 We are Going to continue that class. I've just Turned on the recording. That's all All right. Good So we are we are in Romans chapter 10 versus six through 10 What we said was Here in the New Testament the Apostle Paul is Quoting that passage that we just read From the Old Testament scripture and that's the trumpet chapter 30 versus 11 to 14 He's quoting that passage and he's saying hey believers Yeah, do the same thing So very interesting that a Truth that God had given to his people under the old covenant through Moses It's now being extended To us believers in the New Testament, so do the same thing And so let's just look at it carefully Roman supper 10 versus six through 10. He says but the righteousness of faith Speaks in this way or he's saying look We people who have received righteousness Through faith And so it means We have received God's gift of righteousness. We have faith in God and This is how we speak so New Testament people. So he's really talking about you and me people who have received righteousness through faith So this is applicable to new covenant people New Testament believers. He says the righteousness of faith speaks in this way So we are supposed to speak in this way How are we supposed to speak? He says speak this way Do not say in your heart I'm looking at verse 6 Do not say in your heart who's gonna go to heaven to bring Christ down very interesting in Deuteronomy 30 God was saying The word don't tell don't say you know who's gonna go to heaven to bring the word of God to me Here Paul is using that passage But he's putting it in the context of the person of Christ He's saying don't say in your heart who's gonna go to heaven and add to bring Christ to me See the parallel Moses over there in Deuteronomy 30 says you know Don't say who's gonna bring the word of God to me Here he's saying Don't talk like that But we're saying Jesus But what does it say and it's now he's he's saying look what does the scripture say? What does Deuteronomy 30 say? The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart The word is near you it's in your mouth and In your heart he's quoting from Deuteronomy 30 the word is near you It's in your mouth and your heart and he's saying In parenthesis it says the word of faith which we preach That means when Moses was speaking there it was the law The commandments in a Deuteronomy chapter 30 was slow this commandment But Paul is clarifying When he quotes the Roman Sinead when Roman Sinead he says the word is near you in your mouth in your heart He's clarifying that word is the message we are telling you Which Paul is preaching the word of faith says this message That we have been telling you which is bringing faith to you this word of faith the same message is near you In the Old Testament Moses said the book of the law the commandment New Testament Paul is saying this message of the gospel this message that we are preaching to you about Christ This message is near you It's in your Mouth and in your heart It's in your mouth It's in your heart So this message the word of faith the word of God the gospel the message Paul preached and taught the revelation That word of God is in our mouth Is in our heart What do we do so here Paul explains in verse 9 and 10 what we supposed to do He says in verse 9 if you Confess with your mouth So what's in your mouth the word? What must you do confess you must say it say the same thing say what the word says The word confess move we saw it is Homologous say the same thing if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and Believe in your hearts. What do you do with your heart? The word is in your heart. What do you do with it? You believe with your heart you confess with your mouth you believe in your heart That God is raising from the dead you will be saved Then we're still for with a heart one believes unto righteousness So when you believe in your heart It puts you in this place of righteousness in the right standing with God and with the mouth Confession is made unto salvation So believing with a heart puts you in a place of righteousness Confessing with a mouth puts you in a place of experiencing Salvation the work of God now. How did he start out this passage? He said who's gonna bring Christ? That means how am I gonna experience? Jesus working in my life How gonna how am I gonna experience Christ his healer his deliverer his savior his Redeemer? How am I gonna experience Christ who's gonna bring Christ from heaven who's gonna bring Christ after that? Don't say like that He's given you his word You believe it in your heart you confess with your mouth and you will experience Christ's work in your life So I want us to see this passage It's it's it's actually it was given to the people in the Old Testament Paul is bringing it for us here in the New Testament. He says believers. This is it Now in the Old Testament, it was not a one-off thing I mean God didn't say just say it once it's over. No, it's the way you're supposed to live all the time Similarly here in the New Testament It's not just a one-off thing or I've I've confessed Christ as my savior No, this is how you live every time you want to experience Christ at work in your life You who have become righteous by faith you speak like this You don't speak hopelessness as the Christ doesn't have and he's abandoned you or Christ is dead He can't do anything. No, his word is very close to you It's in your heart. It's in your heart and it's in your mouth What must you do? You must believe his word in your heart. You must say it with your mouth When you believe it it puts you in the right setting of God. You you're there where God wants you to be When you say it and you confess it You're going to experience salvation you're going to experience Christ doing his work in your life But it comes through believing his word and saying it with your mouth Confessing with your mouth So how do I release my faith? I must believe his word. I must say it with my mouth I declare his word when I say it Out of a believing heart I say it he says That's when you experience salvation. That is the work of Christ taking place in your life Is this clear? Go ahead Divya Yes, yes faster. Thank you my question is Sometimes it becomes You know hard to believe, you know the truth In the word so if a person but still they try to you know confess You know try to you know, maybe just repeatedly declaring the word though in their heart They are not able to believe So In that case, how does it work? Yeah So I would say my response would be It's a good thing Because at least once they start saying the word They'll eventually come to believe the word, you know, so if they just you know, if they just If they just saying it like a ritual, you know, okay, I'm just you know, reciting something saying something or doing something meaninglessly actually We're not going to see the result. It's not going to happen But the good thing is the good side good side of it is That as they keep saying it they're going to keep hearing the word and how does faith come faith comes by hearing the word So as they keep declaring that word, it's gonna they're going to come into a place of faith and And I've done it, you know many times intentionally. So I mean, I'm gonna be I may be facing a challenge And at that time, I'm you know, I may be feeling very down You know, you ask me do you have great faith? Maybe at that time, no You know, I may be very discouraged or very Because of all those circumstance situation It's pretty tough But I Choose to speak the word Because his word is near me It's in my heart is in my mouth And as I start doing that, I mean as I I'm doing that at that moment. I don't feel great faith. I My mind is full of questions. It's it's difficult But I'm choosing to do it because God said Don't this is how you're supposed to speak faith speaks in this way We don't speak hopelessness or Christ is over Jesus. Why did you leave me and go to heaven? What are you doing? We don't speak like that or we don't speak like Christ is down in the grave We don't speak hopelessness. We don't speak But what do we do we speak the word because the word of faith It's just there is a new testament message. It's in our heart is in our mouth. That's all I can speak But at that time if you ask me Do you have great faith? No, why because you know, I'm feeling discouraged I may be a little disturbed by what's happening at that moment But I'm still going to speak the word I'll say God This is what you have said. This is what your word says You know, I will I will open my Bible. I will go to the same verses say it out read it I may not feel great. I may not feel great strong in faith at that time, but I'm still then what happens as I continue like that at some point Faith begins to rise in my heart and these things in my mind The confusions the discouragement begins to leave because now I'm beginning to Take a hold of that word and the word is taking hold of me All right, and then I eventually move into this place. I know this is how it's going to be according to God's word Yeah, so with the heart Man believes unto righteousness. So I come on come into that place of right standing I'm in the right place where God wants me to be So how do we come to that place of believing when you've got to hear the word? So from that perspective, I would say It's a good thing that they're saying the word but if they're doing it just as a you know, just like a Wained repetition, then it's meaningless. It's not going to do much good But if they're doing it as in with an intent to come to a place of faith, then yeah Okay Yeah, yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah Any other questions? so what I want to what I want us to understand here is that the Confession of the word of God or the confession of our faith or the release expressing our faith through Speaking God's word is something we see in both the testaments hold us to it and you test and very interestingly This passage from exit then to autonomy chapter 30 11 to 14 where God tells through Moses He tells us people Always speak my word the Apostle Paul quotes it And he's telling us hey People who have received righteousness by faith You speak like this Don't say Christ is so far away. How is he going to help me? As a crisis dead, how is he gonna know don't speak like that the word of God the word of faith which we are preaching this message of faith which we are preaching Speak that you believe in your heart Speak it with your mouth and that's when you'll experience salvation meaning the experience the work of Christ In your life right Let's look at some additional scriptures So we just focused on these two passages people look at Few additional scriptures here From from the book of Hebrews We'll go to Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1 Let's go there Chapter 3 And worse one somebody could read that for us, please Hebrews 3 and worse one Therefore holy brethren Partakers of heavenly calling consider the Apostle and high priest of her confession Jesus Christ So here in Hebrews 3 1 The writer of Hebrews says Think about Jesus. He's pointing to Jesus He's the Apostle and high priest of other Confession and it's it's the same word confession That you know we can trace through the book of Hebrews Which is homologia Confession and it is used in this context in Hebrews not about confession of sin But it's about confession above of faith in Christ and His Message or his word Hebrews 3 1 is saying Jesus is the Apostle and high priest of other confession That means like we said earlier from Matthew 10 30 to 33 Here on earth you and I have a confession We are saying what we believe we are speaking what we believe in Christ and in his in his word and In heaven Jesus stands as the Apostle the Apostle means the one who's gone ahead of the one who's gone in front of So he's gone ahead of he's gone into the heavens and he's the high priest The high priest means he's representing us before the father, but what is he representing? He's representing our confession now He can only represent our confession if our confession is an agreement with who he is What he has done and what he has spoken if my confession is out of alignment With who he is with what he has done and what he has spoken then he can't be the high priest of that confession He can't represent that confession so If I confess and say all the blood of Jesus has cleansed me from every sin well Jesus can't represent that before the father Indeed my blood is cleansed from every sin Why because that is true what Christ has done and what he has Who he is what he's done and what he has promised but if I confess oh the Lord has You know Kept me in want and Left me abandoned me and forsaken me Jesus cannot agree with that why because Jesus said I Will never leave you or forsake you He said I will never leave you or forsake you. That's his word But what am I saying? Oh He's abandoned me. He's forsaken me Hey, they're not matching There's no homologer in this Because I am saying something that is opposite to what he has said Then he cannot be the high priest of that he cannot Prison that before the father he cannot represent that before the father because my confession what I'm saying is not aligned to He is what he has done and what he has promised He said he's the good shepherd and the good shepherd will never forsake his sheep But I'm saying oh my my God is forsaken me. My God has abandoned me. He's left me. Oh, it's not right so let's understand that when I speak when I use homologer Now when my words are in agreement with my faith and who Christ is what he has done and What he has spoken his promises his word then My high priest is there in heaven and that my confession will not fail. Why? Because of the high priest was in heaven So we hold fast to the confession Hebrews 414. Let's read that Hebrews 414 Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens Jesus the Son of God that is called faster than fish He was for the same kind of similar to what we read from Hebrews 10 23. He says look, we have a great high priest who's in heaven What must we do? He must hold fast our confession Which is our words agreeing with who Jesus is What he has done and what he has promised It says we have a great high priest But I got a whole fast my confession I can't change my confession of my faith in who he is what he's done and what he has said I can't change it I shouldn't change it right, so hold fast to your confession Because like Hebrews 10 23 says because he who promised is Faithful Hebrews 10 verse 23 now let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful Hebrews 10 23 So we have a great high priest who gave us his word and then we hold fast to that word the one who promised One who gave us that word. He's faithful. How do we exercise faith one way is by speaking by speaking the word speaking words right and Jesus taught us this right in in mark 11 Verses 22 to 24. Let's just go there one more time And there are parallel scriptures to that in Matthew and Luke, but let's go to mark mark gospel of mark chapter 11 versus 22 to 24, please Mark chapter 11 22 to 24 So Jesus answered and said to them have faith in God for a shortly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and we cast into the sea and Does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done He will have whatever he says Therefore, I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them and you will have them Amen So Jesus is teaching us now You know, let's try to imagine what actually took place in mark 11 so Imagine yourself and I and I think it's nice to do this and as we read the Gospels Imagine yourself as being one of those Well disciples of Christ, you know with Jesus, you're walking with Jesus in the Gospels So here we are in mark 11. You are one of those each one of us. We are one of those 12 disciples and You know, they've come into Jerusalem and then from there they were they were being astonished at his teaching and And So they're they were from Bethany going to Jerusalem. So along the way they Saw this is what happened, right? So Jesus This is a little earlier in chapter they've come out of Bethany, they're going to Jerusalem on the road they're walking and Gs. He's a victory. He's expecting some, you know, he was hoping to find some fruits there and He found nothing just leaves and It was not the season for figs. So in other words It he should not have been expecting things at that time because it wasn't the season of things But anyway, Jesus decides to Make this a teachable moment meaning, you know, sometimes we say an object lesson or a practical example Yeah, he was disappointed. There's no fig on it. But in any way, there's not there's not supposed to be anything because it's not the season But he's going to turn this situation into a teachable moment for his disciples So he speaks to the fig tree. So, you know, you're right next to him And what do you hear Jesus say fig tree or whatever? I mean, I don't know the exact words he used, but No one is going to eat fruit of you Ever again So you hear Jesus speak to the fig tree. He's telling the fig tree Now that's a little strange Because In all your years And the years that you lived You never really heard somebody speak like this to a fig tree. But you're saying Jesus saying No one's going to eat fruit of you Ever again So maybe it's about So maybe it's about maybe just upset having a bad day. He just speaking something. Let's go So you go off with the crowd with the with the team Get into Jerusalem. Jesus finishes preaching there Everything Next day You're passing by the same road And this fig tree Has dried up From the roots Now that's shocking But that's not doesn't happen And so you think, you know, like like the disciples just said Lord, look at it. The fig tree you cursed just yesterday is gone And Jesus says, okay, I want to teach you guys something And then he gives us these words that he just that we just read He says, here's what I want you to understand Have faith in God Have faith In God So he's talking about faith He's teaching us about faith Faith is of the heart Have faith In God Faith, you're believing who God is, what he has spoken, what he's done Have faith in God And then he said If you have faith in God Then verse 23 You You can say to the mountain Move from here to there And it will move And if you don't doubt in your heart But you believe that what you say will come to pass You will have what you say And we're just saying, look The reason I did this I want to teach you a lesson And the lesson is this You have faith in God And then you speak your faith You say those things out with words And don't doubt in your heart But believe that the words you are saying Will come to pass And he said, you can speak to the mountain He spoke to a tree That means he's saying You can speak to things in this natural world In this natural realm You speak to those things In this natural realm Whether it's a fig tree Or the things here In this natural realm You speak to those things Whether you have faith in God Don't doubt in your heart But believe that what you're saying Will come to pass He said, you will have what you say So Jesus taught us Here's one way How to release faith Verse 24 is about Using faith in prayer Which we will see in a separate lesson Like we're focusing on verse 23 He says, you have faith in God Then here's how you express your faith Here's how you release your faith You speak to things in the natural world Whether it's a fig tree Whether it's a mountain Whether it's a storm Whether it's the wind and the waves You speak to things In the natural world With faith in your heart And don't doubt He said, it will come to pass So faith is released in this manner And so he was using this moment Converting it To making it a teachable moment For his disciples So that's what you and I must learn to do Now for us We have many reservations How can I speak to circumstances? What do people think about me? It's okay Just act on Jesus' words You start doing it in your prayer closet In your private time with God And say, Lord I have faith in you How are you going to have faith in God by his word? So faith comes by hearing Hearing the word of God So you take the promise of God Say, God, this is what you said And then you speak You speak the word Into your Circumstance Situation And he said, don't doubt in your heart Don't doubt in your heart Now Like we just discussed a little earlier Sometimes To come to this place Where we don't doubt in our heart We take a little time You know, because Like I said, you know, there'll be a lot of things that are You know, a lot of questions in our mind And a lot of things There'll be a lot of time to come to that place Where we don't doubt in our heart But what do you do? Just keep speaking Because When you're speaking, you're also hearing the word And that word is building faith in your heart It's moving your heart into a place where You don't doubt in your heart So he said If you Have faith You say to this mountain You speak to the mountain So that's another thing And You tell it What it should do What should happen Tell it to move Tell the circumstance to change Tell the need to be met Tell You know, whatever that You speak to it Speak your desired outcome over that situation Don't doubt in your heart But believe That what you say Will be done And he said You will have what you say So Jesus taught us to use faith like this And we need to learn Your faith is expressed by your words Your confession of the word Releases your faith in God And you do it Now I'm going to share something that's a little personal But When I was This was going back in My early teenage years I was in 8th grade In school So Of course, it must have been Sometime between 13 to 15 years of age In that range 8th, 9th 10th grade In those years You know In those days Things in my family were not Very good It's not good And You know, my parents in those days There was a lot of problems at home A lot of problems And I didn't feel like coming home Many times from school Because I knew when I come home There's going to be a lot of problems And It was not nice It was not nice Those days It's very difficult But At that time I would go to my room And I would look, take the scriptures Proverbs chapter 3 was 33 He blesses The habitation of the just Proverbs 12 verse 7 The house of the righteous Will stand There's Proverbs 14, 11 Proverbs 15, 6 In the house of the righteous There's much treasure Psalm 118 verse 15 In the house of the righteous There is the voice of rejoicing And salvation Isaiah 32 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation In a sure dwelling In a quiet resting place Then I would also take Genesis chapter 39 verses 2 to 4 Where it says, Joseph was in the house of Potiphar And God blessed the house of Potiphar And all that he had for Joseph's sake So I would take these scriptures And I would go before God So when there was a lot of turmoil Going on in my house There was fighting and this, that And I would be in my room By myself I close the door There'll be tears going down my face I said, God I can't handle this But you have spoken in your word The house of the righteous will stand My family will not fall apart This house will stand You have spoken in your word That there will be the voice of rejoicing And salvation God right now there is fighting going on But I declare in my house There will be the voice of rejoicing And salvation God you bless my house Because I am here Just like you blessed the house of Potiphar For Joseph's sake I am in this house This house is blessed This house will stand So in my room I was speaking the word I said, Jesus you are the high priest of my confession And I am speaking your word Your word, this is what your word says And this is what will happen In my house And you know I was just a teenage boy I was speaking the word In my home my parents were fighting Things were happening It's not nice And I can tell you this In four months Four months Things changed But those four months were difficult I had to hold on to the word I said, God this is your word It will come to pass Sometimes things were getting very difficult Things were tough But in my room I was speaking the word Every morning I'll get up I'll say, God this is what your word says Sometimes even in the evenings When I come back from school And things are not good I said, God I refuse to accept this situation In my home Your word says this This is what I'm going to have I spoke the word So Jesus said You speak to the mountain You speak to the situation Now what must you speak? You must speak your faith in God What is your faith in God? It's the word So I said, God I'm going to have it I'm going to see it I can tell you in four months Things changed I don't know, I can't explain How things changed All I know is Relationships became more Civil More normal Started getting better But for four months I just spoke the word Even when things were tough And I saw the word So today when I tell you This is how you use your faith I can tell you it works This is the way God wants us to do it And even today When I fight Today I'm fighting different kinds of battles Other kinds of things That I extend my faith for But it's the same principle It's the same thing That is Have faith in God Based on his word Based on what he has spoken Based on his promise You've got to have faith in God And then You've got to speak to the mountain You've got to speak to the circumstance You've got to speak to the situation And don't doubt in your heart So, like I said, sometimes You keep doing it You keep speaking the word, why? Because you need to come to that place Where you don't doubt in your heart You don't doubt in your heart But you believe in what you say Will come to pass And you will have What you say It'll come to pass So This is something That we do Let's see now Let's Okay, I don't think there's a little bit more here Okay We will pick this up next week I think we'll stop here for now Let me see if you have any questions On the chat Any questions here, okay All right Okay, the scriptures So all the scriptures, can you please Sure Proverbs Chapter 3 verse 33 Chapter 12 verse 7 Proverbs 14 verse 11 Proverbs 15 verse 6 And so all these scriptures are from Proverbs And some On 1-8 15 Isaiah 32 What did I say? Isaiah 32-18 Let me just cross check that Sometimes I get a little Sometimes I forget a little bit Isaiah 32 verse 18 Yes Then we also did Genesis 39 Verse 224 Yeah So you could use these scriptures Right These old scriptures concern the family and so on Yeah So You got to hold on to the word Faith Be in your heart based on the word You speak the word Don't doubt in your heart And God will fulfill it Right, so And this was a teenage boy Right, I said like I was 13 years of age 13 to 15 between my 8th to 10th grade So something like that If I calculate my memory serves me right But it was during that those years And God did that Right So Anything, anything in the Bible Any promise in the Bible He said the word is near you That means all of it All the scriptures Okay, whether it's for your family Whether it's for healing Whether it's for Whatever area of life we face Right You take the word The word is near you The word of faith That means it's God's word Give it It's in your mouth for you to speak it And then you don't doubt But you believe that what you're saying Will come to pass Jesus said You will have what you say Now Why did it take 4 months I don't know Why does something take a little longer than others I don't know except that I can say Look, it takes a little bit of time for us To come to that place where You don't doubt in your heart But you believe So just keep doing it Just keep looking at the word Just Let his word be in your mouth And in your heart Just stay with it Don't give up And you will see How This can come to pass Okay Okay, one question here before we close Can we also declare regarding supernatural childbirth painless delivery Is the curse of pain during delivery also taken up at the cross Any comments on the book Supernatural Childbirth By Jackie Mice Yeah, I haven't read that book My You know, the book you're referring to Supernatural Childbirth By Jackie Mice So I don't know what's all in the book But If you ask You know, if you ask about that Painless delivery Believing God for it Yeah, why not Just believe God That The curse of pain Will not be there And you pray for that And then expect God For a supernatural child But yeah So my response is I haven't read the book So I can't comment About the contents of the book But what I can say is Definitely We can believe God For that For a painless delivery And believe God That there won't be that pain Or the delivery and so on Okay Yeah, just Anything that's causing See I like to use the scripture I see Shani's question about Period pain One thing is first If you could just go with me very quickly The first Corinthians chapter 6 I know we have just three more minutes Before we get to close But I just want us to look at verse 13 I'm looking at first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 13 Okay As you know Of course Paul here is talking about The body and sin And so on Okay, so he says First Corinthians 13 Foods for the stomach For foods God will destroy both it and them Sexual immorality But for the Lord And the Lord for the body Okay Now he's saying the body Is not for sexual immorality That means the body is not for sin But The body is for the Lord And the Lord is for the body So just focus on that second part of that verse The body Is for the Lord The Lord Is for the body So For each one of us as believers Our body is for the Lord It's not for sin It's not for sickness It's not for pain It's not for anything else It's for the Lord And the Lord Who is he? He is Jehovah Rafa He is creator He Is for my body So when the Lord Is for my body And Jehovah Rafa Is for my body What should I expect in my body? I should expect healing for my body So whatever the condition here is Whatever the situation Pain, sickness Lord This body And you Are for my body Jehovah Rafa Is for my body So I'm expecting All that comes from Jehovah Rafa To be Given to my body So okay Okay We will pause here today We will pick this up next week We'll go forward So we are learning one way The first way to express faith The praise Praise and worship Action All these These are different ways to express faith Let's close in prayer please I know our time is up We need to take a break And go for our next class Somebody quickly close in prayer For us please Father, thank you for this time Thank you for the word that you had taught us Lord, you pray that You'll be able to apply this in our life Into our circumstances Lord And help us to grow in faith And to see miracles happening in our way Thank you for this time We bless your holy name In Jesus' name we pray Amen Thank you, God bless you See you again next week Okay, bye now