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Numbers chapter 11 verse 29

but Moses said to him are you jealous for my sake?

Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit on them?

Now the context behind this verse is really interesting because there were two men in the camp at this point,

El Dad and Me Dad, who the Bible says in verse 26 the spirit of God was resting on them and they were

out prophesying in the camp and so some guy comes and tells Moses, hey, these guys are prophesying in the camp.

And Joshua says, hey, we need to stop them.

And Moses says, no way.

We're not going to stop them would that all of God's people were

prophets that the Lord put a spirit on all of them so that they could all so think about

it what does a prophet do a prophet if it's a true prophet, speaks the word of God. And so Moses

like, I'd love for a lot of people to be speaking the word of God on behalf of God.

So we've got this picture in the Old Testament.

The reason I camp out here today is because

when we get to the New Testament this is one of the mammoth shifts that

takes place when the Holy Spirit comes down at Pentecost in Acts Chapter 2 and when the Spirit comes down on all the

believers who are assembled there they all start doing what they all start

speaking the word of God on behalf of God.

They all start speaking the word of God.

And the whole picture that Jesus had promised begins to come true.

The Spirit of God is now resting on all the followers of Jesus so that they're all

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