 Okay So we're looking looking at some of the questions that were posted and we were answering the fourth question is Which is you know, how can a sinning man still speaking tongues and move on the gifts, right? So we saw that the Corinthian church being an example of that. But the thing is that we Spirit of God has been given to us so that we can be overcomers we can move away from that to break the power of sin Spirit of God has there to empower us to overcome sin Okay, so We have a question here from Elisha Is there any relationship between the baptism? gifts of the spirit and salvation well Could you just Okay, of course, you know, I haven't I when I look at these three terms we see that when we look at these three terms we see that it's The Holy Spirit is involved in all three Right gifts of the Spirit, of course gifts by the Holy Spirit And when we look at salvation that we are born again by the Spirit of God and of course the incorruptible Word of God so and then The baptism of the Holy Spirit which our baptism with the baptism in the Holy Spirit The Greek use there can be translated as baptism with a baptism in baptism off So we see that it again involves the Holy Spirit. Well, that's the That's something that we see as a common thread of all these three terms where the Holy Spirit is the one who brings that about in terms of you know progression well, the person is born again, which is the person is saved and The person is filled with the spirit baptized with a spirit and begins to You know move or receive the gifts of the spirit desire the gifts of the spirit and walk in the gifts of the spirit And so I would unless you have something more specific Elisha about this About this particular the question you could When the person Receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and does not operate in any of the gifts Doesn't mean that that individual cannot be saved Um, oh I see. Okay. No, so the person is saved, you know, how is the person born again a person is born again when you You know, I think we can let's look at the book of Acts if you See Christ as Lord and Savior One is born again So Yeah acts 38 repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins and and you Shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So So one is born again when confesses the name of the Lord Jesus and Receives forgiveness and is the person is born again, right? So so As a born again person What happens the Holy Spirit comes in in devels we are sealed by the Spirit of God as what we see in the epistles Paul writes and he says that, you know, you are sealed by the spirit the spirit of God is in dwelling us And he's helping us and as we have studied also, you know in the life of the believer How does the Holy Spirit help us in sanctification in living a holy life in empowering work? So he does all that, right? So the Holy Spirit isn't dwelling us now You know to be baptized in the spirit And maybe I can live in ignorance and not really desire that right? I can especially with regard to the gifts I can again live in ignorance or a wrong understanding of it and not really desire that and maybe even be fearful of that right as something not of God and So As a believer, you know, I can be born again have been dwelling presence of the spirit and not have the experience of being baptized in the spirit and not have the experience of Walking in the gifts of the spirit. It is it is possible Right, but that does not mean that I'm not born again. I'm a child of God and I'm accepted in the will of it Right and my destiny has changed. I'm going to be with Jesus That all that assurance of salvage and everything is there and the Holy Spirit will lead me, you know He will give me opportunities will give a person opportunities to know the truth to to hunger and thirst for more of God and to know to walk this path of Of the believer, you know out of the disciple to be baptized and so on So yes ignorance wrong understanding maybe fear could keep me away from that, but that does not mean that a person is Not born again, right? I think that was your question. Yeah Okay So the next one is what does it mean when people refer to tongues Speaking as heavenly language. So it's again one corintines 13, right where Paul Right to the current in believers. He's talking about, you know, one corintines 12 He's listed the gifts and all the nine gifts are listed The second part of one corintines 12 is talked about the body of Christ How every believer is a member of the body of Christ towards the end of one corintines 12 He's talked about the some of the ministry gifts Yeah, you know, and he's talking about the apostle the prophet and so on Then one corintines 13 He's talking about love Being the motivating factor the foundation for the use of the gifts, right? So one corintines 13 and verse one. He says though I speak with tongues of men and of Angels but have not love I have become sounding brass Or a clanging symbol. So here, you know, he says though I speak with tongues of men and of Angels, so he's talking about the spiritual gifts. He's talking about You know the gifts of the spirit and here in particular reference to tongues He's saying though I speak with tongues of men and tongues of angels, you know, so then and that's the reference to the heavenly language tongues of men earthly earthly realm earthly language tongues of angels heavenly language, so that's the That is where this this whole reference To heavenly language this comes from Right That helps follow up as a follow-up on that Yeah Then would he be entirely true that to say that Satan does not understand tongues because we know Satan to be a fallen angel He comes from heaven. So if tongues is a language of Angels or heavenly language Would he be entirely true to say that Satan does not understand Yeah, so the thing is Satan Lucifer fallen angel so So I don't know just again my person my opinion that he would have known the tongues of angels you know to communicate with Michael or Gabriel so So that's the thing but so he might have known I'm just you know saying But the fact is that should not trouble the believer, you know, even if Satan or any other powers of darkness When I'm praying in tongues, you know, if they know that we should not trouble the believer because The believer has been given authority because of the victory that was One on the cross by the Lord the believer has been Given the authority given the wisdom to thwart To put down every fiery dart of the enemy Right. So when we walk with the Lord when we walk in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, we We have been given the authority as born again believers given given the authority so That should not trouble us Because the Lord Jesus in the in the commission he said, you know in the in commissioning of the disciples He said, you know, these signs will follow Those who believe they will cast out demons So many times that is the thing, you know, does Satan know, you know, what if he knows What if the powers of darkness, you know, know about these things that I'm praying about no problem We have been given the authority Right. Luke chapter 10 verse 19 talks about Our serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy. He has won the victory. Maybe I'll just read that verse exactly Yeah, look 10 verse 19 Behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you So that's that's the promise of the Lord for the believer So so it shouldn't it mean bother us. It really shouldn't bother us as we grow in the understanding of the authority that he's given us As we grow in intimacy with the Lord with them with the you know, as we increase in intimacy or grow in our Relationship with the Lord authority is just a Natural overflow of that outflow of that Yeah, does that help Alicia? Yeah Okay, let's welcome Okay, so let's let's just go through the list. Okay Okay, here's maybe I won't project the thing. I'll just put the questions here in the chat. Okay Yeah, here's an interesting question, let me just put it in the chat Okay, so once we receive the Holy Spirit, is it possible that he might leave because of some sin, okay Does anybody want to answer that? Once we receive the Holy Spirit is it possible that he might leave because of some sin Just think about whatever we discussed so far Why the Holy Spirit has come the purpose for which he has come the purpose for which he indwells the believer And so on and that should you know help us to answer this question Um Anyone okay, yeah, go ahead out this you can unmute and speak out of this. I can't hear you You can also put it in the chat Anyone? Yeah, I see many names here Collins John Paul Robert Leah Lama the beaker anyone When we receive the Holy Spirit, okay, no But repeat it since yeah since it's in itself grease the Holy Spirit Okay, so we can give you know very quickly we can give a resounding no as our response to that question And the reason is this okay? The reason is this you know John chapter 14 and if you look at verse You know verse Verses 15 and 16 night. This is the Lord Jesus teaching about the Holy Spirit to the disciples You know he's teaching about what will happen when he goes to the father. Okay, so Verse 15 if you love me keep my commandments verse 16 And I will pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever Okay, so he very clearly says that he may abide with you abide means to dwell to stay But he may stay with you forever and forever is a long time and forever is It is a long period of time. He doesn't give any conditions. You know that he may stay with you You know if you live a holy life or if you stay if he you know He'll stay with you as long as you're making righteous joy No, you say with you forever the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because neither season but he Dwells with you and will be in you Okay, and the time period given there and verse 15 verse 16 is forever and The reason is very simple and he has come to empower Empower us to live like Jesus right to do the good works to To break down the the works of the enemy in in our own lives in the lives of others Right to walk like Jesus to minister like Jesus And that's why he has come and Now it is possible for the believer to go back To to be a carnal believer to focus on the things of the flesh to be to entangled You know, maybe the person has fallen and you know getting entangled in various kinds of sin And the thing is the Holy Spirit is there to help the believer come out But he's he's convicting the believer. He's warning the believer Now he's empowering the believer, but the believer has to make the right choice, right? He will speak he will direct he will warn But the believer has to make the choice to obey So so that's the thing Again Roman scepter he talks about that that if you live a carnal life, you will die But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body How do you put to death the deeds of the body by the spirit like by the leading of the spirit? If you put to the deeds of the body, you will live again We see the we see the scripture walk in the spirit And you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh and which means that the desires of the flesh There is a draw, you know as long as we are in the flesh There is the temptation Satan also comes and you know say attempts, but if we walk in the spirit We will not desire the we will not fulfill the desires of the flesh so he helps us to walk a holy life he helps us to live a whole overcoming life and yes, the Even when the believer is fallen struggling with stronghold the Holy Spirit enables the believer to overcome and To break those chains and come out So praise God, right? I think a lot of us can testify to the work of the spirit And I for one can testify to the work of the spirit. I was a believer living a very carnal life You know Monday to Friday living a very carnal life or Monday to Saturday And this is many years ago, you know struggling with various kinds of things if not for the gift gifts of the spirit if not for the message of You know the identity in Christ, I would have lost my mind Because I was living, you know, there's only so much you can live You know Living in two worlds, right living as a carnal person living as so that that was my life But praise God For the anointing empowering the persistence of the Holy Spirit That I was able to come out. He took me out But I had to cooperate. He exposed my all my sins and everything and I had to you know come clean and He put me in to ministry So praise God, he will never leave but he is always the Lord himself said I will never leave you No for secure and with you till the end of the ages but if we don't You know obey his prompting if you don't follow his leading then, you know, we are You're literally wasting our life here on earth But if we follow if we if by the spirit put to death the deeds of the body, we will Live because we have been even created for that. We've been designed for that as one again believers, right? Okay, let's look at another question Okay, this is a question considering the person of the Holy Spirit Would it be wrong for any person to refer to him as Holy Spirit without the definite article? I don't think it's wrong Say, you know because there would of course definite article would mean you're referring to You know he's unique, etc. But it's not it won't be wrong to That's that was a question It's fine. It's it's I think it's just a case of semantics, right? Okay, so here's another question What are familiar spirits can a person who has a Holy Spirit Have a familiar spirit So, yeah, I just wanted your response on that Anyone who can answer yeah, so I just want to you know kind of say that you have a course on On the author on on demonology and dealing with Deliverance and healing and deliverance right which talks about we go into depths of that particular topic About the spirit spirit world and spirit and so on so we look at that But very quickly, you know about familiar spirits. We see that you know, there are different kinds of spirits, right? We see spirit of lust or unclean spirit and they Allying spirits and so on so they they're termed such because they carry out that function they bring about maybe their work is just to you know, create a or Tempt a person with lustful thoughts and and you know make them fall, right? So we see these kinds of spirits. So a familiar spirit would be familiar with the information about a person and and you know, we see that in even in when it comes to People trying to call out or bring up the spirit of the dead and so on a familiar spirit would pretend to be like, you know that person's spirit a Human spirit, but we know that you know, that is not possible because once a person dies Yeah, that goes to the presence of God or you know away from the presence of God, right? So a familiar spirit is some something with has the information tries to pretend like a spirit So so that anyway coming back to the question So can a person who has the Holy Spirit still have a familiar spirit? Well, the possibility is that as a person who's born again, I can open the door for the influence of You know spirit of darkness Right an evil spirit. So let me just say evil spirit for any kind of you know Category of spirits like familiar spirits, whatever, you know So as a believer it is possible that I open up some doors when I willfully walk in sin when I willfully Commit or when I dabble in the occult, you know as a believer When I do that then I'm opening up the door for I'm giving legal ground for you know Satan to step in to my life Bible Ephesians 4 talks about Don't give a foothold for the enemy let the Sun Not go down on your rock not give a foothold for the enemy now I Could give a foothold for the enemy, right? But the thing is that I Could open up for the influence of this but now that is very possible Okay, so that is possible, but to be Demonized by a spirit now that is not But now that that is not something it's to the extent to which I can give control over to You know a family spirit or any any spirit. Yes, it is possible for the for the believer child of God to give over Control right to open a door to the influence of the spirit Okay Let's look at another question Okay, I think this is mark chapter three twenty eight twenty nine How will we know that we have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit or What are the things that are against the Holy Spirit that will lead us to eternal condemnation? So let's look at mark three Twenty eight twenty nine So this refers to the Lord Jesus He's coming and he's he's just finished the deliverance and and people are saying that The Lord Jesus has Beelzebub or And then they're saying by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons he's employing the power of Demons in order to cast out demons well the reality is the demon was cast out right? So then the Lord gives the explanation he says how can Satan cast out Satan if a kingdom is divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand and and so on and then he says I Surely, I say to you all sins will be forgiven the sons of men and whatever Blasphemies they may utter but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiven us but a subject to eternal condemnation Right. So so this is what he says so the thing is I Think we did you know address this about the blasphemy blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and You know we looked at it in the earlier chapter. So I won't go into the details of that but just to say that You know when we attribute the works of the Holy Spirit to the works of works of demon and we when we're doing when we did do it knowingly because if we say if you look at it they They were it's not like they were ignorant of the fact But they they wanted their own positions to be secure, you know time and again if you look at You know the Pharisees the scribes and and how they dealt with the interacted with the Lord Jesus. You see that It's not that they wanted they asked questions not it's not that they wanted to know the truth But they wanted to trap him. Okay, so they motive for making these statements the motive for Seeing these things it's not because they wanted to know the truth or they were declaring truth, but knowing what the truth is they were Willingly rebelling against the truth Okay So here are these teachers of the law and the Lord is saying, you know, you are actually blaspheming you are attributing what God has done And you're attributing that to the work of the enemy and you're continuing to attribute that to the work of the enemy Now that's a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and that will not be forgiven because you're continuing to do that knowing the truth You continue to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and you're continuing to do that So that's what the Lord says now What are the things against the Holy Spirit that lead us to eternal condemnation that's the second part of the question So the thing is this In the in the scripture, you know, we looked at Hebrews Say Hebrews 10 We know that we are saved by the grace of God. We know that we are born again by the grace of God we know that we fall and And the spirit of God enables us brings us to conviction Enables us to rise up again and walk in righteousness Now Hebrews 10 26 talks about a scenario where a Person is sinning willfully and Who's rejecting Christ The son of God who's tramples the son of God underfoot it says in verse 29 countered the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing and Insulted the spirit of grace. Okay, so it's doing a list of things here So totally rejecting the work of salvation Okay, a person is so scarred or seared the conscience after having known the truth and It says that You know in such a scenario In such a scenario Then well, it's it's it's difficult. It's very difficult for that person to come back You know, that's what it says here that Let me just read Oh, yeah For if we okay verse 26 itself for if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth They're no longer remains a sacrifice. That's a reality, but a certain fearful Expectation of judgment and the fiery indignation which will develop the adversary now We need to read through the rest of the verses also is talks about You know rejecting the son Counting the blood of the common and the common thing and then insulting the spirit of grace, etc So there's a so he talks about a person who's willfully doing that and then was 30 90 close The chapter was saying that but we are not of those who draw back draw back to perdition But of those who believe to the saving of the soul so So that's that is what you know is expected of us, you know another place where The writer of Hebrews also says a similar thing is in Hebrews 6 and verse 9 and he talks about again the same things for if they've Let's say Hebrews 6 and verse 6 Verse 4 onward, sorry for it is impossible for those who have once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have become Partics or partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come if they fall away Okay, now that falling away is a willful walking away willful rejection if they fall away to renew them again to repentance Since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open shame and then refers Seven and eight talks about how the earth drinks in the rain You know bears is expected to bear useful be useful and bear herbs useful for those cultivated Receives blessings from God, but you know if it does not then Only thorns and briars are there and it is rejected, right? But in verse 9 saying but beloved we are confident of better things concerning you Yes, things that accompany salvation though. We speak in this Manor so it's a it's a warning But it's also talks about the reality that a person can actually reject so this would you know I just place it and probably you know stop there saying that yes It is possible if a person willfully rejects everything But we also know that the grace of God is able to save to the uttermost which means that God is going to give that person You know an opportunity to turn back an opportunity to turn back opportunity to turn back till the very end But till the very end if the person does not turn back Right if it does a person continues to reject the offer of God then Yes, there is nothing else no other option but eternal company But it's a very very difficult thing to reach that place for a believer You know sometimes we think it's easy No, it's it's difficult because of the grace of God because of the persistence of the Holy Spirit It is the difficult thing, right? Because God is going to pursue that person till the very end But it involves will a choice that the person has to make as well Okay Okay, so some very interesting questions Okay, how can a person hear the voice of this Holy Spirit? I think we won't go into that Okay, I Think we've looked at it in detail in the course You can always refer to the videos if you want to refresh Your understanding of it. Okay question number 11. So my question is can evil spirits still influence man Even when he has God's spirit, okay, I think that we looked at that as well Okay, last question What is the difference between indwelling When we put that trust and the baptism? It is a visit one thing or a continuous process. Okay, I think that also we have at rest So we won't go into that. We know there is a difference between the inf indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit When we are born again, Holy Spirit comes in and dwells the believer. We are sealed by the the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit comes in and dwells us as a guarantee You know as an earnest for what is to come. So that's what happens to the believer When we talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there's an experience that That God takes the believer through to empower the believer for the sake of others like we see the Lord Jesus telling the disciples that He will accept a one that you will be empowered to be witnesses in Jerusalem today and the uttermost parts of the earth, right? So So that is the thing it's it's baptism a continue a one-time event or a continuous process Well, we read we see that there is the baptism of the Holy Spirit and there are several Infillings of the Holy Spirit or anointing of the Holy Spirit The we see an accept to to that people were baptized by the Spirit We see, you know Later also that when they gathered together That they were filled with the Spirit And the whole place was shaken, right? Then we read about Peter and John that they filled by the Spirit they addressed the people Those who were questioning so we see that it is a continuous process of being filled with the Spirit and We are commanded to be filled with the Spirit Ephesians talks about the Paul writes and he says you know be filled with the Spirit and Not with wine in which is dissipation be filled with the Spirit accept, sorry, Ephesians chapter 5 and Verse 18 do not be drunk with wine in which is dissipation But be filled with the Spirit and the and the Greek there is to go on Continue being filled with the Holy Spirit like be filled with the Holy Spirit. So it is a Continuous thing. It's not just an event, but it's a continuous process all through life that every day Every moment to be filled with the Spirit of God, right? Okay With that, I think we've come to the end of the questions end of we finished the the course Any any questions any further questions from your from your side I have a question on the charge Yes, you put it. Okay. Why is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? Unforgivable. Okay. Sorry. I missed out that. Okay. The only reason that we see is that blasphemy is for it especially in the context of you know what happened here with the Lord who's you know Who was blasphemed against so we see that the Lord they're giving the explanation Because I'm sorry, the scenario is that the people who actually knew That it was a work of God did not attribute it to God but attributed it to the devil. So so that is the explanation, you know, we see that they knew the truth but did not act we did not accept the truth but chose to rebel against the truth and but more importantly, they were actually calling a work of God as the work of the devil and so they were blaspheming against the work of the Holy Spirit and that's the only Understanding that we see here that it was a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit They were attributing the work of God to be the work to the enemy Having known the truth. So So the Lord Jesus says that this is not, you know, it is unforgivable Yeah But having said that, you know, I just wanted to say that, you know, if a man repents Okay, so here it's a scenario where a person knows the truth is unwilling to submit to the truth continuing to speak against the truth right For several reasons. I don't want to lose my position. I would do, you know, whatever pride call it pride, whatever But if the same person turns around and submits to the truth and asks for forgiveness The Lord is there to forgive One John 1 9 talks about that that if we confess our sins that he is just He's faithful and just to forgive us of all unrighteousness. So that promise holds true, but this unforgiveness Is for someone who is continuing, you know, unwilling to To come around and To accept the truth. So says that it is not it will not be forgiven I mean, that's that is what we see, you know, that's what we can learn from the from these verses Okay. Okay, so shall we pray and close? Yeah, so just want to say today, I think it was almost a full class. I'm quite surprised. I think I Missed seeing some of you guys in the earlier classes or whatever reason what I'm yeah, I'm glad that you could join and Yeah, it was it was good going through this entire course material It's a very important topic and something that we can grow in our understanding over and over again and as we looked at, you know, some of the The aspects of some of the gifts of the spirit Just want to remind us again what Paul Wrote to the Corinthians 1 Corinthians 14 Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. Just remind yourself every day you know pursue the love of God pursue the agape of God and Desire spiritual gifts the reason to pursue the love of God is to grow in our intimacy with God Grow in our relationship with God, right? So you can hear the whispers of the Holy Spirit Clearly being sensitive to it, right and and being obedient to the instructions and by the same token, you know, he says that Pursue or desire spiritual gifts. The reason is that strongly desire The spiritual gives because God wants to show himself strong in these in these through these gifts and God wants you to be a minister of Righteousness and minister and power the way he Himself minister the Lord wants you wants us to be strong in that, right? So every day just remind yourself, you know, I'm gonna pursue love I'm gonna pursue God. I'm gonna pursue the character of God I'm gonna be Christ like in my choices in my thinking and my speaking and at the same time I'm going to desire go after The gifts go after the power of God go after the spiritual gifts. It's not one or the other Right, it's both character of God and the power of God and that's how The Lord wants us as believers to minister to walk it. That is how we will perfectly You know, we will represent him perfectly to the world that is outside, right? Not with one leaving out the other Okay, so let's pray and and we'll close. Okay Okay, father, we we thank you Lord. We thank you for this time spent in your word Lord these Several months father. We thank you for the Understanding that you've given us the elimination through the work of your spirit to our hearts Lord father We just want to thank you for your presence in our lives God We thank you for the work of your spirit Lord We thank you for leading us and I pray God today that for each and every person in class God who's here and Who's not not here as well I pray that Lord that you'll continue to take them From strength to strength and from glory to glory. Yes, Lord. I pray that each one of us will Grow in our understanding of you grow in our relationship with you grow in intimacy God And Lord that each one of us will also desire the spiritual gifts Lord in order to Edify the church not to destroy the body of believers not to be a blessing God in other people's the lives of other people and To glorify your name God because the we read that your spirit glorify exalts Jesus But your name will be exalted in and through our lives and Lord we to this end We commit ourselves. We pray that you'll continue to take us on this path that we might be a blessing to others Maybe grow in relationship. Maybe grow in our relationship with you Maybe grow in our love for you may be growing faith Maybe grow in understanding and revelation of scriptures. Maybe grow in authority or maybe grow in the anointing gun and Yes, Lord, we just want to be vessels of honor in your hand and dispensers of the aroma of Christ in each and every place We thank you We give you all the praise and we give you all the glory and Jesus matchless name. We pray Amen Okay, thank you. God bless you all Hope to catch up with you guys Next semester if you're if you're doing any of the other courses, right? God bless you. Bye