WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.660 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:34.159 right in. Galatians chapter 3 Galatians chapter 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:52.799 3. Galatians chapter 3 verse 19. What purpose 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:59.700 then does the law serve? It was added because 00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:05.079 of transgressions. till the seed shall come to 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.159 whom the promise was made. And it was appointed 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:16.980 through angels by the hand of a mediator. By 00:01:16.980 --> 00:01:22.120 the hand of a mediator. It was appointed through 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:43.900 angels. John. chapter 14. John chapter 14. Look 00:01:43.900 --> 00:01:56.819 at verse 11. Believe me that I am in the Father 00:01:56.819 --> 00:02:03.920 and the Father in me. Or else, believe me, for 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:09.780 the sake of the works themselves. Go down to 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:28.360 verse 5. Chapter 5, sorry. Chapter 5. Verse 16. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.780 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:35.199 sought to kill him, because he had done these 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.879 things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:46.199 My father has been walking until now, and I have 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:52.300 been walking. My father has been doing what? 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:59.139 Walking until now, and I have been walking. Now, 00:02:59.139 --> 00:03:03.819 Pastor Fred, our lead pastor, started with the 00:03:03.819 --> 00:03:11.039 introduction of what the Lord is leading us this 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:15.099 year to do greater works. And the theme of the 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:21.379 year is greater works. And one of the issues 00:03:21.379 --> 00:03:26.060 he raised was understanding the works of God. 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:31.689 The works of God reveal God. Are we together? 00:03:32.430 --> 00:03:39.270 Because he will never do anything that is against 00:03:39.270 --> 00:03:45.169 his nature, against his character. Hallelujah. 00:03:46.689 --> 00:03:58.199 And the series we have been taking fall. Almost 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:04.560 in sync with what we are introducing this year. 00:04:05.740 --> 00:04:11.300 And we have been talking about the giving of 00:04:11.300 --> 00:04:16.500 the law. And where I read in Galatians chapter 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:24.279 3 verse 19. We saw that the law was given or 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.660 was appointed through angels or through the direction 00:04:27.660 --> 00:04:32.779 of angels. And one thing we noticed last time, 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:38.439 we point out a number of issues. Now, because 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:44.220 Moses involved angels in the giving of the law, 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:51.389 so we said we wanted to study a bit. about the 00:04:51.389 --> 00:04:58.529 interactions between these angels and people, 00:04:58.769 --> 00:05:05.110 particularly when the law was given, because 00:05:05.110 --> 00:05:08.050 he said the law was given through the appointment 00:05:08.050 --> 00:05:13.470 of angels. And what we are trying to do is to 00:05:13.470 --> 00:05:16.110 come to answer a question. Remember the question 00:05:16.110 --> 00:05:21.660 we're trying to answer? Why? We wanted to answer, 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:29.360 why did Moses wrote or gave the law? And why 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.100 are we focusing that? Particularly, we are focusing 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:36.540 in Deuteronomy 22, 5. That a woman shall not 00:05:36.540 --> 00:05:40.600 wear that which pertained unto a man, neither 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:46.480 shall a man put on a woman's garments. For all 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:52.149 that do so an abomination. unto the Lord. I'm 00:05:52.149 --> 00:05:55.850 reading from thy God. I'm reading from O .K. 00:05:55.850 --> 00:06:00.310 James. Hallelujah. So we're trying to, of course, 00:06:00.329 --> 00:06:03.009 not just only this one, all the laws he gave 00:06:03.009 --> 00:06:06.550 to Israel. And we understood that the law was 00:06:06.550 --> 00:06:10.430 an addition. You understand? Now, one important 00:06:10.430 --> 00:06:13.430 thing while we are going this way to study is 00:06:13.430 --> 00:06:16.509 to help us also as well to learn how to read 00:06:16.509 --> 00:06:19.910 what we call the Old Testament. And because there 00:06:19.910 --> 00:06:23.089 are lots of activities that has happened. So 00:06:23.089 --> 00:06:30.610 somehow the works of God has been actually clouded 00:06:30.610 --> 00:06:34.009 by a number of things. There are some things 00:06:34.009 --> 00:06:36.529 that God did not do. Today we said it is God 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:40.870 that did it. So while we will take other studies 00:06:40.870 --> 00:06:45.689 to look at some of the things men said, are we 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:51.180 together? That are not God. Even the men of God, 00:06:51.339 --> 00:06:53.819 because even men of God, even the prophet of 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:56.360 God have said certain things that actually did 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.879 not come from God. Are we together? However, 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.199 there are some certain things, of course, and 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:07.040 Jesus clearly told us what their focus was. So 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:11.139 we can be able to understand the addition. Are 00:07:11.139 --> 00:07:14.879 we together? We're coming to that. Because he 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.430 said that the prophet wrote concerning him. Are 00:07:18.430 --> 00:07:20.930 we together? So that means there will be things 00:07:20.930 --> 00:07:26.149 that will not be in alignment to the things he 00:07:26.149 --> 00:07:29.290 has come to do. So if a prophet will say those 00:07:29.290 --> 00:07:31.350 things, that will not mean that it is Christ 00:07:31.350 --> 00:07:34.790 that said it. Because God is the same yesterday, 00:07:34.889 --> 00:07:39.250 today and forever. So the God of the New Testament 00:07:39.250 --> 00:07:43.290 is not a new God, but it is that is the actually 00:07:43.290 --> 00:07:46.970 the unveiling of the real God that have existed. 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:52.639 You understand? Without time. That is even before 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:56.779 the world began. He is the same. And what we 00:07:56.779 --> 00:08:01.399 are trying to appreciate is to also help us as 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.899 we move on is to study to understand that the 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:14.939 works of God reveal God. So if you miss on the 00:08:14.939 --> 00:08:18.319 work of God or who did what, you are going to 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.199 miss on the character of God. And you're going 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.600 to have problem in your knowledge about God. 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:30.139 Are we together? So, from our last message, we 00:08:30.139 --> 00:08:38.799 looked at to see whether what angel said. Remember, 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:43.539 when we took that study, the goal was not actually 00:08:44.409 --> 00:08:47.570 to look at what the angels said, whether it is 00:08:47.570 --> 00:08:50.070 of God or not. We are coming to that. But if 00:08:50.070 --> 00:08:51.889 you look at what we studied, you understand, 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:55.649 we could see that very clearly. There are some 00:08:55.649 --> 00:08:58.429 certainties I want us to understand. That there's 00:08:58.429 --> 00:09:01.870 a perception about the men of old, that when 00:09:01.870 --> 00:09:05.889 they interacted with angels, what did they encounter? 00:09:06.049 --> 00:09:08.710 They define it as they have encountered God. 00:09:08.809 --> 00:09:14.629 Are we together? Amen. Good. Secondly, The second 00:09:14.629 --> 00:09:18.169 thing I want us to understand is that even though 00:09:18.169 --> 00:09:21.610 where we read last time, you understand, it's 00:09:21.610 --> 00:09:26.009 clear that God was the one who was speaking through 00:09:26.009 --> 00:09:30.029 the angels. Are we together? Amen. Yes. But we 00:09:30.029 --> 00:09:32.690 are going to go into other portions where angels 00:09:32.690 --> 00:09:35.070 did certain things that actually is not God's. 00:09:35.210 --> 00:09:39.750 So the essence is, as you read a portion of a 00:09:39.750 --> 00:09:43.340 scripture, Just because you see the Lord said 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:47.340 doesn't mean actually is actually the God Almighty. 00:09:47.860 --> 00:09:51.299 That means you have to study within the context 00:09:51.299 --> 00:09:56.000 to find out whether the Lord that is speaking 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.960 is not actually the angel's opinion or the attitude 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:04.220 of men, you understand, or it is actually the 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:07.840 Lord Almighty. So what we're trying to emphasize 00:10:09.610 --> 00:10:12.950 even in the teachings, is actually the emphasis 00:10:12.950 --> 00:10:16.889 on contextual reading. That you cannot just use 00:10:16.889 --> 00:10:20.490 words carelessly, you understand? Because words 00:10:20.490 --> 00:10:24.769 are used very carefully in scripture. And that's 00:10:24.769 --> 00:10:27.210 why he said, you are to study to show thyself 00:10:27.210 --> 00:10:29.970 a proof. A workman who needed not to be ashamed, 00:10:30.549 --> 00:10:33.070 rightly dividing the word of truth. That is, 00:10:33.110 --> 00:10:37.289 every word must be taken seriously because they 00:10:37.289 --> 00:10:40.269 have its implication. And therefore, by all that 00:10:40.269 --> 00:10:44.690 we have been studying, we saw that angels can 00:10:44.690 --> 00:10:47.549 be called Lord. Which means that you have to 00:10:47.549 --> 00:10:50.049 read carefully to know who is the one called 00:10:50.049 --> 00:10:52.230 Lord in that portion. Is it God or the angel? 00:10:52.669 --> 00:10:56.309 Or is it man? Whoever, just you have to find 00:10:56.309 --> 00:10:58.370 out from the reading in the context. Are we together? 00:10:58.830 --> 00:11:02.909 So we saw that kind of a thing. And there's a 00:11:02.909 --> 00:11:12.169 scripture I quoted in Revelation chapter... Revelation 00:11:12.169 --> 00:11:18.690 13. Come with me, Revelation 13. I just quoted 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:21.950 the scripture when I listened to the last message 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:24.370 and I discovered that there is an adjustment 00:11:24.370 --> 00:11:30.370 we need to do there a little bit before we just 00:11:30.370 --> 00:11:35.990 move on because it's very important. He said, 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:46.860 Revelation 13 verse 8. All who dwell on the earth 00:11:46.860 --> 00:11:51.820 will worship him whose name have not been written 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:56.460 in the book of life of the lamp slain from the 00:11:56.460 --> 00:12:00.159 foundation of who? Of the world. Now if you look 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.240 at that, it says slain from the foundation of 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.899 the world. When you read this, it looks as if 00:12:04.899 --> 00:12:09.950 the lamp that is The book of the life of the 00:12:09.950 --> 00:12:13.549 lamb who was slain from the foundation of the 00:12:13.549 --> 00:12:16.230 world. It looks as if the lamb was slain from 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:19.629 the foundation of the world. That the slain was 00:12:19.629 --> 00:12:23.929 done where? At the foundation of the world. Are 00:12:23.929 --> 00:12:28.769 we together? But just maybe read Hebrews with 00:12:28.769 --> 00:12:37.460 me. Come with me, Hebrews, quickly. Hebrews 9, 00:12:37.580 --> 00:12:53.820 9 -26. He then would have had to suffer often 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:58.960 since the foundation of the world. But now, once 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:05.240 at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put 00:13:05.610 --> 00:13:10.309 away sins by the what? By the sacrifice of himself. 00:13:10.649 --> 00:13:12.649 That word sacrifice of himself, that's what it 00:13:12.649 --> 00:13:17.789 means by slain. Amen? When was he slain? When 00:13:17.789 --> 00:13:22.429 was he slain? At the end of the age. That word 00:13:22.429 --> 00:13:25.970 age is not there. In the root word, it's not 00:13:25.970 --> 00:13:31.029 plural. In the sign. Those of us that have been 00:13:31.029 --> 00:13:35.419 going to cell meeting, Would I have no problem 00:13:35.419 --> 00:13:41.159 with this? You understand? Amen? Yes. So Christ 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:45.299 was sacrificed at the end of age. And we know 00:13:45.299 --> 00:13:49.639 if you are in the cell meeting, this is not where 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.759 we'll discuss that. We understood that, that 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:57.379 the foundation is a word conception. You understand? 00:13:57.700 --> 00:14:02.879 Meaning the time of the blueprints. Of what will 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:06.340 be accomplished, which is the word end. You understand? 00:14:08.259 --> 00:14:12.120 Who will be accomplished. So we are in the season 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:17.259 of accomplishment. Of what has been the foundation. 00:14:17.259 --> 00:14:23.179 Are we together? So what was done at the foundation 00:14:23.179 --> 00:14:26.779 is the blueprint. Amen? It's not the slaining. 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:32.240 The slaining is at where? at the end of the ages. 00:14:32.340 --> 00:14:35.919 Amen. Hallelujah. So when you look at that word, 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.440 when he said, the book of the Lamb slain from 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.720 the foundation of the world. Now, you just have 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.700 to do some rearrangement. For those of us who 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:49.639 have been working, I mean, going closely with 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:51.259 us in this church, we have discussed the issue 00:14:51.259 --> 00:14:55.100 of Bible, understanding the Bible, and we've 00:14:55.100 --> 00:14:58.960 done a lot of things. You understand? Now, If 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.159 you understand that when you understand the writings, 00:15:01.340 --> 00:15:03.620 both Greek and Hebrew, you understand, there 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:06.779 is no word to word match. So most times when 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:09.899 translators are translating the Bible, if you 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:12.240 translate it word to word, even you can't read 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.899 it because it wouldn't make meaning. You understand? 00:15:15.259 --> 00:15:18.419 An example of how you know what I mean is that 00:15:18.419 --> 00:15:21.240 go and carry Turkish, you understand, and just 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:25.039 do word to word back to English. You will now 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.259 understand what I'm saying. the Turkish will 00:15:28.259 --> 00:15:31.320 make meaning in English. So that means the person 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.440 who is Turkish will have to, first and foremost, 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.840 interpret it. You understand? So that it can 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.519 make meaning in English language. Are we together? 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:44.580 So that involves some rearrangement of words. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.620 So, and that has to be with the understanding 00:15:47.620 --> 00:15:50.779 of the context as well. You understand? Now that 00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:53.039 we understand that Christ was not sacrificed 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:56.769 or was not slain at the foundation. He was slain 00:15:56.769 --> 00:15:59.730 at what? At the end. So that means the blueprint 00:15:59.730 --> 00:16:04.070 will be at the foundation. Amen. So all we just 00:16:04.070 --> 00:16:06.330 need to do is just to bring the slain backward. 00:16:06.669 --> 00:16:10.789 You understand? That is, we will say in the book 00:16:10.789 --> 00:16:15.570 of life of the slain lamp. Did you see that? 00:16:16.450 --> 00:16:21.730 Of what? The slain lamp from the foundation of 00:16:21.730 --> 00:16:23.950 the world. That means what we are talking about 00:16:23.950 --> 00:16:28.850 is that. If you read it now in that sense, all 00:16:28.850 --> 00:16:35.090 who dwell on earth will worship him whose name 00:16:35.090 --> 00:16:39.950 were not written. Now the focus of the text is 00:16:39.950 --> 00:16:44.490 not written. You understand? Written where? In 00:16:44.490 --> 00:16:49.509 the book of the slain lamb. But when was it written? 00:16:50.230 --> 00:16:54.179 Are we together? It was written where? from the 00:16:54.179 --> 00:16:58.320 foundation of the world. Hallelujah. Okay. It's 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.240 important that when you listen to this one and 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.600 then you listen to the last message, when you 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.980 combine what I just said now, it will make sense. 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:11.359 Hallelujah. Amen. So to know, as I said, whether 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.680 words in the Old Testament or any other place 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:22.200 in the Bible are really the Lord said it. Those 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.420 words must be assessed through Christ. Those 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:30.380 words must be assessed through Christ. God cannot 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:36.640 change. God can't change. The same God who was 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.759 in the Old Testament was the same God who took 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.759 on the nature of man to be known. Who took on 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.460 the nature of the man to be known. And what that 00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:54.390 means is that Knowing God Almighty is actually 00:17:54.390 --> 00:17:58.130 in knowing his son. Because it is in his son 00:17:58.130 --> 00:18:03.450 that he is revealed. So that means now we have 00:18:03.450 --> 00:18:07.009 a perfect understanding of God. So we are not 00:18:07.009 --> 00:18:10.450 shadow boxing. When we go into Old Testament 00:18:10.450 --> 00:18:13.230 and we are reading, we go with our chest up. 00:18:13.750 --> 00:18:17.190 Because we have a system of assessing who says 00:18:17.190 --> 00:18:20.990 what. And we can assess it accurately because 00:18:20.990 --> 00:18:23.970 God now has arrived and revealed himself in the 00:18:23.970 --> 00:18:29.390 son. And by doing so, because the son now is 00:18:29.390 --> 00:18:32.630 a light, we can now, and we know the son, so 00:18:32.630 --> 00:18:35.670 we can assess and know, okay, this is not the 00:18:35.670 --> 00:18:38.230 son. And because it's not the son, so it's not 00:18:38.230 --> 00:18:40.710 the father. Remember where I read in John chapter 00:18:40.710 --> 00:18:45.109 five, right? He says what? That my father has 00:18:45.109 --> 00:18:48.990 been walking. Are we together? Until now, and 00:18:48.990 --> 00:18:51.410 I'm already doing what? Walking, which means 00:18:51.410 --> 00:18:53.730 that you can assess the walk of the Father in 00:18:53.730 --> 00:18:56.269 the Son. And then that's what he said. You will 00:18:56.269 --> 00:19:00.190 know that you are one in Christ. And even if 00:19:00.190 --> 00:19:02.529 you don't understand, just look at my walks, 00:19:02.589 --> 00:19:06.170 you will know. Are we together? So that's the 00:19:06.170 --> 00:19:08.369 point. And I want us to see this very important 00:19:08.369 --> 00:19:11.109 part, why I am saying that we're going to be 00:19:11.109 --> 00:19:13.529 assessed. And listen, just the same way today 00:19:13.529 --> 00:19:18.150 that we make mistakes. and do certain things 00:19:18.150 --> 00:19:23.490 that are not in alignment with God. Of course, 00:19:23.509 --> 00:19:28.230 that doesn't show that you are not of God. Do 00:19:28.230 --> 00:19:29.990 you understand what I'm trying to say? But sometimes 00:19:29.990 --> 00:19:33.490 lack of knowledge or lack of understanding of 00:19:33.490 --> 00:19:35.529 God's character and God's nature can make us 00:19:35.529 --> 00:19:39.190 behave the way we ought not to behave. Hallelujah. 00:19:39.190 --> 00:19:41.269 Are we together? So I want you to understand 00:19:41.269 --> 00:19:43.589 as we study this in the interaction of angels, 00:19:43.829 --> 00:19:47.150 sometimes when you see certain things Terrible 00:19:47.150 --> 00:19:48.990 things that angels do doesn't mean that they 00:19:48.990 --> 00:19:52.190 are evil spirits and they are evil angels. No. 00:19:52.609 --> 00:19:54.950 It's because they are operating from a point 00:19:54.950 --> 00:19:58.029 of ignorance. Oh, are you together with me? Are 00:19:58.029 --> 00:20:00.509 you together with me? The only thing we're trying 00:20:00.509 --> 00:20:03.910 to assess, already, as I said, we're going to 00:20:03.910 --> 00:20:06.490 study both angels, men, because angels do walk 00:20:06.490 --> 00:20:10.930 also. But the fact that it's a spirit that does 00:20:10.930 --> 00:20:15.069 the walk does not mean, does not mean actually 00:20:15.069 --> 00:20:17.470 that the walk is life. Did you understand what 00:20:17.470 --> 00:20:20.829 I'm trying to say? Already we know that in the 00:20:20.829 --> 00:20:24.630 law is wrath. And the law was given through angels. 00:20:25.210 --> 00:20:27.230 So already you will know that. And those angels 00:20:27.230 --> 00:20:28.869 are not evil angels. Did you understand what 00:20:28.869 --> 00:20:30.910 I'm trying to say? They are not demons that fell 00:20:30.910 --> 00:20:33.950 in the sun. So already that means some of the 00:20:33.950 --> 00:20:38.829 things they did produced death. Hallelujah. So 00:20:38.829 --> 00:20:45.940 that's what we are trying to study. Let me establish 00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:51.000 something about the son more. John 1, verse 11. 00:20:53.140 --> 00:21:06.940 Let's go to 18. John 1, 18. John 1, 18. No one 00:21:06.940 --> 00:21:12.799 has seen God at any time. The only begotten son. 00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:18.599 Who is in the bosom of the Father. He has declared 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:25.180 him. He has declared what? Him. That word no 00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:32.799 one. Is a single word. You understand? Is. Pronounced. 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:38.420 Odise. Or Odise. I think it's Odise. That is 00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:48.910 O -U -D -E -I -S. O -U. D -E -I -S. Or dies. 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:58.410 This verse means nothing. Nobody. None. Nothing. 00:21:58.789 --> 00:22:07.569 Nobody. None. That is no one. Nothing. Nobody. 00:22:08.170 --> 00:22:14.170 None. Has ever seen God. Remember in the. Previous 00:22:14.170 --> 00:22:18.009 verse, verse 17, he said, for the law was given 00:22:18.009 --> 00:22:21.410 through Moses, but grace and truth came through 00:22:21.410 --> 00:22:25.869 Jesus Christ. That includes Moses. He has never 00:22:25.869 --> 00:22:29.289 seen God. That includes angels. They have never 00:22:29.289 --> 00:22:36.730 seen God at all. Only one. Only one. He said, 00:22:36.829 --> 00:22:39.150 what is that one? He said, the only begotten. 00:22:39.910 --> 00:22:42.769 The only begotten. That word, only begotten. 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:53.200 I think other translations, modern translations, 00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:56.500 translated it better by saying one and only. 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:06.079 That's what is monogynes. Only begotten is a 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:16.960 word monogynes in Greek. M -O -N -O -G -E -N 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:30.049 -E -S M -O -N O -G -E -N -E -S. Monogenes. Monogenes 00:23:30.049 --> 00:23:35.049 is derived from two words. It's derived from 00:23:35.049 --> 00:23:39.109 two words. Monos. From the word monos. Monos. 00:23:39.269 --> 00:23:45.690 M -O -N -O -S. Monos. Which means one. Or only. 00:23:45.910 --> 00:23:50.059 Only. Of course, the one there is not talking 00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:54.119 about number. Are we together? That one or only 00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:56.119 is not talking about number. It's talking about 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:00.619 uniqueness. Are we together? And genos talk about 00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:02.839 of a class. That's why now when you combine them, 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:10.119 genos, which is G -E -N -O -S. G -E -N -O -S 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:15.789 means class or kind. Class or kind. So when you 00:24:15.789 --> 00:24:19.450 look at it, you will see that together when you 00:24:19.450 --> 00:24:23.769 combine it, it's talking about one of a class 00:24:23.769 --> 00:24:29.769 or of a kind. Are we together? Amen. Before, 00:24:29.769 --> 00:24:33.130 as I said, when you use the word, the only begotten, 00:24:33.190 --> 00:24:36.930 it appears because the earlier translation was 00:24:36.930 --> 00:24:41.190 taught to be from two words. There's another 00:24:41.190 --> 00:24:45.190 word which has to be corrected because It was 00:24:45.190 --> 00:24:50.910 using the only begotten, which is monogynetos. 00:24:51.289 --> 00:25:10.349 That is M -O -N -O -G -E -N -E -T -O -S. M -O 00:25:10.349 --> 00:25:19.599 -N -O -G... E -double -N -E -T -O -S. That was 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:22.799 the earlier because this one, if you split it 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.859 into two, the first part, which is mono, which 00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:30.920 is monos or one or only. Then the second one 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:36.259 is actually a word. Also, we call it genao. Genao. 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.660 When you combine the two, you have monogenetos. 00:25:39.609 --> 00:25:45.490 Genao is actually begat. Genao is G -E -N -N 00:25:45.490 --> 00:25:55.390 -A -O. G -E -N -N -A -O. So that means monogenetos 00:25:55.390 --> 00:26:01.410 is actually a compound word of two words, monos 00:26:01.410 --> 00:26:06.130 and genao. When you combine them, it gives you 00:26:06.130 --> 00:26:10.549 genao means begat or to bear. So initially, by 00:26:10.549 --> 00:26:13.390 using the only begotten, it appears as if he's 00:26:13.390 --> 00:26:15.910 talking about something that you gave birth to. 00:26:16.490 --> 00:26:19.569 But that's not the communication. You understand? 00:26:19.789 --> 00:26:23.730 It's not about giving birth. Actually, the right 00:26:23.730 --> 00:26:26.890 Greek word is what we have already talked about, 00:26:26.950 --> 00:26:33.930 that the monogenes, which is one and only, that 00:26:33.930 --> 00:26:39.180 is of a different class or of a kind. Are we 00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:46.380 together? Amen. So it's talking about uniqueness, 00:26:46.619 --> 00:26:51.099 not actually procreation or giving birth to. 00:26:51.619 --> 00:26:56.779 It's talking about uniqueness. So, and we can 00:26:56.779 --> 00:27:02.220 find that in several places in scripture are 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:07.480 particularly used for Jesus, at least King James. 00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:10.480 When you check, Earlier, newer translation like 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:13.839 ESV, they use one and only and some other translation, 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.640 one and only. That's the right word. To depict 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.279 uniqueness, not actually to give bet. Are we 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:24.500 together? Yes. So if you look at, they say, please, 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:26.579 maybe I will use this one. Hebrews chapter 11. 00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:33.619 Hebrews chapter 11 verse 17. Hebrews 11, 17. 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.000 He said, by faith, Abraham, when he was tested, 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:48.240 offered up Isaac, and he who had received the 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:53.559 promise, offered up his only begotten. Again, 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:57.500 this is supposed to be one and only. Are we together? 00:27:57.779 --> 00:27:59.740 That's why when you read the account in Genesis 00:27:59.740 --> 00:28:06.319 22, you say, take up your son, your only son. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:09.079 It will look as if he's saying he has only... 00:28:09.710 --> 00:28:13.470 one son. No, that only is talking about uniqueness. 00:28:13.829 --> 00:28:18.490 That is, Isaac is unique. He's not talking about 00:28:18.490 --> 00:28:22.769 number. Are we together? Because Abraham also 00:28:22.769 --> 00:28:26.130 had Isaac at that time already. Are we together? 00:28:26.309 --> 00:28:29.609 So it cannot be a number. Say, your only son. 00:28:29.789 --> 00:28:32.069 Of course, it's not only son because Ishmael 00:28:32.069 --> 00:28:35.049 is there. Amen? So he's talking about uniqueness. 00:28:36.410 --> 00:28:39.730 And that's exactly what he's talking about. When 00:28:39.730 --> 00:28:42.450 you look at what he said, the uniqueness of that 00:28:42.450 --> 00:28:45.609 song, he said the only unique song. You understand? 00:28:45.869 --> 00:28:49.509 And then he said, in the bosom. Of course, that 00:28:49.509 --> 00:28:53.390 word is figurative in nature. Because when you 00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:55.869 talk about bosom, you're talking about, of course, 00:28:55.890 --> 00:28:58.349 some of us that are English, we normally use 00:28:58.349 --> 00:29:00.650 the word bosom friend. Are we together? What 00:29:00.650 --> 00:29:02.509 you're talking about, you're talking about somebody, 00:29:02.569 --> 00:29:06.390 this is relational, of a unique and intimate 00:29:06.390 --> 00:29:08.809 relationship. That's what you are talking about. 00:29:09.230 --> 00:29:12.690 That is, this person is not like any other. You 00:29:12.690 --> 00:29:17.690 understand? So, he's talking about the unique 00:29:17.690 --> 00:29:21.349 relationship of Christ and the Father. And he 00:29:21.349 --> 00:29:26.369 now said that he had declared him. Remember, 00:29:26.450 --> 00:29:31.690 he said no one has seen God. No one has seen 00:29:31.690 --> 00:29:38.789 God. In verse 14 of John 1. In verse 14 of John 00:29:38.789 --> 00:29:43.289 1. You know what I'm saying? And the word became 00:29:43.289 --> 00:29:47.630 flesh. And dwell among us. And we beheld his 00:29:47.630 --> 00:29:51.029 glory. The glory of the only begotten. That word 00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:54.089 would be what? One and only. Are we together? 00:29:54.289 --> 00:29:59.529 Of the father full of grace and truth. It's not 00:29:59.529 --> 00:30:04.589 two things. Grace which is truth. Are we together? 00:30:04.950 --> 00:30:12.930 Yes. The very first time God was seen by both 00:30:12.930 --> 00:30:16.890 men, because he said no one has seen him. The 00:30:16.890 --> 00:30:22.250 very first time both men and angels have seen 00:30:22.250 --> 00:30:31.769 God is in the song. The first time both men and 00:30:31.769 --> 00:30:37.940 angels have seen God. is in the Son. 1 Timothy 00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:54.599 3 .16 1 Timothy 3 .16 And without controversy, 00:30:54.819 --> 00:31:00.640 great is the mystery of godliness. God was what? 00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:08.160 Was what? Manifested where? In the flesh. Justified? 00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:13.539 In the spirit. Seen by who? Seen by who? Angels. 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:18.279 Preach among Gentiles. Believed on the world. 00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:21.940 Received up in what? In glory. Are we together? 00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:29.859 That's the first time angels ever saw God. Manifested 00:31:29.859 --> 00:31:35.380 in the flesh. manifested in the flesh. It means 00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:40.440 to unveil, to uncover, manifest, to unveil, to 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:44.480 uncover. That is, God was manifest in the flesh. 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:48.680 Angels never saw God in his fullness till he 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:56.619 was revealed in the sun. He said, great is a 00:31:56.619 --> 00:32:00.519 mystery of godliness. That word mystery, you 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.490 understand, Is no longer mystery. Why? Now is 00:32:05.490 --> 00:32:12.029 what? Manifested. Hallelujah. Amen. So that means 00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:16.369 the father revealed himself. To humanity. And 00:32:16.369 --> 00:32:23.869 also to angels in the son. So in the son. Or 00:32:23.869 --> 00:32:28.009 the son is a perfect. And complete revelation. 00:32:29.509 --> 00:32:36.099 Of God. So, when you know the father, that means 00:32:36.099 --> 00:32:40.480 you are saying you know the son. Or you can only 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:44.759 know the father by knowing the son. So the mystery, 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:49.299 the uncertainty, the confusion, the complexity, 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:54.019 the double -mindedness about the father, where 00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:58.200 is he explained? Where is he explained? In the 00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.359 son. Where is it unveiled? In the Son. Where 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:03.240 is it revealed? In the Son. Where is it resolved? 00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:07.400 In the Son. So as we go through the Old Testament 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:11.000 and through the entire Bible, every confusion, 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:15.960 every complexity, every uncertainty is revealed 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.420 in the Son. You don't see it in Christ, it's 00:33:19.420 --> 00:33:22.339 not God. Sing full and short. Are we together? 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:25.259 You know, some people will ask, but sir, who 00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:28.289 did it then? I say it's not God. What is your 00:33:28.289 --> 00:33:35.170 problem? It's not God. So there's no revelation 00:33:35.170 --> 00:33:39.890 of the father outside God. What he has revealed 00:33:39.890 --> 00:33:45.309 about himself is in the son. So when Moses recruited 00:33:45.309 --> 00:33:50.750 angels to write what was shown or to give the 00:33:50.750 --> 00:33:56.480 law instead, definitely you know. There is no 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.619 how at that time angels could ever have been 00:33:59.619 --> 00:34:04.400 accurate to write about God. Because how could 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:09.760 they have known him? You understand? So don't 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:12.840 be shouting because an angel appeared to you. 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:20.460 Don't jubilate yet. You have to bring and look 00:34:20.460 --> 00:34:24.489 at what is revealed to you. through the lenses 00:34:24.489 --> 00:34:28.530 of the sun, there is nothing that will ever be 00:34:28.530 --> 00:34:30.389 revealed to you that is greater than what you 00:34:30.389 --> 00:34:34.030 have received already. I don't want you to look 00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:38.670 down on yourself in the sun because you have 00:34:38.670 --> 00:34:44.590 received the sun and you are in him. So anything 00:34:44.590 --> 00:34:47.190 that is coming from outside, even if you have 00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:49.170 revelation and you've seen an angel appear to 00:34:49.170 --> 00:34:55.940 you, glory be to God. That's good. But don't 00:34:55.940 --> 00:35:00.159 begin to feel suddenly that now you will even 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:01.519 change your name. Because that's how so many 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.219 people have changed their names. They have moved 00:35:04.219 --> 00:35:09.900 from brother straight to apostle. You know, sir. 00:35:10.539 --> 00:35:14.559 Why? They say because they have seen. They have 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:18.400 had an encounter. Because I've listened to some 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:19.940 people, they say the definition of an apostle 00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:28.059 is that they have seen Jesus. Which type of seeing 00:35:28.059 --> 00:35:39.699 Jesus are you talking about? Amen. Hallelujah. 00:35:40.900 --> 00:35:43.519 Amen. Now, let me just touch on a few things. 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.440 Now, apart from the word the Lord said, the Lord 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:49.820 said, there's another thing I want us to note 00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:55.349 also as we study. It's the word God. Also, God 00:35:55.349 --> 00:36:00.449 said, God said, God said, God said, you understand? 00:36:01.550 --> 00:36:05.650 God, the word God, is the word Elohim, you understand? 00:36:05.869 --> 00:36:13.250 E -L -O -H -I -M, Elohim. Of course, it appears 00:36:13.250 --> 00:36:17.210 many times in the King James Bible, throughout 00:36:17.210 --> 00:36:22.030 the Bible. I mean, through the scriptures, the 00:36:22.030 --> 00:36:28.789 Old Testament text. More than 2 ,000 times. And 00:36:28.789 --> 00:36:33.210 it is used to describe a number of things. It 00:36:33.210 --> 00:36:37.250 is used to describe anything divine, great in 00:36:37.250 --> 00:36:43.849 different contexts, mighty, like deities, judges, 00:36:44.170 --> 00:36:51.329 angels, rulers, you understand? Gods. Again, 00:36:51.429 --> 00:36:54.989 some names that we'll be mentioning, You understand? 00:36:56.329 --> 00:37:00.289 Sometimes they can be interchanged. But just 00:37:00.289 --> 00:37:02.989 understand that that's why each time I'm talking 00:37:02.989 --> 00:37:06.150 about any word, I give you what I'm talking about. 00:37:06.630 --> 00:37:10.630 When I use the word law, you understand? I will 00:37:10.630 --> 00:37:12.309 tell you what I mean by the law because we are 00:37:12.309 --> 00:37:14.329 discussing the law of Moses. So you know the 00:37:14.329 --> 00:37:16.750 law I'm talking about. But that doesn't mean 00:37:16.750 --> 00:37:19.829 anywhere you see law. That means it's a law of 00:37:19.829 --> 00:37:21.230 Moses. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? 00:37:21.309 --> 00:37:24.199 I've said that. The same thing, this word angels, 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:26.639 you understand? Now, because I'm talking about 00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:29.400 spirit beings, you understand? You understand 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:31.400 what I mean? Continue to use the word angels, 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.059 angels. But there are places where men are called 00:37:35.059 --> 00:37:38.639 angels. Some places where God is called an angel. 00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:40.320 Do you understand what I'm trying to say? So 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:42.940 what that means is that, again, this word, even 00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:47.219 man, the word man, you know, solely by this thing. 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.119 When we read, for example, the... What do you 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:58.579 call it? Those men that encounter Abraham, you 00:37:58.579 --> 00:38:00.420 understand, they are called, when they enter 00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:04.260 Sodom with Lord, they are called the men. But 00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:06.440 they are what? Angels. You understand what I'm 00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:08.480 saying? What that means is that, so what I'm 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:10.440 trying to say is that there's no, there's no 00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:13.800 one word that has a blanket meaning that you 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:17.000 carry it everywhere. You understand? Because 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:24.820 the word man is a The word they use in Sodom 00:38:24.820 --> 00:38:29.599 for those angels is Ish. Ish means the male, 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:33.059 male man, not Adam, the male man. You understand? 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:36.099 So what that means is that you don't just see 00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:38.159 what like that and just say, okay, this is it. 00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:43.099 No. You have to now read to know actually who 00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:48.000 is that or what is that. Again, this is emphasizing 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:54.280 that. You have to learn to really solely, primarily 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:58.019 depend on the context. You understand? To be 00:38:58.019 --> 00:39:01.340 able to know the meaning of words. So, so far, 00:39:01.380 --> 00:39:03.940 I'm using angels as spirit beings. So, when I 00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:05.420 mention angel, you know what I'm talking about. 00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:12.380 Amen? Amen. So, now, the word Elohim is obtained 00:39:12.380 --> 00:39:17.269 from the root word Elal. Allow. That's a singular 00:39:17.269 --> 00:39:21.650 word because Elohim is plural of allow. E -L 00:39:21.650 --> 00:39:30.130 -O -A -H. E -L -O -A -H. Allow. Now, in this 00:39:30.130 --> 00:39:33.829 regard, when you assume because the word Elohim 00:39:33.829 --> 00:39:38.130 is plural of allow, which means God, normally 00:39:38.130 --> 00:39:44.070 you see it as God. You will see God said. God 00:39:44.070 --> 00:39:49.710 said. So you need to read very carefully to know 00:39:49.710 --> 00:39:54.889 which God is he talking about. And you know, 00:39:54.929 --> 00:39:59.710 interestingly, sometimes translators also, because 00:39:59.710 --> 00:40:03.449 translators are actually interpreters. So sometimes 00:40:03.449 --> 00:40:07.710 they will as well help, not really deliberate 00:40:07.710 --> 00:40:11.429 because they are very helpful people. It's not 00:40:11.429 --> 00:40:13.369 deliberate, but in their reading, sometimes they 00:40:13.369 --> 00:40:16.679 can make mistakes too. Because sometimes by saying 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.099 big G, all of us think that is the God Almighty. 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:21.619 Is that correct? But sometimes again, they will 00:40:21.619 --> 00:40:25.639 put small G. But even places they put big G is 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.780 not actually the Almighty God. Did you understand 00:40:29.780 --> 00:40:31.860 what I'm trying to say? So you have to depend 00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:35.159 to read context. It's not by capital or small 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.300 letter that we know which one is which. Did you 00:40:37.300 --> 00:40:46.309 get what I'm trying to say? Hallelujah. Genesis 00:40:46.309 --> 00:41:06.389 32. Genesis 32. Look at verse 24. Then Jacob 00:41:06.389 --> 00:41:12.769 was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until 00:41:12.769 --> 00:41:16.139 the breaking of the day. Now, when he saw that 00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:19.800 he did not prevail against him, he touched the 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:25.659 socket of his hip and the socket of Jacob's hip 00:41:25.659 --> 00:41:30.760 was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:35.039 he said, let me go for the daybreak. But he said, 00:41:35.219 --> 00:41:42.000 I will not let you go unless you bless me. So 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:48.219 he said to him, what is your name? He said, Jacob. 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:52.260 And he said, your name shall no longer be called 00:41:52.260 --> 00:41:58.800 Jacob, but Israel. For you have struggled with 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:03.659 who? With who? That word is Elohim. You understand? 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:08.519 God and with men and have prevailed. You understand? 00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:14.119 Then, Jacob asked, saying, tell me your name, 00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:19.679 I pray. And he said, why is it that you ask about 00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:25.260 my name? And he blessed him. And there. And he 00:42:25.260 --> 00:42:29.179 blessed him there. So Jacob called the name of 00:42:29.179 --> 00:42:34.900 the place Penuel. For I have seen who? God, face 00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:39.719 to face, and my life is what? is preserved. Hosea 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:53.380 chapter 12. Hosea chapter 12. Look at verse 2. 00:42:54.579 --> 00:43:03.139 Hosea 12 verse 2. The Lord also brings a charge 00:43:03.139 --> 00:43:07.320 against Judah. And will punish Jacob according 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.780 to his ways. According to his deeds. He will 00:43:10.780 --> 00:43:15.119 recompense him. He took his brother by the heel 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:19.440 in the womb. And in his strength, he did what? 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:24.699 He did what? He struggled with who? Are we together 00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:30.880 now? He struggled with who? With God. Yes. He 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:36.980 struggled with who? These people are not following. 00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:43.420 Are we together? Verse 4. Yes, he struggled with 00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:53.380 who? And what? So, that is saying that what he 00:43:53.380 --> 00:43:56.000 said he struggled with God is actually the angel 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.320 he's talking about. So, you can see that God 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:06.400 here is big letter. Right? Capital letter. That 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:12.320 is an angel. Even the angel here is put capital 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.119 because they are trying to refer to it because 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:22.739 Israel here capital is God. You understand? But 00:44:22.739 --> 00:44:26.480 look at what, if you go back to where we read 00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:34.599 in Genesis, you will see that. What has happened? 00:44:35.530 --> 00:44:46.110 The man, Jacob, that's what he saw. He's an angel 00:44:46.110 --> 00:44:48.489 that he struggled. Even from the first one, they 00:44:48.489 --> 00:44:50.750 called the person the man. Did you see that? 00:44:51.489 --> 00:44:55.489 Verse 24. Then Jacob was left alone and a man 00:44:55.489 --> 00:45:01.710 wrestled in the sand. So you could see that Jacob 00:45:01.710 --> 00:45:06.670 wrestled with an angel. But then look at what 00:45:06.670 --> 00:45:10.909 he said. He said, I have seen God, what? Face 00:45:10.909 --> 00:45:13.469 to face. Remember what Jesus said. No one has 00:45:13.469 --> 00:45:19.090 seen God. No one at any time. We see just like 00:45:19.090 --> 00:45:21.969 we studied last week. That's their perception. 00:45:22.150 --> 00:45:23.969 It's that they have an encounter with spirit 00:45:23.969 --> 00:45:27.329 beings. You understand? They consider it as an 00:45:27.329 --> 00:45:30.909 encounter with God. So they had, because their 00:45:30.909 --> 00:45:34.920 worldview is shaped. very profoundly, you understand, 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:39.260 by the spirit world. The way they see the spirit 00:45:39.260 --> 00:45:42.980 world is profoundly different from how our world 00:45:42.980 --> 00:45:45.619 is now, you understand. Because the world has 00:45:45.619 --> 00:45:48.039 become sophisticated now. We are too materially 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:52.980 connected. They, in those days, they are very 00:45:52.980 --> 00:45:56.699 much, so much connected. It's a usual occurrence, 00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:59.679 you understand. It's not something, a strange 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:03.179 thing. So, and because of... Most times when 00:46:03.179 --> 00:46:06.079 they, because remember, remember what we are 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:08.900 saying. We're going to see it. Their knowledge 00:46:08.900 --> 00:46:14.320 of God, of course, is not perfect as we are now 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.480 that we know because we have the son revealed, 00:46:16.739 --> 00:46:19.699 you know, son. So each time, most of them, you 00:46:19.699 --> 00:46:22.480 know, son, as we see several times, they consider 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.340 an encounter with an angel. Even when they know, 00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:27.860 for example, Manoah, we read the other time, 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.500 they clearly knew there is an angel, but they 00:46:30.500 --> 00:46:34.329 still consider it as what? as God, encounter 00:46:34.329 --> 00:46:41.409 with God. Amen. Are we together? The Psalmist, 00:46:41.550 --> 00:46:53.010 Psalm 8. Let's look at Psalm 8. Psalm 8, verse 00:46:53.010 --> 00:47:07.440 1. Lord, our God, how excellent is your name 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:14.039 in all the earth. Who have set your glory above 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.480 the heavens out of the mouth of babes and nursing 00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:20.739 infants? You have ordained strength because of 00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:25.519 your enemies that you may silence the enemy and 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:31.099 the avenger. Verse 3. When I consider your heavens, 00:47:31.260 --> 00:47:38.409 the work of your The moon and the stars which 00:47:38.409 --> 00:47:44.550 you have ordained. What is man that you are mindful 00:47:44.550 --> 00:47:50.230 of him? The son of man that you visit him. For 00:47:50.230 --> 00:47:56.070 you have made him a little lower than angels. 00:47:57.110 --> 00:48:01.730 And you have crowned him with glory and honor. 00:48:01.849 --> 00:48:07.659 That word angels. is Elohim. A little lower than 00:48:07.659 --> 00:48:13.440 angels. That word is Elohim. So, what I'm trying 00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.019 to say is that in several places you could see 00:48:17.019 --> 00:48:26.019 that sometimes God is angel or Elohim is referring 00:48:26.019 --> 00:48:31.519 to spirit beings. You understand? But you really 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:35.280 have to read to understand is the same word, 00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:39.199 for example, Elohim, in the beginning, Genesis 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:44.199 1 verse 1, God created the what? The heavens 00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:49.420 and the what? In the earth. That word God, you 00:48:49.420 --> 00:48:52.300 understand, is not an angel. Do you understand 00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:56.039 what I'm saying? But it's the same word, Elohim. 00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.340 You understand? Because when you read, by the 00:48:58.340 --> 00:49:02.000 time you read chapter 2, we now saw that, God 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.840 ended his work and he rested in the seventh day. 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.820 Amen. Are we together? So this one we're talking 00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:12.179 about God the creator, not angel the created. 00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.500 Did you understand what I'm trying to say? So 00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:17.659 you have to read context to understand whether 00:49:17.659 --> 00:49:24.039 Elohim is talking about angel or whoever. You 00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:28.710 understand? Interestingly, when we read When 00:49:28.710 --> 00:49:31.010 we come to the New Testament, because I told 00:49:31.010 --> 00:49:35.170 you, the New Testament is not presenting a new 00:49:35.170 --> 00:49:40.469 God. It's unveiling the real God. It's unveiling 00:49:40.469 --> 00:49:45.110 the real God. And by the time you come to New 00:49:45.110 --> 00:49:48.150 Testament, come, let's look at that text, Psalms 00:49:48.150 --> 00:49:53.710 8, because it was quoted in Hebrews. And I think 00:49:53.710 --> 00:49:56.610 we're going to study Hebrews, maybe now and, 00:49:56.829 --> 00:50:03.590 I mean, And maybe Wednesday. Yes. To help us 00:50:03.590 --> 00:50:09.010 in our clarification. Again, the difference between 00:50:09.010 --> 00:50:14.070 angels and the son, because it's the son that 00:50:14.070 --> 00:50:17.750 review God, not angels. Are we together? So as 00:50:17.750 --> 00:50:21.230 the more we understand the son, the more we know 00:50:21.230 --> 00:50:26.090 God. Amen. So, so that doing that will help us 00:50:26.090 --> 00:50:31.539 by the time you move. to the Old Testament you 00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:34.880 are reading, whatever you see, you will look 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:39.659 at it via the lenses of the sun. You can be able 00:50:39.659 --> 00:50:53.460 to understand what the place is saying. Hebrews 00:50:53.460 --> 00:51:01.130 chapter 1, verse 1. God, who at various times 00:51:01.130 --> 00:51:06.929 and in various ways spoke in time past to the 00:51:06.929 --> 00:51:11.710 fathers by the prophets, has in these last days 00:51:11.710 --> 00:51:18.429 spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed 00:51:18.429 --> 00:51:25.110 Heirs of all things, through whom also he made 00:51:25.110 --> 00:51:30.739 the walls. who being the brightness of his glory 00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:34.960 and the express image of his person, upholding 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.780 all things by the word of his power, when he 00:51:38.780 --> 00:51:42.420 had by himself purged our sins, sat at the right 00:51:42.420 --> 00:51:50.699 hand of the majesty on high. Of the majesty on 00:51:50.699 --> 00:51:57.369 high. Look at chapter 2. Chapter 2. Verse 5, 00:51:57.550 --> 00:52:02.369 chapter 2, verse 5. For he has not put the walls 00:52:02.369 --> 00:52:06.250 to come, of which we speak in subjection to angels. 00:52:06.769 --> 00:52:10.050 But one testified in a certain place, saying, 00:52:10.269 --> 00:52:14.570 What is man, that you are mindful of him? Or 00:52:14.570 --> 00:52:18.530 the son of man, that you take care of him? You 00:52:18.530 --> 00:52:21.849 have made him a little lower than angels. You 00:52:21.849 --> 00:52:25.489 have crowned him with glory and honor. and set 00:52:25.489 --> 00:52:28.690 him over the works of your hands, you have put 00:52:28.690 --> 00:52:35.789 all things in subjection under his feet. Again, 00:52:35.849 --> 00:52:40.110 the word angels there, but in Greek, is angelos. 00:52:42.190 --> 00:52:49.769 Angelos. A -double -G -E -L -O -S. Of course, 00:52:49.789 --> 00:52:54.389 we see this is a quotation from Psalms 8. Now 00:52:54.389 --> 00:53:01.429 we will discuss on what is the distinction between 00:53:01.429 --> 00:53:10.090 angels and the son. You know, what the angel 00:53:10.090 --> 00:53:12.570 will give will not be the same with what the 00:53:12.570 --> 00:53:15.610 son will give. They are in a different class. 00:53:15.809 --> 00:53:20.050 Remember we said the only one and only, that 00:53:20.050 --> 00:53:24.659 is, he is unique. In his class. Did you understand 00:53:24.659 --> 00:53:30.159 what I'm trying to say? Yes. Hallelujah. And 00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:37.880 the idea. And our goal. Is to study. By the works 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:44.619 of God. We will know. No more confusion again. 00:53:45.619 --> 00:53:51.780 About who did what. And who is he. So our focus 00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:58.980 is that we understand who act what. Because before 00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:06.880 now, the devil has enjoyed popularity. Jesus 00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:09.440 unveiled him that he has been sinning from the 00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.300 beginning. The Bible says Cain is of the wicked 00:54:14.300 --> 00:54:19.019 one. The devil was there behind him doing the 00:54:19.019 --> 00:54:21.650 thing, influencing him. But we didn't see him. 00:54:22.010 --> 00:54:25.530 You understand? When devil was actually doing 00:54:25.530 --> 00:54:28.369 hellfire behind and was destroying the things 00:54:28.369 --> 00:54:30.730 of Job, Job didn't know the devil was there. 00:54:31.449 --> 00:54:33.610 What we're saying is that there are so many things 00:54:33.610 --> 00:54:36.070 you'll be shocked. The one you call it is God. 00:54:36.190 --> 00:54:39.449 He's not God. Because we are trying to see how 00:54:39.449 --> 00:54:44.170 we will unveil the person behind the works you 00:54:44.170 --> 00:54:47.269 have been seeing. That those works are not God's 00:54:47.269 --> 00:54:50.440 work. Because God's work that he has come to 00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:54.320 destroy the works of the devil. Hallelujah. And 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:56.300 the works of the devil is finishing your life 00:54:56.300 --> 00:54:59.860 in Jesus name. Even his influence. No more ignorance 00:54:59.860 --> 00:55:03.280 this year. We are moving in a different dimension. 00:55:04.019 --> 00:55:06.539 Dimension of knowledge and of greater works. 00:55:06.760 --> 00:55:13.320 Because greater works is done in knowledge. We 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.030 appreciate you being here today. We hope you 00:55:16.030 --> 00:55:18.150 carry this word with you throughout your week. 00:55:18.769 --> 00:55:20.949 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional 00:55:20.949 --> 00:55:23.909 insights. Stay connected with us through our 00:55:23.909 --> 00:55:27.789 website or follow us on social media. 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