Faith for Evangelism (part 2)

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right in. All right, so we'll continue from where

we started on Sunday and I'll just put a little

bit of things. aligning them well for today's

teaching. So John chapter one, verse 12. It's

one of the scriptures that we talked about believing

in Christ as the resurrected Christ, right? Believing

in Jesus as the resurrected Christ. John chapter

one, verse two. As many as are resurrected. Can

you go to verse 10? Can we start from verse 10,

please? It was in the word, and the word was

made by him, and the word knew him not. 11. He

came to his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, to them he gave,

to them gave he power to become the sons of God,

even to them that believe on his name. Even to

them that believe on his name. In this context,

what we see is that John was actually writing

about what happened in the lifetime of Jesus,

right? He was in the world, the world was made

by him, and that he came to his own, right? He

came to his own would be that scripture that

we read, and the James, the brothers of Jesus

were telling him, go and show yourself to the

world. That's one of it, right? Also, he's a

Jew, and he came to the Jewish people as well.

We can see that their rejection is also found

in that right is also included in that so it

came to his own his own people rejected him and

said well as many as received him to them he

gave the power to become the sons of god even

to them that believe on his name so here he was

talking about uh i know yes most of time we are

prudent to ourselves as well uh but most of that

was actually talking about the context of the

people that received Christ right the people

that receive him uh we can say that the people

that believe him as the messiah the people that

believe him as the one that has come not his

brother at that time but people that followed

him we can say his disciples give them the rights

to become the sons of god as many as believe

that this is the messiah that was prophesied

right we can put that in that context and say

they received him right as many as receive him

give them power to become give them the rights

to become the sons of God. And the reason is

that because if you check 1 John chapter 1 verse

1 John 1:3

3, 1 John chapter 1 verse 3, state it in another

1 John 1:3

way, right? State it in another way by saying

that now are we the sons of God, right? 1 John

1 John 1:3

chapter 1 verse 3. Say now are we the sons of

God. Now, that shows right a little bit of a

contrast not so much of a contrast but something

uh that has taken place right something that

has taken place so first John chapter i said

that three verse one okay so first John chapter

three verse one said behold what manner of love

the Father has bestowed on to us that we should

be called the sons of God therefore the world

knoweth us not because it's Know him not. Beloved,

now are we the sons of God. And if they not yet

appear, what we shall be, we, but we know that

when he shall appear, we shall be like him. For

we shall see him as he is." Right? So one says,

as many as receive him, given the power to become

the sons of God, right? They will become the

sons of God. As many as believe him, they will

become the sons of God. So it means that as many

as believe, While Jesus was alive, as many as

received his word, he gave them the right to

say, these ones will come to me. These ones are

the ones that will come to me. These ones will

believe they will be where I am, they will be.

So now at resurrection, they are now the sons

of God. They are now the sons of God, even those

that believe in his name. Just to clarify that,

but he's still in line with the resurrection,

believe in Christ as the Messiah and as the resurrected.

Christ. So we see a little bit of goodness. So

we can say that now we are the sons of God. Now

we are the sons of God. Good. Now the next thing

we need to also do point out a little bit is

that on Sunday, we classify people into groups,

right? And we mentioned those who believe in

Jesus as the prophets, right? People believe

in Jesus as a prophet and they save people who

also believe in him as agents or believe in Him

as an agent, but Himself not being God. The question

we want to try to answer is, are they saved?

Right? Are they saved? Now, to answer such questions,

it is difficult to just say, oh, because they

said Jesus is just an agent and is not God, they

are not saved. If you do that, it will be too

short to give a proper way to address the issue.

But we have to check one or two things in their

beliefs. Okay? So we have to check one or two

things that align or shift away from what we

understand from the scripture. Okay? To be able

to establish that. Now the first thing that is

crucial in the statements that Jesus is just

one of those persons that God sent right, is

that first they deny the Son of God. That unique

sonship of Jesus, they deny it. That is the first

thing. Do you remember when Jesus told them that

it came from above, right? Even the Pharisees

understood better. They said you commit like

you just equate yourself to God. So when Jesus

described himself that is from the Father and

is the expression of the Father expressing that

the Father has understood clearly that the man

Jesus was saying is God in the body. So the first

thing we will see is that these people who say

he's just a person and he's a prophet is that

they deny the sonship. Now let's see if the sonship

of Jesus is part of the gospel. Let's see Matthew

16, 16 which is one of the things that we know.

Matthew 16, 16, which is very common when Peter's

answering Jesus, right? He said, and Simon Peter

answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son

of the living God, right? Thou art the Christ,

the son of the living God. So he did not just

acknowledge and say, well, you are the one who

will save Israel. Okay? He said, you are. the

Son of the Living God. Right. Now from history

you will understand that there were many typologies

of the Messiah who saved Israel. Okay. There

were many typologies of the Messiah who saved

Israel. Right. Moses was one of them. Right.

Moses was one of them. Now let's see one in Hebrews

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

chapter 4. If I get that very right, Hebrews

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

chapter 4, we will see that one of the persons,

Hebrews chapter 4 verse 8, is for if Jesus had

Hebrews 4:8

given them rest, then should he not afterward

have spoken of what? Another day. Right spoken

of another day now in some translation. You will

see that that Jesus is actually what? What is

it was the name of the person that we expect

to be there? Joshua right so Joshua therefore

was one of those people that tried to give Israel

rests Right now try to give it is it but if you

are truly giving them rests right there would

not be another day to talk about another day

of rest which is we can say today because today

is a day of salvation right as scriptures will

say right so it would not have talked about another

person who would come to give Israel rests or

another day where God would deliver them from

their enemies right so we see that very specifically

this one was almost I mean put in parallel to

the Messiah the son of the living God so there

were many people across history that were living

so they were not just but the Son of the Living

God reflects much more what God Himself will

do okay it reflects what God Himself will do

which is the unique appearance of God salvation

will come from God right despite all this men

across history it will come from now again Romans

Romans 1:1–3

1 verse 1 to 3 also adds from layer of this to

today so from verse one as a poor observant of

jesus christ called to be an apostle called unto

the gospel of god which he had promised afore

by his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning

his son jesus christ our lord which was made

of the seed of david according to the flesh and

declared to be the son of God with power according

to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection

from the dead right by whom we receive grace

and apostleship for obedience to the faiths among

all nations for his name so we see a lot of emphasis

of course also on whom being the son of God Being

the son of God concerning his son and if you

have been following we explain much more that

that son Right that son is not procreation Means

Jesus, I mean God given births biologically,

but we said is God's appearance in the body,

which is incarnation in the body Right is unique

appearance in the body. So it therefore means

that if we if they say that he's not god right

they have denied his sonship they have denied

that it is god himself who saved man okay that

is the first thing uh we see that they deny the

fact that if they call him a prophet because

you remember matthew 16 right so some called

him John the Baptist, some called him Elias,

right? It's like calling him an agent or calling

him a prophet. So what do you call, I mean, what

do you say? What is your revelation? And he said,

you are the Messiah, the son of the living God.

That distinguished Jesus away from anybody who

has come to save Israel across history. So denying

the son of God is one of the sonship of Jesus

is one thing that we see in their context. Now

let's see the second parts denying the pressing

of the holy spirit denying the pressing of the

holy spirit now in most of these uh phases or

groups of uh explanations Right? They claim,

right, that the Holy Spirit is not a person.

They claim that the Holy Spirit is just God using

some wind and forces and things to make things

happen. So again, they deny God in that. Right?

They deny God in that, saying the Holy Spirit.

So they deny the person of the Holy Spirit, saying

it's not a person, but God walking through agent.

So another way is, To put it is that they also

classify the Holy Spirit as another agent of

God Right, so they classify the Holy Spirit as

another agent of God, but let's see who the Holy

Spirit is, which is who? It means he is a person

right Ephesians 1 3 Ephesians 1 13 and 14 Ephesians

1 gives that Ephesians 1 chapter 13 and verse

13 and 14. purchase possession unto the praise

of His glory. Now let's take this gradually right

it says verse 14 which is the earnest soul being

sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise which

is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption

of the purchase possession unto the praise of

His glory. So what does this reflect? This means

that at the resurrection of the body writes,

the Holy Spirit plays a role. The same spirits

that raise Christ from the plays a role in the

resurrection of the body. It means that at Christ

appearing, right, the Holy Spirit is the seal,

right, said is the ennest of our inheritance

until the redemption of the participants. So

it means that in that translation, as some people

say, we, the Holy Spirit plays a role, right,

the Holy Spirit in the believer Please let's

go to visuals for 30 as well This is a group

not the Holy Spirit by which you were sealed

onto the day of redemption so it's talking to

believers and we know that is not talking about

our Salvation in terms of believing in his name,

but talking about a time of redemption, right

a time of redemption Do we get it? So it's talking

about a time of, for example, a time where the

body would take up, I mean, immortality as 1

Corinthians 15 would say. So the role of the

Holy Spirit at Jesus appearing, right, is also

denied when they deny that the Holy Spirit is

a person. Do we get it? So the role of the Holy

Spirit is also denied. It means that They remove

the Holy Spirit from the context of what will

happen at the redemption of the body. Right?

That is just God's agent and is just God's force.

So while some of them preach the dead burial

resurrection, they don't preach the ascension,

which is what we'll talk about. Right? So they

say, oh, we believe in the dead burial resurrection.

We believe in the suffering of Christ. But in

their teaching, in the encompassing things in

their teaching, they take away, right, they take

away the significant person of the Holy Spirit,

right, in the life of the believer. And therefore,

when it comes to the redemption of the body,

the question you would ask is, so what will happen

to them, right? If they don't believe that the

Holy Spirit is the promised seal, right? unto

salvation unto redemption what will happen to

them so these two things right denying the sonship

of christ which is jesus and denying the person

of the holy spirit as a person right reflects

that they do not actually believe right it reflects

that they do not believe right in christ because

he promised the spirit in in john chapter 14

John 14 · chapter mention

Right? John 14, verse 14, 15, John chapter 16,

John 14:14 John 16 · chapter mention

explained about the Comforter. Right? It talks

about another spirit, which is Alus Paracletus,

right? Another spirit. So it means that the entirety

of that teaching about how Jesus will abide with

them forever is not found in them. Right? Is

not found. in their teaching therefore we can

see we have the Holy Spirit right and therefore

they can't be saved because they didn't believe

in such people now we can go uh we can go further

let's see in John 1st John chapter 2 verse 19

John 2:19

let's start with 1st John chapter 2 verse 19

John 2:19

No doubt I've continued with us, but I went out

that they might be made manifest that they were

not all. They were not all of us, that they were

not all of us. Now go to Hebrews 10, 39. This

one is talking about people who are in the gathering,

right, and seem to be as if they were part of

the body of Christ, right? It said they left.

as a proof. So they are living, right, as a proof.

It means that there can be people that seemingly

look like the part of the Christian body, but

they are not part of the Christian body. Okay?

They are not part of the Christian body. They

might, they might seemingly look like Christian

body. They might even use similar books. Now,

Hebrews 10, there's a lesson of, I think we read

this, of whom natural appellation means support.

See, support, suppose ye, again of our most sure

punishment supposing shall he be taught worthy

who are trodden on the foot the Son of God and

counted the blood of his covenant wherewith he

has sanctified an unholy thing and had done this

right unto the spirit of grace right unto the

spirit of grace talking about the Son of God

again God himself is sacrificed and the spirit

of grace so all of this is together that's why

when we teach salvation we teach all of this

in encompassing right when we teach about salvation

we teach all of this in a comparison uh talking

about christ means son of god a sacrifice and

a spirit that is why we teach about his ascension

his presence his indwelling right christ indwelling

so in those teachings you will never find them

say christ spirit is the holy spirit Right, so

the moment they cannot say Christ spirit is the

Holy Spirit Then there's a challenge there because

the Holy Spirit which is Christ himself indwelling

so the The evidence of salvation is the indwelling

Right the evidence of salvation is the indwelling

but all that Christ Sacrifice was not for you

to be empty What's that you will be found in

him? So the indwelling is the evidence of salvation.

So the question is do they have the indwelling,

do they believe in it, do they have it? And therefore

if they don't then they can't in essence do greater

works. It will be difficult or impossible for

them to do greater. So what he was talking here

is about people who have not believed. Hebrews

Hebrews 10:10

10 verse 10, right? Talking about people who

have not believed, and emphasizing that they

probably, they had this information, but they

looked away from it. So if you read from verse

26, it said, for if we say willfully that after

that we have received knowledge of the truth,

there remain no more sacrifice for sins, but

a sudden fearful looking of judgment and fear,

indignation, and all of that. So it means that

in this assembly, the Word was preached. The

knowledge of God of Christ was preached, right?

In this assembly. It was preached. The truth

of the knowledge was preached. The sacrifice

of Christ was explained to them. The sonship

of God was explained to them. The sonship of

Christ, rather, was explained to them. The spirit

of race was also explained. But in denying the

existence of all that, right, there's no salvation.

So there's no more sacrifice for sin. So we can

see that the people that were they were talking

about fear are similar to the people that we

talked about that they don't believe in the spirit

of grace and in what Christ uh has his final

walk in us his final walk in us so most of the

time what we find them doing is kind of appreciating

Jesus for doing what God sent him to do right

so they will say Oh, we are thanking Jesus because

He really did well. Right? He did well. That

is the kind of teaching we get. Oh, we need to

find a day to celebrate Him because He did well.

Right? Not that God saved man. Right? Because

they don't equate that together. So we add this

as part of the teaching. Now, we will notice

that this is different. These people are different

from people like John Mark. Right? Here, they're

talking about someone who has just believed the

gospel right not someone who has believed now

let's go to Acts chapter 13 or Acts chapter 12

Acts 13 · chapter mention Acts 12 · chapter mention

let's start from Act 12 let's show you someone

who actually believed the gospel and uh maybe

drew back in ministry right someone who has believed

the gospel but drew back in ministry we can see

that very clearly in the case of uh the person

named John Mark chapter 12 verse 25. He said,

Mark 12:25

and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem,

when they had fulfilled their ministry, they

took with them John, whose son name was Mark.

Right? So they came back to Jerusalem, right?

North Jerusalem, of course, where the apostles

are, where the teachings are being done, and

they took John Mark alongside for their walk.

Now in Acts 13 -13, John Mark left them and returned

back to Jerusalem where they took him from. Right,

so he said, and when Paul and his company moved

from Paphos, right, they came to Pagia and Pamphylia,

and John Mark departed from them, returned to

Jerusalem. Right, he returned to Jerusalem. Now,

what was happening here is he drawing back from

a particular ministry, right? He left the field,

right? They were going together and he just left

the field. He went back to, probably he wanted

no comfort, you know, because what Paul and his

company were facing and Barabas is not something

for the weak. You know, maybe we can say his

fate is weak in this context. We don't know the

reason, but it just shows clearly that he went

back, he left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Of course, we know Jerusalem is much easier for

him. There is no problem in leadership role for

him. You just need to receive a lot of that.

So, those are my speculations, but we can check

that in Acts 15 verse 36, there was an issue

Acts 15:36

between Paul and Barnabas. And some days after

Paul said unto Barnabas, let us go again and

visit our brethren in every city where we have

preached the word of God. And see, to take them,

John, whose name was Mark, but Paul thought not

good to take him with them, who departed from

them, from Parthelia, and went not with them

to the walk." You see? He did not continue in

the walk with them. So this is not a loss of

salvation. It's actually someone drawing back.

So this person is saved. Okay? This person is

saved, was under the teaching in Jerusalem, was

under the apostle's teaching. He followed Paul

and we see that's clearly in the scripture. So

we can say he's saved, but he drew back from

the war. Now let's see another person that sometimes

we wonder clearly if he was saved, or we've thought

previously probably he was not saved. But let's

check the scripture and see. Let's check Apollos.

Right, let's check Brother Apollos. Acts. Right,

we move to Acts chapter 18. Right, we move to

Acts 18 · chapter mention

Acts chapter 18. Let's pay a little bit of extra

Acts 18 · chapter mention

attention to what we are reading. From verse

24. knowing only the baptism of John. Right,

knowing only the baptism of John. And he began

to speak boldly in the synagogue when Aquila

and Priscilla had heard, right, they took him

into, they took him unto them and expel unto

him the way of God more perfectly. And when he

was disposed to pass into a care, the brethren

wrote, exalting the disciples to receive him.

Now, it's quite a little bit of a task to check

this, but the first thing we would see is that

it was going about teaching in the synagogue.

Right? The first thing we would see, there is

someone that is going out teaching in the synagogue.

So that's the first thing we can pick there.

There is an eloquent man, mighting the scriptures,

referring to, he knows the scriptures very well,

maybe not the interpretation, maybe not the correct

interpretation, right? But he knows the scriptures,

right? He could tell you, you know, as much scriptures,

we can say he knows so much. of the scriptures

where the scriptures are how the scriptures are

written and all of that but the revelation of

the scripture is needed right so he came to Ephesus

and he was instructed again he was instructed

in the way of the Lord that's another thing right

he said he was instructed in the way of the Lord

fathomed in spirit and thought diligently the

things of the Lord learned only the baptism of

John so most times not only the baptism of John

is where we get stuck right is where we get stuck

because uh the baptism of John sometimes we take

some parts of John's baptism or some parts of

John's teaching the baptism of John referring

to John's teaching okay he wasn't talking about

that Apollo's uh Paul John dipped him into water

probably and probably they never even met right

but Simon taught him about the teachings of John

so in the teachings of John sometimes we pick

some parts and leave some part. So if you pick

some part of John's teaching, right, you would

actually say, ah, it was not saved, right? You

would say it was not saved. But if you pick the

entirety of what John taught, right, you would

know that he said, but does not have a clarity

on what he should be preaching, right? It does

not have place on what he should be preaching,

but it was saved. Now, how would we say that

if you check John's teaching? While he tries

to point to the Christ, it does not end there.

In John's teaching, he tries to point to Jesus,

but it does not end there. He told them that

he will baptize them with what? The spirit and

fire. So he already taught all of that about

what Christ would do, about a salvation that

will come through Christ. So it was not just

trying to identify, we're trying to tell them

that this is the person you should follow. So

he already preached Christ. Right? He already

preached Christ to them. So he talked about the

Spirit of God. So we can say John denied the

Holy Spirit. No. In John's teaching there is

no denial of the Spirit. There is no denial of

the Spirit and therefore we know that his teaching

is definitely complete. Right? complete. So it

means that there are certain ways that appellers

were teaching, right, that needed to be corrected

by those people who spoke to him. So Aquila and

Priscilla saw the way he taught and took him

in for what we can call a teaching meeting. Okay,

Aquila and Priscilla took him in for a teaching

meeting. It is different from when you see, when

Paul see people and we see other people and they

have not believed. and they pray for them and

they teach them about the salvation of Christ

rather it was a teaching about the teachings

it was already teaching so it wasn't anything

new but from the teaching from the scriptures

it knew there were explanations onto him so we

can continue to check this so we can say this

person to some extent is uh we can say that he's

saved using all all of this so He's not someone

who is uh, what can we say? He's not someone

who is throwing down the son of god. It doesn't

fit in into what ibris 10 verse 29 would say

it doesn't fit in into that doesn't also fit

in into into john all right, so We can say that

this is different and therefore you can't categorize

them as people who don't believe Right in the

spirit of god and in christ as being the son

of god, right in the spirit of god and in christ

as being the Son of God. All right, so therefore

we can say that these people, they are fates.

They are fates in God. We can't think that. We

can definitely say Apollos had faith in God.

We can definitely say John Mark also had faith

in God, okay? He had faith in God. Now, that

will take us to what faith is, right? That will

take us to what faith is to, because Pastor already

started teaching on that. I think Pastor Chidi,

also opened us up to that. But I just put it

in same thing putting it in just some facets

to help us see how faith is used. So I said they

have faith. They have faith in God, right? They

have faith in God. They've expressed their faith

in God. So first we can see that faith, the word

faith, right? The word faith is used to explain

salvation, to refer to salvation. Like salvation

directly right is used to refer to salvation

Faith is used to refer to salvation And we can

see Galatians 3 26 speak of your scriptures Galatians

3 26 Version 5 verse 4 1st John 5 verse 4, let's

John 5:4

write it down then 2 Colossians 3 verse 6, 1st

Colossians 3:6

John 5 verse 4 we can pick 1st Corinthians 6

John 5:4

verse 12 Second second Corinthians, sorry, it

should be second Corinthians 6 verse 12. We pick

2 Corinthians 6:12

second Corinthians 6 verse 12 That should be

2 Corinthians 6:12

Let's start with Galatians. I'm gonna correct

part of scripture. Let's start with Galatians

Galatians 3:26

3 verse 26 Galatians 3 verse 26. Can you put

Galatians 3:26

it up? by faith in Christ Jesus, right? So, they

are all the children of God by faith of Christ

Jesus. Talking about, we are children of God

by salvation in Christ Jesus. Talking about salvation

here, right? What brings a man into, right, into

Christ, talking about salvation. The next scripture,

1 John 5 verse 4. For whatever is born of God,

1 John 5:4

overcomes the world. And this is the victory

that overcomes the world, even our faith, right?

It's talking about the salvation of man here

that overcomes the world. Now, the scripture

I was looking for is in 2 Corinthians 13 verse

2 Corinthians 13:5

5. That should be the scripture. I think there's

a typo here. Hi Jack first first Corinthians

Was a typographical in my studies That's inverse

five Okay, so that's inverse five second Corinthians,

yes second Corinthians 13 verse five examines

yourself whether you be in fluid right prove

yourselves prove your own selves, know that your

own selves are that Jesus Christ is in you, except

ye be republished. Now, this is kind of a, what

I say, a rhetorical question, right? It's not

saying that they should actually take themselves,

whether they are saved, because in the next line,

it says Christ is in you, right? In the next

line, it says Christ is in you. It says except

ye be republished, right? So, in this context,

we can see in a little way right uh pointing

to salvation right pointing to salvation that

they are in the faith in the faith now he's not

using working here he's not using uh some action

word that would make us think uh that is faith

in terms of lifestyle but he's saying so examine

yourself that you're in the faith and he says

christ is in you so that's salvation right that's

uh clint salvation in that context So again,

we can see faith in that essence as salvation.

Let's see, faith is used also for teaching, which

we can write down. Faith is also used for teaching.

It's also used for teaching to explain the doctrine

of Christ, the word that we receive. 1 Timothy

1 Timothy 6:12

6 verse 12, 1 Timothy 6 verse 12. I'll just write

1 Timothy 6:12

the scriptures down there. We'll read it again.

1st Timothy 6 verse 12. Then 1st Timothy 4 verse

6. And Jude chapter 3. Jude verse 3. Now here

saying fight the good fight of faith they hold

of an eternal life way unto doubt also be called

Maybe we can read from verse 11, right? If you

can just take it back a little bit All right,

let's get the first Timothy Six but that one

man of God free these things and follow after

righteousness godliness faith love uh patience

next then it's a fight a good fight of faith

now in this chapter right it's actually emphasizing

on the doctrine right fighting for the faith

right a good fight of faith is talking about

fighting for the doctrine right uh staying stable

for the doctrine contending for the doctrine

right contending for the faith similar words

you say you contend for the faith for what is

being thought about Christ, right? Containing

for the faith, fighting for the faith. Jude 3

is the one that says, content for the faith,

right? We're going to go to Jude 3. It says,

content for the faith. Jude 3, right. It says,

beloved, when I give all diligence to write to

you of the common salvation, right, as it was

needful for me to write to you and exhort you

that you should earnestly content for the faith,

which was when delivered unto the saints. So

what is delivered unto the saints is the doctrine

of Christ, right? The teachings of Christ reflect

that the doctrine of Christ is faith as well.

It's faith. And 1st Timothy 4 verse 6 uses the

word of faith, the word of faith that is being

preached to us, right? The word of faith that

we receive, the word of faith that is explained

to us. So we can see also that it's also used

as the same word, faith. 1 Timothy 4 verse 6.

1 Timothy 4:6

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these

things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus

Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and

of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

So again, doctrine explains here in faith. So

again, faith, the third one, faith is also used

in the scripture to explain the response to the

word of faith. Faith is also used to explain

the believer's response to the word of faith.

Response to the word of faith. Romans 10 verse

Romans 10:8

8 explains this. Romans 10 verse 8. Romans 10

Romans 10:8 Romans 10:8

verse 8. It's about what's in it. The word is

in... is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, in thy

heart. That is the word of faith which we preach.

Now, verse 17. Can I go to verse 17 of that same

chapter? Verse 17 of that romance. So then faith

comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of

God. So here it talks about the response, right?

The response of the believer. There are other

scriptures that also talk about this. It talks

about the response of the believer. Now, let's

go to the fourth one. Then I would explain some

further things to us. Faith is also used to explain

the lifestyle of the believer. Faith is also

used to explain the lifestyle of the believer.

It means what the believer does like what's the

believer does like what the believer what a believer

does So second Corinthians 5 verse 7 second Corinthians

2 Corinthians 5:7 2 Corinthians 5:7

5 verse 7 Second Corinthians 5 verse 7 Ephesians

2 Corinthians 5:7 Ephesians 6:16

6 verse 16 Ephesians 6 verse 16 Ephesians 6 verse

Ephesians 6:16 Ephesians 6:16

16 James 1 verse 6 to 8 James 1 verse 6 to 8

James 1:6–8 James 1:6–8

James 1 verse 6 to 8 James 5 James 5 verse 16

James 1:6–8 James 5:16

James 5 verse 16. Then add this filament chapter

James 5:16

1 verse 6 and we can start with that. Filament

chapter 1 verse 6. So let's start with that.

Let's start with that. Let's start with filament

chapter 1 verses. We'll just take it back with

him. We'll go up there again. Okay. So what this

is saying is that the believers light is a life

of faith. The Big Bangs lifestyle is also called

faith. That the communication of thy faith may

be factual by acknowledging every good thing

which is in you, right? In Christ Jesus. This

can refer to first acknowledging is the first.

So we can say that by acknowledging every good

thing that is in you, the communication of your

faith will be effective. We can say that, right?

So acknowledging all that is yours in Christ.

makes the communication of your faith effective,

right? It makes the communication of your faith

effective. And communication there would also

mean what you do as a believer, right? What you

do as a believer effective because you acknowledge

all that is yours in Christ, right? What you

do as a believer, the communication of your faith

because your lifestyle is faith. Now let's go

to the next one, James 5. James 5, verse 16,

James 5:16

which talks about the prayer of faith, right?

The prayer of faith. Confess of what's one another

and pray for one another, that give me the effect

of having prayer of the righteous man abelitmo.

So we just use the prayer of faith, right? Abelitmo.

So it's talking about the life of the believer,

what the believer does, right? What the believer,

the lifestyle of the believer, an activity that

is found within the believer is faith. So prayer

can be referred to as faith in this context.

Now the next one is James chapter 1 verse 6 to

James 1:6–8

8. So Balani Maxin we find is Ephesians 6 verse

Ephesians 6:16

16, Ephesians 6 verse 16. Above all, taking the

Ephesians 6:16

shield of faith wherein ye shall be able to quench

of the fairy are that of the enemy right so taking

up the shield of faith right referring to what

the believer right engages in what the believer

engages we're talking about an activity that

a believer is not talking about salvation or

talking about fight here in terms of fighting

we're talking about what a believer engages in

an activity found within the space of the believer

the next one please and second Corinthians 5

7 Because what we want to establish is actually

to say that what we do, right, should be regarded

as faith, is faith, not should be regarded, is

faith. For we work by faith and not by sight.

Now, where are we going with all of this is to

bring all the scriptures together to explain,

right, to explain that your inactivity in the

areas of your life that the scripture says, right,

is reflecting a weakness of your faith. But the

more you do it, it's showing you are strong in

faith and it strengthens your faith. Do we get

it? So that's where we're going, that the lifestyle

of a believer is faith itself. Then when we don't

see you walk in those things, we can begin to

ask you, where is your walk of faith? We can

question, what is your walk of faith? Means the

things that we see in you that makes us, we don't

need to tell you to explain Matthew 16 verse

Matthew 16:16

16 for us. We know that you are in faith. The

lifestyle that moves. So it means that, it therefore

means that in addition to, Knowing how to interpret

the scriptures and following the Bible and all

of that, every aspect of your life you must check

to ensure that you are engaging in them. Do you

get it? So it's not like a substitution like,

okay, I'll do evangelism, I want to read my Bible.

Or like me, I'm a prayer person. I only do prayer,

I don't do Bible study. Right? Or you say, well,

me, What the gift of God for me is my voice and

that is my point of meeting God, right? There

is nothing as such. You are weak in everything.

You are hiding under voice. That is what you're

doing. You are hiding under voice or you say

this is the aspect that me I think I can function.

I only stay on the engine. You don't study the

Bible. You don't pray. It shows that You are

working in faith in those areas. You are not

working in faith in those areas. Right? So you

know that regularly it is necessary for the believer

to sit down and take a stock, take an account

of yourself. Right? So regularly you need to

say that, okay, prayer, how is it going? Evangelism,

how is it going? Studying the word, how is it

going? You need to regularly take stock of every

part of your life. to ensure that you are working

the work of faith. And last week I said, on Sunday

I said, most of the things that you will discover

in that accounting is that there is anxiety somewhere,

especially when it comes to evangelism, right?

There's lack of commitment somewhere, right?

There's lack of, you would find out many things

and by that you are able to make corrections.

So, what we are saying is that every part of

the believer's life is a walk of faith and is

exercised in faith. That's another thing. It

is exercised in faith. So it's not like after

you take those talks, you now say, well, this

is my strategy. Yes, you can have, you know,

a good strategy and all of that, but you must

know that this thing is by faith. Sometimes you

don't feel like, but you must do it. Sometimes

it doesn't make any sense. Sometimes you just

go out because you have set that time that you

will go out. But your mind and your body is not

feeling it. Just go. There are many times that

we've gone through evangelism that you just go

out and you're not planning to meet this particular

guy who is in the second category that we'll

talk about. Some of you know the second category.

There are so many words in their head. They've

received many doctrine about Jesus, but they

are unbelievers. And they are ready to argue

with you, right? Sometimes you just go, but I

mean, I won't say it's the wrong thing, but fortunately,

not unfortunately, that's the person that you

met, right? And you are able to convince them

about the person of Christ. That shows that it

is not by your own strength, right? There was

one day, I think we were doing a evangelism on

campus and I was supposed to be the second man,

not the front line person. You know what I mean,

right? The person that would talk and the other

person is the... So, we went and the person was

talking and I wasn't necessarily plan to talk.

And after the guy had gotten to some points,

I asked him, brother, come and be the second

man. Let me be the first man so that this person

will not think that we don't know what we came

here to do. So, I didn't really plan to talk

on that day, but when I got there, from where

the conversation dropped, I just picked it. And

the Holy Spirit just flowed, right? And the guy,

what the guy said was, they've not taught us

like this. Sincerely, he said, they've not taught

us like this. This is not what we think. It was

about Jesus, it was about Jesus being the procreation

of God. And after I explained, they said they've

never taught us like this. You know, he was in

the other boys department, so I tell him, he's

in your department, please go and read. And that's

another thing. We need a whole lot of knowledge

to help us to grow. So sometimes you just go

out and you just jam it. And you have to really

trust the strength of God, the wisdom of God.

Sometimes in my office, I'm not interested in

doing evangelism at that time. I'm just trying

to finish the work. and this professor just coming,

Emmanuel, what do you think about heaven? He

brings himself all the time. And even if that

work is very important, sincerely, I drop it

and I just sit down and we start talking. He

calls me my pastor. He says, my pastor, I like

your view. But you know, the end point is not

my view, right? The end point is to get him saved.

So sometimes we can go on paper boat... You must

always trust in the strength of the Holy Spirit,

right? You must always trust. Sometimes even

when you want to approach people, you are thinking,

you are contemplating, but when you trust in

the strength of the Holy Spirit, right, it just

flows. It just flows. So, while it is a work

that we do by faith and we take stuff of our

life, what we must know is that we depend on

the strength of the Spirit. Praise God! Can we

just pray that we are strengthened by the Spirit

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