 Hi everyone, welcome back to the second session, right? So we completed chapter nine Now what we want to keep you all informed is The next few chapters right that is chapter nine that sorry chapter 10 and chapter 11 Is being covered in your other Course that is BC 112 which is believers authority deminology and deliverance, right? So chapter 10 and 11 will be covered in that course and chapter 12 Will be covered in your second year, which is BC 2 1 6 BC 2 1 6 is in a wholeness the course on inner wholeness. Okay, so Chapter 10 11 and 12 will be covered in those courses. So We will only cover chapter 13 and so this session will be the last For this course in this semester Okay, so we are not going to be having classes from the following week on this course. So You're all happy Let's go to chapter 13. This will be the last chapter that we'll look at in this course and bring this thing to an end Okay, so just to reiterate chapter 10 11 and 12 will be covered in your other courses Chapter 12 will be covered in your second year semester course on inner wholeness and Chapter 10 and 11 is currently being covered in BC 1 1 2 Okay, all right. So let's go to chapter 13 in your PDFs to page of 173 Did everybody understand what I just shared everybody. Okay. All right. Thanks, Anthony All right, awesomeness. Okay. So chapter 13 it talks about the local church as a healing and delivering community The local church as a healing and a delivering community Right. So we in time and time again in the scriptures if you there's one recurring theme Sorry guys, my throat is still recovering Well, there's one recurring theme in the scriptures from Genesis to revelation And you see that God saying, okay, I will be your God and you will be my people. I will be your God You will be my people you will be my people and I will be your God You can see that from book after book after book you will hear you will read these lines mentioned in the scriptures from Genesis All the way to revelation I see I will be your God and you will be my people and this is his heart his desire is to dwell Among his people right and the the little Greek meaning for dwell is simply means habernäck right he desires to tabernacle to dwell among his people and we see that happening in the life of Jesus in John chapter 1 You know verse 12 and he became flesh and he dwelt Among us he made the first move he came Right, so he desires to have a people through whom his glory will be manifested on Right, so he desires to have his people He wants to dwell among his people and his desire is to see to have a people through whom his glory will be manifested Right, so he's saying that he wants us to be his people through whom his glory will be manifested Isn't that wonderful, right? And so yeah, let's just continue to look at a few things here Hosting the presence of God Sorry, I am so sorry. That was bad Hosting the presence of God as a community We look at Psalm 132 verse 13 to 18 some hundred and 32 Was 13 to 18. It's in your notes. It says for the Lord has chosen Zion He has desired it for his dwelling place This is my resting place forever Here I will dwell Or I have desired it. I Will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy There I will make a horn of David grow. I Will prepare a lamp for my anointed his enemies will I will clothe with shame But put himself his crown shall flourish, but upon himself his crown shall flourish That's a beautiful passage of scripture there, right? So imagine a local community of believers among whom God wells Imagine a group of people Where in the middle of them in the midst of them is God and he's dwelling Right imagine what our local churches I would be like if he may if we made him and his presence our central focus our only focus Just imagine right And so and as we went through the scripture that the song We see a few things right we see that God chooses Where he wishes to dwell But he chooses where he wishes to dwell where he causes his presence to abide and The church is designed to be a spiritual Zion now in your next semester in your second year You will have a course called the local church And there you will learn more extensively about Zion and how his people are the spiritual his church is a spiritual Zion And so the church is designed to be a spiritual Zion a place where God dwells and he rules from Right a people among whom God dwells Right and so here what's happened. So let's look at verse 15 when God dwells among his people This is what he's promising Right here is what happens when we become a people who host the presence of God Wait, he says in verse 15. I will abundantly bless her provision. I Will satisfy her poor with bread Okay, so there is supernatural provision Prosperity and blessing in the midst where he dwells Verse 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy So what does that mean verse 16 says there is salvation in his presence. There is forgiveness in his presence There is healing in his presence. There is deliverance. There is victory. There's wholeness. There's total well-being and The joy of salvation that resounds continually among us And so when he is among us when he is in the midst when you know when when we host him well as a Community where there is supernatural provision. There is supernatural prosperity. There is blessing There is forgiveness healing deliverance and the total well-being and as an added bonus There is a joy of salvation right that resounds continually among us as we as we are a community that hosts his presence Right, let's go take it a little bit more further verse 17 This is there I will make the horn of David grow. I will prepare a lamp for my anointing Right, so the horn is a symbol of strength And you know in the Hebrew culture and most of the things that they built if you even look at the tabernacle You know the tabernacle of Moses that they built in every altar the altar of sacrifice from the to the altar of incense Right, you will see horns on the four corners and that is a symbol of strength Right, and so there is what that means in this context when it says that there I will make the horn of David grow It means that there is a continual increase of strength and dominion That's what horn is. There is a continual strength of increase of strength and dominion Right, there is a continual revelation. That's what lamp represents Right, I will prepare a lamp for my anointed again in the tabernacle of Moses in the inner court to the left side There is a golden lamp stand now in the outer courts There was natural light right there was light from the Sun and the moon in the night But in the inner courts, there is no source because the layers are so thick covered with skin, isn't it? And so there is now the light that is provided by the lamp stand and so that's the thing of revelation And so there is constant strength and dominion and there is continual revelation Guidance of what he wants us to do as a people Right, so as his anointed people we see continual increase in strength dominion and revelation And verse 18 says his enemies I will clothe with shame But upon himself his crown shall flourish So we triumph over our enemies and continue to increase flourish and blossom as his people And so this is what every local church can become Every local church can become a community among whom God dwells And encounter and experience his healing provision prosperity joy strength salvation revelation Right um, so that's what the part is and this go on look at the next section It says when the king is enthroned his kingdom manifest So as an added bolus we see in Psalm 22 verse 3 But you are holy and thrown in the praises of israel You are holy and thrown in the praises of israel When god is enthroned among us his kingdom manifest Okay, a couple of things we need to keep in mind is that When god is enthroned someone else or something else is dethroned in our lives Right, so when we enthrone him Something else or someone else is dethroned in our lives, right? So his kingdom in In one that overthrows the works of darkness Because he is enthroned it and as he is enthroned the sickness and disease are dethroned every demonic work Is dethroned as his kingdom advances Right and so as a again as a local church community We must move away from every Wrong things or petty things You know that that will keep the kingdom of god from advancing it could be anything as You know celebrity pastor or having a culture like something like that or denominational ideology or around some social or cultural commonality Or disagreement with socially or culturally and only gather to enthrone king jesus And if that was our focus once again Imagine when he alone is praised when jesus alone is worshiped when jesus alone is enthroned We see that his kingdom will be established in our midst Right, we know the lord's prayer If we see you know as the prayer that jesus taught us to pray and that's why we call it the lord's prayer You know Is that our father who are in heaven hallowed be thy name that you will be done with your kingdom come on as it is in heaven, right? We see that the first two lines our father who are in heaven That is greeting or addressing the king Right, our father who are in heaven Then goes on to say hallowed be thy name Okay, the next section is not part of the greeting Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven is a petition Okay, so the prayer immediately from greeting To addressing the king is changing into petition but look at the address the first half it says our father who are in heaven hallowed be thy name And then goes into the petition saying your kingdom come So what it says is God's kingdom will not come will never come where his name is not being hallowed Okay, his kingdom will not come where his name is not magnified where his name is not hallowed where his name is not revered Right, okay, so are you with me? So we we thrive uh to be that community where his name is hallowed And so his kingdom will be established in our midst And so we thrive to be that kind of a community a church community Right, and we see when we are gathered together his power ought to be there Uh in first Corinthians chapter five verse four it says in the name of our lord jesus christ When you are gathered together along with my spirit with the power of our lord jesus christ With the power of our lord jesus christ and matthew chapter 18 verse 20 Uh from where two or three are gathered together in my name. I am there in the midst of them Where two or three are gathered together in my name. I am there in the midst of them Okay, so look at that previous scripture again What's Corinthians chapter five verse four says in the name of the lord jesus christ when you are gathered together Together along with my spirit with the power of our lord jesus christ Now There's then I heard one of the preachers say this and I was very convicted of it Because I feel like there was a lot of truth in what in the statement that he made It was related to healing and deliverance and uh he said that Christians We believe in the second coming of jesus You know and and and we don't believe In the in the power of his healing And so we don't move In and we and we think that it's not important for us to move and minister healing and deliverance Because we think it's not important and we don't believe in that and um and that Kind of convicted my heart and say do you ask any christian? Do you believe that jesus is coming back again? They would say yes You know and without without any hesitation, but then somewhere that we you know we we don't um We don't preach or teach about you know the importance of moving in his power Manifesting in his power here on earth as we minister healing and deliverance because God intended that we be the people who gather together in his name right and so If we claim that together, you know to gather in his name But the power and his presence seem to be missing Or it's not even noticed Because everywhere jesus walked uh when he was present He manifested he moved in power Where he broke chains or he cleansed and healed people So we need to change the way we do church so that his presence and power Become central his presence and his power become Central we need to change the way we look at or we do church or we ought to become a community where we preach preach About his power and the presence of god as well Right are you with me right? Hope you're following Right so the degree of glory power and anointing That we can carry as a community is so much more than what just one of us can carry individually Why is all this stress on as as a community or as a congregation or as a corporate is that the degree of glory power And anointing that we can carry as a community Is so much more than just one of us can carry individually And that's why this uh, you know, we keep stressing on the point from the beginning is that the uh The ministry of healing and deliverance is not only for a pastor or a teacher or an evangelist or a prophet or you know every believer every believer Can do this Every believer has called to move and minister and healing and deliverance And imagine if every believer did that and every but every believer is thinking the same in that community And think about or imagine the degree of god's glory and power being manifested through that community It's incredible, isn't it? All right So god is enthroned. His power ought to be demonstrated and manifested And god is among us So in first Corinthians 14 Chapter 14 was 24 and 25 says but if all prophecy And an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in He is convinced by all He is convicted by all And thus the secret of his heart are revealed And so falling down on his face He will worship god And report that god is truly among you Right. Um, so where the holy spirit moves and his gifts and power are manifested People will repent worship god and say that god is truly among us Right where the holy spirit moves and his gifts and powers are being manifested People will repent and worship him and say that god is truly here in the midst of us Right our impressive Programs and media presentations and the use of technology cannot achieve this Only the presence and the power of god can This is not to say, you know the technology and the programs and media presentations are not important It's not to say that the music is not important All of that is important to help us facilitate this but only the presence and the power of god Can do this Right. So we need to again become such a community of believers where When an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in walks into our church They are so impacted by the power of god that they encounter his presence And then they worship him and they give their life to him Right and and all of this is because people will come where jesus is People will come where jesus Is it's it's it's saying where where there is where if a person sees something is on fire Everybody gathers around it to see what's happening just to right and And as we become a community of believers who are on fire for god People will come to see what's happening And that was the case in the life of john the baptist as well that You know, it's it's like he was burning For god in the wilderness with his passion and zeal And people went to watch him As he preached the gospel Right. And so we see that in matthew chapter 4 verse 25 great multitudes followed jesus from galley and from de capulis From jerusalem judaea and beyond the jordan People from the north south east and the west from the cities and towns and countries around They came to walk and followed jesus So people will come where jesus is So let jesus be jesus in our midst Hey, let him be the healing Let let let delivering let and the same miracle working jesus Let him be the same healing delivering and the miracle working jesus in our midst Right. Um, so and because people are not different today They will come to where the same jesus is The question is do we have the same jesus in the church? today Right. Do we have the same jesus in the church today? Okay, um, and We are commanded and we see in ax chapter 6 verse 8 that talks about stefan Who was full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people Right. So the local church was never intended to be a gathering around a denominational ideal It was intended to be a dwelling place of god where every individual was graced with the presence and the power of god And every believer is to demonstrate god's glory through releasing his power in signs and wonders That is again reiterating the point that every believer ought to pursue his presence and his power and minister in healing and deliverance And we got a present for more right, uh There's a quote by an evangelist uh, a a allen He says This disciple should not be above his master, but he shall be like his master But if we are to be like him in power, we must also be like him in holiness consecration meekness and compassion We must be like him in prayer and fellowship with the father We must be like him in faith. We must be like him in fasting and self denial If it were possible for the servant to be like him in power without paying the price he paid Then the servant would be above his lord Uh, this is by again evangelist a a allen. It's from your notes from Between 1911 and 17 Right. That is such a powerful court, isn't it? right and so I pray that uh Making his presence our corporate desire would be the central focus As it says in Psalm 63 verse one and two Oh god, you are my god Early will I seek you and my soul thirsts for you my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory Right, we must make his presence our corporate desire We must come eagerly expecting to see his power glory each time we come together As we gather together in his name So let that be a focus that Jesus be this You know the same Jesus the same healing delivering Jesus And let him be the center of our attention. Let him be the audience of one Yep, amen Any thoughts any questions so far The what we've covered Okay, right if there are no questions, but thank you again for joining this course. I hope you have learned As much as I have learned and enjoy teaching you all Let let not all of what we've learned just be a knowledge in our head but uh, you know, I would encourage you to put it into practice to go out and And minister and healing and deliverance because the world needs it The world the people around you need it Okay, so thank you. Uh, thank you all for joining And we will not have classes from the following week on this course because we have concluded the portions Okay, uh, work on your assignments Do well and if any questions feel free to email me Okay great, let me Share the email address just in case if you don't have it That is my Email ID rate to the bible college. Feel free to send in any questions or what not? Uh, if you have okay All right, you guys take care and see you all around Bye. Bye. God bless