WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.640 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:23.300 right in. So what happens in a Christian gathering? 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.820 What are the kind of things that happen? So the 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:30.899 things you do shows your knowledge of it. Praise 00:00:30.899 --> 00:00:33.600 the Lord. Like for example, when the worship 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.399 was going on, you decided to become part of the 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.340 media team. Praise the Lord. You decided, you 00:00:40.340 --> 00:00:42.460 know what, I'm going to video what is going on. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.200 Oh, I love the singing. I love the prayers. I 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.500 love the man who is preaching. Let me just record 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:51.579 so that I can upload later on. Praise the Lord. 00:00:51.659 --> 00:00:53.939 It shows you don't know what is going on. You're 00:00:53.939 --> 00:00:56.299 in the wrong place. Praise the Lord. You're in 00:00:56.299 --> 00:00:58.939 the right place, but you're not conscious of 00:00:58.939 --> 00:01:01.500 what is going on around you. Praise the Lord. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.140 That's the reason why we have the media team. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.560 Praise the Lord. To be able to capture this moment 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.379 so that you can find it later online or request 00:01:10.379 --> 00:01:13.799 from them the things that you want. Praise the 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:18.620 Lord. Or the fact that you come to church and 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:21.719 the service is going on and somebody calls you. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.200 Or people keep calling you and you keep going 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.819 outside, picking your call, come back, keep picking 00:01:26.819 --> 00:01:28.680 and coming back. And then when somebody asks 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:30.500 you, what are you doing? You say, my dad just 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:33.120 called me or my mom just called me or somebody 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.959 called me. It shows that you are ignorant of 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.900 what is going on. Praise the Lord. Sorry to say. 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.180 Okay. It shows that you are ignorant of what 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:47.420 is going on in the meeting because this is a 00:01:47.420 --> 00:01:51.430 different kind of meeting. Praise the Lord. is 00:01:51.430 --> 00:01:55.189 a different kind of meeting. You're not that 00:01:55.189 --> 00:01:57.489 busy. Praise the Lord. There are many people 00:01:57.489 --> 00:01:59.849 here that are lecturers. There are many people 00:01:59.849 --> 00:02:02.469 here that are business people and they are doing 00:02:02.469 --> 00:02:04.890 excellently well. But when it comes to the house 00:02:04.890 --> 00:02:07.250 of God, they'll put their phones away. Praise 00:02:07.250 --> 00:02:12.050 the Lord. Every call will come after 1 .30. Praise 00:02:12.050 --> 00:02:14.479 the Lord. Most of their colleagues or most of 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.020 their business partners will understand that, 00:02:16.060 --> 00:02:18.819 oh, you cannot reach this person by this time 00:02:18.819 --> 00:02:22.300 because they are in the house of God. Praise 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:25.120 the Lord, because they have recognized the importance 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.219 of what or where they have come into. Praise 00:02:29.219 --> 00:02:31.840 the Lord. Or you want to give your friends online 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.699 the updates of what is going on. You know, let's 00:02:35.699 --> 00:02:41.099 tweet, you know, like Mr. Matthew. You say everywhere 00:02:41.099 --> 00:02:44.039 is fire or fire everywhere. You just put it and 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.939 put those emojis that, you know, the service 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:49.680 is powerful and you're updating on your Snapchat 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:56.300 and different social media handles. It shows 00:02:56.300 --> 00:02:59.000 that you don't know what is going on. It is not 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.259 just about a song that is being sung in the church. 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:04.500 It's not just about the prayers. What is happening 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:07.919 here is spiritual. Praise the Lord. It is spiritual. 00:03:08.180 --> 00:03:12.620 It is the things of the spirit. And what you're 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:14.840 doing at that time is not necessary. It's not 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:20.080 important to the things of the spirit. And again, 00:03:20.139 --> 00:03:23.180 we have to learn how to control the use of our 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:25.180 devices. When you come into this place, you want 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:28.699 to ensure that you turn off your devices or you 00:03:28.699 --> 00:03:31.219 put it somewhere knowing that you have come to 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:34.800 an important place. If you switch it off, nothing 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.349 will happen to you. You will not die. Praise 00:03:37.349 --> 00:03:39.729 the Lord. Matter of fact, if you switch off your 00:03:39.729 --> 00:03:43.069 phone for a while, even at home, it shows whether 00:03:43.069 --> 00:03:47.069 you are anxious. It shows the level of anxiety. 00:03:47.590 --> 00:03:50.889 I don't know how to call it, but it shows whether 00:03:50.889 --> 00:03:53.370 or not you are anxious whenever you're not with 00:03:53.370 --> 00:03:56.150 your phone. So you can test yourself. What happens 00:03:56.150 --> 00:03:59.409 when I switch off my phone for one day? Or when 00:03:59.409 --> 00:04:01.949 I switch off my phone for two hours? What happens? 00:04:02.150 --> 00:04:05.280 Am I anxious? Am I calm? Praise the Lord. Because 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.159 you don't want anything to control you. Praise 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.120 the Lord. You want to be led by the Spirit of 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.480 God. So we learn how to control our devices. 00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:23.339 So everything that is going on around the world 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:25.319 when you come to the house of God will be fine. 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:28.199 Your parents will be fine. Your siblings will 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.629 be fine. Your business will continue to progress. 00:04:30.870 --> 00:04:32.910 Matter of fact, there are people that are doing 00:04:32.910 --> 00:04:35.129 big businesses. Why do you think people close 00:04:35.129 --> 00:04:37.490 on Saturday and Sunday? Praise the Lord. Do you 00:04:37.490 --> 00:04:41.569 think there's no money to be made? They also 00:04:41.569 --> 00:04:46.769 understand that everything is not about working. 00:04:46.910 --> 00:04:48.970 Praise the Lord. There are so many other things 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:53.069 that is pertaining to life than that. So putting 00:04:53.069 --> 00:04:56.449 away your devices, for example, gives you the 00:04:56.449 --> 00:04:59.639 opportunity to pray. Praise the Lord. Sometimes 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:02.000 you notice that when you wake up in the morning 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.500 and your challenge is not that you're not doing 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:06.079 your morning devotion. We're going to come to 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:09.720 the Scriptures, okay? Your challenge is that 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.540 you're not doing your morning devotion or that 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:15.399 you're not able to. But it is that when you wake 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:18.639 up, the light of your phone goes off or you just 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.360 pick it up and once you start to scroll, you 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.819 can no longer go back to do the things you're 00:05:23.819 --> 00:05:26.829 supposed to do. Praise the Lord. So it gives 00:05:26.829 --> 00:05:30.430 you the opportunity to pray. It gives you the 00:05:30.430 --> 00:05:34.290 opportunity to think. Praise the Lord. As you 00:05:34.290 --> 00:05:37.850 have received, as information has come to you, 00:05:37.889 --> 00:05:40.470 you need to think about it. But if you keep scrolling, 00:05:40.709 --> 00:05:43.149 you don't know what to think about. Praise the 00:05:43.149 --> 00:05:46.610 Lord. It gives you the opportunity as well to 00:05:46.610 --> 00:05:49.290 spend time with people. So when you come to a 00:05:49.290 --> 00:05:51.689 gathering or even when you are hanging out with 00:05:51.689 --> 00:05:54.949 your friends, it gives you that opportunity to... 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:01.459 To discuss and to share and to learn. Praise 00:06:01.459 --> 00:06:05.939 the Lord. So we have to ensure that our devices 00:06:05.939 --> 00:06:09.040 are not a distraction to us or that technology 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:14.540 does not become an idol to you. So sometimes 00:06:14.540 --> 00:06:17.120 again, you are in church, rather than participating, 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:20.000 for example, when they were praying, when they 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.899 were singing, you just... They are singing, people 00:06:22.899 --> 00:06:24.720 are clapping, or people are singing, Helios, 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.199 look it. People are praying, you're just sitting 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:31.899 down. It shows your lack of understanding of 00:06:31.899 --> 00:06:35.139 what is going on. And my aim this morning is 00:06:35.139 --> 00:06:37.860 to ensure that you have understanding. Praise 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:41.019 the Lord. It's to ensure that you are blessed, 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.800 to ensure that you go home and you have understanding 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.839 of what makes this place a different kind of 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.879 meeting. Praise the Lord. That whenever they 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.819 are praying, you don't just sit down or you don't 00:06:54.819 --> 00:06:57.740 just look at what they are doing, but you participate. 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:01.360 Praise the Lord. You participate. You join what 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:11.680 is going on. So we don't want to be ignorant 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.540 of what is going on here. So Matthew... where 00:07:14.540 --> 00:07:17.319 we read, tells us that, he said, Jesus spoke 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.779 to them saying, all authority is given to me 00:07:19.779 --> 00:07:22.519 in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:24.819 disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the 00:07:24.819 --> 00:07:27.279 name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:30.100 teaching them to observe all the things I've 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:32.379 commanded you and lo, I'm with you always, even 00:07:32.379 --> 00:07:35.360 to the end of the age. Praise the Lord. In verse 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:41.779 19, he tells us to go and make disciples. Praise 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:44.560 the Lord. In King James, it tells you to go and 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.959 teach. Praise the Lord. So it means that word, 00:07:48.019 --> 00:07:50.480 go and make disciples or go and teach, right, 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.160 in the KJV, is a word to make disciples, to make 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.879 a student of the word. Praise the Lord. It is 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:02.680 to make a student of the word, to make a disciple. 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:07.480 So God gives us this responsibility of making 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.730 disciples. He gives us this responsibility. He 00:08:11.730 --> 00:08:14.870 says, go and make disciples of all nations. This 00:08:14.870 --> 00:08:18.829 responsibility is ours. Praise the Lord. So when 00:08:18.829 --> 00:08:21.930 this responsibility is ours, what do we do? What 00:08:21.930 --> 00:08:25.430 are our response? How do we respond? So if there's 00:08:25.430 --> 00:08:28.410 somebody around you that don't know the scriptures 00:08:28.410 --> 00:08:32.750 or a Christian that does not have a lot of understanding 00:08:32.750 --> 00:08:35.730 or knowledge concerning the things of God or 00:08:35.730 --> 00:08:38.059 somebody who is an unbeliever. Praise the Lord. 00:08:38.100 --> 00:08:41.139 It is your responsibility to teach them, to make 00:08:41.139 --> 00:08:45.279 them a disciple. And what that means is that 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:49.220 you teach them. Praise the Lord. It is your responsibility 00:08:49.220 --> 00:08:55.440 to make them a disciple. Somebody's not coming 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.059 to church. It's your responsibility to make them 00:08:58.059 --> 00:09:00.639 to come to church. Praise the Lord. It is your 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:04.870 responsibility to pray with them. It's your responsibility 00:09:04.870 --> 00:09:07.649 to pray with them, to go out with them, to train 00:09:07.649 --> 00:09:10.389 them, to go out and say, come, let's go and see 00:09:10.389 --> 00:09:16.190 or come, let's go and practice evangelizing. 00:09:16.809 --> 00:09:19.850 Praise the Lord. Come, let's go together and 00:09:19.850 --> 00:09:22.009 do this thing. Come, let's pray together. You 00:09:22.009 --> 00:09:24.970 find out that your friend is struggling and he's 00:09:24.970 --> 00:09:28.269 not praying as the way he should or he's not 00:09:28.269 --> 00:09:30.529 praying at all. It's your responsibility to say, 00:09:30.590 --> 00:09:34.350 come, let's pray together. Praise the Lord. Come, 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:37.210 let's pray together. Don't tell them, this is 00:09:37.210 --> 00:09:39.210 your life. I don't know where you are going to. 00:09:39.549 --> 00:09:42.009 Praise the Lord. It's your responsibility to 00:09:42.009 --> 00:09:47.230 train them. You see it as an opportunity. Oh 00:09:47.230 --> 00:09:49.809 wow, what a great opportunity to make somebody 00:09:49.809 --> 00:09:53.769 a disciple or a student of the Word. It's your 00:09:53.769 --> 00:09:57.970 responsibility to teach them to pray. To help 00:09:57.970 --> 00:10:02.490 revive or... to help flame their prayer life. 00:10:03.769 --> 00:10:06.350 That is what we do. We go with them to preach. 00:10:06.389 --> 00:10:09.070 That is what believers do. It is our responsibility 00:10:09.070 --> 00:10:12.549 to preach the gospel, to make disciples, to make 00:10:12.549 --> 00:10:16.629 a student of the word. So to make disciples means 00:10:16.629 --> 00:10:21.289 to train people to do God's work. Praise the 00:10:21.289 --> 00:10:24.990 Lord. To make disciples means to train people 00:10:24.990 --> 00:10:32.100 to do God's work. It's a word, matatio, which 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:40.840 is that word to teach or to make disciples. So 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.740 in verse 20 now, he says, teaching them to observe 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:48.220 all the things I've commanded you and know I'm 00:10:48.220 --> 00:10:51.539 with you always, even to the end of the age. 00:10:53.129 --> 00:10:55.669 So one of the things that we'll see in the midst 00:10:55.669 --> 00:10:58.269 of this teaching is that God has also commanded 00:10:58.269 --> 00:11:01.090 the gathering of believers. Praise the Lord. 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:04.789 So he says you teach them what? Teaching them 00:11:04.789 --> 00:11:06.850 to observe all the things I've commanded you. 00:11:07.029 --> 00:11:09.669 So we also see that part of God's command or 00:11:09.669 --> 00:11:12.129 part of Christ's command to the believers is 00:11:12.129 --> 00:11:15.429 that they gather together. Praise the Lord. This 00:11:15.429 --> 00:11:18.509 is one of the things that God wants us to do, 00:11:18.590 --> 00:11:24.350 to gather together. It is a practice that we 00:11:24.350 --> 00:11:27.509 should have, right? The coming together of us 00:11:27.509 --> 00:11:30.669 all. We have to follow that command. We ought 00:11:30.669 --> 00:11:33.250 to keep that command. It's a practice that we 00:11:33.250 --> 00:11:40.690 have to continue to do. So when they say you 00:11:40.690 --> 00:11:43.009 have to go to cell meeting or you have to come 00:11:43.009 --> 00:11:46.330 for midweek service, what they are trying to 00:11:46.330 --> 00:11:49.029 say to you is that this is Jesus' desire for 00:11:49.029 --> 00:11:52.149 your life that we gather together. Praise the 00:11:52.149 --> 00:11:55.769 Lord. It's not extra labor. It's not extra assignment. 00:11:56.110 --> 00:11:58.789 It's not something different. It is not something 00:11:58.789 --> 00:12:01.269 new. Praise the Lord. It might be new to you, 00:12:01.289 --> 00:12:04.590 but it's not something new. It is the command 00:12:04.590 --> 00:12:08.049 of God that we gather together. This is one of 00:12:08.049 --> 00:12:11.049 his commands. It should be the priorities of 00:12:11.049 --> 00:12:15.789 our life that we gather together. David said 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:18.570 that, I was glad when they said to me, let's 00:12:18.570 --> 00:12:21.789 come to the house of God. Praise the Lord. So 00:12:21.789 --> 00:12:23.649 it should be your gladness, your hard desire 00:12:23.649 --> 00:12:26.370 to come together, to want to come to church. 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:29.370 You cannot wait for Sunday. Praise the Lord. 00:12:31.529 --> 00:12:35.590 And sometimes we are faced with this challenge 00:12:35.590 --> 00:12:39.129 that maybe the church is, the way it's structured, 00:12:39.269 --> 00:12:41.990 is structured within the week at the end of your 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:45.450 day. Praise the Lord. And you have done all the 00:12:45.450 --> 00:12:47.450 work. You have done your work and you're tired. 00:12:47.730 --> 00:12:49.730 So sometimes if you're not very careful, you 00:12:49.730 --> 00:12:53.179 begin to say, oh. This church this evening. What 00:12:53.179 --> 00:12:54.879 should I do? Should I just sit down or should 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.240 I go? Praise the Lord. It's part of what your 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.100 day should look like. Praise the Lord. So when 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:03.200 you are coming, although you are tired physically, 00:13:03.620 --> 00:13:06.220 you know that you'll be refreshed. Praise the 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:08.980 Lord. You're tired physically, but you know that 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:11.480 your spirit will be refreshed. You know that 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.000 your strength will be renewed. Praise the Lord. 00:13:14.779 --> 00:13:17.519 So you're not looking at it as, oh. Another thing 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.279 to do. Another task to do. No. You look at it 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.639 as a place of refreshing. Praise the Lord. You 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.679 see it as a place where I come to receive strength. 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:35.779 Where I come to be with the people of God. It 00:13:35.779 --> 00:13:42.259 should be priority of our lives. So don't say 00:13:42.259 --> 00:13:51.620 to yourself, you know, I like a... Okay. Okay. 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:56.639 So it should be priority of our lives. Mark chapter 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:08.240 16. Mark chapter 16, verse 15 to 18. Mark chapter 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:16.259 16, verse 15 to 18. And he said to them, Go into 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:18.580 all the world and preach the gospel to every 00:14:18.580 --> 00:14:21.679 creature. He who believes and is baptized will 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.639 be saved. But he who does not believe will be 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.120 condemned. And these signs will follow them who 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.320 believe. In my name they will cast out demons. 00:14:30.740 --> 00:14:33.460 They will speak with new tongues. They will take 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:35.820 up sapiens, and if they drink anything deadly, 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.100 it will by no means hurt them. They will lay 00:14:39.100 --> 00:14:41.240 their hands on the sick, and they will recover. 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.899 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I want us to 00:14:44.899 --> 00:14:47.600 look at these scriptures together and begin to 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.740 highlight some of the things that it says there 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:52.919 about the person who believes. The sign of a 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.659 believer. The sign of the person who believes. 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.080 Praise the Lord. And the first sign he says is 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.440 that, he said they will cast out demons. Praise 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.019 the Lord. To them that believe God, they will 00:15:04.019 --> 00:15:06.960 cast out demons. To them that are saved, they 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.960 will cast out demons. They will speak with new 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.679 tongues. The second sign that will follow them. 00:15:13.049 --> 00:15:14.909 And the third sign is that they will take up 00:15:14.909 --> 00:15:19.250 serpents. Praise the Lord. Referring to the works 00:15:19.250 --> 00:15:22.649 of the devil. Right? I'm going to bring some 00:15:22.649 --> 00:15:27.649 scriptures to help us. And also, he said, if 00:15:27.649 --> 00:15:29.929 they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt 00:15:29.929 --> 00:15:32.549 them. And the fifth sign there is that they will 00:15:32.549 --> 00:15:35.250 lay their hands on the sick, and the sick will 00:15:35.250 --> 00:15:38.750 recover. Praise the Lord. These are signs that 00:15:38.750 --> 00:15:41.929 follow them that believe. These are signs that 00:15:41.929 --> 00:15:45.659 follow... the believer. Praise the Lord. So he 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:48.360 said they will take up serpent, referring to 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.820 the work of the devil. That is, they will confront 00:15:50.820 --> 00:15:55.940 the works of the devil, which include a persecution. 00:15:56.580 --> 00:16:02.299 Luke chapter 10, verse 19. Luke chapter 10, verse 00:16:02.299 --> 00:16:21.710 19. Luke chapter 10, verse 19. He said, Behold, 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:25.169 I have given you authority to trample upon serpents 00:16:25.169 --> 00:16:28.110 and scorpions and over the powers of the enemy, 00:16:28.309 --> 00:16:31.250 and nothing shall by no means hurt you. Praise 00:16:31.250 --> 00:16:34.470 the Lord. So he's talking about what? The power 00:16:34.470 --> 00:16:38.110 of the enemy. So when he says that he takes up 00:16:38.110 --> 00:16:40.769 serpents, he's talking about, referring to the 00:16:40.769 --> 00:16:44.509 work of the devil, that you are going to trample 00:16:44.509 --> 00:16:46.769 upon the works of the enemy. Praise the Lord. 00:16:46.789 --> 00:16:49.750 Talking about the power of the enemy. Praise 00:16:49.750 --> 00:16:52.720 the Lord. If you drink anything deadly, it will 00:16:52.720 --> 00:17:01.720 by no means hurt you. So let's go back to Mark 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:10.819 chapter 16, verses 15 to 18. So this sign shall 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:13.299 follow them. We said that the signs that will 00:17:13.299 --> 00:17:16.539 follow the believer is that one, they will cast 00:17:16.539 --> 00:17:19.440 out demons, right? They will speak with new tongues. 00:17:19.619 --> 00:17:22.460 They will take up serpents and it will not hurt 00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:25.440 them. They will drink deadly things and it will 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.279 not hurt them. They will lay their hands on the 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:29.460 sick and they will recover. Praise the Lord. 00:17:31.819 --> 00:17:35.839 So this is what a believer is like. And I want 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:38.079 you to say this after me. Say, I cast out demons. 00:17:39.180 --> 00:17:43.150 I speak with new tongues. I take up serpents. 00:17:43.970 --> 00:17:46.690 I say, if I drink any deadly thing, it will not 00:17:46.690 --> 00:17:50.170 hurt me. I lay my hands on the sick and they 00:17:50.170 --> 00:17:53.690 recover. Praise the Lord. These are signs of 00:17:53.690 --> 00:17:56.529 the believer. This is the way of a believer. 00:17:56.950 --> 00:18:00.750 Praise the Lord. If you're looking for what the 00:18:00.750 --> 00:18:03.369 believer looks like, these are the signs you 00:18:03.369 --> 00:18:06.190 should be looking at. Praise the Lord. These 00:18:06.190 --> 00:18:08.630 are signs. These are the supernatural signs of 00:18:08.630 --> 00:18:13.420 the believer. So this is one of the signs of 00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:15.279 a believer. And these signs are supernatural. 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.700 Praise the Lord. So as Christians, we are children 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:23.319 of God. As believers, we are moderate people. 00:18:24.700 --> 00:18:29.140 We are conservative people. But that is not all 00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:34.440 about us. Praise the Lord. That is not just all 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.200 that we are. We are not just moderate people. 00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:40.039 Praise the Lord. We are not just people that 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:43.900 show love. Praise the Lord. There are supernatural 00:18:43.900 --> 00:18:50.000 signs that accompany the believer. The believers 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.740 have signs, and these signs are supernatural. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.119 Praise the Lord. These signs are supernatural. 00:18:57.859 --> 00:19:00.660 Thank God that some of us, God has helped us 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:04.500 to dress properly. Praise the Lord. But that's 00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:06.799 not dressing properly. If dressing properly is 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:10.140 all the signs, that you have as a believer is 00:19:10.140 --> 00:19:13.079 not enough. Praise the Lord. They are supernatural 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.599 signs. Praise the Lord. They are supernatural 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:20.720 signs. It is not good enough. They are supernatural 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:24.640 signs. As Corsi was teaching us about the word 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:27.640 of knowledge. Praise the Lord. These are signs 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:31.869 of a believer. That you go into a place and you 00:19:31.869 --> 00:19:33.509 are able to give a word of knowledge. Or you 00:19:33.509 --> 00:19:35.609 pray over somebody and you are able to get a 00:19:35.609 --> 00:19:37.430 word of knowledge. Praise the Lord. That you 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:40.069 prophesy. Praise the Lord. That you manifest 00:19:40.069 --> 00:19:43.630 the things of the Spirit. These are supernatural 00:19:43.630 --> 00:19:49.650 signs. And these signs are not like the signs 00:19:49.650 --> 00:19:52.130 or the stickers that you put in your doorpost 00:19:52.130 --> 00:19:55.410 or your car. Praise the Lord. They are supernatural 00:19:55.410 --> 00:19:59.259 signs. Those ones are not supernatural. I'll 00:19:59.259 --> 00:20:02.259 give you a free game. Those ones are not supernatural. 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:05.019 Right? Those stickers you used to put, there's 00:20:05.019 --> 00:20:08.359 nothing there. Okay? It's just a sticker. Right? 00:20:08.819 --> 00:20:12.119 Supernatural signs are the signs that is in you. 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:19.920 Praise the Lord. So if Jesus says that this sign 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.579 will follow them that believe, it means that 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:26.500 he has commanded it. Praise the Lord. It means 00:20:26.500 --> 00:20:29.680 it's a command. You see, this sign, shall follow 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.559 you, is a command to us. So that's why we will 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.299 teach you time and time again as a church, so 00:20:36.299 --> 00:20:38.819 that these things begin to manifest, or you begin 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:41.380 to walk in the light of these things. You begin 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:44.680 to walk in the light of God's commandments. Praise 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.440 the Lord. You begin to walk in the light of God's 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.259 commandments, that you're not ignorant. That 00:20:50.259 --> 00:20:53.059 you're not ignorant of the spiritual. Praise 00:20:53.059 --> 00:20:55.460 the Lord. That you're not ignorant of the gift 00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:58.000 of God that is upon your life. That you're not 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.980 ignorant of the things of the Spirit. That you're 00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:07.839 not ignorant of the meetings of believers. So 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.380 to preach the word, to heal the sick, to minister 00:21:11.380 --> 00:21:14.700 to one another through the power of the Holy 00:21:14.700 --> 00:21:17.900 Ghost is called to what we do. Praise the Lord. 00:21:18.099 --> 00:21:21.799 It's called to what the believer do. It's what 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:25.130 we have been teaching. It's what should be. The 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:28.529 things that should be seen of a believer. Praise 00:21:28.529 --> 00:21:30.950 the Lord. It's the things that should be seen 00:21:30.950 --> 00:21:33.349 of a believer. So when you have somebody around 00:21:33.349 --> 00:21:38.349 you or an opportunity, just like the opportunity 00:21:38.349 --> 00:21:43.609 of somebody not being a disciple or not saved 00:21:43.609 --> 00:21:47.009 or struggling with their prayer life. When you 00:21:47.009 --> 00:21:50.049 see somebody who is sick, what you do is that 00:21:50.049 --> 00:21:53.700 you pray over them. Praise the Lord. What you 00:21:53.700 --> 00:21:58.660 do is that you pray over them. Praise the Lord. 00:21:58.819 --> 00:22:07.240 What you do is that you pray over them. Say, 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:09.119 I lay my hands on the sick and they recover. 00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:17.680 I cast out devils. Praise the Lord. We're not 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.420 oppressed by the devil, but we do the oppression. 00:22:20.579 --> 00:22:24.089 Praise the Lord. We're not oppressed by the devil. 00:22:25.609 --> 00:22:28.450 Yesterday I was looking at somebody who was preaching 00:22:28.450 --> 00:22:31.329 and he was saying, every power that is working 00:22:31.329 --> 00:22:35.289 inside my life go out. And I was like, thank 00:22:35.289 --> 00:22:40.390 God for my life. Praise the Lord. Praise the 00:22:40.390 --> 00:22:43.730 Lord. There are things that can be working somewhere 00:22:43.730 --> 00:22:46.529 but not here. Praise the Lord. They can be working 00:22:46.529 --> 00:22:50.500 around me but not in me. Praise the Lord. They 00:22:50.500 --> 00:22:54.859 can be somewhere, right, but not in me. The devil 00:22:54.859 --> 00:22:56.980 might send somebody to provoke me, but they cannot 00:22:56.980 --> 00:23:01.160 from inside of me. Praise the Lord. Somebody 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.319 can be doing something to ensure that you are 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.700 angry or that you do something that you shouldn't 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:08.880 do, but not from the inside of you. Praise the 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:18.680 Lord. You have the Spirit of God. Luke chapter 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:37.259 24. Luke chapter 24, verse 25. He says, Then 00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:40.299 he said to them, O foolish ones, slow of heart 00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:44.619 to believe all that the prophet has spoken. Ought 00:23:44.619 --> 00:23:46.700 not the Christ to have suffered these things 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:51.039 and enter his glory? And beginning at Moses and 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:53.940 all the prophets, he expounded to them in all 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:56.059 the scriptures the things concerning himself. 00:23:56.819 --> 00:24:02.980 Verse 44 -45 Then he said to them, These are 00:24:02.980 --> 00:24:05.039 the words which I have spoken to you while I 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:07.839 was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:10.980 which were written in the law of Moses and in 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:13.579 the prophets and in the psalms concerning me. 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.940 And he opened their understanding that they might 00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:20.440 comprehend the scriptures. Praise the Lord. So 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:22.420 we see here that he started to say to them that 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:25.559 beginning from Moses, he said the law of Moses. 00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:28.480 Praise the Lord. Talking about from Genesis. 00:24:29.299 --> 00:24:31.880 Praise the Lord. Talking about from Genesis. 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:37.039 We're going to look into that briefly. But for 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:42.160 now, he said he expounded to them in verse 27. 00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:45.000 He said, beginning from Moses and all the prophets, 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.119 he expounded to them the things. He expounded 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.150 to them. In all the scriptures, the things consigning 00:24:51.150 --> 00:24:54.569 himself. In verse 45, he says that he opened 00:24:54.569 --> 00:24:57.410 the understanding that they may comprehend the 00:24:57.410 --> 00:25:00.970 scriptures. Praise the Lord. Meaning that one 00:25:00.970 --> 00:25:05.569 of the signs or one of the traits of a growing 00:25:05.569 --> 00:25:09.809 believer is that they are able to interpret the 00:25:09.809 --> 00:25:15.359 scriptures. One of the... sign that you are growing 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.460 as a believer is that you are able to interpret 00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:19.759 the scriptures, that you are able to explain 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.440 the scriptures, that you are able to expound 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.200 the scriptures. Praise the Lord. That you don't 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.539 just leave it to your pastors or to your leaders. 00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:31.160 Praise the Lord. That you are able to do these 00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:38.180 things yourself. So, I know that in this school, 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:40.500 Near East University, lots of students don't 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:42.710 like statistics. Praise the Lord, because they 00:25:42.710 --> 00:25:44.549 don't like maths. Some of them, not everybody, 00:25:44.609 --> 00:25:48.109 right? Some of the nursing students don't like 00:25:48.109 --> 00:25:52.009 the maths in the things they have to do. Praise 00:25:52.009 --> 00:25:53.809 the Lord. So they don't like the statistics. 00:25:54.049 --> 00:25:55.769 Whenever they just come, they'll start shouting. 00:25:56.269 --> 00:25:58.009 Praise the Lord. But if you give an engineering 00:25:58.009 --> 00:25:59.710 student that maths, you just look at it and say, 00:25:59.769 --> 00:26:03.150 what is this? Praise the Lord. Because these 00:26:03.150 --> 00:26:06.390 are very simple mathematics to him or her. Praise 00:26:06.390 --> 00:26:09.109 the Lord. But because it's in their curriculum, 00:26:09.289 --> 00:26:13.279 they have no choice. Praise the Lord. You don't 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.440 have a choice. You must write statistics. You 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:20.339 must pass it before you receive another course. 00:26:20.900 --> 00:26:24.579 So it's not elective. Praise the Lord. They cannot 00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:26.640 say, okay, let's choose something else. They 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:29.799 have to do statistics. So explaining the scriptures 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:34.440 is not elective to the Christian. Praise the 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.220 Lord. You might, just like some of the nursing 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:39.559 students, you might struggle. You might dislike 00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:42.559 it. You might have your feelings about it. But 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:45.319 it's not elective. You cannot change. Let's change 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.099 course. Let's change subject. Or let's change 00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:50.420 that. Give me another course. Praise the Lord. 00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:57.779 Maybe give me... There is no such course anyways 00:26:57.779 --> 00:27:04.230 that I know of. Give me... Give me charity and 00:27:04.230 --> 00:27:06.710 nothing. Something like that. As an elective 00:27:06.710 --> 00:27:10.529 course. There's nothing like that. Right? But 00:27:10.529 --> 00:27:13.390 you have to do that course. So the same thing 00:27:13.390 --> 00:27:18.230 for a Christian. That you have no... You have 00:27:18.230 --> 00:27:22.690 no... You don't have the luxury to choose something 00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:25.509 else. It's a compulsory course. It's a compulsory 00:27:25.509 --> 00:27:28.230 thing for your growth. It's a compulsory thing 00:27:28.230 --> 00:27:31.750 for your life. Praise the Lord. So imagine somebody... 00:27:32.829 --> 00:27:34.509 Maybe one of your friends, and then you'd come 00:27:34.509 --> 00:27:36.630 to him and say, please, can you explain these 00:27:36.630 --> 00:27:39.089 scriptures for me? Praise the Lord. Or maybe 00:27:39.089 --> 00:27:41.109 you go and meet Matthew and say, Matthew, please 00:27:41.109 --> 00:27:42.670 explain these scriptures for me. He'd say, ah, 00:27:42.710 --> 00:27:46.349 me, explain scriptures. Praise the Lord. Just 00:27:46.349 --> 00:27:49.170 imagine what that would look like. Matthew, you 00:27:49.170 --> 00:27:50.829 have been in this church for a very long time. 00:27:52.029 --> 00:27:54.809 You have learned from the pastors. You have been 00:27:54.809 --> 00:27:57.910 around. What's going on? Praise the Lord. So 00:27:57.910 --> 00:27:59.490 it's going to be something shameful, something 00:27:59.490 --> 00:28:02.369 that is not okay because the person has been 00:28:02.369 --> 00:28:05.410 in training for a long time. So not being able 00:28:05.410 --> 00:28:08.029 to explain the scriptures or the Bible, right, 00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:12.049 is not good for a believer. Don't say you're 00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:15.289 not a pastor. Praise the Lord. When they say, 00:28:15.309 --> 00:28:17.609 explain this thing, don't say, you can tell, 00:28:17.630 --> 00:28:19.349 if you don't understand it now, you can tell 00:28:19.349 --> 00:28:22.549 them, meet me tomorrow, I'll explain it. Praise 00:28:22.549 --> 00:28:24.730 the Lord. But you cannot say, no, I'm not a pastor. 00:28:24.930 --> 00:28:28.670 Me, my own thing is just to sing. Or I just like 00:28:28.670 --> 00:28:31.650 to praise God. Or I like to worship God. Anything 00:28:31.650 --> 00:28:35.670 Bible interpretation, I'm not in that category. 00:28:35.970 --> 00:28:39.789 Praise the Lord. Or you say that this is not 00:28:39.789 --> 00:28:43.849 part of your ministry. Your ministry is not interpreting 00:28:43.849 --> 00:28:46.710 the scriptures or preaching the gospel. Your 00:28:46.710 --> 00:28:50.289 ministry is just, I can sing, I can do ushering. 00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:53.180 I can welcome people. I'm very lovely. If you 00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:55.720 look at me, you know that my smile alone is very 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:58.119 charming. People can come in and sit down. They'll 00:28:58.119 --> 00:29:00.740 be blessed by God. Praise the Lord. No, part 00:29:00.740 --> 00:29:04.039 of your responsibility is that you are able to 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:08.859 explain the scriptures. You cannot say that you 00:29:08.859 --> 00:29:12.240 like other parts of Christian activities or Christian 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.940 dealings, but you don't like the word. Anytime 00:29:14.940 --> 00:29:17.779 they say word, you say, I know. Don't. Don't 00:29:17.779 --> 00:29:20.460 go there. Or they say, come, let's go and pray. 00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:24.160 It's like, hi, you know what? I've done my prayers. 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:29.920 Praise the Lord. So it's not elective. It's not 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:32.400 something that you can choose. You can choose 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:35.279 something else. It is important for the believer. 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:38.200 Praise the Lord. Somebody say, I understand the 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:43.259 Bible. I treasure the Bible. I'm able to explain 00:29:43.259 --> 00:29:49.630 it in the name of Jesus. You should be able to 00:29:49.630 --> 00:29:52.029 explain the Word of God. Praise the Lord. It 00:29:52.029 --> 00:29:55.250 is basic. It is a basic thing. If you don't understand 00:29:55.250 --> 00:29:57.690 it, you can tell them, there's nothing wrong 00:29:57.690 --> 00:29:59.910 with saying, come and meet me tomorrow. After 00:29:59.910 --> 00:30:02.190 all, if you go to some of your teachers, and 00:30:02.190 --> 00:30:04.170 maybe you are one of the smart kids in class, 00:30:04.210 --> 00:30:06.589 and then you ask them a question. If they are 00:30:06.589 --> 00:30:08.230 not able to explain it then, what would they 00:30:08.230 --> 00:30:10.910 tell you? Come next week. Praise the Lord. Will 00:30:10.910 --> 00:30:14.059 you say the teacher is not your teacher? you 00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:16.519 will come next week and he will explain it or 00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:18.339 she will explain it to you. Praise the Lord. 00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:19.960 Because they know, okay, let me do some research, 00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:21.920 let me do something, and I'll explain it. So 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:24.339 there's nothing to be ashamed of when somebody 00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:26.119 comes to you and they say, I don't understand 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.579 this. And you as well don't understand it. Just 00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:32.579 tell them, I can. Just contact me tomorrow. I 00:30:32.579 --> 00:30:34.720 will be able to explain it. Praise the Lord. 00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:41.240 So do we understand that? So in verse 27 of that 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.789 Luke, tells us that beginning at Moses, right, 00:30:45.829 --> 00:30:48.829 going back to that, and all the prophets, he 00:30:48.829 --> 00:30:52.190 expounded to them in all the scriptures the things 00:30:52.190 --> 00:30:54.490 concerning himself. So when he says beginning 00:30:54.490 --> 00:30:57.769 at Moses, he's talking about Genesis, right? 00:30:57.809 --> 00:31:04.849 Talking about Genesis. So we said that the supernatural 00:31:04.849 --> 00:31:11.170 nature of the Christian gathering. Now, there 00:31:11.170 --> 00:31:14.420 are different types of gatherings. Right? There 00:31:14.420 --> 00:31:16.759 are different types of gatherings. We have office 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.740 gatherings, office meetings. We have class meetings. 00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:27.559 We have family meetings. Right? If your family 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:29.380 is quite peaceful, it's a very peaceful meeting. 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:31.940 If you guys are not quite peaceful, it's a lot 00:31:31.940 --> 00:31:34.119 of fights and a lot of quarrels and a lot of 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:36.640 insults. Praise the Lord. But we have different 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:42.119 types of meetings. Right? But it's not the same. 00:31:42.490 --> 00:31:45.269 It's not the same as the Christian meeting. Praise 00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:48.349 the Lord. It does not have the same impact as 00:31:48.349 --> 00:31:51.569 a Christian meeting or importance as a Christian 00:31:51.569 --> 00:31:54.950 meeting. We don't get the same thing from such 00:31:54.950 --> 00:31:58.630 meetings. So in every meeting, there's something 00:31:58.630 --> 00:32:01.619 that is common that brings you together. Maybe 00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:03.400 as a result of the office, you're in a particular 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:06.660 department, or your family because you are families 00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:08.480 and you are brothers and sisters and you have 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.000 to meet because you have to discuss this or that. 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.299 Praise the Lord. But when it comes to a Christian 00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:17.700 meeting, what is the common thing? What is common 00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:24.700 about our gathering? What is the common thing 00:32:24.700 --> 00:32:28.660 about our relation? What is the basis of our 00:32:28.660 --> 00:32:34.369 relating? So in Genesis chapter 1, from verse 00:32:34.369 --> 00:32:40.349 1 to 2. So we want to know what is the common 00:32:40.349 --> 00:32:43.470 between the beginning and the earth. And the 00:32:43.470 --> 00:32:46.250 earth was without form and void, and darkness 00:32:46.250 --> 00:32:49.210 was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of 00:32:49.210 --> 00:32:51.490 God was hovering over the face of the waters. 00:32:52.009 --> 00:32:55.690 Praise the Lord. So from the very first beginning, 00:32:55.769 --> 00:33:00.740 we see in chapter 1, he says, God. We have God 00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:04.099 in chapter 1 of it. And in the second verse, 00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:07.700 he talks about the Spirit of God. Praise the 00:33:07.700 --> 00:33:10.440 Lord. So from the very opening of the Scriptures, 00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:15.539 we begin to see supernatural happenings. Praise 00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:17.740 the Lord. Or we begin to see things that are 00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:21.380 supernatural. Praise the Lord. We begin to see 00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:23.819 things or we begin to talk about supernatural 00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:26.240 things. So the very opening of the pages of the 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.259 Bible is about the supernatural. Praise the Lord. 00:33:29.690 --> 00:33:32.109 He says God, and he says that the Spirit of God 00:33:32.109 --> 00:33:36.250 was hovering over the face of the deep. Praise 00:33:36.250 --> 00:33:41.650 the Lord. So the moment you are born again, right, 00:33:41.829 --> 00:33:46.029 that is, you believe in God, right? So you believe 00:33:46.029 --> 00:33:49.410 in God that you physically with your eyes, you 00:33:49.410 --> 00:33:53.309 cannot see, right? You believe in Jesus Christ 00:33:53.309 --> 00:33:57.250 because he had died for your sin as a substitute. 00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:04.099 And as your Savior. You also believe that this 00:34:04.099 --> 00:34:06.940 life, you believe in the life that Christ gives. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.360 Praise the Lord. You are born again. You believe 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:12.960 in God. You believe in what Christ has done. 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.739 You believe in the life that he has given you. 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:19.079 Praise the Lord. All these things, right, are 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:23.079 supernatural things. All of these things are 00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:26.170 supernatural things. The belief in God, the belief 00:34:26.170 --> 00:34:29.190 in Christ, the belief in the life that God has 00:34:29.190 --> 00:34:36.070 given are all supernatural things. So the very 00:34:36.070 --> 00:34:39.150 basis of our Christian faith is supernatural. 00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:43.630 Praise the Lord. The very basis of our Christian 00:34:43.630 --> 00:34:50.090 faith is supernatural. So you talk about angels. 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.539 ministry of angels or ministering of angels right 00:34:54.539 --> 00:34:58.099 you talk about demons not because you believe 00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:01.440 in demons but because you believe they are demons 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:03.599 praise the lord there are two different things 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:06.380 you believe in demon is different you believe 00:35:06.380 --> 00:35:08.559 there are demons is a different thing praise 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:11.760 the lord so you don't believe in demons you believe 00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:14.760 they are demons praise the lord you believe they 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:19.360 are angels right These things or these beliefs 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.820 are supernatural themselves. You believe that 00:35:22.820 --> 00:35:27.460 we are supernatural beings. You will say life 00:35:27.460 --> 00:35:30.300 is spiritual. Praise the Lord. All of these are 00:35:30.300 --> 00:35:36.719 indicators of the supernatural. You even believe 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.780 that humans are supernatural. Praise the Lord. 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.500 Because you believe that when a person dies, 00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:46.389 you will say something like, He or she has gone 00:35:46.389 --> 00:35:48.269 to be with the Lord. But you can see their body. 00:35:48.710 --> 00:35:51.889 Praise the Lord. Right? You believe that they 00:35:51.889 --> 00:35:54.489 had gone to be with the Lord. So all of these 00:35:54.489 --> 00:35:59.030 things show that you believe in the supernatural. 00:35:59.190 --> 00:36:01.829 You believe the supernatural. Praise the Lord. 00:36:02.070 --> 00:36:04.730 You believe that God answers prayers. That you 00:36:04.730 --> 00:36:07.489 pray and you have seen the evidence of God's 00:36:07.489 --> 00:36:10.349 prayer. Of God answering your prayers. They themselves 00:36:10.349 --> 00:36:14.280 are supernatural. So all of these things are 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.940 meant to give us the consciousness of the supernatural. 00:36:18.619 --> 00:36:21.820 Praise the Lord. So your salvation, your faith, 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.599 all of them are indicators of the supernatural. 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.880 You believe that the devil, sorry, you believe 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.719 there is the devil, right? All of these things 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.980 are evident in themselves that we believe in 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:42.440 the supernatural. So we believe in the supernatural 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:47.500 because we are saved. We believe in the life 00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:52.179 that God has given us, right? We believe in that 00:36:52.179 --> 00:36:56.139 man is supernatural. Praise the Lord. We believe 00:36:56.139 --> 00:37:00.860 the life that Christ has given. We believe there 00:37:00.860 --> 00:37:05.619 are angels. We believe that there are demons. 00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:09.969 We believe there are works of the devil. Praise 00:37:09.969 --> 00:37:12.230 the Lord. All of these things, we believe them 00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:16.630 because we are children of God. But what happens 00:37:16.630 --> 00:37:22.389 to us sometimes is that we don't have or we lack 00:37:22.389 --> 00:37:26.269 the culture of consistent consciousness of the 00:37:26.269 --> 00:37:31.510 supernatural. So that's why we started to teach 00:37:31.510 --> 00:37:38.989 concerning spirituals. We started to... teach 00:37:38.989 --> 00:37:42.550 concerning the gift of the Spirit, the life that 00:37:42.550 --> 00:37:45.829 you have in Christ. Praise the Lord. Now, if 00:37:45.829 --> 00:37:47.090 you don't believe these things, or you don't 00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:49.050 believe this, I don't know what to say to you 00:37:49.050 --> 00:37:55.110 right now. But, I think, within this week, I 00:37:55.110 --> 00:37:58.989 was thinking about some things, and several people 00:37:58.989 --> 00:38:03.449 that I've met, and they're not following Christ. 00:38:04.329 --> 00:38:07.369 They're not... Christians, right? They do so 00:38:07.369 --> 00:38:12.309 many crazy things to get money. But the way they 00:38:12.309 --> 00:38:17.050 speak about God, right? You'll be like, you that 00:38:17.050 --> 00:38:19.230 God has been faithful to, you're not speaking 00:38:19.230 --> 00:38:23.190 about him like they are speaking about God. Matter 00:38:23.190 --> 00:38:26.070 of fact, they go to the extent of naming some 00:38:26.070 --> 00:38:29.190 things after the faithfulness of God. But they 00:38:29.190 --> 00:38:32.730 do not get those things in a godly way or by 00:38:32.730 --> 00:38:36.349 the means of God. Praise the Lord. So you are, 00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:40.710 let's say you are joking if your mind is telling 00:38:40.710 --> 00:38:45.429 you that some of these things are not real. Praise 00:38:45.429 --> 00:38:49.550 the Lord. So the people that, they speak about 00:38:49.550 --> 00:38:52.849 God, but they have no knowledge of God. They 00:38:52.849 --> 00:38:55.269 don't know what salvation means. They don't know 00:38:55.269 --> 00:38:58.349 what the life of God is. They don't know that. 00:38:58.530 --> 00:39:01.269 But their own is that God has provided for them. 00:39:01.829 --> 00:39:04.869 Praise the Lord. And you have evidence. Praise 00:39:04.869 --> 00:39:07.250 the Lord. You have evidence. You have the life 00:39:07.250 --> 00:39:09.829 of God. But you're not speaking about the things 00:39:09.829 --> 00:39:14.090 of God. Praise the Lord. You're not speaking 00:39:14.090 --> 00:39:19.530 about the things of God. You see the sick. You 00:39:19.530 --> 00:39:22.750 say, okay, yes, we need to go to the hospital. 00:39:22.809 --> 00:39:25.789 As we know, it's very important, right? But we 00:39:25.789 --> 00:39:31.130 also need to pray. Praise the Lord. you see some 00:39:31.130 --> 00:39:33.690 things happening, rather than pray, you would 00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:37.929 begin to look somehow. Praise the Lord. So we 00:39:37.929 --> 00:39:40.469 have evidence, right? Because we have the life 00:39:40.469 --> 00:39:43.349 of God in the inside of us. So these things should 00:39:43.349 --> 00:39:47.429 be more manifest from us, not from they who do 00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:51.530 not know God. Praise the Lord. So I said that 00:39:51.530 --> 00:39:56.309 our Christian life already is sufficient evidence 00:39:56.309 --> 00:40:01.110 to us that there is or... or that in itself is 00:40:01.110 --> 00:40:04.489 supernatural. Praise the Lord. So remember again, 00:40:04.550 --> 00:40:06.449 we are looking at the supernatural nature of 00:40:06.449 --> 00:40:09.510 the Christian gathering. So what happens to us 00:40:09.510 --> 00:40:12.349 sometimes is that we lack the culture of consistent 00:40:12.349 --> 00:40:17.690 consciousness of the supernatural. We lack the 00:40:17.690 --> 00:40:20.530 consciousness sometimes of what makes this place 00:40:20.530 --> 00:40:22.929 or the supernatural nature of this gathering 00:40:22.929 --> 00:40:26.329 or the supernatural nature of the relationship 00:40:26.329 --> 00:40:28.889 that you have with one another. Praise the Lord. 00:40:29.150 --> 00:40:32.210 of supernatural nature of prayers, of what is 00:40:32.210 --> 00:40:36.550 going on when we pray. Praise the Lord. So sometimes 00:40:36.550 --> 00:40:41.250 we lack this consistent consciousness of the 00:40:41.250 --> 00:40:45.550 things of God. Praise the Lord. So nobody is 00:40:45.550 --> 00:40:53.489 an expert on the things of God. Praise the Lord. 00:40:53.489 --> 00:40:56.309 And I'll explain that. Nobody is an expert in 00:40:56.309 --> 00:41:00.920 the things of God. Right? What we often see experts 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.840 is because these people are disciplined and consistent, 00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:07.739 or what we term as experts. So, for example, 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.500 you look at your pastors or you look at somebody 00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:11.960 in the prayer team and say, okay, this person 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:14.239 is very prayerful. It seems like they understand 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:17.239 the idea of prayers, or it seems like they understand 00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.800 what is going on in terms of the teaching of 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:22.980 the word, right? They understand the word of 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:26.340 God, right? What makes them look like that is 00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:29.539 because They are always studying the Word. Praise 00:41:29.539 --> 00:41:33.599 the Lord. They are always praying. Praise the 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.199 Lord. That's what makes them look like, oh, this 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:36.880 person looks like an expert. He knows what he's 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.300 doing. Right? He knows his field. It's because 00:41:39.300 --> 00:41:42.780 they don't have days off. The example is, okay, 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:44.860 today we're not studying the Scriptures. Tomorrow 00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:47.480 until next month. Praise the Lord. They don't 00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:50.280 have such lifestyle. They have a consistent discipline 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.280 and a lifestyle of studying the Word, of praying. 00:41:54.219 --> 00:41:56.940 Praise the Lord. They're very consistent in it. 00:41:57.099 --> 00:42:00.260 So nobody is an expert in the move of the Holy 00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:03.760 Ghost. It's like, okay, maybe if I move this 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:05.960 direction now, the Holy Ghost will move, right? 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:09.420 Or if I do like this, no. It's because they have 00:42:09.420 --> 00:42:14.760 a consistent lifestyle of praying, of walking 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:19.400 in the things of the Holy Ghost. Praise the Lord. 00:42:19.460 --> 00:42:21.619 So it will look like, oh, you're so accurate. 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.320 When you say something now, when you give a prophecy, 00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:26.159 or when you give a word of knowledge, it's so 00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:28.820 accurate. It's because they are consistently 00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:33.059 doing that. Praise the Lord. They are consistently 00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:35.380 doing that. When they see a person, they want 00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:37.079 to know what is God saying about this person. 00:42:37.659 --> 00:42:39.820 For example, if you're walking, they will not 00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:42.880 look at you and say, ah, brother Takunda, how 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.079 are you doing today? They're trying to find out 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:47.590 what is God saying about Takunda. Is there a 00:42:47.590 --> 00:42:49.690 word of knowledge I can give him? Is there any 00:42:49.690 --> 00:42:51.849 word of encouragement I can give at Takunda this 00:42:51.849 --> 00:42:54.489 morning? So they are thinking like that and they 00:42:54.489 --> 00:42:56.289 are praying like that. So that whenever they 00:42:56.289 --> 00:42:57.670 meet you, they will give you a word. It's like, 00:42:57.730 --> 00:43:00.849 ah, this person is always in the Spirit. Or they 00:43:00.849 --> 00:43:03.250 are an expert. Praise the Lord. It's because 00:43:03.250 --> 00:43:07.469 they are consistently doing that. They are consistently 00:43:07.469 --> 00:43:11.429 working in that. So nobody is an expert in prayers. 00:43:12.570 --> 00:43:15.599 Praise the Lord. When somebody tells you they 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:17.699 pray for 10 hours, it's not because they're an 00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:19.840 expert. It's because they are doing it. They're 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:21.539 just doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it. 00:43:21.739 --> 00:43:23.980 Praise the Lord. That's what makes them look 00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:27.719 like an expert. So nobody is an expert in Christian 00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.880 living, in studying of the word, like I said, 00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:35.639 in healing, right? In walking in love. Praise 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:39.280 the Lord. They consistently walk in love. They 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.480 consistently are looking for opportunities to 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:46.949 pray. over somebody. Praise the Lord. So all 00:43:46.949 --> 00:43:51.010 that we have, all that we see is people who are 00:43:51.010 --> 00:43:54.269 consistent in feeding in the same thing and practicing 00:43:54.269 --> 00:43:58.269 the same things. They are consistently practicing 00:43:58.269 --> 00:44:01.530 to understand the scriptures. They are consistently 00:44:01.530 --> 00:44:05.329 practicing or feeding in prayers. They are consistently 00:44:05.329 --> 00:44:08.230 doing the things of God. That's what makes them 00:44:08.230 --> 00:44:10.030 look like, oh, you know these things or you're 00:44:10.030 --> 00:44:14.699 an expert in this thing. Praise the Lord. And 00:44:14.699 --> 00:44:19.039 then I will read the scriptures for you to understand 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.579 what I mean by that. Or some of the scriptures. 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:26.019 John chapter 8, from verse 31 to 32. Right? Talking 00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:29.440 about to continue in the world. Praise the Lord. 00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:32.340 To remain consistent in the world. John chapter 00:44:32.340 --> 00:44:37.619 8, from verse 31 to 32. And Jesus said to those 00:44:37.619 --> 00:44:41.320 Jews who believed in him, If you abide in my 00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:45.360 word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:47.880 know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:50.780 What does it mean by abide? It means to stay, 00:44:50.900 --> 00:44:55.679 to continue. Praise the Lord. 2 Timothy 3, verse 00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:06.860 14. 2 Timothy 3, verse 14. He said, But you must 00:45:06.860 --> 00:45:08.900 continue in the things which you have learned 00:45:08.900 --> 00:45:12.019 and have been assured of, knowing from whom you 00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:14.760 have learned them from. Praise the Lord. Praise 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.019 the Lord. What are the things that they must 00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:17.980 continue? Praise the Lord. They have to continue 00:45:17.980 --> 00:45:22.039 in the world. Praise the Lord. Colossians chapter 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.960 4 verse 2, talking about prayers. Colossians 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:32.500 chapter 4 verse 2. Continue earnestly in prayer, 00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:36.659 being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. Romans 00:45:36.659 --> 00:45:44.130 chapter 12 verse 12. Rejoice in hope, patience 00:45:44.130 --> 00:45:47.369 in tribulation, continue steadfastly in prayers. 00:45:47.809 --> 00:45:55.510 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 17. He said, pray without 00:45:55.510 --> 00:45:58.190 ceasing. Praise the Lord. Let's look at continuing 00:45:58.190 --> 00:46:01.309 in doing good or showing on doing good. Galatians 00:46:01.309 --> 00:46:05.130 5, Galatians 6, from verse 9 to 10. Galatians 00:46:05.130 --> 00:46:18.159 6, 9 to 10. And let us not grow weary while doing 00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:20.780 good, for in due season we will reap if we do 00:46:20.780 --> 00:46:24.800 not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, 00:46:25.139 --> 00:46:28.639 let us do good to all, especially to those who 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:31.440 are of the household of faith. Praise the Lord. 00:46:31.539 --> 00:46:40.039 Ephesians chapter 4, verse 32. And be kind to 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:43.219 one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another. 00:46:43.869 --> 00:46:47.510 Even as God in Christ forgave you. Let's also 00:46:47.510 --> 00:46:51.809 lastly look at continuing in prayers. 2 Timothy 00:46:51.809 --> 00:46:59.670 4 .2 It's a preach the word. Be ready in season 00:46:59.670 --> 00:47:02.449 and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exalt with 00:47:02.449 --> 00:47:10.309 all longsuffering and teaching. Acts 4 .14 -7 00:47:17.099 --> 00:47:20.619 He said, and they were preaching the gospel there. 00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:24.219 Praise the Lord. So I said, nobody is an expert 00:47:24.219 --> 00:47:26.400 in the things of God. What they are doing is 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:30.800 that they just have a habit of consistency. They 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.780 are very consistent. Praise the Lord. They have 00:47:32.780 --> 00:47:35.380 a discipline to continue. Just like the scriptures 00:47:35.380 --> 00:47:38.179 have encouraged that you continue in prayers. 00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:41.000 Praise the Lord. That you preach in season and 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:43.460 out of season. What does that mean? If I like 00:47:43.460 --> 00:47:45.639 it, I will preach the word. If I don't like it, 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:48.039 I will preach the word. If I like to pray, I 00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:50.480 will pray. If I don't like to pray, I will not, 00:47:50.699 --> 00:47:53.820 sorry, I will pray. Praise the Lord. So in any 00:47:53.820 --> 00:47:56.619 situation you find yourself, you do the things 00:47:56.619 --> 00:47:59.480 of God. That's what makes somebody looks like 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.840 an expert or somebody makes like, oh, they know 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:04.099 this or they're very accurate in prophecy or 00:48:04.099 --> 00:48:06.260 they're very accurate in the word of knowledge. 00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:09.679 Praise the Lord. So example, if somebody, if 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:13.159 you have been fasting, let's say in 2025, some 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:16.099 of you have engaged in long fastings, maybe one 00:48:16.099 --> 00:48:18.699 month, two months, right? And you have been praying 00:48:18.699 --> 00:48:21.960 for long. And then maybe you finish that fasting 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:29.059 in July. If you start this December, right? Do 00:48:29.059 --> 00:48:34.199 you think you would be moving at ease? If you 00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:36.199 say, let's start fasting now. Do you think you 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:40.320 will come by ease? Let's flow. Praise the Lord. 00:48:41.079 --> 00:48:43.340 You're going to have, it's going to be a little 00:48:43.340 --> 00:48:45.820 struggle. Praise the Lord. So you will not just 00:48:45.820 --> 00:48:47.800 flow. That's what I mean by that. You will not 00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:49.380 just, okay, let's jump into it and start going. 00:48:49.579 --> 00:48:53.780 You will have some challenges, but you're going 00:48:53.780 --> 00:48:56.630 to pull through. Praise the Lord. So it's not 00:48:56.630 --> 00:49:00.329 going to be easy, right? But it will take a while. 00:49:00.769 --> 00:49:03.789 And then you are back into the flow of the fasting, 00:49:03.889 --> 00:49:07.670 right? If you fasted the 14th day, from the 16th 00:49:07.670 --> 00:49:09.789 day, it will not be as difficult. Praise the 00:49:09.789 --> 00:49:11.449 Lord. Or for the 10th day, it will not be as 00:49:11.449 --> 00:49:13.750 difficult as the day you started. The day you 00:49:13.750 --> 00:49:17.570 started, once, maybe once you reach 6 o 'clock, 00:49:17.650 --> 00:49:20.150 once it is 11 o 'clock, you are looking at the 00:49:20.150 --> 00:49:22.400 watch. You're looking at the fridge. You're looking 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.639 at many things. Maybe you cancel all your activities 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.960 because I'm fasting today. I don't want to go 00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:29.900 and fall down outside. Praise the Lord. So what 00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:36.159 happens is that we have a culture. The culture 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.019 of consistency makes people look like they're 00:49:39.019 --> 00:49:41.440 experts in the things of God. Praise the Lord. 00:49:41.539 --> 00:49:45.679 So consistency means when you feel like it or 00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:48.099 when you don't feel like it. Praise the Lord. 00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:57.019 So, you already have believed in the supernatural. 00:49:58.579 --> 00:50:05.679 Matthew chapter 18, verse 20. Matthew chapter 00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:11.699 18, verse 20. We say, for where two or three 00:50:11.699 --> 00:50:15.039 are gathered together in my name, I am there 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:17.679 in the midst of them. Praise the Lord. Talking 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.039 about prayers and decisions. Right? Where two 00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:24.039 or three are gathered together in my name, I'm 00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:27.920 there in their midst. Praise the Lord. So that 00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:31.900 there, sorry, that I am there, right, is not 00:50:31.900 --> 00:50:34.860 something that can be seen. Can you see I'm there 00:50:34.860 --> 00:50:36.940 in the screen? Like, for example, when you say 00:50:36.940 --> 00:50:39.340 I'm there, even you can see it, they can project 00:50:39.340 --> 00:50:42.139 him being there. It's not something that can 00:50:42.139 --> 00:50:44.639 be seen. It's not something that can be touched. 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.460 Praise the Lord. So when he said I'm there in 00:50:47.460 --> 00:50:49.880 their midst, they are not. Physically seeing 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:53.639 him or physically touching him. Praise the Lord. 00:50:54.059 --> 00:50:58.800 No, it's not what he's saying. He said, I'm there 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:03.360 in their midst, in the midst of them. You believe 00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:06.260 that he's there because why? You believe the 00:51:06.260 --> 00:51:09.039 scriptures. Praise the Lord. You believe that 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:11.880 God is there because why? You believe the scriptures. 00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:16.840 It's not by the physical seeing. Praise the Lord. 00:51:17.929 --> 00:51:21.769 So which means that a church gathering is a supernatural 00:51:21.769 --> 00:51:26.670 gathering. Praise the Lord. A church gathering 00:51:26.670 --> 00:51:35.510 is a supernatural gathering. So any kind of church 00:51:35.510 --> 00:51:40.190 gathering is a supernatural gathering. Right? 00:51:40.230 --> 00:51:42.170 Your cell meeting is a supernatural gathering. 00:51:42.989 --> 00:51:52.480 Your... Your midweek is a supernatural gathering. 00:51:52.659 --> 00:51:54.659 Your prayer meeting is a supernatural gathering. 00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:58.440 Praise the Lord. Because why? Because Jesus is 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:03.119 there. Praise the Lord. Because Jesus is there. 00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:10.739 So, and this gathering is that they are gathering 00:52:10.739 --> 00:52:14.309 in the name of Him. or they are gathering in 00:52:14.309 --> 00:52:16.349 his name, meaning they are gathering in his authority. 00:52:17.070 --> 00:52:19.730 Praise the Lord. They are gathering in his authority. 00:52:20.030 --> 00:52:23.989 Now, the believer can have a football club. Praise 00:52:23.989 --> 00:52:27.469 the Lord. The believers, as believers, we can 00:52:27.469 --> 00:52:30.269 have a football club, right? You can gather as 00:52:30.269 --> 00:52:33.230 believers. Everybody is a believer, but they 00:52:33.230 --> 00:52:37.530 gathered in the name of football, right? As believers, 00:52:37.610 --> 00:52:41.070 you can gather because of accounting, right? 00:52:41.130 --> 00:52:43.380 Or because you are accountants. All of you are 00:52:43.380 --> 00:52:45.579 believers, but you are accountants, right? Or 00:52:45.579 --> 00:52:48.039 because, you know, you gather in your careers 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.820 as doctors, as lawyers. Praise the Lord. You 00:52:50.820 --> 00:52:53.960 can have those type of gathering, right? Or you 00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:58.119 can gather as, you know, one or two, everybody 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:00.699 in your family are Christians, right? Believe 00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:03.639 in God. You gather as a family. Praise the Lord. 00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:09.059 So, but when we gather in his name, praise the 00:53:09.059 --> 00:53:11.360 Lord, like today, we have gathered in his name. 00:53:12.590 --> 00:53:16.269 Praise the Lord. I'm not gathered with my family 00:53:16.269 --> 00:53:18.869 because I gathered in the name of the family. 00:53:18.909 --> 00:53:21.630 No, we came all of us here to gather in his name. 00:53:22.110 --> 00:53:24.849 Praise the Lord. We have gathered in his name, 00:53:24.869 --> 00:53:27.329 right? So that means that we have to have that 00:53:27.329 --> 00:53:30.829 consciousness that this gathering is a supernatural 00:53:30.829 --> 00:53:34.489 gathering. Praise the Lord. It is not an ordinary 00:53:34.489 --> 00:53:37.030 gathering. We do not gather in the name of our 00:53:37.030 --> 00:53:39.969 father, that is, biological father. We do not 00:53:39.969 --> 00:53:42.860 gather in the name of a football club. Praise 00:53:42.860 --> 00:53:46.260 the Lord. You can, I'm sure there's a game today 00:53:46.260 --> 00:53:49.199 in the Premier League. Some of you can gather 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:51.420 and say, come, let's go and watch. You do not 00:53:51.420 --> 00:53:53.460 gather in the name of the Lord. Praise the Lord. 00:53:53.579 --> 00:53:55.380 All of you can gather there and say, let's watch 00:53:55.380 --> 00:53:57.960 this Arsenal game. He's not in the name of the 00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:03.400 Lord. Praise the Lord. So when he says in verse 00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:09.719 20 that for where two or three are gathered together 00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:11.820 in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 00:54:12.139 --> 00:54:19.159 right sorry in in matthew chapter 28 he also 00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:24.840 says in 28 he says something in verse 20 matthew 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:29.780 28 verse 20 yes he said teaching them to observe 00:54:29.780 --> 00:54:31.780 all the things i've commanded you and lo i'm 00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:34.179 with you always even to the end of the age so 00:54:34.179 --> 00:54:39.969 when he says lo i'm with you always right Which 00:54:39.969 --> 00:54:43.989 means that God is in the midst of us. Praise 00:54:43.989 --> 00:54:45.969 the Lord. What he's saying, lo, I'm with you 00:54:45.969 --> 00:54:49.829 always, is that God is in the midst of us. Praise 00:54:49.829 --> 00:54:52.869 the Lord. What does that mean? Right? We do not 00:54:52.869 --> 00:54:57.889 come to meet him here. Okay? So when he says 00:54:57.889 --> 00:55:00.869 God is in the midst of us, we did not come to 00:55:00.869 --> 00:55:04.829 meet him here. Do you understand? We didn't come 00:55:04.829 --> 00:55:06.489 to, all of us that we came, we didn't come to 00:55:06.489 --> 00:55:10.360 meet God here. Right? Rather, We came as those 00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:15.340 who have been indwelled by God. Praise the Lord. 00:55:16.219 --> 00:55:19.199 Do you understand what I mean? We come as those 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:26.019 who are indwelled by God. Praise the Lord. If 00:55:26.019 --> 00:55:29.260 you came to meet him here, that is an oracle. 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:34.119 Praise the Lord. We came here as those who carry 00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:39.050 God. who carry God in the inside of us, so we 00:55:39.050 --> 00:55:48.349 come to gather together. Praise the Lord. I think 00:55:48.349 --> 00:55:52.590 my time is up. We'll continue on Wednesday, right? 00:55:52.750 --> 00:55:55.750 But let's read John chapter 14. John chapter 00:55:55.750 --> 00:56:00.070 14. To further explain that, what we just read. 00:56:00.130 --> 00:56:06.530 John chapter 14 from verse 16 to 17. He said, 00:56:06.590 --> 00:56:08.630 I will pray the Father and he will give you another 00:56:08.630 --> 00:56:15.010 helper that he may abide with you forever. The 00:56:15.010 --> 00:56:17.489 Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive 00:56:17.489 --> 00:56:21.869 because it neither see him nor know him. But 00:56:21.869 --> 00:56:24.489 you know him for he dwells with you and will 00:56:24.489 --> 00:56:38.809 be in you. Verse 20 now. Verse 20. At that day, 00:56:38.809 --> 00:56:42.889 you will know that I am the Father and you are 00:56:42.889 --> 00:56:46.869 in me and I in you. Praise the Lord. So we gather 00:56:46.869 --> 00:56:50.030 together, right? Or the gathering of believers 00:56:50.030 --> 00:56:54.230 is a supernatural gathering. Praise the Lord. 00:56:54.329 --> 00:56:57.550 We gather together and this gathering is a supernatural 00:56:57.550 --> 00:57:02.230 gathering. And we gather because we're not coming 00:57:02.230 --> 00:57:05.110 to meet God here, but that God dwells in the 00:57:05.110 --> 00:57:08.460 inside of us. And we come. together. Praise the 00:57:08.460 --> 00:57:10.760 Lord. So on Wednesday we're going to look at 00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:12.679 more the things we should do and the things we 00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:15.239 should not do and the consciousness that we should 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.619 have. Let's just begin to bless the name of the 00:57:17.619 --> 00:57:21.860 Lord for the word we have heard. We appreciate 00:57:21.860 --> 00:57:24.619 you being here today. We hope you carry this 00:57:24.619 --> 00:57:27.679 word with you throughout your week. 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