 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome back to a new week and hope you had a good week last week. Let's begin this time with the word of prayer. Maybe one of us, George here, with your mind leading us in prayer, please. Okay, anybody else? Yes, go ahead, Sir, Sirs. I will pray. My father, my daughter want to thank you this morning. Thank you for this lecture. Thank you for all of us here today. Thank you for giving us privilege to open our eyes, and receive all the glory in the name of Jesus. My father, my daughter, will commit this lecture into you. Please Lord guide us and impart us with your spirit in the name of Jesus. And give us the spirit of lay, and all the time. Amen, amen. Amen, thank you so much, success. Thank you, amen. All right, so let's get into a session this morning. Just a little bit of a review of what we did last week. So we started off this course with looking at the introduction to the five-fold ministry. And very important points that we covered was that the ministry gift is given by God. And it is not something of our own choice. God bestows it upon people, right? And so when we are fulfilling whatever call God has given for our lives, we are fulfilling the divine call of God. So it's not just a natural, you know, in the natural, we say, OK, I'm a pastor, I'm a prophet. Yes, but but in the but in the spiritual, we are fulfilling a divine call of God, right? And we looked at the purpose of the five-fold ministry, right? The purpose is not so that we can exalt ourselves so that we, you know, we can gain riches or we can become popular and famous. But we saw the three-fold purpose there for the perfecting of the saints so that the saints can do the work of the ministry and for the building of the body of Christ. So whether we are a pastor, prophet, evangelist, teacher, anything in the five-fold ministry, worship leader, our main intention is that we are equipping the saints, right? Of course, and as we are equipping the saints, we are also a work in progress. We are also learning. Two is we are equipping them to do the work of the ministry. And by doing that, we are building the body of Christ, right? And then we also looked at the briefly about the role, which is the function and the ministry function and the ministry gift. So we saw that the ministry function is something that is that has a special anointing upon people. We use an example of Billy Graham, right? He he has his functions as the evangelist. And then you have the ministry gift where we all can function in the ministry gift, right? So with this as our foundation, let's get into the next topic, second point, second chapter. The evangelist and Jesus as our example. Now, by show of hands, can you I just like to know how many of you are called to the evangelist? If you know that God is called, you sure you know, I am going to be an evangelist. How many of you are here? OK, Daphina says, yes, anybody else, you know you're going to be an evangelist. All right. OK, no problem. So we'll see we learn this morning about what it is to be an evangelist and how did Jesus model us as an example, right? Jesus set the example and in every aspect, Jesus is our best example, whether it is the fivefold ministry, whether it is, you know, character, whether it is hard work, everything. Jesus is our best example, right? So let's get into chapter two. And let's look at the first one there. The Greek word for evangel. Means to proclaim the good news, right? So that's the Greek word. Evangel means to proclaim the good news. Now, if you and I. Proclaim the good news. We are evangelizing, right? Our calling may not be an evangelist, right? God may not have said, you know, spoken to us and said, OK, you are going to be an evangelist. But but what does it say here? The Greek word means to proclaim the good news so you can proclaim the good news to your friends, to your neighbor, to your family, maybe two or three people around where you stay. What are you doing? You are evangelizing the good news, right? So now if some of you say, hey, I'm a pastor or I'm an apostle, I'm a prophet, so I can. I don't want to learn about evangelist. Evangelist is let them learn it. No, we all will evangelize and we all will be using the ministry gift of evangelism, right, of being an evangelist. So Romans chapter one and verse 16. Let's read that. It's a common verse, Romans one and verse 16. Feel free to stop me if you have any questions and we can take that up as well. Romans chapter one and verse 16. Go ahead, anybody can read. Romans chapter one verse 16, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of the God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. Amen, thank you, Anita. So we see here, Paul is writing here saying, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Why? The gospel, the message that we are sharing is the power of God unto salvation, right? So the evangelist is primarily a proclamer of the gospel, right? So we learned also in lifestyle evangelism, right? So for example, I don't think I'm called to be an evangelist, right? I'm not really sure, right? I think my calling is more of a pastoral ministry, but I love to evangelize. I love to reach out to people. I love to do these events and programs and share the love of Christ with people. Now, I may not be an evangelist, but one thing I know is when I am proclaiming the gospel, it is the power of God unto salvation. So it doesn't matter. I don't have to wait and say, okay, God, you first tell me what is my calling or what is it that you've called me to do and only then I will start off. No, I can begin because remember what Jesus said in his last day on earth, he met with the disciples and he gave them a great commission. What did he say? He said, what did he say? He said, go, preach the gospel, baptize in the name of God. He didn't say, go, find out what you're calling is, right? Did he say that? No, he said, go and preach. That's all the commission was, go, preach the gospel because it is the power of God unto salvation, right? Now, let's read Luke chapter 4, 17 to 19. Luke 4, 17 to 19. So I may be looking here and there, it's just that I'm looking at my notes, so please bear with me. Luke chapter 4 was 17 and 19, 17 to 19. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him and rolling it, he found the place where it is written. The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind to release the oppressed, to proclaim the ear of the Lord's favor. Amen, thank you. Thank you, John. So just a background. Now, Jesus is 30 years old odd. He's ready to start his ministry and he goes back, he opens up the scrolls and in the temples, they would open the scrolls and read about it. And usually what they would do was, they would have something similar to what we have. They would bring up a few points from that topic, right? So just before the early church, during Jesus' time, they had Pharisees, they had Sadducees, but the Pharisees were more of, you know, preaching, teaching, equipping the people. So during that time, Jesus goes, he opens the scrolls and he says, the spirit of the Lord, quoting from Isaiah, and then he says something after that. He says, today the scripture is fulfilled and they all become angry. And they all say, what are you talking about? Because they knew that this is something wrong. This is going beyond our expectations, right? And what does he say there? Preaching the gospel, which is the good news to the poor, healing the oppressed, and then the list goes on. Now, it's interesting to see the word, the poor, right? When we say the poor, it's not only the poor materialistically. Not people who are like, okay, poor people on the street. No, it was poor and also those who, you know, don't know about the gospel. Those who haven't witnessed, you know, this messiah, those who haven't tasted the goodness of God. So they were poor in spirit, right? So it was more, even the poor, those who don't have, you know, materialistic things and living in the poor life, but more of it was spiritual. Now, remember the Pharisees and the Sadducees? They knew everything from the scriptures, but they were poor because they just knew it as head knowledge. It did not become something that they could, you know, did not become revelation in their heart. And that is why when we read from the book of Matthew, from the time John the Baptist has come in, we see that there's a spirit of coldness among the people. There was just a spirit of religiosity. They're just being religious, right? Okay, we have to go, we have to do this, we have to pray, we have to do these feasts. Why? Because our ancestors did, we are doing it, right? So Jesus comes and he says, no more of that. I'm here to proclaim a message, and that message is about bringing the poor to become rich, to be rich in the spirit, to heal the sick, to heal the oppressed, and he goes on. So as an evangelist, as a person who has been called by God, as a believer, you and I are to preach the gospel and bring forth these attributes, right? Good news to the poor, healing the oppressed, healing the sick, and now here's the best part. When we're doing it, we don't do it on our own effort, right? We can trust God. You always say, okay, God, you've done the work, now I'm just doing what you have called me to do, right? So now let's look at how the Lord Jesus functioned as an evangelist, right? In the book of Hebrews, it says that he's our mediator, he's our high priest, right? He's our shepherd, and we look at it last class, right? How he fulfills all the five-fold ministry, now how did Jesus be an evangelist? How did he function as an evangelist? Let's look at those points there on your notes, chapter two. First point is Jesus was empowered, right? Jesus was empowered. Now there's a Greek word called dunamis, right? And the meaning of that Greek word dunamis is really powerful. It says, it means dynamite, right? Dynamite, explosive power. And how many of you have been next to a dynamite? It's quite intimidating, right? To see those. I'm not talking about those small crackers which we burst, I'm talking about a dynamite, right? And it's explosive, it's dangerous. When a dynamite bursts, what happens? It doesn't just affect people around in that area, it usually spreads to farer places. But the effects of the dynamite is seen, right? Now in the scriptures, it says that we have the dunamis power, the dynamite power of God within us, right? The Lord Jesus was empowered by the Holy Spirit. Now, can you picture this? Who was the Lord Jesus? He was the Son of God, right? Came into this world. Hebrews says he left his glory, he came and he lived as a man and he could have just relaxed, no? Just relax, wait till 30. He knew that he's gonna start at 30. He knew everything, but he didn't do that. What does it say? That he grew in stature and wisdom. So even though he was powerful, he depended on the Holy Spirit to empower him even more. Right? And let's read these couple of verses here. Luke chapter four verse 18, and then we'll pull up some examples as well. Luke four and verse 18, anybody can read. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim the freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's feet. Thank you, John. I just wanna focus on that word. The Spirit of the Lord has anointed me, right? Anointed me. And last week, we looked at the importance of being anointed, right? The importance of receiving a fresh anointing for our ministry. The Spirit of the Lord has anointed me. The Lord Jesus didn't say, hey, you know, Father, the Holy Spirit and me are all one. So I don't need any anointing and all. I just have to say it, it will be done. No, he says, the Spirit of the Lord has anointed me, empowered me. I am empowered by this Holy Spirit. Let's read Acts chapter 10, verse 38. Acts 10 and verse 38. Yes, anybody can read. Acts 10, 30, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him. Thank you, John. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. Matthew two, verse two to four. Matthew chapter two, verse two through four. Yeah. Yes, anybody can read. Matthew two, two to four. Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw the start in the east and have come to worship him. When king had heard that this he was disturbed and all the rest. I'm so sorry, John. It's Hebrews two, two to four on the North, sorry. It's Hebrews two, chapter two, verse two to four. Hebrews two, chapter two to four. For if the words spoken through angels proved steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will. Yeah. Thank you so much, Rosalind. Now here's a point that we must all understand. When we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, signs, miracles and wonders will follow us, right? Now, we don't have to worry about, okay, you know what, I've prayed for so many people but they've not got healed or, you know, I'm not sure if this is going to happen. We don't have to do that. We don't have to worry about it. Why? Because if we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, what follows? There's the signs, wonders and miracles. Now, let's look at a few examples, right? It's not on your notes, but in Luke chapter eight, right? The Lord Jesus was 26 to 28. I think it is where the Lord Jesus sets sail and he goes to the land of Giresannus, right? And what happens there? There's this demon possessed person. They come running towards Jesus, right? And they give a little background about this demon possessed person also. They tied him up, they chained him, he would scratch himself, they tied him up in the graveyards and nothing really worked. People were scared of him, right? The community, the society was scared of this demon possessed man. But Jesus stepped foot in that land and what happened after that? The demons themselves came running and said, oh, Son of God, the Messiah, the anointed one, why have you come so early before our appointed time? When we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, demons understand who's inside us, right? And we saw that in Jesus' life, right? In the Apostle Paul again, he goes about in all his missionary journeys, he started churches, he raised up leaders, he went on these missionary journeys. Now think of this, can we do it on our own flesh? It's, I would say it's impossible, right? Because if you read about the Apostle Paul and the things that he's been through, it is nothing but the empowering of the Holy Spirit. Now, we must understand also that it is not, you know, take a flight, fly to Galatia from Galatia, take another flight, go to Corinth and take another flight. Okay, I finished my three missionary. No, we know that it was hard ground, it was either by sea or by walk and he was, you know, going through all these turmoil and people just buffering him from every side, but he was empowered by the Holy Spirit. I love what he says to the Philippian church, sitting in prison, he's probably beaten and bruised and he's saying, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. Now, how can we do that? We can do that only if we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, right? Another example would be in Acts 28, the Apostle Paul goes to the island of Malta, right? That's his final journey. He's going back, he's going to Rome and he knows his end is near. They stop at the island of Malta, there's a shipwreck, he's there, they're putting a fire in together and he gets bit by a snake. What is Apostle Paul's response? You know, some of the versions say he was bit by a wiper. Now, a wiper is a venomous snake. If you look at it, if you study about the wiper, when poison goes into the body, it just goes straight into the blood, the wiper, the rattlesnakes, the poison goes straight into the blood and you know, a little bit of national geography here, it takes 15 minutes for your heart to start pounding and within 20 minutes you're dead, right? Because the bloodstream, it just blocks your arteries, the blood is not flowing and you die of a cardiac arrest or a heart attack. Now, there's no medicines, now we have anti-venoms in all of those things, but Paul is in Malta, he gets bit by a snake. What does he do? He shakes it off. Do we see anything else about that? Nothing. He doesn't say, okay, now I have to tie a cloth around it or I have to just call up Luke and check with him because he's a physician, he may give me some advice. No, he shakes off that snake, goes about doing what God has called him to do. Now, what is the lesson that we learned here? It's a powerful lesson, when we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, even the natural, we are able to control it. We're able to go beyond the natural. If you look at it, Paul should have died within half an hour. Right, this happened even previously. After his first missionary journey, they caught him, they beat him, they threw him down a cliff and they thought he was dead, they came and saw him, but he woke up and he went, right? So when we are empowered as evangelists, we need to be empowered. As believers in Christ, we need to be empowered. The moment we start something in the flesh, the flesh will profit nothing, right? But a work that is started by the Spirit will always profit. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. It's not our work, right? Now, when you look at, even in the Old Testament, empowered people, beautiful, Moses, and there's a long list, you know, we can go on. Moses was empowered by God, right? There's no way you can lead six billion people on your own. And all of them are grumbling and crying. But he led them all. He saw the glory of God. He was empowered by God. Elijah, you know, who says, who says to the king of Israel during that time? He says, you know what? If you're not listening, there's not gonna be rain. Or who gives an open challenge, you know? 400 prophets of Baal and Asorod, all these prophets, and he alone stood against them. Why? Because he was empowered by God. What about David? All of them are hiding. There's a huge man, Goliath in front of them. David says, no, God is with me. I'm empowered by God. So, very important. When we are in ministry or in anything that we're doing, we wanna serve God. Make sure that you're empowered by God, right? Now, if you feel weak, we all go through those seasons, right? When I felt that, you know, we feel weak, we feel God, where are you? I feel alone. I feel that there's no power. I feel there's no strength. Go back. Go to your room. Close the door and pray. And say, God, ask him for the empowering strength. And so, no matter what we see ahead, you know, especially during a time and a season that we are in, we really need to be empowered. You know why? Because it's anti-conversion bill. There are people who are saying, you know, all kinds of false doctrines coming within the church. People are saying, there is no God. There is no Jesus. And, you know, all new belief systems, the occult, the mysticism, yoga, all these things are taking up the world. Now, if we want to be impactful evangelists, we need to be empowered. Because when we are empowered, we will see signs, miracles, and wonders, right? Remember this one time, I was, I think it was many, many years back, I met this young man and we were talking and he said that, you know, I'm going through this problem in my body and it's been many, many years. But one thing I want you to do is don't tell me that Jesus died on the cross and Jesus can forgive, because I can prove to you that Jesus was just a man. I said, yeah, Jesus was a man, but he was not just a man. But he said, no, I'll prove to you, I'll prove that, you know, and I said, God, this guy is one intellectual guy, please help me. Right, and long story short, we, you know, I remember praying and just, I didn't do any, you know, there was no like screaming, shouting, praying in tongues, nothing. Just said God, open his eyes, remove that scales from his eyes that he may see you. All of a sudden, he just began to experience the presence of God. He felt a burning sensation and just scales falling off and just a revelation of who God is came into his heart. Now, how does this happen? It is only when we are empowered, right? Jesus was empowered. Can you, can you imagine this? Who was Jesus? He's a carpenter's son, where was he? Also with them in Galilee, some, and, you know, he was not famous, he's not a big Pharisees and he's not from a rich family or a famous family, you know. Why do you think there were 10,000s of people following him? And did you ever think of that? Why did, you know, when he's preaching on the mountain, why did 10,000 people come? Do you think they didn't have any other work or were they like, okay, we have nothing to do, let's go see some miracles? Maybe some of them, but 10,000 people. Why? Because they knew there is something about this man. He was empowered. When we are empowered, people will recognize, demons will recognize and our work in the ministry will be fruitful. So that's point number one, point two. But as an evangelist, we must always know our audience, right? Everywhere we see the Lord Jesus ministering, he ministered with such wisdom, right? He knew his audience. So let's see a couple of examples here. First one, Luke 4.18, we already read to the poor. Let's read that second point to the lost sheep of Israel. Matthew chapter 10 was five and six. Let's read that. Matthew chapter 10, five and six. Anybody can read. We still, Jesus sent out with the following instructions. Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. Could we read verse seven also? No, just five and six. Yeah, that's fine. Thank you, John. So here Jesus is appointed. He's told his disciples, okay, go, but don't go to the Gentiles or to the Samaritans, but go first to the lost sheep of Israel. We know, right? We always have to take texts, put it into context. So we know that Jesus was trying to first reach out to the Israelites, to his own people, and then to, of course, to others. And so when we are ministering to people, right, we will reach out to different people, people of different audiences. There's the youth, there are families, there are teens, there are children, there are older age senior citizens. Now, this is rule number one in preaching. Know your audience. Now I can't take a youth message and preach it to families who are sitting. Or imagine this, I take a marriage and family course for teens. And it's not going to be helpful for them as for that time, right? So know your audience. Jesus knew his audience. There were sinners, there were lepers, there were paralysed people, there were people who were sick in their body, oppressed, demon-possessed people. And on the other hand, there was the elite, right? You have, you know, the Bible says that Joseph of Arimatai was one of the, you know, believers of Christ. He was a rich man. Then you got the Roman citizen who said, come and pray, because my servant is unwell, right? You got Cornelius, right? So, so you, we see that there is a beautiful blend, right? Of both kinds of people. So know your audience. Know who you're ministering to, right? Now, you know, when you look at the, when Jesus says the lost sheep of Israel, it is, they are lost. Why are they lost? Like we mentioned, right? So from Malachi, God stopped sending prophets. He said, I'm not going to send any more prophets. Enough of prophets. Israel as a nation has turned away from me. So I'm going to keep quiet. So for 400 years of silence, they were nothing but lost sheep without a shepherd. They didn't know what they were doing. It was just monotonous, religious beliefs, right? 400 years, imagine. God not speaking for 400 years. Sometimes we go, if it's two, three days, we feel, Oh God, it's, where are you? You haven't spoken, right? 400 years. They don't know what is right. They don't know what is wrong. There is no moral standing. So Jesus comes and he begins to talk about, you know, lostness, a lot of parables, parable of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost coin. And, and he begins to focus on these lost people. You know, we may have a lot of things, but if we are lost, we are nowhere. And then there was the sinners, meaning the lepers, the paralysed. And you see the grace of God, even at the cross, Jesus knew his audience. He says to the one, you know, you will be with me in paradise. What a powerful, powerful statement, right? He knew that this person needs the gospel. He needs to, you know, be saved. And there was a turning in his heart, which he recognized. And so when we are ministering to people, we need to do it out of love, out of, out of this whole thing of how Jesus did it as an evangelist, right? Let's look at the next point. Third one is the message. Now, this is the most important part, right? First, we looked at empowered. What if we are empowered? What if we have the right audience, but we have the wrong message? Is it going to bear fruit? What, hey, God has anointed us, right? Empower, do not miss power inside us. It's just bursting, right? You got the right audience, right? You're in a place where, you know, they are ready to receive the gospel. But what if the message is wrong? If the message is wrong, it's not going to help, right? It's not going to serve the purpose. So what is the message that the Lord Jesus preached? Now, if we look through the scriptures, you know, he spoke about two very important points. And everywhere we see that, right? One, he spoke about repentance. And surprisingly, second, he spoke about hell, right? Nowadays, we talk about hell. They'll say, oh, you're a hellfire preacher. Don't preach about hell. Only grace and goodness of God. Yes. The Lord Jesus has more grace than any one of us, but he preached more on hell than anybody else, right? And so, of course, he did it with love, not with condemnation. And so, first one, repentance, a complete turning away of heart, which means you leave the things of this world and follow Jesus. And that's what Jesus did, right? Now, as an evangelist, he shared the same message. He said, Peter, are you willing to follow me? Yeah, no, not me, Lord. I'm not good enough. It's okay, come. So we could see that there was a change in heart, right? Now, it sounds very catchy, right? Think of it. Jesus, follow me. Okay, Jesus says, follow me. Peter just drops his net and walks up, wow. How? We must understand that that's his business. That's his livelihood. He's got a wife and probably had children. We don't know, but we do know that he had a wife. He had a family to look after. What is he gonna do following this man who's, who he's met, maybe who he's seen, but met only once? Why? Because the message was too convincing. It was too convincing. True repentance brings conviction, right? So when we are preaching the message of Jesus Christ, the true gospel, that will bring repentance into people's heart, right? That will bring conviction. And that's what Jesus did, right? He, the disciples say, I'm not worthy, Lord. Now, what about Matthew? That's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, you know, example where he says, Matthew, you follow me. He says, I'm a tax collector. Nobody would want me. Nobody wants to talk to me first. And secondly, they want, they're angry with me because I'm taking, you know, tax from you all and giving it to the Roman government. And as a tax collector, I'm betraying my own people and my own nation. And you are saying, follow me. Now, what happened in Matthew's heart? There was a change, complete turnabout, right? Because there was a message involved, the true message of the gospel, right? Of the kingdom of God, repentance. Now, with repentance, Jesus spoke about many things. He was a teacher, right? And so he spoke about faith. He spoke about love, grace, every aspect. Forgiveness, beautiful, right? Remember when he talked about faith, if you have faith as a mustard seed, right? And then a couple of days later, he says, okay, you go on and I will follow you. What happens? He walks on water. First, he teaches them and then he displayed it. And he asked them, where is your faith? Five loaves of bread and two fish feeding the thousands. Disciples go, okay, God, Jesus, you did it once, but the second time, I'm not sure, do you think you can do it the second time? You know, probably in Jesus's mind, it was like the message remains the same. Nothing changes. Bring what you have. Last time you took 12, one each. This time, how many do you want to take? You see faith there. Lazarus is dead. Just everyone are mourning and crying and Jesus says, don't worry, I'm the resurrection, I am the life. You see the message there? So God, the Lord Jesus will give us these opportunities as a evangelist. The message that we share is very important. I remember this once, you know, many, many years back, it just became a believer. And I had invited one pastor. I had invited a couple of my friends who are, you know, still drug addicts and they don't like, you know, anything about Christianity and all of that. And I told them, you come home. And so they were kind of, they, you know, we were good friends. So they said, okay, we'll come. And I told them, see, just calling somebody to just speak to us. We can hear them. We don't like it to leave it. So with great, with a lot of difficulty, you know, convince them and these guys came home, they were like, you know, fully high. And I wanted the gospel to touch them, right? I wanted them to really experience the power of God the way I did. And so I called this pastor. I said, you come, you preach nicely. You preach about Jesus, what Jesus did on the cross and, you know, how we find forgiveness and how he changes our lives. I just gave him that he came, he started preaching and he started telling his own testimony. He started sharing about how, what happened in another place and this and that. And, you know, I was so upset because all of them, well, by three sentences, they were falling asleep. And I saw that there was no effort taken. He was just randomly speaking some, something which, you know, it didn't cut through. I remember when the anointing is there, people can feel it, people can experience it, right? When we are empowered. And I'm not saying that he was not anointed, but what I'm trying to say was there was no preparation and the message was not effective, right? He just said something. And for 20 minutes, he said, okay, do you want to give your life to Christ? Of course they are not gonna give their life to Christ because he was not convincing enough. And I realized that they, what a, you know, it was just have so sad with what happened. I said, I'm never gonna do this again. And I made sure that, you know, whenever I called somebody, I would listen to that person's message and then make them share it because the message is important, right? And after that, we did get opportunities to share with my friends, but that initial first time was a failure. Why? The message was wrong. The message was, it was not wrong, but it was not effective, right? So the Lord Jesus delivered his messages very effectively, right? As preachers and teachers of the word, we must learn to do that. We must deliver the message effectively, right? Especially as evangelists, you know, you have probably five minutes with the person, right? Five, 10 minutes and not more than that. So, you know, now if you go on to do a survey and if you go online, you see these videos, it's the first 10 seconds. If the first 10 or 15 seconds is not catchy enough, we're gonna skip. We're gonna go to the next video. Yes. All of us, maybe, you know, maybe open a message or we're opening a couple of songs or listening to a song, sometimes even worship songs. Oh, the first part itself is not, we skip. Oh, this person, I don't know who she is singing or who is he singing. We skip, right? So, the message is the key, right? Delivering the right message. Be minister as evangelists in faith. The message delivered should be the right message. Let's go to the next point and then we can take a break. Fourth one is methods. What is the method the Lord Jesus used, right? Let's read Matthew chapter nine, 35 and 36. Matthew nine, 35 and 36. Yes, anybody can read. Matthew chapter nine, 35 and 36. Matthew chapter nine, verse 35 and 36. Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Let's also read Acts 2, 22. Acts 2, 22. Yes, anybody can read. Acts chapter two, verse 22. Men of Israel, listen to this. Jesus of Nazareth was a man created by God which God did among you through him as you yourselves know. Yeah, thanks, Japhina. So we see here the method was after preaching the gospel, there were signs and wonders. Now we know the miracles that Jesus did, right? Plenty of them. He looked at the paralyzed and he said, we healed. He looked at the leper and he said, if you're willing, he'll be, yes, I'm willing and heal them, right? And he did such mighty miracles. And this same work of the Holy Spirit continued on in the early church in the book of Acts, right? Remember Peter? What did he do? Peter is walking and he's doing shadow ministry. Everyone are being healed, right? Now the Holy Spirit is the same. The outcome is science miracles and wonders but the way it happened may be different. Right? So for example, Jesus healed the blind in many places. He held their eyes in another place. He sat on the ground, put a place and said, go wash it. Not this place. He just said, be healed, right? But the outcome was the same. The way he did it may have differed. Right? So supernatural becomes natural. And that's the method, science and wonders, right? What we'll do is we'll take a break. We'll come back and continue from here, right? Let's take 10 minutes. We'll come back at 10 o'clock.