WEBVTT 00:00:01.339 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.660 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:23.820 right in. So I want to thank God for this opportunity 00:00:23.820 --> 00:00:27.260 given to me to bring the Word to us. And I also 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:29.440 want to thank the pastorate for the opportunity 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:37.490 as well. On Sunday we were looking at being sensitive 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:41.409 to the leading of the Holy Spirit and today we're 00:00:41.409 --> 00:00:49.250 going to continue in that light. So we looked 00:00:49.250 --> 00:01:07.260 at Matthew chapter 28. Matthew chapter 28. For 00:01:07.260 --> 00:01:18.079 verse 18 to 20. So just a quick recap of what 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.379 we did. We looked at that and we said that when 00:01:22.379 --> 00:01:26.180 the gospel is preached, that there is an explanation 00:01:26.180 --> 00:01:30.079 and there is an instruction that follows. We 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:36.079 said that the leading of the Holy Spirit is The 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.840 leading of the Spirit involves when we hear the 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:43.560 explanation of the gospel or preaching, and then 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.340 we follow the instructions that follow. So he's 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.060 mindful of the things that he hears, and he wants 00:01:51.060 --> 00:01:55.920 to pay close attention to those things. He's 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.019 very careful about these things. He treasures 00:01:58.019 --> 00:02:02.879 the things that he heard. Praise the Lord. There 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.159 is an alertness that somebody who is growing 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.479 spiritually has. He wants to hear more. He's 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:10.819 very alert about the things that are around him. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.419 Praise the Lord. And then we look at John chapter 00:02:14.419 --> 00:02:16.639 14, where he talks about, In my Father's house 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.819 are many mansions. And we say that he's talking 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:23.060 about the union of places. He's talking about 00:02:23.060 --> 00:02:26.979 the indwelling of the Father in us. That is, 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:31.400 Him in us and us in Him. Praise the Lord. And 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.819 we also looked at, The same place that was talking 00:02:33.819 --> 00:02:37.539 about that he would send another comforter. And 00:02:37.539 --> 00:02:42.780 we say that word is alus paracletis, which means 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:45.580 that the way the Father is indwelling in Christ 00:02:45.580 --> 00:02:48.560 is the same way he's going to be indwelling you. 00:02:49.180 --> 00:02:52.120 The same way that Christ is in the Father, so 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.180 also Christ will be in the inside of you. Praise 00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:57.800 the Lord. And so we saw that Jesus was leading 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:03.560 his disciples by... preaching and teaching. Jesus 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.400 was leading them to preach and teach the gospel. 00:03:07.699 --> 00:03:10.139 Praise the Lord. We saw that in Matthew, same 00:03:10.139 --> 00:03:14.180 Matthew that we read, 28 verse 20, right? And 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:17.560 we also saw that he said to them in Matthew chapter 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.849 10, Matthew chapter 9, towards the ending, that 00:03:20.849 --> 00:03:23.590 the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are 00:03:23.590 --> 00:03:26.409 few. The thing he said that the Lord of the harvest 00:03:26.409 --> 00:03:29.050 should do, that is, to send laborers, he did 00:03:29.050 --> 00:03:32.870 by sending his disciples into Bethlehem. From 00:03:32.870 --> 00:03:35.349 verse 1. Praise the Lord. So today we're going 00:03:35.349 --> 00:03:37.629 to continue and we're going to be looking at 00:03:37.629 --> 00:03:42.110 being sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. 00:03:42.409 --> 00:03:47.009 Praise the Lord. Matthew chapter 28, verse 18. 00:03:49.219 --> 00:04:13.250 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, And 00:04:13.250 --> 00:04:16.069 we say that to teach there, when he says to teach 00:04:16.069 --> 00:04:18.009 or to make disciples, as you saw, I said, go 00:04:18.009 --> 00:04:22.949 and make disciples, right? It means to make a 00:04:22.949 --> 00:04:26.810 student or to train with the intention to educate 00:04:26.810 --> 00:04:30.490 this person. Praise the Lord. So we cannot, he 00:04:30.490 --> 00:04:33.209 doesn't want to assume that everybody know what 00:04:33.209 --> 00:04:35.870 they should do. Praise the Lord. Even as a church, 00:04:35.949 --> 00:04:38.810 we cannot assume that you know how to pray. We 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:42.110 cannot assume that you know how to... Live the 00:04:42.110 --> 00:04:46.129 way that God intends you to live. So that's why 00:04:46.129 --> 00:04:49.470 discipleship is important. Because he's saying 00:04:49.470 --> 00:04:51.970 to them that he makes them a student. He trains 00:04:51.970 --> 00:04:55.850 them with the intention to educate them. Praise 00:04:55.850 --> 00:04:58.490 the Lord. So we don't assume that people know 00:04:58.490 --> 00:05:00.870 how to do things, that they know how to pray, 00:05:00.990 --> 00:05:04.040 that they know how to live their life. That is 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.939 why even as a church, we don't presume that everything 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:09.220 should just go the way it is. Just live your 00:05:09.220 --> 00:05:12.259 life the way you want to live it. We practicalize 00:05:12.259 --> 00:05:15.300 all of the things that we say to you. Praise 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:18.819 the Lord. So if we say that you can pray and 00:05:18.819 --> 00:05:21.920 you will hear God. We will do that for you to 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.040 see, praise the Lord, because that is the way 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.680 you teach a student. That is how you educate 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.540 somebody, right? There's practicality to the 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:33.160 things that we do, praise the Lord. So when we 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:36.600 say we pray or go and pray, as pastorates, we 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.160 are not in our houses or we're not in our houses 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.399 just relaxed. We are also praying as we are telling 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.720 you to pray. Or there's a task that we're saying 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.839 do. As a church, we are also doing the same thing. 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:50.389 Praise the Lord. So when we say, okay, let's 00:05:50.389 --> 00:05:53.230 come for prayer cruise, we come there and we 00:05:53.230 --> 00:05:56.050 demonstrate prayers. Praise the Lord. So when 00:05:56.050 --> 00:05:58.370 somebody say, do you know how to pray? You will 00:05:58.370 --> 00:05:59.910 know you have seen it somewhere and you have 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:01.949 learnt it somewhere and you know how to pray. 00:06:02.069 --> 00:06:04.430 You know what it means to pray for that long 00:06:04.430 --> 00:06:07.350 or pray for a short period of time because you 00:06:07.350 --> 00:06:09.970 have been trained and educated, because you have 00:06:09.970 --> 00:06:13.769 been a disciple. Praise the Lord. So the teach 00:06:13.769 --> 00:06:18.600 is to make a student, to train. To make somebody 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.120 with the intention to educate them. Praise the 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:29.180 Lord. Like I said, we don't assume that people 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:33.620 know how to do it. That's why even, again, as 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:36.360 pastorate, we want to know exactly, or we want 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.600 to ask you a few questions. How is your life 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.019 going? What is happening here? What is happening 00:06:41.019 --> 00:06:43.439 here? We invite you, or come to our house, or 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.829 let's meet somewhere. And we want to talk about 00:06:45.829 --> 00:06:48.230 these things because we know that for you to 00:06:48.230 --> 00:06:50.850 be able to live the life that God intends you 00:06:50.850 --> 00:06:53.329 to live, you need to be guided. Praise the Lord. 00:06:53.589 --> 00:06:56.089 You need to be guided. You need to receive counsel. 00:06:56.209 --> 00:07:00.209 You need to be discipled. That is what it means 00:07:00.209 --> 00:07:02.649 to make disciples. That's what it means to make 00:07:02.649 --> 00:07:05.050 disciples. For example, of Jesus, when he takes 00:07:05.050 --> 00:07:07.629 his disciples to go and pray, he doesn't just 00:07:07.629 --> 00:07:09.829 tell them to say, Our Father who art in heaven. 00:07:09.970 --> 00:07:13.569 They saw him praying. Praise the Lord. They saw 00:07:13.569 --> 00:07:16.829 him praying. They saw him taking time to pray 00:07:16.829 --> 00:07:18.930 over and over again. And they'll be wondering, 00:07:19.069 --> 00:07:22.769 why do you have to pray for so long? Praise the 00:07:22.769 --> 00:07:24.550 Lord. And last week we saw that if you don't 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:28.970 know the why of a thing, it will profit you nothing. 00:07:29.709 --> 00:07:33.329 Praise the Lord. So he tells them or he teaches 00:07:33.329 --> 00:07:36.980 them to pray. And in teaching them or in saying, 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.740 come Peter, let's go somewhere. And maybe Peter 00:07:39.740 --> 00:07:42.259 is sleeping as he's praying. He knows that Peter 00:07:42.259 --> 00:07:45.360 is learning something. Praise the Lord. He knows 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.639 that Peter is learning something. Because after 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:49.920 the resurrection, we'll begin to see some of 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.399 those things manifest. Because these are people 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.600 who have been with Christ. They have been with 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.060 him and they have learned a lot of things. They've 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:01.100 learned how to live their life. They've also 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:04.050 learned how to lead. Praise the Lord. They've 00:08:04.050 --> 00:08:06.110 learned how to lead. They have known how to, 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:08.350 oh, let's do this or let's do that. Praise the 00:08:08.350 --> 00:08:10.750 Lord. When there is hundreds and thousands of 00:08:10.750 --> 00:08:13.050 people, they are not confused about how to lead 00:08:13.050 --> 00:08:15.410 these people because they have seen a blueprint. 00:08:15.610 --> 00:08:17.889 They have seen somebody lead them in the way 00:08:17.889 --> 00:08:20.350 they should go. That is what it means to make 00:08:20.350 --> 00:08:23.930 disciples. So in discipleship, there is practicality 00:08:23.930 --> 00:08:26.529 to it. Praise the Lord. So somebody is telling 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:28.910 you, have you prayed today? You want to find 00:08:28.910 --> 00:08:31.660 out, are they also praying? Praise the Lord. 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.639 Or are they just telling you that prayer is important? 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:40.580 What benefit or how have you done your own? As 00:08:40.580 --> 00:08:42.779 you're encouraging me to pray, as you're encouraging 00:08:42.779 --> 00:08:46.259 me to read my Bible, how in your own life, how 00:08:46.259 --> 00:08:50.179 has that been beneficial to you? Have you struggled 00:08:50.179 --> 00:08:53.899 as well? Praise the Lord. So this is a process 00:08:53.899 --> 00:08:58.399 of making... There is practicality to it. And 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.080 Jesus is a good example of what we saw in that 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.559 place. So the things that he said in the four 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.320 Gospels, or the thing that Jesus was saying, 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:12.059 even as we're from the teaching on Sunday, is 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:15.179 some of the things he said were post -resurrection 00:09:15.179 --> 00:09:19.000 realities. Praise the Lord. Some of the things 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.080 he's saying were post -resurrection realities. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.710 So when he said, I pray the Father. We saw that 00:09:24.710 --> 00:09:26.669 he's saying that because of the things I will 00:09:26.669 --> 00:09:31.250 do, because of the fact that I will die, I will 00:09:31.250 --> 00:09:34.570 be buried and I will be raised up, I pray the 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:37.789 Father. I make a request on your behalf. Praise 00:09:37.789 --> 00:10:08.120 the Lord. John chapter 1. John chapter 1. John 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.539 chapter 1 from verse 1 to 14. In the beginning 00:10:10.539 --> 00:10:13.639 was the Word, the Word was with God, and the 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.379 Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 00:10:16.460 --> 00:10:18.980 All things were made through him, and without 00:10:18.980 --> 00:10:23.220 him nothing was made. Nothing was made that was 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:26.700 made. In him was life, and the life was the life 00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:30.259 of men. And the light shines in darkness, and 00:10:30.259 --> 00:10:34.139 darkness did not comprehend it. There is a man 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:37.220 sent from God, whose name was John. This man 00:10:37.220 --> 00:10:43.120 came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:47.679 that all things through him, that all through 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:51.740 him my belief. He was not a light. but he was 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:55.940 sent to bear witness of the light. That was the 00:10:55.940 --> 00:11:01.200 true light which gave light to every man. Sorry, 00:11:01.299 --> 00:11:02.759 he was not the light, but you're sent to bear 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.139 witness of the light. That was the true light 00:11:05.139 --> 00:11:08.220 which bears light to every man coming into the 00:11:08.220 --> 00:11:13.379 world. He was in the world and the world was 00:11:13.379 --> 00:11:16.860 made through him and the world did not know him. 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.919 He came to his own and his own did not receive 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.840 him. But as many as receive him, to him he gave 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.039 the right to become children of God, to those 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:30.259 who believe in his name, who were born not of 00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:33.100 blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the 00:11:33.100 --> 00:11:37.080 will of man, but of God. The Word became flesh 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.480 and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:43.980 the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:48.120 full of grace and truth. Praise the Lord. Full 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.159 of grace and of truth. So John is saying to us 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.440 that the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.019 in the Incarnation. Praise the Lord. The Old 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:03.100 Testament prophecies have been fulfilled in the 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:06.019 Incarnation. The things that have been prophesied 00:12:06.019 --> 00:12:08.379 about the Christ, or the things that have been 00:12:08.379 --> 00:12:11.019 prophesied about what God is going to be doing, 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:15.980 they have come to fulfillment. The prophecies 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:18.600 of the Old Testament have come to fulfillment 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.350 in the Incarnation. Praise the Lord. The Christ 00:12:22.350 --> 00:12:29.169 is here. So when he says, in the beginning was 00:12:29.169 --> 00:12:32.210 the Word, as we know, that Word is the Word Logos, 00:12:32.230 --> 00:12:36.269 right? That is the Logos in which, sorry, in 00:12:36.269 --> 00:12:40.330 the prophet, right? And that Logos became flesh. 00:12:41.149 --> 00:12:43.850 The things that the prophet have said for thousands 00:12:43.850 --> 00:12:47.070 of years have come to materialize in the incarnation 00:12:47.070 --> 00:12:50.110 of the Christ. Praise the Lord. So that's what 00:12:50.110 --> 00:12:52.490 John is saying to us in John chapter 1, from 00:12:52.490 --> 00:12:55.549 verse 1 to 14. In verse 14, he tells us that 00:12:55.549 --> 00:13:01.049 the Word became flesh. He became flesh. So if 00:13:01.049 --> 00:13:03.929 you look at what Jesus did in the four Gospels, 00:13:04.009 --> 00:13:08.929 you will come to this conclusion that the things 00:13:08.929 --> 00:13:12.330 that have been prophesied have come to fulfillment 00:13:12.330 --> 00:13:20.370 in the Incarnation. Praise the Lord. So Jesus 00:13:20.370 --> 00:13:25.190 is God's plan and purpose for humanity. He's 00:13:25.190 --> 00:13:29.210 not just an addition to the world or to the things 00:13:29.210 --> 00:13:32.029 that God has in plan or the plans of God. He's 00:13:32.029 --> 00:13:34.850 not just an addition. He's the God's plan and 00:13:34.850 --> 00:13:38.309 purposes for humanity. This is God's idea to 00:13:38.309 --> 00:13:42.490 humanity. He's not just an addition or an alternative 00:13:42.490 --> 00:13:46.470 to the plans of God. He's the fulfillment of 00:13:46.470 --> 00:13:49.860 the things that God desired in humanity. Praise 00:13:49.860 --> 00:13:52.399 the Lord. He's a fulfillment of what God desires 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:57.600 in humanity. He's the explanation of everything. 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:07.620 Praise the Lord. In verse 18 now. He says, no 00:14:07.620 --> 00:14:13.139 one has seen God at any time. The only begotten, 00:14:13.139 --> 00:14:22.509 the only begotten, the only begotten of... Praise 00:14:22.509 --> 00:14:27.710 the Lord. So Christ has declared him. He's the 00:14:27.710 --> 00:14:32.049 explanation of everything. So this word declared 00:14:32.049 --> 00:14:50.549 him is the word... G -E -O -M -A -I. He's a word 00:14:50.549 --> 00:14:54.769 to share in experience or to share your experience. 00:14:55.309 --> 00:14:59.190 Praise the Lord. He's a word to share your experience. 00:14:59.690 --> 00:15:03.970 So God, Jesus is the experience of God. Praise 00:15:03.970 --> 00:15:08.049 the Lord. He said because he declared him. He's 00:15:08.049 --> 00:15:12.110 God's, he's the Father's manifest. He explained 00:15:12.110 --> 00:15:16.110 God to us. Praise the Lord. It's this word that 00:15:16.110 --> 00:15:21.210 he explains God to us. We understand God through 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:25.870 him. Because remember, we were reading last week, 00:15:25.870 --> 00:15:28.409 and he tells us that if you see him, you have 00:15:28.409 --> 00:15:31.850 seen the Father. Praise the Lord. He's the explanation 00:15:31.850 --> 00:15:36.110 of the Father. And then this word bosom is the 00:15:36.110 --> 00:15:43.590 word kaupos. K -O -L -P -O -S. So he's not... 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.980 You know, bosom is, I looked at it, is the top 00:15:48.980 --> 00:15:53.299 part of your chest. Right? So, it's an idiom. 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:55.220 It's not that Christ is the top part of God's 00:15:55.220 --> 00:16:01.179 chest. Okay? So, it's not what he's saying. Right? 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:04.019 When he says that, the second part of that, verse 00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:07.220 18 says, who is in the bosom of the Father, he 00:16:07.220 --> 00:16:08.820 has declared him. He's not saying that Christ 00:16:08.820 --> 00:16:11.519 is in the chest of God and he's declaring him. 00:16:11.789 --> 00:16:15.230 Praise the Lord. It's an idiom and it means an 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:19.809 inseparable union. Praise the Lord. And it's 00:16:19.809 --> 00:16:22.070 the same theme of what we have been seeing or 00:16:22.070 --> 00:16:24.789 what we have been studying, that God is in him 00:16:24.789 --> 00:16:27.429 and he is in God. If you have seen him, you have 00:16:27.429 --> 00:16:30.490 seen the Father. Praise the Lord. He's in the 00:16:30.490 --> 00:16:35.049 bosom of the Father. It means an inseparable 00:16:35.049 --> 00:16:38.860 union. Praise the Lord. So Christ is in insuperable 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:41.279 union with God and he has declared a father. 00:16:41.460 --> 00:16:44.460 He's the explanation of the father. He's the 00:16:44.460 --> 00:16:48.320 experience of the father. Praise the Lord. So 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.019 he declared a father, right? So that's why we 00:16:51.019 --> 00:16:53.419 can see that they were using things like pronoun 00:16:53.419 --> 00:16:56.360 at the end of that. He said, who is in the bosom 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.820 of the father? He said he has declared him. Praise 00:16:59.820 --> 00:17:04.680 the Lord. He has declared him there. John chapter 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:22.769 10. John chapter 10 John chapter 10 Proverbs 00:17:22.769 --> 00:17:30.230 1 to 5 Most assuredly I say to you, he who does 00:17:30.230 --> 00:17:33.210 not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs 00:17:33.210 --> 00:17:37.119 up some other way, the same is a thief, and a 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.880 robber. For he who enters by the door is the 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.859 shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper 00:17:43.859 --> 00:17:48.140 opens, and the sheep hears his voice. He calls 00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:51.839 on his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. 00:17:52.539 --> 00:17:55.839 And when he brings them out, when he brings out 00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:02.099 his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep 00:18:02.099 --> 00:18:05.640 follow him, for they know his voice. Praise the 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.900 Lord. Verse 5 now said, Yet they will not by 00:18:08.900 --> 00:18:12.599 any means follow a stranger, but they will flee 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.680 from him, for they do not know the voice of a 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:21.640 stranger. Praise the Lord. For they do not know 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.599 the voice of a stranger. So in verse 3, he tells 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.319 us that the sheep, he said, knows his voice. 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:35.480 In verse 4, he tells us that For they know His 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:41.759 voice. They know His voice. They know the voice 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.460 of the Father. Praise the Lord. Whose voice do 00:18:44.460 --> 00:18:46.839 they know? They know the voice of the Father. 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:53.880 They know Him. They know His voice. So one fundamental 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:57.480 thing about the believer, or you can say two 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.799 fundamental things about the believer, is that 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:02.920 one, the believer has the Spirit of God in the 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:07.059 inside of them. The believer has the Spirit of 00:19:07.059 --> 00:19:11.599 God in the inside of them. Secondly, the believer 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:14.519 has the ability to know when God is speaking. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:20.079 Let me say that again. Fundamental fact about 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.799 a believer, or fundamental fact about you, you 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:27.160 have the Spirit of God in the inside of you. 00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:32.140 Secondly, you know when God is speaking. Praise 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:40.849 the Lord. And again, it means that you don't 00:19:40.849 --> 00:19:49.170 need to pray to have this ability. The believer 00:19:49.170 --> 00:19:51.650 has the Spirit of God in the inside of them. 00:19:51.690 --> 00:19:54.869 Secondly, they have the ability to know when 00:19:54.869 --> 00:19:57.109 God is speaking. Thirdly, they don't need to 00:19:57.109 --> 00:20:00.630 pray for that ability that they have. Praise 00:20:00.630 --> 00:20:05.650 the Lord. Now, the believer may be ignorant of 00:20:05.650 --> 00:20:09.000 this fact. Praise the Lord. The believer may 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.099 be ignorant of this fact that they have the ability 00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:16.220 to know when God is speaking or to hear the voice 00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:20.400 of God. Right? Or they might ignore the voice 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:28.299 of God. But it's not the absence of it. Do you 00:20:28.299 --> 00:20:32.319 understand? The fundamental thing about us is 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.599 that we have the Spirit of God in the inside 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:37.670 of us. We have the ability to know when God is 00:20:37.670 --> 00:20:40.430 speaking to us. We don't need to pray for this 00:20:40.430 --> 00:20:43.470 ability. We may ignore it or may be ignorant 00:20:43.470 --> 00:20:47.150 of it. But it doesn't mean that there is an absence 00:20:47.150 --> 00:20:50.410 of it. It doesn't mean there is an absence of 00:20:50.410 --> 00:20:56.190 this ability. Praise the Lord. Because the human 00:20:56.190 --> 00:21:01.650 spirit, the born -again human spirit recognizes 00:21:01.650 --> 00:21:06.619 the truth. They know what truth is. As a believer, 00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:09.799 you know what truth is. Your spirit is able to 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:13.920 recognize truth. It can relate with truth. Praise 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:17.579 the Lord. It can relate with truth. So when you 00:21:17.579 --> 00:21:20.400 find people arguing about what is truth, right, 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.799 you need to pray for them. Praise the Lord. You 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.200 need to pray for them. So you can also say that, 00:21:29.339 --> 00:21:34.240 oh, I made a mistake. You can say I made a mistake. 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.240 It is also true that there has been warning and 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.000 sign by the Spirit of God concerning that mistake. 00:21:43.619 --> 00:21:47.039 Praise the Lord. So you can say, I made a mistake, 00:21:47.180 --> 00:21:50.220 or you cannot say, I made a mistake, right? But 00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:53.480 one thing that you cannot say is that you did 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:57.019 not receive warning or signs to tell you that, 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.859 oh, that is the wrong direction. Oh, don't do 00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:05.200 that. Or you find conflict with the inside of 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.180 you about the things that you want to do. Like 00:22:08.180 --> 00:22:10.940 I said, you may ignore it. Or maybe ignorant 00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:14.339 of it. But you would receive warning because 00:22:14.339 --> 00:22:17.740 you have the Spirit of God in the inside of you. 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:22.200 Praise the Lord. They know His voice. They know 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:27.619 His voice. They know His voice. And what is this 00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:31.589 talking about? From verse 7 to 10, he's talking 00:22:31.589 --> 00:22:37.049 about salvation. But we'll get to that. They 00:22:37.049 --> 00:22:43.569 know his voice. Because the reason why you know 00:22:43.569 --> 00:22:45.890 or why you receive this warning and you know 00:22:45.890 --> 00:22:48.490 the voice of God is because you are born again. 00:22:49.170 --> 00:22:53.410 You are born again. Why? Verse 4 of John chapter 00:22:53.410 --> 00:22:58.230 10. He said, and when he brings out his own sheep, 00:22:58.490 --> 00:23:01.529 He goes before them and the sheep follows for 00:23:01.529 --> 00:23:03.849 they know his voice. Praise the Lord. He said 00:23:03.849 --> 00:23:07.109 when he brings out his own sheep, right? He goes 00:23:07.109 --> 00:23:10.109 before the sheep. He goes in front of it to tell 00:23:10.109 --> 00:23:13.269 you, oh, this is the way you should go. This 00:23:13.269 --> 00:23:15.569 is what you should be doing. Oh, don't go that 00:23:15.569 --> 00:23:17.950 way. He goes before them because he doesn't, 00:23:18.089 --> 00:23:21.650 he's not a shepherd that is behind. Praise the 00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:25.970 Lord. He's not a shepherd that is behind the 00:23:25.970 --> 00:23:29.380 sheep. He's always in front of the sheep and 00:23:29.380 --> 00:23:31.859 he's telling them this direction. Oh no, let's 00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:33.599 go this direction. This is the way you should 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.259 go. They follow him. Praise the Lord. And they 00:23:36.259 --> 00:23:39.140 say they know his voice. That is the reason why 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:41.400 you cannot say, or you can also say, but the 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:43.700 thing you cannot deny is that there has been 00:23:43.700 --> 00:23:46.579 warning along the line or signs along the line, 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:49.680 suggesting to you that that part is a good part 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:52.019 or suggesting to you that that part is not a 00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:56.099 good part. Praise the Lord. Because you are born 00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:58.539 again. He goes before them. And what does he 00:23:58.539 --> 00:24:01.079 do before them? He directs them. He instructs 00:24:01.079 --> 00:24:04.480 them. He guides them. He tells them, go this 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:10.859 way. Don't go that way. So you might be learning 00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:13.259 the things that he's telling you. You might be 00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:15.079 learning the things that you're just learning 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:17.640 that, oh, that is wrong. Oh, that is wrong. You 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:21.200 might be in that process of learning. But he 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.920 shows you what you should do. Sometimes you ignore 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:28.000 them. Sometimes you don't listen to them. Praise 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:34.359 the Lord. In verse 7 to 10. So then Jesus said 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.119 to them again, Most assuredly I say to you, I 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:43.640 am the door of the sheep. All who come, all who 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:47.220 came, whoever came before me are thieves and 00:24:47.220 --> 00:25:01.960 robbers. But the sheep do not hear them. Verse 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:16.799 10. Praise the Lord. So this is telling us about 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:20.420 salvation. Praise the Lord. It's telling us about 00:25:20.420 --> 00:25:23.480 salvation. Right? Let's go back again. In verse 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:28.599 3 and verse 4 and verse 16 tells us that, in 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:31.579 verse 3 he says, they hear his voice. In verse 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:34.960 4, he tells us that they know his voice. In verse 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:40.720 16, he tells us that, and the other sheep that 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.339 I have, which are not of this food, them also 00:25:43.339 --> 00:25:47.180 I must bring. They will hear my voice and will 00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:51.299 be, and they will be. One flock and one shepherd. 00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:54.559 Praise the Lord. He said, they will hear my voice. 00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:58.579 They will hear my voice. Praise the Lord. They 00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:01.920 will hear my voice. So when he says they will 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:05.680 hear my voice, he's also suggesting to us or 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.920 telling us as well that these are post -resurrection 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:14.119 experience. Praise the Lord. There are others 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:17.000 that will come after the resurrection into this 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.029 fold. He's talking about salvation. Praise the 00:26:20.029 --> 00:26:24.009 Lord. They hear his voice. They know his voice. 00:26:24.289 --> 00:26:28.130 They will hear his voice. It's the word phoneme. 00:26:28.650 --> 00:26:33.269 Right? Like phone. It's spelled phone. Right? 00:26:33.309 --> 00:26:37.269 But it's pronounced phoneme. Right? Phone as 00:26:37.269 --> 00:26:47.420 P -H -O -N -E. That is the word voice. Right? 00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:51.000 It's a word funny. It's pronounced funny. It's 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.680 not, it's not just, it does not just mean sound 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:59.619 or voice. Okay? It's much more deeper than that. 00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:08.319 It, it means or is used for dialect. Right? It 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:10.960 is used for dialect in this place. It is used 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.220 for dialect. It means that they know his language. 00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:19.200 Praise the Lord. It means that they know his 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.579 language. They know his voice. So, like I said, 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.220 when he says that they will not hear somebody 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:28.180 else or they will not follow somebody else, he's 00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:29.960 saying that they know his language. He's not 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:32.720 just saying that a shepherd will just come and 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.940 say, hey, let's start going. Right? A shepherd 00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:39.799 will come and will speak their language. Praise 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.380 the Lord. He said they will hear his voice. It 00:27:42.380 --> 00:27:44.480 means that they know there's a language that 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.960 he speaks to them. Praise the Lord. There is 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:50.140 the language of the Spirit, the things that they 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:53.799 understand. Praise the Lord. They know His voice. 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:56.519 They know His language. There is a language that 00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:59.140 they understand. They are aware of this language. 00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:02.039 The strangest language they will not follow. 00:28:02.460 --> 00:28:05.079 Praise the Lord. Because already they will see 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:07.619 it as a red flag. Oh, something is wrong there. 00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:10.579 That's not what we speak. Praise the Lord. That's 00:28:10.579 --> 00:28:13.039 why when I say to you that you cannot see or... 00:28:13.470 --> 00:28:16.049 You can say, but you can never deny that you 00:28:16.049 --> 00:28:17.990 don't understand the language of the Spirit. 00:28:18.170 --> 00:28:20.049 Praise the Lord. You might ignore it or might 00:28:20.049 --> 00:28:22.509 not take it as important, but it's speaking to 00:28:22.509 --> 00:28:25.670 you because you have the Spirit of God in the 00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:31.250 inside of you. A stranger's voice, a stranger's 00:28:31.250 --> 00:28:34.069 language, they will not follow. Praise the Lord. 00:28:34.210 --> 00:28:39.250 So, you look at it as not just, oh, when you 00:28:39.250 --> 00:28:41.130 look at it literally, you say like, okay, how 00:28:41.130 --> 00:28:44.210 would they differentiate? His voice. He now tells 00:28:44.210 --> 00:28:48.089 us what we are seeing is that there is a language 00:28:48.089 --> 00:28:50.230 that he speaks to them. Or there is a language 00:28:50.230 --> 00:28:53.170 that they understand. So there is no confusion 00:28:53.170 --> 00:28:56.170 about whether it is God who is saying or the 00:28:56.170 --> 00:28:58.690 devil who is saying it. Praise the Lord. Or it 00:28:58.690 --> 00:29:01.470 is God who is saying it or a stranger who is 00:29:01.470 --> 00:29:10.190 saying it. Hallelujah. They know his voice. Verse 00:29:10.190 --> 00:29:17.619 9. Verse 9 and 10 tells us that, he said, I'm 00:29:17.619 --> 00:29:22.380 the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be 00:29:22.380 --> 00:29:27.319 saved. And he says, and will go in and out and 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.740 find pasture. And verse 10 says, that the thief 00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:34.220 does not come except to steal, to kill, and to 00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:37.619 destroy. But I've come that they may have life 00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:42.769 and that they may have it more abundantly. They 00:29:42.769 --> 00:29:45.690 will go out, they will come in, and they will 00:29:45.690 --> 00:29:49.250 find pasture. So the more abundantly in verse 00:29:49.250 --> 00:29:53.390 10, he said that they may have it more abundantly. 00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:56.349 Or abundantly in verse 10, he's talking about 00:29:56.349 --> 00:29:59.829 that they will have abundance of pasture. What 00:29:59.829 --> 00:30:03.369 is he saying in verse 9? Praise the Lord. What 00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:06.990 is he saying in verse 9? They will have the abundantly 00:30:06.990 --> 00:30:11.839 of verse 10 is the pasture. He's not talking 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.240 about cars. He's not talking about houses. He's 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:16.920 not talking about mansions. He's not talking 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:21.259 about businesses. Praise the Lord. Abundantly. 00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:37.200 So abundantly is the word periosis. P -E -R -I 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:55.309 -S -S. P -E -R -I -S -S -O -S. Which means that 00:30:55.309 --> 00:31:00.789 what I'm doing now, or what I'm doing, or what 00:31:00.789 --> 00:31:04.549 I'm doing is to give you more abundantly, or 00:31:04.549 --> 00:31:08.450 what I'm doing will make you more abundant. Praise 00:31:08.450 --> 00:31:11.839 the Lord. It means what I'm doing will give you 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:16.700 or will make you more abundant. What I'm doing 00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:19.619 will make you more abundant. You will have abundance 00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:23.799 of pasture. Praise the Lord. You will have abundance 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:31.460 of pasture. So like I said earlier, some of the 00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:34.619 things that he says are post -resurrection experience. 00:31:35.619 --> 00:31:40.200 We see in verse 11. Right? In verse 11. He says, 00:31:40.339 --> 00:31:45.059 I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives 00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:49.940 his life for the sheep. Praise the Lord. Speaking 00:31:49.940 --> 00:31:54.000 of sacrifice, right? Speaking of sacrifice, some 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.500 of the things that he's saying are not available 00:31:56.500 --> 00:32:06.109 at the moment. We saw that in verse 16. He said, 00:32:06.109 --> 00:32:08.630 they will hear my voice. Praise the Lord. Some 00:32:08.630 --> 00:32:10.230 of the things he's saying are post -resurrection 00:32:10.230 --> 00:32:13.450 experience. They will know my voice, verse 3. 00:32:13.710 --> 00:32:20.630 Verse 4, they will know my voice. He said, for 00:32:20.630 --> 00:32:24.089 they will know my voice. Praise the Lord. So, 00:32:24.089 --> 00:32:34.269 direction, or to get direction, is a new... It's 00:32:34.269 --> 00:32:36.509 a reality of the new creation. Praise the Lord. 00:32:37.569 --> 00:32:44.630 To get direction is a new creation reality. Praise 00:32:44.630 --> 00:32:49.750 the Lord. It is. To get direction is the things 00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:54.690 that come with being born again. It is not a 00:32:54.690 --> 00:32:57.369 mystery. You can explain it. Praise the Lord. 00:32:57.990 --> 00:33:00.589 Why can you explain it? Because you know His 00:33:00.589 --> 00:33:05.529 voice. Praise the Lord. You know His voice. Verse 00:33:05.529 --> 00:33:09.309 11 and 15. He said, I'm the good shepherd. The 00:33:09.309 --> 00:33:13.670 good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. In 00:33:13.670 --> 00:33:18.650 verse 15 now says, As the Father knows me, even 00:33:18.650 --> 00:33:22.710 so I know the Father, and I lay my life for the 00:33:22.710 --> 00:33:26.210 sheep. Praise the Lord. I lay my life for the 00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:29.630 sheep. He said, He gives His life. What life 00:33:29.630 --> 00:33:34.720 is He giving? Right? What life is he going to 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.900 give? He said the life in the resurrection. The 00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:43.319 life in the resurrection. He laid down his life 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:47.599 for the sheep. The life he's giving is the life 00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:53.640 in resurrection, which means that Jesus is reproduced 00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:57.180 in us. Praise the Lord, in resurrection. Jesus 00:33:57.180 --> 00:34:03.180 is reproduced in us. This life is available in 00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:07.640 resurrection. Praise the Lord. This life is available 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:10.920 in resurrection. So that's what he says to go 00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:16.900 and preach. Go and preach. Go and make disciples 00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:21.000 of every nation. Go and make disciples of every 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:25.920 nation. There is a life in resurrection. There 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.289 is a new reality in resurrection. Praise the 00:34:29.289 --> 00:34:32.090 Lord. There is a new reality in resurrection. 00:34:32.710 --> 00:35:00.250 This life is available in resurrection. John 00:35:00.250 --> 00:35:08.989 chapter 8, verse 12. Then Jesus spoke to them 00:35:08.989 --> 00:35:12.130 again, saying, I am the light of the world. He 00:35:12.130 --> 00:35:16.070 who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but 00:35:16.070 --> 00:35:22.170 have the light of life. Praise the Lord. Jesus 00:35:22.170 --> 00:35:24.750 spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of 00:35:24.750 --> 00:35:28.070 the world. He who follows me shall not walk in 00:35:28.070 --> 00:35:31.730 darkness, but have the light of life. Praise 00:35:31.730 --> 00:35:35.130 the Lord. So the follower or the believer does 00:35:35.130 --> 00:35:38.730 not walk in darkness. Praise the Lord. The believer 00:35:38.730 --> 00:35:42.030 does not walk in darkness. Why? Because he has 00:35:42.030 --> 00:35:45.809 the light of life. Praise the Lord. He does not 00:35:45.809 --> 00:35:49.590 walk in darkness. There is direction for his 00:35:49.590 --> 00:35:53.909 life. He hears the Father's voice. Praise the 00:35:53.909 --> 00:35:58.849 Lord. He hears the Father's voice because he 00:35:58.849 --> 00:36:02.309 has the life of God. He does not walk in darkness. 00:36:02.590 --> 00:36:05.389 Praise the Lord. Can somebody say, I have the 00:36:05.389 --> 00:36:13.329 light of life. I have the light of life. I know 00:36:13.329 --> 00:36:18.130 the voice of the good shepherd. I know the voice 00:36:18.130 --> 00:36:22.230 of the good shepherd. The voice of a stranger 00:36:22.230 --> 00:36:28.170 I will not follow. Praise the Lord. So he says 00:36:28.170 --> 00:36:31.869 to them that they have the light of life. They 00:36:31.869 --> 00:36:34.550 know the voice of the good shepherd. They understand 00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:38.789 the dialect of the good shepherd. The voice of 00:36:38.789 --> 00:36:41.130 the stranger they will not follow. Praise the 00:36:41.130 --> 00:36:48.730 Lord. So whenever you are confused or on the 00:36:48.730 --> 00:36:53.190 crossroad, or you need to speak to yourself as 00:36:53.190 --> 00:36:57.639 often as you can, That I have the light of life. 00:36:58.179 --> 00:37:01.300 I know the voice of a good shepherd. I don't 00:37:01.300 --> 00:37:04.320 follow everything. Praise the Lord. I don't follow 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.579 every trend. I'm not taught by somebody else. 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.780 I know the voice of the good shepherd. Praise 00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:14.239 the Lord. I don't follow the voices of my generation. 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:18.260 I don't follow the voices that draw men away 00:37:18.260 --> 00:37:21.219 from God. I don't follow the voices that trend. 00:37:21.710 --> 00:37:24.610 Praise the Lord. I hear the voice of a good shepherd. 00:37:24.789 --> 00:37:27.010 I hear the voice of the good shepherd. I have 00:37:27.010 --> 00:37:30.170 the light of life. Praise the Lord. It means 00:37:30.170 --> 00:37:32.710 that there is no darkness. I cannot be confused. 00:37:33.050 --> 00:37:36.030 Praise the Lord. I have direction in my life. 00:37:36.130 --> 00:37:38.610 Praise the Lord. So you need to train yourself 00:37:38.610 --> 00:37:42.170 to speak the abilities of God. Not the many things 00:37:42.170 --> 00:37:44.469 that are not going right in your life. Speak 00:37:44.469 --> 00:37:47.760 the abilities of God in your life. Praise the 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:50.780 Lord. Speak the abilities of God in your life. 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.420 Not the negative things around you. Not the inabilities 00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:57.000 around you. Not the things that are not working. 00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.079 Rather, the abilities of God in your life. Why? 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.840 Because you have the Spirit of God in the inside 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.159 of you. And you know the voice of the Father. 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.280 You understand His dialect. Praise the Lord. 00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:16.340 You understand His dialect. So how do you know? 00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.460 That you know the voice of the good shepherd. 00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:22.099 Because you are born again. That is how you know. 00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:27.699 That is how you know. Praise the Lord. So last 00:38:27.699 --> 00:38:30.559 Sunday we said that how do you know that God 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.940 is leading you? You know that he is leading you 00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:36.679 because it is for his sake, not your sake. Praise 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.119 the Lord. So you know the voice of the good shepherd 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:41.860 because you are born again. That is how you know. 00:38:42.380 --> 00:38:48.019 Praise the Lord. So if you don't know the voice 00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:49.579 of the good shepherd, you will not be born again. 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.360 Because it is the same voice that convinced you 00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:56.760 about the Christ. Praise the Lord. It is the 00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:59.079 same voice that convinced you about the Christ. 00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:02.179 It is that voice that you recognize at salvation. 00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:04.940 When somebody preached the gospel to you, when 00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:07.000 somebody shared the word to you, that voice, 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.090 you recognized it. Praise the Lord. So if you 00:39:10.090 --> 00:39:12.829 recognize the voice of God in salvation, or you 00:39:12.829 --> 00:39:15.349 recognize the voice of God in the gospel that 00:39:15.349 --> 00:39:17.769 was preached to you, it means that you know the 00:39:17.769 --> 00:39:22.090 voice of God. Praise the Lord. So that is how 00:39:22.090 --> 00:39:25.730 you know. So I'm not saying something that is, 00:39:25.889 --> 00:39:28.949 okay, say an affirmation. Sorry. I'm not saying 00:39:28.949 --> 00:39:32.010 something like, you know, they tell you, they 00:39:32.010 --> 00:39:35.829 call it a make -believe. Say something. Say something 00:39:35.829 --> 00:39:38.230 until you believe it. Just keep saying it. Keep 00:39:38.230 --> 00:39:40.539 saying it. That's what I'm doing. Okay? It's 00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:42.940 not like that. You know because you recognize 00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:46.679 the voice of God at salvation. Because when the 00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:48.820 gospel was shared to you, you found out. You 00:39:48.820 --> 00:39:52.500 can hear the voice of God in the message that 00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:54.880 is being preached. God was speaking to you. The 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:56.519 person was saying something, but you were hearing 00:39:56.519 --> 00:40:00.099 something else. You were able to detect the dialect 00:40:00.099 --> 00:40:02.320 of God in the message that was preached to you. 00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:05.820 Praise the Lord. That is how you know. It is 00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:08.460 not a make -believe. It's not say it until you 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:11.789 believe it. Praise the Lord. It's an affirmation 00:40:11.789 --> 00:40:14.409 of your reality, of the realities of your faith. 00:40:16.530 --> 00:40:20.269 So when you say, I know the voice of God, it 00:40:20.269 --> 00:40:23.969 is the affirmation of your reality. You are saying 00:40:23.969 --> 00:40:26.309 what you have. You are saying what you have. 00:40:26.489 --> 00:40:29.130 You're not trying to say it until you believe 00:40:29.130 --> 00:40:31.789 it. You're not lying to yourself. Praise the 00:40:31.789 --> 00:40:35.650 Lord. You're not lying to yourself. You are affirming 00:40:35.650 --> 00:40:38.949 what you... Have already the realities of your 00:40:38.949 --> 00:40:44.650 faith. When you say, I know the voice of the 00:40:44.650 --> 00:40:47.150 good shepherd. Why? Because you're the sheep 00:40:47.150 --> 00:40:53.110 of his pasture. Praise the Lord. You say you 00:40:53.110 --> 00:40:55.570 know the voice of the good shepherd. Why? Because 00:40:55.570 --> 00:40:57.969 you're the sheep of his pasture. You're not a 00:40:57.969 --> 00:41:01.510 stranger. You are among the indwellers. Praise 00:41:01.510 --> 00:41:04.469 the Lord. You are among the people that are united 00:41:04.469 --> 00:41:07.730 in the place. Praise the Lord. You are in him 00:41:07.730 --> 00:41:12.929 and him in you. Hallelujah. You know his voice. 00:41:14.829 --> 00:41:30.730 Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. From verse 00:41:30.730 --> 00:41:42.139 13 to 17. For if you live according to the flesh, 00:41:42.300 --> 00:41:47.800 you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:51.320 death the deeds of the body, you will live. For 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:57.699 as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these 00:41:57.699 --> 00:42:00.940 are the sons of God. For you do not receive the 00:42:00.940 --> 00:42:04.079 spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.199 received the spirit of adoption by which we cry 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:27.840 out, Abba, Father. Praise the Lord. That we may 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.159 also be glorified together. In verse 14, he says 00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:34.409 what? For as many as are led by the Spirit of 00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:36.789 God, he's talking about salvation. As many as 00:42:36.789 --> 00:42:39.070 are led by the Spirit of God, he's talking about 00:42:39.070 --> 00:42:46.510 salvation. In verse 15, he tells us that, For 00:42:46.510 --> 00:42:49.130 you do not receive the Spirit of bondage again 00:42:49.130 --> 00:42:51.250 to fear, but you have received the Spirit of 00:42:51.250 --> 00:42:54.210 adoption, by whom you cry out, Abba, Father. 00:42:54.469 --> 00:43:01.130 Praise the Lord. So when he says, When we say 00:43:01.130 --> 00:43:04.550 we cry Abba Father, it's also another idiom, 00:43:04.570 --> 00:43:07.789 right? He's not saying that, you know, we just 00:43:07.789 --> 00:43:11.250 say Abba Father, Abba Father, Abba Father. That's 00:43:11.250 --> 00:43:13.369 not what he's saying. When he says by which we 00:43:13.369 --> 00:43:16.389 cry Abba Father, right? We're not shouting Abba 00:43:16.389 --> 00:43:19.469 Father, Abba Father. Do you understand? Maybe 00:43:19.469 --> 00:43:21.989 you expect something to happen. Praise the Lord. 00:43:22.449 --> 00:43:26.010 But what he's saying there is what? He shows 00:43:26.010 --> 00:43:29.619 relationship. By which we cry out, Abba, Father, 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:32.320 it simply means that we have relationship to 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:36.119 God or we have relationship with God. It shows 00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:40.139 relationship that we are dear to God. Praise 00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:42.440 the Lord. So when you say, Abba, Father, it shows 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:46.139 relationship that you are dear to God, our Father. 00:43:47.420 --> 00:43:52.840 In verse 16 tells us, He said, For the Spirit 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:56.019 himself bear witness with our spirits that we 00:43:56.019 --> 00:44:00.679 are children. The Spirit bears witness with our 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.599 spirit that we are children of God. Bears witness 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:18.820 is the word somatoro, right? Is S -Y -M -A -R 00:44:18.820 --> 00:44:29.349 -T -Y -R -E -O. So it means to bear joint witness. 00:44:30.010 --> 00:44:33.190 Praise the Lord. Two people saying the same thing. 00:44:33.769 --> 00:44:37.869 Right? Your witness is the same. What Pastor 00:44:37.869 --> 00:44:41.809 Custin is saying and what Mr. Gabriel is saying 00:44:41.809 --> 00:44:44.429 is they are talking about the same thing. They 00:44:44.429 --> 00:44:46.489 are bearing witness of the same fact. It's a 00:44:46.489 --> 00:44:49.289 joint witness. Two things saying the same thing. 00:44:49.690 --> 00:44:53.449 Two things as one. Praise the Lord. Meaning that 00:44:53.449 --> 00:44:56.170 we are in union with God. He said, for the Spirit 00:44:56.170 --> 00:44:58.309 bears witness with our spirit that we are children 00:44:58.309 --> 00:45:03.250 of God. Praise the Lord. That we're children 00:45:03.250 --> 00:45:06.130 of God. He's saying that we're in union with 00:45:06.130 --> 00:45:10.429 God. We are in union with God. Praise the Lord. 00:45:10.670 --> 00:45:14.250 Can somebody say, I'm in union with God? I am 00:45:14.250 --> 00:45:19.070 in union with God in Christ Jesus. I'm in union 00:45:19.070 --> 00:45:23.769 with God in Christ Jesus. It is a realm of knowledge. 00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:32.639 And absolute knowledge. Praise the Lord. So you 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:35.719 know the Father. You know the Father's will. 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.000 Praise the Lord. You are in union with the Father. 00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:42.840 What does that mean? You know the Father. You 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:45.199 know what the Father is saying. You know His 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:48.300 desires. Praise the Lord. You know the Father's 00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:50.960 will. You know what His plans are. You know what 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:54.480 His purposes are. And you walk in it. Praise 00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:58.840 the Lord. You are an absolute light, right? You 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.300 are an absolute direction. There is no shadow 00:46:01.300 --> 00:46:04.539 in your life. There is no shadow in this realm 00:46:04.539 --> 00:46:08.119 of life that we have in God. Praise the Lord. 00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:12.000 There is no shadow in this realm of God that 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.960 we have. Hallelujah. So when the gospel is preached, 00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:20.579 right, by us, it's to the unsaved. We preach 00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:24.920 the gospel to the unsaved. But we also live the 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.820 gospel. Praise the Lord. But we also live the 00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:32.500 gospel. Our life shows the gospel. We also speak 00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:35.980 the gospel. Praise the Lord. We speak it to ourselves. 00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:39.019 Praise the Lord. We speak it to ourselves. How 00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:41.239 do we speak it to ourselves? You see, I know 00:46:41.239 --> 00:46:43.480 the voice of the good shepherd. Praise the Lord. 00:46:43.699 --> 00:46:46.840 I know the voice of the good shepherd. I have 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:49.820 direction, absolute direction. I have the light 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:55.119 of life. Praise the Lord. So the fact of the 00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:58.440 gospel must form the way that we live our life. 00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:03.039 Praise the Lord. It must form the way that we 00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:06.219 live our lives. It must form our conversation. 00:47:06.619 --> 00:47:11.599 It must form the lifestyle that we live. Praise 00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:14.360 the Lord. The fact of the gospel must affect 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:18.239 every area of your life. Why? Because you have 00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:23.869 the Spirit of God in the inside of you. The realities 00:47:23.869 --> 00:47:27.030 are available now. Praise the Lord. It is no 00:47:27.030 --> 00:47:30.210 longer that it is at resurrection. Praise the 00:47:30.210 --> 00:47:33.550 Lord. It is an available reality to you right 00:47:33.550 --> 00:47:41.349 now. That you have absolute direction. That you 00:47:41.349 --> 00:47:44.909 don't live your life by chance. Praise the Lord. 00:47:45.030 --> 00:47:48.530 You don't live your life by chance. You will 00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:52.230 not say, if it works, we'll do it. You will not 00:47:52.230 --> 00:47:54.730 say it will do what it will do. Praise the Lord. 00:47:56.329 --> 00:48:01.349 You don't live your life by chance. You know 00:48:01.349 --> 00:48:05.190 the voice of the Father. You know the voice of 00:48:05.190 --> 00:48:08.909 the Father because you are born again. You know 00:48:08.909 --> 00:48:12.690 the voice of the Father because you are born 00:48:12.690 --> 00:48:15.639 again. You know the voice of the Father because 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:18.360 you are born again. It is a voice that you listen 00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:21.300 to, like I said earlier, that convinced you about 00:48:21.300 --> 00:48:24.579 Jesus. It is a voice that you had as salvation 00:48:24.579 --> 00:48:28.900 that convinced you about Jesus. So it is not 00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:33.340 normal for us as believers to say we do not hear 00:48:33.340 --> 00:48:38.300 God. Hallelujah. Or we are not sensitive to the 00:48:38.300 --> 00:48:43.119 leading of God. We are not sensitive to the leading 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:47.920 of God. Even before Catholicism is still far, 00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:51.940 a lot of things have been coming. Praise the 00:48:51.940 --> 00:48:54.480 Lord. And if I ask a couple of us, you will tell 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.820 us what you have seen or what you have had or 00:48:56.820 --> 00:48:59.639 what God will do. Praise the Lord. Because you 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.019 have the Spirit of God in the inside of you. 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:04.980 Praise the Lord. You will perceive warnings for 00:49:04.980 --> 00:49:07.480 people. You will perceive direction for people. 00:49:07.619 --> 00:49:09.599 You will perceive the things that people should 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:12.079 do. Praise the Lord. So it's not normal for you 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:15.159 to say that you don't hear the voice of the Father. 00:49:15.300 --> 00:49:17.800 You are not sensitive to the leading of the Holy 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:21.179 Spirit. Why? Because if you're a believer, it 00:49:21.179 --> 00:49:24.460 is the same voice that helped you or led you 00:49:24.460 --> 00:49:31.360 or made you believe the gospel. Praise the Lord. 00:49:31.949 --> 00:49:33.969 So you should not be happy that you don't hear, 00:49:34.130 --> 00:49:37.010 that you're not sensitive. You don't know what 00:49:37.010 --> 00:49:40.530 God is saying per time, per season. Praise the 00:49:40.530 --> 00:49:45.289 Lord. Or if you are, stop ignoring it. Don't 00:49:45.289 --> 00:49:46.670 say, what would they tell you? What would they 00:49:46.670 --> 00:49:51.489 say? Praise the Lord. One of the words of vision 00:49:51.489 --> 00:49:53.929 that came because of the cataclysmos and this 00:49:53.929 --> 00:49:57.329 church that we are having is because it is that 00:49:57.329 --> 00:50:01.110 people will begin to look, right? There's a vision. 00:50:01.789 --> 00:50:05.050 that we receive, that people of the outside, 00:50:05.269 --> 00:50:07.869 people that cover their hair, they are looking. 00:50:08.150 --> 00:50:09.809 They are sitting and looking. So what are they 00:50:09.809 --> 00:50:11.949 doing? They are interested in the things that 00:50:11.949 --> 00:50:15.190 are doing because this church, the Lord has been 00:50:15.190 --> 00:50:18.489 leading it. Praise the Lord. As a result of the 00:50:18.489 --> 00:50:21.110 cataclysm, there are people who are sitting somewhere 00:50:21.110 --> 00:50:24.429 looking and looking. What are they doing? Why 00:50:24.429 --> 00:50:27.650 are they in school from Monday to Friday or Saturday? 00:50:28.300 --> 00:50:30.340 There are people that are looking, and that is 00:50:30.340 --> 00:50:31.900 what God is saying He's going to be doing in 00:50:31.900 --> 00:50:34.380 this season. He's going to draw men to this place. 00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:38.500 Why? Because we are obedient to the voice of 00:50:38.500 --> 00:50:42.239 the Father. Praise the Lord. We are obedient 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:46.840 to the voice of the Father. So you can never 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:49.420 say, I've not had it. Praise the Lord. That is 00:50:49.420 --> 00:50:53.820 not a true statement. That is not a true statement. 00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:56.659 Why? Because He abides in the inside of you. 00:50:58.980 --> 00:51:01.539 Praise the Lord. He abides in the inside of you. 00:51:02.619 --> 00:51:07.940 You have no option but to hear him. So mixing 00:51:07.940 --> 00:51:10.639 up your life with many, many things or the things 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:14.099 that do not please God, you're just delaying 00:51:14.099 --> 00:51:18.420 or refusing the hearers. Praise the Lord. But 00:51:18.420 --> 00:51:20.760 he's telling you, oh, that place, don't go there. 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:22.960 Oh, that person, don't do this. Oh, that, don't 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:26.300 do this. But you sometimes ignore it. Praise 00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:29.760 the Lord. So you cannot say that you do not hear 00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:33.559 God because he has been speaking. He has convinced 00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:36.619 you about Jesus. He has convinced you about the 00:51:36.619 --> 00:51:40.599 things of the gospel. Praise the Lord. Can we 00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:43.920 just bow our heads and just begin to pray? And 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:47.380 just ask God to help us to be sensitive to the 00:51:47.380 --> 00:51:52.340 leading of the Spirit. We appreciate you being 00:51:52.340 --> 00:51:55.019 here today. We hope you carry this word with 00:51:55.019 --> 00:51:58.019 you throughout your week. Don't forget to check 00:51:58.019 --> 00:52:00.639 the show notes for additional insights. Stay 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.260 connected with us through our website or follow 00:52:03.260 --> 00:52:07.019 us on social media. If you are encouraged, share 00:52:07.019 --> 00:52:10.079 this message with someone you care about. Until 00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:11.679 next time, stay blessed.