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right in. And He said to them, go into all the
world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He who believes and baptizes will be saved. For
he who does not believe will condemn. And these
signs will follow those who believe. In my name
they will cast out the monks, they will stick
with new drugs, they will take up starlings,
and if they drink anything deadly, it will by
no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the
sick, and they will recover. So then, after the
Lord has spoken to them, he was received up into
heaven, and sat down sat down at the right hand
of God, and they went out, preaching everywhere,
and the Lord came with them, confirming their
words through their accompanying signs. Amen.
John chapter 20. John chapter 20 verse 21. So
Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As the
Father has sent me, I send you also. Praise the
Lord. And when He has said this to them, He breathed
on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven.
If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.
Amen. Luke chapter 24, verse 25 -27. Luke chapter
24. So, this Luke gives us a more broader...
a account of what happened, and he said to them,
O foolish ones, and slow hands, and he said to
them, O foolish ones, and slow hands, believe
in all that the prophet has spoken, the rest
26. But know the Christ who has suffered these
things, and to enter his glory. And beginning
at Moses and in all the prophets, he has founded
to them, in all the scriptures, the thing called
signing himself. Praise the Lord. And then verse
44. Then he said to them, These are the words
which I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that all things must be fulfilled, which are
written in the law of Moses the prophet, and
in the Psalms consigning me. Praise the Lord!
And we said that Jesus, our King, speaking things
not of his own, but the things that we are reading,
praise the Lord, he didn't come and think and
say, you know what, when we were doing our sound
meter thing, which was two weeks ago, we were
talking about, you know, we were just chatting
about some of the healing that Jesus did. And
he showed so many things in those things, in
those healing times. And we were saying that
he came to heal, right? But in the place of healing,
there were times where He cried. There were times
when he did not cry. Praise the Lord! And he
also prayed. He knew he could heal the person,
but he didn't just come and say, you know what,
this is just a small thing, you know. You know,
like what we see in our family these days. He
was not trying to impress anybody. Praise the
Lord! Some of the things that he was doing, he
was not trying to get the attention of men in
the negative path. to bring glory to himself.
The things that he taught and the things that
he did, he did according to the Scriptures. Praise
the Lord! The things he did were to fulfill the
Scriptures. In Luke 24, he said that all things
must be fulfilled in the law of Moses and the
prophet and in the Psalms. So some of the things
he did were to fulfill the things that were written.
Praise the Lord! And we're going to see a lot
of the things that he did for fulfillment of
the things that were written. He didn't come
to take glory for himself. He didn't come to
show them things. But he came to do that which
was written. We said that Jesus was not teaching
from Matthew, Luke, and John. Praise the Lord!
He was not teaching from Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John. He was teaching from Genesis to Malachi.
Praise the Lord! He was teaching from Genesis
to Malachi. He wasn't teaching. Matthew was all
written. Mark was not written. So, he was teaching
them from Malachi. In verse 27 of that Luke chapter
24, he says that he expounded, or he expounded
to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning
himself. Praise the Lord! He expounded to them
the things, to them in all the scriptures, the
things on standing himself. So what he was doing
there is that he was interpreting the scriptures,
the things from standing himself. That was to
expound, is to explain, is to interpret the scriptures,
to give the scriptures meaning. Praise the Lord!
Is to give the scriptures meaning. The scriptures
have meaning. Praise the Lord! The fact that
maybe you read it and do not understand it, or
it's confusing, does not mean it does not have
a proper interpretation. Hallelujah. It does
not mean it does not have a proper interpretation.
That means that the Bible or Bible teaching requires
interpretation. Praise the Lord. It is not something
that you just quote and quote and quote and quote.
It demands an interpretation. It has a meaning.
So even Jesus did not say just receiving. Praise
the Lord. He took his time to explain the scriptures.
He took his time to explain The scriptures. Bible
teaching requires interpretation. So to teach
the Bible is to interpret it. Praise the Lord.
To teach the Bible is to interpret it. It has
its original grammar. Praise the Lord. It has
its original context. Praise the Lord. It has
its original theology. Praise the Lord. So to
teach it requires interpretation. You don't just
spread it and put it in your life. credit and
put in any situation I run with it. Praise the
Lord! I look for scriptures. So, this Bible,
you know, one of the things that I do as a work
is that I rent houses, sell houses, and I manage
houses. So, this Bible, I got it from one of
the houses that I I managed. So the owner gave
me permission to take it because he sold the
house to somebody and the person asked him to
manage it. So if you check in these scriptures,
I like the scripture because it has a new international
version and then it has two scriptures side by
side. That's why I like them. So if you check
these scriptures, you will see that a lot of
the things that were marked were things in sound.
The things that you look at and say, wow, this
is for me, I can roll with this. Praise the Lord!
A lot of the things that are sacral, mad, it's
just, you know, you will not find anything mad
necessarily in the New Testament, just in the
Old Testament, in the Psalms. Just think of finding
the blessing, you know, the promises of God.
Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! So, you have to
interpret the scriptures. Praise the Lord! I
bring that example to say that... Bible studies
or Bible teaching requires interpretation. What
is God saying? Praise the Lord. What does God
mean by the things that He's saying? The Bible
in its entirety is God's intervention into man's
affairs. What is God saying? Praise the Lord.
So you need to find out what is God's intervention.
What is God doing there? Praise the Lord. What
is it about? What is? the theology? What is the
grammar? What is the context of what you're reading?
What does it address? Praise the Lord! What does
it address? Because, like I said, if it just
applies to your life, you might be misinterpreting
what it says. If you don't understand what it's
saying, what is God's intervention? What does
God mean? Are you just straight up interpreting
and putting it in your life, you might be misinterpreting
the scriptures. The context is important. We
have been teaching time and time again. I want
to say this to people that sometimes when you
see the way we teach, it's not because, you know,
we're trying to sound very intelligent or trying
to sound or make you just wow, oh wow, this person
knows the scriptures. No, we're trying to let
you know. how important it is. Part of the things
that you first know as a child of God is how
to interpret the Bible. It's so important in
your life so that you are not deceased. Praise
the Lord. Some of us, it took us years and years
and years because we were thinking that God was
angry at us. Praise the Lord. Because somebody
said this is what the scripture says. Praise
the Lord. Or we were doing some practices for
years and years because somebody misinterpreted
the scriptures, and they taught it to us, and
we ran with it for so much of our lives. Praise
the Lord! So, it is important that you know these
things. Also, when we begin to learn these things,
even for me, for example, when I begin to pay
attention to what the Bible is saying, I might
not have known the things of the spirit or understood
it, but when I see somebody start misinterpreting
the Bible, or start saying what he's all saying,
my ear just stopped. Because I know this is not
it. That's not the way I was taught. It's the
same thing that we're trying to do to you, that
you understand the interpretation of scriptures
so that you are not deceived. Praise the Lord!
I remember, I was listening, I sent us a video.
Someone was talking about Philadelphia and he
said it's a state or it's a place in the United
States. Praise the Lord! The preacher was saying
that Philadelphia is a place in the United States.
We know there is a place in the United States,
but in the Scriptures, there was no United States
at the time. Praise the Lord! It is somewhere
around you. The place that you meet is somewhere
around you. Hallelujah! So it is important that
we pay attention to this, so that we don't misinterpret
the Scriptures or apply them in our lives, and
it will take us years to recover. And one of
the things that... The wrong interpretation,
thus to us, is that we run with it for such a
long time. You know, there are some things that
are happening online, people vibe to it, a train.
Like a train has a window, it doesn't go too
far. But if you begin to apply misinterpretations
of structures in your life, it will take you
years. It's on the train. You will take it into
your life, you will practice it for years. And
it will not be of any effect to you. Praise the
Lord. You will be missing all the things of God.
Praise the Lord. It took me a while to discover
that God can speak to me. Praise the Lord. My
God can speak. I was so excited. So it means
that when I pray, that God can speak to me. Praise
the Lord. It means that I can hear the voice
of God, or I can hear God for somebody else.
Praise the Lord. So I'm not telling a God that
I need to come. I remember there is a pattern
of prayers. And when you come in the morning,
you begin to see a type of prayer. It is so mechanical.
It is so payload in such a way that if you say
something wrong, your fellow is like, I don't
know, that prayer, you didn't do it very well.
Praise the Lord. It is all because of lack of
understanding of what the scriptures says. So,
kindness is very important. So you take things
out of context when you misinterpret things.
Praise the Lord. So context is important. The
context of every statement is what is God intervening
or what is God doing? What is God solving? What
is the problem that He is solving? What is the
situation? So interpretation goes that way. So
we see now what Jesus was teaching. He was teaching
from the Old Testament. Praise the Lord. He was
teaching from Genesis to Malachi. So another
thing about interpretation is that you need to
know or you need to hear what the audience is
hearing. Praise the Lord. A lot of times when
we are trying to explain some difficult matters
to us, we say that the people there were not
conscious. Praise the Lord. The people there,
at that moment, when Jesus was speaking, or the
apostles were speaking, they were not confused.
They understood what He was saying. Praise the
Lord! They understood what He was saying, or
if sometimes they don't understand what He is
saying, He will explain to them again what He
is saying. Praise the Lord! So, we need to understand
as well, or we need to hear what the experience
is hearing. Praise the Lord! It means that you
have understanding. That's what it means. You
need to hear what they are saying. If you don't
hear what they are hearing, you will likely misinterpret
it. Praise the Lord! You will hear the wrong
thing. You need to hear what they are hearing.
So, we said that Jesus was not reading from Romans,
he was not reading from Ephesians, he was not
reading from Luke, he was not reading from Acts,
but rather was reading from Genesis to Malachi.
So this is very fundamental in the way to understand
what the audience is hearing, to know that what
he's teaching them is not in Luke, it's not in
Matthew, it's not in... So in that verse 45,
verse 45 of Luke chapter 4, he said, And we said
that this place where he said he opened their
understanding, it's not a magic trick. It wasn't
that he laid hands on them and they had understanding.
Praise the Lord! I mean, that's not the way you,
when you pass your exam or when you understand
a course, hands were not laid on you. Praise
the Lord! When they are teaching you in class
and somebody has understanding and somebody does
not have, it's not because the other person was
laid hands on. Praise the Lord! It's because
as they were teaching, the person was following.
and the person understood what they were saying.
So it was the same thing that Jesus was doing.
He was teaching and their understanding was open.
Praise the Lord! He knew that He gave them a
proper attitude. Praise the Lord! He gave them
a proper attitude. He opened their understanding
that they may understand. The word to understand
is the word sunyami. Right? It's S -U -N -I -E
-N -I. Sunyami. right in the Greece. It simply
means he read it together. Praise the Lord. It
means he read it together. Which means that you
must read Genesis to Malachi together. Then read
Matthew, Luke and John together. Praise the Lord.
So what Jesus was doing, he wasn't quoting one
place and just told them, no, he was reading
everything together. Oh, so it means that that
prophet or that What Moses said and what this
prophet is saying, they were saying the same
thing. Praise the Lord! To hear me, it means
that he read it together. But for us to have
an understanding of the scriptures, we also need
to read it together. Right? We need to read Genesis
to Malachi together. Then we read Matthew, Luke
and John together. And then the epistles that
we have, which is the doctrine of the church.
Praise the Lord! The explanation of the same
books. So the pieces are the explanation of the
same books, of the things that were written.
Praise the Lord. We read everything together.
So when you say, for example, somebody might
be arguing with you and say, the Bible says,
right? And the person went and quote one please.
That's not what the Bible says. Praise the Lord.
So when you say the Bible says, what you're saying
is that Genesis to Malachi states Matthew to
Revelation says, praise the Lord, you are bringing
the entirety of the scriptures in your explanation.
Hallelujah. So when you say the Bible says, right,
you are reading the whole thing. What does the
Bible say? It means Genesis to Revelation. That
is what the Bible says. So don't take a statement
in Psalms, like I said, right, and say, But read
it through, read it all together, read it through.
You read through the scriptures to know what
the Bible says. Praise the Lord! For example,
you think about some controversial or contentious
topics, right? You don't go to one place and
say, but it says there that you shall not do
this. Praise the Lord! You cannot just move on
to that one verse when you've thought several
times. You cannot hold on to our one verse and
make a doctrine out of it. You need to read it
through. Praise the Lord! So, when it says that
he opened the understanding, Jesus was reading
through. They also, like some of us, where we
were before, also had this misunderstanding.
They also had places where they picked up things
and they ran with it. Praise the Lord! So, what
he did was that he read it through. Praise the
Lord! He read the entirety of it. So, just like
a lot of the pastors and some of the people that
we have here are professors, right? They didn't
become professors because they did only graduate
in law. I said, this is enough. You can call
me a professor. I'm a voice in this field. Praise
the Lord! No! They had to study through. They
had to go through the training. Praise the Lord!
So, when you say the Bible says, You have to
go through it. You read the Bible through, to
know what the Bible is saying. Now, Matthew 28
verse 19, when we read, part of our conversation
was that God has given us a mandate to go and
teach, to go and make disciples of all nations.
Verse 19, He said, Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations. baptizing them in the name of
the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Last time, I was talking to us about how important
it is that He said, "...baptizing them in the
name of the Father, the Son, and of the Spirit."
And we're also talking about what that baptism
was, or what the meaning of that baptism was.
He said, to make disciples of all nations, right?
To make disciples, we said He's a Greek word
for Makathio. Praise the Lord! That is, to make
a scholar. Praise the Lord! To make a scholar.
To make a scholar. To make a student of the Scriptures.
To make them. So when Jesus, so Jesus was not,
so he's in Genesis from the beginning. We see,
right, is that he's... He wants people that are
made students of the Scriptures. So, he's saying
that we should go and make disciples, right?
Make them students of the Scriptures, people
that understand the Scriptures. Praise the Lord!
The truth should tell us what? That you shall
know the truth, and the truth will do what? It
will make you free. If you don't know the truth,
you'll be living in bondage. Praise the Lord!
And some of those bondages are bondages of teachings.
A lot of them are bondages of the things that
we have been taught, or the things that we have
refused to draw, or the things that we have refused
to unlearn, to make a scholar, to make a student.
So it therefore means that the Bible, like the
way academic books are, the Bible transmits virtual
realities and values. Praise the Lord! So, when
he says you should make a student, how do you
make a student? How do you make a nursing student?
You go through four years of studies. Praise
the Lord! You go through four years of studies.
There are some places, five years of studies.
Praise the Lord! That's how you know a distressing
is quantified to be a nurse. Hallelujah! So,
how do you make a Bible student? Praise the Lord!
He says what? Do you trust me? Right? The Bible,
it transmits spiritual realities. Praise the
Lord. The person becomes the scholar of the scriptures.
It's a book that transmits spiritual truths and
realities, spiritual truths and values. It means
it must be read and understood, or it means it
must be read, studied, and understood. It is
not a magazine. Praise the Lord. It is not something
that you just read. and the three lines, praise
the Lord. Something that you just read, you just
say, okay, I had this story and all of that.
It must be read, studied, and understood. Praise
the Lord. So it is because of the lack of studies,
it is because of the lack of proper reading and
understanding that we have teachings that are
not according to scriptures. Praise the Lord.
That we have teachings that are not deep, that
do not explain the things of God, or the mind
of God, or the intentions of God. Praise the
Lord. So, it is not a book of quotes. Praise
the Lord. You don't just say, no, it is something
that is read through. It is not a book of quotes.
It is a book that transmits spiritual reality.
Like I said, it must be read, it must be understood,
and it's linked. You must see it that way. So
to understand the Bible, you must hear it, to
make the disciples a student. So one of the things
that you learn as a student is how. Praise the
Lord. It's how. Some teachers don't like questions,
okay? One of the things you learn as a student
is how, but how is that? How did that come about?
Praise the Lord. It's part of the values of a
good student, the thing that a good student must
have. How did that come about? Praise the Lord.
How is that a star nation? You must learn the
how of the spiritual, right? the how to read
the scriptures. You must learn how to read the
scriptures. Praise the Lord. You must read, read,
so you must learn how to learn the scriptures.
How to read the scriptures. How to teach the
scriptures. You must learn that, right? As a
student of the scriptures, you must learn that.
So let's focus on something In that Matthew 28,
verse 20. So teaching them to observe all things
that have commanded you, and know I'm with you
always, even to the end of the age, even to the
end of the age. That word, teaching them, as
we said several times, is the word didascho in
the Greek. Right? Didascho in the Greek. Which
is, we said it has a body of... It's from a body
of walls. It has aloes. It has alia. Right? It's
from a body of walls. Right? So, let's focus
on one of it, which is didache, or didahane.
D -A, sorry, D -I -D -A -C -H -E. D -I -D -A
-C -H -E. So, it's the same word that Jesus used
in Matthew 7, from verse 28 to 29, for teaching.
Matthew 7. And so it was, when Jesus had ended
this thing, that the people were astonished at
His teaching. Praise the Lord. And He took them
as one, having authority, not as the scribe.
Praise the Lord! Not as the scribe. It's the
word for teaching there we see there in chapter
28. Right? Remember, this was when Jesus had
finished the salmon on the mount. Praise the
Lord! The people were astonished at his doctrine.
It's also the same word as doctrine. Right? That
word teaching there. The same word as also doctrine.
Praise the Lord! We see that in the New Testament
most of the time. Remember? We also talked about
this the last time, right? That these people
have had the teachings of the Pharisees and the
Pharisees and the scribes. They have experience
of their teaching. Praise the Lord. They have
experience of their teaching. So also, it's so
many people that you will encounter when you
want to explain the Bible. They have experience
of teaching. Praise the Lord. They have written
books. You cannot assume that this person doesn't
know. They know some things. They know a lot
of things. Praise the Lord! They have been taught
as well. So, these people had experience of the
teachings of the Pharisees, right? They are familiar
with it. They know the way they are taught. But
then, they were astonished at Jesus' teaching,
right? They were astonished. They felt something
about His teaching. Wow, this is different! This
is different from everything that we have been
hearing. Praise the Lord! They were as strong
as teaching. They know the way they strive to
help them. So we said that teaching is a word
for teaching. It means a mode of teaching. There
is a way Jesus taught them. There is a mode of
teaching. I explained this briefly the last time
I was teaching. That word teaching is a mode
of teaching. They were astonished at this mode
of teaching. He did not teach them as the Pharisees.
Praise the Lord. Now, don't get this wrong. When
you say the mode of teaching, somebody might
be thinking that Jesus was jumping up and down.
Praise the Lord. Or he was shouting. Or maybe
he was slow with his voice. He was, because you
see that word, he says as one that has authority,
right? So you might start thinking that, oh,
Jesus was shouting. You know the way, I think
the former president of psychology stopped when
it comes to graduation. He used to raise his
voice like one of those Haitian people, right?
He used to be shouting, shouting. People would
be so hyped. That's not the way Jesus was. That's
not the mode of teaching. Oh, that's not the
mode of teaching. Praise the Lord. He was teaching
them. through the structures. Praise the Lord.
So again, remember that Jesus also was warning
them about the teachings of the Pharisees. He
also warned them, beware of the leavens of the
Pharisees. He tells them, beware of the teachings
of the Pharisees. Praise the Lord. So he was
also warning them. So he was not just teaching
them, or he had a mode of teaching, but he was
also warning them against some type of teaching,
a particular type of teaching that people are
bringing. Praise the Lord! I thank God for the
internet, personally. I think it's the doing
of many and the undoing of a lot. Praise the
Lord, because you need to see the things that
people have in the inside of them. You see them,
and you see a lot of the gifts and the wonderful
things that people do have in the inside of them.
Praise the Lord! He wrenched them. as well about
the mode of teaching of the Pharisees. So one
of the things that you know, one of the things,
one of the ways in which you can know false teaching
is the way it is taught. Praise the Lord. One
of the ways you can know false teaching is the
way it is taught. Right? One of the things that
is done in the, in false teaching is that scriptures
are lifted out of context. It's very crucial.
criteria, praise the Lord, of false teaching,
is that scriptures are listed out of context,
to say what the person wants is to say. Praise
the Lord. That's one of the ways in which you
will know false teachings. Remember in Matthew
chapter 18, right? In Matthew chapter 19, when
they came and they were quoting to Jesus, talking
about the woman, the adult trust woman, right?
They came and they were quoting the Chronicles
of the 24th verse 1. Jesus said to him, you are
reading dishonesty. What they were reading was
dishonest. They were not reading it properly.
He said to them, let's go to the beginning. He
said, in the beginning, it was not so. They came
and they were quoting scriptures for him to push
an agenda. And he said, you are reading dishonesty.
I think we talked about this as well. You are
reading dishonesty. In the beginning, it was
not so. Praise the Lord! I think I have some
people that I buy books for. I've looked at them.
They are not writing. Praise the Lord! Please,
if I buy a book for you, I'll show you how to
write it. It's not you paying me back. So, he
says, in the beginning, it was not so. He says,
take it to context. Don't list it out of it.
Take it to the context in the beginning. Praise
the Lord! He took them back to Genesis chapter
1 and chapter 2. In the beginning, it was not
true. The same thing went said and came, and
he was quoting Psalms for him. Praise the Lord,
he was quoting Psalms 91 to him. Right? Now,
it's the same thing that Jesus said to him. Jesus
went and said, let's go to Deuteronomy chapter
6. Praise the Lord. Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter
6. So, even in the real testament, the structures
were not perfect. For you to properly understand
them, you cannot run with 14. Praise the Lord!
You must also read the Old Testament together
to understand what it is saying, because as they
say something, as they are reading Deuteronomy,
Jesus is taking them to Genesis. As the devil
comes and is bringing some, Jesus is also taking
them to Deuteronomy. Praise the Lord! So which
means that even the Old Testament, the quoting
of the text, without the other Old Testament
book, is also misinterpretation. Praise the Lord.
It's also misinterpretation. You might be quoting
it out of context. Praise the Lord. So we are
quoting one part without thinking about what
the other part is saying. You might be quoting
it out of context. Praise the Lord. So we see
that Jesus was also doing that and he's the examples
that we learn. He took him back to Deuteronomy
chapter 6. They say take this statement or take
this your statement statement to the context,
right? Take it to the full of it. So context
is not just in the book. It's not just In the
chapter, it is in the entire Bible book. Praise
the Lord! We said that context, there is the
context of the Bible. Praise the Lord! It's not
just in the chapter, or it's not just in the
book that you're reading. It's also the entirety
of the Bible. Praise the Lord! So, when you have
the confusion, or when you read something and
you're confused, praise the Lord! And it's not
just that, okay, you're confused. That's good,
right? It means that... You need to also understand
what the Bible is saying. What is the entirety
of the Bible? We're going to see something briefly
about that. You need to put it in the entirety
of the Bible. So Jesus, we saw, has a mode of
teaching. And He transmits this mode of teaching
to His disciples. And His saying words also do
the same. By saying words, teaching them to observe
or the things that have commanded you. He's saying,
transmit this thing that I transmit to you to
other people. Praise the Lord! Transmit it to
other people. Hallelujah! Transmit it to other
people. So he says what? In the beginning, Jesus
was saying, beginning at Moses, right? And in
all the prophets, he read it together. That's
what he's saying. He read them together, as we
say, Tsunemi. Acts, Acts chapter 2 verse 44,
the same word we are still in either here or
there too, Acts chapter 2 verse 42. This one
is great. All this is confusing. And he continues
steadfastly in the apostolic doctrine and in
his fellowship. And in the breaking of bread
and in prayers, praise the Lord, He said, they
continue steadfastly in the apostolic doctrine.
So that doctrine is a word that either he or
she has said, right? In mode of teaching. In
the mode of teaching, you wish the God from what?
From Jesus. Praise the Lord! Do you understand
that? Right? I have an all -close background.
Okay? When I read this, continue steadfastly
in the apostolic doctrine. Right? My head went
somewhere. So let me say that again. It seems
to me we're running out of time. They continuously
said firstly that they are post -Jewish doctrine.
Now, they are post -Jewish doctrine. Where did
they come from? Praise the Lord! Where did they
learn it from? Who did they learn it from? Praise
the Lord! It is a thing also that Christ taught
them, right? That they were teaching. Praise
the Lord! It is the mode of teaching of Christ,
right? It's also the mode of teaching that they
are also teaching. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
So, Jesus warned His disciples to beware of the
mode of teaching of the Pharisees. He also warned
them about the Pharisees. He also warned them
about their mode of teaching. So, it's not just
good enough to beware of the Pharisees. Right?
They say, oh, these guys, they teach false things.
Let's be aware of them. Right? Beware of their
teaching. Beware of how they quote scriptures
out of context. Praise the Lord. It is not a
small matter. Okay? When somebody is quoting
scripture out of context and you're saying anything,
it is not a small matter. It's not something
that you say, oh, you know what? Do you understand?
It is delicate. Praise the Lord. It is delicate.
Beware of how they talk. So it doesn't matter
if this person is your guy, you know, if this
person is your friend, if this person is your
classmate, if this person is your wife, your
husband. Praise the Lord. Beware of how they
handle the sexes. Beware of how you handle the
sexes. Praise the Lord. It's not a small matter.
Beware of how you handle the scriptures. It could
be your uncle or your father, praise the Lord.
Beware of how you handle the scriptures. So,
it is one of the greatest things that we see
or that affects us, or you can even call it a
sin, praise the Lord if you like, right? To handle
the scriptures anyhow. Because what you are doing
is that you're putting somebody 10 years back
or 20 or maybe forever back. Praise the Lord!
If they are not able to hear sound doctrine or
sound teaching, praise the Lord! So many people
have left, you know, I wouldn't say left the
faith, right? So many people have stopped going
to church or stopped being... because maybe somebody
taught something that meant something that was...
or somebody did not properly explain the scriptures
or somebody used the scriptures for their own
personal benefit. Praise the Lord! Or somebody
uses the church or the activities of the church
for their own personal benefit. Praise the Lord!
So, it is not a small matter. It is not something
that you just say, you know what, let's just
keep going. Praise the Lord! It doesn't matter
who the person is. It is dangerous to mishandle
the scriptures. Praise the Lord! It is dangerous
to mishandle the scriptures. One of the things
why it is dangerous is because man would have
a God. Praise the Lord! It doesn't matter if
you are a Christian or not. Man would have a
God. Praise the Lord! Whenever you say you are
an atheist or not, you would have a God. Praise
the Lord! So, when somebody is in the faith,
they need to be taught So, what I also want,
Romans chapter 6, Romans chapter 16 and 17, now
I urge you brethren, not those who cause division
and offences, contrary to the doctrine which
you have learned, which you learn, and avoid
them. Praise the Lord. You see, when he says
contrary to The doctrine, what it means is that
contrary to the mode of teaching, that's what
it means. We looked at that word, we saw what
that word means. Contrary to the mode of teaching.
He said, what should you do? If you do what?
Avoid them. Praise the Lord. Avoid them. You
know somebody, they tell us about what Joseph
did. Praise the Lord. When you know what was
why we begin to cast our eyes on him. What did
he do? He ran away. And we have admonished, and
will continue to admonish, that you do what?
You run away. One of the things you should also
run away from, don't say you're a strong man
or you're a strong man or wrong, no. One of the
things that we also admonish is also to do what?
To avoid, to run away. From what? Mishandling
prior teachings or mishandling of the Spirit,
of God's teachings. To go away from that place.
Beware of it, because it does influence you.
Praise the Lord! What you hear will influence
you. Hallelujah! What you hear will influence
you. We all know this, right? So, when you see
somebody behaving somehow, you know how to think,
but your father did not teach you that. Your
mother did not teach you that. He was hearing
it somewhere. Praise the Lord! Maybe they gave
him a phone, and then he was listening to a lot
of praise. and he's listening to somebody telling
him, you know what? This, this, that, and that.
And you see the person. And he's saying some
things like, this guy, I grew up with you, this
is your doctor, whatever you are, whatever social
thing you're trying to promote, right? I know
you did not learn it from where we grew up. Praise
the Lord. He learned it from somewhere. Praise
the Lord. Somebody informed him. As he was hearing
it, the thing informed him. It triggers something
in the inside of him to think that he's something.
that he is not. There is a lot. So false teaching
or some mode of teaching, right, will affect
you to unflinch it. So how says to avoid it?
Now what is the kind of language that is used
in chapter 6, verse 17, Romans 6, 17? But what
we think That though you were slaves to sin,
yet you obeyed from your heart. That form of
doctrine which you received. That form of doctrine
which you were delivered. That form of doctrine
which you were delivered. Right? It's systemic
teaching. Right? So you have a mode of teaching.
I teach Dr. Juan Meznai. So talking about...
Or you want to put somebody in a leadership position,
leaders as a pastor, or as a cell leader, as
a leader of a team, right? Titus, chapter one,
verse nine. Nine, verse nine. He said, all things
fast, the faithful word as you have been taught,
right? that he may be able, by sound doctrine,
both to exalt and to convict those who contradict.
Praise the Lord. Holding fast the faithful world
as he has been taught. So he needs to hold fast
to what? Right? For anybody who is a leader of
everything in the church, needs to hold fast
to what? To that which he has been taught. So
you cannot just put somebody into any position.
Say, you know what, ah, I like your vibes. Just,
you know, be one of the leads. Your voice is
so good. And you lead our worship team. I think
you're tall, you're handsome, you know, you have
a straight face. And you lead our ushering team.
We need people that are well physically and,
you know, that can command some respect. Praise
the Lord. You don't just put people like that.
It doesn't work like that. Praise the Lord. there
are people that are holding fast to that one
which they were taught in mode of teaching. Right?
So that by what? They may be able by sound doctrine,
they too, right, to be able to teach. That's
what he's saying. That whatever they are teaching
is also very sound. Praise the Lord. So, let
me digress. So it therefore means that the church
is not a place where some people should know
higher than other people. Praise the Lord. A
church, a gathering of believers, shouldn't be,
could be, shouldn't be a place where some people
know more than the others. Praise the Lord. So
it therefore means that the pastor who is teaching,
the person who is ushering, or who is the leader
of the worship team or media team, is able also,
by the same sound doctrine, be able to teach.
as equally as the pastor is teaching. Do you
understand? Praise the Lord. So you don't just
put anybody, right? There is a mode of teaching.
It's not something you just, you know, wish away
and something that you just say, no, it doesn't
matter. I think it's qualified. Praise the Lord.
It is critical and important. Praise the Lord.
Second John, chapter one, verse nine. 2 John,
chapter 1, verse 9. See another strong word that
was used there. 2 John, remember we're still
in Dida H, or Dida T. Whoever transgresses and
does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does
not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of
Christ has both the Father and the Son. He said
does not and does not have or does not abide
in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God.
Praise the Lord. A mode of teaching. This is
very strong. It does not have God. He that abide
in the teaching or in the teaching of Christ,
the mode of teaching of Christ, it says what?
Has what? Has both the Father and the Son. Which
means that the concept of the Father, which I
also talked about, the last time we talked about.
It's not a secondary thing. The idea of the Father,
the Son, and the Spirit is not a secondary thing.
Who is a liar or he who denies that Christ is,
sorry, he who denies that Jesus is the Christ
is an antichrist who denies what the Father understands.
Just keep down the street, okay? Now, we have
believers who don't stick in doors, okay? We
have believers who, you know, say that The only
way of worshipping, you need to use this and
use that. We have such believers in the book
of Acts. We have believers who do ceremonies,
who do different types of things. There's some
who give holy communion, some don't. Praise the
Lord. Some dance, some do not dance. Praise the
Lord. We have different types of things. These
things are not... They're not fundamental things.
We don't dance. You dance. Believers don't wear
trousers. Those who cover their hair. Women in
worship. There are so many things. They're not
fundamental things. They can have an effect.
They can bring some composition here and there.
Okay? But we're not very fundamental, right?
We have believers that preach on tithes, right?
You know, within the Old Testament context. I
said, you know what? It's not applicable in the
New Testament. For those who preach on it and
say, yes, it's applicable in the New Testament.
We have things like that. Do you understand?
Right? As I said, they're not fundamental things.
We have believers who cover their head. We have
believers who don't cover their head. We have
believers... and I believe that women should
not wear trousers. You know, women in worship
is not fundamental. We have believers who believe
that women should not be pastors, right? We have
things like this. You know, there are doctrinal
issues, obviously, right? There are doctrinal
issues that can be resolved. Praise the Lord!
There are doctrinal issues. All of these topics
are things that, you know, You don't understand
the scriptures. They are doctrinal things that
we can teach and somebody will have understanding.
Praise the Lord! They can be handled. If they
are not properly handled, they can hinder the
growth of a believer. Praise the Lord! But they
are not foundational things. But then, why do
we have people deny the Father and the Son? This
is different. they deny the deity of the Christ.
What it means is that when you find somebody
that denies the father and the son or the deity
of Christ, that person is not a believer. There
is no, you know what, you're my brother, you're
my sister, those ones These are fundamental things.
They are strong things, right? You are no longer
brothers and sisters. You believe, I will say,
you are no longer a believer that I know. Praise
the Lord. You are no longer a believer. Praise
the Lord. So, we cannot say, you know what, let's
just look over it. Know something that we can
have a drink over. Praise the Lord. Something
that we can take a walk over. Praise the Lord.
We can sit at a table and eat and some of these
things. We can do that with some of these doctrinal
thoughts. Say, can we have a lunch? And then
you teach the person about the things of God.
The person will have understanding. Praise the
Lord! Right? But this is critical. Right? The
doctrine to Christ is strong and it's serious.
In the idea here, it is fundamental. Right? In
the doctrine, it is fundamental that Jesus is
God. He's not an opinion. Praise the Lord! It
is not an opinion. Maybe your classmate tells
you that people are too strict. They say, what
do you mean? No, people are too strict. Your
friend tells you that these things are not that
serious. Why do you say that? Praise the Lord!
What difference does it make if I don't affirm
that Christ is God? What difference does it make?
Does He change anything? Does He change the fact
that He is my Savior? Do you understand? Just
tell the person that you have become in Jehovah's
Witness. Hallelujah. You have become in front
of the Jehovah's Witness. We are no longer brothers.
Hallelujah. It's very simple. You're no longer
brotherhood. Our brotherhood is on the deity
of Christ. Praise the Lord. Our fellowship is
on the deity of Christ. So, He's on the doctrine
of Christ. And that explanation involves what?
The deity of Christ. He is God. Praise the Lord.
He is God. So, you can also have people that
misinterpret the scriptures. There's a lack of
understanding of us. Not everybody that misunderstands
the scriptures does it maliciously. Okay, that's
an order as well. That not everybody that you
saw this person is reading. Oh, you're not interpreting
the scriptures rightly. It means that the person
is evil or the person is not. A lot of people
are genuine, right? A lot of people are genuine,
but they don't understand it. They don't know
it. Praise the Lord. These are issues that you
can, like I said, have a glass of... I don't
know why. You can sit down at the table and eat
and talk about it. Praise the Lord. Sometimes,
again... Some people might misinterpret. For
example, the book of Revelation, what does it
mean? You can have all this and you need to understand
it. It's not very fundamental. Like I said, it
might have an effect. It might affect people's
growth. It might affect a lot of things, but
it's something that can be resolved. But when
somebody watches the deity of Christ, that is
no longer a brotherhood type of conversation.
Praise the Lord! This is very critical. It is
very important. The doctrine of Christ. Praise
the Lord! The blood of atonement. Praise the
Lord! The redemption through His sacrifice. It
is a noble area. Praise the Lord! This is fundamental.
Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! So, in systematic
teachings, we have these things like what Christ
explained in John chapter 14, John chapter 14,
John chapter 14, 16, 15 to 16. He also emphasized
the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Praise the
Lord! So, like I said, we are looking into the
union of the spirit we have. Praise the Lord!
And lastly, we continue our oneness to Christ.
So, when we are looking at this, I will read
out John, John chapter 14, verse 16 to 16. If
you love me, keep my commandment, verse 16. And
I will pray to the Father and he will give you
another helper who will abide with you forever.
Just keep that verse. Praise the Lord! So, we
see here again, emphasizing the Father, the Son,
and the Spirit. Right? Like I said, we're looking
at the union of the Spirit that we have. Right?
So, the first thing that we see, or we have been
talking about, is that we looked at also the
previous time, is that the gospel is for everybody.
Praise the Lord! When He says, you should go
and preach the gospel everywhere. It means that
the gospel is for everybody. It is for everybody.
Right? It is for everybody. The Spirit of God
is for everybody. And if the gospel is for everybody,
then the spirit is also for everybody, right?
Praise the Lord. So the essence of redemption
or salvation is what? The giving of the spirit.
What does it say? And I will pray to the Father,
right? And he will give you another helper. He
will abide with you forever. Forever is forever.
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