 Okay, welcome back after the break. Before we went for our break, we were looking at chapter 2. We'll begin looking at chapter 3 now, just talking about the Holy Spirit who leads us and guides us and directs us even as we build God's kingdom. So as kingdom builders is very important for us to lean on, to depend on, to submit and to hear, you know, and to know where the Holy Spirit is leading us and guiding us. So regardless of, you know, whichever occupation, vocation that we are in, we must be led by the Spirit of God. Again, it's important to know, you know, as we were just saying in chapter 2, it's important to know what God's will is and to do what God's will is and who reveals the will of God to us, who reveals the heart and mind of God to us. It's the Holy Spirit. If you look at Matthew chapter 21 verses 20, sorry, Matthew chapter 7 verses 21 to 23, you know, Jesus says, not everyone who calls him Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. And many will say to me in that day, Lord, have you not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name and have done wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. So, you know, what Jesus is saying, it's possible to do many good things in the name of Jesus, you know, but you can do that, you know, without having a personal relationship with him. So it's the important thing here is to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you know, then doing many things that are important in his name. And he says, you know, when you do things in his name, without having a personal relationship with Christ, then he calls that lawlessness. Okay, so what is lawlessness? Lawlessness is basically, you know, anything that's not the will of God, that is not born out of our relationship with him, that is not birthed out of our relationship with him, anything that we do, which we think is, you know, is God's will, but basically, it's our will, it's our choice. It's what is motivating us as what is directing us, you know, so whatever is not the will of God, and it's not born out or birthed out of a relationship with him. And if it's done in the name of Jesus, then that is lawlessness. So we can do many things in Jesus' name, but it's not necessarily that what it is his will for our life, what he wants us to do. So a priority as Kingdom builders is, first is to have a relationship with him. Second, it is to know what his will is. And then, you know, to submit, to surrender in obedience, to do what is his will. And then, you know, we will find the, we will receive the anointing, we will receive the power, and we will flow in the power and the authority that God is giving to us to fulfill that mandate that calling the will that he has purposed for our lives. So it's a holy spirit who reveals the will of the Father to us here on earth. And Jesus in John chapter 16, verses 13 to 15, he talks about some of the roles of the holy spirit or the work of the holy spirit in our life. So can one of you please read John chapter 16, verses 13 to 15, please? John chapter 16, verses 13 to 15. However, when we, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me for he will take off what is mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said that he will take off mine and declare it to you. Thank you, Rosalind. Amen. So here we see that the Holy Spirit guides us. And the Holy Spirit, you know, reveals, takes from Jesus, what Jesus receives from the Father. So Father tells Jesus, Jesus tells the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit reveals things to us. He tells us things not only about the present, but also what things are to come way into the future. The Holy Spirit reveals to us. Why does he reveal things that are coming, going to come into the future or in the future seasons of our life so that, you know, we can be mindful of what God is doing in the future. We can receive this word, we can receive his plan and purpose, and we can prepare in advance for what he has positioning us or destined us to do in the future. So it's basically the Holy Spirit revealing it to us in the present things about our futures that we can plan and we can prepare. Okay. And we, how do we know that it's the Holy Spirit, you know, who's revealing the truth, revealing the heart of God for us, revealing the Father's will, telling us things about the future. It says, you know, he will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. So, you know, the Holy Spirit always does things to glorify Jesus. So if, you know, whatever we receive, how do we know that it's from the Holy Spirit? If it is, you know, going to bring glory and magnify Jesus Christ, then we know that this is what we've heard from the Holy Spirit. It's not our conscience. It's not our own voice. It's not our own intellect or our own understanding, our desires that is speaking up. Okay. So if the things that we hear are things that for self promotion, for self exaltation, then we know it's not the Holy Spirit speaking and we can be sure it's the Holy Spirit speaking when we know that this is what is going to bring glory to God and exalt him. And Romans chapter 8 verse 14 says that, you know, the children of God are those who are sons and daughters of God are those who are led by the spirit of God says, for as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God, which means that, you know, you and I, as children of God, as sons and daughters of God, you and I have the privilege of, you know, of being led by the Holy Spirit. You know, isn't that an awesome privilege that we have to be led by the Holy Spirit? So it's very important that, you know, we know this truth. And the other important thing is that we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit. How do we become sensitive to the Holy Spirit when we are fellowshiping with the Holy Spirit? We always constantly are fellowshiping with the Father, more with the Son, but not the Holy Spirit. But it's important to speak to the Holy Spirit because he's a third person in the Trinity. You know, we need to commune with him. We need to fellowship with him. We need to tell him, Holy Spirit, lead me, anoint me. Give me a fresh anointing today. You know, show me what you want me to do. You know, what is your will in my life? Or you can just write, you know, say, Holy Spirit, I want to write a plan for the next 10 years of my life. Reveal to me what is God's heart, the Father's heart. Reveal to me what Jesus wants me to do. Reveal it to me. God show me. And the Holy Spirit will reveal things to you. He will lead you, guide you in small decisions that you have to take and even in the bigger ones that you make in your life. So, you know, knowing God's will is not a mystery. It's not something that we have to, you know, twist the arm of God or the hand of God to find out or stand upside down to find out. It's not like that. It's the Holy Spirit who reveals the heart and the mind of God. And we must, you know, you know, we must come to that place where we desire to know the heart of God, desire to know the mind of God, desire to know what this is will and plan and purpose. And accordingly, the Holy Spirit will lead us and guide us and help us to do things according to the Father's will. Okay. But we also need to be very careful that, you know, you know, that they're not feeding our spirit man, but they're feeding, sorry, they're not feeding our carnal nature, but they're feeding our spirit man. Because if we have to hear from the Holy Spirit, then it's, he puts the thoughts and desires and deposits in our spirit man. Okay, that is where he meets with us. That is where he speaks to us. And we also need to have clarity, whether some of the things that they're doing, whether it's born out of the flesh or our own desires, our own will, our own plans that we have for ourselves, or whether it's born of the spirit. So John chapter three, verse six says, for that which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit. We can't convert that which is born of the flesh into the spirit. Okay, because, you know, things that are of the flesh does not, you know, receive the power does not receive the authority does not, you know, cannot stand the test of time. We know that, you know, every work that we do will stand the test of time. And if it's made up of, you know, straw or mud or bricks, it will just easily be burned by fire. One stand the test of time. But we know that when we build according to the spirit, what God wills, what what plans for our lives, then, you know, it will stand the test of time, it will be have lasting impact, it will have eternal values, internal impacts, and will, you know, enhance the kingdom of God and also extend the kingdom of God here on earth. Okay, so we need to be very careful of, you know, what we are birthing, whether it's birthing out of the flesh or what out of our spirit man. Okay, very often when we give birth to the things of the flesh, it's done in our own strength in our own wisdom, our own energy. And it cannot, you know, we're looking for food, we're looking for, you know, God to work for science miracles and wonders, it does not happen. Because, you know, the what we both of the flesh cannot be converted into the things of the spirit. Okay, in Exodus chapter 13, verses 22 to 33, God is telling Moses to prepare an anointing oil for the tabernacle for the utensils in the tabernacle. And he gives him the proportion of how much, you know, of what to use like mer and, you know, sweet smelling cane and cinnamon and cassia. And so he's saying, you know, take so much of all of these things, mix them up. And he says, you know, this is the anointing oil, which you need to, you know, anoint on the arc of the testimony on the tabernacle, the tables and utensils and lampstand, all sorts of incense, all of the burnt offerings, the labor, the basin, everything that is there. You know, you need to anoint it with this anointing oil and whatever is anointed with this anointing oil, you know, becomes very, very holy. And he says, you know, this shall not be poured out on man's flesh. Okay, not shall you make any of this as a perfume or as a cream or a body lotion, you know, for people to use and you cannot use this on any flesh or any outsiders. Because, you know, if they, if you do that, then they shall be cut off from, from, from being my people, from being my children. So these very strict, you know, guidance that God is giving Moses. So from this, this anointing oil, which we read here in Exodus chapter 30, which, you know, God is telling Moses to make and what he needs to do with this anointing oil. It's actually this anointing oil is a type of, and the type and shadow of the anointing of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. Okay, so it's similar to the, you know, type is the type and shadow of the anointing of the work of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. So some things that we can learn, you know, from this anointing oil that God has Moses to make in the Old Testament, and how this is a type and shadow of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The first thing what we can learn is whatever's used in the service of God must be anointed by God. Okay, so here we see that, you know, he says anoint everything in the tabernacle, the labors, the basins, the utensils, everything. And when you anoint all of this with this anointing oil, it says, then it becomes most holy. Okay, and whoever touches them, you know, must be holy themselves, must clean themselves up because all of these utensils are very, very holy because they've been anointed. So, you know, whatever is used in the service of God must be anointed by God. And whatever is anointed by God becomes consecrated to God, that means becomes set apart for God, just for God to serve God. God will not will not anoint what is born of the flesh. God will not tolerate any imitation of the anointing. He says, you know, don't make any such, you know, use the same mixture of all of these oils and the amount I've told you to make any perfumes or body lotions to be used on any of the people. Because if they do that, they'll be cut off from of being people of God. And so we see that God will not tolerate any imitations of the anointing. And we see that what is born of the flesh does not have the life and the presence of God. Okay. So, so we see here that and we learn that, you know, whatever is born of the flesh, whatever we do in our flesh with our own understanding in our own will, you know, does not have, it might be like an imitation of God, what God is asking us to do, we can fool people, we can fool ourselves, but, you know, it won't have the anointing. It won't have the life, the presence and the anointing of God. Okay. We will not see the life of God. We won't see his presence move. We will not see his anointing, the sense that we will not see his power and, you know, his power being released and people being transformed and healed and restored and delivered. Okay. What is born the flesh or hinders what, you know, God desires to be birthed out of the spirit because Galatians chapter four was 29 says, but as he was born according to the flesh, then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, even so is now. So, he's basically talking that those who were born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the spirit. Okay. So, it says that the things that be birthed in the flesh will be the very things that kind of hinder or, you know, destroy, you know, the things that be birthed in the spirit. That is why it's important for us to feed our spirit man and to starve our carnal nature because, you know, we can't, you know, oscillate between the carnal nature and the spirit man, you know, it's just one that will fool or rain. One will be greater than the other. So, the more you're feeding your carnal nature, that rains. The more you're feeding your spirit man, that rains. So, you know, when, you know, when we are so inclined to the things of the flesh, the desires of the flesh, our will, you know, for us to be glorified, for us to do what we desire, then, you know, even if God puts his desire into our hearts, we will, it will, it can be trotted or it can be destroyed or it can be choked because of the desires of the flesh that is speaking out louder, that's craving out louder, that is forcing us to do what our flesh requires us to do than what the spirit is asking us to do. So, you know, most of the time, our struggle is not against the enemy, Satan, but it's the most of the time, you know, the struggle is in our own bodies, you know, in our own flesh. Our flesh is crying out for something, the spirit man is saying something else, and hence it's very important, you know, who we are listening to, who we are obeying and what we are doing. In Galatians chapter 5, verse 17 Paul says, for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to one another's, where they do not do the things that you wish. Now, we know that the flesh and the spirit are in contrast with each other, they oppose each other, and we need to be careful that, you know, not only when we're talking about Christian ministry, but any area of our life that we are constantly listening to, not our flesh, not submitting to the desires of the flesh, but submitting to the things of the spirit, desiring to do the things of the spirit. So even when we struggle, we can say, God, I'm struggling, it's my flesh that flesh is crying out, it's craving for attention, it's craving for me to do these things. God, just give me the grace and the strength to follow on and do what you are asking me, or what your purpose for me to do, or what is your will or your plan for my life. And we also know that what is birthed out of the flesh will not benefit anyone, because we know it has no, it does not have a life of God, does not have His presence or His anointing. In John chapter 6 verse 63, it says like, you know, it's a spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life. This is Jesus saying, you know, He says, my words, I speak to you are spirit and they are life. So we know that, you know, what is born of the flesh or birthed in the flesh will not benefit people, it does not have any power to produce, heal, restore, you know, it can just give, it can be very sensational to people, people can feel motivated at that time, they can feel energized, they can feel excited, you know, they can feel happy or whatever, you know, their senses are all motivated, but we know that emotions don't last for long. Okay, they can just step out and they're back into the world, they're stepping back into the world where they face again the same challenges, but it's only, you know, Jesus and the Holy Spirit who can bring a transformation of life and it's the power of the Holy Spirit. So life and power will bring about, of the Holy Spirit brings about transformation and that comes only to the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit that has a lasting impact on the lives of people. So don't do things based on, you know, feeling good or I'm feeling happy, so I'm doing this because the church feels happy, my Bible study group feels happy, you know, people feel happy when they sing the song, not the other songs, but don't do things to please people, to make people feel good and happy, but, you know, just sense what the Holy Spirit is leading you and guiding you to do, so that people will be transformed into Christ likeness and not just be excited and happy, because emotions we know don't last long, okay? Psalms chapter 127 verse 1 says, you know, unless the Lord builds the house, slay brothers, labor in vain, okay? Unless it's, you know, unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stand guard in vain. So if the Lord does not build it, then whatever I am building is going to be in vain, okay? So whatever we might be building can be very grand, can be great, you know, men can praise us, can give us the glory, but it will not stand the test of type because Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 12 and 13 that, you know, our works, whether, you know, if it's a wood, hay or straw, these will not stand the test of fire, it will be easily burned, we know that wood, hay and straw easily burned, so you can building our foundation, you know, it would be like a foolish man who builds his house on the stand, when the storm came, you know, it just, you know, did stand, but you know, we need to build the house on the rock, that means we need to build our foundation, or we need to build our lives of what God has called us to do on Christ, the foundation stone, building on his will, his plan, his purpose, and what he wants us to do, okay? And in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16, you know, you know, Paul tells us, walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh, or you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Now what is, does it need to walk in the spirit? Basically to walk in the spirit means to live a life that is sensitive and yielded to the Holy Spirit, we're living a life yielded to the Spirit of God, and we are ensuring that whatever we are doing is what the Holy Spirit wants us to do, and it's not birthed about, birth from our flesh, so you know, walking in the spirit is not something that we do, you know, in different moments of our life, but it's, you know, making a conscious effort to walk daily, moment by moment, every choice that we make, every move that we make, we're making under the guidance and leadership the influence of the Holy Spirit, and you know, when we begin to walk in the spirit, that means we're constantly daily moment by moment making a choice to walk in the spirit, and when I, and at times when our flesh is crying out louder, you know, and we are, you know, trying to give in to our flesh, that's when, you know, we can draw strength from the us, the Holy Spirit, because, you know, we are constantly tuned to listen to the Holy Spirit, because day in and day out, we're making a choice to listen to the Holy Spirit, so, you know, at times when we have to make important decisions and the flesh is crying out loud and demanding our attention, you know, at those times we can, we would be in a better position to crucify the desires of our flesh, because we are drawing strength from the Holy Spirit, and how we're drawing strength in the Holy Spirit, it just does not happen this further moment, it's because we are consciously, you know, this, we have constantly tuned ourselves to do that, we constantly are in, in the right motion of doing that day in and day out, and so everything just, you know, falls into a place, so it's important that we walk in yieldedness and brokenness to the Holy Spirit, yieldedness means in total submission to the Holy Spirit, brokenness means we are completely dependent on the Holy Spirit, okay, so we know that, you know, yielding to the Holy Spirit, submission or obedience to the Holy Spirit is a choice that we need to make, you know, every time we, you know, have an, you know, we have a choice in front of us, it's a choice that we have to make to listen to what the Holy Spirit is asking us to do, or, you know, at times we know what God has already called us to do in his word, so we choose to listen and submit to the Holy Spirit, and we, you know, we don't in any way quench or grieve the Holy Spirit that is in us, but we desire, you know, to walk in the Spirit, we desire to live in the Spirit, we desire to be yielded and submitted to the Holy Spirit, and just like yieldedness is a choice, brokenness is also a choice, you know, brokenness means we're completely dependent on the Holy Spirit, you know, even though we can be very confident people, some of us are very confident, we're very smart, we're very intelligent, we have the gifts and the talents, but we recognize, we come to that phase where we recognize and say God, you know, all of this without you is like basically meaningless, you know, like Paul says, you know, he had all the wisdom of the Old Testament, he was a scholar, studied under great scholars like the manual, but he says he considers all that as foolish, this is rubbish, comparing to the greatness of knowing Christ Jesus as his Lord, so just the basic fact of knowing that even though, you know, whether they're intelligent, multi-talented, multi-tasked people who can do things like this, but we need to remember that we are just human, we are earthen vessels, if not for the anointing of God that is on our lives, the outpouring of his anointing, his power, in and through us, you know, our giftings, our talents, our intellect, can all be futile, just like, for example, King Solomon, as long as he stayed in the will of God, as long as he obeyed God, as long as he yielded and submitted to God, you know, his wisdom, his knowledge, you know, helped him, you know, he enjoyed what God had given him, it's blessing, but the minute he, you know, pride came over and you know, he began, you know, he had so many wives, thousand, thousand and no wives I think, I don't know how many wives he had, but you know, the number of wives he had who led him away from God and he started worshiping idols, we see that, you know, he writes everything is so meaningless, you know, everything is futile, why did he find it meaningless and futile because there was no God in the picture, you know, so everything become futile and meaningless, including the blessings that we receive from God, when God is not in the picture, when we leave him out of the equation, okay, so it's important that we know that in spite of all that, you know, we have all the blessings that we have, remember who we are, we're just earthen vessels, if it's not for God's anointing and power, you know, we are just like broken earthen vessels of no use, absolutely no use, okay, and just so totally leaning on God's power to work in and through our lives. Now what are the two test questions, you know, what motivates me and who is glorified, so these two questions we need to constantly keep asking ourselves, even as we are building God's kingdom, kingdom builders, you know, what motivates me and who is glorified, so you know, when we ask these questions, you know, why am I doing this program, why am I going and preaching here, or why am I doing what I'm doing, you know, what is motivating me, we need to ask that question, and then who is being glorified, and if we are able in our conscience to give a clear answer, a right answer, our conscience is not pricking us, the Holy Spirit is, you know, telling us, you know, your conscience is not right, what you're doing, your motives are not right, then we know that, you know, what they're burping is out of the flesh and out of the Spirit and we can realign ourselves and come back to God, and God is more than willing to, you know, lead us and guide us and help us to be on the right track, okay, so we need to ask these questions, you know, at different moments in our life, answer it truthfully and, you know, and keep a check on ourselves, okay, the Holy Spirit, even as he guides us into all truth, he leads us into the future, he reveals the plan of God, he also reveals when, where and how, okay, so he directs us and leads us when to do what, where to go and how to go about doing things, he instructs us, he gives us even the details, okay, so like for example in Acts chapter 8, sorry the Holy Spirit tells, tells Philip, you know, go near and overtake this chariot and we see that the Holy Spirit leading Philip to the Utopian eunuch and when he goes, you know, near the chariot at the right moment, you know, that he's reading from the book of Isaiah and Philip leads, you know, interprets scripture for him, helps him to understand what he's reading and we know that this eunuch is, you know, baptized in what he accepts Christ, baptized in water and then, you know, he goes back and, you know, he takes the Gospel to Utopia. We also see in Acts chapter 10, you know, we see that, you know, when Philip, he has his trans on this, on the terrace, he's waiting for food to be prepared, he's very hungry and, you know, the trans that he has with his white sheet with all the unclean animals and God says, you know, get up and rise up and kill and Peter says, how can I, you know, eat them? They're unclean and God says, don't call what I have created clean as unclean and then he says, you know, there are two, there are people waiting for you, there are men waiting for you downstairs, three of them waiting for you, go down and, you know, don't ask any questions, just go with them and so Peter goes with them and, you know, God leads into the house of Cornelius who's a Gentile and we know that Peter shares the Gospel with them and actually preaching the Gospel, people are cut in their heart, that means they realize that they are so sinful and immediately, you know, they may have confessed this and whatever but, you know, we see that even before Peter finishes sermon and led them to an altar call, you know, they start speaking in tongues and then Peter realizes the whole trance he had and what God showed him and because he was just basically giving him a direction of cue, telling him that, you know, it's the baptism, the Holy Spirit is not only for the Jews but also for the Gentiles. So here we see that, you know, the important works of God, how Philip, you know, shares the Gospel and how the Gospel is taken to Africa and also how the Gospel is being proclaimed to the first time to the Gentiles, you know, all of these monumental things in the growth and expansion of God's kingdom, how he's fulfilling his plans and purposes. We see that, you know, God, the Holy Spirit gives instructions but it's just very short instructions, simple instructions and when it's obeyed, you can see how, you know, the immense power it has to extend God's kingdom and the power it has to impact eternity. We also read in Acts chapter 13 when the disciples and, you know, we're fasting and praying, you know, the Holy Spirit said to them, set apart for me, Saul and Barnum is for the work of God. Okay, so then having fast and prayed, you know, the disciples laid their hands on Saul and Barnumus and, you know, released them for the work of God. Okay, so we see here that, you know, the Holy Spirit also called out Barnumus and Saul for ministry and they were sent out by the Holy Spirit. So we see that, you know, the Holy Spirit even calls people out of the congregation to do specific works. When he does that, we need to be discerning, we need to release people into the work that God has called outside of our own local church and ministry, just bless them, release them so that people can obey what the Holy Spirit is leading them and desiring them to do. Okay, we also see that the Holy Spirit also, you know, stops us from going from some places. So we read in Acts chapter 16 verses 6 and verse 6 to 10, you know, Paul and his team, they are in Galatia, they're preaching the word, they want to go to Asia but the Holy Spirit forbids them from going to Asia and then they go down to Maesia and when they are in Maesia, you know, they want to go to Bitinia and the Holy Spirit again stops them from going to Bitinia. So they pass by Maesias and they come to Taurus and when they come to Taurus, we see that, you know, Paul has a vision where a man from Macedonia stands and pleads him to come to Macedonia and help them and we see that after this he sees his vision, you know, Paul tells his team and, you know, the Holy Spirit may have revealed it to the team as well. We see that, you know, all of them, you know, it doesn't mention here but it says here that, you know, after that, after, now after he had seen the vision, immediately he sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. So the us is not just Paul but all of Paul and his teammates were there and everywhere, everyone were in sync because they would have also received a word from the Holy Spirit of affirmation, we exactly don't know but, you know, we know that the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us where to go, whom to speak to, what to do, but also sometimes he stops us from going to places and meeting people, you know, and he just shows us where and leads us where we need to go. Okay, so we see that when they go to Macedonia, you know, they do a mighty work over there. So we see that, you know, the Holy Spirit, you know, even as he inspires us and leads us, you know, we need to follow into the leading of what he's leading us, guiding us to do for the plan and purposes that he has for our lives. Okay, so the important thing to understand here is we cannot, you know, build God's kingdom or cannot do the work of God's kingdom with just human understanding. The kingdom work requires the Spirit's guidance, it requires the Spirit's kingdom thinking, it requires the mind of God which requires a renewed mind, a mind that is renewed with the word of God and also thinking in terms of God's ways and in lines with God's thought and how can we think in line with God's thoughts, his ways, how can we have kingdom thinking is only when we have a renewed mind, a renewed mind comes when we have, you know, when we are meditating on the word of God and when we are filling our lives with the word of God. Okay, and we also know that not just a renewed mind that we need to have, but we also see that, you know, a Spirit man, you know, has to be in sync with tune with the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit witness is, bears witness in our spirit and, you know, there's several ways the Holy Spirit bears in our witness, in our spirit, we learned this in, you know, in your first year course, Minister's Foundation, where you looked at, you know, the different ways the Holy Spirit bears in our witness in a spirit man, it's through the quickening word of scripture, you know, impressions or, you know, the flash of information that comes in the spirit man, so knowing within, you know, it's just through the peace of God's impression of feelings, he also communicates to pictures, ideas, to prophecy, dreams and visions, physical manifestations and other ways, so we know that the Holy Spirit bears witness or leads us and guides us in different ways, the fronting comes in different ways, but we need to, we can receive all of this and we can know it's the Holy Spirit speaking to us when we are living lives that are sensitive to the Holy Spirit and we're communing with the Holy Spirit and we have a communion and fellowship with the Holy Spirit, okay, so it's essential for us to you know, establish a unbreakable communion with the Holy Spirit, you know, we need to continually communion, have communion with the Holy Spirit, being communion with him, relate with him, fellowship with him and we are always tuning our hearts and minds as the spirit man to listen to what the Holy Spirit is telling us to do and what he's directing us to do and how do we do that, you know, how can we be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, you know, set aside regular times when you are praying, reading God's word, fill your mind with God's word, you know, keep praying in the Spirit, the more you pray in the Spirit, the more you are, you know, communing with the Holy Spirit, the more you are able to discern what the Spirit is telling you to receive from the Holy Spirit, also it's important for us to stay in a position where we are calm, peaceful in our mind, in our heart, because we need to ensure that, you know, the Holy Spirit is like a dove, you know, it's like a dove that came upon Jesus, so just imagine, you know, if a dove is sitting on your shoulder, then how would you move, you know, you won't be rash or you won't be moving fast or you won't be agitated or irritated or screaming or shouting, you know, or banging things or, you know, being throwing, you know, things in rage or fix of anger, you basically be very calm and composed and be very, very careful in every moment because you don't want to disturb, you know, the doubt that is sitting on your shoulder, okay, so the Holy Spirit is like a dove, you know, that's resting on those who walk in peace, so sometimes we can say, no, why am I not able to hear the Holy Spirit is because some of us are so overwhelmed, we are so anxious all the time, we are so worried, we are just running from pillar to post from one thing into the other, our mind is so blocked with, you know, so many things that we need to do, we are not just calm and composed and quiet in our spirit man and, you know, when we are not, we can't hear the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is very gentle, very calm, very peaceful, we need to be come to that more where we are peaceful, gentle, quiet to listen to the Holy Spirit, okay, and the other thing that we also need to do is we need to maintain our heart that is pure, a liver like it's pure and holy in God's sight, our motive should be holy and pure because, you know, the purity of our heart actually influences our revelation of God because Matthew chapter 5 verse 8 says, the pure in heart are those who will see God, okay, so you're saying that, hey, I don't receive these revelations from God and other men and women are able to receive, it's maybe we need to check whether we are pure in our hearts in the way that we're living our lives, in our thoughts, in the motives why we are doing what we are doing, okay, so when, you know, when we are not pure in our hearts, then our, even our very idea of who God is, his nature, his characteristics, what he's doing in our lives can be very tainted, you know, can be a tainted picture, it can be a skewed image, it can be something that is leading us away from the truth, diverting us away from the truth, it can tell us, you know, God is partial, he does not love me, he does not care for me, he's forgotten about me and all that is the lie, why? Because our hearts, our motives are not pure and it's not aligned to God's will and what we are doing is not the right motives with what we are doing, okay, so the holy spirit is holy and hence, you know, you know, he delights in us being holy but the moment we sin, it grieves and breaks the heart of the holy spirit, it grieves him, okay, so we need to set apart ourselves, you know, to be holy, to be godly, that's when we can listen to the holy spirit and the key to maintaining the right fellowship with the holy spirit is unity, you know, maintaining the unity among believers, unity in our relations that we have and we can maintain unity only when we walk in love, when we love people with the way Christ loved us and 1 John chapter 4 verse 16 says, God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and we cannot walk in him or walk in the spirit if we are not walking in love, okay, so, you know, when Paul writes about all the gifts of the spirit, he says, but you know, pursue love, he says above all this, you know, pursue love, that's more important because when you are able to live in unity and in love with people, then you know, the fruit of the spirit is manifested in your life, you can just see even the gifts of the spirit automatically being manifested in your life, so don't run for the behind the gifts, you know, yes, you desire the gifts, but you know, more than that desire, the love for God, desire, you know, to a passionate love for God and you know, out of that love flow in love for people that you are relating to and then when you do that, you know, you will see that the gifts of these people be automatically released in our lives, okay, so it's essential to discern also the spirit's timing, you know, when the spirit is doing what, we need to discern that like, you know, the Holy Spirit or Philip, you know, go near and overtake the chariot and when he obeyed, we know the outcome of it, so you know, even as, you know, the Holy Spirit speaks, sometimes he'll ask us to act on it immediately, sometimes, you know, he will tell us that we need to, you know, wait on him, take time to pray and fast and then act on his instruction, like we look at in Acts chapter 13, where, you know, they're faster than prayed and then the Holy Spirit told them, you know, lay hands on, set apart the soul and Barnabas for the work of God and that's what they did and they did that after fasting and praying, so when the Holy Spirit leads us, sometimes it'll be immediate action, sometimes we just receive it in our spirit, man, but the Holy Spirit wants us to prepare by just praying over it, you know, waiting for more leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit and, you know, and then act at the right time at the kairos moment, okay, it's also important that we pray in the spirit, this praying in the spirit helps us to understand the purposes of God, okay, 1st Corinthians chapter 2, verses 9, 10 and 16, can somebody read that, please? 1st Corinthians chapter 2, verses 9, 10 and 16, can anyone read that? 1st verse chapter 2, it's really interesting. How is it, as a person, no eyes have seen, no ears have seen, no mouth has come to see, what God has given for those who haven't, but God has given it to us by just praying, the spirit stretches all things, even the most things of God. Thank you, was 10 and 16? 16, also you read 10, was 16, please, Jeffina? For those who don't have the mind of the Lord, that's true, but we have the mind of Christ. Thank you, Jeffina. So here it says that, you know, it's a Holy Spirit that reveals to us the things of God, that God has prepared before hand, you know, even before the foundations of world things, that God has prepared for us, you know, the Holy Spirit who reveals it to us, so the will of God, the purpose of God for our life, is not a mystery, the Holy Spirit reveals it to us, he reveals things that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, you know, not even those things that have entered into the heart, the mind of people, but the Holy Spirit who reveals these mysteries to us, and then it says that we have the mind of Christ. So when can we say that we have the mind of Christ, you know, we have the mind of Christ when we know the thoughts, the plans, the purposes that God has in his mind for us, because it has been revealed to us by the Spirit of God. So we, you know, we can come to that place where we can say, you know, I have the mind of Christ because, you know, I have the Holy Spirit revealing his plans as well, his purposes, which God foreordained, you know, which God foreknew, which God prepared for me even before the foundation is the Word, so Holy Spirit is revealing to me, you know, I know it, and hence, you know, I have the mind of Christ, and you know, a mind of Christ is also mind that is renewed, a renewed mind is also mind of Christ, because a mind that is renewed, you know, is renewed by the Word of God, is in alignment with the Will of God, is aligned and yielded and submitted to God, and hence the Holy Spirit can reveal the mind of God, the heart of God to us. But if it is not, if it's very common, you know, we cannot discern or understand or will understand the purposes of God, and that's why that's when we're living, you know, aimlessly running around from here to there, because we don't have a renewed mind, because we are not, you know, pursuing the things of God, we don't have a heart for God, we don't have a love for God, for the things of God, and hence, you know, the Holy Spirit cannot reveal, even though he desires to reveal it to us, he cannot, and hence we need to prepare ourselves to have a renewed mind, so that, you know, the Holy Spirit can reveal the plan and purpose of God to us, and, you know, we can hence say we have the mind of Christ. Okay, we'll stop here, we'll continue on the next class, anyone has any questions? Any questions? Okay, we had our, you know, the first assessment for, on the Kingdom of God, we had it on the first six lessons, right? We'll have the second assessment on chapter seven to the last chapter, I think there are eleven chapters, so we'll have seven to eleven. When can we have the second assessment? Can we have it next Thursday and Friday? I can release it on Thursday, and can you submit it on Friday evening? Is that okay, everyone? So next Thursday is 13, when I release the paper, and you can submit it on Friday 14. Is that fine with all of you? Okay, two people, thank you, Jeffina and Anita, what about the others? Thank you, John. Let's get two days to do the assignment. Sorry? Let's get two days to do the assignment. Sorry, I didn't get what you said, Isaac. I'm suggesting that we get two days for to do the assignment. This is not the assignment, this is an assessment that I'm giving on next Thursday, is that okay? Yes, no? Pastor Brother is asking two days to complete it. Okay, you want two days to do it? Okay, okay. Thank you. Sorry, Isaac. Yeah, okay, so then maybe Friday and Saturday, is that okay? Friday and Saturday, okay? Okay, thank you, Isaac. Okay, then we have two days to do it, so I'll release it next Thursday, which is the 13th of October, and then you can submit it on the 15th. Okay, thank you everyone for joining class. Have a blessed day. God bless all of you. Thank you.