 Right good morning everyone and good morning to our students online as well Okay, let's begin this time with a word of prayer and we'll get into our teaching Father we thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity Lord and even as we come together to learn Pray Holy Spirit that you will minister to our hearts and Lord thank you for the deposit that has been happening in each of our hearts and we pray God that you will continue To deposit your word into our heart our identity of who we are And what you have called us to be Lord we thank you They give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name we pray amen Amen. All right, so last class we stopped in chapter 78 By 78 how we just let me just touch on that the Apostle Paul said, you know for the week I will become weak Right for the for the Jew. I'll be a Jew for the Gentile. I'll be a Gentile all of this I'll do for the sake of the Gospel So God has given us freedom Right and we talked about the freedom that God has given us But we must also be wise and learn to use the wisdom freedom that God has given us wisely, right? So the best example was that of food, right? Do we have the freedom to eat anything? Right now you can eat anything, but we don't misuse that freedom by putting somebody else down By saying, hey, well, you don't eat on which how can it be, you know, this is what the Bible says We don't misuse that freedom So the freedom that God has given us is for us to enjoy But to make sure that the other person is put first rather than our own interests Okay, so let's get into chapter 79 Everyone with me in chapter 79 Yeah, we have books Okay Now again, we'll be talking about Points that we've discussed, but if I'm going a little fast Feel free to stop me in between. Okay, Galatians chapter 3 verse 26 talking about the children of God Galatians 3 26 for you are all sons of God Through faith in Jesus Christ This is this one verse is so powerful. It just speaks of our identity right You and I are sons of God wife Or how are we the sons of God? through Through what? No, there's another word through what in Jesus Christ is there in the verse through faith in Jesus Christ so What is faith? Hebrews 11 talks about faith anyone know that verse Faith is the substance of things This faith is a substance of things hoped for And the evidence of things not seen I may not see things, but I have a hope that it will happen Right, that's faith You and I have faith right every person and we were talking about this in our other course as well We all have faith But here it says the moment we have faith in Jesus Christ. We are sons of God That means what you believe in Jesus Jesus is saying, okay, you're my son But we Jesus I did so many mistakes, but these are the problems in my life all that I'll do later What is your identity? You believe in me? You're a son of God You're a child of God Right, so there are no strings attached. That means there's no additional things that God is saying to do God is not saying go to israel and go up the mountain two times and come and then I will do this or you have to you know You have to do these this list of things and only then you will be my child No, he's saying those who have faith in God everyone say faith in God Right It's so wonderful, right? We don't have to do anything Now here's the other portion Because we have faith we will do something for God Right because God did everything for us the Lord Jesus did everything for us So we live our life for him Yes or no, like we live a life of faith Yes, because God the Lord Jesus calls us his sons doesn't mean we don't do anything Yes, we don't come by works But we have to work You see that difference, right We don't come by our own merits But we have to work hard and be prosperous So we must learn to maintain this balance. What does the apostle Paul say? He says if you don't work, don't eat Strong words Right to the Thessalonians. He says I heard that you people are You know, you're waiting for the rapture to happen and you're sitting at home and doing nothing work If you don't work don't eat Right, so we must learn to maintain that balance as children of God John chapter 1 was 12 and 13 But as many as received him to them, he gave them the right to become Children of God the those who believe in his name Who were born not of blood Nor of the will of the flesh Nor of the will of man but of God Born not of the flesh now everyone look at your hands That is flesh Right When you were born when you and I were born We were born of flesh, right? We were not flying everywhere In the hospital you were born you were flesh and we will continue to be flesh flesh will be there Right and this flesh also will go But here he's saying you're not born of the flesh anymore You're born of the spirit meaning born of God Now is God flesh Is God flesh What does the bible say? God is Yes God is spirit and those who worship him And worship him in spirit and truth everyone with me know So what is born of the flesh? This flesh What is born of the spirit is spirit Now when we were unbelievers we were walking in the flesh That means what and we say flesh it's it's not only the physical aspect right also the The things of this world Maybe i'm drinking and you know drinking alcohol smoking doing drugs Living a sinful life That's living in the flesh But now as believers we are living in the spirit Why because the verse here says We are born of God What is 2nd Corinthians 5 17 all of you must know this Sorry Yeah If anyone is in Christ It's a new creation All things All things Have become new Okay, I want you to learn this properly right in the night if I wake you up and ask you What is 2nd Corinthians 5 17 you must be able to tell me this is the core of what we are studying right identity Okay, Ephesians chapter 1 verse 4 and 5 very very Very powerful passage where we all you know most of us quote this Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world That we should be holy and without blame before him him in love having predestined us to adoption As sons of Jesus by Jesus Christ to himself According to the good pleasure of his will having Predestined us to adoption that means what? when you and I Which chapter this is chapter 79 that when you and I are Become believers the word predestined means god has already planned something For those who believe Okay, let me just use an example. I haven't thought of this but let's use this example for example This young man. He wants to join the army Right, so he's working hard. He writes his test and all that he's making sure he's also physically fit He joins the army Now before he was not in the army The moment he joins in the army. What happens? Something will happen to him His identity changes. Okay, but there are other benefits in that Why because he's serving the nation so there'll be benefits of groceries you know and There'll be facilities available for him some some governments provide homes free education, sorry Transport transport. Is that what you said? Yeah Free education for children now that is already there Now if I'm not an army guy, I can't go to the army quarters and say can I stay here? They'll say no Why you're not in the army? You join the army. All this is yours the same way If I'm not a believer The you know, I don't I'm not a child of god yet But the moment I become a child of god god has already kept things for us Right like how the army keeps free education for children free food free electricity You know when when when there's a death in the family the family, you know get compensation So many things are it's already decided And the government has made it that way So as believers when you and I Are predestined when we are when we come into christ. What does it say here? We are predestined Having predestined us to adoption Some of us may say hey, I I'm not I have parents. Yeah, those parents parents are parents But now you have a heavenly father You have the lord jesus himself Right and it says here Predestined us to adoption According to the good pleasure of his will that means god was pleased to do that And let's go to Romans 8 14 this that one verse 14 and 15 For as many as are led by the spirit of god These are the sons of god Remember this verse we talked about this as many as are led by the spirit of god They are the sons of god Those who are the sons of god are led by the spirit of god both ways Right that is why in the you know in the supernatural hour that we spend time here It's very important to You know be sensitive to the leading of the spirit Right because the holy spirit will speak He will speak through different ways because it says here if you are led by the spirit of god, you are the son of god So are you a child of god? Yes, so the holy spirit will minister He will speak Right, it's just that we have to be sensitive to that Through the leading to his leading verse 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear But you received the spirit of adoption By whom we try out our father The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of god Okay, let's read that together verse 16 the spirit this himself bears witness to to our spirit That we are the children of god So the holy spirit is here This is our spirit The holy spirit tells our spirit. Hey, you're a child of god Now what if I say no, I'm not So what am I doing? I'm pushing away the holy spirit. I say paul writes now don't grieve the holy spirit Right because he's there. He's like a dove. He's there So let's use this example. This is the holy spirit. This is your spirit, right? Right now. It's like this Okay, the more I speak to the holy spirit the more the holy spirit will speak to me The more there is communication and then we become strong now If I keep saying oh, you know, I keep falling into temptation and I keep sinning What am I doing? I'm building a wall. You know, this this mic is like a wall I'm building a wall But the holy spirit is there but because of sin There's a you know, he's there but we are pushing him away. He is not going. We are pushing him away So what's happening our mind is crowded with so many things You know, we are continually sinning. We are pushing the witness of the holy spirit But when we forgive also forgiveness, what does it say the holy spirit will again bear witness So you see how important it is as believers that we must be able to overcome Things that happen in our life, temptations, challenges Mind the devil will come and say these are the things you are. This is how you are. These are the wrong things That you do and all of that, right? We must we must understand the holy spirit is there. He's bearing witness Right, we do wrong. Holy spirit. I did this wrong. Please forgive me. What's happening? He's bearing witness. Don't worry. You're my child. You're my son You cry out to God through his spirit. You call him our father Why is this important have you ever thought of this, you know The Lord Jesus the disciples told Jesus teach us how to pray What did Jesus say? Our father who art in heaven Now the first two words itself Is too much like think you're a Jew Okay, think you're living in Israel. You're a Jew now in the Old Testament Oh God Jehovah They used to you know those who's right those who are writing will go wash their hands wash their face to write Jehovah It's the God of heaven and earth High place The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the God of moses When Moses went up Mount Sinai they saw the glory of God The Jews And now and there's a temple and you cannot go into the most holy place. Why because God's holiness is there Now Jesus is teaching his disciples. What are father The moment you say father, what is it? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? Personal you don't call anyone on the road father You call anyone or you call your only your father. You'll call father even your own father's brother. What do you call? whatever Uncle your own father's brother still. He's not your father. Why? You may have you know your father and your your father may have twins Okay You will know who's your father Do you know that Why because he's your father Now Jesus is saying When you pray pray our father If I was the disciple there that I say, what are you saying Jesus? How can I call him father? Our Jehovah you should say or our Adonai or all those big words. No, no, no Call him our father Because the time will come Through the Holy Spirit You can cry out above father So you see sometimes we read the Bible. We don't understand these things for the Jew if we were there listening to Jesus He would have said no, no. I rather call God You know Jehovah all of those words not father How can I have a relationship with him like that? That's what he says here Through his spirit you and I call God above As a child we relate to him like a son is relating to the father Right, you don't you know if you I think once you've become parents you will understand right The the relationship of Of of of of parents and children. That's very different You can wax the child teach them They will still come back. They will still love you the same way and you will still love them the same way Is correcting important discipline important? Yes But they're not going to be angry and say I'm not talking to you. They won't do that Because there's a relationship father and son Right when I say son, it doesn't mean daughters are excluded Father and a relationship between a father and a son child of God okay relations again for but when the fullness of time Had come God sent forth his son born of a woman Born under the law You see that verse there God sent forth his son born of a woman Born under the law To redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption of the sons And because you are sons God sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying out above father Right, so let's go down here. We see here a few points Page 81 as children of God We are adopted as sons and daughters. So we have a sense of belonging right for example All of you filled in your application forms. You're got admitted to Bible college Right, so right now you belong here Nobody come and come and say hey, what you're doing here say hey, I'm studying here I belong in this college And as long as you're here you belong in this college Right, so the same way as sons and daughters. We have a sense of belonging. We may not have parents We may not have anyone in this world, but we belong to somebody We belong to Jesus Right to we are chosen to be loved by him meaning a sense of blessing God blesses us Three he Predestined us to be like Jesus The lord jesus has already decided if you read the book of revelations and we read about the rapture, what will happen in the blink of an eye We will be with him the bible says we will be like him And we will see him Don't you feel that's something so great? We will be like him Now all that we are struggling i mean not struggling, but all that we are doing is to be more like jesus But okay, everyone blink over eyes Okay, one two three blink and open okay one two three that's it glorified body Right That's it in the twinkling of an eye now how god will do that that you don't worry that is god Right, so what does it say here? He predestined us to be like him And when we see him We will see him just as he is We will have a glorified body right and paul writes more about it in many other places Then they are called according to his purpose Meaning we have a sense of purpose. We have a plan. We are not living life arbitrarily. That means we are not living life Okay, today is monday next is tuesday then friday will come then saturday you rest Then sunday go to church say to hallelujahs come back home. Then monday again go No, there's a sense of purpose in life Right right now. Okay, why will call it but then you can't be here the rest of your life, right? You got to have a purpose for your life What is the purpose that god has for me so you you know there's this calling to a purpose And then we are justified in his sight Meaning we have a sense of freedom. We talked about that justified. What is justified? Just as if you have not sinned Okay, everyone say this. Thank you get root just As if We have not sined six What is justified So we ask you what is justified simple just as if we have not sinned Finish Right, so these are words that you must know by now. Okay. Remember I told you to write down these words. Did you do that? Justified sanctified redeemed all of those words Right, uh, so make sure you know these. Okay, because we've almost come towards the end of the course Okay Then we are glorified together with jesus. Okay. How do we be living as children of god? We are the beloved of the father. That means we are deeply loved We are his family. We are heirs, right? We talked about heirs Co-heirs and heirs with christ. That means we have a rich inheritance We have a rich man He has one son Right a businessman for example. He has one son. What will happen to him? That son knows That most likely the business is going to come to him Why because he's the heir now that son may be a You know a person who's not gone to school also He may have been only you know completed his tenth standard. It doesn't matter Yes or no, he may have completed only his primary school till fifth standard Doesn't matter He's the heir to the business Because he's the child of that family You understand, right? So so it's very important that we understand this heir and being joint heirs We share with jesus christ and we are ambassadors. That means we represent god wherever we go Okay All right, let's get into chapter 80 adopted as sons and daughters So we talked about this right we we cry above father. That means you are not a prodigal son You and I are not slaves. You and I are not orphans You and I are not people who have been put to shame And jesus is not looking at us saying oh this boy or this girl How much I told him not to do this but he's still doing this and you know, I give up on this person never Never will jesus say that Will a father An earthly father jesus himself says when an earthly when when a child asks for bread Will the father give him a stone? So jesus is saying if the earthly father Being so sinful and wicked still know how to love their children How much more will your father in heaven love you more? All right, so remember this we will make mistakes we will fail But when god looks at us he's saying you are not a slave. You are not a failure. You are not What people talk about You look at what I am saying I'm saying I love you just the way you are You may be broken. You may be fearful. You may be doubtful. You may have a long list of things But you're not a prodigal. You're not a slave. You're my child And this is the most you know wonderful part that we can run to jesus at any time People will say hey, you are useless. You can't do this But jesus will not say that Jesus will not say that you can always run to him You know as pastors and as leaders sometimes people think no everything is fine in life No, we go through our shares of challenges difficulties. What do we do? We run to the father Run to jesus many times. We don't have people to talk to Right because we have any leadership, but we run to jesus and many people, you know Share their thoughts and things that they are going through Many times we feel oh, I wish we could do something, but what we can do is run to god Right, so I want to encourage all of us Whatever it is in our hearts don't Keep it back and say oh, I am like this or I'm going to remain like this never been that place God wants to see you grow God wants to see you increase God wants to bless you And there's a part that you have to play. I always use this example God told You know when in front of Lazarus's tomb he said You move the stone I'll raise him up from the dead Then jesus said You fill the water. I'll turn it into wine Why didn't jesus fill the water? He wanted him to do something There's a work that we have to do Remember what jesus is so Feeding the five five thousand people. There's five loaves of bread and two fish So jesus says get whatever you have get it to me The disciples are just stood there. No nothing is there He said there's five loaves of bread two fish. He said get that's more than enough And he took whatever little any multiplied So you and I these are all principles that we must use in our life We want to do many things but god expects us to also do the work When peter said if you are god, let me also walk on the water Peter said okay jesus said okay come Now peter was still sitting in the boat. What would have happened nothing would have happened Jesus would have come and sat and said the word but he had to take the step So you and I must take the step Right to fulfill you know when god puts something in our heart you take the step Right, don't be discouraged. Don't always say, you know, I can't do I can't no you can Okay, so You are not a prodigal. You are not a slave. You are not an orphan You have a heavenly father a father in heaven Who can provide for you? Who can you can protect you who will give you the wisdom? Who will give you understanding? He will train you. He will teach you. He will guide you He will do everything All we need to do Is to ask him What does jesus say ask of me And I will give you Seek you will find Knock the door will be open Jesus doesn't say knock. I'll I'll try to open Does he say It says knock the door will be seek you will find But jesus I'm seeking for past five years continue to seek What's happened in the five years I've become stronger My faith has become stronger And suddenly when challenge comes this is nothing No, no problem. God is with me. Why five years you're trusting god You see right so you hold on to all of this Let it become true in your spirit. Okay Okay chapter 81 Chosen to be loved. Let's look at the other words. Romans 8 29 For whom he foreknew He also predestined To be conformed to the image of his son That he might be the first born Among many brethren Okay, everyone say the word conformed There are two words, right? There's a word called transformed. There's a word called conformed The word transformed means to change When the rapture happens will be transformed In the sprinkling of an eye our body will be transformed, but here the word is conformed That means what conformed is to become like Like So for example You know if you look at this right you have a father you have a son Right, so the son is growing and as the son becomes 10 years 12 years 15 18 The son will begin to look exactly like the father So if you take a photo of the father when he was 18 years old and take the photo of the son who is 18 years old They look the same It's just an example. What's happening? They conforming he's conforming and he's becoming like the father Right just like he's conforming to it Or another example would be You know the porter Right, uh, for example, he's making a clay pot Right. Sometimes what they do is they have these iron shapes of the pot Right the iron shapes. So what they do is they take the clay And they pour that hot clay into that shape For example, it's a triangle right just an example So the moment he pulls that hot clay into the triangle, what's happening? The clay is conforming to the shape of the triangle The clay is not going outside It's not becoming a rectangle Why because there's a triangle it's conforming to that shape You know it's saying Predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son Jesus Christ That means when you and I as our believers God is conforming us to be like Jesus Think of that triangle The clay is put it becomes a triangle It's conformed it just happens Right. You can't pray over that clay and say we've become a square It will not Because it's just conformed to a triangle. Everyone get know what I'm saying, right So the same way Jesus is saying He is conforming us to become more like him Every day We are changing and changing and changing our thinking our words our actions our character our behavior Is conforming to be more like Jesus You have you become a chosen one when you made the decision to believe in Jesus Many are called but few are chosen A chosen one is a special one Right the word chosen means to be picked out How many of you went to school here? All of us went to school Right now when you went to school They will choose somebody as the Captain of the class They will choose somebody to be the vice captain It's chosen The god is saying he has chosen you He has picked you he has Out of many he has picked you to be his child To be conformed to his image, right He has separated you and me Out of out of this secular world that we see He has separated us You know the word sanctified he has separated us From the people of this world And we are chosen to be loved by him James 2 5 says listen my beloved brethren God has not chosen the poor of this world to be rich It has not god chosen the poor of this world To be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom Which he promised to those who love him Look at Jesus' disciples Were they good were the great disciples? Were they great men and women? The people who were there What what were they? Fisherman Tax collector One more Fisherman All all me girl Why didn't Jesus go to the temple and say okay This Pharisee this Sadducee This priest and this priest you all follow me It shows the meager people to represent his kingdom That's what he's saying here He did not god choose the poor of the when you say poor doesn't mean poor in like you know Not only in not financial status poor in Meaning the meager the humble God chose them to make them rich in faith Fishermen Imagine Peter they would have Just think of this they would have seen Peter catching fish Peter and Andrew. Hey these two brothers. They've gone to catch fish They would have seen right people would have seen From the young age they're growing up catching fish selling the fish in the market Now suddenly what happened to them? They when Peter's walking people are getting healed Oursons of people are following Peter before nobody bothered nobody bought fish from him also What's happened? What is this change? God took the meager people Made them great And that's what he does with you and me when we are humble at heart He will take us and he will make us great great and faith And he will use us right We are predestined to be like Jesus Predestined means to be as an planned ahead of time He did not predestine your choices very important Underline this he did not predestine your choice But plan that for those who make this choice They will be conformed into the image of Christ Jesus. It's on page 83 See that predestined is planned Is planned ahead as an planned ahead of time Okay, this is very important. Listen to this The Lord Jesus did not predestine your choice Meaning he did not Force you and say believe in me How many of you were forced to believe in Jesus? Anyone? No So God has predestined us, but he didn't force us But the moment we believe in Jesus, what does it say there? The choice when we make the choice when I say, okay, Jesus, I want to Change my life. I want to become You know, I want to leave all these sinful natures. I want to be more holy. I know I'm doing something wrong. I want to give my life to you the moment. I do that He begins to conform Us into the image of Christ So the choice is yours and mine We can never force people to make the choice The moment I'm I say if somebody's forced it's not a true change It cannot be a true change if somebody's forced to do this If somebody's forced to study, they will not study If somebody's forced to learn an instrument, they will not learn it You cannot force people to do it But when it's made out of free choice, no matter what the consequences are They're willing to take Take it up Right. So we are predestined to adoption. We are predestined to his purpose We are predestined and conformed to the image of his son and we are predestined to be like Jesus Okay All right, okay, what we'll do is we'll stop here We spoke a lot But here's what I want each one of you to do. Those are online. You can feel free to do that as well now I want you to take a book For a paper It's better if you write it in a book. I want you to write down A few things one a second Corinthians 5 17 write it down So I want you to write it And speak it as you're writing it Okay Everyone wrote that second Corinthians 5 17 so and then Romans chapter 8 and verse 14 Galatians 3 26 At least three verses three simple verses Okay, write it down write it down at least four five times write it down and as you're writing it Speak it remember this is God's word now the moment you're looking at it as an assignment stop writing it You get what I'm saying Right if you feel oh pastor G is given Assignment don't write it If if you're writing it with a heart of learning then you write it Okay Romans 8 14 And Galatians 3 26 So write it down and speak it over your life as you're writing it Say Those who want to do it in Hindi you can do it in Hindi also, but I encourage you do it in English So you'll learn that as well. So And declare it Write it declare it write it declare it. So so by next week So I say next Friday Next Friday when I ask These three verses you should note Is it too much? It's okay, right? It just keeps speaking and just keep declaring it even in your break time Just keep speaking the word of God, you know, these are things that we do Whenever I'm walking I just say hey, I'm a new creation. Anyone is in Christ. I'm a new crazy. I am a child of God I can do all things through Christ I don't need to know the you know the chapter verse and all it's okay The word is still powerful Sometimes I just keep speaking Right. Oh Great as he was in me than he that is in the world. No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper I will lift up my eyes and through the hills Declaring the word of God re-e-trating What the word does in your spirit? Okay, so I wanted to do that and the next one is please learn what is Righteousness write it down write down these three words righteousness You don't have a book. You have a notebook. Don't write in your bible. Write in your notebook. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we should Okay, righteousness justification sanctification Three words three verses and three words Okay Yes, thank you. Go through these three verses and these three words righteousness justification and sanctification Right just see even as you're learning what it means don't it's not like you should learn it word for word understand it Right because even a parrot if you tell a parrot go upstairs it will repeat go upstairs, but it doesn't know the meaning Right, you got to understand it Okay, this is what it what is righteousness? This is what is justification This is what is sanctification let it be an understanding in your spirit Okay, we'll do that and then we'll meet Next week We'll continue learning from here. All right. All right. Thank you so much everyone. Thank you those who are online Have a good day and a good week ahead. God bless