WEBVTT 00:00:01.380 --> 00:00:06.919 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.900 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:14.140 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.160 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:24.920 right in. All right, so we'll continue from where 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:29.160 we started on Sunday and I'll just put a little 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:34.289 bit of things. aligning them well for today's 00:00:34.289 --> 00:00:37.490 teaching. So John chapter one, verse 12. It's 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:40.990 one of the scriptures that we talked about believing 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:44.189 in Christ as the resurrected Christ, right? Believing 00:00:44.189 --> 00:00:47.850 in Jesus as the resurrected Christ. John chapter 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:53.590 one, verse two. As many as are resurrected. Can 00:00:53.590 --> 00:00:56.109 you go to verse 10? Can we start from verse 10, 00:00:56.189 --> 00:01:01.170 please? It was in the word, and the word was 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:05.530 made by him, and the word knew him not. 11. He 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:10.189 came to his own, and his own received him not. 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:14.609 But as many as received him, to them he gave, 00:01:15.530 --> 00:01:19.209 to them gave he power to become the sons of God, 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:24.430 even to them that believe on his name. Even to 00:01:24.430 --> 00:01:28.370 them that believe on his name. In this context, 00:01:28.810 --> 00:01:31.650 what we see is that John was actually writing 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:34.390 about what happened in the lifetime of Jesus, 00:01:34.609 --> 00:01:36.709 right? He was in the world, the world was made 00:01:36.709 --> 00:01:40.989 by him, and that he came to his own, right? He 00:01:40.989 --> 00:01:43.090 came to his own would be that scripture that 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:46.849 we read, and the James, the brothers of Jesus 00:01:46.849 --> 00:01:49.109 were telling him, go and show yourself to the 00:01:49.109 --> 00:01:51.849 world. That's one of it, right? Also, he's a 00:01:51.849 --> 00:01:53.950 Jew, and he came to the Jewish people as well. 00:01:54.109 --> 00:01:56.900 We can see that their rejection is also found 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:01.040 in that right is also included in that so it 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.540 came to his own his own people rejected him and 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.299 said well as many as received him to them he 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:10.219 gave the power to become the sons of god even 00:02:10.219 --> 00:02:15.379 to them that believe on his name so here he was 00:02:15.379 --> 00:02:19.400 talking about uh i know yes most of time we are 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.139 prudent to ourselves as well uh but most of that 00:02:22.139 --> 00:02:24.639 was actually talking about the context of the 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.180 people that received Christ right the people 00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:29.879 that receive him uh we can say that the people 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.759 that believe him as the messiah the people that 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.800 believe him as the one that has come not his 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.280 brother at that time but people that followed 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.500 him we can say his disciples give them the rights 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:43.000 to become the sons of god as many as believe 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.780 that this is the messiah that was prophesied 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:48.240 right we can put that in that context and say 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.460 they received him right as many as receive him 00:02:51.460 --> 00:02:53.879 give them power to become give them the rights 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.620 to become the sons of God. And the reason is 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:02.719 that because if you check 1 John chapter 1 verse 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.159 3, 1 John chapter 1 verse 3, state it in another 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:10.580 way, right? State it in another way by saying 00:03:10.580 --> 00:03:16.639 that now are we the sons of God, right? 1 John 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:21.419 chapter 1 verse 3. Say now are we the sons of 00:03:21.419 --> 00:03:24.740 God. Now, that shows right a little bit of a 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:28.259 contrast not so much of a contrast but something 00:03:28.259 --> 00:03:32.039 uh that has taken place right something that 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.680 has taken place so first John chapter i said 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:43.039 that three verse one okay so first John chapter 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.219 three verse one said behold what manner of love 00:03:45.219 --> 00:03:47.340 the Father has bestowed on to us that we should 00:03:47.340 --> 00:03:49.639 be called the sons of God therefore the world 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:54.360 knoweth us not because it's Know him not. Beloved, 00:03:54.379 --> 00:03:57.099 now are we the sons of God. And if they not yet 00:03:57.099 --> 00:04:00.039 appear, what we shall be, we, but we know that 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.319 when he shall appear, we shall be like him. For 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:07.860 we shall see him as he is." Right? So one says, 00:04:08.659 --> 00:04:11.219 as many as receive him, given the power to become 00:04:11.219 --> 00:04:13.919 the sons of God, right? They will become the 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.120 sons of God. As many as believe him, they will 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.540 become the sons of God. So it means that as many 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:23.009 as believe, While Jesus was alive, as many as 00:04:23.009 --> 00:04:26.250 received his word, he gave them the right to 00:04:26.250 --> 00:04:29.430 say, these ones will come to me. These ones are 00:04:29.430 --> 00:04:31.750 the ones that will come to me. These ones will 00:04:31.750 --> 00:04:33.949 believe they will be where I am, they will be. 00:04:33.990 --> 00:04:38.910 So now at resurrection, they are now the sons 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:41.990 of God. They are now the sons of God, even those 00:04:41.990 --> 00:04:44.189 that believe in his name. Just to clarify that, 00:04:44.269 --> 00:04:46.410 but he's still in line with the resurrection, 00:04:46.769 --> 00:04:50.089 believe in Christ as the Messiah and as the resurrected. 00:04:50.410 --> 00:04:52.410 Christ. So we see a little bit of goodness. So 00:04:52.410 --> 00:04:55.209 we can say that now we are the sons of God. Now 00:04:55.209 --> 00:05:00.990 we are the sons of God. Good. Now the next thing 00:05:00.990 --> 00:05:05.290 we need to also do point out a little bit is 00:05:05.290 --> 00:05:09.009 that on Sunday, we classify people into groups, 00:05:09.009 --> 00:05:12.209 right? And we mentioned those who believe in 00:05:12.209 --> 00:05:15.990 Jesus as the prophets, right? People believe 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:19.069 in Jesus as a prophet and they save people who 00:05:19.069 --> 00:05:26.509 also believe in him as agents or believe in Him 00:05:26.509 --> 00:05:29.850 as an agent, but Himself not being God. The question 00:05:29.850 --> 00:05:31.910 we want to try to answer is, are they saved? 00:05:33.029 --> 00:05:36.589 Right? Are they saved? Now, to answer such questions, 00:05:37.589 --> 00:05:40.829 it is difficult to just say, oh, because they 00:05:40.829 --> 00:05:44.009 said Jesus is just an agent and is not God, they 00:05:44.009 --> 00:05:47.129 are not saved. If you do that, it will be too 00:05:47.129 --> 00:05:49.750 short to give a proper way to address the issue. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.779 But we have to check one or two things in their 00:05:54.779 --> 00:05:58.060 beliefs. Okay? So we have to check one or two 00:05:58.060 --> 00:06:04.560 things that align or shift away from what we 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.379 understand from the scripture. Okay? To be able 00:06:08.379 --> 00:06:12.180 to establish that. Now the first thing that is 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:16.699 crucial in the statements that Jesus is just 00:06:16.699 --> 00:06:21.089 one of those persons that God sent right, is 00:06:21.089 --> 00:06:25.990 that first they deny the Son of God. That unique 00:06:25.990 --> 00:06:30.129 sonship of Jesus, they deny it. That is the first 00:06:30.129 --> 00:06:34.769 thing. Do you remember when Jesus told them that 00:06:34.769 --> 00:06:38.889 it came from above, right? Even the Pharisees 00:06:38.889 --> 00:06:42.449 understood better. They said you commit like 00:06:42.449 --> 00:06:46.189 you just equate yourself to God. So when Jesus 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:49.350 described himself that is from the Father and 00:06:49.310 --> 00:06:53.250 is the expression of the Father expressing that 00:06:53.250 --> 00:06:56.410 the Father has understood clearly that the man 00:06:56.410 --> 00:07:01.389 Jesus was saying is God in the body. So the first 00:07:01.389 --> 00:07:04.050 thing we will see is that these people who say 00:07:04.050 --> 00:07:08.449 he's just a person and he's a prophet is that 00:07:08.449 --> 00:07:11.230 they deny the sonship. Now let's see if the sonship 00:07:11.230 --> 00:07:14.470 of Jesus is part of the gospel. Let's see Matthew 00:07:14.470 --> 00:07:17.269 16, 16 which is one of the things that we know. 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:25.779 Matthew 16, 16, which is very common when Peter's 00:07:25.779 --> 00:07:29.079 answering Jesus, right? He said, and Simon Peter 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:34.439 answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.639 of the living God, right? Thou art the Christ, 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.300 the son of the living God. So he did not just 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:44.100 acknowledge and say, well, you are the one who 00:07:44.100 --> 00:07:48.689 will save Israel. Okay? He said, you are. the 00:07:48.689 --> 00:07:52.410 Son of the Living God. Right. Now from history 00:07:52.410 --> 00:07:58.529 you will understand that there were many typologies 00:07:58.529 --> 00:08:03.810 of the Messiah who saved Israel. Okay. There 00:08:03.810 --> 00:08:07.790 were many typologies of the Messiah who saved 00:08:07.790 --> 00:08:12.230 Israel. Right. Moses was one of them. Right. 00:08:12.290 --> 00:08:14.750 Moses was one of them. Now let's see one in Hebrews 00:08:14.750 --> 00:08:21.329 chapter 4. If I get that very right, Hebrews 00:08:21.329 --> 00:08:26.449 chapter 4, we will see that one of the persons, 00:08:30.149 --> 00:08:38.990 Hebrews chapter 4 verse 8, is for if Jesus had 00:08:38.990 --> 00:08:43.490 given them rest, then should he not afterward 00:08:43.490 --> 00:08:49.139 have spoken of what? Another day. Right spoken 00:08:49.139 --> 00:08:52.220 of another day now in some translation. You will 00:08:52.220 --> 00:08:55.639 see that that Jesus is actually what? What is 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.379 it was the name of the person that we expect 00:08:57.379 --> 00:09:02.639 to be there? Joshua right so Joshua therefore 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:07.120 was one of those people that tried to give Israel 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:12.919 rests Right now try to give it is it but if you 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:19.299 are truly giving them rests right there would 00:09:19.299 --> 00:09:21.460 not be another day to talk about another day 00:09:21.460 --> 00:09:24.120 of rest which is we can say today because today 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.019 is a day of salvation right as scriptures will 00:09:26.019 --> 00:09:28.679 say right so it would not have talked about another 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.820 person who would come to give Israel rests or 00:09:31.820 --> 00:09:34.860 another day where God would deliver them from 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:39.000 their enemies right so we see that very specifically 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.740 this one was almost I mean put in parallel to 00:09:42.740 --> 00:09:45.320 the Messiah the son of the living God so there 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:47.080 were many people across history that were living 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.500 so they were not just but the Son of the Living 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:53.639 God reflects much more what God Himself will 00:09:53.639 --> 00:10:00.059 do okay it reflects what God Himself will do 00:10:00.059 --> 00:10:02.840 which is the unique appearance of God salvation 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:07.320 will come from God right despite all this men 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.620 across history it will come from now again Romans 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:24.139 1 verse 1 to 3 also adds from layer of this to 00:10:24.139 --> 00:10:29.299 today so from verse one as a poor observant of 00:10:29.299 --> 00:10:32.039 jesus christ called to be an apostle called unto 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:36.580 the gospel of god which he had promised afore 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:40.580 by his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning 00:10:40.580 --> 00:10:45.220 his son jesus christ our lord which was made 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:47.649 of the seed of david according to the flesh and 00:10:47.649 --> 00:10:53.710 declared to be the son of God with power according 00:10:53.710 --> 00:10:57.629 to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection 00:10:57.629 --> 00:11:02.649 from the dead right by whom we receive grace 00:11:02.649 --> 00:11:05.769 and apostleship for obedience to the faiths among 00:11:05.769 --> 00:11:08.629 all nations for his name so we see a lot of emphasis 00:11:08.629 --> 00:11:14.139 of course also on whom being the son of God Being 00:11:14.139 --> 00:11:18.779 the son of God concerning his son and if you 00:11:18.779 --> 00:11:21.860 have been following we explain much more that 00:11:21.860 --> 00:11:29.120 that son Right that son is not procreation Means 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.200 Jesus, I mean God given births biologically, 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.519 but we said is God's appearance in the body, 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:39.220 which is incarnation in the body Right is unique 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:42.440 appearance in the body. So it therefore means 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:50.480 that if we if they say that he's not god right 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.779 they have denied his sonship they have denied 00:11:53.779 --> 00:11:58.840 that it is god himself who saved man okay that 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.259 is the first thing uh we see that they deny the 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:04.460 fact that if they call him a prophet because 00:12:04.460 --> 00:12:08.220 you remember matthew 16 right so some called 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:12.029 him John the Baptist, some called him Elias, 00:12:12.250 --> 00:12:15.250 right? It's like calling him an agent or calling 00:12:15.250 --> 00:12:18.269 him a prophet. So what do you call, I mean, what 00:12:18.269 --> 00:12:21.149 do you say? What is your revelation? And he said, 00:12:21.149 --> 00:12:23.029 you are the Messiah, the son of the living God. 00:12:23.269 --> 00:12:26.289 That distinguished Jesus away from anybody who 00:12:26.289 --> 00:12:30.490 has come to save Israel across history. So denying 00:12:30.490 --> 00:12:33.450 the son of God is one of the sonship of Jesus 00:12:33.450 --> 00:12:36.809 is one thing that we see in their context. Now 00:12:36.809 --> 00:12:44.070 let's see the second parts denying the pressing 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:51.809 of the holy spirit denying the pressing of the 00:12:51.809 --> 00:13:05.049 holy spirit now in most of these uh phases or 00:13:05.049 --> 00:13:09.419 groups of uh explanations Right? They claim, 00:13:09.419 --> 00:13:12.799 right, that the Holy Spirit is not a person. 00:13:14.139 --> 00:13:18.600 They claim that the Holy Spirit is just God using 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.679 some wind and forces and things to make things 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:27.460 happen. So again, they deny God in that. Right? 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.919 They deny God in that, saying the Holy Spirit. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.899 So they deny the person of the Holy Spirit, saying 00:13:32.899 --> 00:13:35.860 it's not a person, but God walking through agent. 00:13:35.899 --> 00:13:38.919 So another way is, To put it is that they also 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.919 classify the Holy Spirit as another agent of 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:47.120 God Right, so they classify the Holy Spirit as 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.960 another agent of God, but let's see who the Holy 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.000 Spirit is, which is who? It means he is a person 00:13:55.000 --> 00:14:03.779 right Ephesians 1 3 Ephesians 1 13 and 14 Ephesians 00:14:03.779 --> 00:14:15.370 1 gives that Ephesians 1 chapter 13 and verse 00:14:15.370 --> 00:14:44.240 13 and 14. purchase possession unto the praise 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.639 of His glory. Now let's take this gradually right 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:52.879 it says verse 14 which is the earnest soul being 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.379 sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise which 00:14:55.379 --> 00:14:58.539 is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption 00:14:58.539 --> 00:15:02.600 of the purchase possession unto the praise of 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:07.019 His glory. So what does this reflect? This means 00:15:07.019 --> 00:15:10.509 that at the resurrection of the body writes, 00:15:10.769 --> 00:15:13.629 the Holy Spirit plays a role. The same spirits 00:15:13.629 --> 00:15:15.769 that raise Christ from the plays a role in the 00:15:15.769 --> 00:15:19.950 resurrection of the body. It means that at Christ 00:15:19.950 --> 00:15:24.629 appearing, right, the Holy Spirit is the seal, 00:15:24.990 --> 00:15:28.389 right, said is the ennest of our inheritance 00:15:28.389 --> 00:15:30.690 until the redemption of the participants. So 00:15:30.690 --> 00:15:33.169 it means that in that translation, as some people 00:15:33.169 --> 00:15:37.009 say, we, the Holy Spirit plays a role, right, 00:15:37.070 --> 00:15:40.190 the Holy Spirit in the believer Please let's 00:15:40.190 --> 00:15:48.149 go to visuals for 30 as well This is a group 00:15:48.149 --> 00:15:50.830 not the Holy Spirit by which you were sealed 00:15:50.830 --> 00:15:53.850 onto the day of redemption so it's talking to 00:15:53.850 --> 00:15:56.570 believers and we know that is not talking about 00:15:56.570 --> 00:15:59.710 our Salvation in terms of believing in his name, 00:15:59.710 --> 00:16:02.990 but talking about a time of redemption, right 00:16:02.990 --> 00:16:06.429 a time of redemption Do we get it? So it's talking 00:16:06.429 --> 00:16:08.570 about a time of, for example, a time where the 00:16:08.570 --> 00:16:13.970 body would take up, I mean, immortality as 1 00:16:13.970 --> 00:16:17.830 Corinthians 15 would say. So the role of the 00:16:17.830 --> 00:16:22.409 Holy Spirit at Jesus appearing, right, is also 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:26.409 denied when they deny that the Holy Spirit is 00:16:26.409 --> 00:16:31.190 a person. Do we get it? So the role of the Holy 00:16:31.190 --> 00:16:35.139 Spirit is also denied. It means that They remove 00:16:35.139 --> 00:16:38.259 the Holy Spirit from the context of what will 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:41.960 happen at the redemption of the body. Right? 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:46.799 That is just God's agent and is just God's force. 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.879 So while some of them preach the dead burial 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.720 resurrection, they don't preach the ascension, 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.299 which is what we'll talk about. Right? So they 00:16:58.299 --> 00:16:59.879 say, oh, we believe in the dead burial resurrection. 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.090 We believe in the suffering of Christ. But in 00:17:02.090 --> 00:17:06.769 their teaching, in the encompassing things in 00:17:06.769 --> 00:17:10.589 their teaching, they take away, right, they take 00:17:10.589 --> 00:17:13.849 away the significant person of the Holy Spirit, 00:17:14.369 --> 00:17:17.670 right, in the life of the believer. And therefore, 00:17:17.670 --> 00:17:20.349 when it comes to the redemption of the body, 00:17:20.470 --> 00:17:23.009 the question you would ask is, so what will happen 00:17:23.009 --> 00:17:26.329 to them, right? If they don't believe that the 00:17:26.329 --> 00:17:30.289 Holy Spirit is the promised seal, right? unto 00:17:30.289 --> 00:17:33.009 salvation unto redemption what will happen to 00:17:33.009 --> 00:17:37.289 them so these two things right denying the sonship 00:17:37.289 --> 00:17:41.789 of christ which is jesus and denying the person 00:17:41.789 --> 00:17:46.029 of the holy spirit as a person right reflects 00:17:46.029 --> 00:17:51.450 that they do not actually believe right it reflects 00:17:51.450 --> 00:17:55.690 that they do not believe right in christ because 00:17:55.690 --> 00:17:58.529 he promised the spirit in in john chapter 14 00:17:58.730 --> 00:18:02.730 Right? John 14, verse 14, 15, John chapter 16, 00:18:03.289 --> 00:18:08.150 explained about the Comforter. Right? It talks 00:18:08.150 --> 00:18:11.670 about another spirit, which is Alus Paracletus, 00:18:11.849 --> 00:18:15.369 right? Another spirit. So it means that the entirety 00:18:15.369 --> 00:18:20.630 of that teaching about how Jesus will abide with 00:18:20.630 --> 00:18:26.369 them forever is not found in them. Right? Is 00:18:26.369 --> 00:18:29.089 not found. in their teaching therefore we can 00:18:29.089 --> 00:18:31.569 see we have the Holy Spirit right and therefore 00:18:31.569 --> 00:18:33.529 they can't be saved because they didn't believe 00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:38.170 in such people now we can go uh we can go further 00:18:38.170 --> 00:18:43.130 let's see in John 1st John chapter 2 verse 19 00:18:43.130 --> 00:18:47.089 let's start with 1st John chapter 2 verse 19 00:18:55.370 --> 00:18:57.910 No doubt I've continued with us, but I went out 00:18:57.910 --> 00:19:00.549 that they might be made manifest that they were 00:19:00.549 --> 00:19:04.569 not all. They were not all of us, that they were 00:19:04.569 --> 00:19:09.730 not all of us. Now go to Hebrews 10, 39. This 00:19:09.730 --> 00:19:13.150 one is talking about people who are in the gathering, 00:19:13.150 --> 00:19:18.049 right, and seem to be as if they were part of 00:19:18.049 --> 00:19:21.089 the body of Christ, right? It said they left. 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.599 as a proof. So they are living, right, as a proof. 00:19:24.619 --> 00:19:26.859 It means that there can be people that seemingly 00:19:26.859 --> 00:19:30.940 look like the part of the Christian body, but 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:34.299 they are not part of the Christian body. Okay? 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.599 They are not part of the Christian body. They 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.440 might, they might seemingly look like Christian 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:41.539 body. They might even use similar books. Now, 00:19:41.900 --> 00:19:44.680 Hebrews 10, there's a lesson of, I think we read 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.240 this, of whom natural appellation means support. 00:19:47.859 --> 00:19:53.339 See, support, suppose ye, again of our most sure 00:19:53.339 --> 00:19:57.420 punishment supposing shall he be taught worthy 00:19:57.420 --> 00:20:01.599 who are trodden on the foot the Son of God and 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.660 counted the blood of his covenant wherewith he 00:20:03.660 --> 00:20:07.519 has sanctified an unholy thing and had done this 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:12.880 right unto the spirit of grace right unto the 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.140 spirit of grace talking about the Son of God 00:20:15.140 --> 00:20:20.099 again God himself is sacrificed and the spirit 00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:23.319 of grace so all of this is together that's why 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:25.819 when we teach salvation we teach all of this 00:20:25.819 --> 00:20:30.299 in encompassing right when we teach about salvation 00:20:30.299 --> 00:20:33.319 we teach all of this in a comparison uh talking 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.140 about christ means son of god a sacrifice and 00:20:36.140 --> 00:20:38.839 a spirit that is why we teach about his ascension 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:43.900 his presence his indwelling right christ indwelling 00:20:43.900 --> 00:20:46.180 so in those teachings you will never find them 00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:51.400 say christ spirit is the holy spirit Right, so 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:53.400 the moment they cannot say Christ spirit is the 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:57.299 Holy Spirit Then there's a challenge there because 00:20:57.299 --> 00:20:59.640 the Holy Spirit which is Christ himself indwelling 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:06.339 so the The evidence of salvation is the indwelling 00:21:06.339 --> 00:21:09.960 Right the evidence of salvation is the indwelling 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:14.579 but all that Christ Sacrifice was not for you 00:21:14.579 --> 00:21:18.680 to be empty What's that you will be found in 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:23.769 him? So the indwelling is the evidence of salvation. 00:21:27.569 --> 00:21:28.829 So the question is do they have the indwelling, 00:21:28.890 --> 00:21:32.349 do they believe in it, do they have it? And therefore 00:21:32.349 --> 00:21:37.589 if they don't then they can't in essence do greater 00:21:37.589 --> 00:21:39.910 works. It will be difficult or impossible for 00:21:39.910 --> 00:21:43.130 them to do greater. So what he was talking here 00:21:43.130 --> 00:21:45.329 is about people who have not believed. Hebrews 00:21:45.329 --> 00:21:48.970 10 verse 10, right? Talking about people who 00:21:48.970 --> 00:21:53.710 have not believed, and emphasizing that they 00:21:53.710 --> 00:21:56.369 probably, they had this information, but they 00:21:56.369 --> 00:21:58.710 looked away from it. So if you read from verse 00:21:58.710 --> 00:22:03.210 26, it said, for if we say willfully that after 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:04.630 that we have received knowledge of the truth, 00:22:04.730 --> 00:22:08.210 there remain no more sacrifice for sins, but 00:22:08.210 --> 00:22:10.390 a sudden fearful looking of judgment and fear, 00:22:10.450 --> 00:22:12.930 indignation, and all of that. So it means that 00:22:12.930 --> 00:22:18.700 in this assembly, the Word was preached. The 00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:22.579 knowledge of God of Christ was preached, right? 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.579 In this assembly. It was preached. The truth 00:22:25.579 --> 00:22:28.759 of the knowledge was preached. The sacrifice 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:30.599 of Christ was explained to them. The sonship 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:32.599 of God was explained to them. The sonship of 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:35.720 Christ, rather, was explained to them. The spirit 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:39.900 of race was also explained. But in denying the 00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:45.599 existence of all that, right, there's no salvation. 00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:50.579 So there's no more sacrifice for sin. So we can 00:22:50.579 --> 00:22:52.099 see that the people that were they were talking 00:22:52.099 --> 00:22:54.720 about fear are similar to the people that we 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:57.160 talked about that they don't believe in the spirit 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:01.759 of grace and in what Christ uh has his final 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:07.220 walk in us his final walk in us so most of the 00:23:07.220 --> 00:23:10.200 time what we find them doing is kind of appreciating 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:14.859 Jesus for doing what God sent him to do right 00:23:14.859 --> 00:23:17.250 so they will say Oh, we are thanking Jesus because 00:23:17.250 --> 00:23:21.170 He really did well. Right? He did well. That 00:23:21.170 --> 00:23:24.089 is the kind of teaching we get. Oh, we need to 00:23:24.089 --> 00:23:26.549 find a day to celebrate Him because He did well. 00:23:26.869 --> 00:23:32.470 Right? Not that God saved man. Right? Because 00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:35.549 they don't equate that together. So we add this 00:23:35.549 --> 00:23:39.450 as part of the teaching. Now, we will notice 00:23:39.450 --> 00:23:41.349 that this is different. These people are different 00:23:41.349 --> 00:23:45.720 from people like John Mark. Right? Here, they're 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.059 talking about someone who has just believed the 00:23:48.059 --> 00:23:50.799 gospel right not someone who has believed now 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:55.180 let's go to Acts chapter 13 or Acts chapter 12 00:23:55.180 --> 00:23:57.220 let's start from Act 12 let's show you someone 00:23:57.220 --> 00:24:03.339 who actually believed the gospel and uh maybe 00:24:03.339 --> 00:24:06.700 drew back in ministry right someone who has believed 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:09.700 the gospel but drew back in ministry we can see 00:24:09.700 --> 00:24:12.759 that very clearly in the case of uh the person 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:20.839 named John Mark chapter 12 verse 25. He said, 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:23.859 and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:26.880 when they had fulfilled their ministry, they 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:31.339 took with them John, whose son name was Mark. 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:35.640 Right? So they came back to Jerusalem, right? 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:38.519 North Jerusalem, of course, where the apostles 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:41.740 are, where the teachings are being done, and 00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:45.059 they took John Mark alongside for their walk. 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:51.000 Now in Acts 13 -13, John Mark left them and returned 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.019 back to Jerusalem where they took him from. Right, 00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:58.460 so he said, and when Paul and his company moved 00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:03.700 from Paphos, right, they came to Pagia and Pamphylia, 00:25:03.779 --> 00:25:07.960 and John Mark departed from them, returned to 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.220 Jerusalem. Right, he returned to Jerusalem. Now, 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.079 what was happening here is he drawing back from 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.059 a particular ministry, right? He left the field, 00:25:18.579 --> 00:25:20.500 right? They were going together and he just left 00:25:20.500 --> 00:25:22.759 the field. He went back to, probably he wanted 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:28.099 no comfort, you know, because what Paul and his 00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:30.819 company were facing and Barabas is not something 00:25:30.819 --> 00:25:33.779 for the weak. You know, maybe we can say his 00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:36.480 fate is weak in this context. We don't know the 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.579 reason, but it just shows clearly that he went 00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:43.730 back, he left them and returned to Jerusalem. 00:25:43.869 --> 00:25:46.009 Of course, we know Jerusalem is much easier for 00:25:46.009 --> 00:25:48.269 him. There is no problem in leadership role for 00:25:48.269 --> 00:25:50.690 him. You just need to receive a lot of that. 00:25:50.750 --> 00:25:52.829 So, those are my speculations, but we can check 00:25:52.829 --> 00:25:57.950 that in Acts 15 verse 36, there was an issue 00:25:57.950 --> 00:26:01.390 between Paul and Barnabas. And some days after 00:26:01.390 --> 00:26:03.690 Paul said unto Barnabas, let us go again and 00:26:03.690 --> 00:26:07.190 visit our brethren in every city where we have 00:26:07.190 --> 00:26:10.990 preached the word of God. And see, to take them, 00:26:11.109 --> 00:26:14.130 John, whose name was Mark, but Paul thought not 00:26:14.130 --> 00:26:17.170 good to take him with them, who departed from 00:26:17.170 --> 00:26:20.569 them, from Parthelia, and went not with them 00:26:20.569 --> 00:26:24.609 to the walk." You see? He did not continue in 00:26:24.609 --> 00:26:27.390 the walk with them. So this is not a loss of 00:26:27.390 --> 00:26:29.670 salvation. It's actually someone drawing back. 00:26:29.829 --> 00:26:33.910 So this person is saved. Okay? This person is 00:26:33.910 --> 00:26:36.390 saved, was under the teaching in Jerusalem, was 00:26:36.390 --> 00:26:39.109 under the apostle's teaching. He followed Paul 00:26:39.109 --> 00:26:45.140 and we see that's clearly in the scripture. So 00:26:45.140 --> 00:26:48.680 we can say he's saved, but he drew back from 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.599 the war. Now let's see another person that sometimes 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:57.660 we wonder clearly if he was saved, or we've thought 00:26:57.660 --> 00:27:00.680 previously probably he was not saved. But let's 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.000 check the scripture and see. Let's check Apollos. 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:10.690 Right, let's check Brother Apollos. Acts. Right, 00:27:11.450 --> 00:27:14.890 we move to Acts chapter 18. Right, we move to 00:27:14.890 --> 00:27:17.230 Acts chapter 18. Let's pay a little bit of extra 00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:21.710 attention to what we are reading. From verse 00:27:21.710 --> 00:27:40.990 24. knowing only the baptism of John. Right, 00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:42.890 knowing only the baptism of John. And he began 00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:45.349 to speak boldly in the synagogue when Aquila 00:27:45.349 --> 00:27:49.630 and Priscilla had heard, right, they took him 00:27:49.630 --> 00:27:52.609 into, they took him unto them and expel unto 00:27:52.609 --> 00:27:56.789 him the way of God more perfectly. And when he 00:27:56.789 --> 00:27:59.490 was disposed to pass into a care, the brethren 00:27:59.490 --> 00:28:03.990 wrote, exalting the disciples to receive him. 00:28:27.649 --> 00:28:30.369 Now, it's quite a little bit of a task to check 00:28:30.369 --> 00:28:32.980 this, but the first thing we would see is that 00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:36.660 it was going about teaching in the synagogue. 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.480 Right? The first thing we would see, there is 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.119 someone that is going out teaching in the synagogue. 00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:46.180 So that's the first thing we can pick there. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.900 There is an eloquent man, mighting the scriptures, 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.319 referring to, he knows the scriptures very well, 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.759 maybe not the interpretation, maybe not the correct 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:56.559 interpretation, right? But he knows the scriptures, 00:28:56.900 --> 00:29:00.019 right? He could tell you, you know, as much scriptures, 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:02.539 we can say he knows so much. of the scriptures 00:29:02.539 --> 00:29:04.480 where the scriptures are how the scriptures are 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.099 written and all of that but the revelation of 00:29:07.099 --> 00:29:12.740 the scripture is needed right so he came to Ephesus 00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:15.079 and he was instructed again he was instructed 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.940 in the way of the Lord that's another thing right 00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:24.200 he said he was instructed in the way of the Lord 00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:27.079 fathomed in spirit and thought diligently the 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:29.240 things of the Lord learned only the baptism of 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:31.950 John so most times not only the baptism of John 00:29:31.950 --> 00:29:34.730 is where we get stuck right is where we get stuck 00:29:34.730 --> 00:29:39.490 because uh the baptism of John sometimes we take 00:29:39.490 --> 00:29:42.369 some parts of John's baptism or some parts of 00:29:42.369 --> 00:29:43.990 John's teaching the baptism of John referring 00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:47.150 to John's teaching okay he wasn't talking about 00:29:47.150 --> 00:29:51.390 that Apollo's uh Paul John dipped him into water 00:29:51.390 --> 00:29:54.089 probably and probably they never even met right 00:29:54.089 --> 00:29:56.690 but Simon taught him about the teachings of John 00:29:56.690 --> 00:29:59.410 so in the teachings of John sometimes we pick 00:29:59.410 --> 00:30:01.710 some parts and leave some part. So if you pick 00:30:01.710 --> 00:30:05.049 some part of John's teaching, right, you would 00:30:05.049 --> 00:30:07.549 actually say, ah, it was not saved, right? You 00:30:07.549 --> 00:30:09.730 would say it was not saved. But if you pick the 00:30:09.730 --> 00:30:14.349 entirety of what John taught, right, you would 00:30:14.349 --> 00:30:16.750 know that he said, but does not have a clarity 00:30:16.750 --> 00:30:19.809 on what he should be preaching, right? It does 00:30:19.809 --> 00:30:21.390 not have place on what he should be preaching, 00:30:21.950 --> 00:30:24.049 but it was saved. Now, how would we say that 00:30:24.049 --> 00:30:27.569 if you check John's teaching? While he tries 00:30:27.569 --> 00:30:30.309 to point to the Christ, it does not end there. 00:30:32.049 --> 00:30:35.369 In John's teaching, he tries to point to Jesus, 00:30:35.430 --> 00:30:40.029 but it does not end there. He told them that 00:30:40.029 --> 00:30:43.650 he will baptize them with what? The spirit and 00:30:43.650 --> 00:30:48.549 fire. So he already taught all of that about 00:30:48.549 --> 00:30:52.230 what Christ would do, about a salvation that 00:30:52.230 --> 00:30:55.519 will come through Christ. So it was not just 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.640 trying to identify, we're trying to tell them 00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:59.740 that this is the person you should follow. So 00:30:59.740 --> 00:31:02.200 he already preached Christ. Right? He already 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.440 preached Christ to them. So he talked about the 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:08.740 Spirit of God. So we can say John denied the 00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:12.200 Holy Spirit. No. In John's teaching there is 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:17.680 no denial of the Spirit. There is no denial of 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.160 the Spirit and therefore we know that his teaching 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:24.650 is definitely complete. Right? complete. So it 00:31:24.650 --> 00:31:27.210 means that there are certain ways that appellers 00:31:27.210 --> 00:31:31.809 were teaching, right, that needed to be corrected 00:31:31.809 --> 00:31:35.670 by those people who spoke to him. So Aquila and 00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:38.829 Priscilla saw the way he taught and took him 00:31:38.829 --> 00:31:44.430 in for what we can call a teaching meeting. Okay, 00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:46.849 Aquila and Priscilla took him in for a teaching 00:31:46.849 --> 00:31:50.609 meeting. It is different from when you see, when 00:31:50.609 --> 00:31:52.230 Paul see people and we see other people and they 00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:54.400 have not believed. and they pray for them and 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:59.359 they teach them about the salvation of Christ 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:04.240 rather it was a teaching about the teachings 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.480 it was already teaching so it wasn't anything 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.440 new but from the teaching from the scriptures 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:13.940 it knew there were explanations onto him so we 00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:16.059 can continue to check this so we can say this 00:32:16.059 --> 00:32:19.779 person to some extent is uh we can say that he's 00:32:19.779 --> 00:32:22.869 saved using all all of this so He's not someone 00:32:22.869 --> 00:32:26.690 who is uh, what can we say? He's not someone 00:32:26.690 --> 00:32:29.269 who is throwing down the son of god. It doesn't 00:32:29.269 --> 00:32:33.309 fit in into what ibris 10 verse 29 would say 00:32:33.309 --> 00:32:35.289 it doesn't fit in into that doesn't also fit 00:32:35.289 --> 00:32:40.269 in into into john all right, so We can say that 00:32:40.269 --> 00:32:42.630 this is different and therefore you can't categorize 00:32:42.630 --> 00:32:44.809 them as people who don't believe Right in the 00:32:44.809 --> 00:32:47.450 spirit of god and in christ as being the son 00:32:47.450 --> 00:32:50.789 of god, right in the spirit of god and in christ 00:32:50.789 --> 00:32:56.160 as being the Son of God. All right, so therefore 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.599 we can say that these people, they are fates. 00:32:58.740 --> 00:33:01.380 They are fates in God. We can't think that. We 00:33:01.380 --> 00:33:03.740 can definitely say Apollos had faith in God. 00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:08.480 We can definitely say John Mark also had faith 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.920 in God, okay? He had faith in God. Now, that 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.799 will take us to what faith is, right? That will 00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:18.000 take us to what faith is to, because Pastor already 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.599 started teaching on that. I think Pastor Chidi, 00:33:20.730 --> 00:33:25.170 also opened us up to that. But I just put it 00:33:25.170 --> 00:33:29.789 in same thing putting it in just some facets 00:33:29.789 --> 00:33:34.109 to help us see how faith is used. So I said they 00:33:34.109 --> 00:33:37.130 have faith. They have faith in God, right? They 00:33:37.130 --> 00:33:38.930 have faith in God. They've expressed their faith 00:33:38.930 --> 00:33:42.650 in God. So first we can see that faith, the word 00:33:42.650 --> 00:33:47.130 faith, right? The word faith is used to explain 00:33:47.130 --> 00:33:51.940 salvation, to refer to salvation. Like salvation 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:56.700 directly right is used to refer to salvation 00:33:56.700 --> 00:34:06.599 Faith is used to refer to salvation And we can 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:10.840 see Galatians 3 26 speak of your scriptures Galatians 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:20.719 3 26 Version 5 verse 4 1st John 5 verse 4, let's 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:27.199 write it down then 2 Colossians 3 verse 6, 1st 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:42.639 John 5 verse 4 we can pick 1st Corinthians 6 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:48.730 verse 12 Second second Corinthians, sorry, it 00:34:48.730 --> 00:34:51.349 should be second Corinthians 6 verse 12. We pick 00:34:51.349 --> 00:34:58.150 second Corinthians 6 verse 12 That should be 00:34:58.150 --> 00:35:07.329 Let's start with Galatians. I'm gonna correct 00:35:07.329 --> 00:35:08.690 part of scripture. Let's start with Galatians 00:35:08.690 --> 00:35:12.449 3 verse 26 Galatians 3 verse 26. Can you put 00:35:12.449 --> 00:35:19.079 it up? by faith in Christ Jesus, right? So, they 00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:21.380 are all the children of God by faith of Christ 00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:24.820 Jesus. Talking about, we are children of God 00:35:24.820 --> 00:35:28.179 by salvation in Christ Jesus. Talking about salvation 00:35:28.179 --> 00:35:32.239 here, right? What brings a man into, right, into 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:36.039 Christ, talking about salvation. The next scripture, 00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:46.559 1 John 5 verse 4. For whatever is born of God, 00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:48.539 overcomes the world. And this is the victory 00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:52.340 that overcomes the world, even our faith, right? 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:55.280 It's talking about the salvation of man here 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:57.800 that overcomes the world. Now, the scripture 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:01.940 I was looking for is in 2 Corinthians 13 verse 00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:10.380 5. That should be the scripture. I think there's 00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:18.360 a typo here. Hi Jack first first Corinthians 00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:26.199 Was a typographical in my studies That's inverse 00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:35.699 five Okay, so that's inverse five second Corinthians, 00:36:35.860 --> 00:36:39.619 yes second Corinthians 13 verse five examines 00:36:39.619 --> 00:36:42.420 yourself whether you be in fluid right prove 00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:45.679 yourselves prove your own selves, know that your 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.280 own selves are that Jesus Christ is in you, except 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.179 ye be republished. Now, this is kind of a, what 00:36:52.179 --> 00:36:54.800 I say, a rhetorical question, right? It's not 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.980 saying that they should actually take themselves, 00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:03.320 whether they are saved, because in the next line, 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:06.960 it says Christ is in you, right? In the next 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.280 line, it says Christ is in you. It says except 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:12.199 ye be republished, right? So, in this context, 00:37:12.219 --> 00:37:15.550 we can see in a little way right uh pointing 00:37:15.550 --> 00:37:19.230 to salvation right pointing to salvation that 00:37:19.230 --> 00:37:22.449 they are in the faith in the faith now he's not 00:37:22.449 --> 00:37:25.829 using working here he's not using uh some action 00:37:25.829 --> 00:37:28.989 word that would make us think uh that is faith 00:37:28.989 --> 00:37:31.670 in terms of lifestyle but he's saying so examine 00:37:31.670 --> 00:37:33.070 yourself that you're in the faith and he says 00:37:33.070 --> 00:37:38.849 christ is in you so that's salvation right that's 00:37:38.849 --> 00:37:41.889 uh clint salvation in that context So again, 00:37:42.050 --> 00:37:45.449 we can see faith in that essence as salvation. 00:37:46.250 --> 00:37:48.269 Let's see, faith is used also for teaching, which 00:37:48.269 --> 00:37:51.389 we can write down. Faith is also used for teaching. 00:37:55.070 --> 00:37:58.710 It's also used for teaching to explain the doctrine 00:37:58.710 --> 00:38:04.650 of Christ, the word that we receive. 1 Timothy 00:38:04.650 --> 00:38:10.840 6 verse 12, 1 Timothy 6 verse 12. I'll just write 00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:12.280 the scriptures down there. We'll read it again. 00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:19.000 1st Timothy 6 verse 12. Then 1st Timothy 4 verse 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:36.230 6. And Jude chapter 3. Jude verse 3. Now here 00:38:36.230 --> 00:38:38.590 saying fight the good fight of faith they hold 00:38:38.590 --> 00:38:41.429 of an eternal life way unto doubt also be called 00:38:41.429 --> 00:38:45.429 Maybe we can read from verse 11, right? If you 00:38:45.429 --> 00:38:52.630 can just take it back a little bit All right, 00:38:52.909 --> 00:38:58.869 let's get the first Timothy Six but that one 00:38:58.869 --> 00:39:00.969 man of God free these things and follow after 00:39:00.969 --> 00:39:06.030 righteousness godliness faith love uh patience 00:39:06.030 --> 00:39:10.250 next then it's a fight a good fight of faith 00:39:10.250 --> 00:39:13.289 now in this chapter right it's actually emphasizing 00:39:13.289 --> 00:39:16.449 on the doctrine right fighting for the faith 00:39:16.449 --> 00:39:19.809 right a good fight of faith is talking about 00:39:19.809 --> 00:39:23.250 fighting for the doctrine right uh staying stable 00:39:23.250 --> 00:39:26.510 for the doctrine contending for the doctrine 00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:28.889 right contending for the faith similar words 00:39:28.889 --> 00:39:32.349 you say you contend for the faith for what is 00:39:32.349 --> 00:39:34.969 being thought about Christ, right? Containing 00:39:34.969 --> 00:39:38.030 for the faith, fighting for the faith. Jude 3 00:39:38.030 --> 00:39:40.130 is the one that says, content for the faith, 00:39:40.210 --> 00:39:42.550 right? We're going to go to Jude 3. It says, 00:39:42.809 --> 00:39:50.349 content for the faith. Jude 3, right. It says, 00:39:50.489 --> 00:39:55.150 beloved, when I give all diligence to write to 00:39:55.150 --> 00:39:57.789 you of the common salvation, right, as it was 00:39:57.789 --> 00:40:00.190 needful for me to write to you and exhort you 00:40:00.190 --> 00:40:02.250 that you should earnestly content for the faith, 00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:05.460 which was when delivered unto the saints. So 00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:07.599 what is delivered unto the saints is the doctrine 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.719 of Christ, right? The teachings of Christ reflect 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:14.039 that the doctrine of Christ is faith as well. 00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:17.380 It's faith. And 1st Timothy 4 verse 6 uses the 00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:20.239 word of faith, the word of faith that is being 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:21.920 preached to us, right? The word of faith that 00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:24.980 we receive, the word of faith that is explained 00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:28.900 to us. So we can see also that it's also used 00:40:28.900 --> 00:40:36.099 as the same word, faith. 1 Timothy 4 verse 6. 00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:39.239 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:42.380 things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus 00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:44.980 Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and 00:40:44.980 --> 00:40:48.280 of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:52.860 So again, doctrine explains here in faith. So 00:40:52.860 --> 00:40:57.840 again, faith, the third one, faith is also used 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:02.059 in the scripture to explain the response to the 00:41:02.059 --> 00:41:08.500 word of faith. Faith is also used to explain 00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:11.699 the believer's response to the word of faith. 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:20.500 Response to the word of faith. Romans 10 verse 00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:30.480 8 explains this. Romans 10 verse 8. Romans 10 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.179 verse 8. It's about what's in it. The word is 00:41:33.179 --> 00:41:36.199 in... is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, in thy 00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:39.400 heart. That is the word of faith which we preach. 00:41:40.980 --> 00:41:45.900 Now, verse 17. Can I go to verse 17 of that same 00:41:45.900 --> 00:41:50.699 chapter? Verse 17 of that romance. So then faith 00:41:50.699 --> 00:41:55.139 comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 00:41:55.260 --> 00:41:57.340 Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of 00:41:57.340 --> 00:42:04.210 God. So here it talks about the response, right? 00:42:04.309 --> 00:42:06.210 The response of the believer. There are other 00:42:06.210 --> 00:42:08.969 scriptures that also talk about this. It talks 00:42:08.969 --> 00:42:10.730 about the response of the believer. Now, let's 00:42:10.730 --> 00:42:13.590 go to the fourth one. Then I would explain some 00:42:13.590 --> 00:42:16.469 further things to us. Faith is also used to explain 00:42:16.469 --> 00:42:24.670 the lifestyle of the believer. Faith is also 00:42:24.670 --> 00:42:27.369 used to explain the lifestyle of the believer. 00:42:29.670 --> 00:42:33.010 It means what the believer does like what's the 00:42:33.010 --> 00:42:36.769 believer does like what the believer what a believer 00:42:36.769 --> 00:42:48.309 does So second Corinthians 5 verse 7 second Corinthians 00:42:48.309 --> 00:43:00.769 5 verse 7 Second Corinthians 5 verse 7 Ephesians 00:43:00.769 --> 00:43:09.289 6 verse 16 Ephesians 6 verse 16 Ephesians 6 verse 00:43:09.289 --> 00:43:18.570 16 James 1 verse 6 to 8 James 1 verse 6 to 8 00:43:18.570 --> 00:43:28.730 James 1 verse 6 to 8 James 5 James 5 verse 16 00:43:38.579 --> 00:43:46.739 James 5 verse 16. Then add this filament chapter 00:43:46.739 --> 00:43:49.619 1 verse 6 and we can start with that. Filament 00:43:49.619 --> 00:43:51.619 chapter 1 verse 6. So let's start with that. 00:43:53.579 --> 00:43:55.219 Let's start with that. Let's start with filament 00:43:55.219 --> 00:43:56.880 chapter 1 verses. We'll just take it back with 00:43:56.880 --> 00:44:01.219 him. We'll go up there again. Okay. So what this 00:44:01.219 --> 00:44:05.949 is saying is that the believers light is a life 00:44:05.949 --> 00:44:08.130 of faith. The Big Bangs lifestyle is also called 00:44:08.130 --> 00:44:10.329 faith. That the communication of thy faith may 00:44:10.329 --> 00:44:13.929 be factual by acknowledging every good thing 00:44:13.929 --> 00:44:16.710 which is in you, right? In Christ Jesus. This 00:44:16.710 --> 00:44:20.969 can refer to first acknowledging is the first. 00:44:21.030 --> 00:44:24.329 So we can say that by acknowledging every good 00:44:24.329 --> 00:44:26.969 thing that is in you, the communication of your 00:44:26.969 --> 00:44:30.050 faith will be effective. We can say that, right? 00:44:30.289 --> 00:44:33.210 So acknowledging all that is yours in Christ. 00:44:35.250 --> 00:44:38.570 makes the communication of your faith effective, 00:44:39.409 --> 00:44:41.730 right? It makes the communication of your faith 00:44:41.730 --> 00:44:45.769 effective. And communication there would also 00:44:45.769 --> 00:44:48.730 mean what you do as a believer, right? What you 00:44:48.730 --> 00:44:52.969 do as a believer effective because you acknowledge 00:44:52.969 --> 00:44:54.949 all that is yours in Christ, right? What you 00:44:54.949 --> 00:44:59.110 do as a believer, the communication of your faith 00:44:59.110 --> 00:45:01.789 because your lifestyle is faith. Now let's go 00:45:01.789 --> 00:45:05.869 to the next one, James 5. James 5, verse 16, 00:45:05.909 --> 00:45:09.170 which talks about the prayer of faith, right? 00:45:09.610 --> 00:45:14.110 The prayer of faith. Confess of what's one another 00:45:14.110 --> 00:45:16.050 and pray for one another, that give me the effect 00:45:16.050 --> 00:45:18.809 of having prayer of the righteous man abelitmo. 00:45:18.929 --> 00:45:22.369 So we just use the prayer of faith, right? Abelitmo. 00:45:22.429 --> 00:45:24.610 So it's talking about the life of the believer, 00:45:24.690 --> 00:45:28.289 what the believer does, right? What the believer, 00:45:28.429 --> 00:45:30.989 the lifestyle of the believer, an activity that 00:45:30.989 --> 00:45:34.590 is found within the believer is faith. So prayer 00:45:34.590 --> 00:45:38.289 can be referred to as faith in this context. 00:45:38.449 --> 00:45:41.849 Now the next one is James chapter 1 verse 6 to 00:45:41.849 --> 00:45:51.889 8. So Balani Maxin we find is Ephesians 6 verse 00:45:51.889 --> 00:45:59.349 16, Ephesians 6 verse 16. Above all, taking the 00:45:59.349 --> 00:46:03.070 shield of faith wherein ye shall be able to quench 00:46:03.070 --> 00:46:07.909 of the fairy are that of the enemy right so taking 00:46:07.909 --> 00:46:10.469 up the shield of faith right referring to what 00:46:10.469 --> 00:46:13.909 the believer right engages in what the believer 00:46:13.909 --> 00:46:15.929 engages we're talking about an activity that 00:46:15.929 --> 00:46:18.610 a believer is not talking about salvation or 00:46:18.610 --> 00:46:21.010 talking about fight here in terms of fighting 00:46:21.010 --> 00:46:23.409 we're talking about what a believer engages in 00:46:23.409 --> 00:46:25.969 an activity found within the space of the believer 00:46:25.969 --> 00:46:30.469 the next one please and second Corinthians 5 00:46:30.469 --> 00:46:34.539 7 Because what we want to establish is actually 00:46:34.539 --> 00:46:39.340 to say that what we do, right, should be regarded 00:46:39.340 --> 00:46:42.199 as faith, is faith, not should be regarded, is 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.699 faith. For we work by faith and not by sight. 00:46:44.820 --> 00:46:48.559 Now, where are we going with all of this is to 00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:51.019 bring all the scriptures together to explain, 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.599 right, to explain that your inactivity in the 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.579 areas of your life that the scripture says, right, 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:06.019 is reflecting a weakness of your faith. But the 00:47:06.019 --> 00:47:09.619 more you do it, it's showing you are strong in 00:47:09.619 --> 00:47:13.159 faith and it strengthens your faith. Do we get 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.940 it? So that's where we're going, that the lifestyle 00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:21.000 of a believer is faith itself. Then when we don't 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.380 see you walk in those things, we can begin to 00:47:23.380 --> 00:47:28.920 ask you, where is your walk of faith? We can 00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.980 question, what is your walk of faith? Means the 00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:36.380 things that we see in you that makes us, we don't 00:47:36.380 --> 00:47:39.679 need to tell you to explain Matthew 16 verse 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.420 16 for us. We know that you are in faith. The 00:47:44.420 --> 00:47:50.019 lifestyle that moves. So it means that, it therefore 00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:59.039 means that in addition to, Knowing how to interpret 00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:04.179 the scriptures and following the Bible and all 00:48:04.179 --> 00:48:07.780 of that, every aspect of your life you must check 00:48:07.780 --> 00:48:11.679 to ensure that you are engaging in them. Do you 00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:14.119 get it? So it's not like a substitution like, 00:48:14.340 --> 00:48:16.360 okay, I'll do evangelism, I want to read my Bible. 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.980 Or like me, I'm a prayer person. I only do prayer, 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:24.760 I don't do Bible study. Right? Or you say, well, 00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:31.179 me, What the gift of God for me is my voice and 00:48:31.179 --> 00:48:35.840 that is my point of meeting God, right? There 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:39.760 is nothing as such. You are weak in everything. 00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:44.260 You are hiding under voice. That is what you're 00:48:44.260 --> 00:48:47.940 doing. You are hiding under voice or you say 00:48:47.940 --> 00:48:50.500 this is the aspect that me I think I can function. 00:48:50.500 --> 00:48:53.500 I only stay on the engine. You don't study the 00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:56.940 Bible. You don't pray. It shows that You are 00:48:56.940 --> 00:48:59.880 working in faith in those areas. You are not 00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:04.960 working in faith in those areas. Right? So you 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.960 know that regularly it is necessary for the believer 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:11.280 to sit down and take a stock, take an account 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:14.960 of yourself. Right? So regularly you need to 00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:18.239 say that, okay, prayer, how is it going? Evangelism, 00:49:18.260 --> 00:49:20.880 how is it going? Studying the word, how is it 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:24.119 going? You need to regularly take stock of every 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.690 part of your life. to ensure that you are working 00:49:27.690 --> 00:49:31.170 the work of faith. And last week I said, on Sunday 00:49:31.170 --> 00:49:34.230 I said, most of the things that you will discover 00:49:34.230 --> 00:49:38.510 in that accounting is that there is anxiety somewhere, 00:49:39.929 --> 00:49:43.090 especially when it comes to evangelism, right? 00:49:43.190 --> 00:49:45.929 There's lack of commitment somewhere, right? 00:49:45.949 --> 00:49:48.230 There's lack of, you would find out many things 00:49:48.230 --> 00:49:53.750 and by that you are able to make corrections. 00:49:55.110 --> 00:49:57.809 So, what we are saying is that every part of 00:49:57.809 --> 00:50:00.309 the believer's life is a walk of faith and is 00:50:00.309 --> 00:50:02.849 exercised in faith. That's another thing. It 00:50:02.849 --> 00:50:06.909 is exercised in faith. So it's not like after 00:50:06.909 --> 00:50:09.250 you take those talks, you now say, well, this 00:50:09.250 --> 00:50:11.809 is my strategy. Yes, you can have, you know, 00:50:11.989 --> 00:50:14.210 a good strategy and all of that, but you must 00:50:14.210 --> 00:50:16.929 know that this thing is by faith. Sometimes you 00:50:16.929 --> 00:50:20.590 don't feel like, but you must do it. Sometimes 00:50:20.590 --> 00:50:23.639 it doesn't make any sense. Sometimes you just 00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:27.320 go out because you have set that time that you 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.559 will go out. But your mind and your body is not 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.199 feeling it. Just go. There are many times that 00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.920 we've gone through evangelism that you just go 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:45.940 out and you're not planning to meet this particular 00:50:45.940 --> 00:50:48.099 guy who is in the second category that we'll 00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:49.960 talk about. Some of you know the second category. 00:50:50.269 --> 00:50:52.869 There are so many words in their head. They've 00:50:52.869 --> 00:50:57.250 received many doctrine about Jesus, but they 00:50:57.250 --> 00:50:59.590 are unbelievers. And they are ready to argue 00:50:59.590 --> 00:51:02.889 with you, right? Sometimes you just go, but I 00:51:02.889 --> 00:51:05.469 mean, I won't say it's the wrong thing, but fortunately, 00:51:05.590 --> 00:51:06.750 not unfortunately, that's the person that you 00:51:06.750 --> 00:51:11.869 met, right? And you are able to convince them 00:51:11.869 --> 00:51:15.309 about the person of Christ. That shows that it 00:51:15.309 --> 00:51:18.599 is not by your own strength, right? There was 00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:20.400 one day, I think we were doing a evangelism on 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.179 campus and I was supposed to be the second man, 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:26.619 not the front line person. You know what I mean, 00:51:26.699 --> 00:51:28.320 right? The person that would talk and the other 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.800 person is the... So, we went and the person was 00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:34.360 talking and I wasn't necessarily plan to talk. 00:51:35.300 --> 00:51:37.559 And after the guy had gotten to some points, 00:51:38.139 --> 00:51:40.719 I asked him, brother, come and be the second 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.559 man. Let me be the first man so that this person 00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:46.480 will not think that we don't know what we came 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:50.679 here to do. So, I didn't really plan to talk 00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.219 on that day, but when I got there, from where 00:51:54.219 --> 00:51:57.219 the conversation dropped, I just picked it. And 00:51:57.219 --> 00:52:01.039 the Holy Spirit just flowed, right? And the guy, 00:52:01.059 --> 00:52:03.760 what the guy said was, they've not taught us 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:08.619 like this. Sincerely, he said, they've not taught 00:52:08.619 --> 00:52:10.219 us like this. This is not what we think. It was 00:52:10.219 --> 00:52:14.500 about Jesus, it was about Jesus being the procreation 00:52:14.500 --> 00:52:18.420 of God. And after I explained, they said they've 00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:21.579 never taught us like this. You know, he was in 00:52:21.579 --> 00:52:22.920 the other boys department, so I tell him, he's 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.960 in your department, please go and read. And that's 00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:28.179 another thing. We need a whole lot of knowledge 00:52:28.179 --> 00:52:30.940 to help us to grow. So sometimes you just go 00:52:30.940 --> 00:52:36.440 out and you just jam it. And you have to really 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:38.920 trust the strength of God, the wisdom of God. 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.059 Sometimes in my office, I'm not interested in 00:52:42.059 --> 00:52:43.699 doing evangelism at that time. I'm just trying 00:52:43.699 --> 00:52:45.940 to finish the work. and this professor just coming, 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.619 Emmanuel, what do you think about heaven? He 00:52:50.619 --> 00:52:54.400 brings himself all the time. And even if that 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:57.659 work is very important, sincerely, I drop it 00:52:57.659 --> 00:53:01.699 and I just sit down and we start talking. He 00:53:01.699 --> 00:53:04.440 calls me my pastor. He says, my pastor, I like 00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:08.400 your view. But you know, the end point is not 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:11.519 my view, right? The end point is to get him saved. 00:53:11.579 --> 00:53:13.699 So sometimes we can go on paper boat... You must 00:53:13.699 --> 00:53:16.340 always trust in the strength of the Holy Spirit, 00:53:16.500 --> 00:53:18.800 right? You must always trust. Sometimes even 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:21.440 when you want to approach people, you are thinking, 00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:24.159 you are contemplating, but when you trust in 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.219 the strength of the Holy Spirit, right, it just 00:53:26.219 --> 00:53:29.260 flows. It just flows. So, while it is a work 00:53:29.260 --> 00:53:31.840 that we do by faith and we take stuff of our 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:35.559 life, what we must know is that we depend on 00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:38.860 the strength of the Spirit. Praise God! Can we 00:53:38.860 --> 00:53:41.599 just pray that we are strengthened by the Spirit 00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:46.480 of God in our inner man. We appreciate you being 00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.119 here today. We hope you carried this word with 00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.079 you throughout your week. Don't forget to check 00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.840 the show notes for additional insights. 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