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Alright, so the title is still Our Union with Christ, right? The title is Our Union with
Christ. We are continuing and that is why John chapter 14 has been read again, right?
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Alright, so John chapter 14 has been read for us. And from the last time we picked out
two things, right? We picked out two words that reflect manifestation, something related
to manifestation. And we said that the theme of the year, first of all, to reiterate is
manifesting the kingdom of God, right? In NACM, our theme for this year is manifesting
the kingdom of God. And all the teachings that are coming are aligning with that so that
as believers, we can manifest the kingdom of God, right? Paul would tell the church
in the current year and said, I don't want you to be ignorant of the things of the spirits.
So one of the things that it tries to kill in the church in current is ignorance, which
does not necessarily mean not knowing, but deliberately doing the wrong thing, right?
So ignorance of things of the scriptures. So we try as much as possible to clear our
minds so that we can comprehend the scripture. So the two words continuing from the last
time, the two words who can remind us, there are two words that we were treating. The last
teaching was on a Wednesday and we talk about two Greek words that we try to explain. Who
remembers what are the Greek words? All right, John chapter 14 verse eight, John chapter
14 verse eight, it says, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the father and it is what? Enough
for us, right? And it's enough for us. And that's word show, right? Is Dick and Noel,
right? That word show is Dick and Noel, Dick and Noel, D-I-K-E-N-U-O, show us the father.
So that's the first word, which is Dick and Noel. And the second word, which is similar,
is found in the second question or the third question of that chapter, verse 22. I said,
Judas, not Iscarius said to him, Lord, why is it that you will manifest yourself to us
and not to the world? And the word there was using my brother's reading as unveil, right?
Unveil here used manifest and that word is emphanizal, E-M-P-H, E-M-P-H-A-N-I-Z-O. And
just to reiterate, to understand what was going here, Philip said to him, Lord, show
us the father. Now this is after Christ had explained to them that I am the way, the truth
and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. If you had known me, you would
have known the father also. And we emphasize that Christ is showing them an identity, is
manifesting himself to them. This is what we see John writing. So Christ is manifesting
an identity to the disciples, revealing himself, I am in the father and the father is in me.
What Christ is doing there is what we can say, emphanizal, is explaining to them his
identity, who he is. And that is why in verse 22, Judas Iscarius asks the question, why
is he manifesting himself to us? So Jesus was really telling them about their identity.
So emphanizal is mostly identity based, reflecting a people that have been brought forth, right?
We saw that in previous scriptures about those who were resurrected after Christ rose, showing
themselves, manifesting themselves to people, right? So we see that that emphanizal is something
that is linked to the salvation work of God and is linked to the identity. Now, why did
Philip ask this question, which is show us the father, right? That word show, like we
said, is there now. And it simply means after we have heard of an identity, right? It simply
means to prove something. So Philip was saying, now that you have told us the father and we
have heard that you are in the father and the father is in us, now show us a thing,
right? Show us a thing that will show us the father. So he was looking for works, he was
looking for maybe I would say more teachings, okay, teach us more about the father, show
us signs actually. It's like showing us signs of the father. That is why the answer Jesus
gave was quite, was quite different from the way he answered the first tomers and the way
he answered Judas. He said, have I not been with you? He said, how have I been with you
so long and you do not still know me, Philip? Just like I'm revealing an identity to you,
you are asking for works, you are asking for teachings, you are asking for proofs, yet
I'm revealing myself to you, I've made myself manifest, yes, you want to see something.
Nevertheless, Jesus said, verse 11, believe me that I am in the father, again reiterating
the same thing, that's about the identity, right? Or else, okay, believe on the account
of the works that you see. So, diaconal goes with works most of the time, reflected in
works. So this is where we stopped the last time and now we need to build on it today.
So we can say, am for needs or identity based proof of salvation to show that one is safe
and this is what diaconal is to show a proof of something, right? So you have to do something
external to present that, oh, I am the Christ, right? That was literally what he was saying,
using that word to show things, to show works. So today we would pick and finis of first
and talk about it much more and what we want to talk about much more is the identity in
union with Christ, right? Our identity in union with Christ. So like a subheading of
this is like our identity in union with Christ. So what identity do you have? Now that you
are in the father, the father is in me and we are with Christ. What is our identity?
We need to understand the identity of the believer. So last week when Pastor Victor
was teaching, he made a prophecy on something and he talked about something in his introduction
and he said, it is not gender based. Who remembers? He said, it is not ethnic based. The identity
and the message is not gender based, is not ethnic based, is not culture based. So therefore,
right, you don't need to struggle, you know, with your outward looking, you're struggling
with it, right? You don't need to struggle with that. You know, he even mentioned something.
He said, because of the way the mind has been structured, the emphasis has been on the physical.
But when it comes to the believer, the first identity of the believer, you can write it
down, is that the believer is spiritual. The believer is a spirit, is spiritual. This is
the first identity that we must understand so that we don't struggle with how you look,
right? Nobody can talk you down on how you look because you are spiritual. This is important.
This is also important because when you understand that you are spiritual, you will be bold to
manifest the kingdom of God. When you understand that you are spiritual, that you are a spirit,
you will be bold to do it, to manifest the kingdom of God. Because I will not, we're
going to explain today how that spirit comes to be, right? So what I'm going to explain
here is to make you become bold to manifest the kingdom of God, knowing that you are a
spirit and you're spiritual, right? So some people when they tell them, you have to manifest
the kingdom of God, they just think that something has to come upon them before they can manifest,
right? Not from within them. When you talk about people manifesting the kingdom of God,
they believe that they have to be pushed. They have to, oh no, manifesting the kingdom
of God is something spooky. It's not, right? Manifesting the kingdom of God is not something
spooky. It's not something that cannot be explained. But where it begins is to first
understand our identity, right? That we are spiritual and how the spiritual came to be
is what we will see today. All right, so the believer's identity is spiritual first because
the kingdom itself is spiritual. The believer's identity is spiritual because the kingdom itself
is spiritual. So we have been teaching about this kingdom and we say that the kingdom of
God is not a location, right? It's not a location. It's not a place where we go and we sit and
gather. But it is spiritual, talking about the dominion and the influence of all that
Christ has done. So it is not physical but spiritual, talking about the dominion and
the influence of all that Christ has done. So it will mean that the death, the burial
and resurrection of Christ brought dominion, right, and influence and this is spiritual.
All right, let's start with the first scripture. Let's go to Genesis 1 verse 1. Genesis 1 verse
1. Genesis 1 verse 1. Now I said, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Next.
The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit
of God was hovering over the face of the waters. I think I'm going to use my Bible so media
team you can present that to the church. I'm just going to use my Bible so we can move
fast. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form
and void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the face of the waters. Right? So what we are seeing here is God's intention, right,
we've taught this before, God's intention to unite with man, okay? God's intention to
do it, to unite with man. It says the heaven and the earth, right? And Perseus also had
taught us that actually if you read the verse 2 you would understand what the earth is because
verse 2 says the earth was without form and darkness was on the face of the deep. Right?
Darkness was on the face of the deep and when we read 2 Corinthians you can put it down
across Genesis 1.1, right? You can even write it in your Bible, just put that Genesis 1.1
and 2 together and put this scripture 2 Corinthians 4.4. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. It says, was
this mind the God of this age as blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel
of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. Right? We need to
read some more context to that so that we can understand it. So verse 5 of it says,
for what we proclaim is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as the Lord with ourselves as
servants for Jesus sake. Verse 6, for God who said, let light shine out of darkness
as shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. Again, let light shine out of darkness as shown in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. So it means that
the heart of man is where the darkness is, right? The heart of man is where the darkness
is. When they're talking about the heart of man, they're not talking about this heart
that is physical. They are talking about the frame mind of man that aligns with unbelief.
So the heart of man is darkened, right? The heart of man is darkened and therefore we
see that it's nothing physical. It's not talking about physical. It's talking about people
who have not believed. The verse 4 of that 2 Corinthians chapter 4 reveals it that in
their case, the God of this world blinded their minds of the unbelievers to keep them
from seeing the light of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. So anyone who has
not seen the gospel, who has not understood Christ, is blind and is in darkness. Do we
say that? Does that mean that they are in a place where there is no electricity? Okay,
so it means it's not physical, right? Does that mean that if you remove their hearts
and you check it, it will be dark? Does it what it means? It doesn't mean that, right?
So if you check them and you go for an X-ray, you will see red, right? I mean, if I'm right,
you know. So it means that it's nothing physical. We need to pay attention to that. It also
means that what is darkened is their understanding. It means that when a message is presented
to them, right, they will say, no, this message is a lie. That's what they do to the gospel.
When they say Jesus is Lord, they say, no, that's a lie. That's what an unbeliever does.
He's as plain as saying, it's a lie. Like, I don't believe this gospel. If you don't
believe something, it means you don't believe it because it's a lie. That's what you have
positioned yourself to be. So therefore, the matter that was being dealt with in Genesis
1 and Genesis 2 is the matter of the darkness in the heart of man. So from there, we already
saw that this matter is spiritual, right? It's spiritual. Now let me show you something
else in verse 3 to add up to it. Or same in verse 2. He said, and the spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the water. And the spirit of God, that word is ruach heluhim.
It's not spirit of God as to mean God is on the throne. Then the spirit of God is now
walking around and checking how, no, no, that's not what it means. It means God himself. There's
no off in the Hebrew version where it is written. There's no off. There's no spirit of God.
It is the spirit who is God. Let me not use who is God because that will mean another
T-S-K-S thing for those of you that know. But I'm not going to use that. It means the spirit
God, right? It means spirit God, ruach heluhim himself. So that is God. And that means it's
about a spiritual matter because the person who wants to unite the heart of man to himself
is spirit. The heart of man itself cannot be same. So it's a spiritual matter. So from
the beginning we can see that what God intends to do is not to make you to be yellow, is
not to make you to be dark, is not to make you to have jerrycoys like I said last week,
but to make you a spirit that is in union with the spirit of God. That is the first
thing. Spirit that is in union with ruach heluhim himself. From this point you should
begin to have boldness because the goal of this teaching is to make you bold, to manifest
the kingdom. I say it again. So when you understand that what God planned from Genesis is that
he wants you to be in union with him, it means you are a spirit, right? And that should give
you boldness. Okay, let's see further. Let's go to John, no Ezekiel 36, 22-32. These are
scriptures we've touched very well. Ezekiel 36. Can we read from verse 19? Let us just
pay some little bit of context to these. It says, verse 19 says, I scattered them among
the nations and they were dispersed through the countries in accordance with their ways
and their deeds. I judged them, but when they came to the nations, where they came, they
profaned my name in that people said of them, these people are the Lord's, yet they go out
of his land. But I had concern for my holy name, which is the house of Israel, which
the house of Israel had profaned and among the nations to which they came. Now the context
of this is the Israel's unbelief, right? The Israel's unbelief. And what we see there,
right? What we see there, can we observe? It said, they profaned my holy name. Why?
In that the people said to them, these people are of the Lord, and yet they had gone out
of his land, but I had concern for my name. So it means that, there's something I want
to pick it. It means that the profaning on the Lord's name, right? Is simply working
in unbelief, against, working in unbelief, which is against the word of God. Actually,
that is the profaning of the name of the Lord. When you do things, right? When the word of
God is presented to you and you work against it, that is profaning the name of the Lord.
That is what we see here. It said, they profaned my name among the nations because the nation
has, they said these are people of God, but they don't look like one, right? Because they're
not even where God says they should be. So we see that this is the problem in this context.
What I had concerned for my name, it said, talking about he honors his own name, right?
He honors his own name. Now, that word concern is not about God is worried about his reputation.
No, God is not worried about his reputation. Because he had said something, Israel rejected,
then the people of the world was, these people, they look like people that God has really
called them, but they are not in alignment with the word of God. That is profaning. And
God said, I have concerned for my, is not I'm worried about my reputation. No, I respect
my name. I honor my name. And that name is the word of God. Hallelujah. The name that
God had concerned for is not the name that is pronounced, the word Yahweh. No, that's
not, it's really talking about what he will do. So he said, what I will do, I will do,
right? What I will do, I will do. I have concerned for my name, which the house of Israel had
made to Israel. Israel is making it look like God has abandoned his people who remember
Romans. He said, has God abandoned his people? Say no, right? There are people who are believing
even from the house of Israel. So God says, I have concerned for my name, right? Which
is for the word I've spoken, I have respect for it and I'll bring it to pass. It means
that people will believe, right? People will believe. See, don't be concerned when you
go for evangelism, you are preaching, they're like, ah, people are not believing. Oh, you
are doing percentages. Let me tell you, God has made it that many people will believe,
many would come to the knowledge of Christ because God would fulfill his word. Now let's
see what happened after. I actually have a scripture that I actually wanted to, I will
talk about in line with these because I was sharing it with a post-custin yesterday night
when we were discussing about the scriptures. I think that scripture is Psalms 138, if I'm
correct. Let's go to Psalm 138. Let's go to Psalms 138 or verse, Psalm 138. I just show
you something there that actually would help us to understand. You know, when we teach,
one of the things that we do, right, is to correct, is to set straight the word of God,
right? Is to set straight the word of God. Let's go to verse two. Let's go to verse
two. I bow down towards your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast
love and your faithfulness for you have exalted above all things your name in some scriptures
it says more than your word. If your scripture say that, can you raise your hand? Okay. Did
you hear what I said? If your scripture says he has exalted his name, this is a good version,
right? More than your word. So some scriptures rather than use and they put more than. Can
I see that? Above all your words, yes, you have exalted, you have magnified your words
above all your name. Now these, you know, we always know the name is that name that
you pronounce, maybe Jesus, maybe Halloween, right? That name is very powerful. The name
of God and the word of God are not different things. The name carries what he will do.
So there is nothing like he has exalted his name more than. He has exalted his name, his
word. That's actually what is there. Just the same we saw Ruach Elohim, right? So the
authors and the translators put these things there for readability also sometimes based
on their understanding. So God's word is his name and that's word he will do. He is not
concerned about his reposition. His respect is for what he has said and he will do. Now
let's continue in that Ezekiel 36. So if you now go to verse 22, now watch. So we are said
that what God would do, right, is his name, right? His name is what he will do and is
the word, right? And is to bring Israel to the fulfillment of what he will do. So from
verse 22, he began to explain what God would do, right? He said, therefore to the house
of Israel, to seize the Lord, it is not for your sake, it is not for what you have done
it, O Israel, that I am about to act, but for my name's sake, my holy name, what can
we replace that holy name with? His word, right? We can replace that word because of what God
has spoken. Which are profaned among the nations to which you came, right? And I will vindicate
the holiness of my great name. Which you are profaned among the nations, which you are
profaned among them and the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord. When
I come through you, I will vindicate my holiness before their eyes. Next. I will take you from
among the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own
land. I will sprinkle clean water on you. Can you see the vindication of God? Right?
It's salvation, it's cleaning, it's bringing people to a position where they are supposed
to be. And you shall be cleaned from all your uncleanness and all your idols. I will cleanse
you. And I will give you a new heart, a new spirit, and I will put within you. And I will
take the heart of stone from your flesh. I will give you the heart of flesh. And I will
put my words, my spirit within you and cross you to walk in my status and be careful to
what to obey my rules. Did you see? He said he will do what? I will put my spirit within
you. Right? He's talking about our spirit and our spirit in union with Christ, in union
with God. He will clean us. I will save you. I will bring you to a place where we will
be together. All this stated here, a heart of stone, a heart of flesh, and all of that
are figurative to explain a spiritual reality that happens in the believer. So the believer
is spiritual. Hallelujah. See, I am spiritual. I have a spirit within me. And I am in union
with the spirit of God. Amen. Well, let's go to, let's progress. First John 4.13. First
John 4.13. It's about this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has done
what? He has given us a spirit. Right? This is now later on after the spirit has been
given. He has given us what? His spirit. So every believer has a spirit of God. And it's
not about like, you know, sometimes with the way we picture it is that God is inside his
jacket. Right? It is just, it is, right? It's technically true. But the right explanation
is that you are in union. Your spirit and God's spirit are in union together. That's
what his spirit is. Right? It's within your spirit and you in him. Don't forget 14. I
will be in you, you will be in me. We will be together with the father. So spiritual
matters here. John 4 verse 23. John 4 verse 23 and 24. Quickly. John 4 verse 23 and 24.
So buddy, hour is coming and is now. When the true worshipers will worship the father
in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such people, right? Such people to worship
him. So God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit must, sorry, those who worship
him must worship in spirit and truth. So God is spirit and it will give bread towards spirits.
God is spirit and it will give bread towards, he's not spooky. Don't look at it like something.
No, no, no. God is spirit and it will give bread to spirits. That is why you are less,
I mean, I'm not saying you should take care of yourself. We don't discourage that. But
your concern and your worry is not this jacket. How does jacket use? No, your concern, your
worries, not how this jacket works. So when you want to go and manifest the kingdom of
God, say, ah, I have to put on white suit like Pastor Imau for the anointing to flow.
And then I need to speak like Pastor Custin, then walk like Pastor. You know, these things
come with the movements. Or you want to preach to someone, I'm not well dressed, ah, you
know, you are covered already, right? You are modest, right? I need to look good. You
know, the gospel must be packaged. You know, you need to put on some shining, looking,
spray yourself. So when you come and say, have you believed? The person will smell your
arouse. Okay, because who came with something? No. As you wake up in the morning, you brush
it, it will go out. You just walk in, you find someone, you can preach the gospel because
it's about your spirit that is ready to teach the world to explain the world to people.
You are not limited by your physical appearance. You are not. So it's a God of spirit. And
we that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Another scripture, John 3, 6.
Let's go to John 3, 6. John 3 verse 6. Or let's see. Okay, good. So now this is now
the explanation, right? The statement I made, the explanation is that, that which is born
of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit is what? Spirit. That which
is born of the spirit is spirit. You are spirits, right? You are a spirit. Can you take verse
37 of the same John? Let me see if I play something there. John 3 verse 37. Okay, it's
not up to, okay, not up to 37. 36. John 3, 34. Let's go to 34. 34. Yes, thank you. For
he, whom God has sent, utters the word of God, for he gives the spirit without measure.
Now this was a discussion about Jesus, right? Some people saw Jesus baptizing and all of
that. We can read from verse 31. Verse 31. It says, he who comes from above is from above.
Again, reiterating this thing, spiritual. He who is on the earth belongs to the earth
and speaks in an earthly way, he who does, he who comes from heaven is from above. He
bears witness so that, he bears witness to that which he has seen and heard, yet no receives
and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whosoever receives his testimony sets his
seal to this, that God is true. Verse 34. For he who God has sent, speaks the word of
God, utters the word of God, for he gives his spirit without measure. The father loves
the son and he has given all things into his hands. Whosoever believes in the son has eternal
life. Whosoever does not obey the son shall not see life, but the word of God remains
on him. The emphasis is that he's talking about Christ and he says he gives his spirit
without measure. It means without restriction. It means first, in the context of Christ,
Christ is fully God and fully man. Are we together? Right? He's fully God and fully
man. It's not like, oh, it's 50% in measure. Right? It's like, I don't know, there's what
they call maybe graduated cylinder. I think I've heard that word somewhere. I can use
that. Yes. Like a portion measured of God, granted to Jesus to carry. Right? So that
the remaining part will be topped up by human. That is not what it's saying. He's fully God
and he's fully man. Right? So the extent of God's spirit is in him. And therefore, when
you are being given birth to, you are not half spirits. You are not half spirits. Like
I'm spirit half and I have other parts. You are fully spirit as well. You know, the mathematics
does not work. Right? The mathematics of half plus half has to be one. I think I was talking
to someone. They want it to be one. Right? That's why they are making it 50-50. But they
can explain 100-100. Right? So the point is you are fully spirit. The spirit of God is
granted onto you, not in a measure because you are given birth to by Christ. So some
people say, oh, that is, you know, some people, they can manifest speaking in tongues. Some
people, they cannot speak in tongues. You know, it is given in measure. No, no, no,
no. They even bring that there. You know, that is what it will mean. And that is why
when we teach, we teach you very well to know that you can manifest all that is found in
the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Say I can manifest all that is found in God. Hallelujah. So not
with a measure. Right? It's not an extent, but fully spirit. So because we are coming
from that and we are fully spirit. Now let me go to Hebrews 7 verse 9. You are from God.
You are spirit. Your spirit is given birth to by the spirit of God. Sorry, Hebrews 12
7 to 9. Hebrews 12 7 to 9. Hebrews 12 verse 7 to 9. It is for discipline that you have
to endure. For God is treating you as sons. For one son is there whom the father does
not discipline. If you are left without discipline in which all have participated. Oh, stop.
Let me finish reading. Then I'll come to this. In which all have participated. Then you are
illegitimate children and not sons. Next. Besides this, we have earthly fathers who
disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the father
of spirits and words and leave? Now go back to 7. Let's start picking it one one. It is
for discipline that you have to endure. It means that the reason why we endure is for
training. The word discipline there is not punishment. Okay. So put it in your mind is
not punishment. It is training. People endure training. You suffer punishment. Let me put
it that way. You endure training. It is training. God is treating you as sons. Right? For one
son is there whom the father does not discipline. So he is bringing in the concept of family
here. Okay. The father disciplines a son. The next. If you are left without discipline in
which all have participated. It means everybody that is found in God is being trained. Everybody
found in God is being trained and you have to be trained and you have to endure. So here
again it shows it is not punishment because all have participated in this discipline,
in this training. Now it says then you are electing me children. It means how would you
come into a place where you have not been trained? So the next verse. Besides this we
have earthly fathers. Now this earthly fathers is very important because it will help us
to understand the father of spirits. Right? It will help us to understand the father of
spirits. Now we have earthly fathers who have disciplined us and we respected them. Right?
So it is talking about the context of a family again. Are we together? Now shall we not be
much more subject? Right? The obedience to the father of spirits and leave. So this spirit
here is talking to children. We can replace that spirit as sons. Right? Can we replace
the spirit as sons? Yes. Can we say sons of God as spirits? John 1.1. I think I skipped
that. I did not read that. For as many as receiving, for as many as believe, again then
parts become what? Sons. Sons of God as spirits. And our father is God himself. So when you
think of yourself and you understand the fact that you are a spirit, it should be bold.
That tells you that you are the child of God. Right? You are the child of God. You are spirit.
When you think of yourself as a spirit, you should be thinking of your father who is spirit
and that is why I say we is the father of spirits and leave. Leave there is not like
you come alive. It means to be trained to be edified, to grow in him. If you read the
remaining part of it, you will see that that leave is not like it is talking about daily
living. Right? Daily living, progressive living. We will see that. So the father of spirit.
Now to quickly disconnect your mind so that you won't say God is not the father of all
spirits. First of all. Okay? God is not the father of what? All spirits. Right? All spirits.
God is not the father of all spirits. First, from this verse you see that he brought in
the concept, the author of Hebrew, brought in the concept of family. Right? In a family,
the father would discipline the children. The father would train the children. Therefore,
in God's family, he is the father of spirits. Right? And those spirits are sons. That's
why I made us to juxtapose so that we can understand. Those spirits are sons. Therefore,
he is our father and we are spirits. Good. Now let's read, let's read John 8 verse 44.
Let's read John 8. Let's read the book. It says you are of your father the devil and
your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and does
not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him when he lies he speaks his own
character for he is a liar and the father of lies. Did you see here? Now, it definitely
means that Jesus, if God is the father of all spirits, he would not be calling devil
having his own entity as a father. Right? So he is saying that the devil himself, right,
calls his own people and therefore God is not the father of the devil. Some people are
saying that, you know, God is not the father of demons. He is not the father of priest
of parties, but he is not their father. Because father means they are in the same family and
they coexist, but they don't coexist. Right? We will talk about that because progressively
in this teaching we will get to authority. Right? That's where you will understand much
more. Fatherhood is different from the kind of authority that is expressed over demons
and principalities. So we see here that he is not the father of the devil. God is not
the father of the devil. Right. Matthew chapter 12 verse 27 and 28 is that if I cast out demons
by bells above, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
But it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons. If it is by the spirit of God
I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you. The kingdom of God has come
to you because I cast demons out by the spirit of God. So it means that God's spirit, right,
and God being the father of all spirits, these demons are not included in it. Okay? They
are not included in it. So when we talk about those spirits, it is talking about us. It
is talking about us. In the context that we read, it wasn't talking about angels. It didn't
talk about angels there. Right? It didn't talk about angels. It is talking about us.
Right? It said the father of spirits. Now if we read Hebrews, let's go to Hebrews 1 and
see. Hebrews chapter 1. Can we go to verse 13? Let's just go to verse 13. Verse 13.
And to which of the angels has he ever said, okay, to which of the angels has he ever said,
sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet? Are they not all
ministering spirits, right, sent to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
This is spirits serving those who will be sons. Okay? It is ministering their ministering
spirits serving those who would inherit salvation. It means those who will come into God's family.
Right? The concept of family again. Those who will come into God's family. And that
is what we see there that the earthly fathers will discipline and train up their children.
And our spiritual father is the father of spirits. And that spirit there is those who
will inherit salvation. So it tells you that that context, it wasn't talking about spirits.
Otherwise, it will be that spirits, you know, it will be in the context of disciplined spirits.
Right? Disciplined angels. But that was not the context of it. It was actually talking
about the context of those who have been saved and are in God. So therefore we can say that
we are spirits and therefore we can manifest the things of the spirits. We can manifest
the spiritual kingdom of God, which is spiritual, right? We can manifest we have boldness. Why
should we also manifest the kingdom of God? Because our father is the one who is in charge
of the kingdom. Right? So we are from a kingdom where God is the father. And when we think
of ourselves as spirits, we should have boldness. Right? We should have boldness. So this identity
as spiritual enables us, right? Enables us to know, right? Enables us to know our position.
Of course, it talks about identity, but it's also related to position. It helps us to know
that there are functions that our father has instructed us that we must carry out. So first
we are spiritual, right? We are given birth to by God. We are born of God. Right? In that
kingdom there are things to do. Those things to do is what we will come back to in subsequent
teachings and is the diaconal. Okay? So coming back to the beginning, right? I said, Philip
was asking and saying, Jesus show us, right? That question is not, how can I put it? That
question is actually a challenge because Christ has revealed an identity to him, right? And
he needed to believe, right? But the works, let's go back to John 14 now. Let's go back
to John 14. Let's go back to John 14. We need to open it so that we can see, so that we
can connect this very well. So verse eight says, Philip said to him, show us, Lord, show
us the father. And I said that he said, prove to us the father with works, prove to us the
father with certain proofs, right? Don't tell, I mean, it's not about position and all that.
Tell us we are and show us something. And look at Jesus concluded by saying that, believe
that I am in the father and the father is in me in verse 11. So can we say that believe
that the spirit of God is in the believer and the believer is in the spirit of God?
Can we say that? Because Christ has mentioned that here, if you go to verse 20, let us say
that verse 20, in that day, you will know that I am in the father and you in me and
I in you, our union with God's spirit. Do we agree on that? Now look at verse 11 again,
go back to verse 11. Jesus now said, okay, if you don't hold on to this, there is also
something you can hold on to that which you requested for. Look at the works, right? Believe
on the works that I do. Now in our father in verse 12, truly, truly I say to you, whoever
believes in me will also do the works that I do and greater works than these, he will
what? He will do. So it means that being spiritual, you would carry out works too. Do we get it?
Being a spirit, your identity as a spirit is not to just be existing. Your identity
as a spirit is not to just have it and oh, I'm spirit. But you would do works. It's just
that the identity precedes the work. That is it. The identity precedes the works. You
can't do greater works if you're not a spirit, if your father is not a father of spirits.
So we can do greater works, all that we do in Christ, right? In the preaching of the
gospel, in the healing of the sick, right? In evangelizing, in singing, in rejoicing,
in shouting glory. We are doing that because first we are spirits, the identity of course,
then those works they follow. Those works they follow. So I like to conclude to say,
don't be in the act. Now that you have learned, right? You have learned that you are spirit.
Don't be in the act of people that will say, oh, that guy is spiritual. You, what are you?
So that guy is very spiritual. You know, he has a way of coordinating himself or every
time they come, if you go to that guy now, he will spiritualize everything. There's nothing
like spiritualize everything. Everything is spiritual already, right? So be bold. Don't
change your lingua, right? Change the way you talk, change your thinking, right? That's
you are spiritual. So that guy is spiritual. What about you? You're spiritual as well.
You do the things. It's because they see people coordinating themselves in certain ways. So
that guy is spiritual. So we are spirits and we will do the works of our father. Who is
the father of all spirits? Who he himself is spirit. Hallelujah. Have we blessed? Have
we learned? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost?
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