 Good morning everyone and ... welcome to class, welcome success, Zalatoli, Jafina and ... John Paul will begin class, can one of you please lead us in prayer, please? Can any one of you lead us in prayer? Zalatoli, can you lead us in prayer, please? Go ahead. Go ahead, success. Let us pray. The most precious friend I want to thank you this morning, I want to give you all that glory, I want to thank you because you are faithful. Thank you Lord, because you have been our God of this war, be that glorified in the name of Jesus. Lord, this morning we commit our lecture into your hands alone. Father, please inspire us with your words, through your daughter this morning in the name of Jesus. Thank you, my father, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, success. So, last week we began lesson six and we saw that kingdom building is not about building, just building churches or preaching or writing books or not just about producing songs and albums, you know, as important as all of those are or even, you know, just having conventions and crusades and different programs that we plan, all of that are important, but kingdom building is about building people and, you know, we said that when we've been people is when we have them in our hearts, when we value people, when they become very important for us, it's not because I I'm called to do this, so I have to do this. But it's when we write people in our hearts or when we keep people in our hearts, it's basically, you know, when people become very important to us, they're valuable, they're precious to us. You know, we, they are like sheep that God has entrusted to us. We are accountable for their, you know, their spiritual growth, their maturity, spiritual maturity. And, you know, when we write people in our hearts, we give, you know, you know, we so can give God the permission to, you know, allow us to write into the hearts of people. Okay, so when we have people in our hearts, it basically allows us the room or gives us the privilege of the opportunity, God-given privilege and opportunity to write into people's lives or to speak into their lives or, you know, to bless them, to minister to them, to, you know, help them in their spiritual journey, in their spiritual maturity, in their spiritual walk with God. Okay, and we saw that as an example in Paul's very life, you know. Paul says that, you know, if he stands before the throne of grace or before the judgment seat of God, it's he's not going to be boasting about all his missionary journeys, the number of churches he planted, the number of, you know, leaders he trained and raised up, the number of people, you know, or the number of episodes he wrote, but basically he's, you know, he says, my joy, my pride, my hope is you, you know, you people whom I have ministered to. And that is his, he says, is his reward. And we also see that, you know, he mentions that he is, he has written people in his heart in his life and how valuable people are to him. And we also saw that in, I think it is, you know, 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 5, it says that, you know, for Peter's writing and he's saying, you know, people are the living stones, they are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priest would offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God. Okay. So we need to, you know, people are important in the kingdom of God. When we are, when we are, you know, stepping into be kingdom builders or we want to be people who extend God's kingdom on here on earth, we are here to build God's kingdom. We need to get our priorities right, our focus, right, our focus is not just to, you know, get name or fame or have a big church or have a big building or, you know, the number of programs that we conduct, you know, but it's people who are important. It's, it's, you know, ministering to people, keeping people in the center of our lives, our hearts, ministering to them, speaking into their lives and everything that we else that we do, you know, should be revolving around, you know, the needs of the people where they are, the people that they're ministering to, where they are, where they stand in their spiritual walk in their journey and hence doing things to basically minister to them, to help them in their growth in their spiritual maturity in the Lord. Okay. And then we look at practical keys to building people by the spirit. We said the first point was some of the practical keys we said was to recognize God's purpose for individuals, each individual has a plan and purpose that God has for them, recognize it and help them to grow towards that position people and to release them to their divine potential. That's the second thing. Third thing is help people to discover and develop their gifting, their calling. The fourth thing is nurture life for life, you know, it's not about the messages that we preach and all of those things, but it is about basically, you know, we ourselves, you know, before we preach those messages, we might preach it with the great zeal enthusiasm with, you know, style with the words and all that is very important. That is good, we need to focus on that as well. But the important thing is before we preach, we need to live it out ourselves. You know, we have to act on ourselves before we reveal new truth, the fresh truth, a new revelation. It's something that we need to, you know, we need to, you know, appropriate that truth in our own lives before we teach it out, before we bring forth that revelation. Because when it becomes something that is lived in us as part of us, it's something that we appropriate in our own lives. And then when we minister it to others, you know, it will be like leading people into the light. If not, it will be like a blind person leading another blind person. And we know what happens, you know, usually we end up, the person can lead the other person and they can, a blind person can lead another blind person and they can fall into a ditch. Okay, the fifth thing is avoid insecurities, whatever insecurities that we have, we need to deal with those insecurities. Otherwise, those insecurities can become a hindrance, a stumbling block from us to, you know, speak into the lives of others, minister to other people, basically being overprotective, over controlling, you know, being overly authoritative. All of these arises from our own insecurities that are deep within. It results or it shows forth, it brings forth as, you know, in our actions where we can be over controlling, over authoritative, and to an extent where instead of basically ministering to people, you know, blessing them or being a blessing to them, we can start controlling their lives. The sixth one we said was, you know, bring correction when required. But correction is important, we don't overlook correction because thinking that, you know, we will lose people or they leave our church or, you know, the relationship that we had once will get strained, you know, but when correction has to be brought about, we need to bring those correction, that correction with the guidance and leading of the Holy Spirit also, you know, doing it in love, you know, correcting the sin in the persons, the wrong in the person and not going against that person. It's not hurting that person, but it's genuinely caring for, you know, the person who is doing things that, you know, can destroy their own soul, their own spirit, their spiritual walk with God. So that should be our motivation, that should be our interest. And when people see that in us, they will understand, you know, the reason why we are correcting them. The seventh thing is bringing maturity in all areas of people's life. And that is where we stopped. Okay. So our goal is, you know, in building people is building them by the Spirit. So it's the help of the Holy Spirit. And it's also, you know, where we develop them into spiritual maturity in all areas of their Christian living. So can somebody please read Ephesians chapter 4 verses 13 to 15, please. Ephesians chapter 4 verses 13 to 15. Thank you, Jeffrey. So in this verse, in these verses, in Ephesians chapter 4, we see that, you know, we all need, you know, to come to that unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ. So we all need to come to that place where we are growing into the full stature of the fullness of Christ, to being like Christ, being Christ-like in our thinking, in our mannerism, in our way of doing life, in the way that we act, the way that we live. So, you know, sometimes when ministry or a church or in kingdom building, you know, we basically focus on people's gifting and their calling, but we kind of overlook the character, you know, and we already learned in the previous chapters in kingdom building and in the kingdom of God that, you know, character is so important. You know, our gifts can take us to places where our character can't keep us. So if our character is not good, then, you know, whatever talents, whatever gifting that we have will hold no place, you know, will not give us the opportunity or the or the position to minister or to do or to flow in the gifts of the talents that we have because of our character. So character is so important. You know, a character, as we said, is the wine skin and our talents in the gifting is the wine. So if the wine skin cannot hold the wine, the wine skin just burst, it will just, you know, the wine can just fall out to be such a waste. So if our character is not molded, is not good, is not Christ's life, then, you know, however gifted and talented we are, it will have no place, it will not hold. So it's important that, you know, we learn to relate to people apart from their gifting. Okay, don't always talk about people's calling and gifting, you know, or look at that and make that as a requisite to give them leadership positions and places of authority and responsibility in the church, but it's important to look at their character because if they have character issues, you know, that can result in disunity and strife and jealousy and hatred and pride and basically will end up in a total breakdown of that group or that ministry team or that organization or even the church can bring division. So character is important, so look for character and then see if the person's character is good, then, you know, and they have the gifting and the calling for that specific area, then we can release them into their roles and their responsibilities in the area that God has called them with. And also when we're dealing with people, we need to deal with their heart issues, you know, basically people going through abuse that they've gone through in their past, whether it's physical abuse or sexual abuse, or whether it's, you know, feelings, emotional trauma, abuse that they've gone through of rejection, insecurities, emotional hurts, you know, rebellion, rebellious nature. Sometimes people can cover up, you know, their inward rebellious nature by their gifting, their calling, their talents, and we're not able to see it. But once they get into that responsibility or the role or their leadership position, then we're able to, you know, see how they function, how they relate to people, how they are, you know, carrying on their responsibility. And we're seeing that people are in the process being hurt, lives are being destroyed, it's basically because, you know, the heart issues of the person has not been dealt with. So even as we are ministering to people, building people by the spirit, it's not just important for us to just teach them from God's word and give them fresh revelations, get them to flow in the gifts of the spirit. All that is very important, but also need to, you know, look at the various other aspects of their life, you know, deal with people's character, their emotions, you know, the practical aspects of their life, marriage, children relating to their parents, choices, decisions that we make. So our sermons or, you know, Bible study groups that we have, whatever we are teaching them, topics that we choose can, you know, can also be related to people's own personal life issues, character issues, emotions, the mind, you know, behavioral issues, and all of these can be taught to them so that people can be benefited by knowing, you know, what is in the word of God, how they need to live their lives, how they need to walk their lives, and that God is more interested not in just their gifting and their calling, but, you know, how they live their everyday lives, the choices that they make, and in them being more Christ-like. Also dealing with the personality issues, like, you know, being, whether they're short tempered or not being able to relate to people and their own independence, being very authoritative, we need to deal with such issues, deal with lifestyle habits, you know, maintaining a good testimony before people, also managing time, money, and so on, okay. Also need to identify and break limitations that people put on themselves, you know, people, some people are very talented, very gifted, but because of past failures or emotional hurts or what people have spoken over their lives, how their feelings of rejection, their feelings of insecurity, they think they're hopeless, good for nothing, if they do something, they will fail, you know, there'll be a disappointment, they'll again go through that whole cycle of rejection and feeling insecure, so it's, and you know, people get closed up, they withdraw themselves, they don't want to, you know, use their talents and gifts that God is giving to them, so it's important when we identify people that God has placed in our lives to journey along with for the specific seasons or seasons in life, you know, it's important that we, through the help of the Holy Spirit, look at their gifting, their talents that God has blessed them with, their calling, and whether they're using it to the full extent or whether they have started using it, whether they're growing in it, so people who have not begun, we need to encourage them, give them small, you know, openings where they can use their talents, give, motivate them, also, you know, train them up, good to have training for the teams that work in church, for, if you're the leader of a team in the church, you can have a training session, basically get involved in their own personal lives, how they're doing, their journey with the Lord, the intimacy with the Lord every day, it's important to, you know, keep a check on that, help them to grow, and, you know, we can, you know, thus help people grow in their, in their gifting, their calling, their areas, and then we can see later on, you know, they come to a season where God is asking them to step out into a leadership role, go somewhere else, and, you know, and, you know, build God's kingdom, start by themselves, building God's kingdom, and hence we can see that, you know, each one of us have been instrumental in, in giving into their lives, in ministering into their lives, and, you know, they're in a place where they can set out on their journey on their own, and so this is what we need to do, you know, identify people that they're gifting their talents and build them up, and also, you know, if people who are, you know, using their gifts and talents, we can encourage them to grow more, you know, to grow in deeper depths in their intimacy with God, how they can glorify God in a greater measure, how they can use their talents and skills, you know, to, you know, to raise up to higher levels. Also identify and break cycles of failure, you know, you know, sometimes, even in our own lives, we can, when we look at our own lives, there can be cycles and patterns that happen. These cycles and patterns are very dangerous, and we need to break those cycles and patterns because it's not of the law, and, you know, we need to step into everything that God has for us. For example, you know, cycles and patterns of depression, you know, you can, you can be depressed, and then you can come out of depression when somebody prays for you, somebody is helping you along, and then, you know, something happens, a situation arises, and it triggers back the depression, and then you can get back from the same cycle. So life is going in cycles and in basic patterns, and, you know, we need to break those because those can be so demonic. And, you know, when you sense this in people's life as well, people that God is entrusted to us going through these cycles and patterns, we just have to break them, okay? The eighth key or the practical key that to help people while we're building them up in the spirit is to release them into their calling, you know, even as we invest into people's life, they mature, they grow into their calling, you know, and the grace that God has given to them. As I said, you know, God can want them to step out, you know, and start a new work or go to another place or, you know, go to another so-called nation and just, you know, start building God's kingdom. And then when they sense that and when they come and tell, share that with you, you know, sometimes we don't want to release people because we think that we have spoken their lives, we've built them up, we have invested so much of our time, our effort. And now if they go away, who will, you know, fill in that position? Who will take on that position? But, you know, just as we welcome them very happily when they were willing to step in to take on responsibility, when they're willing to step out, you know, we need to release them with the same blessing, with the same joy, just bless them, let them go knowing that, you know, this is God's work, you know, God brought them in, God is taking them away, this God's plan, and God knows that there is, you know, we can see that there is a gap that needs to be filled, God will bring in the right people. But, you know, if we are very authoritative over controlling, you know, those times we don't allow people to go out, we kind of control them, say no, I think it's not God's call, you're still learning, you still have to grow, you can stay here for a year or two, just thinking that, you know, in a year or two, you will find somebody else to fill in that place. And that is not right, that is manipulating people, that is controlling people, and that is not godly, and that is not what we need to do, but, you know, we need to release them, let them go, you know, and even as we let them go, just bless them, and, you know, just speak God's blessing over their life. Look at what Paul did to young Timothy and to Titus, you know, Paul raised up these young men, and he left Timothy at Ephesus, in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 3, he says, as I urged you when I went into Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, that you may charge some, that they may teach no other doctrine. Okay, so he's just left Timothy at Ephesus to oversee the churches at Ephesus, and he's just telling him, you know, continue to be there, you know, take over the charge that has been given to you, so that, you know, these people who are bringing in false doctrines, the church will not do so. And he also says this to Titus, who he lives in the island of Crete, in Titus chapter 1, verses 4 and 5, he says to Titus, a true son in our common faith, grace, mercy, and peace, and God the Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ, our Savior. For this reason, I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that you are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you. Okay, so even as Paul has left them in these cities to oversee the work that, you know, Paul is just giving them the liberty, you know, to do what he has trained them, and he has his confidence that he's trained them, and, you know, Ephesus being a very difficult place, you know, Timothy is the right man, he put him there, Crete as well, Titus is there, and he knows that, you know, the training, the upbringing, and the years that these two young men have been with Paul, have seen his own life, has seen his own ministry, now they are able to take on their responsibility, and he just lets them to, you know, take on the responsibility and do what they have been entrusted with. So even as, you know, we entrust people with responsibility, give them the freedom, you know, to express their own creativity, what the Spirit of God is leading them, guiding them. Of course, you can oversee things, you can guide them, you can lead them, as Paul does, you know, he hears news from Ephesus and from Crete, and then he writes back to Timothy in his epistles, the first letter to Timothy in the second epistle as well, second Timothy, and he writes the epistle of Titus too, Titus, and just encouraging them the areas where they're lacking, what they need to do specifically, so you can do that, but, you know, just give them the freedom to fly and do things on their own. Okay, point nine, another practical key is continue to be their spiritual support when needed, don't abandon them, you know, saying okay, they have decided to leave, go and start their own work, you know, continue to, you know, build them up, nurture them, find out how things are going, you know, pray for them, call up sometimes to pray, but like we see, you know, Paul writing, writes letters to them, encouraging them, speaking to their lives, and continuing to build them up, okay, and then the tenth one, the tenth practical key is restoring those who fall, okay, so, you know, here it's, we see in the church at Galatia, you know, where Paul starts this church, he builds up this church, he's, you know, he's brought in the new believers, and he says, he's writing to them, and he says, you know, in Galatians chapter six verse one, can somebody read that please? Galatians chapter six verse one, anyone can read Galatians chapter six verse one? Galatians chapter six verse one, brothers, if someone is hard in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently, but watch yourself or you may also be tempted. Thank you, Jebina. I'll just put up the PDF so that you can follow through, just give me a second please. Okay, I think I'll do that in the break. Basically, it's a new laptop, so I'm just trying to figure my way through. Okay, so here we see that, sorry, Jebina, which reference you read? Galatians chapter six verse one, verse one. Okay, thank you. So, Paul is writing to Church at Galatia, and he's saying that, you know, if a man has, you know, sinned or missed a mark, or, you know, he's gone beyond the boundaries that he's not supposed to go, you know. A trespass is going beyond the boundaries, breaking the rules. You know, he says those who are spiritual in the spirit of gentleness, you know, should in love, in gentleness, in kindness, restore that person back again. Okay, and we see at times, you know, there are many people who have gone back, fallen back, who have sinned, and, you know, Paul writes about them, and he talks about how to handle them. You know, he says, if you look at your, the last point in this chapter, he's talking about some of them in finally in chapter one was 24. Second Timothy chapter four was 10. In first Timothy, he is also telling warning Timothy, you know, to be careful of Hymenius and Alexander. And Paul says, you know, Hymenius and Alexander have, you know, shipwrecked their faith, their faith is shipwrecked. And, you know, and he says, you know, I have delivered them over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme, okay, or not to blaspheme. So here we see, you know, when we read this, we can think, okay, how cruel of Paul, you know, to write this or to say that, you know, because these people have gone away from their faith, their faith is shipwrecked, you know, he's delivered them over to Satan. Okay, we can think that's very rude or that's not what Paul should have done. But basically, you know, what Paul is saying here is, you know, he's, you know, send them away from the church or the congregation or the spiritual covering that is there. So when the spiritual covering is, you know, is no longer on them, you know, they are open to the attacks of the evil one. And when they open to the attacks of the evil one, we know that when we are open to the attacks of the evil one, we suffer, we go through a lot of suffering, pain, difficulties. And when we go through pain, suffering and difficulties, you know, it brings us sometimes, or most of the times it can, you know, bring us back to the Lord saying, God, please forgive me, you know, gone away from your ways. I want to realign my will to your will. I want to come back. I'm sorry for everything that I've done. And then when we do that, when we ask for forgiveness and we repent of us, since we are under the spiritual covering again, and Satan has no access over our lives. And that is the plan, the motive that, you know, Paul is writing this, not that he hates them, not that he wants them to go to hell, not that he wants their lives to be destroyed. But he's saying that, you know, let them over to Satan means they're no longer under the spiritual coupling. And when they're no longer the spiritual covering of protection, they're open to the attacks of the evil one. And somehow, through these means, you know, they can come back to their senses, come back to their mind, knowing what they're doing is wrong. And that can bring them back to the ways the Lord repent of their sins. And then when they repent, they come back into their spiritual covering and protection and continue their journey and their work with God. But in Second Timothy, you know, for 14 and 15, he's talking about Alexander the Corpusmith. He's telling Timothy, you know, be careful of him because he's done much harm to him. It's, you know, Paul, some commentators write and say that it was because of Alexander that, you know, Paul is under his second Roman imprisonment. And this time, Paul knows that he is, you know, that is evident. He's not going to escape death this time. He's going to die. And hence, he's writing, you know, for Second Timothy, even his letter to Titus. And so we see that, you know, Alexander was instrumental in, you know, in giving up Paul or informing about Paul and his work to the Roman government. And hence, he was imprisoned. And so he's telling Young Timothy, you know, be very careful of Alexander because, you know, Alexander was one who was part of the group. And now he's no longer part of the group. So Paul is warning Young Timothy. So there are times when, you know, people will come into our lives. And, you know, of course, people are important. We have to build them up in the spirit. The Kingdom of God is about building people. But there are people who have their own personal agendas, you know, that is not in alignment with what God wants us to do with our vision, our calling. So we need to be very careful who we receive, who we take into, who we welcome into our group or our so-called family. We need the discerning of the Holy Spirit in this area because just one wrong person can trot God's Word, can bring about division, can bring about strife, can destroy the work of God that we have started. And there are times when, you know, people, we try to correct them, we try to warn them. They don't heed the correction. And as those times we just give them up, you know, so that they come to their senses, they're able to understand. And they somehow repent and they realign themselves to God's ways. And they accept his forgiveness. Okay. So we see that even in Paul's case, there are many people who he trained, who walked along with him, or part of his ministry team, who fell away. So, you know, ministering with people, we said in the beginning of this chapter, is important, but also the greatest challenge in Christian ministry is basically ministering to people because people are a great challenge. But we need the help of the Holy Spirit, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his leading, his guidance. And, you know, when we do it with the part of the Holy Spirit, there are times when people, you know, are trying to bring in harm and danger, trying to bring in strife. We don't fight against them because our fight is not against flesh and blood, but we just allow the Holy Spirit to work in their lives, you know, either to move them out of the team, or just to, you know, help them to understand, help them to realign to the vision, the calling, the purpose of that team, and to walk alongside them. Okay. So this is all about ministering to people, and, you know, how we need to walk along with them, how we need to build them up in the spirit. Okay. Any questions in this chapter six? Any questions? Hello class, are you all there? Any quiet? Yes, there's no question on my side. Yes, success. Sorry, I couldn't hear you. I said there's no question. I'm okay. Okay. Okay. If there are no questions, then we'll move on to chapter seven, partnership and co-workers in the kingdom of God. Okay. First Corinthians chapter three verse nine says, for we are God's fellow workers. Okay. We are all co-workers with God, and, you know, we are, you know, co-heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God as well, but we are also in kingdom building. As part of the kingdom of God, we are called to co-work alongside with others. Okay. Kingdom building is not about I, me, myself. It's not about I doing everything independently, but it is interdependence. It's about fellowship. It's about co-working with others. And we know that, you know, when we co-work with others, there's more that can be accomplished than when we do things all by ourself. There's more that can be achieved when we work together in partnership. Okay. Even the dreams, the vision, the plans, the purpose that God has for his kingdom is not just, you know, is given specifically to different individuals, but all in the context of the body of Christ together. Okay. So all of our dreams, the visions, the calling that we have, the gifts that we have is all the functions that we have is all interlinked, interconnected. And even as we go about fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives, you know, it's, we need to partner alongside with like-minded people in the kingdom of God who are also called the same vision, the same function, the same role, the same responsibility, you know, seeing how we can learn from them, from their own experiences, how we can partner with them to build God's kingdom. Because, you know, kingdom building is not about building my empire, it's not about building my kingdom, but it's about building God's kingdom. Okay. That is something we need to always keep in mind. The kingdom building is all about building God's kingdom, and it's not about, you know, just building our own kingdom, our own empires, our own organization, or our own churches. Now, when we are building God's kingdom, and we are partnering with others, yes, you know, there's always this fear that, you know, conflict can happen. Because when we relate with people, you know, there is always misunderstanding, there is always something that we can agree on, some things that we totally don't agree on, there can be conflicts that happen. But irrespective of that, you know, we need to do our best, like the word of God says, you know, as far as possible, you know, seek peace, maintain the unity of the spirit. So, as far as possible, yes, we can partner with others, we need to partner with others. As far as possible, we can also, you know, seek peace and maintain that unity. You know, most often, the enemy doesn't have to do anything much in the kingdom of God, it's because believers are fighting against themselves. All the enemy has to do is to stand back and watch, because, you know, he doesn't have to do anything much, we're already fighting against ourselves, we're fighting against people, because of our own egos, our own pride, our own, you know, insecurities that we have, you know, kind of authoritative lifestyle patterns that we follow, these in itself can become such a hindrance for building God's work. And sometimes we can blame the enemy, saying that enemy is doing all of this, you know, he is trying to bring about this unity, this harmony, and we're trying to bind the evil one, when it's not just the enemy, it's our own, you know, it's our own attitudes, it's our own heart attitudes, our own behavioral issues, our own egos, our pride that we don't want to give up, that's causing this unity and this harmony in the body of Christ. And hence, you know, it's important, you know, we need to humble ourselves, you know, we need to put down all of these things to the greater purpose, we should always, our focus should be on the greater things, and not on these little minor things that kind of bring, can bring in a divide, and can totally bring in total division and strife, but, you know, look at the greater things that together we are building God's kingdom, you know, it's okay if I've not been given the role, the responsibility, the fame, the position, my picture is not there, but irrespective of that, I'm just going to minister because, you know, I'm building God's kingdom. You know, Colossian says whatever you do in word or in deed, do it all for the kingdom of God, or do it all for Christ's sake, do everything that you're doing to get a reward from Christ, do everything that you're doing, you know, to bring glory to God. So that should be our motive, that should be our agenda. Now when that is our motive, that is our agenda, that you know, God, whatever I'm doing, whether it's in word or deed, I'm doing it so that your kingdom can be built up for the glory of your name, so that people will know you, you know, then whether we're given the first seat or the seat of honor, seat on the stage, or whether our name is pronounced rightly, or our degrees are following our names, or whether our image is put on the brochure or not, you know, that will not be anything that will be a criteria, we will not hold on to those things, but we're saying God, you just given me an opportunity to go and speak into the lives of people, you know, to build your kingdom, to extend your kingdom, so even as I'm going, even as I'm ministering God, you know, let people's life be transformed for your glory sake, that your kingdom be extended. When we do that, you know, just imagine when all of us are, that is our focus, that is our agenda, we will see the kingdom of God just, you know, moving and spreading and rapidly just growing in a rapid pace, but you know, why is the kingdom of God not furthering, it's not, it's not because God is not on the move, or it's not because, you know, like the early church, we are not flowing in science miracles and wonders, it's because there is no unity, when there is no unity and oneness, you know, the spirit of God cannot work there, the anointing cannot flow, the anointing is basically the presence and the power of the holy spirit, so it's important, even as we are building God's kingdom, or we are going to step into being kingdom builders to have our priorities right, what is our priority, is it your name, your fame, you being given the responsibility, you given the privileges, you being appreciated, if you're not appreciated, you don't do things, you step out of that role, you leave that church, or is it God, I'm going there, irrespective of whether I get the honor or whether my name is called out or not, whether I get the right position or not, that you would be glorified God, you will receive the glory with hearts and lives being transformed, people repenting, your glory being manifest in a greater way of science, miracles and wonders, when we are pursuing that, when we are hungry for that, you know, we will see a great move of God, we will see lives being transformed, we will see the science miracles and wonders happening in our midst, okay, a kingdom that is divided amongst itself is weakless and power, is weak and powerless, sorry, a kingdom that is divided among itself is weak and powerless, Mark chapter three verse 24 says, a kingdom is, if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand, okay, so is the kingdom of God divided, yes, there's many divisions, this people just fighting amongst themselves, churches, busy fighting amongst themselves and hence we see there's no move of God, God that's not, is not able to work in that place because there's strife, there's this unity, and so it's so important, you know, if you want to see the move of God and you're sensing that, you know, in a Bible study group or whatever, there is no move of God, you know, you could, you could sense and see that, then you can repent and, you know, bring about unity, oneness, and you will see the power of God be manifested powerfully, okay, so a lot can be done when we are willing to partner with each other, our unwillingness to partner with others can become a hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God, you know, as people who are part of the kingdom of God, you know, we are called to maintain unity in the spirit and I think even this is the prayer of Jesus himself in John chapter 17, the passage there in John chapter 17 is called a high priestly prayer of Jesus, Jesus praying to the Father and he's saying Father, let them be one, so who's the them, he's talking about believers, so he says Father, let them be one as we are one and we see that, you know, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God in three persons, three were three different roles and responsibilities but working in perfect unity, in perfect oneness, you know, we see even Jesus, you know, submitting himself to the Father, we see the Holy Spirit, Jesus says the Holy Spirit will reveal to you, take from the Father and he will reveal to you what is mine, you know, he will reveal only what I am asking him to reveal, so we see that even though there is a kind of subjection with the Holy Spirit and with Jesus, but we see that three of them working in perfect unity, in perfect oneness, and that is their desire that even as they work in perfect unity and oneness, it's their desire, it's the desire of the Godhead that we who believe in them, who are called the children of the Most High God, who are part of the kingdom, co-heirs with Christ, heirs of God, you know, we also work in this perfect unity and oneness, so we'll come after the break and we will look at this in much more detail, we'll take a break now and we'll come back after the break.