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Welcome to NECF sermons.

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Each message here is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your walk with God.

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Let's dive right in.

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So where we stop on Sunday, right?

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Last Sunday, we were able to establish and to put to see what quench not the spirit means,

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right?

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We were able to go through to understand what the spirit is referring to, referring to the

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activities of the spirit.

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And we check that through the priesthood, how the priesthood use fire, because we explained

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that the word quench is mostly used in relation to fire.

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And we explained that the priesthood use fire as part of the services, right?

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They use it in the place of service, right, when they are worshipping in the temple, right?

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We see that they were the one using it, and it means that it's a responsibility for them

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to put up the fire and to make it to continually burn in the temple.

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And by the time we came into the New Testament, we realized that what was happening on the

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day of Pentecost, when they saw the fire, were also referring to activities that the

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believer would begin to engage in, right?

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The believer began to engage in that activity, right, which is the things of the spirit was

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released onto them, which is the power, right, was released onto them to begin to function

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inside.

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So we are empowered from above, which is from within, right?

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From above, empowered from above means from within, because we know we are seated in heavenly

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places in Christ Jesus, and from that position where Christ is in us, he comes forth, right,

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the spirit brings forth expression of power.

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We actually explain all this and say that a believer can actually keep the fire burning,

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a believer can choose not to keep the fire burning, right, can choose to keep the fire

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burning or you can choose not to be on fire.

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And we said that a believer can choose to do the things of the spirit and the believer

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can also choose not to do the things of the spirit.

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And I just said that it starts with the mind, to know that the mind, there's no mindless

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worship, okay, there is no mindless worship.

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We need to say that regularly, right?

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So worship is not mindless.

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You can't just do it without your mind, right?

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You carefully worship.

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So our mind is engaged in worship, therefore, all the activities of the spirit comes to

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us or we manifest them with our mind, right, with our mind involving it, right?

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That is why when someone is not speaking in tongues, right, sometimes people, which is

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an activity of the spirit, people always, the first question we always ask them is,

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why are you not speaking in tongues?

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So some people say that they are expecting something spooky to jump on them, right, out

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of their own consciousness, away from their own will, so that they can begin to speak

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in tongues.

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And, you know, from there, we have to correct it that, you know, you can actually speak

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in tongues, right?

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It's something that engages your will, right?

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Your will is part of the, the path through which you pray in the Holy Ghost, right?

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There's no mindless worship, therefore, a believer can choose to be on fire, a believer

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can choose not to be on fire by not practicing the things of the spirit, by not engaging

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in the pains of the spirit.

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And I think that is one of the things where some people call backsliding, right?

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It's not like you're losing yourself.

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And there's parts of that, some people refer to that as you're drawing back from practicing

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the pains of the spirit.

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Remember, believers are backsliders.

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You are drawing back from the pains of the spirit.

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It's not that, oh, you're losing your salvation or no, no, that's backsliding.

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People use it loosely, right?

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But it really refers to when the fire stops burning, right?

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We are not seeing the zeal again.

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We are not seeing the strength again, right?

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It means you are losing some practices, right, that you should be doing, right?

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You are losing some practices that you should be doing.

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So backsliding basically refers to that.

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We're going to check subsequently on that to pay attention to that concept of backsliding

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as a believer, right?

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So you can backslide by not practicing the things of the spirit, right?

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It's not like when we call you, we'll now tell you that your salvation has been thrown

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away.

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That's not what it means, right?

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You are still a believer, right?

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But from our activities that we participate together as believers, you are drawing back.

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That's actually the word, you know, to withdraw from something that you have been participating,

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right?

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So you can't withdraw from salvation because salvation is giving, okay?

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You can't withdraw from salvation.

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Salvation is granted to you when you have faith in God, right?

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You have faith in God.

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So you are reaching salvation, Ephesians chapter two, right?

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But when it comes to backsliding, right, so pay attention to it.

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It's about living certain practices that the believer, right, should be part of.

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Okay, let me quickly run through Hebrews, Hebrews 10.25.

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Maybe we should start with this one a little bit and just touch upon it, just using Hebrews

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This is not where I wanted to think about.

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Since I started emphasizing it, we can go there first and we'll still come back.

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So Hebrews 10.25.

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Let's go from 22.

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It says, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, right?

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Since we have a full assurance of faith with our hearts sprinkled clean, right, from all

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evil consciences, our body washed with pure water, right?

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So this is what has happened to us.

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We have been drawn near, we have our conscience cleaned, we have a full assurance of our faith.

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Verse 23, it says, let us hold fast, right, the confession of our hope, right, to hold

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firmly the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful,

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right, and let us consider, for he who promised is faithful.

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Now, verse says, let us consider how to steer up one another, right, to love and good works.

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Verse 23 says, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some, right, but encouraging

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one another, right, encouraging one another.

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And all the more as you see the day drawing near, right, to actually withdraw from the

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activities, right, of coming together as a believer.

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You could say you are backsliding, right, if you are neglecting to meet together, refusing

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to come together to believers gathering, you can say, oh, you're backsliding, right, you

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are stopping the activities, you're neglecting the gathering of the prayer.

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It doesn't mean you're not a believer because you've had faith in Christ, which is a gift,

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but this one is your responsibility.

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That is why the fire is the responsibility of the believer.

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Being on fire is the responsibility of the believers.

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I just put that through to explain to us that believers can actually draw back, right, from

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the activities of the spirit, right, and consider how to stay on fire without drawing back,

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right, how to stay on fire without drawing back.

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So I also said that it is not the responsibility of the Holy Ghost, right, to keep us on fire.

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It is our responsibility, just like the priest is the responsibility, to stay on fire, right.

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We also say that when you experience fire in a very intense believers gathering, it's

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talking, it's mainly because of the activities going on there, right, it's the activities

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going on there that is the fire that, you know, we're talking about.

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So today, what must we do, right, to stay on fire and not quench fire, right?

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It is, it is unideal, right, it is not ideal for a believer, right, it is not ideal for

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a believer to, how can I put it, to be met at the point in time and they say that, let's

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pray in the Holy Ghost, and the believer is waiting to pray in the Holy Ghost or the believer

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is not ever ready to pray in the Holy Ghost.

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It is not ideal, right, this is not ideal.

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So it's like some people always believe that they have to be prepared, like you want to,

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you want to, you want to pray in the Holy Ghost now, you have to first of all prepare

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for days, you have to lead prayers now, you have to go for seven days, you have to cast

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out demons, you have to go for 15 days, then maybe you have to raise the dead, maybe like

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30 days before you'll be prepared, right.

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Which is not ideal for a believer, right, it's not ideal for a believer.

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So when you want to do the things of the spirit, it's your natural, the believer.

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So the activities of the spirit, what keeps the believer on fire is natural to the believer,

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it's your place, it should be your place, and it's natural to you.

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So when you want to pray in the Holy Ghost, you are not trying to bring something, right,

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you are not trying to do something fresh, to activate it, then you now start praying

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in the Holy Ghost, you're not trying to jump into praying in the Holy Ghost.

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Somebody is having a very terrible day and a challenging day and the person meets you,

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you don't need to say, okay, wait, let me go and I'm prepared to encourage you.

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No, from there you give the word, you give the scripture, you give edification so that

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the person is strengthened.

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So what I'm trying to say is that the activities of the spirit is, it should be a normal to

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the believer, that when you see someone who is sick, you can say, let me lay hands on

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this person.

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If you see someone who is worried, say, let me speak a word of prophecy to this person.

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Right?

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So no believer should wait and say, well, I need to go and prepare for us to come, right?

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We prepare for someone, that is correct, because we want to prepare to know how to deliver

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effectively in a way that you can comprehend, right, and explain it and to ever be able

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to prove it very well, right, to show you evidence, abundance of evidence.

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That's what I'm preparing for someone, right?

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But it is always ready to give a word of wisdom of knowledge, you know, encouragement.

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What I'm trying to say is that the things of the spirit is not a one moment thing, it's

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not only when we come together, it's not only when you are fasted and prayed for seven days

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that you can do them, right?

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And I'm not saying those things are not good, right?

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We will see them from the scripture from Acts 13.

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What I'm trying to say is that you are ever ready, ever ready.

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And this is what we call, you know, ever burning fire that is in the believer, ever burning

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fire, right?

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You are ever ready.

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You are ever ready.

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So this is what we call ever burning fire.

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Now we'll just go through the scriptures and to know the things that we can really engage,

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right, things that we can engage that will keep us burning, that will keep us burning,

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right?

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Things that we engage that will keep us burning.

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So the first thing that we can write down, give us the scriptures and we'll explain it

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is to maintain and grow in the revelation that you have received.

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So the first thing to really continue in, to really continue in burning or to continue

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to remain on fire for God is first to maintain and grow in the revelation that you have received,

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To maintain, you know, and grow in the revelation.

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So we'll go to 1 Corinthians 15, 3 to 5.

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1 Corinthians 15, 3 to 5.

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It says, for I deliver to you as of first importance, primary importance, what I also

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received that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures and that he

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was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and

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that he appeared to suffer then to the 12th.

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Then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive,

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though some are falling asleep.

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Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, last of all, as to one untimely

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born, he appeared also to me.

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So he said, that's which I deliver to you, that's which I also receive.

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I also receive.

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So Paul is saying that the way, right, the way I've understood Christ, the way I've

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received this revelation, I have also delivered it onto you.

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I have delivered it onto you according to the scriptures that he was buried.

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Sorry, he died and he was buried and was raised to life on the third day.

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And there are these others that bear evidences to these things that I present.

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So Paul is saying that I'm not, I'm not changing anything in what I've received.

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I'm presenting it to you just as I've received it.

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I'm presenting it to you just as I've received it.

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And that all that's also can bear witness to this truth, that Christ died for our sins

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according to scriptures, was buried and was raised on the third day.

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So let's check some more scriptures.

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Let's check some more scriptures.

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What happens to a believer when a believer or what happens to a person, let me say person

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because the context we want to check is not really the context of a believer yet, but

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what happens to a person when they receive the revelation and they don't continue in

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it, they don't maintain it, they don't grow in the revelation, right?

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They don't grow in the revelation.

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We're going to see Peter's example in two cases, right?

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We're going to see Peter's example in two cases and that would really help us to understand

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the need to grow in the revelation of Christ.

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So Matthew 16, 18 to 19, Matthew 16, 18 to 19, then Matthew 16, 21 to 23.

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And we'll check an example in the book of Acts as well.

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We'll check an example of the same Peter and at least that is after the resurrection.

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Matthew 16, 18 to 19.

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When I tell you you are Peter, I think we'll go from verse 13, right?

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We'll go from verse 13.

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It's the now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea, Philippi, Matthew 16, he asked

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his disciples, who do people say that the son of man is?

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And they said, some say John the Baptist, right?

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Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, Elijah, right?

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And others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

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And he said to them, but who do you say I am?

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And Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

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And Jesus answered, blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed

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this to you, but my father who is in heaven, and I tell you, you are Peter.

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And on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against

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it.

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I'll give you the keys of kingdom of heaven and whatever you find on earth shall be bound

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in heaven and whatever you lose on earth shall be lose in heaven.

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Then he strictly tried the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.

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From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go through, right?

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That he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and the chief priests

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and scribes and be killed.

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And on the third day he raised and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying,

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fire beeth from you, Lord, this shall never happen to you.

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But he turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan, you are an hindrance to me, for

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you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.

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So within the same period, we see Peter giving the revelation of who Christ is, right?

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Of who Christ is, which is the truth, right?

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He is a Christ, the son of the living God, right?

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He is the Christ, the son of the living God.

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This is a revelation and Peter was correct with what he said, right?

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But to grow in that revelation is to understand Christ, the kind of Christ, right?

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What Christ must do, the details of the Christ, right?

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What is that which pertains to this Christ, right?

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And that was why Jesus began to explain to them as, okay, now that you now understand

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that I'm the Christ, the son of the living God, right?

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The manifestation of God himself, let's go deeper, okay?

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Let's go deeper.

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Now the thing is that I'm going to suffer many things, right?

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I'm going to suffer many things from the elders, the chief priests.

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I'm going to be killed, right?

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I'm going to be killed, but on the third day I will be raised.

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Now you will wonder how Peter missed the resurrection in Jesus' explanation.

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So he got the first answer, right?

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Now in this one he's rebuking the Lord saying, literally what Peter is saying, he's not saying

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that you will not be killed, right?

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Peter is actually, he's opposing, right, just in the word, the word Satan there, means to

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oppose.

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He's opposing the death and resurrection, right?

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If Jesus has said, I'm going to die, right?

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I'm going to suffer many things, right?

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You could still take a reason with him and say, okay, well maybe he doesn't want Christ,

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but he said, I will be killed and on the third day I will come back to life.

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So what we can see there is that Peter was not paying attention to the revelation of

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what Christ was giving, right?

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So you know I'm the Christ, right?

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But you need more details.

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You need to grow in this knowledge.

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So I present to you that I would die and I will rise again and you rebuke me.

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Upon what you have said, I am building upon and giving more details.

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Yet you are rebuking me, right?

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So what we see here is that there is need to maintain and grow in the revelation of

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Christ, right?

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There is need to maintain and grow in the revelation of Christ.

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And that is why Ephesians 1, 7, right, would just give us a quick, you know, Ephesians

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1, 17, would say that the God, Paul, pray now, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom, right, and of revelation in the

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knowledge of him, which is, we have said and explained that this is actually talking about

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the wisdom that comes from the spirit, right?

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It's talking to believers here, which simply means they have the spirit of God.

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They have the spirit that produces the wisdom, right?

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Well, here he's referring to the wisdom that comes from the spirits, right, right, and

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of the revelation of Christ.

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So Paul is desiring that these Ephesians, they will grow in the knowledge of Christ.

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They will grow in the wisdom of Christ.

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So a believer needs to grow in the wisdom of Christ.

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A believer needs to maintain what you have received.

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And a believer needs to grow in the wisdom of Christ for you to stay on fire, right?

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For you to stay on fire, you need to continue in the revelation of Christ.

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You need to grow in it.

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So what Peter was doing was simply not growing, was simply not paying attention to what Christ

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was saying, because he proclaimed the death and resurrection of this Messiah, of the Son

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of God, right?

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So growth is important, maintaining and growing is important.

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All right, so let's go to another scripture, Acts, let's go to Acts and see another example

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from Peter, another example from Peter.

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The moment you begin to draw back in the revelation of Christ, you begin to doubt it, you begin

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to doubt the activities of the spirit, you will not be able to function well, because

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you are not maintaining.

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So let's go to Acts 10, Acts 10, 27 to 29, Acts 10, 27 to 29.

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We don't have much time to read the whole of Acts chapter 10, but we'll read from verse

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27 towards 33, but you can read the whole of chapter 10.

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He said, And he talked with them, and he went in and found many persons gathered.

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And he said to them, You yourself know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with

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or visit anyone of another nation.

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But God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

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So when I was sent for, I came without objection.

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I asked then, why you sent for me?

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And Cornelius said, For four days about this hour I was praying in my house at the night

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hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said, Colonials, your

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prayers have been heard, and your arms have been remembered before God.

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Send therefore a joker, send therefore to Joppa, and ask for Simon, who is called Peter, he

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is lodging in the house of Simon, eternal by the sea.

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So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come now.

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Therefore, we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded

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by the Lord.

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So Peter is saying that I had a vision, and the Lord said I should not call what is common

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what what he has cleansed right unclean, but you know, what he has cleaned what he has

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called clean, I should not call it unclean.

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Now if you read Acts chapter two, verse 39, you can add that scripture to Acts chapter

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two, verse 39, he said, for the promise, right after the event of the day of Pentecost, he

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said, for the promise is for you, and for your children, and for all who are far off,

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everyone whom the Lord God calls to himself.

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And with many order, he bore witnesses and continue to exhort them saying save yourselves

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from the crooked generation.

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So those who received the word were baptized, and they were added that day, about 3000 souls,

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3000 souls.

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So we see that Peter, right, standing with the 11 right, you can read that in verse 14.

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He said that the promise is for you, your children, for everyone who the Lord God calls

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to himself, right, everyone who the Lord calls to himself, which means everyone who the Lord

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permits to come, which is everyone that believes.

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Now after seeing that Peter had an understanding that everyone should be saved, right, everyone

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should be saved, everyone should get his gospel, irrespective of the nation we are from, Acts

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chapter 10.

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Let's look at Acts chapter 11.

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Let's look at Acts chapter 11.

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Acts chapter 11, verse one.

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He said, now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea, right, heard that

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the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

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And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, you went to

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circumcise men and it's with them.

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And Peter began and explained it to them in order.

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Again the story then again and again and again.

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Now if you move to verse 17, if you move to verse 17, right, he said, if God gave the

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same gifts to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus, who was I that

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I should stand or I could stand in God's way?

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When they heard these things, they fell silent and they glorified God saying, then to the

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Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.

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Now in this explanation, you will not know Paul's disposition.

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You will not know Paul's disposition.

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Where you disposition, I mean, is standpoints, right?

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So he kind of tried to excuse himself, right, from the fact that God has also put everybody

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to be saved, right?

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But I've said, you know, God has got everybody to be saved, right, but he stand accused.

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You see that in Galatians, Galatians 2.11, right?

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Galatians 2.11.

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Let's go to Galatians 2.11.

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Galatians 2.11 said, but when Seppas, which is Peter, came to Antioch, right?

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So when he came to Antioch, I oppose him, right, Paul opposing Peter, I oppose him to

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his face because he stood condemned, right, for before certain men came from James, he

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was eating with the Gentiles, but when they came, he drew back and separated himself fearing

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the circumcision party, right?

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And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him so that even Barnabas was led

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astray by his hypocrisy.

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But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, did

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you see that?

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So when I saw that their conduct is not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said

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to Seppas, which is Peter, before them all, if you do a Jew live like a Gentile and not

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like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like the Jews?

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Now, Paul was saying that Peter stood condemned, right?

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Peter in his conduct really had to draw back because of the circumcision party, right?

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He had to draw back because of the circumcision party because the law of the Jews, which is

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they shouldn't interact, had not been broken in their minds, right, despite the revelation

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he had received and the knowledge he had.

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So what we can say there is that a believer, right, must intentionally grow in the revelation

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and maintain it and be ready to give a defense, right, for the truth of the gospel in the

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conduct.

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So it's possible for you to shrink at some point in time because you are still doubting,

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maybe you are not well grounded in the revelation that you have received, right?

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It's possible for you to shrink.

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For example, you might be speaking in tongues in the NECF and you get into a place and you

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feel criticized for speaking in tongues, right?

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Someone knows that you are speaking in tongues, the person is accusing and saying, why are

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you speaking in tongues?

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Don't you know that thing has ended?

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Don't you know that thing does not exist?

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Sometimes you might want to shrink, right?

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You might want to shrink.

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That is not maintaining the things of the spirit.

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That is not maintaining the activities of the spirit.

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That is trying to quench it because you stand accused, right?

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Therefore, you need to grow in the knowledge, right?

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So you should know more about the scriptures that explains things about praying in the

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Holy Ghost, right?

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So what we see in the case of Peter is that he stood condemned, he avoided, and he did

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not conduct himself in a way he should have conducted himself, right, despite the revelation

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because people approached him, right?

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And these people criticized him.

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So for believers, we shouldn't be in such a shoes.

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We should be prepared ahead of time by doing so.

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Grown to help us to avoid, of course, Peter across the out of apostles, the groups in

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the church, right up until that's 10, 11.

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And subsequently, we see that the attitude and the conduct of Peter and the other postures

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really changed, right?

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Their practices and their conduct really transformed as they grew in the revelation of Christ,

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right?

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But at this point in time, they were still stopped, right, in many things around the

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Jewish law and the practices and could not defend the gospel.

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So what we can see is for us to stay on fire, to stay on that burning we need, right, to

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continually maintain and grow in the knowledge of Christ so that when we are confronted,

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we are ready to give a defense of the scripture.

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Otherwise, someone can tell you, you know, you can't pray in tongues.

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Someone can tell you, you can't prophesy.

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Someone can, someone can, someone can despise prophecy and it will affect you, right?

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So if you don't grow and maintain the revelation that you have received, someone would despise

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prophecy and you will stop prophesying because the person despises it.

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Someone would despise speaking in tongues and because the person despises it, you will

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stop speaking because you are not maintaining, you are not growing.

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So you should take time out, right, to study the word, right, to know the truth, right,

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as we have delivered onto you and to know those scriptures and have the full assurance

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in your heart pertaining the activities of the Spirit of God, right, pertaining the things

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relating to the Spirit.

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Now still on these, 1 Timothy 4, 14, 2 Timothy 1, 16, right, we will see that Timothy was

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being encouraged in that.

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Timothy was really, really being encouraged in that.

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1 Timothy 4, 14 says, keep close, keep a close watch on yourself and the teaching, persist

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in this for by doing so, you will save both your hearers, both yourself and your hearers.

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Now if you go back to Galatians 2, you will see that Paul could not really save, Peter

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could not really save, I mean, himself and his hearers because, you know, the church

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was still growing at that time in this revelation and understanding that this message is for

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everybody.

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So 2 Galatians 2, 13, Galatians 2, 13, and the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically

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with who?

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With Peter, right, did you see that?

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He said, but when they came, he drew back, he drew back, he slithered away from relating

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with Gentiles and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party, right, this so-called

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circumcision party.

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And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along Peter in this context.

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But when I saw that their conduct was not in the step of, in step with the truth of

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the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, you know, then he rebuked Peter.

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We can see that from such a scenario is what's advice and is what's counseling is what's

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instructing rather instructing, that's the word, not advice, is what instructing Timothy

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to say that keep your watch on yourself and the teaching.

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Persist in this.

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So a believer must persist in this.

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Right?

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You must labor in the word for by doing so, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

449
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,560
So those who see your conducts, right?

450
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,960
Those who see you're speaking in tongues, those who see your prophecy, right?

451
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,720
Those who benefit from it, those who are edified by it in the church.

452
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,720
Right?

453
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,040
So the conduct, the teaching, the practices, right?

454
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,920
They in a way encourage others, then encouragement onto others.

455
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,440
We must maintain it.

456
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,680
We must persist in this teaching.

457
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,800
So I want to multi one versus.

458
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,560
So I'm going to want to see.

459
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:34,920
So for this reason, I remind you to find into flame the gift of God, which is in you through

460
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,640
the lane of my hands.

461
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:44,960
For God gave us a spirit, not of fear, but of power of love and self control.

462
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,200
Right?

463
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,520
So he said, I remind you.

464
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:54,920
I put this right to remember that you should run into flame.

465
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:55,920
Right.

466
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,560
So it's a responsibility of the believer to find into flame.

467
00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,560
Right.

468
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:05,800
These gifts that is given to the believer to stay in, in terms with the fire, to be

469
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,020
born in true learning from the scriptures.

470
00:34:08,020 --> 00:34:12,800
So what we see is that if we don't continue to maintain the revelation that we have received

471
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,280
and if we don't grow in it, we don't maintain it means as it has been delivered to you,

472
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,320
we don't try to add anything, but I don't try to make it sound nice.

473
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,640
Don't try to package it in any way, just the way it has been taught.

474
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:26,640
Right.

475
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,640
You can teach it.

476
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,080
All we're teaching is what has been taught by some people and as they pass on to some

477
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:36,440
people and as they pattern and has been passed on to us and confirmed, verified by the scriptures

478
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,440
and we see that.

479
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,440
Right.

480
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,080
So you continue in such a revelation.

481
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,080
It preserves you.

482
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,080
Right.

483
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,080
It preserves you.

484
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,080
It keeps you on fire.

485
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:49,480
It saves you from James Sears saves you from in sears.

486
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,680
Hallelujah.

487
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,120
So this is what we see in the first aspect that maintaining and growing in the revelation

488
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,440
of Christ, right.

489
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,360
We'll keep on fire, right.

490
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,080
It encourages you to practice things all the more, right.

491
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,640
To practice the activities of the spirit all the more.

492
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,960
You don't doubt it, right.

493
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:07,960
You don't doubt it.

494
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,440
There was a time actually, right.

495
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:15,600
When I first heard about the teaching of praying in tongues and all of that, right.

496
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,160
For many years I had this teaching, right.

497
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,080
And this teaching was just there laying in my head and I never prayed the holy book,

498
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,080
right.

499
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,080
I never prayed the holy book.

500
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,080
I've heard it.

501
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,080
I never prayed the holy book.

502
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:33,120
But the more I continued, continued, continued to study, to study, to maintain, the more

503
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,040
I grew in faith towards that.

504
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,320
And I began to pray in the holy books, right.

505
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,440
I began to pray in the holy books.

506
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,400
So this is showing that for us to practice we must continue in revelation.

507
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,640
The same thing with prophets, the same thing with other activities of the spirit.

508
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:52,600
Now the other one is the next thing we're just going to talk about briefly, right.

509
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:57,360
Briefly is actually rejoicing and praying, right.

510
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,080
We can just put it to rejoice and I'm praying.

511
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:04,480
Jude 17 and 20, 1st Thessalonians 5, 16 and 18.

512
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,480
Rejoicing and praying.

513
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:07,680
Rejoicing and praying, right.

514
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:14,640
I really put them together intentionally rejoicing and praying because this helps the believer

515
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,640
to be on fire.

516
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,680
Now what rejoicing and praying does is it shifts you away from grumbling.

517
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,160
It shifts you away from murmuring, right.

518
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,280
It shifts you away from signs of unbelief, right.

519
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,280
Signs of unbelief.

520
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:35,200
It shifts you away from grumbling to every sign of unbelief, right.

521
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,080
So, read Jude 17, the popular scripture that we know of, right.

522
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,080
Very popular scripture.

523
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:47,560
It just says, Jude 17 says, but you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of

524
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,560
our Lord Jesus Christ, right.

525
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,880
I'm not really in the right place.

526
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,000
Yes, I'm in the right place.

527
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,320
So they said to you, in the last time they will be scoffers following their own ungodly

528
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,320
passion.

529
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:07,840
It is this who caused the visions, worldly people, devoid of the spirit, right.

530
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:14,720
But you, beloved, building yourself up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy

531
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:15,720
Ghost, right.

532
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:16,720
Praying in the Holy Ghost.

533
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:17,720
Building yourself up.

534
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:21,320
So building yourself up to stay on fire, you need to pray in the Holy Spirit, right.

535
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,320
You need to pray in the Holy Ghost and you need to rejoice always.

536
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,080
You need to rejoice always because it saves you away from unbelief, right.

537
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:33,920
It saves you away from doubting the pains of the spirit.

538
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,600
It saves you away from, these are actually activities on the spirit.

539
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,000
So it's more like saying that practice, right.

540
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,960
It's more like saying just practice, practice it, right.

541
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,040
Practice rejoice and let it be all the time you are rejoicing in the Holy Ghost.

542
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,960
You are rejoicing not because things, you know, in the natural, right, in the flesh,

543
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,760
right, are really okay, right.

544
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,640
That has nothing to do with your level of rejoicing, right.

545
00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:02,120
I've thought on Ephesians before, sorry, from Philippians on rejoicing, on joy, right, despite

546
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,160
the challenges that Paul was facing.

547
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,200
He was rejoicing everywhere and telling the people to rejoice for him and to rejoice with

548
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,920
him despite being in prison.

549
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,640
So we rejoice in the Holy Ghost.

550
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:13,640
We rejoice in it.

551
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,440
And he said rejoicing in the Holy Ghost and we are holding a meeting in church.

552
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:23,320
It's not, it's not like you don't need to wait for things to be okay.

553
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,960
Like you don't need to wait for the things in the natural to be fine.

554
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,720
It's not about the things in the natural.

555
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:28,720
It's about your identity.

556
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:30,760
It's about your position.

557
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,400
It's about who you are in Christ.

558
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,440
It's about what you can do in Christ.

559
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,800
It's about the spirit that is in you.

560
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,560
That is where rejoicing comes from.

561
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,520
The spirit within comes out and you rejoice in the Holy Ghost.

562
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,920
So we can rejoice in the Holy Ghost because this is part of the activities of the spirit

563
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,480
as we see in 1 Thessalonians 5, 17, right.

564
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,520
We just see that in 1 Thessalonians 5, it says rejoice always.

565
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,520
Rejoice always.

566
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:56,520
Right.

567
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,400
And we see that following in say pray without season.

568
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,280
So these are things that would help us, right, to stay on fire.

569
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,720
To stay on fire, not grumbling, not complaining, not mumbling, not raising doubts.

570
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,600
Because when you don't rejoice and you don't pray the Holy Ghost, doubts automatically

571
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:12,600
set in.

572
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:13,600
Right.

573
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,520
So these are antidotes to doubts.

574
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:23,040
These are antidotes to, you know, things that can derail you from practicing the things

575
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,040
of the spirit.

576
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,120
The next one we can say not neglecting the guardian of the brethren, right.

577
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,720
Hebrews 10, 25, Jennifer 25, right.

578
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:33,920
Not neglecting the guardian of the brethren.

579
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,920
So not neglecting the guardian.

580
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,920
It helps you to stay on fire.

581
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,720
So you can add Matthew 18, 20 to it.

582
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,160
Matthew 18, 20.

583
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,760
Not neglecting.

584
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,360
Now Christian meeting is actually God ordained.

585
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,040
I think we should say that.

586
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,600
That's yeah, I heard that somewhere and I think we can say that Christian meetings is

587
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,160
God ordained.

588
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,160
Okay.

589
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,920
Christian meeting is God ordained.

590
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,320
It is not about whether you feel good about it or you don't feel good about it.

591
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,400
It is not about, it's not about how you feel.

592
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:17,320
It's not about how your day was that determines whether you come to Christian guardian.

593
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,680
It is a must to come to believers meeting, like to come to Christian guardian, whether

594
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,400
it's believers meeting, whether it's the ministers that are ministering, right.

595
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,200
Whether it's a prayer meeting.

596
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,160
It is a must.

597
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:35,720
And let me also say that you cannot, you don't judge Christian guardian.

598
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:39,120
A believers guardian where the word is taught and prayer is prayed.

599
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,720
You don't judge it by your feelings.

600
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:42,720
Some people come to judge.

601
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:45,120
I think also Victor had said this several times.

602
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,040
That you don't judge the Sunday service by how you feel, right.

603
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,760
You feel, oh, today's service, you know, it was cool, right.

604
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,160
And another day you don't feel it.

605
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,040
So you're talking about the entire service, right.

606
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,240
It was just the, no, because it is service unto God, right.

607
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:04,240
It is service unto God.

608
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:09,320
So priests will say, ah, today's, today's smoke did not go well, it did not smell.

609
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,640
Priests don't do that.

610
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,640
It's an offering unto God, right.

611
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,100
And there's a service unto God.

612
00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:18,480
So when it comes to believers meeting, right, we don't neglect it.

613
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:19,480
We are always around.

614
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,400
We don't say, oh, because I don't feel like coming.

615
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,880
You don't go to believers meeting with your mood or for your mood.

616
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,880
No, no, no.

617
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,880
It's an instruction to not neglect.

618
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:29,880
It's an instruction.

619
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:30,880
So it means it's not an advice.

620
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,640
And it says that it is the habit of some people, right.

621
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,280
It is the habit of some people, right.

622
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,280
It's an instruction.

623
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,920
So believers meeting is one of the areas where you can be on fire, right.

624
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,720
When you start neglecting it, then definitely you would lose your strength.

625
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:48,720
You will lose your zeal.

626
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:53,320
You will lose everything that you think you have been, you know, moving towards.

627
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,960
Now, one of the challenges is that we always think these things are routine.

628
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:03,240
But surely what keeps a believer's life, I think we should write it, is the routine,

629
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,520
is the continuity in what we do, right.

630
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:12,800
The repetition is what keeps a believer continuing to be on fire, right.

631
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,760
So you keep putting oil in the lamp, the light keeps burning.

632
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,520
Keep putting oil in the lamp.

633
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:24,480
So the repetition of your activities, not neglecting the guardian of the believer, maintaining

634
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,120
and growing in the revelation of Christ, praying in the Holy Ghost and rejoice.

635
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,560
It is that consistency that keeps us going.

636
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:33,560
Okay.

637
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,280
It is the consistency that keeps us going.

638
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:37,760
What have we been doing a long time?

639
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,400
We morning devotion, you study your word in the morning, you go out, you come in the evening,

640
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,280
you listen to message, you pray.

641
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:45,280
It is that thing.

642
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,280
Don't make, don't be bored.

643
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,280
Don't ever be bored.

644
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,280
Don't be bored.

645
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,680
They give you many messages to listen.

646
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,240
Never be bored of these activities.

647
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:56,080
Like when you are getting bored, that is when it is entering you.

648
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,080
Then you press more into it.

649
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,080
Okay.

650
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,800
When you are feeling like, oh, it's like we are doing too much.

651
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,680
We are getting stressed.

652
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,720
That is when it is entering.

653
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,840
That is when you should put more effort into, oh, I'm getting tired.

654
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,400
Suss yourself to do it.

655
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,840
So it is the consistency, the routine activity, right.

656
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,360
That makes you stay on fire.

657
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,720
Now you don't complain about registering your semester in the semester.

658
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:25,720
You don't complain about going to school every day.

659
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,000
You don't complain about many activities.

660
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
You don't complain about eating every day.

661
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,880
You don't complain about many other activities.

662
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,320
So you shouldn't complain about the activities that keeps you going.

663
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,440
Studying, playing, rejoicing, not neglecting.

664
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,640
You have to push yourself to do them.

665
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:46,520
So the point line is that believers, you know, we continue in the routine.

666
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,760
We grow through this routine, right.

667
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,760
We grow through this.

668
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,680
There are many times we have, we have length, you know, many things, there are many teachings

669
00:43:54,680 --> 00:44:03,440
we were in and consistently staying in the place of the world, we are delivered from,

670
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,360
you know, wrong teachings, right.

671
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:11,040
Consistently staying in the place of the world, having that attitude for years, delivered

672
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,840
us from many teachings, right.

673
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,800
So if you don't constantly stay, you cannot go in the world.

674
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,360
So routine is normal for a believer, right.

675
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,880
It's a lifetime routine, it's a continuous routine.

676
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,600
You don't get tired of it.

677
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:29,440
There's no way to spice it up than to continue to do it, right.

678
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:30,440
That's it.

679
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,000
You just continue to do it.

680
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:39,720
Now the last one I'll just talk about is the, is not despising prophecy.

681
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:44,960
And I just intentionally put that as the last, right.

682
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,680
Not despising, not despising prophecy.

683
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:52,920
I will go to 1 Thessalonians 5, which is the case with this other ones.

684
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,960
I put them as just preamble.

685
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,080
So let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5.

686
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:07,120
And that is where he says, do not despise prophecy, but test everything, hold fast what

687
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,200
is good, right.

688
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:13,120
Because that is the context of where we expanded and brought it back to that point, right.

689
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,720
So do not despise prophecy.

690
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:21,000
So we said that it means not to take prophecies, to despise means to take, not to take something

691
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,080
serious, to mock something, to make fun of something, right.

692
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,240
To mock something, to make fun of something.

693
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,040
Why should a believer not despise prophecy?

694
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:33,760
Now when you receive a word of a word of prophecy, maybe there's a believers meeting and you

695
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,760
receive a word of prophecy, right.

696
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,360
All you should do is to rejoice.

697
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,080
Why should you not despise it, right.

698
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:48,360
When you despise prophecy, right, when you despise prophecy, what you are doing, hmm,

699
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:56,020
when you despise prophets, what you are doing is you are depriving yourself of being edified.

700
00:45:56,020 --> 00:45:59,880
So when you despise prophecy, you deprive yourself of being edified.

701
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,800
That is the first thing you should know.

702
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,280
When you take prophecy as for fun and you don't take it serious, you deprive yourself

703
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,280
of being edified.

704
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,080
you are not edifying prophecy

705
00:46:10,980 --> 00:46:14,680
is for your edification right.

706
00:46:13,140 --> 00:46:16,220
It is for your edification

707
00:46:14,740 --> 00:46:17,820
therefore you don't despise it

708
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,680
right when the word of god

709
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,720
comes to you. So you know you

710
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,760
say oh you are you are

711
00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:23,960
analyzing it in your head

712
00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:26,460
right you analyze for example

713
00:46:24,020 --> 00:46:27,800
maybe uh someone give you a

714
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,300
word you just came back from

715
00:46:27,860 --> 00:46:30,800
seven days of fasting you have

716
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,360
thoughts all through the

717
00:46:30,860 --> 00:46:33,700
meetings you have been all

718
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,700
night prayers you have been

719
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,400
praying you have been you have

720
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,120
been on fire and someone comes

721
00:46:39,780 --> 00:46:46,720
to you and say I feel within my

722
00:46:42,180 --> 00:46:48,280
spirit that's uh the lord wants

723
00:46:46,780 --> 00:46:49,820
you to really go deep in the

724
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,320
world right really go deep in

725
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,760
the world and go in the world

726
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,720
and the moment that person says

727
00:46:53,820 --> 00:46:57,000
that your response is do you

728
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,400
know what I've been doing for

729
00:46:57,060 --> 00:46:59,860
the past seven days or maybe

730
00:46:58,460 --> 00:47:01,360
you could you didn't say it out

731
00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:03,040
but you feel within you and

732
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,400
say me that I've been on fire

733
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:06,000
for seven days you know I've

734
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:11,440
been on fire you know rather

735
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:12,920
than paying attention right

736
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,920
you are not taking that word

737
00:47:12,980 --> 00:47:17,520
very seriously right but you

738
00:47:15,980 --> 00:47:18,620
are using oh since I've been on

739
00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:20,120
fire for seven days what is

740
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,020
this person saying but this guy

741
00:47:20,180 --> 00:47:24,420
is not solid you know he's so

742
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:26,460
it's not solid or getting you

743
00:47:24,500 --> 00:47:27,960
are despising prophecy you are

744
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,360
depriving yourself of being

745
00:47:28,020 --> 00:47:32,560
identified by what that that

746
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,840
minister is saying right so when

747
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,440
you are in the world you are

748
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,240
rejoicing right oh you say oh

749
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:40,180
you are you are you are you are

750
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:41,180
you have been you have been

751
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,180
studying you have been praying

752
00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:43,740
for seven days or he's telling

753
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:46,220
you good you mean that there is

754
00:47:43,820 --> 00:47:47,280
a there is more in the

755
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,720
revelation of Christ that will

756
00:47:47,340 --> 00:47:50,080
be given on to you so you

757
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:52,320
rejoice and say yes I go to

758
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,360
the world I increase in the

759
00:47:52,380 --> 00:47:54,860
world that was what happened to

760
00:47:53,420 --> 00:47:56,360
Peter I think that would have

761
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,560
said he could have just

762
00:47:56,420 --> 00:48:00,960
received the words of Christ

763
00:47:57,620 --> 00:48:01,860
and not rebuke Christ. So what

764
00:48:01,860 --> 00:48:06,480
is this person saying it is for

765
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:10,680
your edification right it is

766
00:48:06,540 --> 00:48:12,280
your edification so let's let's

767
00:48:10,740 --> 00:48:15,380
put something again it says

768
00:48:12,340 --> 00:48:19,080
that. The next verse right the

769
00:48:15,460 --> 00:48:20,660
next verse from verse verse

770
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,860
twenty-one except for testing

771
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:25,000
everything all fast what is

772
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:27,400
good right testing everything

773
00:48:25,060 --> 00:48:30,860
but over the word test there

774
00:48:30,860 --> 00:48:35,760
is no right to test something

775
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,540
means is not is not we are not

776
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,300
trying to say to check us like

777
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,640
saying people actually

778
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:47,880
interpret these as to mean

779
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:49,020
that. As to mean that. We are

780
00:48:47,940 --> 00:48:50,680
actually when the when the

781
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:53,820
prophecy is given they do not

782
00:48:50,740 --> 00:48:55,880
check. Is this professing good

783
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,720
or evil right then when I test

784
00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:00,020
it then I'll know whether to

785
00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:03,940
test it or not. The way he's

786
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,440
evil right because it's it's

787
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:09,440
in everything. Old fast what is

788
00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:11,240
good and abstain from every

789
00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:13,040
form of evil right abstain from

790
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:15,380
every form of evil now. It was

791
00:49:13,100 --> 00:49:16,940
it because it's at is it

792
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,640
follows up immediately after

793
00:49:17,020 --> 00:49:21,820
do not despise proper sign you

794
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:24,480
now say tests. Everything right

795
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,860
test everything old fast what

796
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,560
is good and I'm so so it means

797
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,920
that when you check it you

798
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,560
know it's not the way I really

799
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,820
don't know which way you're

800
00:49:31,620 --> 00:49:34,700
using but when you not

801
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:36,200
discovered at one province you

802
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,900
know you remove that prophecy

803
00:49:36,260 --> 00:49:39,360
and you take part of it now

804
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,940
that's not what he's saying

805
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,040
that's not it's not saying this

806
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:46,840
is the same word that is used

807
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:49,340
to prove which means to put

808
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:50,780
something into practice to

809
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,140
present that something is good

810
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,380
right test everything it means

811
00:49:52,220 --> 00:49:57,180
to practice everything put

812
00:49:57,180 --> 00:50:02,660
something into practice to

813
00:49:59,820 --> 00:50:05,160
prove that isn't it's already

814
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:06,760
right now we see this in

815
00:50:05,220 --> 00:50:08,660
Romans twelve verse two that

816
00:50:06,820 --> 00:50:10,200
you may be able to prove that

817
00:50:08,740 --> 00:50:12,900
which is acceptable to God

818
00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:17,100
right. Romans just let me drive

819
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,100
Romans twelve verse two.

820
00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:20,040
Romans twelve verse two. Do

821
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,140
not be converted to the world

822
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:23,940
but transformed by the renewing

823
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:25,680
of your mind that's by testing

824
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,280
the things that are not

825
00:50:27,340 --> 00:50:30,740
acceptable good and so this one

826
00:50:29,340 --> 00:50:33,220
also use the word testing but

827
00:50:30,820 --> 00:50:35,620
it's actually the word truth

828
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,620
right to present right to

829
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:41,220
manifest right and to show that

830
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,660
in this thing is good right so

831
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,120
when we practice them just as

832
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:45,120
quickly to connect to the things

833
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,700
of the spirit when practice the

834
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,000
things of the spirits right we

835
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,300
are not trying are you trying

836
00:50:48,060 --> 00:50:50,600
to test tongues whether it's

837
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,100
correct or wrong I'm trying to

838
00:50:50,660 --> 00:50:53,060
test prophets you're not testing

839
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,700
from are you trying to test

840
00:50:53,140 --> 00:50:55,140
whether it's correct whether

841
00:50:55,140 --> 00:50:57,520
it's wrong whether it's

842
00:50:56,620 --> 00:50:59,860
wrong. So, I'm just speaking in

843
00:50:57,580 --> 00:51:01,780
tongues because he's a

844
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:05,420
presentation that this is good

845
00:51:01,860 --> 00:51:07,460
it is acceptable this is the

846
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:09,160
good thing right so what he's

847
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,860
saying here is not saying to

848
00:51:09,220 --> 00:51:12,460
check provinces and to examine

849
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,300
and this is them and analyze

850
00:51:12,540 --> 00:51:16,340
provisional is input them to

851
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,000
practice put them to action

852
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:20,000
right by doing that you will

853
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:22,040
present the good that is in

854
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,540
them and he said abstain from

855
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:25,040
every appearance of evil right

856
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:29,600
verse fifteen you will see the

857
00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:32,040
appearance of evil in verse

858
00:51:29,660 --> 00:51:34,040
fifteen is not saying that in

859
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:35,680
prophecies evil prophecy is not

860
00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:38,840
evil there's no evil in that

861
00:51:35,740 --> 00:51:40,520
prophecy right there's no evil

862
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,920
in that prophecy please read

863
00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:45,520
verse fifteen see that no one

864
00:51:42,980 --> 00:51:48,920
repays anyone evil for evil is

865
00:51:45,580 --> 00:51:51,360
that a prophecy no but always

866
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:53,520
seek to do good right to one

867
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:57,300
thing evil is talking about is

868
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,960
not talking about somebody gave

869
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:02,460
you of us know that's not that's

870
00:51:59,020 --> 00:52:05,000
that's not it we know that

871
00:52:02,540 --> 00:52:06,540
prophecy is the revelation of

872
00:52:05,060 --> 00:52:07,640
Christ right the testimony of

873
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,040
Christ right we see that the

874
00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:11,400
testimony of Christ is the

875
00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:13,080
spirit of prophecy right so

876
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,940
what is being ministered to is

877
00:52:13,140 --> 00:52:16,480
the spirit of Christ right when

878
00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:17,880
we minister to each other in

879
00:52:16,540 --> 00:52:19,480
prophecy is the spirit of Christ

880
00:52:17,940 --> 00:52:21,460
will minister to each other

881
00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:23,060
right in prophecy is actually

882
00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:25,560
the person who is found in the

883
00:52:24,660 --> 00:52:27,060
spirit of Christ so when we

884
00:52:25,620 --> 00:52:29,060
talk about prophecy is talking

885
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:32,060
about ministry by the things of

886
00:52:29,140 --> 00:52:33,100
the spirit to you and if the

887
00:52:32,140 --> 00:52:34,500
person is not ministering the

888
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,400
things of the spirit to you

889
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,900
then that is something else we

890
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,300
cannot call even call it

891
00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:40,380
prophecy whatever the person

892
00:52:39,380 --> 00:52:42,180
would like to call it can call

893
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,540
it but when the person is

894
00:52:42,240 --> 00:52:45,020
ministering the spirit of Christ

895
00:52:43,620 --> 00:52:47,420
to you that is prophecy so

896
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,980
there is no evil in the

897
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,580
ministration of the things of

898
00:52:49,060 --> 00:52:52,860
the spirit of Christ there's no

899
00:52:52,860 --> 00:52:56,860
evil in the ministry of Christ

900
00:52:55,220 --> 00:52:58,860
right. So, I'm saying abstain

901
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,460
from every evil meaning evil

902
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,700
prophecy maybe someone say I

903
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,900
see you. You I see accidents. I

904
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,460
said no no no no that's not

905
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,900
what they're talking about you

906
00:53:05,540 --> 00:53:08,500
say oh don't take that one that

907
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,100
is evil and take the one that

908
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:12,180
says I see you making millions

909
00:53:10,180 --> 00:53:13,780
I see you you know winning

910
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:16,580
elections kind of a thing I see

911
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:18,220
you kind of. You know passing

912
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,620
your exams and that's a good

913
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,880
one you take that one and when

914
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,280
you take that one you take the

915
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:26,280
one that says I see you. You

916
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,660
see that's a conclusion of what

917
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,660
he has been saying from verse

918
00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:32,160
twelve right a conclusion of

919
00:53:30,720 --> 00:53:34,700
what he has been saying from

920
00:53:32,220 --> 00:53:36,600
verse twelve to verse twenty

921
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:39,640
two actually that is that last

922
00:53:36,660 --> 00:53:41,300
verse twenty right so sorry

923
00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:44,400
this twenty one is a summary of

924
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,880
it but practice everything

925
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,400
right old fast to this that is

926
00:53:46,940 --> 00:53:50,040
good all those that you are

927
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:54,200
talking about don't be evil to

928
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,880
the cost above don't pay evil

929
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,480
to each other right he's

930
00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:59,040
already revealing what's evil

931
00:53:57,540 --> 00:54:00,540
is it but always seek to do

932
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,980
good you already talked about

933
00:54:00,620 --> 00:54:03,380
good and evil above so when it

934
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,280
comes down to that part where

935
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,480
he's concluding this context

936
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,560
it's not talking about you know

937
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,960
trying to you know pieces

938
00:54:09,620 --> 00:54:13,400
prophecy. Cherry pick things

939
00:54:12,020 --> 00:54:14,760
from prophecy and so you know

940
00:54:13,460 --> 00:54:16,260
that's not what they're saying

941
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:18,460
right but the same we should

942
00:54:18,460 --> 00:54:22,400
be saying right in the body of

943
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:24,900
Christ you receive it with

944
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,780
rejoicing okay you receive it

945
00:54:24,980 --> 00:54:28,140
with rejoicing because the

946
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,320
president's mainstream the

947
00:54:28,220 --> 00:54:30,880
spirit of Christ so you thank

948
00:54:29,380 --> 00:54:32,180
god you are growing and you are

949
00:54:30,940 --> 00:54:33,080
maintaining the spirit of

950
00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:34,380
Christ are maintaining the

951
00:54:33,140 --> 00:54:35,860
knowledge so you know the

952
00:54:34,460 --> 00:54:39,460
spirit of Christ right you

953
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:41,020
receive it with rejoicing. You

954
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,960
don't you don't you don't

955
00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:43,100
participate and this is

956
00:54:42,020 --> 00:54:44,860
another thing you don't

957
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,200
participate online in bad

958
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,040
communication. You don't

959
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,640
participate online. Let me use

960
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,120
that scripture that they said

961
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:55,180
is the scripture that we read

962
00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:56,820
right where we probably have to

963
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:59,220
take us to where we investigate

964
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,820
it from that is not from you

965
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,420
know any the extra biblical

966
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:05,100
material that says bad for bad

967
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:06,600
communication corrupt manners

968
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,160
let me also use and borrow

969
00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:09,840
knowledge from that place that

970
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,740
when you join in part mountain

971
00:55:09,900 --> 00:55:14,140
the things of the spirits right

972
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:16,140
when you join in same prophecy

973
00:55:16,140 --> 00:55:19,140
you know in the spirit what

974
00:55:18,180 --> 00:55:20,580
you are doing is that you will

975
00:55:19,220 --> 00:55:23,120
not be able to conduct yourself

976
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,580
you will misconduct yourself in

977
00:55:23,180 --> 00:55:26,180
the body of Christ right so

978
00:55:24,660 --> 00:55:27,660
when you are we are prophesied

979
00:55:26,260 --> 00:55:29,260
to you rejoice you receive it

980
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:30,620
with rejoicing you also

981
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,620
prophesied you put it into

982
00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:34,120
practice right you put it into

983
00:55:32,700 --> 00:55:35,100
practice is not by your

984
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,300
feeling you don't judge

985
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,160
prophecy by your feeling you

986
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,160
don't judge prophecy by you

987
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:43,740
know how begin to analyze it in

988
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:44,840
your head no. You just rejoice

989
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,920
and you are not justified I'm

990
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,520
strengthened or you might not

991
00:55:47,980 --> 00:55:50,720
be feeling tired you say oh I'm

992
00:55:49,580 --> 00:55:51,780
not feeling tired but this

993
00:55:50,780 --> 00:55:54,620
person saying I need strength

994
00:55:51,860 --> 00:55:56,860
I'm strong you can you can

995
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,460
know you are depriving yourself

996
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,560
of the strength that is coming

997
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,620
you say oh I'm not confused

998
00:56:00,620 --> 00:56:04,360
so I'm coming you better

999
00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:05,800
receive it with thanksgiving

1000
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,740
because it is a prophecy it's a

1001
00:56:05,860 --> 00:56:09,400
word the time we'll spend more

1002
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,040
time and talk about prophecy

1003
00:56:09,460 --> 00:56:13,740
much more but the the emphasis

1004
00:56:13,740 --> 00:56:17,820
is on the prophecy there is no

1005
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,420
evil you receive it with

1006
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,720
rejoicing and you jump up

1007
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,220
because you know what's

1008
00:56:20,780 --> 00:56:24,760
prophecy is now. Praise god so

1009
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,160
I just pray that we'll continue

1010
00:56:24,820 --> 00:56:28,220
to stay on fire for god will

1011
00:56:26,220 --> 00:56:30,300
continue to maintain the

1012
00:56:28,300 --> 00:56:31,660
routine that a believer needs

1013
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,160
right we know the routine and

1014
00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:34,660
we have to continue there so

1015
00:56:33,220 --> 00:56:36,200
you don't be bored don't

1016
00:56:34,740 --> 00:56:37,260
discard yourself from the

1017
00:56:36,260 --> 00:56:38,940
routine right when it becomes

1018
00:56:37,340 --> 00:56:40,200
everything continue in it so I

1019
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,900
don't want there was a time we

1020
00:56:40,260 --> 00:56:43,280
used to say oh I don't want to

1021
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,340
be bored I don't want to be

1022
00:56:44,540 --> 00:56:47,840
busy you are missing of your

1023
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,840
devotion it's true right it's

1024
00:56:47,900 --> 00:56:50,140
true you are causing for

1025
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,740
yourself let it continue let

1026
00:56:50,220 --> 00:56:53,220
it continue it should become a

1027
00:56:51,820 --> 00:56:54,320
routine right it will become a

1028
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,220
routine sometimes you say I'm

1029
00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:58,320
not feeling it don't it's not

1030
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,720
about your keep doing it you

1031
00:56:58,380 --> 00:57:01,320
don't have to feel it just keep

1032
00:56:59,780 --> 00:57:03,660
doing it right keep doing it

1033
00:57:01,380 --> 00:57:07,300
keep at it keep at it that is

1034
00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:12,240
how we grow and we stay on fire

1035
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:21,460
until the end of this week your

1036
00:57:17,380 --> 00:57:21,860
best wishes you've been

1037
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,880
here today we hope you carry

1038
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,160
this war with you throughout

1039
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,300
your week don't forget to

1040
00:57:26,220 --> 00:57:28,160
check the show notes for

1041
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:28,920
additional insights stay

1042
00:57:28,220 --> 00:57:30,760
connected with us through our

1043
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,760
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1044
00:57:30,820 --> 00:57:33,940
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1045
00:57:31,820 --> 00:57:34,800
from on to this threat message

1046
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,860
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