 So we see that, you know, we are really privileged as believers, right, that Trutu's word, the Lord did, no, he said, I will not leave you, orphans. And we have God the Holy Spirit who is abiding, staying, remaining with us. And he's doing all these wonderful works in us so that he might work through us for the glory of God and the work of the Kingdom. So it's an amazing privilege to fellowship with God through the Holy Spirit, to receive from him all that he wants to give us. Again, he does that through the Holy Spirit and to be equipped, to be empowered, to be anointed, to do the works that he's called us to do. So for us, this is like we looked at and prayed in the earlier session that we would invite the work more and more of the work of the Spirit. So like we saw, the work of the Spirit can be resisted. We can quench the work of the Spirit, how? Well, he leads us and we don't want to follow or he, you know, he prompts us and we kind of disregard that, right? He teaches us and we don't want to receive that. So these are ways by which we can grieve the Spirit when we, you know, having all these things that we indulge in things of the flesh, right? This morning, like John asked a question, you know, about sowing to the Spirit and sowing to the flesh from, you know, from Ephesians again, the fact that, you know, having all this, like knowing all this, when we sow the flesh, then obviously it grieves, grieves the Holy Spirit because you see that so much has been given, right? So much has been given and he's for us and he's with us and he is leading us to discover those things he has placed in our lives. He's leading us to discover those things that he is, you know, he's already prepared for us and to walk in it, empowering us to walk in it and so on. So it grieves the heart of God when we, you know, turn back and indulge in things of the flesh, right? So for us to really walk in the Spirit, as what God says, walk in the Spirit and we will not fulfill the desires or the works of the flesh, right? Fulfill, we will not fulfill the desires or the suggestions of the flesh. So much has been given, right? And for us to embrace that, to invite and to walk in it, that's the privilege of us as sons and daughters of God and that, right? Maybe I'll choose to do that in an ever-increasing measure every day, right? Okay, so we looked at the kinds of prayer, all kinds of prayer and prayer also being a weapon in the arsenal that the armor of God, the list, which is listed, we see in Philippians 1 that prayer releases the supply of the Spirit. It's a prayer that I think Paul requests to be prayed, Philippians 1 and verse 19. Okay, Philippians 1 19, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Okay, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. So the supply of the Spirit, you know, we know that he indwells us, we know that he fills us, baptizes us and there are many infillings, right? We can be filled with the Spirit every day if we would ask him and receive from him, you know that. But also, you know, God being God and God being infinite, you know, there's always more of him, right? So here he says, you know, for I know that this will turn out he's actually in prison and he's talking about those who preach Christ, even from envy and strife and all that. And then he's rejoicing that in every instance, in some way or the other, Christ is preached and he's saying, you know, even this whole thing will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit, right? So the Spirit of God being supplied or, you know, being made available or called, you know, through the prayers of the saints, right? In intervening in his life and deliverance and so on, right? So prayer releases the supply of the Spirit. So if we have questions, you know, why supply of the Spirit when I already have the Spirit or why infilling of the Spirit when I have the Spirit? So a simple answer is this, that he is infinite. There's always more to him, more to different facets to what we have known him and experienced him and because he's infinite, there's always more, right? He gives and he keeps on giving. There's more to him, so more to receive from him as well. Okay. Jude 20 talks about the love of God praying in the Holy Spirit. Let's read Jude and verse 20. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Okay. So it's actually more to do with building ourselves up in our most holy faith, keeping ourselves in the love of God, praying in the Holy Spirit. Now the praying in the Holy Spirit is the connection, right? It's to the key to building ourselves up on our most holy faith. So that's what he says, but you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God. So it would help both to keep ourselves in the love of God and to build ourselves in the Holy Spirit, build ourselves on our most holy faith, when we pray in the Holy Spirit, right? Okay. Okay. Yeah. 20 and 21, right? Okay. So what are some of the other things that we can see? You know, we worship, right? The Lord Jesus says, those who worship God, this is how we must be worshiped. You must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. John chapter 4, 23, 24. And the Philippians chapter 3 and verse 3 also says that, for we are the circumcision who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So in the Spirit, meaning, you know, as led by the Spirit, as facilitated by the Spirit, and also, you know, John 4, 23 talks about in the Spirit, you know, out of our Spirit, that worship is not something, you know, it's not a ritual or anything, but it's something that is done in the Spirit, in the inner man, worship God in spirit and truth. So both those aspects, we abound in hope by the Spirit. Romans 15, 13, we abound in hope. And that's the work of God, you know. When there is no hope, people lose everything. They lose their zest for life when there's no hope. There's nothing more to do. When all hope is gone and they come to a place of being, saying that, you know, you know, what is, what else is left? There's nothing more, you know, I don't need to continue that kind of a frame of mind, very depressing, very discouraged. But we see in Romans 15 and verse 13. Now, may the God of hope, okay, so hope comes from him, which means that God is always hopeful or if hope is, you know, bubbling up, overflowing and surrounds his presence. Now, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Okay, God of hope, fill you in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so that you and I, we may abound in hope that increase in hope have ever increasing supply. No, there's abundance, right? It's not just a meager thing, but ever increasing supply that we may abound in hope how by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit causes this God, this hope of God, this hope that comes from God and he will cause us to fill us, cause us to abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so which means that even in the most dire circumstance, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the believer has an avenue to receive hope, right? Even in the most dead-end kind of situation. And Paul was there many times and he, in fact, he says, we carried this sentence of death around on our necks, right? Saying that we carried this in our, you know, in our persecutions, you know, in our daily life, we face danger, we face persecution, we face death, right? And even in those circumstances, there was this amazing hope bubbling up, hope of eternal life, hope of being with Christ, you know, even if this world, even if this life should end. So there was always hope, right? So something so victorious, something that's triumphant about about the hope that comes from God. So for a believer, you know, maybe for ourselves, we find ourselves in that place saying, okay, God, you know, I don't know, I don't know what next, right? Just relax, because God of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, right? So many times we think that, you know, after Bible college, what? Or after, you know, I'm in this place at work, or, you know, or in this place in life, I used to be this, you know, that season of life was all exciting and great. And I used to be, you know, productive, and I was working, but now what? Maybe, you know, many of us can find ourselves in that place. And then we lose all kinds of lose all hope and getting up in the morning is difficult. And going to bed, just waiting, it's like the psalmist says, no, I get up and then just wait for night. And then the night, you just waiting for morning, you know, that kind of a thing, hopeless cycle of life. Now that is broken by the power of the Holy Spirit, who fills you with joy and peace in believing that you might abound in hope, not just for your own selves, but also for others, right? That we can minister by the power of the Spirit, this hope, no, especially for people going through bereavement, people, you know, people having lost their loved ones, and maybe lost their job, or maybe, you know, in such a traumatic situations, they ask that question, right? You know, what, what else is there? I've lost everything. I cannot take a step ahead. Now, the hope is poured out into our hearts. Joy and peace poured out into our hearts, unbelievably, you know, unexplained, unexplainable. Sometimes this peace, which, which you can't have reason for, right? You look around and say, okay, what is the reason for this joy and that I'm experiencing? What is the reason for this peace that I'm experiencing? You look around, you look, check, and see, oh, you know, things are not that great, you know, relationally, financially, things are not, but I'm experiencing this peace, I'm experiencing this joy. Well, the answer is that it's, it's through the Holy Spirit, it's by the Holy Spirit, right? Philippians 4 says, Philippians 4, 7, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, right? Which goes beyond our understanding, that's the peace of God, the peace, the quality of peace that God supplies, right? And, and we see here that in Romans 15 and verse 13, that the God of hope will fill you with this in believing by the power of the Holy Spirit, right? So, so you see that God has given us amazing, he's given us himself, right? And he's given us resources and he's not left us alone, okay? So, as a believer, we need not be hopeless, right? And every time such a thought comes, we can say, you know, I'm, I will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, I receive the ministry of the Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit, you know, fill me, fill me with your hope, fill me with your joy, fill me with your peace, right? Galatians 5, 5, for we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, okay? So, he's talking about the finished work of salvation and he's saying that we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, okay? So, by the Spirit, through the Spirit here, we have many scriptures through the Spirit in the everything referring to the work of the Holy Spirit, work done by the Holy Spirit, okay? Let's look at another verse, Colossians 1 and it was 18 and Colossians 118. Is it 118? Okay, just check. Yeah, 118, so yeah, it's not 18, 118. So, he is talking about Ipaphras and you also learn from Ipaphras, our dear fellow servant who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf who also declared to us your love in the Spirit, okay? So, again, love for God, love for the people of God and declared to us your love in the Spirit, okay? So, we look at some of these things that the Holy Spirit does and leads the believer into and he is also the one who baptizes into the spiritual body of Christ. The minute we believe we are placed immersed in the spiritual body of Christ where we see in which we see in 1 Corinthians 12 and in verse 13, right? 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 13 says that for by one spirit we were all baptized, okay? So, by one spirit. So, this is not talking about water baptism or baptism with the Holy Spirit but he's talking about the fact that we were baptized or immersed or placed into, right? Baptized into one body that is the body of Christ. Now, as a believer you've accepted the Lord, you're washed by the blood, you're justified, you've made righteousness and we are placed in the spiritual body of Christ. So, when God looks at us, we are part of the body of Christ, the church, the global body of Christ or it could be the local body of Christ, you know, the church in Bangalore or church in, you know, whichever place that you are at, the body of Christ. And then the rest of the chapter, it talks about, you know, whether slaves are free, whether Jews are Greeks, it does not matter, we've been made to drink into one spirit or have this experience of one spirit, receiving from one spirit and we've been placed in the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, okay? So, and then he goes on to say, you know, I cannot say I don't need the other member, right? A foot cannot say I don't need the hand or I cannot say I don't need the hearing, year or whatever. You know, we all have different functions, different gifts and we are placed in one body, the body of Christ, okay? And who does that? The Holy Spirit does that, right? Okay, 2nd Corinthians 13 talks about the fellowship with the spirit, 2nd Corinthians 13 and verse 14, what we normally, you know, use as one of the ways to bless the congregation or the benediction, right? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you or, you know, normally, you know, some, you know, some churches do that always, pronounce the blessing upon the church, upon the people, believers say, you know, may the grace of God, the love of the Holy, love of the Father, love of the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you or the fellowship, the coedonia of the Holy Spirit, fellowship means partnership, fellowship means sharing, having in common, having as one, the communion, that closeness and the fellowship, the communion of the Holy Spirit, may it be with you, may you walk in that fellowship. So that's a blessing, right, over the believer. Okay, so Galatians, in the book of Galatians and specifically in chapter 3, it talks about, you know, how does the believer experience the spirit? How does the believer experience whatever the spirit brings into a believer's life, whether it's the gifts, whether it's a revelation, whether it's, you know, this communion and fellowship and so on. How does it happen? It happens by faith. Okay, so Paul while refuting the, some of the teachings that are kept into the church, people saying, you know, you need to keep the law, you need to be circumcised in order to be bought again, in order to walk with God. So he's just refuting all that. And in that, he talks about, how did you receive the spirit? How did you receive the work of the spirit? It is by faith. So that is how a believer receives the work of the spirit and the things of the spirit. It's by faith. Okay, so chapter 3 verse 2, this only I want to learn from you. Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Okay, then the next verse, are you so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Okay, so you started this journey in the spirit, your faith in the spirit. This is how you received the works of the spirit or the baptism, infilling everything you received by faith. Now having begun in the spirit, do you want to complete it in your own strength, right? Or in your own efforts? Obviously the answer is, you know, it's foolish to try and do that. Verse 5, therefore, he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you. Okay, so you're saying, whenever you ask for the work or the outpouring of the spirit or infilling of the spirit, okay, you receive it. You know, in the past, you've experienced that. Now he who supplies the spirit to you and who works miracles among you. Okay, now does he do it by the works of the law because you kept the law, because you kept, you know, these things in the law or was it because of the hearing of faith? Was it because of faith? Right, so that's verse 5. And then one more scripture we go to verse 14. He talks about, you know, how, 13 onwards he talks about how we've been redeemed, we've been taken out of the curse, taken out of the curse of the law and how we've been redeemed from that, the negative effects of that, the consequences of that. So Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. Okay, now this is why he did it. This is what he did, right? He became a curse for us on the tree. And this is why he did it, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. So the work of the spirit is by faith and through faith. Okay, it's not because of standard in life. It's not because of our experience in our walk with Christ. It's not because of any other badge or honor or performance. It's not even, this might be shocking. It's not even because of our degree of holiness, you must understand that. Because sometimes, well-meaning people might each saying, hey, you need to be holy in order to receive this Holy Spirit. But the opposite of that is true. But and the spirit whose nature is holy comes to make you Christ-like, comes to sanctify us, comes to help us walk in a greater or a higher degree of holiness. Okay, so don't condemn yourself, saying, I'm not worthy to be used by the Holy Spirit, or I still have some work to do. We will never be better. Or we will never, of our own selves, by the works of the flesh, we will never reach that place of perfection for the Holy Spirit to come and work in us. Just think about it. It's logically, it's a fallacy. It does not work that way. The fact is that the Holy Spirit comes when we receive Him by faith, or when we receive His infilling, and we receive the ministry, receive everything, the gifts by faith, so that we can walk in a greater degree of holiness, right? He enables us to worship. He enables us to see God for who He is. He enables us to discover the plans and purposes of God, the wonderful things that He has for us. He enables us to walk in those plans. For all this, the Holy Spirit does for us and in us, that we might come to a place of being effective and being Christ-like and so on. Okay, so that's the best part. That's the beautiful part, that we don't have to wait, we don't have to get our life cleaned up in order for the Holy Spirit to fill us, or to release His gifts in us, or to talk to us, or to work in us. No, the opposite is what is true. He comes to make us holy. He comes so that by the Spirit, we might put to death the deeds of the body. Okay, so you see, otherwise we'll just be waiting, right? So there's no point. So God wants to step in, step into our lives, and the Holy Spirit wants to come, rearrange our lives for the better, empower us so that we might walk in the newness of life, so that we might walk in sanctification, and all our choices might be pleasing to Him. Right? Okay, so several other things. Okay, He strengthens us. We're a house of God. I think we looked at that. Ephesians 3, 16. He strengthens us in the inner man. Let's look at that scripture. Ephesians 3, 16. This is again another prayer that Paul prays, right? Like how we saw in chapter one, he prays that prayer for the efficient believers. The same thing, he again prays again. Okay, so he says verse 14, Ephesians 3 verse 14, for this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Okay, let's read that again, that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Okay, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. So to be strong in the Spirit, to be spiritually strong, in other words, in other words, we might be physically strong. We might be emotionally strong. The Lord wants us to be strong in the Spirit, in the inner man, to have the capacity to receive from Him, to have the capacity to withstand, you know, maybe challenges, to have the capacity to withstand all those mountains and all those things that seem to come, seem to intimidate because faith is produced in the Spirit, right? It's not something that we understand here, but it goes beyond our understanding and something that enters our Spirit man, same as the peace of God, which surpasses our understanding, goes beyond our reasoning and rationale and logic and it's a revelation, it's something that we receive it, like the fruit of the Spirit. One of the things is peace. What is it? The work of the Holy Spirit, the end or the byproduct, the product of the work of the Holy Spirit is the fruit, which is the peace. And so we receive that in our lives and the peace which goes beyond our understanding here. So in our spirit, we receive revelation, we receive the work of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit and we experience, right? To be strong in the inner man, to be strong in the Spirit, to be strengthened with might in the inner man is again the work of the Holy Spirit, right? Ephesians 4-3 talks about unity, you know, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. You know, he's talking about the body, just there is one body and one Spirit and we were called in one hope of your calling and so on. So the unity, the oneness of in the Spirit that we as God's people experience, or that unity, you know, it's the unity of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit. And so, you know, I just reminded of this one thing, that we were, when I, you know, first came to know the Lord, I was part of this youth group in a small town called Coimbatore, right? About seven hours from here, six, seven hours from, from Bangalore. So in that youth group, now we had people of different ages, right? The youngest was, I think, that time studying in maybe, I think, class eight or seven or eight or nine, I don't know. The oldest person was obviously someone who would, who had a family and was working at that time and everything in between. So the age, the age was really, you know, the age range was, you know, that it was that way. So it had people who were in their teens, it had people in their twenties, thirties, forties, and even beyond. The people who used to come and teach in the youth fellowship were, you know, people who were kind of in the fifties and senior folks and so on. So they were all part of the youth group. It was called the youth group, but the fact is people of all ages were there. And there was so much unity. There was so much unity, and I can only attribute it. It's not that there were no disagreements, right? You see things, you like, you know, your likes and dislikes are different. But there was this bonding, there was this unity about things of God in the spirit. And that I can only attribute it to the unity in the spirit, that unity brought about by the Holy Spirit. Because varying ages, varying, you know, levels of maturity and so on. But God brought about that kind of a, you know, that kind of a unity. Now looking back, you know, I'm able to understand and realize that hey, this was the work of the spirit. This unity was brought about by the Holy Spirit, right? So unity among the people of God, the Holy Spirit can bring, if we would allow, right? He brings that. Okay, fellowship among God's people. Okay, let's look at Philippians 2 and verse 1. Is it Philippians 1, 2 or 2 and verse 1? Okay. Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any affection and mercy fulfilled my joy by being like-minded. So he's saying, you know, if there is, you know, in other words, he's saying, you know, there is this, you know, there is consolation in Christ, or there is the comfort of love, there is fellowship of the spirit. Okay, so in a way of asking the question, you know, rhetoric is saying, if there is anything, fulfill my joy, you know, knowing fully well that there is. So one of the things that he talks about is fellowship of the spirit, the communion, the fellowship of the spirit. And for what? He says, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. So this fellowship of the spirit also affects the fellowship among the people of God, right? So he's saying, if there is any love, comfort and love, if there is any fellowship of the spirit, affection, mercy, you be the same, right? Let it affect your unity, let it affect your be of one mind, be of one accord. And, you know, that let it affect your fellowship as well, or influence your fellowship as well, right? Okay, a few other things and then I think we'll move on. Okay, so the Holy Spirit, you know, this is something which is important. The Holy Spirit helps us or empowers us to hold on to those things that have been committed to us. Okay, now, 2 Timothy 114. One and verse 14. Let's read verse 13 and 14, verses 13 and 14. Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. So he's talking about teaching, doctrine, sound words, this pattern of sound words. That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. Okay, so that good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit is given to us. Now, if you read the verses before that, we get an understanding of what some of the things that were in Timothy's possession, right? He is an Ephesus, he's a leader or a spiritual leader of that church in Ephesus. In verse, you know, the same chapter, chapter 1 verse 6 says, Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. So, you know, through the laying on of hands, you know, he has received gift of the Holy Spirit. So he says, gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of hands. So he's saying, you, this is reminding, use it. So that is in his possession. And also, you know, when you read the other epistle, the second one, you again see similar things, you know, let, sorry, the first one, you know, it's just, he's talking about doctrine, he's talking about, you know, several things in the first chapter. Then in verse 18, he says, This charge I commit to you, San Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you were, you may wage the good warfare. Okay. So he's saying, you know, there were some prophecies, you received some prophecies, these things were made concerning you. So by then you wage the good warfare. And so, you know, things like this, and he says, give yourself to doctrine, you continue to, and then you have seen my manner of life, you've seen my, you know, my teaching, you've heard my teaching, etc. So Paul is, you know, reiterating that to Timothy and he's saying, you know, you keep by the Holy Spirit, you know, all those things that you keep by the Holy Spirit, that was all these things that were committed to you, you keep by the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us. So to the Holy Spirit really enables us to keep meaning God, protect, walk in it, be established in it, right? Don't lose that. You know, it could be the call of God, it could be, you know, several things that God has put into your life, you know, giftings and all that. So he's Paul is saying, you know, you stir them up, you know, don't neglect it, don't ignore those things. So whatever has been committed to us, the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, you're able to hold on, right, enabled by the Spirit, and then maybe the Spirit will also, the Holy Spirit will remind us, hey, you know, don't do these things, you're losing your grip on what was actually committed to you, right? This is the call, right? This is the path. But you're making some choices, you're making some decisions by which you're straying away. So the Holy Spirit is, you know, what is he doing? He's reminding, he's guiding. He who is, you know, he is doing, you know, the fact that he is the one who will guide us into all truth, like the Lord Jesus said, He will guide you into all truth. He's guiding into the truth, right, prompting, guiding, and leading, right? So that is how he empowers. He doesn't do it against our will. Okay, we need to understand that. Like all everything that we have seen, the ministry, the work, the empowering, everything is as we cooperate, as we say yes, and as we surrender and eat, right? It's not when we stand in a place of rebellion, or it's not something that is forced upon us, right? He will, he will prompt us, he will alert us, he'll awaken us to the truth. But it requires our cooperation, right? It requires us saying and our, you know, our yes to him, right? He enables us to obey the truth. He enables us to end your persecution. Okay, let's look at that. First Peter 1 and verse 22. Okay, verse 22, give us, first Peter 1, okay, I think I'm in, yeah, right, to help us to obey the truth. First Peter 1, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart. Okay, so Peter, before that, he says, you know, you were, you were redeemed by the word of God, not by corruptible things, not by, you know, and he says, you know, you need to be sober, you need to gird up the loins of your mind in the previous verses, verse 13, he says that. And then, again, he's talking about the soul, our mind, and which is purified when we obey, our mind is when we, in obedience, there is also this purifying of the soul, meaning, you know, all these unlawful, impure imaginations, thoughts are put away, how one of the ways is when we obey, and obeying the truth through the spirit. Okay, so obeying the truth through the spirit, which results in purifying of our minds, clarity in thinking, clarity in focus. So many times, you know, things are not clear, because we are, we are not still obeyed, obeyed the leading of the spirit. Once we do that, things are clear, we are alert, we realize, hey, I'm compromising on things, you know, I'm compromising on things, I'm missing around with things I should not. And there is a clarity, there is an alertness, there is a freshness, you know, which comes to your, comes to your, your imagination is purified, you're not dabbling in sin, you're not considering acts of sin, you know, maybe it's revenge, maybe it's giving into temptation, you're not considering all that, because you obey the truth. Suddenly there is clarity, suddenly there is purpose, and, you know, your actions are also in line with that, and there's a freshness that comes about, right. Now, how does it happen? It happens in obedience to the truth, and by the Holy Spirit, He leads us, He enables us, but it is we who obey, right, again, right. Okay, so the same, I think when we move to chapter 4, and when we, look at verse 14, if you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part, He's blasphemed, but on your part, He is glorified. So the spirit of God is upon you, and He's saying, you know, you count it a blessing, because you are reproached, or, you know, spoken ill of, or spoken lowly, in lowly terms, for the sake of the Gospel, for the name of Christ, right. So He mentions that, and also, Hebrews 6, verses 4 and 5, Hebrews 10 talk about, you know, how we can actually despise the spirit of God, and how we can speak lowly of the spirit of God, and that's something that we need to avoid, right. I think we, we looked at it a few times, even during our mentoring, Hebrews 6, verses 4, what is impossible, those who are ones that enlightened, have tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted of the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame, and so on. And Hebrews 10 also, 10, 26, or 26 onwards, if we sin willfully, okay, and verse 29 talks about how, how much worse punishment do you suppose would He be taught worthy, who was trampled the Son of God under foot, counted the blood of the covenant by which was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the spirit of grace, okay. Of course, and then He says, you know, we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to this saving of the soul. So these are some things that we can, you know, as a believer, you know, if you're not careful, we can end up doing this, right. Well, we have so much, we have been given so much, we've been given much, we've been given the person of the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, but we have the will to resist, we have the power of choice to ignore and to go our own way, and when we do that, then, you know, we reach a place where we have insulted the spirit, we have discredited everything that He has done, and we, you know, willfully, if we live in that kind of a lifestyle, then it's a state which is pitiable, you know, for the believer, right, and we can end up rejecting Christ altogether also, you know, that's the danger. So, well, when we look at the dimensions of the Christian life of the believer, you know, we look at these things also, right, and the most exciting adventure is the life of the believer and being led by the Spirit of God, being led by the Holy Spirit. You know, Romans chapter 8 talks about that, says that we are led by the Spirit of God. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are called sons of God, or children of God, sons and daughters of God, right. Romans chapter 8 and verse 14, for as many are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God, where you did not receive the Spirit of bondage to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God, okay. Now, this is a privilege to be led by the Spirit of God into the will of God, to know the will of God, to know which agrees with the Word of God that we might walk and do the things that God wants us to, right, to be led by the Spirit into the will of God, which agrees with the Word of God to do the works of God, okay. That's the greatest privilege of a believer, okay. So to do that, okay, to be led, it's relationship. It's not a formula, okay. We will look at several things from now on, okay. The reason I'm saying that is, I just want to reiterate that, the importance of that, because we are going to look at several aspects now. From here on, we are going to look at hearing the voice of the Spirit, baptism in the Holy Spirit, we're going to look at, you know, the nuts and bolts of it, right, break it down, look at it, and so I don't want us to understand that it's a formula, right. Though we will look at steps, we will look at, you know, some of these things in terms of steps, we'll take a close look at these things. But it is relationship, you know, knowing the will of God, being led by the Spirit of God, it, the foundation is relationship, okay. And of course, there are tests to know, am I being led by Spirit of God, when we check with the Word, when we check with several other things, you know, whether it's Jesus glorified and so on, but the thing is it starts with our walk and fellowship with God, okay. So we'll stop here, and the next class we will look at, you know, being led by the Spirit of God, what are those tests, and also, you know, we'll look at our spiritual faculty, you know, like we said, you know, the natural man does not understand, but they are foolishness to him, okay. But also, he is unable or he cannot receive them, for they are spiritually discerned. So in order for the believer for us to be spiritually discerning these things, we need to understand that we have a spiritual faculty, the Holy Spirit speaks to us in our spirit man, and we need to be able to discern, understand, and know these things. So they will be, you know, in terms of, okay, steps, you know, did we see this, did we hear this, and so on. But again, I just want to emphasize that, you know, the foundation of that is our walk with God, our fellowship with the Holy Spirit, so it's relationship again, okay. Okay, so we'll stop here, and look forward to the next class, right, we'll meet again next Thursday. Okay, take care, have a great week, and weekend ahead, God bless. Bye-bye.