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right in. I want to thank the pastorate for the
opportunity. And I also want to thank you for
being here today. So today we're going to be
looking into the Word of God and our topic today
is going to be being sensitive to the leading
of the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord. Being sensitive
to the leading of the Holy Spirit. I would encourage
us to pay attention. I would encourage us to
not be distracted by our phones. I would encourage
us to... be blessed. Praise the Lord. Because
you can decide not to be. So, to put away every
form of destruction, everything that would make
you not pay attention, you have worn a very beautiful
dress and clothes. Don't waste your time. Praise
the Lord. Matthew 28. So this is where Jesus
was talking with his disciples, finally, before
he departed from their sight, praise the Lord,
and he was giving them a command, and he was
telling them things that they should do, or how
they should move. And then from verse 18 he says,
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
authority has been given to me in heaven and
on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all things that I have commanded
you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age. Amen. Praise the Lord. So Jesus
was talking to his disciples, and he was giving
them a command. He says that all authority has
been given to him in heaven and on earth. Praise
the Lord. He said, go and make disciples. Go
and make disciples. That word, go and make disciples,
is the word for teach. Praise the Lord. Go and
teach all the nation. It's the word matatio.
Praise the Lord in Greek. It's the word matatio.
It is M -A -T -T -E -T -E -U -O. Praise the Lord.
So it's the word. To teach is the same word that
is used in Matthew chapter 13 verse 52. Matthew
chapter 13 verse 52. Matthew chapter 13 verse
52. He says, Then he said to them, Therefore
every scribe instructs on signing the kingdom
of heaven like a householder who brings out the
treasures of things new and old. Praise the Lord.
So it's the word there instructs. Praise the
Lord. And then we also see in Matthew chapter
27 verse 21. Matthew chapter 27 verse 21. No.
Let's go to Acts chapter 14, verse 21. Acts chapter
14, verse 21. And when they had preached the
gospel to the city and made many disciples, they
returned to Lastria, Iconia and Antioch. Praise
the Lord. So that word, they made many disciples,
right, is the word there. It means... The process
of learning, right? They took them through a
process of learning. It's the same word that
we see here, matatu, which it means to teach.
Praise the Lord. But then we see in verse 20
of that Matthew. We see in verse 20, he says,
teaching them to observe all the things that
I've commanded you and lo, I'm with you always.
Praise the Lord. Paso Victor has helped us many
times with this word teaching. It's the word
didasco, which is the opposite of experience.
Praise the Lord. So this teaching here is not
the same as what we saw earlier. It's a teaching
them, right, to observe all the things that I've
commanded you and lo, I'm with you always. The
word teaching there is the word didasco, which
is opposite of teaching, which is opposite of
experience, right? It comes with... Explanation
and instructions. Praise the Lord. It's like
going to school. You don't go to school to get
experience. You go to school to learn and then
it becomes your experience. Praise the Lord.
This word is a very large word depending on the
text. So it carries a lot of implication depending
on the text. It involves explaining. And then
giving instructions. Praise the Lord. So what
is he telling them to teach? Why is he telling
them? Why is he using that word, the dash code
there? Right? So what are they explaining? What
they are explaining or what they are teaching
is all authority has been given to me. Praise
the Lord. In verse 18. Right? He said, all authority
has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
What are they going to teach? They are going
to teach that all authority has been given to
him in heaven and on earth. Praise the Lord.
So instructing them. And then he instructs them
to go and teach. Praise the Lord. So the instructions
there is to go and teach. Praise the Lord. We
say the word didasko carries with it two things.
It carries an explanation of a thing and also
an instruction that follows. Praise the Lord.
So the leading of the Spirit involves an explanation
and also an instruction. Praise the Lord. The
leading of the Spirit carries an explanation
and then it carries an instruction. You're led
by the Spirit when you hear the explanation and
then you follow the instruction afterwards. Praise
the Lord. You're led by the Spirit when you hear
the instruction. As the word is coming, you are
hearing an explanation. Praise the Lord. There
is an instruction that would follow. You're led
by the Spirit when you follow the instruction.
Praise the Lord. So when the gospel is preached,
an explanation is done. Right? An explanation
is done and afterwards we have an instruction.
Praise the Lord. They should not be separate.
When the gospel is preached, there is an explanation,
and then there is also an instruction that follows.
So we see here that what he was telling them
to go and explain, or go and explain, is that
all authority has been given me in heaven and
on earth. Praise the Lord. So sometimes we get
carried away by the explanation of the thing.
Or maybe you come and then somebody is preaching.
You're so good. You are having a good time. You
are laughing. And then you forget that there
is an instruction in the teaching that is given
you. Praise the Lord. You forget that it is an
instruction in the midst of that teaching. As
you are enjoying the service. As you are listening.
Praise the Lord. There is an instruction that
comes. So we should not be carried away by it.
Or maybe there is an instruction and then you
forget about the explanation. Praise the Lord.
They go hand in hand. Praise the Lord. So we'll
see that more even as we look into the text.
Hallelujah. So what is he explaining? Right?
So explanation is what something is about. Right?
Explanation is what something is about and why.
Praise the Lord. What something is about and
why. So it is not good enough to just know what
something is about and not know the reason behind
it. And not know the why, because the why is
the reason. Praise the Lord. The why is the reason.
Why did Jesus have to die? Have you asked that
question? Why is it that I grew up in a Christian
home? What makes me different from somebody else?
Why is it that I believe the things that I believe?
Why did Jesus perform the miracles that he performed
in the scriptures? Why did God give believers
authority? Praise the Lord. Why did God give
you authority? So an explanation is what something
is about and why. Why did Jesus walk miracle?
Why do you have the life of God in the inside
of you? Why are you a Christian? Praise the Lord.
So these are questions that we need to ask. These
are questions that we need to ask. And I say
didactical is not an experience, right? You don't
go to school, like I said, to learn, to get experience.
You go to school to learn and then it becomes
your experience. Praise the Lord. You go to school
to learn, right? It becomes your experience.
You go to school to listen. You go to school
to learn. You go to school to ask questions.
Why is that? Praise the Lord. If your teacher
is teaching you calculus, if you don't ask why,
you're probably not in the class. Praise the
Lord. So who are they teaching? Teaching who?
It's teaching the disciples, those who are learning,
right, to observe. To observe the things that
he has commanded them. So verse 20 again, he
said, teaching them to observe. So the word observe
is tareo, right? In the Greek, it's T -E -R -O,
sorry, R -E -O, right? It's used to watch over.
The way it's used is that watch over something
as though it will get lost. Praise the Lord.
You should watch over something as though that
thing will get lost. So he's telling them to
observe. To observe, tario. To watch as though
it will get lost. Watch the things that have
commanded you as though it's going to get lost.
As though it's going to get missing. Praise the
Lord. When you're watching something as though
it's going to get missing, you be vigilant. You
will not allow it to... To just, you will not
take your eyes off it. When I came to Cyprus,
I saw that the fences were low. In Nigeria, you
don't build like that. You're not a good engineer.
You don't think about security. Praise the Lord.
You build with a high fence. Some people pride
themselves on how long their fence is. If you
go to the Emya Palace in the north, you'll find
out that the fence is very, very long. Intentionally
very, very long. Praise the Lord. He's part of
the design. He's the way he should be. Praise
the Lord. So he's saying you should watch, you
should observe as though the things that he has
commanded will get lost. Praise the Lord. It
is used like that. So a man who is led of the
Spirit is a man that observes as though the things
that he has been commanded will get lost. As
the word is coming, as you have received the
word, you are watching over it. You're being
mindful as though the thing will get lost. Praise
the Lord. You're not just forgetting. You're
not a forgetful hearer, but you pay attention.
Hallelujah. So we see this in the same thing
that he tells us. Something similar, right? To
watch over yourself. We see in 1 Timothy chapter
4, verse 12 to 16. 1 Timothy chapter 4, verse
4 to 16. It says, let no one despise your youth.
4th of verse 12 to 16. Give attention to reading,
to exaltation, to doctrines. Do not neglect the
gift that is in you which was given to you by
the prophecies with the laying on of the hands
of the eldership. Meditate on these things, give
yourself entirely to them, that your progress
may be evident to all. So take heed to yourself
and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in
doing this you will save both yourself and those
who hear you. Praise the Lord. We see here that
Paul is admonishing Timothy and he's telling
him to pay attention. He said, pay attention
to the doctrine, the things that you have learned.
Pay attention to the things that you have. Pay
attention to the life that you have in God. Praise
the Lord. Take heed to reading. Hallelujah. And
then we also saw in that place, In that verse
20, the second part of it, it says, Lord, I'm
with you always to the end of the age. Amen.
So the word Lord is the word that is used to
see. It's a word which means see. It's a word
see. So in teaching the gospel, we do two things.
I say first, we give an explanation. Praise the
Lord. We saw it in verse 18. So the explanation
is that verse 18, all power has been given to
him. That's what you're explaining. Praise the
Lord. So in verse 20, now say observe. He said,
lo, I'm with you. So he's telling them, right?
He's giving them instruction to observe. So in
teaching the gospel, there is an explanation
and there is an instruction. So the observe there
is to, is an instruction. He's telling them observe.
Praise the Lord. So he's teaching them the explanation.
So what he's teaching them is the explanation
of all things, all power has been given to me.
Praise the Lord. The explanation there is all
power has been given me in heaven and on earth.
So all power has been given me in heaven and
on earth. That is the explanation of what Jesus
just did. So in case you're wondering, all power
has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
What is he talking about? He's talking about
that he has died, he has risen, and he's at the
right hand of the Father. Praise the Lord. So
it's a short form to say I have died. I have
resurrected and I'm at the right hand of the
Father. That is the explanation of all power.
Praise the Lord. That is the explanation. Praise
the Lord. So, it's the explanation of the gospel.
Hallelujah. So, again, he says to observe and
know and with you. So, he's telling them there
are two things they need to pay attention to.
Or there are two things that they need to be
allotted by. One is to observe. One is to observe,
to watch as though something is going to get
missing. And then the other one is to look, to
see. So in the Christian walk, the Christian
walk is a watchful experience. It's not a careless
life. Praise the Lord. You don't just live it
as you please. It is a watchful experience. You
say, observe. It's a law in which you see, look.
So the Christian walk is a watchful experience.
You need to pay attention to your life. You need
to pay attention to your walk. You need to pay
attention to it. Praise the Lord. He said, watch
as though he's going to get lost. Watch as though
he's going to get lost. Observe. Praise the Lord.
So the believer who is growing has this alertness
in him. Praise the Lord. The believer who is
growing. who is maturing, has this alertness
in him to watch, to see. Praise the Lord. To
watch over himself, to watch the things that
he hears, to watch the lifestyle around him.
Praise the Lord. So the key ingredient for a
growing or a maturing Christian is to stay alert.
Praise the Lord. He does not let anything just
fly. It's to watch, it's to be mindful. Praise
the Lord. is to be mindful, to stay awake. So
I said the word, lo, I'm with you always, is
the word to see, right? I said, I'm with you
always. But by account, we know that when he
said, lo, I'm with you always, even to the end
of the age, he left them. Praise the Lord. He
was not with them again, right? But then he said,
I'm with you always. So why did he leave them?
If he's just told them that I'm with you always.
But he left. He goes away. So where is he with
them? Praise the Lord. Because he said he's with
them always. So where is he with them? So he's
letting them know or he's telling them the fulfillment
of the things that he has said before to them.
Praise the Lord. So he's telling them the fulfillment
of the things that he has said to them earlier
or before. So to observe all these things, as
we said, to observe the things I've commanded
you in verse 20. He's saying to them that the
things that I've said to you before has come
to pass. Praise the Lord. To observe all the
things I've commanded you. And then we see, I'm
always with you. He's trying to tell them that
the things I've commanded to you or the things
I've said to you earlier, they have come to pass.
And we're going to see that. Praise the Lord.
The things have come to pass. So by seeing or
by saying law and saying observe means that they
are aware of the things that Christ is talking
about. Praise the Lord. So when he says to them,
observe, and he says, look. I'm with you always.
They know what he's talking about. They are not
confused about what he's talking about. Praise
the Lord. They are very aware of the things that
he's saying. But let's also be aware of ourselves.
Praise the Lord. John chapter 14. John chapter
14. From verse 1 to 3. He said, Let not your
heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions.
If it were not so, I would have told you. I go
to prepare a place for you. Verse 3. If I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and receive you to myself. That where I am, there
you will be also. Praise the Lord. That where
I am, there you will be also. And we'll be doing
this teaching several times about in my father's
house are many mansions. So I believe that some
of us know this, but I will try to also help
those who don't know this. So in my father's
house, right, that word house is more like a
word of like household, right? It's a word okia,
all right, which means a dwelling place. Praise
the Lord. It's the root word for like somebody
dwelling with his family. Hallelujah. In my father's
house is the word okia, right? The word household.
It's the word household in the root word. It's
where somebody stays with his family. And he
says, in my father's house are many mansions.
So the word mansion are the word meneo, which
means, right, a place. or where you stay, or
a space. Praise the Lord. He said, I go to prepare
a place for you. If you were not so, I would
have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll
come again and receive you to myself. Now, where
I am, you will be also. I go to prepare a place
for you, right? It's different from saying, Let
us create a place because the children are running
around or the instrumentalists do not have a
room or do not have a space for their instrument.
So let's create somewhere. Let's create somewhere
for them. And then we build something outside
or maybe there's a storage outside and we build
something there. It's different from that. It
means that you added to the building. Praise
the Lord. It's different from that. I go to prepare
a place for you is meaning that it's more like
I am making room for you. Praise the Lord. It's
like I'm making room for you. I go to prepare
a place is I go to prepare a room for you. That
is, I'm adding you to a family. So if I make
a room for you, I'm adding you to something.
Praise the Lord. So if I prepare a room for you
here, it means that I am adding you to this family.
Remember what we said earlier, that the word
in my father's house is saying, it means that
he is more like a place, a person living with
a family. So I'm adding you to this family. Praise
the Lord. I'm adding you to this family. So he's
an inclusion of men. He's not an inclusion of...
more spaces outside the building. It's an inclusion
of men. Praise the Lord. It is an inclusion of
men. It means that people are added to the dwellers
of that place. Praise the Lord. It's not a building.
It's not more building for people. Praise the
Lord. It's that people are added to a place.
It's an inclusion of men. Verse 3. The second
part of it says, that where I am, you will be
also. That where I am, you will be also. So this
is a very strong word that is used. Where I am,
you will be also, right? It's not talking about
like the way we are now in this place. I say,
where I am, you will be also. Saying that as
the way Tito is there, he's also here with me.
He's not the same. That's not what he's saying.
Where I am, you will be also. He's not saying
that you will be around me. Hallelujah. He's
not saying that you would be around me. He's
not saying that you will be in the presence of
me. Praise the Lord. So, For example, Femi is
here now, right? Is Femi where I am? Okay. In
English, it means that he's where I am. Praise
the Lord. But for him to be where I am, he has
to be here. At where I am. Praise the Lord. So
this is a very strong word that is used. It means
that you are there where Christ is. It means
that you are in him. Praise the Lord. That where
I am you will be also is saying that you are
here with him. You are in the inside of him.
That is that the same place he's standing is
where you are standing. Praise the Lord. The
same place he's standing is where you're standing.
It's a union of places. Like he's no longer far
away from me but in the inside of me. So he stands
where I stand. Hallelujah. So that means that
you are in him and he is in you. That where I
am you will be also means that he is in you and
you are in him. Praise the Lord. So he goes further
to explain this again in verse 10. He says, do
you not believe that I am in the Father and the
Father is in me? And the Father is in me. The
word that I speak to you, I do not speak of my
own authority, but the Father who dwells in me
does the work. Praise the Lord. So he says in
verse 9, he said, If you see me, you have seen
the Father. And Jesus said to him, I have been
with you so long, and yet you have not known
me. And Philip said to him, Philip, you have
not known me, Philip. He who has seen me has
seen the Father. So how can you say, show me?
Show us the Father. Praise the Lord. So, he said,
if you see me, you have seen the Father. In verse
9. Right? So, where is he? Where is Jesus? Hmm?
Where is Jesus? Where is he? No, according to
where we are reading right now. In verse 10 and
verse 9. Right? Where is Jesus? Right? And where
is the Father? Praise the Lord. So he's saying
that he's in the Father and the Father is in
him. Praise the Lord. So we also see that again
in the verse 3 part. He says that where I am,
there you would be also. Praise the Lord. So
where is Jesus? He's in the Father and the Father
is in him. So where are we? Hallelujah. Do you
understand that? Okay. Verse 16. It said, And
I will pray the Father, and he will give you
another helper, that he may abide with you forever.
Praise the Lord. The word I will pray the Father,
or I will pray the Father, is the word, which
is E -R -O -T -A -O. Praise the Lord. Right?
I will pray the Father. Right? It's a very strong
word as well. It's used. The prayer there is
not like begging. I will beg the Father. Praise
the Lord. That he will give you another comforter.
It's a word that is a demand. He said, I will
make a demand. It's a word for I pray that we
see there is I will make a demand. Praise the
Lord. I will make a demand. It's not for begging.
It's not like, please do this for me. Praise
the Lord. I would make a demand to make a legitimate
request because of what you have done. Praise
the Lord. It's a word to make a legitimate request
for what you have done or the work that you have
fulfilled. Praise the Lord. It's like completing
a project. You have a building project and you
completed it and maybe you are in Nigeria. And
you know, sometimes government projects, they
don't give you money. You have to do it first
and then they will give you money. Praise the
Lord. So when you go to demand your pay, you're
not going to beg. You have done the work. Praise
the Lord. So that's the word there, I pray the
Father. It's a word that is demanding something
because of what I have done. Praise the Lord.
So when he says, I will pray the Father, and
he will give you another helper that he may abide
with you forever. Right? He's that, I will pray
the father. And the reason why he can pray the
father is because he's going to die and he's
going to be buried and he's going to be resurrected.
And because of that, he will pray the father.
He will make a demand for you. Praise the Lord.
Because of what he has done. And the things he
has done is that he died, he was buried and he
resurrected. Praise the Lord. So there is a legitimate
thing that is being done here. There is a legitimate
request that is being asked for from here. Praise
the Lord. So I will pray the Father and what
we'll see in verse 2, that I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you to
myself. That where I am, you will be also. They
are the same thing. Praise the Lord. They are
synonyms or they are the same thing. I will pray
the Father. That he will give you another comforter.
Right? And what we saw in verse 2 that talks
about, I go to prepare a place for you. He's
talking about the same thing. Praise the Lord.
He's talking about the same thing. In verse 9
says, as we saw, he said, if you see me, you
have seen the Father. I am in the Father and
the Father is in me. Right? I dwell in the Father
and the Father dwells in me. Praise the Lord.
So let's read from verse 12 to 17 now. Keep my
commandment. And I will pray the Father, and
he will give you another helper, that he may
abide with you forever. The Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it neither
sees him nor know him. But you have known him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you. Praise
the Lord. The he there, as we know, is talking
about the father, right? So he said, you will
know the father because he dwells in the inside
of you, verse 17. You will know the father because
he dwells in the inside of you. So what we saw
from verse 2 to 3 tells us that in my father's
house are many mansions. If it were not so, I
would have told you, I go to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again and receive you to myself.
That where I am, there you would be also. What
would Jesus do? He says that he's going to go
and he's going to come back. He says, I go to
prepare a place for you and I will come again
and receive you to myself. Right? So how is he
going to do that? How is he going to go and come
back? How is he going to do that? We see that
in verse 10. He said, if you believe in me, right?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and
the Father is in me? The words that I speak to
you, I do not speak of my own authority, but
the Father who dwells in me does this work. Praise
the Lord. So the Father that dwells in him will
dwell in us. Praise the Lord. The Father that
dwells in him will dwell in us. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. Same verse this thing. He says, and
I will pray the Father and he will give you another
helper that he may abide with you forever. Right?
Other scriptures will say another comforter.
So the word another, Or the word another helper
is the word alios parakletos. Praise the Lord.
Alios parakletos. A -double -L -O -S is alios.
And parakletos is P -A -R -A -K -L -E -T -O -S.
Arius Paracletus. This Arius is a word for another.
It's the same word as well. It has another word
called Heteros. Right? It's the word H -E -T
-R -O -S. Heteros. It means another. Praise the
Lord. So, let me try to explain this. So, example,
as a church, we came here with the bus. Right?
We came here with a bus. And let's say they were
supposed to come back and pick us back to our
various destination. And then the bus came. He
brought the bus. And then we found that the bus
is faulty. Or the bus is not going. And then
I say, give us another bus. Because the one you
brought is not working. Give us another bus.
And then you brought another bus. But this other
bus you brought. He's a Mercedes bus. Praise
the Lord. Maybe the previous one you bought was
a Toyota. But then you brought a Mercedes bus.
Praise the Lord. So, you gave us another bus,
but it's a different kind of bus because it's
a Mercedes. Praise the Lord. It is a different
kind of bus. So this is another, but it's not
the same. Praise the Lord. But in this place,
right, we also see when Jesus was talking about
this word, another, when he used it in Acts chapter
2, verse 4. Speaking in tongues. Acts chapter
2, verse 4. And they were filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak with other tongues
as the Spirit gave them utterance. So this word,
another, sorry. Another tongue is talking about
another kind of speaking. A different kind of
speaking. Another type of speaking. Praise the
Lord. But here, when we said, alios parakletis,
he's talking about the same. Praise the Lord.
He's talking about the same. Because what have
we been talking about? What has the discussion
been? The discussion has been that God... is
in him and him in God. Praise the Lord. We've
been asking, where is Jesus? He's in God. God
is in him. Praise the Lord. So he's talking about
the same. Right? This another is not different.
He's the same. Praise the Lord. So Elias Paracletus
is talking about the same. Praise the Lord. So
he's saying that the way the Father dwells in
me, is the same way he's going to dwell in you.
Praise the Lord. So that's what he's saying,
that the same way the Father dwells in me is
the same way he's going to dwell in you. That
is alios parakletos. The way the Father dwells
in me, he also will dwell in the inside of you.
The same way the Father dwells in me, he will
dwell in you. The same way that I dwell in the
Father, I will also dwell in you. Praise the
Lord. And said he would abide with you forever.
He would abide with you forever. Does that not
look like verse 2 as well? Verse 2, the B part
of it said, that, sorry. Okay, verse 3, the B
part of it tells you what? He says that where
I am, you would be also. Praise the Lord. He
said that he may dwell with you forever. So in
verse 18 now says, verse 18, he said, I will
not leave you orphans. I would come to you. Praise
the Lord. I will come to you. So, but he has
been saying that where I am, you would be also.
So I will come to you. It's not a rapture, right?
It's that I will come in the inside of you. That
where I am, you will be also. That's what he's
saying. That I will come to you is where I am,
you will be also. Praise the Lord. So Jesus is
talking about indwelling. Praise the Lord. Jesus
is talking about indwelling. Indwelling. Indwelling.
Matthew chapter 28. Matthew chapter 28. Matthew
chapter 28, verse 20. And it says, teaching them
to observe all the things that I've commanded
you and lo, I'm with you even to the end of the
age. Right? To observe. What are they to observe?
They are to observe that he has come to them.
Praise the Lord. They are to observe that he
has come to them. We are to observe that God
has come to us. Praise the Lord. We are to observe
that there is an indwelling. Praise the Lord.
We are to observe that he is in us. We are to
observe that he is in us. We need to pay attention
that the Father is in us. Praise the Lord. We
need to pay attention that the Father is in us.
So when he said, Lord, I'm with you always, he's
saying that I will come, to say that I will come
to you, right, does not mean something else.
He's talking about that I will come in you. Praise
the Lord. That I will come in the inside of you.
Verse 12 of John 14. More assuredly, I say to
you, he who believes in me, the work that I do,
will he do also. Greater works than these he
will do. Because I go to the Father. Praise the
Lord. So what work is this person going to do?
Right? What is Jesus leading us to do? What is
the work that Jesus is leading us to do? What
greater works are you doing? In verse 20 of Matthew
28, it tells us that he will teach them. They
say, go and teach them to observe. Praise the
Lord. So the leading of Christ or the leading
of Jesus in our lives is to go and preach the
gospel. Praise the Lord. It's to go and preach
and teach the gospel. It's to go and preach and
teach the gospel. Matthew chapter 10, verse 1.
And when he had called the twelve disciples to
him, he gave them power of an unclean spirit
to cast them out and to heal all kind of sickness
and all kind of disease. Praise the Lord. But
then, before then, he was talking about that
the harvest is... is plenteous, but the laborers
are few. Chapter 9, verse 37 to 38. So Jesus
has called them and he says to them, go and teach.
But then he says in chapter 9, verse 37, then
he said to his disciples, the harvest is truly,
truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Therefore pray. the Lord of the harvest, to send
out laborers into his harvest. Praise the Lord.
But then we see in the next chapter, what did
he do? 10 verse 1. Then he called his 12 disciples
and gave them power over unclean spirits to cast
them out and to heal all kind of sicknesses and
all kind of disease. Praise the Lord. So he has
called them, he said to them that the laborers
are few. They should pray the Lord of the harvest
to send them, but he's sending them. Praise the
Lord. So he tells them that the laborers are
few, but he sent them. Praise the Lord. So when
he says that the Lord of the harvest, what he
said the Lord of the harvest would do, he did.
Praise the Lord. He said he should pray for what?
Laborers. And then he sent out the laborers.
Praise the Lord. So he leads us to preach the
gospel. Praise the Lord. So don't be concerned
about how many are you. Praise the Lord. There
is a leading already for you to go and preach
the gospel. Praise the Lord. He said he leads
and sent. Praise the Lord. What kind of leading
again does Jesus lead us to? He leads us to give.
Praise the Lord. He leads us to give. He leads
us to forgive. Luke chapter 17, verse 1 to 10.
He leaves us to forgive. To give to those in
need. Praise the Lord. To give to those in need.
So when was the last time you listened to God
tell you, go and preach. Go and preach to somebody
and you did it. Not about talking about church
service or fellowship or they gave you the...
you know, assign you to something, to go and
preach. When last did you hear that leading?
When last did you hear God tell you that somebody
is in need, that you need to help, or you had
a conversation, you were passing, and somebody
is talking to a friend and talking about how
they are suffering, and you overheard it, and
the Spirit prompts you to do something, and then
you say, ah, there you go, no consigning, because
you don't know them. Praise the Lord. When last
did you obey that voice to help? What did you
do when you had to help somebody? He leads us
to forgive. He leads us to heal the sick. We're
going to look into this more broadly on Wednesday.
He leads us to pray. Not prayer cruise. Praise
the Lord. Or prayer chains that we have. When
we have prayer cruise, he leads us to pray. We
came to pray for the whole day. When did you
pray? Do you hear the leading to go and pray?
The Spirit leads us to pray, to make intercessions.
Praise the Lord. I remember one experience that
I really recall. One day I just woke up in the
night, middle of the night, and I was just hearing,
just pray. I don't know what I was praying for.
I don't know who it's for. I think I slept as
I was praying. Praise the Lord. But then I woke
up the next day and heard that, They arrested
one of my brothers. Praise the Lord. But they
let them go. Praise the Lord. When last did you
hear the prompting of God? So God gives us word
and promptings. If somebody comes into your mind,
this person's thoughts just came to your mind.
Not because you are thinking about them. Not
because... You saw them somewhere. You just know
that there is prompting, there is thought in
your heart. Do you go and say, ah, or maybe it's
a sister that is coming to your mind. Instead
of you to go and pray, you now say, let me go
and propose. Maybe the Lord is saying something.
Praise the Lord. So he gives us promptings. He
gives us word. He makes people come to our minds.
Not because, okay, what am I thinking about this
person? He's telling you to pray. Praise the
Lord. Or to speak to that person, to find out
what is going on in their lives. He leads us
to suffer for his sake. Praise the Lord. Not
all leading are comfortable. It's only when the
Lord has led me, there's always good leading.
Praise the Lord. There are leadings that are
not comfortable for you. Hallelujah. He leads
us to deny ourselves, to reset our priorities.
to read the Word. So if the Father is glorified
in the teachings or in the suffering of Jesus,
be sure that He's also glorified in the suffering
that you're suffering for His sake. He does not
lead us to worry. He does not lead us to fear
or doubt. He leads us for His sake, not for our
sake. Praise the Lord. We're going to look at
this more, more. So in the midst of every leading
of the Spirit, you would find the glory of Christ.
Praise the Lord. In the midst of every leading,
you will find the glory of Christ. You cannot
separate the leading of the Spirit from the passing
of Christ. The end point of every leading of
the Spirit is the glory of Christ. That is how
you know it is a leading from Him. Praise the
Lord. That is how you know that it is a leading
from Him. Praise the Lord. Let's just close our
eyes and just thank God. We appreciate you being
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