 Hi everyone. Welcome. Good morning. Let's begin this class with a word of prayer. Welcome to our online students as well. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer and then we'll get into our teaching. Father we thank you for this time. Thank you Lord for this beautiful new day that you have blessed us with the God and even as we come together to study and learn your word we pray Holy Spirit that Lord you will teach us. You will minister to us God. We open our hearts. Lord to receive from you this morning. We thank you. We thank you for this opportunity that you've given us Lord. We give you all the praise and glory in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Alright, so last class we looked at chapter 6. Jesus as our teacher. We looked at a lot of examples. We saw that Jesus taught the word of God wherever he went. He taught parables. He taught life lessons. And we look at the nature of the way that the Lord Jesus taught. One was he taught in authority. He taught in love. So even though there was authority there was a balance of authority and love. And he characterized his teachings with wisdom. His supernatural ministry meaning he taught. And he showed that whatever he's teaching is true. And he was able to manifest the supernatural. And the Lord Jesus very importantly spoke figurative language. We look at three things. One is metaphors that is figures of speech. Then we looked at hyper bowls which is exaggerations. And most importantly he spoke in parables. Our earthly stories with heavenly meanings. And we also looked at the different kinds of parables that the Lord Jesus spoke in. He spoke about forgiveness, generosity, humility, kingdom of God, the judgment of God, prayer. And a lot of these parables were simple earthly parables. But they had great heavenly meaning. So when we look at teaching we can use all of these methods and we can inculcate them in our teaching. So let's go to the next chapter, chapter 7. And this talks about the teaching that happened in the early church. Especially when we look at early church it's the book of Acts. We know the Lord Jesus went and he gave his disciples the commission and he said, go make disciples. So let's look at the ministry of the teacher in the early church. There are a couple of verses here. Let's read a few of them. Acts 5.42. Maybe one of us can open to Acts 13.1. Acts 5.42. And daily in the temple and in every house they did not seize teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. Daily in the temple and in houses they did not seize. They did not stop to teach and preach the word of God. Next one. Acts 13.1. Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers Barnabas, Simeon, called Niger, Lucius of Siren, Manin who had been brought up with Herod, the Tittredge. Right. So here we see that from Jerusalem to the time of Antioch from the Pentecost to the time of Acts 13. It's almost more than 10 years. And we see that there were teachers already raised up teaching the word of God in the church. And this could be a small setting. This could be a bigger setting. But the ministry of the teacher continued on. Let's go to the next verse. 1535 and maybe 1811. And then we'll look at the other verses later. Acts 1535. What the Paul and Barnabas meant in Antioch. Where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord. Yes. So Paul and Barnabas went and they... This is in the Council of Jerusalem where they went in and they taught the word of God. Yes, go ahead. 1811. 1811. After these things, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila born in Pontius. 18... Acts 18 verse 11. Acts 1811. And he continued there a year and six months teaching the word of God among them. So Paul is in Corinth now. Acts 18. Before this Acts 17, he goes to Athens. He's in Greece. And we know the whole story that happened there. He goes into Aeropagus. He says, I see this place is full of temples and there's an idol to an unknown God. He preaches to them. And many people become believers there. And from there he goes into Corinth. And Corinth, what does he do? He stays there for one and a half years teaching the word of God. Now just picture it. These guys at Corinth were... I would say 90% of them were Gentiles. 90% of them. So here's a man who knew the law. It was easier for the Apostle Paul to minister to the Jews. Why? Because he was a Jew. He was a Pharisee. He was a person who could interpret the law and just relate it to Jesus. But here he's doing the teaching and preaching to Gentiles. Now just think about this. He has to... He can't go back to Moses and say, Moses did this, Abraham did this. They don't care about Moses and Abraham. But he had to preach and teach the Gospel. Teach them. And we see the fruit of his ministry in Corinth. Where people became believers. People... A church plant was established in Corinth itself. Right? So we see all through the disciples. Now what has been accounted here is people like Paul and Peter. But out of this, there would have been many, many, many people who became teachers. Which is not recorded here. What we do know is, for example, Apollos. Right? He was a very learned person. And people say that Apollos and Paul had the same level of understanding or the same level of teaching skills. Right? That they included him in the Corinth... Remember the division in the church? Some say I follow Paul. Some say I follow Apollos. That means he was at that level. This is where Paul goes and talks to Apollos and says, hey, what you're teaching is the baptism of John, the repentance. But then now there's a baptism of the Holy Spirit, teaches him, and Apollos becomes a great teacher. So if you look on all through the book of Acts, there would have been many, many people who would have become great leaders, but may not have mentioned, and the ministry of the teachers would have grown in the book of Acts. So let's read 1 Corinthians 417. 1 Corinthians 4 and verse 17. 1 Corinthians 417. For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church. Right. Now look at this. In Acts 17, Paul is going to Corinth. He's done all the hard work. The church has been planted. And one and a half years he is there. He moves on. Now, many, couple of years later, we know the problem in Corinth, right? There's division. There are the gifts of the Spirit. People are not able to identify how to work in those gifts of the Spirit. And so what does Paul say? Because of all this division, I am sending Timothy, my son, who will do what? He doesn't say, who will make you straight or he will make things right in the church. Right. Of course, that was the reason why Timothy was sent. But the main thing was so that he will teach you what you must do. Right. So you see the emphasis of teaching. Teaching enables a person to choose the right way. What is Paul? Sorry. Solomon. David and if you look at the ministry of David and his son, Solomon, David says to Solomon, David talking about a son, he says, Solomon, don't do the mistakes that I made. Right. You follow God, obey his commands. You will have a long life. Solomon made all the mistakes. Right. But he says to his children, to the people of Israel, don't do the mistakes that I made. God is faithful. God loves you. God has a plan for you. And there's a time for every season. And he goes on talking about wisdom. If you read the whole of Proverbs, it's entirely about teaching. It's words of wisdom. Right. And Solomon is telling his people, don't do the mistakes that I did. In my youth, I've made a lot of mistakes. You don't do it. And teaching helps us. Right. Imagine we, for example, in ministry, if we had somebody who's always telling us, okay, don't do this. When I did this, this was the mistake that I made. And these were the challenges that I faced. Right. The circumstances for my mistakes. And so when we have people who are able to input into our lives, there's so much that we can avoid. Yes. Right. And I thank God that at a young age, people began to tell me, especially after joining ministry, okay, you do this, don't do this. This will work. And again, God's word that will, the Holy Spirit, who's our great teacher will teach us. Right. So Paul here is sending Timothy to a place which has confusion, which has strife, which has jealousy among believers, but he's going there to teach them. I can just picture what Timothy would be saying. Timothy would have said, okay, I know what's going on here. Sit down. See, this is what God's word says. This is what Jesus did. This is how we must live our life. This is how it is. And he probably stayed on and taught them day after day after day. Right. See, right now, all of us, most of us, all of you, you finished one year. Now, if you look back from the time you have joined, have you grown in the world? Definitely. Is there a scale measurement scale? No. You can't measure that, but you know, this teachings have gone in some of them and they will bear fruit in your life. Now, in one year down the line, will you be the same? No, because the teachings, not only in Bible college, but also things that you, you know, teachings that you listen online to preachers and teachings, all of that goes in and makes us to improve the spiritual maturity. We learn. We outgrow certain things and that's really important. So let's look at some of the instructions of the teaching in the early church, right? And some of the instructions that God is giving us as teachers, right? We saw the method of teaching last class, right? Love, authority, characterise and wisdom, right? Speaking in parables, figures of speech, hyperbole, speaking in love, making sure that what we teach is true. But now let's look at some of the instructions that God is giving us as teachers, right? First one, the teaching believer. Let's look at Romans chapter 12 and verse 7. Somebody can also open to Colossians 3, 16. Romans 12, and verse 7. Our ministry let us use it in our ministering. He who teach in teaching, right? If it is serving, let him serve. If it is teaching, let him teach, right? So every believer, so Paul is writing here to again, believers and he is saying every believer is not excluding people. He is saying every believer, if your ministry is serving, serve. Your ministry is teaching, teach. If your ministry is preaching, preach. Whatever your ministry is, do it, right? Let's go to Colossians 3, 16. This is a familiar verse. Colossians 3, 16. Colossians chapter 3, verse 16. Christ's message is in all its richness, must live in your hearts. Teach and instruct each other with all wisdom. Sing psalms, hymns and sacred songs. Sing to God with Thanksgiving in your hearts. Yeah, this is a wonderful verse. We often quote it every time. Let me read from the NIV version. It's put out very beautifully. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another. Right? Now, again, these are just believers. Paul is saying that the word of Christ dwell richly in you that you may teach and admonish one another. Right? So, yes, always remember there is the gift, there is the function. All of us can do this. None of us can say, hey, I think I'm only, you know, I only want to evangelize. I only want to lead worship. No. If the opportunity comes teaching, all of us as believers can teach. Right? So every one of us, the teaching believer, the believer, God is calling you to teach, teach. It could be a small setting. Five people, 10 people, 100 people, 200 people doesn't matter. Teach the word of God. Two is the ministry gift of teaching. That's what we are talking about. Right? Let's read we know Ephesians 411, but let's read 1st Corinthians 12 and 28. Ephesians 411 talks about the 5-fold ministry. But let's read 1st Corinthians 12 and verse 8, 28. Yes, go ahead. 1st Corinthians 12, 28 and God has placed in the church, first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of feeling, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Yeah. Now it's very important to understand this verse. Right? Many of them have asked why is it that Paul is writing, you know, he's writing your first of all apostles, second prophet, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then people who are able to help himself. Now, remember it is not, okay, those who are apostles is number one and then that's the highest rank. In God's kingdom there is no ranking. Right? Now, if we study about the gifts of the Spirit, in no way does it specify that prophecy is better than word of knowledge or you know, gift of miracles is better than speaking in tongues. No. All gifts are the same given by one Spirit. Right? So, same thing here. The apostle Paul is not drawing his attention to, okay, apostles are better than these, than prophets or teachers and then people who are serving in church. But what he's trying to put across is that all of these functions work together. These are different functions working together in the body of Christ. Right? So, it doesn't mean that this is, there's a hierarchy or there's a ranking. No. We can be serving in the church and also prophesy. We can be doing sound and setup in the church and also teach people. You get what I'm saying. Right? So, there's no hierarchy. Right? But somehow, in the church, when we look at the church overall, especially in our nation, we see that there's, oh, we take people and put them on a pedestal. Oh, he's a prophet. He's a apostle. What are you doing? I am volunteer. Are you going to stand in the corner? That's whose fault. It's our fault. We did that. We have, you know, sometimes when we go to certain places in North India, we get these opportunities. They have a genuine heart. They love the pastors. They love that's good. Honoring the pastors, honoring. But when we overdo it, what will happen? The person will become a balloon. Right? I'll carry your water bottle. I'll carry your bag. Tom, I'll open the door for you. Right? Sorry? Like a butler. No, but it's true. And, you know, when there are times when we see it, we don't say anything because it's not their fault. It's not the pastor's fault or the prophet's fault. It's our fault. The believers. Right? Yes, we need to respect. We need to love each other. We need to care for each other. But we know how to look after ourselves. We are not, you know, we have hands. We have legs. We carry it ourselves. There's nothing wrong. But this whole stardom. Right? It is our fault. And if you look at in the West, it's not there. Especially if you look at churches, maybe in ministries, if you look at these great evangelists, it may be there. Right? But there are many places in the West, they don't, everyone are the same. Right? The pastor, the teachers, everyone are the same. And that's the right attitude to have. But there is respect. Right? And when we have the ministry gift of teaching, remember that all of us can build on that. Right? I believe that 10 years from now when I'm teaching, I should be better than what I am now. If I'm not, then there's something wrong. I have to improve. I have to learn. Right? So sometimes I keep, you know, I ask for subjects that I haven't taught. So that I can learn, I can study and teach it. Right? And it's a learning for us as well. So the ministry gift of teaching is there for all of us. And then there's a function as well. Right? We talked about that as well. So, third point, do and then, this one, I can talk so much. Matthew chapter 5 was 19. That's great. Matthew 519. And somebody can open to Romans 2 21 as well. Matthew 519. Matthew 6. One of the release of these commands will be called the kingdom of heaven. Whoever teaches these commands will be called the kingdom of heaven. Whoever teaches and practices what they teach will be great in the kingdom of God. Let's read Romans. Romans 2 21. You therefore who teach another do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal. Do you steal? Right. So again, the apostle Paul is bringing context. He's talking to the believers. He's saying if you are teaching others, will you not teach yourself? How can you teach others and not do it yourself? Now picture this. Imagine I tell you each one of you. Hey, you know, God power is inside you. God has given you authority. Go reach out to people. Just share the gospel with people. People will accept the Lord. Don't worry about how you look, how you speak. Go do it. God will speak to their lives and touch their lives. Imagine I tell you that. But I don't do anything. Now you may not know whether I'm doing or no. But what will happen is the scriptures say am I teaching myself? If I'm teaching others, I must be able to teach myself. Later on Paul says, I don't want to be preaching and teaching, lest I myself be disqualified from the gospel. So when we are teaching, make sure that we do it. If we are teaching about prayer and intercession, about prayer. Hey, we have to pray. God answers prayers. Pray big prayers. Are we doing it in our lives? If we are talking about faith, faith can move mountains. Don't worry about the problems that come. Are we walking in faith first? Because it's easy for me to say but to practically do it may be very challenging. Yes or no? That's true. So do and then teach. Teach and then do as well. Right? Very important. Next one. Do not teach the commandments of men. Matthew chapter 15 and verse 9. Matthew 15, verse 9. Matthew 15 9. And in vain, they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Now, if you look at the context of this, Jesus some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, hey, you are breaking the tradition. You are breaking the law. What is tradition? Tradition is something that has gone on from years, from generations to generation to generation. One of the tradition that we had with growing up was my parents said night before sleeping we have to all sit together sing two songs read one verse from the Bible pray and sleep. Why? I don't know. You have to do it. It's tradition. My dad's parents did it, their parents did it. It just came down. Of course we know it's blessing. But for me as a young boy, I didn't know. By the time it's 8 p.m. Oh, shit. And so we knew. You can't say I have fever, I have cold. No. And they knew that my parents were like, you do whatever sin. I know what all wrong things you are doing but you are going to sit for the prayer. That was a set deal. Our parents wouldn't stop us from going out meeting friends, staying over at friends house. You never stop us. We have three boys. They gave us all the freedom. 8 p.m. you have to sit for prayer. You don't tell me any don't give me any excuse. And we had that thing in our heart. It's a tradition. Now, did those prayers help me at that time? No. Because I was falling asleep half the time. It was tradition. Right? It didn't okay, song was good. Okay, we'll sing a few songs. Okay, that was good. But they will read the verse. Okay, read something. All of us will take turns. Three of us, take turns, read. And then the prayer starts. Oh, God. When will this prayer get over? Sunny, amen? Okay, amen. Right? Now, it was tradition. Jesus is telling the disciples your people are going to the temple when they are standing there. Oh, Father, God, you are great. You took out Moses from Egypt. You did. You called Elisha. You called. They're going on saying the same thing. Tradition. Now, Jesus is saying you're going there. You're worshiping, but it's all out of tradition. There is no heart involved. Right? It's all just because your fathers did it, you're doing it now. So he's saying here, they worship me in vain. Their teachings are but rules taught by men. Right? So the Pharisees and the Sadducees says when you stand, you should stand in this posture. When you give the offering, both your hands should be outside. Forget about heart. The way you stand is important. Right? You should wear this kind of dress. Right? The lamp should be like this. The heart, that's okay. Let it be somewhere else. Well, this should be right. Traditions. It's like what we have now Christmas. What is Christmas now? Christmas tree. Christmas here. Parties. Carols, chocolates. Yeah. Gifts. Yeah, what else? See, all of us know nobody's saying Jesus. Right? It's true. Right? Many times, there are people who are neighbors, they put up a star and I know they are not Christians. I said, why you put up this? Why you put up the star? I've asked them, why you put up Christmas? So what is Christmas? It's a star. They make donuts shaped out of star. I said, that's what you think Christmas is? Tradition. And they have a Christmas tree also with some empty boxes. Down. Why? Tradition. What is a Christmas tree? I don't know what it is. It's tradition. Right? But, you know, when Christmas, when I became a believer, Christmas was so much more than new clothes, Christmas tree, donuts and all these gifts so much more. I realized who came into this world. Right? Everything changes. Christmas, yeah, it's a time of enjoying. We rejoice, we thank God. But when we look at tradition, Christmas is, you know, just lost its value. So Jesus is saying here, maybe all your sacrifices, all the offerings that you're doing has lost its value. Do not teach the commandments of men, but teach the commandments of God. Now, if you turn it around, the teachings that we have now is just so much of false teachings. It's there on the last point here also. So much of teachings that are going on which is commandments of men. Right? There's a clipping I saw. I forget who's this preacher, but it's a clipping. And in the clipping, the preacher says I hope I get this right, right? The preacher says if your child meets with an accident, right, and you have to take the child to the hospital, what will he do? You'll make him sit in the car and you'll drive. And when you're driving, you see those speed limits. For example, it's 30 kilometers per hour. So will those speed limits matter when your child needs to be rushed to the hospital? Will it matter or no? It won't matter because your child is more important than the speed limit. Right? And he goes on to say the same way God the Father broke the law by sending his son. Now, when I heard that the first time, I didn't know what to do. I said see the example used was but you cannot connect it to this. Did God break the law? Will God break the law? It's simple. But he said God broke the law. Now, it sounds correct. Does it sound nice? It sounds very nice. It sounds, yeah, yeah. As a father, I will not look at that. I will go 100 to reach the hospital as soon as I can. So here, God broke the law by sending his son. So it became the moment I heard that I knew, okay, God this is not right. Something's wrong here. So there are many another teaching I heard was I'm just sharing these so that we understand what's happening and be aware of these teachings. Now, another teaching was the story of the Good Samaritan. The man came on the donkey. So the teaching was the donkey is the church. And the donkey's legs are the four pillars of the church. And those who are broken and bruised and beaten can sit on the donkey and the church will take them to a place where they can be healed. Okay, now why did Jesus tell the story? He was trying to bring a point but you see how the teaching goes. So do not teach commandments of men when you're unsure. The problem is the problem is when we don't know what to say or what to teach. We run out of ideas. We come up with our own ideas. Now we can never run out of ideas from the Bible. This ideas will keep going. Revelations will keep coming till Jesus comes. It'll be there. None of us can say I don't know what to preach. Preach the same thing again. It's okay. Right. There will be some kind of revelation. Yes. When we are taking this about this preachers who teach and preach. So in James it will be mentioned like there is a judgment for the people who preach twice or the judgment. How it actually Oh, like how why is there a Yeah, so see the thing is one is there is a regular judgment that we have. We will all stand in front of the judgments here of Christ. But then there is also what we have done as ministers of God. Our works will be tested. Right. So for example, I have preached a sermon but at the end of the sermon I everyone came and said, oh you preach so well and if in some way there was pride, that'll be a zero because it'll burn. God will burn it. Right. So there is this additional Oh It's not like, okay, you finished your one judgment come you have one more judgment now go back to the line and stand. It's not like that. So when you're standing in front of the judgment seat, God will open the books. So he'll say, okay, in your personal life, this is what you've done. So for example, somebody has been in the workplace all his life. So okay in the workplace, this is what you've done now for example, a pastor for 50 years he was a pastor. Okay in your personal life, this is what you've done you've looked at your family, you've been faithful. This is your ministry. Let's test your ministry. This is what you've done. So it's not like two separate judgments. God is going to see everything every area. He's going to test it. All right. Next one. Jesus says go and teach all nations all things. Matthew 28 we know the great commission. Let's read that. Matthew 28 19 and 20. Matthew 28 verse 19 to 20. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and I am with you always even to the end of the age. Amen. Now the interesting part is many of us quote Matthew 28 19 and stop there. What is 19? Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. It doesn't end there. What does Jesus say? And teaching them to obey everything I have commanded obedience. I was listening to a sermon yesterday by a very wonderful teacher and he was saying something. Why is it that some believers they keep praying right? They keep praying for years and years and years but they don't receive what they've been praying for. Now God says ask it shall be given. That's because God has this timing. God knows he's got things he knows when to give how to give but maybe a simple thing they've been praying for years. Why is it that they don't receive it? They have they've been praying for it. The problem is there are certain things in life that they have not been obedient to God's word. Obedience is a key to receiving from God. We can pray the whole day and if we are disobedient what's going to happen? There's a hindrance. Right? Or we can be very obedient and not pray. Right? So we must be able to balance this out. Jesus is saying go make disciples teaching them to start churches and ministries. Is he saying that? Teaching them to have start Bible colleges. Now, teaching them to be obedient to what I have commanded you to do. Obedience is a very important key. It is very, very important key. It unlocks things in our lives. It unlocks opportunities. It unlocks great things that God can do for us. Right? I have so many examples in my life. I thank God it was very hard to be obedient at that time. I remember as a Bible college student I think the rule was 5 o'clock that time, 5 a.m. Is it the rule now also? 5 a.m. Wake up in the morning. 5.30. It was 5 a.m. before. So we used to wake up at 5 a.m. and I had a very good classmate, one guy I only talked to one guy in my entire class. He was very passionate. He wanted to learn English. No, this is another person. So he wanted to learn English. He was very passionate about prayer. I learned a lot about prayer from him. Because he would wake up, he would pray. He was so passionate about prayer. Very focused in his prayer. So we used to get up at 5 a.m. and pray. Then I remember one day God just ministered and said like are you satisfied with this? I said no, not satisfied. More of you. You wake up at 4 a.m. I just knew God is just teaching me. So I told my friend wake up at 4 a.m. He said let's do it. So we used to get up at 4 a.m. in the hostel and we used to we didn't care whether we were making sound and all. We did whatever we felt like. We started singing loudly, praying loudly and then we saw what used to happen was there was this next to our house next to the hostel that we were staying in there were these people who were 4 o'clock they would get up and they would pray they were not believers but they would pray to their God early loud ringing the bell. Oh man, we should get up before them because if we get up before them first prayer should go to Jesus in this area then others. So said the alarm at 3 a.m. So 3 a.m. we used to get up 3 to 5 we used to pray then 5 o'clock everyone used to get up and then again we used to all pray together. But I thank God for those days I thank God for was it easy the warden who was there he was only fast asleep but nobody was there to tell us okay get up you do this do that nobody was there we could have got up at 7 o'clock get ready and come to nobody will ask us anything because we were I was a little elderly in my batch all of them were 20 they were going to ask us anything we can do anything we want I could go out do anything but there was a choice of being obedient did I like the rules I didn't like some of the rules at all because I came from a corporate office right I've been working in the corporate sector I know how the corporate is suddenly there are rules now for me it was very difficult but obedient is important obedience unlocks things in our life unlocks opportunities and God begins to speak blessings into our life that is why in first Samuel what is sauce Samuel say obedience is better than your sacrifice it unlocks so it may be things that I'm not only talking about hostile rules but I'm talking about anything God may say go here do this do that he may put in your heart to read something or read a portion of scriptures or spend more time in prayer be obedient to that the fruit may not be immediate but the fruit will come it will come right obedience will lead to blessings always right next one the Holy Spirit is our teacher John 14 26 John 14 26 John 14 26 but the helper the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you the best teacher that you and I can have is who the Holy Spirit he's the greatest teacher we can always go to him if we don't understand something we can go to the go in prayer ask the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit I didn't understand this eschatology or people to understand and he reveals in pieces he will teach us he will guide us right he's the best teacher that you and I can have teach with the wisdom of the Spirit 1 Corinthians 2 13 1 Corinthians 2 13 1 Corinthians 2 13 these things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual so Paul is saying the things that we have been teaching and our teaching now it is not been taught in man's wisdom did apostle Paul have wisdom definitely did his team members Timothy Silas all of these people have wisdom they all would have had the wisdom of God wisdom on their own but he's saying it is not the wisdom of man that we are teaching it is the wisdom of God teach with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit we saw the example of how Jesus you know taught and he was able to articulate people's questions and trying to people trying to trap him was able to he knew how to put things across right now here's another thing we may be wonderful teachers wonderful preachers but we must also know how to be in wisdom right now let me give you this example one example is I remember seeing these videos people usually send it where pastors are very wonderful leaders powerful full of wisdom and on a Sunday morning what's happened is I think somebody send me this clip or I saw it somewhere I don't remember but this pastor gets it happened in the west not in here during the sermon why because he sees in the congregation many families didn't come to church right so he started naming the families this family that these are the families that didn't come to church what is the reason that you didn't come to church I want y'all to give me an answer now he was he's a wonderful man of full of wisdom God has given him the ability to teach and preach very wonderful but that day maybe he was having a bad day or he was just upset tired stressed out but what happened he let it out it became a big problem people asked him why did you have to do that we have other things we were busy or we were probably traveling without knowing how can you say how can you name people who didn't come to the church and it became a problem later he apologized because they forgave him and all that but then it was not required for all of this to happen right so when we teach the wisdom of the spirit ask the Holy Spirit to guide us right it could be in the natural also natural things that we say it's very important you know remember that you know as a pastor what happens is church members they come up to us and say sometimes we think that oh they may not be listening but they come up and they say you said like this tell me what does that mean right and sometimes I keep quoting these books that I read and I say this is the book that I read and they message and ask where can I get that book which portion which chapter was it you're talking about so you know they grasp so anything that we say is important because people are grasping it right teach with the wisdom of the spirit right we'll stop here and we'll pick up from next class we'll just make a mark here right teach from the wisdom of the spirit right so we'll pick up from the next class and we'll see because there's a lot of explanation that we can do we can discuss as well in the other point so we'll take some time and you know study that together right any questions from what we have done so far right and when it comes to teaching in the wisdom of the spirit over time we learn right just like any anything that we do over time we learn how to answer questions we will learn how to you know give examples we will learn how to when to give examples how to give examples what example is required right because you know there was this one time I was preaching and after the whole sermon you know I went back home I thought to myself why did I give that example in the message so I went back I opened the sermon notes and I looked and I said that example was not even related to what I was saying right and so over time we learn okay put the right example in the right place and it's an ongoing process right whether it's preaching teaching we learn continually right okay let's close with the word of prayer and then we will meet next week right Father we thank you for giving us this opportunity Lord and everything that we are we have learned and we're going to learn Lord as students of your word we pray God that you will continue Lord to speak and minister to each of our hearts Lord we thank you thank you Lord that you've called each one of us to preach to teach Lord I pray that you will empower us equip us with your wisdom your revelation of God may the gifts of the Holy Spirit be released in and through us and help us Lord to make an impact wherever we go and whatever we do Lord help us Lord to build your kingdom God we thank you for this wonderful opportunity Lord we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name we pray Amen Amen Thank you everyone online have a blessed day ahead a bless