WEBVTT 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:05.580 Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here. 00:00:06.339 --> 00:00:09.339 Make sure to stay with us till the end, where 00:00:09.339 --> 00:00:12.179 we'll share some great resources to deepen your 00:00:12.179 --> 00:00:16.179 faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.920 We'll just be continuing from where we have been 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:30.460 teaching since Wednesday, then Sunday. than Wednesday 00:00:30.460 --> 00:00:35.399 again. So just continue from there and build 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:38.159 up. So still relating to the authority of a believer 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.799 and immediately manifesting the supernatural, 00:00:42.380 --> 00:00:45.659 right? Manifesting the supernatural. The main 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:50.000 thing is, like I said, to charge us more, right? 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.789 To charge us more to have... expectations towards 00:00:53.789 --> 00:00:56.409 these things, the things of the supernatural, 00:00:56.570 --> 00:01:00.869 to know how it functions, to believe it, to see 00:01:00.869 --> 00:01:03.250 it across the scripture that beyond reasonable 00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:09.209 doubt, we will be able to participate, give ourselves 00:01:09.209 --> 00:01:12.209 to the things of the spirit much more. So that 00:01:12.209 --> 00:01:15.310 is why we are teaching this, so that we can be 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:19.900 able to engage in... expressing healing, right? 00:01:19.980 --> 00:01:24.040 Many administering healing to people through 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:28.219 our preaching. Then we carry out signs and wonders, 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:31.799 miracles, and all the operations of things of 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.620 spirit through us functioning effectively, right? 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.400 So that we can have expectations through it. 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.980 We can know that these things are real, like 00:01:38.980 --> 00:01:41.060 the word I use all the time, that these are actually 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:44.159 real. And that's the call of God is able to walk 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.840 all of these through us. Amen. So what we've 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.840 done so far, right, what we've done so far is 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.459 actually to understand the believer's authority, 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.579 right, to understand the believer's authority, 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.500 especially with regards to things in the natural, 00:02:00.659 --> 00:02:03.400 how the believer can influence the natural, which 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.180 is supernatural, bringing forth the supernatural 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:13.159 into the natural, letting the supernatural overpower 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.389 or oversee the natural. So we started and we 00:02:17.389 --> 00:02:21.509 went through Moses, right? What Moses did and 00:02:21.509 --> 00:02:24.409 his work with the children of Israel in the wilderness. 00:02:24.550 --> 00:02:29.169 We moved through that and we came to the prophets 00:02:29.169 --> 00:02:32.449 and we touched upon Elijah a little bit, right? 00:02:32.509 --> 00:02:36.629 Showing with evidence, right? Showing with evidence 00:02:36.629 --> 00:02:41.689 and proof, right? Showing with evidence and proof, 00:02:41.889 --> 00:02:46.840 right? realities of these things, right, of the 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.879 manifestation of the supernatural, right? So 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.180 we see divine provision, we see divine preservation, 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.460 and we see across many things where they intervened 00:02:58.460 --> 00:03:01.280 in both situations. So we see that these men 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.020 of God, the prophets, right, Moses and Elijah, 00:03:05.139 --> 00:03:08.580 they expressed the supernatural in their walk 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:12.060 with the people they were walking with. So the 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:14.699 last time we... talk, right, on Sunday, we move 00:03:14.699 --> 00:03:18.020 towards Matthew, and we try to stay a little 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:20.319 bit there, right, stay a little bit there to 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.060 see how Jesus, right, functioned or exercised 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:28.680 the supernatural in healing people, people who 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.280 were lame, people who were possessed by demons, 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:36.319 people who were not, right, in their right mind, 00:03:36.340 --> 00:03:39.099 Jesus restoring them, people who were sick, right, 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.599 see a lot of miraculous things taking place. 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.000 So now what we're able to get there is that we 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.060 can receive this miraculous or this supernatural 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:53.900 by seeking it. That is not wrong to seek it. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.919 So it's not wrong. You can seek to be prayed 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:58.939 for and to be healed. You can seek to lay hands 00:03:58.939 --> 00:04:02.460 on. When we minister to each other, when we hold 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:04.280 each other's hand, we are actually seeking to 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.719 be ministered upon. We are seeking the supernatural, 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:11.009 true. the other believers around us. So we find 00:04:11.009 --> 00:04:13.289 that and we see that in Matthew 8, verse 1 to 00:04:13.289 --> 00:04:16.649 4, we see how that context, right, was actually 00:04:16.649 --> 00:04:18.709 someone requesting to be healed. And we see many 00:04:18.709 --> 00:04:21.269 people that come to Jesus, right, they will say, 00:04:21.310 --> 00:04:24.370 I know you can heal me if thou be willing, right, 00:04:24.449 --> 00:04:26.970 heal me. And Jesus will say, yes, I'm willing. 00:04:27.110 --> 00:04:30.069 And we see that he heals them. So we see seeking, 00:04:30.230 --> 00:04:33.889 right, asking as something very accepted according 00:04:33.889 --> 00:04:36.949 to the scriptures. We also see, right, that faith, 00:04:37.129 --> 00:04:40.389 even without asking. can actually bet for the 00:04:40.389 --> 00:04:43.589 supernatural, right? Faith without asking can 00:04:43.589 --> 00:04:46.529 actually bet for the supernatural. And we see 00:04:46.529 --> 00:04:49.490 the case of the centurion, right? Matthew 8 scriptures. 00:04:50.910 --> 00:04:54.970 We see the case of the centurion who just believed 00:04:54.970 --> 00:04:57.250 that Jesus would say a word, right? Just say 00:04:57.250 --> 00:04:59.089 a word and healing would take place. And Jesus 00:04:59.089 --> 00:05:02.430 was really amazed and wondering, you know, what 00:05:02.430 --> 00:05:04.569 manner of faith in his healing power, right? 00:05:04.629 --> 00:05:07.769 As such a man expressed at this time. Seeking. 00:05:08.350 --> 00:05:11.449 We see faith, which is believing, right? We also 00:05:11.449 --> 00:05:14.089 see the woman who touched the hem of his garment. 00:05:14.129 --> 00:05:15.990 If I would just touch the hem of his garment. 00:05:16.009 --> 00:05:19.250 So we also saw our faith too, right? We saw our 00:05:19.250 --> 00:05:23.350 faith in the context of that. And we see touching, 00:05:23.529 --> 00:05:27.610 touching in line with that too. So faith in the 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:29.990 healing ministry of Christ. And she said, if 00:05:29.990 --> 00:05:32.670 I only touch, right? She could have been like 00:05:32.670 --> 00:05:35.310 the centurion and say, okay, Jesus would just. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.199 say a word, right? Or just by belief. But she 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.860 said nothing about thought. So we see seeking, 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:45.879 we see believing, right? Having faith in what? 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:49.879 Healing ministry of Christ. And we also see touching, 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.459 right? So touching. So sometimes we see Jesus 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:57.379 lay hands on them. He put his hands on their 00:05:57.379 --> 00:05:59.959 eyes and their eyes are open and all of that. 00:06:00.019 --> 00:06:02.339 So we see touching, right? Touching takes place. 00:06:03.470 --> 00:06:05.310 Laying of hands can also take place, which is 00:06:05.310 --> 00:06:09.990 connected to touch. Now, also we can see that 00:06:09.990 --> 00:06:12.449 people can also bring you, right? People can 00:06:12.449 --> 00:06:15.810 have faith for someone who is sick, right? They 00:06:15.810 --> 00:06:17.509 can have faith for someone who is sick and they 00:06:17.509 --> 00:06:20.089 can bring the person. They can bring the person. 00:06:20.089 --> 00:06:26.110 Matthew 8, 16. Matthew 8, verse 16. Matthew 8, 00:06:26.189 --> 00:06:29.350 verse 16. This one is people bringing others, 00:06:29.649 --> 00:06:32.350 right? Bringing others, having faith for other 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:36.769 people. And when Jesus entered Peter's house, 00:06:36.790 --> 00:06:39.189 from verse 14, he saw his mother -in -law lying 00:06:39.189 --> 00:06:41.850 sick with fever. He touched her and her fever 00:06:41.850 --> 00:06:45.870 left. So touching again, Jesus lay hands on Peter's 00:06:45.870 --> 00:06:48.730 mother -in -law and she was healed. Now verse 00:06:48.730 --> 00:06:53.069 16 says, that evening they brought to him many 00:06:53.069 --> 00:06:58.209 who were oppressed by demons and he cast out 00:06:58.209 --> 00:07:02.800 the spirits of the world. and they healed all 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.000 who were sick. Healed all who were sick. So we 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.120 see that people had faith, right, for other people, 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.879 and they had faith that someone can be healed 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.199 by Christ, right? There are people who were sick, 00:07:14.259 --> 00:07:17.439 and, you know, they had this faith, and it brought 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.540 them to meet Christ. So they were exercising 00:07:20.540 --> 00:07:22.199 faith on behalf of their family members, on behalf 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.399 of people that were sick, and it brought them, 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:29.670 and by their faith, Jesus healed them. I see 00:07:29.670 --> 00:07:31.850 that we can bring someone, we can exercise faith 00:07:31.850 --> 00:07:39.889 for healing, right? So, again, there's another 00:07:39.889 --> 00:07:42.769 scripture that we're going to check. Luke 5, 00:07:43.009 --> 00:07:49.389 Luke 5, 17. Luke 5, verse 17. Just to add to 00:07:49.389 --> 00:07:53.410 this one of people bringing others to Christ, 00:07:53.610 --> 00:07:58.430 right? Luke 5. So, one of those, on one of... 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.439 Those days, as I was teaching, Pharisees and 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.879 teachers of the Lord were sitting there who had 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.339 come from every village of Galilee and Judea 00:08:06.339 --> 00:08:09.720 and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:14.920 was with him to heal. And behold, some men were 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:20.079 bringing on a bed, a man who was paralyzed. And 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.720 they were seeking to bring him in and lay him 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:28.370 before Jesus. But finding no way to bring him 00:08:28.370 --> 00:08:33.509 in because of the crowd, they went up on the 00:08:33.509 --> 00:08:38.429 roof and let him down with his bed, threw the 00:08:38.429 --> 00:08:42.789 tiles into the mist before Jesus. And when he 00:08:42.789 --> 00:08:47.490 saw their fates, right, he saw their fates, he 00:08:47.490 --> 00:08:52.070 said, man, your sins are forgiven. And the scribes 00:08:52.070 --> 00:08:54.830 and Pharisees began to question, saying, Who 00:08:54.830 --> 00:08:58.070 is this who speak blasphemies? Who can forgive 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:01.049 sins but God? When Jesus perceived their thoughts, 00:09:01.149 --> 00:09:03.669 right, he answered them. Why do you question 00:09:03.669 --> 00:09:06.409 in your hearts? Which is easier to say, your 00:09:06.409 --> 00:09:09.629 sins are forgiven, or to say, rise and walk? 00:09:10.149 --> 00:09:13.110 But that you may know that the Son of Man has 00:09:13.110 --> 00:09:17.730 authority on earth to forgive sins. He said to 00:09:17.730 --> 00:09:21.490 the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, rise. 00:09:22.330 --> 00:09:26.870 pick up your bed and go home. So in this context, 00:09:26.909 --> 00:09:31.110 we see that people had faith in Christ for their 00:09:31.110 --> 00:09:35.190 friend, right? People had faith in Christ, right, 00:09:35.250 --> 00:09:38.429 for their friend. And that faith that they had 00:09:38.429 --> 00:09:41.830 in Christ, right, was shown in their action as 00:09:41.830 --> 00:09:44.269 well. So when they saw that the place was crowded, 00:09:44.509 --> 00:09:46.809 right, they couldn't find a means. They could 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:48.789 have said, oh, we just need to go back, right? 00:09:48.850 --> 00:09:51.669 What is the effort for? Or because they need. 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.399 that Christ could heal. They went through the 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:57.059 roof and they brought the man down. And Jesus 00:09:57.059 --> 00:10:00.460 saw their faith. So it was not just the faith 00:10:00.460 --> 00:10:03.759 of the man who is to be healed. He saw the faith 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.980 of this group of people who brought the man down. 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.299 So people can actually have faith for others 00:10:10.299 --> 00:10:13.879 to heal. So when we come to church and we talk 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:19.379 about people who want to be healed, we pray for 00:10:19.379 --> 00:10:22.649 your... your parents, like we pray for our mothers, 00:10:22.769 --> 00:10:26.330 our fathers, our siblings that are sick, we are 00:10:26.330 --> 00:10:30.850 exercising faith in Christ for them. We are exercising 00:10:30.850 --> 00:10:34.110 faith in Christ for them. Therefore, through 00:10:34.110 --> 00:10:36.970 that, the supernatural can also take place, right? 00:10:37.009 --> 00:10:39.990 Of course, we've been talking about healing so 00:10:39.990 --> 00:10:41.970 much in this context of supernatural, but we'll 00:10:41.970 --> 00:10:45.289 stay there for now. So we can see that we can 00:10:45.289 --> 00:10:48.470 exercise faith, right? And so on can come into 00:10:48.470 --> 00:10:53.299 healing. Bye. our faith so this shows that the 00:10:53.299 --> 00:10:55.779 faith of men so therefore it corroborates matthew 00:10:55.779 --> 00:10:59.679 8 that says that many were brought to him right 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.240 many were brought to him and as they were possessed 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.120 by demons he cast them out with the word and 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.559 healed them so people had faith and their faith 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:15.129 uh yeah people now um We're saying two scriptures 00:11:15.129 --> 00:11:18.610 in the line of receiving for people, right? Receiving, 00:11:18.629 --> 00:11:20.570 healing for people. Of course, you know that 00:11:20.570 --> 00:11:23.429 salvation cannot be received for someone, right? 00:11:23.750 --> 00:11:25.929 Salvation cannot be received for someone. What 00:11:25.929 --> 00:11:28.850 can be received, right? Is this kind of ministrations 00:11:28.850 --> 00:11:31.330 as such as healing, right? Because you believe, 00:11:31.590 --> 00:11:33.970 right? And you are interceding, you are praying 00:11:33.970 --> 00:11:36.309 for the person, but the person can receive. And 00:11:36.309 --> 00:11:40.730 don't forget, we also establish across most of 00:11:40.730 --> 00:11:44.559 these scriptures and time of Christ, we saw that 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.600 most of these people did not believe in the message 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.659 of salvation itself, but they believed that Christ 00:11:51.659 --> 00:11:54.179 can heal them. And they were just receiving, 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.440 right? They were just receiving the healing. 00:11:56.500 --> 00:12:00.320 They were receiving the healing. So this is what 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.679 we see in this context, that faith can bring 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.360 about healing for someone, but of course we can't 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.200 have faith for them in terms of salvation in 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:14.639 that context. Because some of them are unbelievers, 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:23.320 we still see that they receive. Healing supernatural 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:28.039 express through the faith of others. Now, we 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:32.899 can also go to Matthew 8, 23 to 27 and find something 00:12:32.899 --> 00:12:35.600 there as well. We've seen seeking, we've seen 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.320 believing, we've seen administered touching. 00:12:38.990 --> 00:12:41.629 we've seen believing for others by bringing them, 00:12:41.730 --> 00:12:43.649 right? When you bring people, you are showing 00:12:43.649 --> 00:12:45.889 expression of being believed. If you also come 00:12:45.889 --> 00:12:48.149 out, right, someone needs, your mom needs to 00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:50.830 be healed, your dad needs to be healed, a brother, 00:12:50.929 --> 00:12:53.629 a sibling has been on impact. When you come out 00:12:53.629 --> 00:12:56.450 for that person also, you are, in essence, bringing 00:12:56.450 --> 00:12:59.070 yourself, right, representing the person and 00:12:59.070 --> 00:13:01.610 then we can agree together in prayer to the brother. 00:13:02.049 --> 00:13:07.870 Now, Matthew 8, 23 and 27. And when it got... 00:13:08.330 --> 00:13:12.350 into the boat. His disciples followed him, and 00:13:12.350 --> 00:13:16.429 behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, 00:13:16.570 --> 00:13:20.350 so that the boat was being swarmed by the waves. 00:13:20.789 --> 00:13:24.389 But he was asleep, and they went and woke him, 00:13:24.549 --> 00:13:27.909 saying, Save us, Lord, we are perishing. And 00:13:27.909 --> 00:13:32.549 he said to them, Why are you afraid, O you of 00:13:32.549 --> 00:13:36.990 little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the wind, 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.240 and the sea. And there was a great calm. And 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.159 when the men, and the men marveled, saying, what 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:50.039 sort of man is this that even winds and sea obey 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.360 him? Even wind and sea obey him. So what do we 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.600 see here? We see rebuking, actually. That's what 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.559 we see here. And I'm going to show us some other 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.000 scriptures that also talk about rebuking. So 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:05.200 we can rebuke. We can rebuke, actually, circumstances 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:10.090 in the natural. We can rebuke circumstances that 00:14:10.090 --> 00:14:12.690 are natural to bring them into order, to bring 00:14:12.690 --> 00:14:16.090 order into place, to stop a chaos, to stop a 00:14:16.090 --> 00:14:20.049 problem, to intervene in an unpalatable situation 00:14:20.049 --> 00:14:23.850 where people are engaged in. We can rebuke accidents. 00:14:24.169 --> 00:14:26.470 There's nothing like we cannot pray against those 00:14:26.470 --> 00:14:29.470 things. We can rebuke them, rebuke those things 00:14:29.470 --> 00:14:30.570 that there will not be accidents, there will 00:14:30.570 --> 00:14:32.710 not be theft. We can rebuke those things. So, 00:14:32.769 --> 00:14:36.840 rebuking is another way that we put... our authority 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:41.360 into practice or we put our authority into action 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.059 when it comes to the supernatural so we can rebuke 00:14:45.059 --> 00:14:47.740 secretion now if you just take a walk back to 00:14:47.740 --> 00:14:53.480 uh verse 16 verse 16 that evening they brought 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:58.080 to him many who were oppressed by demons and 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.889 he cast out the spirits right with a word and 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:05.049 he healed all those who were sick. So this is 00:15:05.049 --> 00:15:08.830 also similar, right? Rebuke, cast out, right? 00:15:08.889 --> 00:15:11.970 They are direct expression of the believer's 00:15:11.970 --> 00:15:15.129 authority, right? They are direct, direct expression 00:15:15.129 --> 00:15:17.889 of the believer's authority, right? These are 00:15:17.889 --> 00:15:20.570 direct expression of the believer's authority. 00:15:20.850 --> 00:15:24.429 Therefore means that the believer, right? Should 00:15:24.429 --> 00:15:30.470 primarily directly administer. Healing, directly 00:15:30.470 --> 00:15:36.710 administer, casting out demons, directly rebuking 00:15:36.710 --> 00:15:39.509 unpalatable situations. So this is the direct 00:15:39.509 --> 00:15:42.450 expression of the authority of the believer. 00:15:42.710 --> 00:15:45.269 So what I'm saying is that while people can seek, 00:15:45.570 --> 00:15:49.330 while you can seek, while you can have faith 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:53.179 for something to take place, right, why you can 00:15:53.179 --> 00:15:55.919 be administered upon, you can touch, you can 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.159 be touched, your hands can be laid, and so you 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.700 can lay hands as well. But there are circumstances 00:16:00.700 --> 00:16:06.840 where the believer must rebuke, right, must rebuke 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:09.720 those situations. We see here that he was casting 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.759 out demons, he was rebuking. He was casting out 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.940 demons, and he was rebuking, he rebuked a situation, 00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:19.600 right, he rebuked a situation. So this is, this 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.299 pattern is actually the direct expression, of 00:16:22.299 --> 00:16:24.879 the believer, which we always talk about, right? 00:16:24.980 --> 00:16:29.820 You can cast out demons. We don't negotiate with 00:16:29.820 --> 00:16:32.259 demons. We don't have conversations with demons. 00:16:32.379 --> 00:16:34.639 We don't have conversations with circumstances, 00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:37.659 right? We don't have conversations with circumstances. 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:42.259 Is it important? We don't have such kind of conversations, 00:16:42.259 --> 00:16:45.320 right? So what we do to unpalatable situations 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.850 is that we rebuke them. What we do to demons, 00:16:49.009 --> 00:16:50.730 right, is that we cast them out. This is direct 00:16:50.730 --> 00:16:53.269 expression. And this is where the believer should 00:16:53.269 --> 00:16:56.809 regularly be. This is where the believer should 00:16:56.809 --> 00:16:59.230 regularly be, right? So it's intentional that 00:16:59.230 --> 00:17:02.190 we took us through all those other ones and up 00:17:02.190 --> 00:17:06.450 until coming to this one now. This is where the, 00:17:06.569 --> 00:17:12.410 what would I say? Would I say the magnitude of 00:17:12.410 --> 00:17:15.470 the believer's authority. is put into action. 00:17:15.569 --> 00:17:18.109 The magnitude of liberalism is put into action. 00:17:18.369 --> 00:17:21.410 When we rebuke circumstances, when we cast out 00:17:21.410 --> 00:17:23.829 demons, this is the magnitude of the believer's 00:17:23.829 --> 00:17:25.809 authority. And this is where the believer should 00:17:25.809 --> 00:17:29.269 regularly be. Regularly be as a believer. Now, 00:17:29.269 --> 00:17:34.329 let's see. Let's see from Acts of Apostles. A 00:17:34.329 --> 00:17:39.069 little bit. Acts of Apostles. Acts of Apostles, 00:17:39.069 --> 00:17:43.049 chapter 3 as well. Acts of Apostles, chapter 00:17:43.049 --> 00:17:46.380 3. I think we read that on Sunday. I'll show 00:17:46.380 --> 00:17:48.920 you another form in which the magnitude of the 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.960 believer's authority is expressed, right? Another 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.640 form in which the magnitude of the believer's 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.440 authority is expressed. Now, Acts chapter 3, 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.539 it says, Now, Peter and John were going up to 00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:04.880 the temple at the hour of prayer, the night hour, 00:18:05.059 --> 00:18:08.599 and a lame man from birth was carried, whom they 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:10.680 laid daily at the gate of the temple that is 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.460 called the beautiful gate. to ask hands of those 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:18.039 entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:20.640 to go into the temple, he asked to receive them. 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.519 And Peter directed his gate as him and as did 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.920 John and said, look at us. And he fixed his attention 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:29.400 on them, expecting to receive something from 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.619 them. But Peter said, I have no silver and gold, 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:36.279 but what I do have, I give to you in the name 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:40.019 of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 00:18:40.859 --> 00:18:44.680 Rise up and walk. So this is a situation taking 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:48.359 place in the life of a man, right? Asking from 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.319 him, right? This man was lame. He was a lame 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:54.619 beggar. And what did the apostles did? They didn't 00:18:54.619 --> 00:18:57.259 seek, right? They didn't seek. They didn't, you 00:18:57.259 --> 00:18:59.259 know, lay hands. They didn't do anything. They 00:18:59.259 --> 00:19:03.839 instructed the man out of the situation, right? 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:05.980 So they instructed the man out of the situation. 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.009 So what we can also do. As believers, expressing 00:19:10.009 --> 00:19:16.670 our authority is that we can instruct people 00:19:16.670 --> 00:19:21.230 to come out of unpalatable circumstances. We 00:19:21.230 --> 00:19:24.910 can express our authority by commanding, actually, 00:19:24.970 --> 00:19:27.730 that is it, commanding people to come out of 00:19:27.730 --> 00:19:30.730 unpalatable circumstances, to give expression. 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:33.740 to what we want to see. That's another word to 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:36.119 say it. To give expression to what we want to 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.559 see. So you can instruct people to come out of 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.160 unparalleled situation. We can instruct or command 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:45.220 people to give expression to what we want to 00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:46.940 see, right? So when you see the blind eyes, you 00:19:46.940 --> 00:19:50.880 can say, I command that eyes to be opened. Let 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:52.500 your eyes be opened. So you are bringing the 00:19:52.500 --> 00:19:55.079 person out of that circumstance, right? You are 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:56.619 bringing the person out of that circumstance. 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.000 Here they said, arise and walk. right that would 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.440 have sounded uh ridiculous if anyone who had 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:05.079 known that man for a long time that has been 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.380 sitting there right what what is this saying 00:20:08.380 --> 00:20:10.519 can't you see that this guy has been here for 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.440 a long time in fact he's not even willing to 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:15.960 be healed he's actually looking for alms from 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.740 you right so people say what is he saying but 00:20:19.740 --> 00:20:24.579 what did uh the apostles say and what So we can 00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:27.099 command people out of circumstances. We can command 00:20:27.099 --> 00:20:30.759 people out of chaos. We can command people who 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:32.940 are possessed out of those circumstances. So 00:20:32.940 --> 00:20:36.559 we see rebuke as excess direct exercise of the 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:41.119 believer's authority, right? We see, what do 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.680 you call it? We see casting out demons as well 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.779 as direct, I mean, very impactful authority expressed 00:20:49.779 --> 00:20:53.079 there. We also see here in this context, calling, 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.980 the man out of his circumstance. Right? Calling 00:20:56.980 --> 00:21:00.720 the man out of his circumstance. So we see this 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.099 as the place where the believer should regularly 00:21:04.099 --> 00:21:07.180 be. Right? The place where the believer should 00:21:07.180 --> 00:21:09.819 dwell. We're not saying that the believer cannot 00:21:09.819 --> 00:21:12.279 ask to be prayed for. Right? You can't be asked 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:14.240 to be prayed for. We can't say, we are not saying 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:16.019 that people cannot express faith for you. I've 00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:19.539 expressed faithful faith on circumstances regarding 00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:22.559 people's life and we see it come to pass. Right? 00:21:22.619 --> 00:21:25.160 When we come together as a church and pray together, 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.299 we exercise faith on certain circumstances. That 00:21:27.299 --> 00:21:31.210 is us. Right? But that is not the only way, and 00:21:31.210 --> 00:21:34.069 that is not the only way we can receive. The 00:21:34.069 --> 00:21:37.829 believer itself carries an authority, right? 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:39.890 The believer himself carries an authority that 00:21:39.890 --> 00:21:42.970 can bring to bear the circumstances that we want 00:21:42.970 --> 00:21:45.630 to see. So whatever we desire to see in a situation 00:21:45.630 --> 00:21:48.109 where there's chaos, we can call it forth. We 00:21:48.109 --> 00:21:51.869 can call it forth and command it to be as we 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:54.470 have seen. So rebuking, casting out demons, and 00:21:54.470 --> 00:21:57.750 all of that are regularly where we should be. 00:21:58.990 --> 00:22:03.630 Now, so we're done with these areas about receiving. 00:22:04.230 --> 00:22:08.589 So the next thing we'll just discuss, which I'm 00:22:08.589 --> 00:22:11.769 going to explain through the scripture, is actually 00:22:11.769 --> 00:22:17.210 with regards to the preaching of the gospel. 00:22:17.930 --> 00:22:19.849 With regards to the preaching of the gospel. 00:22:19.849 --> 00:22:23.630 Also, still related to the supernatural. So people 00:22:23.630 --> 00:22:26.130 believe that, not people believe, but across 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:30.019 the scripture, one... pattern or the order that 00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:33.740 we have seen is that the supernatural can give 00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:37.140 expression when the gospel is preached or rather 00:22:37.140 --> 00:22:38.539 let me say the supernatural can give expression 00:22:38.539 --> 00:22:42.220 after the gospel is being preached and also the 00:22:42.220 --> 00:22:45.160 supernatural can be expressed before the gospel 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:47.680 is preached right before because there's a reason 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:50.740 why i'm saying this because we are not magicians 00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:54.740 we are not showmen We are not showmen. We are 00:22:54.740 --> 00:22:57.079 the power of God. We give expression to manifestation 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:00.599 of the things of God. We give expression to healing. 00:23:00.900 --> 00:23:04.140 We command, we instruct circumstances to come 00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:07.339 alive. We instruct the eyes of the blind to open, 00:23:07.579 --> 00:23:11.140 the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, the lame 00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:14.140 to walk, those who are sick to be healed. We 00:23:14.140 --> 00:23:16.759 have the capacity to do this because the Spirit 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:20.359 of God is in us. However, we are not showmen. 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:25.589 We are not showmen. to just engage in those things. 00:23:25.950 --> 00:23:29.089 So what pattern did we see in the scripture, 00:23:29.309 --> 00:23:32.470 right? Because, you know, over the years, this 00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:34.930 is one of the areas I've questioned, right? Because 00:23:34.930 --> 00:23:37.849 I see people, they give expression to healing 00:23:37.849 --> 00:23:41.009 and they just let people go, right? So they just 00:23:41.009 --> 00:23:43.849 laid their hands and they just let them go and 00:23:43.849 --> 00:23:48.890 all of that. So what we see, right? What we see... 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:53.299 in this, in the scriptures, what we see in the 00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:55.819 scriptures is that the preaching of the gospel 00:23:55.819 --> 00:24:00.460 moves with signs and wonders. And signs and wonders 00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:02.619 and miracles and the workings of the power of 00:24:02.619 --> 00:24:05.380 God can also take place and the preaching of 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:08.980 the gospel follows. Right? This is the most, 00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:15.039 I mean, this consistent pattern of Christ's teachings 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:16.799 and what we see in the scriptures. So let's go 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:19.380 to Matthew. Let's go to Matthew to first establish 00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:21.859 this. First of all, the emphasis that we are 00:24:21.859 --> 00:24:24.299 not magicians, we are not showmen, right? The 00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:25.740 miracles, signs, and wonders should be followed 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:28.039 by the preaching of the gospel or when we preach 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:30.480 and we can give expression to it. So either ways, 00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:32.960 both of them are patterns that are scriptural, 00:24:33.099 --> 00:24:35.559 right? But to heal and just, you know, let them 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:39.079 just go and all of that, most of the time, is 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:44.039 not what we think. From Matthew 5, okay? From 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:46.759 Matthew 5, Jesus started a teaching. He began 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:50.319 to teach and give, expressing things regarding 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:54.000 the kingdom of God, expressing the law, things 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:56.619 relating to the law, teaching about divorce, 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.500 retaliation. You move to chapter 6, you see Jesus 00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:03.380 teaching about giving, right? Teaching about 00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:07.299 giving, teaching the disciples, right? What is 00:25:07.299 --> 00:25:10.740 written there as the Lord's Prayer, right? Explaining 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:12.579 to them, right, the realities of the kingdom 00:25:12.579 --> 00:25:16.160 of God. in that prayer, you move downward, you 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.279 see fasting and all of that. And this prayer 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.980 extended up to chapter 7 and ended in chapter, 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:27.059 verse 28. Verse 28 of chapter 7 says, when Jesus 00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:29.579 has finished these sayings, which is teachings, 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:32.079 right? You know, called the Sermon on the Mount. 00:25:32.299 --> 00:25:35.480 I think these teachings, the crowd were astonished 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:38.440 at his teaching, for he was teaching them as 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.339 one who had authority, not as the scribe. So 00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:44.769 we see that teaching. That kind of a long, extensive 00:25:44.769 --> 00:25:48.750 teaching. Then it is on conduct that we begin 00:25:48.750 --> 00:25:52.049 to see. Verse 8. Because verse 5, if you read 00:25:52.049 --> 00:25:54.269 chapter 5, first of all, if you read chapter 00:25:54.269 --> 00:25:58.069 5, verse 1. Chapter 5, verse 1 says, Seeing the 00:25:58.069 --> 00:26:01.430 crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when 00:26:01.430 --> 00:26:04.529 he sat down, his disciples came to him. So chapter 00:26:04.529 --> 00:26:07.490 5, he climbed up the mountain. Then chapter 8, 00:26:07.710 --> 00:26:12.160 right? It says, chapter 8 verse 1 when he came 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.180 down from the mountain great crowds followed 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:18.480 him and behold a leper was lame a leper came 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.559 to him and he knelt before him saying lord if 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:25.220 you will make me clean and from there we see 00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:30.039 the entire chapter 8 right even into chapter 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.359 9 Christ manifesting the supernatural, right? 00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:36.539 Among the people that have followed him, that 00:26:36.539 --> 00:26:39.099 have listened to the sermon, right? He came down, 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:41.880 they followed him and he continued to. So after 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.019 teachings, right? We should expect the supernatural. 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.519 After teachings, we should expect the supernatural. 00:26:48.619 --> 00:26:51.380 After the preaching of the gospel, we should 00:26:51.380 --> 00:26:53.740 expect the supernatural. We should give room 00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:58.799 also for the supernatural. So while people are 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:00.599 teaching, pastors are teaching, we should set 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:03.660 our hearts that as this teaching is going on, 00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:06.799 you can receive during the teaching. And after 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.240 the teaching, we can give expression and open 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:12.000 the opportunity for people to receive more. So 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.859 the preaching and the supernatural expression, 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:19.319 the manifestation of healing, deliverance, the 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:21.640 casting out demons, exercising the authority 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:24.720 that we have, bringing in order in people's lives. 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:28.000 comes together preaching and the supernatural 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:31.440 manifestations work together we see that they 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.539 work together in this so first the pattern we 00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:35.940 see is preaching and afterwards we see jesus 00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:39.960 expressing this now if we go to max 16 as well 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:43.819 go to max 16 right which is the scripture that 00:27:43.819 --> 00:27:48.740 we regularly read from verse 14 they said after 00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:52.630 he had appeared to the 11 themselves as they 00:27:52.630 --> 00:27:54.809 were reclining at the table. He rebuked them 00:27:54.809 --> 00:27:57.289 for their unbelief and hardness of hearts because 00:27:57.289 --> 00:28:01.369 they had not believed those who saw him after 00:28:01.369 --> 00:28:04.630 he had risen. And he said to them, go into the 00:28:04.630 --> 00:28:08.630 world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 00:28:09.410 --> 00:28:12.289 Whosoever believes is baptized. Whosoever believes 00:28:12.289 --> 00:28:14.730 will be baptized. But whosoever does not believe 00:28:14.730 --> 00:28:19.329 will be condemned. And these signs, right, will 00:28:19.329 --> 00:28:22.930 accompany those who believe. In my name, they 00:28:22.930 --> 00:28:25.710 will cast out demons. They will speak. Whosoever 00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:28.289 believes is baptized. Whosoever believes will 00:28:28.289 --> 00:28:30.809 be baptized. But whosoever does not believe will 00:28:30.809 --> 00:28:35.849 be condemned. And these signs, right, will accompany 00:28:35.849 --> 00:28:39.009 those who believe. In my name, they will cast 00:28:39.009 --> 00:28:42.029 out demons. They will speak in new tongues. They 00:28:42.029 --> 00:28:44.269 will pick up serpents with their hands. And if 00:28:44.269 --> 00:28:46.690 they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt 00:28:46.690 --> 00:28:49.829 them. They will lay their hands on the sick and 00:28:49.829 --> 00:28:54.730 they will die. recover, right? So he said these 00:28:54.730 --> 00:28:57.069 signs, right? So first, what we see there is 00:28:57.069 --> 00:28:59.250 go and proclaim the gospel. This is not a, I 00:28:59.250 --> 00:29:00.930 mean, the first time he's saying it, he's going 00:29:00.930 --> 00:29:03.269 to check that also in Matthew, we'll find it 00:29:03.269 --> 00:29:05.349 there. So he said, go and preach the gospel, 00:29:05.509 --> 00:29:10.069 right? As you preach, these signs will accompany 00:29:10.069 --> 00:29:13.869 those who believe, right? These signs will follow 00:29:13.869 --> 00:29:16.190 their, you know, their preaching, right? In my 00:29:16.190 --> 00:29:19.089 name, they will cast out demons. These people 00:29:19.089 --> 00:29:20.670 that I'm sending now, as they are preaching the 00:29:20.670 --> 00:29:23.920 gospel, These signs will be following. So what 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.240 are signs, right? What signs are they talking 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:31.259 about here, right? It's not, it's actually referring 00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:36.400 to something that shows, right? Something that 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.240 shows with evidence, with proof, the presence 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:43.440 of the one who has sent them, right? So that 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:47.779 sign is something, things, right? Things that 00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:51.859 show the presence, the proof. The evidence of 00:29:51.859 --> 00:29:54.619 the one who ascended. So when they preach, the 00:29:54.619 --> 00:29:56.759 evidence of him who ascended, which is manifestation 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.279 of peace of God by the supernatural, follow them 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.700 evidently. So we see it here as another pattern. 00:30:03.779 --> 00:30:07.140 So the preaching of the gospel and the supernatural, 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.319 they work together. See it there. That Jesus 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.380 doesn't just go and preach the gospel, but these 00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:16.200 signs will follow them. That belief, right? In 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.960 his authority, in his authority. So you see that 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:23.799 it is about evidence and proof of him who has 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.099 sent them. Evidence and proof of the authority 00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:31.279 of Christ. So in my name, they will do what? 00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:34.480 They will cast out demons. My reputation in all 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.900 that I've achieved in my name, in my authority, 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.319 right? In my office, they will do these things. 00:30:42.109 --> 00:30:43.950 Right? They will give expressions of supernatural 00:30:43.950 --> 00:30:47.109 as they are preaching. These signs will follow 00:30:47.109 --> 00:30:51.009 them. So we also go to Matthew 10. Matthew 10. 00:30:51.150 --> 00:30:54.089 So I took us to Matthew 10. Just to establish 00:30:54.089 --> 00:30:57.609 significantly that we are not showmen. Right? 00:30:57.690 --> 00:31:00.650 We are not showmen. We are not people who are 00:31:00.650 --> 00:31:02.750 just on the street. We are not just looking for 00:31:02.750 --> 00:31:07.490 people. In fact, the essence of this is... is 00:31:07.490 --> 00:31:09.890 attached to the gospel. The essence of the manifestation 00:31:09.890 --> 00:31:13.250 of the supernatural, right, in many ways, especially 00:31:13.250 --> 00:31:15.190 when it regards to people who don't believe, 00:31:15.349 --> 00:31:17.630 is attached to the gospel. The essence of it 00:31:17.630 --> 00:31:19.910 is attached to the gospel, right, so that people 00:31:19.910 --> 00:31:24.089 can hear and they can believe, right, they can 00:31:24.089 --> 00:31:27.190 believe. Matthew 10, verse 5. And the twelve 00:31:27.190 --> 00:31:30.710 disciples sent out, and these twelve Jesus sent 00:31:30.710 --> 00:31:34.430 out, instructing them, go nowhere among the Gentiles, 00:31:34.529 --> 00:31:38.410 and enter... no town of the Samaritan, but go 00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:41.130 to the lost house of Israel and proclaim as you 00:31:41.130 --> 00:31:44.410 go, saying, the kingdom of God is at end. That's 00:31:44.410 --> 00:31:47.009 the gospel, right? Preaching the kingdom of God 00:31:47.009 --> 00:31:51.349 is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse 00:31:51.349 --> 00:31:55.650 the leper, cast out demons. You receive without 00:31:55.650 --> 00:32:00.029 paying, give also without paying. We see that 00:32:00.029 --> 00:32:02.880 he said that. Preach the kingdom. As you preach 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:06.859 the kingdom, let the signs of the kingdom follow. 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.460 The manifestations of this kingdom in the supernatural, 00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:15.119 let it follow. So preaching again, being followed 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.660 by the manifestations of the power of God. So 00:32:18.660 --> 00:32:21.119 when you are preaching, as you go for evangelism, 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.839 you should expect... You should expect that you 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:26.799 give expression to these things. You can give 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.880 a word to the person. You can heal them. You 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:33.160 can tell them about someone the spirit is leading 00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:36.920 you to instruct. You can give them instructions. 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.160 You can heal them. You can heal someone they 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:42.779 know. That's another one. You can have a word 00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:45.779 for them regarding someone they know that is 00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:48.799 sick and you can heal them. You can also cleanse 00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:52.619 the confusion in their life. It means that you 00:32:52.619 --> 00:32:55.019 can give them direction. You can give them word 00:32:55.019 --> 00:32:57.099 of wisdom, word of knowledge, explaining and 00:32:57.099 --> 00:33:00.359 clearing every confusion in their life as you 00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:03.319 go to preach. So the supernatural is something 00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:05.779 we should expect. In fact, after you have preached, 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.420 whether the person even hear or believe or do 00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:12.079 not believe, it is necessary, right? Or it is 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.940 helpful that you allow yourself to give expression 00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:19.079 to the power of God. So whether the person has 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.369 believed or not, just... Take some time out before 00:33:22.369 --> 00:33:24.670 you leave the person, right? Before you leave 00:33:24.670 --> 00:33:27.430 the person, you take some time out and you give 00:33:27.430 --> 00:33:29.710 expression. You give a word of encouragement. 00:33:29.970 --> 00:33:33.650 You give a word of wisdom. You heal. You speak 00:33:33.650 --> 00:33:36.329 things that the scripture calls signs that should 00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:38.769 follow those that are believed, right? So you 00:33:38.769 --> 00:33:41.730 give a sign. Because we have established that 00:33:41.730 --> 00:33:44.569 they can receive whether they believe or they 00:33:44.569 --> 00:33:47.970 are unbelievers, right? It is about you who is 00:33:47.970 --> 00:33:49.910 giving the supernatural out. So there's nothing 00:33:49.910 --> 00:33:51.890 wrong in saying, okay, you have my belief, but 00:33:51.890 --> 00:33:54.650 I still keep you the supernatural. And that can 00:33:54.650 --> 00:33:59.250 just be what will just make the message, you 00:33:59.250 --> 00:34:02.329 know, come alive. Because both the message and 00:34:02.329 --> 00:34:04.390 the supernatural are the power of God. Hallelujah. 00:34:04.869 --> 00:34:07.470 Both the message and the supernatural are the 00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:09.750 power of God. Both the message and the supernatural. 00:34:09.769 --> 00:34:13.150 We see it here as... So for three scriptures 00:34:13.150 --> 00:34:14.889 now, we've seen how the preaching of the gospel 00:34:14.889 --> 00:34:17.050 is accompanied by signs and wonders. It is not 00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:19.909 for sure, right? It's not... For sure. Now, let's 00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:21.969 go to Acts. Let's go to Acts. Especially in the 00:34:21.969 --> 00:34:24.369 life of the apostles. Or in the life of the apostles. 00:34:24.809 --> 00:34:27.809 Let's go to Acts. And let's see how they were 00:34:27.809 --> 00:34:30.550 explaining. When things happen, they have to 00:34:30.550 --> 00:34:33.309 explain. They were explaining because... Alright. 00:34:33.550 --> 00:34:36.489 So, let's look at this same chapter 3. This same 00:34:36.489 --> 00:34:38.349 chapter 3. Something happened there. Chapter 00:34:38.349 --> 00:34:41.610 3. Now, after they had healed the man in verse 00:34:41.610 --> 00:34:46.849 6. Verse 7. He took him by the right hand and 00:34:46.849 --> 00:34:49.739 raised him up. right? He took him by the right 00:34:49.739 --> 00:34:52.199 hand and raised him up. I'm trusting that when 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.880 there's more time that we are teaching about 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.960 the gift of the Spirit, the supernatural, the 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.079 expression and emancipation of the Spirit, the 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:04.940 workings of miracles, right? As we, you know, 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.179 time goes on, we'll have time to talk about that 00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:11.139 much more and to see how people can manifest 00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:15.960 or operate or work the miracles of God out. So, 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:18.820 look at what he says. He, took his hand, for 00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:21.639 example, in this case, he took him and raised 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:26.239 him up. So he helped him up, right? He took him 00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:28.820 by the right hand and raised him up. I mean, 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.119 immediately his feet and his ankles were made 00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:37.599 strong. And limping up, he stood and began to 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:41.179 walk. So we see how gradually he received healing 00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:44.639 and the apostles walked it out with him. Right? 00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:47.000 Walked it out with. So we'll see this hopefully 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:49.539 in the future. Now, as he was leaping, he began 00:35:49.539 --> 00:35:52.019 to walk and enter the temple with them. Walking 00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:54.760 and leaping and praising God. Right? And all 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:59.099 the people saw him walking and praising God and 00:35:59.099 --> 00:36:02.039 recognizing him as the one who sat at the beautiful 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.340 gates of the temple asking for hands. And they 00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:08.219 were filled with wonder and amazement at what 00:36:08.219 --> 00:36:11.539 had happened to him. Now look at what happened. 00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:15.539 While he clung to Peter and John, right? He clung 00:36:15.539 --> 00:36:19.000 to Peter and John. All the people utterly astounded. 00:36:19.219 --> 00:36:21.780 So he held them, right? So he was still limping. 00:36:21.860 --> 00:36:23.860 He was still trying to get his balance, right? 00:36:23.900 --> 00:36:26.000 For someone who has not worked for a long time, 00:36:26.099 --> 00:36:28.519 right? Receiving healing. So he's trying to get 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:31.579 a balance and he held on to Peter and John, right? 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:35.099 More like an, I don't know, would I say implicating 00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:38.219 them? Ran together to them in the... particle 00:36:38.219 --> 00:36:41.739 called solomon and when peter saw it right he 00:36:41.739 --> 00:36:44.000 watched all the people outlier standard run together 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.460 to them in the particle called solomon and when 00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:51.519 people saw it uh sorry when peter saw it he addressed 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.079 the people so people came around right they saw 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.079 the miracles the man holding peter and john then 00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:00.199 they came around and when peter saw that these 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:02.519 people had come around he has to explain something 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:06.780 to them so miracles can bring people right can 00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:09.809 bring people come around. Miracles can bring 00:37:09.809 --> 00:37:12.489 people to come around. And their coming around 00:37:12.489 --> 00:37:15.929 is for the preaching of the gospel. So Peter 00:37:15.929 --> 00:37:18.429 began to explain, men of Israel, why do you wonder 00:37:18.429 --> 00:37:21.929 at this? So signs and wonders are taking place, 00:37:21.969 --> 00:37:25.730 right? And it was beginning to wonder why they 00:37:25.730 --> 00:37:27.329 were wondering. But of course they were wondering 00:37:27.329 --> 00:37:30.849 because they were filled with unbelief. So the 00:37:30.849 --> 00:37:33.130 people who gather when there is signs and wonders 00:37:33.130 --> 00:37:36.570 and begin to look and they are wondering and 00:37:36.570 --> 00:37:39.119 they are amazed. They are working in unbelief. 00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:41.579 When signs and wonders happen, a believer sees 00:37:41.579 --> 00:37:44.880 it, he glorifies God. He does not run to the 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.900 man and say, what have you done? Or go there 00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:51.119 and begin to watch as if it's a movie. You know, 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.019 it's not supposed to be a movie. It's not supposed 00:37:53.019 --> 00:37:56.900 to be, a believer cannot respond to signs and 00:37:56.900 --> 00:37:58.780 wonders as a movie, right? A believer cannot 00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:01.659 respond to signs and wonders as a movie. It's 00:38:01.659 --> 00:38:05.300 not. But you glorify God and say, this is God's 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:09.369 doing, right? You know, remember that Simon the 00:38:09.369 --> 00:38:11.630 Sorcerer too. When he saw signs and wonders, 00:38:11.869 --> 00:38:15.869 he too ran, right? He ran to go and collect power. 00:38:16.050 --> 00:38:19.170 It's also not to collect power. So when you see 00:38:19.170 --> 00:38:20.690 signs and wonders, you want to go and catch the 00:38:20.690 --> 00:38:23.710 person's leg. It's unreasonable, right? It's 00:38:23.710 --> 00:38:25.510 unreasonable. That's not the way a believer responds. 00:38:25.949 --> 00:38:28.570 The signs and wonders and the workings of America 00:38:28.570 --> 00:38:31.030 and all of this are not a surprise to you as 00:38:31.030 --> 00:38:33.969 a believer. It's not a surprise to me as a believer. 00:38:34.010 --> 00:38:36.090 I glorify God because it's the power of God. 00:38:36.809 --> 00:38:39.590 But look at, right, all the people utterly astounded. 00:38:39.610 --> 00:38:42.510 They ran together to them in the portico called 00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:46.010 Solomon. When Peter saw all those people gathering, 00:38:46.190 --> 00:38:48.030 so he raised a crowd, raised the people coming 00:38:48.030 --> 00:38:51.289 together. What did he use? He used the opportunity 00:38:51.289 --> 00:38:55.050 to preach to them, right? He used the opportunity 00:38:55.050 --> 00:38:57.670 to preach to them. Men of Israel, why do you 00:38:57.670 --> 00:39:01.329 wonder at this? Or why do you stare at us as 00:39:01.329 --> 00:39:05.960 though by our own power or piety? We have made 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:10.699 him walk. You see, first, explaining the power 00:39:10.699 --> 00:39:13.500 of God is not by our power. Now, look at what 00:39:13.500 --> 00:39:15.840 he used. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.639 the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers glorified 00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.719 his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.539 denied in the presence of fire. Now, if you start 00:39:25.539 --> 00:39:29.699 to use what they could relate to it, right? What 00:39:29.699 --> 00:39:31.760 they could relate to this God of Abraham, God 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.460 of Isaac, God of Jacob. talking about the promise 00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:37.940 of God, right? So he used what they could relate 00:39:37.940 --> 00:39:42.500 with and began to preach to them, right? He preached 00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:47.840 to them up until verse 22. He continued preaching 00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.619 to them and said, Moses said, the Lord God will 00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:53.619 raise for you a prophet like me from your brothers. 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:56.159 You shall listen to him in whatever he tells 00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:58.980 you. And it shall be that every soul who does 00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:00.420 not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed 00:40:00.420 --> 00:40:02.940 from the people. And all the prophets whom spoken 00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:05.840 from Samuel and those who came after him also 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.760 proclaim these days. You are the sons of the 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:17.079 prophet and of the covenant that God made with 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:19.480 your fathers, saying to Abraham, and in your 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.739 office shall all the families of the earth be 00:40:21.739 --> 00:40:24.699 blessed. God hath raised up his servant sent 00:40:24.699 --> 00:40:27.940 unto you first to bless you by turning everyone 00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:31.960 from your wickedness. Right? So, he preached 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:34.440 the gospel. He preached to them. He explained. 00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.320 He connected everything together and explained 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:41.400 to them. Praise God. Now, that's why we have 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:46.639 so many of these, so many of this pattern. So 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.760 many of this pattern, we have them. Now, let's 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:55.079 see. Let's see a couple of other scriptures that 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.110 we are going to see. Now, let's look at Acts. 00:40:59.210 --> 00:41:01.210 Let's look at Acts. I'm just going to pick up 00:41:01.210 --> 00:41:05.210 another explanation, right? Let's look at Acts. 00:41:05.809 --> 00:41:09.690 Acts chapter 10. Chapter 10. Acts chapter 10. 00:41:10.010 --> 00:41:14.489 Now, this was another situation where an explanation 00:41:14.489 --> 00:41:17.650 had to be given. Something happened, right? And 00:41:17.650 --> 00:41:19.949 an explanation had to be given. And it gave a 00:41:19.949 --> 00:41:22.429 chance, right, for the preaching of the gospel. 00:41:22.610 --> 00:41:25.389 So, Acts chapter 10, verse 9. Acts chapter 10, 00:41:25.469 --> 00:41:27.429 verse 9. I don't think we'll have more time to 00:41:27.429 --> 00:41:29.650 read everything. But this is actually Peter's 00:41:29.650 --> 00:41:35.969 vision. Peter saw a vision, right? And in verse 00:41:35.969 --> 00:41:37.929 13, it said, there came a voice to him saying, 00:41:38.050 --> 00:41:40.690 rise, Peter, and kill and eat. But Peter said, 00:41:40.849 --> 00:41:42.809 by no means, Lord, I have never eaten anything 00:41:42.809 --> 00:41:45.090 called unclean. Now we know the story that is 00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:48.570 referring to the case of Cornelius, right? Someone 00:41:48.570 --> 00:41:51.969 who is not within. the confinement of Israel, 00:41:52.190 --> 00:41:55.070 right? He said, at Caesarea, there was a man 00:41:55.070 --> 00:41:57.809 named Cornelius, a centurion, who was known as 00:41:57.809 --> 00:42:00.929 the Italian cohort. So it was not like any Jewish 00:42:00.929 --> 00:42:04.809 person, right? So the context of this is that 00:42:04.809 --> 00:42:07.090 there was a vision that was seen. So Peter saw 00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:13.230 a revelation of what God will do, right, in a 00:42:13.230 --> 00:42:15.090 people's life. I'll say a people's life because 00:42:15.090 --> 00:42:18.269 it's not just Cornelius alone, right? But Cornelius 00:42:18.269 --> 00:42:21.519 was the pointer to... That part, that God will 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:26.039 also bring, right, others into what he is doing. 00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:29.539 And there will be no segregation among the people 00:42:29.539 --> 00:42:32.480 of God, right? Within the church, within the 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:33.780 household of God, there will be no segregation. 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.579 So we see there that Peter was saying, I want 00:42:36.579 --> 00:42:39.880 to eat something that is uncommon. And we saw 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:45.340 that up until verse 30, Cornelius explained the 00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:48.699 story to Peter and Peter also explained the vision. 00:42:49.340 --> 00:42:53.500 right that he saw so from verse 34 you see so 00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:57.539 peter opened his mouth and said truly i understand 00:42:57.539 --> 00:43:02.599 that god shows no partiality okay but in every 00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:06.860 nation anyone who fears him and does what is 00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:10.179 right is acceptable to him and as for the word 00:43:10.179 --> 00:43:13.280 that is sent to israel preaching good news of 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:16.699 peace through jesus christ and he explained all 00:43:16.699 --> 00:43:20.409 of that He explained the gospel in verse 44. 00:43:20.730 --> 00:43:23.150 He said, while Peter was still saying this thing, 00:43:23.250 --> 00:43:26.849 the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. 00:43:27.030 --> 00:43:31.110 So he had a vision, which is something supernatural, 00:43:31.409 --> 00:43:33.829 spiritual, how you call it. He had a vision. 00:43:34.289 --> 00:43:41.389 And in the natural, he had a convert, which is 00:43:41.389 --> 00:43:45.570 preaching to someone, Cornelius. believing and 00:43:45.570 --> 00:43:49.269 we see the supernatural uh taking place the holy 00:43:49.269 --> 00:43:52.130 spirit falling on them that we are listening 00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:55.929 to the scriptures or to what uh peter was teaching 00:43:55.929 --> 00:43:58.670 so what we see here first is that he had a vision 00:43:58.670 --> 00:44:01.869 which is a supernatural uh revelation right which 00:44:02.269 --> 00:44:04.769 had an interpretation. And through that, the 00:44:04.769 --> 00:44:07.170 preaching of the gospel took place, right? After 00:44:07.170 --> 00:44:08.670 understanding everything, the preaching of the 00:44:08.670 --> 00:44:12.110 gospel took place. And then many others, right? 00:44:12.210 --> 00:44:15.750 Upon many others, the Holy Spirit fell. The Holy 00:44:15.750 --> 00:44:17.949 Spirit fell. So in this case, we see that it's 00:44:17.949 --> 00:44:19.730 not directly healing, but we see also that it's 00:44:19.730 --> 00:44:22.150 a supernatural revelation, right? That led to 00:44:22.150 --> 00:44:25.889 the preaching of the gospel and people receive, 00:44:26.150 --> 00:44:30.429 people receive the Holy Ghost and they believe. 00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:34.480 On every account, right, on every account that 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.599 we have a supernatural encounter, whether we 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:41.619 heal people, whether we cast out demons, whether 00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:44.420 we see a vision and a clarity and an understanding 00:44:44.420 --> 00:44:48.639 of what God is doing, the end point is not for 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.800 sure, right? The end point is not for sure. So 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:53.820 you see something, right? Because true, there 00:44:53.820 --> 00:44:56.280 are visions and there are visions that God still 00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:58.480 communicates with us. And we know that we vet 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.900 these visions, right, by the message of God. 00:45:00.940 --> 00:45:02.980 There are also supernatural encounters, right? 00:45:03.019 --> 00:45:05.119 We can, you know, we can have different supernatural 00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:06.860 encounters and we can vet them by the scriptures 00:45:06.860 --> 00:45:09.980 and we can hold on to the truth of the message 00:45:09.980 --> 00:45:12.840 that we find in them. The end point of every 00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:15.360 supernatural encounter is not for a show. It's 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.980 that the message of God will be preached and 00:45:18.980 --> 00:45:22.760 many will come to believe. Right? That the message 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:26.360 of God. So as we desire this much more, as we 00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:29.480 expect it in our meetings, as we look forward 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:33.199 to the manifestation of it, the end point, right? 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:35.440 Especially when we are ministering to unbelievers, 00:45:35.539 --> 00:45:37.420 is that they will come to believe. They will 00:45:37.420 --> 00:45:39.900 come to believe. Right? They will come to the 00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:42.079 knowledge of Christ. They will come to know the 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.199 message of the gospel. So the emphasis, right? 00:45:45.630 --> 00:45:47.849 would not be the supernatural. The embassy would 00:45:47.849 --> 00:45:50.349 not just be, oh, we want to do the science. That's 00:45:50.349 --> 00:45:53.230 part of what comes with the preaching, right? 00:45:53.289 --> 00:45:56.190 So the embassy is both together, right? Both 00:45:56.190 --> 00:45:58.190 together, the teaching and the manifestation 00:45:58.190 --> 00:46:01.150 of the gospel. So as we go to preach, as we see 00:46:01.150 --> 00:46:04.750 revelations, these are the things that we must 00:46:04.750 --> 00:46:08.150 pay attention to. We must pay attention to this, 00:46:08.269 --> 00:46:12.550 right? So just finish with Matthew 28, right? 00:46:12.650 --> 00:46:17.099 Just go with Matthew 28. Verse 28. Matthew 28, 00:46:17.260 --> 00:46:46.579 verse 18. And behold, I am with you always to 00:46:46.579 --> 00:46:50.360 the end of the age. I am with you always till 00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.320 the end of the age. And we see that the instruction 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:55.719 is go to go and preach, to go and make disciples 00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.820 from all nations. And Christ says that I am with 00:46:59.820 --> 00:47:02.719 you always. And just like I said last night, 00:47:02.860 --> 00:47:06.320 because Christ is with you, while the preaching 00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:08.880 of the gospel is taking place, all that is in 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:13.679 Christ can find expression. So as you are preaching, 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.139 as you have received authority to go and preach, 00:47:17.460 --> 00:47:20.099 Christ says, I am with you till the end of the 00:47:20.099 --> 00:47:23.300 age. So all that is found in Christ can find 00:47:23.300 --> 00:47:26.019 expression with you. All that Christ did can 00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:28.519 find expression with you. The healing can find 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.880 expression with you. The revelation, the teaching 00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:35.500 with power, teaching as one with authority can 00:47:35.500 --> 00:47:38.920 find expression in you. So therefore, we preach 00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:42.050 signs and wonders following. Miracles following 00:47:42.050 --> 00:47:45.869 because we have the authority through Christ. 00:47:46.070 --> 00:47:49.789 We have Christ ever present with us to be able 00:47:49.789 --> 00:47:52.289 to make us manifest. So we don't have any reason 00:47:52.289 --> 00:47:55.730 to doubt it, right? We don't have any reason 00:47:55.730 --> 00:47:58.809 to doubt it. Also, another thing is that when 00:47:58.809 --> 00:48:01.849 we preach, right, when we preach, it helps us 00:48:01.849 --> 00:48:05.650 to, it solidifies us, actually, right? Sometimes 00:48:05.650 --> 00:48:07.250 when you're going for a baptism and you're preaching, 00:48:07.409 --> 00:48:09.909 it solidifies you. In a way, it kind of prepares 00:48:09.909 --> 00:48:13.650 you. to expect the supernatural. It so much prepares 00:48:13.650 --> 00:48:17.289 you. When you have preaching at the core of your 00:48:17.289 --> 00:48:19.969 mind, you have that this soul would believe at 00:48:19.969 --> 00:48:22.949 the core of your mind. It helps you to believe 00:48:22.949 --> 00:48:25.170 the supernatural because you have a goal. The 00:48:25.170 --> 00:48:27.389 goal is not just to heal, but also that these 00:48:27.389 --> 00:48:30.269 people might come to the knowledge of Christ. 00:48:30.809 --> 00:48:32.750 Praise God. I will just give thanks this evening 00:48:32.750 --> 00:48:35.550 and say thank you, Jesus, that as we go, as we 00:48:35.550 --> 00:48:39.190 preach, we see the manifestation of the supernatural. 00:48:39.250 --> 00:48:42.150 We see healing taking place. We see deliverance 00:48:42.150 --> 00:48:44.309 taking place. We see casting out demons taking 00:48:44.309 --> 00:48:46.730 place. We see opening the eyes of people. We 00:48:46.730 --> 00:48:49.650 give word to people. They understand as we preach, 00:48:49.730 --> 00:48:52.210 we have the boldness to give expression to this 00:48:52.210 --> 00:48:55.340 thing. As we preach, we are intentional. giving 00:48:55.340 --> 00:48:59.360 time to open the eyes of people to see and partake 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:02.559 in this supernatural power of God. Through us, 00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:05.360 as we also manifest the supernatural, can we 00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.940 pray that as we manifest the supernatural, even 00:49:07.940 --> 00:49:10.619 spontaneously, in the name of Jesus, we give 00:49:10.619 --> 00:49:12.659 ourselves to the preaching. We will not forget 00:49:12.659 --> 00:49:14.960 the preaching. As we manifest, as we heal, as 00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.920 we lay hands on people, oh, in the name of Jesus, 00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:20.980 as we say, let me pray with you, as we hold on 00:49:20.980 --> 00:49:23.500 to faith and encourage people, can we pray in 00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:25.639 the name of Jesus? that we do not forget the 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:27.920 message. We run with the message. We teach the 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:30.260 message. As we are healing, we are teaching the 00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:33.179 message. We are pointing them. And Peter and 00:49:33.179 --> 00:49:35.199 John will say, why do you think that we have 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.860 done this through our own power? It is not by 00:49:37.860 --> 00:49:40.420 our own power we have done this, but by the power 00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:43.000 of God. That as we manifest the power of God, 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:47.070 we point them to the one. whose power is at work 00:49:47.070 --> 00:49:49.550 in us. We point them to the one whose power is 00:49:49.550 --> 00:49:52.429 resident in us. We point them to the one through 00:49:52.429 --> 00:49:55.050 whom we are doing all things. Can we pray in 00:49:55.050 --> 00:50:15.769 the name of Jesus? God bless.