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 --> 00:00:22,120 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:36,000 That you might proclaim the virtues, that's the word praise is there, the virtues of Him. 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,640 What are His virtues and what He did on the cross? 7 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,040 What are those things we will proclaim? 8 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:53,040 And those things He accomplished on Calvary. 9 00:00:53,040 --> 00:01:05,280 That you might proclaim the praises of Him, of Him, of Him. 10 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Who did what? 11 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:18,320 He said, who called you out of darkness into His own marvelous light? 12 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,040 He said, you are His own special people. 13 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,480 He said, you are a chosen generation. 14 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,240 He said, you are a royal priesthood. 15 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:37,600 He said, you are a holy, holy nation. 16 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,520 How have you seen yourself? 17 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:46,440 He said, you are holy, holy, holy. 18 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:52,840 He said, holy nations, holy nation, His own special. 19 00:01:52,840 --> 00:02:01,320 You know, some people said, we have come to the world to accompany others. 20 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,400 It's an error in the mouth of a believer. 21 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,320 He said, His own special. 22 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,400 You know, in the military that's what we call special forces. 23 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,400 Are we together? 24 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,920 It's for special purpose. 25 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:16,920 Are we together? 26 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:23,320 He says, His own special people, special people. 27 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,280 Into someone you have looked down upon yourself. 28 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:29,280 I'm talking to someone. 29 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:36,760 You have not seen yourself in the light of what God has made of you. 30 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:43,240 You have not seen yourself in that light of Him who has called you out of darkness. 31 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,880 You are still as if you are living in the darkness. 32 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:57,680 He said, He has called you out of darkness into His own marvelous light. 33 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,080 Into His own marvelous light. 34 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,040 Into His marvelous light. 35 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,440 About that you are a male. 36 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,280 You are the firstborn of your family. 37 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,040 Sometimes we emphasize, please help me with this. 38 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,480 Help me with this. 39 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:20,320 We have talked about the issue of those who are firstborn are the special ones. 40 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,440 We even have prayer time for them. 41 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,760 Those who are firstborn sometimes suffer. 42 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Sometimes they say they have a problem. 43 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,240 If you are firstborn you have to come here. 44 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,680 We have to pray for you. 45 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,160 No, you don't have a problem. 46 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,800 Whether you are last in between or below, if there's anything like that. 47 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,040 He said, you are among His special people. 48 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,040 Are we together? 49 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,040 Hallelujah. 50 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,280 He didn't say you are a man or you are a woman. 51 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,640 He said you are among His special people. 52 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:50,960 There is no identity. 53 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,280 Listen, this identity is not gender based. 54 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,560 And that's what we're going to continue on. 55 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:13,880 Years back I started a message, a series on what I titled issues around women's liberty. 56 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,840 Issues around women's liberty. 57 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:27,440 And we discussed some few things because we have had a lot of challenges in the church. 58 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:33,520 We are still as if in the wall. 59 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,720 We still judge ourselves by the physical. 60 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:43,480 But our identity is in Christ, is not in our physical appearance. 61 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:50,840 Paul said we no longer consider, see any man after the flesh. 62 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:58,200 He said before we also saw Christ in that light, 2 Corinthians 5.16. 63 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,120 And that's why 17 came and said therefore. 64 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,920 That means there is something he said before that. 65 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:09,040 If any man, that man is not male. 66 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,240 Tell your neighbor that man is not male. 67 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,520 That is the man in Christ. 68 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,440 And it is you. 69 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:25,000 He said if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. 70 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,280 Give me that 16 again. 71 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:37,240 He said therefore from now on we regard no man according to the flesh, mean by physical, 72 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,320 by worldly point of view. 73 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:47,320 He said even though we have known Christ according to the flesh. 74 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:54,520 Right now, that's before we used to see Christ as one who is an Israelite. 75 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,520 But Peter identified him correctly. 76 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,560 He said who do men say that I am? 77 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:09,160 Peter said you are the Christ, the son of the living God. 78 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:16,960 And Jesus turned and said Peter, he said flesh and blood did not reveal this. 79 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:25,560 The revelation of God, the revelation of Christ is a gift to humanity. 80 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,520 The revelation of Christ is what God gives. 81 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,640 It's not what you receive by experience. 82 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,800 It's not what you receive by watching, by seeing, by testing. 83 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:43,080 That's why you can see your identity based on flesh. 84 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,020 Where you're coming from. 85 00:06:45,020 --> 00:06:49,040 You'll be in trouble when you continue to look at your physique. 86 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,040 Or I am black. 87 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,400 Or that's why he's treating me racist. 88 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,960 That's why you are bothered about all these words. 89 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,520 Because you are seeing yourself wrongly. 90 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,840 Do you know what I'm saying? 91 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:05,440 I was teaching, I was telling my medical student and I told them, I said before they deceive 92 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,520 black people, you are not good looking. 93 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,520 And they invented and then create bleaching cream. 94 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:19,280 And they begin to bleach themselves and brought about Jerry coil and all those kind of relaxers 95 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,880 and all that. 96 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:28,880 And then because they want to see their distinct coil, after so many times they ate their money, 97 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,760 they deceived them. 98 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,440 And then now they turn to the white. 99 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,440 They say you are not good looking, you need to look chocolate. 100 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:44,600 And then they begin to invent tanning beds and put them inside and after some time they 101 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,000 begin to develop cancer and all kinds of things. 102 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,320 You see them roaming around beaches, say they are buffing themselves with the sun. 103 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,320 You are buffing yourself. 104 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,480 Do you understand what I'm saying? 105 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,280 All that now they are being deceived. 106 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:04,760 There are a lot of things that now they are begin to apply because they want to look chocolate. 107 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,400 The black they rejected, now they are receiving it. 108 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,720 You go for those criminals that are chopping your money, you understand? 109 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:13,720 Deceiving you. 110 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:14,720 No! 111 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,320 Your identity is not from the outside. 112 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,120 Our identity is defined in Christ. 113 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,200 And so we looked at two things. 114 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,600 I don't know how many parts we had, I lost count with it. 115 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,840 Anyway, the media team would actually help us with that. 116 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:39,000 What we looked at is it scriptural for a woman to speak in the church? 117 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:46,160 You know we lived one scripture in the sun that women are not permitted to speak. 118 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:53,700 You know if you have been in this church we have taught you that you study the Bible contextually 119 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,040 not by words. 120 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,080 Are we together? 121 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,680 That the Bible is not a place, every word. 122 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:02,200 Listen to me. 123 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,440 Every word in the Bible has its meaning in the context. 124 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:08,440 You understand? 125 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,280 There is no blanket meaning for words. 126 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,320 If you see wall here it does not mean wall in another place. 127 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,600 If you see flesh here, now I just quoted a scripture now, you understand? 128 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,560 It said not according to flesh. 129 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:25,640 You understand? 130 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:33,080 Another place will say now that you are not in the flesh if the Spirit of God dwells in 131 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:34,080 you. 132 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:39,200 What is the difference between flesh here and the flesh in Romans chapter 8? 133 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,080 So there is no blanket meaning of words. 134 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,440 And then we studied that. 135 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:52,240 Then we went to the next step and asked a question again and we answered it. 136 00:09:52,240 --> 00:10:00,160 That is, is a woman permitted to lead a church or to pastor a church? 137 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:08,280 Because we also pick a particular verse and now made it a doctrine because we think the 138 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,180 calling of God is a gender based calling. 139 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:15,480 That is what lack of proper interpretation brings. 140 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:22,120 How on earth will you manifest the kingdom when you are walking in error? 141 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,120 Not possible. 142 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,720 Today we will begin a journey again. 143 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:26,720 Hallelujah. 144 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:32,280 And we want to answer this question and it will be some journey. 145 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,320 And I want you to be patient with me. 146 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:42,480 And that is, what is God's original plan for creating a woman? 147 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:49,440 What is God's original plan for creating a woman? 148 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:56,840 Let's begin from where my sister helped me to reach. 149 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,000 And I think that's a good place to start. 150 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,120 And I am aware that some of us are coming today for the first time and some of you are 151 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,480 just new into the church. 152 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:18,440 So I want to just do some little things to, because the love of God is inside me. 153 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,520 Hallelujah. 154 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,000 And that's why I want to carry you along. 155 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Amen. 156 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,720 So that when you begin to see us doing some deep things, you understand, you will not 157 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,200 be lost. 158 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,640 Hallelujah. 159 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,040 Amen. 160 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Matthew chapter 22. 161 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Matthew 22. 162 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,280 You know, the Bible is wonderful. 163 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:50,040 And I want to read that again because where she read, you know, to get the Bible, I mean 164 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,280 the message of the Bible, you have to read and read and read. 165 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:55,280 You understand? 166 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,280 There is no overdose of reading. 167 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:58,520 Amen. 168 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,240 Can you go to 23? 169 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,760 That's Matthew 22, 23. 170 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:15,440 The same day the Sadducees who say, I want you to underline that if your Bible was not 171 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:21,320 borrowed, who say there is no resurrection. 172 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:27,800 So I want you to underline the identity of the word, the Sadducees. 173 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,040 Who say there is no resurrection? 174 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,920 Came to him and asked him. 175 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:45,200 Now if you read, I mean some verses before that verses, you will see that the the Pharisees 176 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,040 came to Jesus with another question and they were dismantled. 177 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:55,720 That same day the Sadducees came and said, okay, let's come to him again. 178 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:00,800 You know, all of them, the difference between Pharisees is that they believe there is resurrection 179 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,120 and this one do not believe. 180 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,160 Even though they have their own confusion also. 181 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:11,960 Verse 24, saying, teacher, Moses said that even man dies having no children, his brother 182 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:18,560 shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 183 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:27,160 Now they are aware with all seven brothers, the first died after he had married and having 184 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:31,120 no offspring left his wife to his brother. 185 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,880 Verse 26, likewise the second also and the third and even the seventh. 186 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,920 Last of all, the woman died also. 187 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:49,280 Verse 28, therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? 188 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,960 For they all had her. 189 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,760 I want you to see that question on 28. 190 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:56,760 He says what? 191 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,160 He said in the resurrection. 192 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:01,160 He didn't believe there is resurrection. 193 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,280 Why are you asking that in the resurrection again? 194 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,320 In the resurrection, whose wives of the seven will she be? 195 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,760 For they all had her. 196 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,880 Look at Jesus answered. 197 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:20,740 Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken. 198 00:14:20,740 --> 00:14:21,740 You are what? 199 00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:22,740 Mistaken. 200 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:24,740 Please don't be looking at me. 201 00:14:24,740 --> 00:14:26,800 When I'm reading Bible, read your Bible. 202 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:34,480 That's why I will stop these people from, okay, media team, don't put this one. 203 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,560 I want you to read your Bible. 204 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,800 This is a training ground. 205 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,800 We are not asking you to read from here. 206 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,080 Read from your Bible. 207 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,400 If you are boring the Bible for the first time, go and buy your own. 208 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,760 Are we together? 209 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:48,760 Amen. 210 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,440 I want you to learn to read the Bible. 211 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,720 I'm rereading it. 212 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,920 I would have just moved to the verses, but I'm still reading what my sister have read 213 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,400 because I want you to learn how to read. 214 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:07,560 It's not true that this generation have a low... 215 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,560 No, I don't believe you are the one. 216 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,320 That's why I'm trying to go by this way. 217 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,320 I believe you have a long... 218 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,560 If there's anything like that. 219 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,960 Long attention span, amen. 220 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,760 Okay, please accept if you want me to call you. 221 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,840 Amen. 222 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,040 I love you so much. 223 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:38,600 So Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken. 224 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:44,560 Not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 225 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:51,880 I want you to know that word, mistaken, in verse 29. 226 00:15:51,880 --> 00:16:02,960 It is the word in Greek, plana o, is P-L-A-N-A-O. 227 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,400 And if you're not writing, actually you are not doing yourself good if you have been in 228 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,040 this church for a long time. 229 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,840 It is plana o, is o plana o. 230 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,040 Just bear with my pronunciation of Greek. 231 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,040 Understand? 232 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:26,260 It's P-L-A-N-A-O. 233 00:16:26,260 --> 00:16:30,740 It means to lead astray. 234 00:16:30,740 --> 00:16:42,800 It means to lead astray, or to be deceived, to be deceived, or to be led into error. 235 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:49,620 To be deceived, to be led into error, or to be led astray. 236 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:54,280 That means there is someone responsible for the deception. 237 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,720 Do you understand what I'm saying? 238 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:02,200 So how were the Sadducees led astray or mistaken? 239 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,280 Because Jesus said, you are mistaken. 240 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:06,280 Understand? 241 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,080 Or King James says, you are. 242 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,080 Are we together? 243 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:14,800 Hallelujah. 244 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,800 How were they? 245 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:23,920 Jesus said in that verse 29, he said, because they did not know the what? 246 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:24,920 The scriptures. 247 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,800 They did not know the scriptures. 248 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,600 Know the power of God. 249 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:35,760 Of course, it's expected that if you don't know the scriptures, how can you know the 250 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,680 power of God? 251 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:45,560 Paul says in Romans 1, 16, that I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 252 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,560 Right? 253 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,840 For it is what? 254 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:55,840 The power of God unto what? salvation to those who do what? 255 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:01,840 Who believe first to the Jews and also to what? 256 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,120 To the Gentiles. 257 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:06,760 Where do you find the gospel? 258 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,880 In the scriptures. 259 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,960 You search the scriptures? 260 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,960 For in them you think you have eternal life. 261 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:19,680 But they are they that testify of me. 262 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,000 You search the scriptures. 263 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,240 So you find Jesus in where? 264 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,240 The scriptures. 265 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,160 John chapter 5, verse 39. 266 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,920 That's where you find Jesus. 267 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,640 That's where you find the gospel. 268 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,960 The scriptures points to Jesus. 269 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:44,560 That's why he said, not knowing the scriptures, know the power of God. 270 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:49,200 If you don't know the scriptures, how can you have contact with the power of God? 271 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,200 Never. 272 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Hallelujah. 273 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:57,560 So the Sadducees were led astray. 274 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:05,920 That means Jesus was saying that the Sadducees were deceived into believing that there is 275 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,920 no resurrection. 276 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:16,200 So what they were saying in verse 23, because they did not know the scriptures, look at 277 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,200 it. 278 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,020 He said, the same day the Sadducees who say? 279 00:19:20,020 --> 00:19:25,680 That means what they are saying was a product of deception. 280 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:32,960 That means what they were saying, what they came to conclusion that there is no resurrection, 281 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,040 it means was a product of what? 282 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,040 Deception. 283 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,520 And why were they deceived? 284 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,120 They do not know the what? 285 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,120 The scriptures. 286 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:50,140 So we can quickly learn, and you have learned it already, that ignorance of the scriptures 287 00:19:50,140 --> 00:20:00,560 can make a people or a person or even a believer a candidate of deception. 288 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:12,200 Ignorance of the scriptures can make a believer or a person or a people candidate of what? 289 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,280 Deception. 290 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:20,800 Let me point to you a word from the epistles that says something very close to that. 291 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,280 Are we together? 292 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,280 Ephesians chapter 4. 293 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,280 Ephesians chapter 4. 294 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:30,120 You remember I told you I love you, so those of us, just follow me. 295 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,800 That's how we come to the understanding of scriptures. 296 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:39,160 I'm trying to lay foundation on the very important where there is, that's the problem. 297 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:46,160 In many of the Christian cycle, you know some women are banned and not permitted, you understand, 298 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,060 to be ministers of God. 299 00:20:48,060 --> 00:20:53,200 And I'm showing you the reason why they have come to that. 300 00:20:53,200 --> 00:21:00,400 Because they see the call of God within the lenses of gender instead of the calling of 301 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:09,760 God within the circumference or within Christ's identity. 302 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,760 Are we together? 303 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:11,760 Hallelujah. 304 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,720 Are you there? 305 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,760 Look at verse 11. 306 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,960 Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11. 307 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,840 Oh, thank you, media team. 308 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,760 Now everybody have to look at his Bible now. 309 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 Amen. 310 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Verse 11. 311 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:32,960 And he himself gave some to be apostles. 312 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:40,160 Now we have already done a study in this, that what some is not talking about quantity 313 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,840 is the word in Greek ho, H-O, ho. 314 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:50,220 It actually not referring to quantity at all. 315 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:52,020 Are we together? 316 00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:57,960 So he's talking about that in the church, God set these offices. 317 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:07,800 And he said, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, teachers, verse 12, what for? 318 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:14,440 He said, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for edifying 319 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,440 of the what? 320 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,440 The body of Christ. 321 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,440 Look at verse 13. 322 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,240 That's the end game. 323 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:28,240 Till we all come to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. 324 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:34,920 Now the unity of faith here is talking about the doctrine of Christ, the knowledge of Christ. 325 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,920 It's not talking about that every church have to come together, you understand, in one place. 326 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:40,920 No, no, no, no. 327 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:41,920 That's not what he's talking about. 328 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,520 He's talking about in the knowledge of Christ. 329 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:53,760 Till we all, what will bring such a unity of the understanding of Christ is teaching, 330 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:54,760 equipping. 331 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,440 Are we together? 332 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,760 In our said, the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the status 333 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,520 of, to the measure of the status of the fullness of Christ. 334 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,200 Look at verse 14, that we should no longer. 335 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,240 That's the essence of the knowledge of Christ. 336 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,120 We should no longer be what? 337 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:25,640 Children, tossed to and fro and carry about with every wind of doctrine. 338 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,180 By what? 339 00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:34,560 By the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of what? 340 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,000 Deceitful plot. 341 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,840 Again, he's trying to say that when you have knowledge of Christ, you will not be like 342 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,560 a pendulum. 343 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,920 You will not be like a child. 344 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:50,320 You will not be at the mercy of men, cunning crafty men. 345 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:57,880 Those who are for your pockets, those who are for your bodies, those who are there for 346 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:58,880 their sake. 347 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,880 You know what I'm saying? 348 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:02,880 Are we together? 349 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,120 That is the thing. 350 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:09,960 So what that means that you will not be led astray to believe something that is not of 351 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,960 God. 352 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:17,000 You will not be led astray like the Sadducees to believe that there is no resurrection. 353 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:25,320 They were led astray because they did not know the scriptures nor the power of God. 354 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Hallelujah. 355 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,760 Now go back to that Matthew again. 356 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:35,140 Go back to that Matthew 22. 357 00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:37,360 Look at verse 30. 358 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:39,120 Want you to look at verse 30. 359 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:43,920 For in the resurrection, Jesus continued to actually explain. 360 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:44,920 Jesus continued. 361 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:52,640 He said, for in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like 362 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:58,160 angels of God in heaven. 363 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,080 Where did you think Jesus got this explanation? 364 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,720 Where did you think Jesus got this explanation he's giving to them? 365 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,720 Look at verse 33. 366 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,920 Just verse 31. 367 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,440 I think that's, let's start from there. 368 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,440 But start one. 369 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,960 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, he said, have you not what? 370 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,000 Oh, talk to me. 371 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,720 Have you not what? 372 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:27,800 Read what was spoken to you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 373 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,160 the God of Jacob. 374 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:35,680 God is not the living God of the dead, but the what? 375 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,040 God of the living. 376 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:43,280 Where did Jesus got the information that in the resurrection, there is no marrying and 377 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,000 there's no giving of marriage? 378 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,240 He point them to the scripture because he say you were in error. 379 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,560 You were let astray because you did not know the scripture. 380 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,800 He now said, have you not read? 381 00:25:58,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Have you not read? 382 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:00,800 Are we together? 383 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,920 In Hebrews 10, the Bible says, no, talking about Jesus, I come in the volume of the books 384 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,200 that is written concerning me. 385 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,160 Are we together? 386 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:18,440 Jesus in teaching, he did not just was moving like some of us. 387 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:27,800 If Jesus was, did not walk without the scripture, how can you convince me that you are his follower 388 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,520 and you are walking all around without the Bible? 389 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:38,600 Because whom the entire scripture is about, but to explain himself, he always point to 390 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,160 scriptures. 391 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,920 He never said anything on his own. 392 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,160 He always points them is to explain. 393 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,160 He will told them. 394 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,880 Remember I called that verse before. 395 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,880 Are we together? 396 00:26:52,880 --> 00:27:00,120 John 5 39, he say, you search the scriptures and in them you think you have eternal life. 397 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,560 He said, but there are day that did what? 398 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,720 That testify of me. 399 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,520 Are we together? 400 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,000 He said, have you not read? 401 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,680 Have you not read? 402 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,920 Look at that word. 403 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,280 Have you not read? 404 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,280 Read where? 405 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,800 The scriptures. 406 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:19,800 What is he saying? 407 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,800 Is he saying they have never seen the scriptures? 408 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,800 Not at all. 409 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,960 Not at all. 410 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,960 That word read there is not just casual browsing. 411 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:37,000 And just checking into document as a duty, as a routine. 412 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,280 You just like some of us, we are forcing, as if we are forcing you, you are reading 413 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,280 the Bible in one year. 414 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:49,000 You just say, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and 415 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 be God. 416 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Okay. 417 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 No, it's James Begat. 418 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Okay. 419 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,000 You understand? 420 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,640 You are doing as if you are sleeping, and after you finish, today I think Pasekosi will 421 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,640 see the mactique. 422 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:07,520 No, it's not just casual reading that you're just reading as a duty, as a routine. 423 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,520 No, that's not what he's saying. 424 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:18,480 And in our cell groups, we have done the first part of the book, and the major thing is what 425 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,000 is that word read? 426 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,680 Now I want to come to some of us who have been there. 427 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,800 I will cut some for us. 428 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,800 What is that word? 429 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,200 I told you, even in this church, you're supposed to know some Greek word because we use them 430 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,640 always by now. 431 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Are we together? 432 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,120 What is that word read in Greek? 433 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:35,960 Let me see somebody and ask the person. 434 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,320 What I tell is we should know because it's common. 435 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,480 We just finished it last time. 436 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,680 What is that word in Greek? 437 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,920 Anaginosko. 438 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,360 Yes. 439 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,680 Don't worry about the pronunciation. 440 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,680 At least you have said it. 441 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,680 You understand what I'm saying? 442 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,680 Anaginosko. 443 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,680 So he's not talking about casual reading. 444 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,440 Anaginosko is not just talking about casual reading. 445 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,760 No, it's from the two words, ana and ginosko. 446 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,160 Ana means properly. 447 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:14,320 Ana means that is A-N, A-N-A, that's ana in the sign. 448 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,520 A-N-A. 449 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:22,120 He's talking about properly, through, every, complete. 450 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,160 That's what it means. 451 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:33,480 Properly or each or through or every or complete. 452 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,360 That's what ana means. 453 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:51,040 So when you bring ginosko, G-I-N-O-S-K-O, G-I-N-O-S-K-O, ginosko, which means to know, 454 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,480 to know or to understand. 455 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,560 Meaning, now when you combine them, it means to know through. 456 00:29:58,560 --> 00:29:59,640 Are we together? 457 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,280 Or to know complete or to know every. 458 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,280 Are we together? 459 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,840 Oh, are you with me? 460 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:16,800 That means any subject you will pick in scriptures, prayer, whatever, before you will say anything, 461 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:17,800 what should you do? 462 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,480 Oh, talk to me, what should you do? 463 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,320 You read through completely. 464 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:30,400 So no passage of scripture should be interpreted outside the context of the Bible. 465 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,320 Even if you are reading in Genesis, and that is what we did for some of us that are just 466 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:41,000 coming newly, that's what we did to answer the question, is it scriptural for a woman 467 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,880 to speak in church or is it forbidden? 468 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,960 Is it also scriptural for a woman to lead a church or forbidden? 469 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:55,440 We read through from Genesis all on through the epistles to answer that question. 470 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,960 If you stay in one place, you will be in error. 471 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,320 That is not read. 472 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,960 That is not ana ginosko. 473 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,880 That's why Jesus will always ask them this question. 474 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:14,080 Both the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he will ask them, have you not read Matthew 19, 4? 475 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,560 When they ask him concerning divorce, he asks them, have you not read in the beginning? 476 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,240 Did you understand what I'm saying? 477 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,240 Are we together? 478 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,240 The scribe asks him a question. 479 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,640 He asks them, have you not read? 480 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,000 He's talking about you didn't read through. 481 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 You are reading carelessly. 482 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000 You didn't read everything, not complete, not properly. 483 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,360 And that's what we want you to do. 484 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:47,480 So in this study, also to understand the, I mean the ghost plan for creating a woman, 485 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,080 we will have to read from Genesis up to epistles. 486 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,600 That's why I say we're going to go a journey. 487 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,080 This is how doctrine is done. 488 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,440 You can't be deceived this way. 489 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:06,040 We will start from Genesis and start reading and studying up to epistles, connecting all 490 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,040 the scriptures together to come to an understanding. 491 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:15,940 What is God's original plan of making a woman? 492 00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:21,860 So before we jump on that, let me show you, because when Jesus was asking them, have you 493 00:32:21,860 --> 00:32:25,800 not read, that is his pattern. 494 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,840 So we're not just saying that he's asking, no. 495 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,640 That is what he did. 496 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,280 Are we together? 497 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,480 In discussing scriptures, that's what Christ did. 498 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,480 Look 24. 499 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,200 Look at look 24. 500 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,200 Look 24. 501 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,200 Look at 25. 502 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,800 We have studied that verse again and again, and we will go back again and again until 503 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:51,720 it enters you and subconsciously anything you are discussing, anything you are finding 504 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:58,320 and you are reading, you must go through the Bible to see and to come to a full and complete 505 00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,760 understanding. 506 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,680 That is how we read the Bible. 507 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,280 Tell your neighbor that's how we read the Bible. 508 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,440 That is how we read the Bible. 509 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:20,280 We do not read the Bible selectively, but we read the Bible through the entire book. 510 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,120 Amen. 511 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,960 That is how we read the Bible. 512 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,680 Let's learn from Jesus quickly. 513 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,480 Look at verse 25. 514 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,160 So this man were confused, his disciples, because they crucified him because they were 515 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,840 expecting that Jesus came to deliver Israel onto them. 516 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:45,920 They are thinking of political power while Jesus is talking about the kingdom power. 517 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,300 Are we together? 518 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:51,240 And then they were confused when Jesus was crucified. 519 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,960 Look at verse 25. 520 00:33:52,960 --> 00:34:00,520 Then he said to them, all foolish ones and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophet 521 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,040 have what? 522 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:11,600 Have spoken, but not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter his glory. 523 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,560 Now look at what he did. 524 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:21,720 Verse 27, I'm beginning at Moses and all the prophet, he did what? 525 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:27,320 He expounded to them in how many scripture? 526 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:28,840 Oh, talk to me. 527 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,320 In how many scripture? 528 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,000 All the scriptures, the things concerning himself. 529 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,320 Jesus would have just stopped in one verse and said, this is what Isaiah said of me in 530 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:48,640 the son, unto you a child, a son is given, a child is born and da da da da da da. 531 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:56,560 Or he just quote one scripture in Isaiah 53, by my strife, you are healed and so on and 532 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,000 just stop there. 533 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000 No. 534 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,680 He said beginning from what? 535 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:02,680 From Moses. 536 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:08,480 That is all the books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and the prophet. 537 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:09,480 Look at 44. 538 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,440 Look at 44. 539 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:19,200 Then he said to them, these are the words which I have spoken to you while I was still 540 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:24,040 with you, that all things must be what? 541 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:31,040 Fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, the prophet and what? 542 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,200 The Psalms concerning me. 543 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:39,760 Now media team put me that picture I gave to you please, you understand? 544 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,600 Now this is what Jesus did. 545 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,600 What we call, because what we call our Old Testament today is the Jewish Tanakh because 546 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,000 in the days of Jesus, that's what he had. 547 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,440 Are we together? 548 00:35:53,440 --> 00:36:00,400 And what we have as a Jewish Tanakh is exactly our Old Testament today. 549 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,960 It's just some differences in the way the books were arranged. 550 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,440 So I just show you this, we have done that before. 551 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:14,200 I just show you this to just show you how the scriptures were organized differently 552 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,600 in the Jewish Tanakh and that of our own today. 553 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,600 But it's the same. 554 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,600 It's the same. 555 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:25,820 For example, what we call the minor prophets is just one book. 556 00:36:25,820 --> 00:36:30,240 What we call the minor prophets, all these books, now Hosea, Joel, to Malachi, is one 557 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:31,880 book, is one. 558 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,800 First and second king is one book. 559 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,680 First and second chronicle is one book. 560 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:43,800 So if you look at it, while we have 39, they just have about 24. 561 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,820 So what we call the Psalms is not just only the book of Psalms. 562 00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:52,200 When you hear Psalms here, note that in your mind from today. 563 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,560 When you hear Psalms, he said, so that you will not be thinking, ah, so where did the 564 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,560 other ones go? 565 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,600 Since it's all say the prophet and Psalms. 566 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,920 No, it doesn't mean just only Psalms. 567 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:05,920 Are we together? 568 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,440 They call it the writings. 569 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:14,920 And you can see all these books are called the writings or the Psalms. 570 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,360 Amen. 571 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,080 So I want you to have that at the back of your mind. 572 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:25,000 When you read that, don't think that the other part of the books, we don't have them. 573 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000 No. 574 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Amen. 575 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,720 This is what Jesus did to explain to his disciples, he did what? 576 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:35,920 He started from Moses and quote that scripture and quote this one and say, this is what this 577 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,200 is talking about me. 578 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,200 He moved to this one. 579 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,560 This is what you're talking about me. 580 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,560 He moved to this one. 581 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:41,560 This is what he's talking about me. 582 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,320 Da da da da up to the end of it. 583 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,960 And then told them, did you see? 584 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,200 And let me tell you, this is how he taught. 585 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,500 It's not just after he resurrected. 586 00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:52,880 Look at what he told them. 587 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:58,240 He said, these are the words which I have done what? 588 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:02,720 That means he has spoken to them before about these things he's saying now. 589 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:03,720 Are we together? 590 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:11,240 So Jesus taught Genesis to Malachi to bring an understanding. 591 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:14,040 And that's what we will do in this study. 592 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,840 That's what we will do. 593 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,760 And I want to just note to you some things, certain things. 594 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:27,220 Now since that is scriptures, what do we call the gospels and then the epistles? 595 00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:30,320 Because in the days of Jesus, when they say scriptures, even the apostles, when they say 596 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,600 scriptures, they just mean Genesis to Malachi. 597 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,960 We see here there is no, there is no Ephesians here. 598 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:37,960 Are we together? 599 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,960 There is no book of John here. 600 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:47,740 So when the Bible says in all the scriptures and he mentioned that that's what he means. 601 00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:49,800 So how did we arrive? 602 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,280 That's just what I will just clarify and then we'll pray. 603 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:54,680 You understand? 604 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,680 Amen. 605 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,880 So let me clarify the gospels. 606 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:08,720 Now the gospels, first and foremost, I want you to note something that already scriptures 607 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:15,480 have told us that all scriptures are inspired of the Holy Spirit. 608 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,440 Second computer, chapter one, verse 20 and 21. 609 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,000 Second computer, chapter one, verse 20 and 21. 610 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,280 That means the Old Testament are authored or are inspired by the Spirit. 611 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:33,000 Now when Jesus arrived, we saw that Jesus, all his teaching taught from where? 612 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,720 Oh, are you with me? 613 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,200 Taught from where? 614 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:42,080 He taught from the scripture, Genesis to Malachi. 615 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:49,440 That means all his life and teaching recorded in the gospels were a teaching or product 616 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:56,680 of the already the, what we call the Old Testament text. 617 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,280 Look at how Luke put it. 618 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,840 Act chapter one, act chapter one, verse one, act chapter one, verse one. 619 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:10,200 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to both to do and to 620 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,280 do what? 621 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:18,200 And to teach unto the day in which he was taken up after he through the Holy Spirit 622 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:24,460 had given commandment to the apostles whom he had chosen. 623 00:40:24,460 --> 00:40:29,240 So Jesus taught, remember what account is he talking about? 624 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:34,440 Former account is talking about Luke because he's the same writer. 625 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:40,960 Go to Luke, Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one. 626 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,680 So act chapter one is referring to Luke chapter one. 627 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:51,880 As many have taken in hand to set in order the narrative of those things which have been 628 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,320 fulfilled among us. 629 00:40:54,320 --> 00:41:01,440 Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitness and ministers of the world delivered 630 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,600 them to us. 631 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:08,520 It seems good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very 632 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:16,280 first to write to you an orderly account, most excellent who? 633 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,620 To your fellows. 634 00:41:17,620 --> 00:41:22,700 That you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed. 635 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:28,780 That means what Luke wrote here, he obtained it from eyewitness. 636 00:41:28,780 --> 00:41:35,780 So what did he do, he documented the teaching of Jesus, again, where did Jesus taught from? 637 00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:37,400 The scriptures. 638 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,120 Because Jesus, all the teachings were teachings from scriptures. 639 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:47,600 That means the entire gospel of the records of Jesus teachings and life, they are also 640 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:48,600 what? 641 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:49,600 Scriptures. 642 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,440 Because these are scriptures. 643 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,200 Now I want you to note something. 644 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:04,200 That means, listen, Jesus is behind the words that the prophet wrote. 645 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,040 Did you understand what I'm saying? 646 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:13,920 Jesus is the one that inspires the writings of the prophets. 647 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:21,160 Jesus is the one that also taught the teachings of the gospels. 648 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,920 Are we together? 649 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:30,360 Now Jesus is also the one behind the writings of the apostles. 650 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,360 Let me show you something. 651 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,560 John chapter 16. 652 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,000 John chapter 16. 653 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,720 John chapter 16. 654 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,720 Look at verse 12. 655 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:44,400 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear. 656 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,200 Now stop. 657 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:54,480 That means after Jesus used the scriptures, the text of the Old Testament, what we call 658 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:59,000 the Old Testament, we are coming to that because we have been trying to say Old Testament is 659 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,440 not a book. 660 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,000 You understand? 661 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,720 It's not a book. 662 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:08,000 Actually that division is not inspired. 663 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,240 That is not to discredit the effort of the men of God who did that, that is the publishers. 664 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:15,640 Are we together? 665 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,160 What is not inspired? 666 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,480 Are we together? 667 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:26,920 Because Old Testament, New Testament is not a book. 668 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,040 It's not books. 669 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:35,200 So it's wrong to divide the Bible into what we call Old Testament and New Testament. 670 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,560 Because Jesus taught from where? 671 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,360 How can you call what Jesus used to teach Old Testament? 672 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,920 And if you read through the gospel, you see all quotations of what you call the Old Testament. 673 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,240 That's a contradiction. 674 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:57,080 When you go to the epistles, it's also all quotation because that was their textbook. 675 00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:03,440 Jesus never called that portion Genesis to Malachi Old Testament because that was what 676 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,360 they were using to preach. 677 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:11,440 The apostles never call it because that was what they were using to teach. 678 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:12,760 Are we together? 679 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,320 We shall come to that to explain that more. 680 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,520 But look at what I'm saying here. 681 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:24,240 That means Jesus taught as we saw in Luke 24, beginning at Moses. 682 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:31,720 He told them these are the things, verse 44, which I have taught you or have told you, 683 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:36,920 which means that he has told them a lot of things which have been recorded. 684 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,360 However, he now said at the end of his life before his death. 685 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,120 He said, I have many things to do. 686 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,120 What? 687 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,440 Oh, talk to me. 688 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,480 I have what? 689 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:50,720 Many things to talk to you. 690 00:44:50,720 --> 00:45:01,640 That means all that we have, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, are not all that Jesus had wanted 691 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:02,640 to say. 692 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,720 Did you understand what I'm saying? 693 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:11,960 He had so much to say more, but why did he not say them? 694 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,320 Because they could not bear it. 695 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:15,320 But look at verse 13. 696 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:26,280 He said, however, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into what? 697 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:31,800 Into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority. 698 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:38,840 For whatsoever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you all things to come. 699 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:45,520 Now these all things to come, listen to me carefully. 700 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:51,160 When the spirit of truth is come, that means that which Jesus have not said because of 701 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,760 the limitations of the disciples. 702 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,640 He continued with it when the spirit came. 703 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,280 Did you hear what I'm saying to say? 704 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:10,720 That means when the spirit came, the apostolic teachings were a continuation of Jesus teachings. 705 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:19,720 So Jesus was the man behind the Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, meaning he 706 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:25,360 inspired Genesis to revelation. 707 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:32,160 In the gospel, he taught it, but there remain as others that he has not taught. 708 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,680 He said when the spirit come, he will continue. 709 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:42,000 Now when he said things to come, he will not be referring to something now in the future 710 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:47,720 because to the disciples before he died is something to come. 711 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:54,560 So his death, burial, resurrection and ascension are things to come to the disciples. 712 00:46:54,560 --> 00:47:00,800 He said there are things I have not said, but when he comes, he will tell you. 713 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:07,480 Now when we read all the scriptures and the Bible says Christ in you, where did you see 714 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,440 that in the gospel? 715 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,200 Tell me one verse that say that. 716 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,000 Are we together? 717 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:22,240 That is the epistles, what Jesus was to explain to them, but you couldn't bear it. 718 00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:23,400 Are we together? 719 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:31,240 So you could see that the Old, what we call the Old, is actually both there, the New and 720 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:32,360 the Old is still there. 721 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:43,120 Genesis to Malachi, the gospels and the epistles were all writings of Jesus. 722 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,040 Did you hear what I'm saying? 723 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,680 They are all writings of Jesus. 724 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:57,480 He uses the prophets in the path, in the gospel, he taught by himself when he was on earth, 725 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:05,240 after he resurrected, he taught in the spirit through the apostles. 726 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:06,800 Are we together? 727 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:13,440 So that's why today when we say scriptures, it all combines the whole Bible. 728 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,400 Did you understand what I'm trying to say? 729 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,080 Did you understand what I'm trying to say? 730 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:24,080 So that is why when we say scriptures, we mean the entire text of the Bible now, Genesis 731 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:34,720 to Revelation, because it is Christ in the Holy Spirit through the apostles that he wrote 732 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:35,720 those texts. 733 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:37,280 Are we together? 734 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:42,920 When we come next, I will further show you those things. 735 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:49,440 When you hear the apostles talks about the mystery, they are actually talking about the 736 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:57,400 writings of the prophets that is actually concealed, but now explaining Christ, you 737 00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,400 understand? 738 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,640 And through them, we have what we call the New Testament today. 739 00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,920 They are all writings of Jesus. 740 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:11,960 So we will go, don't ever said that the writings of the apostles, they are not the writings 741 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,960 of Jesus. 742 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:13,960 You are ignorant. 743 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:14,960 Don't say that. 744 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:15,960 No, no, no. 745 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:16,960 I am following Jesus. 746 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,560 I'm not following the apostle. 747 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:19,560 Okay. 748 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,600 When Jesus came, where did he read from? 749 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,080 He read from what men wrote. 750 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,560 Did you understand what I'm saying? 751 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,280 Because even the one you are saying that I believe in the Old Testament, they are men 752 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,240 that wrote it. 753 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:32,240 Who inspired them? 754 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:38,080 The same person who taught in the gospel and the same person who through the apostles 755 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,080 also wrote. 756 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,920 Did you understand what I'm trying to say? 757 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,400 That is how you will see the scriptures. 758 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:50,280 And that's why we will go through the scriptures to come to the answer of everything, every 759 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,920 subject in the Christendom. 760 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,120 I believe what God is doing in your life. 761 00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,240 We believe what God is doing in your life. 762 00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:02,960 And we know that God is working things in your life. 763 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,940 Don't look down on yourself because God is in you. 764 00:50:06,940 --> 00:50:09,480 You must see yourself as he sees you. 765 00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:17,840 Oh my God, he is the one who made you, not just made you, nor that he lives in you. 766 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:23,200 There is no greater blessing than to have him united with you. 767 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,040 That's the greatest of blessings. 768 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:32,480 And I want you to see that, that you are holy, that you are called to say the praises of 769 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:39,280 him who has called you from darkness into his own marvelous light, to tell of his virtues. 770 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:40,960 That's what that praises means. 771 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,120 To say of his goodness. 772 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,560 That is what it is. 773 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:51,200 And to preach of his word with confidence, knowing he is the man behind Genesis to Revelation. 774 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:58,080 He is the one behind the teachings we have in the apostle and he's the one who taught 775 00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,080 the gospels. 776 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,120 Let's appreciate him and say thank you Jesus. 777 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,400 What a glory to have revelation of your words. 778 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:10,240 We appreciate you being here today. 779 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:27,920 We hope you carried this word with you throughout your week. 780 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,280 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 781 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:36,320 Stay connected with us through our website or follow us on social media. 782 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,560 If you were encouraged, share this message with someone you care about. 783 00:51:40,560 --> 00:52:01,600 Until next time, stay blessed.