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 --> 00:00:16,920 Don't miss out, stay with us until the end for our rewarding experience. 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:18,560 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:19,560 Amen. 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,560 Hallelujah. 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,760 Yes, so we're welcome again. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:30,400 Let's begin from John 14, John chapter 14. 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:36,680 John chapter 14. 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:46,720 On Sunday we started another part in order to answer some questions of a series of messages 11 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:51,520 which we started some, will I say, last year. 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:56,800 Let's say a few months, we started it last year. 13 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:05,360 And as I said, the entire series is titled, Issues Around Women's Liberty. 14 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:13,800 And we looked at some issues which we were able to clarify through scriptures, particularly 15 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,960 in regards to scripture in 1 Corinthians 14, talking about the woman keeping silent, what 16 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:23,600 it exactly is for saying, it is for beating a woman from speaking in church. 17 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,840 We were able to answer that question that that's not what he's talking about. 18 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:34,200 And we were able to come into that conclusion by looking at scriptures from Genesis to Revelation 19 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,280 and comparing it with many others. 20 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,000 Even though some of the scripture we touched, we will come back to them again because we 21 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,520 still have other things to discuss. 22 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:51,400 Like, for example, should a woman cover their head in church? 23 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,720 And should a woman wear trousers? 24 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,360 We still have those issues to clarify. 25 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:02,940 But all this actually are issues around women's liberty. 26 00:02:02,940 --> 00:02:10,480 And for every subject we said, if you must look at it, then you have to look at the entire 27 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,480 Bible as a context. 28 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:18,600 That no any topic of scriptures, if you want to really discuss it and know the heart of 29 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,000 God, you have to read through the entire Bible. 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,400 You cannot stay in one portion of the scriptures. 31 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,520 Whatever Paul is saying will not be contradicting Peter because it's the same Holy Spirit. 32 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,320 And why are we laying this foundation? 33 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:41,920 It is because to come to us to understand that the author of what we call the Old Testament 34 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,840 is the same author of what we call the New Testament. 35 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,040 And that's what I want to establish. 36 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:53,200 If I can be able to hit that very well into our heads, then we will be able to understand 37 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,560 that whatever Paul said will not be different from what Peter said or contradict what Peter 38 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:58,560 said. 39 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:06,600 And will not also be contradicting, actually, what God says through Moses in Genesis. 40 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,680 And the whole point there, where you find some seemingly contradiction is because we 41 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,360 have not paid attention to read the whole scriptures together. 42 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:21,480 I mean, to look at all those scriptures that appear from Genesis to Revelation. 43 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:28,440 So that's the reason why we're trying to emphasize that for us to come to an understanding of 44 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,120 every topic, so we have to read the entire Bible together. 45 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:42,600 And we saw last, on Sunday, last meeting we had, we saw how Jesus actually, not just only 46 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:50,160 that he spoke about it, he demonstrated it and showed to us how in correcting the disciples 47 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:56,840 then about their unbelief in the resurrection or in the death, particularly, not really 48 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,760 resurrection because they are confused about the death of Christ. 49 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,920 And so he had to begin to mention to them, he said, oh, you fools, the foolish ones, 50 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,920 you fools, it's law of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 51 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,200 And he didn't say just prophets. 52 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,200 In correcting them, he said prophets. 53 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,160 So he didn't stay in one verse of the scriptures. 54 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:19,160 Prophets have spoken. 55 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:26,240 And then verse 26 of that, Luke 24, he said, Ought not Christ to have suffered these things 56 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,080 in the Son and to enter into his glory. 57 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:34,920 So what he's trying to say, he's summarizing what the prophets said concerning the Christ 58 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,920 that he will suffer and then he will enter his glory. 59 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,760 And how did you go about actually explaining all these things to them? 60 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:51,680 He started from Genesis and exactly from Genesis. 61 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,840 And we saw how he went there. 62 00:04:53,840 --> 00:05:02,560 And verse 27 of that, Luke 24 says, and beginning at Moses and in all the scriptures, right? 63 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:09,760 In all the scriptures, he expounded onto them the things concerning himself. 64 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:15,360 We saw also by the time you read down where, when he made them, because here he was explaining 65 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,360 to Cleopas and his companion. 66 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,040 And by the time he made them also in a group, verse 44. 67 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:30,520 He tells, he says again, that he also goes to them in the son, in all the scriptures. 68 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,880 He said, those things have to happen. 69 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,440 They have to be fulfilled. 70 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:44,120 Those things that have been mentioned or prophesied by the law, the prophets and the Psalms. 71 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,560 And we saw that the Psalms is not just the book of Psalms, that the Psalms is a collection 72 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,200 of books, what is called the writings. 73 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:59,360 And we said the same, what we call the Old Testament today we have is the same that the 74 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,320 same books that the Jewish Tanakh have, the Jewish Tanakh. 75 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,520 And we say the difference is just some arrangement of books and how they are put together. 76 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,520 Why today, modern day, we classify them into different ways in the Jewish Tanakh is a different 77 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,920 form of classification, which we saw last time. 78 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,840 Okay, so today we will just continue from there. 79 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:26,880 And then there are some few things I need to clarify. 80 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,000 And then before we now start the journey, real journey, because there are a lot of things 81 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,520 we have to come to that understanding. 82 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,720 And as I said, in today's, we're just continuing from what we started on Sunday. 83 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,720 What is God's original plan or intention for creating a woman? 84 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:53,840 Because it appears that the culture we're into and this is what actually from the what 85 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:54,840 we call the Old Testament. 86 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:59,360 I mean, don't mind me when I say what we call, I mean, if you're in this church, you understand 87 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,880 what I mean always when I say what we call because even though we're going to go back 88 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,040 to that teaching again, but we have already established that when we talk about the idea 89 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:16,040 of Old Testament and New Testament, they're not actually books, they're not actually books. 90 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,800 If you look at just like we said, how to know that they are not actually books first and 91 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,920 foremost is to look at what did Jesus use to teach the gospel. 92 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:29,680 What I just quoted in Luke, you understand, concerning himself, what did he use? 93 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:35,280 So if you call that the message of the gospel or about the death and the resurrection of 94 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:41,160 Jesus is a New Testament, then what did they use to teach that? 95 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:47,000 In the days of the apostles and Jesus, we never had anything we call today the New Testament. 96 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,840 But from which text did they use to teach? 97 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:57,160 When the Bible says in Acts chapter two, and they were committed or they dedicated themselves, 98 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,280 they are committed to the apostles teachings, what were they using? 99 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,720 They were using the one we call Old Testament today. 100 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,520 The apostles never call it Old Testament because that was their text. 101 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,060 The Jesus never call it the Old Testament because that was his text of teaching. 102 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:18,760 When he said, Lord, I come in the volume of the books that was written concerning me, 103 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:23,400 Hebrews chapter 10, he was referring to these books, Genesis to Malachi. 104 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,360 So he was not referring to what we call the New Testament today. 105 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:28,840 You understand? 106 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,800 So actually that division, if you are not careful, sometimes can be misleading. 107 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,480 So not that we can say there is nothing like Old Testament or New Testament. 108 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,400 No, there is something that is called Old Testament and there is something that is called 109 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,400 New Testament. 110 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,000 But there are no books in this time. 111 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:55,720 There are no books because as we saw is the idea of one man's way of, I mean, coming, 112 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:02,360 thinking of coming into relationship with God as a way of unbelief, the way of disobedience, 113 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,640 the way of the law in the sun, the way of works. 114 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,020 That's the Old Testament. 115 00:09:09,020 --> 00:09:14,480 And then the way of faith, the way that we believe in Christ, that's the way of the New 116 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:15,480 Testament. 117 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,200 It's not a way of works. 118 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,000 It's a way of faith. 119 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 That's the New Testament. 120 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:27,680 And we're going to explain that in some of our subsequent teachings so that we understand. 121 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:32,840 So I said we should go to John 14. 122 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:38,120 So let's start from John 14 to finish off what we started. 123 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,920 I want to just go down to let's say 22. 124 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,920 Look at 22, John 14. 125 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:46,920 22. 126 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:55,800 Judas, not his carrier, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself 127 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,920 to us and not to the world? 128 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:05,160 And Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father 129 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:11,720 will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. 130 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:19,600 He who does not love me does not keep my words and the word which you hear is not mine, but 131 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,080 the Father's who sent me. 132 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,720 I want you to know that also. 133 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:31,720 The word which you hear is not mine, but my Father's who has sent me. 134 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:37,800 These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 135 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,680 But the helper, I want you to know 25. 136 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:48,200 These things have I spoken to you while being present with you. 137 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,040 So there are things he has communicated while he was present. 138 00:10:53,040 --> 00:11:00,040 And he has noted that those words are not just words that he invented there and then. 139 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,240 I want you to know that again, verse 24. 140 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,840 There were no words that he just invented. 141 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,040 He just created it out of nowhere. 142 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,040 No. 143 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:14,080 He was trying to say that those words, you understand, they are of his Father's who sent 144 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,080 him. 145 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:21,040 Remember when Paul was talking in 2 Timothy, he was saying that the word which you hear 146 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:29,560 was talking in 2 Timothy, verse 3, verse 16, that all scriptures are given by the inspiration 147 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:30,560 of God. 148 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,680 So we are coming to that. 149 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:33,680 But look at verse 25. 150 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:39,840 He says, these things have I spoken to you while being present with you. 151 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,560 But the helper, who is the helper, he said the Holy Spirit. 152 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,920 So the helper is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send. 153 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,840 Because at that moment, the Spirit has not indwell any man. 154 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,280 He said, whom the Father will send in my name. 155 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,880 That word is not who will send mentioning my name. 156 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,760 That's not, you know, sometimes when we see in the name, you know, anywhere in scripture, 157 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:13,040 we just think that he's talking about like in Mark, he said, in my name you will cast 158 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:14,040 out demons. 159 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,200 No, he's not saying in the mentioning my name, you will cast out demons. 160 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,360 That's not, that's not. 161 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,720 So whom the Father will send in my name. 162 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:27,440 He will teach you all things, of course, in the name he's talking about the resurrection, 163 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,720 that is, his accomplishment. 164 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,040 That's what we say. 165 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,680 Name means repetition or accomplishment. 166 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:40,560 So that means the Spirit will not come except Jesus is resurrected. 167 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:46,640 Because that's what he will send in my name means he will send after I have accomplished 168 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,440 what I was prophesied to in this time. 169 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,520 There is an accomplishment he was to prophesied. 170 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:58,880 That is his name in this time, which also Philippians 2, when you read from verse 5 171 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:07,040 down to I think 12, tells us the name in this time, which is above every other name. 172 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,040 Okay. 173 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:18,120 He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to 174 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:19,120 you. 175 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:26,840 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives. 176 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:34,680 Do I give you, let not your heart be troubled, never let it be afraid. 177 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:41,960 Now, there is something we have to clarify, which I started last, what do you call it, 178 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,080 last or Sunday last meeting. 179 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:55,600 Now, he said he would teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that 180 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,920 I said to you. 181 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:06,000 So while holding this path, come to Luke, I want to show you something. 182 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,520 So that means what Jesus is saying that there are things he just said, but he didn't explain 183 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,920 them in the sun. 184 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:19,120 Or let's take that for now in the sun. 185 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,520 Then when this helper comes, he will bring to their remembrance. 186 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:31,000 Now, I want you to see Luke 24 verse 44. 187 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,360 He said, then he said to them, these are the words which I spoke to you while I was still 188 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:46,200 with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and 189 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,000 the prophets and the Psalms concerning me. 190 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:58,480 Which means that by saying these are the words which I spoke to you, remember Luke 24 encounter 191 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,880 was an encounter after the resurrection. 192 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,960 In Acts chapter 1, it tells us this encounter took 40 days. 193 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:12,920 So I want you to know that. 194 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,000 So that means Jesus had been teaching, understand. 195 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,880 He taught in several parts and then he told them a lot of things, but they couldn't get 196 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:23,880 it. 197 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:30,680 Even now when he was going over what he told them and then explaining to them from Genesis 198 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,200 to Revelation, here and there he has said those things before. 199 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,160 You understand? 200 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,440 But they didn't understand obviously and that was why they were sad when he died. 201 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:51,400 Because remember what in Matthew 16, after the great confession of faith, will I say, 202 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,320 by Peter and then some few verses later and then Jesus was telling them how he would die 203 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,440 and Peter said, go for a beat. 204 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,840 He called him by the side and said, hey, don't be saying that one now. 205 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,840 Why would you say you would die? 206 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:05,840 Understand? 207 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:11,640 And you know the way they put it, but then Jesus said, get behind me Satan. 208 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:17,520 Now you can imagine the person who just mentioned that Jesus Christ is the son of God, but then 209 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,360 later on he said, no, you can't die. 210 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,320 That means it's something they didn't understand what he was been saying in the son. 211 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,600 So although Christ has been mentioning to them, they never understood. 212 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:36,400 And the question is, was Jesus talking about when he used the word that in John chapter 213 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:44,240 14, when he said, he would teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that 214 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,120 I said to you. 215 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:52,720 Was Jesus talking about that they will forget what the Holy Spirit will remind them? 216 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,240 Is that what he's saying? 217 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,480 That the Holy Spirit will remind them what he said? 218 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,840 And there are some few scriptures we can explore to help us with that. 219 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:08,480 Because if you stay in this scripture, it will just mean that Jesus was saying that 220 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:13,120 that they will forget some things, but then the Holy Spirit will come and then give them 221 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:20,480 some remind them what Jesus said, meaning that to recall what Jesus told them. 222 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,460 But that is not what he's saying. 223 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:28,800 But then before we go, let me also add a scripture in just move to my John 16. 224 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,560 John 16 say also something similar to that. 225 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,680 In the son, John 16 verse 12 and 13. 226 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:41,760 Now it added something that makes us to know why Jesus likely is saying that. 227 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,200 So that's why we need to take it serious. 228 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:50,880 Now John 16 verse 12 says, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot be a 229 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,800 part of them now. 230 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:59,840 If you go to John 14, if you look at 25, you could see something similar like that. 231 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:06,200 25 looks like verse 12 of John 16. 232 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:14,520 Because in John 14 verse 25, we say, these things have I spoken to you while being present 233 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,520 with you. 234 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:19,480 So there are things he spoke to them while being present with them. 235 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:27,240 Then verse 26 says, but the helper, you understand that suggests here that what Jesus was saying 236 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:34,120 in the present, then the Holy Spirit will come, you understand, and do something with 237 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,320 what he told them somehow in the sun. 238 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:43,200 But then verse 12 said, I still have many things to sell you, you understand, but you 239 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:44,680 cannot be at them now. 240 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:45,680 Wow. 241 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,560 So that means they cannot be as some things that Jesus supposed to say. 242 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:57,720 There are many things Jesus ought to say, but he couldn't say them, obviously, because 243 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,640 he has already understood that they couldn't be at them. 244 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,720 What is that word, be at them now? 245 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:12,240 Okay, when we continue to read verse 13 says, however, when he, the spirit of truth has 246 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:17,200 come, he will guide you into all truth. 247 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:25,520 He will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatsoever 248 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:31,440 he hears, he will speak and he will tell you the things to come. 249 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:37,080 So now, now Jesus added another thing, it seems to add, it looks as if this is to add, 250 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:43,120 because you remember, John 14 seems to say as if the Holy Spirit will just make them 251 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:47,000 to remember what he has already told them. 252 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:53,000 But John 16 is coming to as if suggest more, as if to suggest more, you understand. 253 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,640 If you just read them by face value, it will as if look like John 14 is saying different 254 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,840 thing and John 16 is saying another different thing, understand. 255 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:10,640 So but the first thing we need to clarify is to clarify from John 14 verse 26, what 256 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,920 is our word remember or what is it? 257 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:20,040 And remember, we've already done that in some way, that word remember. 258 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,880 I want you to just go come back in the same John. 259 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,760 You know, that's why we said, sometimes we are patient and read the same book. 260 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:34,640 The answer could be in the same book, the same John have used that word several times. 261 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:40,840 All we need to do is to read through where those words appear, that word remember in 262 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,160 that context, in the staff. 263 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,160 Let's go back to John chapter two first. 264 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:51,280 That's the first place where I want to note that word remember. 265 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,320 Look at John chapter two, verse 19. 266 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,600 Jesus answered and said to them. 267 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,840 Remember when you go back, you see where the issue started, understand. 268 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:08,200 Was that in the Passover of the Jewish was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and 269 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:20,080 he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and the money changers doing business. 270 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:27,480 Verse 15, when he had made a whip of a cord, he dropped them all out of the temple with 271 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:35,240 the sheep and the oxen and pour out the money changers, out the changers' money and overturned 272 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,240 the tables. 273 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:42,520 Verse 16, and he said to those who sold those, take these things away. 274 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,400 Do not make my father's house a house of merchandise. 275 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,280 Verse 17, then his disciples remembered. 276 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,000 Please, I want you to know that. 277 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,760 His disciples remembered that it is written, zeal for your house has eaten me up. 278 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,160 Zeal of his house has eaten me up. 279 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:11,400 I want you to note that word the disciples remember. 280 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,800 Now at this point, wait a minute, is he saying that they recall? 281 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,720 Is that what they are saying? 282 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:24,880 Because by quoting a scripture, is he just saying that they recall that somewhere, if 283 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:29,960 you say recall, if you are going to put recall as remember, the first thing you need to note 284 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:35,020 is that when that scripture was mentioned, did they mention Jesus there? 285 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:42,600 How did they relate that Jesus, that word, that quotation or prophecy to Christ? 286 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,560 Are you with me? 287 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,280 Do you understand what I'm trying to say? 288 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:54,680 Because for example, when they said somebody will betray Jesus, did they say Judas? 289 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,760 Did they mention and put Judas' name there? 290 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:01,800 So the point I'm trying to say that we have done a lot of prophecies in this text, in 291 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:08,040 the sense that Jesus fulfilled, for example, he brought a call of my son from Egypt, and 292 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,800 a virgin shall give birth to him. 293 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:17,120 When those texts were written and there was no name there, mention that. 294 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,060 This is exactly Christ. 295 00:23:20,060 --> 00:23:24,280 How do we know today that these were prophecies and then Christ came to fulfill them? 296 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,760 It's by the Spirit. 297 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,560 The Spirit now brought this understanding to us. 298 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,960 It is because of the explanation, and then that was when we knew that those prophecies 299 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,760 were actually prophecies about the Christ. 300 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:46,040 But in the context originally when those people were mentioning them in the Bible, likely 301 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,720 they were not even thinking about Christ. 302 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:56,280 Because like we saw in many other texts, Psalms 22, when he said, my God, my God, why have 303 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,280 thou forsaken me? 304 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,040 David was saying that because of the trouble he was in. 305 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:08,240 But in the prophetic, he was actually reciting the words of Jesus. 306 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:13,660 And then we saw the words being actually spoken by Jesus on the cross. 307 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:22,240 So the first thing that you begin to raise some, that that might not be, because it wouldn't 308 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:29,560 mean if Jesus' name was attached there, then you would likely say, oh, they remember, there 309 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:36,680 is a place, they say Jesus, he will say about him that he is the zeal of the Lord. 310 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:41,080 This must be a realization only by the Spirit, you understand? 311 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:46,600 An explanation that the Spirit has opened up to open a scripture. 312 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:53,400 Remember we have told us mystery means that it is a truth but not loud. 313 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:54,960 Not that it is hidden. 314 00:24:54,960 --> 00:25:00,400 Although today in English when you say something is mysterious, you are just saying that it 315 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,400 is not known. 316 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,440 It is completely hidden, covered, so to say. 317 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:12,760 We saw that when the Bible writers use the word mystery, they are really talking about 318 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:20,920 something that is written but it is not loud, meaning that it is not, it is silent. 319 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,240 That's the point again, you understand? 320 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,240 It is silent. 321 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,520 Silent doesn't mean it is not there. 322 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,600 Silent just means that it is there but it is not spoken loudly, you understand? 323 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:39,040 And then when the Spirit came and then He now took those verses and made them loud and 324 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,240 said this is what was written and that's exactly what they meant. 325 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:50,080 These scriptures when Moses said this is a prophet like unto me shall be this, this, 326 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,160 this, you understand? 327 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,160 He was not talking about raising a child. 328 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,360 He was talking about the resurrection. 329 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:58,440 That was by the Spirit they understood. 330 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,600 So here He is not talking about recollects, remembering. 331 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,240 Now let's continue. 332 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:11,560 So the Jews answered, because you understand again, Father, verse 18, so the Jews answered 333 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:18,160 and said to him, what sign do you show to us since you do these things? 334 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:25,200 You know when you read verse 17 and then you continue, it will look as if verse 17 happened 335 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:31,480 at the time when Jesus, close to the Passover, you understand? 336 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:37,560 Until you read down you understand that verse 17 was something that happened later, you 337 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,560 understand? 338 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,640 So verse 18, I'll come back to it. 339 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:46,320 So the Jews answered and said to him, what sign do you show to us since you do these 340 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:47,320 things? 341 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:54,680 Jesus answered verse 19 and said to them, destroy these temples in three days. 342 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,080 I will raise it up. 343 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:04,440 Then the Jews said, it has taken 46 years to build this temple and will you raise it 344 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,200 up in three days? 345 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:16,640 But he was speaking of the temple of his body, Pascha 22, therefore, when he had risen from 346 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:26,200 the dead, his disciples remembered when he has risen from the dead, his disciples remembered. 347 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,840 That means that was not what happened there and then. 348 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,160 It happened later on when he had risen. 349 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:42,400 They remembered that he had said these to them and they believed the scripture and the 350 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,360 word which Jesus had said. 351 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:52,160 Now you will now, by the time you reach this place, you will now understand with me that 352 00:27:52,160 --> 00:28:01,520 verse 17 also, they did not remember, which means they did not understand that scripture 353 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:09,000 that said the zeal of your house has eaten me up, they did not understand when the event 354 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,120 was happening before his death. 355 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,000 I mean, before his death, yes. 356 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:21,320 They understood that when he was zealous and threw away those who were doing merchandise 357 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,200 in the temple, they remembered. 358 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:33,480 In other words, they understood that that was a fulfillment of prophecy from that scripture, 359 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,360 the zeal for your house has eaten me up. 360 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:44,480 The same way they understood later on that he was not talking about the temple, he was 361 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,440 talking about his body. 362 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,520 But when did they understand it? 363 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,960 They understood it when he had risen in a blanket. 364 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,120 No, the spirit of God. 365 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,920 We saw how Jesus spent time in the 40 days with them, explaining to them that he told 366 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,320 them he will die. 367 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,640 And from where did he tell them? 368 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,880 He told them from the scriptures, but they never understood it. 369 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:17,240 So that what remembered or remembrance, it means understanding or understand. 370 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,880 So come with me to John 12 also. 371 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,360 Come with me to John 12. 372 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,760 Let me show you another scripture also that help us clarify that. 373 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,760 Look at verse 12. 374 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:35,520 The next day, a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was 375 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:43,400 coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him and cried out, 376 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,600 O, son of blessed or blessed. 377 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,560 I say what to lose that is blessed. 378 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,560 Hallelujah. 379 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,560 Okay. 380 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,560 Blessed. 381 00:29:54,560 --> 00:30:03,120 Is he who comes in the name of the law, the king of Israel? 382 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:12,880 Verse 14, then Jesus, when he had found a young donkey, sat on it as it is written, 383 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,920 fear not, daughter of Zion. 384 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:22,280 Verse 15, behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's coals. 385 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,240 Look at verse 16, all of you, please pay attention. 386 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:32,520 He said his disciples did not understand these things. 387 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:33,520 At what? 388 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,520 At first. 389 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,920 But when Jesus was glorified, they did what? 390 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:47,000 Then they remembered that these things were written about in him and that they had done 391 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,560 these things to him. 392 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,360 So you could see that remembered means understanding. 393 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:54,360 They understood. 394 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,760 When did they understand? 395 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,080 He said, when Jesus was glorified, that was what exactly John 2 was telling us. 396 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:09,040 He said when Jesus had risen, meaning when Jesus had been glorified, they understood 397 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,480 that he was not talking about the temple. 398 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,240 He was talking about his body. 399 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,520 They understood that he was not talking about just throwing people's things. 400 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,880 They said, it's not that he was angry. 401 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:27,320 You know, some people say Jesus was angry, you know, and the anger is part of man. 402 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,320 Even Jesus was angry. 403 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:33,880 He was like, weep to everybody, brother, that is not anger. 404 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,160 The Bible said the zeal of the Lord. 405 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,160 You understand? 406 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,160 The zeal. 407 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,160 Hallelujah. 408 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:48,960 So the point is that you could see that that word remembrance, remembered. 409 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,880 This is, we're just here in John, we didn't move out of John. 410 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:52,880 We're just reading. 411 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:58,680 We get to understand that, that word remembered means understanding. 412 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,400 Okay, so let's move to John 14 again. 413 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,400 Let's read it again. 414 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,400 Let's read John 14. 415 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,400 Are we together? 416 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,400 Are you in John 14? 417 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,400 Yes. 418 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:09,400 So read it again. 419 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:18,840 He said, these things have I spoken you while being present with you. 420 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:28,280 Verse 26 now, but the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, he will 421 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,720 teach you all things. 422 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:37,280 He will teach you all things and bring to your understanding. 423 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,360 Oh, did you get what I'm trying to say? 424 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:48,360 And bring to your remembrance, meaning I'm bringing to your understanding all things 425 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,120 that I said to you, all things I said to you. 426 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:59,960 Now when you move to 16, chapter 16, you now understand that, ah, that means there is a 427 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:04,960 factor in the revelation of scriptures. 428 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,520 And the factor is the Holy Spirit. 429 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:14,080 And so he said, I have still many things to say to you. 430 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,880 And besides what Jesus taught, listen, even what Jesus taught, he said they will have 431 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:19,880 understood it. 432 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,120 And we saw it when he was teaching about the temple, they never understood. 433 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,000 When they saw him actually throwing people that are doing much and nice in the temple, 434 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000 they never understood. 435 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,560 So there are plenty of things he taught them. 436 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:32,560 They never understood it. 437 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:39,040 It's very obvious when you read the last part, particularly Luke 24, when you read this. 438 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,280 They never understood about his death. 439 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,160 They never understood about the prophecy. 440 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,160 They never understood so many. 441 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,160 And that was why they were angry. 442 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,440 In fact, they went and locked themselves because they were afraid of the Jews. 443 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,920 So they were not happy that Jesus died. 444 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,520 They said, see, all our hope has been dashed. 445 00:33:54,520 --> 00:34:00,800 But Jesus had told them not just only that many of the things I have said to you, the 446 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:07,080 Holy Spirit will make you to understand, but then also that there are things that I have 447 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,240 not even said them, because he said, I have still many things to tell you, many things 448 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:13,240 to tell you. 449 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:14,240 You understand? 450 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:19,960 I have still many things to say to you, but you cannot be at him now. 451 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,840 However, remember, all these places I'm talking about is not you. 452 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:30,200 It's the disciples, it's the apostles he's talking about there, it's disciples. 453 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,200 You understand? 454 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,200 It's not you. 455 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,200 You understand? 456 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:41,360 So however, when he, the Spirit of Truth was starting of John 16, he will guide you into 457 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,480 all truths, guide you into all truths. 458 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,280 For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he 459 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,120 will tell you the things to come. 460 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,920 What are those things to come? 461 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,200 That's why Jesus said, there are many things I need to tell you, but you cannot be at them 462 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,200 now. 463 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,640 These are the things to come that Jesus is saying the Spirit will reveal. 464 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:11,200 Remember again, these things to come, they were not things that have not been mentioned. 465 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,080 Just the same way, the things Jesus already taught them, they never understood. 466 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,080 You understand? 467 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:22,000 The things to come are things that have already been mentioned, already been spoken of by 468 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,960 the prophets, but they are in the mystery. 469 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:25,960 You understand? 470 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,640 He said, he will tell you the things to come. 471 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,120 He will tell you the things to come. 472 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,680 That tell, if you look at it contextually, it will mean he will reveal. 473 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,120 That's what it means. 474 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,960 He will reveal to you the things to come. 475 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,720 And so there are things, you understand? 476 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:46,920 And I want you to see, there are many things that Jesus did not say. 477 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:53,360 It is after the Holy Spirit arrived, in dwellment, and then those things were revealed to the 478 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,360 apostles. 479 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,360 Are we together? 480 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,920 Those things were. 481 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:05,480 So many things concerning is death, burial, and resurrection, because at the time the 482 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,160 death has not occurred. 483 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,760 At the time he has not resurrected. 484 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,000 At the time he has not ascended, meaning he has not indwell any man. 485 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,680 So he said he would tell you the things to come. 486 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,640 To the disciples at that moment when Jesus was speaking, those things were the things 487 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:21,640 to come. 488 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:22,920 They are the things to come. 489 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,920 Look at, look at Acts. 490 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,920 Look at, look at the words of Peter. 491 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,480 Jesus said he will resurrect after three days, but he never mentioned these things that will 492 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,480 happen. 493 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,160 Look at Acts 2-2 from verse 14. 494 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:39,720 But Peter standing up with the eleven raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and 495 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:46,560 all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my word, for these are not 496 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,080 drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 497 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,920 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Jehovah. 498 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,920 Look at it. 499 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,000 He quoted, and he shall come to pass. 500 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:06,160 In the last days says God that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. 501 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,600 Oh my goodness. 502 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,120 On all flesh. 503 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,680 Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. 504 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,400 Your young men shall see visions. 505 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,400 Your old men shall dream dreams. 506 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:25,120 And your maidservant and your maidservant will be poured out my spirit in those days. 507 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,480 And they shall prophesy. 508 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,440 I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor 509 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,040 of smoke. 510 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:40,360 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the 511 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,680 great and awesome day of the Lord. 512 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:44,680 And he shall come to pass. 513 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,280 That whosoever call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 514 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:50,960 Men of Israel, hear this word. 515 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:57,000 Jesus of Nazareth, the man, attested by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs when 516 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:08,240 God did through him in your midst as yourselves also know him being delivered by the determined 517 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:15,720 purpose and full knowledge of God, you have taken by lowless hand, have crucified and 518 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:23,520 put to death whom God raised up having lose the pains of death because it was not possible 519 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,960 that he should be held by it. 520 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:34,480 For David says concerning him, for I foresaw the Lord always being before my face for he 521 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,160 is at my right hand that I may not be shaken. 522 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,080 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. 523 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:52,000 Moreover my flesh also will raise in hope for you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor 524 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,960 will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. 525 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,880 You have made known to me the ways of life. 526 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,440 You make me full of joy in your presence. 527 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:10,720 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David that he is both dead 528 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:16,680 and buried and his tomb is with us today, to this day. 529 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:24,240 They are for being a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him that of 530 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:31,320 the fruit of his body according to the flesh he will raise up Christ to sit on his throne. 531 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:38,520 He was seeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in Hades. 532 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,920 Jesus said I will rise on the second day. 533 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:48,600 And then the apostles came and they were clarifying many details that we didn't know. 534 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,240 No, the flesh sees corruption. 535 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:56,520 This Jesus has raised up of whom of which we are all witnesses. 536 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:02,760 They are for being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father 537 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:08,920 the promise of the Spirit pour out this which you now see and hear. 538 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:18,880 For David did not ascend into the heavens but he says himself, the Lord said to my Lord, 539 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,600 sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your foots, therefore. 540 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:28,120 I mean you continue to read, you see these brethren, they pick those scriptures that 541 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,120 look mysterious before. 542 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:35,920 Now I see they are not talking about the Christ, now opening up again to us that this is actually 543 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:36,920 what they mean. 544 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:42,000 They were discussing about the Christ death, Christ resurrection, bringing out details. 545 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,960 This is what remember means. 546 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,680 This is what the things to come means. 547 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,680 Are we together? 548 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,520 This is what the things to come. 549 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:51,520 Glory to Jesus. 550 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:57,520 So let me read some things about Paul. 551 00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,160 Just some few verses. 552 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,400 Look at Ephesians chapter 3. 553 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,280 I think I love that one too. 554 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,480 In the same Ephesians chapter 3. 555 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,520 Come with me to Ephesians chapter 3 verse 1. 556 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:16,160 It said, For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus, for you, Gentiles, if indeed 557 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:22,040 you have heard of the dispensation of grace, that what dispensation we said is the worship 558 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:26,560 of grace of God, which was given to me for you. 559 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,480 How that by revelation, not that one, how that by what? 560 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,840 Revelation he made known to me the mystery as I have briefly written. 561 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,560 So now, mystery now is now revealed. 562 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:46,720 Mystery is revealed by which when you read, you will understand my knowledge in the mystery 563 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:55,680 of Christ, which is in other ages was not meant to the sons of man as it has now been 564 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,080 revealed by the spirit of God. 565 00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,800 That is a game changer. 566 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:07,200 When he, the spirit of truth is come, when the helper come, he will remind you all the 567 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,280 things I've said. 568 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,160 And also he will show you the things to come. 569 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:17,480 By the time you read John 14, John 16, the things to come is the Holy Spirit. 570 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:25,000 That is a game changer by the spirit to his holy apostles and prophets that the Gentiles 571 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000 should be fellow hairs of the same body. 572 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,840 Up unto, listen, this is a mystery. 573 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,800 People used to think that the Israelite is the only special people of God. 574 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,520 You understand what I'm saying? 575 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,840 It has been hidden. 576 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,320 Says to God, reject every nation. 577 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,160 You only take only one nation. 578 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,040 Looks God as if he's a tribal bigot. 579 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,920 Or whatever he call him. 580 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,880 You know, he's a bigot. 581 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,360 We're a tribalistic person. 582 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,520 And now he say no, no, no, no, that in Christ all are included. 583 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:02,560 That in his plan, that is revealing the mysteries. 584 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,680 And that's the mystery that the Gentiles should also be fellow hairs of the same body and 585 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,400 partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel. 586 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,000 Of which I became a minister according to the grace. 587 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,840 Now when you read many other scriptures, of course, one popular one in the sun, which 588 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,960 we have been reading every day is first Corinthians chapter two. 589 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,800 In the sound we started reading from verse seven in the sound go to 10. 590 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,280 You will see that is the spirit that review. 591 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,120 He talks about eyes have not seen years have not heard. 592 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,640 No, it has ever come to the heart of man. 593 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,040 The things that the Lord has prepared for those who love him. 594 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:44,560 But he said, but these things has been revealed to us by who is a by the spirit, by this 595 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:45,560 way. 596 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:46,560 That was what Jesus was saying. 597 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,880 So that remembrance means understanding. 598 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:50,880 Nobody will read the Bible. 599 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,880 They wouldn't understand. 600 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,640 And that is a problem with the entire Pharisee. 601 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,440 The status is which we saw on a Sunday. 602 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,800 They are not knowing the scripture. 603 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,160 What is the game changer is the Holy Spirit that opens scriptures. 604 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,820 You understand? 605 00:44:07,820 --> 00:44:10,360 And that's why he opened it to the apostles. 606 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,240 You wrote the mysteries just like we read in Ephesians. 607 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:16,640 And then he said, what do we do today for us? 608 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,760 He said, when you read, you will also understand. 609 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,440 So our own the mystery has been revealed. 610 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:24,440 There's nothing to be revealed. 611 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,720 He has already revealed it to those people. 612 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:33,320 He told them, I will ensure the Holy Spirit reveal it to you or make you to remember or 613 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,320 understand it. 614 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:35,320 You understand? 615 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:36,480 And they documented. 616 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:44,480 So what do we supposed to do is to study it because Paul told the church at Ephesians, 617 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,800 he said, when you read, you will also understand. 618 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,200 So how do we come into the understanding of the revelation of God? 619 00:44:52,200 --> 00:45:00,000 By reading today, by reading what was revealed, by reading what was revealed. 620 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,120 And that's why we have said that reading is not just casual reading. 621 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:05,120 You understand? 622 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:12,040 That reading is a committed, diligent reading, a reading that is properly, a reading that 623 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,040 is true. 624 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:20,160 So in our, in our bid to answer all these questions, we will read through the Bible. 625 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:21,160 You understand? 626 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,240 We will read through. 627 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,720 And I want to just give us some last part. 628 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:28,600 What can we learn from all this? 629 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,360 What is what again I've emphasized. 630 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:36,400 Again, all that text is Colossians, Peter and the rest. 631 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:42,100 And that's why we hold Genesis to Revelation as the scriptures. 632 00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:43,840 Why is the scripture? 633 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,560 Because all of it came from the same source. 634 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,200 All of it came from the same source. 635 00:45:52,200 --> 00:46:01,440 The words that Jesus taught when he was here, the scriptures Genesis to Malachi was a product 636 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,160 of the Holy Spirit, was the product of the Holy Spirit. 637 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:09,800 Second Peter 1, 20 and 21 shows to us that it is not a private interpretation. 638 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:15,120 It didn't come from the, from the, from the initiation or the initiative of man. 639 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,120 You understand? 640 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,120 But the Holy Spirit moves. 641 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,600 You understand? 642 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,680 So the Genesis to Malachi is a product of the Holy Spirit. 643 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:25,680 You understand? 644 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,800 The same text Jesus used. 645 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,880 So what do you call it? 646 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:36,400 Matthew to Luke is also the product of the Holy Spirit. 647 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,880 Again he told them what I taught you, you understand? 648 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,240 What he taught them, from where did he teach? 649 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,560 The same text the Holy Spirit gave. 650 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:50,040 So whatever Jesus taught in the gospels which we read today is also the product of the Holy 651 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,200 Spirit because he didn't invent it. 652 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:54,200 Not that word. 653 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,760 Jesus never invented anything. 654 00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,880 To explain himself, he went through Genesis to Malachi. 655 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:08,640 All the teaching he told them, read Luke 24 verse 44. 656 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:13,080 He said, all the things I taught you, I told you, you understand? 657 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:20,440 He said they are the things, all things concerning me, which were spoken, you understand? 658 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:25,520 That all those things will be fulfilled, which were written by the law, the prophets and 659 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:26,520 the saints. 660 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:32,400 So the gospels, the four gospels are also the product of the Spirit. 661 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,120 But there is so much to be said. 662 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,400 They are not all that needs to be said. 663 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:41,600 After all, they only address some portions of what was talked about. 664 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:47,040 Remember he told them that ought not Christ to have suffered, it captured his life and 665 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:48,040 suffering. 666 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:52,960 But there is a major part that has not been captured, which already also the prophet has 667 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,400 spoken about it, that is Genesis to Malachi. 668 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,040 That is his resurrection and ascension. 669 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,320 The details have not been captured. 670 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,640 That was what he wanted to tell them, to say to them, but they couldn't be I.E. 671 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,960 He told them when the Spirit of truth is come. 672 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:14,400 So through the apostles he brought them, which means that Genesis to Malachi, the product 673 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:22,480 of the Spirit, Matthew to John, the product of the Spirit, the entire epistles, sorry, 674 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:29,880 Matthew because the eyewitness account also from the Acts of Apostles to the entire epistle, 675 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,520 also the product of the Spirit. 676 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,800 The product of the Spirit. 677 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:41,480 So all this Bible, brother, as you hold them, none of it is the word of man. 678 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,320 Genesis to Revelation, none of it is the word of man. 679 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,600 So don't let nobody de-beseem you. 680 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,760 No, this is what Paul said. 681 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,960 No, this is Paul's view. 682 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,360 This is Peter's view. 683 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,720 We know that Jesus, we follow the teachings of Jesus. 684 00:48:58,720 --> 00:48:59,880 I mean, you are confused. 685 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:04,360 The teaching of Jesus is through the apostles. 686 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:12,240 Those things he told them when the Spirit of truth is come, it will give you understanding. 687 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:18,620 And this man wrote those revelation and understanding. 688 00:49:18,620 --> 00:49:23,080 So all the scripture is the word of Jesus. 689 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,480 All the scripture is a word of the Spirit. 690 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:27,480 Glory to God. 691 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,120 And that's why you must handle them both with care. 692 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:36,440 So you cannot take one portion and run with it because it's the same author. 693 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:37,440 There is no confusion. 694 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:38,440 You understand? 695 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:43,040 Except you agree there is confusion in God, then that means you may not be a believer. 696 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,140 But if you did not, you understand that there is no confusion. 697 00:49:47,140 --> 00:49:50,760 You just need to lead them together. 698 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,680 You cannot pick one verse. 699 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,280 You must understand them together. 700 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:03,260 So in trying to clarify the word to answer the questions that what is the original plan 701 00:50:03,260 --> 00:50:06,840 of God creating a woman, we cannot use one verse. 702 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:07,840 We cannot use one book. 703 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,160 That's why you have to be patient. 704 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,800 We will go through a lot, brother. 705 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,580 That is how it is. 706 00:50:15,580 --> 00:50:18,160 Because God has given us this text, so we have to be diligent. 707 00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,360 So we will start from Genesis. 708 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:26,000 We will go gradually up until we come to the Epistos because all of it is a word of one 709 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,160 author or one principal author. 710 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:30,160 That is the Holy Spirit. 711 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:37,520 And he cannot actually be saying one thing here and then he will say another thing here. 712 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:38,520 No. 713 00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,480 We will see through culture of men. 714 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:46,320 And that's why when you see the way women are given opportunities in the text of Genesis 715 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:51,640 to Revelation is different because they never had understanding of what we have. 716 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,240 The Spirit is a game changer. 717 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:58,000 So many of the things we have today by the Revelation through the apostles, we never 718 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,720 had them because they are in the mystery. 719 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:05,840 But now, glory to God, it has been revealed unto us. 720 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,960 And Paul says, when you read, you will understand. 721 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,800 When you read, you will understand. 722 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:16,800 And that is key. 723 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:22,800 And then lastly, let me just introduce what we will go next time. 724 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:23,800 Glory to God. 725 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,800 Come to me to Genesis. 726 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:27,800 Let's go back to Genesis. 727 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:28,800 Genesis chapter one. 728 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:36,800 So let me just say what we will start the next time God gives us opportunity. 729 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:37,800 Yes. 730 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:42,840 Look at verse, so we will start from verse 26. 731 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:51,440 Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 732 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:57,840 Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the 733 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:06,160 cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeped on the earth. 734 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,160 Verse 27. 735 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:11,920 So God created man in his own image. 736 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:19,120 In the image of God, he created him, male and female. 737 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:20,360 He created them. 738 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,320 Then God blessed them. 739 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,120 And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply. 740 00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,920 Fulfill the earth and subdue it. 741 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:35,080 Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds, over the air, over every living 742 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,560 thing that moves on the earth. 743 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:42,720 So the first thing I want you to note here when we come, we're going to answer a lot 744 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:44,280 of things going forward. 745 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,520 The first thing we have to clarify, well, the first thing you have to see first before 746 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,380 we start clarifying anything. 747 00:52:50,380 --> 00:52:56,080 The first thing you have to see is that he said, let us make man in our image. 748 00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:02,280 That means that man is generic, is male and female. 749 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:09,560 And I want you to note also that the male and female are created in the image of God. 750 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,360 That means they have the same identity. 751 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:16,920 If I want you to get it, you must get it today because we are going to start to discuss some 752 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:17,920 things also. 753 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:23,160 Because you know, the way you look at a woman, you know, our culture, we're trying to correct 754 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,280 some many things here in the sun. 755 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:35,360 That is what you call a male because that male man or female, you know, I want you to 756 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:43,160 note that, that the male and the female are both in the image of God, male and female, 757 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:44,160 male and female. 758 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:49,240 So that means the man had the same identity with the woman. 759 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:50,240 Hallelujah. 760 00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:56,800 Now, when we come back, we want to clarify what is that image. 761 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:02,040 And please, I want you to note that we're not going to assume we will read. 762 00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:07,280 Listen, what we'll do is that maybe you can start and go and start doing that. 763 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:12,540 But just type on since we have shown you BLB even before we come, you know, just type image 764 00:54:12,540 --> 00:54:16,240 and look at through everywhere image appear in the Bible. 765 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,960 Let me tell you, we will read all of them. 766 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:25,080 You understand, we will read all of them and understand. 767 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:29,360 Because we don't want to pick image only and stay in Genesis and pick the image here and 768 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,520 then maybe in somewhere in Genesis, the image is somebody else. 769 00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:34,940 You understand? 770 00:54:34,940 --> 00:54:40,120 So we will take it from there and then read everywhere where image appears. 771 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:46,720 You understand, especially that in relation to man, not even animals first and foremost, 772 00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:54,600 we will go through it and understand what does it mean to be in the image of God? 773 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,260 What does it mean? 774 00:54:56,260 --> 00:54:57,260 What does it mean? 775 00:54:57,260 --> 00:54:59,000 Glory to Jesus. 776 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,000 Hallelujah. 777 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,960 Yes, we will stop here. 778 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,280 We appreciate you being here today. 779 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,880 We hope you carry this word with you throughout your week. 780 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,240 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 781 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:18,280 Stay connected with us through our website or follow us on social media. 782 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:22,520 If you were encouraged, share this message with someone you care about. 783 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:43,560 Until next time, stay blessed.