 Welcome back all right, so we were talking about wisdom and Yeah, so Just probably give you a couple of examples on you know why wisdom is important, right? These are real examples real life situations that happened One was I think you may have heard of it the rise and fall of Mars Hill This pastor was a wonderful pastor He started this church Mars Hill Wonderful man of God and the church started grown very quickly right and There were thousands of people and all of a sudden there was this huge growth and You can probably go online, I think There are many articles on Christianity today Preachers comm so there are many websites where you can just go and read about this and how You know this wonderful church, which eventually became about 40 40,000 odd people At the end what happened was everything just broke down everything fell apart and The ministry came down to nothing Now the reason was the leaders did not act in wisdom I forget his name leader of Mars Hill but And The the main pastor he was a very rude very Arrogant way of speaking He loved the Lord right there's this anointing upon his life. He was good teacher But he was very arrogant. He was very abusive in his words in his actions and eventually It all you know, it was bottled up for a long time So if you go online type in Mars, you'll see some of his early sermons where he's really teaching well but somewhere in between he was gotta be very abusive very you know like, you know abusing the congregation and abusing other ministries and Talking badly about people and there was no wisdom in what was happening, right? There was no accountability also and the whole ministry came to nothing Right, there's another ministry. I believe the name unnamed the I won't share the name But this is the ministry that happened in the West Where you know This wonderful man of God he started off, you know, just with a fire of God the anointing just to the heart to bless people and to Do the work of the ministry. So he started a church the church began to grow expand growing growing growing And he was a wonderful teacher of the Word of God, right? He would really expound truths And he he was somebody who would you know, he loved hermianetics, which is you know Understanding scriptures in its context. So he was really a wonderful teacher put many books as well but something happened that You know in in the US they have something called as the IRS Which checks on your taxes and making sure that taxes are being paid and all of this and so they You know, they contacted the ministry and said we need to check your taxes now It's now just because they did that it's not doesn't mean that the devil is attacking them It is a normal, you know procedure and it's okay. They wanted to you know, check the Taxes of the ministry and they checked and everything was haywire right there were bills going to some random people Additional amounts going to the pastors accounts and all of these things right and they asked him Why did you need three million or four million for in one month? Why did you need and it's accounted as ministry, what was the ministry you did on? You know example August 2015 what was the ministry you did you've got a bill for no two or three million What was the ministry was there a conference? He had nothing to say and It was you know, I think there was some of those Sessions were recorded, but you know, they must have been taken down in the court But he was compounding one lie after another lie after another lie and eventually he knew that it's not going to take him anywhere and Towards the end he was you know all his everything was out in the open He had taken these additional money to use it for his own ministry for his own gain bought private yards bought private jets and you know Everything was just gone in a moment Probably what he worked for for many many years Just gone in a couple of months everyone knew the church was closed down the others were asked to go find different churches he was you know under scrutiny He had to pay back pay the taxes. He had no way of paying it back people tried to help him and The ministry from thousands became zero why lack of wisdom papers were not set in in the right manner Accounting was not done in the right manner Is his teaching good? Wonderful weather science miracles and wonders. Yes, there was Was he a wonderful teacher preacher of the word of God? Yes, he was He he wrote many books His books have sold millions of copies people take read it are encouraged and blessed but lack of wisdom I've just got the whole ministry down to nothing so in everything that we do Right everything that we do We must Act out of wisdom one of the things that I personally do and I pray every day Every single day every moment is God give me the wisdom to do Whatever work has been assigned to me to do it effectively Right, I know I can do it I need to prepare and you know go into the word and prepare or whatever tasks that I have to do as a pastor But give me the wisdom to do it the right way Give me the wisdom to speak the right way. There will be people who will come to you and you know Share many personal things or Difficult situations We need the wisdom of God to answer them right There's this one time last week somebody came and asked me Why is LGBT why can't we be a lesbian or a gay and still believe in Jesus? I love the Lord with all my heart But this is how I feel what can you tell if we need the wisdom of God what give me the wisdom? I Can't just keep telling you know, whatever I feel like I need the wisdom From God to answer these questions then somebody else came and asked me You know, oh, why is it? that you know You believe in pre-tribulation or why is it that Jesus did like you know said this this way So people have a lot of questions Right. What about speaking in tongues? Why is it like this or the gifts of the Holy Spirit? Why is it like this? We need the wisdom of God Here's the shows that I have the Holy Spirit It's a spirit of wisdom He gives it to us right and so we can ask God God give me the wisdom to handle the situation in the right way Right. I think I've shared this this one time somebody from this happened in Mangalore and This couple suddenly they just turned right it turned against me and they said, you know, this this this is he's like this He's given a whole list of things. I Was so upset said what is this? I was caring for them I was praying for them going, you know going out of my way and as a pastor did everything I can and Oh Now they turned against me I was so upset. I said, you know, this is not right. I need to deal with this but I was so furious But I wanted to you know really react that day But then I thank God for the spirit of wisdom. I said Holy Spirit Tell me what to do that moment the Holy Spirit Said keep your mouth shut and sit at home. Don't you speak a word? And I got this worse when the enemy comes into like a flood The spirit of the Lord will raise a standard against it. So I said, okay, girl The enemy is coming like a flood now, you know, I haven't done anything wrong Now the spirit of the Lord you raise up a standard against it. So I there was a certain piece in my heart And all of a sudden I began to love them said God you bless them Have them help them. Maybe they're going through some problem and they are hurt and that's why they're putting all the anger on me They don't have anybody else to put the anger Maybe they are going through a season of brokenness tiredness weariness or mentally they're going, you know, they are couple who are Retired old age living alone their children are brought maybe they're mentally alone. They're feeling lonely So all of a sudden that anger that hatred went away And there was this extra feeling of love or, you know, kindness and care for them But I kept quiet. I thought things will get better, but it just got kept getting worse And all of a sudden, you know, it came to a point that no, I didn't do anything Right things came to a point that they said, you know We will will try to come or we will go to another church But for now, you know, I really appreciate this is what they said really appreciate This church is pastor. Even though I don't you know, I may have got upset and angry But I really appreciate he never defended he never You know, anybody else would have come and said, you know, how can you see that? He never defended really appreciate them Maybe it was my mistake and he really we had a hard to hard discussion that they And he said, give me some time. I don't know what's wrong with me Maybe I'm going through something. I don't know why I got upset. I said, it's all right. You don't have to force yourself Right. So you see wisdom Will help us to get out of situations lack of wisdom will make us get into a situation that will make things worse Right and now I'm giving this example. Why because previous to this there were many times I've got upset and you know immediately said something and I realized that hey as a leader, I should not Right, so we learn from experience as Lou Bega said, right It's from experience We've learned from our exhale last time I did this Things went back this time Lord helped me to walk in wisdom right So each one of us, please remember this, right? We may be very learned. We may have the knowledge of great great revelations But we must walk in wisdom if we have a little bit of knowledge and walk in wisdom that is Better than having a lot of wisdom a lot of knowledge and is walking in foolishness Right. So ask God pray to the Holy Spirit and say God give me the wisdom What should I do? How should I speak? How should I portray myself as a leader? You know one of the things I remember when I was in Bible college was Now you know need to do this, but this is just something that I did and it helped me, right? So this is one when I joined the college. I was focused. I said, okay, God. I want to Learn your word nothing else. I've come here two years won't learn your word. I have to do this And I came fully prepared and I was really excited And I decided to myself I'm not gonna waste time Talking and chatting and gossiping with people because that is going to be there Right and so There was a time and I would never speak to anyone, right? I never speak to anyone in my class. I just Sit and do my work just concentrate on you know there's this one time and You know, we had boys and girls in our class. So I would never talk to any girl I've never talked right So there was this one time that somebody, you know Complained and said, you know Paul is telling this about this girl Nobody in the class believed it Nobody none of the teachers also believed it. They said, please go and sit in your place Because we know what Paul is first of all, he doesn't talk and Then on top of that you're saying this we don't believe you See the reason I'm saying this is when we walk in a brightness With the wisdom of God people will know People will see it and they will recognize Wisdom really elevates us Many a times many a times right In many seasons Right many a times we will have opportunities coming our way wrong opportunities But you got to run away from it But I run away from it Say God, give me the wisdom. Give me the grace Right and you see Joseph he ran away He ran away. He left everything and ran away Right. That's wisdom And he knew I'm not going to get into this And so we as leaders must be wise right And the reason I'm spending a lot of time in this is because I know many many leaders Who have failed Either sexual immorality or they've you know, they've they've gotten to pornography. They've gone into You know, uh adultery fornication Or sometimes it's, you know, just this constant lying Or this hatred for certain groups of people Right, um, or their own marriage is breaking up because of no wisdom Right or the children hate the parents who hate them because they're always in church Uh count of this So so we must learn to walk in wisdom Right if if you know your parents are correcting you Don't say hey, I'm in bible calls. I know more than you know Yeah, your parents right No matter how big we become how great we become and our achievements Our parents and our loved ones always we need to respect them to love them We may not agree with everything but wisdom Is God's command says love your father and your mother Done deal What they say You may not agree to it, but the wisdom of God is that we obey him Right. So each one of us let's let's do this right Let's not fall into the traps of the enemy Right my people perish Because of lack of wisdom The enemy will come Bring You know all these challenges and Situations and opportunities in front of you. You got to do the right thing ask the spirit of wisdom to help you right so Next one D Jesus combined his teaching with supernatural ministry Right even when he taught and we seen that right he took five loaves of bread Fed the thousands he walked on water. He did wonderful wonderful miracles. So basically he was trying to say hey I practice what I preach Imagine Jesus saying hey if you have faith as a mustard seed tell this mountain move It'll move and then Jesus is not doing anything. What'll they say? If I was one of the disciples I would have said first you show me something Right. I would have definitely asked Right. You you show me show me how much faith you have Showed to me then you Teach or then you talk, but Jesus thought he he he followed up his actions with supernatural Right now. I'm not saying that If if there's no supernatural we should not teach and preach. No We continue to teach and preach, but we must pursue the supernatural Right Jesus said without faith Right, if you have faith as a mustard seed, then what did he do? He walked on water. He showed them. Hey see You can do it I can do it. Yeah, Peter said yes, you can come on walk on the water Peter walked on the water Now if a shaman knows about walking on water That he knows the seas He knows how dangerous it is. He walked on water Now people focus on always You know, oh, he by the time he turned away and he began to sink. Oh, Peter. He lacked faith But we forget the part where he got off the boat and walked. No until Jesus He's the only person who walked Who express what about the other 11 disciples they was too scared They were sitting on the boat. They were probably thinking Peter. Please you you know what's happening You know that you can't walk on water, but he didn't listen right faith Is required in supernatural ministry right and and all of us Are called for the supernatural ministry all of us, right? So Can we prepare to teach or we are listening to hear the word of God or we are You know, maybe teaching somewhere you can teach the word and also You know prepare for the supernatural combine it with the supernatural Don't say okay, you know, I thought about you know, Elijah and You know the supernatural work that so that is Elijah. No, what about me? No Remember the book of Hebrews says The old covenant was glorious, but how much more glorious is the new covenant? Right the covenant that we are This side of the cross is much much more powerful And that side of the cross Right, so combine your ministry Combine your teaching your preaching with a supernatural Pursue it now. It's not going to happen by snap, right? It's not a snap. Okay. God tell me now and God will tell us no. It's a journey, right? We continue Every day to grow in that right Next one Jesus spoke in a figurative language The figurative language was another important characteristic of christ's teaching He often used metaphors the word metaphors simply means figures of speech Then he used exaggerations. That's called hyper bowls And harribles. Let's read matthew chapter 16 and verse 11 Yes, one of us can read matthew 16 and verse 11 Matthew 16 verse 11 Matthew 16 How is that? Do not understand that I speak It's not to you concerning bread That you should be aware of the living Living breads livings of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees Yeah, so he he's saying here. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, oboe bakre. So it says here How is it you don't understand that I was not talking to you about brand But be on guard against the east of the Pharisees now before that Jesus is explaining about the east Right when you put a little bit of east in the door, the whole door Is affected. It's basically like putting one drop of poison in a clean glass of water the whole water's poison Right, so he's explaining this to the disciples the disciples You know the Pharisees are like this the Sadducees, you know, uh, they look good on the outside Right, they want to look good in front of people, but there's they're like east Figure of speech. They're like east. They when you put them into the door just You know messes it up So be careful Be on guard against the east of the Pharisees, right? So it's figure of speech He's not he's not, uh, you know, saying they're carrying east and walking around. No He's talking in a figure of speech Right, uh, and he's used this in many other places. Let's look at the next one hyperbols Uh, Matthew chapter seven and verse three Let's go ahead anybody can read that Matthew seven and verse three Matthew seven verse three And why behold out the mute Matthew seven and three Yeah And why behold out the mode that is uh in thy brother's eye But consider not the Beam that is in thy own eye This is a common verse that we all use no Somebody says hey you you know, you didn't preach properly. Hey, you don't look at the Speck of dust in my eye. Look at the log of who did your right? Right. It's a hyper bowl, right Meaning there was it's an exaggeration right, uh, it's a even even the whole like The parable or when jesus is saying You know, uh, if you have seed if you have faith as a mustard seed you can move the mountain it's an uh, it's a combination of figure of speech and Uh, a hyper bowl you can't if you have faith of a mustard seed How can a mountain whole mountain move aside? Right. So so jesus spoke in these ways Right and he thought in these ways. He used totally he used parables so Uh, so that's why his teaching was very effective Right one. He used figures of speech To he used hyper bowls things that are You know something that is not possible like even the example of It's easier for a rich for a poor man to For no, sorry It's easier for the rich man to enter the eye of a for a camel to enter the eye of a needle Than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven now. It's a hyper bowl right a camel Cannot enter the eye of a needle Right, so it was an exaggeration So there are many places that jesus did that and the most powerful of all of them were the parables Right, uh, when you think about jesus's teachings the first thing you think of is parables So jesus used different kinds of parables the word parable comes from the greek word parable Which means to cast alongside Or it's an extent figure of speech In a story form right so An earthly story With a heavenly meaning An earthly story with a heavenly meaning right now when we read the Entity of the new testament jesus ministry There were two kinds of parables or that he spoke about one was kingdom parables Like talking about the kingdom of god Right, uh, and you'll see that all through in the book of uh mark and at the mark and luke Kingdom parables talking about the kingdom of god And then you got the regular parables talking about earthly elements Earthly things like for example lostness Right, uh, then the lost shape the lost coin all all these are earthly Uh needs of the people during that time Right, so why did the lord jesus use parables? Yeah, it says here parables helps him it was illustrating truths And two to obscure truth From those whose heads were hard and unyielding right one is to illustrate the truth To is to obscure the truth from the heads of those who are you know, they thought they knew everything Right and mostly he was talking about the Pharisees and the Sadducees right who thought they knew everything about the scriptures Now picture this the parable of the sower Right jesus was giving this whole Thing he's teaching the people there The disciples are probably sitting there wondering what is he saying? And the others are there also listening to a nice story A man was walking He had seeds in his hand and then he threw the seeds Some fell on tawny Some fell on stone some fell here and it's a wonderful story. We all like stories. No listening to stories It's a wonderful story but He ended that with You know bringing the truth out saying that's what our heart is our heart is The disciples later asked what did you talk about the parable of the sower? We didn't understand anything And jesus says okay said i'll explain to you and he begins to explain them to them right The seed is the word of god The ground is the good ground And this is what so he explains the whole parable right so Parables illustrate Now while teaching And you're preaching it's always it's good right you will learn more on this Not sure if you've started with homiletics and those session those courses, but It's good to add You know stories Things that people can relate to Right so for example if you're teaching Um give a few examples Give a few thoughts ideas Or or some suggestions Something that you have read about and so that is why in teaching we must you know My teacher used to tell me a good teacher somebody who keeps god's word in one hand and god's world in another hand Right now here's the thing i'm going to ask you a question right What do you think about uh the ukrain war? What do you think about the ukrain war now? Imagine We don't know anything about it Now somebody in your church is going to come and ask you what do you think about the ukrain war? What are you going to say? I don't know that's in ukraine. No, don't worry. You come to church here We can't say that right So we must be aware of things that are happening You know, I remember the day when you know, the united states of america said uh at the president said We're going to make jerusalem the capital of israel I got Goosebumps all over my body because I thought wow A direct prophecy already fulfilled And then I was reading many articles and uh some I went I just came across this article where The muslims are in talks with the jews Now jews are very very rich people right And so that land where The tomb is Is according to them. It's david's land right but The muslims came and captured it and all of that So the jews the muslims are willing to negotiate Terms with the jews to buy it Things are going forward in that What is that? Why is it something important for us? Now if we don't understand these things we will not be as teachers will not be able to grasp the meaning of these things Now why is it important? It's so obvious right? The second temp the the temple has to be rebuilt there Right The jews have to get back that property The temple has to be rebuilt once the temple is rebuilt They know revelations talks about how the antichrist comes into power He'll go and sit inside and said he is the king And then we know the whole story jesus comes he reigns there so that there should be a physical temple And it's on that land itself The prophecy is being fulfilled All right, so we we had to hold god's word in one hand and the word in another hand Talking about science and we're in the next month of september 1st onwards. We're talking about faith and science And you know many questions there to talk about but the point is When we are teaching and preaching we must be aware Right, we must be aware of what's happening around us around the world World events and also Like you know don't get don't be fearful reading all these things and so our time is coming no We trust god's word. We trust and god. We know that god is taking care of us. He knows what's best for us But as teachers we must you know Put our mind into all of these aspects right so it's not easy Just just say okay. I want to be a teacher. There's a lot of preparation a lot of things involved so Three examples of parables told by jesus Luke 15 contains three parables right and all these three parables have the similar meaning there is The parables of lostness All right, so there are three the lost sheep the lost coin and the lost son Right, so he says the lost sheep. Okay. He had 100 Out of the hundred One went away a stray So the shepherd leaves the 99 And goes searching for that one so again There is something lost And a seeker attempting to find something lost and when he found it there was Found what was lost there was celebration and there was joy The parable of the lost sheet is so wonderful, right leaves the 99 He goes finds that one and when he found it he puts it on his shoulder and comes back with joy Now nowadays the shepherds. I don't know what they're going to do Nowadays shepherds if the sheep goes away Probably say okay, it's okay. Leave it. We had so many more or they say You know, they beat the sheep and say how can you go? You know, you're supposed to be here right and sometimes As parents we do that to our children. We must be very careful Right, there are many times spoken to people and teens They've shared with me, you know, they said I just feel lonely I feel alone. I feel I'm lost in this world of You know, uh, so much that's happening this world of chaos World of confusion so much is happening. I feel lost To look at them everything looks fine. I mean, they have a good family. They have Friends, but they just lost so The Lord Jesus here Christ is illustrating that In our lostness. He's willing to find us He's willing to restore us back and he celebrates for that At he's willing to go to the extreme to bring us back Into his kingdom, right? Christ was illustrating God's attitude towards the sinners when they were found God is not saying oh finally you came back I told you know parable of the lost son The father doesn't say you came back You Did what you had to do and came now what happened? Where's the property? Where's the money? and look at you No, nothing. He says there's a celebration Complete restoration right There's a lost coin coin is lost. I mean this Hey, the person is searching and searching and searching this coin remove everything In the house to search for that one coin And when it's found there's much rejoicing And I'm sure that when the Lord Jesus spoke of these It gripped the people's heart. They would have thought oh how lost I am You know being in this place just going to these temples offering sacrifices offering these Things that are meaningless to my heart And they must have thought I'm so lost without a savior And Jesus again is bringing that whole thing, you know a good teacher makes The their audience think And have questions at the end questions about their own life A good teacher will dig deep into a person's heart and bring out truth Right And and that's what happens right so we must be willing to Take the effort and you know now Jesus use parables we can use stories. We can use examples ask God for wisdom right, I was just remember of this one time you know, we used to go to colleges and And you know, I had this one hour of you know worship share a short message and end in about 15 minutes and Um, we went to this college a lot of Muslims in this college and Um, there were about 300 odd people students Champact audience And they were all like, you know talking to each other. They were not interested They knew that you know, they're going to come and sing and talk about God And so all of them were in their own world, you know, just distracted and talking and You know nibbling at each other poking fun at each other And the two songs we sang two songs and I during the songs I saw that they were Least bothered not interested at all. I said, God, please give me the wisdom. Give me the strength to you know Minister that Lord you have to speak to them. It was Very very intimidating, right? They're all staring at you and they're all poking fun You know, they're making passing comments and all of that And I remember that day, uh, you know, I had a video Well, I think most of us have seen this video Derek Redmond was a runner The 1994 I think I may get the wrong year wrong, but it's the Olympics finals of the Olympics 400 meters uh Raise and he was you know The most favorite to win because he had won he had won many Uh, you know Races before and he was the fastest and everyone knew it. It was probably That he's either going to go gold or silver So he was ready for the race and uh, you can go up on youtube and check it also the video there So he goes ready for the race. He's running half the way. He has a hamstring He falls down in extreme pain and He gets up and he begins to limp and he tries to finish the race because he didn't want to end the race on a stretcher So he begins to limp and cross and just just walk and try to finish the race and all of a sudden a man comes out from the crowd and Helps him to walk and that was his own father And he begins to cry and the father saying it's okay. Don't worry. Let's finish this race together They finish the race and after they finish the race Up to date. Nobody knows who Won the gold for 1994 olympics 400 meters. Nobody knows But everyone know the person who came last He fell and his father came the 30 40 000 people in the order in the whole stadium were clapping and honoring what he did I just played that video Right after playing that video it's a five minute video after playing the video I just said see we all fall down in life and just a simple, you know We all fall down in life, you know, just like how we fall It's all he could have chosen to go back home in a stretcher, but he decided no, I will stand up It was painful. He began to walk and then The father came we all need a father and we all need more than a father. We need god to help us simple thing Halfway down all the girls are crying They're weeping And tears are falling everyone. You know with the tissues and handkerchiefs and wiping I said god You're doing something here And I said after this I want to ask people, you know, if you want to accept Jesus as your personal savior come in front And the line was a long line The problem was they had to go to class the next session So I said to the principal, you know, you know, okay, is it okay if we can stay back? This is important principal said it's okay. We can stay back and You know me and a few of us were there and we prayed over them Right all of them had a story to tell But all of them were touched Just it was not the preaching Not at all. It was just what they saw in that video Right, so this is something that you know, maybe all of you if you're reaching out of people colleges youth teams Use that video it Rarefully use it say god minister to people and I'm sure that will touch and Now on with youtube you can go and you can check on, you know, there's many things available so you can Use these tools and You know now the annoying is not on the video the anointing is On on our prayer on the word that we say, you know We need to be prepared to preach and to teach Whatever right the word of god and Use that as a source of our of our talk right and Finally last thing themes of other parables christ taught forgiveness Generosity you talk about he spoke about humility Um, who sure whoever wants to be first must be last and last must be first Uh judgment. He spoke a lot about judgment. He talked about the kingdom of god kingdom parables He talked about the law The lord's return Talked about mercy prayer and so much more right So he didn't just stick to one topic which he'd like but he he was very diverse he was able to minister to many people who had diverse problems difficult seasons or things that they were going through and You know He was able to minister and touch people's lives You see them their discussion questions. I think I leave this open now How is it possible to be authoritative and loving at the same time? Yes, anybody can share maybe some of you in leadership Anybody can share. How is it possible to be authoritative and Loving at the same time. How do we do this? Feel free to share your thoughts Yes, go ahead lubega. I think you should do You people when you Suppose let me say like I'm a leader in an institution And I have a staff of people We should do sit with them and set rules and regulations ahead of time I wouldn't wait for somebody to come late and then I say the rules of here if you come late You you get a deduction of 50 maybe 50 usd on your salary before You should set rules and regulations before time and people are aware of what is going to happen In the case of a breach of anything and then there you stay a simple cool guy Rules will always work. You will be lovely to them and they will never say anything. You always be ahead of your game Thank you pastor. Yes. Yes, that is perfect. That's wonderful lubega you know Have sometimes we think okay. No god. No god is above rules. No god also follows rules Read the book of exodus. Oh my god. Read the book of numbers He goes on he says, you know, you have to walk this way God says the tribe of benjamin you walked the tribe of judo the tribe you walk this way walk in this order The person standing in front will carry the banner of the thing and when you walk walk in this way, oh so much God has rules. God is a god of order. So wonderful. Thank you lubega Yeah, set certain rules as a leader and let them know that these are rules that we want to follow So you're being authoritative and then you're also being loving by saying that, you know It's good that we follow these rules It's for our benefit as well, right? So that's wonderful. Yes Zellie says if we lean on the holy spirit, uh, he's a spirit of wisdom. He will enable us. Yes. Thank you Uh Sid says sometimes I try to share Jesus with my college mates, but they don't take Jesus as a son of god like mostly Most of them are muslim They say that Jesus was a prophet and a son of god What should I do? in these Please share your opinion They say that we are the genuine author. Yeah uh Now see, uh, this is a huge topic uh But basically what see what like we studied in lifestyle evangelism also, right? We are called to share and There are people, you know the parable of the soul Uh, sometimes people will take it. Sometimes people will the enemy will come and uh, steal it Or it's not put in good ground uh, but Our responsibility is to continue to minister, right? You continue to teach continue to Just tell them Don't be afraid or don't be ashamed Right now, especially uh, said now during this season be wise in the way you do it Uh, but rely on the power of god rely on god's power and god will Really help you so Uh, of course, there's lots to say Uh, but just continue doing it The seed is sown if the seed is sown it will bear fruit right uh Why next question? Why would jesus obscure the truth from uh, you know by his parables? Why did jesus do that? Why do you think jesus did that he obscured the truth? Why didn't he just tell everyone, you know, this is how it is any thoughts Why did he obscure the truth from people? Why did he use parables? Why can't he just say things? And say it normally, you know, this is what i'm going to do Yes, yes said sir, uh Like you are asking like why jesus used the parables like uh, according to me the answer would be like Already in asaya and other books the prophecy was done like uh, messiah will come he will use parables to teach So like i think it was like because of the prophecies which were done Yes, that's yes. That's that's one of the reasons. Thank you so much said Yes, uh, zellie says he was creative god. So he was full of wisdom. Thank you zellie Yes, one of the main reason was to fulfill prophecy, but two was also to Uh, you know the obscure the truth from those who felt they were they knew everything Right because sometimes people who knew everything they don't want to hear And the bible also says that you know another prophecy was they will hear but they they have years but they don't hear Uh, they cannot conceive the things of god Uh, but in some places jesus very plainly just spoke the truth. It's not like he was being suspicious every time No, so I am the way the truth and the life I am Before abraham was I am You come to me and I will give you this he was open about it, right? But there were times he spoke in parables at certain places At certain, you know, when he saw the uh, the audience he was able to make that decision, right? so Right. So any other questions any thoughts? Uh, we have a minute left If not, we can close in prayer all right Okay, so hope today was a good time. I really enjoyed this learning and I have so much to take from this as well so we close in prayer and Yeah, any one of us would like to close Yes, anybody please close in prayer Yeah, go ahead sir Father we come to the throne of grace lord. Thank you as we have learned from your word lord about preaching and teaching lord Whatever we have learned lord should not be wasted But it should be used effectively for your kingdom expansion and all glory be given to your lord Lord, whatever we do lord, whatever we say lord all the glorifiers should be given to your lord In jesus name we ask everything and god's people say amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you sir. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful week ahead I'll see you next thursday God bless