The Believer's Authority in Christ pt 5

Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here.

Make sure to stay with us till the end, where

we'll share some great resources to deepen your

faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon.

We'll just be continuing from where we have been

teaching since Wednesday, then Sunday. than Wednesday

again. So just continue from there and build

up. So still relating to the authority of a believer

and immediately manifesting the supernatural,

right? Manifesting the supernatural. The main

thing is, like I said, to charge us more, right?

To charge us more to have... expectations towards

these things, the things of the supernatural,

to know how it functions, to believe it, to see

it across the scripture that beyond reasonable

doubt, we will be able to participate, give ourselves

to the things of the spirit much more. So that

is why we are teaching this, so that we can be

able to engage in... expressing healing, right?

Many administering healing to people through

our preaching. Then we carry out signs and wonders,

miracles, and all the operations of things of

spirit through us functioning effectively, right?

So that we can have expectations through it.

We can know that these things are real, like

the word I use all the time, that these are actually

real. And that's the call of God is able to walk

all of these through us. Amen. So what we've

done so far, right, what we've done so far is

actually to understand the believer's authority,

right, to understand the believer's authority,

especially with regards to things in the natural,

how the believer can influence the natural, which

is supernatural, bringing forth the supernatural

into the natural, letting the supernatural overpower

or oversee the natural. So we started and we

went through Moses, right? What Moses did and

his work with the children of Israel in the wilderness.

We moved through that and we came to the prophets

and we touched upon Elijah a little bit, right?

Showing with evidence, right? Showing with evidence

and proof, right? Showing with evidence and proof,

right? realities of these things, right, of the

manifestation of the supernatural, right? So

we see divine provision, we see divine preservation,

and we see across many things where they intervened

in both situations. So we see that these men

of God, the prophets, right, Moses and Elijah,

they expressed the supernatural in their walk

with the people they were walking with. So the

last time we... talk, right, on Sunday, we move

towards Matthew, and we try to stay a little

bit there, right, stay a little bit there to

see how Jesus, right, functioned or exercised

the supernatural in healing people, people who

were lame, people who were possessed by demons,

people who were not, right, in their right mind,

Jesus restoring them, people who were sick, right,

see a lot of miraculous things taking place.

So now what we're able to get there is that we

can receive this miraculous or this supernatural

by seeking it. That is not wrong to seek it.

So it's not wrong. You can seek to be prayed

for and to be healed. You can seek to lay hands

on. When we minister to each other, when we hold

each other's hand, we are actually seeking to

be ministered upon. We are seeking the supernatural,

true. the other believers around us. So we find

that and we see that in Matthew 8, verse 1 to

Matthew 8:1–4

4, we see how that context, right, was actually

someone requesting to be healed. And we see many

people that come to Jesus, right, they will say,

I know you can heal me if thou be willing, right,

heal me. And Jesus will say, yes, I'm willing.

And we see that he heals them. So we see seeking,

right, asking as something very accepted according

to the scriptures. We also see, right, that faith,

even without asking. can actually bet for the

supernatural, right? Faith without asking can

actually bet for the supernatural. And we see

the case of the centurion, right? Matthew 8 scriptures.

We see the case of the centurion who just believed

that Jesus would say a word, right? Just say

a word and healing would take place. And Jesus

was really amazed and wondering, you know, what

manner of faith in his healing power, right?

As such a man expressed at this time. Seeking.

We see faith, which is believing, right? We also

see the woman who touched the hem of his garment.

If I would just touch the hem of his garment.

So we also saw our faith too, right? We saw our

faith in the context of that. And we see touching,

touching in line with that too. So faith in the

healing ministry of Christ. And she said, if

I only touch, right? She could have been like

the centurion and say, okay, Jesus would just.

say a word, right? Or just by belief. But she

said nothing about thought. So we see seeking,

we see believing, right? Having faith in what?

Healing ministry of Christ. And we also see touching,

right? So touching. So sometimes we see Jesus

lay hands on them. He put his hands on their

eyes and their eyes are open and all of that.

So we see touching, right? Touching takes place.

Laying of hands can also take place, which is

connected to touch. Now, also we can see that

people can also bring you, right? People can

have faith for someone who is sick, right? They

can have faith for someone who is sick and they

can bring the person. They can bring the person.

Matthew 8, 16. Matthew 8, verse 16. Matthew 8,

Matthew 8:16 Matthew 8:16

verse 16. This one is people bringing others,

right? Bringing others, having faith for other

people. And when Jesus entered Peter's house,

from verse 14, he saw his mother -in -law lying

sick with fever. He touched her and her fever

left. So touching again, Jesus lay hands on Peter's

mother -in -law and she was healed. Now verse

16 says, that evening they brought to him many

who were oppressed by demons and he cast out

the spirits of the world. and they healed all

who were sick. Healed all who were sick. So we

see that people had faith, right, for other people,

and they had faith that someone can be healed

by Christ, right? There are people who were sick,

and, you know, they had this faith, and it brought

them to meet Christ. So they were exercising

faith on behalf of their family members, on behalf

of people that were sick, and it brought them,

and by their faith, Jesus healed them. I see

that we can bring someone, we can exercise faith

for healing, right? So, again, there's another

scripture that we're going to check. Luke 5,

Luke 5, 17. Luke 5, verse 17. Just to add to

Luke 5:17

this one of people bringing others to Christ,

right? Luke 5. So, one of those, on one of...

Those days, as I was teaching, Pharisees and

teachers of the Lord were sitting there who had

come from every village of Galilee and Judea

and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord

was with him to heal. And behold, some men were

bringing on a bed, a man who was paralyzed. And

they were seeking to bring him in and lay him

before Jesus. But finding no way to bring him

in because of the crowd, they went up on the

roof and let him down with his bed, threw the

tiles into the mist before Jesus. And when he

saw their fates, right, he saw their fates, he

said, man, your sins are forgiven. And the scribes

and Pharisees began to question, saying, Who

is this who speak blasphemies? Who can forgive

sins but God? When Jesus perceived their thoughts,

right, he answered them. Why do you question

in your hearts? Which is easier to say, your

sins are forgiven, or to say, rise and walk?

But that you may know that the Son of Man has

authority on earth to forgive sins. He said to

the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, rise.

pick up your bed and go home. So in this context,

we see that people had faith in Christ for their

friend, right? People had faith in Christ, right,

for their friend. And that faith that they had

in Christ, right, was shown in their action as

well. So when they saw that the place was crowded,

right, they couldn't find a means. They could

have said, oh, we just need to go back, right?

What is the effort for? Or because they need.

that Christ could heal. They went through the

roof and they brought the man down. And Jesus

saw their faith. So it was not just the faith

of the man who is to be healed. He saw the faith

of this group of people who brought the man down.

So people can actually have faith for others

to heal. So when we come to church and we talk

about people who want to be healed, we pray for

your... your parents, like we pray for our mothers,

our fathers, our siblings that are sick, we are

exercising faith in Christ for them. We are exercising

faith in Christ for them. Therefore, through

that, the supernatural can also take place, right?

Of course, we've been talking about healing so

much in this context of supernatural, but we'll

stay there for now. So we can see that we can

exercise faith, right? And so on can come into

healing. Bye. our faith so this shows that the

faith of men so therefore it corroborates matthew

8 that says that many were brought to him right

many were brought to him and as they were possessed

by demons he cast them out with the word and

healed them so people had faith and their faith

uh yeah people now um We're saying two scriptures

in the line of receiving for people, right? Receiving,

healing for people. Of course, you know that

salvation cannot be received for someone, right?

Salvation cannot be received for someone. What

can be received, right? Is this kind of ministrations

as such as healing, right? Because you believe,

right? And you are interceding, you are praying

for the person, but the person can receive. And

don't forget, we also establish across most of

these scriptures and time of Christ, we saw that

most of these people did not believe in the message

of salvation itself, but they believed that Christ

can heal them. And they were just receiving,

right? They were just receiving the healing.

They were receiving the healing. So this is what

we see in this context, that faith can bring

about healing for someone, but of course we can't

have faith for them in terms of salvation in

that context. Because some of them are unbelievers,

we still see that they receive. Healing supernatural

express through the faith of others. Now, we

can also go to Matthew 8, 23 to 27 and find something

there as well. We've seen seeking, we've seen

believing, we've seen administered touching.

we've seen believing for others by bringing them,

right? When you bring people, you are showing

expression of being believed. If you also come

out, right, someone needs, your mom needs to

be healed, your dad needs to be healed, a brother,

a sibling has been on impact. When you come out

for that person also, you are, in essence, bringing

yourself, right, representing the person and

then we can agree together in prayer to the brother.

Now, Matthew 8, 23 and 27. And when it got...

into the boat. His disciples followed him, and

behold, there arose a great storm on the sea,

so that the boat was being swarmed by the waves.

But he was asleep, and they went and woke him,

saying, Save us, Lord, we are perishing. And

he said to them, Why are you afraid, O you of

little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the wind,

and the sea. And there was a great calm. And

when the men, and the men marveled, saying, what

sort of man is this that even winds and sea obey

him? Even wind and sea obey him. So what do we

see here? We see rebuking, actually. That's what

we see here. And I'm going to show us some other

scriptures that also talk about rebuking. So

we can rebuke. We can rebuke, actually, circumstances

in the natural. We can rebuke circumstances that

are natural to bring them into order, to bring

order into place, to stop a chaos, to stop a

problem, to intervene in an unpalatable situation

where people are engaged in. We can rebuke accidents.

There's nothing like we cannot pray against those

things. We can rebuke them, rebuke those things

that there will not be accidents, there will

not be theft. We can rebuke those things. So,

rebuking is another way that we put... our authority

into practice or we put our authority into action

when it comes to the supernatural so we can rebuke

secretion now if you just take a walk back to

uh verse 16 verse 16 that evening they brought

to him many who were oppressed by demons and

he cast out the spirits right with a word and

he healed all those who were sick. So this is

also similar, right? Rebuke, cast out, right?

They are direct expression of the believer's

authority, right? They are direct, direct expression

of the believer's authority, right? These are

direct expression of the believer's authority.

Therefore means that the believer, right? Should

primarily directly administer. Healing, directly

administer, casting out demons, directly rebuking

unpalatable situations. So this is the direct

expression of the authority of the believer.

So what I'm saying is that while people can seek,

while you can seek, while you can have faith

for something to take place, right, why you can

be administered upon, you can touch, you can

be touched, your hands can be laid, and so you

can lay hands as well. But there are circumstances

where the believer must rebuke, right, must rebuke

those situations. We see here that he was casting

out demons, he was rebuking. He was casting out

demons, and he was rebuking, he rebuked a situation,

right, he rebuked a situation. So this is, this

pattern is actually the direct expression, of

the believer, which we always talk about, right?

You can cast out demons. We don't negotiate with

demons. We don't have conversations with demons.

We don't have conversations with circumstances,

right? We don't have conversations with circumstances.

Is it important? We don't have such kind of conversations,

right? So what we do to unpalatable situations

is that we rebuke them. What we do to demons,

right, is that we cast them out. This is direct

expression. And this is where the believer should

regularly be. This is where the believer should

regularly be, right? So it's intentional that

we took us through all those other ones and up

until coming to this one now. This is where the,

what would I say? Would I say the magnitude of

the believer's authority. is put into action.

The magnitude of liberalism is put into action.

When we rebuke circumstances, when we cast out

demons, this is the magnitude of the believer's

authority. And this is where the believer should

regularly be. Regularly be as a believer. Now,

let's see. Let's see from Acts of Apostles. A

little bit. Acts of Apostles. Acts of Apostles,

chapter 3 as well. Acts of Apostles, chapter

3. I think we read that on Sunday. I'll show

you another form in which the magnitude of the

believer's authority is expressed, right? Another

form in which the magnitude of the believer's

authority is expressed. Now, Acts chapter 3,

Acts 3 · chapter mention

it says, Now, Peter and John were going up to

the temple at the hour of prayer, the night hour,

and a lame man from birth was carried, whom they

laid daily at the gate of the temple that is

called the beautiful gate. to ask hands of those

entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about

to go into the temple, he asked to receive them.

And Peter directed his gate as him and as did

John and said, look at us. And he fixed his attention

on them, expecting to receive something from

them. But Peter said, I have no silver and gold,

but what I do have, I give to you in the name

of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

Rise up and walk. So this is a situation taking

place in the life of a man, right? Asking from

him, right? This man was lame. He was a lame

beggar. And what did the apostles did? They didn't

seek, right? They didn't seek. They didn't, you

know, lay hands. They didn't do anything. They

instructed the man out of the situation, right?

So they instructed the man out of the situation.

So what we can also do. As believers, expressing

our authority is that we can instruct people

to come out of unpalatable circumstances. We

can express our authority by commanding, actually,

that is it, commanding people to come out of

unpalatable circumstances, to give expression.

to what we want to see. That's another word to

say it. To give expression to what we want to

see. So you can instruct people to come out of

unparalleled situation. We can instruct or command

people to give expression to what we want to

see, right? So when you see the blind eyes, you

can say, I command that eyes to be opened. Let

your eyes be opened. So you are bringing the

person out of that circumstance, right? You are

bringing the person out of that circumstance.

Here they said, arise and walk. right that would

have sounded uh ridiculous if anyone who had

known that man for a long time that has been

sitting there right what what is this saying

can't you see that this guy has been here for

a long time in fact he's not even willing to

be healed he's actually looking for alms from

you right so people say what is he saying but

what did uh the apostles say and what So we can

command people out of circumstances. We can command

people out of chaos. We can command people who

are possessed out of those circumstances. So

we see rebuke as excess direct exercise of the

believer's authority, right? We see, what do

you call it? We see casting out demons as well

as direct, I mean, very impactful authority expressed

there. We also see here in this context, calling,

the man out of his circumstance. Right? Calling

the man out of his circumstance. So we see this

as the place where the believer should regularly

be. Right? The place where the believer should

dwell. We're not saying that the believer cannot

ask to be prayed for. Right? You can't be asked

to be prayed for. We can't say, we are not saying

that people cannot express faith for you. I've

expressed faithful faith on circumstances regarding

people's life and we see it come to pass. Right?

When we come together as a church and pray together,

we exercise faith on certain circumstances. That

is us. Right? But that is not the only way, and

that is not the only way we can receive. The

believer itself carries an authority, right?

The believer himself carries an authority that

can bring to bear the circumstances that we want

to see. So whatever we desire to see in a situation

where there's chaos, we can call it forth. We

can call it forth and command it to be as we

have seen. So rebuking, casting out demons, and

all of that are regularly where we should be.

Now, so we're done with these areas about receiving.

So the next thing we'll just discuss, which I'm

going to explain through the scripture, is actually

with regards to the preaching of the gospel.

With regards to the preaching of the gospel.

Also, still related to the supernatural. So people

believe that, not people believe, but across

the scripture, one... pattern or the order that

we have seen is that the supernatural can give

expression when the gospel is preached or rather

let me say the supernatural can give expression

after the gospel is being preached and also the

supernatural can be expressed before the gospel

is preached right before because there's a reason

why i'm saying this because we are not magicians

we are not showmen We are not showmen. We are

the power of God. We give expression to manifestation

of the things of God. We give expression to healing.

We command, we instruct circumstances to come

alive. We instruct the eyes of the blind to open,

the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, the lame

to walk, those who are sick to be healed. We

have the capacity to do this because the Spirit

of God is in us. However, we are not showmen.

We are not showmen. to just engage in those things.

So what pattern did we see in the scripture,

right? Because, you know, over the years, this

is one of the areas I've questioned, right? Because

I see people, they give expression to healing

and they just let people go, right? So they just

laid their hands and they just let them go and

all of that. So what we see, right? What we see...

in this, in the scriptures, what we see in the

scriptures is that the preaching of the gospel

moves with signs and wonders. And signs and wonders

and miracles and the workings of the power of

God can also take place and the preaching of

the gospel follows. Right? This is the most,

I mean, this consistent pattern of Christ's teachings

and what we see in the scriptures. So let's go

to Matthew. Let's go to Matthew to first establish

this. First of all, the emphasis that we are

not magicians, we are not showmen, right? The

miracles, signs, and wonders should be followed

by the preaching of the gospel or when we preach

and we can give expression to it. So either ways,

both of them are patterns that are scriptural,

right? But to heal and just, you know, let them

just go and all of that, most of the time, is

not what we think. From Matthew 5, okay? From

Matthew 5, Jesus started a teaching. He began

to teach and give, expressing things regarding

the kingdom of God, expressing the law, things

relating to the law, teaching about divorce,

retaliation. You move to chapter 6, you see Jesus

teaching about giving, right? Teaching about

giving, teaching the disciples, right? What is

written there as the Lord's Prayer, right? Explaining

to them, right, the realities of the kingdom

of God. in that prayer, you move downward, you

see fasting and all of that. And this prayer

extended up to chapter 7 and ended in chapter,

verse 28. Verse 28 of chapter 7 says, when Jesus

has finished these sayings, which is teachings,

right? You know, called the Sermon on the Mount.

I think these teachings, the crowd were astonished

at his teaching, for he was teaching them as

one who had authority, not as the scribe. So

we see that teaching. That kind of a long, extensive

teaching. Then it is on conduct that we begin

to see. Verse 8. Because verse 5, if you read

chapter 5, first of all, if you read chapter

5, verse 1. Chapter 5, verse 1 says, Seeing the

crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when

he sat down, his disciples came to him. So chapter

5, he climbed up the mountain. Then chapter 8,

right? It says, chapter 8 verse 1 when he came

down from the mountain great crowds followed

him and behold a leper was lame a leper came

to him and he knelt before him saying lord if

you will make me clean and from there we see

the entire chapter 8 right even into chapter

9 Christ manifesting the supernatural, right?

Among the people that have followed him, that

have listened to the sermon, right? He came down,

they followed him and he continued to. So after

teachings, right? We should expect the supernatural.

After teachings, we should expect the supernatural.

After the preaching of the gospel, we should

expect the supernatural. We should give room

also for the supernatural. So while people are

teaching, pastors are teaching, we should set

our hearts that as this teaching is going on,

you can receive during the teaching. And after

the teaching, we can give expression and open

the opportunity for people to receive more. So

the preaching and the supernatural expression,

the manifestation of healing, deliverance, the

casting out demons, exercising the authority

that we have, bringing in order in people's lives.

comes together preaching and the supernatural

manifestations work together we see that they

work together in this so first the pattern we

see is preaching and afterwards we see jesus

expressing this now if we go to max 16 as well

go to max 16 right which is the scripture that

we regularly read from verse 14 they said after

he had appeared to the 11 themselves as they

were reclining at the table. He rebuked them

for their unbelief and hardness of hearts because

they had not believed those who saw him after

he had risen. And he said to them, go into the

world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Whosoever believes is baptized. Whosoever believes

will be baptized. But whosoever does not believe

will be condemned. And these signs, right, will

accompany those who believe. In my name, they

will cast out demons. They will speak. Whosoever

believes is baptized. Whosoever believes will

be baptized. But whosoever does not believe will

be condemned. And these signs, right, will accompany

those who believe. In my name, they will cast

out demons. They will speak in new tongues. They

will pick up serpents with their hands. And if

they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt

them. They will lay their hands on the sick and

they will die. recover, right? So he said these

signs, right? So first, what we see there is

go and proclaim the gospel. This is not a, I

mean, the first time he's saying it, he's going

to check that also in Matthew, we'll find it

there. So he said, go and preach the gospel,

right? As you preach, these signs will accompany

those who believe, right? These signs will follow

their, you know, their preaching, right? In my

name, they will cast out demons. These people

that I'm sending now, as they are preaching the

gospel, These signs will be following. So what

are signs, right? What signs are they talking

about here, right? It's not, it's actually referring

to something that shows, right? Something that

shows with evidence, with proof, the presence

of the one who has sent them, right? So that

sign is something, things, right? Things that

show the presence, the proof. The evidence of

the one who ascended. So when they preach, the

evidence of him who ascended, which is manifestation

of peace of God by the supernatural, follow them

evidently. So we see it here as another pattern.

So the preaching of the gospel and the supernatural,

they work together. See it there. That Jesus

doesn't just go and preach the gospel, but these

signs will follow them. That belief, right? In

his authority, in his authority. So you see that

it is about evidence and proof of him who has

sent them. Evidence and proof of the authority

of Christ. So in my name, they will do what?

They will cast out demons. My reputation in all

that I've achieved in my name, in my authority,

right? In my office, they will do these things.

Right? They will give expressions of supernatural

as they are preaching. These signs will follow

them. So we also go to Matthew 10. Matthew 10.

So I took us to Matthew 10. Just to establish

significantly that we are not showmen. Right?

We are not showmen. We are not people who are

just on the street. We are not just looking for

people. In fact, the essence of this is... is

attached to the gospel. The essence of the manifestation

of the supernatural, right, in many ways, especially

when it regards to people who don't believe,

is attached to the gospel. The essence of it

is attached to the gospel, right, so that people

can hear and they can believe, right, they can

believe. Matthew 10, verse 5. And the twelve

Matthew 10:5

disciples sent out, and these twelve Jesus sent

out, instructing them, go nowhere among the Gentiles,

and enter... no town of the Samaritan, but go

to the lost house of Israel and proclaim as you

go, saying, the kingdom of God is at end. That's

the gospel, right? Preaching the kingdom of God

is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse

the leper, cast out demons. You receive without

paying, give also without paying. We see that

he said that. Preach the kingdom. As you preach

the kingdom, let the signs of the kingdom follow.

The manifestations of this kingdom in the supernatural,

let it follow. So preaching again, being followed

by the manifestations of the power of God. So

when you are preaching, as you go for evangelism,

you should expect... You should expect that you

give expression to these things. You can give

a word to the person. You can heal them. You

can tell them about someone the spirit is leading

you to instruct. You can give them instructions.

You can heal them. You can heal someone they

know. That's another one. You can have a word

for them regarding someone they know that is

sick and you can heal them. You can also cleanse

the confusion in their life. It means that you

can give them direction. You can give them word

of wisdom, word of knowledge, explaining and

clearing every confusion in their life as you

go to preach. So the supernatural is something

we should expect. In fact, after you have preached,

whether the person even hear or believe or do

not believe, it is necessary, right? Or it is

helpful that you allow yourself to give expression

to the power of God. So whether the person has

believed or not, just... Take some time out before

you leave the person, right? Before you leave

the person, you take some time out and you give

expression. You give a word of encouragement.

You give a word of wisdom. You heal. You speak

things that the scripture calls signs that should

follow those that are believed, right? So you

give a sign. Because we have established that

they can receive whether they believe or they

are unbelievers, right? It is about you who is

giving the supernatural out. So there's nothing

wrong in saying, okay, you have my belief, but

I still keep you the supernatural. And that can

just be what will just make the message, you

know, come alive. Because both the message and

the supernatural are the power of God. Hallelujah.

Both the message and the supernatural are the

power of God. Both the message and the supernatural.

We see it here as... So for three scriptures

now, we've seen how the preaching of the gospel

is accompanied by signs and wonders. It is not

for sure, right? It's not... For sure. Now, let's

go to Acts. Let's go to Acts. Especially in the

life of the apostles. Or in the life of the apostles.

Let's go to Acts. And let's see how they were

explaining. When things happen, they have to

explain. They were explaining because... Alright.

So, let's look at this same chapter 3. This same

chapter 3. Something happened there. Chapter

3. Now, after they had healed the man in verse

6. Verse 7. He took him by the right hand and

raised him up. right? He took him by the right

hand and raised him up. I'm trusting that when

there's more time that we are teaching about

the gift of the Spirit, the supernatural, the

expression and emancipation of the Spirit, the

workings of miracles, right? As we, you know,

time goes on, we'll have time to talk about that

much more and to see how people can manifest

or operate or work the miracles of God out. So,

look at what he says. He, took his hand, for

example, in this case, he took him and raised

him up. So he helped him up, right? He took him

by the right hand and raised him up. I mean,

immediately his feet and his ankles were made

strong. And limping up, he stood and began to

walk. So we see how gradually he received healing

and the apostles walked it out with him. Right?

Walked it out with. So we'll see this hopefully

in the future. Now, as he was leaping, he began

to walk and enter the temple with them. Walking

and leaping and praising God. Right? And all

the people saw him walking and praising God and

recognizing him as the one who sat at the beautiful

gates of the temple asking for hands. And they

were filled with wonder and amazement at what

had happened to him. Now look at what happened.

While he clung to Peter and John, right? He clung

to Peter and John. All the people utterly astounded.

So he held them, right? So he was still limping.

He was still trying to get his balance, right?

For someone who has not worked for a long time,

right? Receiving healing. So he's trying to get

a balance and he held on to Peter and John, right?

More like an, I don't know, would I say implicating

them? Ran together to them in the... particle

called solomon and when peter saw it right he

watched all the people outlier standard run together

to them in the particle called solomon and when

people saw it uh sorry when peter saw it he addressed

the people so people came around right they saw

the miracles the man holding peter and john then

they came around and when peter saw that these

people had come around he has to explain something

to them so miracles can bring people right can

bring people come around. Miracles can bring

people to come around. And their coming around

is for the preaching of the gospel. So Peter

began to explain, men of Israel, why do you wonder

at this? So signs and wonders are taking place,

right? And it was beginning to wonder why they

were wondering. But of course they were wondering

because they were filled with unbelief. So the

people who gather when there is signs and wonders

and begin to look and they are wondering and

they are amazed. They are working in unbelief.

When signs and wonders happen, a believer sees

it, he glorifies God. He does not run to the

man and say, what have you done? Or go there

and begin to watch as if it's a movie. You know,

it's not supposed to be a movie. It's not supposed

to be, a believer cannot respond to signs and

wonders as a movie, right? A believer cannot

respond to signs and wonders as a movie. It's

not. But you glorify God and say, this is God's

doing, right? You know, remember that Simon the

Sorcerer too. When he saw signs and wonders,

he too ran, right? He ran to go and collect power.

It's also not to collect power. So when you see

signs and wonders, you want to go and catch the

person's leg. It's unreasonable, right? It's

unreasonable. That's not the way a believer responds.

The signs and wonders and the workings of America

and all of this are not a surprise to you as

a believer. It's not a surprise to me as a believer.

I glorify God because it's the power of God.

But look at, right, all the people utterly astounded.

They ran together to them in the portico called

Solomon. When Peter saw all those people gathering,

so he raised a crowd, raised the people coming

together. What did he use? He used the opportunity

to preach to them, right? He used the opportunity

to preach to them. Men of Israel, why do you

wonder at this? Or why do you stare at us as

though by our own power or piety? We have made

him walk. You see, first, explaining the power

of God is not by our power. Now, look at what

he used. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac,

the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers glorified

his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and

denied in the presence of fire. Now, if you start

to use what they could relate to it, right? What

they could relate to this God of Abraham, God

of Isaac, God of Jacob. talking about the promise

of God, right? So he used what they could relate

with and began to preach to them, right? He preached

to them up until verse 22. He continued preaching

to them and said, Moses said, the Lord God will

raise for you a prophet like me from your brothers.

You shall listen to him in whatever he tells

you. And it shall be that every soul who does

not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed

from the people. And all the prophets whom spoken

from Samuel and those who came after him also

proclaim these days. You are the sons of the

prophet and of the covenant that God made with

your fathers, saying to Abraham, and in your

office shall all the families of the earth be

blessed. God hath raised up his servant sent

unto you first to bless you by turning everyone

from your wickedness. Right? So, he preached

the gospel. He preached to them. He explained.

He connected everything together and explained

to them. Praise God. Now, that's why we have

so many of these, so many of this pattern. So

many of this pattern, we have them. Now, let's

see. Let's see a couple of other scriptures that

we are going to see. Now, let's look at Acts.

Let's look at Acts. I'm just going to pick up

another explanation, right? Let's look at Acts.

Acts chapter 10. Chapter 10. Acts chapter 10.

Acts 10 · chapter mention Acts 10 · chapter mention

Now, this was another situation where an explanation

had to be given. Something happened, right? And

an explanation had to be given. And it gave a

chance, right, for the preaching of the gospel.

So, Acts chapter 10, verse 9. Acts chapter 10,

Acts 10:9 Acts 10:9

verse 9. I don't think we'll have more time to

read everything. But this is actually Peter's

vision. Peter saw a vision, right? And in verse

13, it said, there came a voice to him saying,

rise, Peter, and kill and eat. But Peter said,

by no means, Lord, I have never eaten anything

called unclean. Now we know the story that is

referring to the case of Cornelius, right? Someone

who is not within. the confinement of Israel,

right? He said, at Caesarea, there was a man

named Cornelius, a centurion, who was known as

the Italian cohort. So it was not like any Jewish

person, right? So the context of this is that

there was a vision that was seen. So Peter saw

a revelation of what God will do, right, in a

people's life. I'll say a people's life because

it's not just Cornelius alone, right? But Cornelius

was the pointer to... That part, that God will

also bring, right, others into what he is doing.

And there will be no segregation among the people

of God, right? Within the church, within the

household of God, there will be no segregation.

So we see there that Peter was saying, I want

to eat something that is uncommon. And we saw

that up until verse 30, Cornelius explained the

story to Peter and Peter also explained the vision.

right that he saw so from verse 34 you see so

peter opened his mouth and said truly i understand

that god shows no partiality okay but in every

nation anyone who fears him and does what is

right is acceptable to him and as for the word

that is sent to israel preaching good news of

peace through jesus christ and he explained all

of that He explained the gospel in verse 44.

He said, while Peter was still saying this thing,

the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

So he had a vision, which is something supernatural,

spiritual, how you call it. He had a vision.

And in the natural, he had a convert, which is

preaching to someone, Cornelius. believing and

we see the supernatural uh taking place the holy

spirit falling on them that we are listening

to the scriptures or to what uh peter was teaching

so what we see here first is that he had a vision

which is a supernatural uh revelation right which

had an interpretation. And through that, the

preaching of the gospel took place, right? After

understanding everything, the preaching of the

gospel took place. And then many others, right?

Upon many others, the Holy Spirit fell. The Holy

Spirit fell. So in this case, we see that it's

not directly healing, but we see also that it's

a supernatural revelation, right? That led to

the preaching of the gospel and people receive,

people receive the Holy Ghost and they believe.

On every account, right, on every account that

we have a supernatural encounter, whether we

heal people, whether we cast out demons, whether

we see a vision and a clarity and an understanding

of what God is doing, the end point is not for

sure, right? The end point is not for sure. So

you see something, right? Because true, there

are visions and there are visions that God still

communicates with us. And we know that we vet

these visions, right, by the message of God.

There are also supernatural encounters, right?

We can, you know, we can have different supernatural

encounters and we can vet them by the scriptures

and we can hold on to the truth of the message

that we find in them. The end point of every

supernatural encounter is not for a show. It's

that the message of God will be preached and

many will come to believe. Right? That the message

of God. So as we desire this much more, as we

expect it in our meetings, as we look forward

to the manifestation of it, the end point, right?

Especially when we are ministering to unbelievers,

is that they will come to believe. They will

come to believe. Right? They will come to the

knowledge of Christ. They will come to know the

message of the gospel. So the emphasis, right?

would not be the supernatural. The embassy would

not just be, oh, we want to do the science. That's

part of what comes with the preaching, right?

So the embassy is both together, right? Both

together, the teaching and the manifestation

of the gospel. So as we go to preach, as we see

revelations, these are the things that we must

pay attention to. We must pay attention to this,

right? So just finish with Matthew 28, right?

Just go with Matthew 28. Verse 28. Matthew 28,

Matthew 28:18

verse 18. And behold, I am with you always to

the end of the age. I am with you always till

the end of the age. And we see that the instruction

is go to go and preach, to go and make disciples

from all nations. And Christ says that I am with

you always. And just like I said last night,

because Christ is with you, while the preaching

of the gospel is taking place, all that is in

Christ can find expression. So as you are preaching,

as you have received authority to go and preach,

Christ says, I am with you till the end of the

age. So all that is found in Christ can find

expression with you. All that Christ did can

find expression with you. The healing can find

expression with you. The revelation, the teaching

with power, teaching as one with authority can

find expression in you. So therefore, we preach

signs and wonders following. Miracles following

because we have the authority through Christ.

We have Christ ever present with us to be able

to make us manifest. So we don't have any reason

to doubt it, right? We don't have any reason

to doubt it. Also, another thing is that when

we preach, right, when we preach, it helps us

to, it solidifies us, actually, right? Sometimes

when you're going for a baptism and you're preaching,

it solidifies you. In a way, it kind of prepares

you. to expect the supernatural. It so much prepares

you. When you have preaching at the core of your

mind, you have that this soul would believe at

the core of your mind. It helps you to believe

the supernatural because you have a goal. The

goal is not just to heal, but also that these

people might come to the knowledge of Christ.

Praise God. I will just give thanks this evening

and say thank you, Jesus, that as we go, as we

preach, we see the manifestation of the supernatural.

We see healing taking place. We see deliverance

taking place. We see casting out demons taking

place. We see opening the eyes of people. We

give word to people. They understand as we preach,

we have the boldness to give expression to this

thing. As we preach, we are intentional. giving

time to open the eyes of people to see and partake

in this supernatural power of God. Through us,

as we also manifest the supernatural, can we

pray that as we manifest the supernatural, even

spontaneously, in the name of Jesus, we give

ourselves to the preaching. We will not forget

the preaching. As we manifest, as we heal, as

we lay hands on people, oh, in the name of Jesus,

as we say, let me pray with you, as we hold on

to faith and encourage people, can we pray in

the name of Jesus? that we do not forget the

message. We run with the message. We teach the

message. As we are healing, we are teaching the

message. We are pointing them. And Peter and

John will say, why do you think that we have

done this through our own power? It is not by

our own power we have done this, but by the power

of God. That as we manifest the power of God,

we point them to the one. whose power is at work

in us. We point them to the one whose power is

resident in us. We point them to the one through

whom we are doing all things. Can we pray in

the name of Jesus? God bless.