 okay the recording started okay good all right let's take a moment just to pray together and I'm sure others will join us and we can get started could somebody please pray with us together this morning and we will start anybody everyone's very quiet who wants to pray can I pray go ahead please thank you father thank you lord for this beautiful time that you've given us father we pray father that your presence are bound father let your wisdom your knowledge father lord your love your power anointing father be anonymous father uh lord help us father move forward lord with all the truths that we are learning father lord help us advance father lord not to be a father stagnant in our growth in father lord but help us draw closer and nearer to have a deeper personal walk with you father lord and help us live out of the victorious position father that you've given us father lord thank and praise you for past roshish lord your blessed him father and you give him the words father that needs to be spoken father to be a father so that we'll be ministered to father lord I pray for your wisdom knowledge understanding the son and discipline of the lord upon him father I pray for each and every student who is here lord and who are yet to join father I commit all of us into your loving hands father lord we consecrate father lord our life start for your glory and your purposes father lord in the coming days father lord may you uh continue father lord to empower and equip us father lord and may your truths father become uh for the reality father in our lives and please suspiciously we pray amen amen thank you thank you all right good morning and um thank you for connecting the class so we have been um last week we were talking about um our blessings in christ we were we were just going through kind of a list of blessings or things that god has given to us in christ we were just going through them one after the other so we're going to finish that today hopefully we'll cover uh that list and then we will get into a couple of more things that we need to talk about uh concerning our our identity and our inheritance in christ and then we will transition in to talking about how to live out of our identity our life in christ uh that's the main part and that we're going to kind of close with that so uh yeah so i'm kind of you know just trying to work on these assessments i'm supposed to give for all the classes i'm teaching uh so keep an eye on that hopefully i'll get to your classes this class as well and get the assessments ready and you know you will have at least a month to finish the assessments that's last date is number 26 the end of the end of november so you will have time to do that so uh nothing to worry about we'll get that taken care of um so let me just go ahead and share the pdf so we were talking about this uh the uh as the fact that we are blessed in christ and we were just you know going through different um the list of blessings things that we have not yet addressed earlier so we talked about the fact that god has given i'm just going to quickly review god has given us an inheritance in christ uh but we need to learn how to receive that inheritance and walk in it we the bible teaches us that we are qualified to enjoy the inheritance every believer can enjoy the inheritance our part of our blessing is that we can reign in life uh so we can walk in authority over things that people put in subjection to because of the fault because of adam's sin but now in christ because we have received abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness we can reign in life we can reign over those things in life we are blessed with every spiritual blessing every blessing that comes from god is already granted to you and me so now we need to recognize that and say okay i'm going to walk in those blessings uh because it's already been granted to me in christ now we said that we're enriched in everything by christ so when you look at your own life um think about it that god has enriched me in everything through my being in christ uh he's enriched me in every spiritual gift as well we talked about the fact that we're always triumphant in christ so in christ you can expect to come out the winner in every situation god will cause us to triumph who leads us in triumph he causes us to triumph in christ so that's our posture that's our attitude that in every situation we will come out victoria so learn to think victory learn to think triumph in every situation regardless of how it may appear uh you and we are born to overcome uh we're overcomers and we overcome the world everything that's in the world and we overcome through faith so we we expect to overcome we expect to have victory over things in this world we have the promise of life uh this is eternal life the god kind of life and so we live out of the life of god that he has given to us we are sealed with the spirit and god has put his mark of ownership on us and also this the seal of the spirit is a guaranteed uh down payment that there is more to come we are preserved in christ god preserves us and uh uh protects us in christ uh so god himself is protecting us christ we are established strengthened uh made fun in christ and this is where we stopped that god has given to us an eternal purpose we are we are part of an eternal purpose so god is unfolding his plan on earth and each one of us fit into that plan and that i'm a personal uh what we do in our personal lives now the call of god on us personally is actually part of that bigger plan of god and so in christ uh we are part of god's eternal purpose that he is uh cutting out on the earth right now and this purpose and grace is given to us in christ jesus so we stopped here and we're going to pick up from one zero four we're going to start from here and move on uh what else to be seen as our blessings are as part of our inheritance in christ uh we have access to the wisdom of god uh we saw in first Corinthians one and verse 30 somebody could somebody read these two verses for us please first Corinthians 130 and collusion stepped two verse three please but of him you are in christ jesus who became for us wisdom from god and righteousness and sanctification and redemption collections two three in whom are hidden all the traces of wisdom and knowledge so it tells us that god of him we are in christ jesus so it's talking about what we have in christ and it says in christ who be christ became for us wisdom from god so we've talked about the other aspects righteousness sanctification redemption earlier chapters here we're emphasizing the fact that christ that in christ christ himself has become for us wisdom from god right or god's wisdom has been made available to you and me in christ and in collusion student verse three we see this here in whom that is in christ are hidden or there is this everything is contained uh what is contained the treasures of wisdom and knowledge wisdom and knowledge treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in christ and you and i are in christ which means you and i have access to the treasures of wisdom and knowledge so what must we do right we must learn to draw from it we must learn to tap into it right so uh uh we have access it is there in christ and we need that so for example you know what can you do with wisdom well you can solve problems you can find solutions to day-to-day problems in life you can find creative solutions to the work you're doing you can find that you know god can speak to you about things that that you know you you may not even have knowledge of but later on you find out hey that's something very real you know and so we must learn to draw from wisdom and the knowledge wisdom and knowledge that's in christ how do we do it you see just a simple prayer you know maybe you're about to do something and say lord i just ask for your wisdom to flow through me as i work on this whatever it might be you know you just a lot i ask for your wisdom to flow through me as i work on this or sometimes there may be situations you're facing and you may not know what to do so i say lord i'm just going to pray in tongues i'm going to just pray about this situation and i asked you to speak to me what should i do god and god will speak to you you know just recently i think in the last week or within the last two weeks there were two instances where you know i was praying for things i was praying for certain situations in the church office that i needed to deal with and in both cases you know it happened almost identically i was just praying in tongues and i was just praying and suddenly you know like an idea a thought just floated in my mind you know and then i you know basically the first time i was praying and then this this whole this this suddenly this thought came into my mind like why don't you have an in-house auditor so in-house auditor this came to my mind like now i hadn't even thought of it i hadn't even so i went and i googled okay in you know yeah sorry not in-house internal auditor i googled internal auditor then i found out yeah that's actually a real role that there are in organizations and then i said okay so we've got to set up an internal auditor for all people's church here to you know to audit all the internal things and then i don't know i think it was this last week i was again i was praying for another situation and then this phrase just went through my mind you know vendor services agreement oh okay so then i went and i googled you know vendor services agreement and i found out yeah that's that's uh uh uh you know again it's kind of agreement that you sign with vendors or providing you you know services because that's again a solution to another area that we did it you know so in both these cases you know what i found what i experienced was now something just floated up in my mind as i was praying in tongues about the situation in the church you know how do you manage because organization is a big part of the church you know we need to be organized and so sweet things are happening i was just praying and then this whole internal auditor came it's okay we need to set up that role and you know vendor services agreement so just yesterday i wrote up wrote up the vendor services agreement sent it out you know and so we've got to get that signed with all our vendors so you know this is a very practical thing right you're dealing with these things in in our day-to-day work and you know how when you pray and you just tap into it so god you know i need i need to know what i do i need to know how to solve this i need to know i need to know how to address this or you know take action to you know for the organization etc and these things can come you know and they come just for me i believe it's coming from the wisdom and knowledge that's are hidden in christ because while i'm praying and the spirit i'm praying in tongues and you know these things come i like that in different situations you know you may be talking to somebody and in your spirit you just pray god give me wisdom what do i say to this person and god give you wisdom what to speak to that person or your faithful situation is somewhere you know out on the on the street or you're doing something and and your faithful situation god give me wisdom how to handle this lord you know so in every situation you know you and i must learn to tap into the wisdom and knowledge of god so god is all wisdom god is all knowledge and we need little bits and pieces of his wisdom and knowledge to address different things in our lives situations but we can tap into it because we are in christ jesus it's a simple prayer are you praying the spirit or you may even read the bible and god imparts the wisdom and knowledge you need to address life situations so the wisdom of god that's part of our inheritance um 105 we are complete in him with his fullness right so let's let's read these two verses please could somebody read collosians 119 and collosians 29 and 10 for us please collosians 119 for please a father any him all the fullness should dwell collosians 2 910 verse 9 for any him dwells all the fullness of godhead bodily 10 and you are complete in him who is head of all principality and power amen thank you so it's telling us here in collosians 119 in him that's in christ all the fullness all the fullness should dwell so please the father that in christ all the fullness should dwell now that word of fullness you know if you look at how the apostle paul uses that word in his letters it's really talking about filling something up with exactly referring to what fills you know the thing that fills something up so here it's talking about the fullness of god it's it's it's the very essence the life the nature of god himself so it's saying all of the fullness of god is in the person of christ so so christ is a full expression of god the father and god the holy spirit so all the fullness of god isn't the person of christ and once again collosians 2 9 it says in him in christ you've got all the fullness of the godhead bodily right so the fullness of the godhead all who god is is now in this in is fully expressed or fully contained in christ and then it's very interesting you know he doesn't he doesn't put a full stop there it's a semicolon meaning look this this this thought is continuing and it's going to affect you and me it says and you are complete in him so obviously the reason the apostle paul is mentioning about the fullness of the godhead dwelling in christ is because he wants to let us know that that fullness is affecting us and it completes us you are complete in him who is the head of all principality in bother means jesus christ is above all spiritual authorities and dominions and that's what principality in power refers to so the fullness of god that everything that that that is contained in god is what completes us because we are in christ so how do we understand that the word complete means to fill up so if you now think of a a glass or a cup that is half full if you fill it up then you're saying you're completing right so you and i are completed or filled up with the very fullness of god that means my strength is completed by his strength my strength may not reach the full tip of the cup it may be quarter of the way maybe half of the way but the rest of the cup is filled up with his strength or my wisdom maybe just you know a little bit maybe quarter of the cup or you know three quarter half of the cup the rest of the cup is filled up it's completed by his wisdom the fullness of god fills up the rest of it right so that's what it means to be complete in christ that means i'm filled up with his fullness with what comes from god and that's why in john 1 and verse 16 it says of his fullness we have all received and grace for grace or abounding grace or grace upon grace right of his fullness we have all received so you know god in parts out of his fullness into our life so his holiness his wisdom and and the list can go on i just mentioned strength and power you know he fills us up he makes us complete so every time we feel like you know i don't have that much strength remember the rest of the cup is filled up with his strength if you feel like i don't have enough wisdom well you are complete by his wisdom so the rest of the cup is filled up by his wisdom so you tap into that and say god i thank you that i am complete in christ i'm filled up in christ with your fullness of with his fullness with what's in him i thank you god that my strength is made complete by your strength thank you my wisdom is made complete by your wisdom god my holiness is made complete with your holiness you know if i maybe just a little bit in the cup the rest of it is filled up by him and so we are complete in him with the fullness that's in god and so in Ephesians 3 14 through 19 the apostle paul is praying for the believers and you know and part of his prayer is he says i want you to be filled let me highlight this part i want you to be filled with all the fullness of god next praying i want you to be filled with all the fullness of god what does that mean see he's already told us you are complete in him and that means this is what god's made available for you that the rest of the cup is going to be filled up with his fullness now paul is praying that for the believers believers that's what i want you to experience and of course he prays for a lot of other things here for them to be strengthened um now for them to know the love of god uh you know to know the love of christ so he's praying for a lot of other things when he has he prays for the believers but he also prays that they will be filled with all the fullness of god that means practically in everyday life he wants them to experience what it means to have the rest of their cup filled with the fullness of god that means you know we are only so much but we are made complete in him but the very essence the very being of god with all that comes from god makes us complete and he says you know i want you to experience that in everyday life i'm praying that you will be filled with the fullness of god and in another in that in Ephesians four he continues to pray and he says i want you to come to the measure of the fullness of christ i mean so i want you to grow up into that so that christ can be fully seen in our lives right so the fullness of god that is in christ is what is to be in us and manifested in us so people need to see this that the very essence of god is expressed through us through our lives and it's possible because we are in christ in christ gives you access to the fullness that is in him the very nature and substance of god that's in christ we have access to that 106 in christ part of our inheritance is we have we have a yes to all promises that means god is saying look because you're in christ i want you to know that all the promises of god for you it's a yes and an amen right it's it's there for you and it's meant to be fulfilled in your life can somebody read this for us i know it's splitting across two pages here second Corinthians 1 19 and 20 can somebody read that for us please second quarantine 1 19 to 20 for the son of god jesus christ who has preached among you by us by me seven years and Timothy was not yes and no but in him was yes for all the promises of god in him are yes and in him amen to the glory of god through us right so thank you just for all the promises of god in him right so all the promises of god that means every promise that god has made god i said i'll do this for you i will bless you with this or in every promise of god he's saying in him in christ are yes and in him amen or so be it be established to the glory of god through us so what paul is saying is look when we preach jesus it's not yes and no and maybe but it's in him it's it's a big yes there's no yes and no there's no yes maybe and no no in jesus whom we are preaching there's yes and he gives us the context all the promises of god in him are yes and amen so we need to embrace this truth that because you and i are in christ god is saying that in christ all the promises have a fulfillment for you yes and amen so that god can be glorified through us but you know people will tell us well some if you know the promises will happen if god wants or sometimes it's a yes sometimes it's a no and sometimes it's a maybe you have to really find out if you know that promises for you and all those kinds of things people will tell us but you know we have to go to the word and say okay what is the word saying the word says all the promises of god in him are yes and and amen right and this is for whom it's for all believers not just for some because if it was only for some believers then you know we'll all have to wonder is that promise for me or not but the bible is saying all the promises of god in him are yes and amen and we have to align ourselves to the word and you know you and i be convinced that every promise in the bible is for me because i'm in christ and it's a yes and amen for me so that god can be glorified through my life so i'm expecting a fulfillment of every promise of god i'm not expecting to get a few promises and be left out of other promises now all the promises of god are yes and amen in christ and i'm in christ so that's our way of looking at the promises of god and that's how we pray we pray expecting a fulfillment of all of god's promises in our lives and no believer is left out of this the only thing that can leave us out is we choose to not believe and we choose to leave ourselves out of it but just don't need to do that all the promises of god in him are yes and amen another part of our inheritance is that we have access to spiritual revelation it means that we can experience or we can receive revelation of the truth of god of the will of god and the purpose of god right so we have that that revelation or the unveiling of our eyes is available to us in christ could somebody read 2nd Corinthians 3 14 for us please 2nd Corinthians 3 14 2nd Corinthians 3 14 but their minds were blinded for until this day the same will remains reading unlifted unlifted reading of the old testament because the will is taken away in christ thank you so paul is referring to the people in the old testament and he says you know their minds were blinded so as people under the old testament they really couldn't see the truth their minds were blinded and it's like as though there was like a curtain put across their eyes and even though the word of god was being read to them they couldn't see the truth but then he says that will or that curtain is taken away in christ that means in christ my eyes can be open so that i can see the truth that's in the word of god so we call that revelation right the ability to have our eyes open to see the truth that's in the word these people couldn't their minds were blinded and so even though the word of god was read to them they were the old testament was read to them they couldn't understand they couldn't see it but for us it says in christ in christ the will is taken away right so you and i can understand the ways of god you and i can understand the truth of god you and i can understand the purposes of god and there are additional scriptures that we could look at so i'd encourage you to pray you know these scriptures for yourself you know when you when you pray uh yeah let's read collosions one nine and nine through twelve somebody can read that i know it's not printed there but could somebody you make it open in your bible and just read that for us collosions chapter one nine through twelve collosions chapter one was nine to twelve for this reason we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that you may walk worthy of the lord fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god strengthen with all might according to his glorious power for all patience and long suffering with joy giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the night thank you so notice in verse nine paulus praying what's he praying for the believers he says i want i'm praying that you will be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so you know he's praying for the believers i want you to be filled with the knowledge of his will so many times you know as believers uh we say okay i want to know the will of god and you and i can know the will of god that's how paulus praying you know otherwise his prayer would be meaningless if if believers could not be filled with the knowledge of god's will then it's it's pointless for paul to pray but right now he's in verse nine he's saying look i'm praying that you'll be filled you'll be full of this you'll be filled with the knowledge of his will in wisdom and understanding god will give you the wisdom god will give you the spiritual understanding to know his will and when he knows well then the rest of these verses follow you know you can walk worthy of the lord you can do what's pleasing to him you can be fruitful in every good work you can keep on increasing and the knowledge of god you can continue to be strengthened and so on right but it starts with knowing his will and as believers we can know his will the veil is taken away in christ our eyes don't have to be blinded to the truth we can know the truth so you know when you read the word of god when you pray to know the will of god remember you have a right to see your your your eyes have been opened in christ there is spiritual revelation in christ and so you can pray say lord i want to know your will lord what is your will in this matter lord help me to see the truth sometimes you're reading scripture passages you may not understand the first time i say lord i thank you for revelation i thank you my eyes are opened so i will understand the truth that's in this passage oh god help me to see it okay so you have access to spiritual revelation in christ and you and i can tap into that also now let me pause here see if there are any questions in the chat so far let's see now is it the same fullness being referenced um 23 one uh the lord is my shepherd i shall not want okay so you're talking about the fullness uh so it's it's different in some 23 one he's talking about um you know uh the needs the needs the i will not lack anything yes we're talking about you know we can put it as the day-to-day needs so he says lord is my shepherd he will provide for all my needs whereas the fullness we're talking about in you know in the in Colossians 1 19 and Colossians 2 9 and 10 that fullness it's really the very essence of god who god is what god has in himself right and that fullness is what completes us it's like his fullness is flowing into our cup and you know we are you know what we have in ourselves maybe just a little bit but then his fullness flows into us and we are made complete uh with what comes from him whether it's wisdom or knowledge or strength or grace or here it comes from him so um the fullness in Colossians 2 9 and 10 is referring to what's contained in god himself whereas some 23 is talking about the physical things you know and and god providing for us people uh is that okay okay thank you thank you mr okay welcome all right so i'll just go back to the pdf and continue all right so uh 108 uh what else do we have in christ second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 3 uh could somebody read that for us please second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 3 second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 3 but i fear less somehow as the serpent deceived me by his craftiness so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ thank you so notice what paul is telling the Corinthians right uh he's saying look i i don't want you to be deceived i don't want your minds to be corrupted from what the simplicity that is in christ the simplicity that is in christ so uh and if you look up you know what what exactly was you're referring to about simplicity uh it's just talking about uh uh being completely free uh from any kind of pretense and hypocrisy that is you don't have to put something on you can just be free you can just be yourself in christ right and you don't you don't you know you can express uh who you are and the openness of heart uh and so he's talking about you know in christ we don't have to make things complex we don't have to make things complicated we don't have to uh put on a show pretend to be something we are not or be hypocritical no our life in christ is very simple and if you look at you know other places it's just basically talking about faith and love which are in christ jesus now he repeats that twice in timothy faith and love which are in christ jesus so our life in christ is simple we walk by faith we walk in love walk by faith we walk in love so that's the simplicity that we have in christ and how do you live well i live by faith in god and i live loving god and loving people and i live my faith in the word of god i just believe everything that's in the bible if it's in the bible i believe it so it's simple i walk my faith and i walk in love and he says i don't want your mind to be corrupted from that you know don't uh don't take on unnecessary things unnecessary pretenses unnecessary sophistications no just just keep it simple there is simplicity in christ we walk by faith in god we have faith in his word and we love god and we love people right so stay with that simplicity that god has given to us in christ then point 109 there are the blessings of abraham so can somebody read these scriptures for us galatians 3 16 17 and 29 please galatians 3 16 to 16 17 and 29 now to abraham and his seed were the promises made he does not say and to seeds as of many but as of one and to your seed who is christ and this i say that the law which was 430 years later cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by god in christ that it should make the promise of no effect and if you are christ then you are abraham's seed and he is according to the promise amen thank you so what is paul telling us see god made a promise to abraham and his seed he's descended and paul is pointing out that god you know used a singular he said to abraham and his seed and not plural because in that singular word singular he was actually pointing to christ himself to christ himself and and he says you know this was made 400 this promise was made to abraham 430 years before the moses came right 430 years before the law and god made this promise that i will bless you and your seed that seed is christ and therefore he concludes in verse 29 if you are christ and if you belong to christ you are in christ then what happens then you are part of that seed that god was referring to because you are in christ and he was actually referring to christ and therefore you and i because we are christ's or we are in christ we inherit the promise we inherit the promise given to abraham whatever god promised abraham is now made available to all of us who are in christ because what paul is saying is when god promised to bless abraham he said i would bless you and your seed and uh that seed he was actually referring to christ and because you're in christ then whatever god promised abraham is yours also right so we uh we refer just we just refer to this as you know abraham's blessings or the blessings of abraham you know that becomes available to us so now if you go back into the old testament and you begin to finally start you know what it got to abraham that belongs to us you know basically god just told abraham i will bless you and i will make you a blessing and through you all nations of the earth will be blessed that's genesis 12 103 right so god said i will bless you i will make you a blessing and through you all the nations of the earth will be blessed right so god when god said i will bless you he meant i will bless you in every area of your life you know not just spiritual or just i will bless you in every area and if you look at you know the old testament you'll find that god indeed blessed abraham materially you know he blessed him in every way materially spiritually and so on so the blessings of abraham include material blessings it includes us being a blessing to those around us we have righteousness by faith we have friendship with god we have victory over our enemies and everything that god and when god says i will bless you it simply means all who god is is now made available to the recipient of that blessing so in christ we say abraham's blessings are mine you know whatever god blessed abraham how in the ways and manner in the manner and ways in which he blessed abraham he will bless me and you know with material blessings with the ability to be a blessing to nations to other people with the right the blessing of righteousness friendship with god victory over enemies and you know you you could go back and look at these scriptures but these are mine because i'm in christ and those blessings are mine okay so we have a few more things to cover in this section as we itemized different you know blessings we will pause here for now take a break and then we'll come back and we'll continue with a few more things and then move forward okay everyone with me any questions so far no questions okay all right let's pause here please take a quick break we'll be back in 10 minutes and then we will go forward okay thank you