 Good morning everyone. Good morning. Good that I'm able to start the recording. There's some technical Okay, so how how are you doing today? We are going to we're going to study on the fifth Fifth chapter from the book of code of honor and I would request each one to read the scriptures Okay, each one to be ready with the scriptures and when the town comes I would request each one to take and read the scriptures, okay? so we have been addressing on some of the various areas of importance for those of us involved in the Christian ministry and these things that we have been talking about of course are useful and Relevant not only for those of us in ministry, but on some of those we learn to walk But God as believer and grow in our faith So we have touched upon few areas of importance and today we want to address the area of preaching and ministering the word of God and just address certain areas that we need to be careful about certain boundaries that we need to set and Certain areas that we need to save God that you know and be cautious about when it comes to preaching the word of God and as God has called us to handle the word of God and and handle the word in Such a way with reverence to build the ministry to build the people and the word of God is Powerful when we preach it when we release it because it Penetrates the heart and lives of people and it brings about change and brings about Transformation so with the word of God being so powerful We need to and it is an honor and privilege for us as ministers of God to preach and teach the word of God yet What we see happening Around the churches and the various places is that sometimes We know the minister of the word of God becomes so diluted Sometimes it's more than just a little pep talk or a little motivational Message that we can hardly tell the difference between somebody's teaching the word of God or Somebody is actually supposed to be preaching For the word of God, you know needs to be thought and it should not be a pep talk or a motivational message and The word of God should bring the truth out to you know to transform the heart To cause the people know the power in the word It shouldn't be like just a pep talk or a feel-good message or You know a big huge entertainment on a Sunday morning, but then it should transform lives It should reveal the truth of the word so today we We're going to address on this topic. We need to be because we need to be aware of the digression in the area What's happening when it comes to preaching and teaching the word of God Because we are really called to do that and are we doing that? We need to preach the cross because that's the central message When we should not be compromising on the truth We need to preach the whole counsel of God and the cross of Jesus Christ Because without cross without a repentance or call to repentance We cannot teach the word of God because that's the central message of Christianity and our Christian faith And so we must stay with good things that are absolutely important to the word of God So as we begin with a very basic thing concerning the preaching of God's word The first is there's that we are called to Establish people in God's word and that's very important That You know when we teach and preach our goal is to get people Established in the whole counsel of God The word of God Can I request one of us to please turn to acts chapter 20 verse 32, please? Acts 20 32 So now brethren, I command you to God and to the word of his grace Which is able to build you up and give you And inheritance inheritance among all those who are sanctified Man so here we see Apostle Paul saying and he's commanding us to God in those word This word is able to build us up This word is able to give us an inheritance and those who are sanctified by faith So it's important for us To ensure that through our preaching and teaching that people are established in the word of God and people need to know what the word says people need to know the truth and We need to disciple in the truth because It's that truth that's going to liberate and set them free from all kinds of bondage and problem and addiction So we must focus on having people establish in the word of God through our preaching and teaching Also in our preaching and teaching it is important for us to be pure Be reverent be genuine Be wholesome in the ministry of God's word Sometime be held with the reverence or we have we got to do with Purity and not just contaminating the word of God, but Things are not supposed to be in its in the way it is But it's got to be genuine. It got to be wholesome Can I request one of us to please turn to book of Titus chapter 2 verse 7 to 8 please Titus chapter 2 was 7 to 8 In all things showing yourself to be pattern of God of good works in Drine showing integrity reverence income in corrupt ability sound speech that cannot be condemned That one who is an opponent may be a shame having nothing evil to say of you Here we see he's telling Titus Titus in your teaching. I want you to have integrity I want you to have reverence. I want you to have Interbrill inter What's up, but You know, I want you to have integrity That means keep it pure. I want it to be a sound speech wholesome Unfortunately, we find the people in pulpit not living up to that standard But that we are called to When it comes to the teaching of the ministry of God's word sometimes we see people use language that is so shameful That is not clean and they call, you know, it's a process of communicating the word And we need to be very careful on that We should use the right words right speech in our communication when we are teaching and preaching the word of God Speech is very important. It should be incorruptible so the doctrine of God and You know when we teach we need to teach it with reverence with integrity and in our communication of scripture and The communication of the word of God Needs to be very clear. They should not be any contamination. They should be reverence a language need to be good and clean and We need to handle the word of God with all reverence because it is the word of God and When we especially delivering the word of God, we need to deliver it with all reverence So another important thing that we would like to impress on our hearts today is that when we are preaching and teaching the word of God We need to preach to impart and not to impress See our goal is communicating the word of God and It's not to impress people not to impress them with our nice stories or Impress them with our ability to communicate with the posh words Not to impress them with whatever our goal may be But we need to communicate the word of God or preach or teach the word of God Keeping the impartation in our mind Impart the truth into the hearts of people Impart you know the counsel of God into the hearts of people because that has power to change them to transform them to To make them what God want them to be so we need to see what God wants to do in their life and impart it to them as what God has asked us each one of us to do so Paul writes this in second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 17. Can I request one of us to please read? Second Corinthians chapter 2 verses 17 For we are not as so many peddling the word of God, but as sincerity But as from God we speak in the sight of God in Christ So here we see Paul saying that you know, we don't peddle the word of God We don't like to sugarcoat the word or Try to push it along with people lives No, we don't do that at least speak God's word with sincerity as though He is speaking From God and as a way of speaking before God meaning there is a whole Motivational preaching that God's word is it is to do Right thing before God and as from God and not to impress people So as part of our teaching and preaching we must address difficult topics But must do it with love I because they are difficult in areas and and difficult topics that we need to address is concerning to their day-to-day life life issues or practical things or The the challenges of people which they would be facing in the day-to-day life So we must be mindful when we are addressing such topics We need to do it with love as Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 13 to 15. Can I request? They want to please take up Ephesians chapter 4 verse 13 to 15, please Ephesians chapter 4 was 13 to 15 Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God To a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ That we should no longer be children Toss to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men In the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting But speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him. Who is the head Christ? Amen, so you always see that there are all kinds of winds of doctrine that blow Across the body of Christ Paul calls it saying look we must establish people in truth They must speak the truth and love So that God's truth addresses these difficult issues, but do it with love of God I need to do it with love of God and also rightly divide the word and always maintain sound doctrine So when we had when we bring the word of God It's important for us to make sure that we are teaching the sound doctrine We are correctly dividing the word of God make sure we double check on that And how we interpret the scripture is more important Whether we are present whether they are presenting the whole doctrine or we are searching across the scripture. Is that relevant? Or we are not just taking one word out of context and bringing a message out of that But that very message what we preach will stand the test of the entire scripture. We need to check on that Is it is that word is that message what we are about to bring to the people to the congregation Is it in line with the word of God? Is it in harmony with the entire council of God? we need to check on that and Paul writes in the book of Titus can I request one of us to please turn to Titus chapter 2 verse 1 please But as for you speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine So we see the Titus is saying when we are teaching the word or when we are preaching What we preach and teach should be a sound doctrine another Important acts aspect these same year is ministering the word of God is that we must learn to build Precept upon precept And that's the way God also deals with us When I request one of us to turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 28 verse 9 to 10, please Isaiah chapter 28 verse 9 and 10 Whom will he teach knowledge and who will he make to understand the message Those just weaned from milk those just drawn from the press for precept must be upon precept Precept upon precept line upon line Line upon line here a little there a little So you're he's saying that you know how You know important is to teach the knowledge. You're going to teach them little by little And you're going to you know, it must happen precept upon precept line upon line Little by little so so when we are ministering the word of God and We need to bring it and when we want to give a great revelation a lot of truth Release it in the right time release it the right amount and release it You know the right place especially in the pastoral setting when We are trying to equip an entire Congregation not all of them are ready to receive that word to receive that revelation So what we need to do we need to release it line by line Precept by precept little by little so what we're teaching and slowly build them up in the things of God Learn to bring a word in season always listen to what God wants to say in that season To the congregation or in the journey that the people are at that moment at that time So you may know a lot from scripture, but at this moment What is a word of God what God wants us to release it to the congregation release it to the people? We need to be mindful of that when we bring the word in Season and now the important aspect About ministering the word of God is Validated about the revelation So how we can validate the revelation that we have received before we can preach it Before we can preach it. We may have to you know Check it with the word of God. We should not get very Excited about this beautiful wonderful revelation and just go straight away and Share it a congregation, but what we need to do is we need to double check We need to double check. So how do we double check we need to check with the word of God? Is it in a line with the word of God? We should also check Is the rest of the scriptures upholding the same message and Then we should also check with the body of Christ Is everyone preaching the same thing? Because God will normally release the revelation to multiple people The same truth speak being spoken by different people So we need to check on that and then share it because in we Checking on that we are on the safe ground and we can go ahead Remember that the spirit and the word always agree. So checking with the scripture checking with the other scriptures. Is it in line and also Seeing that the the body of Christ the other preachers are they preaching with the same message on that particular? scripture When we check on that before we could deliver the message it is actually for us its safety and So if something has come to you from the spirit or revelation It will always agree with the written word of God Agree with the word that that's been given to us And so the spirit and the word will always agree and not contradict So we can stay current enough reaching and teaching with the current revelation the things that God has released to the body of Christ But at the same time we need to avoid some Theological digression that we know sometimes in order to stay current We say we tend to digress of the main thing So let the main thing of the word always be the main thing That's the important of the word gives what the word of God can bring message to us So in our preaching and teaching our preaching and teaching should be the cross which is the central Message of our Christianity. It is very important for us to focus on that On that work that was completed by Jesus on the cross. And so we need to be Careful on going off on a different tangent or teaching different things that are Not really applicable So we need to be very careful very, you know, we need to pay great importance to that particular revelation When we check only if it is relevant, we need to share it Otherwise, we need to just avoid such theological digression in our ministry Another important thing of the ministry of the word is we must learn the way we overcome Every amplifying truth and this is especially important as a pastoral setting Let's say we are pastoring a church with several people in it and there's a strange wind of doctrine Blowing across our town across a city and that's been affecting many people So how do we come back that error? How will we find that every way how to overcome that error? What we can do is we can Just amplify the truth from the scripture When we amplify the truth, we don't have to talk about that error That has been spreading like a wild forest fire across But what we can do is we can just amplify the truth We don't have to explain any error just by amplifying the truth. The truth gives them the better understanding The truth will help each one of them to reject that untruth reject that error and be safe So this is one of the way how we can handle the Error that spreads around Is by just amplifying the truth in order to overcome every Wind of error that may spread across so So as part of our teaching and preaching it is important that we don't stand up behind the pulpit And now we just deal with certain issues We are dealing with the issues concerning what happens from the pulpit And don't use the pulpit for flattery or exhortation or self-promotion We don't do that Don't we don't uh use pulpit to flatter a few people in the congregation or the audience So that they will uh, you know Get a good they will get on so that you know, they will be on the good books. No, we don't do that Or we we flatter people to get big offerings or um, we may have some favor from some people We don't use this pulpit time to flatter anyone or to exhort money from people We don't do that from the pulpit Doing things, uh, you know for our use is not the right thing to use the pulpit pulpit Should be used only to minister the word of god to glorify Jesus And we should not give this pulpit time to devil As we know it is shameful for us to As a preacher standing up behind the pulpit and doing things that are not becoming that is not Reverend in the sight of god or using the pulpit event to criticize people Or getting into some political agendas or uh, you know, uh, trying to promote business Others business or trying to promote their own personal agendas Instead of staying with the ministry of the word of god So we need to be very cautious mindful of such things We should use the pulpit time only to minister the word of god Exalt the name of Jesus and him only and not to give the pulpit time to the Devil so never give devil the pulpit time. He's not worthy of that always use Pulpit time to glorify god and do not draw people to ourself We don't have to try to use the pulpit time to get people to follow us We should not allow the pulpit time to always glorify We should use this time the pulpit time only to glorify god god and to point out Jesus christ is the lord And these are some of the things that you know, we feel that are really important for us when it comes to ministering the word of god And so that we may stay focused in releasing god's word that will build up his people and this kingdom will come So I open to the class if you have any questions, please do let us know Do you have any questions? Before we can move ahead you can Share if you have any questions or you would like to share or add Others have you come across? any such Scenarios in your ministry that you would like to share how you handled it Okay, can I request one of us to read roman 16 verse 17 to 18, please Roman 16 verse 17 to 18 now I urge you brethren note those who cause divisions and offenses Contrary to the doctrine which you learned and avoid them For those who are such do not serve our lord Jesus christ But their own belly and by smooth words and flattering speech Deceive the hearts of the simple Can one of your please turn to first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 32 and 33 please First Corinthians chapter 10 verse 32 to 33 give no offense Use or to the Greeks or to the church of god Just as I also please all men in all things not seeking my own profit But the prophet of many that they may be saved So while we uh, you know, sir We should be mindful of not causing any division or offense in the body of christ. Well all says that Itra yes, as he pleases men and all things not seeking his own profit Not but the prophet of many He tries to serve them literally says that you know, as Jesus said I'm here to serve and not to be served He tried to serve them. So as a minister of God, we need to preach to edify and build up the body of christ But we should not cause any offense or division among them. So Yes, we may not agree with another christian Denomination teaching or practices But what we need to do is we need to be mindful of how we conduct ourselves are we Connecting ourselves pleasing to the word As per the word like we should not bring in any strife any kind of division In our ministry in our teaching in in the way we conduct ourselves, you know, we need to be in peace with others That's what paul writes as much as possible stay in peace with others So we have to remind ourselves to stay as we stay with preaching and teaching god's word We need to conduct ourselves Peaceful with everyone so that um, and we need to have the servant attitude towards others. So when we preach and teach There's no offense. There's no division and people can receive the word with whole heartedly So with this we complete this chapter and before we could go to the next chapter We can take a time of break and we can come back after 15 minutes Okay Okay, there's a question from said There are many questions. Okay Just give me a minute while I go through the questions Elisha has asked enough preaching Of rite doctrine. What do you do when you have discovered truth in scripture and it is not in an agreement with your destination, sorry denomination In our preaching of rite doctrine, what do you do when you have discovered truth in scripture and it is not in agreement with your denomination Yeah In this case what we can do I keep it open to the class Brother Subashish Isaac the via Roslyn anyone can answer this question jeffina Brother Abu Bakr I think the question has already been answered Yes, brother. You can answer it again Just to address that question uh I think actually the question is that uh, when we Uh, discover some truth That means actually we should stand with the truth because uh, here actually we are talking about uh Living a life according to the word of god not through our denominations, so If we say we have discovered the truth and the same time maybe we can Uh, take the guidance of our some actually elders Uh, those who are mentoring us We can ask them if uh, some people they Uh To or more people they said yes maybe We can go ahead but as uh, lisha said, uh, that if He feels that he has discovered if uh, no one also. I will say others. They are not also Encouraging or maybe to practice that one But if it feels that it is from god And I will say okay go with the truth Mm-hmm anyone else would like to add on to it Can I just yes, please to me if I discover something in the bible and Go against the delinational discharge I'm attending The first and the first things I will do is to pray For our leaders To open these paschalas scriptures to them To to show them the reason why they must this you change The doctrine and the denomination Uh on the one we ought to make amendments On the patterns of our services so that is Number one I would pray for pray over the scriptures pray for our leaders So that gosh will reveal the truth to them because sometimes they are women being They may miss it somewhere and sometimes And we can help them to pray To pray over the over the scriptures and Present the matter in the presence of god and number two if We have the opportunity to Discuss it with them Come go ahead Discuss it with them and before we go and they always pray to leaders So that you know, I have any Can you not make any divisions in the body of Christ? Thank you Thank you. Thank you brother Okay Yes said you can go ahead Ma'am I just wanted to say that there was a certain woman in kerala. She was from a catholic background But when she read about protestant that we are believing in holy spirit She came to this side the protestant side Then what happened all her family was against her because she has chosen a different belief So I just as we read in the titus two seven and eight in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good work in Doctorine showing integrity in evidence in In corrupt ability sound speech and in this verse as we have seen That This woman was also showing the god's character She was believing she was reading bible and she she was not kept on blaming that your denomination is wrong Your denomination is wrong. You should not do that. We are believing like this We are believing like this She was keep on showing them what is the god character like a new what is a new testament She was displaying the new testament and she was kept on praying for this family And when in four years His father the church father and the whole community and the whole congregation They removed the saint mary name and it became the whole congregation became the upper protestant church today in kerala They are speaking or if they are speaking in tongues and through that lady's prayer the congregation which was a catholic church has now converted to a protestant church So what I just wanted to say like if we have found Truth It is not up to us that we are telling them that you are wrong. You are wrong as paul also said he went to a new faith He was not blaming to the people of essence that you are wrong Even though he was complimenting them that I have found something that your faith in your faith whoever you are Preaching you are praying you are praying with intensity and you are praying with accuracy So what we have to do is we have being the christian we have to love them We have to teach them But as there is a difference between them and us what we can do is we can pray as pastor Nancy has told we have we can pray and we can intercede for them god in his time will Bring them back and will bring them to light and he will sanctify them Yes, you're right Good, thank you. Thank you said for sharing We also have Paul you were too Yes, thank you. Mom Are to me The bible is a supreme the the truth that comes from the bible the word of god Is a supreme word if it is final denomination comes later So when you find the truth in the scripture go by the truth If you can change if you can preach to the denomination to change Let them change if they cannot change You stick to the truth don't mind about denomination denomination is second The truth that comes from the priest the scripture is the word of god and that is final That is my contribution. Thank you. Thank you brother jeffina You'd like to add on Yes, ma'am This is something that I have experienced in my life like due to denomination and There were some traditions and then on the other side they have a truth So I don't want to tell you all words that is nomination and But suddenly a pastor came and then he said If you have to get communion even though if you're baptized you have to baptize from me and then only I'll give you the communion So it really affected the whole church Some people were from different backgrounds and they got saved just right now and it really affected the whole church So it's like it's not something that Come on communion is for everyone. Jesus bled and his flesh is for everyone who believes on him who baptized And he said you have to go through some classes. You have to learn something from me And I should be the one who should give you baptism and then only you should be taking communion So it really created a great rivalry in the church So It it's just that people stood for truth I see that some people started praying together for the pastor And then some people they left the church so that they can find a better one So I think both of them are right like, you know, we have to stand in the truth and that's the matter So when it comes between truth and denomination Do what makes you comfortable to stand for the truth You can either pray for the pastor pray for the church Some people they have lived in the church for so many years and suddenly When the church changes, they don't want to go from where they have spent all their lives So they started praying for the church praying for the pastor Praying for his mindset and praying for some of the miracles to happen And then people they newly came and they thought this is something that is against the truth and they left the church But it all depends on what makes us comfortable to stand with the truth And not there is a hole in every denomination most of the time Most of the time every denomination has a hole every denomination has some traditions But it's that we have to stand for truth. We are not here to stand for denomination We are not here to say proud something about our denomination or this denomination or something Bad about other denomination. We are here to stand for the truth And when it comes between truth and denomination truth always wins truth already won and it always will win So that's what I want to share Thank you. Thank you. Jefina. We also see Elisha raised us and I want to share the practical experience Denomination I know of Elisha can you be a little louder please? Okay, sorry Yeah, thank you. I want to share a practical experience of this that we are discussing One denomination that I know of um in their calling or into leadership the late one of the requirements is the one of the basic requirement is that um the person must have been baptized in the Holy Spirit Every goings by the speaking If you don't speak in terms You will not be called into leadership or into lady Now this is this is something that many people find it a bit problematic in the sense that one it's It forces people Not to be genuine about the baptism of the Holy Spirit some people will find a tendency to think The speaking in terms so that they will have the opportunity to be called into leadership and many people have discovered that this practice is problematic and That is the the extent of the denomination to the denomination Is not ready to depart from it So when you have discovered from scripture that in the callings Into leadership This is not one of the key or one of the basic requirements That we should consider to call people into leadership of any denomination And this is the case where the denomination pulls onto it so dearly and you try to stand By the truth in this circumstance What I would want to add towards my colleagues I have already shared is that you will need to or you have to engage the leadership on this matter and you need them to know how many of them also find this practice problematic and as not to be in agreement with scripture when you engage the leadership as the winner added we pray intercede for the leadership I know that gradually God would one day review himself to them also to make a definite decision on that practice or that teachings that goes on in the denomination Yes Yes Thank you. Thank you each one for sharing your point of view Okay. Thank you so much. So we will take a quick break and yes I see some questions here We will come back and discuss and we can also move on to the next chapter So let's take a quick 15 minutes break and we'll come back. Okay. Thank you so much. Good. Bless