1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Welcome to NECF sermons. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:11,200 Each message here is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your walk with God. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:17,640 Don't miss out, stay with us until the end for our rewarding experience. 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:18,640 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,400 So thank you so much pastor for the opportunity to preach again. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:31,160 We will continue from where we stopped a couple of Sundays ago, about two Sundays ago, and 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,360 we will just build on it. 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,880 As we know, the theme of the year is manifesting the kingdom of God. 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,800 Please let's never forget that throughout this year, this is what we are doing right, 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,560 manifesting the kingdom of God. 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,520 And we are going to go through many teachings in line with that. 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:55,160 So the last time I told, I just mentioned that the topic was actually our union with 13 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,160 Christ, right? 14 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,160 Our union with Christ, our union with Christ. 15 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:05,400 I think I don't know if I put the subtitle, which I wrote, a reality that continues afterwards. 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,400 Right? 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,800 Our union is Christ is a reality that continues afterwards. 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,000 It's not a reality that ends here. 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Right? 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:23,200 Our union with Christ is a reality that continues afterwards, after this body is done functioning. 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,200 That union with Christ, right, is not something that ends here. 22 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,200 Right? 23 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:30,200 But it continues. 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,120 So our union with Christ is eternal union, you know, is an eternal union. 25 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,080 That's another way to explain eternal life. 26 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,080 Right? 27 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:44,440 Our union with Christ is an eternal union, is something that continues after we are done 28 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:45,440 here. 29 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:51,080 And 1 Corinthians 15, just that really gives us this explanation. 30 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,120 1 Corinthians 15. 31 00:01:53,120 --> 00:02:02,080 You read from verse 12, I just read from verse 12 to verse 20 and 21. 32 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,480 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you see that there 33 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,560 is no resurrection of the dead? 34 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:14,320 But if there's no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 35 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,760 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:18,760 vain. 37 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:24,800 We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testify about God that he raised 38 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,920 Christ whom he did not raise. 39 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:27,920 Right? 40 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:28,920 This is a scenario. 41 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,360 If truly there's no resurrection, if it is true that the dead are not raised, for if 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,960 the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, 43 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:43,800 your faith is futile and you are still in your sins, then those who have fallen asleep 44 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,560 in Christ have perished. 45 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:46,560 Right? 46 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,680 Those who have believed the message of Christ have perished. 47 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,800 Those who have Abraham, for example, has perished. 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,760 If truly Christ is not raised from the dead, those people written in Hebrews 11, they've 49 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,200 perished if Christ is not raised from the dead. 50 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:11,880 But in other words, if in Christ we have hope, in this life only, we have all people most 51 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,880 to be pitied. 52 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:14,880 Right? 53 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:20,760 Saying that literally if there's no resurrection of the dead and all that is about Christ is 54 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:29,680 only on this earth, then we are of all men most pitied as some translations would put 55 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:30,680 it. 56 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:36,480 So he's saying that what in fact, in truth, Christ has been raised from the dead, the 57 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:45,280 Christ of those who have fallen asleep, for as by a man came death, by a man has also 58 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,600 come the resurrection of the dead. 59 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:48,600 Right? 60 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,600 The resurrection of the dead. 61 00:03:50,600 --> 00:04:00,000 And he continues to explain to us, right, about the fact that there is a resurrection. 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:08,880 So we can see that our union in Christ on this earth, right, our union in Christ on 63 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,800 this earth is a reality that continues because he said if only in this life, which is an 64 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:20,040 hypothetical statement, right, so it means that not only in this life do we have hope. 65 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,040 Right? 66 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,080 Our union in Christ is not just only on this earth. 67 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,840 It's something that continues. 68 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:33,960 So we can literally put it in this way that we have hope in Christ not only on this earth, 69 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,560 but also in the life to come. 70 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,840 So there is resurrection of the dead. 71 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:43,920 But what we are trying to teach, right, what we are paying attention to, right, is not 72 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:49,800 to look forward, right, to something called heaven or a place called heaven. 73 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:56,720 That is what we are trying to address, that our union that has started here will continue 74 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:04,160 in afterlife and that union, right, that union with Christ is already pointing to that we 75 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,620 are already in heaven. 76 00:05:05,620 --> 00:05:06,760 We are already with him. 77 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Right? 78 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,840 So it's not just after we pass on. 79 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:14,880 So it means that our union with Christ is a reality that continues. 80 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:23,320 We actually paid attention to 1 Thessalonians 5, 18 to 18, which we will go there again 81 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:29,560 today because it also talks about the resurrection of the dead. 82 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,320 First Thessalonians 4. 83 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:38,000 So from verse 17, it says, Then we who are alive, 1 Thessalonians 4.17, then we who are 84 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,400 alive who are left will be cut up. 85 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:47,380 I cycle it and I put an arrow, I put the word taken, right, taken. 86 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:55,160 So then we who are alive and are left will be taken together with them in the clouds 87 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,520 to meet the Lord in the air. 88 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:03,720 And so we will always be with him, therefore encourage one another with these words. 89 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,840 You can read it and connect it to 1 Corinthians 15. 90 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:13,560 Right, if somebody say only in this earth we have hope, then you can bring this. 91 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:20,120 You see, you can encourage the person with this and say, no, our union continues with 92 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,120 Christ. 93 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,120 Right? 94 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,120 Our union continues. 95 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,360 We will be with him forever. 96 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,840 And we try to explain the word cut up, right, to open up and explain to us that that word 97 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:37,800 cut up is not to elevate into the sky, but to be taken together with a people. 98 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:44,080 And we also explained air as a spiritual on sin realm, right, on sin realm, somewhere 99 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,160 in the spiritual, as spiritual beings. 100 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,880 But the word that we did not really pay attention to, which I did not rather explain much clearly, 101 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:53,880 is the word clouds. 102 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,080 Right, is the word clouds. 103 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,160 So we will start with clouds today because I just talked about it in passing, right, 104 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,640 with limited references to one or two scriptures there. 105 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,520 That's one scripture that actually I used, but we'll talk about clouds today. 106 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,200 Then we will further. 107 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,160 What clouds, right, I said is the word, who remembers what I call it? 108 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,960 What does it represent? 109 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,720 If you remember how I explained what cloud is or what's the word I just said or a phrase 110 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,600 I used to describe cloud, actually just type it. 111 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,160 Let me see if we really remember what I explained. 112 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,000 Say, cut up is taken together, air should be spiritual in the spiritual realm. 113 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 What about clouds? 114 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 A people, right, good. 115 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 A people, any other word? 116 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 People, that's a very correct one. 117 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 We use the word congregation as well. 118 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Thank you. 119 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 That's a congregation, good. 120 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:55,480 So now these parts, we'll just use it to explain much more what clouds is. 121 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,080 Now not everywhere you see cloud, it will also mean congregation, right? 122 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,600 It will also mean the firmament, like what you see above, right? 123 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:11,080 So what the context, don't forget in this, in understanding scriptures, context is king, 124 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,080 right? 125 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Context is king. 126 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:20,120 Sometimes words are used along other words, which creates a phrase or a clause. 127 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,280 Okay? 128 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:27,440 So when you use a word along with other words that creates a phrase or a clause, you cannot 129 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:32,320 fish out that word and give it a meaning. 130 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,360 It means that that word would not be its original meaning again. 131 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,720 So if you put cloud, if you take cloud and put it around some context of words, cloud 132 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:48,640 would not mean the sky again, because you have used it in a phrase or in a clause. 133 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,200 So therefore, we have to pay attention to this. 134 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:58,840 So today we're just going to use this simple explanation, right, for that, have some clarity 135 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,040 on what cloud is. 136 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,600 So the word cloud, actually, from the scripture I use, which is Hebrews 12 verse 1, Hebrews 137 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:15,520 12 verse 1, if we go there, is about, it's a dearthful, Hebrews 12 verse 1, dearthful, 138 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:21,920 since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, did you see that how it was 139 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:22,920 used, right? 140 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:31,920 That word cloud of witnesses already indicates that it is not the cloud up there. 141 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,160 It is not what you see up there, right? 142 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,080 It's a cloud of witnesses. 143 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,480 Maybe you are very dramatic and you want to believe, you want to combine the cloud with 144 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,800 the people and you mean that they are coming from up. 145 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,200 You know, some people, they believe that Jesus will be riding on a horse and a cloud from 146 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,280 the cloud that will be following him, actually. 147 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,520 That will not be helpful to you, right? 148 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,400 That will not be helpful to you. 149 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,320 Because it's a clause, it's a phrase, right? 150 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,520 Don't pick it out, right, and just use it. 151 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,520 So a cloud of witnesses. 152 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,920 So the word cloud there is the word nethos, right? 153 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:08,920 N-E-P-H-O-S. 154 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:09,920 N-E-P-H-O-S. 155 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:15,480 The cloud of witnesses. 156 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:21,040 You observe that in many scriptures that we will use today, they are actually scriptures 157 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:28,920 that use the word cloud with something which therefore helps us to explain the word cloud. 158 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,920 So we see that is the word nethos. 159 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:37,000 And interestingly, it was only used in this context in the entire According to the Testament 160 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 text. 161 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:46,920 It was used like this, like in this root word, in this root now, it was only used as nethos 162 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,200 in Hebrews 12 verse 1. 163 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,400 So all we can check is other places where it manifests. 164 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,720 So we go back to 1 Thessalonians 4. 165 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,400 First Thessalonians 4, which is the place where we saw it, and we can begin from there. 166 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:06,640 So 1 Thessalonians 4 verse 17. 167 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:14,480 It says, caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 168 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:21,360 So this one, what we use to explain this, what I use to explain this is the other words 169 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,520 that are attached to it. 170 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,200 For example, I use caught up to mean that it's not going to the sky, therefore it will 171 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,640 not be clouds. 172 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,480 And I also explain what air should be. 173 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:40,160 So therefore, it means that it will not be cloud also would have to correlate or, how 174 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:46,360 would I put it now, cloud will have to align with the explanation that is given there, 175 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:47,360 right? 176 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,280 Whatever we're going to understand that clouds. 177 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,680 That clouds there, the clouds there is actually Nepheli, right? 178 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:58,680 N-P-H-E-L-E, which is another form of Nephos. 179 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:05,560 N-E-P-H-E-L-E, right? 180 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:09,200 So the root word for Nepheli is actually Nephos. 181 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,100 The root word for Nepheli is actually Nephos. 182 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:17,000 So we're going to take the gospels and see how they appear. 183 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,060 First scripture, Matthew 17.5, Nepheli. 184 00:12:21,060 --> 00:12:25,640 So Nepheli is mainly what we are trying to see, which is the word cloud and the way it 185 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,640 is used, right? 186 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:36,200 Matthew 17.5, 17 verse 5, Matthew 17 verse 5. 187 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,000 And I was speaking, he was still speaking, right? 188 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,880 Verse 5, he was still speaking. 189 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:48,080 When behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, right? 190 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,160 A voice from the cloud said. 191 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:58,840 So now here what you're already seeing is that someone spoke from the cloud, right? 192 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,840 Someone spoke from the cloud. 193 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:05,720 It's not a cloud, actually a sky, but it means that it's just a congregation from which someone 194 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,200 spoke, right? 195 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,700 Someone spoke from the cloud. 196 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:15,320 So to speak from the cloud would definitely mean that it is not someone is speaking from 197 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:21,920 a cluster of air and everything that is in the sky, but actually a voice speaking. 198 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,400 So it means that cloud is someone there. 199 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,800 Someone is that cloud, or that cloud is a people, or someone that's speaking from that 200 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,800 cloud. 201 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:35,880 So what you see here is that a voice is coming from the cloud, and it cannot be the firmament 202 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,000 where it is coming from, okay? 203 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,240 So just hold on to that, hold on to that thought that a cloud can speak, right? 204 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,080 It therefore means that it's not a cloud that we're talking about. 205 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:56,360 Now Matthew, Mark 1462, Mark 1462, or before Mark 1462, let's go to Mark 9 verse 7, which 206 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:08,240 is almost the same explanation of this Matthew 17, Mark 9, Mark 9 verse 7, or Mark 9 verse 207 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,240 7, okay? 208 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,360 And a cloud overshadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud, right? 209 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,360 A voice came out of the cloud. 210 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:21,480 So we see it again, this is my beloved son, listen to him, and suddenly looking around, 211 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:26,720 they no longer saw anyone with them, but Jesus only. 212 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:33,120 So what happened was that he was there and they saw Moses and they saw Elijah, right? 213 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,240 They saw Moses and Elijah, and they heard a voice from a cloud, right? 214 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,760 So we see that in this context also, it's already indicating something to us that this 215 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,760 cloud will actually mean a people or a person or a group of people. 216 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:54,200 Okay, so let's go to Matthew 24 verse 30, Matthew 24 verse 30, the congregation of people, 217 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,000 Matthew 24 verse 30. 218 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:04,760 Matthew 24 verse 30 uses the phrase, a cloud from heaven, and it will send, okay, verse 219 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,080 30, we can read from verse 29, right? 220 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,560 To get a context of what is happening in Matthew 24. 221 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,680 Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon 222 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:21,320 will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven and the power of the heavens 223 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:22,320 will be shaken. 224 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,640 Then will appear in heaven the signs of the son of man, then all the tribes of the earth 225 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:34,480 will mourn and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power 226 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:39,080 and great clouds, great glory, coming on clouds. 227 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,680 So coming on the clouds of heaven, right? 228 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,120 So what you're going to pick is clouds of heaven, clouds of heaven. 229 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:56,400 Mark 13 verse 26, Mark 13 verse 26, Mark 13 verse 26, almost explaining the same thing, 230 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:03,360 verse 32, but concerning the day or the hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, 231 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,320 not the son of, not the son, but only the father. 232 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:13,960 But be on guard and keep awake, for you do not know when the time will come. 233 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:20,640 It is like a man going on a journey and he leaves home and puts his servant in charge, 234 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:26,760 each with his work and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. 235 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:33,960 Therefore stay awake, for you do not know when the master, when the master would come. 236 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:41,160 Okay, verse 26, sorry, I think it should be verse 26, from verse 24, read from verse 24. 237 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,920 But in those days after that tribulation, the sun will be dark and the moon will not 238 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:50,200 give its light and the stars will be falling from heaven and powers in heaven will be shaking 239 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:58,040 and then they will see the coming in clouds with great power and glory and when he will 240 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:03,560 send out his angels and gather his legs from the falling from the earth and from the heads 241 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,880 of the ends of the heads to the heavens. 242 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:15,240 Mark 14, Mark 14, 62, I'm going to mark 14, 62, Mark 14, 62. 243 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:23,240 And Jesus said, I am, and Jesus said, I am and you will see the son of man seated at 244 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:30,520 the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven, right? 245 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,760 Clouds, so we've seen clouds of heaven in three different places. 246 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:40,000 In two places, he said he will be coming on the clouds of heaven, right? 247 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,160 And he will be coming on the clouds of heaven, in the first two places that we read. 248 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:51,880 So this one now gives a more clear understanding in the use of the clouds of heaven. 249 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,120 So I am with you, right? 250 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:59,640 And you will see the son of man seated at the right hand of power coming with the clouds 251 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,640 of heaven, right? 252 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,200 And the high priest is garment and say, what for the witnesses do we have? 253 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:12,720 So he wasn't talking about Jesus coming in clouds or cloud as firmament. 254 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:25,560 Mark, right, which also used clouds on everyone in verse chapter 13, verse 24, 24, 25, 26. 255 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,880 We see coming in the clouds of heaven in chapter 14, right? 256 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:36,440 In this chapter 14, glorified that he will be coming with the cloud of heaven, which 257 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,640 would mean a people that Christ will come with a people. 258 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,960 Christ will bring forth people, will bring forth people, right? 259 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,880 The son of man, you see him at the right hand of power, which is authority, right? 260 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:57,920 That took place and he would come forth with people, not in the sky, right? 261 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:58,920 Not in the sky. 262 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,920 God Christ will bring forth many people. 263 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:07,680 So this is what was I intentionally read those three scriptures upon till we get to 14 to 264 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:13,320 see how 14 now places it correctly for us to understand that when Christ is coming, 265 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,200 Christ will come with a church. 266 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Christ will come with a people. 267 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,040 Christ would come with the clouds of heaven. 268 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:25,720 Now if you now say clouds of heaven, if pastor has also taught us correctly that heaven is 269 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:33,520 not a location or is not a physical, therefore the clouds of heaven, right, would not mean 270 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,120 the firmament, but a people in heaven, right? 271 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:41,280 We can say that what Jesus will bring forth is the church, is the people that he will 272 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,280 come forth. 273 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,400 He's not going to be resurrected alone, but he didn't resurrect alone. 274 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,280 We rose with him, right? 275 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:56,680 So if you go back to Thessalonians, right, I think Luke, Luke 21 to himself, let me see, 276 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:01,680 you can find one more scripture to just explain that these clouds you're referring to clouds 277 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:08,520 of heaven in that phrase would mean a people not a cloud that Jesus will sit upon as of 278 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,520 what is in the sky. 279 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:16,440 So this one is also coming in a clouds with power and grace and glory, similar to all 280 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,440 water. 281 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:25,240 Now it's interesting because almost all this, the Matthew, Mark, Luke, I mean recorded these 282 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,800 and they explain it to us. 283 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:32,520 So clouds of heaven definitely would mean a cloud of witnesses, a cloud of clouds of 284 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,520 heaven, Hebrews 11. 285 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:41,440 Then when we come back to our scripture, which is best as Thessalonians four, then the cloud 286 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:48,480 would definitely now make more sense that we will be taking up with those who have risen 287 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:53,560 from the dead and in that congregation we will meet the Lord, right? 288 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:59,200 In that congregation we would congregate, we would meet the Lord. 289 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:05,480 So this is what we see from this and a little bit of an explanation of that. 290 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:11,400 Now if you go to Revelation, Revelation 1, Revelation actually has so much of the use 291 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,160 of the word cloud and definitely they don't mean the same thing. 292 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,880 They don't mean the same thing, right? 293 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,880 They don't mean the same thing. 294 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,520 Revelation 1, 7, said, Behold, he is coming with the clouds and every eye will see him 295 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:30,640 and even those who pierce them and all the tribes of the heads will weal on account of 296 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,880 him, even so, amen. 297 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,440 So we see that it's actually talking about a people coming with the people, coming with 298 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,240 the church, you know, not about the cloud in the sky. 299 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,200 Now there are other places in scripture that uses the cloud in the sky, but it does not 300 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,720 refer to people as we explained here also. 301 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:55,280 But first the Selenians 4, it definitely reflects the fact that it is the people of God that 302 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:01,240 would gather together, continuation of that union that we have with Christ, right? 303 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,000 It's just a continuation of it. 304 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,520 So having known this, right, having known this, now let's further to manifesting the 305 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:10,520 kingdom of God. 306 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,800 So now that we know this, that we know that we are in union with Christ and it's not just 307 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,840 only on this earth, we have this hope continuing in afterlife. 308 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,320 So we need to talk about manifesting, right? 309 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,720 Manifesting since we know that we are in, I can say we are in heaven, we are in the 310 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,960 kingdom of God, right? 311 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,960 I'm just moving forward. 312 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,000 I'll just say that we are in heaven, we are in the kingdom of God. 313 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,080 How can we manifest? 314 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,800 We are in union with Christ, right? 315 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,760 What does this manifestation entails, right? 316 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,720 What does this manifestation reveal? 317 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:50,920 So we will just move to 30 words again, or two true legion words that we'll study. 318 00:22:50,920 --> 00:23:00,120 We'll start with a few questions, John chapter 14, which is where we started from the last 319 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,120 time. 320 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,960 Don't forget the essence is for us to know that we are in union with Christ. 321 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:11,160 The essence is for us to be able to therefore manifest now that we understand that we are 322 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,280 in union with Christ, we are in union with Christ. 323 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:23,720 So we just read from John 14, let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe 324 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,480 also in me. 325 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,560 In my father's house are many rooms. 326 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:33,200 If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place? 327 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,360 Please let's pay attention. 328 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,040 I know we've read it before in the Holy Scriptures, but let's pay attention. 329 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:44,920 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself. 330 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,720 That where I am, you may be also. 331 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,240 And you know the way to where I am going. 332 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,980 Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going. 333 00:23:55,980 --> 00:23:57,880 How can we know the way? 334 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,520 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. 335 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,180 No one comes to the father except through me. 336 00:24:04,180 --> 00:24:08,420 If you had known me, you would have known my father. 337 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:13,520 From now on, you do know him and you have seen him. 338 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,040 Now Philip asked the next question. 339 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,460 He said to him, Lord, show us the father. 340 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:21,640 And it is enough for us. 341 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:27,400 Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and you still do not know me? 342 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,920 Philip, whosoever has seen me has seen the father. 343 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,440 But how come you say show us the father? 344 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:42,160 Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father is in me? 345 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:47,040 The word I say to you, I do not speak of my own authority, but the father who dwells in 346 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,040 me. 347 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:54,160 Now we can skip to verse, okay, I think we should continue that reading from verse 12. 348 00:24:54,160 --> 00:25:01,680 Truly, truly I say to you, whosoever believes in me will do the works that I do. 349 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,800 And greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the father. 350 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:12,040 Whatever you ask in my name, this will I do, that the father may be glorified in the Son. 351 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,800 And if you ask anything in my name, I will do. 352 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,200 Now we jump to verse 20. 353 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:23,120 In that day you will know that I am in the father and you in me and I in you. 354 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,400 Whosoever has my commandment keeps them. 355 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:33,760 He it is who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and I will love 356 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,400 him and manifest myself to him. 357 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:44,160 Verse 22, Judas, not Iscarius said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself 358 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,160 to us? 359 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,120 You will manifest yourself to us and not to the world. 360 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:53,280 And Jesus answered, if anyone loves me, you will keep my word and my father will love 361 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,680 it and we will come to him and make our home with him. 362 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:03,360 Whosoever does not love me, does not keep my words and the word that you hear is not 363 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:07,040 mine, but the father who sent me. 364 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:13,000 Now I intentionally read that, intentionally read that for us to understand that when Jesus 365 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,280 started this conversation, right? 366 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,820 He started this conversation. 367 00:26:16,820 --> 00:26:22,220 This conversation was actually interrupted by three questions. 368 00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:23,640 You observe, right? 369 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:31,480 You observe, even in most of 14, 15, 16, you see a lot of what they were coming in were 370 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,480 questions, right? 371 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:41,320 So it means that they were questioning Christ and wondering what is it that he's talking 372 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:42,320 about, right? 373 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,320 What is it about this heaven? 374 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,320 Look at the first question. 375 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:50,200 So we do not know where you're going and how can we know where you're going? 376 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,400 Where you're going and how can we know the way? 377 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,680 The second question says, Lord, show us the father, right? 378 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960 Show us the father. 379 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:04,680 It means that first, they didn't understand Christ was the way, the truth, right? 380 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,640 They didn't understand Christ yet. 381 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,800 They didn't even understand the identity of Christ. 382 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,280 Them to be saying, show us the father and show us the father. 383 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,840 Christ was questioning them. 384 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,400 I mean, Philip was literally saying, give us a proof, give us a proof. 385 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:26,040 We are going to come to study that word because that word is taken out. 386 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,800 That word that says, Lord, show us the father, right? 387 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,520 Show us the father is the word taken out. 388 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,920 To prove, to show us a proof, show us something. 389 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,440 And that is why you see that when Jesus began to explain, he explained and he said, which 390 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:48,160 will I send me, I send the father from first identity. 391 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,920 Also about send me, I send the father. 392 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,280 Why do you say show us the father? 393 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,760 Do you not believe I am him and he is in me? 394 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,680 Identity, union with the father. 395 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:01,240 The first manifestation that you see that Christ is in union with the father. 396 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,920 Then I said, I am in the father and the father is in me. 397 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,880 The words that I speak to you, I do not speak of myself, right? 398 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,600 The second thing is speaks a word. 399 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:15,520 So the message shows that he is not speaking of his own authority but from the father. 400 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,560 Then verse 12 progresses and says that verse 11, let's read verse 11. 401 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,320 Believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me or else then believe on the 402 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,320 account of the works themselves. 403 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,320 Believe on the account. 404 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:36,360 So two things that Jesus was trying to explain to them that there are two things you should 405 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:43,960 be certain about that I am in the father and the father is in me, right? 406 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,720 That the revelation of the father is coming through two things. 407 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,400 The fact that I am in the father and the father is in me, right? 408 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,280 The things I teach you, the words I teach you are from the father. 409 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,800 And he said, what about the works, right? 410 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,260 So if you don't believe by these teachings, by this explanation I'm giving you, right? 411 00:29:02,260 --> 00:29:04,760 By the words I speak to you, then believe the works. 412 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,080 It's a truly, truly I say to you, also about beliefs in me. 413 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,600 You will do the works that I do and greater works than this you will do. 414 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:20,400 So what we want to study here, right, might be a little bit challenging but I'll try my 415 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,200 best to try to explain it. 416 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,160 First, we can connect these three questions, right? 417 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:32,040 Question in verse five, question in verse eight and question in verse 22 to Acts chapter 418 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,040 one. 419 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:39,240 There's a question there too, that's also questions, shows the father, where is the 420 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,880 father and where are you going and where are you going. 421 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,040 So let's go to Acts chapter one, Acts chapter one, Acts chapter one, verse six. 422 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,000 It says, so then when they had come together, they did what? 423 00:29:53,000 --> 00:30:00,960 They asked him, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel? 424 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:01,960 Right? 425 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,960 So that's a similar question. 426 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,140 Where are the similar questions? 427 00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:09,560 Because first, they were asking for a proof here. 428 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,920 Philip was asking for a proof, was asking for a proof. 429 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:19,880 The word the king now, right, like now, the king now was asking for a proof that Christ 430 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,880 is true. 431 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:28,360 So it just places them in a position where we can say that the understanding of the identity 432 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,600 of Christ, right, was yet to be done on them. 433 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,760 The understanding of the identity of Christ was yet to be done on them. 434 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,720 The understanding of the works that Christ was doing was yet to be done on them. 435 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:47,760 And if it's not done on them, it means that they cannot be able to manifest their identity 436 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,000 and do the works that Christ has said they would do. 437 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,560 So they're actually asking questions because at this time, they do not understand. 438 00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:02,400 In fact, verse 22, when Judas, which is not Iscariot, says that, why do you manifest yourself 439 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,400 to us? 440 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:09,220 That word there is emphanizal, which is different from dekenam, right? 441 00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:14,400 So those are the two main words that I actually want us to pay attention to. 442 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,760 So verse 22, we see emphanizal, right, emphanizal. 443 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,680 And in verse eight, we see dekenam. 444 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,680 So emphanizal. 445 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:30,240 And these are the two things, reason because I think this is the only chapter I've searched 446 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,560 and I've searched over and over again and I'm still searching. 447 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:39,520 This is the chapter where these two words appear the same in the same chapter. 448 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,940 These two words only appear in this same chapter. 449 00:31:41,940 --> 00:31:48,600 In most of the other scriptures, I'm not saying these two words appearing like this in the 450 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,600 same chapter. 451 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,840 And it means two different things. 452 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:52,840 Okay? 453 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:58,520 And that understanding would help us as believers to manifest the kingdom of God. 454 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,680 If we understand these two words, right, these two words and what is happening in these two 455 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:10,760 places, rising from the questions that they're asking, it will help us as believers to manifest 456 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,760 the kingdom of God. 457 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,240 It will help us to manifest the kingdom of God. 458 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,880 Because the first question was after Christ has told them that it will make a place for 459 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,960 them and they will be together, the union. 460 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:22,960 Right? 461 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,080 And therefore, yes, we don't know how to come to where you are. 462 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,840 That's the first question. 463 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,360 Or Philip now said, okay, now that you say you are in the Father, show us the Father. 464 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:39,560 Let's study these two words, this, the Lord, Lord show us the Father, which the word show 465 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:50,080 is D-E-I-K-Y-N-O, D-E-I-K-Y-N-O, D-E-I-K-Y-N-O. 466 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:59,280 And the other word, which probably we've met a couple of times, is emphanizum, E-M-P-H-N-I-Z-O, 467 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,160 E-M-P-H-N-I-Z-O. 468 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:07,760 They're actually two words that are very similar, right? 469 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,600 They are very similar, very close, but they don't mean exactly the same thing. 470 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,080 To show, to manifest, right? 471 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:22,240 Especially within the context where it is used, and the person who used the word, right, 472 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,960 it shows that they don't mean exactly the same thing. 473 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,200 So let's start with emphanizum, right? 474 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:35,120 The word emphanizum refers to, I wrote it here, to show, right, the resurrected beings 475 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,480 showing themselves. 476 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,440 So it's identity based. 477 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,920 Emphanizum is majorly identity based. 478 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:49,240 Resurrected beings showing themselves, right, presented themselves as resurrected, to appear, 479 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,440 to inform. 480 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,680 So emphanizum means the word to show, right, to show. 481 00:33:54,680 --> 00:34:00,360 But in the context we see resurrected beings showing themselves, manifesting themselves, 482 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,120 making themselves known that they are resurrected, right? 483 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,240 Making themselves known that they are resurrected, appearing to many people. 484 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,160 You're going to see that as we read the scriptures. 485 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,400 So emphanizum, resurrected means making themselves known, appearing to many people, informing 486 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,000 people, right? 487 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,200 Informing people, right, that this is where, you know, this is where we stand, signifying. 488 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,640 So we can write the scriptures down. 489 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:33,320 Matthew 27 verse 53 is quite less, is quite used rarely, I mean, in just a few scriptures 490 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,680 as compared to the hackney, or the kennaun, depends on how you pronounce it. 491 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:43,680 So Matthew 27, 53, if we read that, you will see that is actually resurrected beings presenting 492 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,680 themselves, right? 493 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,240 You see resurrected beings presenting themselves as evidence. 494 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:50,680 So that's verse 53. 495 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,880 It said, the tombs were opened from verse 52, and many bodies of the saints who had 496 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,920 fallen asleep were erased. 497 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:03,160 And coming out of the tomb after his resurrection, which is Christ's resurrection, they went 498 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,440 into the city and appeared to many. 499 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,440 They did what? 500 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,320 They appeared to many. 501 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,600 That is what emphanizum, right, they presented themselves as resurrected beings, right? 502 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,480 They manifested as resurrected beings to many people. 503 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,480 All right. 504 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:29,560 John 14, 21 to 22, which is the one we read already, but let's go to Hebrews 9, 24. 505 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:30,560 Hebrews 9, 24. 506 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,760 We'll come back to John, because that's the one you're trying to explain. 507 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,160 Hebrews 9, 24. 508 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:43,160 For Christ has entered not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the truth 509 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:52,320 things, but into heaven itself, now to appear, right, in the presence of God on Abbeav, right, 510 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,320 to appear. 511 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,760 So if you read from verse 23, it says, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly 512 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,680 things to be purified with this right, but the heavenly things themselves with much better 513 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:02,680 sacrifices. 514 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:08,800 For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the truth 515 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:15,000 things, but into heaven to now appear and present himself in the presence of God. 516 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,560 So we see that he's talking about something that happened after resurrection, right, appeared 517 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,640 before the presence of God, right, on Abbeav, appeared before the presence of God. 518 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:30,360 So he's talking about something that happened after resurrection, right, Christ appearing 519 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,360 after resurrection. 520 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:32,960 Hebrews 11, 14. 521 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,880 Hebrews 11, 14, just a few scriptures. 522 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,160 Hebrews 11, 14. 523 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:46,880 For the people who speak, thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 524 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:52,000 If they had been seeking of that land from which they are going out, they would have 525 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,520 had an opportunity to return. 526 00:36:53,520 --> 00:37:01,600 As it is, they desire a better country that is a heavenly one, therefore God is not ashamed 527 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:07,080 to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. 528 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,360 So what is this part saying, right? 529 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,360 What is this part saying? 530 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:16,440 Verse 13 says, they all died in fear, not having received the things promised, but having 531 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,840 seen them and greeted them from afar, the things promised, and having acknowledged that 532 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,280 they were strangers and exiles, for these people they made it clear. 533 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,320 That word made it clear is emphanizal. 534 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,680 They made it plain. 535 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:37,240 It means that they presented themselves as people who are seeking a homeland, right? 536 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,720 They are seeking a homeland. 537 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:40,720 So that is what it means. 538 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:44,360 It means they presented themselves, they made it clear, right? 539 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,880 It's not like they wrote something about, they presented themselves as those who are 540 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:55,720 seeking something, not of that's where they came out from, but otherwise they would have 541 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,520 had an opportunity to go, right? 542 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,720 So it's just exercising or showing their faith, right? 543 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:08,880 It's showing their faith in what God would do through it, what God would do in the church, 544 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,840 the salvation that will come through Christ, and the people that will come to faith in 545 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:13,840 Christ. 546 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:21,520 So they themselves, right, already saw themselves as part of the people that will rise in Christ, 547 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,120 part of the church that Christ will bring forth. 548 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,400 They were seeking a homeland. 549 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:27,400 The homeland is not Canaan. 550 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,080 We talked about that. 551 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,640 So what these people were doing is that they have a standing, they have an identity that 552 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:39,800 presents them as those who are in today's world, we will say born again, but people 553 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:46,440 who are fit in what Christ will do, in what will happen after resurrection. 554 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,400 That is why they have a part in Christ at resurrection. 555 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,520 That is why these people have a part in Christ at resurrection. 556 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:04,200 So when we talk about emphanizum, it's mostly emphasized about an identity that is made 557 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:10,920 clear, that is manifest, that is given, an identity that is made clear, that is manifest, 558 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,600 that is given, an identity that is made clear, manifest, and given. 559 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:22,880 This is what we see here from the people that rose from the dead and appeared to many, from 560 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:30,600 Christ who appeared after resurrection, from Hebrews 11, those who believe in salvation 561 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,600 that will come. 562 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,000 Now, let me now add to it. 563 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:42,320 The word emphanizum is actually from the original word emphaniz, E-M-P-H-A-N-E-S. 564 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,160 So you can connect it well that it's actually related to identity directly. 565 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:54,080 With this emphaniz, now if you check emphaniz in the strong Greek G1717, right, if you can 566 00:39:54,080 --> 00:40:00,760 check it, but it's actually talking about the proof of salvation, the saving grace of 567 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:08,240 God, that your identity is actually a proof of God-saving grace. 568 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:15,560 So those people, right, Christ manifested himself, which is a reflection of God-saving 569 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,160 grace, his resurrection. 570 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,520 The people who believe, they believe in the salvation that is to come. 571 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:26,360 So emphaniz is actually talking about the proof of God-saving grace, right, the proof 572 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,600 of God-saving grace, which is through the identity of the believer. 573 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:36,840 So the believer is therefore the display of God-saving grace. 574 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,240 The believer is the display of God-saving grace. 575 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:46,080 Because from emphanizum to emphanizum, you will see that that word tells us that it is 576 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,080 about God-saving grace. 577 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,520 It is about God-saving grace. 578 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,640 It is about the union that we have. 579 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:59,480 Thus, these people who are saved manifest themselves. 580 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,160 Those people who are resurrected, they manifested themselves. 581 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,880 Now let's now go to John 14, 21 and 22. 582 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,760 John 14, 21 and 22, so that we can know how Jesus answered. 583 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,280 We are just on in this particular word now. 584 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:23,000 Now John 14, 22 says, Jesus, not as Carius said to him, Lord, how is it that you will 585 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,920 manifest yourself to us and not to the world? 586 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:27,920 Right? 587 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,600 Look at Jesus' answer and pay attention to the answer. 588 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:36,320 He said, if anyone, he did not say my disciples or the world, did he say? 589 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:43,240 So these Jews were saying that why is it that after your resurrection, you will show yourself 590 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:50,680 to us, right, you would prove to us that you are risen, right, you would give us evidences, 591 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:56,520 you would display yourself to us, right, that's your reason because the word manifest is actually 592 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:57,520 to display. 593 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:04,360 So Jesus said, if anyone loves me, he will keep my words and my father will love him 594 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,120 and we will come to him and make our home with you. 595 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:14,160 Did you see that it's not just about the disciples or the people, but if anyone loves me, which 596 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:19,080 of course from the context of that, we see that those who love him are those who keep 597 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,440 his commandments. 598 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,200 Those who keep his commandments are those who believe in. 599 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:30,920 So loving him, keeping his commandments, he's believing, right, in this context, verse 15, 600 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,280 if you love me, you will keep my commandments, right? 601 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,800 You will keep my commandments. 602 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,720 And afterwards, he moved downwards and we see, began to talk about, you will keep my 603 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:45,040 words, you will believe what I have said to you, what I have started to say to you from 604 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,640 verse one, believe in me, believe in God also believe in me. 605 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,960 So to love God is to keep his commandments to believe. 606 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,920 Therefore, he's not asking the question, why is it that it is only about Christ? 607 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:02,680 No, my manifestation, right, it will be to anyone, anyone who loves me, who keeps my 608 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,640 words, right? 609 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,120 And my father will love him, I will come, we will make our home with him. 610 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,240 Who does not love me, does not keep my words. 611 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:14,920 And the words that you hear is not mine. 612 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:21,920 But the words of the Father who sent me, right, who sent me. 613 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:26,760 So this is actually about salvation, is like John 3.16 more or less, right? 614 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:31,920 If you can read this, John 14.20 is like John 3.16, anyone who comes to believe my words. 615 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,720 So it's about salvation, right? 616 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,240 It's not just to the disciples alone, but to everyone. 617 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:47,560 So therefore, the first thing a believer would reflect is actually that identity that Christ 618 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:54,160 has, I mean, the identity that Christ has given unto us that we have in Christ. 619 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:59,960 The first thing a believer would manifest is the union that you have with Christ. 620 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,280 This is what comes first. 621 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,400 This is what is first. 622 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,600 This is what we put first, right? 623 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:13,280 The union with, said, whosoever will love me will come to me, I will make our home with 624 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,280 him. 625 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:19,360 So this one is the first that a believer has to manifest. 626 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:26,160 This un-fanizu, talking about our identity, presenting ourselves as those that are resurrected 627 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,760 with Christ, presenting ourselves, right? 628 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:34,840 Manifesting as those that have been, that have come into union with Christ. 629 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,440 This is what we see here. 630 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,240 How does this apply to the believer, right? 631 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:48,240 It means that we will exhibit, we will show, we will disclose, we will make manifest, we 632 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,600 will make plain that we are in union with Christ, right? 633 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,120 We will make plain that we are in union with Christ, right? 634 00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:01,480 So in this year, in the course of the year, as the year moves on, it must never be that 635 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:06,000 the time will manifest as those who are not in union with Christ. 636 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,560 We must always show that we are in union with Christ. 637 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:14,520 We must always present, we must always live, we must always work as those who are in union 638 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:15,520 with Christ. 639 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:21,160 We must always, another word we see here is signify, to notify, right? 640 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:27,800 To signify, to notify, to present, to present what is already existing, right? 641 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,840 It's not something you have to call forth. 642 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:34,480 It's not something that you have to, you present what is already existing, right? 643 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,760 You present what is already existing. 644 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,520 What is, and that is why, and that is why when Philip asked this question, right? 645 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,120 When Philip asked this question and said, Lord, show us the Father. 646 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,880 That what I say is the, the canal, right? 647 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:57,780 If Jesus was marveled because what Philip was asking was not, was not to show something 648 00:45:57,780 --> 00:45:58,780 that is already existing. 649 00:45:58,780 --> 00:46:05,520 He was saying, bring forth a proof, bring something, do something, show something. 650 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:10,760 Because the word that now is actually to give evidence of a thing, to give evidence of a 651 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,360 thing by proofing, proving. 652 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:17,920 It's similar to Mfanizu, but it's not always directly related to identity. 653 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,680 But to show, you have to show it by teaching it. 654 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,880 You have to show it by saying it. 655 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,160 You have to show, you have to present, you have to bring something to the, you know, 656 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,200 to the table and say, this is it. 657 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:35,320 So Jesus was marveled that why are you asking for such a proof when there's an identity 658 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,320 presented to you already? 659 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,080 And that is why Jesus, the first thing he addressed was identity. 660 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,040 Before he started talking about, you know, if not, he now said, okay, if you don't believe 661 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,640 this identity, then it works, right? 662 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,240 Then he now paid attention to the work. 663 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:51,240 He said, don't you believe that I'm in the Father, the Father is in me? 664 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,520 Verse 10, do you not believe that I am the Father? 665 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:54,760 We are one. 666 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,680 I do not speak of my own authority. 667 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,040 If you don't believe I am in him and he is in me, then you have to believe the work. 668 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:06,600 So the first thing he was addressing that I am the Father, we are one, we are one. 669 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:12,600 So for believers, one thing that is crucial as we go, as we talk about the manifestation 670 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,760 of the things of the Spirit, right? 671 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:19,400 As we talk about the manifestation of the kingdom of God, right? 672 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:25,800 One thing that is key is that your identity, right, must be plain, must be plain. 673 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,840 Where you stand must be plain, right? 674 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:33,120 People shouldn't doubt whether you are a believer or you are not a believer. 675 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:34,520 Like it should just be plain. 676 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,760 That's one you don't need, you don't need to do miracles. 677 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,580 No, you just need to live, right? 678 00:47:40,580 --> 00:47:43,560 People need to know that in every stand this person is a believer. 679 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:44,560 That's the first thing. 680 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,080 That is how we manifest our union with Christ, right? 681 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,960 They don't, when they talk about a particular subject, people should know your stand. 682 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:58,560 They must know your stand because you have to appear to them. 683 00:47:58,560 --> 00:47:59,560 You have to appear to them. 684 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,400 You have to appear to them as one who is resurrected, right? 685 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:08,720 One who is resurrected, one who has looked forward and has received the home, who is 686 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:16,100 in a home, one who is in union with Christ, one who is forever with Christ, right? 687 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:22,680 This is the first aspect that we need to really ensure that we are manifesting all the time, 688 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:23,680 right? 689 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,840 That in the friends we keep in the discussion, in the subject, in your contributions, in 690 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:34,320 the things we do, that this our identity, this is our union with Christ is made known 691 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,240 to people, is exhibited, right? 692 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:40,240 It's to show oneself, right? 693 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:45,040 You show oneself, to show your identity. 694 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,840 So now when we come to the now, right? 695 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,440 We'll come to that now. 696 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,840 There's actually the word to prove so we can deal with that a little bit in the remaining 697 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,600 five minutes. 698 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,040 Then we would subsequently, I can always... 699 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,320 Yeah, so let's check that now. 700 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:05,600 Matthew 4.8, that no, Matthew 4.8. 701 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:06,600 Matthew 4.8. 702 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,960 We'll see that this one is used generally, right? 703 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:16,080 Of course, I know people can go and study, you'll find some scriptures. 704 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:21,600 There's a place where MFANISO is used in Act 23, but it's just only in Act 23, it's used 705 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:22,600 for something else. 706 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,480 It's used for, of course, to present an identity, right? 707 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,960 It's related to identity as well, but it's not used in the context of what we thought. 708 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,560 It's used for the sections, what is used for something else. 709 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,280 But it's also related to identity. 710 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:40,040 So you can just mark Act 23 and you can read it and if you have questions, you can ask. 711 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:47,320 So when it comes to the Act No, Matthew 4.8, which is the temptation of Christ, which is 712 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:55,320 the temptation of Christ, he said, and again, he took him to a very high mountain and show 713 00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:02,840 him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, right? 714 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:10,400 All the kingdom of the world and their glory, all the kingdom of the world and their glory. 715 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:16,880 So, Miguel, what was taking place here, right, is showing evidences, right? 716 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,120 Look at this, look at this, look at this, look at this. 717 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:24,720 Not about necessarily identity, but making things manifest, right? 718 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:30,160 Just bringing evidence forth, right, of the dominion of the world, right? 719 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,960 So it was bringing evidence forth of the dominion of the world. 720 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:41,200 That was the word that the devil was, you know, it's used in the context of the devil. 721 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:47,240 Luke 4 verse 5 also reiterates the same thing, reiterated the same thing. 722 00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:49,280 Matthew 8.4, let's check Matthew 8.4. 723 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,880 So this one is just to display evidence, you know, bring evidence, which is the word Philip 724 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,280 was telling Jesus to do. 725 00:50:55,280 --> 00:51:00,720 Show us the dominion of the Father, kind of show us where is the rain, show us, you know, 726 00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:01,720 with proofs. 727 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:07,160 Now, Matthew 8 verse 4 would give us a little bit of help in understanding this word and 728 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:08,960 what the believer should do, right? 729 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,760 What the believer should do, because this one is more related to works, actually. 730 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,680 This, the canal, is more related to works, right? 731 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:21,960 It's more related to what the believer can make available and present, right? 732 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,120 It's more related to works. 733 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:32,160 Matthew 8.4, and Jesus said, see that you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself 734 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:38,400 to the priests and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a proof to them. 735 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,800 See that you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself to the priests and offer the 736 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,440 gift that Moses commanded for a proof. 737 00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,840 Now, the first question I will ask is, was this man already clean? 738 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:54,760 Maybe we should read from verse 1, and when the leper, Matthew 8 verse 4, and when the 739 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:59,400 leper came down from the mountain, great clouds followed him, and behold, and when he came 740 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,280 down from the mountain, pardon me, when he came down from the mountain, great clouds 741 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:10,880 followed him, and behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, Lord, if 742 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,400 you will, you can make me clean. 743 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:19,840 Jesus straight out his hand and touched him, saying, I will, I will be clean. 744 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,320 And immediately the leprous did what he left, right? 745 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:24,320 He left. 746 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,640 So, can we call him a clean man? 747 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:33,840 Yes, he's a clean man, but he cannot be integrated into the society unless there is a proof from 748 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:38,280 the priests as a certificate of integration into the society. 749 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,880 So, that word, therefore, to go and show yourself to the priest is not saying go and be cleansed 750 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:45,880 by the priest. 751 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,080 It's not only about his identity. 752 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,640 It's about go and get a document, a proof, right? 753 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:57,160 And offer the gift that Moses commanded to prove. 754 00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:58,160 Did you see the word? 755 00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:03,880 He now used the word, another word there, proof, show yourself, then go and prove. 756 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,720 So, it's about bringing something forth, making something the proof, right? 757 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:13,320 So, the main difference between these two words, there are still many other scriptures 758 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:14,320 we'll stop here. 759 00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,640 Now, the main difference between these two words is that one is majorly about your identity 760 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,240 that you just live out. 761 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:24,840 The second one is majorly what you present, what you can meet manifests. 762 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:31,120 So, as we present our identities as we live as believers, there are also things that we 763 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,000 must do, right? 764 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,760 Jesus was living on earth and he was showing his identity. 765 00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:42,760 Now, let's go to, I think, chapter two, because John 2 verse 18, we'll just use John 2 verse 766 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,360 18 and we will close on that. 767 00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:53,440 John 2 verse 18 from verse 13, to show that even Christ, he was living, he was showing 768 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,600 that this is, I am from the Father, I'm from the Father and the Father is in me. 769 00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,420 I mean, the Father, the Father is in me. 770 00:53:59,420 --> 00:54:01,480 We are together, we are in union. 771 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,760 Yet, people are asking, truth, right? 772 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:05,760 Proof. 773 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,760 And that proof is always the canal, not emphanizu, right? 774 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,000 It's always the canal. 775 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,320 When it comes to emphanizu, Jesus would emphanizu, right? 776 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,320 He would manifest himself to many. 777 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:20,560 But the canal is most of the time someone asking for something or making manifest for 778 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,680 a proof, for an evidence. 779 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:28,540 Verse 13 says, the Passover of the Jews was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 780 00:54:28,540 --> 00:54:33,200 In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons and the money changers 781 00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,360 sitting there and making a whip of coats. 782 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:42,400 He drove them all out of the temple and with the sheep and oxen and with the sheep and 783 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,520 oxen and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables and he 784 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:51,160 told those who sold the pigeons, take these things away. 785 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,000 Do not make my father's house a house of trade. 786 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,480 The disciples remembered that it was written, the zeal for your house will consume me. 787 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:04,520 So the Jews said, what sign do you show for doing these things? 788 00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:12,840 And Jesus said to them, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. 789 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:13,920 So what sign? 790 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,720 What sign do you show that you are from heaven? 791 00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:20,360 What sign do you show that you are from the father? 792 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:21,360 Right? 793 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,360 What sign? 794 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,320 So, I'm requesting for this sign. 795 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:30,440 So when I studied John 14, I would pay attention to it. 796 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:36,360 One thing that we can discover is that believers, our identity, our unity with Christ needs 797 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:37,840 to be made manifest. 798 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:38,840 Right? 799 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,000 Needs to be made manifest. 800 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,560 And other things also need to be made manifest. 801 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,360 We need to show people, right? 802 00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:52,480 Diagnomies, to show with evidence, to prove which includes the things of the spirit, manifesting 803 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,880 the things of the spirit, teaching the word, teaching the word. 804 00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:56,880 Right? 805 00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,760 Those are proofing, those are proving that, okay, I am not just a believer. 806 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,240 I don't just have the identity. 807 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:04,680 But these are evidences, right? 808 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:11,800 You can heal the sick, you can stretch foot, you can heal the lame, we can preach the gospel, 809 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:16,280 explain the gospel, to make manifest true teaching and knowledge. 810 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,520 We can make the knowledge of God feel everywhere. 811 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:24,920 It's not just by saying, okay, I'm a believer and you have a standard people, bringing forth 812 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,200 as many things from the scripture, from the word of God, from the teachings, from the 813 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:35,160 manifestation of the spirit to show that surely we come from the kingdom of God. 814 00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,880 We manifest the kingdom of God. 815 00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:43,800 So I believe that we've been able to understand and as we go into the year, we will be able 816 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:50,320 to not just have the tag of the identity, right, not have the tag of the identity, but 817 00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:57,200 living that, having stands in many areas of life, but also manifesting the kingdom through 818 00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,360 signs, through proof, right? 819 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:05,880 With many proof, right, we would present that Christ is the Messiah, Christ is King and 820 00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,480 that we are in union with him. 821 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:08,480 Praise God. 822 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:09,480 Amen. 823 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,640 We appreciate you being here today. 824 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,240 We hope you carry this word with you throughout your week. 825 00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:19,560 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 826 00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:24,640 Stay connected with us through our website or follow us on social media. 827 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:28,840 If you were encouraged, share this message with someone you care about. 828 00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:43,200 Until next time, stay blessed.