 Okay. Good morning. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining in today. Let's pray and begin with our class. So let me lead with the word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank and praise You, Lord, for this new day and this new week. Father, even as we go through the week, Father, we pray that You will enable us to have a deeper walk with You, strengthen us, Lord, even through Your Word. And Lord, we especially pray, Lord, that as we learn about the prophetic, that Your Spirit, Lord, will move powerfully in our midst. And Father, that You administer to each one of our hearts. We thank You, Lord. We thank You for this opportunity to study Your Word. We bless You and we honor You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright. So we've been learning about flowing in the prophetic so far. We've seen practical things that we have to consider, things to do, not to do, and then how to actually release that gift of prophecy. Okay. And in the last class, we took those three steps. What are the three steps? Correct? Correct? Perceive? Release. Okay. All prophesy. Three P's. Pray, perceive, prophesy. So we tune into the Spirit of God and we try to listen to what He is saying. The information of God can come in various ways. It can come in a visual form. It can come in an audible form. But even the audible, generally, we say, either God shows a picture of the Word or we receive that Word in our Spirit. There can be some sort of receiving of a word, a sentence, a paragraph, and also sometimes it is physical sensations. So based on that, in the last class, we prayed and different ones of us had a word. So I wanted to ask us, when the words were released, I know that we didn't have anyone affirming it and saying, oh, yeah, that's for me. I felt like this is for me. But later on, as you thought about it, did any of you feel like anything that was shared in the class minister to you? Even those who are online, if you felt that, yeah, I felt like God was speaking to me, we could just share and then I'll go further today. I mean, just for the glory of God, just to know that when God speaks, it ministers to our hearts. That's the point. Nothing else. So if anyone sensed that a word was dealing with you, you could just share and speak about it. An online batch, please feel free to share. Yes, when you minister to me, I felt it's for me and that was also like Isaiah 60. So I felt, okay, this is really Lord speaking to me, even though I was not aware that time, then later on, yes, I felt it's really, he's speaking to me. Amen. Praise God. That's wonderful. Yeah. So the scripture that Anand said, I think Isaiah five and verse two, right. I was thinking about it because just a few weeks prior to that, we were like I was in a study Bible study and we were discussing about John 15, how God wants fruitfulness and how he looks for fruitfulness. If there's no fruitfulness, he prunes those branches and God is always expecting fruitfulness. And there's no compromise to fruitfulness in the Christian life. So somehow it felt related to that because I know it sounded like God is disappointed, like I expected more, but nothing is there. But then somehow I was reminded of that same John 15 about how God wants us to be fruitful in our spiritual walk, in our natural walk. And it really like sort of, it was like a jolting thing, but then it was so good because it was helping me reflect about my life and think like, okay, am I fruitful or not in this? Am I fruitful or not? What are the changes that I have to make? So I really felt like, yeah, that word was probably for me, like God was just shaking me up. Yeah, any other, any other things? After the class, I was just thinking of what happened in the class, the activity that we did. I was thinking and when I considered everything, what I understood actually, it spoke to me back actually. I know where I was, I was in the ground. I was just thinking of like, okay, we did practicals, but why there is no affirmations? Did we did it wrong? I was thinking all that and then I just, what Anand said, it came to me and what he said is like, God was expecting more, but... Yeah, correct. And I just, it made me to reflect upon how I'm doing and what is the potential God gave us, but how much extent I'm using it. So it's actually so powerful and minister to me. Yeah, true, true. So you see how it works, isn't it? We may expect that in that very moment we can identify and many times that's how it happens. But it's also possible that when we go back and reflect, we recognize that that word was from the Lord and it's helping us draw closer to God. Because what is the word supposed to do? It's supposed to build us up in the Lord, isn't it? So then, even as we're reflecting on the word which Anand gave, obviously it's helping us to align our lives to the purposes of God and be fruitful. Then we know that, yeah, it is from God. Okay, it's not breaking us, it's building us. So in that way, so think about the words that you've got also. What did we say about a word that we are not able to confirm right away? What are we supposed to do? Keep it on the shelf. Yeah, just keep it on the shelf. Pray, trust the Lord. And as time goes by, you may have a confirmation for the whole thing or for parts of that prophetic word. Okay. I really wish we could keep doing this, but we have to go forward with our teaching here. You can always practice the prophesying in your small group settings and we'll see how exactly to do this in an appropriate way. So there are a few more guidelines here in the same chapter. We look at the prophetic in personal use. So the prophetic can be practiced anywhere. Anywhere means literally anywhere. It all depends on whether we are trusting God for a word or not. So I was sharing with us that when we used to do these outreaches earlier and we would go on the streets, two things that we would do is to minister a prophetic word. Of course, share the gospel. That was the main part. But wherever possible, minister the prophetic word and also if they need healing, then pray over them for healing. So on the streets, this was something that was practiced. It can be practiced anywhere, maybe we are in the mall or we are out meeting with our family or spending time with our family. It's a recreation time. The prophetic can still flow and we've got to tune into that. And it's so amazing. It's so amazing when we hear from the Lord at any given point. So practice it all the time. Practice it even with your family. Sometimes you can just say, I had this dream. It was like this, like that. And this is what God said. And it ministers to people's hearts. So practice the prophetic at all times and it's got to become very natural for us. I know in a setting where we don't, we are not open to the prophetic. It's a little difficult in the beginning. People don't like it. People associate abuse with it and all. But once we learn what it is and how to flow in it in a good way and we understand that it's a blessing. It's nice to have it as like, you know, just a part of our community. At any given point, I saw this for you. Here's a word for you and we should flow like that. So at all times we can use the prophetic and yeah. So even when it comes to the workplace scenario, when let's say we are running a business, we need strategies, we need new ideas. We can pray and say, Lord, give us some ideas. Give us some insight into this matter. What are you saying? What is your goal for this company, for this project? And when we depend on God like that, it's amazing. All the things that God would do in our midst. So even when it comes to the workplace, business, business settings, we can be prophetic. Now, when it comes to prophesying in small groups, there are a couple of instructions that Apostle Paul gives in 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Remember, I had discussed earlier, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, he introduces the nine gifts of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14, he lays down certain ground rules on how to practice the gifts in such a way that it is beneficial for the body. So we've got to go by these guidelines that Paul states. So we look at some guidelines. When we are prophesying to one another, it needs to be to build people up and not to put them down. So that's very, very clear cut in the writings of Paul. 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 26, it's there in our notes. Could you please read it? 1 Corinthians 14 verse 26. 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 26. How it is then brethren, whenever you come together, each of you has a sum, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. So each one has a message in some form or the other. It's a sum, it's a teaching, it's a tongue, it's a revelation, it's an interpretation. But what is the purpose of edification? Edification means what? Building up the other people. So whatever word we share, it's got to build others up in the Lord. Next, there has to be opportunity for everyone to participate. And that's what the scripture says. 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 31. For you can all prophesy one by one. Then all may learn and all may be encouraged. Okay, so notice that you can all prophesy one by one. It goes to show that an opportunity can be given to every person to prophesy. We've already established that all believers can prophesy. That is the reason he's saying all of you can prophesy one by one. Now if it was only the church leadership whom God had anointed to prophesy, there's no need for this. But he's saying all of you can prophesy, just do it in an orderly fashion. So even when it comes to the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, there can be some order. It does not have to be chaotic, disruptive. It does not have to be. He says one by one. So then take turns and you say what you want to say. And he puts in there that all may learn and that all may be encouraged. That is the purpose of prophesy anyway. Now let's move on to the next instruction here. 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 40. Could someone read it please? Let all things be done decently and in order. I earlier said things ought to be done in a proper way and without chaos. So same. Let all things be done decently and in order. So in a small group setting the point is that by the operation of the gifts of the Spirit, we should not cause any confusion. How will confusions come? Let's say people are prophesying in a small group. How will confusions come? Yeah, okay. In the release of the gift. Okay, if they're not clear about what they're saying, if they don't know what prophecy is all about, what else? Yeah, when it's not correct. Okay, then it's not building people up. Yes, it could be all of these reasons. But how will we know? How will we sort of be able to correct it? Yeah, how to correct like in a group we are prophesying. Okay, yeah, correct. What is going on in the setting in one setting? There's a lot of confusion. That's what we are saying. Now how to, how to. Good. Who knows about this all things. So if we are telling anything wrong so he can correct us. Good. So ideally if we have people who can, you remember we said earlier, judge. Every word has to be judged. So if we have people who can judge, then it is better. Because someone can bring in correction, someone can point out that the word is not aligned to the scriptures or something like that. So having somebody to correct is always helpful. If we also look at why confusions come, many times confusions can come because in the group setting what tends to happen is we may have one or two people who will just take over. They'll keep saying, they'll keep doing, they won't give others a chance. And with the gift also comes this sense of like it's not really accomplishment but we feel happy that God is working through us. Isn't it? So the tendency is that some of us can become very enthusiastic and we can just keep flowing and we're not allowing other people to flow at all. So if there is an understanding among the group or if there's a person who is there to help us identify these things, they can guide. They can tell us. So this is the manner in which in a small group setting we can operate in the prophetic gift. So things like prophesy one by one, let everything be done decently in an order, judge the prophetic word. So that way it will still be for the benefit of the people. If someone is trying to be the star attraction, maybe the older people or someone who's more well versed in prophecy can guide them and say, hey, come on. Thank you for sharing your word. Let's give others a chance. And then slowly each one can practice it. So that's a little bit more about practicing. Now we will move on to hearing from the Holy Spirit. But before that, if there is anything else you want to ask or discuss, we can I'll just leave the time open. Yes. Ma'am, regarding correction, who is able to correct, he is getting the confusion. So how it will be? Then others can also judge. See, all of us carry the Holy Spirit. So that's the advantage in a group setting. We are not depending on one person. Let's say there is a group and I'm the leader and I'm causing the confusion. All of you can wave a red flag and say, sorry, we can't take this. So then it's fine. Others can always step in. Yeah, good question. Yeah. Anything else about prophesying? All right. So let's move to chapter nine here, which most probably many of us have heard different parts of in various sessions, especially during the supernatural when we encourage us to flow in the spirit. We have taken you through this a couple of times. Yes. Yeah, sure. When something came to someone, if it is open to interpret like if you saw something and then you ask us all to interpret. Okay. And then how come it works? Like Prince will interpret in a different way. Srirada will interpret in a different way. So there are different perspectives as are human beings. If I see that's a bottle, I'll see in my perspective in a different way. I'll see maybe the cap, the bottle cap. We'll see only the bottle model. So we have different perspectives. So when it comes to prophecy, we should not impose our own perspective, our own feelings on that. It should come from God, right? Yes. So after that also, we'll all tell our different, different interpretations. So how come to come to a conclusion which one is correct? Okay. So when it comes to interpretation of a prophetic word, let's remember that it's not a human exercise. You got it. We're not doing it by our logic. Yes, of course. Reasoning is involved, which we will consider in chapter 9. But interpretation is by the spirit of God. You see, go back to Joseph, a man who was able to interpret. Why? Because the spirit of God was in him. Or the spirit of God was guiding him. That is how he was able to interpret dreams that different people had. So the point that I'm trying to make is interpretation is not of human capacity. So the interpretation that we must depend on is the interpretation that the spirit of God would give us. That's the whole point. See, because as you rightly said we can look at something. If I see a red square it can mean a thousand things. It can mean danger. It can mean stop. It can mean the blood of Jesus. It can mean so many things. But what is the right interpretation? The right interpretation should be by the spirit of God. So that's what we want. Which is why we need to pray. Which is why we need to let the spirit of God guide us. And when the interpretation comes also we'll have that sense of peace in us that yes, correct, this is it. We also would sense that it is correct and maybe we'll have witness from a few more people which also says it is correct. See, we must always look at interpretation this way. At least that's how I see. Even when we read the Bible. Right? Think with me. Suppose you write a book. Okay, you write a book. And your book is about a particular theme. Now, you know that you know what you want to convey, right? Let's say that, you know, you're talking about generosity. Okay? But somebody else comes they misinterpret your book and they say, no, it's all about corruption. It's all about extortion. They say something else. How would you feel? You'll feel really betrayed because no, I didn't mean to write about evil things. I meant to write about something good. My book is about generosity. So who knows the correct meaning of the book or what the man, the author is supposed to know. Right? So the same way when it comes to studying the Bible people say the interpretation is this, the interpretation is that. But what is the real interpretation? It's what the author meant. That's what we have to get. And which is why we keep saying go by a couple of scriptures then you know what is there you know throughout what is already agreed upon. Let scripture interpret scripture. Same way when it comes to interpretation of dreams, prophetic words the Holy Spirit knows what he wanted to say by it. Which is why once I release the prophecy my work is not over. My work of faith is not over yet. I have to trust God for the interpretation. So then you start that exercise of interpreting it by the spirit. Okay? So we'll read some more. I think that will help Anand. But that's the way it's not you know your interpretation, her interpretation, their interpretation. It's not like that. Ma'am this judging is only done through the word with the Holy Spirit or it can be done by the experiences the previous experiences what we had. So we can depend on the experiences but sometimes the experience part may not be helpful. So it's always like case by case to go case by case. Just in the spirit Yeah It's because they can't hear you. Go ahead please. If one person had one dream or some vision and if one person is giving an interpretation and when it's from the Lord there will be a witness and some like a confirmation inside to attract. Yeah, that's what I'm saying The spirit bears witness with our spirit like Romans 8 16 so the Holy Spirit in us will help us recognize that yeah it is from God. Yeah, that's correct. Okay So yeah, these discussions also help us understand what is a true prophetic word. Let's talk a little bit about our spiritual senses and that's what chapter 9 is all about. When we look at ourselves the way God has created us we are a three part being. So in 1 Thessalonians 5 verse 23 Paul writes now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So he gives us the impression that we have these three parts, these three elements or we are a tripartite being put it anyway but we are composed of three aspects spirit, soul and body Now out of the three of these the eternal part of us is the spirit The eternal part of us is the spirit which means that it will never die it will never get annihilated it will continue to live on and when we are born again it is a human spirit that receives the life and the nature of God. Remember scripture says right you become a new creation, our body doesn't change, our personality also may not change much but what has changed is our spirit man. So our spirit is the key part where a lot happens when we are born again and we also know that the Holy Spirit dwells in us we keep saying that if you are a believer Holy Spirit lives inside us where does he actually live? He lives in our spirit. Now when we study scriptures for the spirit there are a couple of other words that are used and in many places interchangeably they use those words. So instead of spirit the heart of a man what does it mean? It means the innermost being which is nothing but the spirit the heart of a man or even words like the belly the belly or innermost being is also used. So all these are actually referring to the human spirit. Now apart from the human spirit now we understood it's the place where a lot of spiritual activity happens like being born again the Holy Spirit living in it and you know I think you are all learning about developing the human spirit also so you have an idea. So that's the spirit part of us. There is the other part of us which is known as the soul. So what is the soul all about? The soul is the place where we can feel we can think we can reason so it is the place where a mind you know a mind is there. Our soul is your psychological part of us dwells and that is the soul. So in our soul we usually say we carry three things one is our mind one is our will and our emotions. So they are all part of our soul or the psychological part of us now the soul we said the spirit when we are born again it is completely transformed what about the soul does the soul get fully transformed no we've got to trust the Lord for the renewal of the mind right. If we are not careful then a part of the soul can be carnal. That's how it's so funny that a believer is born again the spirit is some people say wall to wall Holy Ghost we put it that way in the old language so wall to wall Holy Ghost but then when you look at some of the attitudes, behaviors, values you know lack of integrity you're like shocked you're thinking wall to wall Holy Ghost why is the person like this because the soul part of us can be fleshly and carnal and there's a lot of work that has to go into the soul to have that renewed mind and you know overcome the flesh, crucify the flesh so those are things that need to happen in the soul and that's how it works and when it comes to our what we are talking about right now hearing from God the soul is very important many times what people might say is yeah spirit is important you'll get God's message in your spirit but soul forget about it it's not helpful but actually when the soul has a renewed mind okay it acts as a good processor when you hear from the Lord it will help as a processing unit the soul and then we can confidently release the word of God the third part of us of course is our body the body is the physical physical unit that helps us live here on the earth we call it a tent sometimes Paul says my tent I will put away my tent or things like outer man and sometimes the combination of body and soul the desires of the body and soul we have appetites right in our body appetite for food appetite for rest so all kinds of appetites we carry as far as the body is concerned and even the soul we said the soul can be carnal or fleshly the combination of body and soul right sometimes the Bible refers to it as the flesh also because wrong desires can arise from both of these parts whereas when you talk about the spirit the spirit technically is that part which has been renewed and received the life of God in fullness so this is about the spirit soul and body body a flesh see usually we talk about fleshly desires that arise in the soul but there are times when a combination of body and soul is also referred to as the flesh because evil appetites can arise from both of these but you know what spirit also if we are not careful can be corrupted scripture does say that yeah that is there but there is a scripture if I am not wrong it is I will just tell you now itself yeah yeah it is referred to spirit on me so for a long time even I had this doubt like how come see spirit is pure isn't it? spirit is pure I don't know what Galatians 6 says but okay I don't think so I don't think so it is probably referring to the soul only but then he has put it as spirit there 2nd Corinthians 7 2nd Corinthians 7 I will read the NKJV version it says therefore having these promises beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God open your hearts to us we have wrong no one we have corrupted no one we have cheated no one so here Paul is actually saying filthiness of the spirit even I never knew that the spirit can be corrupted see the spirit is born again it is completely transformed that is done deal we accept that but there are instances where corruption can affect the spirit also filthiness can touch the spirit also if we are not careful yeah yeah see I don't don't have a specific example of course flesh that you can we can go back to Galatians chapter 5 okay because it tells us about walking in the spirit and walking in the flesh so I will just read out that passage for us yeah verse 19 Galatians verse 19 now the works of the flesh are evident which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness idolatry, sorcery, hatred contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath selfish ambitions, dissensions heresies, envy, murders drunkenness, revelries and the like which means there are more of which I tell you beforehand just as I also told you in time pass that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God, okay so this is referring to the works of the flesh but the corruption of the spirit we I don't know of any other scripture that is talking about filthiness of the spirit but my understanding is these same things can probably touch the spirit is what I feel yeah yeah that's what I'm thinking like your Hebrews 6 in that it says if somebody has tasted of the works of God like the born again life and the power of the spirit and if they turn away it's very it's impossible for them to come back so though their spirit is born again something has happened to the spirit but again know that we're not talking about like a normal believer who is trying to sincerely live their life for God you know of course we fall but we rise up and we keep making the journey it's not talking about such believers it's talking about some extreme cases willingly unrepentant whose hearts have become hard such scenarios so there is something known as uncleanness of the like filthiness of the spirit so I just wanted to bring that to our attention alright so now let's come here to hearing from the Holy Spirit we have understood there are three parts of who we are so where exactly does the communication of the Holy Spirit come the answer is the spirit the spirit part of us and the Holy Spirit is the one who speaks to us Jesus told us that in John chapter 16 he told that okay I'm going to go away but my spirit will come and he will guide you into all truth this is John 16 verse 13 so let me read the whole passage there verse 13 to 15 he said however when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come he will glorify me and he will take of what is mine and declare it to you all things that the Father has are mine therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you so the point is the Holy Spirit communicates with the child of God the Holy Spirit communicates with the children of God this is a privilege that we have God speaks to us he is speaking God and he speaks to his children he also leads his children that's what the Bible says in Romans 8 14 the scripture says for as many as are led by God are the sons of God so all of us have been hearing the spirit and have been being led by the Holy Spirit I know today we are here in chapter 9 and we are discussing how to hear from the Holy Spirit but here is the truth all of us as believers in our journey we have been hearing he has been leading us we are listening to him and we are following him so we know we may not know technically how we have been hearing but we have been hearing from the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit guides us how does he guide us so a couple of scriptures we stated Romans 8 16 where we said the Spirit bears witness with our spirit so Holy Spirit we said Holy Spirit speaks Holy Spirit guides where does the communication come to our spirit the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit so in my spirit I can pick up is something from God or not what is God saying should I take this up or not in my spirit is where I can sense it now there is another beautiful scripture this is it Proverbs 20 and verse 27 it says the spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord searching all the inner depths of his heart so the scripture is saying it's using another word earlier we said spirit there are words such as heart belly in a most being now there is a like an analogy or a picture how is the spirit of a man it's a lamp it's like a lamp we all know a lamp has to be lit for us to get some light so think of the human spirit like that my spirit is a lamp now when the lamp is not lit I don't know what to do but you know how the knowledge of the Lord comes we see passages in scripture in Psalm 18 verse 28 you know the Psalmist he says you will light my lamp the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness so there is a lamp it needs light and David is saying what will God do he will light my lamp he will enlighten my darkness in other words what he is saying is the spirit the Holy Spirit when he speaks to my spirit it is like you know the matches are lighting up the lamp so we may be in darkness we don't know what to do we don't know how to go when the light comes or the Holy Spirit brings his communication he speaks to us so in the darkness the light of God is lit up that's what we are saying see hearing from the Holy Spirit every time the lamp is lit up okay we receive what is in God's mind that's how it works so when I hear a word from God when I get a picture I sense something what is actually happening you can imagine this my spirit it's a lamp it's dark zoom communication comes from God the lamp has come to light so that's how God communicates so in the spirit what is God doing is constantly lighting up the lamp is lighting it up and we are receiving the brightness of God the ignorance is going that's how it is and scriptures also tell us in Psalm 42 and verse 7 that passage says deep calls out to deep so God by his spirit is speaking to my spirit that is the connection that is the connection which we have to strengthen when we want to hear from God we keep saying I want to hear from God okay then the Holy Spirit speaking to my spirit in other words as we said the light is coming from there and it is lighting up the lamp that has to keep happening and then I've got to pick up like what exactly that light is all about that is how the Holy Spirit speaks to us so in my spirit man is where I receive God's communication so we generally say this spirit to spirit communication from God is spirit to spirit does that mean that God cannot speak in my soul does that mean that God cannot speak through my body no he can remember we said some physical sensations sometimes we can sense that or in our emotions right we feel certain things he can't touch our soul and I'm a body to communicate but the main way the main way is of course the spirit that is how he speaks to us now there is a beautiful the next section is really beautiful there's a diagram page 155 I wish I could have I could complete the whole thing today because it flows right what we are discussing but we may have to take a break and next Friday mostly we won't have a class because we will all be on mission strip so we'll have to pick it up next week in a gist I will tell you then we'll see the details okay we did this okay so you've done it once okay that's great so then I'll just tell the outline few key thoughts and we'll stop at that so you see we've said that you know we receive communication in our spirit but once we receive it the soul acts as a processor we said we have will we have emotions we have mind in the soul so the word will go from the spirit to the soul analysis okay rationalizing what is it from God is it not from God how do I feel about it what should I do about it will is decision making right should I do it should I not do it should I say it should I so the soul how healthy our soul is how godly our soul is matters so when our soul is able to process it then we can take it to the next level right we can apply it so that is how we operate now when we talk about the spirit there are the five senses of the spirit whenever we use terminology especially in prophesying I feel okay I sense or there are other senses also I see or there can also be things like taste and smell it is possible so the spirit man as we understand has capacities it has capacities maybe more than the human body because the human body has all these senses we can see we can hear we can feel we can touch we can taste but the human spirit can do this and much more so here is the key for a person who wants to operate in the gifts of the spirit I have to strengthen my spirit senses okay so when my spirit senses are strong then whenever I say things like I see I am seeing this I am hearing this or I am feeling joy I am feeling a sense of caution what's happening my spirit is becoming so much sensitive or you may use the word stronger that all these abilities are now giving me an idea of what God is saying what God is speaking okay so that's how it works we've got to strengthen our spirit senses pick up the information use our godly soul to assess it and then go ahead and release it so I'll just stop at that we can always discuss more later so any questions anything to discuss right now okay yes Nina can you hear me please give us a moment yeah go ahead yeah this thing about contamination or filthiness of flesh which is mentioned in 2nd Corinthians which we talked about it says let us purify ourselves from everything that the version that I am reading says contaminates otherwise it's filthiness so the way to get when it says let us purify ourselves I think there's one more thing in Thessalonians also where it says something about praying that you keep your spirit soul and body keep them blameless right so there is a there can be like you mentioned a tendency for the spirit to be contaminated so will that happen maybe see because if we how do we get out of that is it like keeping our our source has to be the word of God and the Holy Spirit of course he will always confirm what the word of God says there will be no contradiction there is that the way that we can can it come about because you know of listening to wrong kind of things or you know when we say contamination the spirit is not getting the right information from the Holy Spirit or from the word is that when the contamination takes place okay sure good question Nina I will just give you my perspective just a moment please alright so the way we could get contaminated firstly is to not engage with the word when we look at what Jesus said in John 17 he said you are clean you are already clean because of my word so then we understand that the word has a property of cleansing us when we look at Ephesians chapter 5 we see that the Lord Jesus cleanses his church he is preparing a spotless blemishless bride you know we read about that and it says he cleanses her by the washing of the word so how does the cleansing happen by the word so if there is no word in our lives obviously we cannot experience cleansing so the word is important now just because we are saying the word listening to the word or having the word in us that in itself will not do the job because James talks about being hearers of the word you know and not being doers of it so we have got to respond also so this filthiness of the spirit can happen because of yeah disobedience when we read the book of Hebrews it's beautiful he goes on saying if you hear his voice today do not harden your hearts so that hardening of the heart is what the hardening of the heart is we know what is right but we don't do it we know what is right but we postpone it it's disobedience, partial disobedience is also disobedience so for God you know the thing that corrupts us firstly we don't know the word that can damage we won't be cleansed but even if we know the word when our hearts are not sensitive to God we are like yeah we take it lightly that is the dangerous part in fact the book of Hebrews talks about that when you hear his voice today do not harden your hearts he repeats it again and again do not harden your hearts if you get the slightest prompting from the Holy Spirit respond, respond, respond so when we are living our Christian life like that being sensitive and being obedient then we can be far away from this corruption but if we are not if we are hardening our hearts that's the opposite that hardening in the long run can lead to what we are talking about Nina really dangerous does that help you? does it answer your question could you please unmute and let us know okay yeah she says yes thank you really good question and what you asked one more part that you asked if we are getting the wrong information will we get corrupted because I think today that's a danger we hear so many things on YouTube and everywhere we don't know if it's good content so actually it can if we are continuously listening to wrong teaching it can mess with our minds so it's so important to decide what you want to listen to okay don't listen to everything don't listen to everyone if anywhere you sense that there is something inappropriate or you know wrong interpretation of Scripture no need to expose yourself to that so when people hear the teaching they may not understand whether they are hearing it, whether wrong or right because some scriptures you can't understand clearly so they will take by their perception because some this is how they want so they hear only that they don't want to look the other way around they think that's the correct thing I know see if people are in that mode it's quite difficult actually to convince them out of it so in that situation it might be best to just pray for them pray for them and if there is an opening if they are willing to listen then of course to state why that teaching is not correct or all that but yeah can begin with prayer yes okay good alright we will stop with that for today and then we will meet next week could somebody please pray so that we can wrap up Father Gauri thank you and we bless you this time you are giving us Lord help us to hear from you Lord help us to be a blessing to others Lord help us Lord Holy Spirit help us Lord to hear from you clearly Lord so that we will will be a blessing and help us to read your word and do what is right before you Lord Jesus may we pray amen amen thank you thank you Lena thank you everyone God bless you have a great week