WEBVTT 00:00:01.499 --> 00:00:06.980 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.980 --> 00:00:09.960 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:14.220 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:18.239 the end for our rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:25.800 right in. Good evening everyone. I want to thank 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:27.780 God for these opportunities to bring the world 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:31.500 again to us. And I also want to thank the pastorate 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:34.939 for this opportunity. So today we're going to 00:00:34.939 --> 00:00:38.000 continue with what we were doing on Sunday, right? 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:40.420 And we were looking at part of what I've been 00:00:40.420 --> 00:00:45.219 teaching, the supernatural nature of the Christian 00:00:45.219 --> 00:00:49.740 gathering. And Matthew chapter 28 is where we 00:00:49.740 --> 00:00:54.719 have been at. Matthew chapter 28, verse 18, verse 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.289 18 to 20. And it says, Jesus came and spoke to 00:01:00.289 --> 00:01:03.770 them, saying, All authority has been given to 00:01:03.770 --> 00:01:07.510 me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:10.609 disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the 00:01:10.609 --> 00:01:13.829 name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy 00:01:13.829 --> 00:01:17.689 Spirit, teaching them to observe all the things 00:01:17.689 --> 00:01:20.590 that have commanded you, and, lo and which you 00:01:20.590 --> 00:01:24.030 all wish, to the end of the age. Praise the Lord. 00:01:24.370 --> 00:01:28.250 And we said that this is the mandate of every 00:01:28.299 --> 00:01:31.799 believer this is what God has given to us to 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:35.780 go and make disciples of all nations to go and 00:01:35.780 --> 00:01:38.599 preach the gospel praise the Lord the God's desire 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:43.420 is for us that we are discipled so that we disciple 00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:48.599 others that his work continues on the earth that 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.180 God's work continues on the earth that we carry 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:55.120 out or we continue to carry out the mandate of 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.799 God on the earth so he said that He, just as 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.859 the Father has sent Him, we saw in John, so also 00:02:01.859 --> 00:02:04.500 He sent us, praise the Lord. So we are going 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:07.400 and we are, God is walking through us, we are 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.240 in partnership with the Holy Spirit to carry 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.099 out the agendas and the plan of God on the earth, 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.659 praise the Lord. And we said that that involves 00:02:17.659 --> 00:02:20.960 discipleship, praise the Lord. That you learn 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:26.150 the Word, that you learn to minister and also 00:02:26.150 --> 00:02:28.770 that you learn to apply it, praise the Lord, 00:02:29.270 --> 00:02:33.009 in your daily life. And so we said that Jesus 00:02:33.009 --> 00:02:35.370 said to them in verse 20, he said, teaching them 00:02:35.370 --> 00:02:37.530 to observe all the things that have commanded 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:40.789 you and law and virtue always, even to the end 00:02:40.789 --> 00:02:43.849 of the age. So they were certain things that 00:02:43.849 --> 00:02:47.990 Jesus has taught or Jesus has commanded his disciples 00:02:47.990 --> 00:02:51.129 that he's saying they should teach, praise the 00:02:51.129 --> 00:02:55.750 Lord. And we said it's important that We pay 00:02:55.750 --> 00:03:00.409 attention to these things because Christ did 00:03:00.409 --> 00:03:03.469 not teach about his experience. Praise the Lord. 00:03:03.629 --> 00:03:08.090 Christ did not teach about maybe he would tell 00:03:08.090 --> 00:03:12.210 us that, you know, in the world above that there 00:03:12.210 --> 00:03:14.389 are some things here and there. He didn't bother 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:17.409 about that. He came to teach particular things 00:03:17.409 --> 00:03:20.629 and those things were already given. Praise the 00:03:20.629 --> 00:03:23.069 Lord. Those things were already given. So he 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.509 came to bring revelation he came to bring explanation 00:03:26.509 --> 00:03:30.169 he came and he was bringing explanation to people 00:03:30.169 --> 00:03:33.509 praise the lord he was doing he was explaining 00:03:33.509 --> 00:03:37.550 to people he was telling them the things that 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:40.909 has been written concerning him he interpreted 00:03:40.909 --> 00:03:43.750 the scriptures praise the lord so even as we 00:03:43.750 --> 00:03:46.409 go out to teach it's important that we teach 00:03:46.409 --> 00:03:49.909 the things that he has commanded us to teach 00:03:49.909 --> 00:03:54.120 praise the lord so sometimes I don't know for 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:56.819 any other person but sometimes I might be reading 00:03:56.819 --> 00:04:01.159 the scriptures and maybe you just see maybe you're 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.319 reading a story and then if you're not very careful 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.120 your heart can lean towards something. Praise 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.500 the Lord. Your heart can lean towards a direction. 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.620 You start maybe applying it, not really interpreting 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:15.300 the scripture but because maybe that thing you're 00:04:15.300 --> 00:04:17.579 just seeing for the first time is fascinating 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:20.259 to you. You're just following that direction. 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.490 Praise the Lord. So sometimes like this example 00:04:23.490 --> 00:04:26.709 a good example is I remember some time ago I 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:32.389 was We you know the cave where David was right 00:04:32.389 --> 00:04:35.550 the cave where David was and Actually, I was 00:04:35.550 --> 00:04:37.069 okay. Let me just read through that place. There 00:04:37.069 --> 00:04:39.569 was already a lot said in the scriptures about 00:04:39.569 --> 00:04:42.750 the cave the things Particularly that happened 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:44.970 in that cave. There were not a lot of things 00:04:44.970 --> 00:04:48.810 that were said about it praise the Lord so what 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:51.870 sometimes you can be tempted to begin to maybe 00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:54.870 talk about it you know maybe David was there 00:04:54.870 --> 00:04:57.769 and as he was there you know the Lord was ministering 00:04:57.769 --> 00:05:00.810 to him he was there so many things like that 00:05:00.810 --> 00:05:03.790 that was not said praise the Lord so it's important 00:05:03.790 --> 00:05:07.930 that we pay attention to the things that he has 00:05:07.930 --> 00:05:11.509 commanded us to say so Jesus was teaching from 00:05:11.509 --> 00:05:14.649 a particular place he was he was teaching from 00:05:14.649 --> 00:05:18.290 we said that the Bible that he had was from was 00:05:18.290 --> 00:05:21.579 Genesis to Malachi this is what he taught This 00:05:21.579 --> 00:05:25.060 is the explanation he was giving people. In Luke 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:29.920 chapter 24, we saw from verse 24 to 25 to 27, 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.060 and 44 to 45, where he was explaining the scriptures. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.399 He was interpreting the scriptures containing 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:40.120 himself. So he took his time to explain to them 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.459 the things containing himself. So when he says 00:05:42.459 --> 00:05:45.399 that he opened their understanding, he did that 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.180 by explanation. Praise the Lord. So how people 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:53.949 can understand is by explanation by you diligently 00:05:53.949 --> 00:05:57.329 interpreting the scriptures and we said that 00:05:57.329 --> 00:06:02.110 it's important that a believer know how to interpret 00:06:02.110 --> 00:06:05.189 the scripture you should strive for it praise 00:06:05.189 --> 00:06:07.509 the Lord so that you're not confused so that 00:06:07.509 --> 00:06:09.610 when you see somebody confused you are able to 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:12.250 help them praise the Lord so that you do the 00:06:12.250 --> 00:06:15.529 work of the Father you do the mandate of God 00:06:15.529 --> 00:06:18.810 on the earth when you pay attention to learning 00:06:18.810 --> 00:06:22.730 how to interpret and we said that the the church 00:06:22.730 --> 00:06:27.329 it should be a place where or should be called 00:06:27.329 --> 00:06:30.170 a bible school where the word is taught where 00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:32.970 the word is prioritized right praise the lord 00:06:32.970 --> 00:06:35.269 where there's not a lot of activities that is 00:06:35.269 --> 00:06:38.470 being maybe put there to entertain people praise 00:06:38.470 --> 00:06:41.649 the lord it's a place of training so we learn 00:06:41.649 --> 00:06:46.470 how to behave or move around in the church and 00:06:46.470 --> 00:06:51.500 so we also saw from the scriptures that in that 00:06:51.500 --> 00:06:54.759 Luke chapter 24 that he talks about the prophet 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.399 he keeps talking about the prophet and we say 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.699 that one of the ways in which or one of the ways 00:06:59.699 --> 00:07:02.899 in which the Old Testament was described is what 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:06.420 the book of prophets praise the Lord it is known 00:07:06.420 --> 00:07:09.800 as the book of prophets it is a prophetic it 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.019 talks about prophetic scriptures in Romans is 00:07:13.019 --> 00:07:17.720 a prophetic book so we now said if if the scripture 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:21.699 is talking about or we call it a prophetic book 00:07:21.699 --> 00:07:24.439 it therefore means that we need to understand 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.600 who then is a prophet praise the lord because 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.000 if he's writing prophetic things then he should 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.500 be talking about or his content should be about 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:37.500 prophets so if the book is written by prophets 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:40.360 that means that the context of what he's saying 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:45.680 will be about the prophet so who is a prophet? 00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:53.060 who is a prophet? So it's a Hebrew word that 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:58.959 is called Nabi, right? N -A -B -I. It means a 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.800 spokesperson for a divine being, right? Or somebody 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:08.000 who interprets words of a divine being or a date. 00:08:08.620 --> 00:08:12.540 So a prophet is a spokesperson for a divine being. 00:08:13.019 --> 00:08:15.860 So growing up, they had the experience to stay 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:20.790 in the village in the east of Nigeria. And before, 00:08:21.269 --> 00:08:24.329 there used to be people that would always hit 00:08:24.329 --> 00:08:28.209 the hitting... They come to deliver a message, 00:08:28.850 --> 00:08:30.769 basically, right? And so they have a particular 00:08:30.769 --> 00:08:35.450 type of a wooden drum that they hit. It's not 00:08:35.450 --> 00:08:37.129 a drum, but it's made out of wood. Sometimes 00:08:37.129 --> 00:08:40.610 they use the... I don't know the English word 00:08:40.610 --> 00:08:47.029 for that. But they use it to... They just hit 00:08:47.029 --> 00:08:48.929 it, and the more they hit it, what we used to 00:08:48.929 --> 00:08:54.950 do is to tell you how this was 2004, right? It 00:08:54.950 --> 00:08:57.409 was still happening like that. So they would 00:08:57.409 --> 00:09:01.750 hit it, hit it, hit it, and it goes from one 00:09:01.750 --> 00:09:04.250 village to the other village, and from every 00:09:04.250 --> 00:09:05.950 street, and it just hits it, hits it, hits it. 00:09:06.090 --> 00:09:08.509 People just, whatever you do, you just drop. 00:09:08.990 --> 00:09:11.490 This is how they pass messages, right? They would 00:09:11.490 --> 00:09:13.210 just keep hitting it, keep hitting it, everybody 00:09:13.210 --> 00:09:15.649 would keep quiet. that you know the rhythm, when 00:09:15.649 --> 00:09:18.009 it stops, then you're not here for what he will 00:09:18.009 --> 00:09:21.629 say, right? Tomorrow, there is a meeting in so 00:09:21.629 --> 00:09:23.490 -so -and -so place, these people are supposed 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:24.870 to come, that people are supposed to come, that's 00:09:24.870 --> 00:09:27.190 how they pass messages. There was no, oh, let 00:09:27.190 --> 00:09:29.970 me text this person, let me, do you understand? 00:09:30.090 --> 00:09:33.029 It was not far, it was not far, it was not far, 00:09:33.470 --> 00:09:36.330 right? Out to you, we started to use phones and 00:09:36.330 --> 00:09:40.230 all of those things, right? So, idzi. A prophet 00:09:40.230 --> 00:09:44.029 is somebody who speaks. or a spokesperson for 00:09:44.029 --> 00:09:46.250 a divine being who interprets the words of a 00:09:46.250 --> 00:09:51.470 divine being a deity so on who hears supernaturally 00:09:51.470 --> 00:09:55.269 and communicates it naturally praise the lord 00:09:55.269 --> 00:09:58.470 somebody who hears supernaturally and communicates 00:09:58.470 --> 00:10:03.230 it naturally right so a messenger of supernatural 00:10:03.230 --> 00:10:07.529 information if you like an agent praise the lord 00:10:07.529 --> 00:10:11.029 so he's somebody who is sent to pass a message 00:10:11.029 --> 00:10:16.049 to deliver a message. So which means that the 00:10:16.049 --> 00:10:21.750 context of the scriptures is to see that the 00:10:21.750 --> 00:10:26.350 scriptures is a conveyor of supernatural information. 00:10:27.289 --> 00:10:30.649 The scripture conveys supernatural information. 00:10:31.429 --> 00:10:36.649 So if a prophet is somebody who speaks for a 00:10:36.649 --> 00:10:38.490 divine being, it therefore means that the scripture 00:10:38.490 --> 00:10:42.200 conveys supernatural information. praise the 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:46.299 Lord the prophet conveys the message of the supernatural 00:10:46.299 --> 00:10:52.299 job chapter 15 job chapter 15 deal on that prophet 00:10:52.299 --> 00:10:57.600 job chapter 15 from a seven to eight he says 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:02.139 are you the first man who was born or were you 00:11:02.139 --> 00:11:05.659 made before the hills have you heard the council 00:11:05.659 --> 00:11:11.440 of god do you limit wisdom to yourself Praise 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.840 the Lord. Have you heard the counsel of God? 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.240 So we see Job's friend, Elphas, asking him a 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:25.299 question. So we see also that he described more 00:11:25.299 --> 00:11:28.559 like the first man. He says that the first man 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:32.840 is the man that heard the counsel of God. So 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:36.240 we see he's asking his friend, but he's also 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.710 saying that the first man is a man that He had 00:11:39.710 --> 00:11:43.490 the council of God, right? That council there, 00:11:43.529 --> 00:11:45.429 some other scriptures would put it as the secret 00:11:45.429 --> 00:11:51.450 of God, right? So that word council in the Hebrew 00:11:51.450 --> 00:11:55.490 is the word sod, S -O -D, right? Which means 00:11:55.490 --> 00:11:59.789 to be in an assembly. That word council in verse 00:11:59.789 --> 00:12:03.149 eight is that have you heard the council of God? 00:12:03.330 --> 00:12:07.669 It's the word sod, right? Which means to be in 00:12:07.669 --> 00:12:11.090 an assembly. the council of God. He said, have 00:12:11.090 --> 00:12:15.289 you heard in the assembly of God or in the fellowship 00:12:15.289 --> 00:12:19.629 of God? So we said that the book or the Bible 00:12:19.629 --> 00:12:21.669 is known as the book of the prophets, right? 00:12:21.830 --> 00:12:25.330 So prophets are special people. They are special 00:12:25.330 --> 00:12:28.289 people. But we see that the friend of Job is 00:12:28.289 --> 00:12:31.950 saying that the first man we should be the modern 00:12:31.950 --> 00:12:35.070 man is someone who had heard in the council of 00:12:35.070 --> 00:12:40.200 God or the assembly of God. Genesis chapter 49 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:45.259 verse 6 Genesis chapter 49 verse 6 it said let 00:12:45.259 --> 00:12:48.720 not my soul enter thy council let not my honor 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:53.840 be united to the assembly for in thy anger thou 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.980 slew a man in thy self will thou hamstoon an 00:12:57.980 --> 00:13:02.759 ox hamstrong an ox so is that word the assembly 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:07.509 we see there again so it means a special information 00:13:07.509 --> 00:13:11.750 within the assembly, a supernatural assembly. 00:13:12.169 --> 00:13:14.850 So Elphaz is saying, we know that the first man 00:13:14.850 --> 00:13:20.009 had from the assembly of God. Job 29 verse 4. 00:13:20.190 --> 00:13:23.070 Let's look at those places where this word again 00:13:23.070 --> 00:13:28.629 shows up. Job 29 verse 4. Just as I was in the 00:13:28.629 --> 00:13:32.850 days of my prime, when the friendly counsel of 00:13:32.850 --> 00:13:36.210 God was over my fence. So we see that word again, 00:13:36.529 --> 00:13:42.029 council. Psalms 55 verse 14. Psalms 55 verse 00:13:42.029 --> 00:13:46.870 14. We took three councils together and walked 00:13:46.870 --> 00:13:50.450 to the house of the Lord in the throne. Praise 00:13:50.450 --> 00:13:53.809 the Lord. We see that place again. So that word 00:13:53.809 --> 00:13:58.029 throne there is the word company, right? It's 00:13:58.029 --> 00:14:02.769 usually talking about assembly. Psalms 89 verse 00:14:02.769 --> 00:14:07.899 4, verse 7. Psalms 89 verse 7 God is greatly 00:14:07.899 --> 00:14:11.639 to be feared in the assembly of the saints and 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.940 to be held in reverence by all those around him. 00:14:16.100 --> 00:14:18.799 So we see that word again there Jeremiah chapter 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.139 6 verse 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of 00:14:24.139 --> 00:14:28.100 the Lord and weary of holding it in I'll pour 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:31.639 it out on the children outside on the assembly 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.139 of young men together for even the husband shall 00:14:35.139 --> 00:14:39.000 be taken with the wife and the aged, and the 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.559 aged with him who is full of days." So we see 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.200 that word again, assembly, there. So what do 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:49.000 we know about the first man? So in Genesis chapter, 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.279 where we read chapter 2 and chapter 3, right, 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:57.240 speaking of Adam, right, so we have, we have 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.279 a picture of God's will and plan for man. So 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:04.440 when you read Genesis chapter 2, and also Chapter 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:09.100 3, we see God's will and plan for the first man. 00:15:09.740 --> 00:15:13.899 So the first thing that we see is that the Garden 00:15:13.899 --> 00:15:19.240 of Eden is God's dwelling. The Garden of Eden 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:23.340 is God's dwelling. Man was brought there, which 00:15:23.340 --> 00:15:27.580 means that man or mankind find their purpose 00:15:27.580 --> 00:15:30.360 in God's dwelling. The first thing that we see 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.860 is that the Garden of Eden is God's home. and 00:15:33.860 --> 00:15:37.460 it's all his dwelling, right? Man was brought 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:40.940 in there, right? Which means that man or mankind 00:15:40.940 --> 00:15:45.480 find his popples in God's dwelling place. So 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:49.340 man starts to live only when he starts functioning 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:53.600 in God's popples or, sorry, he starts functioning 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:58.220 in God's presence or God's dwelling place. Man 00:15:58.220 --> 00:16:01.159 starts to live, praise the Lord, man starts to 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:06.179 live when he starts to function in God's presence 00:16:06.179 --> 00:16:09.100 or God's dwelling place. The second thing that 00:16:09.100 --> 00:16:13.759 we see, Genesis 2 verse 15, he said then the 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:16.620 Lord took the man and put him in the garden of 00:16:16.620 --> 00:16:20.440 Eden to tend it and to keep it, to tend and keep 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:25.019 it. So we see God's purpose for man, he says 00:16:25.019 --> 00:16:28.159 that man put him there to tend and to keep it, 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:31.539 that he put him there to dress some other scriptures, 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:36.330 we say to dress and to keep it. So if we keep 00:16:36.330 --> 00:16:40.490 reading from Genesis to Exodus, we also see how 00:16:40.490 --> 00:16:43.470 Moses, when he was building the tabernacle, what 00:16:43.470 --> 00:16:47.470 he gave the priest to do. We see what Moses gave 00:16:47.470 --> 00:16:49.809 the priest, what their responsibility was to 00:16:49.809 --> 00:16:52.870 do. And part of their responsibility was what 00:16:52.870 --> 00:16:55.570 he said for them to dress it. We're going to 00:16:55.570 --> 00:16:58.090 see a scripture that talks about that. For them 00:16:58.090 --> 00:17:01.090 to dress it. The priest, we have to keep the 00:17:01.090 --> 00:17:05.680 tabernacle. the priests were to keep the tabernacle. 00:17:06.019 --> 00:17:09.920 So the word, that word, keep it, sorry, that 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.940 word, to keep it or to dress it, right, is a 00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:20.039 word, adad, right, A -D, sorry, A -B, A -D, right, 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:23.140 we see here is the word to dress it. So man's 00:17:23.140 --> 00:17:27.960 purpose was to keep, man's purpose was to be 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.460 in God's presence. right or keeper of God's dwelling 00:17:31.460 --> 00:17:35.960 place praise the Lord man's purpose was what 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:42.079 to be in God's presence or keeper of God's dwelling 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:46.480 place that is that man has become God has given 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.359 man has become it's more like he's supposed to 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.359 he's a trustee so God has given him something 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.579 to do to keep it to dress it so a minister of 00:17:56.579 --> 00:18:00.000 God's dwelling place is to be a minister or a 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.980 minister of God's dwelling place if you like 00:18:01.980 --> 00:18:06.920 so Adam we can say was a priest because God gave 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.980 him something to do and we also saw that Moses 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:12.880 did the same when the priest or the instruction 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.980 he gave the priest so Adam was a priest that 00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:20.539 is Adam and Eve that is mankind was a priest 00:18:20.539 --> 00:18:26.019 so mankind is made to be a priest right to officiate 00:18:26.019 --> 00:18:30.559 to minister in God's presence. Mankind is made 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:36.400 to be a priest, to officiate, to be in God's 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.319 presence. So let's go back to Job chapter 15. 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:44.319 Job chapter 15. Job chapter 15, verse 7. He said, 00:18:44.420 --> 00:18:48.680 Are you the first man who was born? Or were you 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.380 made before the hills? Have you heard the counsel 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:58.099 of God? Do you limit wisdom? to yourself so the 00:18:58.099 --> 00:19:02.359 council of god right that is to hear from god 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:07.119 and interpret it praise the lord to hear from 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.500 god and interpret it that is what god's purpose 00:19:11.500 --> 00:19:14.960 for mankind was was to be a priest right to be 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:19.960 a prophet to hear and interpret so you can say 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:24.200 that man's purpose or god's purpose for you is 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.519 to be his temple we see that in the new testament 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:33.039 to be his temple to be in his temple what we 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.079 are meant to do there is to be what to be priest 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.859 right and to be prophet and to be his servant 00:19:39.859 --> 00:19:43.559 or as the scriptures will say servant king so 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.599 god's purpose for you is to be his temple to 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:50.400 be in his temple and what we are supposed to 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:55.099 do there is to be his priest his prophet and 00:19:55.099 --> 00:19:59.140 his servants. So your purpose in life is tied 00:19:59.140 --> 00:20:03.059 to God's dwelling place. So your purpose in life 00:20:03.059 --> 00:20:09.380 is tied to God's dwelling place. That is God's 00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:13.119 plan for everyone. Praise the Lord. That is God's 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.019 plan for our life. So if you are looking for 00:20:16.019 --> 00:20:18.680 purpose, I don't hear that word these days, I 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.779 don't know why, right? About two, three years 00:20:21.779 --> 00:20:24.250 ago, Everybody is talking about what is your 00:20:24.250 --> 00:20:26.210 purpose? What is your purpose? What is your purpose? 00:20:26.849 --> 00:20:29.309 There are seminars about purpose. There are so 00:20:29.309 --> 00:20:32.470 many things. Praise the Lord. And see it, people 00:20:32.470 --> 00:20:35.529 still are looking for, or they still, from all 00:20:35.529 --> 00:20:37.670 of those things, don't still find purpose. Or 00:20:37.670 --> 00:20:39.890 even if they find, they will change their mind 00:20:39.890 --> 00:20:42.410 after some years. Praise the Lord. They will 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:46.210 find new purpose. So, a purpose that does not 00:20:46.210 --> 00:20:49.650 change. God's purpose for your life does not 00:20:49.650 --> 00:20:53.380 change. is that you should be his priest and 00:20:53.380 --> 00:20:56.940 his prophet on the earth to be a spokesperson 00:20:56.940 --> 00:21:01.039 to be somebody who will hear and interpret praise 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.440 the lord to be somebody who will hear and interpret 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:10.500 so it therefore means that we ought to take the 00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:13.339 ministry or the office or the purpose that god 00:21:13.339 --> 00:21:17.319 has given us very seriously praise the lord is 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:20.309 to take the purpose that God has given us very 00:21:20.309 --> 00:21:23.490 seriously. And how do we do that? We do that 00:21:23.490 --> 00:21:28.670 by sitting down, being discipled, and disciple 00:21:28.670 --> 00:21:33.210 others. In doing that, we are able to achieve, 00:21:33.309 --> 00:21:38.369 or we are able to live in the purpose of God, 00:21:38.809 --> 00:21:43.650 to hear from God, and to interpret it, to see 00:21:43.650 --> 00:21:51.650 what God is saying every season. As I've said 00:21:51.650 --> 00:21:56.869 earlier, a lot of us, almost everybody is in 00:21:56.869 --> 00:22:00.490 Cyprus and they are moving. At some point, they 00:22:00.490 --> 00:22:03.470 would move to a different location. At some point, 00:22:03.470 --> 00:22:06.150 they would move to a different location. It's 00:22:06.150 --> 00:22:09.809 not to make the excuse that you were not taught. 00:22:10.650 --> 00:22:13.670 Don't make the excuse that you were not equipped. 00:22:14.430 --> 00:22:16.930 Don't make the mistake that you are not equipped. 00:22:16.779 --> 00:22:20.299 they are not equipped. Because if you see what 00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:22.680 is happening around us, whether it be in the 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.279 church, whether you're online and you see people 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:28.539 teaching and you see people saying some things, 00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:31.920 you know that what this person is saying is not 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:35.039 sound. Praise the Lord. So for you to identify 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:38.279 that which is not sound, it means that you have 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:41.019 been trained. Praise the Lord. It means that 00:22:41.019 --> 00:22:45.420 you are in a position where you also can be a 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:48.799 good teacher of the world praise the Lord where 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.039 you can be a good teacher of the world so it's 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:56.019 not to it's not to go and say okay the things 00:22:56.019 --> 00:22:58.500 that happened to me in Cyprus where the four 00:22:58.500 --> 00:23:02.160 years was it's just four years I just went there 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:04.619 to school and I finished and you know let's just 00:23:04.619 --> 00:23:07.039 continue let's just continue what we are hearing 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.559 before praise the Lord is to be a priest of God 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:16.009 on the earth so we see also see that in, I think 00:23:16.009 --> 00:23:20.049 it was in John, in John chapter 17, we see the 00:23:20.049 --> 00:23:24.910 prayers of Jesus for all believers. John chapter 00:23:24.910 --> 00:23:30.069 17 verse 20. He says, I do not pray for these 00:23:30.069 --> 00:23:34.170 alone, but also those who would believe in me 00:23:34.170 --> 00:23:38.630 through their words, that they all may be one 00:23:38.630 --> 00:23:43.890 as you, Father, and in me, and I in you, and 00:23:43.890 --> 00:23:48.299 that They also may be one in us that the world 00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:50.839 may believe that you sent me praise the Lord 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:54.259 So Jesus is saying he's making a prayer, right? 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.440 And he says what I pray for this but for those 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.400 who will believe He's saying that so the prayer 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:04.359 he's praying is for not just his disciples Right, 00:24:04.579 --> 00:24:07.339 but the people that will believe later on but 00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:10.000 then he's not praying for those people to believe 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.960 to believe He's saying that they will believe 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.279 because of what? because these ones here are 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:19.160 going to do something. Praise the Lord. These 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:21.599 ones here, these ones that are listening to him 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.859 here, these ones that are listening here are 00:24:23.859 --> 00:24:25.940 going to do, he said they are going to believe 00:24:25.940 --> 00:24:29.079 what, through what their words. They are going 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:31.640 to believe in him through what their words. So 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.480 Jesus is sure that his disciples are going to 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.299 carry on the mandate. Praise the Lord. He is 00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:40.339 very sure that these people are, so he's saying 00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:42.839 that they may be one. Praise the Lord. That they 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:46.849 may be united that they may be in unity but he 00:24:46.849 --> 00:24:50.170 knows that his disciples are going to do the 00:24:50.170 --> 00:24:53.450 work in which he has sent them to do praise the 00:24:53.450 --> 00:24:57.309 lord his disciples are going to do the same thing 00:24:57.309 --> 00:25:01.529 that he has instructed them to do so god is trusting 00:25:01.529 --> 00:25:05.589 and god knows that you are the person who is 00:25:05.589 --> 00:25:09.670 also supposed to what to continue to teach the 00:25:09.670 --> 00:25:13.109 word another person man was talking about evangelism 00:25:13.109 --> 00:25:16.130 and he was saying that sometimes the reason why 00:25:16.130 --> 00:25:20.549 we don't evangelism is because there is anxiety 00:25:20.549 --> 00:25:24.230 there is fear there is what would a person say 00:25:24.230 --> 00:25:27.250 if they ask me this question it's usually us 00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:30.690 just limiting ourselves right we are afraid of 00:25:30.690 --> 00:25:34.789 something praise the lord but if only you know 00:25:34.789 --> 00:25:38.210 how equipped you are if only you know how equipped 00:25:38.210 --> 00:25:42.250 you are if only you can see how God has said 00:25:42.250 --> 00:25:45.809 that the things that you have is sufficient enough. 00:25:46.549 --> 00:25:49.369 The teaching that you have received is sufficient 00:25:49.369 --> 00:25:53.369 enough for you to go about your day and in your 00:25:53.369 --> 00:25:59.349 busyness, in the schedules that you have, to 00:25:59.349 --> 00:26:01.250 still see someone and say, oh, let me speak to 00:26:01.250 --> 00:26:03.809 this person about Christ. Praise the Lord. Let 00:26:03.809 --> 00:26:06.990 me speak to this person about Christ. Let me 00:26:06.990 --> 00:26:10.019 explain the scriptures to somebody. If only you 00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:13.680 allow yourself to see how equipped God has equipped 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:17.299 you. How God has enabled you. Not just through 00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:19.420 the power of the Holy Spirit, but through the 00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:21.720 discipleship that you have received. Through 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:24.200 the instructions that you have received. Through 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:26.839 the learning and the teaching that you have gone 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:31.019 through. Praise the Lord. So he prays and is 00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:33.480 assured that the people will believe because 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.359 of the words that these people are going to speak. 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:39.799 So God believes that People are going to be transformed 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:42.519 by the word that you are saying to them. So why 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:46.240 are you anxious? Praise the Lord. Why are you 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:49.480 anxious about it? Why are you thinking too much 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:53.960 about it? So today we're going to pray. We're 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:56.640 going to pray for everything that we have heard 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:01.000 throughout this whole teaching about what makes 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.980 the Christian gathering a supernatural one. We're 00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:08.450 going to pray that God would enable us God will 00:27:08.450 --> 00:27:11.269 give us boldness. God will give us strength. 00:27:12.430 --> 00:27:16.289 God would also increase this church. Praise the 00:27:16.289 --> 00:27:18.890 Lord. God will also increase this church. Even 00:27:18.890 --> 00:27:21.690 as Jesus was praying, he prayed for those who 00:27:21.690 --> 00:27:24.690 will believe. So what you're praying also, you're 00:27:24.690 --> 00:27:27.509 also praying for those who will also, in 10 years, 00:27:27.549 --> 00:27:30.490 in 20 years, be sitting where you are or in a 00:27:30.490 --> 00:27:33.289 better place in this camp. Praise the Lord. You're 00:27:33.289 --> 00:27:35.690 also praying that the world that they will be 00:27:35.690 --> 00:27:39.220 hearing will not be the watered -down world praise 00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:42.980 the Lord that they would continue to hear the 00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:46.359 sound doctrine of Christ that any CF will continue 00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:49.920 whether the lead pastor is currently around or 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.180 is not around whether the people that started 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:56.099 the walk were around or not around that the church 00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:59.500 will continue to grow right also for your life 00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:01.960 that you will continue to grow I said something 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:05.700 within the week that God expects us to carry 00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:08.490 out this mandate Praise the Lord. That the people 00:28:08.490 --> 00:28:11.309 around us, that are families, that are friends, 00:28:11.769 --> 00:28:14.710 will hear the gospel through us. That the busyness 00:28:14.710 --> 00:28:19.269 of life, somebody said, I saw something online, 00:28:19.609 --> 00:28:23.190 it was like, you think that maybe like school 00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:25.230 is, when you're in school, you think it's stressful. 00:28:26.190 --> 00:28:29.009 You say wait until you graduate, then maybe you 00:28:29.009 --> 00:28:32.549 find out what stress is about, or, praise the 00:28:32.549 --> 00:28:35.460 Lord. So, that's why some people... My desire 00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:39.880 is that they want to continue school. Praise 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:44.880 the Lord. That the business of life will not 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:47.920 make you, you know sometimes your responsibilities 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.099 will increase. You have children, you have things 00:28:51.099 --> 00:28:53.240 to take care of, you have parents that are maybe 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:55.960 growing old and they need attention and time 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:58.660 and resources and everything. And you're just 00:28:58.660 --> 00:29:01.119 thinking about many things that you forget to 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:03.700 preach the gospel. That you just, you know what? 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.799 We used to do that. Praise the Lord. So I just 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.140 want us to rise up on our feet. We appreciate 00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:13.779 you being here today. We hope you carry this 00:29:13.779 --> 00:29:16.759 word with you throughout your week. Don't forget 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:18.960 to check the show notes for additional insights. 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:22.200 Stay connected with us through our website or 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.680 follow us on social media. 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