 Okay online students welcome back welcome back everybody for online students can we can I schedule assessment one For next Thursday October 6th. Is that okay with all of you? Is that fine online students? It will be multiple choice questions also maybe a few fill in the blanks true and false for 25 marks and You know on the book fulfilling God's purpose for your life The full book. So is it okay with all of you? But all of you there And I have some responses Okay, only one student says yes, we'll wait for the others. Okay Okay, thank you Arilla and Prabhu. Thank you Nina Okay, we'll begin class and then maybe we'll discuss towards the end of the class. Okay, so we were looking at the how the Holy Spirit Reveals guides us in the things of our life How we when we journey through life as to the inner witness and we saw eight different ways How the Holy Spirit reveals through the inner witness and we also See how the Holy Spirit, you know reveals Or directs and leads us and guides us through the You know his voice, okay, so the first one is the inner voice of the Holy Spirit Okay, and also we can hear the audible voice of the Holy Spirit, okay, so in the audible voice It's you know, it's where when we're hearing The the voice of the Holy Spirit it comes as though it's a natural Voice, okay, and others cannot hear it But you can hear it for example Samuel Okay, when young Samuel, you know, he heard the audible voice of the Lord and it was true You know, it was as though Eli was Calling him right so every time God called him Samuel Samuel. He thought he heard it as a Man's voice. He thought was Eli the priest was calling him so he ran You know, I think three times he runs to Eli and then Eli tells him next time you hear the voice say here Speak God your servant is listening. Okay, and so when he says that You know God speaks to him and tells him. Okay, what is going to happen? So we see that, you know, many of the prophets as well They heard the audible voice of the Holy Spirit Ezekiel, you know often states said that you know, I heard a voice of one Speaking okay, so which means he heard the audible voice of God so God can speak in any ways to the inner witness to all the eight methods that we saw He can even you know over that eight methods He can use his own creative ways of speaking to us He can also speak to us through the inner voice Where we just hear the words, but we don't hear the voice or we can even hear the audible voice of the Holy Spirit we can hear the as if to say, you know A person is speaking to us very clearly it will come through to the voice. Okay In these days it is rare Yes, maybe but we can't say that it is rare because We don't know there are many people who would be hearing the audible voice of the Holy Spirit But we sometimes They're not able to discern whether it is inner voice or whether it's an it's an audible voice So for example, when I was standing on stage and I heard years For me it could even it could you know, I knew it was an inner voice now because I've studied it But you know, it was like as soon as somebody was standing right there and speaking to my ear You know like that So we don't know sometimes we can always assume that it's an inner voice and it's not the audible voice of the Holy Spirit of course the audible voice the Holy Spirit is clear is distinctive is stronger And people You know can still hear it. So I can't say that's very rare Like in the Old Testament spoke to the prophets Yes But only through the prophets but these days, you know, it's not just the prophets, but it's Even those who believe and put their faith and trust in him So we can't really say how rare it is Okay The next one the way the Holy Spirit speaks to us the voice of prophecy Okay, we're not going to look at it in this chapter, but we're going to study it in detail I look at one whole chapter About it We'll just look at how the Holy Spirit also speaks to collective witness Okay, he does not just speak to one person, but he will reveal the same thing to uh The others as well in a team or to a church or to a group of people or to Leaders, okay So multiple people at the same time the Holy Spirit can hear either it comes through inner witness Or the inaudible voice of the Holy Spirit or the audible voice of the Holy Spirit and this can help because you know Together as a husband or wife of both of them hearing the same thing the children are hearing They receive the confirmation to go ahead sometimes even in the church, you know the the pastor the leaders of the church They all want to come to an anonymous decision about something the Holy Spirit can speak and witness to Everybody and everyone say yes, you know, I'm in agreement. It just really helps It just also shows that this is what the Holy Spirit really wants us to do This is what God really wants us to do. So let's look at some collective Witnesses the way the Holy Spirit can speak simultaneously to different people, okay The first example is in Acts chapter 13 verses one to three Here we see five leaders who were in prayer were praying and who were fasting and You know ministering to the Lord together and what happens the Holy Spirit tells them gives them clear instruction to all five Okay, what does he say set apart for me Barnabas and Saul Okay, how do we know that every all five of them got it because there was no debating You know, somebody didn't say, okay. No, we not Saul will send somebody else Not Barnabas will send somebody else, you know, but there was unanimous decision on that Let's look at another example of collective witness uh, you know in act chapter 15 when Uh, you know it act chapter 15 records for us the first council at Jerusalem When all the apostles and leaders all of them matched together Uh, you know, it was a big conference of leaders and And apostles and even Paul and Barnabas joined them And there was going to be a big debate about whether the Gentiles who come in who become believers Should they also follow the Jewish rituals the Jewish rituals of the kind of food to eat Circumcision the sign of the covenant should they keep it? So the Jews were imposing it upon the Gentiles when they become believers and come to church You know and be part of church So they were having this big council and they were going to discuss but the Because the Holy Spirit knows that there's going to be a big division about this If Paul is going to say it's not necessary The other apostles who are Jews are saying no it is necessary and also saying that you know the Uh, the the Gentiles can't uh, you know be baptized in the Holy Spirit But Peter already had an experience. Okay, so there'll be a big debate, you know So for that, you know not to cause any division and to have that unity It's it says here in verse 28 for it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you No greater burden than is necessary Things so they actually just decided everything in the council. They're bringing a conclusion They're drawing a conclusion. So they're writing to the Gentiles and the Jews in the churches and saying Hey, it's not necessary mandatory for you to be circumcised Uh for you to follow the Jewish way of eating, uh, you know and all of those things And all you need and have to do it Why because it's because you're saying it's the Holy Spirit It seemed good to the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit revealed it to all of them collectively, okay Don't impose this on the uh Gentiles and also they also felt it. So there is their own thing But it also uh, it was collective because it was to the You know the Holy Spirit witness to them and then like uh when Rin asked the question I gave you the example of Acts chapter 16 right Paul and his team were traveling towards Galatia. They do ministry from there They want to go to Asia, but the Holy Spirit tells them wants them don't go to Asia Okay, and then they go to mice here and from mice said they want to go to bitinia But the Holy Spirit says don't go to bitinia. He wants them. He he does not permit them So, you know, uh, they passed by mice. They came to Taurus and then, you know, paul to see Receives a vision there. He sees a man from Macedonia You know come in his vision and say come over to Macedonia and Help us and now, you know paul is telling Has to reveal this to his team right here. I got this vision. I have to go The Holy Spirit is telling me to go to Macedonia and when he says this, you know, what happens, uh, you know, um Now after he had seen this vision immediately He sought to go to man Macedonia concluding the law that called us to preach the gospel to them So he and his team set out to Macedonia. They have no arguments No, I don't think it's Macedonia. Nobody says that but it's also maybe It doesn't mention here, but maybe all of the rest of the team would also have a confirmation or an inner witness of the Holy Spirit So sometimes when the Holy Spirit wants to reveal things to us, he can reveal it to the The the the senior pastor and also can reveal it to junior pastors or to the leaders or the elders in the church Or if you're working together as a husband and wife team Then, you know, he can reveal it to both of you or if you're working together as a team You know, you're heading the worship team or the youth team or the youth pastor children's church pastor You have some people who help you and you say, hey, this is what god is telling me to do And you know, you can ask them to pray and the Holy Spirit can confirm to them And then you know this when everybody the series. Yes We also receive it. We feel it. We sense it. The Holy Spirit has actually been speaking to me as well Then, you know, it's the Holy Spirit leading you and guiding but there is no unity Then you can always go back and check So one way of checking whether the inner witness of the Holy Spirit is also through this collective method when you want to do something collectively as a group and You and one more person is agreeing But the other four of them are saying we don't feel in our hearts The spirit is not conforming to us. Then you can always go back to the Holy Spirit and Ask him and ask for a confirmation. Okay. So any questions about lesson five The voice of the Holy Spirit The inner voice the collective voice the audible voice of the Holy Spirit any questions Any questions from our online students Okay There are no questions and we'll move on to chapter six A very interesting gifts of the Holy Spirit Okay Okay, gives you the Holy Spirit is ways to which the Holy Spirit Ministers true us to minister to others Okay, so it's basically the Holy Spirit ministering in each one of us So that we can minister to others so we can you know share what God is releasing in our hearts in our spirits What he wants to say to someone else? Okay So we see that through this gifts of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit reveals the plans The purposes and the ideas of God to us. Okay, so we look at We will not be looking at all the gifts of the Holy Spirit We'll just be looking at Few of them Okay But we will see how the Holy Spirit works Through us. So I I'm sure all of you will receive word of wisdom word of knowledge Desirning of spirits prophecies, but you don't know this. This is this But today you can know what each one of them is. Okay. Now the first one is personal use of tongue and interpretation Okay, can somebody read first Corinthians chapter 14 verse two Okay, thank you. So here we see that When we speak in tongues, we do not speak the language of Men but it's a language of the Spirit it's what the spirit puts into us spirit man. Okay We may not be able to understand it, but God understands it the Holy Spirit understands it So when you're speaking in tongues, we are speaking mysteries Which we really don't know which we don't understand But which the Holy Spirit knows and it's accordance to what God's will is And it's the Holy Spirit revealing the mind and the heart of God to our spirit And when we are praying we can you know the Holy Spirit This mysteries can the Holy Spirit can reveal that in reality to us give us answers to our problems solution to our problems Guidance help us to what to choose what not to choose. So that is why it's important for us to pray often in tongues. Okay, because when we pray in tongues It's mysteries, but we are praying in accordance to the will and the purpose of God and you know, uh, the Holy Spirit knows it God knows it and when you know, it's released the Holy Spirit puts it in us and we release it It's something that we can't understand and articulate with our own minds But the Holy Spirit will help us to know what is the answer Okay, so speaking in tongues Is can be mysteries we are praying. You know what is mysteries? Yes, you know, what is mysteries? Hidden things something that we really don't know which is hidden which is not we don't know But you know, when we pray this it helps us as for our benefit, okay, but when we interpret these spoken tongues sometimes, you know These tongues can be interpreted. Sometimes it's not interpreted Okay, but even if it's not interpreted you're personally praying for your own self You're pressing in in prayer The Holy Spirit can reveal the answer in your spirit man, even though you're speaking mysteries But sometimes these tongues can be interpreted so when you're especially in the context of A corporate setting or you know a church setting or a bible study group or worship time, you know When all of us are praying in tongues, we just pray but you know specifically sometimes the Holy Spirit can Help tell the leader to You know pray in tongues And he he or somebody else in the congregation will receive the interpretation Okay, he or somebody else can receive the interpretation. So sometimes it's happened that you know when people specifically when pastors preachers and you know, when they are when they're preaching and reading the Holy Spirit will say now Speak in tongues. So when they speak in tongues, it can be a language Which they have never learned which they have never spoken in their life They will speak that language but that language will be understood by somebody in the Crowd. Okay, for example, I'll give you an example that really happened You know pastor finished preaching and then he was you know He was just praying and then the suddenly the Holy Spirit asked him to pray in tongues So he started speaking in tongues. He thought he was speaking in tongues But he was speaking in a tribal language Okay, he was speaking in a tribal language and in the in that audience in the congregation There was a a mother whose daughter who was a missionary in In some in a tribal area And this was a language of the tribal area and so this lady she had learned because she was staying with the daughter for some time She learned the language and her daughter was on her deathbed. She was actually very sick and dying So there was no way to bring her back because it was a very remote place and her mother didn't know what to do She was crying out to the Lord and so The Holy Spirit led this pastor to speak in tongues. He was actually speaking in the tribal language He didn't know and but this was being clearly communicated to the Lady in the the mother and she was listening and the Holy Spirit was telling it through this pastor that don't worry about your daughter You know, she was she was on a dead bed, but you know, I have healer. I touched her and went to restore her She's not going to die and this lady starts screaming and shouting and crying and you know Then after that they call her up in front and she Testifies another time, you know, I read where a pastor was preaching and teaching and suddenly he led Fell led to speak in tongues and he when he's speaking in tongues He speaks actually, uh, I think Hebrew Aramaic He doesn't know and there's a Jewish person in the audience a Jew was not a believer and this pastor when he was speaking in tongues He was actually telling the whole gospel message And then this person Felt so convicted in his heart and he accepted the Jewish person accepted the Lord Jesus. Nobody else could understand It was Hebrew Aramaic, I think You know, nobody else could understand only this pastor was speaking He thought he was speaking in tongues, but somebody in the audience could understand so sometimes it can be Languages Chinese Korean whatever we don't know but The Holy Spirit can just lead us to speak and to be very very clear to somebody else in the audience Sometimes it can be gibberish, you know, like we mostly we speak in tongues, but God can give an interpretation to somebody Else, okay So, you know when when you need answers guidance or you're going through a problem You feel commented in your spirit and a mind the best thing to do is to speak in tongues Okay, when you speak in tongues, the Holy Spirit will speak to You okay, and you will hear clearly from God. So pastors testifies that any time he has a problem Uh, any time he has to make a decision with a smaller big You know, he'll just go to his room close the door He just starts playing in tongues and he just receives the answers the solution to the problem He's facing and what decision he needs to Make okay, because when we pray in tongues the Holy Spirit enables us To pray accordance to God's will his plan and purpose And they're actually praying God's answer to those situations and the problems that we Go to okay, and then the spirit man will be able to understand and Dissern what the Holy Spirit is telling us Um Okay, so um, you know When when you are praying in tongues God can also use other ways to communicate his message You can receive a word You know from scripture passage a quickening word you can even hear an inner voice you can even receive visions and Dreams like Peter the Peter was hungry, but he was what was he doing? He was praying And as he was praying he sees this He fell into a trance. He sees this and the Holy Spirit revealed something about You know, what he needs to do in the future. Okay. The other thing is word of knowledge Okay, now these are some things that We experience Sean you're busy writing something Some assignment or something busy looking down and writing something Okay, are you I want you to listen carefully because this is something very important. Okay So we're going to look at the word of knowledge that we receive You know during your prayer time supernatural time or in your church, you know, you can So what is this word of knowledge now this word of knowledge is something that God gives to us supernatural It's not from our own understanding and knowledge. So suppose you're praying for somebody suppose I'm praying for Rin Maybe I know all about Rin. I know all the problems. I'm she's facing so I can pray that is to my Knowledge, but the Holy Spirit can give us something very specific that I don't know about that person Can reveal something very specific? Okay Now don't get frightened the Holy Spirit will never reveal any sin or bad thing that you're doing or indulging in okay It can be in a very in a very nice way. The Holy Spirit can reveal things But you know, he will not say, okay, this person is indulging in pornography or something But the Holy Spirit can say there is some sin that is hindering the answer in this person's life So you can just say hey, I just sense that, you know, the Holy Spirit is saying there is some sin You know it you can confess it to God and you can just leave them. Okay, don't want to embarrass them So, you know the these are supernatural ways that we receive. It's not through our old Knowledge and it's a word of knowledge. That means we don't get a full paragraph full page full book Okay, we just get one word or we get two three words or we get just one phrase or a Sentence now. How does this word of knowledge really help? What does it do? Uh, you know, it helps to let the individual know that God actually loves them Knows them person just imagine if you're telling a person, I just sense God is telling you That you know The pain in your leg in your ankle is because of the accident that you had Three years back. They're going to be shocked. How did you know that? How did you know I have a pain in my ankle and it had an accident Three years back and you know and they're saying yeah, you know because uh, it's so much of pain I'm not able to walk not able to do this and you know, all they are going to the sun is not How anointed you are that's not what they're going to be thinking all they're going to be thinking is You know, God knows that pain that I'm going through. He's concerned. He loves me so much Okay, it also informs us word of knowledge also informs us about what God is going to do in our lives I'm going to give you example Examples, uh, I'll give you some examples, but you know what God is going to do about in your life You know about what healing is going to bring about, uh, you know, he's going to reveal the condition The of your body, um, you know and that God is going to heal you Okay, he's also going to reveal real problems and situations that you are going through in your life Maybe in the past that is hindering your present will hinder your future How you need to resolve that how you need to heal that Okay, he's also going to reveal events in people's life and the actions that they have to take in the present Okay, in the near future. What are the actions that they need to take and much more? So let me give you some examples Now sol king sol before he became king. He went around looking for his father's Anyone knows what was he looking donkeys I was looking for his father's donkeys as many days he's been searching for it Then finally they're not able to look find it and he tells his Uh, his You know the one who's serving to comes along with him. We are really not able to find it What do we do? We can't go and tell father we couldn't find it So the servant tells him there's a seer. There's a prophet will go to him And so they go to samuel and before they even tell samuel the The prophet their problem samuel the prophet in first samuel chapter nine verse 20 says You know as for your donkeys, you know, that's a lost three days ago They're looking for it for three days, you know, don't be anxious about them. They have been found Now, how did he solve no, I mean samuel know that sol was looking for donkeys He did not tell him and how did he know it was lost three days ago all through the word of Knowledge, so this is something about the past that has happened, but it's connected to our Present that is the word of knowledge. Now, for example, elisha and his servant gehazi Now naiman comes to elisha naiman who is the syrian commander he comes to elisha for For healing and elisha doesn't meet him but sends his word to gehazi tells him go tell him Naiman to dip himself seven times in the jordan river and he will be well, okay, so And then you know Naiman he's not interested. He said there are better rivers in our place But you know this is one why he's serving tells him the prophet tells you to do it. Just do it It's no harm just going and dipping yourself seven times and the seventh time when he dips himself He comes out this, you know, he love his leprosy. His skin is all restored Then he's so excited. He wants to go back to elisha and give him all the gold The clothing the money everything that he's brought so he goes back And then you know gehazi comes in tells elisha that that man, you know, the syrian commander has come back so Elisha says go and ask him why he's back. So he says I want to give all of these gifts So he's a elisha says no god has told me not to take it from you. You can go back on your way And so he goes back now gehazi is saying what a foolish master I have You know, he could have taken all his gold silver and clothing and all that and he's he's so greedy He runs behind Maaman and then they see him says a doesn't that look like gehazi the servant of elisha So stop stop and you know, they ask him what they want and he says, you know, some some people have come to my house So can you give me some clothing sets of clothing and so they give him the clothing and the silver and all he takes it Put it in this house and he comes back Doesn't tell elisha but elisha knows through the word of Knowledge and he says the same leprosy that caught maaman. You will also Have okay Another word of knowledge is, you know, um The syrian king is planning to attack the israelites and all his strategies The king of israel knows even before he's Implementing the strategy. So the king of syria is so angry. He says he's asking all his officers Who is against me who is not for me? But for the king of israelite the king of israel. So one of his, um, uh, you know, his Officer says it's none of us. But it's one of the prophets elisha who can Actually hear everything that you are speaking here in syria and he is going and informing to the king So it was to the word of knowledge that the holy spirit was revealing everything that the syrian king was actually planning to attack the Israelite so that the israelites can be saved. Okay. Now if you look it in the new testament some examples The samaritan woman jesus at the well, you know, he tells a samaritan woman. What? you're married to uh five husbands Or seven and the one that you are with now is not your husband Yeah, so he says, you know, uh, she says I have no husband And jesus tells her that you have said well, I have no husband for you've had five husbands The one you're living with is not your husband. So how does he know that he has five husbands? It's not jesus is not god. He was not omnipresent omniscient and omnipresent He gave up everything filipines to chapter chapter two. We read that he emptied himself So it is to the word of Knowledge, okay Now even when uh, jesus was going to enter jerusalem to the donkey on a donkey What does he tell his disciples in root chapter 19 go to the you know, go ahead? uh Going up to jerusalem and they came up to beth phage and bethany And they came to the mount of all of it and then he sent two of his disciples saying going to the village opposite you And you'll find a donkey tied there and you just untie the donkey the master asks you where you're taking it Just say that it is for the the lord needs it Okay, so how does jesus know that opposite mount all of it? There is a village where there is a donkey tied How does this man when they go to him and say the lord needs it? How does he know that who's the lord he can question who is this lord? Just let's it go. Maybe he's also received the word of Wisdom, okay, peter, you know with peter and ananias and saffera early church Ananias and saffera, you know that right how this this This husband and wife they sell their property and they come and You know they they receive this uh, the peter says is this all the money that you have Got while selling this property and his wife says yes And then she falls down dead because she's light to the holy spirit and then later on his You know ananias comes and he also dies. How does peter know that this is not all the money they got for the land is to the word of knowledge, okay, so There are many numerous examples I'm sure some of you also have had examples when you've heard Word of knowledge Which is talking about some these paths and connecting it to the future some Decision that they need to make so once I was just praying and suddenly it was a very unusual thing That's why I'm telling you, you know the holy spirit told me to tell one person in our children's church team Who was part of our children's church team? It's a very quiet person doesn't talk to anybody. Nobody knows anything much about his life go tell this person that he should not buy He was planning to buy that high-end bike. I forget it's Harley Davidson The Harley Davidson bike, you know the like the bullet bikes Tell him not to buy that to buy I don't know. What is the other one which starts with e they're forgotten now Not avenger something And feel something you know some specific thing the holy spirit told me So then I just what's happened told, you know the holy I think I'm just sensing the holy spirit is telling me You know you had to buy this bike He was shocked. How do you know I'm going to buy a bike? I said, I didn't know you're going to buy a bike And then how did you know I'm going to buy a bike? I don't know I'm going to buy a bike anyway You never did I tell you no you never told me because he's somebody who never reveals anything about any aspect about his life You never told me that it's just the holy spirit telling me that you have to buy this bike He says, you know, I was actually going to buy this Hardy Davidson And because the holy spirit is telling you that you know, I need to get not I've already paid the initial payment for that But I will go cancel it and I will buy this because this is what the holy spirit is saying So I didn't know it just very funny, you know, it came out very finally And that you know, the holy spirit can just give us a word of wisdom just help guide people what they are Happening in their present But sometimes it can all the holy spirit can bring about something that has happened in their past And also related to their present. Okay. The next one is the word of Wisdom, okay, the word of wisdom also comes to us super naturally. It's not through our own wisdom It comes on the holy spirit. So the word of wisdom is we get Again, just a word of phrase or a Sentence not a whole page or a book Or a booklet for somebody or for your own life Now this word of wisdom is to solve a problem Somebody's going through a problem that the holy spirit will give you a word of wisdom that will have them solve the problem It also have them what give them What action they need to take Or what is coming up in the future what they need to do It can also be a release of the artistic scientific intelligent expression About what god wants them to do and many more. Now, for example, you know, there was a man of god who died His name was dinakaran paul dinakaran I think his name was paul dinakaran. His son's name is um I don't know djs dinakaran His son's name. I think is paul. So Whatever, you know djs dinakaran, he actually was he You know manifested all the nine gifts of the spirit You know, he used to flow mightily in all the nine gifts of the spirit But he got the gifts of the spirit after seven years of praying and just you know praying and praying and praying so one day when he was Gone to this town to minister to them the couple came They were having a church in Mumbai city and um, you know So this couple's relative was attending this meeting and he met paul dinakaran djs dinakaran. He didn't Then he or djs dinakaran knew this couple who were ministering in Mumbai So when he met this relative of theirs, he said, how are they doing? How is that church? So this relative said the church has not been growing You know, they're not seeing any growth in the church Uh, so, you know, they're pretty disappointed and you know djs dinakaran after he went back after the meeting He went back to his hotel room, you know where he was staying and he he prays and in his praying He receives a word of wisdom for this couple. So the next day he meets this their relative and tells them to tell this couple that, you know, um They're supposed to start healing meetings in that church healing meetings in that church and You know, uh, not to doubt god And you know, the the couple might be wondering what if nobody's getting healed, you know, it'll it'll backfire Nobody will come dating all this false propaganda and these people are just trying to bring us in the church So says don't worry about all of those things. Just tell them to advertise send out You know, you know brochures Handbills invite people to the church say there's going to healing meetings are going to happen And you know, the couple just did it and uh, you know, people were healed and their church began to Grow, you know, their church began to grow. So how did uh, you know, he just received it through a word of Wisdom, okay? So the word of wisdom is basically how to solve a problem What cause of action to take what is coming up in the future for example, uh in the old testament Uh, what is some of the words of wisdom that people have received joseph? You know joseph and daniel they interpreted the dream of the For the king joseph even told the king what to do the seven years of plenty that is coming. He said store everything You know, and so that you know seven years of Famine you can use that grin and and and it really helped it saved the lives of so many not only in egypt But rounding surrounding nations were also going through Going through a famine, okay We also see david david was a musician He was a skillful shepherd a skillful, uh, you know in music playing the harp But you know, uh, god gave him the design of the temple He was not an architect God gave him to word of wisdom design of the temple and he actually explains everything to his son Solomon who builds the temple and how does he know it through the word of wisdom Okay, uh in the new testament we see a word of wisdom come the wisemen You know the wisemen found baby jesus and they were warned not to go back And tell her it but to go on a different way We also see word of wisdom come to joseph when he was warned in a dream You know By an angel in a dream to go to Egypt Okay, because uh, you know, there was danger that was coming up for the child and his mother So took takes the child and the mother and jesus and mary and goes to Egypt, okay We also saw an example in act chapter 16 where you know, uh, the holy spirit told To a dream sends a man from macedonia and the man tells him, please come to macedonia We need your help that was also through a word of wisdom. Okay So we also can receive words of wisdom that we can Speak into people's life regarding their future where god wants them to do where god wants them to go what god wants them to Do okay, so we looked at word of wisdom We looked at word of knowledge Another way the holy spirit guides us is through the discerning of spirits Okay, uh, actually the discerning of spirits helps us to see into the spiritual Rem And also into the hearts of people now sometimes people can come Very nicely to you and speak to you but in their hearts. They have some wicked plans and schemes Okay So through the discerning of spirits, we can actually know what is the real intentions of people's hearts and minds And sometimes when people in our team are doing something, you know, we can do the discerning of the spirit We can know whether they're doing is the leading of the holy spirit or through the leading of the demon demonic Spirits, okay So we let's look at an example the discerning of spirits. Uh, I already gave you an example for matthew chapter 16 remember peter You know peter said you are The Christ of the messiah the son of god And immediately after this this will not happen to you. You will not go. You will not die Okay, so the first thing was revealed to him by His father the second thing was revealed to him by He spoke through demonic Um interference But jesus was able to clearly discern through the discern the gift of the discerning of spirits Hey first time peter said it you said it through the Revelation from the father the second time it was true demonic spirits and so he rebukes the demon demonic Uh spirit, okay, so let's just look at a few more examples of discerning of The gift of discerning of spirits Okay, uh, basically discerning of spirits is to determine What is of god and what is not of god? Okay To discern the spirits the motives and intents of the People okay, whether it is god led or spirit led or flesh led or they're doing it to some demonic leading Okay, it's also one, you know when discerning of spirits. We can also see in the spiritual realm we can see angels You know, uh, what god what god is doing so sometimes god can show you over the city. They can be darkness Or you can see how the demon is kind of holding on to people So or if you're praying for somebody and they have you know some sickness you can easily discern the sickness is not from God, you know, I mean no sickness is from god, you know, it's not natural but it is demonic Okay, I'll give you an example When pastor was praying He was he was leading a three-day convention in a city and they bought a person who was You know bought a person who was Uh had cancer The first day he prayed nothing happened, you know, the second day he prayed nothing happened Uh, and this person would become so weak that you can't find the differences skin and bones You know the mattress and in no difference The third day when this pastor really Went into prayer. He suddenly felt he was in a spiritual realm Okay, everything was darkness around him It was just he and this person who had cancer was standing And there was this kind of lifted up and then he sees a very, you know, a very Evil-looking small creature just holding on to the tumor. There was a tumor in this person's body This holding on to the tumor the person was that that was so evil so dark and then this This preacher this pastor knew that this person's tumor is because of demonic oppression Okay, so what the pastor does does is rebukes the demon and ask them to ask the demon to leave suddenly that You know, when he rebukes it in the name of Jesus, he just feels and sees this evil Black thing just fall down and wine cry like a puppy small puppy And so the evil spirit says should I leave this place and go says yes You'll leave this place right now and then he Suddenly he sees that, you know, both of them have come down into again They're able to see themselves here in that in the natural environment And then he sees his evil spirit just run through and exit out of the Door, okay, so how did this pastor know that this? This person's tumor was caused because of demonic thing because he suddenly was, you know Went into the spiritual realm he was able to see and discern discern means knowing things In the spirit and he was able to see the You know Things that was happening there and the spirit was revealing to him that this tumor of this cancer was because of demonic Oppression, okay, uh once I just feeling severe pain in my shoulder and in my arms and it was a time when we were going to start in June You know school outreach ministry, you know, and I was just feeling immense pain and then, you know, the person who prayed for me Sense that, you know, it was it was some oppression that was just oppressing that that part because shoulders is something You know, you shoulder responsibility as a leader. You're shielding the responsibility Even when you carry things you carry it on your Shoulder even oxen and all day they put that thing the yoke on the shoulder of the The cattle, okay, so that is base of responsibility or carrying a responsibility So it was they just feel that, you know, the enemy was just kind of oppressing me and they just pressed Prayed and there was a sudden Release, okay, so you can sense things to the discerning of the spirit. Okay Let me give you some example Now in we see in Luke chapter 13 When jesus was speaking in the synagogue He sees a woman who's bent over that means, you know, she's not able to stand up. She's just totally bent down Okay, and she doesn't come to jesus and ask him for healing when jesus sees her And he calls her up in front And he casts out the he rebukes the spirit of infirmity Okay, because he knew what was causing that bending was not something natural but was caused by a Demon and when he casts out the spirit of infirmity The spirit that was causing there's a demon that was causing the sickness. She was able to stand up Straight right and able to walk, you know, healed and Whole okay, so Even when we read in luke chapter 22 Jesus is seeing Having full knowledge about what is going to happen to Simon Peter So he says in luke chapter 22 verses 31 and 32 He says Simon Simon indeed satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail And when you have returned to me strengthen your brethren, so Jesus is already able to see in a spirit rem What's what satan is going to do to simon peter and he's already prayed that his faith will be strengthened And he will strengthen other people's Faith, okay, so that is how that is the leading of the or discerning or the gift of the holy spirit, okay um So we just looked at three of the gifts Through how the holy spirit You know Helps us and guides us in our everyday life word of wisdom word of knowledge and discerning of spirits Okay, anyone has any questions? Yes, you can take the mic please and ask Any questions from our online students before we go into question time? since I think most of you said it's okay that we have our first assessment on Next Thursday, so online students, please note Your first assessment will be Next Thursday. I will post it by 505 30 p.m Isd in the google classroom google form And you'll have to submit it on on friday by 5 30 okay, and It will be um Multiple choice questions. I can even include a few Fill in the blanks and Or maybe two and falls as well But please note that if you make if there are three right options if you make even one wrong option You know, you will lose the entire mark for that question Now you can say that's not fair, but you know because it's an open book Um, that is how we can uh Since you have the book in front of you you can just at your own space You can answer the questions. I think this is the the right way to Do it. This is how that you know, we've been doing following this procedure So, um, I just wanted to let you know about that so that you can be aware of it and uh Yeah, it's a the whole book of uh fulfilling god's purpose for your life the entire book Yes now for your questions Anyone has any questions? Yes uh in word of knowledge when uh When we are going When we go for some people and when we go for some people like Uh, you told like a god will uh give them a word of knowledge about the past About what they are going through and all uh Can god also like a holy spirit also reveal uh some personal info things like phone password like that Oh, no, no password their passwords their bank accounts Yeah, phone pattern like In some videos I saw like they are some people who are coming and giving their phones and they are praying and opening their phone passwords Maybe god can give because um like, you know, I also heard and testimony of how one lady, um, you know, she she had zero You know amount in her bank balance and she had to take up a house of children And she were living in somebody else's house in one room We're all teenage kids three of them husband and wife and there was a house They got for rent very cheap And that owner is very nice waited for two months and he just gave them one week's time And says god you need to do something. I don't know anything. She just goes to the bank to check and that day the bank, you know, there was This was not working. It was a Saturday The the systems were down. It was not working But everyone left the line. She was there and it just she says a bit printer barely printed You know what was uh their account and she was saying she was surprised to see that it was 15 000 rupees Was the advance she had to pay she says nobody other than her knew her account number Not even her children not even her husband. So she says this is this is god So maybe even god can just to divine the sun can just give somebody the account number and Wipe of that memory also again because knows that this person not going to misuse Just put 15 000 into her account, which is the right amount for her and the lady was so excited She started running back from the bank to tell her children the good news And then she realized oh, I have to go and get the money because today's half a day She runs back the bank takes the amount pays it She invites me to the house and she testifies about god's goodness. So yeah, how did the person know the bank account? You never know, you know so yes Okay, uh, any other questions anyone has it's time, but uh, yeah, just a quick question. I have to go to my next class Yes, Sean It's actually about the inner witness of the holy spirit So when you talk about like any impression that will make it active Will that also include like a person getting a message to Set to getting a person getting a message or like a given the word of god Sorry, you can get the inner witness of a message for no when In order for the inner witness to become active like you say it needs like certain impressions can I can can someone else's like message of like what of god like Message also may become impression for that person to activate is our inner spirit Oh somebody speaking a message and can that be like an inner voice? Yes, it can be like for me. I went to church that day. I was very burden saying god, you know What do I do? Do I go to bible college or not and the preacher said you can't serve god and Mammon can't serve god and money at the same time And that came as a reama word and god was speaking you have to make a choice Choose either secular or choose ministry and I made it and I knew what god is telling me and I I made a choice. Yeah through the inner witness the holy spirit And ma'am I want to ask about the exam like we're having one okay That is the exam is just for the in-person students. So I'll just disconnect and then you can ask Okay, thank you all for joining class and have a good weekend. God bless all of you. I'll see you next Friday. Thank you