 Okay, morning everyone. Good morning to the students online as well. Hope you're doing well Okay, so let's do do a quick review. What what we did last week, right? So last week we looked at Sharing the gospel in five minutes. We looked at sharing the gospel in two minutes we look at the four spiritual laws and And and so it's very important that we use these guidelines, right? They just guidelines for us to share the gospel right now Doesn't mean that you know, I have to use it this way I have to say from Genesis to revelations or I have to give the salvation experience you see what works for you and You share the gospel, right? So we looked at Experience what was your need before and how the Lord met your need and then we looked at very importantly the work of the Holy Spirit While ministering the gospel Now we must understand that it's not our work, right? Is it our work? Is it our work to speak into people's hearts? Yes or no Our work is to share the gospel and The gospel the power of God the Holy Spirit will speak into people's lives, right? So that's very important we must understand that and Especially when we're sharing teaching preaching Everything must be anointed from the Holy Spirit I was teaching the other class we were talking about why the anointing is important right We can do many things in Ministry, right? But if it's not anointed of God, it's not going to touch people's lives Yes Right because the anointing of God the Holy Spirit's anointing will only touch and change people's lives We can preach We can lead worship We can do everything Out of the flesh also And if there's no anointing of the Holy Spirit, it is not going to touch people's lives It'll only go here You won't go here Right, so whatever we are doing in ministry, right? It should be anointed of God Right, so that should be our prayer God I'm leading 10 minutes of worship now or 20 minutes. You're sharing the word you must pray That the word and the worship Lord you anointed so that it will touch people's lives And you can see the difference Yes or no, are you surprised you're looking at me or feel what is he talking about? You know Holy Spirit. No He's there inside you Even right so everything that we do must be anointed of God Right, so let's look at the next chapter next chapter We're going to be talking about ministering the gospel in power and love everyone say power and love Now they are like oxymorons know meaning they are They are This power there's love power talks about authority and there's love Now Jesus ministered in power But he also ministered in love Now we must develop this ability to do that Is power important? Yes or no Power is important. Why do we need the power of God students online? Why do we need the power of God to Manifest his gifts. Okay. Why do we need God's power? He convicts. Okay Why do we need the power of God? Can't we just you know this do ministry? Why do we need God's power? Sorry To be an effective witness. What do you say? To impact others. Okay. Who else? Why do you need? What is power in Hindi? Shakti. Yeah, Samarth. Why do you need that? We must ask ourselves. Why do I need the power of God? Is it simply because God is saying I'm powerful. So I also want to be powerful. Why do you want the power of God? To bring down strong holds. Okay People believe What do you say? Okay. Jesus Apostle Paul says my ministry was not only in word but in demonstration and power Right. There was demonstration. Right. So Jesus ministered with power When the Lord Jesus went about preaching and teaching Healing and delivering and working out miracles. He did it with power But he combined it with compassion Now, usually if you see a powerful man Very unlikely they are compassionate Right These powerful rich men and women that you may see around us Very unlikely that they are compassionate They're very authoritarian by nature Right. Jesus had thousands of people following him But what happened after that? He had the power. Right. He was telling the blind people. Hey, I'll make you see. He was healing people He was just changing the course of events happening there But he did all of this because of his love He didn't do it because he wanted to become famous He didn't do it because he wanted people to know. Okay, that, you know Even though I'm a carpenter son, I'm able to do these great things He didn't do it just to show the Pharisees and Sadducees that, you know, I'm greater than you. I know more than you He didn't do it for that He didn't do it for that Jesus ministered in power and in love Love of Christ, the love of God the Father Pushed him to do all of this Now, this is very important for all of us We all want to do a powerful ministry, right We all want to do a good worship We want to teach the word of God powerfully We must remember that we must love the people that we are ministering to It could be one person. It could be thousands of people We got to love them We must be in a place to care for them by saying that, okay These are people that need to hear the gospel They need to understand Christ. They need to understand the word of God And when you minister out of love, it's already power there So let's look at a few examples here Matthew chapter 9 and verse 36 Anyone of us can read Matthew 9 and verse 36 Matthew chapter 9 and verse 36 And maybe someone else can take Matthew 14-14 as well When he saw the people he was What does it say there? Moved with compassion The Greek for moved was he was stirred up with compassion So Jesus was moved with compassion when he saw the people Jesus didn't say, okay, why have you come here again? How many times to tell you the same thing? Why do you keep following me? What does he say? He was moved with compassion. Why? Because there were people who are just there lost without a shepherd, without a leader They don't know what they're doing Many of them had sicknesses, diseases Failures in their life He was moved with compassion Matthew 14-14 Great Again, he saw a great multitude and he was moved with compassion What is this that we must learn in this? Very simple point When we are ministering to people They may be people from other faiths It's very easy to bring condemnation What you're doing is wrong What you're doing is wrong What you're doing is wrong But Jesus here, he didn't say what you're doing is wrong He was moved with compassion The love of God Was the source of all that he did So it's very important for each one of us To be moved with compassion When we see people Who are struggling And we get this opportunity to minister to them Do it Now, here's the thing Very important point To be moved with compassion Does not mean you agree to everything what people say Yes or no What did Jesus say? Many places he rebuked the leaders Did he rebuked the leaders? Yeah But did he not love them? Or did he love them? Love them Right So when we are ministering We minister with compassion Next one We minister with the power of God Let's read John 14 Now this is a big verse But maybe one of us can read this John 14 1 to 13 John John 14 I will go to the place of him I will come again and receive myself Let's hear from him Here he comes And here I go to know and to read him Thomas said to me Lord, if you do not know Where you are going And how can you move the way Jesus said to me I will be the truth and the life No one comes to the Father Accept it to me The Father If you had named me You would have known my mother also And from now on you know me And have seen me Please accept it Lord, show us the Father And if it's sufficient Or as Jesus said to me Have I been with you so long And yet you have not known me Please He who has been with me has been with the Father So How can you say Show us the Father Do you not believe that I am with the Father And the Father in me The words that I speak to I promote to speak on my own authority But the Father who dwells with me Does not want Believe me that I am with the Father in me Or else believe me For the sake of the words themselves So this is John 14, 1 to 13 Right? 1 to 13 13 Most I have said to you He who believes in me The words that I have written to God And greater words than the days He will do Because I have put my Father And will never be fast in my name That I will do That the Father may think he will be fast If you ask I think he may believe I will do it How does this focus on that One verse, right? What does it say there? Greater things than I do I did, you will do Right? Now in the Greek When we look at it Jesus is not talking about The essence of the miracle Right? So I hope you are getting what I am saying I am not talking about When he says greater things It's not about the essence Right? Now Jesus walked on water Doesn't mean we can say Okay, Jesus walked greater things Than, you know He did, I will do Go to the nearest swimming pool And try to walk on water You will need help Right? You can't do it You can't take Yes or no Or one plate of food And say, okay, all of us are going to pray No, he is talking about the essence It's not the essence of the miracles But greater in terms of volume Right? The Apostle, sorry Jesus did his miracles For three and a half years Jesus is saying As believers You will continue this ministry Doing greater means volumes Much more than what I did I did only for three and a half years But you will do greater More Right? So what Jesus did in three and a half years As believers, you will do much more than that And is it true or not? Yes All across the world, globally When we see now What's happening? Thousands and thousands and thousands of miracles Now how is that happening? That verse goes on later Because the power of God will be in you Right? It's not happening on our own ability But it's happening because of the power of God So it's very important to remember the essence Of that verse Greater works Than what I did, you will do So the greater in the Greek Simply means bigger More In terms of volume I'm saying what I'm saying Because there's many times This can be used And put into a wrong understanding Greater works So even I will do Even I will try to turn water into wine Or I will also try to Feed people Or I will also try to go and do something No Yes, God may call us to Do supernatural works But we have to be led by the Holy Spirit See the Lord Jesus He was tempted He came back after he was tempted He was led by the Holy Spirit In every way So when he went to the wedding at Kena He was led First what did he say? What did Jesus say? My time has not yet come But the next verse, what does he say? Go fill the water pots What happened there? A moment The Holy Spirit would have told him Start Now is the time You launch your ministry But before that he said So you see That the Lord Jesus was being led by the Holy Spirit So there will be times You will be led by God To say things To do things You do it boldly But remember Empower and love Right? Let's look at the next example Luke 24, 46 to 49 Anybody can read Luke 24, 46 to 49 This is interesting Let me give you a context What's happening here Jesus is resurrected He's come and he's meeting his believers Even in the book of John He sees the disciples What does he say? He blows on them The Holy Spirit Can we find that verse? John 2022 Somebody read that Okay Now Jesus is resurrected He's meeting the disciples John 2022 He breathed on them And said to them Receive the Holy Spirit So they received the Holy Spirit But what does he say after that? Go and tarry Which means go and wait For the Holy Spirit to come What's the difference here? Jesus already blew No, the Holy Spirit Why is he saying go and wait? Then it happened in Acts The day of Pentecost Why were they waiting? He already blew on them the Holy Spirit It says there That when you receive the Holy Spirit When you wait and receive You will receive the power Of the Holy Spirit You see Let's read that verse again John, sorry Luke 24 I think it's verse 49 Endured with power So what is Jesus trying to say? You and I Cannot Think about doing ministry Without the power of God Yes See Jesus blew on the whole On the disciples Then he said go and wait Don't try to do anything on your own Go and wait And pray Then what happened? Acts chapter one verse eight Let's read Acts one eight We all know this verse Acts one eight Amen So now Acts chapter one verse eight 120 people are praying Where are the thousands of people? Nobody knows 120 people are praying God send the Holy Spirit And the Holy Spirit comes We know the story And Pentecost And what happened? They received the power To be a witness You know the Greek word for witness It means martyr What is martyr in Hindi To help the students in Hindi What is martyr? Anybody knows the meaning of martyr? Martyr means somebody who's willing To die for Jesus Like Apostle Paul Right All the disciples Those who are killed For the sake of Jesus Are called martyrs Did you understand? Right in Hindi Did you understand? Right So those who are killed For the sake of the Gospel Are called martyrs So the Greek there is You will receive power To be a martyr For Christ Now Jesus knows That we cannot do ministry Without the power of the Holy Spirit What is the best example? Where was Peter When Jesus was crucified on the cross? Where was he? Crying somewhere? Where was he? He was not there, no Was he at the cross over Jesus? No He was not there He denied Jesus Forget about At least not being there He denied Jesus He said, no I don't know this person Okay Why out of fear obviously That he saw what's happening to Jesus They were beating him He was scourged And the people were saying Hey, you're Jesus's disciple When they may catch him And beat him also So he said, I don't know Right What was their fear? Now a couple of days later Peter is standing in front of everyone And saying, okay Everybody listen to me This is what happened Right You There was a man named Jesus He came He lived here He did wonderful works among you He was anointed of God He preached the full gospel there But you crucified him You put him on the cross Now by God's power He's raised again from the dead He's alive now And he's given us the Holy Spirit And through this Holy Spirit We are called to live a holy life Where is that fear gone? Have you thought of it? Where's that fear? Just maybe one month back He was afraid Where's the fear gone? There was no fear And the Bible says When you read in the book of Acts They saw that these two were unschooled But they had the power of God They could not do anything to them Later on they arrested Peter What happened? What did Peter say for that? Was Peter fearful? Did he say, oh no Please don't arrest me I will not preach He said, okay It didn't matter to him Why? Because the Holy Spirit has empowered him Now you and I must understand That we need the power of the Holy Spirit To minister to people We can't do it on our own The legs will be shaking If you try to do it on your own Especially in a time like we are living in now With all the things that are happening around We need the power of the Holy Spirit You cannot go and minister to people On your own ability You cannot do it Jesus is telling the disciples here Even though I was with you For three and a half years You saw all of it All the miracles You walked with me Yet you still need the power Of the Holy Spirit The baptism of the Holy Spirit How much more you and I need it? Do we need it or not? Whether we are called to start a ministry Whether we are called to be in the workplace We are called to be a witness But we cannot do it on our own ability We will fail Because I'm not discouraging you But what I'm saying is You need the Holy Spirit For everything You need the power of the Holy Spirit And this is the best example Peter is the best example They were all fearful They were all running away Next thing you know Peter is bored and he is standing there Unafraid He didn't say Oh my wife is at home Can you choose somebody else? John is not married You choose him No It doesn't matter The blind, the lame man was there Peter and John goes to the temple The lame man is begging there They would have gone through that steps Hundreds and thousands of times Yes or no The steps to the temple But they saw that lame man there He's asking for money What does Peter do? He says hey listen Sin word and gold I don't have But what I have I'll give you In the name of Jesus Christ Rise up and walk Now tell me The same Peter Hundreds of times he's walked through that temple He's not done it But when the power of God is in our life Nothing can stop us But we must also learn We'll learn in the next chapters How to walk in wisdom Just because we have power Which shouldn't be like We do whatever we feel like Walk in wisdom We'll talk about that later Okay acts 532 Let's read Acts 532 right Great Sorry can you read that again? I bet Thank you And we are witnesses And so is the Holy Spirit Whom God has given Right? Now Peter and John After they are Arrested The angel comes And they are Loosed from their chains They walk out of prison And they testify this And then later on Also in the book of Acts There's so many testimonies Right? Picture this Paul is in the island of Malta He's He's trying to put the You know Fire together A snake gets caught in his hand He shakes off that snake He's preaching the gospel Everyone are falling asleep Teaching teaching the whole night He's not stopping It was not a one hour session It was not being recorded But he's teaching teaching teaching Young boy is sitting near the window I don't know why he chose the window But he shows the window He's sitting there He fell asleep He fell off and he died What did Paul do? Let's start 21 days fasting prayer What did Paul do? Don't worry Pray and raise them up Right? So They were able to testify Of God's power Right? Nowhere was it in a way that It was only talk No They were able to testify And so here We see that When we walk in the power of God We'll be able to testify Of his power And we had testimony time Right? All of us shared our testimony We may not have had this big testimony Who You know Suddenly Angel came and Said something and went We may not have those kind of testimonies But even the smallest testimony Is a testimony of God's power In our life Yes Right? Because the enemy has so many ways To distract us The very fact that he has Called us Into his kingdom To be his children Is the power of God It's God's work in our lives Right? Next one Hebrews chapter 2 Verse 3 and 4 Hebrews 2 3 and 4 Amen God testified it With signs, miracles and wonders What does it go say after that? And gifts of the Holy Spirit Signs Everyone say the signs Miracles Wonders And the gifts of the Holy Spirit Why do you have Supernatural hour every day? Time pass What? I hope it's not time pass Why do you have Supernatural hour every day? Because Come on Why do you have Supernatural hour every day? I think we should Tell you why you have Supernatural hour Students Why do you Online students Why do you pray And ask God for You know Pray and read the word every day Why do you take all that effort? Why do you have Supernatural hour every day? Why do you have Supernatural hour every day? Because it's called Supernatural hour Okay So what happens to the Supernatural hour? There should be The work of the Holy Spirit Sorry Yeah Yeah So it's not only that Okay, I want to flow in all the gifts That's good Right But we want to see Ourselves growing closer to God There should be A sense of Okay, God I want to I want to go closer to you Right I want to know the Holy Spirit And the Holy Spirit begins to work in our lives Through science, miracles and wonders Some of us may say How come I've been praying for so many years? I don't see science I don't see miracles I don't see anything in my life Right I don't see You know, I'm not speaking in tongues I don't know the prophetic I don't know word of knowledge I'm not flowing in these gifts But it's been two, three years that I am You know Praying for it I want to encourage you Don't give up Right Continue to pray Because this is not a man-made effort Right Of receiving the gift God gives it to us The Holy Spirit inside us He gives it to us Right But we must desire it Everyone say desire Right Like how you are desiring for this class to get over Desire For the gifts of the Holy Spirit When you desire something, you are passionate about it Right When you desire for Friday Friday comes on Saturday, Sunday Leave You don't feel that? You love very holy people Sometimes, you know, I desire for Friday Friday Saturday You know When I was in Bible college I would go and visit my parents When you visit your parents after one week You just have to sit Everything will come to you Food, snacks, everything Because you are going after one week So I desire for Friday Saturday morning, go visit my parents So we desire so many things in life We desire to become a worship leader We desire to preach We desire to start a ministry Same way, we must desire To flow in the supernatural We must desire the gifts of the Spirit And when we desire it There will be signs, miracles and wonders And here is the verse that we just read God testifies it Testifies what we speak And preach with signs, wonders and miracles And that's what we want to achieve in the supernatural hour as well What you are doing It should be a place where You begin to release the gifts of the Spirit Begin to pray in the Spirit Begin to flow in the gifts of the Spirit It's not going to happen overnight It's not going to happen because I said it It's going to happen today No, if it does good But remember that you can do it Because God is saying here I will testify it I will testify that the Holy Spirit is inside you With signs, miracles and wonders Now the important point is Understand, do you have the Holy Spirit inside you? Are you sure? All of us are sure? And testify it With signs, miracles and wonders Let people see Now you are not doing it for a show But what is the meaning of testify To show an outward appearance of it We can't see the Holy Spirit But we can see His working in and through us Amen? That's what we are called for Expect miracles, signs and wonders Wherever and whenever we minister Right? You may be in a college You may be in ministering it on the street You may be in a friend's house You may be visiting another friend Or somebody may have invited you to share A topic which is maybe not even about the gospel But be willing to minister Be willing to see signs, wonders and miracles There are many instances where we used to go to colleges Across Bangalore, we used to go And we used to have these one hour of worship Word and prayer But they used to say don't say too much of Jesus Because there's a lot of people from other religions Don't say too much of Jesus You can use God but don't say too much of Jesus So we agreed to it But we would use Jesus every now and then But we taught scriptures And many a times It was so nice, it was so wonderful to see There were times we were just teaching Or just sharing something And many lives were touched It's not about the preacher It's not about the person who's teaching But it's about God's word touching them And ministering to them We were in Mangalore for about four years APC Mangalore I used to go to this college And when I used to go to this college We used to take scripture classes And there was this boy here It was for 11th and 12th So they call it PUC There was this boy, he was very disruptive Very very disruptive guy When he would come to class He would start walking there He would start disturbing everyone He would start throwing chits on people And he would start poking fun He would look at his phone He would start yawning He would stretch himself Very distracting guy And he would disrupt the whole class He would do something with the whole class To touch their lives But half the time it was This guy would disturb the class It would start from the beginning He would start the class with something The whole class would be So their mood would have just changed So I thought, I used to pray I said, God, this fellow is a troublemaker How do I get him out? I thought, let me chase him away from the class Let me tell him, okay, out But if I do that How is he going to be ministered to? He'll happily go Nothing for him But how will he be ministered to? I'm sure there's something about this fellow So I kept praying every day Every day the same problem One day he's come with a bow and arrow I don't know from where he gets these things One day he'll come Just very disruptive Suddenly he will tell him Sir, I don't think I need God for now Very disruptive guy One day I was just praying I said, God, I don't want the class to be disruptive Because it's one fellow Should I send him out of class? And I was praying And God just revealed something about him It was nothing It was not like the heavens opened And then like a projector Something came No Just something in my spirit said This is what is happening in his life He needs help I said, okay So I prepared myself And I went to the next day And I said, you know what God gave me an idea also when I was praying Make that fellow the class captain So I said, you come here You are the captain of this class You like to trouble, you know You'll be the captain So somewhere he was quiet But then he still used to trouble But then after the class one day Long story short I called him I sat with him And I told him, tell me something The reason you're doing all this Is because you're upset with God He said, yes Your sister committed suicide He said, yes And he started to cry One month back My sister committed suicide He said, how do you know it? I told him because God told me How did your sister commit suicide? Did she hang herself? He said, yes So you're angry with God You don't want anything to do with God because of this And you want to just be You have plans to just leave And you want to spoil your entire life Because of this, yeah She is an innocent girl Good girl But she committed suicide And I don't know why And then I had to share It took a lot of effort A lot of time Because I had to share with him About Jesus How can I say God loves you I can't say God loves you Don't worry He said quietly in class I can't do that There's a deep hurt inside him I began to talk to him every week Every week And all of them In the end of that whole semester He came forward And testified Of what God did in his life Because he was a changed boy Completely changed Right And so We are not to You know Look at people and Eventually make their You know Just say You are like this Give God the time Give God a way to minister in their lives Trust in God To work miracles Right Amen We gotta trust in God New ministering to people Don't Come to a place where We can write off people Don't write off people Give them time Because God can work in their lives And when we look at Apostle Paul He did great miracles He went to Athens He went to Galatia He went to Ephesus In Rome Everywhere he went His ministry was back With signs, wonders and miracles Why do you think We are talking about it now Thousands of years later Why are we talking about The church in Rome One church in Colosse A small church that is It's one small town Why are we talking about it? Because these are works that God is testifying It was all born out of the spirit Something that is born of the spirit Will last Something's born of the flesh It's going to die away What's the proof in the scriptures? Remember there was a guy I think it's In the book of Acts One guy he came and said Okay, you know He started a new doctrine And there were many new doctrines He started But they didn't last What did the high priest say When they called Jesus They said the high priest said See, many people have come And said they are the messiah And all If it's not If he's not the messiah It will fade away Leave him alone Right So that which is born of the spirit Will birth the spirit's work Right We must minister with compassion And also with power Let's read 2 Corinthians 5 14 and 15 2 Corinthians 5 14 and 15 I like that first part of the verse The love of Christ compels us Some of the verses say The love of Christ Constraineth me Right What I'm doing Paul is trying to tell the believers You're in current What I'm doing is Because of the love of Christ That compels me to do it Do you think it's fun To go from place to place Being beaten up People are trying to kill me People are I don't have proper food I don't have proper clothing Do you think it's fun He's saying no He's saying The love of Christ compels me Now the background of this is In current Most of us have read the letter of Corinthians Right What's happening there The believers are saying I like Paul I like Apollos I like Cephas I like Jesus So now there's division Paul is saying Hello Listen It's not about Paul It's not about Apollos It's not about Cephas What is this division The reason all three of us Or all of us are doing ministry Is because the love of Christ compels us to do it We could have been sitting In our home And relaxing And doing whatever we want to do But we've come here Because the love of Christ For each one of you Is compelling us It pushes us forward To do the work of the ministry Right Let's read First Thessalonians chapter 2 That's a little long Verse 1 to 8 First Thessalonians 2 1 to 8 The church in Thessalonica Was a church which had very little Right It is a small town But this is the church Where Paul is writing and saying Whatever you This was the church that blessed Paul Materially When he was doing ministry And he's saying to them That you Whatever you're doing Is you're doing it for the ministry Because we did it for the ministry You're doing it for the ministry Because we did not come to you In our own words In our own thoughts In our own abilities But we came to you in love And because of love And because of the love of Christ That is why you are reciprocating That love to us By your generosity You know the love of God Is stronger than the hate That we see in the world Right The love of God is stronger Than the hate we see in the world Look around There's so much of hatred Jealousy, anger Anger and There's so much that the enemy is doing The love of God is able to break through All of that Right So Jesus As Christ He set an example to us As the Messiah As our God He set an example When we are ministering to people Minister out of power and authority But let the foundation be love Right Let the foundation be love And build on that foundation Amen So let's keep this in our heart Right Whatever we're doing The power of God The authority and power of God That we do The love of Christ Shall we pray? All right Let's pray Father, we thank you for this beautiful time We thank you for What you have taught us today, Lord I pray that you will teach us You will lead us and guide us, O God As your children That we will continue in the things of God Everything that we do We will glorify your name And give you praise in our life, O God May our lives be pleasing in your sight We give you all the praise We give you all the glory and honor In Jesus' name we pray Amen Amen God bless you all Thank you, everyone online Have a great week ahead See you next week