 Ready, shall we? Yeah. Father, we thank You for Your presence. We thank You for Your faithfulness, Your kindness. Holy Spirit, we thank You for Your presence that is here with us. Lord, thank You that Your Word says we are two or three. I gather that You are in the midst and we believe that You are here. We believe that You are with everyone who is joining us online. We honor Your presence. We never want to take You for granted. We never want to lose the wonder of who You are, of Your beauty and of all Your glory. And so, Holy Spirit, I pray that You will continue to teach us and minister to us as we learn from Your Word. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen. Amen. So what I wanted to share with us is just something that's outside of the syllabus, as in it's not in your course. I'm sharing the screen for those online as well. I'll share this PDF with you as well. Right. So, okay. I hope you all can see the screen for those online. Great. That's awesome. Okay. So I wanted to just teach a little bit on worship and warfare. Because in the last class we learned about from Second Chronicles chapter 20. Yes. Do you remember that chapter? Anything from that chapter that you still remember you want to share? What do you remember from Second Chronicles chapter 20 that you can share? Yeah, you can be a little bit more loud or with those online in the chat section. Yeah. Anything. Just one point at least or even two points. What do you remember from the last class, Second Chronicles? Second Chronicles, yeah. Is it in the Bible? Yeah. Yes. Right. So the whole country was fasting. What's the name of the king? Jehoshaphat. Ah, yeah, Jehoshaphat. Yeah. Fast and pre, walk and faith with God's guidance into fight against. Yeah. Okay. What else? Anything else that kind of stood out for you? Thank you, pardon. They fought against each other. Yeah. The countries that came to attack Judah, they fought against each other, killed themselves. And they did. Judah did not have to fight even. Yes. Anything else? Sorry. Acts. Acts chapter 16. That's another thing that we learned. Paul and Silas. Yeah. Paul and Silas. Anything from their life that kind of stood out. Yeah. In a very hopeless situation, they lifted our praise and worship. A couple of things that stood out that we mentioned was that when you praise, your praise will not only set you free, it can set other people around you free as well. Isn't it? That's one of the things that we learned. We looked at. So I wanted to just continue a little bit. This is not there in your notes. So, but I'll share this PDF with you anyways, but I just wanted to dwell on this topic of praise and warfare. Okay. Now, just like how Judah, you know, and Jehoshaphat, they were involved in warfare. Right. And they used praise, you know, for the victory. And so I thought I'd share a little bit and we'll see where we can go from there. Okay. So as worshippers, right, as Christians, as prayer warriors, we are the frontline of an army. Okay. We are in the frontline. If you call yourself a worshipper, that means you are in the frontline of an army. What does that mean? That means you're in the frontline. That's what it is. Okay. The frontline. What is the dictionary? No. You're right in the front. That's what it is. Okay. So, so as worshippers, we are in the frontline of, of the army. That means it is very easy for you to be attacked. Right. There is no hiding. You can't hide behind another person because you are right in the front. It is very easy for enemy to attack you and for you to get hurt. Okay. So as worshippers, you will encounter resistance. Okay. That's the first point. Okay. What is resistance is you're going to advance. You're trying to go forward, but the enemy is going to try and push you. You understood. Yep. Okay. So Joseph, just come here quickly, Joseph. Joseph, just come. Okay. So we all have to try and understand resistance. Everybody say resistance. Okay. I'm the good guy. He's the bad guy because I'm wearing kind of white shirt. He's wearing blacks. Joseph is a very good guy. So, so in this case, he's the enemy. So I'm going to try and advance. Right. Okay. I'm going into the promise land. You're trying to stop me. Okay. You're stopping. Sure. No. Are you stopping? You say, okay, stop. It's a traffic police. Okay. So I'm going to walk towards you. You're trying. Okay. So. Okay. So. It's so nice. Okay. Just come and say hi to everybody online. This is Joseph, by the way. The camera is there. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So the thing about it, the, the point about a Christian life. Okay. Is you are born into warfare like it or not. We are born into warfare. There is an enemy. John chapter 10 verse 10. What does it say? Someone quick, quick. John 10, 10. What does it say? A thief comes to steal, kill and have a party with you. No. John chapter 10 verse 10. A very easy verse to remember. I have come so that you might have life. Jesus says. But the thief comes to steal. Everybody say steal. That is what chore know. Yeah. Chore bazar. So steal, say kill and have a party with you. And destroy. So here's the thing. There is an enemy that just doesn't want to steal your joy. He just doesn't want to steal your happiness or your peace. He wants to steal all of that from you. Like Rob has anyone been robbed before? You have your phone. Your phone was robbed. No. Okay. Anybody else been robbed? Okay. Something. No. Okay. I have not. Thankfully. But it's not a nice feeling, isn't it? Right. When someone has stolen something from you, it is not a nice feeling. Isn't it? You are sad. You are angry. You are filled with rage. All of that. So the enemy whom we call a Satan, the devil, he just doesn't steal your happiness. He just doesn't steal your peace. He wants to kill you. He comes to steal and then kill you. It doesn't end there. You think, okay, after killing, what more is there? But he wants to destroy. So there is an enemy out there who wants to make you look like you never even existed. He wants to make you look like, okay, there was no person called Joseph existed. He wants, like, destroy your entire lineage, your generation. Are you with me? Right. So this enemy, the devil that we are talking about is, the Bible says he entered Judas and Judas killed himself. Right. Now again, I'm not trying to put the devil in a pedestal. It's like, oh, let's worship the devil. No. The whole point of this chapter that we want to look at is to get to know our enemy a little better. Okay. If you're going into warfare, you need to know who you're fighting. No. Yes or no? If you're going into fight, you don't even know who your enemy is. What's the point? Yeah. So we kind of begin there is as worshipers, we will encounter resistance. That means, you know, we are trying to go ahead. You will find enemies. Are you with me? So one of the points here, why will you find resistance? Because the devil wants your worship. Matthew chapter four was eight and 10. He's encountering Jesus. Right. He's telling Jesus, Jesus, if you're really the son of God, if the important word there is if, if you're really the son of God, throw yourself off the cliff. For it is written in the word that the most high God will send his angels to guard you. The devil knows the Bible. You can be in Bible college for 100 years and he will still know better than you. Right. You must be hungry. No. So if you're the son of God, turn these stones into bread. And then, you know, we make it look like, like it's such a small Sunday school kind of an encounter there between Jesus and the devil. And then the devil says, I will give you all of this. Just bow down and worship me. The devil, he wants to steal. He wants to kill you. He wants to destroy you. All of that because he wants your worship. Are you with me? He wants your worship. I've said this before. The devil understands the power of your praise and of your worship. Only you don't understand the power of your praise and worship. Nothing. Nothing is going. Right. So why we encounter resistance? The devil wants a worship because true worship reveals the Lordship of Jesus Christ and brings release of his presence and power here on earth. The enemy wants to be enthroned. He doesn't want to be dethroned. You will, as worshipers, you will encounter resistance because true worship. Everybody say true worship. Okay. John chapter 4 verse 22 onwards. It says, the father seeks, the father seeks, the father seeks doctors, engineers, architects. John chapter 4 verse 22 to 26. Very important. 24, 22 to 24. The father seeks. That means he is searching. He is seeking not just worshipers. He is seeking true worshipers. Yep. One more time to say true worshipers. Thank you. So if there are true worshipers, that means there are false worshipers. Okay. So true worship reveals the Lordship of Jesus. Okay. I'm sorry I'm making you do this, but say the word reveal. Everybody say the word reveal. Okay. So we get the word revelation from the word reveal. Okay. So let's say, for example, you take a scarf. Right. You cover your face with a scarf. Yes. So when you open the scarf, what are you doing? You're revealing your face. That means unveiling. Right. So you get the word reveal, revelation from the word unveil. Right. The veil is being opened or the veil is being torn in the temple, isn't it? And so true worship reveals, there's an unveiling of the Lordship of Jesus that a true worship brings. And that's why the devil doesn't like that. And so you're going to face resistance. And finally, because praise and worship are effective weapons of warfare. All these chapters you can read when you're free. We went through Second Chronicles 20. That just chapter seven was 20. Do you know what the story is? The story of Gideon Sunday School. Gideon and 300 men. Okay. Acts chapter 16. We went through Joshua chapter six was 20 is classic. All right. So you go through all of the praise and worship is effective weapons of warfare. Okay. Second Corinthians chapter 10 verse four, it says the weapons of our warfare are not physical. That means they're not weapons of flesh and blood. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortress. Okay. The weapons of our warfare. You're going into warfare. You need weapons. No. Yeah. You're not just going swinging your hands. It's like, hey, let's take a selfie. No. So if you're going into warfare, you need weapons. But the Bible says that the warfare that you and I are involved in. Okay. The weapons are not physical. That means it's not, it's not man made. Right. Weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of the fortress. So knowing why do, why do not many Christians not engage in spiritual warfare? Why we don't engage like we know that the devil is dangerous. Why don't we engage in spiritual warfare? Most of us hold back on engaging the enemy because of ignorance. Okay. Ignorance is what? It's okay. He is there one side. I am there. Why should I go bother him? Leave him. That is what called ignorance. And the other thing is lack of spiritual revelation or knowledge because we don't know enough. We don't engage in warfare. Let me say this one more time. Okay. I can't stress enough on this. You and I, we are born into warfare. There is a war that is going over your soul. There is a war that is being fought over your soul. The devil wants your soul in your natural eyes. You can't see anything. That's why we call this the spiritual warfare. The devil hates you. He hates your family. He hates the generation that will come out of you. He hates your children even before they are born. This is the devil that we're talking about. We cannot ignore and be quiet. You understand? Are you with me? Yes. This is serious business guys. Okay. So we learn what we will learn today. We will learn a little bit about our enemy. We will learn the authority that we have, the attitude in how we should conduct warfare and the weapons. Okay. So we learn a little bit about our enemy. Now, this is, again, not for us to be amazed by our enemy. All right. It's just for us to understand who our enemy is. The first thing the Bible says is that our enemy is, he is invisible. Okay. What does invisible means? Well, you can't see with your physical eyes, right? With your natural eyes. So what does the scripture say? For our struggle is not, Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12. Okay. I hope people at the back can see the scriptures. It's Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12. It says, For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, contending only with physical opponents, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Now, because our enemy is invisible, most of us Christians don't take him seriously. Are you with me? Because he is invisible, the devil nowhere, he's going to come and say, I am the devil, worship me. With two horns. He's never going to do that, isn't it? Bible actually calls him, he will come as the angel of light. That means he will come, not in the way that you expect him to come. He will come like something nice. Full flowers. So, the first thing what we learn about our enemy is that he is invisible. Just because he is invisible, don't take him lightly. Don't underestimate him. Right? The Bible again says that he is walking around like a, like a roaring lion. He's waiting to pounce on you. You make one mistake, he will devour you. He will steal, kill, destroy. Only bones. But also he will take them off. Right? The second thing we, the scripture says about the enemy is that he is the ruler of the kingdom of the air. Okay? Efficiency chapter 2 verse 2. In which you want, it says, in which you once walked, you were following the ways of this world. Okay? You were following the ways of this world, influenced by the present age. In accordance with the prince of the power of the air. The spirit who is now at work in the disobedient. The unbelieving who fight against the purposes of God. So, kingdom of the air simply means that is beyond the physical realm. Okay? It's beyond the physical realm. Now again, we can go into details about it or you might learn more about it in demonology. And all of that. So, the second thing what we have to know is that he is the ruler of the kingdom of the air. So, first point was that he is invisible. He is the ruler of the kingdom of the air. Finally, he is a thief, liar and accuser. We saw John 1010 already. Right? He's a thief. He's a liar and a accuser. So, that is our enemy. What's the three things that we can learn about our enemy? One, he is. He is invisible. Second thing, he is in charge. He has authority of the unseen realm, the immediate realm. Right? And finally, that he is a thief, liar and an accuser. Okay? So, that's our enemy. But thankfully, the Bible says that we are more than conquerors. We are more than conquerors. We don't have to be afraid of him. So, we learn... Second thing, what we learn is what the scriptures have to say about our authority. Let's look at... There it is. I'm just going to go to Luke chapter 10 verse 19 and read it for us. Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10 verse 19. It says, behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions over all the powers of the enemy and nothing shall hurt you. I have given you authority. This is Jesus telling. Let's go to Colossians chapter 2 verse 15. Colossians chapter 2 verse 15. Can we read Colossians chapter 2? 13, 14 and 15. Is everybody there? 13, 14 and 15, please. Colossians chapter 2 verse 13 onwards. It says, and you who were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses. Verse 14. By cancelling the record of debt that stood against us. It means there was a record that was accusing us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. By nailing it to the cross, verse 15, it says, he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him. He disarmed the rulers and authorities. What does disarm means? Let's just say this is the bomb. The enemy had a bomb or weapon. He is armed. So Jesus said, give that to me. So he took the weapons that the enemy had. By Jesus dying on the cross, raising again from the dead, he disarmed the enemy. That means enemy has no power over us. Are you with me? The enemy has no... Most of the times as Christians, we get defeated by the defeated enemy. It's very shameful. I'm not sure how many of you understood that, but the point here is that we have authority. Okay? Everybody say, I have authority. Really? I have authority. Come on, guys. I have authority. Come on. Okay. So we learned about our enemy. We learned that we have authority. And what about our attitude in this warfare? The scripture calls us or tells us you need to have an attitude of a warrior. Okay? The scripture is telling us you need to have an attitude of a warrior. Okay? Warriors are brave, isn't it? They are mighty men and women of valor. So that's what the judges said in Judges chapter 6 verse 12. What do you remember? God encounters Gideon. Yes or no? Okay? So Gideon is in the underground and he's thrashing some wheat. You know, he's sad because he does not have food. Philistines keep attacking him. As soon as God comes, the first thing God calls Gideon is, you know what? Mighty man of valor. That means you are a mighty warrior. Gideon's response must have been like, is there someone that I don't know? How am I a warrior? I'm thrashing wheat. But this is what God looks at you and says, we are more than conquerors because we are to have that attitude of warrior. Okay? So 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. For God did not give us the spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. Okay? But a spirit of power. So we are called to have an attitude of a warrior and we are called to have an attitude of persistence. Persistence is not giving up. You fight once, you lose the battle, don't give up. Try again. Get up. Try again. Get up. Are you with me? Right? Micah chapter 7, it says, why do you rejoice over me, my enemy? Even though I fall, I will rise again. Even though I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. Okay? So persistence. The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. Look at that. That verse, it says, the Lord your God will drive out the nations before you once and for all. It doesn't say that. Little by little, you keep persisting one nation at a time when over them. Okay? And finally, what are our weapons? Personal praise, corporate praise, instruments or shouting, music and praise, praise and worship. And the second weapon is God's word. So we have music, we have worship, we have the word of God as our weapon. Okay? In the scriptures that is mentioned, right? 1 Samuel 12, 2, 23, 4, 2 Samuel 5, 19, 5, 23. I mentioned David, inquired of the Lord. Okay? David asked God. He asked, okay, what should I do? He constantly asked, Lord, if I go now and attack them, will you, will I have victory? God said, go. Right? And David again asked, inquired of the Lord, if I go now, will I have victory? God said, go. But there was a time that comes, I think in 2 Samuel 5, it says, David asked and God said, don't go now. Go wait under the balsam trees. When you hear the sound of an army marching, go and attack them. Now, all the scriptures are there in the notes. Please read it when you can. So what did David do is, David as a king, he could have said, okay, last time I went, yesterday I went, I won the battle. Today also I will go do the same thing, overconfidence or arrogance. David did not have that. He constantly wanted to hear from God, the word of God. Are you with me? Right? So God's word is another weapon that we are encouraged to use in a battle against the enemy. Okay, so I'll just stop sharing that. I'll just leave the rest over there. Are you all with me? Yeah, you kind of understood what we're trying to do here. Okay. This is not a deep teaching in praise and worship. I'll praise in warfare, but just very briefly. Okay. And so I hope this kind of encourages you to engage in spiritual warfare. Don't be afraid of spiritual warfare. Like it or not, you are already in the warfare. You might as well fight. Okay. So don't be ignorant. Don't live as a passive Christian. Okay. Understand that there is power in your praise and in your worship. Okay. Now we'll look at your notes. So we look at a few ways on how you can express worship. Where is that? We are in page number 17 in your PDF. In your notes, I don't know which page number. But we are still in chapter four. Yeah, chapter four. Okay, everybody online. I hope you all are still alive with me following. Okay. Cool. Thank you. Okay. So here are some of the scriptural expressions of praise. We've gone through this list already, you know, in the previous chapters, but let's go through that. One of the ways you express praise is singing. Okay. There are enough scriptures that talks about singing. We've looked at shouting. What's the Hebrew word for shout? What's the Hebrew word for shout? Oh, let me turn the book and see what it is. I forgot. Yes. Hello. What do you think T? It's biblical. Okay. So one of the ways you, some of the ways that you can express praise is you sing. Now again, you know, there's a quote that says, as a Christian, the question is not if you can sing. The question is, does your heart have a song? Okay. The Bible says, he's put a new song in my mouth and a hymn of praise to our God. So the question that you need to ask yourself is, don't ask yourself, can I sing? Oh, I can't sing. The question is, does your heart have a song? Okay. If you're saved, if you've been redeemed, your heart will have a song. So singing, there's shouting. Okay. Shout does not have a specific word. You just shout, scream. Okay. Some hundred says, shout for joy all the earth. Okay. Clapping of hands. This is one of the offerings that does not cost us anything. Cheapest offering. Clap offering. But also we will not give properly. Let's all clap our hands and welcome the prayer. Softly, no strength, no power, nothing, no excitement. Okay. Come on. I think it's clapping of hands we can do properly. Right. So that's another way of expressing praise. Lifting of our hands. What's the Hebrew word for that? What's the Hebrew word for prayer? Lifting of our hands. What are you talking about? All right, guys, come on. You have to remember that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's simple. Not Torah. Who said Torah? Torah. Okay. So what's the difference between Yadah and Torah? Someone. Both is lifting of the hands. But what's the difference between Yadah and Torah? Dan. Dan. I think something's here. There is someone online. Anyone want to say what's the difference between Yadah and Torah? Torah is more specific. Isn't it? It's more intentional. You are giving thanks for a breakthrough or a victory. You have not yet received it. Okay. So that's what Torah is. Okay. So another way of expressing. Oops. Your praise is lifting of our hands. Another way is playing off musical instruments. Standing. Just by standing, you express praise. Singing in the spirit. Singing in tongues. Dancing. Okay. How many of you like to dance? Good. Dancing is biblical. Very good. Okay. Kneeling, bowing, prostration. Okay. So you see this in this page. There are only nine expressions of praise. Okay. But the list doesn't stop there. It doesn't say, okay, this is how you should praise. This is all you can use. No, you can express your praise if you can paint. By painting, you express your praise. By doing anything that will honor God is an expression of praise. Are you with me? So the expression of praise is not limited to only these nine things, which is standing, clapping, lifting off our hands and everything. No. It's so much more than that. Okay. Yeah. Any questions? Of course. Okay. All right. So that's all I wanted to share for today. Not very content heavy. I'll share the PDF for praise and warfare with you all. Go through that. Okay. And we'll stop the class here for today. I will continue on Thursday. All right. Thank you all for joining in. God bless you. Have a good one. Cheers. Take care.