WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:17.199 Do you want to build your faith? Do you desire 2 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.160 to have a true encounter with God through his word? 3 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:24.800 Then listen to Lorgus ramer I with Reverend Doctor Joseph Baubin, 4 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:30.359 head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy. He's a seasoned 5 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.119 man of God and the teacher of the Word. In 6 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:37.520 this truth and simplicity. Make time with us each and 7 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:42.000 every Monday to Friday at two pm on Spirit eighty 8 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:46.560 eight twenty three FM us being encounter the Word of Truth. 9 00:00:47.399 --> 00:01:07.200 God richly loves you. Welcome to the logo streamer are 10 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.920 with God savant Reverend Doctor Joseph b. Being, Head Pastor 11 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:19.120 of Harvest Chapel International Commercy. And now to today's message. 12 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:28.519 This Book of the Law shallow de bad out of 13 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.480 my mouth. But I shall meditate in it today and night. 14 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.760 I will observe to do according to all that is 15 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:41.040 written in it. But then I will make my way prosperous, 16 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:45.680 and then I will have good success. Amen, why don't 17 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:53.519 you take your seats, Just come with me too. The 18 00:01:53.519 --> 00:02:03.920 Book of Polosians, chapter number one, and let's read through 19 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:14.919 portions of the book. Some Bible teachers have said that 20 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:22.439 the Book of Colosians or Pause Letters to the Colosian Church. 21 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.840 It's a very short book. We can be able to 22 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.759 read through on our own within fifteen or twenty minutes. 23 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.000 It's a very short letter is to be able to 24 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:40.439 read all. And so what I plan to do as 25 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:45.560 we examine the theme for the month, which is how 26 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:52.800 best we can bring order in our conversations? Hallelujah. And 27 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:58.280 the text of the Ankle scripture for our discourses on 28 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:02.240 how best we can bring order in our conversations is 29 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:08.199 taken from Collosians for verse six, and it reads that 30 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:15.319 let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so 31 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.439 that you may know how you ought to answer each person. 32 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:26.360 That's the year has been there amplified. Classic puts it 33 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:32.199 this way. Lad your speech at all times be gracious 34 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:39.400 that means pleasant and winsome, seasoned as it were, with salt, 35 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.960 so that you may never be at a loss to 36 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:48.800 know how you ought to answer anyone who puts a 37 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:53.479 question to you. And then let me read the message. Finally, 38 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.719 he says that use your heads as you live and 39 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.680 work among outsiders, don't miss a trick, make the most 40 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:06.400 of every opportunity. I'm reading five and six years from 41 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.120 the But the best six is that be gracious in 42 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.639 your speech. The goal is to bring out the best 43 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.519 in others in a conversation and not to put them down, 44 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:26.680 not to cut them out. Amen. And so we have 45 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.399 a lot of work to do for the man our best. 46 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.399 We can bring order into our conversations. But that's what 47 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:40.600 I said. Sometimes when you pick the texts, you know, 48 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:46.759 from the middle of polse entire discourse, then you miss 49 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.160 a lot, you know. So that's why sometimes it's quite 50 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:57.439 helpful to approach your Bible steady holistically or book by book. 51 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:03.839 Then you are able to put whatever verse that speaks 52 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:06.160 to you, you are able to put it in context, 53 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.040 having a very broad panoramic view of what the author 54 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.879 set out to communicating the letter. Remember, I always like 55 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.879 to point this man out that most of the letters 56 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.040 that were written in the books of the Bible, they 57 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:25.399 didn't do any chapter and any versus. No, there was 58 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.879 one long if you like, essay or letter or narrative. 59 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.040 And Bible scholars are the ones who have done over 60 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.079 the years, have you know, put it in chapters and 61 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:42.120 then versus because of the importance of being able to 62 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.480 not just read but also to steady. You know, we 63 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:52.800 can't conveniently put these truths into practice if we don't 64 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:58.360 understand the amay, and so compartmentalizing them in chapters and 65 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:04.319 versus heals the reader to follow along with the discourses 66 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.000 that the writers. We're doing a man, and so that 67 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.879 is how come might was one long letter, And as 68 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.600 I said, and that's all, try to read it. But 69 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.639 tonight I just wander us to also just read some 70 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.160 of the excerpts that will help us when we come 71 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.920 to chapter four, verse six, where we have picked our 72 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.360 theme from that we must bring all that into our 73 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:36.040 conversations and we'll be able to put it in rightful context. Amen. 74 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.399 You know, so that we have said a lot of things, 75 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:44.360 not just about our conversation, but our entire conduct as 76 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:49.680 believers in Christ. And so hopefully as we read the 77 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.040 excerpts as I have said, we'll be able to understand 78 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:57.920 and put our conversations in the right place in the 79 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:02.160 entire way we are living our Christian lives or the 80 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.879 expectations that God has for us. The book or this 81 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:11.439 letter of Paul to the church in Colose, it's one 82 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.839 of the letters that the apostle Paul is believed have 83 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:21.120 writing whilst he was in and the house arrest. That 84 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.480 was his first imprisonment. He read the last chapter of 85 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:29.160 the Book of Acts, Apostle looked letters understand that when 86 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.360 he appealed to Caesar, he was sent to Caesar in Rome. 87 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.279 But for the first two years he was left alone, 88 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.959 more like he was just under house arrest, and he 89 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.240 was allowed to receive visitors and all that. And he 90 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.800 believed that Paul wrote the letter to the Church in 91 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.639 Colose together with the church the letter or the Book 92 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:56.279 of Ephicians Philippians Colosians, and the letter to Filing Moon, 93 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.480 or these four letters or epistles of all our group 94 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:06.360 together of style pause prison letters, because he wrote them 95 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:12.480 in prison whilst awaiting trial before Caesar. And if you 96 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.600 read this for all these, particularly these three books, you 97 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.040 realize that most of the things are similar. He was 98 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.680 in the same spirit as he penned down these letters 99 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.319 here too, and typical of pause letters. He devotes there 100 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:34.039 all the way that the scholars have done it for us. 101 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.440 The first half of most of these epistles are devoted 102 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:43.080 to doctrine, knowledge, wisdom and understanding, and then the second 103 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.759 half is devoted to practical Christian living our best. We 104 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:53.559 can put these thoughts the theoretical pass into practice. Amen. 105 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.600 Remember our knowledge of God what we see it too. 106 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:03.480 It must be theoretical and experiential, and they must go 107 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:10.519 hand in hand. If your theoretical knowledge outgrows your experiential 108 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:15.720 knowledge in Christ, then your Christian life sul I say, 109 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.039 your work with the Lord will be stunted. You know 110 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.200 it's not going to be whole. You read your practice, 111 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.600 put the truth, validate it. That is how we grow, 112 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.799 and that is how we're mature in the Lord. If 113 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:30.919 we read, really read, read, and most of it we 114 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.360 just dump it. We say, quiet time, quiet time, devotional life, 115 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.440 we read it, we just dump it. And so we 116 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.240 are not changing, We are not maturing. We are not 117 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:44.759 becoming more christ Like as the days roll by, and 118 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.919 in particulars reference to what we are talking about sooner 119 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.440 than later, like he's saying and admonishing, our conversation should 120 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:59.559 always be seizing with salt. Messay says, don't cut people off, 121 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.919 don't put them down, and don't make them feel that 122 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:06.919 you are not wanted around me. You're not know ledgable, 123 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.240 you are not wise, you know, And these are some 124 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.759 of the things that hinders, you know, the unity in 125 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:20.440 the church, and it ruins relationships. If every time in 126 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:25.720 conversation you're putting people down, whether you're in church, at 127 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:30.320 the workplace or the marketplace, wherever you go, your people 128 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.840 are not able to draw close to you because they 129 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.720 know that you are put offish person. You put them 130 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.879 off and put them in the right place sooner than later, 131 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.080 then you're not able to draw close to you. And 132 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:47.000 then the whole if you like, and let's take aspect 133 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:52.399 of our work with God is dumb and God, you know, 134 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.200 of what use is he going to teach you toory? Theory? 135 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.000 And then you're not putting into practice. So you realize 136 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.960 that there's a visual cycle. You're not putting the truth 137 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:04.279 of the world of God into practice. The only spirit 138 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.679 shuts off the flow of grace. If you're not prepared 139 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.679 to imitate Jesus and to be like him and you 140 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.799 want to lead your own life, the only spirit will draw. 141 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.600 And that's why we have a lot of stuntard growth 142 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.720 in church. We are not mature, we are not growing 143 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.279 amen and we are cutting each other. We are putting 144 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:28.000 each other at bay, and cliches are raising up in church, 145 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:32.840 and you know, h every category, every segment of the church. 146 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.480 This one says that I'm an aposto. You are not 147 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.960 an apostle. This one says that you know, I'm a prophet. 148 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.159 You you know, you know my credentials, and you know 149 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:49.240 the whole church, you know, community is so divided, so discordant, 150 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.080 and we become a laughing stalk to the world because 151 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.360 they look at us and they say, look, the things 152 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.399 that you guys are teaching, you are not living them out. 153 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.240 So why do we have to join you? Because you 154 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.879 have shown us by the way you are living your 155 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.559 life that it is inapplicable. You can't apply it in 156 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.440 the twenty first century, so that faith, it doesn't work. 157 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.799 And it is all because of you and I the 158 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:21.080 way we have approached it. Our practical demonstration of Christian 159 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.919 living must go and use a Latin way in pari 160 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:30.480 pursuit with our knowledge handy do here, amen, they must 161 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:37.240 go hand in hand, knowledge, doctrine, practice, theoretical, practical. You 162 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.879 read it, you validated, and you see the thing about 163 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.200 when you validated is that it gives you a lot 164 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.480 of energy and strength to go on and apply those throuths. 165 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:48.759 Then God is it. God is looking for people who 166 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.159 stand up and say, yeah, I am use me, I 167 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.039 want to be your image bearer. And he has promised 168 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.519 that he will bless us. Amen, he will bless us. 169 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.639 God is the biggest fan base of the community of 170 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.440 the Saints, and that is why he has gone out 171 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.879 of his way. He didn't only die for us. It 172 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.960 didn't only come to give us power to disable the 173 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.600 charm and the power of saying over our lives. But 174 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.720 it comes up also to be our biggest fan base 175 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:21.759 by depositing his only spirit in us to help us 176 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.360 be the people that he has called us to be. Amen. 177 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.960 And it's all here. The mind transformation is doable. I 178 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:31.799 can't do it. I want to do it, and I 179 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.639 will do it, and it will help you do it. 180 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.080 But if you still want to be your own self 181 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.720 and say that, hey, and all that I need is 182 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:45.200 the badge of salvation and born again. And you read 183 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.840 the scriptures, and sometimes it just dawns on you that 184 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.759 we are not reading the scriptures. Even you're born against something, 185 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.200 the Bible says that it will be put to test. 186 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.000 It's not about you saying it on that day, on 187 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.000 judgment Day, it will be put to test whether it 188 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.159 will stand. Harley Louis, I'm sure as we read through 189 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.440 this book with So let's go. Let's start off from 190 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.320 Colose on chapter one. I'm going to read through these 191 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.480 three to twenty two. Can we do guess New King James, So, 192 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.639 as I said, is the one of the prison letters 193 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:25.799 Paul wrote it? Or write this letter or epistol to 194 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:29.039 the church in Colose. It is not known that p 195 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:31.960 Paul is not the one you read through the Book 196 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.480 of Arts, and he didn't go to Colose to plan 197 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.840 the church. But it is rather believed by Bible scholars 198 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:42.399 that one of his disciples, a path us, is the 199 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:45.159 one close was I think about hundred meters or so 200 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.559 from episodes where Paul spend a lot of time and 201 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.679 believe that one of the converts that's a path for 202 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.559 us is the one who went there and then set 203 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:55.759 up the church. So let's pick it up from there. 204 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.720 Let's read through some of the and then he says, 205 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:02.279 we give thanks to God and to the God and 206 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:06.879 Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praying always for you, 207 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.759 and there's always for leaders. We must be prayer for 208 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.720 the work that we are doing is a spiritual our way, 209 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.879 it will always face or attract a position. And as 210 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.279 a Christian leader, you are not praying when we call 211 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:22.960 for the prayer times, you are not coming. You will 212 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.720 disarm your leadership. You're not going to be effective. But 213 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:31.480 sometimes we forget that we are accountable. Amen. I don't 214 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.279 know about you, but the assignment that God has entrusted 215 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.240 into our care, it's fearful. And God says that for 216 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:42.600 you and I in leadership, he will judge us much 217 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.120 more severely than those who are not. He says, to 218 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:49.840 whom much is giving, much is required. And you can't 219 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.639 do this in your kind our self. It's impossible because 220 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:57.120 we are not against flesh and black, against principalities and 221 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.879 powers spirit to our forces of darkness. Who doesn't want 222 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.480 to see change in the children of God? Who also 223 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.360 wants that the Christian faith will be ridiculed and God 224 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.159 is ridiculed, the Church is ridiculed. When you and I 225 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:14.799 we are not able to demonstrate living faith, that's no change. 226 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.360 So as far as they are concerned, the church is dead, 227 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.000 So why should they be attracted to a dead faith? Amen, 228 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.960 we're not seeing proofs. You're not seeing signs. You're not 229 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:29.000 seeing wonders because their conditionality is attached to God moving 230 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.320 on our behalf and rewarding us for being imade baried. 231 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.080 So he says that our Lord Jesus cribe praying always 232 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.159 for you. That's for we're going to twenty two. Since 233 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.480 we head of your faith. So now you can see, 234 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.360 since we head of your faith in Christ Jesus, and 235 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.879 of your love for all the saints, laugh for all 236 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.120 the saints, not for some, laugh for all. Be here, 237 00:16:54.200 --> 00:17:00.440 we mu'st laugh or say amen, Halleluiah. I don't think 238 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.679 that will come there. But I was reading The Poor 239 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:07.960 and Say on Love in First Confidence thirty, and as 240 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.880 I was reading through, it just tracked me that, look, 241 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.400 we can put love and then our conversations on the 242 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:19.279 parallel footing. Amen. And then it just jaels. Love is 243 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.240 patient conversation. You should be patient. Some of that we 244 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.039 don't know how to make conversations are thought. Oh that's 245 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.839 why we cut people off and put them off. Hallelujah. 246 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.279 When you are kinder and you are talking to somebody, 247 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:36.519 the kindness comes out, doesn't it. We can talk kindly, Amen. 248 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:38.680 He said, Love is not rude. Some of us are 249 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.839 conversation you don't say, oh, I'm not rue, but the conversation, 250 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.799 the way you are talking, immediately everybody knows that you're 251 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:47.880 a rude guy. Halle me wi say, I have not 252 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.960 demonstrated any but the way you are talking, your choice 253 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.799 of words they're putting down, you make people feel are 254 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.400 no important. You're nobody. Do you know me? You have 255 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.880 not said it is so much worse conversation. Your conversation 256 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.559 will betrayed whether indeed you are a person of love 257 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.880 or not. Halen Louiah, Amen, we are not there yet, 258 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.960 but we are still reading through Halened Louiah, Amen. And 259 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:18.359 when we get there, we will read and well draw 260 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.319 the parallels and then you see. But let's read through proportions. 261 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.359 As I said, since we heard of your faith in Christ, Jesus, 262 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.720 and of your love all the saints, that's five. Because 263 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:32.000 of the hoop which is laid up for you in heaven, 264 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:35.480 of which you had before, in the word of the 265 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.079 truth of the God. We are going to heaven, and 266 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:42.440 that is a holy place. Amen. Heaven is a holy 267 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:46.319 place where God dwells. So what's your conversations? Are you 268 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:51.640 demonstrating holiness? There's some word as a believers, some words 269 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:53.599 you not come out of you. And we are not 270 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.880 just talking about the ordinarily, but the spirit that backs 271 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:01.160 the words, the spirit that backs the way, that is 272 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:06.279 what brings the cutting. Amen. Somebody who used one word, 273 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:11.200 you also use the same way. And then the spirit behind, Oh, 274 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.480 foolish gallicians. Then you say, I want to call people 275 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:17.960 by you, you're foolish. The way you say it, everybody 276 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.880 will know that you are not caughting Paul. But there's 277 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:25.000 another spirit putting people down. My poor uses that we 278 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:28.000 read it and we laugh at it, old, foolish, gallicious, 279 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.519 But you you take it up. And then the foolishness 280 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:41.359 everybody coming and trapping woman the spirit. That's something. Hallelujah. Amen. 281 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:43.839 So because of the hope which is later for you 282 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.519 in heaven, of which you had before in the word 283 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.160 of the truth of the Gospel verse six, which has 284 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.359 come to you, as it does also in all the world, 285 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.960 and it's bringing for fruit as it is also among 286 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:01.119 you since the day you head and knew the grace 287 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:05.039 of God in truth saven, as you also learn from me. 288 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.519 Pafers to us, I said, Heparferus is the one who 289 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:11.440 is believed to have set up the church in qoloity, 290 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:15.960 our dear fellow Savern, who is a faithful minister of 291 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:20.640 Christ on your behalf, who also declared to usk your 292 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:26.160 love in the spirit. For this reason, we also, since 293 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.319 the day we head it, do not cease to pray 294 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.559 for you and to act that you may be filled 295 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.440 with the knowledge of His will. In all wisdom and 296 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:40.759 spiritual understanding, God has not just saved us for saving sake. 297 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:43.119 He has a mindset, he has a will, He has 298 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:46.440 a reason why he saved us. He has a vision 299 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.319 to get us into Heaven. But Heaven is a holy 300 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.400 place where God dwells. And he says that all the 301 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.400 preparation that is needed to be a citizen of that 302 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:02.279 kingdom begins here, begins here on hearth. Harlen Louiah, Amen. 303 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.119 And God has saved us, and He's doing everything by 304 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.680 depositing his spirit, his Holy Spirit in us to prepare 305 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:13.200 us for that transition. And yes, still a lot of 306 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.799 believers say, no, I still want to be my own 307 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.839 self like I always says, Oh leave me, leave me 308 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.839 and take me just as I am. No, it's on 309 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.279 script up. There's no way in the Bible where God 310 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.079 says that Yes, God receives us just as we are. 311 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:31.920 But he applies the medicine as the doctors when you 312 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.000 come in and then you are sick, and we apply 313 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:36.400 the medicine and say you can take you are discharged, 314 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.240 and then to cover you. You right there, he says that 315 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:43.160 this patient has refused his medication, So I discharge against 316 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:47.440 medical advice. So nobody holds you. Amen, we have come, 317 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.440 but we are receiving. We are refusing the mets that 318 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.839 God has prescribed that will bring wholeness and healing to 319 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.960 our body, souls and spirit. And we are in church 320 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.920 and says that leave me alone, me do what I want, 321 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.599 and this is our take me out. You are judging me. 322 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:11.440 You are judging me, and that's for me. I'm judging you. 323 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.119 And so because of that, a lot of persons continue 324 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.720 women and Mama, I have always said, I'm just standing 325 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:21.480 on the authority of God's word and what he has 326 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.079 taught me. It's tough being in the school of the spirit. Amen, 327 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:31.279 But the fruits, the fruit, the outcome is glorious. It's 328 00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:34.680 beautiful when you allow him to mentor to coach you 329 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:38.359 and to fashion you into the new man that he desires. 330 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:42.079 To build. He said that old is gone. All things 331 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:47.079 are knew. That's crucifying the old man. You don't lose anything. 332 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.440 It's all game gain is all win win for us. 333 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:52.400 And he has promised us not just for this life, 334 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:57.519 but the life hereafter. He will reward us for cooperating. Amen. 335 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:00.759 The challenge is two men your us. We are not 336 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:05.279 cooperative with the Holy Spirit. We are not cooperating with him. 337 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.039 You're not reading our word. If he read it, he said, 338 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:10.160 this is not for me. So we step out of 339 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.480 the the community in the marketplace, nobody recognizes as as 340 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:20.440 children of God. Hey, conversation that is, he will ship 341 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:26.359 your mouth sha share He said, yes, sir, he said 342 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.079 something back. You know, for my old life. I have 343 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.440 one word bit that if I give him that word, 344 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:37.200 it will settle he said, Shah, and let him go, Papa. 345 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.039 He will think that I'm a FOOLO. I need to 346 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:43.079 say something. I need to I said, he has, he has. 347 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:47.279 He has trampled on myself esteem. I should. Now he's 348 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:49.680 pointing out to you. Look at the cross. Look at 349 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.839 the cross. Look at before pilot. Look at what they 350 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:54.960 did to him. They spat on him, this hitting and 351 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.039 Peter will reference it. When he was admonishing the church 352 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:02.400 in his pistol, he said, look at Jesus, I was there. 353 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:04.440 He was there, and the courtier and went away beating him, 354 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:07.000 slapping him and doing all kinds of thing, and said 355 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.200 he was looking at the wonder working man that he 356 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:13.119 had he had worked with, was working on the water. 357 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:18.079 And then was ah and Jesus nothing nothing, nothing, nothing. 358 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.599 Even Pilot was exasperated. He said, God, you know me, 359 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.319 just open your mouth, make a defense. I'll let you go. 360 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:27.119 And he told him that look, you never have had 361 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:29.839 power over me, except that they had been given to 362 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:33.119 you from heaven. And Pilot was confused. And then he 363 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.119 would go back. And then the people were saying no, no, crucifying. 364 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.960 He said, I see nothing in him. And now after everything, 365 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:46.240 then the whole explanation unraveled. He had to take our 366 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.960 punishment for us. He died for us. He took the pain, 367 00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:52.160 he took the shame on us, and he says we 368 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:55.759 should be just like him. He never hit back, He 369 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.279 never spoke back or talked back to people who cut him. 370 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:02.000 The man. They gave him all kinds of names, but 371 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.480 he never defended himself. And he says, with you be 372 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.519 like him. So it's a tough call. And then he says, 373 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:12.240 I will help you. Amen. So he said, for this 374 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:14.799 reason we also since the day we head it, do 375 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:17.359 not cease to pray for you and to ask that 376 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:20.000 you may be filled with the knowledge of His will 377 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:24.240 in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. That is what the 378 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:27.960 Holy Spray brings. As you you commit yourself to diligent 379 00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:32.400 and faithful reading, steady meditated and application of the Word 380 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.240 of God in your life, and the Holy Spay will 381 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.359 push you, will set He will set up the scenarios 382 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:41.200 for you. He will set up the scenarios for where 383 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.319 the truth that you have learned it will call for application, 384 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.440 and see what choices you are going to make. He 385 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:50.319 is responsible for the whole Christian life. That's why we 386 00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:52.839 say it is not our life, by His life. So 387 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:54.880 all that you and I need to do is to cooperate. 388 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:58.920 But you that diligent Bible, steady devotional life is going 389 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.200 to help you to be a go to descend the 390 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.079 voice of the Spirit. So now when everybody are being 391 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.160 insulted and deep within he's saying shut up, chat up 392 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:10.240 chat up, chat up chat up. Shall up. It is 393 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:15.559 when you start boiling, then you hear that the voice 394 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:19.079 if then you is going up. Yes, But once soon 395 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:23.079 after you cooperate, you realize that everything is cool. You 396 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.160 overcome one person insults you, you overcome the second. But 397 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:28.759 now everybody can insult you, and then you will smile 398 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:33.680 it Harry here, But the first one now is going 399 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:39.039 to test how cooperative you are. Amen. For this reason, 400 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:40.839 we also since the day we heard it, do not 401 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:43.680