 Okay, good morning everyone. Everyone online can hear me okay? So you just sing it again. Okay, good morning everyone here. How are you doing? Okay, sorry for the delay. This is more power. We have to just start now. Alright, so we were reading chapter 2. Last week we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Yes? Okay, so we talked about the message of the cross. More than anything that we do, we have to rely on the message of the cross. We talk about the power of the gospel. Every time we share the gospel with people, it's the power of God. So we're not relying on our own abilities even though we have to prepare and share with people. But we're relying on the power of God and the power of His Holy Spirit to minister to them. Right? And we've all got your books, but yet, okay. So we looked at the great word sozo and we saw that it's not just one word, but it has different meanings. Right? Let's just look at the few things that we spoke about. Sozo is spiritual salvation, forgiveness of sins, healing of sicknesses, preservation from danger, preservation from the works of the devil. Each one of us, when we receive salvation, we receive all of this. Yes? Second Corinthians 5-17. Anybody knows it? Students online? Anybody know Second Corinthians 5-17? Second Corinthians 5-17. How many of you know it in your own language? Second Corinthians 5-17. How many of you know it? Not sure. It's okay. Don't be bothered. New creation. The whole verse is a new creation. I'll look at my following here. So if anyone who isn't Christ, it's a new creation. Why don't you want to learn from this Bible? Please learn from it. This is something that is basic. Did you learn this? Second Corinthians 5-17. We know that salvation, when we receive Christ, we are a new creation. When we say salvation, it's not just one thing. It is all of this that is given to us. Now, isn't it such a wonderful feeling to walk in this authority? And we talked about authority. If you have the authority, you have to use that authority. Nobody else can use it for you. And so we saw about how we present the gospel. Let's move on. How do I share the gospel with people? Now, we all have come here to learn to study. Now, you might say, hey, I'm not a evangelist. I'm just a worship leader. I'm just a pastor. I'm just going to learn and then I'll go back to the IT company and I'll work near it. Now, it doesn't matter where you're coming from. It doesn't matter where you're going. You and I are brought to present the gospel to people. Different scenarios and different ways we are going to present the gospel. Now, how do we present the gospel is very important. Imagine you've got a person who comes here and starts teaching. It's a boring bed. And nothing is going. Will you be interested to listen? Yes or no? Because it's not capturing you. What about at a moment when you're listening to somebody and they're talking about how they failure, they came to success and how can't you use them? There's so much of them. You're dealing with that person. You're in line with what you're actually saying. The same way in presenting the gospel. You've got that five minutes and you must capture when you know that five minutes should come. Five minutes should come. So, for example, if you're doing a video on YouTube, what is it? What is the first thing you do? You have an intro, you have a message and then you have an outro or what you want to say. Now, the intro itself is boring. Do you think we're going to listen to it? Yes or no? People will skip. But the intro is something that is capturing you. You will listen to it. Same way in presenting the gospel. Now, there are a couple of ways. There's something called as the four spiritual laws. Four spiritual laws. Now, this is one of the ways to share the gospel. So, for example, somebody comes and says, Hey, you know, what is this thing about Christianity? I always thought that Christianity is a religion that came from the West. From the West some people came and what is it about Christianity? Now, you know, you've got five minutes to share at that moment. Five minutes. So, how can you share the picture? So, we have something called as the four spiritual laws. So, what are the four spiritual laws? You're just bringing out the importance of the person, the human being, the nature of the human being. First of all, every man is a sinner. The four spiritual laws. Every man is a sinner. So, let's read Romans chapter 3 and verse 10. Anybody can read Romans 3 and verse 10. There is no righteous in the number one. As a result, there is not one righteous. There is no one righteous. Right? So, we are starting with the first one. Every man is a sinner. No one is righteous. Now, you can go up to a person from another faith. He may, he may be highly in the faith. Maybe a leader in the other faith. But if you tell them this, they will still believe it. Every man is a sinner. The Hindu faith have no way of asking forgiveness. It is slum. Slum as a faith have no way of asking forgiveness. Right? So, the chain is here. All of these things. They have a piece of possible forgiveness. None of the religions say that man is perfect. There is no religion that says that. So, the moment you say this, every man is a sinner. They will identify with it. Yeah, I know, I know. So, what is the second rule? Sin has its consequence. Let's read Isaiah 15, 9, 1 and 2. Isaiah 15, 9 and 1 and 2. I'm hoping the Lord's hand is not shorted. But it cannot save. Lord, it's given to him that it is not here. And if you are in the faith, he has separated you from your God. And your sins have finished this space for you. So, then, I'm going to go out of here. Yeah. So, wonderfully put there, right? Your inequities, your sins have separated you from. So, then he is saying that you are saying that consequence is here. There is consequences for sin. Right? Now, if I do, like one of the biggest that you can, if you're talking to a friend, I make a wrong decision. I have to go through the consequences. There's a lot of that. Right? So, for example, I have a friend in college. This person keeps from going to college. Finally, at the end of the semester, the attendance is 10% Now, he can't, whether he's Christian, Muslim, Hindu, I can't say I'll pray and God will give me the old ticket. I'll never have that. That is the consequences of what he has done. Like, how much ever he prays, it's not going to happen. Because he has made the mistake of funky class. The same class and the attendance is fine. So, he was telling me, don't be afraid. Right? But you get what I'm saying, right? The consequences is sometimes, sometimes we are praying and rebuking the devil. The devil is saying, I don't know anything. We don't know. There's no normal. Right? I don't know anything. So sad, though. It's our own mistakes. And we have to face the consequences. So, you're saying here, sin may have such consequences. Right? It takes us away from God. And that is true. Right? Then it says, by the God's love and the work that Jesus did on the cross, the provision for God to bring us back. Right now, isn't it? You know, every time I read the scriptures, I keep telling people, picture what you read. The greatest nation of your imagination. Yes? Imagine. I think. So when I'm reading the scriptures, I think, imagine Jesus, 30 years old, and he's walking. He's walking towards dusty roads of Palestine. And then there are people following. Is there a lot of people? Thousands of people are there. There's five loaves of bread and two fish. Do all of you have breakfast? Yes? No? Don't worry. Good to have breakfast. Right? I also have bread and two fish. Do we just leave it or do we imagine it? What is imagined? Picture what you read. When you picture things, it becomes a vision inside you. So now you're painting a picture for those who are listening to you. I must say now, that I have sinned, gone away from God. But through the Lord Jesus Christ, through the cross, what Jesus did is that separation was about to happen. The next question they may ask is why Jesus? Then you got another opportunity for you to continue that discussion. That means they are interested to know. Right? Do you get what I'm saying? So, every time in the sinner's sin has its consequences, God made a provision to Jesus Christ to bring us to the other. And the fourth law is when you believe, you will be seen. Four simple steps. Anybody who is hearing this can accept it and become a believer. Simple as that. Do we have to do anything? Physically, do we have to do any work? See, all we have to do is speak the word of God, preach or teach the word of God. That's all we have to do. These are the post-spiritual goals. Now, when you're ministering for somebody, somebody asks, don't say, come sit down and tell me what are the post-spiritual goals. They don't know about all that. This is just for us. How is it to know? There's a pattern. I can share the description in an effective way. So, can we see the four points on the line? Those on the line is not clear? Yes, Irina. Irina, did you raise your hand? Do you have a question? No. We cannot hear clearly. I'll share. Is it okay now? Is it okay now? No. No? No. Okay, I'm just checking. Is it audible now? Prabhu, is it audible now? Everyone can hear clearly? Not clear. Okay, I think it's because I'm not using the laptops or you are using the laptops or my laptop battery is going to drain up. So, is it okay now? It's not too audible in this recording. Is it audible now? Sir, same. It's same. It's the same? It's not clear enough about now. Is it audible now? Just like before. It's okay, just continue to stir. There's nothing much I can do because I've tried everything. It's okay, just continue. Sorry, sorry to cut off. Okay, so let's go to the post spiritual laws again. Every man has a sinner who has its consequences and God's love and Christ's provision brings us back to God. Finally, when you believe you will be saved. So those are the post spiritual laws we can talk about, right? Now, there's another way it's already done. So there's another way that we can share the gospel. Right? This is from talking about Genesis to the time of Jesus Christ. Now, for example, the first way is you can talk about the post spiritual laws. Now, we're talking through the word of God. You say, okay, this is what happened from Genesis to the time Jesus Christ was born. Right? Now, how can you start on one creation of man's purpose? So from Genesis, you can say, God created man for a purpose. And what was the purpose to have a relationship with God? Then there was hope because of sin, man felt and again, there's consequences. Then man tried to attempt to reach God how, when you see the Old Testament what did God do? God said, I'm going to you know, even though Israel is a nation, you have turned away from me. But these are the ways that you can go near to me. Do you have a word of testimony going on? Right? So you're studying about that, right? God said, you have these offerings you have to fulfill these things. You build a temple in the most holy place and then when you bring your offering and you cut a lamb cut the offering, bring the blood give it to the high priest the high priest takes it that's the sacrifice, your sins are forgiven in another place he says you cut it once a year the high priest goes into the holy of holies and that is for the depression of sins for the entire nation of Israel. Right? So you have to go closer to God right? And then God reaches out to man through the cross of Jesus Christ through the cross first before that man was trying to reach God but now God is reaching out to man so immediately thinking changes right? They're understanding changes and they're like it's trying to reach out to me and so very important give examples how's God going to reach out to you? I'm sure everyone that you minister to will go through some problem there is nobody in this world who doesn't have any problem is there anyone? and if you can say I don't have a problem tell me I'll give you some problems we are some assignments we all have a problem we all go through challenges and so when you're ministering to people you can always come from that community reaching out to them problem of their problems and saying that hey through Christ through the cross through Jesus we can find forgiveness you know one of the things that happened to me was when I was sharing the gospel with people I say always think but if I say Jesus how will they agree? how will they agree? I know the power of Jesus but they don't know I can just keep telling Jesus 100 times but what about them? they should believe they are strong in their other world they're strong when you're in the company so I had to tell myself I had to ask the Holy Spirit to convict me to understand that this simple gospel can die into your sins can touch a person but we must be convicted of it right? yes or no? we must be convicted of it only then we can share it with others and then the invitation to believe and the invitation leads to everyone God does not choose who to invite the Bible says all of us all of us whoever is in Christ is a new creation and the black, brown, red, all dark anything it doesn't matter language, cultures don't matter the invitation leads to all of that so the wrong understanding to do is to think finally I am saved I am going to heaven as long as I go everything is okay I don't think this guy will ever receive the gospel or I don't think this person will ever receive the gospel we have to never come to that how many of you have thought that when you look at a person or thought of sharing the gospel with a person how many of you have thought that you have don't think this person will accept it you must come out of that shell you must come out of that I am not saying it's wrong I have thought that I have many times in my mind I don't think this person will but it is the power of God to salvation so we must be connected in our hearts so what are the other ways creation to Christ and what Jesus did we have a two minute testimony this is a powerful way of sharing the gospel with people so for example I come to Vimal and I say hey Vimal no I am very sad being very broken being very Vimal what do the first thing Vimal should say very good what does Vimal say obviously you start a conversation saying what happened somebody in my family is unwell things are not going well in the hospital and the doctor said maybe 2-3 months so there comes your testimony time you have 2-3 minutes to bring the gospel out now what would be the wrong thing to do you know the bit of Isaiah or what it says and the fellow is going to talk about it right and the moment you say good Isaiah why do I want to know about Isaiah that's the wrong thing the first thing Vimal should say hey you know what happened in my life this is what happened you are giving a true situation a true testimony a real thing, it's not a story it's a real thing that happened in my life my mother was mis-making she was unwell she prayed to Jesus it was hard to believe he prayed now she is alive and she is well 2 minutes you got the attention of that person so 2 minute testimony it's very important how your life is after Christ you know my boy used to do this nice to sit nice to talk really nice to back answer my parents after Christ I feel there is something different I feel that God has changed me I feel like a better person right now how you will receive Christ is also a wonderful way of bringing the other testimony initially when I accepted the Lord people used to call me to share the testimony I used to share my testimony and many times people used to come and ask me what happened and there was some change something in their heart your testimony may not be very dramatic maybe something very simple but it's your testimony you may be your master's son or daughter and there is no major testimony it's okay but it's your testimony God's goodness so all of us have a testimony and we can share that testimony you can also talk about specific changes that happened in your life through your testimony use words like purpose, meaning, direction when I was in college I didn't have any direction I didn't have any purpose in life I didn't know why I am living I had God's questions but after I came to Christ I knew that God has called me to be this child I knew that I had a purpose I knew that God loves me people may not love me people may mock me, they follow me but I know that God loves me so immediately there is something that will penetrate that I remember it's also to really put things across I was just teaching you secondaries talking to them about wisdom right we can have a lot of knowledge but if we don't walk in wisdom many beneficiaries have failed that way many pastors and leaders have spoken to they have failed why? because they have a lot of knowledge but no wisdom dumplings the wrong way but they truly love God truly love the scriptures very good teachers very good preachers but they have applied that in their daily walk and so that's why wisdom is really important even each one of you graduate maybe per second or third year you have a lot of head nods if you ask God to give you the wisdom wisdom comes by learning from your failures wisdom comes by asking the Holy Spirit for guidance right and so this two minute testimony is very very important it can really touch a person's life right now it can be as simple as for example there's one friend of mine I used to always share the gospel with him and he asked me he said I don't know I didn't go to classes and all even I used to wonder I don't know anything but I started to watch people I started to ask and then somehow I learned so he was very fascinating how did you learn people what I learned in the middle with translation somehow I learned he was very fascinating I used to wonder I didn't know that took him back I said no I don't know then I said see this is what happened to me I believed in God I trusted that God can the abilities that I have is given by God and I have to use it for God so I asked God to help me I said why don't you try why don't you try ask God to help me I will give you a guitar ask God to help you I'll teach you as much as I can ask God to give you a guitar to teach you even he said ok I'll try so he began to I gave him a guitar he would go and I would tell him I'll give you some calls you can learn and he started and I said play before you ask before you start he just asked God so he did it very faithfully and in one year he was really good in guitar no classes really good I was very impressed by the way a lot of fun but after one year he came up to me and said more more than the guitar I enjoyed the five minutes of prayer before learning the guitar I felt that something was telling me or somebody was telling me how to play bend to change con I told somebody was telling me so then that came out so who is that somebody did you bring the Jesus Jesus was answering me why don't you give your life to him and he'll take you from here to the places that you can't even imagine he said yeah I'm very to do that so more in the end it was not the guitar that he was interested in he was interested in going he was a wonderful version he can be the version of many Jesus right so you never know what small act can touch people's lives right you get what I'm saying right experience of what your need was your divine intervention with God what was the need what did the Lord know and how the Lord can even minister to death it's important to understand that when we are ministering to people it's we must not think that he are greater or superior than that the Lord Jesus when you look at his ministry he never thought superior to the people around him right he always walked in humility that is power in walking in humility when we walk in humility it's actually authority yes Jesus walked in humility but he also walked in authority he was humble enough to sit with the poor, sit with the lepers remember that picture was such a powerful picture of this that a leper again I'm sharing this the leper who came to me Jesus was on the way to serenity going to another town passing through Samaria and the leper was to him those lepers were always to be outside of the city they were not to mingle with the people in the crowd outside the city and the leper somehow probably escaped that place and came and when he saw Jesus he said if you are willing clean me if you are willing you can cleanse me from this now what did Jesus what did he say I am I am I am willing did Jesus say now tell me what all this has happened to you because your grandfather and your father all of them now you went to them you go wait in my back in the day come back next month and then I will kill you did Jesus say all he said was I am willing see the humility there Jesus didn't despise him and say now thousands of people are waiting for me there I go and come back didn't despise him he was humble enough for that one person humility is really the key in ministry when we are ministering to people walking to humanity very important is the work of the Holy Spirit towards the unseen now you have done the work of sharing the gospel right who makes the change in a person's heart the Holy Spirit so we must depend on the Holy Spirit to make the change don't shake a person and post them you believe Jesus now only then you can have one two people finished sharing and receiving Jesus no remember it is the work of the Holy Spirit it is the Holy Spirit who convicts a believer of sin who convicts self of righteousness and judgment now let me give you an example of the power of the Holy Spirit he is powerful what does the Bible say greater is he that is in you let me tell you I am just giving you an example of the power of the Holy Spirit he is powerful he is he is mighty he is the Spirit of God the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is in you and me do you believe that? yes or no why are you all staring at me do you believe that or no do you believe the Holy Spirit is inside you do you believe you are walking in authority you may not feel it you may feel that you want such a weak person so what does the Holy Spirit do when he convicts a believer of sin of righteousness and judgment he says you may feel like a sinner but for me the Holy Spirit is saying you have a right standing in authority so when you have the authority to stand in front of God in the Old Testament what they were doing was when the High Counties would take the blood of the Lamb once a year to go into the volume please just face that the Lamb so they will defeat with a chain right and so this High Priest would go into the Holy of Holies if there was found any sin in the High Priest which was unconfessed or some secret sin in his life he would drop dead in that place and they would drag the Holy on the chain nobody dare goes into the Holy of Holies with sin in their heart that's a picture right now Jesus is saying you and I have a right standing in front of God so basically we can go to God with all our sin and all our failures he's willing to forgive us make us right in God which is better all personal right into the now we say no I enter the Holy of Holies how we enter the blood of the Lamb the blood of the Lamb so remember that the Holy Spirit who is working in that person is much more powerful than you and me we may be weak we may not be very good in our speech right we have a lot of limitations but the few words that we speak can bring life into that other person I'll give you the story once there was a prison named in Angola in the west Angola where is it and here were all the criminals criminals who were there for life sentence for life I was known as the most dangerous prison in the world right why because the police officers themselves were scared to work there they would kill the police officers as well but it's such a dangerous prison outside Angola nobody wanted to work there this happened in the early 80s nobody wanted to go there but there was this one man he was a police officer he said I will go there and work as the warden or the in charge he was a believer and I don't know his family said no because they use your life it's the most dangerous with my people he said no I need to show people that the police officer is here he can do something so I want to see it in my life and I want to see the work of the police officer so he decided to go he went and gave everyone vipers present people told the pages of the bible used it as cigarette paper told it and used it as toilet paper but he would keep sticking the verses and everything in the air for instance right and after about 2-3 years he began to share the possible few of the inmates there and so as he was sharing just cutting the story short God let him to share with us one month wait and that person just broke down and he became a believer one believer right there was everyone walking Jesus what people are doing walking him and trying to take fun of him and even try to kill him how can he bring all this thing and another time another man told a page of the bible cigarette paper and he wanted to you know smoke cigarette with that bible and as he was doing that he read the books as he was running because John 360 was the number one that he gave to someone so something he invented his things and he gave his life to Christ now from what it became he began to start a bible study group for 3 of them the prisoner the prisoners and the police chief in charge then became 5 and became 10 finally there were 800 people studying for the bible every Sunday they had a Sunday service where worshiping would come from a different place churches would send worship teams to complete the worship they would come reach to 800 people 800 deliverers all of them gave their life to Christ and it came to be known as the most safest place even outside of prison whose work is that the worker was people were going to their electric chair to die on they were clapping and singing praises to God they see him face to face now and they are going to the electric chair and they are saying they are singing songs of God and they are going to see the one and they have to go through the sentence of singing that's the word of the Holy Spirit he can make the hardest of soul and bring them to Christ so we are nobody to judge the person by their looks by their appearance and do what they say do we believe this we must our goal is to share the gospel and expect Jesus and expect the Holy Spirit to do the conducting there will be times that we share and nothing may happen it's alright don't lose heart don't lose current it's a moment alright so that's what the Holy Spirit does the work of the Holy Spirit to be unsafe he can change he can break every chain we sing that song that's power in the name of Jesus we sing it every time but are we truly believing that that he can break every chain are we truly believing that we truly believing that we must there is a saying you know Christians don't speak life they sing life worship is not about singing songs it's not charging it's not charging worship is not about songs or the melody or the tune it's not about any of that worship or the tune of the Holy Spirit being revealed by us right so we completed chapter 2 at the end of that time so we will so what we will do is we will close for now it's all about the delay of online students start the page but I hope anyone people to understand and pick up right thank you so we will stop here we pick up next week on power and love Jesus minister in power in minister in love okay let's close on prayer Father we thank you for what we have learned today Lord we thank you thank you for your presence we thank you the Holy Spirit that brings righteousness injustice the foundations of your throne but thank you for your presence in our lives Lord I pray God that you will empower us to be children that will truly bring the gospel to people around us we are anointing may your power fill our lives we thank you we thank you for this wonderful opportunity we pray Lord that you will teach us and help us Lord even in our because you be our strength we give you all the praise Lord in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you everyone for joining sorry again bless you all