Welcome to the Jesus Image podcast.

Well, I'm going to, I title this, our gift of love to Jesus,

refusing spiritual showmanship.

Refusing spiritual showmanship. Refusing spiritual showmanship.

Now, tonight I'm going to share real briefly three Holy Spirit encounters that I've had personally where the Lord really emphasized this in a really heightened way. I'm going to share

them real brief, and I'm going to only make a few applications. But some of you who are leaders,

you're going to say, I really want to go deeper on this than what I'm going to present tonight in this

one page handout. And so I don't, this sounds weird to say this, but on my, Mike Pickle teaching

library, I have a full presentation of this with a transcription with a lot more detail. And for those few that say,

I really want language for this, I'm just going to encourage you to go there and let me be

brief tonight. And if it grabs you and you want to be one of those voices that promote this,

this value, this love for Jesus in this particular

expression of refusing spiritual showmanship. I want to encourage you to go and check that out on

my website. It's about a 20-page transcription, a lot of detail. I give details on the experience

that I don't want to take time tonight to give.

Now, this is one of the most important ministry assignments that I have personally from the Lord.

I've been preaching the gospel now for just a little bit over 50 years.

I'm an old guy, 68 years old.

I started preaching on 17, 16, 17.

And the Lord has given me several very clear mandates over the 50 years.

This isn't my number one, but it's a primary one. My first one, I think, would be similar to your

ministry there, would be the First Commandment, the Mary of Bethany lifestyle, the beauty of

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