The Supernatural Nature of the Christian Gathering (Part 6)

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right in. Good evening everyone. I want to thank

God for these opportunities to bring the world

again to us. And I also want to thank the pastorate

for this opportunity. So today we're going to

continue with what we were doing on Sunday, right?

And we were looking at part of what I've been

teaching, the supernatural nature of the Christian

gathering. And Matthew chapter 28 is where we

Matthew 28 · chapter mention

have been at. Matthew chapter 28, verse 18, verse

Matthew 28:18

18 to 20. And it says, Jesus came and spoke to

them, saying, All authority has been given to

me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make

disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the

name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy

Spirit, teaching them to observe all the things

that have commanded you, and, lo and which you

all wish, to the end of the age. Praise the Lord.

And we said that this is the mandate of every

believer this is what God has given to us to

go and make disciples of all nations to go and

preach the gospel praise the Lord the God's desire

is for us that we are discipled so that we disciple

others that his work continues on the earth that

God's work continues on the earth that we carry

out or we continue to carry out the mandate of

God on the earth so he said that He, just as

the Father has sent Him, we saw in John, so also

He sent us, praise the Lord. So we are going

and we are, God is walking through us, we are

in partnership with the Holy Spirit to carry

out the agendas and the plan of God on the earth,

praise the Lord. And we said that that involves

discipleship, praise the Lord. That you learn

the Word, that you learn to minister and also

that you learn to apply it, praise the Lord,

in your daily life. And so we said that Jesus

said to them in verse 20, he said, teaching them

to observe all the things that have commanded

you and law and virtue always, even to the end

of the age. So they were certain things that

Jesus has taught or Jesus has commanded his disciples

that he's saying they should teach, praise the

Lord. And we said it's important that We pay

attention to these things because Christ did

not teach about his experience. Praise the Lord.

Christ did not teach about maybe he would tell

us that, you know, in the world above that there

are some things here and there. He didn't bother

about that. He came to teach particular things

and those things were already given. Praise the

Lord. Those things were already given. So he

came to bring revelation he came to bring explanation

he came and he was bringing explanation to people

praise the lord he was doing he was explaining

to people he was telling them the things that

has been written concerning him he interpreted

the scriptures praise the lord so even as we

go out to teach it's important that we teach

the things that he has commanded us to teach

praise the lord so sometimes I don't know for

any other person but sometimes I might be reading

the scriptures and maybe you just see maybe you're

reading a story and then if you're not very careful

your heart can lean towards something. Praise

the Lord. Your heart can lean towards a direction.

You start maybe applying it, not really interpreting

the scripture but because maybe that thing you're

just seeing for the first time is fascinating

to you. You're just following that direction.

Praise the Lord. So sometimes like this example

a good example is I remember some time ago I

was We you know the cave where David was right

the cave where David was and Actually, I was

okay. Let me just read through that place. There

was already a lot said in the scriptures about

the cave the things Particularly that happened

in that cave. There were not a lot of things

that were said about it praise the Lord so what

sometimes you can be tempted to begin to maybe

talk about it you know maybe David was there

and as he was there you know the Lord was ministering

to him he was there so many things like that

that was not said praise the Lord so it's important

that we pay attention to the things that he has

commanded us to say so Jesus was teaching from

a particular place he was he was teaching from

we said that the Bible that he had was from was

Genesis to Malachi this is what he taught This

is the explanation he was giving people. In Luke

Luke 24 · chapter mention

chapter 24, we saw from verse 24 to 25 to 27,

and 44 to 45, where he was explaining the scriptures.

He was interpreting the scriptures containing

himself. So he took his time to explain to them

the things containing himself. So when he says

that he opened their understanding, he did that

by explanation. Praise the Lord. So how people

can understand is by explanation by you diligently

interpreting the scriptures and we said that

it's important that a believer know how to interpret

the scripture you should strive for it praise

the Lord so that you're not confused so that

when you see somebody confused you are able to

help them praise the Lord so that you do the

work of the Father you do the mandate of God

on the earth when you pay attention to learning

how to interpret and we said that the the church

it should be a place where or should be called

a bible school where the word is taught where

the word is prioritized right praise the lord

where there's not a lot of activities that is

being maybe put there to entertain people praise

the lord it's a place of training so we learn

how to behave or move around in the church and

so we also saw from the scriptures that in that

Luke chapter 24 that he talks about the prophet

Luke 24 · chapter mention

he keeps talking about the prophet and we say

that one of the ways in which or one of the ways

in which the Old Testament was described is what

the book of prophets praise the Lord it is known

as the book of prophets it is a prophetic it

talks about prophetic scriptures in Romans is

a prophetic book so we now said if if the scripture

is talking about or we call it a prophetic book

it therefore means that we need to understand

who then is a prophet praise the lord because

if he's writing prophetic things then he should

be talking about or his content should be about

prophets so if the book is written by prophets

that means that the context of what he's saying

will be about the prophet so who is a prophet?

who is a prophet? So it's a Hebrew word that

is called Nabi, right? N -A -B -I. It means a

spokesperson for a divine being, right? Or somebody

who interprets words of a divine being or a date.

So a prophet is a spokesperson for a divine being.

So growing up, they had the experience to stay

in the village in the east of Nigeria. And before,

there used to be people that would always hit

the hitting... They come to deliver a message,

basically, right? And so they have a particular

type of a wooden drum that they hit. It's not

a drum, but it's made out of wood. Sometimes

they use the... I don't know the English word

for that. But they use it to... They just hit

it, and the more they hit it, what we used to

do is to tell you how this was 2004, right? It

was still happening like that. So they would

hit it, hit it, hit it, and it goes from one

village to the other village, and from every

street, and it just hits it, hits it, hits it.

People just, whatever you do, you just drop.

This is how they pass messages, right? They would

just keep hitting it, keep hitting it, everybody

would keep quiet. that you know the rhythm, when

it stops, then you're not here for what he will

say, right? Tomorrow, there is a meeting in so

-so -and -so place, these people are supposed

to come, that people are supposed to come, that's

how they pass messages. There was no, oh, let

me text this person, let me, do you understand?

It was not far, it was not far, it was not far,

right? Out to you, we started to use phones and

all of those things, right? So, idzi. A prophet

is somebody who speaks. or a spokesperson for

a divine being who interprets the words of a

divine being a deity so on who hears supernaturally

and communicates it naturally praise the lord

somebody who hears supernaturally and communicates

it naturally right so a messenger of supernatural

information if you like an agent praise the lord

so he's somebody who is sent to pass a message

to deliver a message. So which means that the

context of the scriptures is to see that the

scriptures is a conveyor of supernatural information.

The scripture conveys supernatural information.

So if a prophet is somebody who speaks for a

divine being, it therefore means that the scripture

conveys supernatural information. praise the

Lord the prophet conveys the message of the supernatural

job chapter 15 job chapter 15 deal on that prophet

Job 15 · chapter mention Job 15 · chapter mention

job chapter 15 from a seven to eight he says

Job 15 · chapter mention

are you the first man who was born or were you

made before the hills have you heard the council

of god do you limit wisdom to yourself Praise

the Lord. Have you heard the counsel of God?

So we see Job's friend, Elphas, asking him a

question. So we see also that he described more

like the first man. He says that the first man

is the man that heard the counsel of God. So

we see he's asking his friend, but he's also

saying that the first man is a man that He had

the council of God, right? That council there,

some other scriptures would put it as the secret

of God, right? So that word council in the Hebrew

is the word sod, S -O -D, right? Which means

to be in an assembly. That word council in verse

eight is that have you heard the council of God?

It's the word sod, right? Which means to be in

an assembly. the council of God. He said, have

you heard in the assembly of God or in the fellowship

of God? So we said that the book or the Bible

is known as the book of the prophets, right?

So prophets are special people. They are special

people. But we see that the friend of Job is

saying that the first man we should be the modern

man is someone who had heard in the council of

God or the assembly of God. Genesis chapter 49

Genesis 49:6

verse 6 Genesis chapter 49 verse 6 it said let

Genesis 49:6

not my soul enter thy council let not my honor

be united to the assembly for in thy anger thou

slew a man in thy self will thou hamstoon an

ox hamstrong an ox so is that word the assembly

we see there again so it means a special information

within the assembly, a supernatural assembly.

So Elphaz is saying, we know that the first man

had from the assembly of God. Job 29 verse 4.

Job 29:4

Let's look at those places where this word again

shows up. Job 29 verse 4. Just as I was in the

Job 29:4

days of my prime, when the friendly counsel of

God was over my fence. So we see that word again,

council. Psalms 55 verse 14. Psalms 55 verse

Psalms 55:14 Psalms 55:14

14. We took three councils together and walked

to the house of the Lord in the throne. Praise

the Lord. We see that place again. So that word

throne there is the word company, right? It's

usually talking about assembly. Psalms 89 verse

Psalms 89:4

4, verse 7. Psalms 89 verse 7 God is greatly

Psalms 89:7

to be feared in the assembly of the saints and

to be held in reverence by all those around him.

So we see that word again there Jeremiah chapter

Jeremiah 6:11

6 verse 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of

the Lord and weary of holding it in I'll pour

it out on the children outside on the assembly

of young men together for even the husband shall

be taken with the wife and the aged, and the

aged with him who is full of days." So we see

that word again, assembly, there. So what do

we know about the first man? So in Genesis chapter,

where we read chapter 2 and chapter 3, right,

speaking of Adam, right, so we have, we have

a picture of God's will and plan for man. So

when you read Genesis chapter 2, and also Chapter

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

3, we see God's will and plan for the first man.

So the first thing that we see is that the Garden

of Eden is God's dwelling. The Garden of Eden

is God's dwelling. Man was brought there, which

means that man or mankind find their purpose

in God's dwelling. The first thing that we see

is that the Garden of Eden is God's home. and

it's all his dwelling, right? Man was brought

in there, right? Which means that man or mankind

find his popples in God's dwelling place. So

man starts to live only when he starts functioning

in God's popples or, sorry, he starts functioning

in God's presence or God's dwelling place. Man

starts to live, praise the Lord, man starts to

live when he starts to function in God's presence

or God's dwelling place. The second thing that

we see, Genesis 2 verse 15, he said then the

Genesis 2:15

Lord took the man and put him in the garden of

Eden to tend it and to keep it, to tend and keep

it. So we see God's purpose for man, he says

that man put him there to tend and to keep it,

that he put him there to dress some other scriptures,

we say to dress and to keep it. So if we keep

reading from Genesis to Exodus, we also see how

Moses, when he was building the tabernacle, what

he gave the priest to do. We see what Moses gave

the priest, what their responsibility was to

do. And part of their responsibility was what

he said for them to dress it. We're going to

see a scripture that talks about that. For them

to dress it. The priest, we have to keep the

tabernacle. the priests were to keep the tabernacle.

So the word, that word, keep it, sorry, that

word, to keep it or to dress it, right, is a

word, adad, right, A -D, sorry, A -B, A -D, right,

we see here is the word to dress it. So man's

purpose was to keep, man's purpose was to be

in God's presence. right or keeper of God's dwelling

place praise the Lord man's purpose was what

to be in God's presence or keeper of God's dwelling

place that is that man has become God has given

man has become it's more like he's supposed to

he's a trustee so God has given him something

to do to keep it to dress it so a minister of

God's dwelling place is to be a minister or a

minister of God's dwelling place if you like

so Adam we can say was a priest because God gave

him something to do and we also saw that Moses

did the same when the priest or the instruction

he gave the priest so Adam was a priest that

is Adam and Eve that is mankind was a priest

so mankind is made to be a priest right to officiate

to minister in God's presence. Mankind is made

to be a priest, to officiate, to be in God's

presence. So let's go back to Job chapter 15.

Job 15 · chapter mention

Job chapter 15. Job chapter 15, verse 7. He said,

Job 15 · chapter mention Job 15:7

Are you the first man who was born? Or were you

made before the hills? Have you heard the counsel

of God? Do you limit wisdom? to yourself so the

council of god right that is to hear from god

and interpret it praise the lord to hear from

god and interpret it that is what god's purpose

for mankind was was to be a priest right to be

a prophet to hear and interpret so you can say

that man's purpose or god's purpose for you is

to be his temple we see that in the new testament

to be his temple to be in his temple what we

are meant to do there is to be what to be priest

right and to be prophet and to be his servant

or as the scriptures will say servant king so

god's purpose for you is to be his temple to

be in his temple and what we are supposed to

do there is to be his priest his prophet and

his servants. So your purpose in life is tied

to God's dwelling place. So your purpose in life

is tied to God's dwelling place. That is God's

plan for everyone. Praise the Lord. That is God's

plan for our life. So if you are looking for

purpose, I don't hear that word these days, I

don't know why, right? About two, three years

ago, Everybody is talking about what is your

purpose? What is your purpose? What is your purpose?

There are seminars about purpose. There are so

many things. Praise the Lord. And see it, people

still are looking for, or they still, from all

of those things, don't still find purpose. Or

even if they find, they will change their mind

after some years. Praise the Lord. They will

find new purpose. So, a purpose that does not

change. God's purpose for your life does not

change. is that you should be his priest and

his prophet on the earth to be a spokesperson

to be somebody who will hear and interpret praise

the lord to be somebody who will hear and interpret

so it therefore means that we ought to take the

ministry or the office or the purpose that god

has given us very seriously praise the lord is

to take the purpose that God has given us very

seriously. And how do we do that? We do that

by sitting down, being discipled, and disciple

others. In doing that, we are able to achieve,

or we are able to live in the purpose of God,

to hear from God, and to interpret it, to see

what God is saying every season. As I've said

earlier, a lot of us, almost everybody is in

Cyprus and they are moving. At some point, they

would move to a different location. At some point,

they would move to a different location. It's

not to make the excuse that you were not taught.

Don't make the excuse that you were not equipped.

Don't make the mistake that you are not equipped.

they are not equipped. Because if you see what

is happening around us, whether it be in the

church, whether you're online and you see people

teaching and you see people saying some things,

you know that what this person is saying is not

sound. Praise the Lord. So for you to identify

that which is not sound, it means that you have

been trained. Praise the Lord. It means that

you are in a position where you also can be a

good teacher of the world praise the Lord where

you can be a good teacher of the world so it's

not to it's not to go and say okay the things

that happened to me in Cyprus where the four

years was it's just four years I just went there

to school and I finished and you know let's just

continue let's just continue what we are hearing

before praise the Lord is to be a priest of God

on the earth so we see also see that in, I think

it was in John, in John chapter 17, we see the

John 17 · chapter mention

prayers of Jesus for all believers. John chapter

John 17:20

17 verse 20. He says, I do not pray for these

alone, but also those who would believe in me

through their words, that they all may be one

as you, Father, and in me, and I in you, and

that They also may be one in us that the world

may believe that you sent me praise the Lord

So Jesus is saying he's making a prayer, right?

And he says what I pray for this but for those

who will believe He's saying that so the prayer

he's praying is for not just his disciples Right,

but the people that will believe later on but

then he's not praying for those people to believe

to believe He's saying that they will believe

because of what? because these ones here are

going to do something. Praise the Lord. These

ones here, these ones that are listening to him

here, these ones that are listening here are

going to do, he said they are going to believe

what, through what their words. They are going

to believe in him through what their words. So

Jesus is sure that his disciples are going to

carry on the mandate. Praise the Lord. He is

very sure that these people are, so he's saying

that they may be one. Praise the Lord. That they

may be united that they may be in unity but he

knows that his disciples are going to do the

work in which he has sent them to do praise the

lord his disciples are going to do the same thing

that he has instructed them to do so god is trusting

and god knows that you are the person who is

also supposed to what to continue to teach the

word another person man was talking about evangelism

and he was saying that sometimes the reason why

we don't evangelism is because there is anxiety

there is fear there is what would a person say

if they ask me this question it's usually us

just limiting ourselves right we are afraid of

something praise the lord but if only you know

how equipped you are if only you know how equipped

you are if only you can see how God has said

that the things that you have is sufficient enough.

The teaching that you have received is sufficient

enough for you to go about your day and in your

busyness, in the schedules that you have, to

still see someone and say, oh, let me speak to

this person about Christ. Praise the Lord. Let

me speak to this person about Christ. Let me

explain the scriptures to somebody. If only you

allow yourself to see how equipped God has equipped

you. How God has enabled you. Not just through

the power of the Holy Spirit, but through the

discipleship that you have received. Through

the instructions that you have received. Through

the learning and the teaching that you have gone

through. Praise the Lord. So he prays and is

assured that the people will believe because

of the words that these people are going to speak.

So God believes that People are going to be transformed

by the word that you are saying to them. So why

are you anxious? Praise the Lord. Why are you

anxious about it? Why are you thinking too much

about it? So today we're going to pray. We're

going to pray for everything that we have heard

throughout this whole teaching about what makes

the Christian gathering a supernatural one. We're

going to pray that God would enable us God will

give us boldness. God will give us strength.

God would also increase this church. Praise the

Lord. God will also increase this church. Even

as Jesus was praying, he prayed for those who

will believe. So what you're praying also, you're

also praying for those who will also, in 10 years,

in 20 years, be sitting where you are or in a

better place in this camp. Praise the Lord. You're

also praying that the world that they will be

hearing will not be the watered -down world praise

the Lord that they would continue to hear the

sound doctrine of Christ that any CF will continue

whether the lead pastor is currently around or

is not around whether the people that started

the walk were around or not around that the church

will continue to grow right also for your life

that you will continue to grow I said something

within the week that God expects us to carry

out this mandate Praise the Lord. That the people

around us, that are families, that are friends,

will hear the gospel through us. That the busyness

of life, somebody said, I saw something online,

it was like, you think that maybe like school

is, when you're in school, you think it's stressful.

You say wait until you graduate, then maybe you

find out what stress is about, or, praise the

Lord. So, that's why some people... My desire

is that they want to continue school. Praise

the Lord. That the business of life will not

make you, you know sometimes your responsibilities

will increase. You have children, you have things

to take care of, you have parents that are maybe

growing old and they need attention and time

and resources and everything. And you're just

thinking about many things that you forget to

preach the gospel. That you just, you know what?

We used to do that. Praise the Lord. So I just

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