 Okay. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the class, our course on BC 214, Developing the Human Spirit. Let's take a moment to pray together and then we will get started today. Could somebody please lead us in prayer? That's great. J. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for the beautiful class we are about to have. We pray that He will help us to open our mind and heart and listen to the deep truths the pastor is teaching us so that we can develop our spirit love, so that we can live a life that glorifies you and we can be a blessing to others. Be with us and guide us throughout the session. Give us the good Wi-Fi connection that we need for this section. Don't be with us. Let everything we do be done for your glory. We bless pastor ashes. I thank you for all my classmates. We give you all the glory and all the Jesus name at you. Amen. Amen. Thank you and Kira Wan. So let's quickly review what we did last class, last week. I know this has been a kind of a short course, but we introduced this course maybe one or two years, maybe two years back I think. So this is only the third time we're doing this course. The whole intent was we want to really emphasize for all of us that we have to develop our spirit, man. And that's one reason why we are here in the Bible College. We are going to gain knowledge, of course. We're going to learn a lot of things intellectually. But most importantly, we want to develop our spirit in a person so we could be effective for God and in the service of God. Last class, we talked about the seven functions of the human spirit. That means the human spirit, what does it do? What does it do? What are the functions that it serves? And we enumerated these. First, we talked about the conscience. The conscience is the voice of the human spirit. It tells us what's right and wrong. And the Holy Spirit, of course, is our guide. And if our conscience is right, meaning if we have our spirit is developed the right way, then the voice of the conscience will always be aligned to the voice of the spirit. There will be an agreement. The second function our spirit serves is in knowing spiritual things, receiving revelation or understanding of spiritual things. So our spirit understands many times even before our mind can comprehend. So we have to constantly live out of what we know in the spirit and not be limited to what we understand in our minds. Thirdly, we talked about communion of fellowship with God. So our God is spirit. He has created us as spirit beings so that we can fellowship with them spirit to spirit. So we don't see God in the natural. Like, you know, I'm seeing God, I'm shaking hands. No, I can't do that. But I can fellowship with God spirit to spirit. He is spirit. My spirit communicates or communes with God. Number four, the spirit serves as a container. So God fills us with His grace, His power, fills us. And then from there we dispense, we release to people. The spirit also carries our identity. This is who we really are. So the spiritual world recognizes us not based on our natural, who we are in the natural, right? The spiritual world recognizes us based on who we are in the spirit, right? So they see us as believers, they see us under the blood, they see us in Christ, because that's who we are in the spirit. In the natural we may be different things. You know, we have different things in life. That's fine. But the spiritual world recognizes us for who we are in the spirit. We carry that identity in the spirit. Number six, it is our spirit that takes action, that gets things done in the spiritual realm and thereby affects the natural realm. So we must learn to do that. The moment there's an emergency, there's a situation in the natural. Of course, there are things we can do in the natural and take care of things, yes. But we must also learn how to operate in the spirit, because our spirit can take action in the spiritual realm. And those things will then affect what's going on here in our natural world, right? And lastly, we said the spirit continues to grow. So there is continuous development. The spirit is continuing to develop, mature, increase in Christ's likeness. So these are seven functions of the human spirit and we should be aware of it and continue to grow in each of these seven areas. The last lesson or the last point or last area that we want to cover is imparting spirit to spirit. That means just as in the natural, you know, if you think about it in the natural, you can have, you know, athletes can have coaches, students can have teachers. You know, so in the natural, there is some impartation of knowledge or experience that happens in the natural, so also in the spiritual. So we can impart spiritually to other people and we can birth and nurture spiritually. So we must understand that there is the possibility of spirit to spirit impartation or sharing or giving into other people's lives. So for example, in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 3, the apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he tells them, you are a letter written by us. Written not with ink but by the spirit. Written not on tablets of stone but on your hearts. So he's saying, you are a letter that we've written. So imagine he's telling people, each one of you, you're a letter we've written. Okay, what's he saying? And then he says, he explains, it's not a letter that we've written with ink on some stone or some paper. It's not a natural letter but you are a spiritual letter. We have written by the Holy Spirit and we have written it in your hearts inside. You know, so you can think about, that's what ministry is when we are ministering to people. We are actually writing into their hearts by the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is helping us to write into their hearts. And what is written in their heart is indelible. Meaning you can't erase it with an eraser. It's not going to go, it's something for their life. So that's an example where we can impart into people's lives into their very spirit. But it is empowered by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps us do that. So really in ministry, whether it be ministry of children or your teens or your youth or your adults or whoever, as you're ministering to people, we're actually imparting into their spirit. And it is only done by the power of the Holy Spirit. You see other examples in Romans 2.11, the Apostle Paul tells the believers at Rome, he says, I want to come to you and I want to impart to you some spiritual gift. So think about it, he's telling the Romans, I want to come to you. And I want to impart to you, I want to give to you something in the spirit, spiritual gift, something. It's like when you go visit somebody, you will usually take some gifts, chocolates or something. Oh, we're giving them. But here he's saying, I want to come to you, but I want to give you something in the spirit. Give you gifts in the spirit. I want to impart to you some spiritual gift, something in the spirit. So you can imagine when we go from place to place ministering to different people, what we are doing is we are imparting spiritually, we're giving it as a free gift. It's not like they're paying money. You can't buy these things with money. You're giving it as a gift, you're imparting a spiritual gift into their life, something that empowers them in the spirit. We see examples of Paul and Timothy. Paul tells Timothy 1 Timothy 4 verse 18. He says, I want to remind you of what was given to you by the laying on of hands of the eldership. Do not neglect the gift of God, which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, by the laying on of the hands of the eldership. So that means when the spiritual elders, they laid hands on Timothy, they prophesied over him, something was imparted into him. A spiritual gift was imparted. And so Paul reminds Timothy 2 Timothy 1 verse 6. He says, stir up the gift of God, which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy and the laying on of my hands. So there's imparting of gifts. That means abilities, things you're able to do, those things are given our spirit to spirit. So we must understand this, that as you develop in your spirit, spiritually, you can impart out of that into other people's lives. You can impart into their hearts. You can impart the gifts that God has given you. You can pass it on to people. There's a way through which that happens, which we will be talking about. And connected to that, we can nurture people. We can reproduce in others what we have been developed in ourselves. So Paul writes to Timothy 2 Timothy 2 verse 2. He says, did I turn the recording on? Yes, it's on. I suddenly forgot, but did I turn it on or not? Okay. So Paul tells Timothy 2 Timothy 2 verse 2. He says, the things that you have learned from me, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. That means he's saying, Timothy, what I have given to you spiritually, you pass it on to others and tell them to pass it on to others. So there is this whole transmission of spiritual things and the nurturing of spiritual things that is happening. So as Paul has grown in the things of God, he's passed it on to Timothy and he's saying, Timothy, you pass it on to others and tell them to pass it on to other people as well. So one of our goals in developing the human spirit and growing strong spiritually is so that we can impart to other people spiritually. It's not like, okay, I develop everything, keep everything to myself and sit down quiet. No. As you're developing in your spirit, as you're receiving revelation and truth and grace and gifting and anointing and empowering in your spirit, pour it out into others, release it into others so that you can develop nurture and develop others in the spirit. So some practical roots on how spiritual impartation and nurturing takes place just so that we do this properly. I'm going to just share these points down in the notes. How this happens spiritually. So how spiritual impartation and nurturing takes place. So when we talk about impartation, we're just saying we're transferring what we have received from our spirit. We are passing it to somebody else. That's what's impartation, right? Something, it's a grace. It could be a gift. It could be an empowerment. It could be revelation. What we have received, we are passing on to other people. And we see this in the Bible in the Old and New Testaments. We see examples of it. We'll make mention of it. And we can also receive just as we can give. Romans 111. Just as we receive, we can also give to other people. So this is a genuine thing. It happens. But what are important insights? First, impartation is always aligned to God's call and assignment on your life. So when we talk about impartation, which is especially an impartation of grace and gift, it is always aligned to the call of God. Because God is not just, okay, I will simply give impart grace and gift and you do nothing with it. No. It's always given in alignment to the assignment that God has for your life and the call of God on your heart to be a worship leader. And I worship God personally, privately, but I don't go up in front of people. I can't lead them in worship. So there's no point in me going to, unless God gives that grace and gift. So there's no point in me going to some person and saying, who's a great worship leader, anointed worship leader, and say, please place your hands on me. I want a double portion of your anointing. I want to become a worship leader. Well, that's not going to happen because that is not the call and assignment of God on my life. If it was God's call and assignment on my life, yes, that's, there will be an impartation. There will be a, you know, God can impart into my life the grace and gift and gift is put on that person. But when it's not part of God's call and assignment for my life, definitely I can have that person just pray a general prayer for me. But the impartation of the grace and gift is not going to happen because it's not aligned to the call and assignment on my life. So God is not wasting this, right? There is a purpose behind all of this. We must understand that. Secondly, impartation often takes place in a measure. The normal that we've seen, that you can see in Moses and the 70 elders, Moses and Joshua, Elijah and John the Baptist, is there was a certain aspect of what the person carried, which was given to the other person. So in Moses, you know, when the anointing of God was taken up from Moses and placed on the 70 elders, they didn't become, all 70 of them didn't become like Moses. No, there was a certain aspect, which was the grace and the anointing to judge the people or to lead the people in a certain degree. That was given. So they could then sit and take care of smaller groups of people. So that was imparted to the 70 elders. They didn't all become, you know, like Moses, the prophet, right? So there was an impartation, but it was given to them in a measure to do what God had called them to do. When Moses laid hands on Joshua, Joshua didn't go and start doing all the wonders that Moses did. He received a measure, which was specifically the wisdom of God to lead the people into the promised land. And then of course, yeah, God did some signs and wonders through Joshua, but not in the same way that he did through Moses. You know, so that we could say there was a measure given to Joshua, but not everything. Joshua did not become a copy of Moses. He did it. He had a different assignment and he fulfilled it and he was God imparted into his life. You think of Elijah and John the Baptist. The Bible says John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah, but John the Baptist, there is no record of him doing a single miracle. Elijah did many miracles, but the Bible says John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah. So that means there was only one aspect of the anointing that was imparted to John the Baptist and that was to turn the hearts of the people to God. Just as Elijah in his ministry, through his ministry, the people were saying, the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. Similarly, John the Baptist turned the hearts of the people to God. That was the measure. That was the impartation of the transfer that happens. So he was understand that in transferring and imparting, it's always aligned to the call of God on the person's life and there's a certain measure or certain aspect that is imparted It's not everything that's given. The third thing is this, that whatever has been received through impartation has to be nurtured and developed. That means you don't impart something in its mature states. You impart something in its nascent or in its initial state and that gift and the grace has to be developed and nurtured. That's what Paul is telling Timothy. Timothy, don't neglect the gift that's in you. I want you to stir it up. I want you to exercise it. I want you to make use of it. Don't leave it dormant. So Timothy received an impartation but he had to nurture and develop it. So everything received through impartation has to be exercised. It has to be nurtured. It has to be stewarded. It has to be developed. Number four, you can go beyond what was imparted. That means we are not limited to the impartation we receive. The impartation is like a seed that's sown into you. You can develop it. You can increase it. You can increase in measure and in realms. You can go beyond what was received because it depends all on how you develop it and grow in it. Number five, you can receive impartation from more than one ministry of God. Some people say, okay, you can only receive from one person, only from your spiritual father and all of that. All that is not supported in scripture. God can give to you. He has raised up so many men and women in the body obviously to impart into the lives of his people. So we receive impartation from multiple servants of God, multiple people of God. As God brings them into our lives, we can receive. Number six, there are two important factors that determine what we receive through impartation, which is our hunger and secondly, our assignments. That means we must be hungry for that kind of grace and gifting and pursue that intensely. And second, it must be aligned to the call of God on our lives. So both must be there. If I'm hungry, I'm eager for something that's not aligned to the call of God, that's not going to happen unless God has that as part of his calling on my life. So both these things have to be in alignment, the hunger for it and the assignment of God on our lives. And God can at times sovereignly impart that. He can initiate that impartation. Sometimes when you're not even thinking about it, somebody comes, lays their hands on you and impart something. God can do that. But normally, you're hungry for it and it's connected to the assignment or the call of God on your life. Number seven, key to impartation is association and honor. As we saw in the Bible, Joshua and Moses, Elisha and Elijah or Moses and the 70 elders or Paul and Timothy or Paul and Titus, there was association. They kind of knew each other. They worked together and there was honor. And so that kind of facilitates the transmission of grace and anointing. I'm not saying it's exclusively that because God can work apart from it. But normally, that's how it happens through association and honor. Impartation can take remotely. That means it can happen through distance. We can read books, we can listen to messages, we can observe from a distance and God can do that. We see an example of Elijah and John the Baptist. These two people never met. They lived hundreds of years apart and yet the Bible says that John the Baptist came in the spirit in the power of Elijah. So that means over centuries and I think I will mention that again later on. Over centuries, there was a transmission across generations. There was an impartation of certain grace and gift. Number nine, impartation cannot be purchased with money. I just want to emphasize this because sometimes people say you give an offering and you'll get my anointing and all that. That doesn't happen. You can give as much money as you want. That will not make the anointing come on you because anointing, this is a gift of God. This is a work of grace and sure, you can partner with people. You can be a part of what they're doing by giving financially but you cannot buy their anointing or buy their grace or gift through money. That's made so very clear for us that in Acts 8 Simon the Sorcerer wanted to buy the grace to impart the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Peter rebuked him. He said, your money perish with you and you'll get your grace. Number ten, a double portion can only be received from God. That means no man can give beyond what he has. If you want more than what a person has you'll have to go to God because everything we receive comes from God ultimately. Remember, in impartation you're not receiving from the man, you're receiving from God through the individual. The individual is only a channel of what the individual carries then we have to go to the source that is God himself. A double portion can only be received from God because everything we ultimately receive will come from God himself. He's the source of the grace that gives the anointing. The last point is that impartation can take place across generations. John the Baptist, he walked in the spirit and power that was in between them but God determined this was going to happen and so it did happen. Can God do the same thing today? Yes, of course. God can raise up people today who may walk in an anointing or a certain grace or a certain gift that somebody many generations ago walked in in similar manner. But that is a work of God and it's not something that we dictate but that's a sovereign work of God. It starts in mind when we talk about imparting into people's lives this is how impartation happens this is how we can give into their lives. As we associate together as we work together there's an impartation that takes place, we receive but it can it's according to God's plan and call we can't force something into somebody. So it doesn't mean that everybody's going to be a carbon copy of the person who's doing the impartation. No, it's going to be always according to God's call and God's plan for their lives. Let me pause here and see if there are any questions on this subject and then after this I will do a full review of the course. Any questions on this? On nurturing and impartation Go ahead Zafira Go ahead So once it happened with me a person genuinely came when he wanted to pray for me and then he suddenly started saying I'm imparting everything to you but then I mean I didn't think about it later or I didn't feel anything I didn't even think like that's the prayer that I kind of needed or something like I was not even thinking about getting his gifts into me or something so I just want to know that is it really nice or good to go to someone suddenly and then say I'm imparting all my gifts to you when I was standing and listening to his prayers I was wondering why he's doing all these things yeah that's what I wanted to know is it really good a good way to approach someone like this and then suddenly say I'm imparting all my gifts to you I'm imparting the grace imparting the power and stuff I felt very different that day but then yeah I just want to know Yeah so the answer is two things right one is was the Holy Spirit genuinely leading him was God really in it or was he operating purely was the person operating purely out of their own mind you know because sometimes we can go do it on our own oh I'm giving everybody here stand up everybody receive my anointing my grace and all that you know that usually amounts to nothing you know it's something if we are doing it by our own cells it may seem like a very spiritual thing but it really amounts to nothing if the Lord is in it then yes there will be some fruit coming out of it so the real test is in the fruit right Jesus said you know Matthew 7 he said by the fruit you will know them so how do we test something look at the fruit what was the outcome was there some immediate change in the idea of ministry or did you recognize certain gifts did you recognize certain grace flowing and operating in your life that you didn't have before that would be the evidence of a sorry sorry I lost connection in between back now yeah so what we were saying is so we will know them by the fruit so the real test is if there was the initial evidence of receiving of certain gifts or grace or anointing or even revelation then you know that some impartation has taken place otherwise if we are operating on our own accord in our own mind then usually nothing happens it's just an exercise we go through but if the Holy Spirit has led it okay sorry about that once again the connection went off and came back I hope it doesn't go off again okay so the second part that we were saying has to do with our desire right so we need to be desiring the the impartation you know that God I want that what's happening I want that I want to see it in my life I've got a desire for it so that's important so these are two important things right so if I'm just speaking towards what Jeffina was sharing if God was directing it if there was desire for it yeah then that's the normal way through which impartation happens now God is sovereign so sometimes God directs it even when we are not aware that's fine but I'm just talking about the normal I'm just talking about the normal way in which impartation happens that is God directs it and usually we are seeking for it we're desiring for it and then God directs the impartation we are seeking for it then impartation happens but God is sovereign so sometimes when we are not even aware or not knowing God can direct an impartation can happen but usually the evidence will be there the fruit will be there that something is beginning something has changed in my spiritual journey either in terms of the grace or the gift or the anointing or the revelation something has come up in my life that means I know impartation something has been given to me in the spirit okay sorry about the interruptions I'm not sure today whether we've had these problems happen playing to okay it's a little blurry but it's still okay okay so let's try to see if we can make progress today otherwise we will meet again is there any other questions that are there any questions that anyone would like to ask hopefully this connection won't go again but let's see if there any questions first I have a question regarding impartation wouldn't be possible for demonic powers also to be imparted if that the man of the person who is operating gives who is imparting is operating under the influence of the enemy just wondering because sometimes people initiate themselves to come forward and impart and give money stuff so wouldn't be possible to happen that way also yeah so in theory so we look at the full picture in theory there is a possibility that if a person is operating under familiar spirit so let's say there is a believer a man of God whatever and certain areas of his life are not right so that means in that area he is actually given room to familiar spirit so he may be a believer operating under the Holy Spirit in certain aspects but in other aspects he is operating under the influence of familiar spirits because he has accommodated that and that's possible because in those areas he would have compromised and he has given room to familiar spirits now when that person lays hands and prays if the person is compromised in the same area then it is possible I am saying theoretically or theologically it is possible that those familiar spirits will begin to attack themselves of this person so for example there is a pornography is a weakness in his life and he has given room for it he himself is in bondage to pornography which means in that area of his life actually unclean spirits have him kept he is weak and they are actually operating in his life in that area if he lays hands on praise of somebody who that person also has a weakness for pornography then it is an open door where these familiar spirits can accommodate and begin to affect this person this weakness will be worse I am just giving an example in theory this is possible but as believers when we go forward to have hands laid on us we have no idea we may not know anything about that pastor that preachers laying hands on us we don't know about his personal life we don't know what are his areas of weakness so what do we do? we make sure that we ourselves are under proper standing before God that we are walking in faith and love and holiness with our life in proper submission to God that means we will not be affected even if that person has a certain weakness so if my life is all covered let's say that pastor laying hands on me he is anointed and I am going to receive off the anointing on his life in a certain area there are certain unclean spirits operating but if I keep my life covered the doors shut I am not going to be able to I am not going to entertain those unclean spirits because I have kept the doors closed in my life but I can receive the good things that are in his life which is the grace and the anointing the gift that God has put in him so that is how we should operate before we go to receive make sure we are closed we can receive we can receive the good things if there are any negative things is it okay? did I answer your question? yes pastor also in Christianity 522 do not lay hands on anyone easily no share in other people's sin keep yourself pure does this also imply when we impart to others or is it just appointing people as leaders but it also says that not sharing other people's sin so could you share some light on that hmm yeah so the context of 1st Timothy 5 is really about when you go back a few verses Paul says against an elder do not receive an accusation except in the mouth of two or three witnesses the context is eldership then he says those who are sinning rebuke before all that all may fear that means if an elder is continuing against sin then you have to publicly rebuke him because he is an elder he has got responsibility of the people of God then people of God are watching him and you need to publicly expose his wrongdoing but in that context he says lay hands suddenly are no men and do not be particular on other men's sins that means do not hastily appoint somebody into eldership because if we appoint somebody in eldership we are actually participating in their wrongdoing if we are like in English we are becoming an accomplice to their crime because we are endorsing their wrongdoing by actually laying hands and appointing them to a place of leadership if they are continuing in sin so that's the context the context is eldership and how to deal with the sin of eldership and not to appoint somebody to eldership if they are actually doing sin living in sin because then we actually become accomplices to their sin by endorsing them and putting them into a place of leadership so in that context he says lay hands suddenly on no man and do not be a part of their sins keep yourself pure right so in that context so we don't want to it's not like if I lay hands on somebody their sin begins to affect me lay hands on somebody and endorse them yeah I still want to yeah good thank you both yeah welcome alright so in this course so through you know what we covered and I've given full course notes so I encourage you to read through it and I feel there's a lot more in scriptures that we need to dig out and explore and hopefully as I go along and I keep learning more I'll put it into a book and share it and of course try to apply it to my life and share some more practical things but what we've tried to cover is I'm just going through the overview of the course I emphasize that we are a tripod being spirit, soul and body but we are primarily spirit beings the spirit is the most important part of us and the condition of our spirit affects both the soul and the body so we have to keep our spirit strong full of the things of God we looked at some analogies of the human spirit you know the human spirit is compared to a vessel is compared to a house is compared to a temple and so you can learn some things about human spirit by looking at the analogies and we said our human spirit is given to us so we can actually connect with the spiritual realm so in the way of living in this natural world and spending some more time with the natural world we can actually connect with the spiritual realm and engage in the spiritual realm through our human spirit then we talked about the five faculties of the human spirit which we need to develop we talked about seeing, hearing, feeling smelling and tasting we need to develop these faculties because they enable us to see and exceed in spiritual things what God is giving to us we talked about actually I moved this chapter here but we talked about you know seven steps or seven ways by which we can develop and train our spiritual stances through the word, through meditation, through worship through quietness and the presence of God through the declaration of the word of God we develop and strengthen our spiritual man we talked a little bit about walking in the spirit how Paul says if we are living out of the spirit then two things we must be led by the spirit and we must walk in the spirit so we have life in the spirit but practically we have to be led by the spirit and we have to walk in the spirit that means let all that we do be governed directed by the Holy Spirit then we talked about the seven functions of the human spirit and do in us today we talked a little bit about how we became part of our people, spirit to spirit that is the gift, the grace, the anointing and the revelation God has given to us in our spirit we can pass on to other people or we ourselves can receive from other people but there is the right way to do it and we should do it properly so that's kind of what we've covered in this course I hope you found it useful I've set the full course notes which you can use so we will put out the assessment for this course you can do the assessment it's an open book, open bible assessment and hopefully in the coming days we will expand these notes into a book and share a lot more but continue to build on whatever information we've shared take it forward, strengthen yourself in it okay so we end this course here with close and prayer and I look forward to meeting you again in some other course with somebody close and prayer please Lord we thank you for this time of learning we pray to God that everything that we have learned through this course we'll be able to apply this in our lives and help us to strengthen and work on our inner man be in constant touch with your Holy Spirit and to develop our human spirit of God you pray that we would see the change even in our personal life and also the ministry that each one of us are involved in pray and thank you for this course God thank you for pastor thank you for all that you have learned through this weeks of God we thank you in Jesus name amen amen thank you Rohan thank you pastor see you again soon bye