 So, good morning everyone, hope to see you all again. What happened to Dave and Siddharth and Kannan? Did they be joining us? Did they join the previous class? So Dave, Kannan and Siddharth joined, okay. Good morning, good morning. Okay, let's begin. Can I ask the prince to lead us in breakfast this morning? Thank you, dear Hamid. Thank you. In this morning lot, we come before you lot as we are going to learn this subject to help us to learn and also give us the wisdom and knowledge that we can learn well and apply in our workload. Thank you. I pray for all the students and the ma'am. Thank you. I just pray. Is my audio clear? Can you hear me clearly? Yes? Yes, it's clear. Okay, so last week we looked at the great need for this day. We looked at the physical condition for the children in Jerusalem. Those were very poor, who were left behind after the others were taken as captive. And we see that Jeremiah was left along with them and the children, because of more food, they were just painting and dying in the streets and their parents were not doing much about it. They were not in a position to do anything much about it. And so we see Jeremiah crying out to God and telling the people also to do something and cry out to God. And we saw that the condition of the children in Jerusalem was quite similar to the, there's the physical need, but they looked at the spiritual need of children in certain parts of the world. They are quite similar to what children like Jerusalem faced. Children in Jerusalem are starving for physical food, but today we see children in our world starving for spiritual food. And we said that when they are children, they know God, but they don't have a personal relationship with Him. They have a form of Godliness, but in nine years, they die. And there is a tremendous need that has to be met to actually minister to the children, not just praying for them as Jeremiah prayed. But to me that there is a need and that need has to be met, not just by prayer, but we need people to take and feed the children with the bread of life that starts good. And we need someone, people who teach them to work God in His entirety, in His truth, with the revelations, in a deeper way, in a way that children can understand. So we need to take the bread of life that is the work of God to feed the children. And then we looked at probably four things a teacher can have, how a teacher can have a great impact on a child's life. And the four things we said is when a teacher is well prepared and prepares a lesson well, has a good lesson plan, has effective teaching methods, they're going to actually trigger or cause the young ones to think through and challenge them to act upon what they have learned in their own ways, in the ways they are most comfortable with. We also see that a teacher is one who treats the young ones or treats the children as somebody who is able and free to understand God's Word, the truth in God's Word, the revelation, treat them like intelligent individuals, not somebody who can just go and say anything or do anything with it and just come back. And also to understand that we are intelligent individuals who can respond appropriately, which means get them to respond to what has been taught in the ways of crying what they have learned. And also a teacher who is a great impact in the lives of children is one who is loving, godly, and who is not just concerned in going and teaching the class because they are being fostered, but also one who is willing to share their lives with the young ones, their own experience with God, their own relationship with God. I think we learn this in technical terms, right? We need to know, are we sharing what we have experienced with God, what the truth that we are receiving for God in terms of revelation? Are we sharing it with others? And so it's important that we share our life, our testimony, the revelations of truth that we receive, our experience of God with the young ones because it's actually when we look at the global online survey which is conducted among teens, it's seen that teens receive more not just by teachers who teach them, just teachers who teach them, but it's through their personal experience in prayer. It's a personal experience in prayer, so teenagers will experience God in a more closer way, in a more intimate way, but no God has a relationship with Him. When we pray for them and they receive personal answers personally in their own lives to the prayers that we have prayed, or they receive God at work, they receive science miracles and wonders. And then even when we share about our own personal lives in your home, it's truly in our lives that God has done, that would challenge them, that would help them. So a teacher also makes a great impact in the lives of children when they are interested, not just teaching the lesson that has been given to them, or teaching them they bring good truths, but they're also concerned with the overall development of the challenge. What they're going through, their challenges, their difficulties, just praying for them just helps them. Then we look at teaching as a divine call, and we look at in the ministry offices that God has appointed, which we do in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 and 12. We see that God needs some to be the apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists and some pastors and teachers. And all of them, whether it's an evangelist, a prophet, a preacher, or a teacher, they're all used to the equipment of the saints, and basically saints who believe us here for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of the glory of Christ. And so we saw that teaching children, though it's not a glamorous role, no one can see you, no one appreciates you, no one, you know, applause you for what you have done, claps for what you have done. It's quietly done, it's hidden, but God seems He rewards, and the children are precious to Him, He cares for them. And so your role as a teacher is very, very important, and having said that, it's also important that you prepare well, that you know your children, understand their development needs, understand their learning styles, their intelligence in the way that they learn, and you will choose appropriate activities so that they cater to their learning styles, their intelligence and their way of learning. And then we looked at the difference between a teacher and a teacher. A teacher is basically not just giving them information, but looking for responses, looking for ways in which they have understood and also seeing that they applied and helping them apply and learn from what they have learned in class. Then we looked at the duties of a teacher and we compare that to the ministry of the Old Testament priests. So the ministry of the Old Testament priests will find the qualifications for a teacher of God's word. Now today we look at the qualifications of a teacher. I'll just present that. What is the qualifications of a teacher? Now we looked at the duties, we looked at the ministry of the Old Testament priests and we were able to find the qualifications of a teacher of God's word. So we saw that a priest had to flee from the tribe of Nivai or the family of Heron if not they would not be able to serve. And so hence we see what is a qualification for a teacher who teaches or ministers to children is that a teacher must be the member of the family of God. Someone who has accepted Jesus as their person said they have received forgiveness of their sins. Somebody who knows that they have been forgiven and cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ and they know that they are born of the Spirit, they are a new creature. If they don't have this qualification or they do good for themselves, they don't have this assurance then they cannot teach the word of God. Of course anyone can teach the word of God but they are not expected teachers. So every teacher who is teaching children must ask themselves this question, am I saved, am I born again and am I not the member of God's own family. We look at in the Old Testament priests that the priests needed to consecrate the entire life and we see that no priest could concentrate himself for less than a lifetime. The entire life had to be consecrated in the service of God over the temple in the Tabernacle and that was the requirement, it was a requirement for a lifetime and there was consecrating his entire life. We see that there is nothing he could hold back. And we see as a consecrated life as a priest, the priest was completely under God's law or God's orders under his commands. They had to do exactly what God had told them to or is telling them to telecommunicate to the people what he wants them to teach and how he wants the people to be guided and how he wants them to live. So the priests had to live a consecrated life the entire lifetime and they are completely under God's orders. So if a teacher has to be effective and have the favor of God, the blessing of God or what they are doing or their ministry or their teaching then they have to give themselves completely, they concentrate their lives completely as the priest. And when this is done, God will teach them, God will minister to them, God will give them the revelations, the ideas, God will give them creative ideas on how to engage the children with games or activities, how to prepare the lesson, how to preach the lesson. God will just empower them through the holy spirit. They also see that the Old Testament priests were consecrated and anointed. And when they were consecrated, it was a sermon that was done through oil, the anointed oil, which they were anointed on the priests and also the blood. Now it is not that the priests will cut themselves or they cut the person who is consecrating and so they would make the animal sacrifice, which is making an atonement for their sins that they have committed. And so the consecration sermon is basically the oil and the blood. And the blood is sprinkled or bought on the altar and is also sprinkled on the person. And the oil is a foreshadow of typifying the holy spirit, the work of the holy spirit. Basically, we are talking about the presence and the power of the holy spirit. We are talking about the presence and the power of the holy spirit. So in this consecration sermon there is both oil and blood. Blood is for atonement for the sacrifice for their sins, cleansing, purification of their life. And the oil is anointing, which is talking about the presence and the power of God who is going to be manifested. Two of them will use them to speak His words, use them to stand in His place and to do all the rituals, sacrifices and also teach the people. So we see that God is anointing them. And so a teacher also has to be both cleansing the blood of the lamb that they have received for the sins they have done again. And also they receive the anointing. And they can't say they themselves have received the presence and the power of the holy spirit to minister to children, to feed them, to speak to them, to answer their questions and to know their areas of challenges and speak into their life. They make the pleas and declarations that will bring them into destiny and the purposes for which God has called them or purpose them for. We see that the priest was giving himself to the Lord for a definite task and also a teacher must concentrate their lives for the same reason for teaching and ministering to children. When a priest would consecrate his entire life, live under the orders of God fulfill what God has for them, has potion for them, has purpose for them we see that they experience the blessing of God upon their life and upon their ministry. And so also with teachers, every teacher with teachers, when they consecrate their lives they see that they receive the favor, the anointing and the blessing of God and we see spiritual results when we see the transformation of the lives of children they themselves accept the existence of God, walking in love and light of God and we proofread the purposes of God for which they are called. And we see that the Holy Spirit will transform the lives of the children, work in their lives and the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit will be very manifest and powerfully felt in our lives. Now to minister to children or to minister to anybody there needs to be a messenger and there has to be a message and there has to be a method. So there is a messenger, there is a message and there is a method which is required to proclaim the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and of course all this is done through the empowering of the Holy Spirit and without the empowering of the Holy Spirit we can't do anything empowering of the Holy Spirit is very, very essential. So we look at the messenger first, what are some of the qualifications or the characteristics the first one is they have to grow and mature in their walk with God a teacher must grow and mature in their walk with God they must grow in their understanding of the things of God growing the world of God in their understanding of the world of God grows stronger in their prayer life and grow deeper in the things of God, in the gifts of God, flow in the gifts of God and just desire more of God because when we desire more of God there will be an outflow of the power of God that is seen in our life and through God ministry. So if anyone has to teach, whether teach or preach or do anything with regard to the world of God then they must be themselves faithful students of the world that means before we preach we teach we need to be faithful in preparing, in studying, in getting a deeper insight, deeper reputation, deeper knowledge of what the passage to verse is saying over God is trying to communicate and we have a great perfect dependable and flawless teacher that is the Holy Spirit, he is infallible that means he is perfect he means somebody we can depend on, we can go to, we can give us the answers we can feel the truth, who will remind us everything that Jesus has written and taught and who somebody who is flawless, flawless means somebody who is without any fault or mistake we can never make a mistake, we can never make an error and that is the Holy Spirit who is there as our teacher and we will teach us all things Second Timothy chapter 2 was 15 and one of you read that piece Second Timothy chapter 2 was 15 Second Timothy chapter 2 was 15 No one wants to read, yeah please read Prince, thank you Yeah Prince, I thought you were going to read If nobody wants to read then I'll read Do the best to present yourself to God as one of truth a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth So it says here that we need to do our best ourselves as one of truth a workman who does not need to be ashamed but correctly handles the word of truth so we need to study the word of God to show ourselves approved unto God and we also need to correctly divide the word of truth so before we preach to the God we ourselves need to study it so that we will show ourselves approved by God study God's word, those who seek Him will find Him will receive fresh new revelations of better understanding and we will be able to teach children or people about the word of truth The second thing a messenger must do is they must spend quality time with the Lord not just get busy, bobbins doing ministry doing a whole lot of things but also spending quality time with the Lord because ministry is an overflow of our time with God So if you want to see science miracles in wonders, if you want to see life changed if you want to see children accepting God as your person say dear, if you want to see children interested in learning about God their keen interest in growing the things of God it means that we need to spend quality time with God when we spend quality time with God we will see there is an overflow of that power in that presence which will be released and no one will say no to that everyone which is soaked in the presence of God will just receive it and the Holy Spirit will work in God's life, in their lives If you look at Jesus' life we see that Jesus himself spent quality time with the Lord, we read that in Luke he caught up very well in the morning before sunrise or he spent the entire night on the mountain just talking to God so we know that Jesus did not have to do it because he was free God but we see his need of his intimacy his dependence on the Father even as he was truly man we see him depending and he sets us on water and shows us a pattern that we need to spend time with God in prayer and because of his time he spent in prayer with God the Father we see a powerful overflow of the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit manifested as he spent the day just with the teaching people when he taught people they were not bored they just spent the entire day just sitting and listening to him being conscious of the time where they were going to get the food from and we also see multitudes came to him and it says Jesus healed them all multitudes came to him, the disciples were not able to count and it says Jesus healed them all irrespective of what their sickness or disease was he healed them all. Now where did all of this power come from it was not just because he was God, he did not operate in God, he only obtained an ancient or omnipresent that is the very characteristic of God but he kind of made it a sign he was fully human in that sense but he did it to the power of the Holy Spirit and that's why Jesus says we can do more than what he has done in terms of science miracles and wonders because he's going to the Father and Jesus knew that we could do it because he was human like us and he did all of the miracles being a human not being fully deity or being fully God and he knew that he did it to the power of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit power is available to us but why does Jesus do so many miracles and why are we not able to do it is because of the quality time he spent with the Father so we think that only adults need to see science miracles and wonders, you know it's even children because the global statistics that was when teenagers, you know 13 to 19 years old they say what really impacts them to consider religious belief or to accept God is you know when they see answers to that is the highest percentage that was given by these things so even children when they see the power of God through science miracles and wonders they would not be in a position to say no to God they would just need their lives to submit and they would also flow in the gifts of the Spirit so you are instrumental in leading them to even be mighty in God at a very young age for all of this it's important that we spend quality time with the Lord whether we are pastors, evangelists, prophets, apostles even if it's children, church teachers we need to spend quality time with God because our ministry is an overflow of our time with God so the next qualification of a messenger is we read in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 22 the verses on your screen can one of you read it please he who called you is faithful and he will do for you so here we see that we need to do our part in being faithful and committed in preparing our lessons teaching praying for the children and God would do his part in equipping us or the teachers with creative skills, talents, ideas necessary to transform the lives of children and he will raise a generation for his kingdom and for his glory as God's word says he who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it okay so we need to be faithful the next one is a teacher must have definite objectives okay a teacher must have definite objectives now when a builder is planning to build a building he will not just automatically think about it the previous night or the week and the next week or next month he will just start on it and start building no he first has to have a plan in place then he must gather up his resources finances, money, materials the people to collect a building when he has all of this in place that is when the work of the building can actually start so the same way a teacher must have definite objectives okay and what are these definite objectives that each child must be considered as one certain things are to be accomplished and the teacher's priority is to teach the word of God in such a way that every boy and every girl or every child first of all you know will be convicted of their need for Christ and accept him as their personal okay so this is the first thing that the child the first need is the first preparation that the teacher will be convicted is that every child would have to accept Jesus as their own personal savior we read this in Romans 3 23 can one of you read Romans 3 23 please if any of you know it by heart it will say it Romans 3 23 may one use it by heart for all have sin and fallen short of the glory of okay John 1 12 can one of you read John 1 12 please but as many as received him to then he gave the right to become to those to become in his name thank you so here we see that you know he is those who believe in him gives him the right to come to the path and we also see in Romans 3 23 all have sin and fallen short of the glory of God and it's God's desire that all men will save and come to the knowledge of Christ Jesus okay so the first thing that everyone will be convicted of his need for Christ and as their savior the second thing is that they will be taught to live a life by faith the life of holiness and service that they may know from the word what is the right and what is wrong and we can read in one of you read Romans 3 17 please is that a teacher must make sure that it should be taught to live a life of faith a life of holiness and service that they may know from God's word what is right and wrong so again one of you in that context read Romans 3 verse 17 says whatever you do whatever in whether in word or do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus the Father through him and the third definite objective that the teacher should have is that the children will know how to claim Christ's power and to live and serve God they will serve God and they will live their lives claiming God's power the power that he is giving them the spiritual inheritance that he is giving them in Ephesians chapter 2 the spiritual blessings that he has blessed them with they will know all of this and they will not do it but they will receive it for their lives they will claim it for their lives and they will live and serve God so in that context in one of you read Romans chapter 6 verse 14 Romans chapter 6 verse 14 and you are under you are not under law but under grace yes so here thank you Dave so you know they will know that the sin has no more power or poverty over their lives they will know the slaves of sin the law of sin which is the rule the medium of sin is no longer dominating their bodies because they are living by grace when they have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal service they will know all of these truths and they will claim it and they will live their lives okay so the teacher's objective is to give every child an opportunity to receive Christ to lead them into this assurance of salvation and to build them up in the things of God okay and we see that a teacher also you know should teach each class every child in their class every teacher should see each child in their class as a soul that is saved or unsaved that means look at them if they are accepted Jesus as their personal savior you are happy then you just get them to grow more in the things of God but if they are not accepted Jesus as their personal savior you need to know which children have not and you need to pray for them that is in which you can lead them to have a personal experience with God so the teacher must make every effort to bring any child to Christ Satan will attempt to get us to put this off or not see this as a priority sometimes a priority which is to finish our lesson but this is also very important and we cannot lose a child and we cannot lose a person because if we don't we lose them for the rest of eternity and we know that God has given us or assigned believers the task of winning the lost souls one of you in Mark chapter 16 verse 15 please Mark chapter 16 verse 15 and he said to them go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature yes so we see that God has assigned every believer to go into all the world to preach the gospel salvation to every creature Romans chapter 10 verse 14 and 15 says 4 tells the writes the church at home he says how then shall they fall on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without the creature and how shall they preach unless they are sent as it is written how beautiful are the people of those who preach the gospel of peace who bring black tidings of good things so how the children know or God how do they believe in God there is no one who is preacher them to teach them but beautiful are the people of those who preach the gospel of peace who bring black tidings of good things we see that even in the early church the apostles, the disciples, the believers, they all went from house to house sharing about Jesus and winning those who are unsaved and Jesus promised to make us fishers of men we can follow him we read this in Matthew chapter 4 verse 19 he said to them follow me and I will make you fishers of men we regard to salvation also we also know that God loves the world John chapter 3 verse 16 and he does not want anyone to perish he has done everything that is needed for the work of salvation to be complete for our sins to be paid, our debts to be paid for us to be complete from the law of sin the rule of the meaning of sin in our body that was dominating our body before we knew Christ he is also put an end to the power of sin the power of debt and he has paralyzed and nullified totally Satan he has won the weekly and Satan has given us and he shares that victory with us and God has done everything Jesus fulfilled and made a perfect sacrifice that was needed for the atonement, for the cover-up for the removal of our sins nothing more needs to be done but we see that millions are still perishing every year that's because we are not we are not fulfilling our mandate or taking the good news and sharing it with the world and people are dying against the will of God it's been said in Peter chapter 3 verse 9 it says the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some come slackness but he is strong suffering towards us not willing that any should perish and all should come to repentance so it starts good pleasing and perfect will that all may be saved and come to knowledge of Jesus Christ we also know from this verse in 2 Peter 3 9 that he does not want anyone to perish but come to repentance but we know millions are dying thousands are dying each day without knowing Jesus Christ as their personal savior it's because we are not seeing that responsibility or seeing the importance of a life save for a soul saved so if we value a life if we value a soul then we would take up this responsibility seriously so what is the value of a soul or what is the value of a life to that person whether he knows it or not his soul is worth more than the whole world to God a soul is worth all the sacrifice he has restored for our salvation so we know that even if there is even one person on the earth who is a sinner Christ would have come and died for that one person like we read in Luke chapter 19 verse 10 it says the son of man has come to see and save that which was lost so a soul is very precious in what side whether it's a child or an adult or an old person everyone's soul is very precious to God he doesn't want anyone to perish again in heaven a soul is so valuable that there is great joy when one soul comes into the kingdom enters into the family of God as we read in Luke chapter 50 verse 10 it says Jesus says likewise I say to you there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who those who with souls actually when they are engaged in constantly sharing about salvation with people they are concerned about the lost souls crying out to God it shows how much we value the sacrifice of Jesus the sacrifice of our Savior what is done on the cross it shows us the importance in how precious each life is in the eyes of God and how valuable and precious each life is to God the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he who wins soul is wise or he who wins souls is wise the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he who wins souls is wise so we should be like Paul who had this motor or had this focus in as he mentions in 1st Corinthians chapter 9 verse 22 it says look at the week I become as a week that I might win the week I have become all things for all men that I might by all means save some okay so Paul says he gets down to the level of where people are so that he can address to their friends where they are the situation where they are so that he can share the gospel and by doing so he can save some people okay so as we gradually consider the Bible teaching soul reading and apply these tools to ourselves you know we will find that there is a burden from God we can tell us that we force us that we push us to win souls for Christ now there is a Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimbell Edward Kimbell who went down to a shoe store in Boston because one of this Sunday school students was working there and he wanted to actually share about salvation I think he was burning he had a stirring in his heart to share the gospel with this child in his class who is working in this shoe store so we see Edward Kimbell who goes down to the shoe store he is a little hesitant to go about doing it he tells us that his courage failed he walked back and forth in front of the shoe store gathering some courage to go in and ask this young boy who is working in this shoe store who was a Sunday school student to accept Jesus but he eventually does that and he goes and realizes that this student that he is sharing about salvation will accept Jesus Christ and one day become a great evangelist and this young person became one of the greatest evangelists through Christ and was just a Sunday school teacher who stepped out of his comfort zone we mustered up the courage went up to the place where he was working during the week just to share about salvation so he was so burdened about the children in his class knowing Jesus Christ and accepting and then accepting him as their Lord and Savior so we see that it takes great courage to win souls but we know that it's not how creative we are, how well we speak how good we are but it's basically the work in the power of the Holy Spirit will be manifesting us even as we have a deep burning desire to see people in our church in our family, in our neighborhood, the children that we are ministry to we saved. If not there will be eternal help which is going to make the very heart of God and even as God is so burdened about your souls I hope that even as we minister that it's children or church or evangelist or we are working with women or whatever you know let's just have this great burden of heart to see the people that we are ministry to accept Jesus as their personal savior so the purpose of this objective is to give every child an opportunity to meet them into the assurance of salvation and to build in them the things of God or to build in them faith to build in them the confidence to step out in faith and do flow in the gifts of the Spirit of the human being. So in today's class tomorrow's class we will look at the methods so we look at the messenger we look at the method how to prepare a lesson plan any questions no questions thank you for joining class and I will see you tomorrow for next class. Have a good day and see you.