Faith for Evangelism (Part 3)

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right in So our teaching this morning is continuing

from where we stopped the last time which is

faith for evangelism the fruit of our preaching

in the life of people you know what pastor victor

said is actually something that is a burden has

been a burden and i believe we will see the fruits

you know that there'll be a time when we'll have

gatherings of believers in christ there will

not just be us alone but people of this yun,

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yun but the circumstances that would pray for

much more that they will lead the proclamation

of the gospel on this island that is the impact

that that makes there's a difference that that

makes so let her be abiding you know let her

be abiding all right so faith for evangelism

and i think this is the third one uh that we

we are working on and we are teaching this morning

yi yi yi yi yi yi yi us strengthen us in the

work of faith and everything writes everything

that pertains to the work of ministry so matthew

Matthew 1:21

chapter 1 verse 21 or we can start from verse

20 but while he taught on these things behold

the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a

dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not

to take unto thee marry thy wife for that which

is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and

she shall bring forth a son and thou shall call

his name Jesus for he shall save his people from

their sins he shall save the people from their

sins so now all this was done that he might be

fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the

prophets saying beo the virgin shall be with

child and shall bring forth a son and they shall

call his name immanuel which been interpreted

god with us then joseph being raised from sleep

did as the angel of the lord at beating him and

took his wife took unto him his wife a new anoint

until she was brought forth a first -born son

and he called his name jesus now the emphasis

is from verse 21 to 23 right and the tidying

up that we're doing is that when the scripture

talks about the incarnation of christ okay when

the scripture talks about the incarnation of

christ the resurrection which is what christ

would do is also preached alongside okay when

the scripture teaches that a child will be born

it also teaches that the child will save a people

right so it tells us what a child will do which

is teaching about the fact that god will come

in the flesh to deliver his people to deliver

us and that is one thing that we see so the incarnation

and the resolution are not preached separately

but where we find the information bring talked

about the resurrection is emphasized right the

resurrection the ascension is emphasized so we

can say that the entire gospel right communicates

the testimony of christ so talk about the testimony

of christ right it talks about the entire thing

that's jesus did it talks about the entire thing

that jesus did means it's coming to life the

incarnation is suffering is death's barrier and

resurrection okay so it's coming to life which

is incarnation is suffering is death's barrier

and resurrection and what we call the ascension

so incarnation suffering death's barrier the

resurrection and what we call the ascension which

we have taught separately that ascension means

right the giving of life into us to give us eternal

life means christ in us ascending into us and

we have taught that there are teachings on that

uh if we want to further in that or if you want

to revise that now so where is the problem why

do did i have to teach that the other day that

some people believe jesus as a prophet right

that some people believe jesus as just incarnate

some people believe jesus as why do we have to

teach that we have to teach that because when

it comes to the communication of the gospel okay

when it comes to communication of the gospel

the problem is not in the message the problem

always starts from the mind of men okay so when

it comes to the communication of the gospel when

the gospel is preached it is not the message

of the bible that has a fault no it is always

the mind of men the mind of men so the teaching

that we do helps the mind of man to align with

the accurate precise knowledge of the gospel

which is what we prayed about right what we prayed

about so sometimes when you begin to uh see people

pick some part of the gospel and say well i believe

these i don't believe that uh it's about the

mind of man so people can perceive one part of

the truth right just like the disciples also

perceived uh at some point in time only a certain

part of the truth so when you are listening to

a message one of the things that you should be

praying for yourself is lord i receive revelation

when you are listening to a message and the pastor

is preaching one of the things you should regularly

do is to say lord i receive revelation so that

you can enjoy the entire council of god in that

message right we've seen jesus being with the

disciples preaching preaching and yet at resurrection

they were wondering if it is true that it was

going to come alive again so let's open to our

bibles right just see look look 24 look 24 verse

25 and verse 25 to 34 then he said unto them

all foolish ones and slow of hearts to believe

in all that the prophet has spoken or not the

christ who have suffered these things and enter

into his glory and beginning at moses another

prophet he expounded unto them to them all the

scriptures in all the scriptures the things concerning

himself we can see it the things concerning himself

you can go to verse 30 let's see Now it came

to pass as he sat at a table with them that he

took bread and blessed and broke it and he gave

it to them And then their eyes were open and

they knew him and he vanished from their from

their sights And they said to one another did

our heart not burn right? Did our heart burn

within us while he talked with us on the road

and while he opened the scriptures to us so you

can see that ប ប ប ប ប ប these are the words

which i did words i spoke to you while i was

with you these are the words i spoke okay this

just appeared right all right these are the words

i spoke to you while i was with you luke 24 verse

Luke 24:44

44 that all things must be fulfilled which were

written in the law of moses and in the prophets

and in the psalms concerning me right concerning

me now would you say that they have not believed

jesus as the christ that has come they have worked

with him they have done what he has instructed

them to do they've preached alongside with him

they've healed the sick alongside with him yet

there's a part of the gospel that they couldn't

come into terms with and that was the suffering

of christ and the resurrection of christ so the

problem was with them now verse 45 told us what

happens and hoping they are understanding that

they might comprehend the scriptures so one of

the things you will always do is to pray for

yourself right that lord i comprehend the scriptures

i understand the scriptures i understand what

the bible says otherwise you would just appropriate

the bible wrongly right so we see that the problem

is with the mind of men so to explain that some

people believe in carnation is because we have

seen that happen in the mind of men and we put

scriptures like matthew 16 matthew 16 verse 21

Matthew 16:21–23

to 23 which some people were about to make jesus

king haven't seen all the miracles haven't fed

them haven't understood that okay this must be

the christ they say let's make him a king right

who would not like to have a king that will continually

provide for them you know everybody likes to

have a king right that will continually provide

for them that will continually be with them right

even though they did not understand the time

our life it was going to come and stay in them

so everybody would like to have a king and they

wanted to make him a king you know it's like

somebody making a road and you know fixing the

road in your community putting uh street lights

and all of that and you want to make him the

chairman of the local government you know why

not but when it comes to the scripture and spiritual

things it has deeper understanding so they didn't

understand that the process by which jesus will

be their king is not by making him a king of

the jews so they didn't understand the process

the same thing with the disciples they didn't

understand the process by which jesus will be

with them forever they didn't understand that

process so it was their mind that could not comprehend

a king all the kings they know nif you remember

what samuel told them about the kind of kings

they are kings that rule and they rule what i

mean they rule and they rule it means that they

rule over the people over the kingdom they have

soldiers they have military they have security

and that is the kind of king that they comprehended

but scriptures made us to know that's not in

that way right and that is why jesus would say

my kingdom is not of this world right we don't

it's not of this world it's not how you make

kings in this place so they couldn't comprehend

they couldn't comprehend and we see that now

john john chapter one verse 12 uh we see that

john chapter one verse 12 i think just a little

bit of title there as well he said but as many

as receiving to them gave he power to become

the sons of god even to them that believe in

his name and verse 13 says which were born not

of blood not of the will of the flesh not the

will of man but the will of god so it's talking

about people coming to christ they believe they

receive him right and they are born of god so

it's talking about people that are being that

are born again this is a revelation what we mean

as uh post -resurrection explanation of jesus

in john chapter one so he's talking about people

that have come to believe people that have received

him so at this point they already comprehended

everything right at john 12 right what john was

referring to says well they understood now so

they believe so they became born again so coming

into being born again right means that you comprehended

you know the resurrection of right the death

barrier and uh the ascension of christ into you

so they have received him they believe in and

uh they believe and they have received him so

they are not doubting at this point the disciples

are not doubting whether he's going to die right

as we know john the book of john was written

later after many of these revelations we are

already clear rights and review so this is a

resurrection reality all right so i said it's

aligned with first john chapter three verse two

that says now are we the sons of god which means

at that present time right while this book was

written john and other disciples were the sons

of god good so i'm not going to revise every

other part which is those uh that didn't believe

in the scriptures you can listen to the message

is online is on ncf uh ncf .church and we have

the ncf media there and you can please listen

to those messages and it will bless you but the

emphasis right that we are going to make today

is for the believer so we said there are people

who believe jesus the first category of people

right the belief jesus as the belief jesus and

the entirety of the scriptures the belief jesus

and the entirety of the scriptures and we said

that those who believe jesus after resurrection

although they didn't believe uh the incarnation

they were doubting if it was truly christ but

they believe uh and there are those who just

believe that is born uh there are those who did

not believe neither the incarnation nor the resurrection

and those who believe that is a prophet now our

our empathy when we are teaching faith for evangelism

is not for them okay is not for them why because

the only people that can work in faith in evangelism

is the believer do we get it is the believer

so you cannot do evangelism when you're not safe

i mean that's not possible right if you're doing

that probably from head knowledge right you don't

have the reality of it so the people who are

responsible to do evangelism and to work in faith

for evangelism are the believers do we get that

so as a believer you are expected to work in

faith for evangelism right you are expected to

work in faith for evangelism now the first thing

we need to know okay the first thing we need

to know is that you have faith you have you have

faith this is the first thing we need to know

that there is no faith coming from outside into

you right that's when you became born again you

have the faith of christ in you when you became

born again you have the faith of christ in you

we must establish this because it is upon this

reality that's your function okay it is upon

this reality that you function you have the fate

of christ in it so you are not looking for a

fate from outside right but a fate that is established

in you right that is made manifest do you get

it you are not looking for me afraid from outside

but a fate that is established in you that is

made manifest so the question is what do we do

to this fate what we do to it is that we steer

it up okay we steer each other up we steer this

fate up for the work of ministry right we steer

this fate up for the work of ministry so that's

what believers do we steer each other up in faith

for the work of ministry we steer each other

up in faith for the work of ministry Now, why

is it necessary, right? Why is it necessary to

steer each other up in faiths for the work of

ministry? Now, that is where that scripture filament

comes in again, which was read during the prayers.

Filaments chapter one verse six. Filaments chapter

one verse six. Is that the sharing of your faiths

become effective by the acknowledging of every

good thing that is yours in christ so when we

stay together up in faith we are acknowledging

that we have it do we get it we are acknowledging

that we have it when we stay together up in faith

we acknowledge that we have faith we acknowledge

that we have faith we acknowledge that we have

faith so we steer each other up in faith the

faith is given we have the fullness of it but

we steer each other up in faith so that we can

be effective in our work of ministry is that

the sharing of your faiths may be effective so

whatever you do as a believer it will be effective

to the extent at which you acknowledge all that

is yours in christ do you get it all that you

do in christ will be effective to the level at

which you acknowledge it right to the level at

which you acknowledge it so why is it necessary

why is it necessary to stay each other up in

faith now let's write down let's write down the

conduct of a believer the conduct please conduct

in quotes in bold letters right the conduct of

a believer it means someone who has received

jesus who has believed christ someone who has

received jesus who has believed christ can show

a weakness of faith the conduct of a believer

can show a weakness of faith so someone can have

a weak faith now have you ever wondered when

you became born again when you believe jesus

and you started working with god have you ever

wondered that sometimes you manifest certain

things and at those early stages you were doubting

if you ever saved have you ever wondered you

know has that ever happened to you i'm sure it

happens to you sometimes you sit down and you

examine yourself at those very stages like i

might really see the way i just lambasted this

guy i just spoke to him anyhow and you know i

just said my mind you wonder so you go back and

you begin to think i might really say or you

find yourself with some thoughts some thoughts

and you begin to like but i said i believe jesus

but these thoughts are coming good so the believer

writes at certain seasons and time can have a

weak fate and we have to check it from the scriptures

even on certain things that are found in the

bible on certain things something the bible said

clearly you can have a weak faith on those matters

so let's check romance 14 verse one romance 14

verse one we want to strengthen each other's

feet now the truth is we all have been weak in

faith at certain points in our lives and that's

the truth we must acknowledge that at certain

points we have been weak in faith by the time

we begin to diagnose things we will see that

in certain areas we've shown weaknesses in faith

but what is sustaining us is because there was

somebody there that said brother this is what

the word of god said and because of that you

stayed firm right there are certain conducts

you wanted to manifest but because someone showed

you and said have you forgotten that this is

what the scripture says right or someone just

told you have you forgotten that god is a faithful

god and your mind just just that will just change

the entire direction you want to take right so

in certain seasons and times and time again we

can find ourselves in this challenge but let's

see how the scripture establish you know points

to some people having a weak faith in certain

circumstances romance 14 verse 1 it's a receive

one who is weak in faith but not to dispute over

doubtful things right it's a receive someone

who is what who is weak in faith now read verse

21 can we go to verse 21 said it is good neither

to eat meat nor drink wine not do anything by

which your brother stumble or is offended or

is made weak now this is talking about people

who don't believe that they should eat anything

sacrificed to idol okay so they don't believe

that they should eat anything that is sacrificed

to idol while there are other people in that

church they were just you know we can say they

believe to eat everything they were just wiping

everything like you know you would say and the

discussion came about the fact that some people's

faiths are weak what does that mean it means

that for those people right for those people

they still believe right they still believe that

if an animal is unclean or is sacrificed to idol

it is literal and should not be eaten and that

idol is something do we get it so it was having

this discussion and some says well idol is nothing

right we can eat we have the liberty in christ

and order says well their conscience will begin

to see you differently so therefore avoid it

now this does not teach that people should avoid

food sacrifice or either or any food that is

unclean but paul was saying that for love accommodates

do we get it that is the first thing that chapter

14 was saying he said for the love of god accommodates

these people okay so refrain from it you don't

have to eat it you don't have to eat it refrain

from it we know you have the knowledge and the

revelation now go to chapter 15 verse 1 pa did

not stop there but he went to 15 verse 1 and

he said something he said we then that are strong

ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and

not to please ourselves let every one of us please

his neighbor for his good to edification and

even christ please not himself as it is written

the approaches of them that approach d fell on

me so it's emphasizing that those that are strong

should be right so those that are strong is referring

to people whose conscience are clicked and they

have the understanding that meets are only a

communication of course meeting the old testament

a communication of old doctrine and meet sacrifice

to idol because there is nothing referred to

as idol right rather they would receive it with

thanksgiving and eat so this is a controversy

that is clear there now we see this in that sense

let's go to romance let's go to romance uh chapter

four let's go to roman's chapter four verse 20

it says it did not waver at the promise of god

true unbelief but was strengthened in faith some

scripture says it was strong in faith giving

glory to god now this was talking about abraham

okay and at this point in abraham's life abraham

was strong in faith right did you see that when

you are strengthened in faith you don't weaver

you don't shake you don't you don't doubt it

says he was strengthened in faith strong in faith

giving glory to god so we can say believers can

actually be weak in faith and they can strong

in faith and how do we know it is not that uh

it is not by the spirit for example we have to

measure your spirit there's no spiritometer right

there's nothing like spiritometer where we can

measure how spiritual you are however we can

know that you are strong or weak in faith by

your conduct okay we can know that you are strong

or weak in faith by what by your conduct so every

day the believer must check their conducts to

see whether they are still in faith all right

so let's write the scriptures down Galatians

Galatians 2:11–21

2 verse 11 to 21 Galatians 2 verse 11 to 21 now

Galatians 2:11–21

we're going to see a situation where even apostle

peter a scenario shows apostle peter that it

was also weak at some point in time it was weak

in faith now i'm intentionally not taking scriptures

from the gospels yet i'm bringing scriptures

from acts and the epistles that is why we have

read romans and we are reading acts and we're

going to read galatians now let's go to galatians

11 don't forget so be weak in faith right would

refer to i don't know if we if we define that

but it refers to the conduct of a believer in

not acknowledging all that is written in the

scripture so we can write it down you can write

it down let's write this down that should be

weak in faith refers to the conduct of the believer

the conduct of the believer that does not acknowledge

all that is found in the scripture okay the conduct

of the believer that does not acknowledge all

that is found in the bible so in your life you

can find yourself in this scenario and in romance

14 what we saw was that people said well we are

not going to eat any food even if we know god

created everything but these ones we're going

to set aside so it's a corner of the believer

that does not acknowledge all that the scripture

says now this definition will help us to evaluate

apostle peter and see and one thing that is setting

is that he grew beyond that now galatians 2 verse

Galatians 2:11

11 now when peter had come to antioch paul said

i withstood him to his face because he was to

be blamed for before certain men came from james

Right before starting men came from James he

could hit with the Gentiles but when they came

What did Peter do Peter withdrew himself? He

separated himself Fearing those who were of the

circumcision Who did he separate themselves from

from the Gentiles Peter separate said let this

circumcision party not know that I am fellowshiping

with what the Gentiles why because as at this

time right as at this time there is this common

understanding then that the jews and the gentiles

should not fellowship together now you can read

that from john chapter four from that john chapter

four where jesus was talking to that woman right

and they said we will worship on the mountains

and your own your church is the church of jerusalem

the samarians their church is the church of the

mountains and they are separated so this is a

common knowledge now at this time that that's

cutting has been divided has been destroyed that's

cutting the partition the jews and the gentiles

have been taken off but this is at the early

stage of the church is at the early stage of

the church so what was happening here was that

peter was separating himself it's like someone

comes to you right and fellowship with you but

when some other friend comes the person excuses

himself now this happened to me very practically

and i'll share with you now when i believe and

i was i was laid hands upon to pray in tongues

right i was laying down upon to paint it was

in another church where i schooled so we're schooling

there and they took us for a camp and hands were

laid and i began to pray in tongues day and then

now i was sure what happened to me and i knew

i was supposed to continue in that however when

i got to my home church back home the pattern

of speaking in tongues is different it is not

by the will of man okay it is not by the will

of man is by i don't know it's it's it's what

we call something comes upon you right is by

coming upon let's use that you can still relate

with that right in the old testament you know

how spirit comes upon the prophets and the prophesy

so that was the style and when the spirit comes

upon you people will know right people will know

so i got to church that day and they started

leading prayers and i started praying in tongues

under my tongue but i was watching people are

they looking at me is anybody noticing i'm praying

in tongues and i realized that my closest friend

also are going to cut something somewhere that

it was keeping quiet and refusing to speak in

tongues so we tried our service did not pray

because we were scared of people catching us

speaking in tongues without something coming

upon you so in that scenario my fate was weak

i didn't believe that you have to just you i

believe i knew but because of the people around

and because this environment does not permit

that i didn't it took me two years to come back

to praying in tongues without you know restriction

so at that point my faith was weak so this is

similar to the case of peter right seeing some

people come around and people were not circumcised

and you have been eating with them you have been

fellowshiping with them and because some people

came you withdrew so it means that although he

knows but in his conduct right his conduct shows

that is not fully acknowledging all that is found

in the scriptures so that fits in very well that

fits in very well but what happened did peter

stay here the answer is no peter did not stay

here at any point in time now let's continue

reading let's continue reading and the rest of

the juice also played the hypocrites galatians

Galatians 2:13

2 verse 13 the play words hypocrites with him

so that even banabas was carried away with their

hypocrisy but when i saw that they were not straightforward

about the truth of the gospel i said to peter

before them all if you being a jew live in a

manner of gentiles and not as jews why do you

compare gentiles to live as jews we we who are

jews by nature are not sinners of the gentiles

knowing that a man is justified is not justified

by the works of the law but by what's by faith

by faith in what's in jesus christ so here he's

saying that circumcision does not justify a man

this is paul addressing an issue even we believe

in christ jesus that we might be justified by

faith in christ and not by the works of the law

for by the works of the law no flesh shall be

justified so paul in this place spoke to peter

and explained to him now let's go to acts 11

acts 11 verse 1 to 4 acts 10 verse 45 acts 11

Acts 11:1–4 Acts 10:45 Acts 11:1–4

verse 1 to 4 acts 10 verse 45 now the apostles

Acts 10:45

and the brethren who were in judia they heard

that the gentiles also received the word of god

and peter came up to jerusalem came up to jerusalem

those of the circumcision contended with what

with him and saying you went into the words on

circumcised men and et with what and et with

them but peter did what he explained it to them

in order from what from the beginning so he was

confronted about the word of god about what he

did and he had to explain himself but one thing

that was remarkable is that in the explanation

of peter he acknowledged that faith is uh justification

is by faith and that circumcision is unnecessary

for the gentiles so that is what we call growth

in faith so you write write it down growth in

faith is when we growth in faith is when we see

the revelation of god's word when we see the

revelation of god's word we acknowledge it ប

ប ប ប ប ប at chapter 15 verse 7 at chapter 15

verse 7 now paul became or peter became the one

who spoke in the jerusalem council to explain

that circumcision is unneeded right is not needed

rather right the circumcision was not needed

so this issue of circumcision came up and when

there had been much disputes peter rose up and

said to them men and brethren you know that's

a good while ago god chose among us that by mouth

of the gentiles that by my mouth rather the gentiles

should hear the word of the gospel and believe

so god who knows the hearts acknowledge them

by giving them the holy spirit just as he would

as he did to us and made no distinction between

us and them purifying their hearts by faith now

therefore why do you test god by putting a yoke

on the neck of the disciples which neither our

fathers nor we were able to bear but we believe

that through the grace of the lord jesus christ

we shall be saved in the same manner as they

are then all the multiple all the multitude kept

silent and listened to banabas and paul declaring

how many miracles and wonders god had walked

through them among the gentiles go to verse 17

verse 17 so that the rest of the mankind may

seek the lord even all the gentiles who are called

by my name says the lord who does all these things

now if you read from verse 12 to 17 they are

to refer back to the scriptures to the old testament

to prove that god requires all men to come to

him by faith not by circumcision do we get it

not by circumcision so from this place we can

see that they were in certain accents uh weak

in faith and what happened is that they grew

the apostles grew in faith the apostles grew

in faith now what happened there is similar to

what happened in luke 24 jesus abdid yir mind

and explained to them peter opened their minds

and explained to them paul opened peter's mind

peter opened the mind of the others and do you

know what happened they put it in writing he

said write this letter and send that nowhere

should the gentiles be required to be circumcised

so we can say that revelation gives people a

strengthened faith revelation strengthens our

faiths revelation strengthens our faiths they

thought from the scriptures and point that only

by faiths should man be saved so revelation strengthens

our faiths revelation strengthens our faiths

yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi kwenye kwenye

kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye

kwenye kwenye or they will tell you to go and

stay in church do you know what you'll be doing

in church this one is practical i i managed to

escape it they will tell you to open the books

of proverbs and be writing it you become a scribe

you will write the book of proverbs from the

first chapter to the last chapter this is i saw

it live and it happened to my cousins i don't

know why i was you know only a few times i got

into that so the punishment is you go to church

you you see that you you you write or you fast

now there is one that will help us to understand

revelation another punishment is that they will

tell you to go and evangelize they'll call it

ikede in my in my language ikede and you know

evangelism is not this one that you go and meet

people uh from where i come from you have to

carry a bell so so you have to ring the bell

and then speak right you have to ring the bell

and then you speak so this is one of the punishments

and i'm very serious about it so one of the things

that happen when you go for this kind of you

know edification is that your classmates will

see you and they would see you on the evangelism

ground right so what happened is that when they

give you this kind of punishment you want to

do it very early in the morning before the day

breaks so that you can justify that you have

done it not that anybody had listened to you

why because at that time you are avoiding your

classmates your high school mates and all of

that seeing you on the road and be teasing you

and all of that and the interesting thing is

that they will call you Woli you know they'll

call you prophets it means a prophet and then

we we didn't have a revelation that you know

when they call you a prophet you should be excited

about it and you're doing the work of god so

it was a teasing so we avoided it and as a result

somehow somehow you have to be uptight in the

house going to church not going to watch football

when the service is going on and all of that

but today what is the difference between me of

then and me of now is a revelation all the people

that pass through that system in my house if

they go out now they don't mind anybody seeing

them the difference is that we came to understand

first that truly you are a prophet it is not

a they can see it as a tease just like the word

christian is a you know it came out of a teasing

they they are followers of christ right people

who don't really understand i say oh they are

followers of christ these guys have been with

jesus right they are in the same school of thought

the same way that was to us but because of revelation

we understood that truly we share in the ministry

of christ we share in the work of christ so revelation

took us out from where our faith was weak to

where we became strong and we can boldly go out

and teach the gospel we can boldly go out and

evangelize we can go out and someone will say

oh that guy is a prophet i say yes we work in

the office of the prophet so revelations strengthens

your faiths revelation what differs between now

and then is revelation through the word of god

the bible did not change did the bible change

from then and now the bible did not change but

the understanding of what the bible says about

me and you changes what i knew then is not what

i know now so revelation strengthens our faiths

revelation strengthening our faith let's write

this down romance i think i wrote romance for

uh 20 wrote romance for 20 uh romance for 20

now put effecients one verse 17 as well effecients

one verse 17 let's let's just read that patience

you say sometimes we keep we quickly brush through

that script or we become too familiar with it

verse 15 says wherefore i also after i heard

of your faith in the lord right the lord jesus

and your love to us all the sins cease not to

give thanks for you making mention of you in

my prayers that the god of our lord jesus christ

the father of glory may give unto you the wisdom

of the spirit as you say and the revelation revelation

right in the knowledge of him these are people

that have received the faiths did you see we

heard of your faith means the faith the salvation

they have received right and your love towards

the saints so it's like someone who has believed

right and is serving in church we can put that

in our category right someone has believed the

person is serving in church and paul is saying

that i pray that you will get the revelation

in the knowledge of christ that you will not

miss the revelation you will not miss the revelation

in the knowledge of christ because it will help

you to know it will help you to know verse 18

it says the eyes of your understanding be enlightened

that ye may know what is the hope of your calling

and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance

in the saints so it makes you know what you have

been called to do that's what revelation is right

it makes you know what you have been called to

do you are not called to sit down and not preach

the gospel you are not called to you are not

going to run away from evangelism you are not

called to not preach you are called actually

to preach the gospel that is the hope to which

god has called you to that comes by revelation

now you can be a christian for many years and

you've not done evangelism right it means that

you need to come into in -depth revelation of

what that means you know it you have heard it

but the explanation and the clarity of it by

the spirit must come to you must come to you

and that is one of the reasons why we say you

should keep coming to church it will not happen

in one day do we get it revelation does not happen

like in one day you might hear the message hear

the message hear the message it becomes strong

in your hearts and one day your faith is teared

up your faith is teared up so not neglecting

the gathering of the brethren also contributes

to strengthening your faiths right not neglecting

the gathering of the brethren contribute because

that is where you hear revelation that is what

when revelation becomes done on you and you are

able to do what you have been called to do on

Wednesday we will continue much more in this

teaching but what we have been able to establish

today is that revelation strengthens you now

if there are areas of the bible if there are

things that you think that you should be doing

and you are not doing as a believer but you have

seen it in the world that the bible says this

is who you are this is how you should work you

can pray that you come into that revelation i

said what you can pray that you come into that

revelation if you are struggling in any area

of your conduct as a believer you can pray that

the revelation this is paul's prayer here that

the revelation will come that there will be a

dawn in your heart that will make you begin to

do all that is yours in christ can we pray that

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