 Okay. Good morning everyone and welcome to class. I'll ask Jesus. I thank you for this day Lord As we've been learned today about receiving your guidance, I pray to the Father God that we would seek and Pursue for your guidance or follow up for our lives and that we would be able to Live a life that is according to your will according to your plan. Oh, Jesus. Thank you for everything and I pray the Father God that we would learn something today and that you will speak to us. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rin. Oh I am able to hear me clearly online students Is there clarity? Is there was some problem last week in our class? Are you able to hear me? Thank you, Surya. Okay, so good to see all of you. Welcome to class Can you see some nice smiles on your faces? Yes, thank you Okay, welcome and We are in lesson 12 Okay of receiving God's guidance Lesson 12 We look at how Us he guides us through his what is the first thing that we looked at? God guides us to his To his Word, okay, then the inner witness of the Holy Spirit Then the voice of the Holy Spirit so it's the Word of God the inner witness of the Holy Spirit the voice of the Holy Spirit Then through the gifts of the Spirit to dreams and visions through prophecies angels Godly counsel, thank you and also To our minds, okay, our mind that is Renewed, okay, so today we're going to look at three more times and seasons and how God orchestrates Situations in our life and then you know, we'll just look at How we can just put all of this what we learned together. So we just look at the last three chapters In this book, okay, so we're going to look look at guide is just through times and seasons and through Equalization of this Okay, so we know that a lot when we studied We said that God works in he has a plan he's a God of order He doesn't work arbitrary doesn't work randomly, but he has a plan and a purpose that he Unfolds in the world and even in our lives. So he's a God of order design plan Purpose, okay, and God actually works in Chronos moments Chronos time or Kyros moments or Kyros time Kronos CHR O NOS Kronos, so he works in Kronos moments of Kronos time on Kronos season Oh, he can and he also works in Kyros time K-A-I-R-O-S. It's a Greek word Kyros means the fullness of time the right time The exact time when God will bring about all what he has planned and Purpose so that two times You know zones that God works in the Kronos and the Kyros, okay, so what is Kronos basically Kronos is chronology, you know chronology, right? How history works in order in time we when we study history we study it from creation down Okay, we studied from right from the beginning Okay, studying the history of of India we look at the first king and then we come down to the other things so chronology Okay, so God works in Kronos time Which means that you know there is a there's a time when God is we are we're talking about Kronos time In the framework of receiving God's guidance for our life. So, you know There's a moment where God will show you or reveal to you What is his plan and purpose for your life? Okay, and then he will go about, you know You know preparing you orchestrating the times and seasons so that you can plan you can prepare you can organize So all that what happens is the Kronos time From the time when God is revealing his plan and purpose for your life To you know how he's Preparing you to how he's guiding you to how he's helping you organize plan Execute what he wants you to do all is in the Kronos time or the Kronos Season and then when you go through all of this like, you know, you're you God is preparing you You've organized things you have planned things he will bring you to the Kyros Moment or the Kyros time Kyros time is when God you will see actually God bringing about all that he has planned and purpose or what he has spoken in your life You understand that so the Kronos time is when God is going to reveal to you what he wants to do in your life The plan and purposes then he will take you about planning, you know, preparing you for that Getting you ready for that and then he would help you to organize things plans things strategize things Then when you all of that all of that is a Kronos time the Kronos season the Kronos Moments then you'll come to a place where you reach a Kyros time or the Kyros season When you will see God bringing into reality What he has spoken into your into your life or what he has planned and purpose for your life So for example if God says, you know, I'm I'm going to make you an Apostle or a pastor of a big church and I'm going to make you a worship leader or you know, I'm going to make you an apostle or You know somebody who's a missionary and God shows you which place he wants you to go as a missionary And then you know, he reveals it and then he takes you to Bible college and he takes plan He prepares you he guides you and then you finally all of those are Kronos moments Kronos season Okay, then finally Actually in the mission field or you are actually being the pastor of the big church that God is Envision for your life or you are the worship pastor you become the worship pastor That is the Kyros moment when you see what God has planned and purpose you see that in reality coming into Fulfillment, okay, so give you some examples from the word of God now for example in Genesis chapter 3 we read that God says, you know when he's Cursing this up and he said he will put enmity between your seed and Her seed and you see there are two words seed there in that in that In that reference in Genesis chapter 3 this the first seed God says I will put enmity between your seed So that seed is a small s and between her seed, which is a capital Yes, so that is talking referring to the Messiah who's going to come now before Jesus actually came to the earth and The time when God, you know reveal this that you know the seed of the woman will crush this head of the serpent It took 4,000 years From the time God revealed it to the time when Jesus was born on the earth and he Accomplished what God had planned and purpose it took 4,000 years So the 4,000 years are the Kronos Season or the Kronos time and when Jesus fulfilled it when he came he fulfilled it on the cross That is a kairos isn't or the kairos moment. Okay, so In the fullness of time kairos moment means in the fullness of time in the right time You know God will bring about what he has planned and purpose another example is you know God tells Abraham your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as a sand on the seashore and he says that for 400 years your The generation will be as slaves in an unknown land But I will deliver them and I will bring them back to this land that I have promised So it took, you know so many years for God to do that But after the completion of 400 years we read in Acts chapter 7, you know, we see that you know God says that you know He raises up Moses at the right time Okay, the kairos moment the fullness of time we read this in Acts chapter 7 was the 17 and was 20 that Moses was born to deliver the people so the 400 years was the And when Moses was born was the kairos time the fullness of time the fullness of time when God is going to bring about What he had planned and he had Purpose so it's very important for us to know which season that we are in Kronos time kairos time which season where what is God doing even the Kronos time? What is he doing? He's revealed his plan to us He's preparing us or he's telling us to execute the plan. What is he asking us to do? So it's very important for us to understand the times and seasons and the Bible tells us in second Chronicles 1st Chronicles chapter 12 was 32 that we have to be like the sons of The sons of Issa card they understood the times and the seasons that the Israel was going through Okay So we also need to be like the sons of Issa card that we need to understand the times and seasons that God is Taking us through. Okay. That is on if you're following. It's on in your books page number 125 I don't know in the PDF copy Anyone following the PDF copy? No, it's okay. Doesn't matter Okay, so we look at page number 126 in your book Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verses 5 and 6 Okay in verse 6 can somebody read that please Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 6. What does it say? Yeah, so in for every matter there is a Time and we need to judge the Time we need to know we need to be wise to know, you know What is the right time and the right way to do things? Okay? So suppose God says I want you to do this. This is your plan and purpose for your life You know, I wanted to be a worship leader. I wanted to be a missionary I want you to be a pastor. You're gonna be the pastor of a big church It doesn't mean that they're going to go looking out for a big church where we can apply to become a pastor Or you know, we straight away become a missionary or we straight away go to the mission field No, you know, we need to know what is the right time God wants us to launch in and the right way Okay. Now for example, you know, we can do things You know, we can do the right things but in the wrong time Yeah, for it for example, you can finish 10 standard and say okay finish 10 standard. I finished study I want to get married. This is the right time to get married It's a right thing to do. I mean you need to get married in life, but this is the right time to get married why You get a job first Yes, what somebody was saying something here Not the right age to marry are not mature. You don't have a job. You have to take care of your family You can take care of yourself the rent the food your wife all her needs and everything. It's not the right time Okay, so it's sometimes, you know, you can be doing the wrong you can do the right The right things at the wrong time Okay So you need to know when is the right time to do the right things and when is the right time also to do the right things When is the right? When is the time to do the right things in the right order in the right way when is the right season to do the Okay, otherwise we will get into Trouble so even through life, you know, we need to seek God's guidance Sometimes what they do is we just seek God's guidance to know what is his plan and purpose for our life And then we say, okay, thank you God for revealing a plan and purpose for my life You want to become a teacher you want me to become a chef you want to become on me to become a housewife You want me to become a Doctor We need to know what God is season Okay, what is I think to do it time the right season? I am able to follow If you're not able to do the right thing the right season will become Look for what But we also should know Wants us to do what he wants us to do and we also we need to prepare ourselves and Wait for the right time and we launch out to do things now For example, you're praying after your 12th standard and you ask God what he wants you to do God says he wants to become an engineer now the next day you don't go to a Civil engineering firm or you don't go to an electrical engineering Company or software engineering company and say, you know, God told me I have to be an engineer So I'll start working as an engineer. You don't do that. What do you do? You have to join a college you have to study you have to work hard for you You want to do an MS you do an MS after that, but you basically prepare After you get your degree as an engineer, you just don't go and jump into any job, right? You look at the good possibilities, you know You think okay, I need to get myself trained into other things so that I can get a good job So you you even in those areas of your life, you need to find them for God This is the right time for me to get a job. It's the right time for me to do an MS a Master's or a further course What do you want me to stay in India? You want me to go abroad? So, you know every step of the way you need God's guidance. Are you able to understand? Okay, so, you know in God reveals to us in many different ways So what are the different ways that God reveals to us guides us through his work to the inner voice of the Holy Spirit? the gifts of the Holy Spirit To the inner witness of the Holy Spirit and all of these other ways that we have been Looking at okay, so, you know, it's important that You know, you go through that kairos moments for example I gave you, you know, if you want to become God says you're going to become a pastor of a big church You're going to become a missionary you just can't go the next day and you know Get into a church and say, you know, God has called me to become a pastor of a big church. It's the big church Passage and I have to become a pastor here. Okay Passing say, hey, do you have some theological degrees and you preach before do you have any experience and you will say No, so, you know, from the time I got you to do you is it's a You look for a good Bible college where you can study you study to the Bible college And then maybe you know God is saying hey, this is not the right time for you to launch out This is not the kairos season. Okay, you're waiting after Bible college I'm going to become a pastor of a big church. I'm going to become a worship leader. You're excited You're waiting, you know to finish that one year or two years or three years of four years of Bible college And then out of four years, you know, no opening is coming. You're wondering what God is doing He's taking you to another church where you're working under another Pastor or you know senior pastor and you say hey, God has called me to be a senior pastor and looking under the senior pastor What am I doing here? See are you saying God has called me to be a worship leader and I'm worship? You know, I'm assisting to pass the Russian and what what is God doing in my life is did I hear right is Is is God doing things right? But maybe God is saying hey before you become the worship leader or become you become the pastor of a picture Or going to me to become a missionary. I want you to be trained under another Faster or another missionary so you can learn things So you can see and learn from this man of God or this woman of God And then at the right time and God knows you're prepared You know, you've learned your lessons. You've seen things. You know church administration You know the struggles, you know the challenges you have faced things then God to give you that big responsibility Otherwise, if you say to me gives you that big responsibility, you will make a mess of it It will become a burden for you. It will become a struggle for you God knows that and so he's actually training you So he'll take you through all these kairos Kronos moments before he brings you into the kairos moment for the fullness of time But what do we need to do? We need to be patient. We need to Understand sometimes in seasons we need to be obedient to what God is asking us to do. Okay So let's look at the life of Jesus a few examples of how Jesus, you know, walked in step and in time with the Father we're on page number 129 Okay page number 129 Um, so we can see how you know in several ways how Jesus paid attention to the father's timing And we need to understand that Jesus was not Um, you know, he was not fully God. He was fully man when he lived on the earth But he was able to discern the times and seasons which means it also shows that you know we can also Follow and understand the times and seasons God is taking us through. Okay. So please look at your books in page number 129 um, you know in john chapter 2 was spoken Sorry when When Jesus's mom, you know comes to him and says Mary says, you know, there's no way Very good. What does Jesus say? My heart has not come so he understood it was not his time to You know to you, you know to do what? Mary's are him too Okay, and in john chapter um, you know Jesus's Brothers are all going up to the Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover feast feast and they tell Jesus Also to come along with him. But what does Jesus say my time has not yet come my time has come to go to Jerusalem. Okay, another example Is when you know when last night was very sick and Mary and Martha sent word They found out that he's very close to their village or their town He sends word to them and what does Jesus say? He stayed there for two more days because he knew it was not the right time him to go and heal Lazarus, he knew that there would be a kairos moment when he has to go You know and when people will be able to see the going of God So he doesn't go right away and heal Lazarus He sees later on the kairos from in the fullness of time the god appointed time he goes And he raises Lazarus from the bed even on going to the cross in john chapter 12 versus 23 at 27 can somebody read this? Yeah, so what does Jesus say in verse 23? He said The son of man should be glorified. So you see he unlook at this is a time Now this kairos moment when I am going to be crucified, you know, I'm going to take on the sins of the whole world He was able to learn the time. Okay, uh john chapter 13 verse 1 can John chapter 13 verse 1 Okay, so he also we see that Jesus knew that his hour has come his hour has come for what? That he should leave this world and go that means he has to be crucified on the cross and do what god has sent him to Or the father has sent him to do to die for the sins of the whole world Okay, then we also see in john chapter 16, you know, uh, Jesus tells his disciples, you know I've told you all of these things, but when the time comes you will remember What I have Okay, you may remember that I told you of them and these things I did not state to you at the beginning Because I was with you so there's some things that Jesus did not reveal to them There are some things he revealed to them because he knew it was the right time for them to Know it and also in john chapter 16 verse 25 Jesus says I speak to you figuratively that means I've spoken to you in parables You know and some things you could understand some things you cannot understand But there would be a time when then, you know, you will not hear things from me in figurative lands through parables But no, you would listen or hear plainly from the father, you know, you will hear exactly correctly Simply what you need to Do okay So Jesus is also talking about the right moment when he revealed things to people when he had to say things he Told them, okay He also know that, you know, Jesus knew the right time for his crucifixion and his Glorification in in john chapter 16 verse 32. We're on page number 130 So if you're following your book, then you won't be sleepy or you won't dream So you can follow me through your in your book page number One we see in john chapter 16. Jesus says indeed the hour is coming. Yes has now come Okay, when you will be scattered each to your own and will leave me alone But he's saying that, you know, the sun has come now when I'm going to be crucified I hope you are going to be me and deserve me, but who's going to be with My father is going to be with me. Okay. I'm across, you know, Jesus knew that time for uh to go, you know, when his uh, he's going You know, the moment has come and he slipped it up his eyes to heaven and he said father The hour has come by your son that your son also may glorify you So through all of this we see that Jesus also knew the time and season And he was knew about the cross time and was operation time, you know, exactly at that time after 30 years He launched out to Ministry he knew when he had to go where he had to go which miracle he had to do, you know We had to remember when he went to the pool of Bethesda There were so many people but he knew exactly which whose time it was to receive their healing. So he He worked himself or he followed the the cross time and the chiropractor. So Jesus was human He was free man and he was able to discern it and how was he able to discern it through the Power of the holy spirit the anointing of the holy spirit the presence and the power of the holy spirit The same way we all But how can we discern the times and seasons you need to pray as God God You know, show me the time and season I am in you've given me what I need to do But what are you trying to do in my life? What do I have to? Okay, so you need to ask God, you know, God, this is the time the season for me to do this This is the correct time and season for me to do that What do you want me to do in this season? Show me guide me. Lead me and we need to wait upon God as he shows we need to be obedient and follow God works in times and seasons the chronos time and the chiro's time and how we need to be like the sons of this car Who knew the times and season that I was going through we also need to be like Jesus who knew the time and season that he was Going through, okay It's very important to don't know the time and season you can mess up your life. You can find life boring Uh, you'll be doing the wrong things at the wrong time Sometimes you'll be doing the wrong things at the right time and all of those things So you need to pray and ask God to lead you and guide you. Okay. Any question? Any questions? Yeah, it's a good question. Uh, you know, um, you know, Jesus knew that his hour had not come but you know when when he's talking about the hour has not yet come means he's talking about his Whenever he refers to it is he's referring it to as a time when he's going to Take on the sins of the World okay, so when he says my hour has not yet come. He's basically referring to he is not He's not the time where he's going to be the messiah when he's going to take on the sins of the world That's why we see that, you know, irrespective of his saying that he goes on To do the miracle because he's talking about his hour has not come. He's basically referring To the time has not come for him To deliver his to deliver people Or to die on the cross for their sins Good question. I anticipated that to come up Yes, his brothers Yes, still he goes secretly Uh, because yes, he goes even very good. Good question. Good observation, you know, even in john chapter seven and jesus's Uh Brothers tell him come let's go to the peace. Let's go up to jesus. Okay, jesus again tells them that You know, my hour has not yet come you go ahead, but then he secretly goes But to jesus, uh, he's not trying to be sly or anything or he's not that he does not want to go with his It's not a time for him to go to Jerusalem, you know to die on the cross to be crucified the hour has not yet come So when he says the hour has not yet come he's talking in in the fullness of time I lost moments to fulfill what god has called him to do. Okay, but he understood the clonus moment When he has to go and celebrate the feast or when he has to go and preach or teach Or when he has to do the miracles, but it's not the kairos moments. The time has not yet come He's talking about the kairos time Why he went in secret was because he knew that you know, uh, people were allowed to kill him to To you know capture him And he knew it was not the time if he had gone with his brothers Then you know, everybody would have known Because sorry, his brother told everyone here. Jesus is here. Jesus is here. My brother is here. My brother is here He's there. He's there, you know, uh, so he goes he says my time has not yet come, but he goes secretly because I don't want him to go to Jerusalem to do some things there But if you go to this brother to become unnecessary publicity See and he can be captured. He can uh, you know, which will hinder his the other work So that's why he says my time has not come So when he's saying my time has not yet come he's talking about the kairos moment When the fullness of time has not come for me to do what the father has asked me to Okay, good questions. Good observations. Thank you for being alert I knew these two questions were going to come up and I was excited that it did. Thank you Okay, any other questions? No questions Okay, uh, there's no questions any questions from our online students Okay online students are very quiet. Okay. We move on to chapter 13. Um The last way that god guides us To knowing his plan and purposes for our lives is when he orchestrates situation circumstances Divinely you already studied this in fulfilling god's purpose for our lives. This is what the nine guide for Yes, the nine guide force we're telling god's purpose Yes, okay, so this is um You know one of that where we already studied so we'll just look at it Okay, uh, we know that god orchestrates situations in our lives Uh, can somebody read second chronicles chapter 16 verse nine, please Second chronicles 16 verse nine Yes, so you see what god is saying here that you know, he's his eyes Are running through and forth throughout the whole To show himself strong on behalf of those heart is Loyal to him. Okay. So, you know, we know that um, god is waiting To reveal his plan and purpose for our lives not to just show it and you know Exit and leave and you know go and you know, uh You know, we need to figure out how to do it. No god helps us each step of the way. He orchestrates situation circumstances He orchestrates people. He gives us favor He gives us access to people. He opens the doors of opportunity. He he shuts the wrong doors He opens tight doors that we need to Step in okay, and he will do things Like it says, you know, no I has seen no here has hurt. No Mind has conceived, you know what the plans and purposes god has for you and what he can do for So we need to be excited about this because god is not just going to reveal his plan and But he's also journeying with us every step of the way and he Divinely bring about people favor Contacts, you know situations take us the right place the right moment You know, give us favor and access to people Show us the ideas the strategies You know to fulfill what he has called us to do look at what job says in Job chapter 42 was Two he says I I know that you can do Everything so job is telling god. I know that you can do everything and none of your purposes can be Tell that means whatever god's plan and purpose for our lives You know, nothing can stop that from coming into Friction nothing can come stop us from doing or executing what god has prepared for Us okay, so for example, you know if you're praying Uh to god to ask and asking god to show you you know to direct you What you know, he wants you to do in Life and then maybe you know god is saying okay. It's the right time for you now To get into a job. Okay, so You know, what do you do when you have to get a job you go and Apply right you apply you see good positions you apply and then maybe you apply for the first place and then you Open there you you get an interview called you go for the interview The the pay package is good. The timings are good. Everything seems to be very good. You love the place You love the environment. This is what you're wanting to do So it just basically shows that god has orchestrated Everything in your life. He's just opened the right dose. You stepped in and everything has just worked out Basically very very well, but maybe you need confirmation. What is the confirmation? You can you can how do you confirm? This is the place god wants you to work in You have to speak loud here You have peace about it. Okay the inner witness the holy spirit The voice of the holy spirit. What else to the word of god? Okay, you can receive confirmation Remember, I gave that example of that guy how he had these two companies and how god show them from god's word Okay, so these are basically primary ways main ways that we can You know, you can see but sometimes you go for the interview it You know, it's it's you're not happy you come back and then you apply in other places You can also wait on god to show you but you know, there are so many places applied So many places I went for interviews show me which is the right place So you can you know god will show you to the world the inner witness of the holy spirit to the voice of the holy Spirit, but sometimes it'll just happen. You know, you're just trying the first time for the job Everything just works out fine. Everything works out perfectly. You want to get into this This this college the school you apply, you know, it's the best school you get into it It's basically god, you know orchestrating situations on your behalf. It's not luck It's not chance. It's not just your hard work that you did it But it's god who's orchestrated everything is giving you a favor who's got everything to Gather but sometimes, you know, we need to be mindful of Other factors that work in our life Sometimes not everything that god does is that everything that happens in our life is not what god does Okay, so you just can't sit back and say, okay god is in control He will take care if it's god's will it'll Happen if it's god's will I'll get a job if it's god's will I'll go abroad and study if it's god's will I'll get into this college No, we need to do our part. Okay, when we need to do our part There's sometimes in life situations that you know That you know things will come like an hindrance and we also need to understand In the chronos moments of life They will come hindrances and those hindrances might not be necessarily From god it can also be through Satan okay, so what Satan can hinder the work of god you can oppose the work of god He can cause disturbances, you know, so what do we need to do? We just can't sit back and say if it's god's will I get into that college If it's not god's will I'm not getting to that workplace. I won't get that job What we need to do when we see hindrances we need to be, you know, deserving Okay, why is this happening? Okay, why is this pattern happening in my life? Maybe it's something that the devil is causing then you need to Stand up and fight your Battle, you know, uh, the word of god says the kingdom of god suffers Violence and the violence take it by force. Sometimes god has Some But there is a hindrance something even one It can be even people who are the hindrance Sometimes it can be our own sin our own Evil passions our own evil desires We need to discern that and we need to take, you know, if it is People we need to discern that people are doing this So be careful avoid them ask god to remove them from your life If it is something about your own life where it is about sin, then, you know Temptation We ask god for forgiveness if it is something that the devil is causing Then we need to step in and you know, the kingdom of god suffers violence And the violent take it by force. We have to be violent in our spirit We have to be warrior like in our Spirit we need to press in and take hold of what is Hours okay in every area of our life, whether it's Some sickness in your body or if it's some if it's poverty or if it's a You know some things that are happening to the generations. We step in we take what is rightfully us because god has given it to us But sometimes there's a hindrance from the evil and sometimes we need to speak to our storm to see it Still sometimes we need to speak to our mountain to see it Moved, you know, god cannot do that for us But god has given us the authorities given us everything we need for life and godliness But we need to use the Strategies that he has to give us we just can't stand and say okay, you take everything from the devil You live a hopeless life you live a defeated life every door That god seems to open suddenly shuts you say, okay, maybe it's not god's will No, you need to fight and know why this is happening understand the times and Seasons sometimes it can be our own wrong choices And we're facing the we're reading the consequences for our own wrong choices or decisions that we make We can't blame that on god or the devil or other people we need to take you know We need to take a You know Stand up for our own choices that we make ask god for forgiveness Align our will to gods will set things right and then we can see those opened And we can see god working in our life. So sometimes when you see, you know, nothing is happening in your life there's failure there's You know cycles or things that are happening continuously Then you know there's something wrong you check what is going wrong whether it's in your own life People causing it or satan and then you take what is yours. Okay How do you also know that? You know If it is if it's god's will to do this at the right moment, this is the right time to do this, you know Um, uh, like we see in judges chapter six, you know, god has chosen Gideon as a As a judge, okay, and he's and god is telling you I want you to go and Deliver the people the midnight's Okay, and gideon is very scared because he's not a warrior Okay, he wants to make sure if god is really telling him to do what he's telling him to do so He's He puts You know a wool piece of wool there and he tells god god the next morning, you know The the will should be soaked with water not a dew that falls Okay, it should be soaked with water the place surrounding it should be totally Dry the next morning when he comes, you know, he sees he he squeezes that wool and there's full water But the around the area is Dry, so he is one way he's conforming that it is god's will for him to Lead is trial into battle. Okay, then he's still not very sure. So he says god, please excuse me one more time Uh, this time let the ground around the wool be wet and let the wool be Dry so the next day when he wakes up the wool is Dry and the place around it is wet and it's a confirmation. Now. Can we do this in our own lives when we want guidance from god? Can we place a Wool or a blanket say god. I'm going to place it outside my house in the night You know, I I will this your will if I should join this church. I should go here. I should go as a missionary I please like this You can ask where you can ask for confirmation by the same manner. Why you know, we need to understand in the old testament you know, the holy spirit did not dwell in the People like the holy spirit dwells in a believer all the time In in the old testament the holy spirit came upon certain people Certain plan and then the holy spirit left them after the plan was Fulfilled so the holy spirit will come upon a person when god gives them a plan or purpose To do the holy spirit will empower them when that is completed Holy spirit will just leave them will not live in them forever like, you know, we are privileged people as new testament People we have the holy spirit living in us, you know always the holy spirit does not leave us In this context for Gideon was the right thing to do and also, you know, Gideon did not have the word of God, right? But is it the right thing for us to do in the new covenant in this season of life? In in this point in the history. No, why because we have the word of god It's the primary way that god leads us is a confirmation. We have the holy spirit We have the inner witness the holy spirit. We have the voice of the holy spirit We have the gifts of the holy spirit People can conform with true prophecies God can orchestrate situations. So this is not a thing that we should be doing, okay The next one is about casting lots. So can we cast lots and pick up like they picked up and found out the Jonah was the Was a troublemaker So when you want to find out who's a troublemaker in the hostel, you put lots and pick up the tips Do we do that? No, we don't do that, right? But we see that, you know After Jesus You know the apostles after Jesus's ascension. They wanted to know who would take Judas Iscariot's place Right, so what did they do? They put lots and it fell on Matthias Okay But you know, this was not something that the apostles followed later on This was before they before the Pentecost before they were baptized in the holy spirit They did this so don't say because your apostles did they can also do it But we need to remember this was before the Because before they were baptized in the holy spirit, but look at what happens After they were baptized in the holy spirit. We looked at these two incidents Last week last Friday and also the previous week In in angst chapter 13 when all of these apostles and ministers were praying and fasting What does the holy spirit say separate for me? Barnabas and Saul for the work of the lord Did they put lots and pick up? No, it was a holy spirit who gave them it might be to the voice of the holy spirit The inner voice of holy spirit or the inner witness of the holy spirit. All of you following me Okay angst chapter 15 which we I also mentioned this last week When Paul goes to the council at Jerusalem, you know, they were all arguing whether the gentile You know actually Confirms it to all of them. That's why it says here and it seemed good to the holy spirit And to us that means the whole spirit is confirmed it to all of them who was in the Jerusalem council Okay, and also the people the the apostles and the leaders of the early church Felt that, you know, they should not burden the gentiles with the ritual or circumcision. Did they put lots? Did they say, okay, let's take a word all those who circumcision hands up all those not for circumcision for the gentiles hands down No, they didn't do that What how do they make the decision based on what seemed good to the holy spirit and what, you know, uh, Seem good to them as well. Okay, so we're not supposed to cast lots and also, you know, do these to find out You know, this is my bible. I'm just hoping the worst whichever worse your my eye falls on We don't do all of those things and also we need to remember That every close door is does not mean it's a no from god Some close those when we, you know, god wants us to do something they can be a close though But some close those are, you know, is something that we need to forcefully knock and Pursue and open it for allies because it can be a hindrance on the Evil one for example, we read in matthew chapter seven versus seven and eight. What does it say ask? And it will be given to do seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be Opened, okay So doesn't mean that every close door is Saying hey everywhere i'm going every church i'm going. I want to become a worship leader. There's close doors That means I didn't hear right god does not want me to be a worship leader. Let me go back and ask god. No, you know Look at the example of mary and joseph now mary What was conceived of her what she was carrying the son of god in a womb was conceived throughout to the holy Spirit and the angel reveals it to her that it's the son of god was going to be born But when they go to a betel him Every in is door is shut So mary and joseph could have wondered is this really the son of god if this is son of god, that means god should have opened a five star accommodation for us, you know Right was an angel Here's something to shed Okay, they landed up in a cattle shed So they might be putting cattle shed son of god You know messiah of the world is supposed to be the king of the universe So, you know sometimes god, you know closes the doors that he does not want us to You know enter in because he wants us to go right place The right time where he's going to open the right doors and it might not be grand and significant It might be something very small but in small humble beginnings god can begin birth a great And that will establish a great big plan in your life all Big people in life who became big in life You know did not start big. They all started from something very very Small, okay. We know reliance right ambanis, you know Anil ambani's father the rubai ambani before he became a giant Um In the in the field of petrol and now they produce their own petrol and sell it, you know, they have clothes Millions of dollars of You know profit before that, you know, what he used to do here To pull, you know, when you go to your car or bike He used to hold that thing and put petrol into your bike That is how he started. He was not a petrol bank owner also a gas station owner See, but he was just an ordinary worker putting petrol into your car One of the greatest big businessmen. So we see that, you know, god begins things with humble beginnings So because things are not going the way we are thinking it does not mean it's not god's plan and purpose for us Like we still have to pursue it. Okay Okay, there are some questions here. We'll come back after the break and And ask and answer those questions. So we'll go for our break and then we come back. Thank you everyone