 Hey, good morning and welcome online class students. I see you guys here Just want to read a couple of scriptures One is from Colossians 3 and Verse 16. Okay. It says let the word of Christ Dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Okay, and whatever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Giving thanks to the to God the Father through him. So right that was Colossians chapter 3 Was a 16 17 and maybe we can just look at verse 15. Also, it says let the peace of God rule in your hearts To whom you were called in one body and be thankful like so that the peace of God rule in your hearts Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and then it talks about the overflow, right? teaching Admonishing in hymns and you know and one another in songs and hymns and spiritual songs Singing grace in your heart to the Lord. Okay, and we took a little scripture, which is efficient step of five Efficient set of fire and versus 18 onwards And do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation But be filled with the spirit Speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord giving thanks always for all things to God the Father In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ submitting to one another in the fear of God, right? So two things like one we see the peace of God being filled With the peace of God having the word of God dwell in us richly, right? And then we hear we see being filled with the spirit of God being filled with the Holy Spirit so we see that We are actually called to live life in an overflow right peace of God Overflows Does something to us in us and does a lot of things To others the word of God dwell in us richly like rich deposit of the word of God So I've got those things to us, you know increases faith There's conviction. There's a standard for living, etc. That's something to us and and then there is a overflow like you're singing in Psalms and singing hymns and Admonition and all that same with the Spirit of God we're filled with the Spirit of God and and then Because of the Spirit of God, you know what we've been studying all that happens to us and there is a overflow, okay So we see that we are called to live life in the in an overflow overflow of peace overflow of the word of God overflow of the Holy Spirit, okay But first we need to receive and then we will overflow, okay, but we are invited to this We are called to this. Okay, so let's pray and let's pray God. Let me overflow. I Want to overflow With the peace that surpasses all understanding. I want to overflow with your word Which you write upon my heart. I want to overflow with the work of your spirit So fill me oh God, you know, so just ask the Lord and we'll let's receive from him, right? In your own words in your heart just pray and ask the Lord You fill me Lord. You grant me your peace You grant me oh God that I be filled with your peace your peace which goes beyond my understanding Goes over and above my understanding so that in all circumstances in all situations God that I will have that assurance of your supernatural peace the kind of peace that The Lord Jesus says you know my peace I give to you Right the kind of peace that allowed him to sleep in the midst of the storm Right, he was in that boat, but he can't that kind of peace and the Lord Jesus says my peace I give to you, you know the kind of peace that I have I give to you So let's just receive and say Lord. Yes Your supernatural peace Lord we receive God Thank you. Thank you Lord And we also see that the fruit of the Holy Spirit One of the things that we see is peace Right the supernatural peace. It's a supernatural work of God The Holy Spirit in our heart which produces this kind of peace an overcoming peace a victorious peace Father we thank you. We thank you Lord we receive God and let's also ask the Lord Lord I want a rich deficit of your word a rich deficit of Reema God You speak to me you open my eyes Lord to see wonderful things from your word Lord. You said oh God Ask and you will receive and so God we ask in faith and we receive in faith Lord Lord even as you lead us as you reveal Lord your word to us May there always be a rich deficit of your word, you know Maybe maybe we can just posture ourselves, you know, bring us to a place of receiving Lean Unto him and say God you speak we listen Yes, Father God, we thank you. We thank you for revelation. We thank you for understanding Lord, we thank you God. We we just want to yield God to your writing your word upon our hearts God Yes, Father God Spirit of God write your word upon our hearts Thank you master. Thank you Lord. Yes Lord. Maybe make every Opportunity maybe take every opportunity. Maybe make use of this time God to position ourselves To receive your word Father God Lord We don't want to be stumbling blocks to others from receiving and we don't want to be bad as ourselves God don't want to put any barriers ourselves God For us receiving Everything of the flesh everything that hinders God. We put it away. We push it away from us God and Lord we ask for the infilling of your Holy Spirit fill us to overflowing God fill us God Yes master, thank you Thank you Lord and maybe overflow with all this God maybe overflow with your goodness Maybe overflow Lord with the work of your spirit So that it will be a blessing that we might be our lives will be a blessing to others. We thank you in Jesus name We pray Amen And then Okay, so today Let's talk about Again, let's continue to talk about the gifts that gifts of the spirit So we'll we'll start with them, you know just looking at When we when we look at the gifts of the spirit, of course We're going to look at one corgis 12 and we're going to look at each of those gifts How many gifts are lifted? I mean listed there One can then nine gifts, right? So we're going to look at each one of them Of course, we have already studied the gift of tongues, so we won't go into that But we're going to look at each one of those right but before that Let's look at You know the context, right? Why are we studying? You know about the gifts of the spirit. Why are we even considering this right? So if you look at the ministry of the Lord Okay, if you look at the ministry of the Lord, we see that it was a supernatural ministry We see all these things in operation We don't see gift of tongues and interpretation, but we see all the other Like, you know word of knowledge, word of wisdom We see healings, miracles, all those things in operation in the ministry of the Lord Jesus, right? And we are called to walk in His footsteps Okay, so We should not shy away From knowing and from pursuing, desiring And having these operate in our lives because that's God's will for us Yeah, sometimes, you know, when you think about it, it's like His desire for us to walk in these gifts Is more than our desire sometimes our desire Right for the gifts themselves Okay Let's look at a few scriptures some 105 Okay, some 105 Versus one to four Okay, some 105 versus one to four Okay, if you have the other the the book gifts of the spirit, you can follow that um I think um, yeah online students you have the You can download it's already there uploaded in resources. Um the resources tab um And all of you I think have it on your whatsapp, right? The soft copy the PDF gifts of the spirit um I think when you initially Um, I think the first week of the class or something Classes it was whatsapp. Okay, just check that out. So if you have probably if you have a class WhatsApp group you can forward it Yeah, gifts of the spirit, right if you have the PDF you can put it on the group Okay, so let's look at some 105 versus one to four says oh give thanks to the Lord call upon His name Make known His deeds among the people. Okay, so Give thanks to the Lord call upon His name seeking Him pursuing Him worshiping Him What does it say make known His deeds among the people like reaching out to people sharing About what good things he has done who he is etc. Sing to him sing psalms to him verse two talk of all his wondrous works Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord Okay, seek the Lord and his strength Seek his face evermore. Okay, so that's the exhortation. Okay seek the Lord presence of God Seek his face seek his face literally means the presence of God right who he is the character nature And his strength which talks about the power of God the expression of the power of God So we cannot You know, we cannot separate The presence of God Or the character the nature of God from the power of God Okay, many times we say that right Like even some songs actually say, you know, I don't seek your I only seek your face. I don't seek your hand I think there's a Popular song, you know in which that one line is there You don't seek your Hand we seek your face. I just want to know you which is which is good. Okay, the singer the song writer is just saying that You know, it's very sincerely saying I I really want you God really want your presence God But the fact is you cannot separate You know, you cannot separate the power of God from the presence of God is one in the same It's it's part of him who he is right Okay, so that's something that we see here. We are exhorted to seek him. Seek his face and his strength Okay, another scripture Psalm 111 Okay, if you want to go to Psalm 111 Versus one two three you can turn your bibles there Psalm 111 verse one Praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart In the assembly of the upright and in the congregation Okay, look at verse two the works of the Lord are great Studied by all who have pleasure in them. Okay, so what does it talk about talks about the works of the Lord? Okay Immediately Talks about it just flows into that the works of the Lord are great studied by all. What does it mean to study? To investigate to research to to examine. What do you say Rinshin? Observe To so to research to observe to examine with the intent of continuing in it Right with the intent of putting that into practice, you know that word there That is what it means. So the works of the Lord are great Studied by all who have pleasure in them His work is honorable and glorious And his righteousness endures forever. So his work Is it could be a work of creation? It could be his work of you know, all that you can say are his works Works of power works of creation works of transformation his works are great Right, and it says it's honorable and glorious and his righteousness endures forever. So everything that proceeds from the Lord the works of the Lord It's honorable It's gracious. I mean, it's glorious Right, so we can talk about everything when you when you look at the gifts of the spirit These are expressions of the Holy Spirit. These are the expressions of God Okay, so this is not just you know, sometimes it's Represented or misrepresented By sincere believers Right, so we say oh that that man of God that woman of God We we tend to put our focus on the person and miss out on actually the work of God And miss out in the sense, uh, we we put the focus there Right rather than the actual works of God themselves rather than God who needs to get the glory Yes, he uses us as human vessel. So so what happens is if that person You know makes a mistake if that person You know abuses the gifts Right, and then the thing is it causes a lot of damage. So people say, okay I don't want anything to do with this because it's if this is what the gift does or this is what The objective is I don't want anything to do with it. And so people stay away Stay away from the power of God thinking that okay, this is you know, this is not of God But whereas we see that this is what it is works of God are honorable They are glorious. I mean we look at all the gifts. Yes, this is what they are They are the expression of the Holy Spirit. They are a manifestation of the Holy Spirit Okay, so it's very very important. Okay, when we look at the ministry of the Lord Jesus We are we again see that the Lord taught some amazing things Right what he taught people said hey, where does this person get the wisdom? Where does this man get the wisdom? But he didn't just speak some wonderful things for them to hear He did some amazing things right people looked at the compassion people looked at the way he reached out and touched lepers You know people who were untouchable Of considered untouchable of those times he he reached out touched and and he you know, there's so much of compassion From coming from him. So people say, okay, this is a great life You know, so wonderful. It's so much of love so much forgiveness so much of compassion He's believe it all by the wisdom all by his character But it doesn't stop there Right, it goes on scripture goes on to say that he ministered in power He ministered in power because that's who God is his presence comes with the power. It's a whole package Right, so let's look at a few scriptures which talk about that look chapter 4 and verse 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee in the power of the spirit to Galilee look for was 14 And news of him went out throughout all the surrounding region now question Why did the news of him spread to all the surrounding region? Because of Okay, that's partly partly, right is sorry because of the Miracle, yeah, so his power was actually expressed right his power was expressed how In his ministry the way he reached out the way he touched people the way he All his miracles and supernatural things It was very plain for people to see so they could not help but talk about it Right, and we are talking about a time when there was no instant communication. There was no Direct messaging. There's no we're talking about a time when news of him spread Which means with word of mouth People would travel probably and go and say something's happening there Because this person is teaching wonderful things. This person is living a great life. This person is doing amazing things Right, okay, then when you look at acts chapter 10 and verse 38 again talks about the power of the spirit, okay Just want to remind us we're talking about we are learning about the gifts of the spirit and so we're looking at that context, okay um The background Acts chapter 10 verse 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power Who went about doing? good Right who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him Right, so he was anointed The the Lord was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power Okay, who went about doing good. So all that he did comes under the category of good So it's not okay. Maybe some are good. Maybe some are I don't know questionable No, it comes under the category of good all the things that he did So if you list down, okay, everything his teachings his miracles, it comes as good and approved Good and this is the purpose for which he was anointed. Okay So we see that the Lord did this We see right in the Psalms. We see that character the nature of God and and we as people who study him Who worship him? You know, we are supposed to take pleasure in actually studying The works of God. Okay, so we see that then another interesting thing in the teachings of the Lord Jesus the Lord You come So the Lord John chapter 14 and verse 12 the Lord turning around And telling his church selling telling his disciples Right. What did he say? John chapter 14 and verse 12. Let's read that verse John 14 and verse 12 most assuredly I say to you He who believes in me the works that I do he will do also And greater works than these he will do because I go to my Father Okay, so the Lord is telling his disciples say I know you've watched me do this do these things But this is my will Okay, this is my desire Okay, what is it That you who follow me you who believe in me in my words in my teachings in my life This is what this is what I want for you. Those who believe in me will do the works that I Do and he says because I go to my father and the reason is this because he goes to the father Who's he sending? The Holy Spirit Who is the helper? Right. He says that's what we see in the next verse, right? Or if you Yeah, verse 17 16 and 17 and I will pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever The spirit of truth whom the world cannot see so he's just saying okay this is what I'm go to the father and I will send the helper he will abide with you just like he abides with me and Do those good things Do those good things, right? Okay, so the Lord Jesus turn to the disciples Turn to those who are there right then and then this is what will happen And the church we see after the the Lord was you know, Lord ascended we see the church walking the same way he did Right. Yes or no. Yeah. So we see the apostles, you know, the It says in Acts chapter 4 verse 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness To the resurrection of the Lord Jesus So think about it with great power What does it mean? Yeah, so they gave witness to the resurrection. They said with their words they testified saying Jesus is alive Jesus is Lord You know, and we need to come to that place of repentance and we'll see new life. You must be born again So they're saying that with their words, but also they are giving witness with Another thing, you know, which which accompanies the words which is great power expression of great power, right? It's so it's not something that is Putting them glorifying them putting them on a pedestal but is actually glorifying God because it comes from God It is from him. It is it is very much part of him integral part of who he is And so we need to get that perspective and and say, God, this is from you and forget about, you know, all those abuses and maybe all those things that are going wrong with You know, maybe what we've seen in church and all that and and really embrace it and say, oh God, this is from you Jesus if this is from you then I want it help me to Walk in it because that's your plan that you will that you desire right, okay So we see the apostles Now this is about the apostles. It just says they gave witness to the resurrection with great power. Then we read about Stephen Acts chapter six and Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people Then we read about Philip Acts after eight Right unclean spirits crying out with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed and many who were paralyzed and lain were healed Right now at the verse before that says and the multitudes with one accord He did the things spoken by Philip or heard Listen obey the things that he taught hearing and seeing the miracles which he did Okay, and it also talks about others Their names are not written there, but they it says, you know, this particular verse um verse 20 of acts 11 acts chapter 11 and verse 20 um Even verse 19 now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen Traveled as far as Phoenicia Cyprus and Antioch. You know talks about those people who just scattered so many were there Okay, uh, so Philip was also one of them. So many who was news names were not written Right, so these were believers just like you and I They they were scattered. They went to all these different places And it says in verse 21 and the hand of the lord was with them and a great number believed and turned to the lord hand of the Lord the presence of the lord when you put your hand on someone and it's your Your presence your physical presence, you know, you're you're just Letting that person know you are there You're letting the person know about your presence like when you put your hand on someone, right? So the hand of the lord was upon them that that manifest tangible Presence of the lord was upon them and may believe and turn to the lord So we see that this is how they live the normal Christian life Okay, the normal christian life. So for us today It is the same thing It is the same thing that well when it comes to the supernatural, you know god the lord did not say, okay It is only going to be the early church and and anytime after that, you know, it's it's not going to be Some arguments are like this, you know, it's from 1 Corinthians Chapter 13, okay It says that for we know in part and we prophesy in part. Okay, let's look at that verse 1 corinthians 13 and verse 9 Okay, 1 corinthians 13 and verse 9 It says for we know in part and we prophesy in part one of the lists is there so we know something we all prophesy No, we can't know everything. But yes As we receive we prophesy we know in part we prophesy in part The next verse but when that which is perfect has come Then that which is in part will be done away with so what it means is that There's going to come a time when this prophesying in part will stop That that is what it means, right that which is in part will be done away with Meaning it is it's going to stop When when does it stop when that which is perfect has come so the popular thing? Or you know, I wouldn't say popular, you know, many believe that okay, it's talking about the word of god It's talking about the bible so during that time Well, it was all that a testament scriptures and then the bible was, you know the word of god just coming together and As paul and the other apostles wrote god used them to write the scriptures and And so here, you know people say that okay the word of god the bible has come we have the full bible Therefore, we don't need prophesying we don't need gifts So it time has come there was a time for that Yes, we believe in that But we believe that the time is not now. It's not with us. You know, it's not for us It's for that time or that age Now if you look at You know the verses following that we understand what is this Uh, you know that which is not or that which is perfect has come. What is it? What is paul actually talking about? Okay, let's look at verse 11 when I was a child. I spoke as a child understood as a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things For now we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face Now I know in part But then I shall know just as I also am known Okay, so he's saying he's contrasting between What is in part? What is incomplete? Or what does not reach the fullness and You know something else when when that was which is completely there. So he's saying okay now I know in part, but then I shall know fully That's what he means fully. I will know What is he saying? Now I see in a mirror, but then face to face. What is he talking about? You know, who is he talking about? He's talking about He's talking about the lord He's talking about meeting with the lord spending time with the lord and he's he's saying now and then face to face Now I just it's a glimpse now, you know as in a mirror I see something faint, but then I shall see face to face Right, so he's saying okay. This is what is happening now now I know in part and I prophesied part but when that happens, there's no need for prophesying There's no need for praying in tongues There's no need for word of knowledge word of wisdom because in the presence of the lord, right? There's no more You know Giving a word of prophecy because we are receiving comfort directly from the presence of God And there's no there's no more need to you know being edified because you are being edified directly in the presence of the lord There's no there's no more need for that. So he's saying okay. This is what will happen. So So that argument really doesn't hold good if we actually go through it, right? So there's no expiry date on the gifts Right And especially when we when we see that The eternal word the lord jesus Right, what does john chapter 1 say the word became Flesh and dwelt among us right the eternal word who became flesh And dwelt among us. How did he minister? He ministered as anointed by the holy spirit And he was anointed by the holy spirit. He and he went out doing good and healing all who were Who are you know oppressed by the enemy by satan by the enemy by the devil Because god was with him. So he talks about the anointing Of the holy spirit the presence and power of the holy spirit under which the lord ministered So if the eternal word which became flesh and dwelt among us Did those things that he did by the power of the holy spirit? How much more For us, you know the deep need for us to be Anointed by the spirit of god the need for us to minister The way he ministered the way he went Okay, so so those are some things that That those are some arguments, you know against the gifts or You know the power of god working through people's lives. The other thing is also The common thing is like, okay, what if we are deceived? Okay, so there is the counterfeit there is the you know, there is the authentic the real And also the counterfeit now, what if I You know get deceived and I go in these what what is called as the You know false works or counterfeit works The works of the enemy and you know, I'm just deceiving myself So that is another thing. So let's not let me not get into that Area at all. Let me just stay You know with the teaching and with the word and you not get into that aspect, okay You know, but but the thing is if you look at common wisdom And and the scriptures they use is this you know second those lunions two and verse nine The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan with all power signs and lying wonders Hey, the coming of the lawless one. So is saying say hey the church is walking in it. These are all lying wonders Because that's the coming of the lawless one That's it's all lying wonders second those lunions Sorry second the salonians two and verse nine Okay, and second confidence 11 also talks about the false apostles the deceitful workers Who transform themselves into, you know workers of Christ because Satan himself is like an angel of light He transforms himself into an angel of light. So therefore his ministers also do that So the thing is this We look at, you know, these two verses scriptures like this and say, okay, these are all counterfeit things. These are lying Works is the lying signs and wonders. So I don't want anything to do with that. Okay um But the thing is this, you know, if we if there is a counterfeit first of all It means that there is something Real or authentic If you're calling something as counterfeit, okay, this is all lying wonders This is duplicate, you know, when you say, okay, it is this watch. It's a duplicate watch. It's not Original. So what does it mean when you say something is a duplicate something is not You're actually saying there is something that is real Right, you say it's a counterfeit, uh, 500 rupees. No It's a duplicate one. It's not real. You're saying that there is an authentic Okay, so that's one thing the second thing is because There's something counterfeit. Would you throw out the authentic? Okay, just because people say, okay, you know, there is a counterfeit 500 rupees No, in circulation Does that mean that you will never use final rupees note at all in your life? You will not receive 500 rupees Right, so the counterfeit points to the fact that there's an authentic And there's no reason to throw out No, uh, the real just because there is the counterfeit Okay, and the third thing is this At yeah, we need to be discerning. We need to be wise but the fact is that We just continue with what is real what is authentic Okay, we see we see lying signs and wonders And you know the the miraculous as energized by the powers of darkness When we look at, you know, how moses Goes and he has his interaction in pharaoh in the in the king's court, right? So pharaoh's court so he goes there And he says okay The you know, this is why I calm god I am has sent me and you need to set the people free Right. I come to take my people so he The pharaoh calls his magicians and he's also there. He he throws the the you know, that's right. So he's throws the staff It becomes a snake And the court magicians also do the same thing Okay, so a couple of other things also, you know, they do the same thing but then beyond that they are not able to replicate like the river turns into Blood and all that they're not able to replicate and say and this is what they say, you know, if you if you look at um Yeah, if you look at exodus chapter eight Okay, exodus eight versus 18 to 19 okay Exodus eight 18 now the magicians so worked with their enchantments To bring forth lies They that insect but they could not so there were lies on man and beast Then the magicians said to pharaoh This is the finger of God But pharaoh's heart grew hard And he did not he just said the lord has said okay, so this is the thing Okay, so he put the staff down it turned into a snake the magicians put the staff down their rods He also turned to the snake. So did morse's stop? I think he must have been surprised, right? Oh, I didn't expect that I didn't think that these guys would also do it, right So Did he say okay now? Let's back up and go And then say okay lord different strategy lord. Maybe I should try something else now this signs and wonders is not working Right. They are also doing the same thing Moses continued Aaron and Moses and Aaron were there they continued on they did not stop As the lord actually was with them and led them They did not stop with the first and the second and the third they went beyond the third And then we see that The power of god was no match No comparison So much so it turned around to be a testimony where the magicians said to the king This is the finger of god This is the power of god Right and the lord jesus uses the same usage, you know Like the finger of god if I cast out Beelzebub by the finger of god Know that the kingdom of god has come upon you Referring to the work of the holy spirit the power of god. So we see that well There will be counterfeits There will be counterfeits. It just points to the original there will be counterfeits There's no reason to throw out the original because of the counterfeit there will be counterfeits, but The example that we see in scripture is to persist keep going Keep going because it's off the lord. It's from the lord And it glorifies him. So go for that Okay, so let's um So so this is a context and we see that everything is When you look at the power of god, first of all, we saw that yes We cannot just separate its part and parcel of him of who he is as a person Okay, um, you know, it'll be very insulting, you know, if people yeah people do that, right, you know people Let's say you are admired or appreciated for some quality Okay, some ability that you have okay, um, but if If he will continue to do that and not really Appreciate you as a person You know, it just takes after some time, you know, you you feel a little I don't know used Yes or no, you know You you know, you're just appreciated. You're just as a for your ability, you know, okay Oh this guy can I don't know this person can run fast Okay, so everybody and that's what happens in the world Okay, I one one day You know, they were all writing negative things about Virat Kohli. He's lost his farm. I mean anybody who watches cricket Or interested in cricket Okay, otherwise we'll change the story Only one, no Okay Vimal and Mikhil No Francis, okay, okay So, okay, let's say some other sport We'll forget cricket for now. Okay, some other sports You know people actually when you're not doing well when you're not informed when you're not The paper writes a lot of things, you know People write not of negative things. That's it. Is it the end of the career? You know, he used to be so good. This is over Suddenly you do do well and then it's like You Did it, you know king Virat, that's what the papers are saying All the memes are king Virat, did it again But you remember, you know in the t20 the The other series You're all writing things. You know, this is he's not informed. He's not he's probably preoccupied. He's kept a lot of things, right? So that's what happens People just focus on the ability and not on the other thing. So so sometimes we tend to do that you know, that's You know as as believers as the church And we tend to focus on the gifts. Yes, that is great. We need to do that Right, but I will in fact commands us pursue Love and desire spiritual gifts, right? But we need to understand that The gifts are the gifts belong to the holy spirit These are called the gifts of the spirit Right, so our responsibility is to have fellowship with the giver Right have communion with the the giver of these gifts while at the same time pursuing the power Or you know, desiring the manifestation of the gifts two things Right, we need to not lose that It's the same thing both sides of the same coin and that's why paul writes pursue love She's the character of god. No, you just talked about in one current in 13 the whole chapter about the agape The love of god the unconditional love of god and he says pursue love and desire spiritual gifts So our fellowship, you know, we need to pursue our fellowship with The holy spirit the person of the holy spirit right And and because he is the helper He is the our comforter. So we need to Now pursue our fellowship. What does fellowship mean? Anyone spend time fellowship What is the greek word for fellowship? It's a word called koinonia Right koinonia and greek word koinonia which refers to the communion, right? So it means fellowship It means friendship It also means partnership Okay so friendship Okay, so which means that you are friends. You're getting to know the heart of god. What likes what he likes what he dislikes Yeah, so there is in in developing that friendship. There's a lot of You know transparency openness a lot of communication a lot of spending time Okay Then fellowship which means this, you know, this it's much more than a casual friendship, but deep things Deep things are exchanged And also it is partnership which means That now working together. He's already doing something, but you're working together And we're not resisting the work. We're not quenching the work, but we are learning to work together Like when you look at koinonia, it's it's all that it's friendship. It's fellowship and it is partnership with the holy spirit. Okay, so so we we need to develop that we need to Intentionally pursue that right If we are to be believers who want to manifest the gifts of the spirit and pursue fellowship with the holy spirit He is a person like not just an abstract power Right. He is a person. We learned that in the very first chapter first few chapters that he is a person He has feelings is you know, he is god It's super see fellowship with the holy spirit. Okay, so waggle says that he's a helper He's so first you fellowship with the helper So, you know receive help. He gives grace. He gives strength So, you know, you receive that from him. He's also called a comforter received comfort. He brings encouragement He brings renewing He lives receive that he's the advocate Defense that god defend you let the holy spirit defend you Right. Um, and he's the intercessor. He enables us to pray. He's interceding for us He helps us on our weakness and so on. So he's the counselor. He has wisdom So many things that we see that he is That the holy spirit is Right, so we need to deepen our communion with the holy spirit Now there's a reason why we are spending time, you know talking about this Because we will get into the nuts and bolts of the gifts Okay, we will get into why this works how this works how to function in it and it'll be very very You know for use of a better word for want of a better word. I'm saying it'll be very technical So sometimes we think okay. Oh, it's like a formula. It's like a scientific method Well, the thing is it starts with fellowship It starts with intimacy And that is the foundation for the whole thing. You never forget that Like even when we look at okay, this is how you know, sometimes we talk about it, right when we perceive Like doing the supernatural hour. We talk about it. Okay. How you know, sometimes we heard, you know, many questions like Um, okay, what did you sense? right You say when you say, okay, god spoke Sometimes the question asked is what did you sense? How did you know? How did you receive? Was it a picture? What is it? Was it something impression? Was it a you know, something, you know, some questions are asked now and we get technical but the foundation is Friendship and fellowship and intimacy with god. Okay, that is always the foundation. Okay So that's the reason we are we're just reiterating over and over again. Well, it's it's it's the presence of god It is the because of fellowship with him that we need to pursue and that's foundational. That's um, you know, that's Yeah, that's foundational While we get into the details, right of the gifts and so develop our relationship. So how do I do that? I talk to him Talk to him. Enjoy his presence Yeah Let's talk to him. Enjoy his presence. Okay, many times we Yeah, we we go read the bible because we want to prepare we read the bible because we want to we have to study um For something maybe we read the bible because we and as students I'm saying, you know, we Uh, maybe there's an assignment that you need to complete There's a paper that you need to write and you know We read the bible for all quiz that you need to prepare for we read the bible for all that but You know, can we talk to him? Can we enjoy his presence? right, so there's no agenda, you know when you meet with friends and uh, you know, I remember um, you know talking to some friends and There's no agenda. It's like, okay first We're going to talk about this talk about this. No We're just, you know, this is a free-wheeling chat in and before you before long you realize I'm two hours three hours I've gone and you know, that's what happens, right? Like I don't know. I was just having lunch with some friends So you're just talking or we finished service and everything locked everything Bent had lunch. So we're talking talking talking till the food arrived food arrived. We're talking still talking And then food, you know, everything we paid the bill. We went down We went to our vehicles and then we are standing there and we are talking Okay, and then and I'm still talking and then people got into the car and said, okay I think we need to let them, you know, we'll send one signal at least by then now they will stop At least now they'll stop talking and then you know, we'll send them some so they got into the car They took my they took the key got into the car. They were sitting and then we are still talking Right. So you lose track of time Right. So So we are invited to that To that aspect of friendship Right. So, um, I think today is just reminded that god is inviting us to that place of friendship Yes, he's a holy god. Yes. He's a consuming fire. Yes. He dwells in unapproachable light who's made himself You know, he's made the way for us to approach him because of the shed blood of christ Yes, you know, he's a god of justice and all that But also he's the most approachable awesome god who's inviting us for intimacy and friendship Right. Okay, so we'll stop here And and then we'll continue. We'll take a break and then we'll go