1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,240 Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share today's message with you. Don't 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:17,480 go anywhere, stay with us till the end for some valuable resources to enrich your faith. 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,360 Here's today's sermon. 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:30,360 Alright, so the title is still Our Union with Christ, right? The title is Our Union with 5 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:37,200 Christ. We are continuing and that is why John chapter 14 has been read again, right? 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:43,560 And it's been read so that we can carry on from where we stopped the other day, right? 7 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,680 However, for those of you that were not in the previous two teachings, you can always 8 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:55,200 listen to the teachings, right? You just have to go to ncf.church, right? And you'll find 9 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:02,400 our sermons there, right? And you can listen to our sermons. I'm sure there are other means, 10 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,920 it's probably on Spotify, you can listen to it on Spotify. And also, I think they are 11 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,240 creating a platform that will also be made available for us when it's ready. So there's 12 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:18,720 so much resources that makes the messages available to you. So let's pay attention and 13 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,680 listen and do well to visit the church website to get those messages. 14 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:30,680 Alright, so John chapter 14 has been read for us. And from the last time we picked out 15 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:38,800 two things, right? We picked out two words that reflect manifestation, something related 16 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:44,720 to manifestation. And we said that the theme of the year, first of all, to reiterate is 17 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,440 manifesting the kingdom of God, right? In NACM, our theme for this year is manifesting 18 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:58,040 the kingdom of God. And all the teachings that are coming are aligning with that so that 19 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:03,920 as believers, we can manifest the kingdom of God, right? Paul would tell the church 20 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:10,360 in the current year and said, I don't want you to be ignorant of the things of the spirits. 21 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,440 So one of the things that it tries to kill in the church in current is ignorance, which 22 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,720 does not necessarily mean not knowing, but deliberately doing the wrong thing, right? 23 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,240 So ignorance of things of the scriptures. So we try as much as possible to clear our 24 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,600 minds so that we can comprehend the scripture. So the two words continuing from the last 25 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,960 time, the two words who can remind us, there are two words that we were treating. The last 26 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,720 teaching was on a Wednesday and we talk about two Greek words that we try to explain. Who 27 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,160 remembers what are the Greek words? All right, John chapter 14 verse eight, John chapter 28 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:56,520 14 verse eight, it says, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the father and it is what? Enough 29 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:04,040 for us, right? And it's enough for us. And that's word show, right? Is Dick and Noel, 30 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:14,640 right? That word show is Dick and Noel, Dick and Noel, D-I-K-E-N-U-O, show us the father. 31 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,920 So that's the first word, which is Dick and Noel. And the second word, which is similar, 32 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,040 is found in the second question or the third question of that chapter, verse 22. I said, 33 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:36,280 Judas, not Iscarius said to him, Lord, why is it that you will manifest yourself to us 34 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:43,120 and not to the world? And the word there was using my brother's reading as unveil, right? 35 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:54,960 Unveil here used manifest and that word is emphanizal, E-M-P-H, E-M-P-H-A-N-I-Z-O. And 36 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:01,080 just to reiterate, to understand what was going here, Philip said to him, Lord, show 37 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:07,200 us the father. Now this is after Christ had explained to them that I am the way, the truth 38 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,640 and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. If you had known me, you would 39 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:20,400 have known the father also. And we emphasize that Christ is showing them an identity, is 40 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:26,400 manifesting himself to them. This is what we see John writing. So Christ is manifesting 41 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:34,440 an identity to the disciples, revealing himself, I am in the father and the father is in me. 42 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,800 What Christ is doing there is what we can say, emphanizal, is explaining to them his 43 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:46,960 identity, who he is. And that is why in verse 22, Judas Iscarius asks the question, why 44 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:53,000 is he manifesting himself to us? So Jesus was really telling them about their identity. 45 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:01,240 So emphanizal is mostly identity based, reflecting a people that have been brought forth, right? 46 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:08,120 We saw that in previous scriptures about those who were resurrected after Christ rose, showing 47 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:13,440 themselves, manifesting themselves to people, right? So we see that that emphanizal is something 48 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:21,040 that is linked to the salvation work of God and is linked to the identity. Now, why did 49 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,240 Philip ask this question, which is show us the father, right? That word show, like we 50 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:32,440 said, is there now. And it simply means after we have heard of an identity, right? It simply 51 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:39,540 means to prove something. So Philip was saying, now that you have told us the father and we 52 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:44,160 have heard that you are in the father and the father is in us, now show us a thing, 53 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:50,480 right? Show us a thing that will show us the father. So he was looking for works, he was 54 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:55,520 looking for maybe I would say more teachings, okay, teach us more about the father, show 55 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:02,320 us signs actually. It's like showing us signs of the father. That is why the answer Jesus 56 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:09,400 gave was quite, was quite different from the way he answered the first tomers and the way 57 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,840 he answered Judas. He said, have I not been with you? He said, how have I been with you 58 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:21,000 so long and you do not still know me, Philip? Just like I'm revealing an identity to you, 59 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,580 you are asking for works, you are asking for teachings, you are asking for proofs, yet 60 00:06:25,580 --> 00:06:30,200 I'm revealing myself to you, I've made myself manifest, yes, you want to see something. 61 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,080 Nevertheless, Jesus said, verse 11, believe me that I am in the father, again reiterating 62 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,080 the same thing, that's about the identity, right? Or else, okay, believe on the account 63 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:46,960 of the works that you see. So, diaconal goes with works most of the time, reflected in 64 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:54,560 works. So this is where we stopped the last time and now we need to build on it today. 65 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,700 So we can say, am for needs or identity based proof of salvation to show that one is safe 66 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:06,160 and this is what diaconal is to show a proof of something, right? So you have to do something 67 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,000 external to present that, oh, I am the Christ, right? That was literally what he was saying, 68 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:20,320 using that word to show things, to show works. So today we would pick and finis of first 69 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:26,320 and talk about it much more and what we want to talk about much more is the identity in 70 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:32,080 union with Christ, right? Our identity in union with Christ. So like a subheading of 71 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,240 this is like our identity in union with Christ. So what identity do you have? Now that you 72 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,280 are in the father, the father is in me and we are with Christ. What is our identity? 73 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:46,600 We need to understand the identity of the believer. So last week when Pastor Victor 74 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,320 was teaching, he made a prophecy on something and he talked about something in his introduction 75 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:58,760 and he said, it is not gender based. Who remembers? He said, it is not ethnic based. The identity 76 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:08,800 and the message is not gender based, is not ethnic based, is not culture based. So therefore, 77 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,600 right, you don't need to struggle, you know, with your outward looking, you're struggling 78 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,920 with it, right? You don't need to struggle with that. You know, he even mentioned something. 79 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:26,240 He said, because of the way the mind has been structured, the emphasis has been on the physical. 80 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,920 But when it comes to the believer, the first identity of the believer, you can write it 81 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,200 down, is that the believer is spiritual. The believer is a spirit, is spiritual. This is 82 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:42,800 the first identity that we must understand so that we don't struggle with how you look, 83 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:50,480 right? Nobody can talk you down on how you look because you are spiritual. This is important. 84 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:58,360 This is also important because when you understand that you are spiritual, you will be bold to 85 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:04,920 manifest the kingdom of God. When you understand that you are spiritual, that you are a spirit, 86 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:11,640 you will be bold to do it, to manifest the kingdom of God. Because I will not, we're 87 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:17,000 going to explain today how that spirit comes to be, right? So what I'm going to explain 88 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:25,080 here is to make you become bold to manifest the kingdom of God, knowing that you are a 89 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,080 spirit and you're spiritual, right? So some people when they tell them, you have to manifest 90 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:35,760 the kingdom of God, they just think that something has to come upon them before they can manifest, 91 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,960 right? Not from within them. When you talk about people manifesting the kingdom of God, 92 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,320 they believe that they have to be pushed. They have to, oh no, manifesting the kingdom 93 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:50,880 of God is something spooky. It's not, right? Manifesting the kingdom of God is not something 94 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,240 spooky. It's not something that cannot be explained. But where it begins is to first 95 00:09:55,240 --> 00:10:03,160 understand our identity, right? That we are spiritual and how the spiritual came to be 96 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:11,280 is what we will see today. All right, so the believer's identity is spiritual first because 97 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:19,840 the kingdom itself is spiritual. The believer's identity is spiritual because the kingdom itself 98 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:25,560 is spiritual. So we have been teaching about this kingdom and we say that the kingdom of 99 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:32,240 God is not a location, right? It's not a location. It's not a place where we go and we sit and 100 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:39,720 gather. But it is spiritual, talking about the dominion and the influence of all that 101 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:45,760 Christ has done. So it is not physical but spiritual, talking about the dominion and 102 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:54,880 the influence of all that Christ has done. So it will mean that the death, the burial 103 00:10:54,880 --> 00:11:02,640 and resurrection of Christ brought dominion, right, and influence and this is spiritual. 104 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:13,040 All right, let's start with the first scripture. Let's go to Genesis 1 verse 1. Genesis 1 verse 105 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:21,680 1. Genesis 1 verse 1. Now I said, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Next. 106 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:27,000 The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit 107 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:33,040 of God was hovering over the face of the waters. I think I'm going to use my Bible so media 108 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,880 team you can present that to the church. I'm just going to use my Bible so we can move 109 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,720 fast. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form 110 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:48,280 and void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering 111 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:57,000 over the face of the waters. Right? So what we are seeing here is God's intention, right, 112 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,440 we've taught this before, God's intention to unite with man, okay? God's intention to 113 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:08,680 do it, to unite with man. It says the heaven and the earth, right? And Perseus also had 114 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:15,920 taught us that actually if you read the verse 2 you would understand what the earth is because 115 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:24,840 verse 2 says the earth was without form and darkness was on the face of the deep. Right? 116 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,600 Darkness was on the face of the deep and when we read 2 Corinthians you can put it down 117 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,080 across Genesis 1.1, right? You can even write it in your Bible, just put that Genesis 1.1 118 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:43,360 and 2 together and put this scripture 2 Corinthians 4.4. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. It says, was 119 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:51,120 this mind the God of this age as blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel 120 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:58,800 of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. Right? We need to 121 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:05,920 read some more context to that so that we can understand it. So verse 5 of it says, 122 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,800 for what we proclaim is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as the Lord with ourselves as 123 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:18,800 servants for Jesus sake. Verse 6, for God who said, let light shine out of darkness 124 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:25,760 as shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face 125 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:32,880 of Jesus Christ. Again, let light shine out of darkness as shown in our hearts to give 126 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,560 the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. So it means that 127 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:42,960 the heart of man is where the darkness is, right? The heart of man is where the darkness 128 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,800 is. When they're talking about the heart of man, they're not talking about this heart 129 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:55,960 that is physical. They are talking about the frame mind of man that aligns with unbelief. 130 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:00,520 So the heart of man is darkened, right? The heart of man is darkened and therefore we 131 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,760 see that it's nothing physical. It's not talking about physical. It's talking about people 132 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:12,920 who have not believed. The verse 4 of that 2 Corinthians chapter 4 reveals it that in 133 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:19,600 their case, the God of this world blinded their minds of the unbelievers to keep them 134 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:26,040 from seeing the light of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. So anyone who has 135 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:31,560 not seen the gospel, who has not understood Christ, is blind and is in darkness. Do we 136 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:37,440 say that? Does that mean that they are in a place where there is no electricity? Okay, 137 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,960 so it means it's not physical, right? Does that mean that if you remove their hearts 138 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:48,360 and you check it, it will be dark? Does it what it means? It doesn't mean that, right? 139 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:54,320 So if you check them and you go for an X-ray, you will see red, right? I mean, if I'm right, 140 00:14:54,320 --> 00:15:00,840 you know. So it means that it's nothing physical. We need to pay attention to that. It also 141 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:08,340 means that what is darkened is their understanding. It means that when a message is presented 142 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:13,840 to them, right, they will say, no, this message is a lie. That's what they do to the gospel. 143 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:18,080 When they say Jesus is Lord, they say, no, that's a lie. That's what an unbeliever does. 144 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,440 He's as plain as saying, it's a lie. Like, I don't believe this gospel. If you don't 145 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,960 believe something, it means you don't believe it because it's a lie. That's what you have 146 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:28,640 positioned yourself to be. So therefore, the matter that was being dealt with in Genesis 147 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,360 1 and Genesis 2 is the matter of the darkness in the heart of man. So from there, we already 148 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:40,160 saw that this matter is spiritual, right? It's spiritual. Now let me show you something 149 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:47,480 else in verse 3 to add up to it. Or same in verse 2. He said, and the spirit of God was 150 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:57,200 hovering over the face of the water. And the spirit of God, that word is ruach heluhim. 151 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:06,040 It's not spirit of God as to mean God is on the throne. Then the spirit of God is now 152 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:12,840 walking around and checking how, no, no, that's not what it means. It means God himself. There's 153 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:19,040 no off in the Hebrew version where it is written. There's no off. There's no spirit of God. 154 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,560 It is the spirit who is God. Let me not use who is God because that will mean another 155 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:28,120 T-S-K-S thing for those of you that know. But I'm not going to use that. It means the spirit 156 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:37,320 God, right? It means spirit God, ruach heluhim himself. So that is God. And that means it's 157 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:43,920 about a spiritual matter because the person who wants to unite the heart of man to himself 158 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:51,520 is spirit. The heart of man itself cannot be same. So it's a spiritual matter. So from 159 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:58,200 the beginning we can see that what God intends to do is not to make you to be yellow, is 160 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:05,000 not to make you to be dark, is not to make you to have jerrycoys like I said last week, 161 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:11,960 but to make you a spirit that is in union with the spirit of God. That is the first 162 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:20,640 thing. Spirit that is in union with ruach heluhim himself. From this point you should 163 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:26,800 begin to have boldness because the goal of this teaching is to make you bold, to manifest 164 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:34,240 the kingdom. I say it again. So when you understand that what God planned from Genesis is that 165 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:40,680 he wants you to be in union with him, it means you are a spirit, right? And that should give 166 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:49,200 you boldness. Okay, let's see further. Let's go to John, no Ezekiel 36, 22-32. These are 167 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:58,120 scriptures we've touched very well. Ezekiel 36. Can we read from verse 19? Let us just 168 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:03,720 pay some little bit of context to these. It says, verse 19 says, I scattered them among 169 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,040 the nations and they were dispersed through the countries in accordance with their ways 170 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:14,200 and their deeds. I judged them, but when they came to the nations, where they came, they 171 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:22,680 profaned my name in that people said of them, these people are the Lord's, yet they go out 172 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:31,000 of his land. But I had concern for my holy name, which is the house of Israel, which 173 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:40,080 the house of Israel had profaned and among the nations to which they came. Now the context 174 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:47,120 of this is the Israel's unbelief, right? The Israel's unbelief. And what we see there, 175 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:53,080 right? What we see there, can we observe? It said, they profaned my holy name. Why? 176 00:18:53,080 --> 00:19:00,520 In that the people said to them, these people are of the Lord, and yet they had gone out 177 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:06,760 of his land, but I had concern for my name. So it means that, there's something I want 178 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:15,200 to pick it. It means that the profaning on the Lord's name, right? Is simply working 179 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:22,200 in unbelief, against, working in unbelief, which is against the word of God. Actually, 180 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:28,280 that is the profaning of the name of the Lord. When you do things, right? When the word of 181 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:33,160 God is presented to you and you work against it, that is profaning the name of the Lord. 182 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,160 That is what we see here. It said, they profaned my name among the nations because the nation 183 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:43,120 has, they said these are people of God, but they don't look like one, right? Because they're 184 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:49,660 not even where God says they should be. So we see that this is the problem in this context. 185 00:19:49,660 --> 00:19:54,320 What I had concerned for my name, it said, talking about he honors his own name, right? 186 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:01,080 He honors his own name. Now, that word concern is not about God is worried about his reputation. 187 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:08,800 No, God is not worried about his reputation. Because he had said something, Israel rejected, 188 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,400 then the people of the world was, these people, they look like people that God has really 189 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,000 called them, but they are not in alignment with the word of God. That is profaning. And 190 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,320 God said, I have concerned for my, is not I'm worried about my reputation. No, I respect 191 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:28,640 my name. I honor my name. And that name is the word of God. Hallelujah. The name that 192 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:34,960 God had concerned for is not the name that is pronounced, the word Yahweh. No, that's 193 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,960 not, it's really talking about what he will do. So he said, what I will do, I will do, 194 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,840 right? What I will do, I will do. I have concerned for my name, which the house of Israel had 195 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,960 made to Israel. Israel is making it look like God has abandoned his people who remember 196 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:55,960 Romans. He said, has God abandoned his people? Say no, right? There are people who are believing 197 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,440 even from the house of Israel. So God says, I have concerned for my name, right? Which 198 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,640 is for the word I've spoken, I have respect for it and I'll bring it to pass. It means 199 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,960 that people will believe, right? People will believe. See, don't be concerned when you 200 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,760 go for evangelism, you are preaching, they're like, ah, people are not believing. Oh, you 201 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,920 are doing percentages. Let me tell you, God has made it that many people will believe, 202 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:23,080 many would come to the knowledge of Christ because God would fulfill his word. Now let's 203 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,360 see what happened after. I actually have a scripture that I actually wanted to, I will 204 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:34,080 talk about in line with these because I was sharing it with a post-custin yesterday night 205 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,800 when we were discussing about the scriptures. I think that scripture is Psalms 138, if I'm 206 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:52,480 correct. Let's go to Psalm 138. Let's go to Psalms 138 or verse, Psalm 138. I just show 207 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,320 you something there that actually would help us to understand. You know, when we teach, 208 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:05,840 one of the things that we do, right, is to correct, is to set straight the word of God, 209 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,360 right? Is to set straight the word of God. Let's go to verse two. Let's go to verse 210 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:17,080 two. I bow down towards your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast 211 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:25,520 love and your faithfulness for you have exalted above all things your name in some scriptures 212 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:31,560 it says more than your word. If your scripture say that, can you raise your hand? Okay. Did 213 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:36,760 you hear what I said? If your scripture says he has exalted his name, this is a good version, 214 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:43,160 right? More than your word. So some scriptures rather than use and they put more than. Can 215 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:48,640 I see that? Above all your words, yes, you have exalted, you have magnified your words 216 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:54,320 above all your name. Now these, you know, we always know the name is that name that 217 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:59,280 you pronounce, maybe Jesus, maybe Halloween, right? That name is very powerful. The name 218 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:05,140 of God and the word of God are not different things. The name carries what he will do. 219 00:23:05,140 --> 00:23:11,080 So there is nothing like he has exalted his name more than. He has exalted his name, his 220 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,880 word. That's actually what is there. Just the same we saw Ruach Elohim, right? So the 221 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:22,000 authors and the translators put these things there for readability also sometimes based 222 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:30,360 on their understanding. So God's word is his name and that's word he will do. He is not 223 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:37,440 concerned about his reposition. His respect is for what he has said and he will do. Now 224 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:47,280 let's continue in that Ezekiel 36. So if you now go to verse 22, now watch. So we are said 225 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,800 that what God would do, right, is his name, right? His name is what he will do and is 226 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,560 the word, right? And is to bring Israel to the fulfillment of what he will do. So from 227 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:01,760 verse 22, he began to explain what God would do, right? He said, therefore to the house 228 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,800 of Israel, to seize the Lord, it is not for your sake, it is not for what you have done 229 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:12,360 it, O Israel, that I am about to act, but for my name's sake, my holy name, what can 230 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:17,240 we replace that holy name with? His word, right? We can replace that word because of what God 231 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:25,560 has spoken. Which are profaned among the nations to which you came, right? And I will vindicate 232 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:30,400 the holiness of my great name. Which you are profaned among the nations, which you are 233 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:36,000 profaned among them and the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord. When 234 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,440 I come through you, I will vindicate my holiness before their eyes. Next. I will take you from 235 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,640 among the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own 236 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,720 land. I will sprinkle clean water on you. Can you see the vindication of God? Right? 237 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,160 It's salvation, it's cleaning, it's bringing people to a position where they are supposed 238 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:59,120 to be. And you shall be cleaned from all your uncleanness and all your idols. I will cleanse 239 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:07,240 you. And I will give you a new heart, a new spirit, and I will put within you. And I will 240 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:13,000 take the heart of stone from your flesh. I will give you the heart of flesh. And I will 241 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:20,960 put my words, my spirit within you and cross you to walk in my status and be careful to 242 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:27,080 what to obey my rules. Did you see? He said he will do what? I will put my spirit within 243 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:34,920 you. Right? He's talking about our spirit and our spirit in union with Christ, in union 244 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:40,160 with God. He will clean us. I will save you. I will bring you to a place where we will 245 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,560 be together. All this stated here, a heart of stone, a heart of flesh, and all of that 246 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:52,920 are figurative to explain a spiritual reality that happens in the believer. So the believer 247 00:25:52,920 --> 00:26:01,840 is spiritual. Hallelujah. See, I am spiritual. I have a spirit within me. And I am in union 248 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:09,360 with the spirit of God. Amen. Well, let's go to, let's progress. First John 4.13. First 249 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:19,400 John 4.13. It's about this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has done 250 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:25,480 what? He has given us a spirit. Right? This is now later on after the spirit has been 251 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:31,600 given. He has given us what? His spirit. So every believer has a spirit of God. And it's 252 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,000 not about like, you know, sometimes with the way we picture it is that God is inside his 253 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:43,000 jacket. Right? It is just, it is, right? It's technically true. But the right explanation 254 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,120 is that you are in union. Your spirit and God's spirit are in union together. That's 255 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:53,440 what his spirit is. Right? It's within your spirit and you in him. Don't forget 14. I 256 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:59,280 will be in you, you will be in me. We will be together with the father. So spiritual 257 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:06,640 matters here. John 4 verse 23. John 4 verse 23 and 24. Quickly. John 4 verse 23 and 24. 258 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,920 So buddy, hour is coming and is now. When the true worshipers will worship the father 259 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:20,560 in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such people, right? Such people to worship 260 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:26,560 him. So God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit must, sorry, those who worship 261 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:34,960 him must worship in spirit and truth. So God is spirit and it will give bread towards spirits. 262 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,360 God is spirit and it will give bread towards, he's not spooky. Don't look at it like something. 263 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:44,600 No, no, no. God is spirit and it will give bread to spirits. That is why you are less, 264 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,000 I mean, I'm not saying you should take care of yourself. We don't discourage that. But 265 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:55,520 your concern and your worry is not this jacket. How does jacket use? No, your concern, your 266 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,920 worries, not how this jacket works. So when you want to go and manifest the kingdom of 267 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:05,960 God, say, ah, I have to put on white suit like Pastor Imau for the anointing to flow. 268 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:11,360 And then I need to speak like Pastor Custin, then walk like Pastor. You know, these things 269 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:16,800 come with the movements. Or you want to preach to someone, I'm not well dressed, ah, you 270 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:22,120 know, you are covered already, right? You are modest, right? I need to look good. You 271 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:28,320 know, the gospel must be packaged. You know, you need to put on some shining, looking, 272 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,000 spray yourself. So when you come and say, have you believed? The person will smell your 273 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:40,040 arouse. Okay, because who came with something? No. As you wake up in the morning, you brush 274 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,920 it, it will go out. You just walk in, you find someone, you can preach the gospel because 275 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:51,720 it's about your spirit that is ready to teach the world to explain the world to people. 276 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:57,560 You are not limited by your physical appearance. You are not. So it's a God of spirit. And 277 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:04,720 we that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Another scripture, John 3, 6. 278 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:14,280 Let's go to John 3, 6. John 3 verse 6. Or let's see. Okay, good. So now this is now 279 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:19,320 the explanation, right? The statement I made, the explanation is that, that which is born 280 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:25,440 of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit is what? Spirit. That which 281 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:32,240 is born of the spirit is spirit. You are spirits, right? You are a spirit. Can you take verse 282 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:43,320 37 of the same John? Let me see if I play something there. John 3 verse 37. Okay, it's 283 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:50,640 not up to, okay, not up to 37. 36. John 3, 34. Let's go to 34. 34. Yes, thank you. For 284 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:59,400 he, whom God has sent, utters the word of God, for he gives the spirit without measure. 285 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,120 Now this was a discussion about Jesus, right? Some people saw Jesus baptizing and all of 286 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:09,920 that. We can read from verse 31. Verse 31. It says, he who comes from above is from above. 287 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:15,400 Again, reiterating this thing, spiritual. He who is on the earth belongs to the earth 288 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:21,920 and speaks in an earthly way, he who does, he who comes from heaven is from above. He 289 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:31,040 bears witness so that, he bears witness to that which he has seen and heard, yet no receives 290 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:36,640 and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whosoever receives his testimony sets his 291 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:46,080 seal to this, that God is true. Verse 34. For he who God has sent, speaks the word of 292 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:52,280 God, utters the word of God, for he gives his spirit without measure. The father loves 293 00:30:52,280 --> 00:31:00,280 the son and he has given all things into his hands. Whosoever believes in the son has eternal 294 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:07,040 life. Whosoever does not obey the son shall not see life, but the word of God remains 295 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:13,320 on him. The emphasis is that he's talking about Christ and he says he gives his spirit 296 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,400 without measure. It means without restriction. It means first, in the context of Christ, 297 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,600 Christ is fully God and fully man. Are we together? Right? He's fully God and fully 298 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:32,960 man. It's not like, oh, it's 50% in measure. Right? It's like, I don't know, there's what 299 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,560 they call maybe graduated cylinder. I think I've heard that word somewhere. I can use 300 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:45,960 that. Yes. Like a portion measured of God, granted to Jesus to carry. Right? So that 301 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:53,880 the remaining part will be topped up by human. That is not what it's saying. He's fully God 302 00:31:53,880 --> 00:32:01,400 and he's fully man. Right? So the extent of God's spirit is in him. And therefore, when 303 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,560 you are being given birth to, you are not half spirits. You are not half spirits. Like 304 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:13,480 I'm spirit half and I have other parts. You are fully spirit as well. You know, the mathematics 305 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,200 does not work. Right? The mathematics of half plus half has to be one. I think I was talking 306 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:23,480 to someone. They want it to be one. Right? That's why they are making it 50-50. But they 307 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:29,320 can explain 100-100. Right? So the point is you are fully spirit. The spirit of God is 308 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:35,880 granted onto you, not in a measure because you are given birth to by Christ. So some 309 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,200 people say, oh, that is, you know, some people, they can manifest speaking in tongues. Some 310 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,680 people, they cannot speak in tongues. You know, it is given in measure. No, no, no, 311 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,840 no. They even bring that there. You know, that is what it will mean. And that is why 312 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:55,120 when we teach, we teach you very well to know that you can manifest all that is found in 313 00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:04,480 the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Say I can manifest all that is found in God. Hallelujah. So not 314 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:10,960 with a measure. Right? It's not an extent, but fully spirit. So because we are coming 315 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:19,160 from that and we are fully spirit. Now let me go to Hebrews 7 verse 9. You are from God. 316 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:24,160 You are spirit. Your spirit is given birth to by the spirit of God. Sorry, Hebrews 12 317 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:31,000 7 to 9. Hebrews 12 7 to 9. Hebrews 12 verse 7 to 9. It is for discipline that you have 318 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:39,160 to endure. For God is treating you as sons. For one son is there whom the father does 319 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:45,800 not discipline. If you are left without discipline in which all have participated. Oh, stop. 320 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,680 Let me finish reading. Then I'll come to this. In which all have participated. Then you are 321 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:56,600 illegitimate children and not sons. Next. Besides this, we have earthly fathers who 322 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:03,280 disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the father 323 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:10,840 of spirits and words and leave? Now go back to 7. Let's start picking it one one. It is 324 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:18,240 for discipline that you have to endure. It means that the reason why we endure is for 325 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:24,040 training. The word discipline there is not punishment. Okay. So put it in your mind is 326 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,840 not punishment. It is training. People endure training. You suffer punishment. Let me put 327 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:36,600 it that way. You endure training. It is training. God is treating you as sons. Right? For one 328 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:42,840 son is there whom the father does not discipline. So he is bringing in the concept of family 329 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:48,600 here. Okay. The father disciplines a son. The next. If you are left without discipline in 330 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:54,320 which all have participated. It means everybody that is found in God is being trained. Everybody 331 00:34:54,320 --> 00:35:00,320 found in God is being trained and you have to be trained and you have to endure. So here 332 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:05,240 again it shows it is not punishment because all have participated in this discipline, 333 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:09,960 in this training. Now it says then you are electing me children. It means how would you 334 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:15,600 come into a place where you have not been trained? So the next verse. Besides this we 335 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,040 have earthly fathers. Now this earthly fathers is very important because it will help us 336 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,560 to understand the father of spirits. Right? It will help us to understand the father of 337 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:29,740 spirits. Now we have earthly fathers who have disciplined us and we respected them. Right? 338 00:35:29,740 --> 00:35:33,960 So it is talking about the context of a family again. Are we together? Now shall we not be 339 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:40,960 much more subject? Right? The obedience to the father of spirits and leave. So this spirit 340 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,760 here is talking to children. We can replace that spirit as sons. Right? Can we replace 341 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:53,160 the spirit as sons? Yes. Can we say sons of God as spirits? John 1.1. I think I skipped 342 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:58,000 that. I did not read that. For as many as receiving, for as many as believe, again then 343 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:08,440 parts become what? Sons. Sons of God as spirits. And our father is God himself. So when you 344 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:13,000 think of yourself and you understand the fact that you are a spirit, it should be bold. 345 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,480 That tells you that you are the child of God. Right? You are the child of God. You are spirit. 346 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,480 When you think of yourself as a spirit, you should be thinking of your father who is spirit 347 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:28,560 and that is why I say we is the father of spirits and leave. Leave there is not like 348 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,800 you come alive. It means to be trained to be edified, to grow in him. If you read the 349 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,440 remaining part of it, you will see that that leave is not like it is talking about daily 350 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,760 living. Right? Daily living, progressive living. We will see that. So the father of spirit. 351 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:46,440 Now to quickly disconnect your mind so that you won't say God is not the father of all 352 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:53,840 spirits. First of all. Okay? God is not the father of what? All spirits. Right? All spirits. 353 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,880 God is not the father of all spirits. First, from this verse you see that he brought in 354 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:04,600 the concept, the author of Hebrew, brought in the concept of family. Right? In a family, 355 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:10,440 the father would discipline the children. The father would train the children. Therefore, 356 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:16,800 in God's family, he is the father of spirits. Right? And those spirits are sons. That's 357 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,240 why I made us to juxtapose so that we can understand. Those spirits are sons. Therefore, 358 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:28,240 he is our father and we are spirits. Good. Now let's read, let's read John 8 verse 44. 359 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:35,160 Let's read John 8. Let's read the book. It says you are of your father the devil and 360 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:41,040 your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and does 361 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:46,600 not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him when he lies he speaks his own 362 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:52,400 character for he is a liar and the father of lies. Did you see here? Now, it definitely 363 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:58,200 means that Jesus, if God is the father of all spirits, he would not be calling devil 364 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:04,920 having his own entity as a father. Right? So he is saying that the devil himself, right, 365 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,000 calls his own people and therefore God is not the father of the devil. Some people are 366 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:16,720 saying that, you know, God is not the father of demons. He is not the father of priest 367 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:21,960 of parties, but he is not their father. Because father means they are in the same family and 368 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:27,600 they coexist, but they don't coexist. Right? We will talk about that because progressively 369 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:32,120 in this teaching we will get to authority. Right? That's where you will understand much 370 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:38,360 more. Fatherhood is different from the kind of authority that is expressed over demons 371 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:43,720 and principalities. So we see here that he is not the father of the devil. God is not 372 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:51,360 the father of the devil. Right. Matthew chapter 12 verse 27 and 28 is that if I cast out demons 373 00:38:51,360 --> 00:39:01,360 by bells above, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 374 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:06,920 But it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons. If it is by the spirit of God 375 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:13,640 I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you. The kingdom of God has come 376 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:21,400 to you because I cast demons out by the spirit of God. So it means that God's spirit, right, 377 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:28,800 and God being the father of all spirits, these demons are not included in it. Okay? They 378 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,520 are not included in it. So when we talk about those spirits, it is talking about us. It 379 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:39,240 is talking about us. In the context that we read, it wasn't talking about angels. It didn't 380 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:44,800 talk about angels there. Right? It didn't talk about angels. It is talking about us. 381 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:50,600 Right? It said the father of spirits. Now if we read Hebrews, let's go to Hebrews 1 and 382 00:39:50,600 --> 00:40:00,400 see. Hebrews chapter 1. Can we go to verse 13? Let's just go to verse 13. Verse 13. 383 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:08,160 And to which of the angels has he ever said, okay, to which of the angels has he ever said, 384 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:16,920 sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet? Are they not all 385 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:26,000 ministering spirits, right, sent to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? 386 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:32,560 This is spirits serving those who will be sons. Okay? It is ministering their ministering 387 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:39,960 spirits serving those who would inherit salvation. It means those who will come into God's family. 388 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:46,000 Right? The concept of family again. Those who will come into God's family. And that 389 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:52,200 is what we see there that the earthly fathers will discipline and train up their children. 390 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:58,720 And our spiritual father is the father of spirits. And that spirit there is those who 391 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:04,920 will inherit salvation. So it tells you that that context, it wasn't talking about spirits. 392 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:10,840 Otherwise, it will be that spirits, you know, it will be in the context of disciplined spirits. 393 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,360 Right? Disciplined angels. But that was not the context of it. It was actually talking 394 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:24,200 about the context of those who have been saved and are in God. So therefore we can say that 395 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:29,680 we are spirits and therefore we can manifest the things of the spirits. We can manifest 396 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:36,520 the spiritual kingdom of God, which is spiritual, right? We can manifest we have boldness. Why 397 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:43,640 should we also manifest the kingdom of God? Because our father is the one who is in charge 398 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:48,720 of the kingdom. Right? So we are from a kingdom where God is the father. And when we think 399 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:56,920 of ourselves as spirits, we should have boldness. Right? We should have boldness. So this identity 400 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:03,920 as spiritual enables us, right? Enables us to know, right? Enables us to know our position. 401 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:08,640 Of course, it talks about identity, but it's also related to position. It helps us to know 402 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:15,760 that there are functions that our father has instructed us that we must carry out. So first 403 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:21,480 we are spiritual, right? We are given birth to by God. We are born of God. Right? In that 404 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:29,120 kingdom there are things to do. Those things to do is what we will come back to in subsequent 405 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:35,720 teachings and is the diaconal. Okay? So coming back to the beginning, right? I said, Philip 406 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:45,200 was asking and saying, Jesus show us, right? That question is not, how can I put it? That 407 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:51,320 question is actually a challenge because Christ has revealed an identity to him, right? And 408 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:56,520 he needed to believe, right? But the works, let's go back to John 14 now. Let's go back 409 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:02,440 to John 14. Let's go back to John 14. We need to open it so that we can see, so that we 410 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:09,360 can connect this very well. So verse eight says, Philip said to him, show us, Lord, show 411 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:15,480 us the father. And I said that he said, prove to us the father with works, prove to us the 412 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:20,960 father with certain proofs, right? Don't tell, I mean, it's not about position and all that. 413 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,160 Tell us we are and show us something. And look at Jesus concluded by saying that, believe 414 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:34,600 that I am in the father and the father is in me in verse 11. So can we say that believe 415 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:40,320 that the spirit of God is in the believer and the believer is in the spirit of God? 416 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:45,760 Can we say that? Because Christ has mentioned that here, if you go to verse 20, let us say 417 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:53,280 that verse 20, in that day, you will know that I am in the father and you in me and 418 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:59,560 I in you, our union with God's spirit. Do we agree on that? Now look at verse 11 again, 419 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:05,720 go back to verse 11. Jesus now said, okay, if you don't hold on to this, there is also 420 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:11,400 something you can hold on to that which you requested for. Look at the works, right? Believe 421 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:17,440 on the works that I do. Now in our father in verse 12, truly, truly I say to you, whoever 422 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:25,040 believes in me will also do the works that I do and greater works than these, he will 423 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:36,120 what? He will do. So it means that being spiritual, you would carry out works too. Do we get it? 424 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:42,240 Being a spirit, your identity as a spirit is not to just be existing. Your identity 425 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:49,640 as a spirit is not to just have it and oh, I'm spirit. But you would do works. It's just 426 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:56,880 that the identity precedes the work. That is it. The identity precedes the works. You 427 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:02,360 can't do greater works if you're not a spirit, if your father is not a father of spirits. 428 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:09,240 So we can do greater works, all that we do in Christ, right? In the preaching of the 429 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:17,120 gospel, in the healing of the sick, right? In evangelizing, in singing, in rejoicing, 430 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:23,480 in shouting glory. We are doing that because first we are spirits, the identity of course, 431 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,560 then those works they follow. Those works they follow. So I like to conclude to say, 432 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,440 don't be in the act. Now that you have learned, right? You have learned that you are spirit. 433 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,840 Don't be in the act of people that will say, oh, that guy is spiritual. You, what are you? 434 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:44,280 So that guy is very spiritual. You know, he has a way of coordinating himself or every 435 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:48,480 time they come, if you go to that guy now, he will spiritualize everything. There's nothing 436 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,880 like spiritualize everything. Everything is spiritual already, right? So be bold. Don't 437 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:59,320 change your lingua, right? Change the way you talk, change your thinking, right? That's 438 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,280 you are spiritual. So that guy is spiritual. What about you? You're spiritual as well. 439 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,000 You do the things. It's because they see people coordinating themselves in certain ways. So 440 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,560 that guy is spiritual. So we are spirits and we will do the works of our father. Who is 441 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:18,920 the father of all spirits? Who he himself is spirit. Hallelujah. Have we blessed? Have 442 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:24,960 we learned? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost? 443 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:30,840 Thank you for listening to today's sermon. Your journey matters to us. Let's keep walking 444 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:36,960 together. Visit our website for more resources and follow us on social media to stay up to 445 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:43,360 date. 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