WEBVTT 00:00:02.060 --> 00:00:07.559 Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:10.679 today's message with you. Don't go anywhere, 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.500 stay with us till the end for some valuable resources 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:18.359 to enrich your faith. Here's today's sermon. 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:27.300 All right, hallelujah. So we are welcome once 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:30.780 again. Today we have been going through many 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:35.179 teachings. Starting from our lead pastor to the 00:00:35.179 --> 00:00:37.920 associate pastor, Pastor Victor, was taking us 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.600 through silent teaching. And I'm sure we have 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.799 been blessed. I'm sure we have been blessed. 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.539 I'm sure we are growing. And I'm sure that we 00:00:47.539 --> 00:00:50.399 desire more, right? We are not tired of receiving. 00:00:50.659 --> 00:00:53.640 We can't be tired of receiving. We are ready 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.280 to receive more and more and more and more. Hallelujah. 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:00.920 Because there's abundance in God's spirit. Hallelujah. 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:05.849 There's abundance in God's spirit to give unto 00:01:05.849 --> 00:01:09.829 us, to give to his children. So this morning 00:01:09.829 --> 00:01:15.129 we would be starting, I think I would say the 00:01:15.129 --> 00:01:18.510 third direction for this conference. And the 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:22.549 title is The Gift of the Spirit. Right? The Gift 00:01:22.549 --> 00:01:30.599 of the Spirit. The Gift of the Spirit. The gift 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:37.040 of the spirits. And to start with, I'd like us 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:43.739 to open to Ephesians 1. Start with Ephesians 00:01:43.739 --> 00:01:51.280 1 this morning. Ephesians chapter 1. I'm using 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.859 my ESV Bible media team if you want to know, 00:01:54.939 --> 00:01:58.299 right? So I'm using my NKJVs. I didn't bring 00:01:58.299 --> 00:02:00.500 it today. So I'm going to use this. It's quite 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:03.719 difficult when you're functioning with a particular 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:07.180 Bible to easily switch like that. So I'm using 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.819 my ears. Will you walk with me with that? Can 00:02:09.819 --> 00:02:11.340 we just pray the Holy Ghost as we are seated 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:13.639 here? I just want us to pray the Holy Ghost. 00:02:16.259 --> 00:02:20.060 The prayer is that your mind is open to receive 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:23.379 the word of God. My mind is open to receive the 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:27.800 word of God. There is no distraction. There is 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:33.120 no confusion within my spirits. Can you just 00:02:33.120 --> 00:03:10.240 pray? There is no destruction in my mind. I received 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.139 the word of God that has saved me that I may 00:03:14.139 --> 00:03:36.219 be able to grow much more in Christ. My spirit 00:03:36.219 --> 00:03:39.719 is a lot. My spirit is a lot to receive the word 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:44.060 of God. As the word comes into my ears, my spirit 00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:47.349 receives it with joy. My spirit receives it with 00:03:47.349 --> 00:03:51.550 joy. My spirit receives it with joy. I am strengthened. 00:03:51.909 --> 00:03:55.050 I am strengthened as I listen to the word of 00:03:55.050 --> 00:04:04.969 God. I am strengthened. No distractions. No distractions. 00:04:05.469 --> 00:04:08.819 Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:28.379 Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Jesus. In 00:04:28.379 --> 00:04:31.480 Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So for the next two 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.420 days, we'll be going through this teaching, which 00:04:33.420 --> 00:04:35.660 is the gift of the spirits. Myself and Pastor 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:38.959 Kirsten will take us through this. And it's going 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.620 to be quite, it's going to be a great blessing 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:45.360 because most of some of the things that have 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.560 been taught by our lead pastor, Pastor Fred and 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:49.980 Pastor Victor, some of them will pop up again. 00:04:50.540 --> 00:04:54.680 Right. And that shows us that the scripture, 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:59.079 right, explains itself. Right. The scripture 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:03.660 is not a disjoint material, but a book spiritually. 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:08.339 How can I put it? Put together that the topics, 00:05:08.459 --> 00:05:10.819 right, the topics pertaining to the things of 00:05:10.819 --> 00:05:13.660 the spirit actually so connected. So we're going 00:05:13.660 --> 00:05:17.240 to see some of those things again and they will 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.139 help us to to grow in knowledge of Christ. So 00:05:20.139 --> 00:05:21.699 let's start. I would like us to read this entire 00:05:21.699 --> 00:05:24.240 chapter, actually, because this is where we are 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.730 starting from. The gift of the Spirit. We'll 00:05:26.730 --> 00:05:29.410 start from the understanding of what is spiritual. 00:05:30.470 --> 00:05:33.850 But we'll try to understand what is the Spirit. 00:05:34.910 --> 00:05:37.329 Right? We'll try to understand what is the Spirit. 00:05:37.410 --> 00:05:39.810 We'll start from spiritual. We'll try to understand 00:05:39.810 --> 00:05:42.910 what is the Spirit or who is the Spirit. Much 00:05:42.910 --> 00:05:47.910 better. And the promise of the Spirit. Then we 00:05:47.910 --> 00:05:52.730 will go into how the Spirit functions. Right? 00:05:52.750 --> 00:05:54.550 How the Spirit functions. So we start from spiritual. 00:05:55.339 --> 00:05:58.560 We try to understand what is the Spirit. Then 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.540 we try to understand much more in detail the 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:06.779 promise of the Spirit. Then how the Spirit functions, 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:11.459 right? How the Spirit functions. So from there, 00:06:11.500 --> 00:06:15.680 that's when we'll go to 1 Corinthians 12, which 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.879 is our main scripture that we are going to dwell 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.920 on so much. But we need to lay this foundation. 00:06:22.889 --> 00:06:27.290 We need to lay this foundation so that we can 00:06:27.290 --> 00:06:30.149 be able to have a clarity of what is being taught. 00:06:30.550 --> 00:06:33.970 So we read from Ephesians chapter 1 from beginning 00:06:33.970 --> 00:06:35.889 to the end. We're going to read everything. I'm 00:06:35.889 --> 00:06:40.290 going to read myself. Paul, an apostle of Christ 00:06:40.290 --> 00:06:44.949 Jesus, by the will of God to the saints who are 00:06:44.949 --> 00:06:48.689 in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus. 00:06:49.430 --> 00:06:54.689 Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and 00:06:54.689 --> 00:06:58.230 the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and 00:06:58.230 --> 00:07:01.329 the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:06.230 blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing 00:07:06.230 --> 00:07:09.290 in the heavenly places. Of course, we know that's 00:07:09.290 --> 00:07:13.029 in the heavenlies. Even as he chose us in him 00:07:13.029 --> 00:07:17.290 before the foundation of the world, that we should 00:07:17.290 --> 00:07:22.120 be holy. and blameless before him in love. He 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.899 predestined us for adoption to himself as sons, 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.439 through Jesus, according to the purpose of his 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.620 will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with 00:07:34.620 --> 00:07:39.220 which he has blessed us in the beloved. In him 00:07:39.220 --> 00:07:42.139 we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness 00:07:42.139 --> 00:07:45.439 of our trespasses, according to the riches of 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.740 his grace. which he lavished upon us in all wisdom 00:07:49.740 --> 00:07:53.899 and insight, making known to us the mystery of 00:07:53.899 --> 00:07:56.680 his will, according to his purpose, which he 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:00.459 set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness 00:08:00.459 --> 00:08:03.819 of time to unite all things in him, things in 00:08:03.819 --> 00:08:08.980 heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:12.199 an inheritance, having been predestined according 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:15.519 to the purpose of him, who works all things according 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:20.000 to the counsel, So that we who are the first 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.399 to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:27.519 glory. In him you also, when you heard the word 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.699 of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:35.240 in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. 00:08:36.139 --> 00:08:39.279 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.740 we acquire possession of it to the praise of 00:08:42.740 --> 00:08:46.389 his glory. For this reason, because I have heard 00:08:46.389 --> 00:08:48.070 of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and your 00:08:48.070 --> 00:08:51.610 love towards all the saints, I do not cease to 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:55.250 give thanks for remembering you in my prayers 00:08:55.250 --> 00:08:58.129 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father 00:08:58.129 --> 00:09:00.789 of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and 00:09:00.789 --> 00:09:04.210 revelation in the knowledge of him. Having the 00:09:04.210 --> 00:09:07.029 eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know, 00:09:07.149 --> 00:09:12.070 that you may know what is the hope to which he 00:09:12.070 --> 00:09:15.340 has called you. What are the riches of his glorious 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:19.779 inheritance in the saints? And what is the immeasurable 00:09:19.779 --> 00:09:23.399 greatness of his power towards us who believed? 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.200 According to the walking of his great might, 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.460 that he walked in Christ when he raised him from 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:32.019 the dead and seated him at his right hand in 00:09:32.019 --> 00:09:35.080 the heavenly places. Far above all rule and authority 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:38.259 and power and dominion and above every name that 00:09:38.259 --> 00:09:42.230 is named, not only in this age, but also. In 00:09:42.230 --> 00:09:46.409 the one to come. And he put all things. Under 00:09:46.409 --> 00:09:50.450 his feet. And gave him as head. Over all things 00:09:50.450 --> 00:09:54.909 to the church. Which is the body. The fullness 00:09:54.909 --> 00:09:59.769 of him. Who fits all in all. Hallelujah. Amen. 00:10:00.090 --> 00:10:03.429 So we are starting to pick from here. First. 00:10:04.029 --> 00:10:07.610 The number of things we need to start with. And 00:10:07.610 --> 00:10:13.029 is in verse 3. Verse 3. It says he blessed us, 00:10:13.070 --> 00:10:17.509 right? Blessed be the God of our father. Blessed 00:10:17.509 --> 00:10:19.590 be God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who 00:10:19.590 --> 00:10:23.330 blessed us in Christ with every spiritual what? 00:10:23.929 --> 00:10:28.210 Blessings, right? Every spiritual blessing in 00:10:28.210 --> 00:10:31.509 the heavenlies, right? Every spiritual blessing 00:10:31.509 --> 00:10:34.669 in the heavenlies. So we see spiritual blessing 00:10:34.669 --> 00:10:40.279 there. Now, we see Paul writing a number of things 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:45.500 that is the believer's spiritual blessing. Right? 00:10:45.580 --> 00:10:48.100 We see what that is. Of course, we know the summary 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:52.059 of all that is salvation. But Paul had to bring 00:10:52.059 --> 00:10:56.159 it out that we might see clearly what is happening 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.879 in salvation. Do we get it? So, Paul listed those 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.220 things. Not that they are... distinct away from 00:11:04.220 --> 00:11:07.720 themselves, but this is what happened at salvation. 00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:10.899 So it's not like you receive forgiveness of sins, 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:14.480 then after that you become sons. After that you 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.259 become predestined. No, no, no. It's something 00:11:17.259 --> 00:11:19.779 that happened once at salvation. I'm going to 00:11:19.779 --> 00:11:24.019 show you the one that is left. If you go to verse 00:11:24.019 --> 00:11:30.830 13, it said, When we heard the word of truth, 00:11:30.970 --> 00:11:33.690 the gospel of his salvation, believed in him, 00:11:33.889 --> 00:11:35.909 we are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 00:11:36.210 --> 00:11:39.309 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until 00:11:39.309 --> 00:11:42.090 we acquire the possession of it to the praise 00:11:42.090 --> 00:11:47.389 of his glory. Verse 14 is what the believer is 00:11:47.389 --> 00:11:50.470 waiting for. Everything from beginning up until 00:11:50.470 --> 00:11:53.350 that time we have received. In fact, it sums 00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:59.529 this all up as the promised Spirit. Actually, 00:11:59.590 --> 00:12:02.690 he sums all that things all up and brings it 00:12:02.690 --> 00:12:04.669 up and said, it is the promised spirit. So let's 00:12:04.669 --> 00:12:06.870 see. He said, even as he chose us from foundation 00:12:06.870 --> 00:12:08.909 of the world that we should be holy and blameless, 00:12:09.049 --> 00:12:11.889 right? He predestined us for adoption, which 00:12:11.889 --> 00:12:15.210 is the same thing explained using the concept 00:12:15.210 --> 00:12:18.409 of adoption there, according to the purpose of 00:12:18.409 --> 00:12:20.830 his will, to the praise of his glory. Verse seven, 00:12:20.950 --> 00:12:23.210 in him we have redemption through his blood, 00:12:23.309 --> 00:12:26.870 the forgiveness of our sins, right? This is also 00:12:26.870 --> 00:12:29.379 adoption. This is also adoption. Bringing it 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:31.860 out, using different things. Of course, these 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:36.779 terminologies, adoption, being predestined, being 00:12:36.779 --> 00:12:41.399 chosen, the redemption through his blood, the 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.379 forgiveness of our trespasses, all these things 00:12:44.379 --> 00:12:50.649 are found in salvation when a man believes. right? 00:12:50.730 --> 00:12:52.649 It's found in salvation when a man believes. 00:12:52.909 --> 00:12:55.950 So verse eight says, he lavished upon us in all 00:12:55.950 --> 00:12:58.370 wisdom and might, making known to us the misery 00:12:58.370 --> 00:13:01.889 of his will. So we know misery of his will means 00:13:01.889 --> 00:13:04.129 that something just like pastor told us, right? 00:13:04.149 --> 00:13:06.769 Something that is, uh, now it's not something 00:13:06.769 --> 00:13:08.190 that I said, but something that is revelation 00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:10.330 that needs to be explained, right? Something 00:13:10.330 --> 00:13:14.289 that needs to be, uh, opened up, right? And given 00:13:14.289 --> 00:13:16.710 insight. So this is what God has planned a full 00:13:16.710 --> 00:13:19.009 time, according to the purpose, which is set 00:13:19.009 --> 00:13:21.720 forth. in Christ. Verse 10 now says, as a plan 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.059 for the fullness of time to unite all things 00:13:24.059 --> 00:13:27.120 in heaven and on earth. Now that's all, uniting 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.159 all things in heaven and on earth will take us 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.340 to Genesis 1, but we're going to come back to 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:35.480 that, right? So the emphasis here is that we 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.879 have seen up until verse 14, all that has taken 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:46.639 place in the believer. So all of that, the summary 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.519 of it is salvation. And the, peak of it took 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.820 place through the promised Holy Spirit. And what 00:13:54.820 --> 00:13:56.720 we are waiting for is the redemption of the body. 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.299 So this is spiritual blessings. Now, upon this 00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:04.679 foundation, okay, upon all that Christ has done 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:09.179 and that which you have received, say we have 00:14:09.179 --> 00:14:13.919 received the promise as a guarantee of the redemption 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:18.279 of the body, right? So we have received the promise 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.320 as a guarantee for the redemption. Upon all of 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.679 this, Paul now began to pray for them. Right? 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.580 He began to pray. And we need to check what is 00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:31.480 the essence of Paul's prayer. Paul is not praying 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:36.080 for forgiveness of sins for them. Paul is not 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:40.220 praying that they will be predestined. Paul is 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:43.960 not praying that a plan will come to pass. No, 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.100 Paul wrote about their reality from verse 10. 00:14:47.019 --> 00:14:51.559 Three, up until 14. So he was not praying for 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.980 forgiveness of sin for them. He was not praying 00:14:53.980 --> 00:14:58.539 about so that they may be able to come into salvation. 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:00.980 He wasn't praying for that, right? But he was 00:15:00.980 --> 00:15:04.840 telling them about their reality. So what is 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:08.519 Paul's prayer for these people, right? After 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:12.399 listing their spiritual blessings. He says, verse 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:14.440 15, for this reason, because I have heard of 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.070 your feet in the Lord Jesus Christ. and your 00:15:17.070 --> 00:15:19.370 love towards the saints. So they believed. I 00:15:19.370 --> 00:15:21.669 do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering 00:15:21.669 --> 00:15:23.870 you in my prayers. Now, this is it. That the 00:15:23.870 --> 00:15:26.049 God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, 00:15:26.129 --> 00:15:29.149 may give you the wisdom of the spirits. We've 00:15:29.149 --> 00:15:32.429 taught that in cell meetings, so you should understand 00:15:32.429 --> 00:15:35.149 this. The wisdom of the spirit and revelation 00:15:35.149 --> 00:15:40.379 in the knowledge of him. Right? So they will 00:15:40.379 --> 00:15:42.779 walk in the wisdom of the Spirit. They will walk 00:15:42.779 --> 00:15:44.980 in revelation, right? Of course, the wisdom of 00:15:44.980 --> 00:15:47.240 the Spirit is revelation. Right? I say it again. 00:15:47.259 --> 00:15:48.980 The wisdom of the Spirit is revelation in Christ. 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:52.840 So, we walk in revelation in the knowledge of 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.220 Him. Having the eyes of the heart enlightened, 00:15:56.419 --> 00:16:01.700 that they may what? Know. Know. That they may 00:16:01.700 --> 00:16:06.639 know what is the hope to which He has called 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.210 them. So when you see the word hope to which 00:16:10.210 --> 00:16:14.409 he has called, it means that the believer is 00:16:14.409 --> 00:16:18.169 called for a service. After receiving spiritual 00:16:18.169 --> 00:16:22.990 blessings, the believer is called for a service. 00:16:23.370 --> 00:16:26.210 You are not just called to give the things of 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:28.230 the spirit to you, to have the gift of the spirit, 00:16:28.289 --> 00:16:32.110 to have all of that and do nothing. But the believer 00:16:32.110 --> 00:16:38.539 is called for a service. So we must know, That 00:16:38.539 --> 00:16:41.240 we have been called to service. And the things 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:46.759 that pertain to that service. We must know that 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:50.259 we have been called to service. The hope of our 00:16:50.259 --> 00:16:54.120 calling. And the things that pertain to that 00:16:54.120 --> 00:17:00.179 service. The things that pertain to that service. 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.119 So the first prayer here is that they may know. 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.740 the riches of his glory, and what is the immeasurable 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:13.640 greatness of his power towards us who believe 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:17.559 according to the workings of his great might. 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:26.180 So, we can say that a believer is called to service, 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:32.849 right? A believer is called to service And the 00:17:32.849 --> 00:17:37.930 service is worked, right? Through the power of 00:17:37.930 --> 00:17:41.349 God. He said, according to the working of his 00:17:41.349 --> 00:17:45.890 great might. So he said, verse 19, he said, and 00:17:45.890 --> 00:17:47.769 what is the immeasurable greatness of his power 00:17:47.769 --> 00:17:51.349 towards us who has believed, right? Who believed 00:17:51.349 --> 00:17:53.829 according to the workings of his great might, 00:17:53.890 --> 00:17:56.109 which he worked in Christ and when he raised 00:17:56.109 --> 00:17:57.869 him from the dead. So it means that there's a 00:17:57.869 --> 00:18:02.119 power at work. Right? There's a power at work 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:06.019 in the believer that helps the believer to function 00:18:06.019 --> 00:18:11.859 effectively. So God has not just called us to 00:18:11.859 --> 00:18:14.200 know the hope of our calling, but there's a power 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.980 that is at work in the believer. Amen. So we 00:18:18.980 --> 00:18:21.660 need to know that which is at work. And that 00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:25.339 is why this gift of the Spirit is important for 00:18:25.339 --> 00:18:29.039 us to function. It is for us to what? To function. 00:18:30.059 --> 00:18:32.380 The gift of spirit is for us to function and 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:36.339 we need to know. Now, Romans 1, let's see other 00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:39.299 things apart from Ephesians 1. Let's see other 00:18:39.299 --> 00:18:42.200 things, other areas where Paul uses the word, 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:47.680 the word spiritual. Actually, the word spiritual, 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.859 we can write down by now, probably should have 00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:52.920 been said in one of the teachings or we know 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.119 it before, is pneumaticus. The word spiritual 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:05.460 is pneumaticus. P -N -E -U, right? P -N -E -U 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:16.599 -M -A -T -I -K -O -S, right? P -N -E -U -M -A 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:20.740 -T -I -K -O -S. So pneumaticus. And the word 00:19:20.740 --> 00:19:22.920 blessing there, of course, is eulogia, right? 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:24.799 So spiritual blessings. In this context, it's 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:28.039 eulogia that blessing is. So we want to know, 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.759 right? Things that pertain to spirituals. I'm 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:34.660 going to break down pneumaticus in subsequent 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:37.259 time when I'm going to teach. But right now, 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:42.019 that is just enough. So Romans 1 .11. Let's see. 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.180 So in the spirit, it means that the believer 00:19:44.180 --> 00:19:46.880 has abundance of blessings. And we have seen 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:50.990 Paul writing to the Ephesians and saying... This 00:19:50.990 --> 00:19:53.950 is all. The believer has this. And when I said 00:19:53.950 --> 00:19:56.650 that is salvation, and he crowned it all by saying 00:19:56.650 --> 00:19:59.170 the promised Holy Spirit, right? So let's follow 00:19:59.170 --> 00:20:02.210 up. Let's follow gradually. Now, in Romans 1, 00:20:02.329 --> 00:20:08.109 11, which Pastor Victor read this as well during 00:20:08.109 --> 00:20:11.730 his teaching, he said, for I long to see that 00:20:11.730 --> 00:20:16.990 I may impart to you some spiritual gifts to strengthen 00:20:16.990 --> 00:20:22.400 you. Right? To strengthen you. So, other things 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.980 that we can see also, right, is spiritual gifts. 00:20:28.900 --> 00:20:30.839 When it comes to the spiritual, the believer 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:36.880 has spiritual gifts. He has spiritual gifts. 00:20:38.420 --> 00:20:40.119 So, these are things pertaining to the believer. 00:20:40.180 --> 00:20:41.819 So, of course, we are talking about spiritual 00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:43.859 in the context of the believer. So, the believer 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:46.759 has spiritual gifts. And therefore, Paul says 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.299 that I might impact on you. Some spiritual gifts, 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:56.180 right? Why? To function and serve. That when 00:20:56.180 --> 00:20:59.440 they know the hope of their calling, right? They 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:01.900 will be able to function. So spiritual gifts 00:21:01.900 --> 00:21:04.460 is one of the things that we see that Paul uses 00:21:04.460 --> 00:21:09.400 the word spiritual to explain. Romans 7 verse 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:22.880 14. Romans 7 verse 14. For we know that the law 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:27.400 is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:33.279 sin. The law is what? Spiritual, right? So it 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:38.460 means that the writings of the prophets, okay? 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.400 The writings of prophets, the writings of Moses, 00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:47.200 right? Has a spiritual impact. It has something 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:53.690 to do with the spirit of God. That the writings 00:21:53.690 --> 00:21:57.329 of the prophet Moses has something to do with 00:21:57.329 --> 00:22:02.150 the spirit of God. So it's spiritual. That is 00:22:02.150 --> 00:22:05.309 why he said the law is not evil, but the law 00:22:05.309 --> 00:22:09.109 is spiritual. It means that the law can impact 00:22:09.109 --> 00:22:13.069 spiritually. Right? The law can impact spiritually. 00:22:13.450 --> 00:22:16.069 When the law is explained correctly, the law 00:22:16.069 --> 00:22:19.230 has a spiritual impact in the life of the hearer 00:22:19.230 --> 00:22:25.470 of the law. All right. Romans 15, 27, still in 00:22:25.470 --> 00:22:28.490 Romans, Romans 15, 27. So we see spiritual gifts. 00:22:28.609 --> 00:22:32.410 We see the law is spiritual. So for they were 00:22:32.410 --> 00:22:37.349 pleased to do, they were pleased to do it. And 00:22:37.349 --> 00:22:41.230 indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles 00:22:41.230 --> 00:22:43.529 have come to share in their spiritual blessings, 00:22:43.849 --> 00:22:48.710 they ought also to be of service to them in material 00:22:48.710 --> 00:22:52.799 blessings. So here, we see spiritual blessings, 00:22:53.099 --> 00:22:55.940 right? It means that the Gentiles, those who 00:22:55.940 --> 00:22:59.240 are, they've not known the Lord before, unbelievers, 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:03.259 right? They have come to partake in the spiritual 00:23:03.259 --> 00:23:06.039 blessings, right? And they also ought to do what? 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.299 To be of service. Of course, here talking about 00:23:09.299 --> 00:23:12.079 in material blessings, right? Of course, he uses 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.680 material blessings there to serve. So it means 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.460 that being part of a spiritual blessing brings 00:23:18.460 --> 00:23:21.900 us towards service again. Brings us to service 00:23:21.900 --> 00:23:26.960 again. So we can say Gentiles are partakers of 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:29.180 the spiritual blessings and therefore whosoever 00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:33.619 partake must serve, must minister to others. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:37.920 Whosoever partake of spiritual blessings must 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.420 minister to others. Whosoever partake of spiritual 00:23:42.420 --> 00:23:48.680 blessings must minister to others. 1 Corinthians 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:53.980 1 Corinthians 2 .15. Can you go to 15? That same 00:23:53.980 --> 00:23:57.319 1 Corinthians 2 .15. It's that a spiritual person 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.619 judges all things, but is himself to be judged 00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:03.619 by no one. So a spiritual person's discernment, 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.559 a spiritual person's discernment can judge. Right? 00:24:07.579 --> 00:24:10.299 Can judge. These are things that are still spiritual. 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:13.339 Right? We don't find them in Ephesians 1 or we 00:24:13.339 --> 00:24:17.759 find them in... explicitly written like this, 00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:20.240 but we see that a spiritual person can judge. 00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:25.539 Right? So we look forward to understanding the 00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:27.200 things of the Spirit very well that we might 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.880 be able to discern, to judge, to decide, to perceive. 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.960 So a spiritual person can judge. 1 Corinthians 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:40.140 3 verse 1. 1 Corinthians 3 verse 1. Let's move 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:45.480 a little bit faster. It's the brothers. I could 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.440 not address you as spiritual people, but as people 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:51.740 of the flesh, as infants in Christ. So spiritual 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:57.099 is also used as a means of communication, right? 00:24:57.140 --> 00:24:58.740 We can say a mode of communication. I do not 00:24:58.740 --> 00:25:01.839 address you as spiritual. It means that the people 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:05.339 who are spiritual believers, there's a way of 00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:09.180 communicating to them. So Paul had to address 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:12.759 them as babies, as those who, as if they don't 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:16.430 know the things of the spirits. Right? As if 00:25:16.430 --> 00:25:18.529 they don't know the things. So, as a communication 00:25:18.529 --> 00:25:20.750 within the spirit, there's a way we communicate 00:25:20.750 --> 00:25:24.089 spiritual things. There's a way we communicate. 00:25:24.150 --> 00:25:25.789 There's also a mode of communication that's spiritual, 00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:31.009 communicating spiritual. 1 Corinthians 10, 3 00:25:31.009 --> 00:25:35.890 and 4. 1 Corinthians 10, 3 and 4. Let's look 00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:37.750 at 1 Corinthians 10, 3 and 4, if you can help 00:25:37.750 --> 00:25:45.890 me. Go from verse 1, please. For I do not want 00:25:45.890 --> 00:25:49.390 you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers 00:25:49.390 --> 00:25:51.970 were all under the cloud and all passed through 00:25:51.970 --> 00:25:56.529 the sea and were all baptized into Moses in the 00:25:56.529 --> 00:26:03.069 cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual 00:26:03.069 --> 00:26:06.430 food and all drank the same spiritual drink for 00:26:06.430 --> 00:26:10.029 they drank from the spiritual rock that followed 00:26:10.029 --> 00:26:12.549 them and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, 00:26:12.809 --> 00:26:16.210 with most of them, God was not pleased for they 00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:19.650 were overthrown in the wilderness. Now, this 00:26:19.650 --> 00:26:23.529 is a good one to add a layer on the teaching 00:26:23.529 --> 00:26:27.869 about baptism, right? I think it was Pastor Victor 00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:29.509 that was teaching about baptism. Oh, Pastor Fred. 00:26:29.589 --> 00:26:30.869 Okay, it was Pastor Fred that was teaching about 00:26:30.869 --> 00:26:34.269 it. And talking about snow water baptism, right? 00:26:34.369 --> 00:26:37.650 So let's look at this. If to be baptized into 00:26:37.650 --> 00:26:41.390 Moses would mean to be dipped into water. Let's 00:26:41.390 --> 00:26:43.940 just... Touch upon that a little bit. So, and 00:26:43.940 --> 00:26:45.839 we're all baptized into Moses. So what would 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:49.779 this mean? Can anybody try? To be baptized into 00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:56.599 Moses. Okay, what would baptism mean here, at 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.940 least? To be a mass, right? To be a mass. So 00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:04.019 can we say to be a mass into Moses for a start? 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.079 Don't worry, we'll explain Moses, right? To be 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.529 baptized into Moses. Yes, we can say that. Now, 00:27:10.569 --> 00:27:14.130 when the scripture uses Moses, it's talking about 00:27:14.130 --> 00:27:17.410 what? The writings and the doctrine of Moses. 00:27:18.369 --> 00:27:21.349 Do we get it? So he said that they were immense 00:27:21.349 --> 00:27:27.589 in the teachings of prophet Moses. How do I know? 00:27:27.910 --> 00:27:31.630 Look at what he said. And they all ate. That's 00:27:31.630 --> 00:27:34.809 what? Spiritual food. They did what? They ate 00:27:34.809 --> 00:27:37.839 the same spiritual food. Oh, glory to God. The 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:42.759 same spiritual food. And all drank the same spiritual 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.940 drink. You see this same, this word same. I think 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:47.460 we need to pay attention to it. We'll study it 00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:49.180 very well when it comes to the same spirits. 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.099 Right? If we come to 1 Corinthians 12, you'll 00:27:52.099 --> 00:27:55.519 see the word from the same spirits. Here we see 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:58.079 the same spiritual drink, the same spiritual 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:04.099 food. And they drank from that. And they drank 00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:05.779 from the same spiritual drink. For they drank 00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:07.700 from the spiritual rock that followed them. And 00:28:07.700 --> 00:28:10.660 that rock was what? Christ. This is the explanation. 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:14.619 Moses is teaching that he was feeding them with. 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:16.079 Let me use this way so that we can understand. 00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:19.940 What Moses was feeding the Israelites with, right? 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:24.380 Immensing them in his teachings. Everything he 00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:26.400 taught was about Christ. That is why the law 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.140 is spiritual. Okay? That is why the law is spiritual. 00:28:32.569 --> 00:28:35.450 Because everything Moses taught them and fed 00:28:35.450 --> 00:28:40.990 them with was Christ. So if the spiritual drink 00:28:40.990 --> 00:28:44.390 is spiritual, the spiritual food is spiritual, 00:28:44.569 --> 00:28:50.029 the spiritual rock, then the writing that communicated 00:28:50.029 --> 00:28:53.490 that spiritual drink and rock, which is the law, 00:28:53.549 --> 00:28:58.230 is spiritual. Do we get it? So they were enjoying 00:28:58.230 --> 00:29:01.829 the teachings of Moses, so to say. Now let's 00:29:01.829 --> 00:29:03.369 see. He said that rock that followed them was 00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:05.549 what? Christ. So we know that rock. I think pastor 00:29:05.549 --> 00:29:08.569 dealt with that very well. Probably pre -cathartism 00:29:08.569 --> 00:29:11.890 or inter -cathartism. That rock was clearly explained. 00:29:12.750 --> 00:29:16.410 Now he said, nevertheless, verse five, with most 00:29:16.410 --> 00:29:19.549 of them, God was not pleased for they were overthrown 00:29:19.549 --> 00:29:23.210 in the wilderness. So although Moses was teaching, 00:29:23.529 --> 00:29:28.650 they were walking in what? Unbelief. Although 00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:30.900 Moses was teaching, They were walking in what? 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:33.619 Unbelief. They said God was not pleased with 00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:38.359 them. Hebrews 11, right? Without what? Faith. 00:29:38.619 --> 00:29:43.339 No man can please God. That was for salvation 00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:48.799 for them, right? That was for salvation for them. 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.619 So Hebrews 11, we can add that, right? We can 00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:56.160 add that because that helps us to clarify why 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.289 God was not pleased with them. So, Hebrews 11 00:30:00.289 --> 00:30:04.430 verse 6. It says, And without faith it is impossible 00:30:04.430 --> 00:30:07.849 to please Him. For whosoever will draw near to 00:30:07.849 --> 00:30:11.430 Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards 00:30:11.430 --> 00:30:15.150 those who seek Him. So, they did not believe. 00:30:15.369 --> 00:30:17.230 They did not receive salvation because they did 00:30:17.230 --> 00:30:20.009 not believe. And God was not pleased with them. 00:30:20.269 --> 00:30:23.750 Right? Good. Hallelujah. Are we blessed? We are 00:30:23.750 --> 00:30:26.829 receiving, right? Glory. So, we see that there 00:30:26.829 --> 00:30:31.049 is belief and God was not pleased. Now, let's 00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:33.130 now go to our key scripture, 1 Corinthians 12, 00:30:33.130 --> 00:30:36.670 verse 1. I'll just read that. 1 Corinthians 12, 00:30:36.789 --> 00:30:41.809 verse 1. And it says, now concerning spirituals, 00:30:41.809 --> 00:30:44.250 brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. 00:30:45.170 --> 00:30:49.869 Concerning spirituals, actually, right? We're 00:30:49.869 --> 00:30:51.410 going to repeat it again. Actually, that word, 00:30:51.529 --> 00:30:53.930 there's no spiritual gift there. There's no gifts. 00:30:54.410 --> 00:30:56.990 We've emphasized that there's no gift. You have 00:30:56.990 --> 00:30:59.210 to use your insalina. You have to use your materials 00:30:59.210 --> 00:31:02.769 to check very well. Because what Moses communicated, 00:31:03.170 --> 00:31:06.210 sorry, yes, what Paul communicated rather here 00:31:06.210 --> 00:31:14.130 was starting from salvation to the gifts then 00:31:14.130 --> 00:31:18.549 to several ministerial offices that are in the 00:31:18.549 --> 00:31:23.029 church. Right? Paul started with, concerning 00:31:23.029 --> 00:31:26.009 spiritual, I don't want you to be ignorant. It 00:31:26.009 --> 00:31:28.730 means that everything pertaining spiritual, I 00:31:28.730 --> 00:31:31.150 don't want you to be ignorant about it. Right? 00:31:31.549 --> 00:31:33.990 So, if you see, that is why if you go down, you 00:31:33.990 --> 00:31:36.710 will see that he started, verse 3, he started 00:31:36.710 --> 00:31:38.609 saying that, therefore, I want you to understand 00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:40.710 that no one speaking of the Spirit ever says 00:31:40.710 --> 00:31:43.250 Jesus is a cause and no one can say Jesus is 00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:46.410 Lord except by the Spirit. That's born again, 00:31:46.509 --> 00:31:49.460 being born again. Right? So, Everything he wanted 00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:51.240 to write in this chapter was about spiritual, 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.599 from being born again to the gift of the spiritual, 00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:57.059 administrations and ministries. But I think, 00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:59.200 right, when people read, when translators read 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:03.059 the entire chapter, right, they realized that 00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:05.259 it was overemphasizing. I mean, this is my guess, 00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:07.920 right? Overemphasizing on gift and ministries 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.359 and all of that. And they just speak because 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:12.220 actually there is spiritual gifts. Because we 00:32:12.220 --> 00:32:14.740 say that this is not there, does not mean that 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:16.160 there's nothing called spiritual gifts. There 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.910 is spiritual gifts. which is what we are teaching. 00:32:19.130 --> 00:32:22.910 But we are saying that within this verse, right? 00:32:23.230 --> 00:32:28.190 That gift will be like, is like saying that I 00:32:28.190 --> 00:32:31.289 want to talk about Orange Hall, right? I want 00:32:31.289 --> 00:32:34.450 to tell you so many things on Orange Hall and 00:32:34.450 --> 00:32:37.230 this podium. I want to talk about Orange Hall 00:32:37.230 --> 00:32:39.410 and the stage. I don't need to say the stage 00:32:39.410 --> 00:32:42.490 again. Everything about Orange Hall, the stage 00:32:42.490 --> 00:32:45.950 includes it. Do we get it? So everything inside 00:32:45.950 --> 00:32:48.690 spiritual, the gift is also there. Service is 00:32:48.690 --> 00:32:52.309 also there. So that is why we always say this 00:32:52.309 --> 00:32:57.390 is not supposed to be included in that. So concerning 00:32:57.390 --> 00:32:59.609 spiritual, I'll have you not to be ignorant. 00:33:00.150 --> 00:33:02.750 So we have seen that the spiritual gifts, we 00:33:02.750 --> 00:33:06.549 have seen that spiritual encompasses all, right? 00:33:06.609 --> 00:33:09.750 Gifts, the law is spiritual. It also includes 00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:11.950 service, right? When we serve each other, it's 00:33:11.950 --> 00:33:15.150 spiritual, right? It also includes service. Now, 00:33:19.309 --> 00:33:21.509 We can say, you can write this down because some 00:33:21.509 --> 00:33:24.690 things I put them in bold here. The reality of 00:33:24.690 --> 00:33:32.130 the believer's blessings. The reality of the 00:33:32.130 --> 00:33:38.210 believer's blessing is more spiritual than physical. 00:33:38.809 --> 00:33:41.190 Okay? The reality of the believer's blessing 00:33:41.190 --> 00:33:52.390 is more spiritual than physical. We can put 2 00:33:52.390 --> 00:33:57.869 Corinthians 5 .16. It's more spiritual than physical, 00:33:58.150 --> 00:34:01.849 right? So I'm not nullifying that there will 00:34:01.849 --> 00:34:03.710 be material blessings. Don't forget, it's not 00:34:03.710 --> 00:34:05.750 because Gentiles have become particles of spiritual 00:34:05.750 --> 00:34:08.510 blessings. They can also what? Minister material 00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:12.269 needs. Do we get it? But the material need in 00:34:12.269 --> 00:34:17.929 the physical is not the primary. Okay? It's not 00:34:17.929 --> 00:34:21.199 the primary. Right? James will also say that 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.239 if you have a brother in need and you do not 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:25.940 support, right? How can you say you have the 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:28.320 love of God in you? But what we are saying is 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.860 that the spiritual is more spiritual. There is 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:34.039 a limit to what you can get in the physical. 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.300 Like from a brother. How much? How well? How 00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:41.699 big? Right? How beautiful can it be? It's nothing 00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:45.110 compared to the spiritual. There's nothing compared 00:34:45.110 --> 00:34:47.949 to the spiritual. So let's go. Now that we have 00:34:47.949 --> 00:34:49.949 talked about spiritual and I said it's actually 00:34:49.949 --> 00:34:52.590 things of things pertaining to the spirit, right? 00:34:52.650 --> 00:34:54.510 We've seen them. The law is something that pertains 00:34:54.510 --> 00:34:58.329 to the spirit and all of that. We need to understand 00:34:58.329 --> 00:35:01.670 the spirit first. Okay? We need to understand. 00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:04.489 So now we are heading towards understanding what 00:35:04.489 --> 00:35:07.710 is the spirit or who is the spirit, right? Who 00:35:07.710 --> 00:35:14.449 is the spirit? We are heading towards understanding 00:35:14.449 --> 00:35:19.510 the Spirit of God, right? Spirit. Because it's 00:35:19.510 --> 00:35:22.769 from the Spirit that we are spiritual, right? 00:35:22.809 --> 00:35:25.309 It's from the Spirit that we have the word spiritual. 00:35:25.309 --> 00:35:28.250 So we need to understand what the Spirit is or 00:35:28.250 --> 00:35:31.510 who the Spirit is. Genesis chapter 1. So let's 00:35:31.510 --> 00:35:41.269 start going. Genesis chapter 1. In the beginning. 00:35:42.730 --> 00:35:46.789 God created the heavens and the earth. The earth 00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:50.530 was without form and void. And darkness was over 00:35:50.530 --> 00:35:54.949 the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was 00:35:54.949 --> 00:35:59.889 hovering over the face of the waters. And God 00:35:59.889 --> 00:36:03.409 said, let there be light. Let there be light, 00:36:03.469 --> 00:36:07.730 Genesis 1. Now, what we want to do now is to 00:36:07.730 --> 00:36:16.090 check across. All that God was doing and is doing, 00:36:16.210 --> 00:36:22.010 how the Spirit has been functioning or how the 00:36:22.010 --> 00:36:28.030 Spirit has been the, how can I put it? The one 00:36:28.030 --> 00:36:31.329 executing, yes, that's the word, executing the 00:36:31.329 --> 00:36:35.570 plans. It's the one that is executing the plan 00:36:35.570 --> 00:36:39.889 and the Spirit itself is also the plan. Okay? 00:36:39.969 --> 00:36:43.190 So, Is the one, the spirit of God is the one 00:36:43.190 --> 00:36:45.610 executing the plan of God and the spirit itself 00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:51.510 is the plan. So that is what we want to check. 00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:54.050 That's why I started with Genesis. So what we 00:36:54.050 --> 00:36:58.710 will see in Genesis, right? I don't know if you 00:36:58.710 --> 00:37:00.489 have written that, that the spirit is the one 00:37:00.489 --> 00:37:04.449 executing the plan and the spirit itself is the 00:37:04.449 --> 00:37:10.719 plan, right? Is the plan. It's the plan of God 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.300 across all time. So in all God was doing, we're 00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:19.179 going to see it in creation, in Christ, in what 00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:21.619 he said, promised in the life of people. It was 00:37:21.619 --> 00:37:25.500 the spirit that was working and the spirit was 00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:31.059 working to impact itself on men. Right. Amen. 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.739 So Genesis 1. Now what we see there, right, is 00:37:34.739 --> 00:37:37.280 actually, is that the Spirit of God, and I think 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.760 we have explained this before, that is Ruach 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.380 Elohim. It's actually Ruach Elohim. It's actually 00:37:43.380 --> 00:37:48.719 the Spirit's God. Okay? It's actually the Spirit's 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:51.659 God. This, you know, that is why, I think it 00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:53.099 was Pastor Fred that was teaching it as well, 00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:55.260 that the only way, Pastor Fred was saying that, 00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:58.980 the only way you can explain Trinity is only 00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:03.050 in salvation. Only. That is the way you, I mean, 00:38:03.070 --> 00:38:05.250 that thing called Trinity or the concept of Trinity. 00:38:05.309 --> 00:38:10.090 It's only, if you go out of that, it's, it's, 00:38:10.090 --> 00:38:12.909 it's nothing like you wouldn't get anything spiritual 00:38:12.909 --> 00:38:16.349 in that. You won't get anything spiritual. So. 00:38:17.829 --> 00:38:21.829 Here we see that it says the Spirit God. Of course, 00:38:21.849 --> 00:38:23.650 for English to be able to, for people to be able 00:38:23.650 --> 00:38:26.130 to read, sometimes they put off, they put these 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:28.369 words there, but it is Ruach Elohim. So we can 00:38:28.369 --> 00:38:32.929 say the Spirit is what? Is who? God. The Spirit 00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:37.650 is God. It's not the idea of the Spirit was there 00:38:37.650 --> 00:38:39.449 in the beginning. God was there. Jesus was not 00:38:39.449 --> 00:38:42.820 there. There's nothing like that. Right? If you 00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:45.159 go back to John that says in the beginning was 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.039 the world, that same world is still the spirit 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.420 is Christ is God. So if you read the original, 00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:53.900 it says Ruach Elohim, which is and the spirit, 00:38:54.059 --> 00:38:59.059 God was hovering over the face of the waters. 00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:03.000 Right? So let's see. So it definitely means that 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.300 we can say that and God said, let there be light. 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.840 Right? Can we say the spirit said, let there 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.090 be light. We can say that, right? The Spirit 00:39:12.090 --> 00:39:15.489 said, let there be light. Let there be light. 00:39:16.030 --> 00:39:19.369 Right? They put God there so we can have a continuation. 00:39:19.730 --> 00:39:21.230 Right? We have a continuation. Okay, we know 00:39:21.230 --> 00:39:23.590 this is the Spirit of God. Right? So, it's a 00:39:23.590 --> 00:39:29.110 let there be light. So, we can say that to reorder 00:39:29.110 --> 00:39:35.170 things and to put things in place is the function 00:39:35.170 --> 00:39:41.929 of the Spirit of God. to the other things and 00:39:41.929 --> 00:39:45.889 set things in place is the function of the spirit 00:39:45.889 --> 00:39:47.989 of God. So we have seen that the spirit is God 00:39:47.989 --> 00:39:51.789 and the function he started doing is to the other 00:39:51.789 --> 00:40:01.429 things and put things in place. So this is the 00:40:01.429 --> 00:40:04.050 descriptive work of the spirit from Genesis. 00:40:04.829 --> 00:40:08.469 The descriptive work of the spirit is to the 00:40:08.469 --> 00:40:17.489 other things. and put things in place. Now, if 00:40:17.489 --> 00:40:19.690 you have been following our teaching, right? 00:40:20.070 --> 00:40:22.010 And you have been attending some meetings, you 00:40:22.010 --> 00:40:24.769 would have seen, you would have understood that 00:40:24.769 --> 00:40:27.389 heaven and earth, right? We've talked about the 00:40:27.389 --> 00:40:31.010 union of God and man, right? Union of God and 00:40:31.010 --> 00:40:34.690 man. And we've seen chaos in verse two. So we 00:40:34.690 --> 00:40:39.400 can say that from Genesis one and two, Right? 00:40:39.420 --> 00:40:44.260 The work of the Spirit God, right? The work of 00:40:44.260 --> 00:40:48.739 the Spirit God is to put things in place in the 00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:52.619 life of men. We can say that. It's to order the 00:40:52.619 --> 00:40:55.300 life of men. It's to put things in place in the 00:40:55.300 --> 00:41:00.780 life of men. So we see that. We see that taking 00:41:00.780 --> 00:41:11.199 place. Genesis 1, 26. Since the Spirit, God, 00:41:11.340 --> 00:41:18.380 we identify that. Genesis 1, 26. The creation 00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:24.219 of man in his image and likeness is by the Spirit. 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:29.159 The creation of man in his image and likeness 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:34.699 is by the Spirit. Let us make man in our image 00:41:34.699 --> 00:41:37.880 after our likeness and let him have dominion. 00:41:38.269 --> 00:41:41.369 over the fish of the sea, and over the birds 00:41:41.369 --> 00:41:44.329 of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over 00:41:44.329 --> 00:41:47.030 all the earth, and over all creeping things that 00:41:47.030 --> 00:41:50.489 creeps on the earth. Let us make man, let's go 00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:54.349 back, in our own image, after our likeness. Just 00:41:54.349 --> 00:42:01.329 stay there first. You also go to 27. And we have 00:42:01.329 --> 00:42:04.110 been taught that this is Salem, right? The image. 00:42:04.210 --> 00:42:07.210 I was going to do that. We've seen that, Salem. 00:42:07.739 --> 00:42:11.239 Now go to 27. And I said, so God created man 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:13.940 in his own image and the image of God, he what? 00:42:14.059 --> 00:42:20.519 He created he them. So we know that the creation, 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:25.280 the new creation man or the man that God intends 00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:29.099 to create will be created by the spirit of God 00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:33.780 and in the spirit of God. The man that God will 00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:37.750 create will be created by the spirit of God In 00:42:37.750 --> 00:42:42.230 the spirit of God. You know this is why when 00:42:42.230 --> 00:42:44.329 they tell you that. In salvation you have no 00:42:44.329 --> 00:42:46.829 parts. It's after salvation you have a work to 00:42:46.829 --> 00:42:52.090 do. This is a clear explanation of that. That 00:42:52.090 --> 00:42:55.409 in the execution of the plan of saving man. It 00:42:55.409 --> 00:43:00.449 was the spirit. And he was giving you the spirit. 00:43:01.309 --> 00:43:04.710 And we'll come to that. So we see that. The plan 00:43:04.710 --> 00:43:10.489 of. The plan and work of the Spirit, right, is 00:43:10.489 --> 00:43:14.110 to create man in this image. And therefore, God 00:43:14.110 --> 00:43:16.210 would definitely walk through who? Through man. 00:43:16.449 --> 00:43:18.329 We've been seeing that from yesterday. God will 00:43:18.329 --> 00:43:20.670 walk through man. Man is the instrument of God. 00:43:21.110 --> 00:43:24.630 The one that would function for God. So you see 00:43:24.630 --> 00:43:30.590 here that the Spirit created man. So we've seen 00:43:30.590 --> 00:43:33.469 the Spirit. In Genesis 1, putting things in place. 00:43:33.510 --> 00:43:36.809 We've seen the same in Genesis 1, 26. Now, the 00:43:36.809 --> 00:43:40.949 next one is that what was being communicated 00:43:40.949 --> 00:43:46.230 across generation. Okay? So, we've seen creation 00:43:46.230 --> 00:43:49.329 of man. Now, this one is what was being communicated 00:43:49.329 --> 00:43:53.829 across generation was actually also the message 00:43:53.829 --> 00:44:00.679 of the Spirit. Right? So, We can say that the 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:03.440 spirit was what was communicated from Genesis 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:12.880 until Christ. Until Christ. So what we call God's 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.260 plan, what we call what God wants to do, that 00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:19.780 he made known to Abraham and Abraham communicated 00:44:19.780 --> 00:44:24.000 to Jacob, sorry, communicated to Isaac and Jacob 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.400 and Joseph is actually pertaining to the spirits. 00:44:30.259 --> 00:44:31.880 It's actually pertaining to, I know someone is 00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:34.940 saying, what of Jesus? The problem, wait, wait, 00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:37.519 relax. We'll get there, right? Like, is it not 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:39.480 Jesus that was being communicated? We'll get 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:43.059 there, right? The man Jesus, right? Don't rush. 00:44:44.300 --> 00:44:47.000 But take it this way, that it is the Spirit that 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.940 was being communicated. We're going to see the 00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:52.460 function of the Spirit even in Christ's function. 00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:57.039 Even in the coming of Christ and in the death 00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.179 and resurrection of him. So we see that what 00:44:59.179 --> 00:45:01.300 was communicated across generation was about 00:45:01.300 --> 00:45:03.880 the giving of his spirit to generations. Let's 00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:07.659 start. Hebrews 11, 9 to 10. The person who received 00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:23.659 the promise himself. Hebrews 11, 9 to 10. of 00:45:23.659 --> 00:45:27.500 the same promise. What is this promise? For he 00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:31.840 was looking forward to a city that has foundations, 00:45:31.900 --> 00:45:37.159 whose designer and builder is the spirit. Right? 00:45:37.179 --> 00:45:43.579 It's God himself. So, which city, right, that 00:45:43.579 --> 00:45:47.239 the designer and the builder is God? We go to 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:51.000 Genesis. What was God building in Genesis? Man. 00:45:52.989 --> 00:45:56.070 Right? God was building man. We can now see God 00:45:56.070 --> 00:45:59.730 is building men in Genesis. So from Genesis, 00:45:59.929 --> 00:46:02.730 we can see that God's let us create man. Don't 00:46:02.730 --> 00:46:04.329 forget that man is not talking about one man. 00:46:04.829 --> 00:46:09.309 Right? We want to create a people in our spirit. 00:46:09.489 --> 00:46:12.110 Right? And by our spirit. Right? So we want to 00:46:12.110 --> 00:46:15.030 create. So from Genesis, it was God wanted to 00:46:15.030 --> 00:46:22.829 create that city, a people, men. Right? Men that 00:46:22.829 --> 00:46:25.309 will carry his spirit. So what was Abraham looking 00:46:25.309 --> 00:46:28.349 up for? Abraham was looking forward to a people 00:46:28.349 --> 00:46:31.750 that will carry God's spirit. He was looking 00:46:31.750 --> 00:46:34.110 forward to the church, right? He was looking 00:46:34.110 --> 00:46:35.849 forward to a people that will carry God's spirit. 00:46:39.550 --> 00:46:42.489 So the city is a people filled with the spirit. 00:46:45.230 --> 00:46:55.409 City set upon a hill cannot be hidden. Yes. Now, 00:46:55.409 --> 00:46:58.929 Ezekiel 36, Ezekiel, okay, let's go to Numbers. 00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:00.849 You know, when you're teaching, right, it's always 00:47:00.849 --> 00:47:05.250 good to touch upon Moses. It's very good, right? 00:47:05.289 --> 00:47:08.170 Because there's a lot, right? There's a lot that 00:47:08.170 --> 00:47:12.510 every doctrine begins from Moses, right? The 00:47:12.510 --> 00:47:15.690 writings of Moses. So it's always good, you know, 00:47:15.710 --> 00:47:18.610 to go to that, right? It's the foundation of 00:47:18.610 --> 00:47:21.110 where most scriptures, every other scripture 00:47:21.110 --> 00:47:24.690 built upon. So we have to go. So we're taking 00:47:24.690 --> 00:47:28.210 just numbers. Numbers 11 verse 29. That was just 00:47:28.210 --> 00:47:33.789 clear. Right? Numbers 11 verse 29. I like the 00:47:33.789 --> 00:47:35.469 explicit, you know, the way it's just so explicit. 00:47:36.150 --> 00:47:39.690 But Moses said to him, are you jealous for my 00:47:39.690 --> 00:47:44.409 sake? Would that all the Lord's what? People. 00:47:46.110 --> 00:47:48.409 Would that all the Lord's people what? We are 00:47:48.409 --> 00:47:52.730 prophets. That the Lord will put what? His spirit 00:47:52.730 --> 00:47:58.789 on them. Did you see that? So God's desire across 00:47:58.789 --> 00:48:02.510 time is that his people will be filled with his 00:48:02.510 --> 00:48:04.769 spirit and they will prophesy. They will have 00:48:04.769 --> 00:48:10.690 utterance. That is God's plan at all time, for 00:48:10.690 --> 00:48:14.570 all time. That all his people will have a spirit 00:48:14.570 --> 00:48:21.440 and they will speak. They will speak. Ezekiel 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:30.940 36, 24 to 27. Ezekiel 36, 24 to 27. We have seen 00:48:30.940 --> 00:48:33.659 Abraham. We have seen Moses. I will take you 00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:35.360 from the nations and gather you from all the 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.159 countries and bring you into your own land. I 00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:40.860 will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall 00:48:40.860 --> 00:48:43.760 be clean from all uncleanness. And from all your 00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:47.039 idols, I will cleanse you. Then I will give you 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:49.719 a new heart and a new spirit. I will what? I 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:53.219 will put within you. Stop there. Don't move, 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:55.219 right? He said, I will remove the heart of stone 00:48:55.219 --> 00:48:58.619 from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh, 00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:00.000 right? I will remove the heart of stone from 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:01.920 your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. So, 00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:06.179 what was communicated before about cleansing 00:49:06.179 --> 00:49:12.179 them from their idols is made clear here by saying, 00:49:12.260 --> 00:49:17.619 I will give my spirit. Right? I will give my 00:49:17.619 --> 00:49:20.789 spirit. So we see here that it's about giving 00:49:20.789 --> 00:49:23.630 the spirit, right? And this will cause them to 00:49:23.630 --> 00:49:28.230 have a new heart. 27. Let's see. And I'll put 00:49:28.230 --> 00:49:30.070 my spirit more clearly. I'll put my spirit within 00:49:30.070 --> 00:49:32.429 you and cause you to walk in my status and be 00:49:32.429 --> 00:49:36.110 careful to obey my words, my rules, my status, 00:49:36.250 --> 00:49:38.650 right? Good. So we have seen that you can put 00:49:38.650 --> 00:49:43.710 Joel 2, 28 to 29. Joel 2, 28, 29. So we can see 00:49:43.710 --> 00:49:47.989 across, it has been about the spirit of God. 00:49:49.730 --> 00:49:51.829 draw to 28, and it shall come to pass that I 00:49:51.829 --> 00:49:55.130 will pour out my Spirit again, the giving of 00:49:55.130 --> 00:49:57.969 Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters 00:49:57.969 --> 00:50:01.449 shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams, 00:50:01.570 --> 00:50:05.010 and your young men shall see what visions, spirits, 00:50:05.150 --> 00:50:08.909 for prophesying, right? They will prophesy, similar 00:50:08.909 --> 00:50:12.510 to Numbers 11, 29. Similar to Numbers 11, 29. 00:50:12.949 --> 00:50:15.090 Now, I've been saying the Spirit, the Spirit, 00:50:15.150 --> 00:50:18.300 the Spirit. Where does Christ come in? Right? 00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:19.820 Where does Christ come in? Because you begin 00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:22.260 to ask, is the Spirit not Christ? Yes, it is. 00:50:22.699 --> 00:50:30.320 Now, let's check. Can we write this down? We 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:31.780 can write this down. I'm going to a little bit 00:50:31.780 --> 00:50:40.019 dictate. The work of the Spirit in man. The work 00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:48.829 of the Spirit in man. became the promise. Okay. 00:50:48.909 --> 00:50:51.869 Became the promise. The walk of the spirit in 00:50:51.869 --> 00:50:55.809 man became the promise. Then we can open brackets. 00:50:56.150 --> 00:51:02.250 I'm going to put that. The promised spirits. 00:51:03.070 --> 00:51:11.730 Okay. The promised spirits would be given by 00:51:11.730 --> 00:51:14.110 the promised Messiah. So there are two things 00:51:14.110 --> 00:51:16.050 here. There's a promised Messiah, there's a promised 00:51:16.050 --> 00:51:17.909 spirit. The Bible across scripture has seen promised 00:51:17.909 --> 00:51:20.590 spirit and promised Messiah, right? So that Messiah 00:51:20.590 --> 00:51:23.929 is talking about God's incarnation, like God 00:51:23.929 --> 00:51:26.929 in human form. So there's something God will 00:51:26.929 --> 00:51:30.449 come and do in the body that would make his spirit 00:51:30.449 --> 00:51:34.050 be able to dwell in men. So the promised spirit 00:51:34.050 --> 00:51:46.980 would be, right, from the promised Messiah. The 00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:53.579 promised Messiah is also the Spirit. The promised 00:51:53.579 --> 00:51:56.679 Messiah is also the Spirit and God in the man 00:51:56.679 --> 00:52:02.059 Jesus. The promised Messiah is also the Spirit 00:52:02.059 --> 00:52:08.420 and God in the man Jesus. So what this simply 00:52:08.420 --> 00:52:10.519 means, we're going to try to put some scriptures 00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:14.760 across it, is that God promised the Spirit. But 00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.320 the coming up, I think the scripture I should 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.059 just put there is John 14. Just put John 14 there. 00:52:19.780 --> 00:52:22.059 Because everything explained in John 14, which 00:52:22.059 --> 00:52:24.440 we are going to see, is actually pertaining, 00:52:24.900 --> 00:52:29.440 right? It's actually in relations to God giving 00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.059 his promised spirit. And who was communicating? 00:52:32.500 --> 00:52:35.699 The promised Messiah, right? The promised Messiah, 00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:37.840 which is Christ himself, was communicating. And 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.670 he himself is God. So John 14, we see that. We 00:52:42.670 --> 00:52:47.289 can put John 1, 1 as well. John 1, 1. We can 00:52:47.289 --> 00:52:51.989 put John 1, 1 there as well. Which communicates 00:52:51.989 --> 00:53:04.010 Jesus as God and the spirits. It said in the 00:53:04.010 --> 00:53:05.809 beginning was the word and the word was with 00:53:05.809 --> 00:53:10.329 God and the word was God. It was in the beginning. 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:12.500 And all things were made through him. Without 00:53:12.500 --> 00:53:16.539 him was not anything made that was made, right? 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:20.420 So he was in the beginning. The word was God. 00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:27.579 So in body, we identify God as who? As Jesus, 00:53:27.780 --> 00:53:31.320 right? We identify him as Christ. So we have 00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:34.539 that. Now let's see that even in the coming of 00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:38.719 Christ, the spirit functioned. Right? Even the 00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:40.139 coming of Christ, the spirit function. Matthew 00:53:40.139 --> 00:53:45.360 1, verse 18. In the coming of Messiah, the spirit 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:48.559 function. Matthew 1, verse 18. Of course, we 00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.320 have seen that the spirit was prophesied. Of 00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.639 course, prophesied through his prophet. Matthew 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.380 1, verse 18. Let's touch upon a little bit of 00:53:56.380 --> 00:54:02.699 some things here. Matthew 1, verse 18. It said, 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:07.480 now the bed of Jesus took place in the way. In 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.679 this way, when his mother Mary had been betrothed 00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:12.519 to Joseph, before they came together, she was 00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:18.019 found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:20.900 She was found to be. And her husband Joseph, 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:24.400 being a just man and unwilling to put her to 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:29.960 shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. Are we 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:36.539 together? So what was Joseph trying to do? To 00:54:36.539 --> 00:54:39.980 let her go what? Quietly. Not to put her in an 00:54:39.980 --> 00:54:44.480 open shame. Therefore, it means that that word 00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:48.360 found is not that they catch Mary like people 00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:52.880 caught her with a baby. It's not like, oh, they 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:54.860 have now caught. No. It shows you that nobody 00:54:54.860 --> 00:54:58.679 knew, but Joseph was aware. Right? So it's not 00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:02.679 catching somebody in the act of something. That 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:05.800 word found is to come upon. And I'll tell us 00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.039 the word, right? That word found, she was found 00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:12.320 with a child by the Spirit, is to come upon. 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:21.039 So let's see. So the word is Eurisko. H -E -U 00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:27.780 -R -I -S -K -O. The word found is Eurisko. H 00:55:27.780 --> 00:55:32.139 -E -U -R -I -S -K -O. Found. Which means the 00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:36.050 first divination tells you to come upon. To do 00:55:36.050 --> 00:55:39.889 what? To come upon. Now, a word was used, right? 00:55:39.949 --> 00:55:42.610 So you are a student of English. You know, there 00:55:42.610 --> 00:55:45.570 can be a word and there can be a phrase that 00:55:45.570 --> 00:55:50.150 explains the word, right? There's a word and 00:55:50.150 --> 00:55:52.670 there can be a phrase that explains the word. 00:55:52.809 --> 00:55:54.690 So you see that you use a word for something 00:55:54.690 --> 00:55:57.670 or you use a phrase, right? Some of us in our 00:55:57.670 --> 00:56:00.829 writings, we summarize all the statements we 00:56:00.829 --> 00:56:03.559 are making into one word. So here, a word is 00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:07.199 used to explain to come upon, Eurisco. How do 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:08.960 I know it's come upon? The scriptures will explain 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:15.519 itself. Luke 1, 25. Luke 1, 26 to 35. Luke 1, 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:18.940 verse 26. And her husband being a just man. No, 00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:22.440 that's not it. Luke 1, 26. In the sixth month, 00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:26.219 the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the city 00:56:26.219 --> 00:56:30.179 of Galilee, named Nazareth. So a virgin betrothed 00:56:30.179 --> 00:56:32.239 to a man whose name was Joseph. Of the house 00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:36.260 of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And 00:56:36.260 --> 00:56:39.360 he came to her and said. Greetings all favored 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:43.920 one. The Lord is with you. And she was greatly. 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:52.480 The Lord. Sorry. My scriptures. The Lord. Which 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.639 verse are you reading? Can you go back to 26? 00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:57.179 Let's start from 26 again. Luke 1 26. I'm going 00:56:57.179 --> 00:57:02.590 to switch to my scriptures. All right. Let me 00:57:02.590 --> 00:57:05.650 use hard copy. Technology can be challenging. 00:57:06.030 --> 00:57:08.789 All right, 26. In the sixth month, the sixth 00:57:08.789 --> 00:57:12.969 month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to 00:57:12.969 --> 00:57:16.050 a city, right, of Galilee and named Nazareth 00:57:16.050 --> 00:57:18.230 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was 00:57:18.230 --> 00:57:20.690 Joseph and of the house of David and the virgin's 00:57:20.690 --> 00:57:22.969 name was Mary. And he came to her and said, greetings, 00:57:23.010 --> 00:57:25.010 O favored one. The Lord is with you. But she 00:57:25.010 --> 00:57:28.840 was greatly troubled at the same. and tried to 00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:30.780 discern what sort of greeting this might be. 00:57:30.900 --> 00:57:33.780 And the angel said to her, do not be afraid, 00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:36.599 Mary, for you have found favor with God and behold, 00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:38.840 you will conceive. Look at the communication. 00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:40.860 Of course, in Matthew, they also said conceive. 00:57:40.980 --> 00:57:42.760 I'm going to come to conceive, right? He said, 00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.840 behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear 00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:49.659 a son and you shall call his name Jesus and it 00:57:49.659 --> 00:57:52.920 will be great and will be called the son of the 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:56.210 most high. and the Lord God will give him the 00:57:56.210 --> 00:57:58.050 throne of his father David, and it will reign 00:57:58.050 --> 00:58:00.050 over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom 00:58:00.050 --> 00:58:03.590 there shall be no end. Verse 35, 34 rather. Mary 00:58:03.590 --> 00:58:08.590 said to the angel, how will this be? Saying that 00:58:08.590 --> 00:58:12.389 words, since I am a virgin, means since I knew 00:58:12.389 --> 00:58:15.369 no man. Do you know why she asked that question? 00:58:16.849 --> 00:58:19.130 Do you know why she asked that question? She 00:58:19.130 --> 00:58:22.289 asked the question. Because of the way the angel 00:58:22.289 --> 00:58:26.230 communicated it. Right? So if you go to Matthew 00:58:26.230 --> 00:58:29.530 18, just hold on to Luke. Go to Matthew 18. Sorry, 00:58:29.590 --> 00:58:34.489 Matthew 1. Matthew 1. I just want to show us 00:58:34.489 --> 00:58:36.849 that it's the spirit actually that came upon 00:58:36.849 --> 00:58:40.130 Mary and Jesus appeared in her womb. That is 00:58:40.130 --> 00:58:47.210 what happened. So look at verse 22. Before verse 00:58:47.210 --> 00:58:54.599 22, go to verse... Verse 20, but as he considered 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:57.500 these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared 00:58:57.500 --> 00:59:00.860 to him in a dream saying, Joseph, son of David, 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:04.900 do not fear to take Mary as your wife. For that 00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:07.739 which is conceived in our home is from the Holy 00:59:07.739 --> 00:59:10.639 Spirit. You know why the angel communicated conceived 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:13.599 to him? Because that is what he could understand. 00:59:14.579 --> 00:59:19.440 Did you get it? That is what Joseph could understand. 00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.940 He could not understand. Spirit come upon her 00:59:21.940 --> 00:59:25.739 and she has a child. He couldn't. So in dreams, 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:28.360 and we've said it, in dreams and visions, right? 00:59:28.539 --> 00:59:31.059 They communicate what you know, what you can 00:59:31.059 --> 00:59:32.739 relate to. Then you have to understand the spiritual 00:59:32.739 --> 00:59:34.739 implication of it. Of course, Peter was in a 00:59:34.739 --> 00:59:37.039 vision, right? And in that vision, something 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:40.179 was opened. And Peter could only relate them 00:59:40.179 --> 00:59:43.880 as unclean things. So the communication of that 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:48.199 angel was for understanding of Joseph. Do we 00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:53.019 get it? Now, when you now come to Luke, the part 00:59:53.019 --> 00:59:56.599 that Matthew did not record, Luke now opened 00:59:56.599 --> 01:00:00.239 up. And I said, even Mary was told that she will 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:02.599 conceive. And she asked, because conception means 01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:05.760 you need a man to be involved in that. And this 01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:07.119 is the way you can communicate to man. So they 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.039 used the physical to try to explain something 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:12.059 supernatural to them. But Mary, not that she 01:00:12.059 --> 01:00:14.320 believed, but she was wondering how it would 01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:16.719 take place. Now look at what the angel now said. 01:00:17.429 --> 01:00:21.010 The angel used the phrase of Eurisco. He said, 01:00:21.130 --> 01:00:24.429 the Holy Spirit, verse 35, will do what? Will 01:00:24.429 --> 01:00:30.050 come upon you. So since I've explained this and, 01:00:30.090 --> 01:00:32.090 you know, it's physical and you want to really 01:00:32.090 --> 01:00:34.170 know how it will take place, the Holy Spirit 01:00:34.170 --> 01:00:38.110 will come upon you. Right? And the power of the 01:00:38.110 --> 01:00:39.949 most that will do what? Will overshadow you. 01:00:40.090 --> 01:00:43.889 Therefore, as a result, the child, therefore 01:00:43.889 --> 01:00:45.630 the child to be born will be called the Holy. 01:00:46.139 --> 01:00:48.679 One, right? We call the holy, the son of God. 01:00:48.840 --> 01:00:53.239 Now, this is, okay? Let me say something. This 01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:57.179 is the same way the Holy Spirit comes upon the 01:00:57.179 --> 01:01:00.239 prophets and they prophesy. When the Holy Spirit 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:03.900 comes upon the prophet, then they prophesy, right? 01:01:03.980 --> 01:01:07.760 They reveal God's mind, right? So people can 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:09.440 understand it in the physical, right? They can 01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:11.619 understand what God is doing. The same way he 01:01:11.619 --> 01:01:16.610 came upon her and Christ appeared. The incarnation 01:01:16.610 --> 01:01:20.210 took place by the Spirit coming upon. So the 01:01:20.210 --> 01:01:23.409 revelation of God those days takes place when 01:01:23.409 --> 01:01:27.329 the Spirit comes upon a person. The revelation 01:01:27.329 --> 01:01:31.010 of God in those days takes place when the Spirit 01:01:31.010 --> 01:01:34.750 comes upon a person. Christ was revealed. Christ 01:01:34.750 --> 01:01:38.030 appeared by the coming upon of the Holy Spirit 01:01:38.030 --> 01:01:45.099 on Mary. So it is come upon. So a phrase was 01:01:45.099 --> 01:01:47.880 used in Luke and the word Jerusalem was used 01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:54.119 in Matthew. I think we'll just keep that. Let's 01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:57.260 move to the next one. So we can see that in the 01:01:57.260 --> 01:02:00.099 incarnation, the Spirit was at work, right? The 01:02:00.099 --> 01:02:03.119 Spirit was at work. Now, in the offering of Christ, 01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:06.440 the Spirit was also at work. In the resurrection 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:11.880 of Christ, the Spirit was at work. In the offering 01:02:11.880 --> 01:02:14.969 of Christ, The Spirit was at work. And in the 01:02:14.969 --> 01:02:17.670 resurrection of Christ, the Spirit was also at 01:02:17.670 --> 01:02:24.389 work. So there was nothing God did on earth without 01:02:24.389 --> 01:02:30.150 the Spirit in men functioning. Alright, so Hebrews 01:02:30.150 --> 01:02:37.849 9 verse 14. Hebrews 9 verse 14. How much more 01:02:37.849 --> 01:02:41.489 will the blood of Christ who through the eternal 01:02:41.489 --> 01:02:45.179 Spirit Offered himself without blemish to God. 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:50.059 Purify our conscience from dead works to do what? 01:02:50.179 --> 01:02:55.800 To serve the living God. How much more? With 01:02:55.800 --> 01:02:58.760 the blood of Christ. Who through the eternal 01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:03.679 spirit offered him. So it means that Christ gave 01:03:03.679 --> 01:03:09.619 up the life by the spirit. John 10 verse 18. 01:03:10.250 --> 01:03:14.170 No one can take my life. I lay down, right? So 01:03:14.170 --> 01:03:18.650 he laid his heart, he laid his life down. He 01:03:18.650 --> 01:03:20.650 said, no one can take it from me, but I lay it 01:03:20.650 --> 01:03:22.889 down of my own accord. I have the authority to 01:03:22.889 --> 01:03:25.570 take it. I have authority to lay it down. I have 01:03:25.570 --> 01:03:28.750 authority to take it up. This charge I have received 01:03:28.750 --> 01:03:31.389 from my father, right? I have authority to lay 01:03:31.389 --> 01:03:33.750 it down and I have authority to take it up. So 01:03:33.750 --> 01:03:35.969 we see that in the death and resurrection of 01:03:35.969 --> 01:03:39.099 Christ, the spirit was at work. The spirit was 01:03:39.099 --> 01:03:42.460 at work. Romans 8 verse 11. This is to tell you 01:03:42.460 --> 01:03:48.280 how important it is that we must understand the 01:03:48.280 --> 01:03:52.559 spirits and spirituals. That in the death and 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.300 resurrection of Christ, the spirit was also at 01:03:55.300 --> 01:03:58.880 work. Romans 8 verse 11. You can add that to 01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.940 it. Romans 8 verse 11. If the spirit of him who 01:04:02.940 --> 01:04:06.030 raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He 01:04:06.030 --> 01:04:09.630 who raised Christ from the dead will also give 01:04:09.630 --> 01:04:13.630 life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit 01:04:13.630 --> 01:04:18.010 who dwells in you. So it's like saying the Spirit 01:04:18.010 --> 01:04:21.630 who raised Christ from the dead, right, will 01:04:21.630 --> 01:04:25.090 also strengthen you, right? The same Spirit who 01:04:25.090 --> 01:04:26.590 raised Christ from the dead, he who raised Christ 01:04:26.590 --> 01:04:28.650 from the dead will also give life to your mortal 01:04:28.650 --> 01:04:30.550 bodies through his Spirit. So the same Spirit 01:04:30.550 --> 01:04:32.949 will give life to you. So the Spirit was at work 01:04:32.949 --> 01:04:44.559 at resurrection. Amen. Okay. So we can write 01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:47.940 down. Therefore, the believer, therefore, the 01:04:47.940 --> 01:04:57.079 believer being spiritual lives and function continually 01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:00.179 by the spirits. We can say, therefore, the believer 01:05:00.179 --> 01:05:04.760 being spiritual must live and function continually 01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:10.719 by the Spirit. Must live and function continually 01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:17.079 by the Spirit of God. Live and function continually 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.500 by the Spirit of God to continue God's purpose 01:05:20.500 --> 01:05:23.579 on earth. So he didn't stop at resurrection. 01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:27.019 Being spiritual lives and functions continually 01:05:27.019 --> 01:05:30.199 by the Spirit of God to continue God's purpose 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:35.860 on earth. From the beginning until now, God's 01:05:35.860 --> 01:05:40.699 spirit has been functioning, right? So that it 01:05:40.699 --> 01:05:44.239 is also to replicate what he has done in us, 01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:49.219 in others. 2 Corinthians 1 verse 19 to 20. 2 01:05:49.219 --> 01:05:56.380 Corinthians 1 verse 19 to 20. 2 Corinthians 1 01:05:56.380 --> 01:06:00.250 verse 19. For the son of God, Jesus. whom we 01:06:00.250 --> 01:06:02.550 proclaim among you, Silvanus and Timothy and 01:06:02.550 --> 01:06:06.610 I, was not yes and no, but in him it is always 01:06:06.610 --> 01:06:11.230 yes. For all the promises of God find their yes 01:06:11.230 --> 01:06:15.289 in him. That is why through him, I just want 01:06:15.289 --> 01:06:18.670 me to, I like to read from my Bible because I 01:06:18.670 --> 01:06:24.650 put something somewhere. So it says, for all 01:06:24.650 --> 01:06:28.869 the promises of God, right? Go to verse 20 again. 01:06:28.989 --> 01:06:31.989 All promises of God find their yes in him. That 01:06:31.989 --> 01:06:35.329 is why it is through him that we utter our amen 01:06:35.329 --> 01:06:39.130 and for the glory of God. And it is God who establishes 01:06:39.130 --> 01:06:44.889 us with you in Christ and has anointed us and 01:06:44.889 --> 01:06:47.769 has also put the seal on us and given us the 01:06:47.769 --> 01:06:52.550 spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. From verse 01:06:52.550 --> 01:06:55.360 19, you will see it says, for the son of God, 01:06:55.539 --> 01:06:58.539 right here, they say Jesus Christ, whom we proclaim 01:06:58.539 --> 01:07:01.760 among you. Right? So follow the thoughts. For 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:04.079 the son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaim 01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:08.239 among you. Silvanus, Paul, and I, right? Then 01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:11.139 he now says, verse 20, for all the promises of 01:07:11.139 --> 01:07:16.480 God find their yes in Christ. Right? All the 01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:21.559 promises of God find their yes in him. He said, 01:07:21.579 --> 01:07:25.019 that is why It is through Christ that we utter 01:07:25.019 --> 01:07:28.500 our amen to the glory of God. And it is God who 01:07:28.500 --> 01:07:32.239 established us with you in Christ and has anointed 01:07:32.239 --> 01:07:35.619 us. And what has he done? He has given us his 01:07:35.619 --> 01:07:39.699 earnest spirit. So all God's promises, yes and 01:07:39.699 --> 01:07:42.760 amen, is giving you his earnest of a spirit. 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:46.380 Of course, we have said that he doesn't stop 01:07:46.380 --> 01:07:49.179 that you will function, but it is that you would 01:07:49.179 --> 01:07:53.679 have God's spirit within you. So this is God's 01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:58.599 plan. Amen. All right now, so let's go to John 01:07:58.599 --> 01:08:04.519 14 because John 14 is where we will find a little 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:08.000 more details and it will lead us into 1 Corinthians 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:14.639 actually 12. So John 14, John 14, since it's 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:18.359 God's promise for us, just go to John 14 and 01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:22.600 I'll touch upon a few things there. John 14, 01:08:22.739 --> 01:08:27.060 because in John 14, it is where Christ himself, 01:08:27.399 --> 01:08:31.039 right? The promised Messiah communicated the 01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:34.500 promised spirits. Okay. This is where the promised 01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:37.640 Messiah communicated the promised spirit, communicated 01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:43.619 the giving of the promised spirit. So first, 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.420 we need to understand John's writing, which I 01:08:45.420 --> 01:08:48.800 want to believe here now we are used to, we understand 01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:50.939 John's writing, but we still have to explain 01:08:50.939 --> 01:08:56.399 it. Now, John wrote, right? He wrote in a manner 01:08:56.399 --> 01:09:01.220 that reflects, right? He wrote in a manner that 01:09:01.220 --> 01:09:04.720 reflects an understanding of what God did for 01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:08.939 the believer, not what God will do for the believer. 01:09:09.500 --> 01:09:15.800 Okay? So John wrote in a manner, as one who understood 01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:18.739 what God did for the believer, what God, you 01:09:18.739 --> 01:09:23.220 know, did for us, right? Not just what God would 01:09:23.220 --> 01:09:29.659 do, as the Matthew, Mark Luke communicated, right? 01:09:29.699 --> 01:09:32.220 So Matthew, Mark Luke communicated these things 01:09:32.220 --> 01:09:35.699 as things to come. John communicated it as a 01:09:35.699 --> 01:09:38.260 present reality, although he was writing certain 01:09:38.260 --> 01:09:42.260 things as if they were ongoing. Are you following? 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:44.619 John was writing certain things as if they were 01:09:44.619 --> 01:09:48.420 ongoing, but the way he wrote it, let's go to 01:09:48.420 --> 01:09:55.460 John. Let's go to John chapter two. Let's go 01:09:55.460 --> 01:09:57.279 to John chapter two. Just read something there. 01:10:02.140 --> 01:10:10.439 John chapter two, verse 22. So John started writing 01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.939 from, chapter two. And when you read it, you 01:10:14.939 --> 01:10:17.960 would think he's writing something that is ongoing, 01:10:18.100 --> 01:10:20.239 but it's actually something that has taken place 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:22.520 and he's speaking revelation from it, right? 01:10:22.619 --> 01:10:25.159 It would tell explanation and it would give you 01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:28.060 the revelation. Now verse 22 says, when therefore 01:10:28.060 --> 01:10:31.279 it was raised from the dead, his disciples remember 01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:34.560 that he said this and they believe what? The 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:37.770 scriptures. The word of Jesus, the word that 01:10:37.770 --> 01:10:39.970 Jesus had spoken. Now this is not the only part 01:10:39.970 --> 01:10:43.489 where John did this. John actually wrote, when 01:10:43.489 --> 01:10:45.609 he writes, after he would say, okay, he would 01:10:45.609 --> 01:10:50.069 write an explanation. As if in the present tense 01:10:50.069 --> 01:10:53.409 of while he's writing. So it's like saying that 01:10:53.409 --> 01:10:56.550 I'm telling you a story, right? I'm telling you 01:10:56.550 --> 01:10:59.649 a story that has not ended. Okay. But before 01:10:59.649 --> 01:11:03.189 the story gets to the place where it ended, I 01:11:03.189 --> 01:11:06.000 started including. The way the people understood 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:11.579 the story at every scene and every episode. Do 01:11:11.579 --> 01:11:15.000 you get it? So John is writing a story. But after 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:18.060 each episode, it tells you the revelation of 01:11:18.060 --> 01:11:19.640 that episode. It tells you what people got from 01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:22.000 that episode. It tells you the moral lesson before 01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:25.100 it gets to the end of the story. Right? That 01:11:25.100 --> 01:11:27.319 is the way it was coming. Because it was communicating 01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:33.079 revelation. So John was writing what Jesus did 01:11:33.079 --> 01:11:35.529 for us. rather than more of a historical account. 01:11:35.649 --> 01:11:39.430 So we can write a few things that he communicated 01:11:39.430 --> 01:11:43.310 before we move to John 14. We can write a few 01:11:43.310 --> 01:11:48.609 things that John communicated before we move 01:11:48.609 --> 01:11:53.329 to John 14. First, John 1, verse 3. John 1, verse 01:11:53.329 --> 01:11:59.550 3. 1 Corinthians 8, verse 6. We just write John 01:11:59.550 --> 01:12:03.380 1, verse 3. 1 Corinthians 8, verse 6. puts an 01:12:03.380 --> 01:12:09.760 hyphen, creation by Christ, right? Creation by 01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:12.119 Christ, creation by him. So he's talking about 01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:17.119 how God created. So from that verse three, he 01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:19.220 already said, all things were made through him 01:12:19.220 --> 01:12:22.319 and without him was not anything made that was 01:12:22.319 --> 01:12:27.159 made, right? So without him was not anything 01:12:27.159 --> 01:12:29.399 made that was made. Go to 1 Corinthians 8 verse 01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:35.710 six. 1 Corinthians 8 verse 6. So creation. Yet 01:12:35.710 --> 01:12:38.369 for us, there is only one God, the Father, from 01:12:38.369 --> 01:12:44.670 whom all things and for whom we exist. And one 01:12:44.670 --> 01:12:48.949 Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things 01:12:48.949 --> 01:12:51.369 and through whom we exist. Just stay there. Just 01:12:51.369 --> 01:12:53.949 write it. You see, it's a from whom are all things 01:12:53.949 --> 01:12:58.729 and from whom we exist. One Lord, right? So it's 01:12:58.729 --> 01:13:01.489 talking about creation of us. We exist from him. 01:13:02.090 --> 01:13:05.289 So this corroborates John, right? Explaining 01:13:05.289 --> 01:13:08.329 all things came to be through him. If you continue 01:13:08.329 --> 01:13:14.449 to read John chapter one, verse 12 to 14. Verse 01:13:14.449 --> 01:13:18.609 one, 12 to 14. But to her who did receive him, 01:13:18.750 --> 01:13:22.189 who believed in him, he did what? He gave. So 01:13:22.189 --> 01:13:25.850 creation, we see that. We also see that he gave 01:13:25.850 --> 01:13:32.210 the authority to become the children. Of God. 01:13:32.869 --> 01:13:35.090 Right? Matthew was not writing this. Matthew 01:13:35.090 --> 01:13:39.210 was writing. How Jesus by the flesh. Right? Came 01:13:39.210 --> 01:13:42.250 from the line of Abraham. Right? Because. Of 01:13:42.250 --> 01:13:43.970 course. Because of his audience. Right? To convince 01:13:43.970 --> 01:13:48.229 them. But. John was writing straight up. He gave 01:13:48.229 --> 01:13:51.550 them to become. The children. Of God. Right? 01:13:51.550 --> 01:13:54.710 Go to verse. The next verse. Who were born not 01:13:54.710 --> 01:13:57.029 of blood. Of. Of the will of the flesh. Nor of 01:13:57.029 --> 01:13:59.460 the will of man. but of God, which has been born 01:13:59.460 --> 01:14:01.659 again. And the word became flesh and blood among 01:14:01.659 --> 01:14:04.479 us. And we have seen his glory, the glory of 01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:08.180 the only son from the father, full of grace and 01:14:08.180 --> 01:14:12.520 truth. Next. John bore witness about him and 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:14.960 cried out. This is the one whom I said, he comes 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:17.819 after me, he who comes after me, rams before 01:14:17.819 --> 01:14:23.479 me because he was before me. From, for from his 01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:26.520 fullness, we have all received what? Grace upon 01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:30.560 grace. We have received grace upon grace. Next. 01:14:31.739 --> 01:14:34.260 The next verse, please. For the Lord was given 01:14:34.260 --> 01:14:37.180 through Moses grace and truth came through Jesus. 01:14:37.380 --> 01:14:41.659 No one has ever seen God. The only God who is 01:14:41.659 --> 01:14:43.680 at the father's side, he has made him known. 01:14:43.859 --> 01:14:48.500 So we have, we're created by him. We have authority 01:14:48.500 --> 01:14:52.699 to become children. We have, what do we see here? 01:14:52.840 --> 01:14:57.310 Knowledge, revelation of God. Revelation of God. 01:14:58.789 --> 01:15:01.930 Revelation of God. So we see creation. We see 01:15:01.930 --> 01:15:05.609 authority to become children. We see grace and 01:15:05.609 --> 01:15:09.069 we see revelation of God. Right? If we proceed, 01:15:09.310 --> 01:15:12.350 John 3 verse 3, right? John chapter 3. Just put 01:15:12.350 --> 01:15:14.270 John chapter 3. We don't need to read it. We 01:15:14.270 --> 01:15:16.789 see that he gave eternal life. John started talking 01:15:16.789 --> 01:15:19.810 about eternal life from chapter 3. Right? Started 01:15:19.810 --> 01:15:21.890 talking about eternal life. John chapter 3. Eternal 01:15:21.890 --> 01:15:25.859 life through his son. Right? Eternal life through 01:15:25.859 --> 01:15:35.180 his son. John chapter seven, John chapter seven, 01:15:35.220 --> 01:15:43.420 verse 37 to 39. Again, John communicated. On 01:15:43.420 --> 01:15:45.619 the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus 01:15:45.619 --> 01:15:47.939 stood up and cried out. If anyone says, let him 01:15:47.939 --> 01:15:52.680 come to me and drink. Whosoever believes in me, 01:15:53.159 --> 01:15:55.579 as the scripture has said, out of his heart, 01:15:55.779 --> 01:15:59.020 out of his belly, will flow rivers of living 01:15:59.020 --> 01:16:02.420 water. Right? Out of his belly will flow rivers 01:16:02.420 --> 01:16:06.460 of living water. Now we see, next verse, please 01:16:06.460 --> 01:16:07.979 just read the next verse. I'll use the next verse 01:16:07.979 --> 01:16:11.439 to explain. Now this is said, do you see another 01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:13.979 way that John is writing? He's already, he's 01:16:13.979 --> 01:16:19.199 explaining. Now he said about the spirit in whom 01:16:19.199 --> 01:16:21.789 those who believe in him were to receive. For 01:16:21.789 --> 01:16:25.149 as yet the Spirit had not yet been what? Given, 01:16:25.250 --> 01:16:28.350 because Jesus was not yet what? Glorified. Giving 01:16:28.350 --> 01:16:30.729 another moral lesson before the end of, because 01:16:30.729 --> 01:16:33.210 he was not actually writing a story. The reality, 01:16:33.329 --> 01:16:36.170 he wasn't writing a story. He was actually explaining 01:16:36.170 --> 01:16:39.149 events and showing the revelation of Christ. 01:16:39.250 --> 01:16:41.810 That's why he keeps using this pattern of writing. 01:16:41.989 --> 01:16:44.569 So what we see is that John already expressed 01:16:44.569 --> 01:16:49.670 everything that we have in Christ. Explain everything 01:16:49.670 --> 01:16:55.670 that we have in Christ. Therefore, can we read 01:16:55.670 --> 01:16:58.210 Ephesians? John 12, just one more scripture in 01:16:58.210 --> 01:17:03.229 John. John 12, 35 to 36. How John tied it. How 01:17:03.229 --> 01:17:06.449 is John well tied to the epistles? John 12, 35. 01:17:06.789 --> 01:17:08.930 And Jesus said to them, the light is among you 01:17:08.930 --> 01:17:11.789 for a little while. For a little while longer. 01:17:11.949 --> 01:17:15.079 Walk while you have what? The light. Let darkness 01:17:15.079 --> 01:17:17.760 overtake you. The one who walks in darkness does 01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:20.859 not know where he is going. The next verse. While 01:17:20.859 --> 01:17:23.859 you have the light, believe what's in the light 01:17:23.859 --> 01:17:29.039 and you may become what's sons of light. Do you 01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.079 know the scripture that parallels this? Ephesians 01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:37.300 5 verse 8. Ephesians. This is almost like directly 01:17:37.300 --> 01:17:39.899 from Ephesians 5 verse 8. You know, sometimes 01:17:39.899 --> 01:17:42.430 I feel. John actually read some epistles, probably 01:17:42.430 --> 01:17:45.569 had some access to it because he was actually 01:17:45.569 --> 01:17:49.170 writing so much of those things. Yeah, because 01:17:49.170 --> 01:17:52.149 his writing was late, almost the last that was 01:17:52.149 --> 01:17:55.649 written. So Ephesians, where's Ephesians 5 verse 01:17:55.649 --> 01:18:00.670 8? For at one time you were what? Darkness. And 01:18:00.670 --> 01:18:03.729 now you are what? Light in the Lord. Walk as 01:18:03.729 --> 01:18:08.060 what? Children of light. Right? Using the concept 01:18:08.060 --> 01:18:12.260 of light. So we see that John had actually written 01:18:12.260 --> 01:18:19.979 to explain all that we have in Christ. Now let's 01:18:19.979 --> 01:18:22.539 see. Let's move a little bit faster. So John 01:18:22.539 --> 01:18:28.739 14 now. Now we can now settle in John 14. We 01:18:28.739 --> 01:18:46.399 can now settle in John 14. John 14. John 14. 01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:51.899 From verse one, right? Let's pick up from verse 01:18:51.899 --> 01:18:54.760 one. He said, let not your heart be troubled. 01:18:54.859 --> 01:18:58.039 Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my father's 01:18:58.039 --> 01:19:01.619 house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would 01:19:01.619 --> 01:19:03.880 have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:05.560 And if I go to prepare a place for you, I'll 01:19:05.560 --> 01:19:09.069 come again and take you to myself. And where 01:19:09.069 --> 01:19:13.430 I am, you may also be, right? And you know the 01:19:13.430 --> 01:19:17.289 way to where I am going. Now, we've explained 01:19:17.289 --> 01:19:19.050 this over and over and over and I don't want 01:19:19.050 --> 01:19:21.449 you to get tired of it, okay? You don't get tired 01:19:21.449 --> 01:19:24.670 of it because it must sink very well, right? 01:19:24.770 --> 01:19:27.970 It must sink very well in us. So, just to do 01:19:27.970 --> 01:19:31.170 a quick test, what is the word father's house? 01:19:31.229 --> 01:19:35.029 What does the father's house refer to? I don't 01:19:35.029 --> 01:19:38.470 want Greek word. I want English word. What does 01:19:38.470 --> 01:19:42.350 the father's house refer to? Household, right? 01:19:43.069 --> 01:19:46.649 God's family, right? So yes, God's family. Then, 01:19:46.770 --> 01:19:54.090 what does rooms refer to? Rooms. What does rooms 01:19:54.090 --> 01:19:58.670 refer to? Dwelling place, right? Dwelling place. 01:19:58.770 --> 01:20:01.489 A place where people dwell, right? Room. Places 01:20:01.489 --> 01:20:03.819 where people... Places that need to be occupied, 01:20:04.020 --> 01:20:06.619 positions that need to be occupied, right, in 01:20:06.619 --> 01:20:09.119 Christ. So, if you pay attention consistently 01:20:09.119 --> 01:20:12.920 to how it's being written, many rooms, if it 01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:15.399 were not so, I would not have, if it were not 01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:19.899 so, would I have told you that I go to prepare 01:20:19.899 --> 01:20:22.720 a place for you? So, another word for that room 01:20:22.720 --> 01:20:27.579 is place, okay? It's a place in Christ, a room 01:20:27.579 --> 01:20:32.029 in Christ, right? a place in Christ, a room in 01:20:32.029 --> 01:20:35.270 Christ. All he was doing was explaining for that, 01:20:35.390 --> 01:20:39.470 right? Explaining for that what he would do. 01:20:39.930 --> 01:20:42.369 And as I go to prepare a place for you, verse 01:20:42.369 --> 01:20:47.050 three, and I will come again and take you to 01:20:47.050 --> 01:20:51.390 myself. And that's where I am. You may also be. 01:20:51.489 --> 01:20:54.710 So Jesus is saying that I'm preparing a place 01:20:54.710 --> 01:21:00.500 through me and in me. That's what Jesus is saying. 01:21:00.699 --> 01:21:03.340 I'm preparing a place through me because I go 01:21:03.340 --> 01:21:07.779 and in me. I'm preparing this place through me 01:21:07.779 --> 01:21:09.819 and in me. I will prepare the place and that 01:21:09.819 --> 01:21:24.100 place is in me. That place is in me. Now, after 01:21:24.100 --> 01:21:26.140 Jesus has said he's going to prepare a place, 01:21:26.300 --> 01:21:31.960 right? And it says that place is in him. Why 01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:37.000 did he not begin to communicate something as 01:21:37.000 --> 01:21:42.000 if he's different in verse 15? Because if you 01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:47.779 tell me that you will create a place for us to, 01:21:47.779 --> 01:21:50.000 you know, to lodge, right? We'll have an outing. 01:21:50.020 --> 01:21:52.659 We are lodging there. Jinnah said, you will leave 01:21:52.659 --> 01:21:57.000 me, right? You will leave me. Then you will send 01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.420 some, Okay, let me not say someone, but you sent, 01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:01.239 you communicated something to me that you will 01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:04.680 send something or someone to be with me, right? 01:22:04.779 --> 01:22:08.439 It looks like two different communication. It 01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:10.260 looks like two different communication. So I 01:22:10.260 --> 01:22:12.859 said it will be with them here, right? And we'll 01:22:12.859 --> 01:22:15.520 be together. Of course, he communicated, we will 01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:17.560 be together with the father. But in verse 15, 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:19.220 he now said, if you love me, you will keep my 01:22:19.220 --> 01:22:22.159 commandment and I'll ask the father and he will 01:22:22.159 --> 01:22:25.300 give you another helper. And I think Pastor Yifan 01:22:25.300 --> 01:22:29.210 dealt with this as well. Another helper, we know 01:22:29.210 --> 01:22:35.470 that another helper is not another being. Let 01:22:35.470 --> 01:22:38.430 me show you something to tell you that the helper, 01:22:38.510 --> 01:22:45.449 the Father, the Spirit is God. John 10. Let me 01:22:45.449 --> 01:22:50.369 show you something. In John 10 verse 30, the 01:22:50.369 --> 01:22:53.630 Father, the Spirit, the communication, Christ 01:22:53.630 --> 01:22:56.430 was talking about God. I was talking about himself, 01:22:56.489 --> 01:22:59.369 right? So I was asking, I said, why did Jesus 01:22:59.369 --> 01:23:04.689 speak like a second person communication? Right? 01:23:04.729 --> 01:23:07.170 Is we that is even reading it a second person 01:23:07.170 --> 01:23:09.409 communication? Let me show you what the Jews 01:23:09.409 --> 01:23:12.789 understood when Jesus was talking. John 10 verse 01:23:12.789 --> 01:23:17.829 30. Before you go to John 10 verse 30, let's 01:23:17.829 --> 01:23:28.189 start with verse 25. Verse 25. And Jesus answered 01:23:28.189 --> 01:23:32.729 them. I told you and you do not believe. Right? 01:23:32.810 --> 01:23:36.189 And you do not believe. The works I do, the works 01:23:36.189 --> 01:23:39.250 that I do in my father's name, bear witness about 01:23:39.250 --> 01:23:43.109 me. But you do not believe because you are not 01:23:43.109 --> 01:23:45.949 among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice and I 01:23:45.949 --> 01:23:49.229 know them and they follow me. I give them eternal 01:23:49.229 --> 01:23:52.069 life and they will never perish. And no one will 01:23:52.069 --> 01:23:56.359 snatch them from my hand. My father who has given 01:23:56.359 --> 01:24:00.260 them to me is greater than all, and no one will 01:24:00.260 --> 01:24:03.399 be able to snatch them out of my hand. I and 01:24:03.399 --> 01:24:08.039 the father are what? I and the father are one. 01:24:08.180 --> 01:24:10.960 So he's talking about himself and talking about 01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:14.079 what he will do for us. Now, what did the Jews 01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:18.979 did? The Jews picked up stones again to stone 01:24:18.979 --> 01:24:22.350 him. Jesus answered, I have shown you many works 01:24:22.350 --> 01:24:24.789 from the Father. For which of them are you going 01:24:24.789 --> 01:24:27.789 to stone me? Now listen to their response. They 01:24:27.789 --> 01:24:30.609 just answered, it is not for a good work that 01:24:30.609 --> 01:24:32.949 we are stoning you. They want to justify why 01:24:32.949 --> 01:24:34.750 they want to stone him. It is not for a good 01:24:34.750 --> 01:24:38.630 work. So why? That we are going to stone you. 01:24:38.649 --> 01:24:40.810 But for what? Blasphemy. Look at their definition 01:24:40.810 --> 01:24:44.829 of blasphemy, right? Because you being a man, 01:24:44.970 --> 01:24:51.109 you make yourself what? God. You being man, make 01:24:51.109 --> 01:24:56.350 yourself what? God, right? So it means that when 01:24:56.350 --> 01:25:00.390 Jesus was communicating, I and the father are 01:25:00.390 --> 01:25:03.149 one, right? He was communicating that it was 01:25:03.149 --> 01:25:07.390 God. He was communicating that it was God. But 01:25:07.390 --> 01:25:10.989 why were they not on this? Why is he using such 01:25:10.989 --> 01:25:13.970 kind of a form of communication? Because the 01:25:13.970 --> 01:25:19.500 Jews understand father as Yahweh as well. They 01:25:19.500 --> 01:25:21.699 understand this source called father as John. 01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:24.979 So if you say you are father and the father and 01:25:24.979 --> 01:25:27.720 you are one, then you have said that you are 01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:30.539 God. And therefore it's blasphemy. They would 01:25:30.539 --> 01:25:34.640 raise a stone to that. So when Jesus was communicating 01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:38.319 back to 14 now, so he's talking about him creating 01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:42.039 a place in himself, right? And true himself. 01:25:42.140 --> 01:25:44.779 So in 15, he now said he's going to send another 01:25:44.779 --> 01:25:48.199 comforter, right? Another helper. which my scripture 01:25:48.199 --> 01:25:51.420 use helper, to be with you forever. It therefore 01:25:51.420 --> 01:25:56.000 means, right? Let me read one more. Let me read 01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:59.220 one more in this verse 14. To corroborate John 01:25:59.220 --> 01:26:02.800 10 verse 30 about the concept of the father. 01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:09.039 John 14 verse 8. It said, Philip said to him, 01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:13.500 Lord, show us who? The father. And it is what? 01:26:13.699 --> 01:26:18.420 It is enough. It therefore means that these people 01:26:18.420 --> 01:26:22.140 have the mind of someone called father. God is 01:26:22.140 --> 01:26:26.140 a revelation of the father. So he's also a Jew, 01:26:26.220 --> 01:26:28.880 right? And you have the Jewish people stoning 01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:31.060 Jesus because he said he is the father, more 01:26:31.060 --> 01:26:33.899 or less. Right? That is the communication he 01:26:33.899 --> 01:26:36.000 passed to them. So Philip now said, show us the 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:40.159 father. And Jesus was amazed. Like, ah. Have 01:26:40.159 --> 01:26:42.600 you been with me for this long? And you don't 01:26:42.600 --> 01:26:45.340 know that me and the father are one. I should 01:26:45.340 --> 01:26:48.020 communicate what I communicated to the Pharisees 01:26:48.020 --> 01:26:52.439 to you also. So it definitely reflect that Jesus 01:26:52.439 --> 01:26:55.439 was talking about himself. Now, how will he, 01:26:55.560 --> 01:27:00.180 right? How will he dwell in us? He's going to 01:27:00.180 --> 01:27:04.579 dwell in us through his own spirits, right? And 01:27:04.579 --> 01:27:08.859 that is why verse 15 came. He said, if you love 01:27:08.859 --> 01:27:10.439 me, keep my commandment and I will ask the Father 01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:13.039 to give you another helper that will be with 01:27:13.039 --> 01:27:16.340 you forever, right? Because Jesus will not be 01:27:16.340 --> 01:27:19.260 on earth forever in body, right? He's not going 01:27:19.260 --> 01:27:21.100 to be on earth forever. So he communicated to 01:27:21.100 --> 01:27:25.779 them that another helper, not another helper 01:27:25.779 --> 01:27:28.979 as an alternative, right? I think we saw that, 01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:31.579 that he's actually talking about the same spirits, 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:36.020 the same spirits. The same spirit, he's talking 01:27:36.020 --> 01:27:37.779 about the same spirit, which is the word allos 01:27:37.779 --> 01:27:40.760 paracletos, right? We heard that many times, 01:27:40.859 --> 01:27:45.579 allos paracletos, which is the same spirit. And 01:27:45.579 --> 01:27:48.939 what is this same spirit? That same spirit that 01:27:48.939 --> 01:27:51.539 we have been talking about from what? From Genesis 01:27:51.539 --> 01:27:55.000 is that same spirit. That same spirit that we 01:27:55.000 --> 01:27:58.920 trace to the resurrection of Christ is the same 01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:01.340 spirit that what? That will abide with them forever. 01:28:02.340 --> 01:28:07.119 Do we get it? So it's not another spirit from 01:28:07.119 --> 01:28:08.960 somewhere. But that same spirit that we have 01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:12.340 consistently traced, seen functioning, is the 01:28:12.340 --> 01:28:16.939 same spirit that will dwell in us. That same 01:28:16.939 --> 01:28:20.800 spirit will dwell in us. And that spirit is called 01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:22.500 the spirit of Christ. Do you know why it's called 01:28:22.500 --> 01:28:25.460 the spirit of Christ? Right? It's called the 01:28:25.460 --> 01:28:28.619 spirit of Christ because it is a spirit that 01:28:28.619 --> 01:28:31.930 is given for first, forever. You see it here. 01:28:31.989 --> 01:28:33.510 He said that spirit will be with you forever. 01:28:34.710 --> 01:28:37.750 Then it is a spirit that is given after resurrection. 01:28:41.090 --> 01:28:42.970 Right? So it's the spirit of Christ. It means 01:28:42.970 --> 01:28:46.489 that after what Christ has done, this spirit 01:28:46.489 --> 01:28:52.130 now abides with men forever. So anywhere you 01:28:52.130 --> 01:28:54.689 see the spirit of Christ, it means that after 01:28:54.689 --> 01:28:57.869 Christ has done, right? Because he said, I have 01:28:57.869 --> 01:29:00.239 to go and I'll come again. And I'll take it to 01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:03.220 her. So it means that the spirit of Christ referred 01:29:03.220 --> 01:29:07.159 to, right? The giving of the spirit after all 01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:09.819 that the Messiah has done to be with men forever. 01:29:10.220 --> 01:29:12.359 Don't forget, we've been talking about the spirit 01:29:12.359 --> 01:29:15.279 upon, right? We talked about upon, I mean, upon 01:29:15.279 --> 01:29:18.979 Mary and upon the prophets, right? We talk about 01:29:18.979 --> 01:29:22.560 upon Mary and upon the prophet. So here is now 01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:25.979 a spirit that will stay with them forever. So 01:29:25.979 --> 01:29:29.739 can we say that this believer is always spiritual 01:29:29.739 --> 01:29:34.979 because we have the spirit of God? Yes. The believer 01:29:34.979 --> 01:29:36.960 is always spiritual. There's no time you say, 01:29:37.039 --> 01:29:38.979 oh, I'm not spiritual today. I'm not feeling 01:29:38.979 --> 01:29:42.460 spiritual. Tomorrow, I don't feel it. Or they'll 01:29:42.460 --> 01:29:44.859 tell you, come and do certain spiritual activities 01:29:44.859 --> 01:29:47.279 like praying in tongues. You say, no. So there, 01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:49.220 I don't feel it. There's nothing like that. You 01:29:49.220 --> 01:29:51.460 cannot say you are not feeling it. You are always 01:29:51.460 --> 01:29:53.939 spiritual. Because they said, the Allos Paracletos 01:29:53.939 --> 01:29:59.500 will stay with you forever. Forever. So can we 01:29:59.500 --> 01:30:03.939 say that the things of the Spirit can always 01:30:03.939 --> 01:30:11.359 be exercised by the believer? Yes. Yes. The things 01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:16.420 of the Spirit can always be exercised by The 01:30:16.420 --> 01:30:20.420 believer. So there are no seasons and time that 01:30:20.420 --> 01:30:23.239 the believer is not spiritual. There are no seasons 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:26.720 and time that the believer cannot function in 01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:36.039 the gift of the spirit. Amen. There are no seasons 01:30:36.039 --> 01:30:42.020 and time that a believer cannot judge. You cannot 01:30:42.020 --> 01:30:48.140 be confused because you are spiritual. You can 01:30:48.140 --> 01:30:54.840 judge. You can perceive. You can understand by 01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:59.439 the spirit because you are always spiritual. 01:30:59.699 --> 01:31:07.380 You have the spirit ever with you. This spirit 01:31:07.380 --> 01:31:11.079 that Jesus promised to be ever with us, right? 01:31:11.140 --> 01:31:14.619 We can put it, it's called the indwelling. It's 01:31:14.619 --> 01:31:18.859 called the indwelling. Right? Not upon, but the 01:31:18.859 --> 01:31:23.939 indwelling of the spirits. It's called the indwelling 01:31:23.939 --> 01:31:31.439 of the spirits. The indwelling of the spirits. 01:31:37.239 --> 01:31:47.409 The indwelling of the spirits. John chapter 3. 01:31:47.510 --> 01:31:49.970 Let's just touch upon John chapter 3 a little 01:31:49.970 --> 01:32:01.470 bit. John chapter 3. John chapter 3. John chapter 01:32:01.470 --> 01:32:07.550 3. Verse 5. Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say 01:32:07.550 --> 01:32:11.310 to you, unless a man is born of water and the 01:32:11.310 --> 01:32:16.720 Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. that 01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:18.319 which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which 01:32:18.319 --> 01:32:21.720 is born of the spirit is spirit. Do you marvel 01:32:21.720 --> 01:32:24.979 that I said to you, you must be born again? The 01:32:24.979 --> 01:32:27.199 wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound, 01:32:27.300 --> 01:32:29.539 but you do not know where it comes from or where 01:32:29.539 --> 01:32:32.800 it goes. So it sees with everyone who is born 01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:36.699 of the spirits. Nicodemus said to him, how can 01:32:36.699 --> 01:32:39.640 these things be? So Jesus answered, are you a 01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:41.659 teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand 01:32:41.659 --> 01:32:45.880 these things? Now, just wait there. So the communication 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:49.260 was that you have to be born of the Spirit. And 01:32:49.260 --> 01:32:53.260 this is what Jesus was saying, that you must 01:32:53.260 --> 01:32:58.000 have the indwelling, the Spirit in you. Okay? 01:32:58.060 --> 01:33:00.699 So this is what Jesus was communicating, that 01:33:00.699 --> 01:33:04.140 the Spirit of God would be in you, means you 01:33:04.140 --> 01:33:06.500 will have the Spirit of God in you. And he was 01:33:06.500 --> 01:33:08.300 saying that, are you a teacher of the law and 01:33:08.300 --> 01:33:09.880 you do not understand these things, means that, 01:33:10.020 --> 01:33:13.600 read the next one. Verse 11, let's go to verse 01:33:13.600 --> 01:33:16.060 11. So truthfully, I say to you, we speak what 01:33:16.060 --> 01:33:17.899 we know, we bear witness to what we have seen, 01:33:17.939 --> 01:33:20.039 but you do not receive our testimony. The next, 01:33:20.159 --> 01:33:22.000 I have told you earthly things and you do not 01:33:22.000 --> 01:33:24.699 believe. How can you believe if I tell you heavenly 01:33:24.699 --> 01:33:27.880 things? No one has ascended to heaven except 01:33:27.880 --> 01:33:31.180 the one who descended, the son of man. And as 01:33:31.180 --> 01:33:32.779 Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 01:33:32.939 --> 01:33:35.789 so the son of man must be lifted up. that whosoever 01:33:35.789 --> 01:33:39.010 believes in him may have eternal life. Now stop 01:33:39.010 --> 01:33:42.189 here. Jesus' communication was to him, right? 01:33:42.250 --> 01:33:45.289 Jesus' communication to him was that, are you 01:33:45.289 --> 01:33:48.229 not understanding what I'm communicating? That 01:33:48.229 --> 01:33:50.329 you have to be born of the spirit. Of course, 01:33:50.329 --> 01:33:52.250 we addressed that already to be born of the spirit, 01:33:52.430 --> 01:33:55.689 right? It's not water. Water is actually explaining 01:33:55.689 --> 01:33:58.350 cleansing by the spirit, right? What the work 01:33:58.350 --> 01:34:01.090 of the spirit is actually the cleansing. So Jesus 01:34:01.090 --> 01:34:03.829 was expecting actually Nicodemus to understand. 01:34:05.430 --> 01:34:08.729 Maybe by that, you could perceive what the Spirit 01:34:08.729 --> 01:34:11.670 would do. Right? Maybe by that, you could perceive 01:34:11.670 --> 01:34:14.630 what the Spirit would do. So, he's talking about 01:34:14.630 --> 01:34:17.390 the indwelling, that the Spirit must indwell 01:34:17.390 --> 01:34:21.310 in man. So, indwelling is being born again. Can 01:34:21.310 --> 01:34:23.949 we say that? Having the Spirit of God is being 01:34:23.949 --> 01:34:26.789 born again. Can we say that? That is also salvation. 01:34:26.890 --> 01:34:32.159 Can we say that? Yes. Yes, we can say that that 01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:35.460 is salvation, that is having the Spirit of God. 01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:41.619 Now, it is also, we can put it down, it is also 01:34:41.619 --> 01:34:46.460 called the manifestation of the Spirit. It is 01:34:46.460 --> 01:34:48.520 also called the manifestation of the Spirit. 01:34:48.739 --> 01:34:52.479 We are going to treat this in, when we go to 01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:56.140 1 Corinthians 12. Right? 1 Corinthians 12. Because 01:34:56.140 --> 01:34:58.600 the word manifestation of the Spirit was used 01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:01.000 in 1 Corinthians 12. And most of the time, we 01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:04.479 always interpret it as demonstration. Yes, we 01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:06.600 always take it as demonstration. Right? There's 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:08.800 a difference between the manifestation that was 01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:11.579 used there and demonstration that was used in 01:35:11.579 --> 01:35:17.500 1 Corinthians 2. So as I come to you, not in 01:35:17.500 --> 01:35:19.840 eloquence of words, but in demonstration of power 01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:22.720 and of spirit. There are two things. So this 01:35:22.720 --> 01:35:25.000 indwelling is the manifestation of spirit. It 01:35:25.000 --> 01:35:28.739 means the presence of God in a man. The presence 01:35:28.739 --> 01:35:33.039 of God in a man. The presence of God in a man. 01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:39.579 The presence of the spirit in a man. It means 01:35:39.579 --> 01:35:42.359 to allow something to have access to you, right? 01:35:42.380 --> 01:35:44.300 To manifest, allow something to have access to 01:35:44.300 --> 01:35:49.659 you. If you see John, John chapter 22, of course, 01:35:49.659 --> 01:35:51.840 the words are different. This one is ephaneso. 01:35:51.920 --> 01:35:54.479 Phaneros is the manifestation. I think Pastor 01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:59.020 Kostin dealt with that. So, the manifestation 01:35:59.020 --> 01:36:00.920 is actually, I think we can just say it. The 01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:03.399 manifestation is actually the spirit of God in 01:36:03.399 --> 01:36:05.560 the believer, the appearance of God in the believer, 01:36:05.560 --> 01:36:10.329 the presence of the spirit. The presence of the 01:36:10.329 --> 01:36:14.949 Spirit. Now that we understand being born again 01:36:14.949 --> 01:36:17.109 and being believed. Now, what is the work of 01:36:17.109 --> 01:36:21.810 the Holy Spirit in the apostles? Right? We need 01:36:21.810 --> 01:36:23.569 to check the work of the Holy Spirit in the apostles, 01:36:23.810 --> 01:36:28.489 which will also relate to us. And we will teach 01:36:28.489 --> 01:36:31.010 the work of the Holy Spirit in the world to have 01:36:31.010 --> 01:36:35.109 an understanding that we might be able to know 01:36:35.109 --> 01:36:41.199 how the Holy Spirit functions. Across that manifestation, 01:36:41.380 --> 01:36:43.920 you can also put the Ezekiel 36. Again, you can 01:36:43.920 --> 01:36:47.520 put Joel 2 because it's the same thing that is 01:36:47.520 --> 01:36:52.199 being communicated. Ezekiel 36, Joel 2, 28. We 01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:58.720 can put those scriptures. Now that Jesus promised 01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:03.500 them the Spirit, right? What is the work of the 01:37:03.500 --> 01:37:06.840 Spirit in the apostles? What is the work of the 01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:11.170 Spirit in the apostles? What is the work of the 01:37:11.170 --> 01:37:14.590 Spirit in the apostles? Don't forget, the work 01:37:14.590 --> 01:37:16.689 of the Spirit started from Genesis. We saw what 01:37:16.689 --> 01:37:19.310 God did. We see how Abraham communicated it, 01:37:19.390 --> 01:37:24.029 right? We see how it's passed on to Mary, right? 01:37:24.069 --> 01:37:26.729 Also in the incarnation of Christ, the Spirit 01:37:26.729 --> 01:37:29.710 was at work. Also in the death and resurrection 01:37:29.710 --> 01:37:33.270 of Christ, the Spirit is at work. Now, he now 01:37:33.270 --> 01:37:36.149 said, I will give these same spirits. To who? 01:37:36.630 --> 01:37:41.170 The apostles. So what will be the function of 01:37:41.170 --> 01:37:43.630 the Spirit in the apostles? What will be the 01:37:43.630 --> 01:37:46.789 function of the Spirit in the apostles? Acts 01:37:46.789 --> 01:37:51.569 chapter 1 verse 7. Before that, I think we should 01:37:51.569 --> 01:37:56.189 read John 15 verse 26 to 27. John 15 verse 26 01:37:56.189 --> 01:38:01.390 to 27. Since Jesus promised them the Spirit in 01:38:01.390 --> 01:38:06.449 John 14 verse 15, John 15, 26 and 27 tells us 01:38:06.449 --> 01:38:10.020 what will happen. But when the helper comes, 01:38:10.239 --> 01:38:13.699 whom I sent to you from the father, the spirit 01:38:13.699 --> 01:38:16.260 of truth will proceed from the father. He will 01:38:16.260 --> 01:38:20.720 bear witness about me. So of all that Jesus has 01:38:20.720 --> 01:38:23.979 been teaching the disciples, the apostles, the 01:38:23.979 --> 01:38:28.460 spirit will reveal those things to them. So how 01:38:28.460 --> 01:38:30.800 did they know that he was talking about his spirit 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:34.279 in John chapter two by the spirit? How did they 01:38:34.279 --> 01:38:37.420 understand that the temple? That he said he would 01:38:37.420 --> 01:38:39.760 destroy and raise was his body. By the Spirit. 01:38:40.060 --> 01:38:46.140 After resurrection. So everything John was saying, 01:38:46.220 --> 01:38:49.380 they later understood was by the Spirit. This 01:38:49.380 --> 01:38:51.439 is for them. Right? This is for them. We'll come 01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:53.539 to the ones that are patented to us. The next 01:38:53.539 --> 01:38:56.880 verse. And you also will now do what? Be a witness. 01:38:57.260 --> 01:38:59.619 So when the Spirit witnessed to the apostles, 01:39:00.039 --> 01:39:04.279 they would witness to us. Right? So in their 01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:07.420 writings, we see that. So you also be a witness 01:39:07.420 --> 01:39:10.100 because you have been with me from the beginning. 01:39:11.500 --> 01:39:13.979 They have been with Jesus. So it means that all 01:39:13.979 --> 01:39:16.819 that Jesus has been explaining and has been doing 01:39:16.819 --> 01:39:20.199 and has been teaching them, they will now explain 01:39:20.199 --> 01:39:24.220 to us in the epistles, right? They will explain 01:39:24.220 --> 01:39:26.739 to us in the, that's why, I mean, beginning is 01:39:26.739 --> 01:39:28.640 there, right? It shows that they've been with 01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:31.399 Christ, right? So all the things that people 01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:35.310 were seeing and they could not understand. The 01:39:35.310 --> 01:39:37.470 miracles, the gift, the teaching, the words of 01:39:37.470 --> 01:39:44.430 Jesus, everything the apostles took and explained 01:39:44.430 --> 01:39:47.109 it to us. And that is why we have the epistles, 01:39:47.189 --> 01:39:50.130 the letters of Paul, the Peter, John, and all 01:39:50.130 --> 01:39:54.250 of that. So this is what they will do. Now Acts 01:39:54.250 --> 01:39:58.310 chapter 1, Acts chapter 1 now proceeds and tells 01:39:58.310 --> 01:40:04.489 us much more what the Spirit will do. Acts chapter 01:40:04.489 --> 01:40:08.210 one, verse seven. And he said to them, it is 01:40:08.210 --> 01:40:10.189 not for you to know the time of seasons that 01:40:10.189 --> 01:40:13.189 the father has fixed by his own authority, but 01:40:13.189 --> 01:40:16.069 you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has 01:40:16.069 --> 01:40:20.369 come upon you and you will be my witness in Jerusalem, 01:40:20.489 --> 01:40:23.329 in all Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. 01:40:23.989 --> 01:40:26.729 So they will do what? They will be his witness. 01:40:27.630 --> 01:40:32.779 Witnessing. Witnessing. Of all Christ has done. 01:40:32.960 --> 01:40:36.560 So the disciples will witness. The power to witness. 01:40:36.680 --> 01:40:40.840 Comes by the spirit. Okay. The power to witness. 01:40:41.000 --> 01:40:45.520 Comes by the spirit. The power to witness. Comes 01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:53.840 by the spirit. So the way that for this power, 01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:56.020 right, which Jesus said they should wait until 01:40:56.020 --> 01:40:59.340 the Holy Spirit gives them this power, the boldness, 01:40:59.359 --> 01:41:03.460 right, to begin to function. But for the believer 01:41:03.460 --> 01:41:06.039 today, we don't need to wait, right? Are we aware? 01:41:06.260 --> 01:41:08.899 Yes. The believer does not need to wait. It's 01:41:08.899 --> 01:41:11.239 an instruction for the apostles, right? That 01:41:11.239 --> 01:41:16.020 they will together begin to function. collectively 01:41:16.020 --> 01:41:19.100 in the power of the Holy Ghost. What is happening 01:41:19.100 --> 01:41:21.560 there is what? Is the power of the Holy Ghost 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:25.260 at work. Right? The power of the Holy Ghost. 01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:30.359 So he said, wait until this power begins to function. 01:41:30.539 --> 01:41:32.659 So as believers, we don't need to wait in Jerusalem. 01:41:32.779 --> 01:41:34.720 We don't need to wait anywhere. And we know, 01:41:34.739 --> 01:41:41.859 we know this. Now, Acts chapter 3, verse 38. 01:41:42.100 --> 01:41:45.600 We see Peter witnessing. Peter witnessed. He 01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:48.319 said, Then Peter said to them, Repent and be 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:50.380 baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus 01:41:50.380 --> 01:41:53.159 Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye would 01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:56.300 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So, first 01:41:56.300 --> 01:41:59.579 person began to witness Peter. Began to teach. 01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:04.399 Explain. Right? Explain so much more. Acts chapter 01:42:04.399 --> 01:42:07.220 5 verse 12. We see signs and wonders. We can 01:42:07.220 --> 01:42:09.500 put it down. What the Spirit does through the 01:42:09.500 --> 01:42:11.960 apostles. Preaching of the gospel. Witnessing. 01:42:12.619 --> 01:42:16.000 Acts chapter 5 verse 12, signs and wonders. It 01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:18.819 says, now many signs and wonders were regularly 01:42:18.819 --> 01:42:21.920 done among the people by the hands of what? The 01:42:21.920 --> 01:42:24.859 apostles. And they were together in Solomon's 01:42:24.859 --> 01:42:26.779 particle. So we see signs and wonders walking 01:42:26.779 --> 01:42:29.380 through them. You will see regularly, you see 01:42:29.380 --> 01:42:31.520 the Spirit walking through them. The Spirit walking 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:34.340 through them across the book of Acts. The Spirit 01:42:34.340 --> 01:42:39.159 walking through them. Now let's see. The impact 01:42:39.159 --> 01:42:44.000 of the work of the spirits in the apostles, right? 01:42:44.060 --> 01:42:46.600 How that impact affected others. Acts chapter 01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:51.899 10, verse 44 to 46. So now that the apostles 01:42:51.899 --> 01:42:55.319 are the indwelling, they are witnessing all around, 01:42:55.560 --> 01:42:58.279 right? They are doing signs and wonders. What 01:42:58.279 --> 01:43:01.920 happened? It's a Peter while he was still saying 01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:05.000 these things, while Peter was witnessing, that's 01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:09.229 it. While Peter was yet witnessing, The Holy 01:43:09.229 --> 01:43:12.770 Spirit did what fell on those who heard and all 01:43:12.770 --> 01:43:15.850 who heard the word. And believers from among 01:43:15.850 --> 01:43:19.569 the circumcised who had come with Peter were 01:43:19.569 --> 01:43:23.090 amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit was 01:43:23.090 --> 01:43:25.750 poured out even on the Gentiles. Stop there. 01:43:26.350 --> 01:43:30.069 So those who were the circumcised, right, were 01:43:30.069 --> 01:43:33.289 amazed that now these gifts can be received by 01:43:33.289 --> 01:43:40.579 every man. Every man. The next verse 46. Let's 01:43:40.579 --> 01:43:43.000 see what happens to the believer. For they were 01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:46.279 hearing them speaking words in tongues and extolling 01:43:46.279 --> 01:43:49.020 God. Then Peter declared. So just stop there. 01:43:49.079 --> 01:43:51.720 That is fine. For they were hearing them speaking 01:43:51.720 --> 01:43:54.659 in tongues. So one of the things the Spirit does, 01:43:54.739 --> 01:44:00.300 right, is to help the believer witness, which 01:44:00.300 --> 01:44:04.539 is help the apostles to witness, and then help 01:44:04.539 --> 01:44:08.050 other people to believe and... Witness that by 01:44:08.050 --> 01:44:12.489 praying in tongues. So tongues is actually a 01:44:12.489 --> 01:44:14.890 sign, of course, the teaching will come subsequently, 01:44:15.170 --> 01:44:17.989 is actually a sign that someone has received 01:44:17.989 --> 01:44:21.890 the indwelling. Okay? Speaking in tongues is 01:44:21.890 --> 01:44:23.890 a sign that someone has received the indwelling 01:44:23.890 --> 01:44:28.789 after they have been witnessed to. Tongues is 01:44:28.789 --> 01:44:31.109 a sign that someone has received, a believer 01:44:31.109 --> 01:44:33.810 has received the indwelling after being witnessed 01:44:33.810 --> 01:44:53.829 to. After being witnessed to. So this is what 01:44:53.829 --> 01:44:57.609 God is doing through men on earth today. This 01:44:57.609 --> 01:45:01.390 is what God is doing. So men are the ones functioning 01:45:01.390 --> 01:45:05.069 by the spirits. Right? Men are the ones doing 01:45:05.069 --> 01:45:16.659 what? Functioning by the spirits. All right. 01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:22.680 So the next question before we round up the session 01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:26.260 is what is the work of the Holy Spirit in the 01:45:26.260 --> 01:45:29.819 world today? Right? What is the function of the 01:45:29.819 --> 01:45:33.800 Holy Spirit to the world? So we now have to talk 01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:34.979 about the function of the Holy Spirit in the 01:45:34.979 --> 01:45:37.359 apostles and how the apostles witnessed to people 01:45:37.359 --> 01:45:40.500 and how through the Spirit they began to speak 01:45:40.500 --> 01:45:44.180 in tongues as evidence of the indwelling. Right? 01:45:44.590 --> 01:45:46.989 Peter was amazed. The Gentiles were not uncircumcised, 01:45:47.029 --> 01:45:49.949 not they received. Means the Spirit is for all. 01:45:50.710 --> 01:45:53.729 The Spirit is for all men. We'll come to that 01:45:53.729 --> 01:45:57.310 in 1 Corinthians when we get it. So, the Spirit 01:45:57.310 --> 01:46:01.710 is for all men. Now, John 15. Let's go back to 01:46:01.710 --> 01:46:05.810 John 15. What the Holy Spirit does not do. Actually, 01:46:05.949 --> 01:46:08.590 that's another way to put this. What the Holy 01:46:08.590 --> 01:46:11.390 Spirit does in the world or what the Holy Spirit 01:46:11.390 --> 01:46:14.949 does not do. What the Holy Spirit does in the 01:46:14.949 --> 01:46:18.229 world or to the world and what the Holy Spirit 01:46:18.229 --> 01:46:24.350 does not do. So you will notice that after John 01:46:24.350 --> 01:46:27.909 chapter 15, verse 26 to 27, saying that the Spirit 01:46:27.909 --> 01:46:30.029 will witness to the apostles and the apostles 01:46:30.029 --> 01:46:34.529 will witness to others, right? The next thing 01:46:34.529 --> 01:46:37.649 that followed is, in fact, prior to that and 01:46:37.649 --> 01:46:40.470 after that, what followed is that they will be 01:46:40.470 --> 01:46:44.449 persecuted. they would suffer for the sake of 01:46:44.449 --> 01:46:48.109 the gospel. So let's start with John 15, verse 01:46:48.109 --> 01:46:53.409 18. He said, if the world hates you, know that 01:46:53.409 --> 01:46:56.670 it has hated what me, before he did what, it 01:46:56.670 --> 01:47:02.489 hated you. Right? So if you read this and you 01:47:02.489 --> 01:47:06.149 continue to read until chapter 16, verse one, 01:47:06.270 --> 01:47:07.850 go to chapter 16, verse one, I'll just be taking 01:47:07.850 --> 01:47:10.869 it one, one. I have said all these things to 01:47:10.869 --> 01:47:14.550 you. To keep you from what? Falling away, right? 01:47:14.649 --> 01:47:17.289 Falling away means running away from what I've 01:47:17.289 --> 01:47:19.970 called them to do. The previous verse tells you 01:47:19.970 --> 01:47:22.909 what Jesus told them to do. Okay? Jesus told 01:47:22.909 --> 01:47:24.909 them, you will be a witness because, chapter 01:47:24.909 --> 01:47:28.409 15, verse 27. Chapter 15, verse 27. You would 01:47:28.409 --> 01:47:30.609 also be a witness because you have been with 01:47:30.609 --> 01:47:33.409 me from what? From the beginning. In other words, 01:47:33.430 --> 01:47:35.130 I am telling you that you will suffer so that 01:47:35.130 --> 01:47:37.949 you will not stop witnessing. You will not fall 01:47:37.949 --> 01:47:42.520 away. You will not lose faith. They will put 01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:44.500 you out of the synagogues while you are witnessing. 01:47:45.100 --> 01:47:48.520 Is that when that takes place? Yes. Indeed, the 01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:50.439 hour is coming when whoever kills you will think 01:47:50.439 --> 01:47:52.699 he's offering a service to me. Right? Why is 01:47:52.699 --> 01:47:54.239 Jesus saying this? So that they will not stop 01:47:54.239 --> 01:47:56.579 witnessing. They will not be discouraged. Right? 01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:59.500 So, don't use it as end time teaching. Like, 01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:01.439 fall away. Oh, you lose your salvation. No, that's 01:48:01.439 --> 01:48:04.359 not what he's saying. Right? Don't try to use 01:48:04.359 --> 01:48:06.859 it that. As a that. So, Jesus is saying, you 01:48:06.859 --> 01:48:09.359 will not fall away from witnessing me. Verse 01:48:09.359 --> 01:48:12.500 4. But I have told you. I have said these things 01:48:12.500 --> 01:48:15.460 that when the hour comes, you may remember that 01:48:15.460 --> 01:48:20.539 I was, I told you. I told you. Now, proceed. 01:48:20.699 --> 01:48:23.000 I did not say these things to you from the beginning 01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:25.420 because I was with you. But now I'm going to 01:48:25.420 --> 01:48:28.039 the one who sent me and none of you asked me 01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:32.539 where I go. Verse 6. But because I have said 01:48:32.539 --> 01:48:36.439 these things to you, your sorrows have filled 01:48:36.439 --> 01:48:40.229 your hearts. Nevertheless, I tell you, it is 01:48:40.229 --> 01:48:41.970 to your advantage that I go. And if I do not 01:48:41.970 --> 01:48:44.869 go away, the helper will not come, right? Emphasizing 01:48:44.869 --> 01:48:48.430 he has to die and resurrect. But when I go, I 01:48:48.430 --> 01:48:52.109 will send him. And when he comes, good. Now, 01:48:52.130 --> 01:48:53.970 this is the scripture now. When he comes, what 01:48:53.970 --> 01:48:58.149 will you do? He will convict the world concerning 01:48:58.149 --> 01:49:03.130 what? Sin, right? And righteousness and what? 01:49:03.550 --> 01:49:07.260 And judgments. Concerning sin, because they do 01:49:07.260 --> 01:49:10.699 not believe in me. Concerning righteousness, 01:49:10.779 --> 01:49:14.720 because I go to the Father and you will see me 01:49:14.720 --> 01:49:17.340 no longer. Concerning judgment, because the ruler 01:49:17.340 --> 01:49:21.500 of the world is judged. Now the emphasis here, 01:49:21.560 --> 01:49:24.300 most of the time when we teach it before those 01:49:24.300 --> 01:49:27.760 days. right? Not now that we have clarity, which 01:49:27.760 --> 01:49:29.180 we are going to have this clarity. I think in 01:49:29.180 --> 01:49:31.000 the next second session, we will pay attention 01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:32.439 to this. I'm not going to rush and finish it 01:49:32.439 --> 01:49:34.180 now, right? I'm just going to tell us the wrong 01:49:34.180 --> 01:49:36.279 perception of the wrong interpretation of this, 01:49:36.380 --> 01:49:40.180 which is, we always say that the Holy Spirit 01:49:40.180 --> 01:49:44.399 will, will, will convince, will convict you means 01:49:44.399 --> 01:49:47.119 that you have done something wrong, right? So 01:49:47.119 --> 01:49:49.159 conviction means you have done something wrong. 01:49:49.619 --> 01:49:53.470 Then a judgment is passed on to you. That's conviction, 01:49:53.689 --> 01:49:56.489 right? So you have done something wrong. So what 01:49:56.489 --> 01:49:58.850 people interpret this as is that when you do 01:49:58.850 --> 01:50:01.369 something wrong, the Holy Spirit will now come 01:50:01.369 --> 01:50:04.689 and tell you, make you feel remorse and you now 01:50:04.689 --> 01:50:08.670 feel bad. You're now like, oh no. So when you're 01:50:08.670 --> 01:50:10.970 feeling those things, right? Because of wrong 01:50:10.970 --> 01:50:12.489 teaching, you see, it's the Holy Spirit that 01:50:12.489 --> 01:50:15.789 is convicting me. It's telling me you did a bad 01:50:15.789 --> 01:50:18.550 thing. You did the wrong thing. And this is the 01:50:18.550 --> 01:50:20.850 scripture they bring to explain that. But that's 01:50:20.850 --> 01:50:25.000 not correct, right? The word convict, right? 01:50:25.079 --> 01:50:27.039 The word convict. Let's just write it down before 01:50:27.039 --> 01:50:34.180 we finish. The word convict directly here is 01:50:34.180 --> 01:50:42.979 the word. It's actually the word to reflect shame, 01:50:43.159 --> 01:50:46.460 to find faults and to make someone feel sorry. 01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:49.779 That is the way. it appears, the word convict, 01:50:49.840 --> 01:50:52.520 is to find fault, to make someone feel sorry, 01:50:52.640 --> 01:51:08.159 and to shame. To shame. So is this what the Holy 01:51:08.159 --> 01:51:13.359 Spirit do to the world? So it means that it will 01:51:13.359 --> 01:51:15.859 tell the disciples, go and witness. So while 01:51:15.859 --> 01:51:17.800 they are witnessing, The Holy Spirit will now, 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.640 one day they are witnessing Jesus, right? The 01:51:20.640 --> 01:51:22.899 Holy Spirit will now say, you see, he's preaching 01:51:22.899 --> 01:51:25.619 to you now. The other day you lied. The other 01:51:25.619 --> 01:51:27.859 day you stole. You now bring all your sins. That's 01:51:27.859 --> 01:51:29.359 the way we think, that the Holy Spirit will reveal 01:51:29.359 --> 01:51:33.600 all your sins to you. And then, no, it's not 01:51:33.600 --> 01:51:36.579 what it is. After the break, we would actually 01:51:36.579 --> 01:51:39.079 go into that. I just want us to take time out 01:51:39.079 --> 01:51:41.880 to pray, right? For this few five minutes that 01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:44.079 we have, just want to take time out to pray. 01:51:44.939 --> 01:51:48.819 And just... Speak in tongues as an evidence that 01:51:48.819 --> 01:51:52.239 you have the indwelling. So if you have the indwelling 01:51:52.239 --> 01:51:55.239 here this morning, can you begin to pray in tongues? 01:51:56.100 --> 01:51:59.319 Can you give expression to that indwelling that 01:51:59.319 --> 01:52:02.779 is in you? Right? Give expression to the spirit 01:52:02.779 --> 01:52:05.260 of God that is in you by praying in tongues. 01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:08.960 The same spirit that was from Genesis. The same 01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:11.319 spirit that was from the father. The same spirit 01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:13.460 that raised Christ from the dead. The same spirit 01:52:13.460 --> 01:52:16.039 that brought Christ to earth. The same spirit. 01:52:16.460 --> 01:52:21.140 The same spirit that the prophet prophesied. 01:52:21.340 --> 01:52:23.800 The same spirit that was upon the prophet. The 01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:25.399 same spirit that raised Christ from the dead. 01:52:25.500 --> 01:52:29.600 The same spirit dwells in us. Can we give expression 01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:33.239 this morning? You don't need to have a prayer 01:52:33.239 --> 01:52:35.220 point. It's an expression of the fact that you 01:52:35.220 --> 01:52:40.050 have the spirit of God in you. It's an expression 01:52:40.050 --> 01:52:46.949 that you carry God in you. Can you just give 01:52:46.949 --> 01:53:09.350 expression to the Holy Ghost? If today's message 01:53:09.350 --> 01:53:12.710 was a blessing, share it with a friend. Until 01:53:12.710 --> 01:53:14.409 next time, be blessed.