1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Welcome to NECF sermons. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:11,200 Each message here is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your walk with God. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:16,800 Don't miss out, stay with us until the end for our rewarding experience. 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,600 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:26,440 Alright, so last Sunday we stopped at identity, right? 6 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:33,960 We came from Mphaniso, we started talking about the fact that the identity of the believer 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,000 is first of all spiritual, right? 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,160 Spiritual because the kingdom itself is spiritual because we've previously from different pastors, 9 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:51,440 the kingdom has been explained to us, we've understood that this matter is not a location 10 00:00:51,440 --> 00:01:00,280 somewhere but spiritual power, spiritual dominance, spiritual authority, spiritual kingdom of 11 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,280 God. 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,520 I proceeded into explaining that it's actually part of the character of the believer, that 13 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:14,160 the believer himself, him or herself is spiritual and we checked a whole number of scriptures, 14 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:19,400 also checking from Genesis, we found out that God himself is spirit, right? 15 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,280 So the spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 16 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:32,000 I don't know if it would be good to run through that particular scripture again just to add 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,920 some more, some more light to it. 18 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:45,920 John chapter 4, John chapter 4, the gospel of John chapter 4, the gospel of John chapter 19 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:54,600 4, just see a little bit of certain things there then we will be able to proceed, John 20 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,640 chapter 4, from verse 21, and Jesus said to the woman, believe me, the hour is coming 21 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:06,600 when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:11,600 You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews. 23 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:21,600 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers must worship in spirit 24 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:27,360 and in truth for the Father is seeking such people to worship him, right? 25 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:28,960 He's seeking such people to worship him. 26 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:36,200 For God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit must worship him in spirit and in 27 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,200 truth, right? 28 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,440 And in truth. 29 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:46,200 So one of the further explanation we can add to it is that the believer, right? 30 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:53,360 I think I made a statement that the believer, the kingdom is spiritual, therefore the believer 31 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,000 is also spiritual, right? 32 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,360 And this spiritual kingdom comes as a result of what Christ did, right? 33 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,920 The barrier, the death, the death, the burial and resurrection of Christ. 34 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:10,680 Now in this context too, right, is also referring to similar thing, right? 35 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:16,200 Or almost exactly the same thing, saying that the most worshiping in spirit and in truth. 36 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:22,520 So it's going to the worship that comes right from the direction of what Christ has done. 37 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:30,360 Okay, the spirit and truth there is not a sincere heart or sincere spirit. 38 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:38,120 Spirit is actually referring to the spirit and truth in the sense of the context of the 39 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,880 spiritual achievements, right? 40 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,000 Spiritual fulfillment of what Christ has actually done, right? 41 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,120 So that is what he means there. 42 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:52,960 So the death, the burial and the resurrection of Christ in the understanding of that, the 43 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,760 spiritual people will worship. 44 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,200 Okay, so it's not sincerity. 45 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,920 Why do I say that? 46 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,040 If you pay attention to the context of it, right, to understand what our spirit and truth 47 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,320 is, if you pay attention to the context of it, it's a woman. 48 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:20,160 Believe me, the hour is coming when neither this will worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 49 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,960 So two things are involved, right? 50 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:31,000 A matter of worship and a type of worship, one that takes place in Jerusalem and one 51 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,160 that takes place on this mount, right? 52 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,480 You say your father worshiped what you know, but we do not worship, right? 53 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,600 But we worship what we know because salvation is of the Jews. 54 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:50,240 Then the hour is coming now when the true worshipers, right, worship him in spirit and 55 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,240 in truth. 56 00:04:51,240 --> 00:05:00,360 It definitely means no longer in Jerusalem, no longer on this mountain, right, but in 57 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,720 spirit and in truth. 58 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:10,080 So it's not going to be in types and shadows or in places and location, right, to believe 59 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,880 that God is in temples, right, as this would believe, right, or going to the mountain. 60 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:21,960 The concept of the mountain is actually something you would find from Israel's departure from 61 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,480 Egypt, right, Israel's departure from Egypt. 62 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,760 It's the same thing in Romans that say, do not say in your mouth that who would ascend, 63 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:36,520 right, who would go like Moses would do to bring the law or to bring the explanation 64 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,160 of the gospel to us, right? 65 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,120 So they understand this concept of going to the mountain and, you know, kind of it means 66 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,960 to get access to what is spiritual, get access to what is spiritual. 67 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,320 They also believe that Jerusalem is also spiritual, right? 68 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:58,280 Jerusalem is where God stays, is the capital of the kingdom of Israel, all that context, 69 00:05:58,280 --> 00:05:59,280 right? 70 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:06,320 So Jesus is trying to point the focus of worship, right, to be something that takes place in 71 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,240 spirit and in truth and not in location, right? 72 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:16,000 It's collaborate much more with the fact that we say the kingdom of God is spiritual, is 73 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,760 not a location, is not a mountain, neither is it in Jerusalem, right? 74 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,000 So it's also not a particular location in the sky. 75 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 We said that. 76 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,880 Now, how do these worship take place? 77 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:34,360 It will take place in a spirit and truth in accordance or in the understanding of the 78 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:39,000 death, burial and resurrection of Christ. 79 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,800 So look at how God is spirit and those who worship him was doing in spirit and in truth. 80 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,040 So there's a way in which God explains us to worship, right, which is to worship our 81 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,640 worship stems from all that Christ has done, right? 82 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,220 All that Christ has done. 83 00:06:55,220 --> 00:06:58,240 So it means it's in the spirit, right? 84 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,560 Worship is in the spirit. 85 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:07,360 Verse 5, you know, Father says, so the woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, 86 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,560 who is called Christ. 87 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:10,920 When he comes, he will tell us all things. 88 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,680 Jesus said to her, I am right. 89 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,880 I, I who speak to you, I'm here. 90 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,520 So what we see again is that worship is going to be spiritual. 91 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,100 Worship is spiritual, right? 92 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,000 Because we do it in spirit and in truth. 93 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:32,980 So another word referring to or in addition to what I taught on on Sunday, we can also 94 00:07:32,980 --> 00:07:41,040 go to first Corinthians two, first Corinthians two, verse nine, first Corinthians two, verse 95 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:51,040 nine, it said, but as it is written, what no eye has seen, nor any ear heard, nor the 96 00:07:51,040 --> 00:08:00,520 heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. 97 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,520 Right? 98 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:06,360 These things God has revealed to us through the spirit. 99 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,120 The spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 100 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:12,120 Right? 101 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,120 The spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 102 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:22,360 If you go to verse 15, verse 14, said the natural man does not accept the things of 103 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,500 the spirit of God. 104 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:29,760 The natural man does not accept the things of the, now this, this is telling us that 105 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:35,160 there is a way in which this things of God is received. 106 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,160 Right? 107 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,320 So as a spiritual man, there's a way the things of God is received. 108 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,120 So the natural man does not accept things of God. 109 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:47,560 Now he said, for they are fully to him and he's not able to understand them because they 110 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,480 are spiritually discerned. 111 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,200 The spiritual person judges all things. 112 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,200 Right? 113 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,560 He can understand all things, but he himself to be judged, but he's himself to be judged 114 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:04,040 by no one for who has understand the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him. 115 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:08,480 For we have the mind of Christ. 116 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,400 We have the mind of Christ. 117 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,240 So what we see here is first of all, right? 118 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:21,400 That the spiritual things, these things God has revealed to us through the spirit. 119 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:27,200 So in continuation of what we started on Sunday, it's the revelation, right? 120 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,600 Is given to us by the spirit of God. 121 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:35,040 So we are spiritual, we are spirits and we receive revelation by the spirit of God. 122 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:36,040 Okay. 123 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,700 We receive revelation by the spirit of God. 124 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:41,400 So we've seen that our worship is by the spirit, right? 125 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,520 Our worship is not by what's trained. 126 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,920 Our worship is not from, it doesn't stem from what's trending. 127 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,800 It doesn't stem from, from what is invoke. 128 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,040 It's not stem from popular culture. 129 00:09:54,040 --> 00:10:02,480 Our worship does not stem from what we see other people do, but it stands from the spirits, 130 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:03,480 right? 131 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,800 That's why I said the spirit and truth. 132 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:11,980 So what about we want to do as worship must stay within the context of what Christ has 133 00:10:11,980 --> 00:10:12,980 done, right? 134 00:10:12,980 --> 00:10:15,040 What Christ has done in spirit and in truth. 135 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,120 And here we also see that the pains that are in the spirit, right? 136 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,360 They are revealed to us. 137 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,280 So we are in spirit, in the spirit, right? 138 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,000 But worship in the spirit, right? 139 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:34,240 The spiritual and he said also verse, progressive verse says that for the spirit suggest everything, 140 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,120 even the depths of the soul. 141 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,320 We are taught, right? 142 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,320 Through the spirit of God. 143 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,280 We are taught through the spirit of God. 144 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:49,620 Now if we continue to see from verse, from verse 14, he says, the natural man does not 145 00:10:49,620 --> 00:10:54,480 accept things of the spirit, but they are fully what the spiritual person judges. 146 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,440 So we're going to move to something that is next, right? 147 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,080 So there are things that are reviewed to us by the spirit of God, right? 148 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,200 And those things are actually reviewed by the word of God, right? 149 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,520 So the point we are going is that the word of God, right? 150 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,520 Explains, right? 151 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,080 Reviews things to us. 152 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,320 So the spirit then, the fact that these things are reviewed to us through the spirit does 153 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,000 not mean something out of what we can control. 154 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,560 Does not mean what we don't understand, but means through the word of God, we receive 155 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:25,560 understanding, right? 156 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:28,040 We receive understanding by what is written. 157 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:32,680 We understand, he said, for the spirit such everything, even the depth of the soul, we 158 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:35,920 understand God by the spirit of God and through his word. 159 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:40,800 So these things that are given to us by the spirit, right? 160 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:46,240 These things that are given to us by the spirit that are reviewed to us by the spirit, it 161 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,800 is received by faith. 162 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:49,800 Okay? 163 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:55,280 The things that are given to us by the spirit, the things that are received, that are reviewed, 164 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:56,280 right? 165 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,600 To us is received by faith, right? 166 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:01,640 I'm saying that again. 167 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,280 What is reviewed by the spirit of God unto us through his spirit, right? 168 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:13,160 What he has not heard before, what eyes have not seen before, what the heart of men had 169 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:21,280 not imagined before, what God has prepared for those who love him before, is reviewed 170 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,920 to us by the spirit now. 171 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,120 And that is received by faith. 172 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,120 Okay? 173 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,680 That is received by faith. 174 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:37,160 Therefore, faith becomes the second or another identity that we can see that is of the believer. 175 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,520 So the next identity we'll talk about, right? 176 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,760 You know, is faith. 177 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,360 Is faith. 178 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:48,520 Because it will take faith to, you know, to manifest the kingdom of God, right? 179 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,760 So you're spiritual, you believe these things are not physical, right? 180 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,240 The next thing is to understand faith. 181 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,200 You have to understand faith, right? 182 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:03,280 You have to understand faith because it is true faith, right, that we also function in 183 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:10,120 the manifestation of the things of the spirit of the manifestation of the kingdom of God, 184 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:11,120 right? 185 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:16,360 In the essence of fear, in the essence of doubts, right? 186 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:21,280 We are not able to function even when you are spiritual, right? 187 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:27,600 So the spiritual man is a man of faith and must not allow fear or doubts to step in. 188 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:33,400 So faith becomes something that we should talk about, we should discuss. 189 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:39,920 Actually, when they were praying, I think Sister Christine led a prayer and said that 190 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:45,240 which is ours in the spirit might be made, probably made manifest or that we might be 191 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:51,360 able to walk in that which is ours in the spirit, right? 192 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:59,800 So that means that we need to be able to function in all the revelation that is granted to us 193 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,000 by the spirit of God, right? 194 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,920 So the spirit of God reveals salvation to us, it reveals our positions to us. 195 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,020 The spirit of God reveals all that is found in Christ to us, right? 196 00:14:11,020 --> 00:14:15,400 So we need to be able to walk in all of that, right? 197 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,840 All of that and it takes faith, right? 198 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,720 It takes faith and faith is something that is an identity of every believer, right? 199 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,640 I'm saying that over and over because we must know it, we must know it. 200 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:36,760 Now faith is actually also what distinguishes the Christian faith from every other religion 201 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,560 or every other faction. 202 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,960 So even when we see people, they say they are believers or even when someone carries 203 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:44,960 the Bible, right? 204 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,680 One of the things you ask the person is, what do you believe, right? 205 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:49,680 What do you believe? 206 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,800 It's not just about using the same book, right? 207 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:52,800 But what do you believe? 208 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,400 You know, what do you believe in? 209 00:14:54,400 --> 00:15:01,200 Because that subject of faith is crucial to know if the person is spiritual, the person 210 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,800 is really on the same page with you. 211 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,280 So faith becomes another common identity that we have, right? 212 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:15,840 It's a common identity that we have and it helps us to manifest the kingdom of God, it 213 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,560 helps us to function, right? 214 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:24,240 And the spiritual realm, right, it helps us to function from that spiritual realm, from 215 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,440 that spiritual position. 216 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:31,000 So we start with faith and we start with John chapter 1 verse 9 to 13. 217 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,760 John chapter 1 from verse 9 to 13. 218 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,760 All right. 219 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:42,680 It is the true light which gives light to everyone who was coming into the world, right? 220 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:48,880 Was in the world and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 221 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:54,000 He came to his own and people did not receive him. 222 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:05,360 But to all who received him, right, and believed in his name, he gave the rights to become 223 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:11,960 the children of God, gave the rights to become the children of God, right? 224 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:16,080 Give them the right to become children of God. 225 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:22,440 So what we see here, right, is actually expressing faith, right? 226 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,840 So faith and belief, there's no doctrine that says they are different. 227 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,120 There's nothing like faith is a belief. 228 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,520 Faith is basically a noun, right? 229 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,680 You have faith, it means it's a noun, just use that in that context. 230 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,960 And belief is actually your exercise of faith. 231 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:42,800 Believing is your exercise of faith in something, right? 232 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,680 Believing is exercise of faith in something. 233 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:50,600 So what we see is that they believe in his name, they exercise faith in his name, right? 234 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:57,600 Don't forget John writes in all Revelation from John chapter 1, right? 235 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:03,780 So believe in his name, don't forget our name, the name we talk about is what God will do 236 00:17:03,780 --> 00:17:05,480 and has done, right? 237 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:13,240 So but to all who receive him and believe in means exercise faith in what God has done 238 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:18,200 he gave because this is passing right, he gave the rights to become the children of 239 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:19,200 God. 240 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,800 So everyone who exercise faith became the children of God. 241 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,520 So it means that faith is our common faith, right? 242 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,000 Faith is our common faith. 243 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,680 They're going to see that because that is very important, right? 244 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:33,680 Faith is our common faith. 245 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:39,720 The reason why I'm emphasizing that all of us as the children of God, we have faith is 246 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:46,680 that it helps us to know that the manifestation of the kingdom of God is not for some people, 247 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:47,680 right? 248 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,000 Manifestation of the kingdom of God is not for some people, right? 249 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,960 Is not for some people who have achieved, you know, certain level of spirituality, right? 250 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,760 But it is through faith, right? 251 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,240 Through faith for all who has believed. 252 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:08,040 So we see that faith is something that is common to all the children of God. 253 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,480 Faith is common to all the children of God and therefore the manifestation of the kingdom 254 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,480 is common to all the children of God. 255 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,160 John chapter 3 verse 1 to 8. 256 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,760 John chapter 3 verse 1 to 8. 257 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:23,400 I think I'll just read from verse 5. 258 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,600 Jesus answered, truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of the spirit, you cannot 259 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,200 enter into the kingdom of God, right? 260 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,080 That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 261 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,000 For no matter what I say to you, you must be born again, right? 262 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,560 The wind blows everywhere it wishes and you hear its sound but you do not know where it 263 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,200 comes from or where it goes. 264 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,720 So it is with everyone who is born of God. 265 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,920 Okay verse 9. 266 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,240 Nicodemus said to him, how can these things be? 267 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,120 Jesus answered him, I shoe the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these 268 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:01,120 things. 269 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:06,000 Truly, truly I say, we speak of what we know and peer witness to that which we have seen. 270 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,480 But you do not receive our testimony. 271 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,160 If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you 272 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,160 heavenly things? 273 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:22,400 No one has ascended into the heaven except He who descended from heaven, the Son of Man 274 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,280 and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. 275 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:34,480 So the Son of Man must be lifted up that whosoever believes in Him may have eternal life. 276 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:44,280 So we see this believing again, coming into play as something Jesus was preaching and 277 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:49,400 explaining to Nicodemus saying that you must believe, you must have faith. 278 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:55,160 Now we are starting within the context of salvation but it is the main place where faith starts 279 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,160 from. 280 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,080 So faith starts from salvation. 281 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,880 Then we find it in the Christian living. 282 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,280 Faith starts from salvation. 283 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:12,440 So we can say that, just to backtrack, we can say that in the context of a phonies or 284 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:18,080 emphanies, the two words that I have used in previous teachings, emphanies or emphanies 285 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:25,080 that talks about proof of God's salvation or that relates to God's salvation, faith 286 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 is needed. 287 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,960 Faith is needed. 288 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:33,320 Faith is what brings us into that salvation that God has provided for us. 289 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:39,880 So in the context of emphanies, the root word for emphanies is faith is founded. 290 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,560 Faith is founded. 291 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:52,280 Also in the context of the canal, which is presenting a proof by teaching or by science 292 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,520 and wonders, faith is also founded. 293 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,520 Faith is also founded. 294 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,520 So I've said two things. 295 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:04,800 In the context of emphanies, which talks about relating to the salvation that God has provided, 296 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,880 that brings us into that identity, faith is founded. 297 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:15,800 And in the context of the canal, which is to present proof, to show thoughts by science 298 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:24,520 and wonders or by teachings or by explanation, by preaching, there's also faith in that. 299 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,440 So I just quickly put those two together. 300 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,800 And that's why we actually are coming to pay attention to faith a little bit and to show 301 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,800 that it is actually common. 302 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,560 And it is the same that carries us through, right? 303 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:43,560 It's still the same faith that carries us through our work. 304 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,680 So we find that it's common to everyone that believes we found it in the context of Jesus 305 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,600 and as Moses lifted up the serpent. 306 00:21:52,600 --> 00:22:01,400 Now one thing is to ask, this faith, right, is it in Christ being nailed to the cross? 307 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,360 Because when we read it, that's why I say when somebody carries Bible, you have to ask 308 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:07,880 them what do they believe, right? 309 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,880 Even if somebody calls them, you're a believer, really? 310 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,960 Okay, yeah, what do you believe this person can share? 311 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:12,960 You can share. 312 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:19,360 The reason is because first you can help the person to develop much more in faith, to align 313 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,480 their faith properly, right? 314 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,480 You can have faith in the scriptures in many aspects of the world with not an accurate 315 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,480 understanding, right? 316 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:33,480 With not an accurate, if you remember the case of Apollos, right, he had faith in something, 317 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:34,480 right? 318 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,480 But it was not in, it was not aligning perfectly, right? 319 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,000 It was not aligning perfectly. 320 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,280 Say, what do you believe, right? 321 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,200 We can go to that scripture, we can go to that scripture and just quickly see. 322 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,800 They ask him, what did you believe, right? 323 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,880 He said he had believed the baptism of John, he had believed the baptism of John. 324 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:58,520 So you can write in Acts chapter 18 verse 24 to 28. 325 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:03,640 He was an eloquent man, competent in the scriptures. 326 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,760 He had been instructed in the will of the Lord and fervently spoke, right? 327 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,480 Fervently in the spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of Jesus, though he 328 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,360 knew only the baptism of John, right? 329 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:20,040 So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, 330 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,160 they took him aside and explained to him the word of God more accurately. 331 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:30,880 What you see there is that someone has faith, but needs to be aligned very well, right? 332 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,360 Needs to be aligned very well to understand. 333 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:41,440 So in this context of John chapter 3, what we will see there is that faith, right, as 334 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,160 Moses lifted up the serpent. 335 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,760 So faith is not only in the depths, right? 336 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:53,720 It's not only in the depths of Christ, but it's in the depths, the barrier and the resurrection 337 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:54,720 of Christ, right? 338 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:01,300 And the ascension, because we now understand that Christ in us is the ascension now. 339 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:07,240 So we have faith in his death, his burial, his resurrection and his ascension into us, 340 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:12,240 which is his presence in our lives. 341 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,160 So here, as Moses lifted up, he's not talking about the cross because the way you could 342 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:26,360 miss this quickly is to appropriate the cross and a snake to Christ on the cross. 343 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,360 And you say, okay, I believe in his death, right? 344 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,600 That's actually not what the scripture is saying, right? 345 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:37,720 Also I think some professions have actually adopted that as a symbol of life too, right? 346 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,840 To actually put snake on a tree, right? 347 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,080 Quite interesting. 348 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,660 But I wish they can show an empty tomb. 349 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:45,960 Maybe that could give us more revelation, right? 350 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,160 They can use an empty tomb for one of these medical fields. 351 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:55,440 Now to be lifted up is actually talking about the resurrection of Christ, right? 352 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,640 We've used this word several times, right? 353 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,880 To be lifted up, to be exalted, right? 354 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:06,920 These are words that are used to explain Christ's resurrection, Christ's resurrection, right? 355 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,320 To be lifted up, to be exalted, right? 356 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,280 To be given a name above every name, right? 357 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,840 So all this really explains resurrection. 358 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,440 They're in connection with resurrection. 359 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:26,720 These lifted up is not the cross, a sea, as Christ is on the cross, right? 360 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,400 Which some of us have said, okay, who is this that the son of man must be lifted up, right? 361 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,560 So that also Eva believes in him, so he's about his death as well. 362 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,080 More or less the resurrection of Christ and not just the death. 363 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:46,480 Because if you stop at the death and you believe the cross and he is still on the cross, right? 364 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,680 Like some people use cross, your fate is not aligning. 365 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:52,680 Are you getting it? 366 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,080 Your fate is not aligning because most of the things when it comes to manifesting the 367 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,520 kingdom of God is resurrection, right? 368 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:06,280 Is what we call the post-resurrection and things that we through the spirit understood 369 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,000 after the resurrection of Christ, right? 370 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,600 So eternal life is after the resurrection of Christ, right? 371 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,480 We receive eternal life after the resurrection of Christ. 372 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,680 If Christ had not been risen, then our faith, right? 373 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,840 Our first Corinthians 15. 374 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,520 If Christ has not been risen, then our faith, right, is a lie, right? 375 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:25,520 Is false. 376 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:26,520 Our faith is in vain. 377 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,360 So we can go to first Corinthians 15. 378 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:36,200 Let's add that to it because that is the context that would help us to explain this verse. 379 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,200 Verse 14. 380 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,760 So just add that scripture to it. 381 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,200 So it helps us very well to know that the rise of Christ, right? 382 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,560 The resurrection of Christ is crucial. 383 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,160 First Corinthians 15 verse 19. 384 00:26:53,160 --> 00:27:00,600 Verse 19, they said, if in Christ we have hope in this life only, then we are all of 385 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,760 all people most pitied, right? 386 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,800 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruit from those who have 387 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,800 fallen asleep. 388 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:16,560 Verse 17 says, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, right? 389 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,720 And you are still in your sins, right? 390 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,120 So bringing that here, right, tells you that to be lifted up is to be raised, right? 391 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:30,160 To be exalted, lifted up, raised, exalted, right? 392 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,760 These are the words that I use. 393 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,800 So when you're reading the New Testament, you are reading the epistles, right? 394 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,280 Pay attention to these words and check the context, right? 395 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,160 It should mostly refer to the resurrection, right? 396 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:49,400 So the belief here is to believe in the resurrection of Christ, to believe in his resurrection, 397 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,360 because it's talking about being lifted up here, not just his death. 398 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,640 So you see the element of faith here as well. 399 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,680 Okay, so we go to Ephesians. 400 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:05,000 Let's go to Ephesians, let's go to Ephesians, let's go to Ephesians chapter 1 and from there 401 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,800 we'll pick up some things again. 402 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,680 Ephesians chapter 1, right? 403 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:11,960 Ephesians chapter 1 verse 1. 404 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:18,120 It says, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints who are 405 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,200 in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ. 406 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,880 Did you see the description of them? 407 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,000 They are faithful in Christ. 408 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,560 So it tells you that's their identity, they are saints and they are faithful, right? 409 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,120 They are saints, they are faithful, they are committed to the faith, to the word of God, 410 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,120 they are believed, right? 411 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,520 They are believed in Christ. 412 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,440 So Paul used the word faithful to describe believers, right? 413 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,440 To the saints, right? 414 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:51,520 Those who have been cleansed and worshiped in Christ, the new creation man is a saint 415 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,320 and faithful, right? 416 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,160 They are faithful in Christ. 417 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,240 So we see that word describing them as faithful in Christ. 418 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,560 So we'll go to Ephesians 2 verse 8 as well and we see that when this thing is being described, 419 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,520 he's using it for a people. 420 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,160 He's using it for a people. 421 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,040 He's not using it just randomly. 422 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,480 Most of the context is for a people that have believed. 423 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,160 Ephesians 2 verse 8, we see this very clearly. 424 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,320 He said, for by faith you have been saved. 425 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,880 Sorry, for by grace you have been saved through faith. 426 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,360 Faith is not your own doing and is the gift of God, right? 427 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,960 It is not your own doing. 428 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:34,800 So we see faith there, faith there again as something very, very common. 429 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,400 So faith is an identity of a believer. 430 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,400 You are faithful. 431 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,400 They call you faithful. 432 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:40,400 They call you saints. 433 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,400 Don't say, oh, no, I'm not a saint. 434 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:42,400 No, I'm not a saint. 435 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,400 No, don't say that, right? 436 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,400 You are a saint. 437 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:53,640 You are faithful because you have believed the message of Christ. 438 00:29:53,640 --> 00:30:00,360 So we see that now we can go to one more, one more before we begin to check Hebrews 439 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,600 and begin to see what this faith is holding on to, right? 440 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:10,360 I've shown in the epistles that faith is attached to what Christ has done, the resurrection 441 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,200 of Christ, not just his death. 442 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:19,560 We have seen that he's believing in his reputation, his name, John chapter 1, downwards. 443 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:26,640 And in Hebrews, we will see some other explanation of what Jesus did as his resurrection, right? 444 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,960 What the resurrection of Christ or the message that he is presented. 445 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,280 Let's go to Titus 1 verse 4. 446 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,160 Titus 1 verse 4, right? 447 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,880 You must hear into us that we are the faithful in Christ. 448 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,240 Titus 1 verse 4. 449 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,160 Let's read from verse 1. 450 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,920 Paul, a servant of God, an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's 451 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:55,920 elect and the knowledge of truth, which accords with godliness in hope of eternal life, which 452 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,640 God who never lies, right? 453 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:06,360 Promised right before the age began and at the proper time manifested in his word through 454 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:15,440 the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God, Ascibio, to Titus, 455 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:22,960 my true child in a common faith, grace and peace from God the father and Christ our Savior. 456 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:28,440 So first we see expression of the faith of God's elect, right? 457 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,120 The faith of God's elect. 458 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,800 We see that expressed as the knowledge of the truth, right? 459 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,000 The knowledge of the truth, right? 460 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:43,200 That is why we are making sure that anybody who says they have faith are in the knowledge 461 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,200 of the truth. 462 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,120 Okay, they are in the knowledge of the truth. 463 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,040 They are in the spirit and in the truth. 464 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,640 They are in the knowledge of the truth, right? 465 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,880 They understand the resurrection of Christ and his sanction into us. 466 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,720 So what we see there, he says the knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 467 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,920 I mean, it comes with godliness in hope of eternal life, which God promised and he has 468 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:13,240 made manifest in verse 4, he concludes, he said, to Titus, my true child in a common 469 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,240 faith, right? 470 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,600 In a common faith, that is our common faith. 471 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,800 What we have together, right? 472 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,840 Something that identifies us together is common. 473 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,040 Faith is common, right? 474 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,040 Faith is common. 475 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,040 It's something we share. 476 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:33,000 It's talking about something we share, like in the faith that we share. 477 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,360 So faith is an idea of belief, right? 478 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:41,680 You have to therefore, right, know that when there is fear, right? 479 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:47,280 When there is fear, when there is doubt, then there's a challenge, right? 480 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,960 When there is fear, when there is doubt, especially one to the word of God, right? 481 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,840 When there's fear, when there is doubt towards the word of God, right? 482 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,800 Then you need to check it again because a believer will believe the word of God, a believer 483 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,960 will ask the word of God out. 484 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:09,680 The believer is to be free from fear and anxiety and all of that, to always exercise faith. 485 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,680 That's all that brought you into the fold and through faith we also continue. 486 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,680 So we say that this is a common faith. 487 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,680 Now let's check Hebrews. 488 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:24,480 Actually, the whole of Hebrews 1, like we know, is an expression of faith, right? 489 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:31,880 It's an expression of, an explanation of faith that we find, that we found, right? 490 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,880 That we found. 491 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:40,400 So let's check Hebrews 11, 1-6 because it's the scripture that actually tries to combine 492 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,680 the word, the use of the word faith and the use of the word belief, right? 493 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,320 To help us to understand that really there's no really doctrinal differences there. 494 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,880 It's just faith and a verb, right? 495 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,880 And now on a verb. 496 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,800 Now faith is the assurance of things, hoped for. 497 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,160 The conviction of things not seen. 498 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,960 So it's defined like as a noun, right? 499 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:03,960 It's not defined. 500 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:04,960 The way it's defined there. 501 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,040 So for by it, right? 502 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,440 So describing it as the subject. 503 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,560 For by it, the people of old receive the accommodation, right? 504 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:15,560 They receive the accommodation. 505 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,440 It means they receive the fact that they are faithful. 506 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,800 That's another way we say it. 507 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,880 They receive the fact that they are faithful. 508 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:28,400 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, right? 509 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:35,400 So that what is seen is not made out of things that are visible, right? 510 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,200 What is seen is not made out of things that are visible. 511 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:44,440 By faith, it was offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than came through which it was commanded 512 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:50,360 as righteous, God commanding him by accepting his gift and through his faith, though he 513 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,600 died, he speaks. 514 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:58,360 By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death and was not found because by 515 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,080 God had taken him. 516 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,640 Now before he was, God had taken him. 517 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,200 Now before he was taken, he was commanded as having pleased God, right? 518 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,280 So he means he had exercised faith, is a man of faith, his identity. 519 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,520 Faith, we can call him the faithful. 520 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:19,400 Now there are six masses and without faith, it's impossible to please God. 521 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:30,960 For whosoever will draw near to God must believe that he exists and he rewards all those who 522 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,560 seek him, right? 523 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:39,200 Without faith it is impossible to please God for whosoever draws near to God must believe 524 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,160 and rewards those who seek him. 525 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:49,920 So we can say the action of faith is believing or the instrumentation of faith is believing. 526 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,080 Instrumentation, the expression of faith, right, is actually believing. 527 00:35:54,080 --> 00:36:00,160 The expression of the fact that you are faith is to believe, right? 528 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,880 So no one wakes up being born again, right, I wrote it here, no one wakes up being born 529 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,520 again. 530 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,240 No one without faith can receive salvation, right? 531 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:11,200 No one because being born again. 532 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,680 No one without faith can receive salvation. 533 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:20,080 No one can receive salvation, you know, even through a vision. 534 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,240 A message must be preached to you, right? 535 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,160 A message must be preached to you. 536 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,840 Oh, I was just in a vision and I became born again. 537 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:33,200 When you wake up, you would express that belief in the message, right, when it's preached 538 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,200 to you. 539 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:40,160 So you can be led, you can receive a word by vision and you can say, go and meet so, 540 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,440 so and so person or someone will come to your house. 541 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,760 You can have such kind of revelations of you being connected. 542 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:53,040 However, the faith, right, that you receive, right, is something you believe, right, is 543 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,040 something you believe. 544 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,680 The faith that you have is expressed through believing. 545 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:01,040 So without faith, no one can actually please God, means no one can come into salvation, 546 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,040 right? 547 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,040 That is what it means. 548 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,180 No one can come into salvation. 549 00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:11,160 So therefore, one of the identity we have is faith and we talked about that. 550 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,440 Again, our response to the gospel is faith, right? 551 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,760 You can write down our response to the gospel is faith. 552 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,560 Our response to the gospel is faith, is believing, is believing. 553 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,800 Our response to the gospel is believing. 554 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,560 So we can just read Hebrews 4, 1 to 2. 555 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,720 We have some scriptures there, some people who received the word. 556 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,520 I'm going to come back to Hebrews chapter 6 and I'm going to experience some things. 557 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,160 So let's go to Hebrews chapter 4, verse 1 to 2. 558 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,120 Therefore, while the promise of entering is rest still standing, let us fear lest any 559 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,560 of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 560 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:50,460 For the good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit 561 00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:54,600 them because they were not united by faith, right? 562 00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:03,400 It means that they did not exercise faith, united by faith or united in faith with what 563 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,600 was preached to them, with those who listened, right? 564 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,040 He says here, he says it with those who listen. 565 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,400 For we who have believed have entered into the rests, right? 566 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:14,640 I've entered that rest. 567 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,080 As I said, I say, swore in my mouth they shall not enter in my rest. 568 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,600 So what we see there is that they did not mix it with faith, right? 569 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,740 But some people believed, right? 570 00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:30,860 So we see faith and believe in there as nothing different, but simply exercise in just the 571 00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:32,740 use of words, right? 572 00:38:32,740 --> 00:38:36,680 For goodness came to us just as came to them, but it did not mix it with faith. 573 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,680 It means they were not united with faith, with those who listened. 574 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,200 So they didn't have the same faith as they basically want to sing. 575 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,200 They didn't have the same faith, right? 576 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:54,520 With those who listened, for we who have believed, so we who have the faith have entered into 577 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,980 the rest of God. 578 00:38:55,980 --> 00:39:03,480 So we see that believing there as an action, right, to believe a word. 579 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,560 So we go to Mark 16 verse 17. 580 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,560 Mark 16 verse 17. 581 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:16,640 Mark 16 verse 17, just to exercise, Mark 16 verse 17. 582 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:23,680 So going to the world and proclaim the gospel, right, from verse 15, to the whole nation, 583 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:30,560 whosoever believes, right, is baptized, and whosoever believes is baptized and will be 584 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,160 saved, but whosoever does not believe will be condemned. 585 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:39,040 And these signs shall follow them who believe in my name. 586 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,680 They shall cast out demons, they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues, 587 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:50,840 they will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will 588 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,520 not hurt them, right? 589 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,520 They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. 590 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:03,040 Now what this path really helps us to do, right, is to bring, right, is to bring something 591 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,040 together. 592 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,600 And what is it bringing together? 593 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:12,080 It's bringing those who believe the gospel, right? 594 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,120 Those who believe the gospel as being saved. 595 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,240 We see there that they will come into salvation by believing. 596 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:20,240 We see that there. 597 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:25,680 And the second thing, he also said that verse 17, and these signs will follow them that 598 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:26,680 believe. 599 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:32,000 The same faith, right, is not like, oh, they need another believing, right, they need another 600 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,640 believing to do signs and wonders. 601 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:41,720 After they have believed salvation, they will now have to, another type of faith will have 602 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:45,320 to come, or another type of belief will have to come for them to manifest. 603 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,560 No, it's still the same, it's just a continuation of it, right? 604 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:49,960 It's just a continuation. 605 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,720 So it means that those that believe, right, in salvation, and they are saved, and they 606 00:40:55,720 --> 00:41:02,360 are not condemned, right, in continuation of the work they will be doing, these signs 607 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,080 will follow them. 608 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:09,440 The only thing that makes a believer not to be able to exercise these signs, right, is 609 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,440 ignorance. 610 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:15,960 Not that the signs cannot follow them, not that the signs are not even following them, 611 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:16,960 right? 612 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,760 It's ignorance and the, what we call the desire not to, right, the desire not to. 613 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:28,280 So there is no like, okay, the faith that brought you to salvation, or what made you 614 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,640 to believe, right, that identity is different. 615 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,360 Then you need another believing, right? 616 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:42,080 You need another believing, right, another type of faith, now you now begin to manifest. 617 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:43,080 That one is different. 618 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:49,320 So if you say that, it therefore differentiates believers and says, oh, one believer is saved, 619 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,160 but he has not been saved to cast out demons, right? 620 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,280 He has not been saved to heal the sin, he has not been saved, no, no, no. 621 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,760 If talking about this part of the scripture really helps us to unite it very well, to 622 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:09,120 say that the same faith that we are coming to, right, we continue in that faith, right, 623 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:14,720 to manifest all that is said, these signs, we follow them that believe, right, still 624 00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:18,480 in the context of those who have believed and have been saved. 625 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:19,760 In my name they will cast out demons. 626 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:25,640 So for us to manifest the kingdom, therefore, we do not need, right, a particular, we do 627 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:32,400 not need to go into a new faith or another areas of faith or another levels of faith, 628 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,400 right? 629 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,120 Then we can be able to now say, oh, I've gotten to the level of faith where I can cast out 630 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:43,920 demons, just as you have believed and you have come into salvation, therefore, you can 631 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,080 manifest the kingdom of God, just as you believe that you have come into salvation, you can 632 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,040 manifest the kingdom of God. 633 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,960 So that's what we see here, which I tried to explain that while the faith that brings 634 00:42:54,960 --> 00:43:01,400 you in, which is what I use, and the other one that determines your manifestation is the 635 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,320 same, right, is the same. 636 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:09,040 You just believe you have faith, the same way John 3 says, then it's preached to someone, 637 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,040 right? 638 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,840 And the person believes, right? 639 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,600 When it comes to the manifestation of the Spirit, the scriptures are also open, the 640 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,440 same way you believe that you continue in faith, it's just the continuation of faith, 641 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:20,440 right? 642 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,520 You continue in faith and manifest, right, manifestation. 643 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,160 That's what we see in these scriptures, right? 644 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:33,640 And they believe these signs shall follow them, these signs shall follow them. 645 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,360 So we just go a little bit back to Genesis a little bit, right, and see how the gospel 646 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,000 has been described, right? 647 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,120 What this believing, right, the object or the subject of faith, the subject of faith, 648 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,440 by the way it has been described, right? 649 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:53,280 So that when we read the Old Testament, we also know that faith is also what God is demanding, 650 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,280 right? 651 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,520 Faith is what God desires. 652 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,800 So without faith, you can't please God. 653 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:03,440 So we want to see from Genesis, right, how this faith has been explained, right? 654 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,880 How God has acquired faith. 655 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,680 So we can see that it's not something that faith is not a post-resurrection thing. 656 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:11,680 No, it's not. 657 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,160 I mean, you should know that it's not. 658 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:18,200 Faith is not after Jesus died, then people begin to believe, right? 659 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:25,120 Faith has been something that actually binds, faith is something that binds both those who 660 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:33,160 believe in the promise of God before it was fulfilled in Christ on earth, right, and manifested 661 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,160 in resurrection. 662 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:40,400 Those who believe before and those who believe after, it is faith that binds us together, 663 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:41,400 right? 664 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,280 It is faith that Hebrews 11 tells us that. 665 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:45,640 But we'll come to that. 666 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:51,360 Let's just go to Genesis chapter two and just see Genesis chapter two and just see how that 667 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,000 word, because it was faith. 668 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,960 God has always demanded, God has demanded nothing from man, right, without faith. 669 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,600 He has always wanted men to believe in his promise, right? 670 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:03,600 God's demand. 671 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,760 So it becomes part of our identity when we believe, right? 672 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,720 It becomes part of us when we believe. 673 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:14,520 So Genesis two verse 16, it says, and God commanded, and the Lord God commanded the 674 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:21,680 man saying, you may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge 675 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:30,320 of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day you eat it, you shall surely die, 676 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,320 right? 677 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:32,320 You shall surely die. 678 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,200 And so on is asking, right, how is, how is faith here, right? 679 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,200 What is the expression of faith? 680 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,840 What is God requiring here? 681 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:48,520 First, the way to understand that God is actually asking, God is actually asking Adam to believe 682 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:53,920 in his message, the way to understand it is to first note a couple of things. 683 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,320 First, the person that is writing Genesis is Moses. 684 00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,320 Okay? 685 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,400 So the person that is writing Genesis is Moses. 686 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,280 That's the first thing, because you have to note who the author is. 687 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:11,280 It's the one that communicated this thing in this way. 688 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:18,240 It would mean that we need to pick some words that he used and check other books and understand 689 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:21,680 how he used those words altogether. 690 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,960 Then we will understand what he means here. 691 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:33,600 So he said, and the Lord commanded man saying, you may surely eat of the fruit. 692 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:39,240 That word commanded is an intentional word, right? 693 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:40,240 By Moses. 694 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:45,080 Okay, that word is intentional, is intentional by Moses. 695 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,120 Why? 696 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:50,880 Because the author is writing to a people, right? 697 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:56,520 Is documenting this for a people who knows their hearts, right? 698 00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,440 First, a people who knows their hearts. 699 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:08,000 And if we also check his communication to these same people, Moses always used command, 700 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:13,320 the word command, and it's a commandment, right, for them to believe. 701 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:19,560 So we can just go to Exodus. 702 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,160 Let's go to Exodus. 703 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,600 Let's go to Exodus. 704 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:29,800 After Exodus 20, right, we actually have a couple of them, written everywhere, scattered 705 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,720 around in his communication. 706 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:41,320 We have most of these commands scattered around in Moses' communication through Israel. 707 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,720 We can start with Exodus 20, right? 708 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:51,560 We can start with Exodus 20 because Exodus 20 actually directly links to what we are 709 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:52,560 teaching. 710 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,360 So he used the word command, right? 711 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,000 Used the word command. 712 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:03,040 So when you see, and God spoke this word saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out 713 00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,040 of Egypt, right? 714 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,640 Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery? 715 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,440 You shall have no God, right? 716 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:11,440 You shall have no God before me. 717 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,440 You shall have no God before me. 718 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,360 If you go to verse 6, right, if you go to verse 6, it says, but showing the first law 719 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:25,160 to thousands of those who love him and keep his commandment, right? 720 00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,760 Who love him and keep his commandment. 721 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,720 You shall not take the Lord your God, and it continued the commandment, the statement 722 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:36,440 about the commandment here. 723 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,720 You can go to Exodus 19 verse 7. 724 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,720 It also said something there. 725 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:47,800 So Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these words 726 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,060 that the Lord had commanded, right? 727 00:48:51,060 --> 00:48:55,040 The Lord had commanded all these words that the Lord had commanded. 728 00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:05,280 If you read up from Exodus 19 from verse 4, it's a universal sin that I did not, sorry, 729 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:11,560 that I did, what I did to Egyptians and how I bore you on egos winds and brought you to 730 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:12,560 myself, salvation. 731 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:18,960 Now, therefore, if you indeed obey my voice and keep my commandments, sorry, and keep 732 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,520 my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all people. 733 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:28,500 For all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of grace. 734 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:32,940 And these are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel. 735 00:49:32,940 --> 00:49:42,120 So Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these words 736 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,320 as the Lord had commanded him. 737 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:49,040 And all the people answered together, all that the Lord has spoken we will do. 738 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,240 And Moses reported the words of the Lord to the people and the Lord said, Behold, I am 739 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:55,320 coming in a thick cloud and I will speak. 740 00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:02,080 So from here, right, from here, the moment they came out, we started seeing the introduction 741 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,200 of the words of the Lord to be seen as commandments. 742 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:13,200 Okay, the words of the Lord, right, from Exodus towards Israel, we started seeing it as commandments, 743 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,160 right, we started seeing it as commandments. 744 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:21,520 So we'll come to the Ten Commandments, what we'll call the Ten Commandments as well, right, 745 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,560 what we see and is written as the Ten Commandments as well. 746 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:29,800 It's also the words of the Lord, okay, the words of the Lord using the word commandment, 747 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:30,800 right. 748 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:35,160 So the word of the Lord is the word of the Lord in Ten Commandments as well. 749 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:43,000 So therefore, just with this and subsequent readings of Moses' writings, we can see that 750 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:50,320 the commandments can be said or can be referred to as the words of the Lord. 751 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,800 And the words of the Lord is the gospel, okay. 752 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:59,240 The commandment is the words of the Lord and it is the gospel message. 753 00:50:59,240 --> 00:51:04,920 What God spoke to Israel, what God spoke to them when they were in the desert, what God 754 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,200 gave to Moses. 755 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:12,200 So what Moses is communicating here, right, of course, these people are used to this word, 756 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:17,640 right, so they should be able to understand that his commandment, right, his instruction 757 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:22,720 is actually the gospel because it is the word of the Lord and it is what is coming. 758 00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:27,480 So the gospel is a commandment, we can say that, right, the gospel is a commandment. 759 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:32,800 So we're connecting Genesis to Exodus 20 and Exodus 19. 760 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:42,960 Also when we repeat Exodus 20 and look at Jesus' reiteration of Exodus 20, right, Jesus' 761 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:51,080 explanation of Exodus 20, right, let's go to Mark 12 verse 28. 762 00:51:51,080 --> 00:52:00,800 We will see that he summarized it as believing God, or Mark 12 verse 28. 763 00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:08,880 He said, oh, okay, this is Luke's for real, Mark 12 verse 28. 764 00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:15,400 He said, the one of the scribes came up and heard him disputing with one another and seeing 765 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:22,040 that he answered them well, he asked him, which commandment is the most important of 766 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:27,040 all, right, so which commandment is the most important of all? 767 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:33,640 And Jesus answered, the most important is, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord 768 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:40,440 is one and you shall love the Lord your God with all your hearts, with all your soul and 769 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,960 with all your mind and with all your strength. 770 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:50,080 And the second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, right, there is no other 771 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:55,240 commandment greater than this, right, there is no other commandment greater than this. 772 00:52:55,240 --> 00:53:03,640 Now this is parallel to Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, right, Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, which is 773 00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:09,120 the second explanation or the second giving of the law of the same law, the second explanation 774 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,240 of what Moses had told them before. 775 00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:17,080 Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, the same thing was reiterated there from verse 1. 776 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:25,040 He said, now this is the commandment, the statute and the rules that the Lord God commanded 777 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:32,360 me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over to possess 778 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:38,840 it and that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your sons and your sons' sons by 779 00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:44,600 keeping his statutes and his commandments, which I command you all the days of your life 780 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,840 and that your days may be long. 781 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:53,360 Henceforth, therefore, O Israel, be careful to do them that it may go well with you and 782 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:59,280 that you may multiply greatly as the Lord the God of your father has promised you in 783 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,760 a land flowing with milk and honey. 784 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,680 Now we all know these are figurative. 785 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:10,320 Therefore, here O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, you shall love the Lord your 786 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:16,720 God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. 787 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:21,760 And these words that I command you today shall be on your hearts. 788 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:29,440 So we see that the Ten Commandments, right, the commandments given to Israel explained 789 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:35,840 by Christ and the word commandment is actually referring to the message of the gospel, right, 790 00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,240 the message of the gospel. 791 00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:47,920 What Moses is giving them, right, in the Deuteronomy here, right, is demanding faith from them, 792 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,840 right, is demanding faith from them, right. 793 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:55,520 Of course, he had given them the Ten Commandments, that is just after he had reiterated the Ten 794 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,920 Commandments in chapter five of the Deuteronomy. 795 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:05,320 So if you look here, I reiterated the Ten Commandments, right, and now in six is repeating 796 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:06,320 the same thing. 797 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:13,480 So all along when Moses was giving commandments, right, as he has received, what he was demanding 798 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:19,160 from Israel was faith in God, right, was faith in God. 799 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:25,480 To love the Lord your God is actually to obey, which is the same thing as to have faith in 800 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:32,440 him, to have faith in what he has spoken, to have faith in what he said he will do, 801 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:33,440 right. 802 00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,680 That is why you see he brought the context of the Lord your God of your Father, what 803 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,720 God has promised and the land is taken them to, right. 804 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:48,800 So their job is to believe what God has said, right, to believe what God has said, right, 805 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,720 which is to love him, which is to obey him, right. 806 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:58,640 So these three words actually are very similar and are used most especially when Moses is 807 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,760 telling them and demanding an action. 808 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:07,160 So the way to communicate it is to say to love, right, to love, which is to obey and 809 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:08,160 to believe. 810 00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,440 We're going to see that subsequently much explained. 811 00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:17,600 But what we see now is that the commandment is the gospel and from Genesis therefore we 812 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:23,520 can say that what God is demanding from Adam when he said, right, he has been commanded 813 00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:29,600 not to eat, right, it means that the gospel has been communicated to him, right, which 814 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:37,000 is to love, to obey, right, and to believe or to believe the message of God. 815 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:44,200 Right, that's another way to help us to clarify that what Moses was saying, right, majorly 816 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:52,840 was demanding faith, right, from Adam saying that God was expecting Adam to believe a communication 817 00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:56,800 that has been passed on to him, right, to show love or to obey. 818 00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,920 So he said, the Lord took man and put him in the garden and commanded him saying, you 819 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,040 may, right, surely eat surely of the fruit and the garden. 820 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:13,640 We've talked about eating as a way to explain this part and now I'm bringing and revealing 821 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:19,240 some, explaining some things using the word command because when Moses used commandment 822 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:25,760 and this most of the time, it's actually demanding faith from the people of Israel, right, it's 823 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:26,760 demanding faith. 824 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,400 So we can apply that and say it's faith that has been demanded. 825 00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:37,600 So the identity that Adam would have received is identity of, what I've received in the 826 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:44,320 Bible, is identity of faith, someone who believed the message of God, right, someone who believed 827 00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:51,840 the message of God in communication that has been spoken to him, right, from this explanation. 828 00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:58,200 So faith therefore becomes an identity that is given to us, right, when the message of 829 00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:04,120 the gospel, the commandment of God is preached to us, right, it's preached to us, it's explained 830 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,960 to us, it's opened to us, the love of God is shown to us, the instruction of God is 831 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,680 shown to us, the commandment of God is shown to us. 832 00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:17,520 So we love, we obey and we believe, right, that is what it means to love God with your 833 00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,080 heart, with your whole mind. 834 00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:24,920 Again, you can add Romans chapter 10, we talked about believing with your whole heart and 835 00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,440 confessing with your mother and believing with your whole heart. 836 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:33,760 He aligns together to explain that the message of God, right, is salvation, right, and this 837 00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:40,880 is what it desires all men to believe and come into this faithfulness. 838 00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:48,800 Lastly, we can just also see some scriptures that refer to God as a faithful father, right, 839 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:55,320 you see, 1 Thessalonians 5, right, he shows that picture that God himself is faithful, 840 00:58:55,320 --> 00:59:01,160 right, God himself is faithful and finite, right. 841 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:05,480 So we can check that scripture and see that God himself is faithful, the one who has called 842 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:14,120 him faithful also, right, home to the fulfillment of it, right, you know what he has said regarding 843 00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,120 you. 844 00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:20,760 So we believe as therefore, we can call ourselves faithful, right, because of the faith that 845 00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,760 we have in God, right, because of the faith that we have in God and because of Christ's 846 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:25,760 expression of faith. 847 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:31,800 So we can pick up Hebrews 12, Hebrews 12 already established Christ is the author and the finisher 848 00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:36,720 of our faith, so it means God himself is the author of our faith and just like I said, 849 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:45,360 the father of spirits is God, the father of faith is Christ, okay, the father of spirits 850 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:52,760 is God, the father of faith is Christ, Hebrews 12 verse 1, the father of spirit is God, is 851 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,440 Christ himself, right, the father of faith is still Christ, right. 852 00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:02,200 So this is what we see, we can see that what we are calling our identity is birthed Christ 853 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:03,200 himself. 854 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,280 We appreciate you being here today. 855 01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,880 We hope you carried this word with you throughout your week. 856 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,200 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 857 01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:19,240 Stay connected with us through our website or follow us on social media. 858 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,480 If you were encouraged, share this message with someone you care about. 859 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:50,480 Until next time, stay blessed.