 Okay, welcome back. Let's continue from where we stopped. So we're looking at why the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 said there's a certain order. So the first one we looked at was because of establishment, right? The early church was founded and so I just gave that example where in the church, you know, we can, with the 5-fold ministry, whatever we need, whatever there's a need in our lives or people's life, they can go to the concerned person, it brings order within the church. The second reason why there was this whole list and why Paul wrote 1st and 2nd was because of responsibility and authority, right? Now remember this, in the church, if there is no authority, meaning if there's no order, it's not going to function properly. There's going to be confusion, there's going to be strife, right? So the reason why these, you know, have been set in place, these different, you know, functions have been set in places so that there are certain responsibilities and certain authorities that are placed on that person, right? So for example, if there is a evangelist or a teacher, he's been given certain responsibilities and certain functions within the church, right? So he has certain authorities and he can, you know, probably begin to teach people from the word of God. It's not like the pastor's going to come and say, why are you teaching people? No, because that is his, the authority has already been given to him. So these are two important reasons, first one, so that there's order in the church and two, so that there's governmental authority and proper leadership in the church, right? Now, let's look at the next point, point eight, there is an anointing that goes with every ministry gift, very, very, very important. What is anointing? Anointing is, I'm sure we all know what the anointing is. It is God pouring out his presence into our lives, the power of the Holy Spirit upon our life. Now, with each anointing, there is, with each ministry gift, there is an anointing. Let me give you this example. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Billy Graham? I think the first thing that came to your mind is evangelist, right? I'm sure none of us said the pastor. And probably if you say Billy Graham and you close your eyes, the first thing you're going to think of is these huge meetings with thousands of people. You know that he was an evangelist. And another thing that you may think of when you say Billy Graham is the hundreds and thousands of places that he went bringing the gospel to people. And the many, many, many souls that were touched through his ministry. So you know there was an anointing of the evangelist in him. How did he know it? He didn't know it. If you read about his life, all he did was he wanted to go tell the people about Jesus. And to his surprise, he formed a team of about five people. And when they went and started this, to his surprise, there were hundreds of people who turned up and he didn't expect that. He didn't expect hundreds and hundreds of people. By the time it was his fifth outdoor meeting, there were thousands that were gathering. Now you must understand this, right? People came not because of how he looks or how he speaks or whether he is a rich person or nothing. People came because they saw the anointing of God upon his life. It is simple as that. Now you can fool maybe 10 people, but you can't fool thousands of people. There was an anointing upon his life. So you know that he was an evangelist. Now look at Paul Yeongi Cho, David Paul Yeongi Cho. The biggest church in Korea. Now did he know that he is going to be a pastor? No. When you look at his life, he didn't really understand all of these things. All he wanted to do was tell people about his testimony. He would say, this is what I was. I was going to die. God healed me. Now I want to bring the same gospel, the same Jesus to everyone. So I'm starting a small group. He started a small group in his house. Little did he know that out of this within a year, there would be thousands of people coming to the church. Now if you've seen Paul Yeongi Cho, he's a very short man, very cut off in his speech. But when he opened his mouth, there was an anointing that flowed from his mouth. He's a man of prayer. And when you look, when you see him, you know that God has called him to be a pastor. It was a pastoral ministry upon his life. So like this, there are many of them. There are people who God has called to be apostolic in nature. All they do is they go places, plant churches, hand it over to others and move on. Then there are people who have been called for the prophetic ministry. Now in the early nineties, the prophetic ministry began to explode. People began to understand that, hey, everyone can prophesy. Not only the so-called prophet, but everybody can prophesy. And so there was this whole move of the Holy Spirit. There was this whole starting of prophetic worship and all these things that came up came about. But there were people who had the anointing of a prophet. Meaning they were very, very prophetic in nature. Whenever they spoke, they were prophetic. Now let me give you this best example. There was a man named David Wilkerson, Pastor David Wilkerson. He started his own church in the United States. And sure, if you've read the book, The Cross and the Switchblade, he talks about how he went out between gangs and leaders and gangs and drug addicts. He started a church, but he came back to New York, started a beautiful church. But there was a certain point in his life as he was pastoring the church. He said to himself, hey, I feel so dry. I'm famous. People know me. People call me all over the world. And he travels, but he said, I feel so dry. I feel like the anointing has left me. And he was feeling miserable as a pastor. He said, he told his church, you know what, I'm going to take a break. Because all that I'm teaching is something that I already know. I want a fresh anointing. I want a fresh revelation. So he took a break. And when he would spend time and pray, God told him, there is this prophetic function also that I'm giving you. And he started to explore. He started to explore the prophetic, started to pray and ask the Holy Spirit. And in the early 1980s, about 10 years after his start of the church, of his ministry, 10 years later, he began to prophesy prophetic ministry. And his ministry, if you go back and look on YouTube, you'll see that he was one of them who prophesied about the twin towers being destructed. He also prophesied about famine and plague coming. And so he has prophesied some really wonderful messages. So the anointing that God gives us comes with a ministry gift. So for example, if God has called you to be a worship leader, all you need is the anointing of God. You can sing the most simple song. The most common, you can even sing a Sunday school song. If it is anointed from God, it will touch people's life. Or if you're called to be somebody who is just serving in the church. If God has anointed you and you're doing this with the anointing of God upon your life, you will make an impact on what you're doing. Because remember, it is the anointing that makes a difference. So here's what I want to really emphasize. Do not try to do ministry without the anointing of God, because it may look like ministry. But in God's eyes, it will not be ministry. And I know this may be a little hard, but it's true. There are times where I have to pause and say, God, I feel empty. I feel empty. We've just been giving out preaching, teaching, leading worship, doing all these things. But now I feel empty. I need a fresh anointing. Now here's another very important thing. God gives us gifts. So for example, if some of you, you feel you're prophetic in nature, God's called you to be a prophet or a pastor or an apostle. There's an anointing. But there's a cost to the anointing. I hope you're getting what I'm saying. There's a cost. There's a price that we must pay. What is the price? We must spend time. And everyone are sleeping 10 hours. We may have to sacrifice our sleep. When everyone are enjoying themselves, we may have to spend time alone with God. When everyone are having a comfortable life, God may ask you to fast for 40 days. There's a cost involved. That's why I started in the beginning of last session. I said, through ministry, through intimacy, intimacy with God is the only way that we can do through ministry. Without the anointing, we cannot do ministry. Remember in the book of Acts, the Apostle Paul, sons of Skiwa came and said, we'll also drive out these demons with the same name. We'll also do the same formula which Paul used. What is that in the name of Jesus? So they tried it. What happened? The demons themselves said, Jesus, I know all I know, but who are you? Meaning what? Where is your anointing? I don't see anything inside you. Outside you look like a priest's son or whatever, priest's children. But I don't see any anointing inside you. So Jesus I know because he's anointed of God. Paul I know, he's anointed by the Holy Spirit. But who are you? Isn't that powerful? Imagine if demons think of us that way. Jesus I know, but who are you? You can't tell the devil, hey, I'm in ministry for 10 years. The devil is going to say, it doesn't matter to me. I don't see the anointing. I'm not scared of you because there's no anointing inside. So we must change that. The moment we are anointed, we have to keep on with the fresh anointing. Say, God, it's like a refill. For example, you have a bottle of water. You're very shrinking it. You don't ask the water to come to you. You have to go get the water, stand or sit or whatever and fill the bottle. There's something that you must do. So there will come a time, especially those of us in ministry or workplace. Just feel drained out. Say, God, I'm preaching the same messages. It's not been ministering to me and I feel that way. People are saying it's nice because they are listening, but I need something new. The moment we think that way, the moment we say God, something fresh, a new revelation. That's the anointing that will bring people to us. It is the anointed. God will bring people to us. It is nothing else. And there are many instances in my life where I can share where I've tried things on my own ability, but it really stressed me out. End of the day, I was stressed out. Say, God, what is this? I thought ministry should be a joy and it should be fun. Yes, it's tiring, but it should be a joyful thing, but I'm getting stressed out. God very clearly ministered to me or trying it on your own. Just pray for the anointing of God. God himself will send people to you to work with you, to be with you, to minister with you. And it's true. So each one of us, remember, the anointing is what makes the difference. Imagine this. We feel, hey, I'm an apostle. God has called me to be an apostle and you started off well, but somewhere in between we gave up and there's no fresh anointing. What happens? The enemy is not going to worry whether we are a apostle, a prophet or all of it. He is going to come all guns blazing to bring us down. But if we have the anointing, even if the enemy comes, he's not going to defeat us because the anointing of God is in us. Remember what Jesus said, after he was baptized, he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. What did he do? He did such wonderful miracles. He walked on water. He raised people from the dead. All these miracles. How through the anointing of God. If there was no anointing, Jesus wouldn't have done all this. He was anointed of God. That's why. Why do you think demons came and fell at his feet? Saying, oh, why have you come so early to destroy us? Demons came and fell. Why? Because they saw the anointing. The enemy knows the anointing you and I have. So, prepare yourselves. Prepare yourselves. Ask God for a fresh revelation. Drink from him more and more. Next point, God will take a person through preparation, stages of preparation, growth and development in the ministry gift. Just because God may speak to me saying that, okay, Paul, I want you to be a pastor. It doesn't mean in one year I become a pastor. If it happens, it's good. But if it doesn't happen, it's also good. Why? Because God takes a person through stages of preparation and development. It's growth. Very rarely has God used people and we've talked about this many times. Very rarely God has used people like immediately. Oh, you want to do this? Okay, go and do it. He's always prepared them. Right? And I'm sure we've seen these, said these words many times. Preparation time is never wasted time. It's never a time where we can say, okay, this is waste. Why am I sitting here? Why am I doing this? God's called me to be something but I'm doing something else. No, it is preparation. Don't be in a hurry to fulfill what you and I want to do. And give God time. Give God, be open to God, be open to the anointing. Let him make a way for you. And that is the best way. Right? Now, if we do it in a hurry, it's only going to cause it again. Right? Say, hey, I want to be a pastor. I want to start my own church. If you know that, it's okay. Give time. God, prepare me. Because I don't want to become a pastor. Become a pastor just out of, you know, because I want to be an immediately become a pastor. And then there's no anointing. There's no preparation. The devil will so easily bring destruction upon us. Or he can easily just cause us to fail. Right? So let God go take us through those preparation times. Right? There's a book called The Grand Viva by Ravi Zakharaya. So I always use this example. He says, God used Moses in a palace. God prepared Moses in a palace, used him in the desert. And he prepared Joseph in the desert and used him in the palace. So, so don't be afraid of preparation time. Go through those stages. It's wonderful. Look at the bigger picture. Right? A person may have more than one ministry gift. Right? Like in 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 7. Let's read that. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 7. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 7. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 7. Where unto? I am ordained if pressure and unopposed to. I speak the truth in Christ and I lie not. The teachers of the Gentiles is rich and very cheap. Right? Amen. Thank you. So here Paul is saying, I'm a teacher and a apostle. That's what he says. I'm a teacher and an apostle of Christ. So there will be times. God will take a person through stages. And a person can have one or more ministry gifts. Right? So it's okay to flow in both. I don't limit yourself. Right? So for example, you know, in church, you may have a worship leader who's also a good teacher to different gifts. Go with it. Don't limit yourself. Or you may have somebody who's very evangelistic in nature. Who wants to go and reach out. But he's also a pastor. Or he's also a teacher. So there can be two or three ministry gifts that can get combined. And it can be given to a person. Right? So don't be afraid and don't think to yourself, no, what am I? Am I this? Am I that? Remember the point we discussed first? The main reason of the fivefold ministry to equip the saints. So as long as you are equipping the saints, whether you're a pastor, prophet, evangelist, it's okay. It doesn't matter. The work is being done. Equipping the saints, building the body of Christ. So that's the bigger picture. Right? Now it's good if you know it and you recognize your gift. Very good. Right? You can focus on that. But if you have two, three gifts, then praise God. You know, God has blessed you with two, three gifts. Don't look at it as a burden. Oh, why? I have to lead worship also. Why do I have to? Our church also has to prepare the message. I have to lead worship and I have to, you know, teach during the school of ministry. I don't have to do it. If you look at it as a burden, then, you know, it becomes, you know, God will not be pleased with that. Why? Because it's a gift God is giving us. There are many people who don't have it, who want it, who have been praying for it. God has given to you. Praise God. Take it. Use that gift for his, for his work. Right? Right. Any questions, any thoughts before I go ahead to the next point? Any questions, anything you'd like to share? Shall we go ahead? Okay. So let's go to the 11th point. Now the Lord Jesus stands as our primary example for each and every ministry gift. Now we know that Lord Jesus is a full package. Right? He is everything. He is God. He is the one. He's the true apostle, the true prophet, the true evangelist, the true pastor, and the true teacher. Right? He, the Lord Jesus exemplified all these ministry gifts. But it's interesting to see, you know, the Lord Jesus didn't say, I will not go to places, let people come to me. Did he say that? He didn't say that. So he, he was also an evangelist. Lord Jesus was prophetic in nature. He was, he was a pastor. He shepherd the people. He was a teacher, wonderful parables that he spoke of. Right? And so the Lord Jesus was the best example, is the best example of, you know, the ministry gifts. Now let's look at the first, all five of them and look at the verses. The first one, how is Jesus an apostle? Hebrews chapter three, verse one. Yes, we look at each and also read the verse. So first one, apostle, Hebrews chapter three, verse one. Yes. Could any one of us please read that? Hebrews three and verse one. Maybe somebody else could open to Matthew 13, 57. The next was. Hebrews chapter three, verse one. Way for holy brethren, partakers of the Hebron's calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our conversion, Christ Jesus. Amen. Consider the apostle and the high priest of our confession. Lord Jesus is our apostle and the high priest of our confession. Right? Let's read the second one, prophet. Matthew chapter 13, verse 57. Matthew chapter 13, verse 57. And they took offense at him, but Jesus said to them, one lay in his hometown and his own house is a prophet without honor. Amen. Thank you. So only in his hometown is a prophet without honor. So again, the Lord Jesus is calling himself the prophet as well. Right? And definitely Jesus was very prophetic in nature, obviously, because the Holy Spirit was working powerfully in him. He spoke, God spoke directly to him. And he was very, very, very prophetic in nature. So, and he says that only in his own hometown is a prophet. Not honor. Let's look at the next one. How did he fulfill the role of an evangelist? Luke chapter 19 and verse 10. Luke 19 and verse 10. Luke chapter 19, verse 10. For the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Amen. Thank you, Anita. So the son of man has come to seek and save that was lost. Now, you know, we studied, right? The work of an evangelist is to go seek people, search people, save them, preach the gospel to them, bring them into Christ's kingdom. That's his major responsibility. And so he's, the Lord Jesus, the son of man has come to seek and save those who are lost, the work of an evangelist. And we also see like, he's not just saying it, but he showed it with his actions as well. The Lord Jesus didn't sit only in Jerusalem. He didn't say, I'm, this is my church. This is where I'm going to sit. And he was not with the 12 people, disciples just sitting around there. No. He went to Judea. He went to Subneria. He went to different places, you know, and ministered the gospel. He went, right? And he brought the gospel to people. Imagine the Samaritan woman. That's a perfect example of the work of an evangelist, right? And if you look at any evangelist, they will take this sermon and beautifully summarize the whole thing, because they know what it feels like. Jesus is going there. He sits near the well. He's drinking water. He's feeling thirsty. And a woman is there. What does he do? Start a conversation. And that's what evangelists do. They're the best in studying conversation. And you see how the Lord Jesus so wonderfully brought the gospel in and she was saved, right? Was it a big evangelistic meeting? No, one person. But that one person went and touched many other lives. There were other evangelistic meetings also, right? On the mountains. But we see that he did do these evangelists evangelism, right? And also we look at the workings of miracles and whenever he went, he healed people. That's what the evangelist does, right? So he fulfilled that responsibility. The fourth one, pastor. Now we know that Jesus didn't have a church. There was no concept of the church during when he was there. But how did he pastor? The word pastor simply means shepherd, right? So how did he shepherd the people? John chapter 10 was 11 to 16. Yes, any one of us complete. John chapter 10, 11 to 16. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. And the sheep flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd and I know my sheep and am known by my own. As the father knows me, even so I know the father and I lay down my life for the sheep and other sheep I have which are not of this fold. Then also I must bring and they will hear my voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd. Amen. Thank you so much, Rosalind. So, so wonderful here. He's saying, I am the good shepherd. I am the good shepherd. Right? So Jesus is, he himself is saying, hey, I'm a shepherd. I even look after you. What's the role of a pastor to look after the people, to shepherd them and they're falling to help them up and they go astray to bring them back. And he says, I'm the good shepherd. I will look after your needs. I will look after you. Right? And he gives this wonderful parable later on and he says, the parable of the lost sheep, 1900, then 99, one goes away, but he goes and searches for that one. You know what's interesting? He leaves those 99 in a safe place. He doesn't just say, okay, you 99, you'll do what you want. Let me go and get that one which was lost. No, he leaves the 99 in a safe place, goes and picks that one. That is the heart of a shepherd. Now, if any one of us are in pastoral ministry, you can feel this, right? You can, you know, resonate with what I'm trying to explain here. Even if one person from your church says, no, I don't believe in Jesus. I don't want this and goes away. You will be so hurt. Say, God, why is this happening? You may not even sleep for a couple of days because it's just going to, you know, cause so much of distraction and disturbance in your mind. Why? Because you are a shepherd to their lives. Now, who's put that? He may be somebody from a different city, different town, different language, but he's part of your church. Why do you feel that way when they leave and they go? That's because God has put that anointing in you. That gift is in you, the pastoral gift. That you have to look after the sheep that God has given to you. So it's hurtful. You will do all you can to bring that one person back. And the Lord Jesus did that as a pastor, as a shepherd. He looked after his sheep. And best example would also be after Jesus died, right? He came back and he met with the disciples and he didn't tell the disciples, now I have to choose another new 12 people. You have all abandoned me. No. He says, hey, you are my sheep. You are the ones there with me for three and a half years. You are still my sheep even though you are not there. You are my sheep. You have to continue the work, right? So we see this heart of forgiveness, a heart of just receiving back. That's the heart of a pastor, right? Many times, you know, there are people who spoke, who will speak or who have spoke and will speak against us as pastors. And sometimes it's very helpful because it may be from people that we really care about. But take this example of Jesus, you know, the disciples weren't even there and he was probably just so much pain, physical, emotional, mental pain. Nobody was there with him. But Jesus received them back. He said, Peter, you denied me three times, but you have to lead the church now. You have to lead my people. They are like sheep that are going astray. There is no shepherd. You have to shepherd them now. And we see this whole, you know, aspect of God's love and the heart of forgiveness that a pastor has. And we see that here very beautifully in Jesus' life. Finally, as a teacher, there are plenty of examples, but let's read Matthew chapter 9 and verse 35. Matthew 9, 35. Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Amen. Thank you, Zalee. I like that order. Can you repeat that order, Zalee? First one was Jesus went about? Jesus went about all the cities and villages. Okay. What did he do there? Teaching in their synagogues. Teaching. Okay. Secondly, preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Teaching. And healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Thank you. Thank you, Zalee. Thank you so much. First, Jesus went. He taught them, right? And many places, you know, Nathaniel comes and says, teacher, tell us, or they say, rabbi, the word rabbi means teacher, right? Tell us, tell us about what you were saying or the parable of the soul or nobody understood it. Tell us, teacher, great teacher, the Roman centurion says, oh teacher, great teacher, tell us. The Pharisees themselves couldn't control themselves. Where did he learn so much? How did he get such an understanding to teach this way? Where did this wisdom come from? He taught people with so much power, with so much authority. And then these beautiful parables that he came up with, you know, life examples, the parable of the Samaritan, I'm sure if, you know, if we take a context and read about it, if there were Jews there, he could have got stoned at that moment by the Pharisees and the Sadducees because they hate the Samaritans. You can't be talking about a Samaritan and that too a good Samaritan. There is no good Samaritan, right? But he's teaching them. He's teaching them about kingdom values. He's teaching them about a kingdom lifestyle. He's a wonderful, wonderful teacher. What did Matthew 935 says? He went about in cities, towns and villages, first one, he taught them. What did he teach them? He told them, hey, this is what the gospel is. This is what God told Abraham. This is what God told Moses. And now we are living in... So he would have preached the whole gospel, teaching them, right? And we also see in the life of Apostle Paul, he's a wonderful teacher. Remember, he was in this... I think it was his second missionary journey and he was teaching and teaching and teaching and he went on teaching the whole night, the whole night that that boy fell off from the window and died. But what did he do after that? What he thought, he put it into action and he prayed and he was brought back to life. Follow the example of Jesus. Jesus taught them, he preached the gospel and he did healings, wonders and miracles. So we see that the Lord Jesus is all five. So none of us can say, God, Lord you, you don't know how it is to be an apostle. He knows. We don't know how it is to be a prophet. He knows. You don't know how it is to be an evangelist to go to places and stay in these places which are so terrible and reach out. He knows. He probably knows it even more because nowadays when we look at what we have now, it's so easy. You take a train, you take a bus, you take a flight. Do you reach? Imagine during Jesus' time, you gotta take a boat and causing troubles. After the time, the enemy was behind him but through all of it, he did everything that God had called him to do. You can't say that God, you don't know how it is to be a pastor at all. He's a good shepherd. He knows. When we fail, he knows our brokenness. He knows our hurts. He knows when people ridicule and mock us for all reasons. Did they all applaud Jesus? No, they didn't. They all said be done with this person. He's saying before Abraham was I am, we gotta kill him. They didn't accept his message. So there are times when people do not accept us. It's okay. Make sure you're right with God and God understands that. Finally being a teacher, he definitely will give us the wisdom. He'll give us revelations. Every time you open God's word and you pray, God will give us revelations because he's the great teacher. He can take a verse and bring out 10 different aspects in that one verse. We tried from our own. We stuck with the same old message. So Jesus exemplified all these ministry gifts. Finally, the last point. There is a difference between the ministry function and the ministry gift and we just talked about that as well. Every one of us can be an evangelist. God has said go increase the gospel. So all of us can go and evangelize and we must go and evangelize. There is a ministry gift that God has given each one of us, all believers. We must share the gospel. There is a ministry function. The ministry function is I think I got that reverse. Many people can function. Sorry, I got that reverse. The ministry function is everyone can evangelize. But the ministry gift is like a Billy Graham or an oral robot. Right? Every one of us can be teachers. Right? Every one of us can teach people. But there is a function or sorry, there is a gift of teaching. So I hope you understood that difference. All of us can evangelize ministry function. But then there is a gift where people are more inclined towards evangelism. You see that anointing upon their lives. All of us can prophesy. Right? It's a function. But you will see some people the ministry gift of the prophetic. They will be more inclined to hearing from God and delivering the prophetic. The ministry gift is given to a person that makes that person prophet, apostle, pastor, teacher or evangelist. So all of us must understand that whatever gift we have our soul intention to use these gifts or our calling or our function, whatever it is is to build the body of Christ. Stay away from things that take us away from God. Let that be our focus. God, thank you for what you have given me gifts for the functions for the talents, the abilities and help me to use it for building your kingdom. Right? So we'll bring this session to a close. Next week we'll start off with the evangelist and then we'll look at Jesus as our example. We'll go deeper into that and then we'll look at the evangelist in the early church Jesus, there was a restoration in the evangelistic ministry and we'll do the same thing with teacher and then pastor. So any questions? Any thoughts? Anybody has anything you'd like to share? Please feel free we can close in prayer. Everyone able to track along able to understand. We're trying to go a little slow so that we it's very important that we understand these things. If you can repeat the point 12 again, please. Okay, sure. Thank you. Now, there are two things. One is a ministry function. One is a ministry gift. Right? Now, ministry function is basically now for example, there's a housewife. Right? I'm going to give you in an example Rosalind so that everyone can also understand it well. Imagine there's a housewife. Right? Her prime responsibility is to be at home, look after the children look after the family take care of the house. That is her calling in life. That's what she's been doing for 10 years but she loves Jesus. Right? So whenever she's free she goes around in the apartment and she shares people, shares Jesus with people and she's she likes to evangelize. Right? That is a ministry function. Right? So she's God has given her that ministry function. Right? So she goes to the region. Now, if you look at some people like Billy Graham and Oral Roberts that is the ministry gift. Right? Where you'll have thousands of people just coming and listening. Why? Because it is a gift that God has placed. Right? And I'm not talking only about men. Right? Even wonderful women of God. Right? I forget her name, Amy MacPherson. Did a wonderful ministry. Right? So there are many women Jackie Pullinger, Heidi Baker. These are all wonderful ministries. So this woman is a housewife but she goes and shares people, shares Jesus with her neighbors and friends, whoever she comes in contact with. And that's a ministry function. The ministry gift is somebody who is totally devoted towards that. Right? And you see an anointing of God upon their life. Right? Where people will just receive their message or people will just, you know in the hundreds and the thousands they will see that anointing in their life. Right? Can housewife share the, be an evangelist? Yes. She can evangelize. That's a ministry function. But then God chooses certain people and gives them a gift, the ministry gift of evangelism where they'll be able to reach out to thousands of people and that's because of the gift that God has given them. Rosalind, I hope that brings some clarity to your question. Yes, pastor. So following that, can a housewife also be anointed if she understands that God upon her life? So from being functioning, can she be, you know promoted to that anointing where that gift is in operation? Yeah. That's a very good question, Rosalind. Now I just want to change that word you said promoted. It's not like, you know, function is lower and it's all right. I'm just trying to make that difference there. Yes. To answer your question, yes, Rosalind. So somebody who is continually functioning in their gift and again, God sees faithfulness. Right? So there are times when somebody may do it for one year and then get bored or two years and get bored. But if God sees consistency, God sees brokenness. Remember that was, I love that was broken and a contrite heart. God will not, you know, despise. So the more broken we are, the more we tell God, no, I have to do this. I have to God can turn that function into a gift. All of a sudden we, a housewife who is just in the house sharing gospel, maybe she's sharing for 15 years faithfully. God can suddenly tell her, okay, now I want you to go and do a evangelistic meeting and book the auditorium. God can send people to pay for that auditorium and God can bring thousands of people to fill up that auditorium and move that function to a gift. But that depends on our brokenness, on our loneliness, on our drive to know more about God to gain more from him. So that depends on us. We can either push it away or we can say, God, I'm not going to let you go till you really make this a lifestyle in my life. So yes, to answer your question the function can become a gift. Yes, because it's God who can do that. So God is not going to restrict He's not going to say this is only a function. So you do this only in your apartment. No, you can you can just turn that into a gift. All right, any other question? Shall we close? All right, so let's just close in prayer. Father, we want to thank you for this beautiful day, Lord. We thank you for what we studied today and the 5-4 function that you have given the church a garden we pray, Lord, that each one of us in the body of Christ, no matter what we are doing, whether it's a function or a gift that you have given us, Lord, help us to have this one thing in mind that we are building your kingdom to equip your scenes and to glorify your name of God, that this is all about you and nothing about us. Thank you. We appreciate, Lord, we thank you for the gifts that you have given us at prayer, Lord, that we will walk in humility, yet walk in power and authority and do what you have called us to do, Lord. We speak of blessing over each and every student, Lord, even as they go about in their ministries and their work, Lord, in everything that they do with me, they recognize and walk in their gifts and functions, Lord, to glorify your name and fulfill their plans and purposes for their lives, Lord. We thank you, Father. We give you all the praise, we give you all the glory and honor in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, everyone. Have a wonderful day ahead and we'll catch up next week and we'll continue with this. Thank you so much. God bless.