 Okay good morning and welcome everyone to BC 214 and this is likely to be our last and last lecture for this course in developing the human spirit and we're going to be looking into the last lesson just looking yeah looking at the last lesson of this course imparting spirit to spirit let me just go ahead and share alright last week we covered seven functions of the spirit today we're going to talk about imparting spirit to spirit okay let me just pause and may I request somebody to please pray and then we can start somebody can pray and then we will start please good to one prayer man man all right so thank you thank you so we last week we talked about the seven functions of the human spirit and today we are going to cover the last chapter the last lesson which is imparting spirit to spirit so as we talk about developing the human spirit in this course so far we've talked about things that we do in our journey with God as we as we walk with God and how we can nurture and develop our spirit make ourselves strong spiritually and also be aware of the faculties of the human spirit because it is through the faculties of the spirit that the human spirit that the Holy Spirit speaks to us ministers to us and then we also must be aware of the functions of the spirit that means this is what our human spirit is capable of doing and so we together we in our spirit we rise up to do these things so we talked about the functions of the spirit but what we want to emphasize in this last lesson is that we can also receive from others and we can give to others in the spirit so just like in the natural you know if I have something and I have extra of something I can always give to somebody in the natural so also in the spirit if I if God has given me something I can impart that spiritually to somebody else that means I can pass it on into their spirit and similarly I can receive from others in the spirit and so there is both the imparting and receiving and we must understand how that takes place there is there is a certain criteria or a process involved through which things can be imparted in the spirit or received in the spirit so in second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 3 when Paul writes to the Corinthians he tells them he says you are an episode written by us so you are a letter that we've written so he's just using the picture of writing a letter and he tells the Corinthians you are a letter that we have written and then he explains goes on in verse 3 he says you know but we have not written it on tablets of stone but we've written it in your heart and we've not written it with ink but we've written it by the spirit of the living God so it's a very interesting thing so Paul is recognizing that ministry is really your you are in a sense you're writing upon the hearts of people you're writing something that will remain in them in their spirit but you're not writing with ink and this is not writing by human means but it is by the Holy Spirit and that we are writing it into their hearts and he also says you are an episode written in our hearts in other words it's bidirectional you know the Holy Spirit is helping us right into your heart but even before that God put you in our hearts so you are in our hearts God has placed you in our hearts there's something in our hearts for you compassion a calling a grace given in our hearts for you and so this is it's both ways God has put the Corinthians in Paul's heart and God has given Paul the ability by the Spirit to write into their hearts so he's talking about something in the spiritual realm that that's happening not something you know in the natural so we see that this is possible that we are able to write into the hearts of people by the Holy Spirit we see my other examples that we are listed here in Romans chapter 2 verse 11 the Apostle Paul is telling the Romans you know when I come to you I want to impart to you some spiritual gift so he's telling them when I come and visit you it's not just you know hi how are you how are you doing it's not like a casual friendly visit kind of thing although that may be there in the natural but in the spiritual he's saying I want to impart to you some spiritual gift so there's something he wants to give it give to them but there's a spiritual thing it's a spiritual giving right it could be revelation from God it could be the expression of the gifts of the Spirit so on and you also look at you see in the life of Timothy as Paul has written to him in both the episodes in first Timothy chapter 4 verse 18 and second Timothy chapter 1 verse 6 in both these places Paul is reminding Timothy in verse 24 Timothy says you know I want to remind you about the gifts that the gift that was given to you through the laying on of the hands of the presbytery that means the elders through prophecy so when the elders laid hands on Timothy and prophesied that there was a there was gifts released into Timothy and they writes again in second Timothy 1 6 is a stirrup the gift of God which is in you a stirrup the gift of God which is in you so gifts are given we can see a gifts were given through the laying on of hands through prophecy but it needed to be developed it needed to be stirred up it needed to be activated as opposed to okay I got a gift and it's just automatically working so we we learn something here about impartation that sometimes we can receive impartation but it can be neglected and it needs to be developed it needs to be stirred up we also see on the other hand this whole process of nurturing others spiritually right because in the New Testament we see Paul telling the Corinthians you know first Corinthians 415 he tells them I have begotten you through the gospel that means I've given birth to you he also talks about how he wants to nurture them are you you know first Corinthians 3 he says you're like babies and then you need to be nurtured or to the Galatians he says I want Christ to be formed in you and to Timothy he calls him his own son and the faith and so there is that whole nurturing birthing and nurturing that we see in New Testament scripture and I've just referenced made some few references so this also is a spiritual process right that is spiritually we are developing people we're nurturing people we're giving into their lives that is there is something happening in the spiritual realm so the question is you know whether it's imparting or birthing or nurturing you know what what are some of the things we can say how this happens and and I am also you know sharing this mainly because sometimes you know we read the scriptures like first Timothy 418 and second Timothy 1 6 and we think well it's only about laying hands so you know somebody lays hands on me and that's it I can become a spiritual giant or you know I have all these anointing or I have all these gifts I receive some spiritual impartation well we need to understand it correctly that so it is a mistake here this Romans 1 11 not Romans 2 11 Romans 11 so we just understand this correctly that there is an impartation that takes place that means God can cause spiritual things to come into our lives through other people but how it happens in what measure it happens and how it is nurtured and developed there are some things that affect all of that and that's what we want to pay attention to and be mindful of right so I just put it in these kinds of statements here just to make it clear for our benefit and you know I'll just go through these statements and this is just to summarize what we see in scripture about receiving something spiritually in the spirit so impartation is always aligned to God's call and assignment on your life so you know when we talk about something being given to us right we can receive for example we can receive teaching we can receive knowledge we can receive revelation you know so for example you're attending Bible college and you're listening to so many faculty what's happening spiritually things are being given to you spiritual knowledge is being given to you spiritual revelation is being given to you practical things about ministry is being given to you so those things are being put into your life spiritually that's happening but to receive an impartation of anointing or spiritual gifts that also will happen but that will happen aligned to God's call and assignment on your life so whatever is given to you is going to be aligned to what God's called you to do in life right so I just put an example here suppose God is called somebody to be a teacher I he can't go to somebody who's anointed worship leader and say you know you lay hands on me and I'll receive anointing to be a worship leader or I'll receive the gift to be a worship leader or receive the call or you know to become a worship leader that won't happen why because for you for this person God's called this person to be a teacher this person God's called and gift to that person to be a worship leader so the calling of God and the gift that God is given will determine the kind of anointing and grace that is imparted that one can receive right so keep that in mind in other words impartation anointing is not going to put me into a different calling or put me into a different assignments that's not going to happen because the call and assignment comes from God the impartation is given to help us move further in the call and further in the assignment second statement we can say from scripture is that impartation often takes place in a measure right so yeah there may be times when one person may receive a full measure of what the other person is carrying there may be times where one person may receive a double poor measure of what the other person's carrying but those are you know what we would say exceptions that those are something that God can do it of course but those are not something you're seeing you know happen every day into every other person no usually impartation happens in a measure so example when Moses and the 70 elders the anointing that was on Moses was taken and put up on 70 other people but they didn't end up with 71 prophets like Moses no there was Moses there were 70 elders but the 70 elders received an impartation from Moses but it was in a measure what was the measure for them to do what God had called them to do which was to be leaders over smaller groups of people whether were 50 or 100 and and they received the anointing to do that are they what Moses and Joshua Joshua actually stood in the shoes of Moses that means he took over the leadership from Moses but he didn't have the same kind of anointing as Moses did why because the calling was different Moses had to bring them out of slavery across the wilderness to the land of promise Joshua's calling was go possess the land of promise fight battles conquer cities overthrow enemies calling was different take possess the inheritance Moses lead them through the inheritance so what about these people needed God anointed them and even though there was an impartation from Moses to Joshua what was imparted was aligned to Joshua's calling and you can read that in Deuteronomy the last chapter but it says that Joshua received the spirit of wisdom from Moses so that was what was imparted to Josh we needed wisdom to be the leader and to lead the people to possess the inheritance think about Elijah and John the Baptist the Bible says that John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah but on the Baptist didn't go about doing miracles it has been on the prophet Elijah did make mighty miracles but the Bible says you know John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah so he came in what aspect in what dimension to turn the people the hearts of the people to God Elijah on the Mount on Mount Carmel during the hearts of the people to God they cried out the Lord he's got the Lord he's got John the Baptist also in the heart of the people to God but he did in a very different way not through the miracles but through the preaching and through things God had called him to do but the result was the same the hearts the people were turned to God so you see that impartation takes place in a measure how that is expressed is of course aligned to the calling of the person who receives that impartation okay number three whatever you receive through impartation it has to be nurtured and developed right so that's why Paul tells Timothy and I want you to stir up the gift of God don't neglect the gift of God exercise the gift of God you so obviously if Timothy didn't do that what I was given to him spiritually was what was important to him which is be neglected it won't develop and taking building on that same truth he can go beyond what was imparted because what I was given to us is in a seed form so that means you can receive a measure and then as you develop that measure it can go grow grow grow and you can go beyond even what was given to you right so what is imparted to you is not your ceiling it's not your limit it's not the limit that is set on your life but it's just something added to you which if you develop and along with all the other things that God imparts you're going to grow both in measure and realm in the size and in the capacity of the ministry and the calling and number five you can receive impartation from more than one minister of God so this is important because sometimes people think oh I can only receive from one man of God no no God use many people to impart into our life so you can actually receive from more than one minister of God so what determines what I receive through partition well on my side on the person who is receiving its hunger and it's God's calling or God's assignment that means I must be hungry I should say God I want to receive through that other person or what is in the other person I wanted and it should be aligned to the call of God on my life so as long as aligned to God's calling on my life I can pull I cannot hunger for it and I can receive through the other person so that those are two very important factors to keep in mind also we did say that impartation can take place in a moment somebody can lay hands on you and in a moment something can be given to you yes but we also see in the Bible that the normal process is there is association and honor that means you associate with that person so in the Old Testament and the sons of the prophets they served with Elijah the prophet or Joshua served with the Moses Elijah served with Elijah and that you estimate the Apostles served with Jesus Timothy Titus and many others they served with the Apostle Paul so there was association when I say serve it means they they spent time together they they were receiving they were listening they were observing all of that that's association right and the second is there's respect there's honor right so when you honor something it it's positioning yourself to receive it if I don't honor it if I don't honor what's on their lives I don't honor the person I can't receive through that person right so these are two things that we see in scripture that association on now it doesn't mean that we have to put that person in a pedestal right so I'm not saying you know you should make whoever you want to receive you know someone big in your life becomes you know now just having normal respect honor in your heart and praising God for that person and that's that's all we're talking about you know saying you know put that person a pedestal bar but they feed all of those things don't do that that's not needed right number eight impartation can take this remotely through a distance remember in the spirit there is no distance in the spiritual realm so while we are talking about close association sometimes you may associate through it over a distance where you are receiving through their life and through the teaching and through their books or through observing them from a distance that can also happen the reason we say that is when we think about Elijah and John the Baptist this was distance in time as there was no actually there's no physical association they were in different time periods and yet God sovereignly took of the spirit and fathers on Elijah and put it on John the Baptist so there was distance but God did the impartation he caused that impartation so we just kind of keeping that possibility open saying yeah if God could do that then that means there is no limitation in time or distance physical distance therefore there is this possibility of imparting even remotely meaning the person could be somewhere else will be listening to this person that person may never lay hands on you you may never see that person in physical life but you can definitely definitely receive through that person's life whatever God wants to impart to you number nine impartation cannot be purchased with money now why am I saying this because sometimes you may hear some preachers say you know you give an offering to my ministry and you will receive my anointing you receive my grace you'll receive double potion whatever you know remember while it's always good to give to God's kingdom you cannot buy the gift of the anointing or the call of God like you can't buy it God gives it God gives it and one example is in Acts chapter 8 verses 18 to 22 and I think we're all familiar with this when Philip is in the city of Samaria actually after he preaches this man Simon the sorcerer comes to Jesus comes to faith in Jesus then Peter and John come from Jerusalem they come to Samaria and they pray for the believers the new believers and they receive the Holy Spirit and Simon who is actually a believer at that point but he doesn't understand everything it is still learning still you know maybe he still has some issues to deal with he offers Peter money he says Peter I'll give you money and you give me this pop power that on whomever I lay hands they'll receive the same thing that's happening through you he didn't understand what it was he just wanted the power and Peter rebukes him says your money perished with you and I keep your money to yourself you think the gift of God can be purchased with money so he rebukes the point is that you can't buy the gift of God with money number 10 a double portion can only be received from God so when we talk about double portion that means we are saying I want more than what the person has who's laying hands on me or praying for me so example the natural if I have thousand rupees I can only give you thousand rupees I can't give you two thousand because I only have thousand the other thousand you have to get from somewhere else so you think about in the spirit what a double portion that can only come from God God can use human agency to pray for you he can use human agency to represent what you desire or to demonstrate a portion of what you desire but when you want a double portion that has to come from God and so even Elijah told Elijah look you've asked for a very difficult thing if you see me when I'm taken up then you'll get it now he gave the criteria saying you see me when I'm taken up that means you stay focused on this still I'm gone but he didn't say how he's going to get it and if you look at the new testament we say you know John 3 34 John 3 27 and verse 34 a man can receive nothing unless it's given to him from God and it is God who gives the spirit without measure so we look to God and number 11 is what I mentioned earlier in part patient can take place across generations God can take the anointing from one generation pass it on to two or three generations later that can happen that's something that God does sovereignly so that can happen now we just have to be a little careful the days that we don't begin to say things that that is hard to verify you know if somebody comes and starts saying oh I got the anointing of Jeremiah the prophet and I got the anointing of Isaiah the prophet God told me that he has taken the anointing of the prophet Isaiah and put it on me you know that's very hard to verify we know a little bit about Isaiah from the Bible but beyond that you know how can we verify what somebody is saying yeah so I think we should be careful before people start claiming those kinds of things our best is not to do that let God do what he wants and then we just walk in whatever anointing grace and calling that he has placed on our lives right so I had all this not discourage us from receiving anointing and impartation I said this more for that we understand how it actually happens and we're not misled by people so the most important thing is to develop your own spirit understand the importance of your human spirit as we learned in this course and I'm just summary summing up or doing a quick summary understand the basics the basic things that are involved in developing the human spirit and you can look at it in the earlier lessons simply spending time with God meditating in his word praying in the spirit speaking his word worshipping God not those those those basic things maintain those things keep doing those things to keep building up your spirit then keep developing the faculties of your spirit keep getting better and better and better in your exercise of your faculties we talked about that and then also let your spirit function what it's supposed to do you know in all areas let your spirit exercise its functioning in you don't suppress it and then most importantly walk in the spirit that means let the spirit your human spirit under the influence of the Holy Spirit control your soul and body walk in the spirit and of course you impart to others and let God impart into your life through other people but understand how it happens and most importantly stay focused on the call of God on your life okay so any questions on this place before we close any questions on this alright so I would request all of us to just review the notes the lecture notes it's simple it's focusing on just one aspect which is to developing our human spirit how we can become stronger in our spirit just focusing on that so please go ahead and review the notes to conclude this course I'll put out one assignment this week I'm doing some training for our staff some busy these three days but I will be able to put out the assignment only next week and that with that there's one assignment it's just hundred marks it's a full hundred marks it'll be based on the notes the lecture notes so it's open it'll be an open book exam open notes open Bible so we'll just have to complete it to complete the course and it will serve as a revision of everything we've gone through in this course and yeah the most important thing is to take the things we've learned and continue to develop your spirit and keep growing keep stay strong keep growing okay alright so I would just like us to close I just want to request somebody to pray thank you for loving me to do this lecture from the office I'm not in the Bible College because right after this we'll go into training here and so thank you for allowing me to do that could somebody please pray and then we will close this lecture thank you Lord thank you for treating us from your word of God father you have chosen each and every one of us or God how do we commit each and every one of us thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from your word of God whatever that you want us to learn Lord God father you imparted to us in our spirit Lord God so each of us will be strengthened and encouraged Lord God to flow in that calling that you have called each and every one of us the gifting that you've given each and every one of us the grace that you've given each and every one of us Lord God father help us Lord God to stay tuned to your spirit Lord God help us to spend time in your word of God and grow Lord God in the knowledge of your word Lord you have chosen us Lord God help us Lord God to always be in your presence be in line with what the spirit is calling each and every one of us to live and do oh God father thank you Lord God that you've given pastor Lord God all the knowledge to teachers of father God father help us to listen and obey to your word of God we commit our entire class online e-learning and the physical students everyone into your hands so God speak to us continue to speak to us Lord God lead us in Jesus mighty name the amen amen and thank you everyone and we'll see you all soon thank you bye now