 Good morning and good to have all our in-person students here and also our online students There's Viku and Arilla. I think Viku is from Nagaland and we have Arilla also. She says she's from Nagaland and Prabhu is I don't know from which place Prabhu is Prabhu Manikam. So I'm assuming Prabhu Manikam is from Tamil Nadu. Okay, yes The surname Manikam is From Tamil Nadu. Okay, so welcome all of you. Can one of you lead us in prayer before we begin class this morning? Anyone wants to lead us in prayer? You can come up in front here and speak in the mic so our online students also can hear. Anyone like to pray? Come. Laura, thank you for this day God as we are gonna dive into your word. I pray that We will learn more of you and we'll learn something new today and that You help us as Selena to speak to us and that it will penetrate through our hearts and that you will be changed But thank you Jesus that we will be motivated and inspired by your word. Thank you all for everything in your prayer. Amen. Thank you Arilla, welcome Nina as well as joined online class. So welcome Nina. Okay, so we'll begin Last class we were looking at the nine guide posts Okay In this course full ministers foundation We are going to be looking at three APC publications The first one that we're looking at is fulfilling God's purpose for your life and in this publication we're basically going to be understanding or receiving Knowledge or revelation how to find God's will for our lives. Okay, so what are the nine guide posts? Anyone remembers? Okay, the first one we saw was recognize the general teaching or instruction from God's word second one Okay, recognize the seeds in your life Okay, and the third one The stirring within okay, so God has given us seeds. What are seeds? What are the seeds in your life said recognize the seeds in your life? So what are the seeds? your gifts dreams your talents, okay Prophecies that we're spoken about you. Okay, so all of this help you to Understand and know what is God's Leading guiding in your life. What is his plan and purpose for your life? What is this recognize the steering within? Okay Nina says there is a you know, you've compelled to do something It's not just an emotional steering when you hear something when you see something You know God is stirring your heart up to do something in that area whether it is Whether it is for Underprivileged children or whether it's for youth who are you know who perishing or whether it is for Adults who you know who are lost without knowing the gospel So you want to be an evangelist or you have a burden for you know certain places That God is burdening you to go as a missionary Or you have this great passion or desire that people know the truth So you want to teach so just a basic steering in your heart, but the steering is not something that is emotional Emotional is something that you feel very bad about and then you know, you kind of Don't think about it later on or it doesn't stir up your emotions again, but You know, this is a compelling which leads you into action to doing something After you are really Compelled to do it or you're something very passionate About okay, so we're going to look at the fourth one recognize the grace of God. Yes so How was okay God used Esther's beauty? So we might think beauty is very worldly, but how did how was that a seed? Was because God took her at the right time at the right place there And you know Mordecai tells her to go to the king when you know when she becomes the queen and you know, Haman is You know gives out this edict that and fools the king and tries to get them to sign that all the Jews on on this day You know will Will be killed so Mordecai is very Sad and you know in the Jewish People when they are mourning they put ash on their heads and they sit in sackcloth And you know ever since Esther became the queen Mordecai was to sit at the king's gate because he would always inquire about About Esther and so when Esther looks and sees that her uncle Mordecai is You know wearing sackcloth and putting ashes on his head So he she finds out and then he says, you know This is what is the king has passed as edict and is because of this wicked Haman and he tells her you go to the king So she tells him that you know, the king hasn't called me for a long time And you know what happens if you go to the king's presence without the king's permission So I don't have an opportunity to go to king. So Mordecai sends Message to Esther through her servant saying, you know You know, who knows that God has brought you in this position for such a time as this and See she's and he tells her if you don't go God will bring deliverance for the Jews from to some other means or to someone else So, you know Esther says, okay, we'll let's pass and pray for three days and then I'll go into the king's presence. So then she pass and praise and on the third day You know, she dresses up very beautifully and she goes and stands in before the you know, the king's throne room and he's so You know enthralled by her beauty that he just stretches out his scepter Which means that you know, you're pardoned even though I didn't call you in my presence and then, you know He asked her what is your wish? She's so enthralled by her beauty is willing to give her half the kingdom, you know So God can use some things that we think is worldly to You know as a as a seed to minister to others. So it can be even your voice You know Singing or it I know there's a lady who comes to our church at Central APC Central and Just she has a lovely smile. It's a very beautiful lady. It's a lovely smile and through a smile She just once shared the gospel to somebody and they accepted Jesus. They asked her, you know You always see you smiling. What's the secret? She says it's nothing else. It's just Jesus and then she just shares and that so you never know You know, these are things that God uses in your life So it was a beauty of Esther that you know, they chose the beautiful virgins to take them into the king's presence to become the next queen and And again, of course, it was, you know, God we look at the grace of God that you know enables us to give us favor for the purposes that he is called and how he empowers us in that Calling and the favor that he's given us through the gifts that he empowers us To fulfill our calling and to fulfill our purpose. So when we look at You know recognize the grace of God given to you, you will understand that better Okay Okay, did I answer your question? Okay, okay, we'll continue that was for the online students is just answering a question By one of our students Okay here So we look at the recognize the grace of God given to you Okay Now in the new testament The grace of God is used in three Different contexts or three different meanings it has The first one is divine favor. Okay divine favor means divine acceptance How God accepts us each one of us just as we are Okay, God accepts us just as we are and in we read in Ephesians chapter two was eight It says there for by grace you have been saved through Faith and not for yourself. It is a gift of God. So we have been saved by Grace through faith. Okay, so it's it's a divine favor. That means God accepts us just as we Are okay, just as we are we are sinners But it's because of the the grace of God that we have been saved and we receive salvation By grace through Faith our faith and it's because of God's grace another meaning of grace in the new testament and under understanding That grace is used in the context that is used in the new testament is divine character Grace is divine character of God Okay, uh, if you read john chapter one was 14. It says the word became Flesh and made its dwelling amongst us and we have beheld It's his glory the glory of the one and only who came from the father full of grace and Truth, okay So here we see he's talking about the word that becoming flesh talking about Jesus And it's saying that we have seen john is saying we have seen his glory the glory of the one and only Who came from the father full of grace and truth? So grace is the character of God, okay, and the third thing is Grace is Also, you know a divine empowerment, but before we look at divine Empowerment the bible tells us in second Peter chapter three Was 18 that we need to grow in the grace and the knowledge of our lord Jesus Christ so the bible is telling all believers that we need to grow in what? In the grace and the knowledge of our lord jesus christ So we are all to grow into christ's like character Okay, that is what god wants from us. He wants uh and the work of the holy spirit in in us is for sanctification So that we can grow into christ likeness. Okay, so the third Context that grace is used in the new testament is divine enablement. That means divine empowerment Okay, god empowering us I'll give you an example You know paul writes about a torn in his flesh Yes, that is some repeated attacks of the enemy that he's facing in his life and what does paul tell god What does he ask god About the stone in the flesh To remove it he asked him to remove it. He asked him to take it away. What does god say? My grace is sufficient for you What is god trying to tell paul paul is god is telling paul that you know I'm able to enable you or I am going to enable you or I am going to empower you To go through this Thrawn in the flesh whatever it is. Okay An attack of satan repeated attack of satan god is telling paul that he'll not remove it But he's saying my grace is sufficient for you. That means I'm going to enable you I'm going to strengthen you to go through This so grace is also divine Enablement and divine empowerment So three things three contexts that grace is used in the new testament The first thing is divine acceptance god accepts us just as the we are The second thing is that it's the divine character of god And the third thing is divine enablement or divine empowerment god empowers us. Okay If you look at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 7 I can one of you read that Ephesians chapter 4 verse 7 So it says but to each one of us that means it means to each one means to what for Everyone everyone what has been given The grace has been given so every believer Has been given the grace of god and we have been given according to the measure of christ Gift so all of us everyone have been given the grace of god every believer has been given the grace of god And we've been given according to the measure In christ jesus or the measure of christ gift, which means god has extended A divine enablement or god has extended that means he's Giving us divine empowerment and this divine empowerment or this divine enablement Is related to christ's gift that each one of us has Received so christ has given each one of us more than one gift. What is the meaning of gift? What is the meaning of gift in this context? The talents right what you're good at your strengths what you're good at so the same as seed Okay, so your gift is basically what you are good at the talents god has given you So here we see that each one of us has been given more than one gift It's been given to us by jesus christ But it also says that you know each one that different measures of the same Gift now for example, there are 16 of you in this classroom here in person students Okay, just say there are 16 of you in this class and just say all of you have the gift of leadership and worship Just assume okay that all of you have the gift of leadership or just assume that all of you You know in the online students have the gift of Being worship leaders or worship leading people in worship. Okay, so all of you have leadership gifts But each one of us, you know, have some of us have greater anointing or greater measure than the others Okay, so maybe rin has a greater measure of anointing and In leadership compared to nina Okay compared to charisma Compared to the others. So it's are we saying that god is partial? Are you saying that god is partial? No god is not partial because the word of god clearly states that god is not Passion okay, that means if he's partial there's some sin in him. It's not partial So what is the meaning of you know all of you in this classroom? Have this just assuming that you have the same gift of leadership or all of our online students have the gift of You know being worship leaders, but you know some of you have a greater anointing greater measure compared to the Others so should we get jealous of others because they have a greater measure and greater anointing No, why does god give some people greater anointing greater measure than the others Though they are having the same gift. It's because he's given them greater responsibility Okay, so greater the responsibility greater the measure of Anointing okay, but The other lovely thing is that you know god has given each one of us the measure of grace That is just right that is sufficient or that is More than sufficient for us To fulfill You know the calling or the the gift that he is given to us. Did you understand? So even though we have different measures You know of anointing, but each one of us god has given us The measure that is sufficient or more than sufficient for you to fulfill god's purpose for your life So be happy. Okay. Don't look at others and be jealous, but thank god and say god You know the measure that you have given me is more than sufficient Okay, it's right. There's all I need to fulfill your purpose for my life. Okay Let's look at roman's chapter 12 versus four to six that are Some of Some lovely things that we can hear or learn or some good things that we can learn from roman's chapter 12 versus four to six Regarding the gifts of god the functions that we've been Called to okay, can somebody read that please Thank you rin. So here we see that In verse four it says all the members do not have the same function but All of us have some function. Okay, we don't have the same functions. That means Not all of you are worship leaders here Or not all of you will be great leaders not all of you can minister to children Not all of you can be missionaries not all of you can You know minister to street children. Some of you have the grace to fulfill that. Okay So we have different offices different, you know Things that god has called us to Okay, so all of us as members in christ's body. We don't have the same function Right not all of us are pastors not all of us are evangelists not all of us are missionaries not all of us are teachers But we have different different functions Okay, so each one of us but each one of us have a function all of us don't have the same function But all of us have some function and each one of us have a function in the body of christ Okay, and then he says here that individual members of one another was five So we being many are one body in christ and individually members of one another So what's the meaning of this? So our functions in the body of christ are all interlinked Are all interrelated Okay, we're related to one another we uh connected to one another We can't be disconnected in the body of christ now my hand cannot say okay, you know, I don't need the body I can function by my own can it function? No, my mouth cannot say I don't need the body. I can function on my own It can't the same way in the body of christ You know, all of us have different functions. We don't have the same functions All of us have some functions and all of us have different functions But we are all connected to one another. We are all related to one another and you know, we need one another We are dependent upon each other and then he goes on to say in verse six for rights and says having then gifts Okay, so each one of us god has given us gifts to fulfill your function Now you you might be asking. What is my function? It's my function being an evangelist a pastor a missionary worship leader or Children's minister or you know youth pastor. What is my function? Now you need to find out what your function is but You know one way to find out your function is to know what your gifts is Okay, so if you know your gifts or the areas you're talented in that will help you to know your function So if you're very good at teaching and speaking then you can know that you can be a You know a preacher a good teacher a bible college teacher, whatever, but if you have a heart of compassion um for You know for the for the children on the streets You see children on the streets You just go and you take your handkerchief and wipe there, you know running nose Which not everybody will do that. It's just your special grace that you have and you know that you know Through your grace, you will know what is your Function okay, what function means? What is your plan? What is a parent purpose god has called you so the gifts god has given you the talents That he's given you is to fulfill your Function, I hope you're able to understand gifts function. Yes Or the gifts are given to match your Function, so if you find out what your gift is then you will find out what your Function is now the gifts are given according to the grace extended to us Okay, that's what it says here the gifts are given according to the grace extended to us. That means what? So god has given us each one of us gifts to fulfill our function in the body of christ And it says here that the gifts are given according to the grace so god's grace Is more than sufficient for you to fulfill your function or to fulfill your role, okay, and he says in verse six paul says, you know, let us use them very important Once you know your talents your gifts doesn't mean you just take it and keep it within you Okay, once you know what god has called you your function in the body of christ You just don't keep it. Oh, you know god has called me to be a worship leader great You know, but what should you do? You need to use your gifts to fulfill your function Okay, so let us use them paul says let us use them use them for what? Let us use them for what? To fulfill your function in the body of christ, so you need to use your gifts to fulfill your function Let me give you an example here Now for example, just say, you know today morning. I saw two of our bible college students, especially girl ladies playing the bass guitar and the guitar, you know, I was extremely excited Because I was sitting in church on sunday and I was like, you know, all the men are only Playing the bass guitar and drums and why not, you know, uh ladies come and I say god Wish I could play that bass guitar. I love to play the bass guitar. So I was just looking at Sorry, dear Karen playing the bass guitar. I was so excited. I just kept looking at her You know, now, suppose I look at Karen and I look at kong who was playing the guitar acoustic guitar and you know, I um, I just am excited and I say I'm gifted in You know, maybe I want to play the guitar and read worship But I don't have a gift thing for playing the guitar. Maybe I try You know, um, I tried actually playing the guitar. I didn't work out. I couldn't learn it. Okay. Um, and just say I can't sing Okay, so I don't have the gift of playing the guitar. I don't have the gift of singing. I can sing in the bathroom I'm just saying for example Okay, but that's not mean that I say, okay, because I'm excited to play a guitar and I'm I love to sing And I can't sing I can't play the guitar doesn't mean that I want to become a worship leader Can I become a worship leader? I can't become a worship leader. So what am I saying my the gifts I have I don't have the gifts to fulfill the function of a worship leader I might like to be a worship leader. I might like to play the guitar I might like to stand there and sing in the front But I don't have the gift and so I can't become a worship leader So maybe I have The gift of Saying teaching so I'm teaching in a bible college Or maybe I have the gift of relating to children or to youth or to teens and so I can work with children Or I can work with youths. So, you know, just because you like something doesn't mean that is your Calling that you have to fulfill your gifts will actually Enable you or help you to know what is your function in the body of christ. Did you understand? Yes, okay. So the gifts god has given us Or given to me will define my function and will tell me what my function is So you'll see your gifts, you know Understand what the gifts god has given you and then you will know what is your calling? What is your function in the body of? Christ so but and you need to use your gift to fulfill your Function, okay Now some things that are given in your notes the bullet points on page number 20 The gifts in your life are indicative of the grace given to you. I will explain this I'm just reading it out the gifts given to you are in line with the function god has designed for you to perform In the body of christ the gifts and callings go to together That means you want to know what is your calling now? You've come to boy bible college your next step is no god What is my calling find look at your gifts? What is your gifts you will find your calling because gifts and calling go to Gather so you know your call to a particular function When you have the gifts that will enable you to fulfill that Function so if you play the guitar or the keyboard or you can sing well Then you know that you know god is called maybe he's calling you to into the function of being a worship leader, okay now Not all gifts it's given in your notes the last bullet point Not all gifts are spiritual in nature. What does it mean? Now God has given you a gift of leadership It doesn't mean that leadership gift is only used in the context of the Ministry or the church you can be a leader in your school You can be a leader in the college you can be a political leader You can be a you know A leader in the workplace a team lead you can be a manager You can also be a leader in the football team or the throwball team basketball team, whichever game you like So it's saying that you know every gift that god has given us is not spiritual in nature, okay, so You can use the gifts of god given to you in the world But you can through that gift you fulfill your the general plan and plan of god. What has got general plan for each one of us? What's got general plan for each one of us and all men Be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, okay So that's the meaning of not all gives us spiritual in nature Okay, so you can use your gifts of leadership in the workplace itself itself So if you have the gift of creativity, you might not be working in the context of a church where you're designed brochures and posters and banners for the church for different meetings and seminars You can use your gift of creativity in the workplace To design things in the workplace, but through your creativity in the workplace. You can bring glory to god You can extend the supernatural So that when people see your creative art, they can even know Jesus they can it can influence them It can empower them to know christ, okay So how do we deserve discover god's gift? You're saying ma'am, okay? Forget about full you know the function finding out the function. I don't even know what The gifts of god in my life So the how do you know what how do you discover god's gift for your life? Or how do you discover what talents he has given you? Okay, the first thing you can do is experiment Right. I was excited to learn to play the guitar and I tried learning it for one year It didn't work and I got a revelation that you know Is I can't play the guitar. I just left it Okay, but I love to sing so I sing. Okay. I just enjoy singing I worship God when I sing and I just sing my heart out But you know, I can't play the guitar so experiment Okay, uh experiment different areas, you know, uh, if you think your um, uh, son is to um If your gift is to minister to children just start ministering the children You know see whether you can really fit in and gel with them. Okay. Um, so The first one is how do you find how do you discover god's gifts in your life experiment? The second thing is, um, you know, sometimes it gives of god is given to us But we don't know it's hidden in us Okay, it's hidden in us So one way how it can be brought out is by experimenting trying out the second thing is to prophetic word Okay, but you need to be very careful to test the prophetic word because first Thessalonians Chapter five tells us that we need to test the prophetic word that we receive now for example You know, there's a prophet or a prophetess who tells just say for example Tells a man ronald. Okay, ronald. You are going to give up your work in the corporate And you are going to start a restaurant. So, you know, ronald is very very excited He goes and takes all his savings from this bank He starts a restaurant and nobody's coming to Eat in his restaurant and his business is not growing. Okay one month two months. He's hardly having any Good income that is coming in and his wife is upset and saying, you know, I told you don't start the You know the Restaurant, you know test the prophecy. Remember, I told you first Thessalonians chapter five His wife was so angry with him saying I'm not going to cook for you. I'm going to save money. You eat in your own restaurant Okay, and it's just joking. Okay. So what we need to do is you need to test the prophecies you just can't take You know every prophecy that comes in we will see why we need to test the prophecies from god's word We look in later on when we look at you know, um recognizing god's counsel through various people We look at it, but it's important that when people prophesy over you that you You know, you test it according to god's word and then you wait for confirmation from god I miss word and then jump into it. Okay So we look at Ephesians chapter three versus one And versus verse one and versus seven to two was eight And we learn various things from this. Okay. Can somebody read that Ephesians chapter three versus one seven two eight Yes Unsearchable riches of christ. Thank you. Okay. So here we see that we learn some Few important things from about the grace of god from Ephesians chapter three versus one and versus seven to eight The first thing that we can learn from these verses is that the grace of god is always given to you for Something okay, the grace of god is always given to you for something which means to accomplish a specific purpose Okay, for example here in paul's case. What was the grace of god given to him to accomplish? To preach to the gentiles. So he was he's been he he adjoined paul adju Is called to minister to the gentiles and you know, that was not something that was easily acceptable By the other apostles by the other leaders But we need to know that the grace of god that is given to each one of us or to all of us Is given to accomplish a specific Purpose and in paul's case it was given to preach the gospel to the Gentiles so sometimes a grace of god can be given to you to minister to the sick Or to the elderly or to the children, you know Once I took our children from all people's church to You know a home here called auto rajas home. Okay I think you all might go there and visit that place All you know destitute people, you know, who are homeless Lying on the street sick and smelly and but you know when I went to that place I could not just stand there even for a minute. I had such a severe headache because of the smell Um, you know because of the um, I just couldn't bear that place and I was like, you know god, you know How do these people work here? You know, how does auto raja really pick up, you know, this man called Not auto this man called raja who has a auto You know, he's when he sees all this destitute people lying on the streets You know sick or with wounds and smelly dirty He brings them just like my mother Teresa brings them to this home And I say god, you know, I think these people have special grace Okay, greater the response pretty greater the anointing greater the Measure, you know, our children of course ministered very beautifully But I don't think I had that grace to just stand there and even see that I was I couldn't really Be there for for a long time. So, you know for god has god gives us the grace to do some things To minister to the elderly people, you know to wash them clean them Or maybe, you know, I know one of our church members at all people's church has a grace of god to minister to Children who are this, you know construction workers children the construction workers children She started a school for them and she's now branched off into so many schools and you know, she gives them uniforms and food and teaches them I think that's a wonderful grace of god. Even though I minister to children. I don't have the grace in that area So see each one of us, you know, god has given us grace to Fulfill or accomplish a specific person a purpose which sometimes we don't understand and we wonder how do they really do this? I won't be able to do it. It's because of the grace of God, okay, so paul says I became a minister According to the gift of the grace of god given to me By the effective working of his Power, okay So he's saying he became something because of the grace of god, okay So the areas in which god has given you grace is the areas you will find god's power working Effectively, okay So it's important for you to find out what is your gifts Once you find out what your gifts are you will find out what your function is Once you are in that right function, you will experience a supernatural power of god, which is working effectively in your life, okay, but if you're not in the right function Okay, you will not experience the grace of god now coming back to the example of William brayham Okay, William brayham. He had the grace of god for what to fulfill which function? Healing Okay, and we saw that he just prayed and even people with cancer and tumors and everything was healed people who were blind could see Deaf they could hear But did he have then when that kind of dwindled down that revival of you know healing revival dwindled down? What did he go step into? preaching Was preaching his function? No, did he uh, did he excel in that function? No, he was such a disaster. Actually, he brought about such a lot of Heretical teachings that means false teachings because he did not understand the word of god He was not he did not study in the in a theological college He's not even read the word of god and he's not gifted as a teacher Remember when they had this revival meetings? He used to only do the Healing and other people who were gifted in preaching used to do the preaching So, you know, if you are in the wrong function if I say no, I can't pay the guitar But at least I can sing I can be a worship leader and I know that's not the function god has for me that I will not experience his Power working effectively in our life. Okay, so by the effective working of his power Your function the gift of grace and the power of god are all connected Okay, so the gift of god the grace of god and the power to work effectively in your function is all Interconnected so the power of god will flow through your life When you are in your function Using the grace of god given to you. Okay If anything is out of place and the power of god will not help you to fulfill your Function so one way you you're not experiencing the power of god will also help you to know that you're not In the right place fulfilling the right function of god. Are you able to understand? That's no all of us all of you with me Okay Okay, so we'll um Then paul's goes on to say in verse eight that the grace of god is given to me for Something so paul says to me who I'm less than the least of all the saints the grace was given That I should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, okay, so grace was given to preach the Preach to the Gentiles, okay So while god has graced us and given us gifts given every believer the gifts You know, we also need to know there are some offices that god gives specifically to few people Okay, now don't get confused You know god has given all of us As believers he's given us one or more gifts Okay, he's given us the grace that we need to fulfill That function uh along with the gift that he is given to us But there are some offices Okay, we read these offices in Ephesians chapter Four was 11. Okay. Ephesians chapter four was 11 It says paul says and he himself gave some to be apostles Some prophets some evangelists some pastors and some teachers Now these five fold offices god gives specifically to specific individuals Okay Again here god is not partial. Okay, so he gives specific offices to Specific people but we need to know that he's given all of us gifts He's given us all the gifts to fulfill a specific function in our life in the body of christ or to fulfill our plans and purposes But he's also given every believer Or you know, um a few people a few functions in the body of christ that is to be an apostle A prophet an evangelist a pastor and a teacher So only few of us are selected for these five fold offices. Okay Um, so just to end up, you know, your gifts of grace reveal god's potential or reveals God's purpose for your life The way god has designed you reveals what you are designed for the gifts the talents he's given you Reveals to you. What is your function? So once you know your function, you just don't keep it you use it Okay, and when you're in the right place in your right function god will give you his um power Okay to fulfill that function now if you found this whole thing very very theological Way beyond your head. It's all flying above your head. Don't worry Just know this all of us have been given gifts Okay, one or more gifts Okay, and the gifts god has given us. He's given us the grace to Fulfill it. What is the meaning of grace? Divine empowerment divine enablement? He empowers us to fulfill that gift and our gift helps us to know our function in the body of christ And then when we are fulfilling the function god has given to us according to the gift The grace of god will be evident and the power of god will be evident That's all so all what I said in the last 40 minutes is basically just that okay Now, uh, some people think okay god is giving me gifts. He'll give me the grace And I'll find out my function and once I'm in the function god's power will come up on me and boom You know god will just work mightily so I don't have to do anything All I need to do is find out my gift the gift will help me find out my function And I'll just stay in the right place of my function and I'll just press press the grace button And boom everything just happens. No Okay, if you look at first current in chapter 15 was 10 We see what paul's tells us there. It says paul tells us by the grace of god I am what I am and his grace Toward me is not in Wayne But I labored more abundantly than they All Yet not I but the grace of god which was with me. So paul is saying yeah, I am who I am because of the grace of God it's a grace of god that encounter encountered me on the way on the road to Damascus and I Saw jesus and now, you know, I have faith in him But he's saying that you know Even though this grace of god given to me for revelations remember nobody taught paul He received all these divine revelations and he's saying but even though, you know, I have this abundant grace in my life I also labor Notice labor It's not just work. It is it's hard work A labor is what a farmer does from morning five till evening Five, okay Those who sit in the office is not basically labor because they're just doing Momental work, but of course they're working, but that's not labor labor is very hard work So even though god has given us grace in different areas of our life It doesn't mean that, you know, our life is going to be a wonderful Journey it's not going to be easy There's going to be hard work. You have to sweat it out There are times when you have to, you know, press through difficult Circumstances difficult situations There are times when you have to make difficult choices. You'll have to make You know Difficult decisions. There are times when you have to make sacrifices You know, you can't go for a holiday or you can't go for nothing or you can't engage in an entertainment because You know, you have some assignment that god has called you to do So there's a big sacrifice that you have to make sometimes you even have to shed tears You know, you have to even cry there times when you have to work harder and longer hours than other People, you know, sometimes we think in the ministry life is much more easier than in the secular field But actually the you know, we also work sometimes, you know, my days goes on to even 13 14 hours looking at You know, we have to enter our time sheet and the end of the time in a week You know, we have to put in 40 hours, but sometimes I see myself putting 58 hours You know, it's it's you know, we think in ministry everything is easy. You just you know, you just Relax, you just go house with this visiting. You just pull up a sermon and you preach on Sunday It's not as easy as that. So paul is saying that, you know We need to labor Hard, okay, but you have to live when you labor hard, you will experience the empowerment of god that is given to you And he says, you know, his grace toward me is not in Wain, okay So god empowers you to labor and work hard imagine God empowers you that mean god gives you the power to labor and to Work hard. So even labor and to work hard god gives you the power to do it So don't be afraid to work hard. You need to work hard To maximize the grace of god given to you So if you want to put god's grace to maximum use, you have to You know labor hard, it's not going to be easy. It's not just pressing a button and everything just happens The holy spirit just comes and takes over and does everything you have to do everything You know, of course the holy spirit does the rest, okay So that is the grace of god given to us, you know So we need to recognize the grace of god which will help us to Know what is the gifts of god? We need to know the gifts of god so that we know what is our function Function will enable us to you know, operate in the grace and the power of god Okay, the next one is another then another Guide post a sign post For us to you know, no gods will end plan for our life The the The fifth one is recognize the leading of god's spirit. Okay recognize the leading of the holy spirit Romans 8 14 to 16, okay before we move on anyone has any questions About the grace of god anything that you didn't understand anything that you want me to explain again All of you look like oh my god, this is so heavy I feel like it's something heavy on your head. Okay online students Anyone has any questions anything you didn't understand you want me to explain again Arilla, Prabhu Krisha, Samuel, Shivkumar, Nina I Jaichin, Jaichin, right did I pronounce that again right Jaichin Joel Okay, is it clear Arilla you have a question you said it's not clear for you. No questions. You said all this is no for that Okay If no, then no questions will move on Okay Okay, thank you We'll look at another guide post recognize the leading of god's spirit. Romans 8 14 to 16 can somebody read Romans 8 14 to 16, please Thank you, Karen. So here we see in verse 14 That as many as are led by the spirit of god They are the sons of god So what does it mean? It means that we as sons and daughters Of god's kingdom, you know, we are led by whom? The holy spirit the holy spirit leads us the holy spirit directs us The holy spirit shows us where we're supposed to do Supposed to go what we're supposed to do the holy spirit helps us to know What is our gifts are calling our function? Okay, and verse 16 it says the whole the spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit So where is the holy spirit going to speak to you or guide? Where is he going to lead you? Show you direct you In your spirit man in your inner being remember last class we looked at You know various references from Psalms and from Proverbs The memo which we looked about our inner man and we saw that in the inner man, which is our heart God gives us the Council he gives us the wisdom. He gives us the understanding And he You know, he's the one who gives us the passions the desires and through our passions and through our desires And through our feelings is how god, you know stirs us up is how the holy spirit Speaks to us. Okay. So the holy spirit speaks to us in our inner man in our spirit man And in our inner man in our spirit man is where the holy spirit is going to testify To us is going to speak to us. He's going to teach us He's going to tell us the truth is going to lead us in the plan and the purposes of God and all this is going to happen in your spirit man. Okay, we'll stop Class here we'll take a break and we'll come back after the break Okay, so See you all after the break