 Right. Good morning everyone. Good morning to those who are online as well. Alright, so let's pick up from where we started last week, the last class. Last class we looked at the introduction of the 5-fold ministry. We saw that the ministry gift is a divine call. It is not a choice that we have. And usually when God calls us, it's aligning to our gifts that He places in us. And very importantly, we looked at this Ephesians 4, 11 through 16. We saw why the Lord Jesus has the 5-fold ministry. It's not so that we can be called pastor or prophet or apostle or get fame or all of that. But He goes on to say that He says, for the perfecting of the saints, so that the saints can do the work of the ministry which will build up the board twice. So we looked at the first chapter and before I go ahead to the second chapter, I just wanted to make a mention of this. Now there are two things. One is there is a difference between ministry function and a ministry gift. So there are two aspects here. We must understand this. There is a ministry function and a ministry gift. Now what is a ministry function? For example, all of us can evangelize. We don't have to wait for the tag of being an evangelist. All of us can evangelize. All of us can flow in the prophetic. All of us can pray for sick people, the working of miracles. All of us can walk in a greater measure of faith. And this is the ministry function. All believers. But then the ministry gift is usually assigned. God gives it to that person where they flow more. The anointing is more towards that gift. You got it? Did you understand? Let me give you an example. Who is the greatest evangelist? Billy Graham? So there is a difference between when Billy Graham evangelizes and preaches the gospel. And there will be a difference when we do it. Why? Because he is flowing in the ministry gift. Now then you will also see the prophetic. There will be people who will be prophetic every time. By nature they are very prophetic. But then you have some believers who every once in three months can prophesy. So nothing wrong in that. It's only that there is a ministry function and there is a ministry gift. Everyone understood? So now when you are flowing in the gifts, don't think about, is this a ministry function or is this a ministry gift? It doesn't matter. As long as you are serving, you are doing it for what? For the building of the saints, a coping of the church. So always remember this. Let's go to chapter 2. The evangelist and Jesus as our example. Now, even as we go ahead, we will set Jesus as our example in all of these three portions. The evangelist, pastor and teacher. So first one is the evangelist. Did the Lord Jesus evangelize? We see that he did a lot of traveling, but he didn't travel more than 150 miles away from his hometown. But he did a lot of traveling, a lot of evangelism. So the Greek word for evangelism, evangel means to proclaim the good news. Let's read Romans 116. Romans 116 is familiar verse. Any one of us can read. Romans chapter 1 and verse 16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. So what is the primary responsible of an evangelist? The primary responsibility is to minister the gospel, to reach out. But the mindset now is that evangelist is somebody who has these big meetings and only go to different cities have these meetings. That's not only the mindset. We need to come out of that. We can be somebody who is doing ministry in our cities, in our towns, villages. We are an evangelist. When you see the Lord Jesus, when he started off his ministry, he started off with less people. He chose 12. He was there with them. He went to a few places. He went to Judea. He went to the neighboring cities and towns, sharing the gospel. Over time, only after maybe 8, 10 months was when the 100 started coming. After a year, it was thousands. So it was not all of us started. Just like Jesus, even our responsibility is to proclaim the gospel. Now, how did the Lord Jesus function as an evangelist? How many of you here know your calling is to be an evangelist? Anyone here? Like full-time evangelist. Okay, nice. All right. So how did the Lord Jesus function as an evangelist? The characteristics of his ministry, let's look at it. First one, he was empowered. He was empowered. The Lord Jesus was empowered by the Spirit. Now, when the Lord Jesus was... Just picture this, right? The Son of God came down from heaven. Now, he's growing up. There's an anointing upon him already. But the Bible says that when he was baptized, when he came out, the Holy Spirit came as a dove upon him. And he goes on to the desert to pray 40 days and 40 nights. Why would he have to do that? 40 days of not eating is not easy. Now, what would have happened if he didn't pray? Would always ask questions the other way around. What would have happened? Say Jesus got baptized, he went back home, had a nice meal, got some rest, woke up the next day. Okay, today I'm starting my ministry. What would have happened? Would there be a difference in his ministry? No. Because he's the Son of God. But why did he do this? To set an example for us. To set an example, of course, he also... As a human being, he also wanted... He wanted us... He wanted to depend on the Holy Spirit, right? But he was setting an example. 40 days he fasted and prayed and he was empowered. Not only in his Spirit, I'm sure his mind is... He would have come out of that 40 days so strong. Right? The temptations that were recorded was just three. But everywhere it says that the Lord Jesus... Sorry, the devil left him for a while. He would come back every now and then, tempted him but he overcame all those temptations. He was empowered by the Spirit and it was only after that, 40 days when he came out, we could see the miracles that he did. Now, this is a wonderful example for us. If we want to do a powerful ministry, if we want to minister to God, if we want to reach out to people, we want people to be... Their lives to be touched, prayer is important. We need to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Now I always say this. We can do some things on our own ability, but it will last only for a while. It will last. Example, we want to start a church. We can start. Nowadays, it's nothing, not a big deal, right? Maybe 15 years from now, oh, we started a church, it was very difficult. Now it's not a big deal. Buy one two speakers, buy one mixer and you start... That's all you have to do. All equipment, you don't even have to go out. Buy it on Amazon, they'll come and deliver at home. Nothing wrong. Nowadays, you have one small hall, like this is church, over. Or you can also get a big space. Everyone are willing to give. It's not a big deal, but we can start something. And we can continue also. But if we are not empowered by the Holy Spirit, we will not see good. We will not see. But in that also, God is faithful, right? So sometimes we may not have spent time in God's presence. And then we are doing ministry. God will still heal people. God will still do miracles. God will still touch people's lives because that's who he is. That's what he does. But the Lord Jesus didn't depend on... If you look at his ministry, he didn't depend on those 40 days. I finished my 40 days of fasting and prayer. So it's okay. It will leave me for the next one year, no problem. I've charged up for one year, no. What did he do? Every morning he would wake up, go and pray. And he set the example to his disciples as well. So when we are doing ministry, we need this enormous power. That was a enormous dynamo. Like a dynamite. We need that power. You know why? I can share a couple of instances. There was a time when we... Somewhere I was sharing the gospel. I was just standing, sharing the gospel. I was fully excited. There was nothing. This is about Jesus and how he can save your life. All of a sudden, one of the five guys came and stood next to me. Now, where's the dynamite power? Everything is gone. Everything is gone. Because you don't know how... How many of you have gone through first-hand persecution? You've seen it in your own eyes? Yeah, I'm sure. Is it easy? It's definitely not easy. Because I used to preach, you know, we need the strength of God, we need God. But when I saw that day, these five guys, why six guys, right in my face, you know? And it's scary. They said, what are you doing here? They're not smiling at all. They're not saying, oh, good job. What is this about? Right in my face. I thought, I knew that, you know, they're going to either beat me up or something is going to happen. When was the initial days? I remember saying, no, this is about Jesus. And I was very fearful inside. But then I went back home and I prayed and I said, God, why was that fear there? You have not given me a spirit of fear. What a power, love and sound mind. But why was that fear? Is it because I didn't pray enough? Is it because I didn't trust you enough? Or is it because of my, I let my natural thought, my natural instincts overpower me? It's natural to be fearful. The disciples who were with Jesus, walked with Jesus, saw the miracles of Jesus. They were also fearful. So what about us? So I went back and asked God. And thankfully the Lord ministered, right? He said, for this kind of ministry, in the power of God, you need the anointing. One hour is not enough. One hour just praying. Okay, thank you for fridge washing machine. All those things is not going to help out. Thank you for all the things you have blessed me with. Good day, nice trees, all that was not going to help us. He wants us to rest in His presence. Rest in His presence. When we stay and abide, that's when we are empowered. And over time, some kind of boldness came. Some kind of boldness. And there was situations that came up. And I thank God that God gives us the boldness. I'm not saying that initially itself will be fully bold and strong, but over time it will come. But for that, we must be empowered. And the best example is that of the disciples. So fearful. They were hiding. What happened to them? What happened in the book of Acts? The same disciples. They're standing there. Hey, you put me in jail. You do what you want. I will preach the gospel. What happened two months, one and a half months back? They were running away. That's the difference. When you're empowered, we can do anything. God will empower us. Our ministry will really be blessed, right? And that's what Jesus did. There are a couple of verses. Look 418. Look 418. Maybe one of us can open to Hebrews 2, 2-4. Hebrews 2-4. Look 418. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me, and then that list. He set the captives free to bring liberty to the poor. But he starts off by saying, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me. I always say this. It is only the anointing that can make a difference. Only the anointing. Even if we are preaching a five-minute sermon, if it is anointed by God, it will touch people's life. It will, right? And people will remember it. How many of you remember a sermon you've preached, you've heard ten years back? There will be that one or two sermons because that will be very annoying. Now, I'm not saying others are not annoying. But I'm just saying it would have, like the Lord would have really ministered to you. Right? So that way, when we are anointed, empowered, and we reach out, when we minister to people, they will remember it. Right? There are some things that I remember. I remember this guy in Bible college when I was studying, right? He was from North India. He wouldn't speak in English, but he would come. Every time I see him in the room, he'd be praying. I said, what are you praying so much? And I would feel so insecure because I felt, hey, I'm not praying like this fellow. Because how much he's praying? He's going on and he's kneeling. He'd be kneeling in the room. Same in the rooms that we have. It was something like this, right? We had those same, but he would kneel. He would not even be on the cot. Tell this fellow, he prayed for so long. And he talks in Hindi. He doesn't even know English. I pray. And I remember this sermon. Same way that in the mornings, he would all preach. Same thing. He came up once and he started preaching. 15-minute sermon in Hindi. He's crying. And I looked around. All of us are crying. Half of them didn't understand what is speaking here. But all are crying. And until now, I remember that sermon. He was talking about Lazarus. I remember that. It's 12 years now. I still remember. It's a picture in my mind. How? Because of the anointing. Because of what he did. Five or eight-minute sermon that was, we still remember it. It was anointed of God. When we spend time in God's presence, it will reflect in our public ministry. It will reflect. Right? Hebrews 2-4. Sorry, I cut you off. Hebrews chapter 2 from verse 2. Thank you. So, if you look at Jesus and his ministry as the evangelist, what a powerful ministry. One time, he had 5,000 people. At one time, he had 8,000 people. At one time, he had 5 people. At one time, he had children coming to him. Right? So, it is not a ministry that was restricted to a certain place or a certain kind of people. He ministered to everyone. Right? And his ministry was so empowered that the sad thing is that many of them followed him for the miracles. But you see the miracles that he did. Right? Breaking five blows of bread and two fish. Walking on water. And he did it. He did it. He did it. Bread and two fish. Walking on water. Powerful miracles. Healing the blind. Leppers being healed. It is all because he was empowered. Now, we must remember that he was walking in his sonship glory. Right? And the Bible says that the same spirit that was in Jesus is in us. So, how much we must believe and know that God can do these miracles. There are some miracles that I have seen in my own eyes and I thought, my God, how is God doing this? Remember, we were in forget the place. I think it was Rajasthan. I may have shared this with you. In Rajasthan, one thing about Rajasthan is if you have been there, the believers are 10 times much more faith than us. I will tell you, we know so much from the Bible. They hardly know anything. But the faith they have is too much. I went there and we were doing a conference and did I tell you about the car? How the car was locked? Did I give you that example? So, we finished the conference and one family had one car was there and so he put the mother the baby was inside and this mother just closed the door to go get her bags and call somebody. So, they closed the door. The key is inside and the car is locked. The baby doesn't know anything. Baby is some 10 month old baby. The car is locked. Glasses are all up. Everyone are panicking. What to do? Let's break the glass around. Suddenly, one man came, the leader, cell group leader. He came, what happened and all that. He said, no, the car is locked. Open the car. No, the key is inside. We will pray. I am watching all this. I said, okay, pray. He opened the door. He opened the door. He just prayed and he opened the door. He said, okay, take the key. Okay, let's go back to the conference. He said to me, what are you doing? So, there are many things that I saw, many, many things that I saw, right? Yeah, they were praying. So, they had the 15 minutes prayer before the service starts. All are screaming, you know, right in North India. Screaming and shouting and praying. Wailing their hearts out. Powerful 15 minutes of prayer. That first 15 minutes, there's no power. It's fully dark in the church. Fully dark, pitch dark. You can't see anything. Everyone are holding the phone down with the torch light which is going up. It's pitch dark. No light, no fan, nothing. Then the worship team, they've come early morning, they practiced. Okay, they are praying, God bless the worship time, bless the preaching time. So, I was looking around, when will this current come? I'm not able to pray because I was worried about the power. What if the power doesn't come? These guys are praying. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. You are blessed the worship time, blessed the sermon time. Let there be no miracles, all that. I'm looking around, nobody's bothered, okay, there's no power. Then I asked one person, is there power backup? What is that he asked? I said, okay, it's fine. Exactly as the worship prayer got over, the power came. They went on stage, the whole service power was there. Then we finished that by afternoon we stayed back. We had lunch. I asked the people how come exactly before the worship time the power comes? Every Sunday it goes at 7 o'clock in the morning. It's like the devil doesn't want us to have service. So, every Sunday we pray every Sunday if the service starts at 8.30, 8.28 the power will come back. Every Sunday. So, we are used to this. Devil will put it off, we will put it off. You see the faith they have and it's a natural thing. Don't worry pastor, next Sunday you come same thing will happen. The power will go, we will pray power will come. There were times where there were some testimonies they shared where the light pole itself has fallen down. It's broken. Nobody has power, only church has power. Everyone are looking at the church, how come this place has power? They've all come in and through that some people have become believers who came to church. So, the understanding is very different. But it's the same Holy Spirit. Sometimes we get so sophisticated in our ministry we should know everything from the Bible. All this is important. But what God wants us to do is to apply it to be empowered in it. So, when we look at Jesus, he prayed. But then after praying he went and did it. He used it. He didn't say I'm the son of God and sit in his house. He did something about it. You and I as God's children, we do something about it. Next one, what was his audience? The audience was the poor, the lost sheep of Israel, the sinners. But we also look at he was also ministering to those who were wealthy. Let's look at Luke chapter 4 and 18. Oh, we already looked at that. Matthew 10, 5 and 6. Matthew chapter 10 and verse 5 and 6. Matthew chapter 10 verses 5 and 6. Yes, go ahead. These 12 Jesus sent out and commanded them saying do not go into the way of the Gentiles and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Yeah. So he's saying here go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then look 1910. Luke chapter 19 verse 10 for the son of man came to seek and to save what was lost. Yeah. So the audience we see that Jesus minister to those who are poor, those who are lost, those who are sinners. Now you and I can do this too. We go to the lost those who are sinners. Now the thing is when we look at people who are sinners, this morning I got a message from a friend of mine an old friend of mine we were childhood friends in Sunday school and all of it. A very close friend of mine passed away this morning. He's probably 30, 32, 33 years old. He passed away this morning. I just got the message. But the thing is I'm guessing he died of a drug overdose because he was a drug addict and I was thinking to myself man look at the enemy and look at what he does. 33 years old he's a pastor's son he's a pastor's son. So I just got the message saying the body is in his house pastor's son only son right. He knows everything from the Bible brilliant guy in Sunday school we used to have something called as Bible boy and gospel girl meaning whoever says all the Bible verses correctly and whoever knows the most from the Bible and that'd be like a quiz out of 200, 300 boys you get one Bible boy and about 200 girls so they both are the best they know everything. He was Bible boy for like 2-3 years consecutively right. What is his end? Died of a drug overdose this morning look at how Jesus when you look at Jesus as ministry he reached out it's not like he didn't know my friend he knew everything he knew the verses he knew verses that we don't know but you see how the enemy comes to steal the word of God he can do anything the enemy if we don't guard our heart we don't guard what we learn he'll come to steal it the Lord Jesus when he ministered to the people he ministered in power but there were some people who received some who did not receive there were some people who believed some who did not believe now think about this when the Jews Jesus went and said I am the Messiah how many of them would have criticised him any of them actually if you look at it very few believed he is the Messiah other people believed he is a prophet or a healer but when the Lord Jesus ministered he didn't look at their background he didn't look at do you really believe me do you really think you can you will follow me will you obey me will you love me there were times he healed people and he has not seen them again before remember the leper if you are willing to heal me I know you can Jesus so what does Jesus say I am willing what should I do go to the temple show yourself to the priest offer the sacrifices of Moses be on your way so when we minister to people we minister not waiting for something in return we just minister with all our heart there will be people who receive there will be people who will not receive now that is not our responsibility our responsibility is to minister 3 what was his message the main message was repentance which is to leave the things of the world and turn to Jesus repentance was his main message repent turn away from God turn away from the things of the flesh turn away from the things of this world right then his his message was also forgiveness right where if you look at the old covenant if you look at the old testament we see the offerings right the sin offering now these two the sin and the guilt offering were offerings for forgiveness right the sin the guilt offering were offerings for forgiveness so what would they do every 2 months the Jews would go they would offer the sin offering then they would offer a guilt offering oh God I am guilty I am guilty of sin I am guilty of my words what I have said, what I have thought of what I have spoken I am guilty so the guilt offering is given so and then we got the then he would preach the kingdom of God and we see a lot of parables that the Lord Jesus spoke of about the kingdom of God and he demonstrated faith he walked in faith teaching session we see there all the way from the beginning he goes on to say he talks about who God is what God can do through you and what you can become entire teaching right so his message was plenty repentance forgiveness, he talked about the kingdom of God and he talked about walking in faith next one what were the methods that he used this is very important when we evangelize when we reach out to people there are different methods that we can use what is the method that Jesus used firstly we know that he prayed we know that he spent time in God's presence he received as much as he could and then did ministry and one of the main methods was signs and wonders let's read these two verses Matthew chapter 9 35 and 36 and one of us can read Acts 222 Matthew 9 35 to 36 Jesus went through all the town and villages teaching in the synagogues preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness when he when he saw the crowd he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like a sheep without a shepherd Acts 222 men of Israel hear these words Jesus of Nazareth and man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst as you yourself also know yeah so we see Jesus' method first one he thought he preached and he did signs, wonders and miracles he thought he preached signs, wonders and miracles and then we see that the Lord Jesus that the disciples continued the same thing after the Lord Jesus had gone right, they also thought they preached there were signs, wonders and miracles so for us to minister in such a way we must learn to maintain this balance of teaching, sharing preaching preaching meaning now for example you are sharing the gospel with somebody you don't have to sit and preach the law of Moses said this and then you know the guilt offering was this and they will say ok I don't want right, we should be wise we should know now the setting where Jesus was was because people were following him they had to go back home and cook they were free so Jesus used that but what did Jesus do during the time when he met the Samaritan woman he didn't say come I'll sit down let me explain to you he knew next 5 minutes he's going to go from here so we use wisdom but what did he do he taught he preached and then there were signs, wonders and miracles and we can do that as well we follow his example we will look at the book of Acts the disciples did the same thing the great apostle Paul did the same thing right and then all of us can do the same thing same method, preach teach signs, wonders and miracles now many of them, many people ask why signs, wonders and miracles are not happening in the church recently somebody had sent an email why is it not happening in the church why why people who are deaf cannot hear people who are blind cannot see why is it not happening now that's a it's a good question but we need to understand a few things one is eventually it is not in our hands God is the healer but he is willing two there are things that we must do we must walk in faith also we must believe whenever we go to North India really it's very different because every time we go it's not like we are doing ministry there we come back and we think they are doing so much more than us of course there are different kinds of ministries and God is using different churches different ministries but if you read about the miracles that are happening not only not even here there are miracles there are things that God is doing right he has done wonderful things he is doing wonderful things recently about two months back I am speaking to a friend of mine and he was terminal right he was terminal he had stage 2 cancer but he was about 38-39 years old stage 2 right and so he went to church to another church he was there and he was praying he was asking God you know I have my whole life in front of me I have my like a small child here who look after my wife doesn't work so he has been praying and then recently he went to a prayer meeting within the church itself and he felt that God healed him right so he came back he didn't have any symptoms so after 2-3 days he went to the doctors checked himself the doctor said there is no cancer right so there are things that are happening and this is just maybe one or two God is working but he wants to do more in the church he wants each one of us to step out in faith right he wants us to spend time and then go about doing what he wants us to do so the question is not why God is not doing the question is are we ready for a sacrifice are we ready to walk in this greater measure of faith are we ready to let go of certain things right there were times I prayed over people prayed such a prayer I thought they would be healed immediately so it got worse I was saying no pastor still the same what you know it's very difficult right pray for my back ok praying praying how do you feel now it's paining more pastor because I am standing down ok what will you do sit down it's not easy and see nowadays people don't want to please tell the fact it's paining no doesn't mean that ok because it's still paining maybe I have not done something or maybe he's not done something see we must understand that these things happen have you ever thought about this in the pool of silo Jesus went there so many people were there so many people have you ever thought of it why did he go to this one person he could have gone ok rise up walk ok rise up walk one by one he would have gone everywhere finished off the whole pool of silo will be empty right it makes so much sense then the Pharisees and Sadducees would have said this guy is really something but he healed one fellow and he walked out right so God has his ways of dealing with situations dealing with people we trust his ways but he's willing to bring healing he's willing to bring blessings so as ministers we follow Jesus's example have faith do trust in God preach teach let there be science wonders and miracles if it's not yet started in your ministry in your life pray ask God when I pray for people you touch them you heal them let them experience your healing and you will notice that probably about 22 23 years old all these people would come in they would look at me they would go up a small boy what he'll pray it's ok that was the mindset I was very small and I knew I was very small but over time the anointing will change things people will recognize people will come never think that we are too small or we are insignificant we must know God will bring people you pray you spend time in God's presence you will see the fruit in your ministry and you will see science wonders and miracles let me give you this example I've said this example in Mangalore when we were in Mangalore we were 5 or 6 people 8 people the first Sunday that I was there I said God you have to do something here I've come from Bangalore so many things to do in ministry 8 people they come half the sermon they were sleeping half the sermon they were awake and older people you have to do something here so over time people started catching the vision became 15, 20, 25 so when I came to east east I think we were first Sunday remember first Sunday I think we were 50 50 or 60 first Sunday after the lockdown and all many families went home 60 people I said what is this I said we have to do something about this so we started doing some kind of ministry reaching out to people and I remember saying God you give us a better space than this this space I don't want I really prayed that I'm being honest I said I don't want this place because there was so much of difficulty children's church and something was not right in my spirit whenever I go there it's a very nice place it's a hotel it was a nice very nice place but every time I go I say God I change this place I don't want this place so I prayed I said God I don't want this place change this place suddenly we got to know AC is not working in the hotel so we bought fans so we were using the fans I said no I don't want this place give me a new place then we got a space right now that we are in huge hall it seats about 300 people so that was a temporary move until this AC gets fixed so the point was we are going to go back once the AC is fixed I was praying I don't want that AC even if you are fixed we don't want to go back so much I prayed I said God this hall is the best this is what I envisioned I can picture 300 people sitting in this church I want this place those fellows that the people that keys the hotel hotel people said okay it's ready please you can come back because all the equipment everything was there then I checked with the team and said okay just find out they doubled the rent I said thank you lord so we are going to stay back here sent an email pastor said no going back there you stay here thank you lord so now we have a 300 seater auditorium with a stage everything I am praying God you fill it up he will fill it up I don't know but he will do it what is our responsibility do our programs, do outreaches pray, teach, minister let science wonders and miracles happen will God fill it up he will fill it up whether I am there or no I don't know but he should fill it up right when in Mangalore we were 10 people I would say God I would ask the people how many people in this place can fill they said 80 people squeezed God we have to move out of this place next week they are moving out 100 odd people in the church now so God is able to I am really saying God is able to but it is only how much we put in how much we sow is what we can reap right so the methods were the same then Jesus went about traveling to places he went preaching the gospel motivation to go from place to place cities, towns, villages and he was able to preach the gospel right yes go ahead we are we have to be for example I mean sometimes I have a lot of experiences I really speak about different things but we have a conversation we try talk to them then this is what Jesus can do to our life depending on the situation depending on the situation is there like also always we have to I mean yeah we really go across the situation but only that this traditional way yes that's perfectly fine so Ravali's question was there are times when we can when sharing the gospel we don't we don't go through that traditional okay we were all sinners what we learned in lifestyle evangelism yeah that's fine we don't have to go through it because you're able to speak to them you're able to let them know about what God can do in their life and if you're meeting like if you're doing street evangelism it's not easy that you may meet them again but you can that's where we need to depend on the Holy Spirit God give me a word for him give me a prophetic word even if I say 2-3 sentences let it touch their lives right so God will put the words in your mouth how to speak but there's nothing wrong in talking to them they may talk about work and you're sitting and listening ask God to give you opportunities so that's not wrong see one thing is important we must understand the motivation right why are we doing this if you know your motivation it's okay I want people to know about Jesus whatever you do is fine right however you express it it's fine doesn't matter then when Jesus did his ministry he also saw a lot of challenges just like what you and I see unbelief they were you know people were people didn't believe in him didn't believe his message right so there will be times when we go out if people don't believe our message nothing to cry go to the next person simple right move on there'll be demonic encounters Jesus himself saw demonic encounters there were people who were possessed by demons right who came and Jesus was able to encounter them right and then there was opposition from religious leaders right so here in our society there may not be opposition from religious leaders but there will be opposition from people around us and of course here is where we walk in wisdom so people ask me right so sometimes they say if Jesus could do and Jesus did everything he says go reach out to people what to do in places where there is you know where there is persecution where there is you know people you know that you will get persecuted for sharing the gospel so the answer is this the Lord Jesus when he was in Jerusalem what did they do they wanted to kill him firstly they didn't accept his message then they wanted to get rid of him but he knew his time was not right so what did he do he went to Judea very simple right he says that's why when he is coming back from Judea he looks over the city of Jerusalem and he weeps over it right because why does he weep they were waiting for the Messiah the Messiah is here their eyes are not able to see it right so here there will be opposition there will be we may need to use wisdom we may need to just step out walk away Jesus did that so when we can do it it's not a sign of fear right it's not a sign of fear to say okay this is not like for example we know there are certain areas in Bangalore which is dominated by other faiths it's a strong area right we pray over them but we need to be wise how we do ministry there right we can't say oh God is all powerful we know that the Lord Jesus himself said let me step away he went to Judea when things settled down in Jerusalem he came back wisdom right and finally he had support he sent others to reproduce and people gave into his ministry financially as well how do we know that because we know that Thomas was keeping the accounts sorry Judas was keeping the accounts right so he had support he raised up leaders he said go minister to people so we see that Jesus he fulfilled all the criteria to be an evangelist as well he set the example he set the model for us so that we can also you know go ahead and be these evangelists now if your calling is not an evangelist see one thing I know is my calling may not be evangelist but I love to reach out to people I love to go out you know every now and then I keep going to Whitefield where the church is let's go reach out give tracks try to reach out to people it's okay right we know now but if I have to go to a certain place where we know it's not safe I need to be wise I didn't need to think so we model ourselves we model our ministry our life it's like how Jesus did right right so we finish this chapter we'll meet next class for the next chapter chapter 3 thank you everyone thank you online students God bless you have a good week ahead