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The Gifts of the Spirit | The Believer's conference 2025 day 4 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share
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  to enrich your faith. Here's today's sermon.
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  All right, hallelujah. So we are welcome once
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  again. Today we have been going through many
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  teachings. Starting from our lead pastor to the
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  associate pastor, Pastor Victor, was taking us
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  through silent teaching. And I'm sure we have
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  been blessed. I'm sure we have been blessed.
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  I'm sure we are growing. And I'm sure that we
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  desire more, right? We are not tired of receiving.
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  We can't be tired of receiving. We are ready
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  to receive more and more and more and more. Hallelujah.
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  Because there's abundance in God's spirit. Hallelujah.
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  There's abundance in God's spirit to give unto
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  us, to give to his children. So this morning
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  we would be starting, I think I would say the
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  third direction for this conference. And the
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  title is The Gift of the Spirit. Right? The Gift
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  of the Spirit. The Gift of the Spirit. The gift
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  of the spirits. And to start with, I'd like us
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  to open to Ephesians 1. Start with Ephesians
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  1 this morning. Ephesians chapter 1. I'm using
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  my ESV Bible media team if you want to know,
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  right? So I'm using my NKJVs. I didn't bring
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  it today. So I'm going to use this. It's quite
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  difficult when you're functioning with a particular
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  Bible to easily switch like that. So I'm using
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  my ears. Will you walk with me with that? Can
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  we just pray the Holy Ghost as we are seated
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  here? I just want us to pray the Holy Ghost.
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  The prayer is that your mind is open to receive
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  the word of God. My mind is open to receive the
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  word of God. There is no distraction. There is
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  no confusion within my spirits. Can you just
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  pray? There is no destruction in my mind. I received
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  the word of God that has saved me that I may
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  be able to grow much more in Christ. My spirit
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  is a lot. My spirit is a lot to receive the word
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  of God. As the word comes into my ears, my spirit
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  receives it with joy. My spirit receives it with
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  joy. My spirit receives it with joy. I am strengthened.
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  I am strengthened as I listen to the word of
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  God. I am strengthened. No distractions. No distractions.
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  Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
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  Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Jesus. In
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  Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So for the next two
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  days, we'll be going through this teaching, which
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  is the gift of the spirits. Myself and Pastor
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  Kirsten will take us through this. And it's going
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  to be quite, it's going to be a great blessing
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  because most of some of the things that have
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  been taught by our lead pastor, Pastor Fred and
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  Pastor Victor, some of them will pop up again.
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  Right. And that shows us that the scripture,
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  right, explains itself. Right. The scripture
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  is not a disjoint material, but a book spiritually.
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  How can I put it? Put together that the topics,
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  right, the topics pertaining to the things of
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  the spirit actually so connected. So we're going
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  to see some of those things again and they will
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  help us to to grow in knowledge of Christ. So
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  let's start. I would like us to read this entire
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  chapter, actually, because this is where we are
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  starting from. The gift of the Spirit. We'll
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  start from the understanding of what is spiritual.
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  But we'll try to understand what is the Spirit.
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  Right? We'll try to understand what is the Spirit.
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  We'll start from spiritual. We'll try to understand
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  what is the Spirit or who is the Spirit. Much
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  better. And the promise of the Spirit. Then we
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  will go into how the Spirit functions. Right?
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  How the Spirit functions. So we start from spiritual.
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  We try to understand what is the Spirit. Then
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  we try to understand much more in detail the
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  promise of the Spirit. Then how the Spirit functions,
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  right? How the Spirit functions. So from there,
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  that's when we'll go to 1 Corinthians 12, which
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  is our main scripture that we are going to dwell
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  on so much. But we need to lay this foundation.
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  We need to lay this foundation so that we can
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  be able to have a clarity of what is being taught.
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  So we read from Ephesians chapter 1 from beginning
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  to the end. We're going to read everything. I'm
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  going to read myself. Paul, an apostle of Christ
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  Jesus, by the will of God to the saints who are
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  in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus.
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  Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and
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  the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
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  blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing
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  in the heavenly places. Of course, we know that's
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  in the heavenlies. Even as he chose us in him
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  before the foundation of the world, that we should
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  be holy. and blameless before him in love. He
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  predestined us for adoption to himself as sons,
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  through Jesus, according to the purpose of his
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  will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with
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  which he has blessed us in the beloved. In him
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  we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
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  of our trespasses, according to the riches of
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  his grace. which he lavished upon us in all wisdom
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  and insight, making known to us the mystery of
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  his will, according to his purpose, which he
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  set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness
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  of time to unite all things in him, things in
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  heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained
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  an inheritance, having been predestined according
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  to the purpose of him, who works all things according
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  to the counsel, So that we who are the first
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  to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his
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  glory. In him you also, when you heard the word
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  of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed
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  in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
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  Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until
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  we acquire possession of it to the praise of
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  his glory. For this reason, because I have heard
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  of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and your
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  love towards all the saints, I do not cease to
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  give thanks for remembering you in my prayers
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  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
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  of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and
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  revelation in the knowledge of him. Having the
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  eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know,
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  that you may know what is the hope to which he
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  has called you. What are the riches of his glorious
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  inheritance in the saints? And what is the immeasurable
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  greatness of his power towards us who believed?
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  According to the walking of his great might,
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  that he walked in Christ when he raised him from
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  the dead and seated him at his right hand in
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  the heavenly places. Far above all rule and authority
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  and power and dominion and above every name that
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  is named, not only in this age, but also. In
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  the one to come. And he put all things. Under
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  his feet. And gave him as head. Over all things
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  to the church. Which is the body. The fullness
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  of him. Who fits all in all. Hallelujah. Amen.
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  So we are starting to pick from here. First.
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  The number of things we need to start with. And
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  is in verse 3. Verse 3. It says he blessed us,
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  right? Blessed be the God of our father. Blessed
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  be God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who
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  blessed us in Christ with every spiritual what?
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  Blessings, right? Every spiritual blessing in
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  the heavenlies, right? Every spiritual blessing
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  in the heavenlies. So we see spiritual blessing
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  there. Now, we see Paul writing a number of things
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  that is the believer's spiritual blessing. Right?
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  We see what that is. Of course, we know the summary
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  of all that is salvation. But Paul had to bring
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  it out that we might see clearly what is happening
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  in salvation. Do we get it? So, Paul listed those
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  things. Not that they are... distinct away from
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  themselves, but this is what happened at salvation.
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  So it's not like you receive forgiveness of sins,
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  then after that you become sons. After that you
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  become predestined. No, no, no. It's something
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  that happened once at salvation. I'm going to
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  show you the one that is left. If you go to verse
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  13, it said, When we heard the word of truth,
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  the gospel of his salvation, believed in him,
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  we are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
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  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until
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  we acquire the possession of it to the praise
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  of his glory. Verse 14 is what the believer is
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  waiting for. Everything from beginning up until
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  that time we have received. In fact, it sums
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  this all up as the promised Spirit. Actually,
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  he sums all that things all up and brings it
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  up and said, it is the promised spirit. So let's
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  see. He said, even as he chose us from foundation
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  of the world that we should be holy and blameless,
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  right? He predestined us for adoption, which
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  is the same thing explained using the concept
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  of adoption there, according to the purpose of
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  his will, to the praise of his glory. Verse seven,
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  in him we have redemption through his blood,
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  the forgiveness of our sins, right? This is also
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  adoption. This is also adoption. Bringing it
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  out, using different things. Of course, these
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  terminologies, adoption, being predestined, being
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  chosen, the redemption through his blood, the
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  forgiveness of our trespasses, all these things
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  are found in salvation when a man believes. right?
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  It's found in salvation when a man believes.
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  So verse eight says, he lavished upon us in all
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  wisdom and might, making known to us the misery
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  of his will. So we know misery of his will means
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  that something just like pastor told us, right?
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  Something that is, uh, now it's not something
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  that I said, but something that is revelation
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  that needs to be explained, right? Something
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  that needs to be, uh, opened up, right? And given
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  insight. So this is what God has planned a full
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  time, according to the purpose, which is set
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  forth. in Christ. Verse 10 now says, as a plan
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  for the fullness of time to unite all things
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  in heaven and on earth. Now that's all, uniting
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  all things in heaven and on earth will take us
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  to Genesis 1, but we're going to come back to
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  that, right? So the emphasis here is that we
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  have seen up until verse 14, all that has taken
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  place in the believer. So all of that, the summary
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  of it is salvation. And the, peak of it took
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  place through the promised Holy Spirit. And what
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  we are waiting for is the redemption of the body.
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  So this is spiritual blessings. Now, upon this
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  foundation, okay, upon all that Christ has done
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  and that which you have received, say we have
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  received the promise as a guarantee of the redemption
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  of the body, right? So we have received the promise
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  as a guarantee for the redemption. Upon all of
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  this, Paul now began to pray for them. Right?
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  He began to pray. And we need to check what is
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  the essence of Paul's prayer. Paul is not praying
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  for forgiveness of sins for them. Paul is not
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  praying that they will be predestined. Paul is
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  not praying that a plan will come to pass. No,
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  Paul wrote about their reality from verse 10.
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  Three, up until 14. So he was not praying for
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  forgiveness of sin for them. He was not praying
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  about so that they may be able to come into salvation.
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  He wasn't praying for that, right? But he was
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  telling them about their reality. So what is
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  Paul's prayer for these people, right? After
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  listing their spiritual blessings. He says, verse
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  15, for this reason, because I have heard of
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  your feet in the Lord Jesus Christ. and your
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  love towards the saints. So they believed. I
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  do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering
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  you in my prayers. Now, this is it. That the
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  God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
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  may give you the wisdom of the spirits. We've
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  taught that in cell meetings, so you should understand
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  this. The wisdom of the spirit and revelation
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  in the knowledge of him. Right? So they will
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  walk in the wisdom of the Spirit. They will walk
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  in revelation, right? Of course, the wisdom of
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  the Spirit is revelation. Right? I say it again.
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  The wisdom of the Spirit is revelation in Christ.
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  So, we walk in revelation in the knowledge of
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  Him. Having the eyes of the heart enlightened,
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  that they may what? Know. Know. That they may
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  know what is the hope to which He has called
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  them. So when you see the word hope to which
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  he has called, it means that the believer is
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  called for a service. After receiving spiritual
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  blessings, the believer is called for a service.
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  You are not just called to give the things of
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  the spirit to you, to have the gift of the spirit,
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  to have all of that and do nothing. But the believer
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  is called for a service. So we must know, That
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  we have been called to service. And the things
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  that pertain to that service. We must know that
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  we have been called to service. The hope of our
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  calling. And the things that pertain to that
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  service. The things that pertain to that service.
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  So the first prayer here is that they may know.
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  the riches of his glory, and what is the immeasurable
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  greatness of his power towards us who believe
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  according to the workings of his great might.
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  So, we can say that a believer is called to service,
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  right? A believer is called to service And the
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  service is worked, right? Through the power of
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  God. He said, according to the working of his
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  great might. So he said, verse 19, he said, and
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  what is the immeasurable greatness of his power
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  towards us who has believed, right? Who believed
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  according to the workings of his great might,
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  which he worked in Christ and when he raised
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  him from the dead. So it means that there's a
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  power at work. Right? There's a power at work
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  in the believer that helps the believer to function
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  effectively. So God has not just called us to
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  know the hope of our calling, but there's a power
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  that is at work in the believer. Amen. So we
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  need to know that which is at work. And that
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  is why this gift of the Spirit is important for
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  us to function. It is for us to what? To function.
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  The gift of spirit is for us to function and
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  we need to know. Now, Romans 1, let's see other
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  things apart from Ephesians 1. Let's see other
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  things, other areas where Paul uses the word,
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  the word spiritual. Actually, the word spiritual,
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  we can write down by now, probably should have
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  been said in one of the teachings or we know
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  it before, is pneumaticus. The word spiritual
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  is pneumaticus. P -N -E -U, right? P -N -E -U
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  -M -A -T -I -K -O -S, right? P -N -E -U -M -A
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  -T -I -K -O -S. So pneumaticus. And the word
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  blessing there, of course, is eulogia, right?
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  So spiritual blessings. In this context, it's
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  eulogia that blessing is. So we want to know,
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  right? Things that pertain to spirituals. I'm
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  going to break down pneumaticus in subsequent
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  time when I'm going to teach. But right now,
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  that is just enough. So Romans 1 .11. Let's see.
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  So in the spirit, it means that the believer
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  has abundance of blessings. And we have seen
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  Paul writing to the Ephesians and saying... This
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  is all. The believer has this. And when I said
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  that is salvation, and he crowned it all by saying
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  the promised Holy Spirit, right? So let's follow
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  up. Let's follow gradually. Now, in Romans 1,
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  11, which Pastor Victor read this as well during
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  his teaching, he said, for I long to see that
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  I may impart to you some spiritual gifts to strengthen
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  you. Right? To strengthen you. So, other things
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  that we can see also, right, is spiritual gifts.
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  When it comes to the spiritual, the believer
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  has spiritual gifts. He has spiritual gifts.
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  So, these are things pertaining to the believer.
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  So, of course, we are talking about spiritual
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  in the context of the believer. So, the believer
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  has spiritual gifts. And therefore, Paul says
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  that I might impact on you. Some spiritual gifts,
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  right? Why? To function and serve. That when
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  they know the hope of their calling, right? They
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  will be able to function. So spiritual gifts
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  is one of the things that we see that Paul uses
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  the word spiritual to explain. Romans 7 verse
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  14. Romans 7 verse 14. For we know that the law
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  is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under
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  sin. The law is what? Spiritual, right? So it
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  means that the writings of the prophets, okay?
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  The writings of prophets, the writings of Moses,
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  right? Has a spiritual impact. It has something
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  to do with the spirit of God. That the writings
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  of the prophet Moses has something to do with
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  the spirit of God. So it's spiritual. That is
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  why he said the law is not evil, but the law
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  is spiritual. It means that the law can impact
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  spiritually. Right? The law can impact spiritually.
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  When the law is explained correctly, the law
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  has a spiritual impact in the life of the hearer
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  of the law. All right. Romans 15, 27, still in
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  Romans, Romans 15, 27. So we see spiritual gifts.
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  We see the law is spiritual. So for they were
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  pleased to do, they were pleased to do it. And
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  indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles
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  have come to share in their spiritual blessings,
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  they ought also to be of service to them in material
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  blessings. So here, we see spiritual blessings,
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  right? It means that the Gentiles, those who
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  are, they've not known the Lord before, unbelievers,
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  right? They have come to partake in the spiritual
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  blessings, right? And they also ought to do what?
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  To be of service. Of course, here talking about
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  in material blessings, right? Of course, he uses
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  material blessings there to serve. So it means
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  that being part of a spiritual blessing brings
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  us towards service again. Brings us to service
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  again. So we can say Gentiles are partakers of
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  the spiritual blessings and therefore whosoever
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  partake must serve, must minister to others.
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  Whosoever partake of spiritual blessings must
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  minister to others. Whosoever partake of spiritual
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  blessings must minister to others. 1 Corinthians
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  1 Corinthians 2 .15. Can you go to 15? That same
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  1 Corinthians 2 .15. It's that a spiritual person
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  judges all things, but is himself to be judged
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  by no one. So a spiritual person's discernment,
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  a spiritual person's discernment can judge. Right?
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  Can judge. These are things that are still spiritual.
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  Right? We don't find them in Ephesians 1 or we
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  find them in... explicitly written like this,
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  but we see that a spiritual person can judge.
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  Right? So we look forward to understanding the
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  things of the Spirit very well that we might
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  be able to discern, to judge, to decide, to perceive.
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  So a spiritual person can judge. 1 Corinthians
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  3 verse 1. 1 Corinthians 3 verse 1. Let's move
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  a little bit faster. It's the brothers. I could
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  not address you as spiritual people, but as people
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  of the flesh, as infants in Christ. So spiritual
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  is also used as a means of communication, right?
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  We can say a mode of communication. I do not
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  address you as spiritual. It means that the people
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  who are spiritual believers, there's a way of
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  communicating to them. So Paul had to address
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  them as babies, as those who, as if they don't
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  know the things of the spirits. Right? As if
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  they don't know the things. So, as a communication
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  within the spirit, there's a way we communicate
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  spiritual things. There's a way we communicate.
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  There's also a mode of communication that's spiritual,
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  communicating spiritual. 1 Corinthians 10, 3
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  and 4. 1 Corinthians 10, 3 and 4. Let's look
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  at 1 Corinthians 10, 3 and 4, if you can help
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  me. Go from verse 1, please. For I do not want
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  you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers
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  were all under the cloud and all passed through
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  the sea and were all baptized into Moses in the
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  cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual
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  food and all drank the same spiritual drink for
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  they drank from the spiritual rock that followed
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  them and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless,
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  with most of them, God was not pleased for they
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  were overthrown in the wilderness. Now, this
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  is a good one to add a layer on the teaching
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  about baptism, right? I think it was Pastor Victor
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  that was teaching about baptism. Oh, Pastor Fred.
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  Okay, it was Pastor Fred that was teaching about
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  it. And talking about snow water baptism, right?
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  So let's look at this. If to be baptized into
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  Moses would mean to be dipped into water. Let's
• 26:41
  just... Touch upon that a little bit. So, and
• 26:43
  we're all baptized into Moses. So what would
• 26:45
  this mean? Can anybody try? To be baptized into
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  Moses. Okay, what would baptism mean here, at
• 26:56
  least? To be a mass, right? To be a mass. So
• 27:00
  can we say to be a mass into Moses for a start?
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  Don't worry, we'll explain Moses, right? To be
• 27:07
  baptized into Moses. Yes, we can say that. Now,
• 27:10
  when the scripture uses Moses, it's talking about
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  what? The writings and the doctrine of Moses.
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  Do we get it? So he said that they were immense
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  in the teachings of prophet Moses. How do I know?
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  Look at what he said. And they all ate. That's
• 27:31
  what? Spiritual food. They did what? They ate
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  the same spiritual food. Oh, glory to God. The
• 27:37
  same spiritual food. And all drank the same spiritual
• 27:42
  drink. You see this same, this word same. I think
• 27:45
  we need to pay attention to it. We'll study it
• 27:47
  very well when it comes to the same spirits.
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  Right? If we come to 1 Corinthians 12, you'll
• 27:52
  see the word from the same spirits. Here we see
• 27:55
  the same spiritual drink, the same spiritual
• 27:58
  food. And they drank from that. And they drank
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  from the same spiritual drink. For they drank
• 28:05
  from the spiritual rock that followed them. And
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  that rock was what? Christ. This is the explanation.
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  Moses is teaching that he was feeding them with.
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  Let me use this way so that we can understand.
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  What Moses was feeding the Israelites with, right?
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  Immensing them in his teachings. Everything he
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  taught was about Christ. That is why the law
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  is spiritual. Okay? That is why the law is spiritual.
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  Because everything Moses taught them and fed
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  them with was Christ. So if the spiritual drink
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  is spiritual, the spiritual food is spiritual,
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  the spiritual rock, then the writing that communicated
• 28:50
  that spiritual drink and rock, which is the law,
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  is spiritual. Do we get it? So they were enjoying
• 28:58
  the teachings of Moses, so to say. Now let's
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  see. He said that rock that followed them was
• 29:03
  what? Christ. So we know that rock. I think pastor
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  dealt with that very well. Probably pre -cathartism
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  or inter -cathartism. That rock was clearly explained.
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  Now he said, nevertheless, verse five, with most
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  of them, God was not pleased for they were overthrown
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  in the wilderness. So although Moses was teaching,
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  they were walking in what? Unbelief. Although
• 29:28
  Moses was teaching, They were walking in what?
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  Unbelief. They said God was not pleased with
• 29:33
  them. Hebrews 11, right? Without what? Faith.
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  No man can please God. That was for salvation
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  for them, right? That was for salvation for them.
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  So Hebrews 11, we can add that, right? We can
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  add that because that helps us to clarify why
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  God was not pleased with them. So, Hebrews 11
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  verse 6. It says, And without faith it is impossible
• 30:04
  to please Him. For whosoever will draw near to
• 30:07
  Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards
• 30:11
  those who seek Him. So, they did not believe.
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  They did not receive salvation because they did
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  not believe. And God was not pleased with them.
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  Right? Good. Hallelujah. Are we blessed? We are
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  receiving, right? Glory. So, we see that there
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  is belief and God was not pleased. Now, let's
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  now go to our key scripture, 1 Corinthians 12,
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  verse 1. I'll just read that. 1 Corinthians 12,
• 30:36
  verse 1. And it says, now concerning spirituals,
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  brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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  Concerning spirituals, actually, right? We're
• 30:49
  going to repeat it again. Actually, that word,
• 30:51
  there's no spiritual gift there. There's no gifts.
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  We've emphasized that there's no gift. You have
• 30:56
  to use your insalina. You have to use your materials
• 30:59
  to check very well. Because what Moses communicated,
• 31:03
  sorry, yes, what Paul communicated rather here
• 31:06
  was starting from salvation to the gifts then
• 31:14
  to several ministerial offices that are in the
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  church. Right? Paul started with, concerning
• 31:23
  spiritual, I don't want you to be ignorant. It
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  means that everything pertaining spiritual, I
• 31:28
  don't want you to be ignorant about it. Right?
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  So, if you see, that is why if you go down, you
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  will see that he started, verse 3, he started
• 31:36
  saying that, therefore, I want you to understand
• 31:38
  that no one speaking of the Spirit ever says
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  Jesus is a cause and no one can say Jesus is
• 31:43
  Lord except by the Spirit. That's born again,
• 31:46
  being born again. Right? So, Everything he wanted
• 31:49
  to write in this chapter was about spiritual,
• 31:51
  from being born again to the gift of the spiritual,
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  administrations and ministries. But I think,
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  right, when people read, when translators read
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  the entire chapter, right, they realized that
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  it was overemphasizing. I mean, this is my guess,
• 32:05
  right? Overemphasizing on gift and ministries
• 32:07
  and all of that. And they just speak because
• 32:09
  actually there is spiritual gifts. Because we
• 32:12
  say that this is not there, does not mean that
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  there's nothing called spiritual gifts. There
• 32:16
  is spiritual gifts. which is what we are teaching.
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  But we are saying that within this verse, right?
• 32:23
  That gift will be like, is like saying that I
• 32:28
  want to talk about Orange Hall, right? I want
• 32:31
  to tell you so many things on Orange Hall and
• 32:34
  this podium. I want to talk about Orange Hall
• 32:37
  and the stage. I don't need to say the stage
• 32:39
  again. Everything about Orange Hall, the stage
• 32:42
  includes it. Do we get it? So everything inside
• 32:45
  spiritual, the gift is also there. Service is
• 32:48
  also there. So that is why we always say this
• 32:52
  is not supposed to be included in that. So concerning
• 32:57
  spiritual, I'll have you not to be ignorant.
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  So we have seen that the spiritual gifts, we
• 33:02
  have seen that spiritual encompasses all, right?
• 33:06
  Gifts, the law is spiritual. It also includes
• 33:09
  service, right? When we serve each other, it's
• 33:11
  spiritual, right? It also includes service. Now,
• 33:19
  We can say, you can write this down because some
• 33:21
  things I put them in bold here. The reality of
• 33:24
  the believer's blessings. The reality of the
• 33:32
  believer's blessing is more spiritual than physical.
• 33:38
  Okay? The reality of the believer's blessing
• 33:41
  is more spiritual than physical. We can put 2
• 33:52
  Corinthians 5 .16. It's more spiritual than physical,
• 33:58
  right? So I'm not nullifying that there will
• 34:01
  be material blessings. Don't forget, it's not
• 34:03
  because Gentiles have become particles of spiritual
• 34:05
  blessings. They can also what? Minister material
• 34:08
  needs. Do we get it? But the material need in
• 34:12
  the physical is not the primary. Okay? It's not
• 34:17
  the primary. Right? James will also say that
• 34:21
  if you have a brother in need and you do not
• 34:24
  support, right? How can you say you have the
• 34:25
  love of God in you? But what we are saying is
• 34:28
  that the spiritual is more spiritual. There is
• 34:31
  a limit to what you can get in the physical.
• 34:34
  Like from a brother. How much? How well? How
• 34:38
  big? Right? How beautiful can it be? It's nothing
• 34:41
  compared to the spiritual. There's nothing compared
• 34:45
  to the spiritual. So let's go. Now that we have
• 34:47
  talked about spiritual and I said it's actually
• 34:49
  things of things pertaining to the spirit, right?
• 34:52
  We've seen them. The law is something that pertains
• 34:54
  to the spirit and all of that. We need to understand
• 34:58
  the spirit first. Okay? We need to understand.
• 35:01
  So now we are heading towards understanding what
• 35:04
  is the spirit or who is the spirit, right? Who
• 35:07
  is the spirit? We are heading towards understanding
• 35:14
  the Spirit of God, right? Spirit. Because it's
• 35:19
  from the Spirit that we are spiritual, right?
• 35:22
  It's from the Spirit that we have the word spiritual.
• 35:25
  So we need to understand what the Spirit is or
• 35:28
  who the Spirit is. Genesis chapter 1. So let's
• 35:31
  start going. Genesis chapter 1. In the beginning.
• 35:42
  God created the heavens and the earth. The earth
• 35:46
  was without form and void. And darkness was over
• 35:50
  the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was
• 35:54
  hovering over the face of the waters. And God
• 35:59
  said, let there be light. Let there be light,
• 36:03
  Genesis 1. Now, what we want to do now is to
• 36:07
  check across. All that God was doing and is doing,
• 36:16
  how the Spirit has been functioning or how the
• 36:22
  Spirit has been the, how can I put it? The one
• 36:28
  executing, yes, that's the word, executing the
• 36:31
  plans. It's the one that is executing the plan
• 36:35
  and the Spirit itself is also the plan. Okay?
• 36:39
  So, Is the one, the spirit of God is the one
• 36:43
  executing the plan of God and the spirit itself
• 36:45
  is the plan. So that is what we want to check.
• 36:51
  That's why I started with Genesis. So what we
• 36:54
  will see in Genesis, right? I don't know if you
• 36:58
  have written that, that the spirit is the one
• 37:00
  executing the plan and the spirit itself is the
• 37:04
  plan, right? Is the plan. It's the plan of God
• 37:10
  across all time. So in all God was doing, we're
• 37:14
  going to see it in creation, in Christ, in what
• 37:19
  he said, promised in the life of people. It was
• 37:21
  the spirit that was working and the spirit was
• 37:25
  working to impact itself on men. Right. Amen.
• 37:31
  So Genesis 1. Now what we see there, right, is
• 37:34
  actually, is that the Spirit of God, and I think
• 37:37
  we have explained this before, that is Ruach
• 37:39
  Elohim. It's actually Ruach Elohim. It's actually
• 37:43
  the Spirit's God. Okay? It's actually the Spirit's
• 37:48
  God. This, you know, that is why, I think it
• 37:51
  was Pastor Fred that was teaching it as well,
• 37:53
  that the only way, Pastor Fred was saying that,
• 37:55
  the only way you can explain Trinity is only
• 37:58
  in salvation. Only. That is the way you, I mean,
• 38:03
  that thing called Trinity or the concept of Trinity.
• 38:05
  It's only, if you go out of that, it's, it's,
• 38:10
  it's nothing like you wouldn't get anything spiritual
• 38:12
  in that. You won't get anything spiritual. So.
• 38:17
  Here we see that it says the Spirit God. Of course,
• 38:21
  for English to be able to, for people to be able
• 38:23
  to read, sometimes they put off, they put these
• 38:26
  words there, but it is Ruach Elohim. So we can
• 38:28
  say the Spirit is what? Is who? God. The Spirit
• 38:32
  is God. It's not the idea of the Spirit was there
• 38:37
  in the beginning. God was there. Jesus was not
• 38:39
  there. There's nothing like that. Right? If you
• 38:42
  go back to John that says in the beginning was
• 38:45
  the world, that same world is still the spirit
• 38:47
  is Christ is God. So if you read the original,
• 38:50
  it says Ruach Elohim, which is and the spirit,
• 38:54
  God was hovering over the face of the waters.
• 38:59
  Right? So let's see. So it definitely means that
• 39:03
  we can say that and God said, let there be light.
• 39:06
  Right? Can we say the spirit said, let there
• 39:08
  be light. We can say that, right? The Spirit
• 39:12
  said, let there be light. Let there be light.
• 39:16
  Right? They put God there so we can have a continuation.
• 39:19
  Right? We have a continuation. Okay, we know
• 39:21
  this is the Spirit of God. Right? So, it's a
• 39:23
  let there be light. So, we can say that to reorder
• 39:29
  things and to put things in place is the function
• 39:35
  of the Spirit of God. to the other things and
• 39:41
  set things in place is the function of the spirit
• 39:45
  of God. So we have seen that the spirit is God
• 39:47
  and the function he started doing is to the other
• 39:51
  things and put things in place. So this is the
• 40:01
  descriptive work of the spirit from Genesis.
• 40:04
  The descriptive work of the spirit is to the
• 40:08
  other things. and put things in place. Now, if
• 40:17
  you have been following our teaching, right?
• 40:20
  And you have been attending some meetings, you
• 40:22
  would have seen, you would have understood that
• 40:24
  heaven and earth, right? We've talked about the
• 40:27
  union of God and man, right? Union of God and
• 40:31
  man. And we've seen chaos in verse two. So we
• 40:34
  can say that from Genesis one and two, Right?
• 40:39
  The work of the Spirit God, right? The work of
• 40:44
  the Spirit God is to put things in place in the
• 40:48
  life of men. We can say that. It's to order the
• 40:52
  life of men. It's to put things in place in the
• 40:55
  life of men. So we see that. We see that taking
• 41:00
  place. Genesis 1, 26. Since the Spirit, God,
• 41:11
  we identify that. Genesis 1, 26. The creation
• 41:18
  of man in his image and likeness is by the Spirit.
• 41:25
  The creation of man in his image and likeness
• 41:29
  is by the Spirit. Let us make man in our image
• 41:34
  after our likeness and let him have dominion.
• 41:38
  over the fish of the sea, and over the birds
• 41:41
  of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over
• 41:44
  all the earth, and over all creeping things that
• 41:47
  creeps on the earth. Let us make man, let's go
• 41:50
  back, in our own image, after our likeness. Just
• 41:54
  stay there first. You also go to 27. And we have
• 42:01
  been taught that this is Salem, right? The image.
• 42:04
  I was going to do that. We've seen that, Salem.
• 42:07
  Now go to 27. And I said, so God created man
• 42:11
  in his own image and the image of God, he what?
• 42:14
  He created he them. So we know that the creation,
• 42:20
  the new creation man or the man that God intends
• 42:25
  to create will be created by the spirit of God
• 42:29
  and in the spirit of God. The man that God will
• 42:33
  create will be created by the spirit of God In
• 42:37
  the spirit of God. You know this is why when
• 42:42
  they tell you that. In salvation you have no
• 42:44
  parts. It's after salvation you have a work to
• 42:46
  do. This is a clear explanation of that. That
• 42:52
  in the execution of the plan of saving man. It
• 42:55
  was the spirit. And he was giving you the spirit.
• 43:01
  And we'll come to that. So we see that. The plan
• 43:04
  of. The plan and work of the Spirit, right, is
• 43:10
  to create man in this image. And therefore, God
• 43:14
  would definitely walk through who? Through man.
• 43:16
  We've been seeing that from yesterday. God will
• 43:18
  walk through man. Man is the instrument of God.
• 43:21
  The one that would function for God. So you see
• 43:24
  here that the Spirit created man. So we've seen
• 43:30
  the Spirit. In Genesis 1, putting things in place.
• 43:33
  We've seen the same in Genesis 1, 26. Now, the
• 43:36
  next one is that what was being communicated
• 43:40
  across generation. Okay? So, we've seen creation
• 43:46
  of man. Now, this one is what was being communicated
• 43:49
  across generation was actually also the message
• 43:53
  of the Spirit. Right? So, We can say that the
• 44:00
  spirit was what was communicated from Genesis
• 44:03
  until Christ. Until Christ. So what we call God's
• 44:12
  plan, what we call what God wants to do, that
• 44:16
  he made known to Abraham and Abraham communicated
• 44:19
  to Jacob, sorry, communicated to Isaac and Jacob
• 44:24
  and Joseph is actually pertaining to the spirits.
• 44:30
  It's actually pertaining to, I know someone is
• 44:31
  saying, what of Jesus? The problem, wait, wait,
• 44:34
  relax. We'll get there, right? Like, is it not
• 44:37
  Jesus that was being communicated? We'll get
• 44:39
  there, right? The man Jesus, right? Don't rush.
• 44:44
  But take it this way, that it is the Spirit that
• 44:47
  was being communicated. We're going to see the
• 44:48
  function of the Spirit even in Christ's function.
• 44:53
  Even in the coming of Christ and in the death
• 44:57
  and resurrection of him. So we see that what
• 44:59
  was communicated across generation was about
• 45:01
  the giving of his spirit to generations. Let's
• 45:03
  start. Hebrews 11, 9 to 10. The person who received
• 45:07
  the promise himself. Hebrews 11, 9 to 10. of
• 45:23
  the same promise. What is this promise? For he
• 45:27
  was looking forward to a city that has foundations,
• 45:31
  whose designer and builder is the spirit. Right?
• 45:37
  It's God himself. So, which city, right, that
• 45:43
  the designer and the builder is God? We go to
• 45:47
  Genesis. What was God building in Genesis? Man.
• 45:52
  Right? God was building man. We can now see God
• 45:56
  is building men in Genesis. So from Genesis,
• 45:59
  we can see that God's let us create man. Don't
• 46:02
  forget that man is not talking about one man.
• 46:04
  Right? We want to create a people in our spirit.
• 46:09
  Right? And by our spirit. Right? So we want to
• 46:12
  create. So from Genesis, it was God wanted to
• 46:15
  create that city, a people, men. Right? Men that
• 46:22
  will carry his spirit. So what was Abraham looking
• 46:25
  up for? Abraham was looking forward to a people
• 46:28
  that will carry God's spirit. He was looking
• 46:31
  forward to the church, right? He was looking
• 46:34
  forward to a people that will carry God's spirit.
• 46:39
  So the city is a people filled with the spirit.
• 46:45
  City set upon a hill cannot be hidden. Yes. Now,
• 46:55
  Ezekiel 36, Ezekiel, okay, let's go to Numbers.
• 46:59
  You know, when you're teaching, right, it's always
• 47:00
  good to touch upon Moses. It's very good, right?
• 47:05
  Because there's a lot, right? There's a lot that
• 47:08
  every doctrine begins from Moses, right? The
• 47:12
  writings of Moses. So it's always good, you know,
• 47:15
  to go to that, right? It's the foundation of
• 47:18
  where most scriptures, every other scripture
• 47:21
  built upon. So we have to go. So we're taking
• 47:24
  just numbers. Numbers 11 verse 29. That was just
• 47:28
  clear. Right? Numbers 11 verse 29. I like the
• 47:33
  explicit, you know, the way it's just so explicit.
• 47:36
  But Moses said to him, are you jealous for my
• 47:39
  sake? Would that all the Lord's what? People.
• 47:46
  Would that all the Lord's people what? We are
• 47:48
  prophets. That the Lord will put what? His spirit
• 47:52
  on them. Did you see that? So God's desire across
• 47:58
  time is that his people will be filled with his
• 48:02
  spirit and they will prophesy. They will have
• 48:04
  utterance. That is God's plan at all time, for
• 48:10
  all time. That all his people will have a spirit
• 48:14
  and they will speak. They will speak. Ezekiel
• 48:21
  36, 24 to 27. Ezekiel 36, 24 to 27. We have seen
• 48:30
  Abraham. We have seen Moses. I will take you
• 48:33
  from the nations and gather you from all the
• 48:35
  countries and bring you into your own land. I
• 48:38
  will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall
• 48:40
  be clean from all uncleanness. And from all your
• 48:43
  idols, I will cleanse you. Then I will give you
• 48:47
  a new heart and a new spirit. I will what? I
• 48:49
  will put within you. Stop there. Don't move,
• 48:53
  right? He said, I will remove the heart of stone
• 48:55
  from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh,
• 48:58
  right? I will remove the heart of stone from
• 49:00
  your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. So,
• 49:01
  what was communicated before about cleansing
• 49:06
  them from their idols is made clear here by saying,
• 49:12
  I will give my spirit. Right? I will give my
• 49:17
  spirit. So we see here that it's about giving
• 49:20
  the spirit, right? And this will cause them to
• 49:23
  have a new heart. 27. Let's see. And I'll put
• 49:28
  my spirit more clearly. I'll put my spirit within
• 49:30
  you and cause you to walk in my status and be
• 49:32
  careful to obey my words, my rules, my status,
• 49:36
  right? Good. So we have seen that you can put
• 49:38
  Joel 2, 28 to 29. Joel 2, 28, 29. So we can see
• 49:43
  across, it has been about the spirit of God.
• 49:49
  draw to 28, and it shall come to pass that I
• 49:51
  will pour out my Spirit again, the giving of
• 49:55
  Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters
• 49:57
  shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams,
• 50:01
  and your young men shall see what visions, spirits,
• 50:05
  for prophesying, right? They will prophesy, similar
• 50:08
  to Numbers 11, 29. Similar to Numbers 11, 29.
• 50:12
  Now, I've been saying the Spirit, the Spirit,
• 50:15
  the Spirit. Where does Christ come in? Right?
• 50:18
  Where does Christ come in? Because you begin
• 50:19
  to ask, is the Spirit not Christ? Yes, it is.
• 50:22
  Now, let's check. Can we write this down? We
• 50:30
  can write this down. I'm going to a little bit
• 50:31
  dictate. The work of the Spirit in man. The work
• 50:40
  of the Spirit in man. became the promise. Okay.
• 50:48
  Became the promise. The walk of the spirit in
• 50:51
  man became the promise. Then we can open brackets.
• 50:56
  I'm going to put that. The promised spirits.
• 51:03
  Okay. The promised spirits would be given by
• 51:11
  the promised Messiah. So there are two things
• 51:14
  here. There's a promised Messiah, there's a promised
• 51:16
  spirit. The Bible across scripture has seen promised
• 51:17
  spirit and promised Messiah, right? So that Messiah
• 51:20
  is talking about God's incarnation, like God
• 51:23
  in human form. So there's something God will
• 51:26
  come and do in the body that would make his spirit
• 51:30
  be able to dwell in men. So the promised spirit
• 51:34
  would be, right, from the promised Messiah. The
• 51:46
  promised Messiah is also the Spirit. The promised
• 51:53
  Messiah is also the Spirit and God in the man
• 51:56
  Jesus. The promised Messiah is also the Spirit
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  and God in the man Jesus. So what this simply
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  means, we're going to try to put some scriptures
• 52:10
  across it, is that God promised the Spirit. But
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  the coming up, I think the scripture I should
• 52:16
  just put there is John 14. Just put John 14 there.
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  Because everything explained in John 14, which
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  we are going to see, is actually pertaining,
• 52:24
  right? It's actually in relations to God giving
• 52:29
  his promised spirit. And who was communicating?
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  The promised Messiah, right? The promised Messiah,
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  which is Christ himself, was communicating. And
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  he himself is God. So John 14, we see that. We
• 52:42
  can put John 1, 1 as well. John 1, 1. We can
• 52:47
  put John 1, 1 there as well. Which communicates
• 52:51
  Jesus as God and the spirits. It said in the
• 53:04
  beginning was the word and the word was with
• 53:05
  God and the word was God. It was in the beginning.
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  And all things were made through him. Without
• 53:12
  him was not anything made that was made, right?
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  So he was in the beginning. The word was God.
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  So in body, we identify God as who? As Jesus,
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  right? We identify him as Christ. So we have
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  that. Now let's see that even in the coming of
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  Christ, the spirit functioned. Right? Even the
• 53:38
  coming of Christ, the spirit function. Matthew
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  1, verse 18. In the coming of Messiah, the spirit
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  function. Matthew 1, verse 18. Of course, we
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  have seen that the spirit was prophesied. Of
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  course, prophesied through his prophet. Matthew
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  1, verse 18. Let's touch upon a little bit of
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  some things here. Matthew 1, verse 18. It said,
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  now the bed of Jesus took place in the way. In
• 54:07
  this way, when his mother Mary had been betrothed
• 54:09
  to Joseph, before they came together, she was
• 54:12
  found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
• 54:18
  She was found to be. And her husband Joseph,
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  being a just man and unwilling to put her to
• 54:24
  shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. Are we
• 54:29
  together? So what was Joseph trying to do? To
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  let her go what? Quietly. Not to put her in an
• 54:39
  open shame. Therefore, it means that that word
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  found is not that they catch Mary like people
• 54:48
  caught her with a baby. It's not like, oh, they
• 54:52
  have now caught. No. It shows you that nobody
• 54:54
  knew, but Joseph was aware. Right? So it's not
• 54:58
  catching somebody in the act of something. That
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  word found is to come upon. And I'll tell us
• 55:05
  the word, right? That word found, she was found
• 55:09
  with a child by the Spirit, is to come upon.
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  So let's see. So the word is Eurisko. H -E -U
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  -R -I -S -K -O. The word found is Eurisko. H
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  -E -U -R -I -S -K -O. Found. Which means the
• 55:32
  first divination tells you to come upon. To do
• 55:36
  what? To come upon. Now, a word was used, right?
• 55:39
  So you are a student of English. You know, there
• 55:42
  can be a word and there can be a phrase that
• 55:45
  explains the word, right? There's a word and
• 55:50
  there can be a phrase that explains the word.
• 55:52
  So you see that you use a word for something
• 55:54
  or you use a phrase, right? Some of us in our
• 55:57
  writings, we summarize all the statements we
• 56:00
  are making into one word. So here, a word is
• 56:03
  used to explain to come upon, Eurisco. How do
• 56:07
  I know it's come upon? The scriptures will explain
• 56:08
  itself. Luke 1, 25. Luke 1, 26 to 35. Luke 1,
• 56:15
  verse 26. And her husband being a just man. No,
• 56:18
  that's not it. Luke 1, 26. In the sixth month,
• 56:22
  the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the city
• 56:26
  of Galilee, named Nazareth. So a virgin betrothed
• 56:30
  to a man whose name was Joseph. Of the house
• 56:32
  of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And
• 56:36
  he came to her and said. Greetings all favored
• 56:39
  one. The Lord is with you. And she was greatly.
• 56:44
  The Lord. Sorry. My scriptures. The Lord. Which
• 56:52
  verse are you reading? Can you go back to 26?
• 56:54
  Let's start from 26 again. Luke 1 26. I'm going
• 56:57
  to switch to my scriptures. All right. Let me
• 57:02
  use hard copy. Technology can be challenging.
• 57:06
  All right, 26. In the sixth month, the sixth
• 57:08
  month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to
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  a city, right, of Galilee and named Nazareth
• 57:16
  to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was
• 57:18
  Joseph and of the house of David and the virgin's
• 57:20
  name was Mary. And he came to her and said, greetings,
• 57:23
  O favored one. The Lord is with you. But she
• 57:25
  was greatly troubled at the same. and tried to
• 57:28
  discern what sort of greeting this might be.
• 57:30
  And the angel said to her, do not be afraid,
• 57:33
  Mary, for you have found favor with God and behold,
• 57:36
  you will conceive. Look at the communication.
• 57:39
  Of course, in Matthew, they also said conceive.
• 57:40
  I'm going to come to conceive, right? He said,
• 57:42
  behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear
• 57:45
  a son and you shall call his name Jesus and it
• 57:49
  will be great and will be called the son of the
• 57:52
  most high. and the Lord God will give him the
• 57:56
  throne of his father David, and it will reign
• 57:58
  over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom
• 58:00
  there shall be no end. Verse 35, 34 rather. Mary
• 58:03
  said to the angel, how will this be? Saying that
• 58:08
  words, since I am a virgin, means since I knew
• 58:12
  no man. Do you know why she asked that question?
• 58:16
  Do you know why she asked that question? She
• 58:19
  asked the question. Because of the way the angel
• 58:22
  communicated it. Right? So if you go to Matthew
• 58:26
  18, just hold on to Luke. Go to Matthew 18. Sorry,
• 58:29
  Matthew 1. Matthew 1. I just want to show us
• 58:34
  that it's the spirit actually that came upon
• 58:36
  Mary and Jesus appeared in her womb. That is
• 58:40
  what happened. So look at verse 22. Before verse
• 58:47
  22, go to verse... Verse 20, but as he considered
• 58:54
  these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared
• 58:57
  to him in a dream saying, Joseph, son of David,
• 59:01
  do not fear to take Mary as your wife. For that
• 59:04
  which is conceived in our home is from the Holy
• 59:07
  Spirit. You know why the angel communicated conceived
• 59:10
  to him? Because that is what he could understand.
• 59:14
  Did you get it? That is what Joseph could understand.
• 59:19
  He could not understand. Spirit come upon her
• 59:21
  and she has a child. He couldn't. So in dreams,
• 59:25
  and we've said it, in dreams and visions, right?
• 59:28
  They communicate what you know, what you can
• 59:31
  relate to. Then you have to understand the spiritual
• 59:32
  implication of it. Of course, Peter was in a
• 59:34
  vision, right? And in that vision, something
• 59:37
  was opened. And Peter could only relate them
• 59:40
  as unclean things. So the communication of that
• 59:43
  angel was for understanding of Joseph. Do we
• 59:48
  get it? Now, when you now come to Luke, the part
• 59:53
  that Matthew did not record, Luke now opened
• 59:56
  up. And I said, even Mary was told that she will
• 1:00:00
  conceive. And she asked, because conception means
• 1:00:02
  you need a man to be involved in that. And this
• 1:00:05
  is the way you can communicate to man. So they
• 1:00:07
  used the physical to try to explain something
• 1:00:09
  supernatural to them. But Mary, not that she
• 1:00:12
  believed, but she was wondering how it would
• 1:00:14
  take place. Now look at what the angel now said.
• 1:00:17
  The angel used the phrase of Eurisco. He said,
• 1:00:21
  the Holy Spirit, verse 35, will do what? Will
• 1:00:24
  come upon you. So since I've explained this and,
• 1:00:30
  you know, it's physical and you want to really
• 1:00:32
  know how it will take place, the Holy Spirit
• 1:00:34
  will come upon you. Right? And the power of the
• 1:00:38
  most that will do what? Will overshadow you.
• 1:00:40
  Therefore, as a result, the child, therefore
• 1:00:43
  the child to be born will be called the Holy.
• 1:00:46
  One, right? We call the holy, the son of God.
• 1:00:48
  Now, this is, okay? Let me say something. This
• 1:00:53
  is the same way the Holy Spirit comes upon the
• 1:00:57
  prophets and they prophesy. When the Holy Spirit
• 1:01:00
  comes upon the prophet, then they prophesy, right?
• 1:01:03
  They reveal God's mind, right? So people can
• 1:01:07
  understand it in the physical, right? They can
• 1:01:09
  understand what God is doing. The same way he
• 1:01:11
  came upon her and Christ appeared. The incarnation
• 1:01:16
  took place by the Spirit coming upon. So the
• 1:01:20
  revelation of God those days takes place when
• 1:01:23
  the Spirit comes upon a person. The revelation
• 1:01:27
  of God in those days takes place when the Spirit
• 1:01:31
  comes upon a person. Christ was revealed. Christ
• 1:01:34
  appeared by the coming upon of the Holy Spirit
• 1:01:38
  on Mary. So it is come upon. So a phrase was
• 1:01:45
  used in Luke and the word Jerusalem was used
• 1:01:47
  in Matthew. I think we'll just keep that. Let's
• 1:01:54
  move to the next one. So we can see that in the
• 1:01:57
  incarnation, the Spirit was at work, right? The
• 1:02:00
  Spirit was at work. Now, in the offering of Christ,
• 1:02:03
  the Spirit was also at work. In the resurrection
• 1:02:06
  of Christ, the Spirit was at work. In the offering
• 1:02:11
  of Christ, The Spirit was at work. And in the
• 1:02:14
  resurrection of Christ, the Spirit was also at
• 1:02:17
  work. So there was nothing God did on earth without
• 1:02:24
  the Spirit in men functioning. Alright, so Hebrews
• 1:02:30
  9 verse 14. Hebrews 9 verse 14. How much more
• 1:02:37
  will the blood of Christ who through the eternal
• 1:02:41
  Spirit Offered himself without blemish to God.
• 1:02:45
  Purify our conscience from dead works to do what?
• 1:02:50
  To serve the living God. How much more? With
• 1:02:55
  the blood of Christ. Who through the eternal
• 1:02:58
  spirit offered him. So it means that Christ gave
• 1:03:03
  up the life by the spirit. John 10 verse 18.
• 1:03:10
  No one can take my life. I lay down, right? So
• 1:03:14
  he laid his heart, he laid his life down. He
• 1:03:18
  said, no one can take it from me, but I lay it
• 1:03:20
  down of my own accord. I have the authority to
• 1:03:22
  take it. I have authority to lay it down. I have
• 1:03:25
  authority to take it up. This charge I have received
• 1:03:28
  from my father, right? I have authority to lay
• 1:03:31
  it down and I have authority to take it up. So
• 1:03:33
  we see that in the death and resurrection of
• 1:03:35
  Christ, the spirit was at work. The spirit was
• 1:03:39
  at work. Romans 8 verse 11. This is to tell you
• 1:03:42
  how important it is that we must understand the
• 1:03:48
  spirits and spirituals. That in the death and
• 1:03:52
  resurrection of Christ, the spirit was also at
• 1:03:55
  work. Romans 8 verse 11. You can add that to
• 1:03:58
  it. Romans 8 verse 11. If the spirit of him who
• 1:04:02
  raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He
• 1:04:06
  who raised Christ from the dead will also give
• 1:04:09
  life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit
• 1:04:13
  who dwells in you. So it's like saying the Spirit
• 1:04:18
  who raised Christ from the dead, right, will
• 1:04:21
  also strengthen you, right? The same Spirit who
• 1:04:25
  raised Christ from the dead, he who raised Christ
• 1:04:26
  from the dead will also give life to your mortal
• 1:04:28
  bodies through his Spirit. So the same Spirit
• 1:04:30
  will give life to you. So the Spirit was at work
• 1:04:32
  at resurrection. Amen. Okay. So we can write
• 1:04:44
  down. Therefore, the believer, therefore, the
• 1:04:47
  believer being spiritual lives and function continually
• 1:04:57
  by the spirits. We can say, therefore, the believer
• 1:05:00
  being spiritual must live and function continually
• 1:05:04
  by the Spirit. Must live and function continually
• 1:05:10
  by the Spirit of God. Live and function continually
• 1:05:17
  by the Spirit of God to continue God's purpose
• 1:05:20
  on earth. So he didn't stop at resurrection.
• 1:05:24
  Being spiritual lives and functions continually
• 1:05:27
  by the Spirit of God to continue God's purpose
• 1:05:30
  on earth. From the beginning until now, God's
• 1:05:35
  spirit has been functioning, right? So that it
• 1:05:40
  is also to replicate what he has done in us,
• 1:05:44
  in others. 2 Corinthians 1 verse 19 to 20. 2
• 1:05:49
  Corinthians 1 verse 19 to 20. 2 Corinthians 1
• 1:05:56
  verse 19. For the son of God, Jesus. whom we
• 1:06:00
  proclaim among you, Silvanus and Timothy and
• 1:06:02
  I, was not yes and no, but in him it is always
• 1:06:06
  yes. For all the promises of God find their yes
• 1:06:11
  in him. That is why through him, I just want
• 1:06:15
  me to, I like to read from my Bible because I
• 1:06:18
  put something somewhere. So it says, for all
• 1:06:24
  the promises of God, right? Go to verse 20 again.
• 1:06:28
  All promises of God find their yes in him. That
• 1:06:31
  is why it is through him that we utter our amen
• 1:06:35
  and for the glory of God. And it is God who establishes
• 1:06:39
  us with you in Christ and has anointed us and
• 1:06:44
  has also put the seal on us and given us the
• 1:06:47
  spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. From verse
• 1:06:52
  19, you will see it says, for the son of God,
• 1:06:55
  right here, they say Jesus Christ, whom we proclaim
• 1:06:58
  among you. Right? So follow the thoughts. For
• 1:07:01
  the son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaim
• 1:07:04
  among you. Silvanus, Paul, and I, right? Then
• 1:07:08
  he now says, verse 20, for all the promises of
• 1:07:11
  God find their yes in Christ. Right? All the
• 1:07:16
  promises of God find their yes in him. He said,
• 1:07:21
  that is why It is through Christ that we utter
• 1:07:25
  our amen to the glory of God. And it is God who
• 1:07:28
  established us with you in Christ and has anointed
• 1:07:32
  us. And what has he done? He has given us his
• 1:07:35
  earnest spirit. So all God's promises, yes and
• 1:07:39
  amen, is giving you his earnest of a spirit.
• 1:07:43
  Of course, we have said that he doesn't stop
• 1:07:46
  that you will function, but it is that you would
• 1:07:49
  have God's spirit within you. So this is God's
• 1:07:53
  plan. Amen. All right now, so let's go to John
• 1:07:58
  14 because John 14 is where we will find a little
• 1:08:04
  more details and it will lead us into 1 Corinthians
• 1:08:08
  actually 12. So John 14, John 14, since it's
• 1:08:14
  God's promise for us, just go to John 14 and
• 1:08:18
  I'll touch upon a few things there. John 14,
• 1:08:22
  because in John 14, it is where Christ himself,
• 1:08:27
  right? The promised Messiah communicated the
• 1:08:31
  promised spirits. Okay. This is where the promised
• 1:08:34
  Messiah communicated the promised spirit, communicated
• 1:08:37
  the giving of the promised spirit. So first,
• 1:08:43
  we need to understand John's writing, which I
• 1:08:45
  want to believe here now we are used to, we understand
• 1:08:48
  John's writing, but we still have to explain
• 1:08:50
  it. Now, John wrote, right? He wrote in a manner
• 1:08:56
  that reflects, right? He wrote in a manner that
• 1:09:01
  reflects an understanding of what God did for
• 1:09:04
  the believer, not what God will do for the believer.
• 1:09:09
  Okay? So John wrote in a manner, as one who understood
• 1:09:15
  what God did for the believer, what God, you
• 1:09:18
  know, did for us, right? Not just what God would
• 1:09:23
  do, as the Matthew, Mark Luke communicated, right?
• 1:09:29
  So Matthew, Mark Luke communicated these things
• 1:09:32
  as things to come. John communicated it as a
• 1:09:35
  present reality, although he was writing certain
• 1:09:38
  things as if they were ongoing. Are you following?
• 1:09:42
  John was writing certain things as if they were
• 1:09:44
  ongoing, but the way he wrote it, let's go to
• 1:09:48
  John. Let's go to John chapter two. Let's go
• 1:09:55
  to John chapter two. Just read something there.
• 1:10:02
  John chapter two, verse 22. So John started writing
• 1:10:10
  from, chapter two. And when you read it, you
• 1:10:14
  would think he's writing something that is ongoing,
• 1:10:18
  but it's actually something that has taken place
• 1:10:20
  and he's speaking revelation from it, right?
• 1:10:22
  It would tell explanation and it would give you
• 1:10:25
  the revelation. Now verse 22 says, when therefore
• 1:10:28
  it was raised from the dead, his disciples remember
• 1:10:31
  that he said this and they believe what? The
• 1:10:34
  scriptures. The word of Jesus, the word that
• 1:10:37
  Jesus had spoken. Now this is not the only part
• 1:10:39
  where John did this. John actually wrote, when
• 1:10:43
  he writes, after he would say, okay, he would
• 1:10:45
  write an explanation. As if in the present tense
• 1:10:50
  of while he's writing. So it's like saying that
• 1:10:53
  I'm telling you a story, right? I'm telling you
• 1:10:56
  a story that has not ended. Okay. But before
• 1:10:59
  the story gets to the place where it ended, I
• 1:11:03
  started including. The way the people understood
• 1:11:06
  the story at every scene and every episode. Do
• 1:11:11
  you get it? So John is writing a story. But after
• 1:11:15
  each episode, it tells you the revelation of
• 1:11:18
  that episode. It tells you what people got from
• 1:11:19
  that episode. It tells you the moral lesson before
• 1:11:22
  it gets to the end of the story. Right? That
• 1:11:25
  is the way it was coming. Because it was communicating
• 1:11:27
  revelation. So John was writing what Jesus did
• 1:11:33
  for us. rather than more of a historical account.
• 1:11:35
  So we can write a few things that he communicated
• 1:11:39
  before we move to John 14. We can write a few
• 1:11:43
  things that John communicated before we move
• 1:11:48
  to John 14. First, John 1, verse 3. John 1, verse
• 1:11:53
  3. 1 Corinthians 8, verse 6. We just write John
• 1:11:59
  1, verse 3. 1 Corinthians 8, verse 6. puts an
• 1:12:03
  hyphen, creation by Christ, right? Creation by
• 1:12:09
  Christ, creation by him. So he's talking about
• 1:12:12
  how God created. So from that verse three, he
• 1:12:17
  already said, all things were made through him
• 1:12:19
  and without him was not anything made that was
• 1:12:22
  made, right? So without him was not anything
• 1:12:27
  made that was made. Go to 1 Corinthians 8 verse
• 1:12:29
  six. 1 Corinthians 8 verse 6. So creation. Yet
• 1:12:35
  for us, there is only one God, the Father, from
• 1:12:38
  whom all things and for whom we exist. And one
• 1:12:44
  Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things
• 1:12:48
  and through whom we exist. Just stay there. Just
• 1:12:51
  write it. You see, it's a from whom are all things
• 1:12:53
  and from whom we exist. One Lord, right? So it's
• 1:12:58
  talking about creation of us. We exist from him.
• 1:13:02
  So this corroborates John, right? Explaining
• 1:13:05
  all things came to be through him. If you continue
• 1:13:08
  to read John chapter one, verse 12 to 14. Verse
• 1:13:14
  one, 12 to 14. But to her who did receive him,
• 1:13:18
  who believed in him, he did what? He gave. So
• 1:13:22
  creation, we see that. We also see that he gave
• 1:13:25
  the authority to become the children. Of God.
• 1:13:32
  Right? Matthew was not writing this. Matthew
• 1:13:35
  was writing. How Jesus by the flesh. Right? Came
• 1:13:39
  from the line of Abraham. Right? Because. Of
• 1:13:42
  course. Because of his audience. Right? To convince
• 1:13:43
  them. But. John was writing straight up. He gave
• 1:13:48
  them to become. The children. Of God. Right?
• 1:13:51
  Go to verse. The next verse. Who were born not
• 1:13:54
  of blood. Of. Of the will of the flesh. Nor of
• 1:13:57
  the will of man. but of God, which has been born
• 1:13:59
  again. And the word became flesh and blood among
• 1:14:01
  us. And we have seen his glory, the glory of
• 1:14:04
  the only son from the father, full of grace and
• 1:14:08
  truth. Next. John bore witness about him and
• 1:14:12
  cried out. This is the one whom I said, he comes
• 1:14:14
  after me, he who comes after me, rams before
• 1:14:17
  me because he was before me. From, for from his
• 1:14:23
  fullness, we have all received what? Grace upon
• 1:14:26
  grace. We have received grace upon grace. Next.
• 1:14:31
  The next verse, please. For the Lord was given
• 1:14:34
  through Moses grace and truth came through Jesus.
• 1:14:37
  No one has ever seen God. The only God who is
• 1:14:41
  at the father's side, he has made him known.
• 1:14:43
  So we have, we're created by him. We have authority
• 1:14:48
  to become children. We have, what do we see here?
• 1:14:52
  Knowledge, revelation of God. Revelation of God.
• 1:14:58
  Revelation of God. So we see creation. We see
• 1:15:01
  authority to become children. We see grace and
• 1:15:05
  we see revelation of God. Right? If we proceed,
• 1:15:09
  John 3 verse 3, right? John chapter 3. Just put
• 1:15:12
  John chapter 3. We don't need to read it. We
• 1:15:14
  see that he gave eternal life. John started talking
• 1:15:16
  about eternal life from chapter 3. Right? Started
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  talking about eternal life. John chapter 3. Eternal
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  life through his son. Right? Eternal life through
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  his son. John chapter seven, John chapter seven,
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  verse 37 to 39. Again, John communicated. On
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  the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus
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  stood up and cried out. If anyone says, let him
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  come to me and drink. Whosoever believes in me,
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  as the scripture has said, out of his heart,
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  out of his belly, will flow rivers of living
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  water. Right? Out of his belly will flow rivers
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  of living water. Now we see, next verse, please
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  just read the next verse. I'll use the next verse
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  to explain. Now this is said, do you see another
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  way that John is writing? He's already, he's
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  explaining. Now he said about the spirit in whom
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  those who believe in him were to receive. For
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  as yet the Spirit had not yet been what? Given,
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  because Jesus was not yet what? Glorified. Giving
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  another moral lesson before the end of, because
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  he was not actually writing a story. The reality,
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  he wasn't writing a story. He was actually explaining
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  events and showing the revelation of Christ.
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  That's why he keeps using this pattern of writing.
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  So what we see is that John already expressed
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  everything that we have in Christ. Explain everything
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  that we have in Christ. Therefore, can we read
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  Ephesians? John 12, just one more scripture in
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  John. John 12, 35 to 36. How John tied it. How
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  is John well tied to the epistles? John 12, 35.
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  And Jesus said to them, the light is among you
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  for a little while. For a little while longer.
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  Walk while you have what? The light. Let darkness
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  overtake you. The one who walks in darkness does
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  not know where he is going. The next verse. While
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  you have the light, believe what's in the light
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  and you may become what's sons of light. Do you
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  know the scripture that parallels this? Ephesians
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  5 verse 8. Ephesians. This is almost like directly
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  from Ephesians 5 verse 8. You know, sometimes
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  I feel. John actually read some epistles, probably
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  had some access to it because he was actually
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  writing so much of those things. Yeah, because
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  his writing was late, almost the last that was
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  written. So Ephesians, where's Ephesians 5 verse
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  8? For at one time you were what? Darkness. And
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  now you are what? Light in the Lord. Walk as
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  what? Children of light. Right? Using the concept
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  of light. So we see that John had actually written
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  to explain all that we have in Christ. Now let's
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  see. Let's move a little bit faster. So John
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  14 now. Now we can now settle in John 14. We
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  can now settle in John 14. John 14. John 14.
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  From verse one, right? Let's pick up from verse
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  one. He said, let not your heart be troubled.
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  Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my father's
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  house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would
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  have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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  And if I go to prepare a place for you, I'll
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  come again and take you to myself. And where
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  I am, you may also be, right? And you know the
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  way to where I am going. Now, we've explained
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  this over and over and over and I don't want
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  you to get tired of it, okay? You don't get tired
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  of it because it must sink very well, right?
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  It must sink very well in us. So, just to do
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  a quick test, what is the word father's house?
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  What does the father's house refer to? I don't
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  want Greek word. I want English word. What does
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  the father's house refer to? Household, right?
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  God's family, right? So yes, God's family. Then,
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  what does rooms refer to? Rooms. What does rooms
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  refer to? Dwelling place, right? Dwelling place.
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  A place where people dwell, right? Room. Places
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  where people... Places that need to be occupied,
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  positions that need to be occupied, right, in
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  Christ. So, if you pay attention consistently
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  to how it's being written, many rooms, if it
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  were not so, I would not have, if it were not
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  so, would I have told you that I go to prepare
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  a place for you? So, another word for that room
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  is place, okay? It's a place in Christ, a room
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  in Christ, right? a place in Christ, a room in
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  Christ. All he was doing was explaining for that,
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  right? Explaining for that what he would do.
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  And as I go to prepare a place for you, verse
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  three, and I will come again and take you to
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  myself. And that's where I am. You may also be.
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  So Jesus is saying that I'm preparing a place
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  through me and in me. That's what Jesus is saying.
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  I'm preparing a place through me because I go
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  and in me. I'm preparing this place through me
• 1:21:07
  and in me. I will prepare the place and that
• 1:21:09
  place is in me. That place is in me. Now, after
• 1:21:24
  Jesus has said he's going to prepare a place,
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  right? And it says that place is in him. Why
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  did he not begin to communicate something as
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  if he's different in verse 15? Because if you
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  tell me that you will create a place for us to,
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  you know, to lodge, right? We'll have an outing.
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  We are lodging there. Jinnah said, you will leave
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  me, right? You will leave me. Then you will send
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  some, Okay, let me not say someone, but you sent,
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  you communicated something to me that you will
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  send something or someone to be with me, right?
• 1:22:04
  It looks like two different communication. It
• 1:22:08
  looks like two different communication. So I
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  said it will be with them here, right? And we'll
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  be together. Of course, he communicated, we will
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  be together with the father. But in verse 15,
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  he now said, if you love me, you will keep my
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  commandment and I'll ask the father and he will
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  give you another helper. And I think Pastor Yifan
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  dealt with this as well. Another helper, we know
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  that another helper is not another being. Let
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  me show you something to tell you that the helper,
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  the Father, the Spirit is God. John 10. Let me
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  show you something. In John 10 verse 30, the
• 1:22:50
  Father, the Spirit, the communication, Christ
• 1:22:53
  was talking about God. I was talking about himself,
• 1:22:56
  right? So I was asking, I said, why did Jesus
• 1:22:59
  speak like a second person communication? Right?
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  Is we that is even reading it a second person
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  communication? Let me show you what the Jews
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  understood when Jesus was talking. John 10 verse
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  30. Before you go to John 10 verse 30, let's
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  start with verse 25. Verse 25. And Jesus answered
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  them. I told you and you do not believe. Right?
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  And you do not believe. The works I do, the works
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  that I do in my father's name, bear witness about
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  me. But you do not believe because you are not
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  among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice and I
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  know them and they follow me. I give them eternal
• 1:23:49
  life and they will never perish. And no one will
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  snatch them from my hand. My father who has given
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  them to me is greater than all, and no one will
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  be able to snatch them out of my hand. I and
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  the father are what? I and the father are one.
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  So he's talking about himself and talking about
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  what he will do for us. Now, what did the Jews
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  did? The Jews picked up stones again to stone
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  him. Jesus answered, I have shown you many works
• 1:24:22
  from the Father. For which of them are you going
• 1:24:24
  to stone me? Now listen to their response. They
• 1:24:27
  just answered, it is not for a good work that
• 1:24:30
  we are stoning you. They want to justify why
• 1:24:32
  they want to stone him. It is not for a good
• 1:24:34
  work. So why? That we are going to stone you.
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  But for what? Blasphemy. Look at their definition
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  of blasphemy, right? Because you being a man,
• 1:24:44
  you make yourself what? God. You being man, make
• 1:24:51
  yourself what? God, right? So it means that when
• 1:24:56
  Jesus was communicating, I and the father are
• 1:25:00
  one, right? He was communicating that it was
• 1:25:03
  God. He was communicating that it was God. But
• 1:25:07
  why were they not on this? Why is he using such
• 1:25:10
  kind of a form of communication? Because the
• 1:25:13
  Jews understand father as Yahweh as well. They
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  understand this source called father as John.
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  So if you say you are father and the father and
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  you are one, then you have said that you are
• 1:25:27
  God. And therefore it's blasphemy. They would
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  raise a stone to that. So when Jesus was communicating
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  back to 14 now, so he's talking about him creating
• 1:25:38
  a place in himself, right? And true himself.
• 1:25:42
  So in 15, he now said he's going to send another
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  comforter, right? Another helper. which my scripture
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  use helper, to be with you forever. It therefore
• 1:25:51
  means, right? Let me read one more. Let me read
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  one more in this verse 14. To corroborate John
• 1:25:59
  10 verse 30 about the concept of the father.
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  John 14 verse 8. It said, Philip said to him,
• 1:26:09
  Lord, show us who? The father. And it is what?
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  It is enough. It therefore means that these people
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  have the mind of someone called father. God is
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  a revelation of the father. So he's also a Jew,
• 1:26:26
  right? And you have the Jewish people stoning
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  Jesus because he said he is the father, more
• 1:26:31
  or less. Right? That is the communication he
• 1:26:33
  passed to them. So Philip now said, show us the
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  father. And Jesus was amazed. Like, ah. Have
• 1:26:40
  you been with me for this long? And you don't
• 1:26:42
  know that me and the father are one. I should
• 1:26:45
  communicate what I communicated to the Pharisees
• 1:26:48
  to you also. So it definitely reflect that Jesus
• 1:26:52
  was talking about himself. Now, how will he,
• 1:26:55
  right? How will he dwell in us? He's going to
• 1:27:00
  dwell in us through his own spirits, right? And
• 1:27:04
  that is why verse 15 came. He said, if you love
• 1:27:08
  me, keep my commandment and I will ask the Father
• 1:27:10
  to give you another helper that will be with
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  you forever, right? Because Jesus will not be
• 1:27:16
  on earth forever in body, right? He's not going
• 1:27:19
  to be on earth forever. So he communicated to
• 1:27:21
  them that another helper, not another helper
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  as an alternative, right? I think we saw that,
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  that he's actually talking about the same spirits,
• 1:27:31
  the same spirits. The same spirit, he's talking
• 1:27:36
  about the same spirit, which is the word allos
• 1:27:37
  paracletos, right? We heard that many times,
• 1:27:40
  allos paracletos, which is the same spirit. And
• 1:27:45
  what is this same spirit? That same spirit that
• 1:27:48
  we have been talking about from what? From Genesis
• 1:27:51
  is that same spirit. That same spirit that we
• 1:27:55
  trace to the resurrection of Christ is the same
• 1:27:58
  spirit that what? That will abide with them forever.
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  Do we get it? So it's not another spirit from
• 1:28:07
  somewhere. But that same spirit that we have
• 1:28:08
  consistently traced, seen functioning, is the
• 1:28:12
  same spirit that will dwell in us. That same
• 1:28:16
  spirit will dwell in us. And that spirit is called
• 1:28:20
  the spirit of Christ. Do you know why it's called
• 1:28:22
  the spirit of Christ? Right? It's called the
• 1:28:25
  spirit of Christ because it is a spirit that
• 1:28:28
  is given for first, forever. You see it here.
• 1:28:31
  He said that spirit will be with you forever.
• 1:28:34
  Then it is a spirit that is given after resurrection.
• 1:28:41
  Right? So it's the spirit of Christ. It means
• 1:28:42
  that after what Christ has done, this spirit
• 1:28:46
  now abides with men forever. So anywhere you
• 1:28:52
  see the spirit of Christ, it means that after
• 1:28:54
  Christ has done, right? Because he said, I have
• 1:28:57
  to go and I'll come again. And I'll take it to
• 1:29:00
  her. So it means that the spirit of Christ referred
• 1:29:03
  to, right? The giving of the spirit after all
• 1:29:07
  that the Messiah has done to be with men forever.
• 1:29:10
  Don't forget, we've been talking about the spirit
• 1:29:12
  upon, right? We talked about upon, I mean, upon
• 1:29:15
  Mary and upon the prophets, right? We talk about
• 1:29:18
  upon Mary and upon the prophet. So here is now
• 1:29:22
  a spirit that will stay with them forever. So
• 1:29:25
  can we say that this believer is always spiritual
• 1:29:29
  because we have the spirit of God? Yes. The believer
• 1:29:34
  is always spiritual. There's no time you say,
• 1:29:37
  oh, I'm not spiritual today. I'm not feeling
• 1:29:38
  spiritual. Tomorrow, I don't feel it. Or they'll
• 1:29:42
  tell you, come and do certain spiritual activities
• 1:29:44
  like praying in tongues. You say, no. So there,
• 1:29:47
  I don't feel it. There's nothing like that. You
• 1:29:49
  cannot say you are not feeling it. You are always
• 1:29:51
  spiritual. Because they said, the Allos Paracletos
• 1:29:53
  will stay with you forever. Forever. So can we
• 1:29:59
  say that the things of the Spirit can always
• 1:30:03
  be exercised by the believer? Yes. Yes. The things
• 1:30:11
  of the Spirit can always be exercised by The
• 1:30:16
  believer. So there are no seasons and time that
• 1:30:20
  the believer is not spiritual. There are no seasons
• 1:30:23
  and time that the believer cannot function in
• 1:30:26
  the gift of the spirit. Amen. There are no seasons
• 1:30:36
  and time that a believer cannot judge. You cannot
• 1:30:42
  be confused because you are spiritual. You can
• 1:30:48
  judge. You can perceive. You can understand by
• 1:30:54
  the spirit because you are always spiritual.
• 1:30:59
  You have the spirit ever with you. This spirit
• 1:31:07
  that Jesus promised to be ever with us, right?
• 1:31:11
  We can put it, it's called the indwelling. It's
• 1:31:14
  called the indwelling. Right? Not upon, but the
• 1:31:18
  indwelling of the spirits. It's called the indwelling
• 1:31:23
  of the spirits. The indwelling of the spirits.
• 1:31:37
  The indwelling of the spirits. John chapter 3.
• 1:31:47
  Let's just touch upon John chapter 3 a little
• 1:31:49
  bit. John chapter 3. John chapter 3. John chapter
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  3. Verse 5. Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say
• 1:32:07
  to you, unless a man is born of water and the
• 1:32:11
  Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. that
• 1:32:16
  which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which
• 1:32:18
  is born of the spirit is spirit. Do you marvel
• 1:32:21
  that I said to you, you must be born again? The
• 1:32:24
  wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound,
• 1:32:27
  but you do not know where it comes from or where
• 1:32:29
  it goes. So it sees with everyone who is born
• 1:32:32
  of the spirits. Nicodemus said to him, how can
• 1:32:36
  these things be? So Jesus answered, are you a
• 1:32:39
  teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand
• 1:32:41
  these things? Now, just wait there. So the communication
• 1:32:45
  was that you have to be born of the Spirit. And
• 1:32:49
  this is what Jesus was saying, that you must
• 1:32:53
  have the indwelling, the Spirit in you. Okay?
• 1:32:58
  So this is what Jesus was communicating, that
• 1:33:00
  the Spirit of God would be in you, means you
• 1:33:04
  will have the Spirit of God in you. And he was
• 1:33:06
  saying that, are you a teacher of the law and
• 1:33:08
  you do not understand these things, means that,
• 1:33:10
  read the next one. Verse 11, let's go to verse
• 1:33:13
  11. So truthfully, I say to you, we speak what
• 1:33:16
  we know, we bear witness to what we have seen,
• 1:33:17
  but you do not receive our testimony. The next,
• 1:33:20
  I have told you earthly things and you do not
• 1:33:22
  believe. How can you believe if I tell you heavenly
• 1:33:24
  things? No one has ascended to heaven except
• 1:33:27
  the one who descended, the son of man. And as
• 1:33:31
  Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
• 1:33:32
  so the son of man must be lifted up. that whosoever
• 1:33:35
  believes in him may have eternal life. Now stop
• 1:33:39
  here. Jesus' communication was to him, right?
• 1:33:42
  Jesus' communication to him was that, are you
• 1:33:45
  not understanding what I'm communicating? That
• 1:33:48
  you have to be born of the spirit. Of course,
• 1:33:50
  we addressed that already to be born of the spirit,
• 1:33:52
  right? It's not water. Water is actually explaining
• 1:33:55
  cleansing by the spirit, right? What the work
• 1:33:58
  of the spirit is actually the cleansing. So Jesus
• 1:34:01
  was expecting actually Nicodemus to understand.
• 1:34:05
  Maybe by that, you could perceive what the Spirit
• 1:34:08
  would do. Right? Maybe by that, you could perceive
• 1:34:11
  what the Spirit would do. So, he's talking about
• 1:34:14
  the indwelling, that the Spirit must indwell
• 1:34:17
  in man. So, indwelling is being born again. Can
• 1:34:21
  we say that? Having the Spirit of God is being
• 1:34:23
  born again. Can we say that? That is also salvation.
• 1:34:26
  Can we say that? Yes. Yes, we can say that that
• 1:34:32
  is salvation, that is having the Spirit of God.
• 1:34:35
  Now, it is also, we can put it down, it is also
• 1:34:41
  called the manifestation of the Spirit. It is
• 1:34:46
  also called the manifestation of the Spirit.
• 1:34:48
  We are going to treat this in, when we go to
• 1:34:52
  1 Corinthians 12. Right? 1 Corinthians 12. Because
• 1:34:56
  the word manifestation of the Spirit was used
• 1:34:58
  in 1 Corinthians 12. And most of the time, we
• 1:35:01
  always interpret it as demonstration. Yes, we
• 1:35:04
  always take it as demonstration. Right? There's
• 1:35:06
  a difference between the manifestation that was
• 1:35:08
  used there and demonstration that was used in
• 1:35:11
  1 Corinthians 2. So as I come to you, not in
• 1:35:17
  eloquence of words, but in demonstration of power
• 1:35:19
  and of spirit. There are two things. So this
• 1:35:22
  indwelling is the manifestation of spirit. It
• 1:35:25
  means the presence of God in a man. The presence
• 1:35:28
  of God in a man. The presence of God in a man.
• 1:35:33
  The presence of the spirit in a man. It means
• 1:35:39
  to allow something to have access to you, right?
• 1:35:42
  To manifest, allow something to have access to
• 1:35:44
  you. If you see John, John chapter 22, of course,
• 1:35:49
  the words are different. This one is ephaneso.
• 1:35:51
  Phaneros is the manifestation. I think Pastor
• 1:35:54
  Kostin dealt with that. So, the manifestation
• 1:35:59
  is actually, I think we can just say it. The
• 1:36:00
  manifestation is actually the spirit of God in
• 1:36:03
  the believer, the appearance of God in the believer,
• 1:36:05
  the presence of the spirit. The presence of the
• 1:36:10
  Spirit. Now that we understand being born again
• 1:36:14
  and being believed. Now, what is the work of
• 1:36:17
  the Holy Spirit in the apostles? Right? We need
• 1:36:21
  to check the work of the Holy Spirit in the apostles,
• 1:36:23
  which will also relate to us. And we will teach
• 1:36:28
  the work of the Holy Spirit in the world to have
• 1:36:31
  an understanding that we might be able to know
• 1:36:35
  how the Holy Spirit functions. Across that manifestation,
• 1:36:41
  you can also put the Ezekiel 36. Again, you can
• 1:36:43
  put Joel 2 because it's the same thing that is
• 1:36:47
  being communicated. Ezekiel 36, Joel 2, 28. We
• 1:36:52
  can put those scriptures. Now that Jesus promised
• 1:36:58
  them the Spirit, right? What is the work of the
• 1:37:03
  Spirit in the apostles? What is the work of the
• 1:37:06
  Spirit in the apostles? What is the work of the
• 1:37:11
  Spirit in the apostles? Don't forget, the work
• 1:37:14
  of the Spirit started from Genesis. We saw what
• 1:37:16
  God did. We see how Abraham communicated it,
• 1:37:19
  right? We see how it's passed on to Mary, right?
• 1:37:24
  Also in the incarnation of Christ, the Spirit
• 1:37:26
  was at work. Also in the death and resurrection
• 1:37:29
  of Christ, the Spirit is at work. Now, he now
• 1:37:33
  said, I will give these same spirits. To who?
• 1:37:36
  The apostles. So what will be the function of
• 1:37:41
  the Spirit in the apostles? What will be the
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  function of the Spirit in the apostles? Acts
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  chapter 1 verse 7. Before that, I think we should
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  read John 15 verse 26 to 27. John 15 verse 26
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  to 27. Since Jesus promised them the Spirit in
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  John 14 verse 15, John 15, 26 and 27 tells us
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  what will happen. But when the helper comes,
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  whom I sent to you from the father, the spirit
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  of truth will proceed from the father. He will
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  bear witness about me. So of all that Jesus has
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  been teaching the disciples, the apostles, the
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  spirit will reveal those things to them. So how
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  did they know that he was talking about his spirit
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  in John chapter two by the spirit? How did they
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  understand that the temple? That he said he would
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  destroy and raise was his body. By the Spirit.
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  After resurrection. So everything John was saying,
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  they later understood was by the Spirit. This
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  is for them. Right? This is for them. We'll come
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  to the ones that are patented to us. The next
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  verse. And you also will now do what? Be a witness.
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  So when the Spirit witnessed to the apostles,
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  they would witness to us. Right? So in their
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  writings, we see that. So you also be a witness
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  because you have been with me from the beginning.
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  They have been with Jesus. So it means that all
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  that Jesus has been explaining and has been doing
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  and has been teaching them, they will now explain
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  to us in the epistles, right? They will explain
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  to us in the, that's why, I mean, beginning is
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  there, right? It shows that they've been with
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  Christ, right? So all the things that people
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  were seeing and they could not understand. The
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  miracles, the gift, the teaching, the words of
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  Jesus, everything the apostles took and explained
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  it to us. And that is why we have the epistles,
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  the letters of Paul, the Peter, John, and all
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  of that. So this is what they will do. Now Acts
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  chapter 1, Acts chapter 1 now proceeds and tells
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  us much more what the Spirit will do. Acts chapter
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  one, verse seven. And he said to them, it is
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  not for you to know the time of seasons that
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  the father has fixed by his own authority, but
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  you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has
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  come upon you and you will be my witness in Jerusalem,
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  in all Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth.
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  So they will do what? They will be his witness.
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  Witnessing. Witnessing. Of all Christ has done.
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  So the disciples will witness. The power to witness.
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  Comes by the spirit. Okay. The power to witness.
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  Comes by the spirit. The power to witness. Comes
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  by the spirit. So the way that for this power,
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  right, which Jesus said they should wait until
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  the Holy Spirit gives them this power, the boldness,
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  right, to begin to function. But for the believer
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  today, we don't need to wait, right? Are we aware?
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  Yes. The believer does not need to wait. It's
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  an instruction for the apostles, right? That
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  they will together begin to function. collectively
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  in the power of the Holy Ghost. What is happening
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  there is what? Is the power of the Holy Ghost
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  at work. Right? The power of the Holy Ghost.
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  So he said, wait until this power begins to function.
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  So as believers, we don't need to wait in Jerusalem.
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  We don't need to wait anywhere. And we know,
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  we know this. Now, Acts chapter 3, verse 38.
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  We see Peter witnessing. Peter witnessed. He
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  said, Then Peter said to them, Repent and be
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  baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye would
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  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So, first
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  person began to witness Peter. Began to teach.
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  Explain. Right? Explain so much more. Acts chapter
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  5 verse 12. We see signs and wonders. We can
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  put it down. What the Spirit does through the
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  apostles. Preaching of the gospel. Witnessing.
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  Acts chapter 5 verse 12, signs and wonders. It
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  says, now many signs and wonders were regularly
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  done among the people by the hands of what? The
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  apostles. And they were together in Solomon's
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  particle. So we see signs and wonders walking
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  through them. You will see regularly, you see
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  the Spirit walking through them. The Spirit walking
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  through them across the book of Acts. The Spirit
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  walking through them. Now let's see. The impact
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  of the work of the spirits in the apostles, right?
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  How that impact affected others. Acts chapter
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  10, verse 44 to 46. So now that the apostles
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  are the indwelling, they are witnessing all around,
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  right? They are doing signs and wonders. What
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  happened? It's a Peter while he was still saying
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  these things, while Peter was witnessing, that's
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  it. While Peter was yet witnessing, The Holy
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  Spirit did what fell on those who heard and all
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  who heard the word. And believers from among
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  the circumcised who had come with Peter were
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  amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit was
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  poured out even on the Gentiles. Stop there.
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  So those who were the circumcised, right, were
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  amazed that now these gifts can be received by
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  every man. Every man. The next verse 46. Let's
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  see what happens to the believer. For they were
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  hearing them speaking words in tongues and extolling
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  God. Then Peter declared. So just stop there.
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  That is fine. For they were hearing them speaking
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  in tongues. So one of the things the Spirit does,
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  right, is to help the believer witness, which
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  is help the apostles to witness, and then help
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  other people to believe and... Witness that by
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  praying in tongues. So tongues is actually a
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  sign, of course, the teaching will come subsequently,
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  is actually a sign that someone has received
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  the indwelling. Okay? Speaking in tongues is
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  a sign that someone has received the indwelling
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  after they have been witnessed to. Tongues is
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  a sign that someone has received, a believer
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  has received the indwelling after being witnessed
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  to. After being witnessed to. So this is what
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  God is doing through men on earth today. This
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  is what God is doing. So men are the ones functioning
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  by the spirits. Right? Men are the ones doing
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  what? Functioning by the spirits. All right.
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  So the next question before we round up the session
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  is what is the work of the Holy Spirit in the
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  world today? Right? What is the function of the
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  Holy Spirit to the world? So we now have to talk
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  about the function of the Holy Spirit in the
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  apostles and how the apostles witnessed to people
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  and how through the Spirit they began to speak
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  in tongues as evidence of the indwelling. Right?
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  Peter was amazed. The Gentiles were not uncircumcised,
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  not they received. Means the Spirit is for all.
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  The Spirit is for all men. We'll come to that
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  in 1 Corinthians when we get it. So, the Spirit
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  is for all men. Now, John 15. Let's go back to
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  John 15. What the Holy Spirit does not do. Actually,
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  that's another way to put this. What the Holy
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  Spirit does in the world or what the Holy Spirit
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  does not do. What the Holy Spirit does in the
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  world or to the world and what the Holy Spirit
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  does not do. So you will notice that after John
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  chapter 15, verse 26 to 27, saying that the Spirit
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  will witness to the apostles and the apostles
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  will witness to others, right? The next thing
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  that followed is, in fact, prior to that and
• 1:46:37
  after that, what followed is that they will be
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  persecuted. they would suffer for the sake of
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  the gospel. So let's start with John 15, verse
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  18. He said, if the world hates you, know that
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  it has hated what me, before he did what, it
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  hated you. Right? So if you read this and you
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  continue to read until chapter 16, verse one,
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  go to chapter 16, verse one, I'll just be taking
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  it one, one. I have said all these things to
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  you. To keep you from what? Falling away, right?
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  Falling away means running away from what I've
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  called them to do. The previous verse tells you
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  what Jesus told them to do. Okay? Jesus told
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  them, you will be a witness because, chapter
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  15, verse 27. Chapter 15, verse 27. You would
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  also be a witness because you have been with
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  me from what? From the beginning. In other words,
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  I am telling you that you will suffer so that
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  you will not stop witnessing. You will not fall
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  away. You will not lose faith. They will put
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  you out of the synagogues while you are witnessing.
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  Is that when that takes place? Yes. Indeed, the
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  hour is coming when whoever kills you will think
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  he's offering a service to me. Right? Why is
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  Jesus saying this? So that they will not stop
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  witnessing. They will not be discouraged. Right?
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  So, don't use it as end time teaching. Like,
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  fall away. Oh, you lose your salvation. No, that's
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  not what he's saying. Right? Don't try to use
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  it that. As a that. So, Jesus is saying, you
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  will not fall away from witnessing me. Verse
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  4. But I have told you. I have said these things
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  that when the hour comes, you may remember that
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  I was, I told you. I told you. Now, proceed.
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  I did not say these things to you from the beginning
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  because I was with you. But now I'm going to
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  the one who sent me and none of you asked me
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  where I go. Verse 6. But because I have said
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  these things to you, your sorrows have filled
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  your hearts. Nevertheless, I tell you, it is
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  to your advantage that I go. And if I do not
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  go away, the helper will not come, right? Emphasizing
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  he has to die and resurrect. But when I go, I
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  will send him. And when he comes, good. Now,
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  this is the scripture now. When he comes, what
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  will you do? He will convict the world concerning
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  what? Sin, right? And righteousness and what?
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  And judgments. Concerning sin, because they do
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  not believe in me. Concerning righteousness,
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  because I go to the Father and you will see me
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  no longer. Concerning judgment, because the ruler
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  of the world is judged. Now the emphasis here,
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  most of the time when we teach it before those
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  days. right? Not now that we have clarity, which
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  we are going to have this clarity. I think in
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  the next second session, we will pay attention
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  to this. I'm not going to rush and finish it
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  now, right? I'm just going to tell us the wrong
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  perception of the wrong interpretation of this,
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  which is, we always say that the Holy Spirit
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  will, will, will convince, will convict you means
• 1:49:44
  that you have done something wrong, right? So
• 1:49:47
  conviction means you have done something wrong.
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  Then a judgment is passed on to you. That's conviction,
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  right? So you have done something wrong. So what
• 1:49:56
  people interpret this as is that when you do
• 1:49:58
  something wrong, the Holy Spirit will now come
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  and tell you, make you feel remorse and you now
• 1:50:04
  feel bad. You're now like, oh no. So when you're
• 1:50:08
  feeling those things, right? Because of wrong
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  teaching, you see, it's the Holy Spirit that
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  is convicting me. It's telling me you did a bad
• 1:50:15
  thing. You did the wrong thing. And this is the
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  scripture they bring to explain that. But that's
• 1:50:20
  not correct, right? The word convict, right?
• 1:50:25
  The word convict. Let's just write it down before
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  we finish. The word convict directly here is
• 1:50:34
  the word. It's actually the word to reflect shame,
• 1:50:43
  to find faults and to make someone feel sorry.
• 1:50:46
  That is the way. it appears, the word convict,
• 1:50:49
  is to find fault, to make someone feel sorry,
• 1:50:52
  and to shame. To shame. So is this what the Holy
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  Spirit do to the world? So it means that it will
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  tell the disciples, go and witness. So while
• 1:51:15
  they are witnessing, The Holy Spirit will now,
• 1:51:17
  one day they are witnessing Jesus, right? The
• 1:51:20
  Holy Spirit will now say, you see, he's preaching
• 1:51:22
  to you now. The other day you lied. The other
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  day you stole. You now bring all your sins. That's
• 1:51:27
  the way we think, that the Holy Spirit will reveal
• 1:51:29
  all your sins to you. And then, no, it's not
• 1:51:33
  what it is. After the break, we would actually
• 1:51:36
  go into that. I just want us to take time out
• 1:51:39
  to pray, right? For this few five minutes that
• 1:51:41
  we have, just want to take time out to pray.
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  And just... Speak in tongues as an evidence that
• 1:51:48
  you have the indwelling. So if you have the indwelling
• 1:51:52
  here this morning, can you begin to pray in tongues?
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  Can you give expression to that indwelling that
• 1:51:59
  is in you? Right? Give expression to the spirit
• 1:52:02
  of God that is in you by praying in tongues.
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  The same spirit that was from Genesis. The same
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  spirit that was from the father. The same spirit
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  that raised Christ from the dead. The same spirit
• 1:52:13
  that brought Christ to earth. The same spirit.
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  The same spirit that the prophet prophesied.
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  The same spirit that was upon the prophet. The
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  same spirit that raised Christ from the dead.
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  The same spirit dwells in us. Can we give expression
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  this morning? You don't need to have a prayer
• 1:52:33
  point. It's an expression of the fact that you
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  have the spirit of God in you. It's an expression
• 1:52:40
  that you carry God in you. Can you just give
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  expression to the Holy Ghost? If today's message
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  was a blessing, share it with a friend. Until
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  next time, be blessed.