1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 Welcome to NECF sermons. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:11,440 Each message here is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your walk with God. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:17,360 Don't miss out, stay with us until the end for a rewarding experience. 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,360 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:29,440 So on Sunday we are looking at manifesting the kingdom of God. 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,440 Manifesting the kingdom of God. 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:39,920 And we are going to look into some things in regards to that. 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,480 But like I said, I want us to be encouraged to be here. 9 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,520 To pay attention to what is going on. 10 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,520 To pay attention to the world. 11 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:55,040 We know that we are not physically with each other at the same location. 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,440 But we can still benefit from properly paying attention to the world. 13 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,000 And receiving the best that we can. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,080 As we know that there is also strength for us. 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:14,160 Every time the word of God comes, it is an opportunity for us to receive from God. 16 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,680 It is an opportunity for us to learn from God. 17 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,880 It is an opportunity for us to be strengthened. 18 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,120 To be assured of the promises of God. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,760 And reassured of what he is doing and what he will continue to do. 20 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:29,040 God praise the Lord. 21 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,760 Luke chapter 17. 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,280 Luke chapter 17. 23 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Luke chapter 17 verse 11 to 21. 24 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:51,440 It happened that as he went to Jerusalem that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 25 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,600 And then he entered a certain village. 26 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,680 There he met ten men who were lepers. 27 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,000 He stood afar off. 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,120 And they lifted up their voice and said, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. 29 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,520 So when he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourself to the priest. 30 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,520 And it was that when they went, they were cleansed. 31 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,320 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned with a loud voice glorifying God. 32 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:26,800 And falling down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. 33 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,720 And he was a Samaritan. 34 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:35,200 So Jesus answered and said, were there not ten cleansed? 35 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,400 But where are the nine? 36 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:49,120 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner? 37 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,440 And he said to them, arise and go your way. 38 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,400 Your faith has made you well. 39 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:04,880 Now when he was asked by the Pharisee when the kingdom of God would come, he answered and said to them, 40 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:15,120 the kingdom of God does not come by observation, nor would they see there or see here or see there. 41 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,200 For indeed, the kingdom of heaven is within you. 42 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,560 Praise the Lord. 43 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:28,640 And that's when we said that the Pharisees, as we saw, and the Greeks have always sought 44 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:35,200 to intellectually understand the scriptures or they have thought to, 45 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,680 they have wanted to see a sign so that they can believe Jesus. 46 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,640 They wanted to see something that is tangible, something miraculous. 47 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,640 They were concerned about the miraculous so that they will believe Jesus. 48 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,680 It's not like they have not seen, but they always want him to do something for them. 49 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:01,680 And so we saw by many scriptures how they would have always asked him for a sign. 50 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:11,680 And he would say to them, there's no sign to be shown to this generation except for the sign of Jonah. 51 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,680 They saw something, they saw a sign. 52 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,680 They saw a sign. They saw Jesus perform a miracle. 53 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,680 They saw something that Jesus performed the miracle. 54 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:29,680 So they were curious about the situation and they asked him, he said, when will the kingdom of God come? 55 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:35,680 Because according to them, they understand that the Christ that will come would have the power to do these things. 56 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,680 He would have the might to do these things. 57 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,680 He would do many miraculous things. 58 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,680 And so they want to be sure if the kingdom of God is here. 59 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,680 And so he said to them that the kingdom of God is not by observation. 60 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,680 The kingdom of God is not by observation. 61 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,680 It's not by what you see. 62 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,680 It's not physically discerned. 63 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:07,680 It's not something that you physically discern, praise the Lord, when the kingdom of God would come. 64 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,680 So they asked him all of that, praise the Lord. 65 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,680 And they wanted, like I said, they've always wanted a sign. 66 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,680 So we said again that the kingdom of God, for they asked him, when would the kingdom of God come? 67 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,680 It therefore means that they were expecting the kingdom. 68 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,680 They were expecting the kingdom of God. 69 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,680 The Pharisees were expecting the kingdom of God. 70 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:40,680 I think somebody was discussing and I said, when the Bible or when Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees or when he was speaking, 71 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:49,680 or when this right, when the Bible was written, the people that had it originally were not confused about what it meant. 72 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:50,680 Praise the Lord. 73 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,680 The people that had it originally, there was no confusion about, oh, this is what is he trying to say. 74 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,680 Right. It was clear as it is. 75 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,680 They might have a misunderstanding based on what they have held on to. 76 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,680 But what they passed across was very clear. 77 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:06,680 Praise the Lord. 78 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,680 What was passed across was very clear. 79 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,680 So they were expecting a kingdom to come. 80 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,680 They were expecting a kingdom to come. 81 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,680 They were not expecting to go to a kingdom. 82 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,680 They were expecting that the kingdom of God will come to men. 83 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:22,680 Praise the Lord. 84 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,680 That the kingdom of God will come to men. 85 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,680 And so we see Jesus telling them that the kingdom is within you. 86 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,680 The kingdom is within you. 87 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:40,680 The word kingdom is the word that means royal power or rule or dominion. 88 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,680 Like I said, it's not to be confused for domain. 89 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:51,680 It's not to be confused for an actual kingdom that we know of or for a territory or for a physical location. 90 00:06:51,680 --> 00:07:00,680 It means dominion or the right to rule or royal power. 91 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:01,680 Praise the Lord. 92 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,680 So they are not confused about it. 93 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:09,680 We saw so many scriptures that confirm all of that when they asked him, when he tells them a parable, 94 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,680 he said the kingdom of God is like it to this. 95 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:19,680 He was talking about Basilia, which is the word for the king, the word that was used for the kingdom in Luke chapter 17. 96 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,680 Praise the Lord. 97 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:30,680 So the manifestation of the kingdom of God, we will say, is the manifestation of the royal power of God. 98 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,680 Is a manifestation of the royal power of God. 99 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,680 Is a manifestation of the royal power of God. 100 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,680 The manifestation of the dominion of God. 101 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,680 The manifestation of the rule of God. 102 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,680 That's what the manifestation of the kingdom of God is. 103 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,680 And so he tells them that the kingdom of God is not by observation. 104 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,680 It's not something that they can observe. 105 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,680 It's not by what they are trying to see. 106 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,680 It's not by the sign that they have seen that indicates that the kingdom of God is here. 107 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,680 It's not physically the sun, but it is spiritually the sun. 108 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:08,680 Praise the Lord. 109 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:13,680 It is spiritually the sun. 110 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,680 So we also saw how the kingdom would come or how the kingdoms come. 111 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,680 How the kingdom comes. 112 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:33,680 And he tells them in verse 20 that, like we mentioned earlier, they were not expecting the kingdom to go to the kingdom, 113 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:35,680 but they were expecting that the kingdom should come. 114 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:38,680 And Jesus said to them that the kingdom is within you. 115 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:44,680 That is not within the Pharisee, but the fact that Jesus was currently present with them. 116 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:46,680 It therefore means that the kingdom has come. 117 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,680 The kingdom is with them right there where they are. 118 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:52,680 The kingdom has come. 119 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:53,680 Praise the Lord. 120 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:56,680 So it's not physically the sun. 121 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:03,680 Second Corinthians, second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 3. 122 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:10,680 Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 3 to 6. 123 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,680 He said, But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 124 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:20,680 whose mind the gods of this age are blinded, who do not believe, 125 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:26,680 least the light of the gospel, of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, 126 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,680 should be shown in them, should shine on them. 127 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:38,680 For we do not preach ourself, but Christ the Lord, and ourselves your born servant for Jesus' sake. 128 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:46,680 But it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown our light to give, 129 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:51,680 who has shown in our heart to give the light of the knowledge, of the glory of God, 130 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:53,680 in the face of Jesus Christ. 131 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:54,680 Praise the Lord. 132 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,680 It is not physically the sun. 133 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:02,680 It is not physically the sun. 134 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:14,680 John chapter 4, verse 21. 135 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,680 And then to the Samaritan woman, he says, 136 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:21,680 So the woman said, Jesus replied, 137 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,680 Believe me, a time is coming. 138 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:26,680 He said, Believe me. 139 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:30,680 And Jesus said to that woman, Believe me, the hour is coming, 140 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:36,680 when you would neither on this mountain, or in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 141 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:41,680 He said, You worship what you do not, what you don't know. 142 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,680 We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 143 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:50,680 The hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, 144 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,680 for the Father seeks us to worship him. 145 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:54,680 Praise the Lord. 146 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:58,680 So he's telling them that the kingdom has come to them. 147 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:01,680 So he's even telling the Samaritan woman, 148 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,680 also the implication of their conversation there is that the kingdom has come to them. 149 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:11,680 He said, Now is when the true worshipers will worship him in truth and in spirit, 150 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:18,680 for God seeks such worship from them. 151 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:19,680 Praise the Lord. 152 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,680 For God seeks such worship from them. 153 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:32,680 We also saw that it is not, that God's kingdom does not come in the excellency of the expectation of men. 154 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:37,680 We saw that in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 22, 25. 155 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,680 It does not come as man expects it to come. 156 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:44,680 What makes the foolish, what makes the wisdom of men foolish? 157 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:50,680 It's not something that they can understand or discern. 158 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:55,680 It does not come in the nature that man expects it to come or man can understand it. 159 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:56,680 Praise the Lord. 160 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,680 It does not come like that. 161 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:06,680 So he said the kingdom of God is within you, that is, because Jesus was currently there with them. 162 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:09,680 Because Jesus was currently there with them. 163 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,680 Praise the Lord. 164 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:16,680 John chapter 3. 165 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:21,680 John chapter 3, verses 1 to 21. 166 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,680 Said, It was a man of the Pharisee named Nicodemus, the ruler of the Jews. 167 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:31,680 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, 168 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:35,680 for no one can do this thing that you do unless God is with him. 169 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:42,680 Jesus answered and said to him, Moses, suddenly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 170 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:46,680 Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old? 171 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:51,680 Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? 172 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:59,680 Jesus said, Moses, suddenly I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 173 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:05,680 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 174 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:12,680 Do not marvel that I say to you, you must be born again, for the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, 175 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:16,680 but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. 176 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,680 So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. 177 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,680 Nicodemus said to him, how can this be? 178 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:27,680 And Jesus answered and said, are you a teacher of Israel and do not know these things? 179 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:35,680 Moses said, suddenly I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness. 180 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:41,680 If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how would you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 181 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:51,680 No one has ascended to heaven, but the one who comes down from heaven, that is the son of man who is in heaven. 182 00:13:51,680 --> 00:14:02,680 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so was the son of man lifted up, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. 183 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:10,680 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, 184 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:19,680 for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, 185 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,680 but that the world through him might be saved. 186 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:29,680 For he who believes in him is not condemned, or he who does not believe in him is condemned already, 187 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:35,680 because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. 188 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:45,680 This is the condemnation that light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 189 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:52,680 For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be espoused, 190 00:14:52,680 --> 00:15:00,680 for he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. 191 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:05,680 Praise the Lord, that they have been done in God. 192 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:13,680 So, still looking at manifesting the kingdom of God, manifesting the kingdom of God. 193 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:28,680 And we saw from our teaching on Sunday that God, that Jesus is the kingdom of God. 194 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,680 That Jesus is the kingdom of God. 195 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:39,680 So, in John chapter 3, we see here Jesus having a conversation with Nicodemus, 196 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:46,680 and our pastor told us that Nicodemus tried to call Jesus what he is not. 197 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:52,680 But Jesus redirected him to what exactly he came to do. 198 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:58,680 That he is not just a good teacher come from God, but he is the kingdom of God. 199 00:15:58,680 --> 00:15:59,680 Praise the Lord. 200 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,680 He is the kingdom of heaven. 201 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,680 He is the royal power, the dominion of God. 202 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:16,680 So, he tells him in verse 3 that Moses, suddenly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 203 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:21,680 Unless one is born anew, except one is born again. 204 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:29,680 And as we know, the word again means to be born from above, from a higher place, to be born anew, 205 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:36,680 to be born from spiritual, praise the Lord, to be born from spiritual. 206 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:42,680 He said unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 207 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,680 He cannot see the royal power of God as we have defined. 208 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,680 He cannot see the dominion of God. 209 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,680 He cannot see the illumination of God. 210 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,680 He cannot see the dimension of God in his life. 211 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:56,680 Praise the Lord. 212 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,680 It means that that man has no portion with God, except a man be born again. 213 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,680 Except a man be born again. 214 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:10,680 And what we're trying to see is how God has manifested his love towards us. 215 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:11,680 Right? 216 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,680 How God has manifested his love towards us. 217 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,680 So, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 218 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,680 He cannot see the royal power of God. 219 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,680 That man does not belong to God. 220 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,680 Or does he understand the realities of God? 221 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,680 He cannot see the kingdom of God. 222 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:35,680 And in verse 5, he tells us that he tells him again, most astrothingly I say to you, 223 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,680 unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 224 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,680 Right? 225 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,680 So, trying to say to him, and as we also saw previously, 226 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,680 that when he say born of water and the spirit, 227 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,680 he's not speaking about water baptism and being born again. 228 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,680 He's talking about it means water, which is the spirit. 229 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:57,680 Right? 230 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,680 So, he's talking about the same thing. 231 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:00,680 Praise the Lord. 232 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:06,680 So, except a man be born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 233 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,680 Except that man is born again, he cannot enter the dominion of God. 234 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,680 He cannot enter the royal power of God. 235 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,680 He cannot enter the rule of God. 236 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,680 That man cannot experience God. 237 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,680 He is a man who is in darkness, who is not of God. 238 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:26,680 He does not belong to God. 239 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,680 He has no business with God. 240 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,680 He has no relation whatsoever with God. 241 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:33,680 Praise the Lord. 242 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,680 And we also see in verse 6, he said to him that, 243 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:43,680 that which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit. 244 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:49,680 So, how a person comes to the kingdom of God is spiritual. 245 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,680 It is a spiritual thing. 246 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,680 We come to the kingdom spiritually. 247 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,680 Praise the Lord. 248 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:56,680 It is a spiritual thing. 249 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,680 It is a spirit that does it. 250 00:18:58,680 --> 00:18:59,680 Praise the Lord. 251 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,680 It is a spirit that does it. 252 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:02,680 Right? 253 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,680 So, we come to the kingdom when we accept the gospel. 254 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,680 We come to the kingdom when we accept the gospel. 255 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:19,680 So, the manifestation of the kingdom of God is the manifestation of Christ. 256 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,680 The manifestation of the kingdom of God is the manifestation of Christ. 257 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,680 So, when we say that this year the theme of the church is manifestation of the kingdom of God, 258 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,680 what we are trying to say is that this is the year that as a believer, 259 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,680 you manifest Christ. 260 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:41,680 This is the year that you manifest Christ. 261 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:42,680 Praise the Lord. 262 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,680 This is the year that there is a manifestation. 263 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,680 It is a manifestation of Christ. 264 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,680 It is a manifestation of Christ. 265 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:57,680 So, from verse 6 to 8, we see also that he tells in John chapter 3, right? 266 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,680 That the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, 267 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,680 but cannot tell where it comes from. 268 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,680 Where it goes. 269 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,680 So, he is anyone who is born of the spirit. 270 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,680 And the Codemus answered and said to him, how can this be? 271 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,680 And Jesus answered and said, are you a teacher of Israel and do not know these things? 272 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,680 Most assuredly, I say to you, we speak of things. 273 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:27,680 We speak of, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen. 274 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,680 You do not receive us. 275 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:30,680 You do not receive our witness. 276 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,680 If I tell you earthly things, you do not believe. 277 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,680 How can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 278 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,680 No one has ascended into the heavens, but he who comes down from heaven, 279 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,680 that he is the son of man who is in heaven. 280 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,680 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 281 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,680 even so must the son of man be lifted up. 282 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,680 That those who have beliefs in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. 283 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,680 So, when he says as Moses was lifted up, right? 284 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:07,680 He is speaking about his death and he is speaking about his burial and resurrection and ascension. 285 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:14,680 When he says as Moses is lifted up, as Moses lifted up verse 14, 286 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,680 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 287 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,680 so must the son of man be lifted up. 288 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,680 So, he is saying that the lifting up of the serpent in the wilderness 289 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:30,680 is a indication of people being saved from the bite of the snake. 290 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,680 People being saved, people's life being spared. 291 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,680 He is using that to depict that the Christ must die and must resurrect. 292 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,680 And that symbolizes salvation. 293 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,680 What we saw in Moses was pointing to what the Christ would do. 294 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,680 What we see in Moses is pointing to what the Christ would do. 295 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,680 So, what do we see in Moses? 296 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:08,680 Numbers, Numbers chapter 21, Numbers chapter 21, Numbers chapter 21 verse 9. 297 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,680 So, we can start from verse 17. 298 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,680 Then Moses, therefore the people came to Moses and said, 299 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:19,680 We have seen, but we are speaking against the Lord and against you. 300 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,680 Pray to the Lord that he may take away the serpent from us. 301 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,680 So, Moses prayed for the people. 302 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,680 Then the Lord said to Moses, 303 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, 304 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,680 and it shall be that everyone who is bitten when he looks at it shall leave. 305 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:44,680 So, Moses made a brown serpent, a bronze serpent and put it on a pole. 306 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:52,680 And it was if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he left. 307 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,680 Praise the Lord. 308 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,680 So, he was saying to him that he made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole. 309 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:04,680 And he set it up that he that is looking for life will look at it. 310 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,680 He that is looking to life will look at it and leave. 311 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:08,680 Praise the Lord. 312 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,680 So, Jesus was using the same thing to describe what he would do. 313 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaking about his death, speaking about his barriers, speaking about his vexed section, 314 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:24,680 that in doing that, in going to the cross, he will save men. 315 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,680 In going to the cross, salvation will come to men. 316 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,680 In going to the cross, men will be saved. 317 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,680 There will be an opportunity for people to be saved. 318 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,680 Praise the Lord. 319 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:42,680 This is how he demonstrated his love or he manifested his love towards us. 320 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:43,680 Praise the Lord. 321 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,680 And we see some of those things, some of the fulfillment of it, right? 322 00:23:47,680 --> 00:24:08,680 In Matthew chapter 25, Matthew chapter 27 verse 35, Matthew 27 verse 35, 323 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,680 then they crucified him, right? 324 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:17,680 They crucified him and divided his garments, casting lots that he might be fulfilled, 325 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,680 which was spoken by the prophet. 326 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,680 They divided my garment among them and for my clothing they casted lots. 327 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,680 Praise the Lord. 328 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,680 And we also see in John, so the thing that he was speaking that, 329 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:36,680 so will the Son of Man be lifted up, is the same fulfillment we are seeing here. 330 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:44,680 John chapter 8, John chapter 8 verse 21, 331 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,680 John chapter 8 verse 21, 332 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:55,680 The Jews all said to them, I am going away and you will seek me and will die in your sin. 333 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,680 Where I go you cannot come. 334 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:04,680 So the Jews answered, would he kill himself because he said, where I go you cannot come. 335 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:10,680 And he said to them, you are from beneath and from above, you are from this world and I am not of this world. 336 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:20,680 Therefore I say to you that you will die in your sin if you do not believe that I am he and you will die in your sin. 337 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:25,680 Then they said to him, who are you? 338 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:36,680 Jesus said, just what I have been saying to you from the beginning, I have many things to say to you and to judge concerning you, 339 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:47,680 but he who sent me is true and I speak to the world those things which I heard from him. 340 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,680 They did not understand what he spoke to them about. 341 00:25:51,680 --> 00:26:02,680 Jesus said to them, when you lift me, when you lift up the son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. 342 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,680 As my father taught me, I speak these things. 343 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:08,680 Praise the Lord. 344 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:20,680 So this thing is when he says when you lift me, he is still talking about the same thing that we saw in the same thing that we saw in the John chapter 3. 345 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:28,680 He is saying just as the serpent is lifted, he is still speaking about his death and his resurrection and ascension. 346 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:40,680 John chapter 12, John chapter 12, verse 32. 347 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:50,680 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw many to myself. I will draw many to myself. 348 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:57,680 This he said, signifying what death, what death he would die. Praise the Lord. 349 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:06,680 So speaking of the same thing, speaking about his death on the cross, burial, his resurrection and ascension. Praise the Lord. 350 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:18,680 This thing he was speaking, consigning these things. But what we saw here that Moses, when he lifted up this serpent, right, we see in second Kings, second Kings, 351 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:26,680 that as Moses lifted up this serpent in Numbers 21, verse 9, that the people might be saved by it. 352 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:35,680 But then we see what people started doing with it. That which was not signifying the intention of what God wanted it to be used for. 353 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:42,680 Second Kings chapter 18, verse 4. Praise the Lord. 354 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:59,680 He removed the high things, he removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars and cast and cut down the golden image and broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses had made. 355 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:06,680 For until this day the children of Israel were born innocent to it and called it as Shesha. 356 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:14,680 So we see here that the children of Israel were worshipping this. They have seen a miracle, they have seen something happen. 357 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:20,680 So they do mind, they have seen, okay, this is a powerful thing we need to continue to worship. This has saved us in the past. 358 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:29,680 But this was not the intention of God. The lifting up of serpent should not be what should continue, but the lifting up of the Christ. Praise the Lord. 359 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:37,680 So this was destroyed so that it would not continue because that was not the intention of God. It had become an idol worship. 360 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,680 They have turned it into an idol worship. Praise the Lord. 361 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,680 They have turned it into an idol worship. Right? 362 00:28:45,680 --> 00:29:06,680 So it was broken because the fulfillment of this, as we saw in Matthew and John, and we saw that in the fulfillment of that, that the intention of the, it was, it was, it was intended to save people at the time for a particular event, but not the salvation of their souls. 363 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,680 Because they have turned it into a thing of worship. 364 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:19,680 So it was intended to save, but for a particular point. But these people have turned it into a thing of worship. 365 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,680 So Jesus was the ultimate salvation. He was the one that was bringing the ultimate salvation. 366 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:31,680 The people that were killed were beaten by, by, by the, by the serpent. 367 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:46,680 They were still living the way they were living. Praise the Lord. So, but Jesus was the ultimate salvation. He was the one that will be lifted up. That sin is taking away. Praise the Lord. 368 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,680 So let's dig over to that John, John chapter 3. 369 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,680 John chapter 3. 370 00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:01,680 Chapter 15. He says that whosoever believes, then he's, okay, let's look on this one. 371 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:11,680 He said, as Moses lifted up the serpent from the wilderness, even so, Moses, the son of man, was lifted, and whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 372 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,680 So, the lifting up of the serpent did not give everlasting life. 373 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:25,680 Praise the Lord. He only prevented the people from, prevented the people from dying from the, from being, after being beaten by the serpent. 374 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:35,680 But the lifting up of Jesus was what, by believing in that, was what brought salvation to men, what brought everlasting life to men. 375 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:41,680 That was the salvation that came to men. Praise the Lord. 376 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,680 So, he said that whosoever believes in him should not perish. Right? 377 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:54,680 So this perish is different from the perishing from the, from the, from the serpent bites. 378 00:30:54,680 --> 00:31:02,680 It's a different type of perishing. That it will not be, they should not perish eternally. Right? 379 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:08,680 That what he's saying here in verse 15 is that they will not perish eternally, but have everlasting life. 380 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:13,680 But the, the, the perishing of the serpent was that they were going to die. And that was it. 381 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:21,680 But then he has no eternal consequences compared to that which Christ has done. 382 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:31,680 And then from verse 15, verse 16 says, For he, for God so loved the boy that he gave his only begotten son, 383 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:42,680 that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 384 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:51,680 For God did not send his, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. 385 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:58,680 He who believes in him is not condemned. But he who does not believe in him is condemned already. 386 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,680 Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. 387 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:09,680 And this is the condemnation. The light, this is the condemnation. 388 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:17,680 The light, the light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light. 389 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,680 Because their deeds are evil. For whosoever practices evil hates the light. 390 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,680 And does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 391 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:34,680 For he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds might be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. 392 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,680 Praise the Lord. So God has shown his love. 393 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:48,680 It is love that made him, it is love that has brought about the sacrifice. 394 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:56,680 It is because of the love that he has for the world, because of the love that he has for the world that brought about the sacrifice of Jesus. 395 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:03,680 Praise the Lord. It is because of the love that men should not perish, that if they are brought about, 396 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:12,680 they are brought about Christ dying on the cross for us, that we may be saved, that we may be with him, that we may be in union with him. 397 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,680 So we see here God demonstrating his love towards us. 398 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:22,680 So the love here requires sacrifice. And love is sacrifice. Praise the Lord. 399 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:33,680 Jesus did not come to the world to condemn it. He did not come to condemn it, but he came that people and us and everyone might be saved. 400 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,680 This was his agenda, that everyone would be saved. 401 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:47,680 Everyone would escape the damnation, would escape the eternal punishment of what is to come. Praise the Lord. 402 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:57,680 Would escape that. And then in verse 19, verse 18, and this, how we escape this is by believing in him who has died on the cross for us. 403 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:04,680 It is by believing in him who has died on the cross for us. It is by believing in him that we are safe. 404 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:11,680 It is believing in him, truthfully, that we are safe. 405 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:17,680 So from verse 19 to 21 tells us that love has come for the people who have rejected the love of God. 406 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:22,680 That's why there was condemnation there, because they have rejected the love of God. 407 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:29,680 So God has loved us. So God's love has manifested in this way, that he loved us. 408 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:36,680 He loved those that he sent his son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. 409 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:43,680 This is the love that he has manifested and he has shown to us. 410 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:48,680 This love required sacrifice. This love came with a price. 411 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:58,680 It wasn't mindful of whether the people deserve or whether they were begging for it or whether they were interested in it or not. 412 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:04,680 It came because he loved us. Praise God. It came because he loved us. 413 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:10,680 And because God loves us, he manifested it by sending his son. 414 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:25,680 Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5, from verse 6 to 8. 415 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:31,680 So showing us how God has loved us and how God has manifested his love towards us. 416 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:39,680 He said, for when we were still without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. 417 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:47,680 For scarcely can a righteous man, sorry, for scarcely for a righteous man would one die. 418 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:56,680 Perhaps for a good man one should even dare to die. But God demonstrated his own love towards us. 419 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:02,680 In that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 420 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:16,680 Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we should be saved from the wrath through him. Praise the Lord. 421 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:22,680 So we see here Christ manifesting his love. God manifesting his love towards us. 422 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:30,680 In that Christ died for the ungodly. See, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Praise the Lord. 423 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,680 So God demonstrated his love towards us while we were still sinners. 424 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:47,680 And he sent Christ to die for us. He talked about us before us. John chapter 3. 425 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:59,680 John chapter 3 verse 1. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. Praise the Lord. 426 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:06,680 Therefore the world does not know us because it does not know him. Behold now we are children of God. 427 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,680 And he has not yet appeared. He has not yet been revealed what we should be. 428 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:22,680 But we know that when he is revealed we shall be like him for we shall see him just as he is. Praise the Lord. 429 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:30,680 We see here again that God manifesting or demonstrating his love towards us. Praise the Lord. 430 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:40,680 So God loves us and this love required sacrifice. He required that he sent his son to the world to die for us. Praise the Lord. 431 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:49,680 So this love does not seek permission to do the thing that is necessary to save us. 432 00:37:49,680 --> 00:38:00,680 His love towards us was not that he asked us whether we are interested in his son coming or he sent his son because of the love that he has for us. 433 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:08,680 He knows what is good for us. He knows the right thing that is good for us. And so he sent his son to the world. 434 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:16,680 He knows that we will need these things. Praise the Lord. So love is sacrifice. 435 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,680 So that is how he has manifested his love towards us. 436 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:32,680 Where is John chapter 4? Where is John chapter 4? Where is John chapter 4? From verse 9 to 11. 437 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:39,680 In these the love of God was manifest towards us. That God sent his own begotten son into the world. 438 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:45,680 That we might live through him. That we might live through him. 439 00:38:45,680 --> 00:39:03,680 In this, in this is love not what we, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be a propitiation for a sin. 440 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:10,680 Behold, beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. Praise the Lord. 441 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:17,680 So in that God has sent his son into the world to die for us, right? 442 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:29,680 He demands that we love one another. That we love one another. That we love, that we have love one for another. 443 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:36,680 In verse 7 of that same John chapter 4, verse John chapter 4, he said, Behold, let us love one another. 444 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:44,680 For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Praise the Lord. 445 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:54,680 The source of love is God. The source of love is God. The source of love is God. 446 00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:08,680 So in this here, in manifesting the kingdom of God, one of the things that we would, one of the things that is or has to be manifest is love for one another. 447 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:16,680 It's love for the believer, love for the unbeliever, love for the people of God. Praise the Lord. 448 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:25,680 How do we go about showing love? How do we go about showing love? Right? 449 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:40,680 Second Timothy. Second Timothy. Second Timothy chapter 4. 450 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:48,680 Second Timothy chapter 4. From verse 2. 451 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:55,680 So for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. 452 00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:09,680 But according to their own desire, because they have eating ears, they would heap up for themselves, teachers, and they would turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to feebles. 453 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:20,680 So but you be watchful in all things, endure affliction, do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry. Praise the Lord. 454 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:32,680 Do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry. As we saw that God loved us, right, even when we are not aware of it, 455 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:40,680 even when we are not conscious of it, even where we didn't ask for that to be done for us. Right. 456 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:51,680 He loved us and sent his son and that love required a sacrifice. That love required that we are safe from the wrath of condemnation. 457 00:41:51,680 --> 00:42:04,680 So one of the ways in which we can show love this year, right, one of the work we can show love this year is that we do the work of an evangelist. Praise the Lord. 458 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:13,680 We do the work of an evangelist. We do the work of an evangelist. Just as there was no permission needed for him to die for us. 459 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:26,680 There is no permission needed for you to proclaim the gospel to someone because you know that the intention of God and the desire of God is that all men be safe, 460 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:35,680 that all men come to the truth of the gospel, that all men come to him, that all men are reconciled back to him, 461 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:44,680 that all men should hear the gospel of truth, that all men should know that which is freely given unto all. Praise the Lord. 462 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:53,680 So one of the ways we can show love, one of the ways we can manifest love this year is to preach the gospel, to spread the word of the kingdom. Praise the Lord. 463 00:42:53,680 --> 00:43:04,680 He said, do the work of an evangelist. He said, but you yourself be watchful in all things and during affliction, right, do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry. 464 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:14,680 Praise the Lord. So as the chaos is happening, as there is a wrong doctrine, as there is, as we know, if you talk to somebody, why are you not coming? 465 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:27,680 He said, I've not yet. There's something that I've not yet. I don't feel it yet. I'm not feeling, I don't know how to explain it, but they're not yet feeling something they are looking for. Praise the Lord. 466 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:42,680 So they jump from one church to another. I'm looking for something, right? And it's not, sometimes it's not really genuine that they are maybe, yeah, they are going there because the word is not, they're going because the word is not sound or something. 467 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,680 They're just going because they are looking for something that will appease them. Praise the Lord. 468 00:43:48,680 --> 00:44:03,680 Even as people look for doctrines, even as people look for ministries and things that appease them, you do the work of an evangelist. You do the work of an evangelist. Preach the word. 469 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:18,680 You do the work of an evangelist to preach the word and that work is to preach the word, to be diligent to preach the word. Praise the Lord. To preach the word. It doesn't matter what they are thinking, but you preach the word. 470 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:37,680 The first thing you can do is to continue to pay attention to some of the teachings that is recommended for you to pay attention to. So all the teachings that is coming and those in the many groups in the church so that you are able to learn, you're able to explain the gospel to somebody. 471 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:52,680 You're able to share the gospel to somebody. You're able to take away confusions. Praise the Lord. That is one of the ways we can show love to people this year is by teaching the word, by teaching, by doing the work of an evangelist with no permission needed. 472 00:44:52,680 --> 00:45:03,680 You don't need their permission to do the work of an evangelist. You don't need their, it's not whether they like it or they don't like it. You are just doing the work of an evangelist. 473 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:28,680 First Timothy chapter four, verse six, he said, if you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourishing, nourished in the word of faith and of the good doctrines which you have certainly followed. 474 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:33,680 Praise the Lord. 475 00:45:33,680 --> 00:46:00,680 So, one of the things that you can do as well to show love is for you to pay attention or to instruct the believers in the doctrines of God. So speaking to one another as well. So not just preaching to people who are unsafe, but also speaking to your fellow believers. That's one of the ways we can show love in this year is by speaking to one another. 476 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:13,680 Is by instructing the believers. Praise the Lord. Because it tells us that so many people, if you read the previous verses will tell you that it will be spirits manifesting in the later days, right? 477 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:22,680 There are people giving heed to so many types of things. People giving heed to different types of spirits and doctrines of demons. Right? 478 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:37,680 But you are not supposed to be like that. Praise the Lord. So instructing the believers in the right doctrine, in the proper word of God is one of the ways we can show love in this year. 479 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:42,680 And then lastly, we're going to read John chapter 13. 480 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,680 John chapter 13. 481 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,680 John chapter 13, verse 34. 482 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:55,680 The new commandment I give you that you love one another as I've loved you. 483 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:01,680 That you also love one another. 484 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:08,680 By this all will know that you are my disciple if you have love for one another. 485 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:20,680 And Simon Peter. Praise the Lord. So that's the place we're reading. So that the new commandment I've given you that you love one another just as I've loved you. Right? 486 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,680 That you will also love one another. 487 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:30,680 By this all will know that you are my disciple if you have love for one another. Praise the Lord. 488 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:40,680 So one of the ways we can manifest the kingdom is to show love to one another. Is to show love to one another. Is to speak with each other in love. 489 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:51,680 As I said earlier, love is a sacrifice. Love requires sacrifice. It requires a lot of things. 490 00:47:51,680 --> 00:48:01,680 It requires for you to be selfless. Praise the Lord. 491 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:07,680 We appreciate you being here today. We hope you carried this word with you throughout your week. 492 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:15,680 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 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