer God I thank you so much for this time we get to spend together God and I pray that my mother is watching that you would help them to know you decide this exactly the way you wanted them to be then if they are the exhorted take the time out of their day to Revolutions they're able to find with the people in their lives god I pray that you'd help them to slow down their time to reorganize their time to make time for you and just be aware of how you are already using them God and I pray that you would encourage them to be to be able to sit in whatever difficult things come their way and I pray that they would learn to endure through hardships that they would allow themselves to feel the depths of their emotions and to sit with them long enough for you to speak into it and then for them to move on god I pray that they would allow all of the trials of their lives to shape them and to grow them to be more like you Jesus and I'd pray this over each one of us can in Jesus name we pray amen all right what I will see you at our next class