 Hey, good morning everyone welcome to a new week trust everything's going well with each one of you Let's begin this time with a word of prayer Maybe one of us can please lead in prayer before we begin Yes, go ahead. Go ahead Father we come to the throne of grace Lord. Thank you for this day as you have Well as Lord as we are going to start this day with learning from your world of Lord Lord give us knowledge and give us your guidance Lord Lord We need the Holy Spirit Lord because in Proverbs 1 7 it is written Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge Lord. Give us your fear and Lord give us your understanding so that we can understand each and everything Each and every concept which is being taught by Sir or Lord in Jesus name We ask everything when lots people say Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much Sid Okay, so let's begin with our class today So last week we completed on the evangelist, right? So we look at It's wonderful aspects of being the evangelist Jesus as our example. We looked at how Evangelism was in the early church Right. I mean look at a lot of examples as well How in the early church God called out people to be evangelists to Bring out and share the gospel with With this, you know with cities and nations and nations. So And then we looked at how in the early church There was a restoration of the ministry of the evangelist, right? So there were there was a time and phase during the dark ages when Everything was just stopped, right? There was no ministry There was no preachers. There was no word But there was a restoration God restored it back and and we looked at a few examples as well post the dark ages how God brought people and raised up people you know to to really bring the gospel out and we saw that restoration What restoration simply means something that was dead is being brought back to life, right? And God used wonderful wonderful men of God You know George Whitfield John and Charles Wesley and the list goes on great John G. Lake and such wonderful men of God who You know had the heart of an evangelist and they went and they reached out and many of them also to the point of You know losing their lives for the sake of the gospel and it's such a joy to learn all of this and You know like I mentioned last week do take time to You know probably choose somebody That you would like to study on it could be anybody and spend time on you know Reading and learning from their lives, right now. I want to make sure that I share this, you know Men as men and women we we will fall like we will fail in certain areas of our life But that's why we you know the the topics everywhere you see Jesus as our evangelist as our you know example So in whatever we do, right? Oh, you know, we should keep Jesus as our example Right, we learn from people, but Jesus is the one who we can look up to Finally we want to be like him right and so it's wonderful that You know, I hope not sure how many of you here want to be full-time evangelists But I hope you know, this this has really struck your heart and you know, this encourages you to Reach out and do the work in the ministry of the evangelists, right? So we will move from this any questions Before we go to the next part of this course, which is Ministry of the teacher Any questions? Okay. All right, so let's go into chapter 6 if you have your notes with you chapter 6 the teacher and Jesus as our example Now I'm going to ask you a question. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say teacher, right? just naturally right Normally, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say teacher? Maybe some of us can share When I say the word teacher, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? School school. Yeah, that's right. Thank you, John. What else? What else? When you say teacher, what is it? What is it that comes to your mind? So it is go ahead Rosalind. Sorry. I didn't get that strict discipline strict and disciplined, okay, what else? Zellie said some somebody educated Somebody who's very educated. Okay, Tobega says a facilitator a trainer Educator and a guide Okay, Jafina says a picture of my favorite teacher. Okay Yes, anybody else? Yeah, go ahead said So when we talk about teacher, it is like a secondary parent to a person who is like who will guide us teach them and mentor them Yeah, thank you. Thank you said. Yeah a secondary teacher. Okay All right That's all right. That's all all wonderful. Zellie says a mentor, right? Okay, so the first thing that comes to my mind when I say teacher is just like what John said is school Because it is I'm sure all of us have gone to school Right and we have different kinds of teachers right teachers who You know who are strict different styles of teaching Right there are you know if you see like five different teachers if you think of five different teachers in your school All of them would have had a different sense in their teaching or all of them would have had different Styles of teaching right or some of them would have loved stories Some of them would have just you know stuck to the teaching material and those are the ones which are kind of boring and You know, you have those who will explain something and then slowly bring in what they want to talk about And so like this we have different kinds of teachers But today we're going to be talking about Jesus as our example of a teacher Sid says a teacher plays an important role in a person's life after parents. Yes, because you know If you're thinking about school or college we spend most of our days most of the hours of our day in school in college and you know It's where we learn everything and that's why you know as a parent I want to make sure that my child is in a good school Right so that the teachers train them there's character building and it shapes a person Right now. We know that the scripture teaches us that Jesus was a wonderful teacher right Did he go to any school of you know learning? We don't know right. We know that he was what he was just trained by the Holy Spirit but What you know, I remember that portion in scriptures where Jesus was you know teaching the people and the Pharisees came and said Where did this guy? Who's this person? You know speaking with such wisdom with such authority. Where did he go and learn? Where did he get his learning from? Right now before we go into this let me just give you a little bit of a background Right now during Jesus's time All through the Old Testament now there were scribes, right? So what would the scribes do they were scribes would sit and make copies of the Bible, right? So of whatever scriptures it was so they would they would make copies Ezra was a scribe Nehemiah also took up, you know portions of writing now over time right for that you know when when During the time of Elijah there was a school of prophets meaning there was people who had come to learn about prophecy Now in a day and age that we are and we have so many tools, right? To learn the prophetic and to learn so many things from the scriptures, but doing that time itself Right, Elijah's time. You remember though. There were people who did not bow I think it was 500 odd prophets who did not bow to Ahab and the idols of Israel at that time and What were they doing? They were all studying about prophetic so over the years what happened was there were Establishments or we can say schools that were formed and by the time the during the during Jesus's time There were many Teachings right like we are in Bible college now There were many places where people were teaching about the scripture teaching about the Old Testament teaching about Judaism There was teachings about you know the sacrifices and all like you know like how we are learning there were a lot of a lot of teaching and We know this because even apostle Paul says he was studied under Gamaliel so he went he studied under Gamaliel he learned about Judaism and he you know That's why he was able to you know Understand so many things about God So this whole thing of schools was not something Uncommon during Jesus's time only thing they were Called a school right, but there was teaching sessions. There were people who were you know learning the word of God so Now the people are asking Jesus Where did you learn your did he go to any kind of teaching? So what they would usually do is the Pharisees were in charge of you know building people right? So they would equip the people they were in charge of the Sacrifices the Levitical offerings all of those things they were in charge the Sadducees were in charge of You know the the legal matters Right the Sanhedrin they would go and sit there and make sure that you know as Jews everything is going on right if people had a problem They would you know sit together and and they were like lawyers right so so you've got these two kinds of people and They are wondering Where did Jesus get this wisdom from? Right, which means what? He was speaking something that was new to the Pharisees and the Sadducees Right, it's they didn't hear it They didn't this is the first time somebody speaking with such knowledge with such wisdom They asked how how is it this man knows so much? Right and we know that you know Jesus was trained by the Holy Spirit But let's look at the teacher and how Jesus Said a beautiful example for us As being the most amazing teacher Now some of us may in our you know here may say okay. I'm not a teacher I'm a pastor or I'm I've just called to be a prophet or I'm called to be a worship leader Right and we looked at it last week right the Holy Spirit can give us different opportunities he can take us and You know open doors for us in places where we may not be a comfortable with And and and he helps us to do better than what we are doing right now So we never put God in a box and say okay, this is what I am There will come a time Each one of you will teach the word of God to people Now the settings could be different, right? Some of you may be teaching in Bible college Some of you may be just teaching in a life group or a small group setting some of you may be teaching in the church and It could be in you know, just teaching or mentoring one person, but all of us will be taking up this role as a teacher and So as a teacher it's very important to understand and know what we are saying Right now for example, you know How many of you just opening up this question, you know You sit in a class and the teacher is speaking and you know that teacher has not prepared We can make out right at times Right, we can at least I can I mean if I'm sitting in a class You know many times we sit sometimes we sit for you know sessions or and if there is some somebody who's teaching or preaching Right, and and we're looking at them We can we can identify whether they are prepared or not It's the body language. It's the authority. It's how they are speaking How how is their sentence construction everything? Right? So Especially a teacher can identify another teacher, right? But I think most of us can we can when we are looking at somebody and we see that that person has you know is teaching We can know. Okay. Hey, this person has prepared this person. I think is not not prepared much You know and yeah confidence of speech. Yeah, thank you said so all of this matters. So Let's look at Jesus. Let's look at a few examples and See how Jesus? exemplified this whole aspect of being a teacher, right? There's a lot of verses there. Let's just pick up a few, right? So if all of you have your Bibles open, that'll be helpful. So we can just you know quickly look at Maybe five six chat verses from here Matthew chapter 4 verse 23 Any one of us can read that and Matthew 9 35 somebody else can read Let's go ahead Matthew chapter 4 verse 23 Matthew chapter 4 verse 23 and Jesus went about all Galilee Teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people Yeah, yeah, thank you Rosalind. Yeah, anybody else 9 35 Matthew 9 35 Matthew chapter 9 verses 35 Jesus went through all the town and villages teaching in the synagogues Reaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness Yeah, thank you said so we see Such a wonderful like in both the places we see something common now. They're not at the same place, right? This is a pattern that Jesus followed Matthew 4 23 it says Jesus went throughout Galilee Teaching in their synagogues One is teaching right to is preaching and 3 is demonstration of the power and the Holy Spirit, right now By this we must understand there's a difference between teaching and preaching Right, there is a difference now. I'm sure all of us have got opportunities to teach and preach How many of us Can say teaching is easier than preaching or preaching is easier than teaching? Maybe any of you can share how many of us feel confident in teaching and how many of us feel confident in preaching Can somebody share any of you? This one will leave it open so that we can you know this discuss is very interesting. I would like to hear your thoughts as well on this Said what do you think about teaching and preaching? What is the difference? Like what do you feel? So yeah Because like a person is teaching he's more like Sometimes in church, we feel like Something and some people might be get offended but teaching is a kind of a simple way Meaning like when Jesus used to teach he used to use parables which people can relate easily Yeah, that's that's nice. Thank you for sharing said John says He thinks teaching is easier. Okay Anybody else? Yes, Loubega. Go ahead To me, I think I teacher basically deals with the intellectual need of the learners and When it comes to preaching it really deals with the spiritual need of those who are listening to you Okay. Yeah, that that's nice. That's nice. It's a nice Thought there Loubega. Thank you so much. Yeah teaching is more of the intellectual and Preaching is more spiritual is what you feel. Okay anybody else Like to share What what do you think now for example? I'll say okay Matthew chapter 4 the temptation of Jesus Christ, right? So that whole episode you talk about, you know, I'll give you an option. You have to teach it and preach it Right. So which one do you think is going to be easier teaching it or preaching it? What what you feel now? It's not like, you know, the reason I'm asking this is not to you know Confuse you or say okay preaching is better and teaching is more difficult or vice versa what I'm trying to get at is just to hear your thoughts on You know, how it is to be Prepared as a teacher So yes, go ahead anybody. Yes Loubega I'm sorry to say this but They look like all of us the same thing in different ways but To me as since I've been a teacher for almost in our 20 years I know and I've preached sometimes but a teacher needs to prepare more he goes into detail He he's like a doctor. He needs to put on his Go into details yet preachers usually pass over they just pass When you're like preaching but when it comes to teaching you might even go one by let me put it this way When if you're going to talk about a given passage in in the preaching you're going to take a passage as a whole But as the teacher you will likely go to pass through word by word over Yeah, I've asked make sure that people really understand what's in behind. Thank you pastor Yeah, that was perfect. Thank you so much Loubega You know, the beggars got experience as a teacher for 20 years and he said it right I think even I echo what Loubega saying I think Teaching right it it's got to deal with more preparation Right now. I remember This is an example. You know, I have preached in many places right my early days. I used to preach. I have no problem Suddenly somewhere in the year 2013 or 14 I Was asked to teach in the Bible college. So this you know this course Now all of a sudden Everything changes Right, I can't preach I have to teach like how Loubega said I need the microscope I need to go into God's word and I need to see what is the word saying Right. So for example temptation of Jesus Christ, we can preach it, right? It's wonderful, right now Remember this is the word of God it whether we teach it preach it. It has power, right? But if you're teaching preaching about the temptation of Jesus Christ, you can say, you know after baptism God took What the father he took Jesus there and you know, the enemy is always there. He even tried to attack You know, so we can get people stirred up and courage people and that's wonderful, right? But I'm teaching you can't do that Because you need to get into the word you need to really see what is happening there Right Well, after baptism, he's gone into temptation. So we need to think okay as teachers So after baptism after we surrender our lives to God the enemy will come Right, he will bring temptations and then you go in deep. Okay. Jesus is giving a response to the devil Where are these responses from is it his own thinking? No, because the Bible says in in response Jesus is saying it is written So, where is it written? Now a teacher will go back and check. Okay, you're trying to me. It's has all those responses Right. So I think as a teacher We have to be able to spend a lot of time in God's word and this is what Jesus did What did he do? He went throughout Galilee Teaching Right, so he said okay. This is what the scriptures did probably he went to Moses He said this is what happened that Moses went in do you think God was not so he's teaching them the scriptures He's teaching them about Isaiah, right? Remember he goes into the temple He opens the scrolls and he finds the place where it is written the spirit of the Lord is upon me But now it's easy, right? We open Isaiah. Okay, open the book of Isaiah, but then he had to find the place And he found the place and he read The the the worst spirit of the Lord is upon me now For teaching it's obvious that Jesus would have prepared himself Because he's the best teacher Know where he would have, you know, just Gone half-heartedly and thought because he's going to the synagogues Now he's not he was not intimidated by the Sadducees the Pharisees, but he knew that what he teaches Must go through their hearts It they must be able to understand it I think that is also a very important part of a teacher It's not about our eloquence of speech and how we speak our style or all of those things But we must make sure that the people who are listening to us is able to understand What we are teaching, right? And Jesus did that First thing he did was he thought That's interesting. No, why didn't Jesus go? Form the miracle and then teach and preach. Why didn't he do that? Why didn't Jesus, you know, just do the miracle and okay? Okay, God is healed you know do well in all you do and just go back home No There was a reason he taught them Teaching and Teaching the Word of God really goes deep into our spirit Right, there are times we may forget many sermons of preaching But teaching is something that really stays inside us Right and Jesus did that. He taught from the Word of God He taught the people The Israelites remember it's 400 years of silence John the Baptist has come He's baptizing people The baptism of repentance and now Jesus has come now. It's like these people 400 years. They don't know anything Like 400 years. They don't know what is the probably the feast of the tabernacles They don't know about you know the levitical offerings. They don't know about Moses. They don't know about anything that's happening About sin Why we must be faithful to God? They're just living their life So Jesus realized that I need to teach them first. I Can't just be going about doing miracles Because people will come take the mirror receive the miracles and go But it's the Word of God that needs to be a seed in their heart Right because 400 years Right. I think about this one generation has gone second generation has gone Third generation has gone. I'm doing what my father is doing. What my father is doing nothing. So I'm also doing nothing I'm just working providing for my family all they say is go once in a year and give some blood of the lamb Give it to the temple and the priest will throw it. I don't know why they're doing it But they said do it. So do it. So what's happened? It's become a ritual and now the Lord Jesus is trying to teach them Now I'm just giving an example, right? It's not like he's teaching only the offerings, but I'm just giving you that example right And your Rosalind says preaching is what to do Teaching is how to do that what to do. Okay, that's nice Rosalind. Thank you Right, teaching is what to do teaching is how to do that right and so This must be our Example as well our model that we say, okay, let me teach the Word of God Then preach and Then follow that up with science miracles and wonders Right now some of us may be saying but I don't know much. I don't know what to teach Listen, the Holy Spirit is our teacher. It is wonderful that you all have joined this and course and there is many You know things online as well so much available online But if the Holy Spirit is your teacher He will bring forth ways and methods to teach That will impact people's lives Right and Jesus did that He did not go to any, you know, learned Pharisee or Sadducee sit under them and learn. No Holy Spirit Right and what is the encouragement that you and I have it is the same Holy Spirit That worked in Jesus that's working in us Right, so let's look at a few more verses Luke. Sorry Mark chapter 4 verse 1 I know there may be repetitions, but let's read that Mark chapter 4 was one anyone else can read Mark 1 21 and 22 Mark chapter 4 and verses 1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into the boat and sat in It out the lake While all the people were along the shore at the water's edge Yeah, thank you, Sid anyone else can read Mark 1 21 and 22 Mark 1 21 and 22 Mark 1 21 and 22 and they went into Capernaum and straightway on the sabotee He entered into the synagogue and taught and they were astonished at his doctrine For he taught them as one that had authority and not as a scrubs You see that That's a wonderful verse there for the first one we read Mark 4 1 and again Jesus began to teach by the lake And the crowd was so much that Jesus got into the boat And he began to teach them Now Why was the crowd so much? They came to listen to Jesus There was something in his teaching that attracted people And we look at you know some of the ways and methods that Jesus or the nature of Jesus's teaching But there was something that crowds came to listen to his teaching Right, uh, the next was we read Mark 1 21 and 22 He went into the synagogue and taught the people and the Sadducees were astonished They were surprised what kind of teaching is this How is this man teaching this way? and he's not But he's talking in authority Right, who's this man? You know, and I think a few chapters later it goes on they say isn't he the carpenter's son Where did he get his learning from? Right, so the nature of Christ's teaching method, right, let's look at those points One of the principal features of Christ's teaching was authority Right Matthew chapter seven verse nine. I think we already read quite a few verses, but let's read that Matthew seven and nine Seven and verse nine Yes, anybody can read Matthew chapter seven and verses nine Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a stone Or if or if he asked for a fish will give him a snake Hmm now this is talking about judging others, right actually much previous own previous to this Uh, the woman was caught with adultery and they wanted to stone her right to death. Remember that I think it was chapter five before a couple of chapters before and Jesus got this opportunity and he began to teach them Why are you judging other people? And this is in response to that even he says if any of you Have you know you have a child. What does it say to him? Sorry verse nine The witch of you if your son asks for a bread will give him a stone Or a snake Nobody is going to do that Right, so you see here Jesus is speaking in such authority He's telling them. Hey You are judging other people Right, you're you're saying okay. This woman was caught in adultery. Moses said kill him But who are you to judge them? How can you judge this person That I have forgiven Now if your son or your child you see the wisdom see the authority he's speaking if your son or your child Does something wrong and comes back to you. Will you forgive them? Or if they ask for bread will you give them a stone or a snake? What would you do so the answer was obviously not I'm not going to judge my own son or my own daughter But I'm going to bring correction in a loving manner plenty of other places as well I love the the event that happened You know, they try to trap Jesus in the book of luke. They said to Jesus okay, Jesus We are paying taxes to the roman government and now these tax collectors are here They are the worst people to have lived To be living right now because you're taking our hard-earned money And giving it to the roman government as tax Now you tell me should we pay taxes or no? And and you see the authority you Jesus is not like okay. You come back to me tomorrow. I'll just think about it and tell you Immediately There was authority in his teaching. He says hey, give me a coin. Whose face do you see on it? Pilots so give to Sorry Caesar give the Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God. There was authority in his speech Think about the examples that he used on faith And he said hey if you have faith as a mustard seed, you can move these mountains Right now, I'm sure they would have had so many questions. God Jesus. What are you talking? How how would I have faith as a mustard seed is the smallest of all the seeds now if I have say You know faith as a mustard seed, how can I move the mountain? Look at that mountain. How big it is And look at me. I'm just a speck of dust in front of that mountain But they did not understand what Jesus was trying to say He spoke in authority Right. There was this authority and also when we see his You know, we talked about that also at previous classes how the Lord Jesus when he went about demons recognized his authority People recognized his authority And here's one interesting thing that interesting fact that I read during Jesus's time It was mostly people who were Pharisees Who would were allowed to go and read from the scriptures Like mostly it was And Jesus went there with authority because he knew what he was teaching He knew that his teaching is not from here, but it's of heaven Right. So when you and I teach with authority We are Basically standing on not our own ability And oh, I've prepared for one hour So when I teach this half in our session I know I'll do well No, we're standing on the authority of God's word Say God, I have done my part of preparing But you reveal your power That is the authority that is there in the word of God Even as it is released, let it touch people's lives That then be transformed That is what that's how Jesus did it. He thought he preached and after that there were signs, miracles and wonders So you and I must expect it Right, even as we teach it's not like, okay. Oh one session over. No Right. Oh, okay. Which is the next session? Who's next? Okay, which fastest class is next that should not be our attitude Right. Our attitude should be God. I'm gonna sit And maybe if if you all you will get an opportunity to teach your attitude should be You should not have the attitude of saying, you know, oh, when will this bible call is get over When are the semester breaks? Don't have that attitude be excited Right. Uh, last week we ended with, you know, characteristic of an evangelist I think it is for everybody maintain a passion for God's word and maintain a passion for souls Right. So we have to do that. Right. We have to Speak in authority now. How can we speak in authority? It's because We have to prepare. Well, we should know what the word of God is We must know that the word of God carries the power And what it's capable of doing then you can speak in authority Right everyone with me Yes Okay, okay. So another feature second one another feature of Christ method Was his love for people Now this is a very interesting thing, right authority and love Is very difficult to put together No, usually we when we say authority, what is the first thing you can own leader? a strict somebody who has power But I thought of teaching there was authority, but it was out of love Right and and and without love If we if we are preaching in authority and we don't love the people we're teaching Preaching whatever and we don't love the people. We don't want to see their lives transform It's just going to be a show right now for example You know if I have thought this whole semester Right, I've done my best spoken of the authority, but if I don't if I have a you know grudge against Any of you as a student I cannot expect the word of God to You know minister to you much because I mean, you know, you get what I'm saying the I'm not Operating out of love But here's important right Jesus operated out of love right The love of Christ The love of Jesus You know remember this right many places he thought Then what did Jesus do? I love that, you know that episode where the lepers Jesus is going towards the Mary or the lepers come And this leper comes and says God Lord God if you are willing You can cleanse me He was moved Every time I read that I am moved because you see this leper Was not supposed to be outside his territory But he came out searching for Jesus and Jesus knew What was happening right Jesus could have said hey You're a leper, no you should not be out of your you have a leper's territory outside of the city Go back there. I You know, he doesn't say all of that He doesn't say, you know, you are a sinner this leprosy has come because of your sins Maybe your father your grandfather your generation all sinners You're all worship worshiping idols and now you're ended up in this. I don't want to come near you also You don't see all that right? What does he say? Out of love he says I am willing I'm willing to do this Remember the example of the parable of the lost son I always picture this when I read it imagine. I was sitting in that crowd Listening to the Lord Jesus Like I always say right when you read your bible imagine Don't let it be something that we're just reading and imagine it picture it in your mind So I always picture. Okay. Jesus is teaching There are people who are lost in their life They've lost their loved ones or they have no identity. They don't know what they're doing in life They're living in sin. They're fearful God is you know, they know about God, but they're not able to you know, fulfill the law of God They're broken. They are hurt inside And now Jesus is teaching And he's talking about the parable of the lost son Picture this Right The son he's he's just explaining the whole story There's so much of love in that story Right That you know, I'm sure I'm sure that many of them would have turned back to God after that sermon Right after that wonderful teaching said so much so how much more your father in heaven But when you call back call on to him will he not Come back will he not accept you the way you are You see that teaching out of love Now Jesus does not teach and say okay, you all You know, why are you all behind me? You're all you know, you're all lost first go read The book of Isaiah read the book of you know, read about Elijah and Moses and all of them And then you come at least get some background and come no No, you don't do that He teaches out of love right and Many places it is because of that Love that he has brought so many people heal so many people restored people Right, so remember this when we are teaching as leaders Learn to love the person that you are You know, they may have many faults They may have many failures Right, they may not be On par with you meaning Your understanding of the word may be very high Right, you still love them You lower yourself to their level Right, don't say oh, you don't know this Ten years you're a believer or you don't know this. What is this? Right, you don't know what is so so this is No, you don't have to condemn But the ministry of the holy spirit is the ministry of love and power That is not condemnation And Jesus did this beautifully a third one his Teaching was characterized with wisdom Right now we looked at this last last Chapters was where last sessions What is wisdom? Can everybody say tell me what is wisdom? What do you think is wisdom? Yes, what is wisdom? Yes, Louvega Wisdom is Is the intersection between between knowledge and the And and experience Oh, that's nice. Okay. Is the intercession between knowledge and experience wonderful. Yes Intersection intersection. Yes intersection. Yes Intersection between knowledge and Experience. Wow, wonderful. Anybody else? What is what is wisdom? Anybody else? What is wisdom? I'm sure all of us have heard of wisdom Samuel, sorry, uh, king saw king Solomon asked for wisdom Right, and he was known as the most wise man Uh, but what do you think is wisdom? Wisdom is application of knowledge Okay, uh, I'll just uh, Rosalind, if you don't mind, I'll just rephrase that Right. Wisdom is the application of correct knowledge Okay, okay Or, or wisdom is the correct application of knowledge Right, so that's wonderful. Thank you, Rosalind. Anybody else? Right. How many of us want wisdom? All of us Right All of us want wisdom. Why? Why do we need wisdom? I just I can just know Genesis to You know revelations know about these deep truths of the word of God No, and just be the best teacher, but why do I need wisdom? And I think to answer that question Uh, Lupega and Rosalind gave perfect beautiful, uh, explanations of what Wisdom is it is the intersection between knowledge and experience now wisdom is also gained through experience Right. It's not You know, usually they say no when your hair turns gray, you're full of wisdom No, you can have full of gray hair and have zero wisdom Right. It's got nothing to do with wisdom right So wisdom is about applying the knowledge in the right way Right And wisdom is also learning through life experiences Okay, Abu Bakr says wisdom is a quality of having experience knowledge and good judgment wonderful Right Now Jesus characterizes teaching with wisdom Right. There was experience There was appropriate use of the knowledge that he had Right, and he had sound judgment And again, there are plenty of places where the Lord Jesus spoke with such wisdom Right You know, sometimes when you think of his sayings, we feel God, Lord, why didn't you just say it in the normal way? But there was wisdom in that before Abraham was I am I said, okay, get rid of this guy How can he be before Abraham? Abraham is hundreds of years before What is he talking about? right and you know, he They wanted to get rid of they wanted to kill him there Right, and then he again goes on to say in another place. He says before this Yeah, previous to this is the, you know, uh Uh, I'm the true temple. Is that what he says? Yeah, he says, right? Uh, destroy this temple in Uh, three days and I will destroy this temple. I will rebuild it on three days Again full of wisdom Right But they never got it and the Pharisees and Sadducees By thinking this guy is foolish And here's a beautiful part the are foolishness Well, you know, when we are usually when we are teaching and preaching the word of God, we may look foolish But what we are doing is we are talking Of the wisdom of God. We are talking the wisdom of the cross Uh, so when people look at us, hey, what is he talking? So foolish But knows the wisdom of God Now we must also and I can give you plenty of examples. Maybe after the break I'll give you a couple of examples of how these great leaders Because of you know, they knew everything. I mean, it's so powerful in the word and teaching preaching everything Because of lack of wisdom The whole ministry some zero Their life was totally, you know Gone because no sound judgment no wisdom Knowledge it's there. It's still there. They know everything No wisdom, right? We'll come back. We'll take a 10 minute break come back And we'll give you a couple of examples and we'll go and study on christ Parables, right? Let's take a break. We'll be back. Thank you