The Revelation Knowledge in Christ (Part 1)

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right in. The way we respond to the things of

God and to the things of the Spirit is subject

to the level of revelation we have about God.

So sometimes when you see yourself not responding

well to the things of the Spirit or to the things

that pertain to life and godliness, you should

begin to perceive that you need to pay attention

to the words that you have received. That those

words, that you receive them as revelation, that

you get into the revelation of every teaching

that you have received. That our attitude towards

God our attitude towards the things of God, our

attitude towards prayer, our attitude towards

studying the Word, tells us how much, I would

say, it has become dawn on us who God is and

what the Word of God is and what Christ did and

what we have in Christ and what we can do and

what is to come for us. Let's have our seats.

This morning, the teaching is the revelation

knowledge in Christ. Okay, it's revelation knowledge

in Christ. The revelation knowledge in Christ.

Now, from believers' meeting or believers' conference

that we had, we taught many things about, you

know, apologetics and... How we can become ready

to give an answer for everyone who asks us, you

know, the reason why we believe what and whom

we have believed, right? So we talk about the

reasons. We try to prepare us, right, to be people

who are bold enough to answer questions when

it comes to responding to other people. Who claim

to name the name of the Lord? Are we together?

So, that was what we did in Karatismos. And we

talked about different belief systems and we

tried to correct some things about them. But

I realized that there is a level of revelation

knowledge that we will have. That even with the

little knowledge of God that you have, you know,

I call it little, you will be bold to give an

answer for those who come around you to ask you

about your faith. You see, revelational knowledge

gives us the boldness, right, to be able to stand

and give an answer. concerning our faith in Christ.

It gives us the boldness to be able to give an

answer concerning why we believe what we believe.

Now, apart from evangelism and apologia, one

of the things that revelational knowledge does

to us is it's I don't know how to describe it.

It just gives you this, it gives you zeal. Zeal

and passion for the things of God. Right? When

you get into the revelation and when it becomes

what is being preached to you, when the revelation

is open to you, it gives you zeal and passion

for God. Like you don't struggle to do the things

of God. Like you don't struggle to do the things

of God. You don't struggle to understand who

God is. You don't struggle to understand what

you have. In fact, when circumstances arise in

your life, because of the revelational knowledge

of Christ that you have, are we together? When

circumstances arise, because of the revelational

knowledge that you have, It is easy or easier

to go through circumstances. So you might be

passing through a lot, but people will not perceive

it because you are working in the revelational

knowledge of God because you know who God is.

So you might be passing through circumstances,

but the depth of God's revelation He said that

we will know the love of God that passes all

human understanding. When you understand the

depths, you know, it's not emotional love. When

we talk about the love of God, it's not emotional.

It's not this love that goes and comes. This

love that is unstable. Today, you like the person.

Tomorrow, the person might provoke you and you

would question, why did I love the person in

the first place? Because that is the love of

human. But when it comes to the revelational

knowledge of God as pertaining the love of God,

it is consistent, unchanging. It is stable. So

what does such knowledge does to you? Such knowledge

keeps you stable in circumstances. Right? It

keeps you stable in circumstances. It keeps you

very much stable. In circumstances. Because the

revelational knowledge of God itself is consistent.

Right? Today I'm just laying a foundation of

what we are going to go through or what we are

going to go with or to be taught in the next

two weeks. So, when the revelation helps you

to be stable because the revelational knowledge

of God, it is consistent. It's consistent. So

it means that the believer will become unshakable.

So I have a brother in church and the brother

offends me, right? In my heart, I might begin

to doubt. Do I really love this brother? Or should

this brother even come close to me? Right? So

you doubt, you know, your expression of love.

You begin to question it. But when you remember

the depths of God's love, what do you do? You

forgive. You let offense to pass. You rejoice.

You encourage the brother. You tell the brother

he's authentic. You bring him back. So, the revelation

knowledge is beyond, right, how we feel, how

the excitement goes, but is deeper. Now, in regards

to evangelism, it gives you the zeal to tell

someone about Jesus because over time, right,

and some of us that have gone out to, you know,

preach, you would see a believer, right? When

you're preaching to some believers, you would

wonder, your name is, maybe your name is John,

and the person is asking you and trying to tell

you to explain the resurrection of Jesus. Now,

it's not that they don't know the story. They

can tell you the story. They can tell you how

Jesus was crucified, how he rose again, how he

appeared to his disciples. But they will tell

you to recount it like they don't even understand.

In fact, they don't understand it. It means that

while they know that information, the revelation

of that knowledge is yet to appear to them. Now,

I think it was me and Bra Prince that went to

speak to a guy. The guy is Muslim, right? And

we're speaking to him. And the guy seems to have

here and there, here and there, here and there

information about the Christian faith. And do

you know what the guy told us? Right? The impression

I got from the guy is that some believers don't

even have this information. He does not believe

it. He does not agree with it, but because I

think in their scriptures, it's written that

they should seek knowledge. So in the course

of seeking knowledge, he encountered that knowledge.

So he knows he could explain, right? Of course,

he had some places where he's putting a question

mark and we're trying to explain to him, you

know, that question mark, we can help you remove

it because there's an explanation to it. But

the consistent thing in the statement is that

I have not come into the revelation of this,

so I can't accept it. Right? That was what he

was saying. And consistently we meet people and

they just show that the depth of the revelation

of Christ is yet to be established in them. And

when I mean people, I mean believers. So as believers,

we must be so strong in the revelation of Christ.

We must be so strong. We must be so rich in the

revelation of Christ. You should have abundance.

Right? of scriptures that you can explain. You

know, you cannot just stay at John 3 .16. That's

not good enough. In fact, you cannot be there

because in John 3 .16, you will not be able to

encapsulate all that the scriptures has talked

about. So it should push a zeal for you that

when pastor teaches something here, right, you

are writing it down, going back home to study.

You are hearing a sermon, you don't understand,

you write it down, you go back home to study.

Let it always trigger something in you. Don't

let any knowledge of Christ pass you by. Let

me say that again. Don't let any knowledge about

Christ pass you by. It means that be zealous

to receive the knowledge that you might walk

in revelation. Now, I'm just saying all of these

to tell us the importance of revelational knowledge,

right? The revelational knowledge in Christ,

the importance is so enormous in every area of

our lives. But we teach it, right, with regards

to interpretation of Scripture and other things.

So let's open our Scriptures. Let's open our

Scriptures. 2 Timothy 3, 15. 2 Timothy 3, 15.

It said, and that from childhood, you have known

the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you

wise for salvation, true faith, which is in Christ

Jesus. The next verse. All Scripture is given

by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine,

for reproof, for correction, for instruction

in righteousness. That a man of God may be complete,

thoroughly equipped for every good work. That

a man of God is ready and thoroughly equipped

for every good work. So let's start from this

scripture. Because from this scripture, we would

also understand the importance of the revelation

knowledge in Christ. So let's start. Now he said,

from a childhood thou hast known the Holy Scripture.

Now that word, Holy Scripture, right? Because

we know, some of us know it, is hero's grammar.

And I'm going to explain it, right? I'm going

to explain, take a little bit of time to explain

it. Hero's grammar. Which involves the letters,

the phrases and statements. The letters, the

phrases, and statements that are sacred. Letters,

phrases, and statements that are sacred. Letter,

phrases, statements that are sacred. So, from

a child of doubt known the Holy Scriptures. The

word Holy Scriptures there is Heroes Grammar,

which is H -I -E -R -O -S. Then grammar, G -R

-A -M -M -A. The word holy scriptures there.

H -I -E -R -O -S. That's holy. Then grammar,

which is the scriptures, G -R -A -M -M -A. The

letters, phrases, and statements that are sacred.

Okay? That are sacred. So what does this reflect?

Because Paul was writing to Timothy, right? Will

you be expecting Timothy to have this kind of

a Bible? Please look up. Will Timothy be carrying

this kind of a scripture? No, right? It's impossible.

He won't be carrying this. It means that he will

be carrying probably scrolls, writings of the

whole Testament, right? Timothy will be carrying

scrolls. So it means that those writings, Timothy

is, here he says, known the scriptures. Right?

Timothy knows those writings. He knows those

letters. He knows those statements from the Scriptures.

Are we together? So, Timothy knows those scrolls.

It's like saying Timothy knows the scrolls. He

knows Isaiah. He knows those writings. Right?

He knows those statements. Okay? So, Timothy

will not have a Bible like this. He'll have scrolls.

And the word to know the Scriptures in that statement

is Eido. E -I -D -O. You can write it down. The

word to know. Right? The word to know. The word

to know, the scriptures, is the word Eido. And

it is, it has some meaning, right? E -I -D -O.

That was known, the scriptures. And it has some

meaning. It means that he is well acquainted

with the scriptures. Right? So, Those scriptures

are not strange to him, right? The Bible or in

its terms, the scrolls are not strange to Timothy.

So he's well acquainted to these writings, to

these scriptures. He has read them. He knows

them. He can explain them. He knows the scriptures.

So when they read Isaiah, he can know this is

Isaiah. He can know this is the scripture. So

he's well acquainted to... the scriptures. Now,

that knowing is also related to skill. So it

means that he has been examined. A skill of examination

means checking the scriptures, checking the scrolls.

So we can see that Timothy is someone that checks

those scriptures, those writings. Right? The

skill of examining, exploring the scriptures.

So Timothy is someone that carries those materials

and examines them. And we say that those materials

are holy scriptures, sacred writings, phrases,

and statements. Now, most of us are at this level,

okay? Most of us, you read the Bible, you know

the scriptures, you can quote. Some of us, when

we were young, you go for Bible competition,

right? And, you know, they call you out, you

read a book, they ask you who did this, this,

this. So you know the storyline, right? You know.

Every part of the storyline. And you can answer

questions. You do Bible sword. You are the first

to open it. And all of that. Now, look at what

it said following that. That you have known the

scriptures. The holy scriptures. It says, which

are able to make thee wise. Now, it means that

those scriptures can make him wise. Now, that

word wise is so feasible. Which, of course, we

have taught before. So it involves, the word

wise, isophizo. S -O -P -H -I -Z -O. Means to

skillfully teach. Right? To skillfully teach.

To skillfully teach. So which are able to make

thee wise? So if we say wise is to skillfully

teach, right? To be grounded, to be able to explain.

That's the part of it. To be able to explain.

Explain what? Explain salvation. So it means

that from those scrolls, Timothy can pack them,

right? And teach salvation from them. From those

letters, from those writings. So it's not just

going to pick only one scroll, right? It's going

to pick a series of them across them in those

writings. And then it would skillfully teach

salvation. Are we together? So the question you

ask yourself is, can I do that? So that's the

first question you ask yourself. Can I pick the

Bible and across the scriptures sufficiently?

teach salvation or I will be stuck in the John

3 system. Right? So, that's the question we begin

to ask ourselves. Why? Because in the going through

of those scriptures is revelation. The going

through of those scrolls, all of those scrolls

is revelation. It means that you cannot stay

in one scripture and expect yourself to grow.

To grow, you must be well acquainted with the

scriptures and you must be able to teach salvation

to start with, right? You must be able to teach

salvation from the scriptures. So salvation and

not just anyhow salvation because there are different

salvations, right? There are different salvations.

If you go out there, there are many salvations.

Salvation by giving, right? If you give, you'll

be saved. Salvation by cleansing. Washing your

face, washing your hand. If you do that, you

will be saved. Salvation by visiting some holy

lands. If you do that, you will be saved. Right?

There are different kinds of what? Of salvation.

So the salvation that you must seek is that one

that comes through faith in Christ Jesus. And

that's the revelation of it. So, Come back. It

means that Timothy would read the scriptures

of the Old Testament and teach salvation in Christ,

true faith in Christ, right? Do you know what

that means? That is revelation. That is revelation,

right? So, he would pick scriptures where the

name Jesus Christ is not written. But the Messiah

is identified. And it will from there bring us

to point to Christ that He is the Messiah. If

you believe in Him, you have eternal life. So

that means that you must be very, very wise.

Which is to be able to skillfully teach Christ

from the Old Testament. Now, it's not just salvation

alone. But here the context says what? Salvation,

right? It's not just salvation alone. Any doctrine,

we're going to see that in the next verse 16.

Any doctrine is established much more from the

Holy Scriptures, from these writings. Right?

From these writings. So you should be able to

teach everything that pertains to Christ. And

it's salvation, the love of God, right? Giving

service. To serve in the church. You should be

able to teach that from the Holy Scriptures.

Maybe we should teach that so that we can have

more zeal and more passion for the things of

God. And you can see it consistently across the

Scriptures. Now go to verse 16. So salvation

through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Salvation

through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Now this

statement, salvation through faith which is in

Christ Jesus, you will not find it anywhere in...

The Old Testament. But it is across the scripture.

So you have to carefully pick it out. Pick it

out. Because it has been encoded there. And that

is the job of the believer. That is the job of

someone who calls himself a Christian. Right?

To have sufficiency. Now let's go to verse 16.

Verse 16. I'll skip other information from that.

Verse 15. Now, it says, all scripture, right?

All scripture. Now, this one is graphe, right?

Which is G -R -A -P -H -E. All scriptures, right?

All scriptures. Here, he's talking about all

scriptures, which is graphe. G -R -A -P -H -E.

G -R -A -P -H -E. So, This one is talking about

all scriptures. It involves the entire book,

actually, right? The entire writing, right? In

fact, sometimes it reflects the entire theme

of that writing. Sometimes it refers to the entire

message of that book. It refers to the entire

message where it is used when you say, you know

the scriptures. It refers to the entire... of

that. I know we've learned this, but, you know,

we need to hit it very well so that we can. So

it's graphe, G -R -A -P -H -E. G -R -A -P -H

-E. So the entire scriptures taken together,

right? The entire scriptures taken together is

profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction.

For correction and for instruction in righteousness.

Right? So, the entire scriptures that Timothy

will be reading, right, is inspired by God. And

it has its own theme. It has its own message.

It has its own message. So, it says doctrine.

So, the word doctrine here is didaskalia, right?

We can write it down. The word doctrine there

is didaskalia. I think we've written this and

we have to write it again and again. Didaskalia,

D -I -D -A -S -K -A -L -I -A, didaskalia. That's

where we are going with this. That's actually

where we are going with this. I'm going to use

this part to explain some things to us and how

people do not sufficiently use the scripture.

Now, didaskalia, teachings or instruction. The

word reproof, so we have doctrine, didaskalia.

To bring sufficient evidence, right? To bring

sufficient evidence. I always say to prove it

over and over and over and over and again, right?

To prove it over and over and over and over and

again. Means that from Genesis to Malachi, right?

Over and over and over and over and over and

again, right? That is what the scriptures will

show. what the message of the scripture is. The

third one is correction. Correction. Epianotosis,

which is E -P -A correction. E -P -A -N -O -R

E -P -A -N -O -R C -H -O -S -I -S Epianotosis.

Correction. To set things straight. To set things

straight. So it means that I should expect things

that are not straight, but when I come to the

scripture, I should be able to set things straight.

Set the teaching of salvation straight. Set the

teaching of giving straight. Set the conduct

of the believer straight by reading from the

scriptures. Set the lifestyle of a believer straight

by reading from the scriptures. And the last

one is instruction in righteousness, right? Instruction

is righteousness. It means training the believer

to live right, right? Training the believer in

righteousness. Training believer in righteousness.

So it means that all of these must be done by

examining all the scriptures. When we examine

all the scriptures and we are able to see how

Christ is established through salvation and we

see doctrine. A particular doctrine, for example,

it means that we have come into revelation of

what that is. We have come into revelation of

what that is. We are coming to revelation of

what that is. Now, if someone pick, let me now

ask a question now. If someone pick a part of

the scripture, okay? If someone pick a part of

the scripture, for example, Leviticus, and it

says, Leviticus says, do not eat animals. that

have, how do they put it? That chew cords, okay?

Do not eat animal that chew cords. And today,

someone approaches you and sees you eating maybe

pork, you know, for the sake of, you know, you

just wanted to have a taste of it. And the person

reads that particular scripture to you. Or makes

that statement, in fact, quoting it from the

Bible and present it to you. What do you think

the person has done? Do you think the person

has been able to establish a doctrine from that?

Or do you think the person is able to establish

a doctrine from that? Or do you think the person

is able to sufficiently, are we together, explain

from just that one text? What I'm trying to tell

us is that when someone takes such a scripture

without examining all scriptures, first, we can

say that they did what Timothy did, which is

to be acquainted to the scriptures, right? Because

you have to be acquainted to the scriptures before,

you know, you can know that there's a part of

the scripture that says that someone should not

epoch. It means that you probably had read Leviticus

and Exodus sufficiently, right? And somehow you

have picked something there. So you have read

it. The question is, when it pertains to what

the believer can eat or not eat, can that person

establish a ground using only that text? No.

Do you get it? No. Right? It is impossible to

pay. So what we call that action, when somebody

does it to you, you tell the person you have

heard. So they have heard from the scriptures.

Okay? So erring means that you pick one part

of the scripture, right? Without examining it

across other scriptures, Genesis to Malachi sufficiently,

then you give an instruction to a believer. Right?

When you do that, you will be misleading the

believer. So we can say that no doctrine, no

reproof, no correction. or instruction in righteousness

can come from just one verse. No doctrine, no

reproof, no correction, no instruction in righteousness

can come from a single verse quoted out of the

Bible. But rather, they must be taken all together.

When we do that, they err. And therefore, people

miss the message of Christ. This is it. The end

point is they miss the message of Christ. They

heard. They heard. So when somebody picks up

a scripture without explaining it sufficiently

to you, and judges you, let me put that, let

me use that word here, right? The person might

have heard in the scriptures. Now let's go to

Matthew. Let's go to Matthew. Let's go to Matthew.

Let's establish this Aaron. Matthew 22. Matthew

Matthew 22:29

22, verse 29. Matthew 22, verse 29. They say,

Matthew 22:29

yea, do err. Jesus answered and said to them,

you are missed. Please give me erred. Give me

my word. This is saying mistaken. Put the one

that says erred there, please. I need that word.

Yes. Jesus answered and said, you do err not

knowing the scripture nor the power of God. Right?

He said they erred not knowing. Why did they

err? Move to the previous verse, 28. Take it

back a little bit. I don't want to reach much

of the stories. Take it back a little bit. Now,

stop here. From here, it's fine. Now, there were

seven wits, or seven brethren, and the first,

when he had married a wife, deceased, and having

no issue, left his wife onto his brother. Likewise,

the second also, and the third, and the seventh.

Next. And the last of all, the woman also died.

So, seven men married a woman, success, success,

succeeding there, I don't know how to put it

right. Successively, right? After the other.

So, when the human died, they all died. Now,

look at their question. Therefore, in the day

of resurrection, whose wife shall be of the seven?

For they all had her. Right? So, this is kind

of a mockery of resurrection. Right? They want

to mock resurrection. Now, to mock resurrection,

they now pick a verse. Now, if you go to verse

26, let's see where verse 24, where they were

coming from. Saying, Master, Moses said, if a

man die and have no children, his brother shall

marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

This is where they pick their own grammar from.

So they pick this grammar, right? And they use

it to, I mean, they use it to want to explain

that resurrection is not. something attainable.

Because maybe confusion will happen. Maybe the

seven brothers will begin to fight each other.

That I had that from this year to this year.

Right? So they want to show, they want to make

resurrection look stupid. But they were actually

one that were stupid because they didn't know

the scriptures. Now go back to verse 28. Therefore

at resurrection, now 29, let's see Jesus answer.

Jesus answered and said, you do err. You just

erred because you picked a scripture. You picked

some statements. And from there, you want to

disconnect or you want to say that the doctrine

of resurrection established from Genesis to Malachi

is not true. So that's what they wanted to do.

You want to pick some statements. I think we

need to stay a little bit on this part. So pick

a statement and use that statement to disqualify

all established thoughts until Malachi is erring.

Do you get me? So if you find any statement that

looks contradictory in the Bible, okay, we are

entering revelational knowledge. When you find

a statement that is contradictory in the Bible,

consistently you have seen that a thought, That

God saves by faith. He saves people through faith

in Christ Jesus. And you check it from Genesis

to Malachi and you can establish it. Now, you

find one verse that says the works are required.

Right? And you bring out one verse to challenge

verses across. You are erring. So what do we

do? It means that As believers, we hold on much

more to what is established consistently from

Genesis to Malachi. Do we get it? We hold on

much more. Our stability is in what is consistently

established and what is being questioned or what

we put question mark to. It means that we need

to do what? Go and study it. It means that there

is need for more studies. So there is need for

a lot of studies in our life. So this is what

they do. They heard. He said not knowing the

scriptures. Now, if you translate this knowing

as what is written in the scriptures, just knowing

the letters, it means that Jesus is not correct

because they know what the scriptures wrote.

They know those letters. They know those statements.

But are they wise? Are they skillful in teaching

about resurrection from those statements? No.

They are not. So knowing the statements in the

Bible is not sufficient. Being able to teach

across the Bible the doctrine of Christ is revelation.

So you do err not knowing. It means not comprehending

the scriptures nor the power of God. Now let's

put it together. It means that the scripture

is what? The power of God. Romans 1 verse 16.

Romans 1:16

Romans 1 verse 16. Romans 1, verse 16. Say, for

Romans 1:16 Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the gospel. Where is it?

Romans 1, verse 16, please. It said, for I am

Romans 1:16

not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is

the power of God unto salvation to everyone that

believe, not to the Jew first and also to the

Greek. So it means that when we say you have

power, it means that you understand the scriptures.

You can teach from the scriptures. That is the

strength of the Bible. You'll err because you

don't know the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Right? So the scriptures reveals the power of

God. The scriptures reveal the power of God.

From Genesis, right, to Malachi, reveals the

power of God. We cannot separate the power of

God from God's revelation in the scriptures.

We cannot separate the power of God from God's

revelation in the scriptures. So they erred.

They picked some things, you know, and they tried

to use that to counter a well -established expectation.

Now, what would they do? What people do in such

circumstances is that they make people stray

from faith. Stray from faith means they stray

from the knowledge of Christ. They stray from

established doctrine, teaching. They stray from

established doctrine and teaching. So, we cannot

separate God's power from God's revelation. Now,

let me put you an example. Okay? And I want to

apply this to the manifestation, or the things

of the spirits. When somebody gives you a word

that does not edify you, right? Gives you a word

that does not edify you and leads you, for example,

someone sees you and say, well, I see that and

this is what is going to happen to you. And,

you know, this is the person that is causing

your problem. And the person throws you in a

conundrum of confusion. Right? In the word they

are given. It means that such persons are void

of the understanding, excuse me, of the understanding

that comes from the scripture. Therefore, they

cannot give expression to the power of God. Are

you with me? So there should be no prophecy towards

you that is coming from the word of God, established

by the word of God and the things of the spirit

giving expression that should produce worry,

fear and concern. But rather, it should bring

you to a place of encouragement, strength and

faith in God. It should bring you to a place

of what? Encouragement, strength and faith. in

God so when you are filled with the scriptures

right for those of us that we are encouraging

give a word give a word right when you are filled

with the scriptures what you perceive and the

way you deliver it gives an encouragement to

the believer okay It gives an encouragement to

do. So when you are given a word, right? When

you're walking in that manifestation, you should

know that you know the power of God and you know

the scriptures, right? That's why most of the

time we teach and teach and teach and teach and

teach again about the things of the spirits,

right? So that people are acquainted with how

the scriptures are written. So if you perceive

the word and the word contradicts the scriptures,

right? You say what the scripture says. That's

it. Okay? You perceive a word. No, no. You say

what the scripture says. Because what the scripture

says gives an encouragement to that person. Are

we together? Because you know the power of God.

So, these people, they heard because they don't

know the power of God. Now, let's write the statement

down. We do not define the power of God by imagination

and experiences. We do not define the power of

God by imaginations and experiences. We do not

define the power of God by imagination and experiences.

Because your experience would fail. Your experience

would cause you to doubt God sometimes. Your

experience will make you begin to think, am I

in the right place? You know? Yes, the experience

will make you to doubt where God is leading you.

So we do not define the power of God by imagination,

experience, traditions or assumptions. We do

not define the power of God by experience, traditions

or assumptions. Or assumptions. Even if they

are rightly stated. Because what the Pharisees

quoted was rightly stated. We do not define the

power of God through imaginations, experience,

traditions, or assumption, even if they are rightly

stated. It means that it is written. Did Moses

not say that? Moses said that. Moses said that.

It was written there. Even if they are rightly

said as how they have occurred. Even if they

are rightly said as to how they have occurred.

Because in the scriptures, this happens so much.

I'll show us another example. I'll show. People

use like sequence. So this happened, then this

happened. So let's finish the statement, then

I will explain. Even if they are rightly stated

as to how they occurred, they might not be truly

stated. They might not be truthfully stated.

Yes. They might not be truthfully stated. Right?

They might not be truthfully stated. So it means

that there's a truth that guides what is rightly

stated. There is a truth that guides what is

rightly stated. There is a truth that guides

what is rightly stated. When it's rightly stated,

there is a truth in the scriptures, across the

scriptures, that guides what is rightly stated.

So let me say this as well. Though your experience

is rightly stated, What you are going through

is rightly stated. There is a truth that guides

what you are going through. Okay? What you are

going through is rightly stated. That is why

we say, well, we recognize what you're going

through. We recognize the challenges life brings

to us. We recognize, you know, all the things

that is happening to you. Right? We see them.

We are not ignorant of these challenges. And

they are rightly stated and they are rightly

there. But the truth, there's a truth that guides

what you are going through. So the truth should

prevail over what is rightly stated. The truth

should prevail over what is rightly stated. Now

let's check two examples. Two examples of scenarios

where people actually use the scripture uh in

such a way let's check some examples rightly

stated this is one example but let's let's just

minutes we'll scroll through some examples let's

pick first corinthians first uh go to first corinthians

for me 1 Corinthians 15, 3 to 4. Can you just

put that first? Then I'll bring up the scripture

I want to explain. The scriptures, right? According

to the scriptures. Now, the scriptures here is

referring, right, to graphy, right? It's referring

to graphy, means that what Jesus did, okay? What

Jesus did is explained in Genesis to Malachi,

okay? It's explained in Genesis to Malachi. What

Jesus did is explain in Genesis to Malachi. And

this scripture is parallel to Luke 24, verse

Luke 24:44

44. So you can just put Luke 24, verse 44 there

Luke 24:44

as a parallel scripture. Just put Luke 24, verse

Luke 24:44

44. And it said unto them, these are words which

I speak unto you. While I was yet with you, that

all things must be fulfilled, which were written

in the law of Moses and the prophets and the

Psalms concerning me. So across the scriptures,

right? All what Jesus did was to fulfill what

the scriptures are talked about. Now let's go

to John 9, John chapter 9 from verse 1. John

John 9 · chapter mention

chapter 9 from verse 1. And as Jesus passed by,

he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master,

who did sin, this man or his parents, that he

was born blind? And Jesus answered, Neither had

this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the

works of God. Should be made manifest. In him.

Right. That the works of God. Should be made.

Manifest. In him. Now. The pattern. Okay. Go

back to verse 2. Where they made that statement.

So the disciples asked. So the disciples. Not

even just the crown. The disciples. Who did sin?

This man. Or. His parents. That. He was born.

So the understanding here is that when you sin

against God, certain things as such would come

to you. Okay? When you sin against God, certain

things as such would come to you. Now, this kind

of understanding, believe me, is rightly stated

across the Old Testament. For example, Israel

sinned against God. And all of a sudden, you

see the king of Assyria attacking them, right?

You see this thing as a pattern in the scriptures,

right? So, consistently when they sin and evil

happens, right? They accrue it to, because we

have sinned against God, right? Therefore, we

have been punished. So, the understanding here

is, who sinned? The child, look at this, this

man or his, how can the man that has not, you

know, it means that it's possible to sin from

the womb. Because it said this man or his parent

that he was born blind. So they knew he was born

blind. So how can he sin if he was born blind?

Right? So it's, there are unexplainable circumstances,

right? There are unexplainable circumstances.

And when those unexplainable circumstances comes,

The most, you know, visible or logical, let me

not say logical, easy explanation is to accrue

evil to sin and sin against God. So men find

it easy. It's a shortcut to life. Shortcut to

peace. Shortcut to finding a closure. You see,

it came from God. Right? Even if you have humans

in those contexts, government mistakes, people

not taking precautions, and people doing things

in the wrong way, trying to make more money,

greed and all of that, they will say, no, it's

God, right? So here, they were trying to walk

in that kind of a light. That's who did sin.

Now, the next verse now says, Neither had this

man sinned nor his parents. Right? So, Jesus

is saying it's not about their sin or whether

they sin or not, but the works of God should

be made manifest in him. Now, the wrong way to

explain this is to say that he was born blind

so that God would show up. Like, I mean, God

made him blind. That's another explanation. That

God made him blind so that he would show his

power that, you know, I'm here. Right? God does

not need to make somebody blind to show his power.

Are we together? Don't forget, the power of God

is what? The scriptures. We are coming from somewhere,

okay? We are coming from somewhere. The works

of God, the power of God, the scriptures. So

for him to manifest the things written in the

scriptures, does he need to produce such, I mean,

does he need to inflict such a thing to a person?

No. Okay? He doesn't need to inflict such a thing

to anybody. Right? That's why I think that I

said that sometimes your enemy will be there

and God will still make a way for you where your

enemy is beside you. I mean enemy and opposition.

Someone who is directly opposing you. It might

be in your workplace. It might be in your class.

It might be in your environment. The person is

just a stress to you. And you, you are praying,

Lord, take him away. Shift their move. Move their

shift so that they can have space for me. Lord,

make a way. Anyhow, let them fire the person.

You don't need to do all of that. I think I realized

that over time, studying the word, and that's

a revelation for me. That in that same place,

you will have peace. In that same place, room

will be made available for you. In that same

place, opportunities will be open and the person

will be looking at you like this. In that same

place, while the opposition is taking place,

you are growing. You are growing. Despite the

opposition. So God does not need to harm, inflict,

kill. He doesn't do that to lift you up. That's

not revelation. So your prayer now, if you find

opposition, things around you, right? Say, Lord,

I grow in this place. Opportunities are open

for me in this place. I manifest God in this

place. Maybe we should explain something to us.

Do you know that before evil was God, evil did

not come, then God now appeared. Before the concept

of evil and sin and wickedness, God existed.

So God is not always an aftermath to come and

do evil. That's another thing we need to understand.

God existed before all of these things. So they

don't come from him. Right? They don't come from.

So he was teaching and he said, neither others

man sin nor the parent, but that the works of

God should be made manifest. It means that everywhere

there is evil, whether it's sin or not sin related,

the manifestation of God will take place. So

the works of God will be made manifest. Everywhere

there is evil. So God is not the one producing

the evil. Right? But rather, where God moves,

the evil, the blindness, and the sickness, they

disappear. So God is not doing it so that it

can manifest, but rather the presence of God

in such arenas takes away the evil, takes away

the blindness, takes away the problem. So the

presence of God in such arenas takes away. Now

move to the next verse 4. He said, I must walk

the walks of him that sent me while it is day,

the night coming when no man can walk. And as

long as I am in the world, I am what? The light

of the world. So it is not going about looking

for those people that God has inflicted, then

it will not make it. No, as long as I am present.

As long as I am present, right? I am the light

of the world. Praise God. I hope you have received

revelation today. I hope we are growing in revelation.

On Wednesday, we will continue. But go with these

thoughts in you. Right? Knowing fully well that

God is ever present with you. Knowing fully well

that the scriptures are the power of God. They

are the revelation. They shape the rightly stated

circumstances you face because they are the truth

of God's word. Can you just pray? Can you pray?

Can you pray for yourself? Say, Lord, as I go

daily in my life, I walk in the revelation of

who God is. No matter what is rightly stated

in my life, I walk in the revelation of who God

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