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referred to these who were doing this prophesying, casting out demons, and miracles as
those “who practice lawlessness.” Lawlessness is the state of being out from under
authority. Lawlessness is having your own law, disregarding the established law.
Yahweh is the only true law. He alone has the power to determine what man should
do. Yahshua proclaims that men who do the will of the Father in heaven will enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Those who fail to do His will are considered lawless, even if their
actions are seemingly good, and even if they appear to be of a supernatural nature.
You may wonder that the saints could perform such supernatural deeds if the Father
is not directing them to do so. How could they have the power to do these things unless the
Spirit is guiding and leading? The scriptures plainly reveal that men can do so. Yahshua
could have turned the stones to bread, and likewise Yahshua has given the same power and
authority that He walked in to mankind. Consider the implications of the following passage
of scripture.

I Corinthians 14:27-33
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in
turn, and let one interpret; but if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the
church; and let him speak to himself and to God. And let two or three prophets
speak, and let the others pass judgment. But if a revelation is made to another who
is seated, let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may
learn and all may be exhorted; and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;
for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

The church in Corinth was a church that was out of order. There was great confusion
in their meetings, and this confusion was not the will of God. What was the source of
confusion? Were people fighting and screaming and fornicating and indulging in every form
of debauchery in their meetings? No! (Although, these things did exist among them.) Their
chaos was the result of people exercising spiritual gifts. They were speaking in tongues and
prophesying, but it was sheer bedlam.
Did Paul say that these people were prophesying and speaking in tongues by the power
of Satan? No, he never asserted any such thing. The anointing of God was present in these
things, but these saints had not learned that they needed to submit all such activity to the
Father and to seek His mind and His will. To exercise these spiritual gifts apart from the
leading of the Father is lawlessness, and lawlessness leads to chaos, which is what they had
in their meetings.
Did you note Paul’s words, “the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets”? In essence
he is telling them, “Just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you have to do a thing.
Just because you can speak in tongues doesn’t mean you must. Just because you can give
a word of prophecy doesn’t mean you have to do so. You can control yourself. The spirit
within you is subject to you.”
Some saints mistakenly think that every time they sense a tongue or a prophecy is
present within them that they must speak it out, even if it causes a disruption to the
assembled body. No! Paul is saying, “You can control it. The spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets.”
The Father is not honored when people speak a tongue, when they prophesy, when
they cast out demons, when they perform miracles. He is only glorified when people do
these things as He directs them. Yahshua did not heal every leper. He did not open the eyes