 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new day. It's good to see you all after a long time. Let's begin with the word of prayer. Maybe one of us can please lead in prayer. In Jesus' name. Every father I want to thank you this morning because you are faithful. Thank you because you are the Almighty God. Thank you because you are the All-Knowing God. Be that glorified in the name of Jesus. Lord, we commit our lectures today into your good hands. Oh Lord, please let your spirit come and dwell within us in the name of Jesus. And further, please have a peaceful way in our lives, in the name of Jesus. Lord, please speak through yourself and our lecturer, our pastor today, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen, amen. Thank you so much, success. All right, so we've come to the end of our lecture. We just need to do the restoration of the ministry of the pastor, but over the course of this entire semester, we covered quite a lot of material, right? So we looked at the five-fold ministry, looked at the evangelist, and how Jesus was the best example of an evangelist, and how the restoration of the evangelist happened after the early church. Then we looked at the teacher, right? And very importantly, we looked at some of the aspects of teaching. Teaching involves a lot of hard work, a lot of preparation, a lot of time goes into preparation. And there is a difference between the teaching ministry and the pastoral ministry, right? And then we looked at the pastoral ministry as well. So we just remember that there are two things, right? One is the ministry gift that we looked at, and then is the ministry function, right? So the ministry gifts include gifts as an administrative gifts, teaching gifts, right? Working of miracles. These are all ministry gifts, right? And then you got the five-fold ministry, which is a function. So we look at the pastor, evangelist, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher. Now, even as we continue in ministry and the things we are doing, I want to just encourage us, we must not be too focused on, okay, is this like calling? Is this what we should do? Remember that in terms of gifts and functions, things can intertwine, right? Gifts and the grace of God intertwines. So you could be a pastor, but you could also be a teacher. You could also be an evangelist. You can also be in the administrative role. Now, for example, if you're a pastor of a church, right? It's not like you're only teaching and preaching. There will be certain administrative roles that you will have to do, right? So that is, again, a ministry gift. It's not a function, right? So it's very important to be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit, right? Now, it's wonderful when you're able to recognize that, hey, God has called me to do this, right? So, for example, worship leader. God has said, okay, you will be a worship leader. You will write songs. He will lead people into worship. And that is your calling. And say, for example, we get to know it at a very young age. That's wonderful, right? Because you can grow and develop in that. Now, just because God has said you're going to be a pastor, a worship leader, does not mean that we don't involve in the other things that the Holy Spirit is leading us to do. He may ask us to go evangelists. He may ask us, the Holy Spirit may say, you do these administrative works in the church, volunteer in church, right? Because sometimes what happens is, our calling becomes so important in our mind that we forget the smaller things or the other tasks. Or we may neglect the other tasks. And that is something we should never do, right? Great apostle Paul. He had the apostolic, but he also taught. He also had administrative things to do. Look at the book of 1st and 2nd Corinthians. He brings out all the administrative things that the leaders must do. Then even to the church in Ephesus, writes to Timothy, you do this. These are certain things that has to be done within the church. So even as we continue to grow and mature in the Lord, be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit. We can never say, of course later people will recognize, okay, he's a pastor or he's a teacher or he's a apostle. But out of that will flow many, many functions, many, many gifts. And so we must be open to that. What happens if we don't be open to this? Because we'll be putting a stop to what the Holy Spirit wants to do in our lives or what God wants to do in our lives. When we say, no, I don't want to do this, then we're putting a stop. We're saying, God, no, only if it's this, I will continue. If not, I will not continue. So that would be the wrong thing to do. But as believers, as ministers of God, just be open. If God gives you an opportunity to lead worship, go ahead. If God gives you an opportunity to teach, prepare yourself, teach. If God is giving you an opportunity to pastor the church, I'm sure you've heard about the CPAP plan that has come up now at ABC. And next year we're going to make it international as well. So God can open doors in any way. So be open to that. So we looked at all of these wonderful three-fold ministry, the ministry of the evangelist, the teacher and the pastor, and all three of them are intertwined. All three of them can go together. One person can blow on all three of them. And it's most probably that if you look at, like for example, if you look at a pastor, he's going to be teaching and doing the work of evangelist, evangelizing. So it's all intertwined. So very important, very, very important, even as we matured in the Lord, be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit. I think I've mentioned this many times. I always thought I'm going to be a worship leader. I knew God has called me to be a worship leader. I never thought, it must have been in the back of my mind, but I never thought I'd teach or pastor a church. I don't remember thinking, I always thought, okay, there's going to be a pastor. I'm going to be a church and I will lead the worship. I always looked at myself as a worship leader. But I thank God for opening those doors, those opportunities and helping me to study the Word and be open to learning and I continue to do that. I continue to just wanting to learn and develop in the gifts, whether it's prophetic, whether it's Word of Knowledge, or any gift, I'm just developing in all of that. So what are we doing? We're not putting a box and saying, okay, God, I work only within this box. No, I'll be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit. So we looked at all of these wonderful things. We'll just close today with the Restoration of the Ministry of the Pastor. What we'll do is we'll just look at a few examples. Then if we have some questions, we can ask questions if you have any. And we will bring this post to a close in this session. And then maybe next session you can study. It takes time to have personal studies. And what we'll also do is we'll look on the final assessment and I'll post it probably during the next week. All right. So Chapter 12, the Restoration of the Ministry of the Pastor. Now, why is this word restoration used, right? In all three aspects, we looked at Restoration of the Baptist, Restoration of the Teacher, now Restoration of the Pastor. Now, after the Book of Acts, there came those dark ages. And the church was doing really well for a certain period of time, but then the Roman government had control. And what happened was there was a complete, about 600 years, that's a dark ages. What happened in those dark ages? There was no teaching. There was no preaching. There was no evangelistic work. There was no reading of the scriptures, right? Not everyone had a Bible. It wasn't allowed. And over time, whatever the leaders or the bishops or the priests would preach or just read from the scriptures, that was the only thing that believers had. Can you picture this? During those times, the cages, people would go to church. Maybe the priest will read a couple of portions of scripture. That was the only access to the word of God that people had. It was the dark ages. But after that time, after things changed and God sent mysteries and great leaders to change things, what happened eventually? What is going back? What happened? I had a few of the outstanding pastors. Some of them are still alive. Some of them have passed on. But let's look at the first one, right? I've just made a note of it. It's not on your notes. David Paul Yongecho, right? Now, we all know about David Paul Yongecho. He was born a Buddhist, born and raised a Buddhist. But about 17 years old, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. And he had this great desire to do ministry. But he didn't know what to do. If you go online to YouTube, there's his books, his documentaries. He writes, like you and I, he just doesn't know what to do. But all he knew was he wanted to do something in the ministry. So he began to just preach the gospel to his family members. And being from a Buddhist background, many of them didn't accept him. But over time, he started the church. Yoid of full gospel church. And when he started, he had no experience at all. But he didn't know what is the role of a pastor. He didn't know, okay, this is what a pastor or a ministry is. I think that all he knew was, okay, he gathered a few people, got them together, and he said, okay, let's start services. And over time, actually for the first five to six years, they were about, they're hundreds, hundreds of people, right? Like maybe 150 or so. So he was very discouraged, why is nothing happening? And then over time, God gave him ideas. And he started something called as a cell groups. And through the cell groups, started in many, many places, different areas, different locations, the church began to grow. And eventually, they became the biggest church in the world. There were 700,000 in attendance each Sunday. Each Sunday, 700,000 people. And we see that over time as well, David Paul Yongecho, he grew in his gifts in his calling. He began to understand what is the pastoral ministry. And he did a very effective work in raising up leaders. Right now, if you have anything over even, you know, forget about 700,000, even if you have 100 people in your church, you need volunteers. You need a team, right? And so David Yongecho was, you know, God gave him the idea through Moses. He was reading the scriptures and, you know, when Moses, Jethro came up to Moses and said, hey, why don't you have people look up to things? Why are you doing everything? And, you know, get somebody, get, raise up a team. And so this really struck him and he began to raise up teams. He raised up many, many teams, many, many leadership teams within the church, cell group teams. And we see that he established a strong, powerful church and a word-based church. Right? And because of the word that was being taught, there were saints, miracles and wonders. And there are plenty, plenty of testimonies where even in small groups in the cell churches, you know, many of them have received healings. And so it became a very natural thing. And David Yongecho was used powerfully by God as a pastor in in his life, right? So then we look at another man named David Wilkerson. You can go online and read about this pastor, a wonderful young man. This was in the early fifties, right? So the pastoral people still began to understand, right? Okay. And they call it the pastor. And this is what a pastor must do within the church. But there were no, you know, guidelines, no proper teachings yet. So it was the early fifties. And what happened was David Wilkerson, a young man, he was a pastor of a small village in the United States. But he decided, you know, I want to go and I want to see the power of the Holy Spirit. He was preaching about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is powerful. He's able to change this place. But he never experienced it. He has experienced it himself, but he's never seen it. So what he decides is he says, okay, I'll go to the city. I'll go to New York City. And he comes there and he begins to minister among drug addicts and gang members, right? And he begins to minister through them. And eventually he starts a small, you know, like a small church. And he calls it the Times Square Church, right? It was a small church initiative at Times Square in the USA, Times Square. Right now it's the most buzzing area in the United States. One of the most expensive areas of the world, actually, Times Square. And he begins this small church, but he sees the power of God. What happens is drug addicts, gangsters, people from different gangs, were brought to Christ through his ministry. And with his whole pastoral, this church ministry, many, many lives were touched. One of the things that he did was he emphasized on the power of the word and the power of the Holy Spirit. And very quickly the church began to grow. People started coming into the church. People started seeing, you know, miracles happening, prophetic words of knowledge. And the work of the Holy Spirit just being manifest very powerfully. So if you read about this book called The Cross on the Switchblade, he writes there on how he began his whole ministry and how the church is going. So now the church is a huge church, over seven, eight thousand people. He has passed on, but he's raised up good leaders, good pastors through a pastoral team and which are continuing the work of the ministry. But he started at a time when the whole pastoral calling was not very, you know, people knew, okay, you have a church and there's a pastor on a church. That's it. But they didn't know about the other aspects of, you know, evangelizing, bringing people to Christ, discipling them. And then another person was Leonard Ravenhill. Leonard Ravenhill was, again, you can just write down these names if you'd like and you can go online and read about them. And there are plenty of other pastors as well, right, that you can read off. I've just selected a few who are called to be pastors, right? Just that pastoral calling upon their life. Leonard Ravenhill, he wrote many, many books, Why Revival Tarries, Revival Godsway, many other books, right? So Leonard Ravenhill, again, it was his early 40s, early 50s as a young man. He had a team of what, four of his friends and they would go and minister to people, right? Just going from one town to another, have tent meetings. And initially he started his ministry that way. And after a while he, in England, he started this church, right? A church he started. And one of the things that he always emphasized on in the pastoral ministry was the teaching, the preaching of God's Word. In Leonard Ravenhill's ministry, there were not many miracles, but his church was more established towards teaching and preaching of God's Word, right? Now, it does not mean that, okay, there were no miracles at all, right? There were miracles. There were, whenever there's teaching and preaching of God's Word, there was the power of God. But his focus was more on teaching. So if you read about his books, he was more, you know, praying, he and his team were praying for revival. He said, Lord, let revival come into London. Let revival come into this entire nation of England. So he was a man of prayer, right? Who really focused his prayer time on revival and the things of God. So God used him very powerfully because of his church in East London. Leonard Ravenhill was able to raise up disciples. Like he had discipling programs for many young people. So what they would do is they would go out as a church. They would go for a week and they would, throughout the week, spend time studying God's Word and being discipled in Christ. Now, I know one week is too less to be discipled, but he began to, you know, bring in this whole aspect of discipling. Remember what Jesus said, go and make disciples, right? So he brought in the aspect of discipling within the church. Of course it was there earlier on, but he began to train people, discipling programs, discipling material. He began to teach from God's Word about discipleship. And we see that in terms of the pastoral ministry, there's a restoration of discipleship. Mentoring, right? And again, there are many other people. Just one more person, John Piper, who again started a church and God just used him in a very powerful way. Just teaching, preaching of the Word of God, Word-based church. And then you've got many other pastors who have really, you know, early 80s, early old Roberts again. And then there was John Austin, John Austin's father, who started a powerful church. And then we see the ministry of the pastor just growing from the early 50s, 40s, 50s. And right now we see that everything, you know, everyone are able to start churches, build each other up through the pastoral ministry, right? So I want to leave us with this. Any of you have any questions, any thoughts that you'd like to share from what we have done over this entire course? Any questions? My pastor, sir. Yes. My is not a question I just want to appeal. For the last exam, I didn't take off it. I honestly go back and submit my test. Okay. So I think the due date has already been set. So success, what I can do is I can just talk. See, we don't have the option to change the due date. I'll have to check with the IT team. And I will check with the IT team. And because once we've set the due date, we can't change it, right? So only the IT team can do that. But I'll need to check with them. If they are able to change it, right? So can I get back to you on that? Maybe I can email you. Okay, please do. I'll be grateful if you remain me, please. Sure, sure. I'll do that. Thank you. You're welcome, success. Right. So overall, how has it been a good learning? Have you been here? What are some of the things that maybe some of you can share? What are some of the things that you have taken from this course and you really got an understanding from this course? Maybe some of us can just share. Has it been helpful? Has it been something that you can apply in your ministries? I know that many of you here are already serving in the church. I know Lubega is a teacher. So Lubega, are you teaching in your church or like a small group? Yeah, I do pastor and teach, but professionally I'm a teacher although now I moved into administration for the last 10 plus years. Okay, okay. So Lubega, what you can do is see you got the gift of teaching. God has given you that gift. So you can look to, maybe if it's something that you can prayerfully consider is probably just meet with a few of them, begin to teach them from the word. So you can probably have like maybe two, three friends or your relatives, get them together, start something small. Use the gift that God has given you, right? God has given you the gift of being a teacher. So maybe you can do book studies, you can do word studies, you can do character studies from the Bible. And the thing is where the word of God is being taught, people will come Lubega. So sometimes we think in our mind, oh, will they come? Will they listen? No, don't worry. People, God will bring the right people. So if this is something that you are considering, you can prayerfully think about it. So some of the things that I really enjoyed was doing these word studies and passage studies, character studies at the Bible. So it really helps us to understand bringing in the culture, bringing in geography, bringing in the seasons that were there during those times and cultures during those times. So, yes. Anybody else would like to share? I want to really say thank you so much on this topic, on this course rather. Before, I find it difficult to teach. And then naturally I'm not the teaching type, I'm an evangelist. Right. Couple with apostolic way. But this course, since last year, the more I picked up the Bible, the more I teach myself, the more I see myself teaching others. And that has really helped my ministry going to the villages and breaking the word of God down to the lowest somewhere. In fact, I really appreciate it and I really thank God. This God came to my way. Praise God, it says. Praise God. So, what you can do is continue to build on this, right? So if God is calling you to, in terms of teaching, evangelism, pastoral, it can all be a mixture, right? So never say that, okay, this is what I have to do or only this is what. So God is calling you, opening doors, just go for it, right? His Spirit is empowering us. Vega, okay. Yep, great. Right. Anybody else would like to share? If not, we can just close and then you can spend the rest of the time. Yes, go ahead, Jafina. I really want to thank you so much for everything that you thought, pastor. I think for myself, sometimes I put myself into a box like, I'm an evangelist and that's it. That's all I should focus on. Should not go deeper into teaching or anything else. But this course has really enlarged my mind to the truth that I should get deeper into the word. And I also want to thank you for the little, little things that you shared in between. I remember once you shared to go and hear to the message by Dr. Miles Munro about leadership. And I wrote it just simply, I just wrote it. But once I think after four to five days, I really went back. I really went and listened to the message and I sent it to all my friends because I was so much inspired by the message. And those little, little things that you shared really encouraged me a lot. And I just want to thank you so much. Praise God. That's wonderful. Yes. So keep growing, keep, you know, just getting opportunities, just learning. That's never an end to learning. So, yeah, so that's wonderful. Anybody else would like to share? I know that John is a pastor already at APC Mangalore. John would like to share your learnings on this course. Anything that you'd like to share? It's an alien to make me learn how to find people who work for Kuala Lumpur. So, you know, we've been discussing about this for a long time. And the importance of nurturing new people, finding out new people. And that's been a learning and it's allowed to look out for character and commitment. And to find people that gradually nurture them. That's been wonderful. And also, we're learning when we spoke about the hostel ministry and also teaching and the overlap of it and the difference of the distance. It makes a lot of sense, especially when we have a coaching band or also kind of a teaching band that helps to find a different shape. Find a differentiation and to approach that in a different way. Thank you. Thank you so much, John, for sharing. All right, so that's wonderful. I just pray for each one of you that, you know, you continue to grow in your gifts, your calling. I had a wonderful time teaching this course, being a ministry of the evangelist, teacher and pastor. Remember that we can all flow and all three of them, all five of them, all five ministries, including the ministry gifts, administration, worship, anything. The Holy Spirit just be willing to do it. And being faithful and small, God will bless us with bigger things. All right, so let's close in prayer. Let me just pray and we will see each other again next semester. Let's pray. Father, we want to thank you for this beautiful semester, this course that we've been studying, Lord, the ministry of the evangelist, teacher and pastor. Lord, it's such a joy to know that you have called us, you have chosen us to be your children of God and with this calling, with this choosing of God, you have poured out your Holy Spirit upon us. And Lord, we pray that even as we continue journeying together, Lord, I pray that you will have God minister to each of our hearts of God. Lord, that we will truly, Lord, begin to flow in all the gifts of the Spirit of God, all the functions of the Holy Spirit. Lord, that we will, Lord, open our hearts, be led by you, Lord. We ask for your grace. We ask for your anointing. We ask God for those. Maybe some of us here have plans, but we've just, you know, closed those plans and kept it away. Oh God, I pray God that this semester, they will just, Lord, in this season of their lives, they will just go back to the things that have been closed and there will be a restoration in their hearts that will be arriving in their hearts in the ministry that you have called them for God. Lord, we thank you for each and every student of God, even as they have set through this course, I pray God that you will enable them, you will establish them a God and empower them by a word in your Holy Spirit of God. And Lord, we thank you that everything that we have learned, Lord, that we will apply it in our lives and continue to grow in the gifts and callings that you have placed in our lives of God and continue to be a blessing to the body of Christ. We thank you God, we thank you for all that you've done and all that you're doing ahead of God. We pray God that you will continue to lead us and guide us a God. We give you all the praise and glory of God. We speak your wisdom upon each and every student, even as they prepare and study through all the courses in the semester for their final sub-God. I pray God that Holy Spirit, you will imprint everything that they are studying into their hearts, into their spirit of God, that they will be able to apply it in their lives and use them all, Lord, for your glory. May your kingdom be established through their lives of God. We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, everyone. Have a great week and a great time ahead. All the best for your final exams and I'll see you next semester. Thank you, sir. I will respect your email, sir. Sure. Sure. I will check with the IT team and get back to you. All right, sir. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. Thank you very much, Pastor Emanuele. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You are such an inspirational teacher. God bless you and God bless your family. Thank you so much. God bless you, Isaac. Thank you. Thank you.