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What To Do After a Believer's Conference

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  1. Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is

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  4. the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

  5. right in. So today we're going to be looking

  6. at what to do after Kazatismos. what to do after

  7. a cathartismus, or what to do after a believer's

  8. meeting or a conference. Because the city said

  9. that he sensed that there is going to be more

  10. prayers coming. Praise the Lord. So if you're

  11. doubting if God is amidst us, there is your confirmation

  12. that truly God is amidst us. praise the lord

  13. because there's going to be more prayers more

  14. prayers for those who were around more prayers

  15. for those who were not around to get a glimpse

  16. of what they have missed praise the lord and

  17. for them to also be impacted so what to do after

  18. a believers Conference. Acts chapter 2. Acts

    Acts 2 chapter mention Acts 2:42

  19. chapter 2 verse 42. Acts chapter 2 verse 42.

    Acts 2:42

  20. fellowship, in breaking of bread and in prayers.

  21. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders

  22. and signs were done through the apostles. Now

  23. all who believed were together and had all things

  24. in common, and sold their possessions and goods

  25. and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

  26. Verse 46 So continually daily with one accord

  27. in the temple and breaking of bread from house

  28. to house, they ate their food with gladness and

  29. simplicity of heart, praising God and having

  30. favor with all the people. And the Lord added

  31. to the church daily those who were being saved.

  32. Praise the Lord. What to do after Catholicism?

  33. The first thing that we do after a believer's

  34. conference, after... Such a time in the presence

  35. of God is to continue in the doctrines that we

  36. have been taught. Praise the Lord. To continue

  37. in the doctrines that we have been taught. To

  38. continue in the things that has been given to

  39. us. Praise the Lord. The things that has been

  40. taking time every day. for one hour, 40 minutes,

  41. one hour, 40 minutes, two hours, all those teachings

  42. to continue in them, to go back to them and to

  43. look at them again and to ensure that they are

  44. part of our lives. Praise the Lord. So is the

  45. practice of what we see in the heart of the apostles,

  46. that they continue in the apostles' doctrine.

  47. They continue in it. Praise the Lord. It means

  48. they were in it. They were there. Praise the

  49. Lord. They were inside of it. They never stopped.

  50. They steadfastly continued. They were devoted

  51. to the apostoosh doctrines. They paid careful

  52. attention to the things that they have been taught.

  53. Praise the Lord. They cherish it. I remember

  54. the last time we were looking at Matthew 28,

  55. and we said that it's to keep as though what

  56. you have is going to be lost. Praise the Lord.

  57. To pay careful attention to the things that you

  58. have been taught. They devoted themselves to

  59. the apostate's doctrines. They continued in it.

  60. Praise the Lord. So what did we say doctrine

  61. was? For those who were around, what did we say

  62. doctrine was? It was a specific teaching. Praise

  63. the Lord. It's a specific teaching, right? To

  64. speak in the way of teaching. To, to, to, to...

  65. To give instruction. Praise the Lord. And we

  66. said that doctrine is a good doctrine or the

  67. doctrine is centered in Christ. Praise the Lord.

  68. It is centered in Christ. So I want to find out

  69. the people that can still remember the things

  70. they have been given. Praise the Lord. So what

  71. are the doctrines that you have been taught in

  72. the Believer's Conference? Randomly, what are

  73. the doctrines that you have been taught? Anybody?

  74. You can raise your hand. What are the doctrines

  75. that you have been taught? Yes. Laying of hands.

  76. Okay. You see? Manifesting the kingdom. Okay.

  77. Tongues are the instabilization, leading of the

  78. Spirit. Praise the Lord. There have been doctrines

  79. that you have been taught. There are things that

  80. have been taken time to ensure that you learn.

  81. Praise the Lord. So the Bible tells us to continue

  82. in them. The things we do after the Believer's

  83. Conference is to continue in the doctrines that

  84. we have been taught. To pay careful attention

  85. to them. To be committed to them. Praise the

  86. Lord. to pay careful attention to them, to listen

  87. to them again. We have these messages online.

  88. We can go back and listen to it again until it

  89. is a part of you. Praise the Lord. Until somebody

  90. asks you, what is the doctrine of laying off

  91. of hands? You will not say, let me go and get

  92. my Bible. I mean, you can do that, but it is

  93. something that you can explain and go further

  94. in the scriptures to explain more. Praise the

  95. Lord. Because it has become a part of you. That

  96. is how you learn. That is what you do after a

  97. believer's conference. Praise the Lord. As we

  98. are praying and singing, we say that there is

  99. a new level. Praise the Lord. There is a new

  100. level. Revival has occurred in your life. Praise

  101. the Lord. Revival has occurred in your life as

  102. a result of this one week. So revival, we don't...

  103. Well, maybe you're looking forward to a time

  104. where people are praying and then somebody is

  105. crying. Somebody is in a flow. You say truly

  106. a revival have happened here. A true revival

  107. is word centered. Praise the Lord. A true revival

  108. is to show the believers the things they have

  109. in God. Praise the Lord. And these teachings

  110. that we have had and this one week that we have

  111. had has shown us through the word the things

  112. that the believers had. It is word -centered.

  113. Praise the Lord. So a revival has happened in

  114. your life. Praise the Lord. So you can put it

  115. as a date. I remember I was joking with one of

  116. the people in the secretariat team, and I said

  117. to them that these tags that we're giving, I

  118. want to keep it somewhere. And I'll put it like

  119. a card. You know people that keep cards. Praise

  120. the Lord. So that 10 years from now, you will

  121. say, or I will say that I was there that day

  122. when it happened, when revival happened, because

  123. we were taught the word. Praise the Lord. And

  124. how can I say, or how can I continue to say that

  125. is until I continue in the doctrines that have

  126. been taught, until those things become a part

  127. of my life. Praise the Lord. If those things

  128. do not benefit you or do not continue to benefit

  129. you, then you cannot keep such things. Praise

  130. the Lord. So we continue in the apostasy doctrines.

  131. We continue in them. We listen to it again until

  132. it has become a part of us. Why do we need to

  133. continue in them? Why do we need to listen to

  134. them again? 2 Timothy 3, verse 16. He said, all

    2 Timothy 3:16

  135. scriptures, is given by inspiration of God and

  136. is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for

  137. correction, for instruction in righteousness.

  138. 17. That the man of God may be complete or thoroughly

  139. equipped for every good work. Praise the Lord.

  140. It is good that you continue in this doctrine

  141. because it will equip you. Praise the Lord. It

  142. will thoroughly furnish you. It will thoroughly

  143. equip you for good works. There is fruit in your

  144. life. Praise the Lord. That we continue, it helps

  145. us to understand the Scriptures. Praise the Lord.

  146. We saw how the doctrines were taught. They were

  147. not just taught from one place. They were taught

  148. from the entirety of the Scriptures. It helps

  149. you understand the Scripture, how to read it

  150. properly, or how to understand it properly, how

  151. to interpret it properly. The same 2 Timothy

    2 Timothy 4:3–4

  152. chapter 4, verse 3 to 4. 3 to 4. He said, For

  153. the time will come when they will not endure

  154. sound doctrine, but according to their own desires,

  155. because they have eating ears, they will heap

  156. up for themselves teachers, and they will turn

  157. their ears away from the truth and be torn aside

  158. to feebles. Praise the Lord. That you know what

  159. is sound. Praise the Lord. So when you continue

  160. in the doctrines that you have been taught, you

  161. will know that which is sound. Praise the Lord.

  162. You will know that which is sound. You will know

  163. that which is sound. You will see feebles and

  164. say, oh, this is not it. Praise the Lord. One

  165. of the things I'm grateful to God about the church

  166. is that Even back in the day when we have not

  167. started teaching the things that we're teaching,

  168. one of the things that I know for sure is when

  169. somebody is wrongly interpreting the scripture.

  170. Praise the Lord. There's not a lot of knowledge

  171. about Greek or Hebrew, but I know for sure when

  172. you open the Bible and you're speaking rubbish

  173. or you want to make it look the way you want

  174. to make it look. Praise the Lord. Because I've

  175. sat in a place and I've learned what it means

  176. to Interprete the scriptures. Praise the Lord.

  177. So when we continue in the doctrines, when we

  178. continue in the teachings that we've been given,

  179. we'll know that which is not sound. Praise the

  180. Lord. Because there is soundness in you. It is

  181. truth that can sell what a lie is. Praise the

  182. Lord. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 14. He said that

    Ephesians 4:14

  183. you should no longer be children tossed through

  184. and through and carried away by every wind of

  185. doctrine, by the trickiness of men, in the cunning

  186. craftiness of deceitful plotting. Praise the

  187. Lord. That you will not be tossed through and

  188. through. Praise the Lord. That nothing will just

  189. come and you start going. Oh, they said this,

  190. you started running with it. Praise the Lord.

  191. By every wind of doctrine. knowing little of

  192. everything but no depth in it. Praise the Lord.

  193. So when we continue in the apostate's doctrine,

  194. when we continue in the teachings that we've

  195. been given, we'll not be tossed through and through

  196. by every wind of doctrine. Praise the Lord. You

  197. will have a filter system that which will allow

  198. you to know what is true and what is not true.

  199. Romans chapter 6 verse 17. that you will know

    Romans 6:17

  200. the things to avoid. Romans chapter 6, verse

    Romans 6:17

  201. 17. He said, But God bethanks that though you

  202. were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart

  203. the doctrines which you were delivered. Verse

  204. 18. I think there's a mist of a scripture there.

  205. That's not what I wanted to get. So you will

  206. know that which is to avoid. Praise the Lord.

  207. You will know the things to avoid. Let's go back

  208. to the second Acts chapter 2. You will know the

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  209. things to avoid. Acts chapter 2. He said, they

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  210. continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine

  211. and in fellowship. Praise the Lord. In fellowship.

  212. They continued in fellowship. They continued

  213. in fellowship. The things that we do after a

  214. believer's meeting is that we continue in fellowship.

  215. We don't say, I've received enough. Praise the

  216. Lord. Let me take a break. It's not like your

  217. work. Praise the Lord. It's not like your...

  218. regular walk that you go to, that you need a

  219. break from. Praise the Lord. Because at this

  220. most one week of the believers conference is

  221. not like your walk that after it, you need a

  222. vacation. He said, no, I don't need fellowship

  223. for now. I fellowship enough. Praise the Lord.

  224. There are no such things as enough in the things

  225. of God. Praise the Lord. There are no such things

  226. as enough. You don't neglect the gathering of

  227. believers. You come together. You don't say you

  228. need a break. You don't say you need a break.

  229. You need to go away. Hebrews chapter 10, verse

    Hebrews 10:24

  230. 24. You see, And let us consider one another

  231. in order to stay up love and good works, not

  232. forsaking the assembly of ourselves together

  233. as it is the manner of some, but exalting one

  234. another so much the more as you see the day approaching.

  235. Praise the Lord. He said, let us consider how

  236. to stay one another in love. What happens when

  237. we come together is that we stay one another

  238. in love. Praise the Lord. We provoke love in

  239. the inside of us. We provoke good works. Praise

  240. the Lord. When you see your brother ministering,

  241. when you see your brother speaking in tongues,

  242. giving interpretation, you're stirred up. Praise

  243. the Lord. You know you can do it. You are encouraged.

  244. Praise the Lord. You are encouraged. So we stick

  245. together. We fellowship with one another. We

  246. don't go on break after. We don't go on spiritual

  247. breaks. We don't say we don't need fellowship.

  248. Again, we continue in the gathering, not forsaking

  249. the assembly. There are miracles and signs and

  250. wonders that can only happen as a result of fellowship.

  251. Praise the Lord. There are prayers that can only

  252. happen as a result of fellowship. Have you prayed

  253. from nine to five? Some people have. Have you

  254. prayed on your own in your room? Have you done

  255. that? Praise the Lord. Have you done that? Because

  256. there is a stirring. Praise the Lord. There is

  257. a stirring in fellowship. There is a provocation

  258. to do good things. To pray more. We saw some

  259. people healed here as a result of gathering.

  260. As a result of meeting together. They're spiritual

  261. experiences that can only happen as a result

  262. of fellowship, as a result of koinia, to be together.

  263. And he says, I'm breaking of bread. They were

  264. sharing of food. Praise the Lord. So don't stop

  265. sharing of food. Praise the Lord. Don't continue.

  266. Don't stop that as well. So when you have people

  267. come over your house and then you're praying

  268. and you're doing spiritual things, don't send

  269. them away like that. We did not send you away

  270. when we finished. Praise the Lord. In the middle,

  271. there was food and you ate. Praise the Lord.

  272. Even yesterday where there should not be food,

  273. the secretariat pushed, I don't know what they

  274. did, but they pushed that food should come out.

  275. Praise the Lord. So continue. breaking of bread.

  276. And he also said, continue in prayers. Colossians

    Colossians 4:12

  277. chapter 4 verse 12 that we have been reading,

  278. a prophet who is one of you. Praise the Lord.

  279. He said, continue in prayers. Continue in organized

  280. prayers. Continue in the prayers that we had.

  281. Do not trophy in, oh, I've prayed nine to five

  282. yesterday. Wow. That will take me for like one

  283. month. And then after one month, I will come

  284. back again. No. Continue in prayers. Forget about

  285. the prayers that you prayed yesterday. That prayer

  286. you prayed yesterday has given you strength to

  287. do much more. Praise the Lord. It has given you

  288. strength to pray much more. It has given you

  289. strength to pray much more. Praise the Lord.

  290. Don't trophy the things that are behind you.

  291. Those spiritual experiences. Praise the Lord.

  292. So one of the things, again, that we see in believers'

  293. gathering, or one of the things that we do after

  294. a believer's gathering, is that we continue in

  295. the spiritual experiences that we've had. Praise

  296. the Lord. In 1 Corinthians 14, Pastor Ima was

  297. teaching from there, Pastor Kostin was teaching

  298. from there. We continue in prayers. We continue

  299. in praying in tongues. We continue in prophecy.

  300. We continue to give edification to the church.

  301. We continue to edify ourselves. Maybe some of

  302. us for the first time, you found that God was

  303. speaking through you. My God can speak through

  304. me. Praise the Lord. So continue in it. It did

  305. not happen. It should not be that it happened

  306. because you were just here. It should continue

  307. to happen. You found out something about your

  308. identity. That God can speak through you. That

  309. God can speak edification through you. That somebody

  310. can be blessed because of your speaking. Praise

  311. the Lord. Because of your laying of hands. Somebody

  312. can be blessed because of the prophecy that you

  313. gave. You can defy yourself by praying. You continue

  314. in those things. Praise the Lord. We continue

  315. in prayers. We continue in long prayers. That's

  316. one of the things that you should have learned

  317. is that some of the prayers that we prayed were

  318. not focused on Necessarily the things you can

  319. see. Praise the Lord. How you can pray long is

  320. not about your need. You only pray for five minutes.

  321. Praise the Lord. Your needs are not that big.

  322. You cannot pray one hour for just your need.

  323. Praise the Lord. So this kind of prayers you

  324. pray is God kind of prayers. That you grow, that

  325. you mature. He prays for you that you may stand

  326. strong. That you may continue in faith. Praise

  327. the Lord. That you continue in spiritual experiences.

  328. That it becomes a part of you. It becomes part

  329. of your growth. It becomes part of the things

  330. that you do. Is he listening to us? Are you listening

  331. to us? Okay. You continue in spiritual experience.

  332. You continue to practice the things of the Spirit.

  333. In John 10, verse 4, it says that my sheep, they

    John 10:4

  334. know my voice. They know my voice. You found

  335. out that you know the voice of God. In the midst

  336. of the chaos, in the midst of everybody shouting,

  337. in the midst of everybody praying, you found

  338. out you can hear. That this is what God is saying

  339. in the inside of you and you say it to somebody

  340. and you found that that is true. Praise the Lord.

  341. You continue in those things. It should give

  342. you the strength and the motivation to continue.

  343. Oh, if I can hear when everybody is shouting,

  344. what happens when I sit on my own? Praise the

  345. Lord. If I can hear the voice of God when everybody

  346. is shouting, what happens when I'm just sitting

  347. by myself? I know His voice. I understand His

  348. language. We continue in these things. You found

  349. strength in weakness. You found out the comfort

  350. of the Spirit. You found out that man is God's

  351. method and plan on the earth. Praise the Lord.

  352. You bring yourself to that alignment. You continue

  353. in that light. You bring yourself to that alignment.

  354. Oh, so this is God's plan. So I am God's plan

  355. and method on the earth. God is not using angels.

  356. He's not going to preach by angels. He's not

  357. going to say angels go to that place. It is you

  358. that he says you are his plan on the earth. You

  359. are his method on the earth. You continue, you

  360. key yourself to that goal of God. So you continue

  361. in the apostate doctrines and the spiritual experiences

  362. that you have gotten in this week. And I said,

  363. this is the revival that has come to you. Praise

  364. the Lord. My God can speak through me. Praise

  365. the Lord. This is a revival that we have gotten

  366. this week, that my God can speak through me.

  367. I know the doctrines of God. I know the mind

  368. of God. I know that God's method is me. Revival

  369. has come to you. Praise the Lord. Revival has

  370. come to you. There is a new dimension. I found

  371. out a new dimension. We found out a new dimension.

  372. That we are God's plan on the earth. Praise the

  373. Lord. We are the one that carries His message.

  374. We're the one that carries his message. So another

  375. thing that we do after Catholicism is that we

  376. stay in the church. The church is God's stability

  377. for your life. Praise the Lord. We stay in the

  378. church. Pastor Fred told us from Matthew 16,

  379. he says that salvation is a person. That person

  380. is a person of Christ. Praise the Lord. That

  381. the church is God's assembly. Right? The church

  382. is God's assembly. It is a kingdom of Christ.

  383. He said it is upon the resurrection that the

  384. church was formed. Praise the Lord. And this

  385. is our identity, that we are the church. of God.

  386. Praise the Lord. We are the church of God. We

  387. are the church of God. So one of the things that

  388. God has helped us or has given us is the local

  389. church. Praise the Lord. This gathering, the

  390. meetings that we have, the local church. It is

  391. God's structure for our life. Praise the Lord.

  392. It is God's structure for our spiritual growth.

  393. It is God's structure for our spiritual growth.

  394. If you notice from the epistle, you will discover

  395. that it was written to churches. Praise the Lord.

  396. It was not written to the body of Christ. It

  397. was written to churches. To the church in Corinth.

  398. Praise the Lord. To the people of Corinth. It

  399. was written to churches. The church is God's

  400. structure for us, for our spiritual growth, for

  401. our life. So we must know how to function in

  402. the local church. We must know how to behave

  403. or we must know how to align in a local church.

  404. I think we're going to continue this much more.

  405. So if we know that God's... a plan for us is

  406. the local church or his plan for spiritual growth

  407. is the local church, then it therefore means

  408. that we have to listen to the instructions and

  409. the direction of the people that God has set

  410. in charge of his church. Praise the Lord. We

  411. have to listen to the direction and instruction

  412. of the things that they are saying. If they are

  413. saying that we're going to teach this. this topic

  414. for the rest of the month. That's what we are

  415. doing. So it means that that is God's plan for

  416. your growth. God is saying that you're going

  417. to grow by understanding the gospel in Genesis.

  418. This is God's plan for this season. So you have

  419. to key into it. Praise the Lord. You have to

  420. key into these things. You have to key into the

  421. things that they are saying. So we must also

  422. note those who speak very bad things about the

  423. church. Praise the Lord. The church is not perfect.

  424. The local church, right? So we must also note

  425. those who speak so many bad things about the

  426. church. Because this is God's plan for your spiritual

  427. growth. Praise the Lord. It is God's plan for

  428. your spiritual growth. It is still God's plan.

  429. It is what God intends or how God intends that

  430. you grow. Praise the Lord. That's how we intend

  431. that you grow. That's why we encourage you to

  432. come to church. Because we know that in your

  433. house, there is no structure. Praise the Lord.

  434. You have no structure to organize a meeting by

  435. yourself, for yourself, for three hours. Praise

  436. the Lord. You cannot worship alone. You cannot

  437. pray alone. Praise the Lord. You cannot grow

  438. alone. You cannot preach to yourself alone. So

  439. we encourage you to come to church because it

  440. is God's plan for you. It is how God has made

  441. it that you should grow. The gathering of believers.

  442. Praise the Lord. The gathering of believers.

  443. There must not be people who are divided by,

  444. who have divided commitment. God has said, this

  445. is my plan for you. This local church is my plan

  446. for you. But you're everywhere online. You're

  447. listening to that person. You're listening to

  448. that person. You're listening to that person.

  449. You're going to have confusion. Your life is

  450. going to be confused. You're going to have questions

  451. that you cannot answer. Praise the Lord. God's

  452. plan for you is a local church. Praise the Lord.

  453. God's plan for you is a local church. This is

  454. his plan for your growth. Your growth, you cannot

  455. grow at once. Praise the Lord. You cannot become

  456. 30 years old in one day. It has to take steps.

  457. It has to take a lot of nutrition, a lot of taking

  458. care of yourself, a lot of things, a lot of people

  459. around you for you to grow. Praise the Lord.

  460. So you cannot grow at once. So when God is saying

  461. to you through your local church that your plan

  462. for growth is the Bible in Genesis or the gospel

  463. in Genesis, if you have plans or thinking about

  464. the anointing, wait first. Praise the Lord. That's

  465. why Pastor Vito always encourages us. He says

  466. you should wait. We'll have that teaching. Praise

  467. the Lord. But for now, the plan is for you to

  468. learn the gospel in Genesis. When you finish

  469. that one and it's a part of you, then we can

  470. go to what the anointing is. Praise the Lord.

  471. So this is how we continue in Catartismus. This

  472. is how we continue in Catartismus. So I'm going

  473. to stop now and we're going to pray. Praise the

  474. Lord. We're going to pray. We're going to edify

  475. one another. We're going to lay hands on one

  476. another. We're going to do impartation for those

  477. who are not here. Praise the Lord. Who are not

  478. in the cataclysmos. Right? And we'll continue

  479. as well on Wednesday. So we learned that the

  480. doctrine from Hebrews chapter 6, the doctrine

    Hebrews 6 chapter mention

  481. of laying of hands. And we were taught that laying

  482. of hands is spiritual. Praise the Lord. We were

  483. taught that laying of hands is spiritual. It

  484. is not a physical thing. When Joseph was laying

  485. hands, he was touching people every day. Praise

  486. the Lord. He was, I'm sure he was touching people's

  487. head every day because he's elderly. And part

  488. of the things, some cultures, you need to bend

  489. down and they probably need to touch your head

  490. or touch your shoulders. Praise the Lord. In

  491. those touching, he was not impacting anything

  492. to them. Praise the Lord. But when he decided

  493. that he wanted to impact something, he impacted

  494. something to them. Praise the Lord. The laying

  495. of hands is spiritual. It is not just physical.

  496. It's how we exercise our dominion. These are

  497. the things that we learned. Praise the Lord.

  498. It's how we cause things to happen. Praise the

  499. Lord. It's how the Holy Ghost is administered.

  500. So let's just rise on our feet and just begin

  501. to pray. Just begin to pray. We also learned

  502. in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 that talks about

    1 Corinthians 14 chapter mention

  503. speaking in tongues. That he that speaks in tongues,

  504. edifies himself. He that speaks in tongues and

  505. interprets edifies the church. He that prophesies

  506. edifies the church. Praise the Lord. So we want

  507. to speak in tongues now and we want to edify

  508. ourselves. We want to edify the church and we

  509. want to lay hands. Praise the Lord. So let's

  510. just begin to pray. Let's just begin to pray.

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  512. carry this word with you throughout your week.

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