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right in. for what will be happening in our Believers
Conference. To set our expectation for what will
be happening in our Believers Conference. I want
to believe that we all agree that this Believers
Conference that we have been holding yearly is
actually... You know, God called himself for
us to gather and be strengthened, right? How
many of us believe that that was actually the
move of God? How many of us believe that it's
the leading of God, right? We believe that that
is the leading of God. That is God calling us
together to fellowship, calling us to do what
he wants to do in that season, in every season.
we can see that it's a form of a call to, you
know, assemble together, right? The Believer's
Conference, you know, just continuing clarifying
that, that is a call of God to assemble together
and we have these different forms of meetings.
It's God's call, you know, bringing us together
to assemble together, to hold the meeting with
Him, you know, having these different... Forms
of meetings. As we explained on Sunday. So today.
We want to see. So the sermon again. Is what
you know before I believe. Just a continuation
from Sunday. So we want to see. When God called
some people. For an assembly. Or when God told
people to gather. Right. What are the things
that we can learn. From these gatherings. Right.
How did people conduct themselves in such gatherings?
What happened in such, is it just a random gathering?
What happened in those gatherings? Were they
blessed? Were they not blessed? What were, you
know, the things that the people in those gatherings
did that made them to believe and to walk with
God or what they did not understand? So what
you're trying to check is when God called people
for a gathering, right? What happens there? And
that should also give us an expectation, right?
For what we are looking forward to in our charatismus,
in our believers conference, right? So when God
calls people, what happens in those gatherings?
Does everybody just come? They jump around, they
do whatsoever they want to do. Everybody can
lead, you know. What happens in those gatherings?
All right, we're going to use the story of the
Israelites in Exodus 19. Exodus 19, we're going
to use that to see when God calls the people
to gather, what are the things that are involved?
Yes, what are the things that are involved? And
what should be the position of the believer?
What should be the posture of the believer in
such kind of meetings? Exodus 19 from verse 1
to 6. Now we're going to Exodus 20, but we have
to start from verse 19. Because verse 19 gives
us the preamble or the background of what is
happening in Exodus 20, right? So we start from
Exodus 19, verse one to six. It said, in the
third month, when the children of Israel were
gone forth out of the land of Egypt, and the
same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were
come to the desert of Sinai. and a pitch in the
wilderness, and there Israel camped before the
mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord
called unto him out of the mountain, saying,
Thou, thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob,
and tell the children of Israel, Yea, I have
seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and now I
bear you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto
myself. Now therefore, If ye will obey my voice
and indeed keep my commandments, then ye shall
be a peculiar treasure unto me. Above all, above
all people, for all the earth is mine. And ye
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation. These are the words which thou shalt
speak unto the children of Israel. Right? These
are the words that you will speak unto the children
of Israel. So this is the background of what's
happened in Exodus 20. Tell the people, let them
come up. This is what I want to do. And that
was clear. Now, we can say this is God's intention
for the people, right? This is God's intention
for the people, for this assembly. Verse 5 and
6. verse 5 and 6, that when they obey his voice
and indeed keep his commandment, then there shall
be a peculiar treasure unto him above all people
for all their disease. And there shall be a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation. These are the words
that thou shalt speak, meaning Moses will speak
to the children of Israel. So we can say this
is God telling them what he wants to do. So God's
intention, right? We're going to see that God's
intention. Now, This is also similar to a meeting
or a gathering that Christ also said. Of course,
what was happening in those two places were different.
But you can just put 1 Peter 2 verse 5, because
this is quite very similar to that 1 Peter 2
verse 5, which we saw there. Let's read that
scripture. 1 Peter 2, verse 5, verse 9. For here
are living stones and are built up as a spiritual
house, a holy priesthood to offer up sacrifices,
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through
Jesus Christ. Through Jesus Christ. Good. So
we see that here, just go back, yes, just turn
that back. They are living stones, they are built
up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, right?
So it's talking about a believer here, it's talking
about the church, it's talking about the body,
right, of Christ. And it says, They are a holy
priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.
So this was also God's intention, right, for
Israel from that Genesis, from that Exodus 19.
This was God's intention that there will be a
priesthood that will offer spiritual sacrifices,
right, unto God. Okay, good. So one more scripture
and we'll move from there. So if you go to verse...
9 of that same 1 Peter 2, right? It says, But
ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should
show forth the praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
So we see the same word, priesthood, a holy nation,
a peculiar people that we find in Exodus 19.
What we found in Exodus 19, verse 5 and 6, right?
We found it in 2 Peter, 1 Peter 2, verse 6, from
5 to 9. So we see that this is God's intention
and this is what God wants to do when he calls
us meeting. This is God's intention. Now let's
go to Exodus 19, 7 to 9. 7 to 9. And Moses came
and called for the elders. of the people and
laid before their faces all those words, right?
All laid before their faces, all those words,
which the Lord commanded him. And all the people
answered together and said, all that the Lord
has spoken, we will do. And Moses returned the
words of the people unto the Lord. And the Lord
said unto Moses, Lord, I will come unto thee
in a thick cloud that the people may hear when
I speak with thee and believe thee forever. And
Moses told, The words of the Lord. Right? Unto
the people. Right? Unto the people. So, what
God wants to do is actually to speak to them.
Okay? God wants to speak to them. So, God has
the intention of speaking, right, to them. God
has the intention of speaking to them. And the
end result is that they might believe. Okay?
The end result is that they might. So, we see
that this is God speaking. Right? This is God
speaking. Caesar, I will speak to you and the
people will hear. It means that the people will
be there when God is speaking to Moses and they
will hear. Right? In Exodus 20, we realize that
the aim was for God to speak to them, that they
can also hear God directly. Right? They can hear
God directly. Now, so in the presence of Moses,
note that I am intentionally saying in the presence
of Moses, the people will hear. In the presence
of Moses, the people will hear. I'm saying that
very categorically. Reason? Because we're going
to come to some things that we are trying to
put in place for the meeting. And when we come
to that lesson, we'll cross it. So just put it
here as how God will do what he will do. 7 -9.
How God will do what he will do. How God will
do what he will do. And the outcome of it is
that the people should believe. So first, we
see God's intention. God's intention. You see
2 -7 -9. How God will do what he will do. And
I said emphasis in the prayers of Moses. God
will speak to the people in that meeting, in
that assembly, in that gathering. Okay? The third
one, verse 10 to 11. Verse 10 to 11. It says,
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people
and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let
them wash their clothes, and be ready against
the third day. For on the third day the Lord
will come down in the sight of all the people
upon the Mount Sinai. Right? So, you see, people
have to get ready. Right? So, they are coming
to an assembly. They are coming to a meeting.
Right? They are not just going to come up, turn
up anyhow. They are going to be ready. We see
the word ready there. Right? They are going to
be ready to come to this assembly. There is a
way they will appear in this assembly. There
is a way they will appear in this meeting. And
that has been communicated to them. So, this
is preparation. Right? This is preparation. This
is preparation. This is preparation. So we see
they are taking grace. Now verse 17, it says,
And Moses brought forth the people out of the
camp to meet with God, and they stood at the
near part of the mount. So under the leadership
of Moses, they came to the assembly. They came
to the meeting. They came to hear God, right?
They came to be blessed. They came to receive
what God's intention for them is. Right. This
is what we see. This is what we see. So haven't
clarified that this is like the foundation of
what is happening in Exodus 20. Right. So we
can proceed. Right. We can proceed and see what
we can pick. Right. What we can pick from here.
What we can pick from here. Just number them
in certain ways. But we will be able to pick
our own understanding and lessons. as we go into
our believers meeting. So firstly, there is a
leader in this meeting, okay? So we would pick
this, right? I haven't understand this background.
Before we go to whether they believe or they
didn't believe, of course, we know the story
in Exodus 20, right? What we can see here, firstly,
is that there's a leader in this meeting. It
is not a random meeting where there is no leader.
That will be chaos. That will be disorder, okay?
There is a leader in this meeting. In this meeting.
That is the first thing. So we can call this
leader the priest. It's the priest, right? The
priest is the one that is the religious, I mean,
Moses is the leader and you can call him the
priest in this case. You can call him the priest.
Now, you would observe that what God wants to
do, right, in that meeting, if you go back to
verse 6, is that Ye shall be unto me a kingdom
of priests. It means all of them will become
priests under the leadership of, in quotes, a
priest called Moses. Okay? So all of them will
become a priest under the leadership of Moses,
who is the leader, is a priest as well. And what
we see is that although God's intention is that
all of them will be priests, right? he will still,
Moses will still be the leader. There's a leader
there. He's not removing Moses as the leader,
right? But what he's doing through Moses, he
can do through them. Okay? What he's doing through
Moses, he can do through them. So in our context,
we can say that our pastors, you know, are the
leaders leading this meeting, leading and calling
us to come to understand God's intention. Okay?
We can say our leader is the priest, the lead
pastor. He's actually the priest, the pastor,
the lead pastor of the church. And he has a chief
pastor helping them. Of course, Moses also had
people who, just before that, verse 19, or chapter
19, okay? Just before that chapter 19, in verse
18, Moses had actually, right, sorry, in chapter
18, Moses had actually appointed people in verse
20, chapter 18, verse 24 and 25. So Moses hacking
to the voice of his father -in -law. So it means
that there's a leader and there are people supporting
him, right? And we have our six pastors here.
And also everyone that will lead on that day,
right? They are our leaders. They are our leaders.
So what is our duty? Our duty is actually to
follow the instruction of the leader, right?
So when we are given instructions on that day,
our job is actually to follow the instruction
at the spot of the moment, right? To follow the
instruction of now. If you observe the story
of Israel, which probably we are going to get
to, one of the challenges that they had, right,
was following Moses. That was one major challenge
they had, right? If you cannot believe and God
has given you a good leader who has believed,
One of the things is you follow them very closely.
So in this kind of meeting, we have to follow
our pastors very closely. As they are rejoicing,
as they are praying, as they are studying, as
they are writing, as they are ministering, we
must follow them closely. When they say, do this,
we follow. We obey the instructions. We give
ourselves to the things of the Spirit. When they
tell you hold someone, you do it effectively.
So instructions will be given. Instructions will
be given. By being an active participant, we
are blessed. By being an active participant in
this meeting, we are blessed. Another thing that
we see is that the intention of God is made known
in our meeting. So the intention of God is made
known in our meeting. is what? Who knows the
team for the Believers Conference? Greater works,
right? And we'll be coming from the beginning
of the year with this same team. So it means
that this is like full -long activation, right?
Let's call it that way. A full -long activation,
right, for greater works. A full -long activation
for greater works. So the intention has been
known. How did we know the intention? We knew
the intention through our little pastor. We didn't
wake up and create intention. for ourselves,
you know, like Miriam and others who said, has
God been, is it only God, is it only Moses that
God has been speaking to, right? They wanted
to create their own calm, right? No, we don't
do that, right? We follow the leading of the
little pastor that says, well, it's greater works
we are working with, right? Now, that greater
works, what it does, as we're seeing in Exodus
19, verse 1 -6, is that it should create expectations
in our mind. So God's intention should create
expectations. God's intention should create expectation.
So now that we know what God said he would do,
so while we are coming to that meeting, your
mind is set to receive from that meeting. God's
intention should create expectation. God's intention
should create expectation. Now, when you read
Hebrews 11, you will see that those... Heroes
of faith, in Hebrews 11, it is on the basis of
God's intention and message, right, that they
had expectation of what is to come. And that
was counted as faith for them. They didn't just
come, they didn't just live their life like,
oh, you know, God is not going to do what he's
going to do. It is on the basis of God's intention
for the whole earth, right, they believe. That
became an expectation for them. And Jesus would
say, Abraham longed to see my days. And he did
what? He saw it. Okay? So, it creates expectation.
When God says something, when we come to that
meeting, we have a mind, right, on what we want
to receive. We have a mind on what we want to
receive. As our lead pastor has opened it to
us, has explained to us where it works, as we
are teaching, that should be where your mind
is set. All right. Another thing we can see,
I think I already said this with the other one,
is that what God is doing is communicated through
our leader. I said that before, Exodus 7, verse
9. So what I was emphasizing that they will hear
God under the leadership of Moses is with respect
to that meeting. Okay? So I'm not saying you
can't hear God at home. Of course, that would
be very unbiblical, right? To say you don't hear
God or no, no, no, that would be against what
we have taught. But what we are saying, is that
as pastors will come and they will tell you that
the healing, you know, God is using your hand
to heal, right? Are you with me? That right now
the belief someone God is using your hand to
heal, you should receive that and walk in that
in the sport of the moment, right? So it means
that under that leadership, there will be so
many leading that will become... coming from
the pastors and the people that will be leading
us. So therefore, at the spur of that moment,
you should walk in that thing that you're seeing.
Don't be carried away. Don't think about something
else, right? When they say they believe that
there's interpretation of tongues, right? Walk
in it, okay? Don't say, oh, I can't do it. When
pastors say do it, just do it because it will
happen. Are we together? It will happen. This
should help us as we come together. So I wrote
this, I said, how God will do what he's doing
in our meeting is communicated to us by our pastors
and the lead pastors. The songs, the teachings,
all of this, right, would point us to what God
is doing. God is walking among us and is manifesting
through instructions that they give us, right?
So prepare again to follow the instructions.
Now let's see. What happens? Exodus 20. Exodus
20. Just write Exodus 20 down. Then, yes. Exodus
20. Exodus 20 from verse 18. Exodus 20 from verse
18. He said, and all the people saw the thunderings
and the lightnings. and the noise of the trumpets,
and the mountain smoking. And when they saw it,
they removed and stood afar off. And they said
unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear.
But let not God speak with us, lest we die. Did
you see how they changed the instructions of
the Lord? They converted God's message of life
and said, Well, lest we die. So they disbelieved.
what God wanted to do in that meeting, in that
gathering. They disbelieved it. They disbelieved
it. They did not believe. Now, you know, if you
read, if you read verse 18, it points, you know,
as if it's the thundering, the lightning, the
noise, the trumpets, and the smoking, right?
When the people saw it, they did what? They removed
fire away, right? But there were people in that
meeting too that believed. Moses believed, a
couple of persons believed. Afterwards, we knew
their story, that they believed in that meeting.
Now, nothing should distract us from God's intention.
Many things will be happening in Kadathism. Maybe
someone will be falling under the analogy. Someone
will be shouting. Don't be a spectator. Don't
be looking around and saying what is happening.
Let me put it in the words of that. 18. Don't
look at the thunders and lightnings and all of
that. When God will speak, God spoke with a voice.
Right? God spoke with a voice. God spoke to them.
So, don't look at the distractions. Don't let
it get you carried away so that you can focus
on what you want to receive. Don't let your friend
distract you. Don't let anybody distract you.
Right? So that you can be able to receive what
God is doing in that place. So, they were really...
carried away by all that is happening. And again,
one thing I observe is, if only they kept looking
at Moses while all the things that are happening
is happening, and they kept following at the
score of the moment, they would have believed.
But they got carried away, many things were happening,
and they told the man of God, rather than focusing
on what the man of God has said, they said, well,
you speak to us, right? You know, sometimes I
think, why didn't they ask Moses? Moses, why
is all this thundering? and all of these things
happening, we want to believe God, you know,
these things are, they are just all around. Maybe
he could have explained, but rather, they explained
to him that you see this communication of God
is dead unto us. You see the reverse. They could
have asked him questions, why is all this happening?
Right? In fact, Moses later replied them, even
when they did not ask him. They did not ask him
a question. Go to verse 19. Moses actually answered
them, although they did not ask him a question,
which I was expecting them, you know, maybe they
could ask. Verse 19 says, And they said unto
Moses, Speak thou to us, lest we will die. Speak
thou to us, and we will hear. Lest God speak
with us, lest we die. And verse 20, look at what
Moses said. And Moses said unto them, Fear not,
for God has come to prove you that his fear may
be before your faces, that ye may say not. Right?
And the people again stood afar off and Moses
drew them into the deep darkness where God was.
So Moses is telling them that God has come to
reveal himself to you, that he might speak to
you. You might know him and he might know you.
Right? So a fellowship is what God wanted. God
came to reveal himself. After this time, there's
no other time that God said, bring them again.
Let me reveal myself to them. They just kept
receiving true proxies. you know, started receiving
true information, prophets, judges, kings, that
about, right? So, but yet we knew that that God's
intention to speak directly to them was not suspended,
was still valid, but there was no time they had
to gather again and begin to receive this. So
we see that Moses communicated the reason for
them, which was what they were supposed to ask.
So when there's a distraction, avoid distractions,
right? For us, it's not unto believing. We have
believed, right? Are we together? We have believed.
We have believed. But for us to take hold of
what God is doing in our meetings, we must avoid
destruction. Okay? We must avoid destructions
as much as we can. So we can say that although
God communicated his intention, right? Moses
explained to them and God fulfilled. Did you
see that God fulfilled? God fulfilled his intention
in that meeting. Did God speak to them? Yes.
God fulfilled his intention in that meeting.
That's another point that we should put. When
God says I will come and I will do something,
it is I am that I am. He is going to do it. So,
whatever we have received. In fact, from this
week, you should start receiving. From this week,
you should start receiving. By the time you receive
it, by the time you enter into the Believer's
Conference, it will be abundance. Right? It will
be flow in abundance. You will not struggle.
To flow. It will be abundant. So this week, you
should take time out as we are fasting. You take
time out to pray. Take time out to really sit
down and hear. Study the scripture. Pay attention.
You are just zoning your mind. So that when the
word starts coming next week, you'll be catching
it very fast. You'll be catching it. Your signal
will be very high. You'll be catching it very
fast. Right? You'll not be waiting. You know
that sometimes. There are some teachings that
they give us. For a long time, if you don't hear
that teaching, when the teaching comes, right?
Although you have believed, you start, is that
the scripture? Your mind will start doing that.
Instead of you catching it immediately and running
with it, you start. So now is the time to prepare
your mind. So let's prepare our mind so that
we can receive in abundance. So that the expectation,
we can see when God is fulfilling it. Are we
together? We can see when. God fulfilled it,
but they didn't see it. They translated it to
be something else. So in our meeting, God will
fulfill what he has said he will do. Praise God.
How many of us believe that God will fulfill
what he has said he will do? Can we shout glory?
Glory, yes. God will fulfill what he has said
he will do. God will fulfill. So God gave them
what to build expectation on in the communication
of what he will do. The kingdom of priests, a
holy nation. For us, it's greater works. Greater
works than we have done. We keep doing greater
works. And I said, Hebrews 10. Okay, so we can
just add Hebrews 11 .10. Of course, I think I
quoted Matthias. I mentioned Matthias. I'm going
to go to Hebrews 11 .10 just to see the case
of Abraham. Hebrews 11 .10. And I waited for
the city which has foundations, whose builder
and maker, is God. This was Abraham looking forward
to, you know that thing that we see, a holy nation,
royal priesthood, the church. Moses wrote that.
Abraham looked forward to this city. So, did
God, can we say, that that has been said, did
God fulfill it? Yes, he did. Although Israel,
there are many people who didn't believe, God
still fulfilled what he did. So, It's not just
about us. When God says he will do something,
he will do it. So what we see here is that Abraham
looked forward to that city whose builder and
maker is God. And God did it. God did it. So
majorly what Abraham was looking for was what
God communicated to Israel. It wasn't something
new for the first time in the scriptures. What
Moses communicated to Israel is what Abraham
waited for. He saw it, he received it in typologies.
So good. So we see that the expectation, the
hope, which is faith in what God will do, and
it is in and after the meeting. So we have to
have faith in what God will do in that meeting
and after that meeting. So it's not just that
we'll finish charismas on Saturday, right? And
we're like, okay, it's over and we just... No,
no, no, no. We know that we carry that... Throughout,
until the next believer's meeting. Until the
next believer's meeting. So, while you are receiving,
right? While you are receiving, be thinking of,
Lord, for the next one year, before we come back
to this, okay, to this camp again, just as it
came to my mind, right? Before we come back to
this camp again, before we come back to this
gathering again, right? There are things that
I'm looking forward to you doing, using me for.
Greater works beyond measures. Greater works
beyond measures. So we look forward to what God
will do in that meeting and after that meeting.
In that meeting and after that meeting. And when
we go to Exodus 20, we saw that they didn't believe,
right? They didn't believe. Yet, God still established
the church. God still established a nation. And
the whole earth is actually His. Now, if you
go to that verse. Verse 5 of 19, it said, for
the old head is mine, right? So God will fill
the earth with his word. He will fill the earth
with people who have believed. He will fill the
old heads with his people, his nation. So this
is what we see. And we can also bring another
gathering, right? And see, for those ones, we
know that, okay, they said, lest we die, right?
They said, lest we die. But let's go to Acts.
Let's go to Acts. We'll see the same pattern.
Of God's intention. Right? And Jesus communicated
that. Acts chapter 1. Acts chapter 1. Acts chapter
1. From verse 4. Acts chapter 1 from verse 4.
A meeting where people believe. They have expectation.
They receive. And they throw. Right? As compared
to the ones with Moses and the wilderness. Most
of them did not. And being assembled together
with them, commanded them that they should not
depart from Jerusalem. They commanded them that
they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait
for the promise of the Father, which saith he,
which saith he, ye have heard of me. For John
truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. And
when they therefore... We have come together.
They asked of him, you see, saying, Lord, will
thou at this time restore again the kingdom of
Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for
you to know the times or season which the fire
hath put in its power. Again, Jesus now explained
more clearly. For ye shall receive power after
the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall
be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and all
Judea and in Samaria. and onto the uttermost
parts of the earth, right? Onto the uttermost
parts of the earth. So we see that in this meeting,
the communication of what God wants to do in
the life of the disciples was clear, right? Also
God's intention was clear. Jesus said they will
receive what? Power, right? In the other one,
they were calling them into salvation. In this
one, it says they will receive power, right?
When? the Holy Ghost hath come upon them, and
they will be witnesses unto him. Now, this is
God's intention. Now, we see that in chapter
2, it was fulfilled. Again, God's intention fulfilled.
A people waiting, a people having expectation,
looking forward to receiving power. Right? We'll
see it from that verse 1 of chapter 2. He said,
when the day of the Holy Ghost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place. Right?
This is different from the other ones that said,
well, don't speak to us, lest we die. That's
disorder. Your leader said, God will give you
life. You said, no, it is death. Now, that's
disorder. But here, he said they were in one
accord. It means that they were all expecting.
Right? They were looking forward to this power.
They were looking forward to what God would do.
They were looking forward to receiving. Right?
And suddenly, there came a sound. from heaven
as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the
house where they were sitting. And there appeared
unto them tongues like of fire, and it sat upon
each of them. And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them all tongues. So they
were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began
to speak with other tongues. as the Spirit gave
them order. Now, they could have said, what is
this? Let's look at how it is put in verse 2.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as
a rushing mighty wind, and it all filled the
house where they were sitting. Now, so this kind
of description, we have a couple of them in Acts.
Acts chapter 4 gave the same illustration. Let's
go to Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 4, from verse
29. It said, And now, Lord, behold their threatenings.
and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness
they may speak thy word, by stretching forth
thy hand to him, and that signs and wonders may
be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
When they had prayed, the place was shaking where
they were assembled together, and they were filled
with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak.
they began to speak the word of the Lord with
boldness. So again, mighty rushing wind, right?
In that picture, here we see the place where
they were was shaking, right? Just as they saw
the lightnings and thunders and all of that,
right? In the house of apostles, we've seen this
figure, this picture again, painted here, something
like a mighty rushing wind. So it means something
actually happened in that garden. Something happened
in that garden. So the place where they were,
they were shaking. However, in all the shaking
and in all the migration, they were not distracted.
They focused on the expectation of what they
wanted. Now, at 4 .30, what were they expecting?
They were expecting that they would be able to
have boldness to speak the word. Did it happen?
Yes. So they spoke the word much more with all
boldness. That was their prayer, right? They
prayed and they received that. And they spoke
the word much more. Here they were waiting to
receive. power, right? They were waiting to receive
power and they did receive the power. So, the
communication of what God is doing or what God
wanted to do in the disciples' life was fulfilled.
They've been together in one accord, in one focusing
and waiting to receive power. Now, another thing
we will see there is that they also had leadership,
okay? They also had leadership, right? They also
had leadership. We go to 2 verse 14. 2 verse
14, Acts. But Peter's standing up with the 11.
So, from verse 12, it says, And they were all
amazed and were in doubt, saying to one another,
What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These
men are full of new wine. Right? These men are
full of new wine. And as a result of that, right,
one of them could just pop up and say, well,
you think we are full of new wine? You know,
let me show you the new wine or do something
very interesting. But nobody responded. But Peter
stood up, right? Peter stood up, standing up
with the leaven, lifted up his voice and said
unto them, Ye men of Judea and all that dwell
at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and akin
unto my word, for these are not drunken. So,
fulfillment of God's intention in the life of
the disciples, in the life of everyone who will
believe, right, as part of identification with
them. So, we see that in this context. So, they
had leadership. There was an expectation. There
was God's intention, expectation. They believed.
There was leadership. They were together. in
one accord, right? They were together in one
accord. So this is what we see, right? This is
what we see in these meetings. So let's see.
One other thing that we can expect, one thing
that we should expect much more is that which
we started seeing from Acts 4. Yes, from Acts
4. Let's start seeing. So as we now, as those
that have believed, as those that have the Spirit
of God, as those that walk and lead in Christ.
Now, what should be our expectation as we come
to this meeting? One of the expectations is that
we will be filled with the Spirit, right? We
will be filled with the Spirit. It means we will
be stirred up in the Spirit. I think Pastor Victor
gave sufficient time to teach that, that we can
be stirred up again. While we have been filled,
we receive. Right? We can't just tear it up.
And in some places, the Bible, in the book of
Acts, used the same word, filled. Right? To refer
to the stirring of the Spirit of God within the
believer. Within the believer. Now, it's happened
to some people, the aspect of being filled, but
I think I would just like to focus on only the
one in the book of Acts. There was one in Luke
where we have the case of Elizabeth, we have
the case of Zechariah, but they didn't have the
indwelling, but still an example in the Spirit.
An explanation of, you know, something's tearing
up to being filled. So, let's focus on Acts,
right? Acts chapter 4, Acts chapter 4, verse
8. Acts chapter 4, verse 8. Then Peter filled
with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers
of the people and elders of Israel. Right? Now,
this is Peter. It says, Peter filled with the
Holy Ghost. The same Peter that stood up in Acts
chapter 1. Again, it says filled with Holy Ghost.
Now, it's not like he's just receiving power
again, but it means that there is a filling.
It means he's full of the Holy Ghost. That's
another word for it. Full of the Holy Ghost means
what is inside of him, right? He's full of it.
It means there's a stirring within him. And when
there is a stirring of the Holy Ghost, being
filled with the Holy Ghost, we see several great
manifestations. So in this meeting, we will be
filled with the Holy Ghost. We will be full of
the Holy Ghost. Just like Peter was full of the
Holy Ghost in this day. And what happens? They
speak. Consistently when they are full of the
Holy Ghost, they speak, right? They speak. They
speak in tongues. They prophesy. They teach the
word. When they are full of the Holy Ghost, this
is what happens. So in that meeting, as we come
together, we will be full of the Holy Ghost.
So what did he do? If this day, and we this day
be examined of the good deeds done by the important
man. So he gave an explanation. But be it known
unto all and to all the people of Israel that
by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, whom ye have
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even
by him doeth this man stand here before you whole.
So a miracle has taken place. They're questioning
him. He wants to have an answer. And he was full
of the Holy Ghost, filled with the Holy Ghost,
and he's paid. Okay, that's after Acts 2. Now
Acts 6, 5, let's see. So we will be full of the
Holy Ghost. Everyone here will be full of the
Holy Ghost and we will walk in diverse manifestations,
demonstrations. That's chapter 5 and 6, right?
And the same please the whole multitude. And
they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the
Holy Spirit. And Philip, Procurus, Nicanor, Timon,
Parmenas, and Nicholas, a proselyte from Antioch.
So men full of the Holy Ghost. Now, it seems
to be that These people, let me put it this way,
they are barely out of the Holy Ghost, if there's
anything like that. It's like these ones on the
spot, regular. When you come close to them, let's
put it the way we used to, they are always on
fire. They don't have a coming down. Let's put
it that way, right? They're always full of the
Holy Ghost, full of faith, right? This word,
full of faith and the Holy Spirit, means that
there is no room for, there is no room, let me
put it this way, there is no room for the flesh.
There's no joking around. There's no playing
around. When you come around them, you get the
word, you get the impactation that you need,
right? And those are the people they found to
put in charge of this work, this distribution
and this responsibility of Sherwood. Men full
of doling. So we can also say that whatever you'll
be doing that day, whether you manage to be in
media, you should know that you should be full
of the Holy Ghost. Right? If you carry a camera,
be full of, if you know it before, drop it and
be full of the Holy Ghost. Right? If you drop
the camera and do what you should do or a point
a certain time where you quickly do it and drop
it. So whether we are in media, we are in ocean,
we are cooking, we are doing, whatever we are
doing, make sure that you are part of that experience
of being full of the Holy Ghost. Make sure you
are part of that experience of being full of
the Holy Ghost. Now we see 7 verse 55, at 7 verse
55 that, A dying man, right? A man that was,
you know, let's read. That was the case of Stephen.
Now, verse 54. When they heard these things,
they were caught to their hearts and they gnashed
on him with their teeth. Verse 54, sorry. And
verse 5. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost,
looked obstinately into heaven and saw the glory
of God and Jesus standing on the right hand.
And he said, behold, I see, see, saying something
again. I see the heavens open. and the Son of
Man standing on the right hand of God. Again,
full of the legos. Even at the points where people
were against him. So, we can be full of the legos
at all times. Even much more as we come together
in this meeting. As we come together in this
meeting. Acts 11 verse 24. 11 verse 24. For I
was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith,
and... great many people were added to the Lord,
right? So I think we need to read a little bit
of that. Let's move from verse 21. And the hand
of the Lord was with them, and a great number
believed and turned unto the Lord. Then the tithes
of this thing came unto the ears of the church,
which was in Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas
that he should go as far as Antioch. who, when
he came, had seen the grace of God, was glad
and exalted them all, that with purpose of heart
they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a
good man, full of the Holy Ghost and faith. And
much people were added unto the Lord. Right?
Full of the Holy Ghost. I think the last one
is just Acts 13, verse 52. Acts 13. Verse 52.
Scripture. Acts 7, verse 52. And the disciples
were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost. Now,
what happened? Why were they filled with joy
and the Holy Ghost in this country? Let's see.
Verse 48. It says, And when the Gentiles, I think
we read this on Sunday. So when the Gentiles
heard this, they were glad and glorified the
word of the Lord. And as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed. And the word. of the
Lord was published throughout the region. But
the Jews teared up the devout and honorable women
and the chief men of the city and raised persecution
against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out
of their courts. But they shook off the dust
of their feet against them and came unto Iconium.
And the disciples were filled with joy and the
Holy Ghost. So again here, disciples they met
were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost. So they
were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost. So this
is our expectation for the believers meeting.
This is what we should expect to see. Now, when
they are filled with joy, right? When we are
full of the Holy Spirit, we speak, we give the
word of wisdom, we give the word of knowledge,
we give the signing of spirit. We work much more
with clarity and accuracy in the gifts. of the
Holy Spirit, right? We work much more. We work
much more in clarity and accuracy in giving.
So we should expect this. We should expect this.
All right, so what are a few counsel, right,
that we should give before we pray? We pray in
a few minutes, right, to stay ourselves up even
this evening. What are a few counsel that we
can give as we look forward to being full of
the Holy Ghost, as we look forward to receiving
the Word, as we look forward to being impacted,
as we look forward to following instructions
that pastors will be leading, as we look forward
to following the leading, what are the things
that we should start preparing for? Now, from
now, you should start avoid sleeping late. Okay?
Start avoid sleeping late. Let your, whether
it's your sleeping clock or I don't know what
they call it, let it know that you start waking
up early and you'll be coming back by five. So
you need to program yourself. You need to start
preparing your mind for that. You need to stop
sleeping late. Reduce eating too much. So that
you're not being kind of this one's and you'll
be desiring food to eat. You'll be longing. No,
no, no, no. It's a long ride. And I want to believe
the market is far from here. Farther than where
we used to be. Oh, this one. Maybe we'll lock
the door. When you're coming, there's no going
out. So let's, let's, let's. Now we are waiting.
As you are waiting, your body will be adjusting.
I know day one fasting, you know, it might be
very odd. This is day three now or day four,
right? So, day three. Okay, okay. Pastor started
on last week. He just fell off in between. I
wanted to ask his God. It happened like that.
All right. So, we are in day three, right? So,
your body should have adjusted so that when you
come for that meeting, You are not, of course,
there will be lunchtime. But before that, you
don't get strained out. In fact, you can reduce
what you eat in that route. If they give you
portion, eat half. So that you don't, you remain
full. You know, you remain full. All right. I'm
just trying to say that we should, you know,
pay attention, right, to what we do. Our conduct
in the God. Set time to pray. Set time to pray
in the course of this week. Set time to pray.
Don't be fasting without praying. If you're fasting
without praying, it's what? Hunger strike. When
you fast and you don't pray, you don't do anything,
it's hunger strike. So please pray. Study the
word, right? Study the word. Study the meetings
that we have, all the previous teachings that
we've gone through. Study them. Pay attention
to them. Now this is you setting, like practically
setting expectation now. Right? This is you practically
setting expectation. You not ignoring God's intention
in that meeting. Right? You not ignoring. God's
intention in that meeting. You're not ignoring
God's intention in that meeting. So we're not
distracted. We are set. Our mind is set to receive.
We are ready to receive. We are not like those
of the wilderness, but we are much more those
that are ready, right, to partake in the move
of God. Now, this is the move. There will be
a move of God, right? It means God's leading,
God's direction. God telling us what to do, clarity,
breaking things, and remolding us in ways that
will help us to do the work of ministry much
more. Can we be on our feet just for the next
five minutes that we have? Can we just pray?
Can we just tear ourselves up in the Holy Ghost
just for this next five minutes? It's part of
the way of setting our expectation, what you
want to see in that meeting. We appreciate you
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