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Manifesting the Kingdom of God 3 | The Believer's conference 2025 day 1 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share
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  today's message with you. Don't go anywhere,
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  to enrich your faith. Here's today's sermon.
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  Amen. Thank God for food. we've been ministered
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  to. I want to encourage us to don't use the food
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  as a foil to sleep. If I see you sleeping, I
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  will call your name. Amen. So let's turn to Matthew
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  16 once again. Hope you're enjoying our time.
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  Alright. Matthew chapter 16. Matthew 16. And
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  I'm reading from verse 13 once again. When Jesus
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  came to the region of Caesarea, Caesarea Philippi,
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  he asked his... disciples saying, who do men
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  say that I, the son of man, am? So they said,
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  some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and
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  others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He said
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  to them, but who do you say I am? Simon Peter
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  answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son
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  of the living God. Jesus answered and said to
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  him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh
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  and blood has not revealed this to you, but my
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  Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you
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  that you are Peter. And on this rock, I will
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  build my church and the gates of Hades shall
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  not prevail against it. And I will give you the
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  keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you
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  bind on earth will be bound in heaven. And whatever
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  you lose on earth will be lost in heaven. Hallelujah.
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  So we are down to verse 17. where Jesus replied,
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  Jesus responded to the revelation that we see
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  Peter made about Jesus Christ. And there are
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  some key and very vital words that we will study
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  from the response of Jesus Christ to Peter. Firstly,
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  Jesus said to Peter, said to him, Blessed are
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  you. Or we say blessed or blessed are you. Simon
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  Barjona. For flesh and blood has not revealed
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  this to you. But my father who is in heaven.
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  So one thing that is crucial in this verse is
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  the idea of God's blessing. And I don't want
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  to go detail into it. because I know that we
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  have a teaching in church, Pastor Victor, I think
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  you taught about the blessings of Abraham, right?
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  So please, I would love you to find time and
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  go back to the church website and go through
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  that. What does it mean, blessed? When Jesus
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  Christ said, blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
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  what does it mean by blessed? What does it mean?
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  Jesus called Peter blessed. What does it mean
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  to be blessed? Now blessing or blessed is never
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  used especially in the New Testament. The Gospels
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  and the Epistles will see clearly that it's never
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  used for anything material. Alright? So when
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  Peter When Jesus said Peter is blessed, it's
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  not meaning that you are rich in money or immaterial
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  things. That's one thing that we should note.
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  That the blessing here is not a material blessing.
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  It's not because he has gained something material.
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  That is why he is blessed. The blessing is a
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  product of his faith in The word of God. The
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  faith he had in what the prophets have said about
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  who Jesus is. And the word bless is the word
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  mercurius. And there's another one which I wouldn't
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  want to just go into that. But it means fortunate.
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  It means to be well spoken of. So Peter rather
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  He is fortunate. He is fortunate. He is fortunate
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  in the understanding of what he has concerning
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  the Christ. The blessings or the fortune is to
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  be found in the riches of God in Christ Jesus.
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  That is in the revelation of who Jesus is. It
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  has to do with the gospel. It has to do with
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  the gospel. The blessing of the believer has
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  to do with what? With the gospel and all that
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  Jesus has done. The gospel is actually what Jesus
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  has done. So the blessings of the believer is
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  enshrined in the finished work of Christ. John
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  20 verse 29. John chapter 20 verse 29. Jesus
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  said to him, Thomas, that's Thomas when he was
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  in unbelief. Thomas, because you have seen me,
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  you have believed. Blessed are those who have
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  not seen and yet have believed. So Jesus Christ
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  here is calling Thomas a blessed man. No, not
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  Thomas. He's saying that it is a blessing to
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  what? To believe. It's a blessing to believe.
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  It's fortunate. It's to be fortunate to be found
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  in what Christ has done. Blessed are those who
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  have not seen, but they have believed. And we
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  see that Peter, in the same way, believed what
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  Jesus Christ is in regards to what the prophets
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  have written about him. That he is the Messiah.
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  He is the one that Christ, that is the one that
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  will come to die for the forgiveness of the sins
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  of men. And he said flesh and blood. Flesh and
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  blood simply means this information you've received
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  is not from men. Alright? This information is
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  not from men but is a revelation that is from
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  God. It's a supernatural revelation. So flesh
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  and blood have not revealed this to you. So what
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  does it mean revealed? That is what I really
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  want us to focus on this moment. All right? Maybe
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  tomorrow we'll come around and we'll look at
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  more about Peter himself. But what does it mean
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  to have revelation? What does it mean revealed?
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  Why would Jesus say, you know, flesh and blood
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  have not revealed this to you? How did Peter,
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  God is revelation? Revelation is important for
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  us in life and ministry. Now the word revealed
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  as in Matthew 16 verse 17. Matthew 16 verse 17.
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  Blessed are you Simon for flesh and blood has
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  not revealed. The word revealed here is translated
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  from the Greek word apocalypto. And the word
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  means to uncover. It means to uncover. It means
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  to make known or disclose something. Especially
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  something that is hidden. To disclose something.
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  To make known something. To uncover something.
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  So this revelation is not just a feeling. This
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  uncovering that Peter had is not just an emotional
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  feeling, but an understanding that comes by faith
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  in the written word of God. In the written word
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  of God. Hallelujah. In the cell meetings, we've
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  been talking about the issue of rapture. And
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  we told you that the word rapture is not, is
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  new. I mean, rapture per se, the doctrine of
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  rapture is new in the Christian faith. And we
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  made mention of a man and their beliefs and how
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  that they depend on inspiration, right? Apart
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  from scripture, we saw that the doctrine of rapture
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  was not found in the explanation of scriptures,
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  but rather an inspiration that they have. So
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  this revelation is not an inspiration that Peter
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  had. It's not an inspiration that he had apart
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  from what is written and can be seen in scriptures.
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  It's actually faith. In what has been taught
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  in scriptures. So the revelation he had. Is not
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  something new from anywhere. In fact this is
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  not the first time. He had this revelation. It's
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  seen in scriptures. Alright. It's littered around
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  all through scriptures. So this concept is not
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  new. It's what God has been doing. Has revealed
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  to Moses. And has revealed to Abraham. And all
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  the men of old. So it's not just an emotional
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  thing, but Peter had faith in the written word
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  of God. So the written word of God is fundamental
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  to any revelation that we are going to have.
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  Without an understanding of the written word
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  of God, then our revelation, whatever inspiration
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  we have, is questionable. Faith is the access.
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  to the revelation of the mystery of God, the
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  mystery of God. Faith is an access to how we
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  understand or we have, you know, an uncovering
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  of the mystery of God. It is given to us who
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  believe. It is given unto us believers. The scripture
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  says, To understand the mysteries of the kingdom.
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  It is unto us who are believers. That God has
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  given the ability to have the revelation of mysteries
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  in scriptures. Mark chapter 4 verse 10. We will
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  see. Mark chapter 10 verse 4. Mark chapter 4
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  verse 10. But when he was alone. Those around
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  him with the twelve asked him about the parable.
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  Jesus would teach in the parables, in signs and
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  symbols and speak in parables to the people.
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  Then the disciples would come. Mark chapter 4,
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  verse 10. But when he was alone, those around
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  him with the twelve asked him about the parable.
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  And he said to them, To you, it has been given
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  to do what? To know the mystery of the kingdom
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  of God. Today, it has been given to us who are
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  believers. It has been given to know the mystery
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  of the kingdom of God. But to those who are outside,
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  who are the outsiders? Those who are not in faith,
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  right? Those who are unbelievers. Those who are
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  outside. All things comes in what? In parable.
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  Why? So that seeing, they may see and not perceive.
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  This is a quotation from Isaiah. And hearing,
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  they may hear and not understand. Lest they see.
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  Lest they should turn and their sins be forgiven
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  them. And he said to them, do you not understand
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  this parable? How then will you understand parables?
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  Then he began to explain to them what he meant
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  by what he says, the parable of the sower. Because
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  the children of God have access to the revelation
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  of God. Hallelujah. But to those who are outside,
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  to them it's parables. To them are mysteries.
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  Okay? For to us, it's a revelation that we've
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  known, we've received. To them, it's a mystery.
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  And sometimes it seems, why would Jesus call
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  Isaiah and say, sin, they may not see. Let's
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  go back to that, verse 11. Mark 4, 11. Verse
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  12. Verse 12. So that seeing, they may see and
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  not perceive. And hearing, they may hear and
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  not understand. Lest they should turn and their
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  sins be forgiven. It seems as though God shows
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  speciality in revelation. It shows as though,
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  you know, God hides some things from some people.
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  And sometimes we do. Think as if there are some
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  people that have some special revelations that,
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  you know, it's only them that can have this special
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  revelation of scriptures. Or, you know, a divine
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  inspiration from God is just for some specific.
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  Does God hide information from people and reveal
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  it to some special people? Luke chapter 10 verse
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  20. Luke 10 verse 20. Nevertheless, do not rejoice
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  in this, that the Spirit are subject to you,
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  but rather rejoice that your name are written
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  in heaven. In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the
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  Spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of
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  heaven and earth, that you have hidden these
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  things from who? Who is he leading to? From the
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  wise and the prudent and reveal them to who?
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  To babes. Even so, father, for so it seems good
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  to your side. So, at reading of this text, we
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  see clearly that Okay, verse 22. All things have
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  been delivered to me by my father and no one
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  knows who the son is except the father. And who
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  the father is except the son and the one whom
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  the son wills to reveal him. The son wills to
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  reveal him. So it seems as though, you know,
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  God concealed the revelation. Okay? Some people
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  say, ah, there is only Peter that got the revelation.
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  But no, the Bible didn't tell us there is only
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  Peter. All right? Peter has always been the spokesperson
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  of all. Okay? So let's not accuse others. of
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  what the scripture did not say about them, right?
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  You know, Peter has always been a spokesperson
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  to all of them. But then it seems as though some
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  people have been apportioned to have special
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  revelation. As I said earlier on, to us is given
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  to understand the mysteries of the kingdom. Does
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  that mean that God has deliberately concealed
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  this mystery so that others will not know? And
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  when we read scriptures like this, It seems so
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  because rightly Jesus said that he has hidden
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  it to who? To the wise and the prudent and has
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  revealed it to who? He has revealed it to babes,
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  to children. The word babes there means to children.
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  Okay? Matthew 11, 25. Matthew 11, verse 25. Matthew
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  11, verse 25. At that time, Jesus answered and
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  said, I thank you, Father. Of heaven and the
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  earth. That you have hidden these things. From
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  the wise and who? And prudent. On the line wise
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  and prudent. Wise and prudent. And have revealed
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  them to babes. To children. Even so father. For
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  it seems good in your sight. So it seems good
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  to the father. That the revelation of the kingdom.
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  Be unto babes. And not to the wise and the prudent.
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  And I ask, does God hide revelation? Does God
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  conceal revelation? Why would Jesus say that
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  God has hidden it from the wise? Why would it
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  be that Jesus is making this statement that the
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  revelation has been hidden to the wise? Now,
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  remember the context of Matthew 11, 20? The context
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  is that Jesus... Was rebuking the unbelief of
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  the cities. Let's look at verse. Yes. Matthew
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  20. Let's look at 20 to 24. We see that the context
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  that Jesus was rebuking the unbelief. Of the
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  people. Yes. Then he began to rebuke the cities
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  in which most of his mighty works has been done.
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  Jesus has done mighty works in these cities because
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  they did not repent. They did not turn to believe
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  in Jesus Christ. Woe unto you, Chorazin. Woe
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  unto you, Bethsaida. For if the mighty works
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  which were done in you had been done in Tyre
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  and Sidon, They will have repented long ago in
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  sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you, it will
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  be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day
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  of judgment than for you. And you, who are exalted
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  to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. For
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  if the mighty works which were done in you had
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  been done in Sodom, it will have remained till...
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  this day. But I say to you that it shall be more
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  tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of
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  judgment than for you. At that time Jesus answered
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  and said, Oh, I thank Father, Lord of heaven
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  and earth, that you have hidden these things.
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  Which things has he hidden? Revelation. That
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  you have hidden these things from the wise and
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  prudent. And I've revealed them to the babes.
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  So these people refuse to believe. They choose
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  to live in unbelief. Alright? They choose to
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  live in unbelief. That is the context of Jesus'
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  statement here. So what category of people are
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  those in whom God said to hide things from? He
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  said to hide things from. Who are those categories?
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  The wise and prudent, right? The mysteries of
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  the kingdom are hidden to who? To the wise and
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  what? And prudent. The mysteries of the kingdom
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  is hidden to who? To the wise and the prudent.
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  And who are those in which receive revelation?
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  Babes, children. Okay? So, now. Babes or children
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  can have different meaning in scripture. Depending
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  on the context of his use, it can have different
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  meaning in scripture. Whenever you see a child
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  or a baby, it doesn't mean the same in every
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  part of scripture. So, as we always teach in
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  church, we say context is very important in interpreting
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  scriptures. Now, let's see some places in which
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  the word babes or children is used. 1 Corinthians
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  3, verse 1. 1 Corinthians 3, verse 1. And I,
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  brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual
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  people, but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
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  Okay? As to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk
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  and not with solid food, for until now you were
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  not able to receive it, and even you are still
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  not able. For you are still, are you still carnal?
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  This is no secret. It's not saying that they
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  are carnal, right? But their behavior is what?
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  It's like carnal people. For where there are
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  envy, strife, and division among you, are you
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  not carnal and behaving like where? Like ordinary
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  men, which means that they are not ordinary men,
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  but they are behaving like ordinary men. So,
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  go back to verse 1. Go back to verse 1. So, He
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  says, as to babes in Christ, meaning that they
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  are children when it comes to the things of Christ.
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  They are not matured in the things of Christ.
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  So here, the word babes or children is referring
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  to what? Level of maturity of the believer. The
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  Corinthian church in which perform many, many,
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  you know, activities of the spirit. prophetic
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  words, healing and all those things, he's calling
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  them children because of their behavior, their
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  character, right? He's showing that they are
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  not mature. Some of them are saying, oh, I'm
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  for Pastor Kostin. Oh, this one, I said, oh,
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  I belong to Pastor Victor's camp. And there's
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  division among the church. And we'll see he's
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  asking them, is Jesus Christ divided? Why are
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  you behaving like babies? Why are you behaving
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  like kids? So babes or children here is referring
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  to what? The spiritual development of the believer.
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  1 Corinthians 13 verse 11. 1 Corinthians chapter
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  13 verse 11. When I was a child, I spoke as a
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  child, I understood as a child, I taught as a
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  child, but when I became a man, I put away childish
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  things. For now, we see in a mirror dimly, but
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  then face to face now, I know in part. When I
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  shall know, thus I also am known. Chapter 14,
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  verse 20. 14, verse 20. 1 Corinthians 14, 20.
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  Brethren, do not be children in understanding.
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  However, in malice be babes, but in understanding
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  be what? Be matured. Let's go back again and
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  look at this. He says, brethren, do not be children
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  in understanding. So, is it okay to remain a
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  child when it comes to understanding? Nobody
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  wants Going to give birth to a child and the
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  child remains a baby. You know, he's 10, he's
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  still a baby. 20, still a baby. The will of God
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  for the believer is that we grow to maturity.
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  Alright? So the level we are right now, that
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  is not the end goal for us. God desires that
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  we grow beyond this level of knowledge. That
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  we mature in knowledge. That we begin to We begin
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  to take responsibilities. Responsibility is a
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  product of growth. And growth comes by knowledge.
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  So Ephesians 4 verse 14. That we will not be
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  children. Ephesians 4 verse 14. That we should
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  no longer be children. The previous scripture
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  we see, it says as to regards to malice, you
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  know, we should be babes when it comes to these
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  things. As to what is evil, we should be babes.
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  But when it comes to maturity, we should grow.
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  When it comes to godly things, we should grow.
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  That we should no longer be children tossed to
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  and fro and carried about with every wind of
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  doctrine. By trickery of men. In the cunning
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  craftiness. Of deceitful plotting. But speaking
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  the truth in love. May grow up in all things.
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  In him who is. The head Christ. From whom the
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  whole body. Join and knit together. Every joint
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  that supplies. According to the effective working.
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  By which every part does its share. Causes growth
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  of the body. For the divine of his self and love.
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  So God intend. That we grow. God's intention
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  for us is that we grow. 1 Thessalonians chapter
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  2 verse 7. 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 7.
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  It says, but we were gentle among you just as
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  nothing mother cherishes her own children. Just
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  as her nursing mother cherishes her children
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  so affectionately longing for you, we are pleased
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  to impart to you not only the gospel of God,
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  but also our own lives because you have become
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  dear to us. So when it comes to faith in the
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  gospel, we must be like babes, right? Our conduct
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  towards the gospel, our attitude towards the
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  gospel message is... To be like babes. What do
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  babies do? What is the attitude of babies? A
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  child believes everything the father told him,
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  right? He doesn't argue. He believes all. Innocence.
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  But in the gospel, we act as babes. We must be
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  like babes. When it comes to the gospel, believing
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  it completely and obeying. Believing the gospel
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  completely and obeying. That should be our disposition
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  as babes, as we got the gospel. But when it comes
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  to growing in the truth, we must not remain babes.
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  We must keep on growing and mature. Hallelujah.
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  So, the word babes, Must be defined within the
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  context of his usage in the text. So that we
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  will not mistake one for another. The Bible is
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  not saying that you should remain a child. No.
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  The Bible is saying you should grow. Amen. You
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  should grow. Be mature. Be an adult. Grow. Take
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  responsibility. And we grow by the word of God.
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  By the teaching of the word of God. And by practicing
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  it. So from Matthew 11, 25 -26, God's revelation
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  is unto those who believe. That is the babes'
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  belief, right? It's unto those who believe, just
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  as babes. The babes receive the gospel by faith,
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  while the wise and prudent are the unbelieving
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  ones, who by the wisdom and the knowledge of
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  this world reject the faith. The wise and prudent
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  are those who think that they know it all. They
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  are smart. They are well educated. But you know,
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  it's the opium of the masses. It's for control.
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  You know, with my PhD, my education, you people
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  are, you believe in God because you didn't go
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  to, because you are not learned, you didn't go
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  to school. You know, it's because you are poor.
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  That's why you trust in God. In their own wisdom
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  and their own prudence, they rejected what? They
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  rejected the faith. So the gospel is hidden to
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  the wise and the prudent of this world. So if
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  you believe that, if you see yourself as a wise
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  and intelligent and brilliant and the Bible says
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  the fool, right, says in his heart that there
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  is no God. So your wisdom is actually foolishness.
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  So the gospel is a mystery to the wise. It's
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  a mystery to the prudent of this world. He cannot
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  wrap his mind around worshiping a man called
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  Jesus. He cannot wrap his mind. He can't see
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  the intelligence in the idea that somebody died
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  and then all are forgiven. By believing. Come
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  on. The wise and the prudent of this world wouldn't
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  want to acknowledge that forgiveness is free
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  gift in Christ Jesus. So it becomes hidden to
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  him. It becomes a hidden mystery. Father, we
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  see Paul describes this wise and the prudent
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  of this world. Romans chapter 1 verse 18. Romans
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  chapter 1 verse 18. It says for the wrath of
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  God. The wrath of God. I believe we're going
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  to do a teaching about the wrath of God very
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  soon. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven
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  against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
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  men. Who suppresses? Okay, let's see. The ungodliness
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  and unrighteousness of men. What do they do?
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  They suppress the truth in righteousness. Suppressing
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  simply means they reject the truth. Verse 19.
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  Because what may be known of God is manifest
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  in them. For God has shown it to them. So they
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  are not without knowledge. For since creation
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  of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly
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  seen, being understood by the things that are
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  made and his eternal power and Godhead. So that
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  they are without what? They are without excuse.
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  The Pharisees knew what Christ was saying. Alright?
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  They were not in ignorance. They know what he
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  was saying. Because although they knew God, they
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  did not glorify him as God. Nor were thankful,
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  but became futile in their thoughts. So the wise
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  is in their mind, in their thoughts, and their
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  foolishness, and their foolishness were what?
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  Were darkened. Professing to be what? To be wise.
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  We're intelligent. Come on. You have to intelligently
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  explain this to me. So in their intelligence
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  and their wisdom, they became fools. Right? And
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  changed. Look at what their foolishness has brought
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  them. They changed the glory of the incorruptible
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  God into what? Into idols. Into image. Today,
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  it's not fancy. carve a wood and kneel down and
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  worship. So, we have it in form of money. The
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  glory in, yeah, they changed the glory of the
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  incorruptible God into an image made with corruptible
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  man, made like corruptible man and birds and
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  four -footed animals and creeping things. Therefore,
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  God also, see, this verse says, God gave them
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  up. To uncleanness. So God hides. And God gives
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  up people. God gave them up. Really. God also
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  gave them up to uncleanness. In a loss of their
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  hearts. To dishonor their bodies among themselves.
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  This is the result of them rejecting the truth.
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  Who exchange the truth of God for the lie. And
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  worship and serve the creator. Rather than the
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  creator. Who is blessed forever. Let's see more.
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  For this reason, they say again, God gave them
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  up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged
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  natural use for 26. For what is against nature.
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  This is a product of rejecting God. For this
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  reason, God gave them up, right? Yes, verse 27.
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  Likewise also, men leaving the natural use of
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  the woman. burned in their lust for one another,
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  men with men committing what is shameful and
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  receiving in themselves the penalty of the error
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  which was due. And we see that the depravity
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  of mankind is a product of what? Of the rejection
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  of God. Thinking that they are wise, they rejected
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  the truth about God. And the Bible says that
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  God gave them up. Now we're going to look at
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  what does it mean God gave them up. But the product
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  of the depravity of man is from what? From his
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  rejection of God in unbelief. So these men that
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  claim to be wise are actually fools. To them,
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  it's not given to understand the mystery of the
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  kingdom of God. Because the mystery of the kingdom
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  of God is received by faith. Faith in who God
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  is as revealed in Christ Jesus in the scriptures.
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  By the wisdom of this world, which refers to
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  what? Human philosophy. You know? The education
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  system. The ideology of men. So by the wisdom
• 38:38
  of this world, men cannot know God. By the wisdom
• 38:44
  of this world, men cannot know God. 1 Corinthians
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  chapter 1 verse 17. 1 Corinthians 1. Is it the
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  right place? 1 verse 17. Yes, yes. For Christ
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  did not send me to baptize, but to preach the
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  gospel. Not with what? With wisdom of words.
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  Not with the wisdom of men. Not with the wisdom
• 39:20
  of words. Lest the cross of Christ should be
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  made of no effect. So the wisdom of this world
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  conceals the truth about Christ. It hides the
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  truth about Christ. The wisdom of this world
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  limits men from seeing Who Christ is. For the
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  message of the cross, right? The cross refers
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  to all that Christ has achieved. All that Christ
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  has done. The cross is not just a tree. The message
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  of the cross, the cross refers to all that Christ
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  has achieved in his death, his suffering, his
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  death, his burial, and his resurrection. For
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  the message of the cross is what? The entire
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  message about Christ is what? Is foolishness.
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  To those who are world. Who are perishing. But
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  to us. Who are saved. Hallelujah. It is what?
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  It is the power of God. It is the power of God.
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  For it is written. I will destroy the wisdom
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  of the wise. And bring to nothing the understanding
• 40:32
  of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is a
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  scribe? Where is a disputer of this age? Has
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  not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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  For since in the wisdom of God, the world through
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  wisdom did not know God. The world through wisdom.
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  That means the world has its own wisdom. The
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  world has its own wisdom. But through the wisdom
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  of the world, God cannot be known. It pleased
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  God through the foolishness of the message. Preach
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  to save. It pleased God through the foolishness
• 41:15
  of the message. Preach to save those who believed.
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  For Jews, what do Jews request? You always see
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  them, show us a sign, show us a sign. They request
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  for a sign. And Greeks, what? They are philosophers.
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  You read through history? Pluto? Oh, Plato. All
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  the philosophers, political thoughts, economic
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  thoughts, history. The Greeks are so... See,
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  Greeks are very, very important in knowledge.
• 41:52
  You can't take it away from the Greeks. Somebody
• 41:57
  will just go and do once more on the graduate
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  and say there's no God. No, I believe in science.
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  Science that you don't even, you are not, you
• 42:09
  are not even a qualified scientist. You don't
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  even created one thing from the knowledge you
• 42:14
  have of that science or the technology you have.
• 42:16
  You know, this generation is AI, you know. So,
• 42:22
  verse 23. But we preach Christ crucified. Hallelujah.
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  To the Jews is a stumbling block. And to the
• 42:33
  Greeks, it is foolishness. But to those who are
• 42:36
  called, both the Jews and the Greeks, Christ
• 42:40
  is what? Is a power of God and the wisdom of
• 42:44
  God. Because the foolishness of God. Now, we
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  are not saying that God is foolish. This is just
• 42:51
  a contrast. This is a language used to describe,
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  you know, what the writer is describing here.
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  God is not foolish. Okay. Because the foolishness
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  of God, if it's actually foolishness, is wiser
• 43:11
  than men. And the weakness of God, is God weak?
• 43:14
  There's no weakness in God. He's stronger than
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  man. For you see, you're calling brethren, for
• 43:25
  you see, you're calling brethren, that not many
• 43:28
  wise, how did I read it? That not many wise according
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  to the flesh. Not many mighty. Not many noble
• 43:37
  are called. You are called not because you are
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  wealthy. Not because you are intelligent. Not
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  because. But God has chosen the foolish things
• 43:50
  of the world. To put. To shame the wise. It's
• 43:56
  pride. It's pride in man. And God has chosen
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  the weak things of the world to put to shame
• 44:05
  the things which are mighty. And the best things
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  of the world and the things which are despised.
• 44:14
  The things which are despised, God has chosen.
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  And the things which are not to bring to nothing
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  the things that are. And no flesh, that no flesh
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  should glory in his presence. But of him you
• 44:31
  are in Christ. Hallelujah. You are in Christ
• 44:34
  Jesus who became for us wisdom from God. Hallelujah.
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  Jesus is our wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
• 44:44
  and redemption. That as it is written, he who
• 44:49
  glories, let him glory in what? Let him glory
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  in the Lord. Not in wisdom. Not in intellect.
• 44:58
  Not in your resources. But that you glory in
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  the Lord. So by wisdom of this world, men cannot
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  come to know God. And also, by human wisdom,
• 45:17
  we cannot preach God to the world, brethren.
• 45:20
  We cannot use the wisdom of this world to preach
• 45:23
  the gospel to the world. Hallelujah. I see many
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  times, you know, people want to preach, they
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  begin to bring in some certain things, trying
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  to use the things of the world, the definitions
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  of the world. You see? Let me tell you one thing
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  about, one example. Riches in the kingdom of
• 45:45
  God, right, is not the same thing as riches in
• 45:48
  the world. Okay? In the kingdom of God, riches.
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  is defined by what? Listen, I'm talking about
• 46:01
  material wealth, not even spiritual. Listen,
• 46:04
  material riches in the kingdom of God is not
• 46:07
  in the accumulation of resources. Okay? It's
• 46:13
  in how much you give. That is how we quantify
• 46:18
  who is rich in the kingdom of God. The other
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  way around is the world's way of defining who
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  is rich. In how much you are able to accumulate
• 46:28
  and keep in your bank. They say, how much is
• 46:30
  your net worth? That's how the major riches in
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  the world. So, our vocabulary must be distinct
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  and aligned with what the scripture teaches.
• 46:47
  By the wisdom of men, we cannot preach God to
• 46:51
  them. 1 Corinthians 2, let's go to chapter 2.
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  From verse 1, we see Paul when he came, he says,
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  And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not
• 47:00
  come with excellency of word, excellence of speech,
• 47:04
  or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony
• 47:08
  of God. He didn't come with sweet words. He didn't
• 47:13
  come with human wisdom. He didn't come with,
• 47:16
  you know, he didn't display his intellectual
• 47:19
  capacity in preaching about Christ. For I determined
• 47:25
  not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ
• 47:29
  and him crucified. So when you're going for evangelism,
• 47:34
  you're not going there to show your intellectual
• 47:36
  ability. You're not going there to show that
• 47:41
  you are intelligent or you are smart or you are
• 47:42
  brilliant. You are there to show people the intelligence
• 47:45
  of God, which is the cross. Hallelujah. The more
• 47:52
  you try to modernize it, you go off point. Let's
• 47:57
  look at how Paul said it. He said, for I determined
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  not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ
• 48:03
  and him crucified. Why? I was with you in weakness,
• 48:08
  in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech
• 48:12
  and my preaching were not with persuasive words
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  of human wisdom. He didn't use persuasive words
• 48:23
  of human wisdom on them, but in demonstration
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  of what? Of the spirit and of power. That your
• 48:33
  faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but
• 48:37
  in what? But in the power of God. In the power
• 48:42
  of God. So, how do we explain the idea? Of God
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  hiding things from the wise and prudent. How
• 48:54
  do we explain this? Isn't God now responsible
• 48:57
  for their unbelief? Since he has hidden it from
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  them. Is God not responsible for their unbelief?
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  Since God has hidden it from them. Now let's
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  go back to that text in Luke. The word hide as
• 49:15
  used in Luke. Luke chapter 20 verse 22. and Matthew
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  11 .25. Luke 20. Is it Luke 20? Luke 10 .20 rather.
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  Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the
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  spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice
• 49:42
  because your name are written in heaven. Next.
• 49:46
  In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the spirit and
• 49:50
  said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and
• 49:54
  earth, that you have hidden these things from
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  the wise and prudent and revealed them to the
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  babes. Even so, Father, for it seems good in
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  your sight. Now, this hide in this text is a
• 50:08
  figure of speech. In literature, you know, we
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  call it a figure of speech. We are writing, right?
• 50:16
  It's called metonymy. There are different classes
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  of metonymy. If you go out, you can make research
• 50:25
  about it. If you've got a speech called metonymy,
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  M -E -T -O -N -Y, M -Y. Especially the metonymy
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  of the effect of the cause. Now, let me explain
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  this in simple language. It's a situation in
• 50:38
  which we have more than one character. In an
• 50:46
  event, an event happens with having more than
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  one character, but one character is mentioned.
• 50:53
  Often, the one that is not active in that event
• 50:56
  is accorded as responsible for that action. Do
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  you understand what I just explained now? Okay,
• 51:04
  let me explain it in... I and Pastor Victor and
• 51:09
  Pastor Chidi, something happened, right? And
• 51:13
  then... Of course, we went to Pastor Chidi's
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  house. And I did something. And because Pastor
• 51:21
  Chidi is his house and they say it is Pastor
• 51:23
  Chidi that did it. You understand? I'll give
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  you examples in scripture. For example now, in
• 51:31
  Exodus chapter 9 verse 12. The example of Pharaoh.
• 51:37
  Exodus chapter 9 verse 12. But the Lord had in
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  the heart of Pharaoh and he did not heed them.
• 51:49
  Just as the Lord has spoken to Moses. So was
• 51:52
  it God that had in the heart of Pharaoh or Pharaoh
• 51:55
  refused to believe what Moses said? He what?
• 52:04
  He refused to believe, right? So in this story
• 52:08
  now, it is reported that God hardened his heart.
• 52:15
  The Bible said God hardened the heart of Pharaoh,
• 52:17
  but in reality, right, Pharaoh hardened his heart
• 52:22
  against the word of God. Okay? Let me give you
• 52:30
  another example. Which one would I give? Another
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  metonymy, but it's not a metonymy, of course,
• 52:37
  an effect. Let's say the chief of staff to the
• 52:46
  president of America, for example, now, says
• 52:51
  something bad about Russia, for example, now.
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  If it's going to be written, who will say that
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  thing? The White House, right? What does the
• 53:09
  White House mean? The president. Why? Because
• 53:15
  the president is what? He's the president. He's
• 53:18
  the one that appointed him. But in, of course,
• 53:23
  in real sense, the president did not say, but
• 53:25
  the White House, the White House refers to the
• 53:27
  president, it refers to the seat of the president.
• 53:29
  Isn't it? So if the news will write that, they
• 53:31
  will refer to us, the White House. And when you
• 53:33
  say the White House, first you know that it is
• 53:35
  Donald Trump. Are we together? So in this, it's
• 53:40
  a way of communication. And the people responsible
• 53:43
  here, we see here, there is a Pharaoh disbelieved
• 53:47
  the word and he did not act in obedience to what
• 53:50
  Moses said. But it is recorded as God had in
• 53:55
  his heart. Romans chapter 1 verse 24, we saw
• 53:57
  earlier on. 1 24 says, therefore God also gave
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  them up to uncleanness. When we read earlier
• 54:07
  on. Was it God that gave them up or they refused
• 54:10
  to believe God? There is two options. If you
• 54:16
  believe God, this is the outcome of believing
• 54:18
  God. This is the outcome of disbelieving God.
• 54:21
  When you disbelieve God, what will happen? A,
• 54:23
  B, C, D will happen. When you believe God, what
• 54:25
  will happen? A, B, C will happen. And you choose
• 54:28
  to believe God, right? Or you choose to disbelieve
• 54:33
  God. So we see the action, the result of your
• 54:35
  action. It's what we see as a result of their
• 54:39
  disobedience. So, verse 28 also mentioned that
• 54:43
  24, 28 we see also, God gave them up to loss
• 54:46
  of their heart to dishonor their bodies among
• 54:48
  themselves. Verse 28. Verse 28. And even as they
• 54:56
  did not like to retain God in their heart, in
• 54:59
  their knowledge, God gave them over to the base
• 55:03
  mind. To do those things which are not fitting.
• 55:06
  As though God is responsible for the things they
• 55:08
  did. But the action here. Is the action in not
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  retaining God. Okay. Then we see the result in
• 55:18
  their lives. So the text said God gave them up.
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  But in reality. They chose not to believe in
• 55:26
  God. And we see the consequence of their action.
• 55:28
  In all that we see in the text. So in reality.
• 55:32
  God does not hide the truth from people. Hallelujah.
• 55:39
  God's desire is that all men should be saved.
• 55:45
  God's desire is that all men should be saved.
• 55:48
  God has not sat down and written a certain list
• 55:51
  of some people that these are the only ones that
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  will be saved. Some people believe that there
• 55:57
  are some numbers that God has decided that these
• 55:59
  are the only ones that will make heaven. The
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  rest, God has destined them for judgment. How
• 56:06
  come you are inside that number? What makes you
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  special than others that you say God has destined
• 56:14
  them for destruction? So you mean God will sit
• 56:16
  down and the thing that God will do is that he
• 56:18
  will prepare men for destruction. Then there's
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  no love in that God. From the foundation of the
• 56:27
  world, he knows. And he prepared them for what?
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  For destruction. That is what God sat down and
• 56:32
  did. Then that is a misrepresentation of the
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  character of God. So, God does not hide the truth
• 56:44
  from people. God is light. And in him there is
• 56:49
  no what? There is no darkness. To say that God
• 56:52
  hides, it means that there is darkness in God.
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  So God does not hide his truth. God's revelation
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  is a matter of faith in the word of God. We who
• 57:08
  believe in the word of God have the revelation
• 57:11
  of the mysteries of God. Alright? So we believe,
• 57:16
  we act on faith on what God has said. We act
• 57:20
  as children. Just as children believe and they
• 57:25
  obey, we act and we believe and we obey. Just
• 57:30
  like children. So to us, God's revelation is
• 57:38
  a matter of faith in the word of God. We believe
• 57:41
  in the word of God. We who believe in the word
• 57:47
  of God have revelation of the mysteries of God.
• 57:52
  1 Corinthians 2 .6. Let's continue. 1 Corinthians
• 57:54
  2 .6. We see when Paul was talking about contrasting
• 57:59
  the wise and the prudent and the babes. Say,
• 58:05
  however we speak wisdom among those who are mature,
• 58:10
  yet not wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers
• 58:17
  of this age who are coming to nothing. But we
• 58:21
  speak what? The wisdom of God in a mystery. The
• 58:26
  hidden wisdom which God ordained when? Before
• 58:31
  ages for our glory. Which none of the rulers
• 58:36
  of this age knew. For had they known, they would
• 58:40
  not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as
• 58:44
  it is written, I have not seen nor heard. nor
• 58:48
  have entered into the heart of man the things
• 58:51
  which God has prepared for those who love him.
• 58:54
  He's actually prepared for those whom God loves.
• 58:59
  But God has what? God has revealed it to who?
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  Huh? To who? To us. How? Through his spirit.
• 59:12
  So we have the revelation of God through his
• 59:16
  spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
• 59:20
  the deep things of God. Colossians 1, verse 24.
• 59:35
  I now rejoice in my suffering for you and fill
• 59:39
  up in my flesh what is lacking in the affliction
• 59:43
  of Christ for the sake of his body, which is
• 59:45
  a church. Of which I became a minister. According
• 59:51
  to the stewardship. From which was given to me.
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  For you to fulfill. The word of God. The mystery.
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  This is the word of God. The mystery which has
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  been hidden from ages. And from generations.
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  But now. Has been revealed to his sense. To them.
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  God willed. To make known. What are the riches
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  of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles?
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  Which is what? Which is Christ in what? In you,
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  the hope of glory. Christ in you, the hope of
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  glory. Mystery revealed to the believer. Mystery
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  is what? Is revealed. Hallelujah. To us, it is
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  given. To you, It is given to know the mysteries
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  of the kingdom. So we are not in darkness. We
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  are not in darkness not to know what God has
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  done. Amen? We are not in darkness to know what
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  God has done in Christ because we believe just
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  as babes believe. That is why the gospel can
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  be understood by someone that went to school.
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  And can also be understood by someone that did
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  not go to school. Even if you cannot read and
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  write, you can understand the gospel and you
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  can believe the gospel. And you can also preach
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  the gospel. Hallelujah. Because it's for those
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  who have the minds of children who believe and
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  obey unto them is given the understanding of
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  the mystery of God. The mystery in the Greek
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  word is a word mysterion. Mysterion. M -Y -S
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  -T -E -R -I -O -N. Let me spell it again. M -Y
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  -S -T -E -R -I -O -N. Mysterion. It means something
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  hidden. A secret. And this hidden stuff is...
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  It's what should be taught, actually, in this
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  context. It's what should be taught, said, and
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  declared. It's something that should be taught,
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  said, and declared. Now, let's have a short study.
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  How the Bible explains this mystery. What the
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  Bible calls this mystery. The Bible explains
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  this mystery in several ways. It is called the
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  mystery of the kingdom of heaven. In scriptures
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  you will see it. Mystery of the kingdom of heaven.
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  Matthew chapter 13 verse 11. Matthew 13 verse
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  11. He answered and said to them. Because it
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  has been given to you to know what? The mysteries
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  of what? Of the kingdom of heaven. But to them
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  it has not been given. So here it is represented
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  as the mysteries of what? Of the kingdom of heaven.
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  It is also the mysteries of the kingdom of God.
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  Kingdom of heaven. Same thing. The mysteries
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  of the kingdom of God. Mark chapter 4 verse 11.
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  Mark 4 11. He answered and said to them. Mark
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  4 11. And he said to them. To you it has been
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  given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God.
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  But to those who are outside, all things come
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  in what? Parable. All things comes in parable.
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  Mystery of the kingdom of God. Look at verse
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  10. Mystery of the kingdom of God. We've seen
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  mystery of the kingdom of heaven. It's the same
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  thing as mystery of the kingdom of God. And he
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  said to you, it has been given to know the mysteries
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  of the kingdom of God. But to the rest it is
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  given in parables that seeing they may not see,
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  hearing they may not understand. And the reason
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  that they will see and not see, right, is because
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  of unbelief. It's because of unbelief. So we
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  see the mysteries of the kingdom of God, mysteries
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  of the kingdom of heaven. We also see in scriptures
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  the mysteries of God. All is the same thing.
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  1 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 1. 1 Corinthians
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  chapter 4 verse 1. Let a man consider us as servants
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  of Christ and stewards of what? The mysteries
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  of who? Of God. Alright. Still the same thing.
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  The mysteries of God. Colossians 2 verse 2. Colossians
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  2 verse 2. And their hearts may be encouraged.
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  Being knit together in love and attaining to
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  all riches of the full assurance of understanding
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  to the knowledge of the mystery of God. Mystery
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  of God. Both of the Father and of the Christ.
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  Mystery of God. Both of the Father and of the
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  Christ. In whom? Are hidden all the treasures
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  of the wisdom. Of wisdom and knowledge. Mysteries
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  of God. We will also see this same mystery. As
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  the mystery of Christ. The mystery of Christ.
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  The mystery of Christ. The same thing. Ephesians
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  chapter 3 verse 4. The mystery of Christ. By
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  which when you read, let's go back to verse,
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  let's go from verse 1. From verse 1. For this
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  reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus
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  for you, Gentiles, indeed you have heard of the
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  dispensation of the grace of God. This dispensation
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  is what? The stewardship, the administration
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  of the grace of God which was given to me for
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  you. Even did, yes, how that by revelation, by
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  what? By revelation, he made known to me the
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  mystery as I have briefly what? Written. Already.
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  By which when you read, when you read, you may
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  understand my knowledge, he called it in the
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  mystery of Christ. which in other ages was not
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  made known to the sons of men. Which ages? Of
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  course, going back to the times of the prophets,
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  right? Made known to the sons of men, and it
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  has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy
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  apostles and prophets. Apostles and prophets,
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  yes. That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs
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  of the same body and partakers of his promise
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  in Christ through the gospel. So he called it
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  the mystery of Christ. The mystery of God is
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  a mystery of the kingdom of heaven, is a mystery
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  of the kingdom of God, is a mystery of God, is
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  the same thing as a mystery of Christ. Mystery
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  of Christ. Colossians 4, verse 3. Meanwhile,
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  pray also for us. That God will open us a door
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  for the world to speak what? To speak the mystery
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  of Christ for which I am also in chain. So is
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  this mystery also the gospel? Huh? Is it also
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  the gospel? We will see that it is also referred
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  to as a mystery of the gospel. Ephesians 6 verse
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  19. Same thing. Ephesians 6 verse 19. And for
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  me, that all trans may be given to me, that I
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  may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery
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  of what? Of the gospel. Hallelujah. The mystery
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  of the gospel. So what should be the response
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  to the gospel? Faith, right? Faith. The mystery
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  is also the mystery of the faith. The mystery
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  of faith. 1 Timothy 3, verse 19. 1 Timothy 3,
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  verse 9. Verse 9, not 19, verse 9. 1 Timothy
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  3, verse 9. It says, holding the mystery of what?
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  Of the faith with a pure conscience. The faith
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  entails all that pertains to Christ. The faith
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  entails all that pertains to the kingdom of God.
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  The faith means all that pertains to the kingdom
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  of heaven, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of
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  Christ. There's no difference between the kingdom
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  of God and the kingdom of heaven. It's the same
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  thing. Agreed? So this mystery is one. Alright?
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  It's also referred to as the mystery of godliness.
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  1 Timothy 3 verse 16. The mystery of what? Of
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  godliness. And without controversy, great is
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  the mystery of what? Godliness. And he explains
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  it. God was manifested in the flesh. Justified
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  in the spirit. Seen by angels. Preached among
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  the Gentiles. Believed in the world. And received
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  up in glory. Hallelujah. So all this refers to
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  the same. So when we are talking about mystery.
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  There are not many mysteries. Hallelujah. Even
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  when Paul was talking about marriage, he said
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  he's referring to the same thing. He's talking
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  about Christ and the church. Amen? To you and
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  I is given to know the mystery, the mystery of
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  God. To know the mysteries of the kingdom. Do
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  you know why? Because we have a responsibility.
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  We have a responsibility. So to us, it's given
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  because we have, of course, we are safe and we
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  are part of the mystery because Christ in us
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  is a mystery. Hallelujah. God, indwelling man,
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  the kind of man cannot understand that ideology.
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  The man that is not born again cannot understand.
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  How can you say God lives in you? It doesn't
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  make sense. But that is the wisdom of God. That
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  is the mystery of God revealed to us. For to
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  us, it's not a mystery, it's a revelation. Hallelujah.
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  Amen? And Paul made it very clear that this revelation
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  of the mystery are from the teachings of the
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  prophets. Okay? It is a message of God through
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  the mouth of the prophets. Right? Romans chapter
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  16 verse 25. I think we saw this text earlier
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  on. Romans 16, 25, 27. This mystery is not so
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  mysterious. This mystery did not appear mysteriously
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  from nowhere. Okay? It didn't appear mysteriously
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  from nowhere. That is why we saw what Peter said.
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  What Peter said is written by the prophets. It's
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  what the prophets have said. To him who is able
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  to establish you according to my gospel. And
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  the preaching of Jesus Christ. According to what?
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  According to the revelation of the mystery kept
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  secret. Since the world began. But now made manifest.
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  How? And by the prophetic scriptures. So Paul's
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  mystery is not that he got it somewhere. He believed
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  the word. He understand the word. He believe
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  therefore he got understanding by the spirit.
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  Hallelujah. He believe by the spirit he got understanding.
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  So he's able to write. Amen. But now made manifest
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  by the prophetic scriptures. Made known to all
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  nations according to the commandment of the everlasting
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  God for obedience to the faith. Verse 7. To God
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  alone. wise, the glory through Jesus Christ forever.
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  Amen. So clearly we see here that, as I said,
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  the mystery didn't just appear mysteriously.
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  It is in the writings of the prophets, started
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  with Moses, right from Genesis chapter 1 verse
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  1, that's when the mystery was revealed, was
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  stated, coming down to the writings of the prophets,
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  to the Psalms, and then we see, manifested in
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  the epistles, revealed in Christ in the epistles,
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  then we see after his resurrection, glorified
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  in us. Hallelujah. So Jesus is a centrality of
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  this mystery. Listen, when we say mystery, we're
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  not talking about portals. We're not talking
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  about something that is new. You're looking for
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  fresh revelation. What we're saying is that it's
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  a revelation of Christ. Don't go and then be
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  looking for some fresh revelation to give people.
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  There's no new revelation. Alright? It's to the
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  unsafe that it is a revelation. It's a mystery
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  to the unsafe, rather. But to us, it's a revelation.
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  There's no mystery. You cannot come and be talking
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  to believers and then you are telling them potters
• 1:14:41
  and who do you want to impress? Believers have
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  common knowledge with the one you have. They
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  have show to them what Christ has done. That's
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  what is necessary. Amen? So we don't come here
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  and begin to tell you our experiences or anything
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  that we've achieved on our own. But we show you
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  what Christ has done. What Christ has revealed.
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  Hallelujah. So Jesus Christ is the center of
• 1:15:10
  this mystery. He is the centrality of this mystery.
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  Colossians chapter 2 verse 1. You will see that
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  Jesus Christ is the center of this mystery. For
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  I want you to know what a great conflict I have
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  for you and those in Laodicea and for as many
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  as have seen my face in the flesh. that their
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  hearts may be encouraged, being knit together
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  in love and attending to all riches, of the full
• 1:15:45
  assurance of understanding, to the knowledge
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  of the mystery of God, both of the Father and
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  of Christ. So you see, Jesus Christ is in the
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  center of this, right? Jump to chapter 4, verse
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  3. Chapter 4, verse 3. Colossians 4 verse 3.
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  Praying also for us that God will open us a door
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  for the word to speak the mystery is of Christ
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  for which I am also in chains. The mystery is
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  of Christ and is revealed to us and we know what
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  it is. Hallelujah. Ephesians 1 verse 3. Ephesians
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  1 verse 3. It says, blessed be the God and the
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  Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed
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  us with every spiritual blessings in the heavenly
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  places. Heavenly place. In Christ. In the heavenlies
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  in Christ. Just as he chose us in him before
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  the foundation of the world that we should be
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  holy and without blame before him in love. This
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  is the mystery explained. Having predestined
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  us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself
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  according to the good pleasure of his will. To
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  the praise of the glory of his grace by which
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  he made us accepted in the beloved. In him we
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  have redemption through his blood the forgiveness
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  of sins according to the riches of his grace.
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  Which he made to abound to us in all wisdom.
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  Now this wisdom and prudence is not of the world.
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  Alright? There's a wisdom and prudence of the
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  world. The wisdom and prudence of God is in Christ.
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  Having made known to us what? The mystery of
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  his will. The mystery of his will. According
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  to his good pleasure which he proposed in himself.
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  That in the dispensation of the fullness of time.
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  He may gather together in one all things in Christ.
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  Christ is the centrality of this mystery. He
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  gathered all things in Christ, both which are
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  heavenly, which are unseen, and which are on
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  earth. What is on earth? Us. On earth means us,
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  in him. Hallelujah. So Jesus Christ is the center
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  of this mystery. Jump to chapter 3, verse 3.
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  Chapter 3, verse 3 to 9. How that by revelation
• 1:18:43
  he made known to me the mystery, as I have briefly
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  written already, by which when you read, when
• 1:18:54
  you study, this read is not just read, when you
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  study, when you chew over it, when you expertise
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  in it, You may understand my knowledge in the
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  mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not
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  made known to the sons of men, as it has now
• 1:19:16
  been revealed by who? By the Spirit to his holy
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  apostles and prophets. Are you a prophet? Are
• 1:19:25
  you a prophet? Are you an apostle? You are not
• 1:19:29
  the apostle, but you are an apostle. You are
• 1:19:32
  a prophet. Hallelujah. Do you have the revelation
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  of Christ? Yes, you have the revelation of Christ.
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  Amen? You have the revelation of Christ. Hallelujah.
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  That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the
• 1:19:46
  same body. They should be inclusive in this that
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  God has done. Of the same body and partakers
• 1:19:52
  of his promise in Christ through the gospel of
• 1:19:57
  which I became a minister. So Paul is a minister
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  of what? Of mystery. Of who? Of Christ. Does
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  it give you a hint? They are also a minister
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  of what? Of the mystery. To which I became a
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  minister according to the gift of the grace of
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  God given to me by effective working of his power.
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  To me who am less. Than the least. Is there anything
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  like less of the least? I don't know what Paul
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  was thinking. Who am the less. Than the least.
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  Of all the saints. His grace was given me. Was
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  given. That I should preach among the Gentiles.
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  The unsearchable riches of Christ. And to make
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  all see. What is the fellowship? So listen, as
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  you are reading what Paul, be reading yourself
• 1:21:03
  in the writings of Paul. Alright? To make all
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  see what is the fellowship of what? Fellowship
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  here means what? Sharing, right? Fellowship here
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  means what? Distribution of the mystery which
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  from the beginning of ages has been hidden in
• 1:21:22
  God who created all things through Jesus Christ.
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  To the intent now. That the manifold wisdom of
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  God. Hallelujah. Wisdom of God. Might be made
• 1:21:41
  known. By who? By angels. Who is the church?
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  We are the church. Hallelujah. So what are we
• 1:21:51
  to do? We are to make known. The manifold wisdom
• 1:21:54
  of God. Seen in the mystery of Christ. Be made
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  known by the church to the principalities and
• 1:22:04
  the powers in the heavenlies. Hallelujah. According
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  to the eternal purpose which he accomplished
• 1:22:12
  in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is powerful. In
• 1:22:17
  whom we have what? We have boldness and access
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  with confidence to faith in him. So we are now.
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  ministers of Christ, you and I. Why? Because
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  we know the mysteries of Christ. Amen? We know
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  the mystery of Christ. We are now ministers of
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  Christ. We are custodians of the mystery of Christ.
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  We are stewards of the mysteries of God. 1 Corinthians
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  4, verse 1 to 2, we saw. 1 Corinthians 1, verse
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  4. 1 Corinthians 4 verse 1 and 2. It says 4 verse
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  1. Let a man so consider us as servants of Christ.
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  And what? Who is a steward? Who is a steward?
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  Steward is a Greek word oikonomos. O -I -K -O
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  -N -O -M -O -S. O -I -K -O -N -O -M -O -S. Oikonomos,
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  which means the manager of household. You are
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  a manager of, what does a manager of a household
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  does? He manages a household, and he does what?
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  If there are people, you serve them their needs,
• 1:23:52
  their food, in time and in season. A manager
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  of household. Or household affairs. So he says.
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  Let a man so consider us as. The servants of
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  Christ. And the ergonomist. A servant serve.
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  Of Christ. Which is what? Stewardship of what?
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  Of the mysteries. You are the servant of the
• 1:24:14
  mysteries of God. You serve the mysteries of
• 1:24:17
  God. To men. Moreover. What is required of that
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  servant? What is required of that economist?
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  What is required of that manager of the mysteries,
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  the steward of the mystery? It is required at
• 1:24:36
  a steward, in stewards that one be found what
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  faithful. Faithfulness will mean that you are
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  doing what you have been entrusted to. Amen?
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  So you are a steward of the mysteries of God.
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  So God is equipping you now to do what? To be
• 1:24:58
  an effective steward of the mysteries of God.
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  Hallelujah. It is no longer concealed to you.
• 1:25:06
  It's a revelation. Amen? So you are to explain,
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  to teach. We are the ministers and the managers
• 1:25:15
  of God's work. Therefore, We must be faithful
• 1:25:18
  to God's work. Faithfulness is required of the
• 1:25:22
  believer. 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse 9. Give me
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  from verse 8. Likewise, deacons. Who is a deacon?
• 1:25:44
  A believer. That have grown, have matured, and
• 1:25:48
  have come to the place of what? Responsibility
• 1:25:50
  in a church. Alright? If you are a team leader,
• 1:25:55
  you are a deacon. Amen? You are a pastor in training.
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  Alright? That's what a deacon is. Like what deacons,
• 1:26:04
  if you are in training center, you are a deacon.
• 1:26:11
  Oh, you don't know? You think we don't know what
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  we are doing there? Just the idea. You're already
• 1:26:19
  implicated. Like was Dickens, must be what? Must
• 1:26:23
  be reverent. Not double -tongued. Not given to
• 1:26:25
  too much alcohol. In fact, if we catch you, don't
• 1:26:28
  even drink. Talk more or say too much. Not greedy
• 1:26:32
  for money. Holding the mystery of the faith with
• 1:26:37
  what? With a pure conscience. Your disposition
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  towards the mystery is not for what you gain
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  from it. With a pure conscience. They say you
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  should do follow up. You are following up somebody
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  for a bad conscience. I don't want to call names.
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  But from what? A pure conscience. Holding on
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  the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
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  Ephesians chapter 6 verse 19. Ephesians 6 verse
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  19. And for me, Look at Paul saying. Pray for
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  me. That's the context. That I may have utterances.
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  That utterances may be given to me. That I may
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  open my mouth boldly. To make known. What? The
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  mystery of the gospel. It takes boldness. Alright.
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  It takes boldness. Boldness by the spirit of
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  God. To declare the mystery of the gospel. Because
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  you will be rejected for it. Persecution will
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  come on the account of this mystery. It requires
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  boldness. It requires sacrifice. To do what?
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  To preach this gospel. If you go somewhere, you
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  will be denied opportunities on the account of
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  this gospel. But you must preach it. So, utterance
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  may be given that you have the ability to speak
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  it, the wisdom of God to communicate it. That
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  utterance may be given to me that I may open
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  my mouth boldly to make known the what? The mystery
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  of the gospel. Mystery of the gospel. So, this
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  mystery is relative. Amen? What do I mean by
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  his relative? To the unsafe is what? It's a mystery,
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  right? To us who believe is no longer what? It's
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  no longer a mystery. The gospel is a mystery
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  to the unsafe. How is it made known to the unsafe?
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  Through preaching and explanation. Are we together?
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  So the mystery is not received revelation, no.
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  It's by explanation. Hallelujah. It's by explanation.
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  Now, who has the responsibility to make this
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  explanation? You and I. That is why we are here.
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  That God will empower us to give what? To give
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  this explanation to the nations, the world around
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  us. That is why God is spending time on us so
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  that we will be equipped. We will have utterances.
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  Some of us, the utterance we need, first of all,
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  is to sit down and learn. Then you will have
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  what to say. Amen? When you sit down and you
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  learn, you will have what to say. You will know
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  how to say it. You will know when to say it.
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  Your degree of boldness is directly proportional
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  to the level of knowledge you know. But you become
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  a fool if you are bold in ignorance. Do you understand?
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  Because you will just go and make a mockery of
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  it. You know those sons of Siva that we saw?
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  They say in the name of Jesus Christ who Paul
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  preached, they want to cast out demons. It doesn't
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  work like that. So we have a stewardship. And
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  this stewardship is what? Is the gospel, the
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  mystery of the gospel. And it is known through
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  preaching and explanation. So for Peter, go back
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  to Matthew 16 verse 17. We're coming back to
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  where we started. Matthew 16 verse 17. For flesh
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  and blood has not revealed this to you, will
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  it mean what? What will it mean? Huh? Hello?
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  All this explanation for you to keep quiet? What
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  will what? It says for flesh and blood has not
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  revealed this to you. So what does reveal this
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  to you, what will reveal this to you mean? Hmm?
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  Revelation. I'm looking for, what does that revelation
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  mean? That he believed, alright? Simply, that
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  he believed in what was said about Jesus Christ
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  from the writings of the prophets. That is a
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  revelation. Faith in what has been written about
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  Jesus Christ. To reveal as seen in the case of
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  Peter is faith in the explanation of the Old
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  Testament scriptures. What we call the Old Testament
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  scriptures. Hallelujah. So, I just want us to
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  pray. We'll stop here for now because of time.
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  We'll be praying that prayer in Ephesians chapter
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  6 verse 19. That God will grant us utterance.
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  Let's rise on our feet. As we write about our
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  writings, let's rise on our feet. And for me,
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  that utterance may be given to me, that I may
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  open my mouth boldly. Now we know the mystery
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  of God. Hallelujah. We know the mystery of God.
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  That I may open my mouth boldly to explain, to
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  preach, to teach the mystery of the gospel. Let's
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  open our mouths and begin to pray. We're going
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  to take some time now and pray. Please, let's,
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  from all the things that we've learned, let's
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  ask God to help us. Thank you for listening to
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  today's sermon. Your journey matters to us. Let's
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  keep walking together. Visit our website for
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