 Okay, welcome back. Sorry the recording took some time to start all right, so any questions from chapter one We're moving into chapter two any questions anyone would like to share your thoughts Everyone following are you able to track along? Yes, so shall we go ahead? So let's get into chapter two chapter two So let's divide this chapter into Four parts four potions first one for claiming Jesus with power Second the spirit and wills the wisdom of God Spirit reveals what God has given to us and the spirit of parts the mind of Christ. So let's look from verse one was one of words, right Second first Corinthians chapter two was one And I brethren when I came to you did not come in excellence of speech of wisdom Declaring to you the testimony of God to you the testimony of God now again Paul is saying it just reiterated What he was saying previously saying I did not come to you in my excellent speech or the wisdom But declaring the testimony of God was to But I determined not to know anything about among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified now Paul is intentionally Choosing to stay away from all these philosophical discussions Right now what they have been philosophical discussions Yes, because we know it's in Greece, right? and and we know they have different kinds of learnings and different kinds of you know, they Alexandra and Greece has had during those times greatest library and they had you know hundreds of stoics and The hundreds of belief systems, right? and Paul chose to stay away from engaging in all those things and He chose to stay focused on presenting the cross of Jesus Christ Right. So here he's saying I determined not to know anything among you right, but The cross of Jesus Christ. So he he he's always highly educated He could have gone through these debates and discussions But he chose to stay away from it because he he wanted the cross He wanted he knew that these debates are only going to end You know discussion But if he wants to see a chord work, it has to be the Holy Spirit touching their lives, right? Now it looks like it's in contrast with what Paul is saying if Peter is saying in 1st Corinthians 315 You know be ready to give a defense for the gospel Now it's not in contrast because many places even the Apostle Paul, you know, he gives a defense But that defense did not go into a argument right now an important point that we must learn is that We when we are ministering to people we may get into meaningless debates and discussions But they amount to nothing. So we must avoid those digressions Right, we must avoid those digressions. We must avoid it by saying, okay. No my focus is Yes, I will get into debates. I will you know answer people's questions But if it's only getting into an argument or heated discussion or a heated debate, I should just let it go right because Paul is saying he was compelled by the Spirit in Acts 18 4 4 and 5 He was compelled by the Spirit to testify to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ meaning it was not You know those those debates and Discussions if it's going away from Christ. There's no point of having it. It's just going to be a waste of time right Yes Christopher. Yes, go ahead Yes, yes, we can hit it. Go ahead. Yes. No, you had mentioned in your for your lecture about Bobby Sakurai's and he's considered Poland and you know, there should be a lot of controversy and All back in his You know, he has a person but I guess the question I have is really about You know, he's considered at one time He was considered to be one of the most almost apologists Who defend the faith that I was just my question is really about in the current time And then, you know, but I was doing a defending the faith What's it more about, you know, you know coming up with the different You know, sort of references to the Bible and also being able to logically defend the faith And how effective it was Or was this was it as you know similar to what you know what Paul experienced And I it doesn't have to be specifically out of his address, but it could be, you know Apologies who do exist in the current time How different is it You know to defend the faith That's a very good question. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. That's a very good question Yes, it is very different when you talk about what Apostle Paul went through and what we are going through now the whole You know, there's one thing that we know is knowledge is progressive revelation is also progressive During Paul's time. Yes, he had to deal with, you know The understanding of the Greeks, they had different kinds of gods. Now, we know in Ephesus and especially Ephesus, Athens Galatia, they were all, you know, very learned people So he had to defend the gospel and he had to, you know, you know, like for example, the Perians, right? They heard the message. They said, Paul, you come, we have a lot of questions. Now, we know that Paul went Right. He the and there was a community of believers raised up in the Perian community of believers, right? Now Paul is not saying it's wrong to debate He's saying that when we are debating with others or when we are ministering to the gospel our focus The end result should be Not about winning the debate or winning this argument and proving the other person wrong But the debate should end in such a way that Our focus is that the Holy Spirit ministers to this person and he or she accepts the gospel of Jesus Christ So that should be the end result And so even now when we see that we have some wonderful Apologists, you know, if you've heard of cross-examined, I forget his name, but he's a brilliant Brilliant man. You can go on on YouTube as he's got this whole industry called cross-examined that he and he brings for Wonderful, wonderful truths and and one thing I like about him and when he's ministering He says he brings out all the truth He like you know in a natural way he brings out the whole aspect of how the Bible came into its, you know Why are there so many translations and you know He brings out all the the historical views the natural views, but in the end he says I Hope and I pray for you that the Holy Spirit ministers to you Even as you go home and think about this and the holy you let the Holy Spirit do the work in your heart Right. So when you look at Apologists now, I mean, you know, we we have to be very very Learned right we cannot just say, you know, Jesus said this so it's okay Right, but we have to have answers. We have to have certain, you know training and learning for all of this to be able to, you know Wightly divide the word and bring it forth in the right way So again, you know the reason I put up Ravi Zakrayas is you know He wonderfully brought forth the truth. Yes, there were many things about him That happened, you know, the you know, they all all these allegations that came You don't know whether it's true or not But even if it's true, but as a human being as and the work that he did, we know that it was Who is that led him and we seeing fruit, you know, there were many lies that were touched and And so we cannot debunk all his work because of one wrong thing Right. So that's why that's why we must not look at human beings Right. We must always look to Jesus as a model So Christopher to answer your question. Yes, especially in a day and age now He must be highly, you know, knowledgeable. We have to learn. We have to study But our end focus must not be building winning the debate but To bring people to Jesus Christ and I was listening to this debate by a Muslim and a Christian And he kept the Muslim person Very passionate about the whole thing and he kept saying, you know, this is what this is what it is This is what this is what we must believe in and At the end of the debate You know the Christian person just said, okay, you know, he just gave up because it became a heated argument and This man thought that he had won right everyone all of them were clapping and the team that came with him The Muslims they were all clapping and saying see we've proved you wrong But in that whole group There were two Muslims who were standing and what this happened in now in London There were two people who were noticing the Christian and And he was just sharing the gospel he was trying to bring forth certain truths But he did it love in a beautiful way And those two Muslim young boys were noticing him and They went to him after everything and they apologized On behalf of these people, you know, there is the other Muslim apologized and they sat and they had a discussion And They had a lot of questions. They had a lot of you know thoughts and but in the end You know these two boys said we went back home. We have a lot to think about Right, so it's not about winning the argument per se, but it's about bringing people to Christ And when we have that and we can translate this to anything first of all you can even translate it to church Right, it's not about having a church with good worship team and the auditorium with lightings all of it. It's good But if that is our focus, we've lost the point but the church is Quinoa to will fellowship to to grow together to To bring people to the knowledge of Christ Right. And and so when we lose focus on something and it's not about the gospel then It's of no use. It's not going to glorify call. I hope that's okay. This firm Okay, so let's Sorry, this one. Let me just go back to that. So Verse three I was with you in weakness in fear and much trembling now The Apostle Paul if you think of this when I when I read this verse I said, why was he in weakness in fear and trembling when he you know When he was there ministering in these gentile places that's such a boldness in him You're right. Paul and Silas are in prison You know, there was no it was not like he was scared. It was singing and praising God When the demon possessed people came near Paul they he just you know Afraid and all had such an authority. But why is he saying here? I was with you in weakness in fear and much trembling now There must have been threats to Paul's own life that caused him to be in weakness in fear and in much trembling but In all this verse four he follows on and he says and my speech and my preaching Were not with persuasive words Even though I was fearful Right, even though people opposed me people wanted to kill me people wanted to you know They blasphemed against me. They said, okay, let's get rid of Paul And he had to run away for his life Right in weakness and fear and much trembling In through all of that I could have stopped the ministry I could have just my preaching could have been some good words Right some words of human wisdom or some, you know positive preaching like what we see that's happening now right Just to you know Gain the approval of people but he's saying here even in my weakness even in my fear even when people were trying to end my life and Throwing accusations against me He follows up by saying my speech and my preaching were not of persuasive words of human wisdom But in the demonstration the spirit and power so he's trying to say that his Human wisdom His understanding Right all his learning and Judaism He did not try it all, you know to minister to people with all those persuasive words He basically is trying to say I can't help but preach the gospel And when I preach the gospel, there will be demonstrations of science wonders and miracles I as a person Apostle Paul is you know, I can picture him saying this to the Corinthian church as a person. I am weak I am trembling. I'm fearful because people have made Dead threats against me and this is what I am. This is my situation But when I preach the gospel not with persuasive words, there is demonstration of the spirit and the power that makes me strong Right That makes me Who I am You know history says that apostle Paul was a shot bald weak man. I'm sure he you know He was he was not a man like the horse and a strong man That was the early Paul Commander of the temple god. No Was beaten. He was bruised. He was Shipwrecked. He didn't have enough food. He was running for his life I'm sure he was not healthy and strong. I'm sure he had plenty of problems right But he says When I cannot I cannot speak out of human words Because It's not it's not in me when I preach it will I will preach the gospel nothing else And when I preach the gospel there is demonstrations of spirited power. It's not me. It's the spirit of god working in me So wonderfully paul is bringing it across. He's saying I but naturally I'm a weak person I'm weak. I'm fearful. I'm trembling Because I probably don't want to die. I don't want to be in this position but This is what it is if I open my mouth. I'm going to preach the gospel And if I preach there's going to be science wonders in medicals and because of that people are you know Behind me trying to kill me get rid of But what do I do? I will continue to preach right persuasive Words also means enticing To entice people. Hey, why don't you believe in jesus? and you know You god would bless you with everything god will give you all the money you need and There's no enticing Right. There was no saying that everything would be fine. No paul knew after accepting the you know If jesus christ has his personal savior everything didn't go well There were challenges. There were difficulties But this is what the cross is Right now. This is very important ministry In a day and age that we are in and I feel sad to say that there were plenty of sermons that I've heard Only the last two or three minutes they talk about jesus the whole sermon is all about positive thinking positive preaching positive Words and all these things Now it's good But there are no references. There's no the the bible has so much to offer We must do our best In preaching and teaching Right and we must stay away from depending on human elements now When I say human elements now does not mean that you know, for example, if I'm teaching children, I'm going to use Certain craft and certain things to uh, you know get the point across that's okay Right. That's not like slick marketing or some motivational speech Uh, but it's trying to get through the audience, right? uh Use the tools god has given right but even as you use the tools, let not the tools be highlighted But through the tools let the point of the gospel of jesus be you know come out What you you know, it's commonly stated here in the notes What you draw them with is what you draw them to If I'm drawing people with uh With my charisma or my speech or my intellect They will get drawn to that Have you ever wondered why why these motivational speak speakers have hundreds and thousands of them following Because they portray that their life is perfect And by being positive everything in this world is enough. We got to love one another right, uh, you know and and the belief systems are really Or most most of them are taken from the from the bible When respect one another love one another Uh, but you don't need a god for all of that. We can do it ourselves And I will teach you how to love I will teach you how to honor and so they're drawing people to themselves So the end of the day they're saying I wish I can be like him Not be like jesus Wish I could be like him Our goal is to establish people in God's word in the faith And in the power of god Right that's that's that's our goal Right So remember this what you draw them with is what you draw them to I'm drawing people to my myself. I'm building my kingdom But if I'm drawing people to the gospel Building the kingdom of god, so people will come and go Right, uh But church will continue Right, uh, and that's what it is because you're drawing them to people to god and not to the person Right, uh, and I could say this You know with all confidence, you know one thing that I've noticed is you know Yeah, right now. I'm looking at As a pastor in the church at east before me. There was another pastor He did a wonderful work. He moved on. He's moved to another country And so now I've taken over. I know a lot of them in the church because I used to Visit the church and lead the worship before But all of them their eyes are fixed on jesus and that's so powerful It's not about the leader. Yes, we do miss People, you know who have come and sold but it's all about jesus And I love this No, so there's so much of freedom in our in the ministry. No, I don't have to prove myself I don't have to say. Oh, here. You know what I'll try to do as good as that person. It's not about that It's about god God you are being glorified. It's not about the leader here Use him to take us closer to you And so this is what a church must be. This is what ministries should do Right where six to ten paul is bringing about What the holy spirit does in our lives six and seven? However, we speak the wisdom of god among those who are mature Yet not the wisdom of this age not the rulers of this age Where we who are who are coming to nothing but we speak The wisdom of god in a mystery The hidden wisdom which god ordained before the ages of our fault for our glory now The wisdom that you and I engage in Is what is once a mystery? It was a secret Right, it is conceived. It was kept a secret right now god gave us the wisdom to Understand it to perceive it He opened it to us. It's no more a secret But it is a secret or it's concealed for those who have Who are with the wisdom of this world Right, so if I go to a Maybe a guru who's very learned Right He's got the same principles love joy peace patience kindness all of that But if I tell him here, you know what Jesus did this for us Jesus became share the cross of Jesus Christ. It will be an offense to him Oh, it's it. No, I'm not going to accept this Does he have wisdom? Yes, but it's of the world. It's going to be a nothing right God has predetermined or planned before the ages to reveal this mystery in his time God revealed it to us right Was it says which none of the rulers of this age knew right Now when you look at what's happening around us, we may have rulers who are Very well, you know equipped and very knowledgeable They don't know It's a mystery to them. It's hidden to them. Why? Because the god of this age has blinded them right If they had known the mystery They would have known that Jesus the crucified Jesus Is is Christ and in an attempt to stop the purposes of God Right, they would have not wanted God's wonderful plan of salvation To be made known available now picture the Jews right If they knew that this was God's plan That Yahweh Jehovah is saying my son Jesus Christ must die on the cross And through him their salvation if they knew they would have done all their best not to not to crucify Jesus Or the Romans would have said no they will not crucify Because they know okay, this is the purposes of God. God wants it to happen But they didn't know right The rulers of this age didn't know now it's interesting to see Paul uses the word This whole sentence the rulers of this age in two ways. One is the natural rulers And two is the demonic powers or the principalities Ephesians 6 12 talks about The rulers of the age so It could be both. It could be a double reference here Our demonic power and the current natural rulers during that time Right, verse nine, but it is written I has not seen your has not heard nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God Has prepared for those who love him. Now Paul is referencing to Isaiah 64 He says God has great mysteries Prepared for those who love him Right, even you and me each one of us are in a journey, right? We accept the Lord we We're walking on this journey and he has great mysteries He has already given us the wisdom That you know, he's revealed it to us. The secret has been open to us That we have believed the Messiah we believed in Jesus. We're living a life that's honorable to him as his children But there is so much more Great mysteries of God. He's going to continue to reveal it The more we are in his presence and one day, you know, there's a song which says right uh One day I will see What I've been singing of Right And the song right all the saints and eight angels bow before your throne And I think they sing holy, holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty We're singing about the ancient of days sitting on the throne. We're singing about his beautiful Uh nature his power and we will see all of it Here in this life and one day we will see it when we meet with him What eyes have not seen what yours have not heard God has prepared such wonderful things for us What an assurance we have Right Worse than But God has revealed them to us through his spirit For the spirit searches all things The deep things of God God revealed it to us by his spirit Well, you know, it's such a privilege here Jesus in us the spirit of God in us He knows all things The deep things of God and he reveals it to us Now I had a problem with this was and I first came up with you. I thought to myself God has revealed it to us through the through his spirit, but Lord I I I don't feel you're talking to me in any way. I'm praying I'm reading your word, but I don't You know, you're not speaking anything Right speak to me So I have to feel God, you know, there is a certain limit of what God wants us to know But that's so wrong God wants to reveal greater mysteries to us By his Holy Spirit He wants to Right because the spirit of God Is the one who's revealing the things of God Right and so the more we You know last class we talked about, you know, the fellowship that we can have with the Holy Spirit the more we spend Time cohenonia with the Holy Spirit The more he's willing to reveal the things of God to us Now it may not be You know global things that God is revealing to us You may not say, okay next year the pandemic You know, he never told anybody about it. Probably he did many many years ago. I was reading I was uh listening to this video by Pastor David Wilkerson 1976 Or 1978 I forget the year But I think it's early 1970s or late 70s early 80s and he's he's talking about A great pandemic that will come across and hit and everything will be closed And there will be a turning of hearts during that time But also there will be death during the time and many Theologians and you know, many of them say that he was prophetically talking about Covid So God can reveal global things. God can reveal even simple things for our life Simple as such as You know, I want you to talk to this person Tell him that I love it The spirit of God revealing the things of God Right Or you know, the holy spirit made to say may reveal to us bigger things Uh, do this for the church Do this in your ministry Right and this is how I'm going to minister to the people or this month you talk about Healing and holdings or next month you talk about power It is all God revealing things to us Right Let's go on Verse 11 and 12 for what man knows The things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him Even so even so no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God now This is so what it makes for one sense, right? It is the spirit within a person that really knows our motives and our thoughts Right So you know who you really are The spirit inside of me knows who I really am right Now for example, oh growing up. I've always been an introvert. So I know I'm an introvert like I know that okay You know too much of crowd all these things. Uh, I try to stay alone. That's that's who I am right? That's my That's a nature. That's my spirit being my inner person Right, even now after so many years in ministry, even though we are called to talk to people we have we have to be people Our persons right in ministry, but there are times I I feel You know, okay. I just want to be alone It's there inside me. It's because I know that's who I am right now We are as as pastors. We have to step out of the boat and you know come out of our comfort. So but My nature's still there. You know that whole thing of being an introvert And I know myself now the Holy Spirit reveals What God wants to reveal in us right what who God is What are the purposes of God or the Holy Spirit being in us so that we will Perceive and understand and know the things that God has for us right Don't let the devil you know try to Snatch away or steal your joy There was this one time this happened last week You know, I just felt so weak felt God Where are you? It was just a cry inside. I know I need you. I need your Holy Spirit to strengthen me at this moment That moment I felt the Holy Spirit tell me that the devil is trying to Bring certain thoughts into you or rebuke that Repute the plan of the devil I took authority and I said I rebuke Or you made me, you know, somewhere I felt like, you know, I'm lost Lost and this whole ministry lost just completely lost I took authority and I said I am a child of God a son of God I have sonship authority I'm not going to let the enemy try to Attack my mind My my thoughts kind of continue the work of the ministry Right now, listen When you plan to start the ministry or when you're in the ministry, the devil is going to come It every way every temptation from hell is going to try and come and thank you You need the Holy Spirit inside you to overpower The Holy Spirit is the one who gives us the ability to Overcome He imparts in us strength. He transfers and he communicates the wisdom of God into us So I took authority. I said I command you devil I am a child of God. I may not feel it right now. I may not Walk, I may not sense it right now, but I know that I'm a child of God and that moment there was a release And the Holy Spirit did its work at that moment Right, so that's why we need him It cannot go on with our life without the Holy Spirit, right? The natural man does not receive the things of God things of the spirit of God for their foolishness to him Right that we talked about that, right? Our natural senses are sent the natural man is sense ruled He's living purely on the natural senses and has nothing no inclination towards God now We did talk about these right to God uses our natural faculties also so God can use our natural faculties to now for example if we are Preparing a sermon God gives us a topic. Okay this week. I want you to talk about a heart of thanksgiving Right and you just feel that okay the Holy Spirit is revealing to you now The Holy Spirit is not going to give us point by point what to preach That's where we have to use our natural faculties. We're going to go we got to research We got to learn we got to put our examples in you got to make a good sermon and preach it I can go on this Pulpit and say you know what the Holy Spirit given me the message a heart of thanksgiving So since the Holy Spirit is given me the message I'm waiting for the Holy Spirit to give me the points No Right. He's given us the point the message we are to build on it Use our natural faculties, but we don't wholly depend on that right Verse 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things Yet he himself is rightly judged by no one Now a natural man is not qualified to judge a spiritual man Right why because both are operating on different levels And they're operated by two different means The natural man is governed by his own senses The spiritual man is guided by the spirit Now picture this okay I'm talking to a person from a different faith Hey God became flesh He lived on this world He lives as a perfect man And He had to deal with the sin of this world. So he died on the cross. He took our place And he rose again from the dead And now he's alive if we believe in it that is forgiveness of sins Right now If I'm talking this to somebody who is Operating from the natural mind, he's going to think okay Who's this man Jesus? Okay. Where did he come? When did he come? 2020 years ago 2000 years ago. Okay. He died on the cross. But why did he die? Because of the forgiveness of ourselves So if he died, how will your sins be forgiven? He's talking about his natural mind But if you talk to a believer or somebody who's guided by the Holy Spirit and you say Just talk about the cross. What happens to us? There's something happens, right? Even now as I'm saying this There's something happening, you know, I feel oh god You came you died on the cross It's the Holy Spirit, you know, he's saying he's It's it's the same message One is saying it doesn't make sense And the other person saying oh, what a powerful work of God Both guided by different spirits So a natural bad cannot judge the spiritual For natural man comes and tells you hey, uh Everyone I Want to go up the ladder and do well for their lives and uh, you know be successful in life But you yeah, you want to be successful? But what is this always going to church and Instead of coming for the meetings on Sunday, you're going to Church and the whole day of spending in church, you know, why don't we go out and enjoy those Monday to Friday working hard But you are going to church and all doing all this but then it won't make sense But for us it does Right because we are guided Anointed by the Holy Spirit Verse 16 who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him We have the mind of Christ You know Isaiah says right God's ways and thoughts are much higher than man's But because for us as believers the Holy Spirit has been given to us You and I can have the mind of Christ That means plans the purpose is the intense Of God through the Holy Spirit can dwell upon us Now how do we have the mind of Christ? Yes, the Holy Spirit is in us And so we ask the Holy Spirit reveal So for example somebody gets angry and shouts at you Our first intention is to give a difference. Hey, why are you shouting at me? I didn't do anything You should have told the other person But here's where the Holy Spirit comes into You know place where we say Holy Spirit give me the wisdom You know, it's one of the things I always say is WWJD Whenever I'm going through these difficult seasons or these challenges. I say WWJD. What would Jesus do? What would Jesus do? Holy Spirit reveal. What would Jesus do? And I try my best to do the right thing and many are times Many many are times You know, the Holy Spirit has you know, I was talking to people Or talking with my colleagues and the Holy Spirit has said stop Go and sit in your place many a times Right, maybe it was just someone wanted to talk which he didn't want me to talk Right, so stop Don't sit stop what you're talking or there are times I you know talking about something or Some song the Holy Spirit has said stop I don't want you to talk about this Right Just stop right why who's who's doing that? Because it is the mind of the holy it's the mind of God being released through the Holy Spirit to ask for it Now we must be sensitive to that It could be in our speech. It could be in our words what we are seeing what we're doing What we're thinking could be any of those Right We can ask the Holy Spirit to guide us Right and what does he do? He's revealing The heart the mind of the father to us The Paul is you know encouraging us here. It's such a wonderful encouragement That we have the mind of Christ We must learn to move from being natural men To being spiritual men Being led by the Holy Spirit Amen, so it's so wonderful, right? It's such a joy to Be part of what God is doing remember we may look foolish to the world But to God we are such a joy We're doing God's work God. We have the mind of Christ And the Holy Spirit the will the plan of God is going to be released in and through our lives It's okay. It's okay when you know people think they're foolish anyways You know the world is in a place where Nobody cares about anybody else So it doesn't think that don't think but what we are doing is we are focusing our mind on Christ and saying Lord, this is all about you We don't want to please people. We don't want to use our natural abilities or eloquence of speech or our natural wisdom to entice people But it is only the cross the gospel That can save people that limit the Christ Right, so we'll stop here. We'll pick up from Next week on chapter three. We were able to cover some good ground today Uh chapter three. We'll try to do chapter three and four next week Right before we close we have about five minutes any questions Any of you have questions or thoughts you'd like to share? any questions any thoughts Everyone are able to You know just understand and grasp everything that's being taught Yes, Christopher. Go ahead Charles, I'll come to you next Christopher you have a question I'm sorry. I think I pressed the wrong button by mistake. Oh, no problem. Okay, uh, Charles, did you have a question? No, it's not a question But um, it's it's something that I am seeing In the life of poor as he is writing God has totally decided to use him and he is revealing him Mysteries that At that time a guy who was a devotee a devotee um Guy who had studied the law who who was totally Alignated totally different He is speaking things that are deep and They they are holding meaning And they are understandable So I am really like when God has chosen you He will reveal to you He will reveal to you You are the one who said that he though he calls the unqualified but For sure. He has done a great work in Paul Using his base of having studied scholarly He has really used him. So I am looking at The the fact that we are studying these as we are studying these and we Empty ourselves to the Lord who will be able to use us. Thank you. Thank you so much Charles. Yes, so true Uh, I like what you said last Charles when we empty ourselves, right? I mean say God Not my credentials Not my abilities Not my titles If we empty ourselves and say God Reveal yourself Reveal your word reveal your purposes Right and we must not be discouraged. You know now remember the devil is a accuser, right? He'll say now you're praying Every day you're praying where you're not getting any revelation from God No, you're not getting any word from God. He may bring those accusations Be careful. He's He can try to you know, penetrate in every single And the good and paul. I think it was paul who said that, you know Don't give the devil a foothold lest he takes the whole entire space or the entire room What do we say for example, this is you're praying And you don't sense the Lord or the Holy Spirit revealing any great mysteries to us. It's all right One of the greatest mystery or the greatest wisdom has already been revealed to you You tell the devil. Hey the greatest mystery is already revealed to me. What is that? I was in darkness Jesus came the gospel has been revealed to me, which is the greatest Revelation that God can give me apart from that the other revelations. It's good But even if I don't get it Hey devil, you have no authority You cannot tell me that I'm not, you know, walking in the work of the Holy Spirit I'm not going to walk in my natural senses. I know Because the greatest revelation has already been revealed to me Right and so nothing can stop. So you you have to fight against the enemy Rose says it's amazing how the Lord worked on paul from inside out paul had to unlearn many things And turn around with a completely new perspective. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's true rose. He had to unlearn. Yes And I think those three years in the desert Was a time of unlearning and relearning That's why he says right what I heard from the Lord. I tell you What I received from the Lord Telling you the night, you know the Lord Jesus was betrayed So I'm sure during those three years in Arabia would have been great encounters. He also talks about his Visit to third heavens Says he heard utterances and things that he could not even speak of it's most probably during those Three years in the desert. So yes unlearning is also The Holy Spirit's work. He will help us. He makes us to unlearn and he says, you know, do it this way Right. Thank you so much for your thoughts everyone. We've come to the end of our session Let's quickly pray and close and then you can want your next session. That's great Father, we want to thank you for your word. That is so wonderful of God so powerful Thank you for what we study today That you have a God given us the spirit of God The Holy Spirit that we may understand And know the things of the spirit of God and not walk in our natural senses or thank you for the gospel for the cross And and and Lord it may be foolishness to those around us But Lord it's the power of God under salvation. Help us to know it Acknowledge it and walk as your children Lord. We pray for the students Even as they continue to study may they be deeper greater revelations Your Holy Spirit in and through their lives. Love you. Thank you, father You give you all the praise and glory and Jesus may be praying Amen. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful week ahead. I'll see you on next Monday. God bless.