 let's pray in tongues thank you lord thank you father god thank you thank you lord thank you father god thank you lord thank you lord when we pray in the spirit lord we are being edified made strong in the inner man thank you god you know you might be feeling drained you might be feeling weak this morning but as you pray in the Holy Spirit as you pray in tongues you know you are being refreshed we are being strengthened in the inner man and good things are happening you know fear is being removed faith is coming in anxiety is going out and joy is being poured in because it's the prayer of the Holy Spirit in the presence of the Holy Spirit there's freedom and liberty in the presence of God there is joy the kingdom of God is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit in the Holy Ghost so just go ahead and just pray with confidence right just pray with boldness pray with confidence let your focus be on God let your focus be on him and say Lord what you want me to do God and what you want to do in me God you do it for those of you who have not yet started you know praying in the Holy Spirit you know maybe you can just ask and say Lord you fill me and I just want to take a step of faith and pray out and whatever those words that God is putting in your heart right whatever syllables that the Spirit is putting in your heart Spirit of God is putting in your heart those sounds you know you make those sounds words are just sounds right and sometimes these words yeah it doesn't have any meaning when we pray in tongues but what God declares Paul says that I mean I pray in a tongue my understanding is unfruitful right so he doesn't understand but he's praise it out in faith so it could be like that it could be a sound so go ahead and speak out you know give voice to that sound that you feel the urge in your spirit right just go ahead let's let's just take one more minute to do this you know in the morning devotion like caramel sharing about the rich man who went away sorrowful because he had a lot of positions and you know he didn't want to give up right but maybe the Lord is giving us strength to give up giving us strength to give up and that happens when we pray in the spirit so let's just pray maybe you're saying I don't have the strength to give up well the Lord will give you the strength to give up some of those things that you need to give up right and so yeah let's pray thank you Lord thank you Father God we just want to thank you Lord for this day Master we thank you for your presence in our lives we thank you for the indwelling presence of your Holy Spirit Lord we thank you for this wonderful gift oh God of praying in tongues and Lord we thank you for all that you bring into our lives Father God we thank you for the strength that you bring in we thank you for those things that you remove take out of our lives of God and we just want to thank you for the anointing Lord of your Holy Spirit O Master we thank you for empowering us by your Spirit God to live for you Father God we thank you for everything life transformation that happens because of your work in our lives of Father God we thank you that you are Emmanuel God with us by your spirit oh God and yes master we just commit this day we commit this time into your mighty hands in Jesus name we pray amen amen okay right um let's uh let's pick up from where we uh stopped last class um we've been looking at um the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Lord Jesus right that's what we stopped um last time so um we looked at um the work of the Holy Spirit just before right or at the time the Lord Jesus um came in or he was born right you remember that was it the something that we saw right what happened when uh the events of the Lord Jesus being before he was being born what the Holy Spirit did you know in the lives of those people and then we looked at the whole life the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus right um and uh how he was led by the spirit into the wilderness and to overcome the temptation of the enemy right temptation of the devil so he did that and then he came in the power of the Holy Spirit and he started his ministry earthly ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit that's what he did right okay so today uh we're gonna just continue with um the uh you know but you remember one one important thing that we studied last time last class we ended with that what is that anyone one very important truth um we ended with that what is that yeah so when um and uh yeah so what you're saying is that he kept aside certain things and then he walked in the power of the Holy Spirit as a man when he ministered on the earth and which passage did we study which verse did we look at anyone anyone okay is everyone going back and reading the notes no hey you need to do that okay you really need to do that um go back after you finish the class the same day feed it you know if you have questions right there you need to do that okay so we looked at one Greek word okay kinosus right and um kenwo which means that he emptied himself okay and the and the scripture portion that we saw was Philippians chapter two right Philippians chapter two and um it talks about how the Lord Jesus emptied himself and he though he was um let's let's read that right um Philippians two and uh verse seven sorry six and seven right who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bond servant and coming in the likeness of men okay and that um that the word there refers to the fact refers to an emptying of oneself okay and we looked at several other scripture where the Lord Jesus talks about how he left the glory that he had with the father at the time of creation okay so we we need to understand one thing that is very important is the Lord Jesus he is God he was God when he walked on the earth right but the things that he did when he ministered right he did as man empowered by the Holy Spirit okay there's a difference right he he is deity not for a second was he not God right but the thing that he thinks that he did he walked in the glory you know we use that word glory which meant uh you know the Greek word doxa what is so what does glory mean who God is and what he does right so a making apparent a manifestation okay a display of who God is and what he does that is glory right so the Holy Spirit in him glorified or manifest he walked in the glory of the sun okay we looked at uh John uh three scriptures and John okay uh let's let's just go there um okay John 1 and verse 14 okay John chapter 1 verse 14 can somebody read that yeah yeah so he says and we beheld his glory so what what is John saying we saw his glory okay we saw who he was we saw what he did we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father which means the glory of the sun we saw okay then another another verse that we can look at is John chapter 17 okay John chapter 17 and verse 5 17 and verse 5 says and now oh father glorify me together with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was now who says these words the Lord Jesus so he's he's he's revealing a very important truth here even as he's praying to the father and John records that and he says this is what it is that the Lord is saying Lord now you glorify me with the glory that I had with you uh even before the world began okay so he's talking about his deity and he's also talking about the glory which he which he had so which means that in on earth when he walked when he preached when he taught when he did the things that he did he walked in a certain different kind of glory which we call we can call as sonship glory you know because it says John chapter 1 verse 14 says the glory as of the only begotten of the father meaning as the as the son right the same chapter verse 22 okay what does it say and the glory which you gave me I have given them that they may be one just as we are so he's saying okay this glory now I'm giving to you I'm giving them meaning his disciples his followers the same kind of glory who I wore who I when I walked in and the and the power that I walked in I'm giving them so that they may be one they might they might be united okay and just as we are one he says something amazing right okay so let's move on what did the apostles and what did the Lord Jesus himself say about his ministry and how he did what he did etc okay let's look at Luke chapter 4 okay Luke 4 and yeah verse verse 17 18 Luke chapter 4 there's a 17 and 18 okay Luke chapter 4 maybe we'll yeah 17 to 21 actually we can read it so this is what the Lord says right he Lord did and he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah and when he was when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord verse 20 when he closed the book gave it back to the attendant and sat down and the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began to say to them today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing okay so he's this was a prophetic scripture from the book of Isaiah that he read out okay what is the verse say verse 18 the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me okay so he's talking about the work of the Holy Spirit he's saying work of the spirit of the Lord is upon me and he has anointed me and he lists down all the other things all the things it's like a job description like when you when you join a company or you know a place of work they'll give you you know in your appointment letter okay this is your job description this is what you need to do you know this is what you know these are the things that your job involves your work involves right it's like his job description he's just reading it you know he's reading it are you saying he's anointed me to do all these to preach the gospel to heal the broken hearted to proclaim liberty the recovery of sight to the blind proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and then he closes the book gives it back and he says today this is fulfilled in your hearing okay so he's saying I've been anointed by the Holy Spirit to do this the Spirit of God is upon me and I'm going to do this okay so we the Lord Jesus himself talks about the anointing of the Holy Spirit he says I'm going to do this because of the power of the Holy Spirit right now these are important things because we're going to talk about something at the end of it so let's let's just continue right Matthew 12 verse 28 Matthew 12 and verse 28 the Lord is saying this is immediately after he casts out the yeah the the demon out of the person who was blind and mute okay this person was blind he could not see he was mute he could not speak okay he could not see he could not speak and the Lord ministered and he cast out the demon Matthew 12 okay so what is he saying seeing here um Matthew 12 and verse 28 right if I cast out demons then he explains how by the Spirit of God surely the kingdom of God has come upon you how is he casting out demons by the Spirit of God which means by the work of the Holy Spirit by the empowering work of the Holy Spirit so he's saying if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God surely the kingdom of God has come over you the rule and reign of the Lord his kingdom has come upon you okay so again the words of the Lord Jesus right let's look at Hebrews chapter two Hebrews two verses three and four okay Hebrews two verses three and four okay Hebrews two was three how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him God also bearing witness both with science and wonders with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own well that's verse four like verse three how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation we're spoken by the Lord and confirmed by the Father right so the Lord came preaching and he preached and taught them and he's here he says God bearing witness what does bearing witness mean when you say uh yeah I was a witness to that what does it mean when you did something and you're saying uh yeah I can I can testify to that you're giving evidence right I was there this is what happened so when the Lord ministered when he preached and when he taught and when he ministered the Father was bearing witness meaning he was testifying to the ministry with science and wonders and miracles and it says by the gifts of the Holy Spirit by the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit okay so the writer of Hebrews is saying this is what it is the Lord Jesus ministered and the Father confirmed it uh it gave evidence to that by the gifts of the Spirit by the empowering of the Holy Spirit okay um one more verse Acts 10 and verse 38 okay Acts 10 verse 38 so this is Luke right he's writing that um the words of Peter right how God okay Acts 10 verse 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him okay so all these verses you know in in the Lord Jesus own words um we saw uh in Luke chapter 4 in the words of the writers of Hebrew and Acts we see that everyone recognize the Lord is doing something the earthly ministry by the power of the Holy Spirit okay so that is something for us to understand okay so he came to the earth he walked in sonship glory and the things that he did he ministered by the power of the Holy Spirit okay now um let's move on to um to look at another aspect okay so why is this important the fact that the Lord Jesus did what he did by the power of the Holy Spirit because the Lord Jesus turns around and he asks his followers to do the same thing okay he says okay you go preach the gospel right you go baptize everyone in the name of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit you you teach them you know teaching them to observe all the things that I have taught you and this teaching is not just with mere words but with the power of the Holy Spirit accompanied with signs wonders and miracles because he says okay you go lay hands on the sick right you will cast out demons and you will pray with new tongues that he says all this and all that is because of the power of the Holy Spirit right so because we might say God you know that is Jesus and this is me right Jesus could do that because he is God and how can you know how can I do it it's unfair to expect me a very finite human being how can he expect me to do that that could be a question right how can I do that the fact is this you know it is not us it's not our ability but it's the power of the Holy Spirit who indwells us right so when we say Jesus is our example you know we follow him he's in his footsteps these are examples so this is also one of the examples that he ministered by the power of the Holy Spirit so we we are saying Lord Holy Spirit you come you fill us you change us and you work in as you work through us right very important right okay so let's look at some of the verses here what the Lord Jesus taught okay John chapter 14 and verse 12 John chapter 14 and verse 12 okay most assuredly I say to you he who believes in me the works that I do he will do also and greater works than these he will do because I go to my father okay very challenging words right inspiring words but very challenging words yeah so he's he's saying he who believes in me the works that I do he will do also right so it puts an end to all that argument right oh he is Jesus he is God and how can expect me the Lord himself is saying okay the works that I do you will do also so he's just you know he's giving us the benchmark for ministry he's giving us a standard for ministry and saying okay this is what it is okay and he says something he gives a key you know he gives the answer there right there how he will do that okay so he says that the second part of that verse he says greater works than these he will do because I go to my father okay so he's going to the father he's ascending to the father and he's saying greater works than these he will do the works that I do he will do greater works than these he will do because I go to my father and the key is this because he's going to the father he was sending the comfort up he's sending the Holy Spirit okay you look at the verse before that verse 12 right most assuredly I say to you he who believes sorry the verse 12 is just what we did just read the verse after that and whatever you ask in my name I will do that the father may be glorified in the sun if you ask anything in my name I will do it verse 15 if you love me keep my commandments and verse 16 I pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever and who's this helper the spirit of truth the Holy Spirit right so the Lord Jesus is making a very important statement here and we as believers you know this is something that we need to really grasp take a hold of and say okay you know this is what he did and every time we read the Gospels and every time we see the Lord Jesus doing some amazing things and wonderful things and ministering you know these words should also be something that we remind ourselves of and the Lord did this the Lord is saying okay you will do these things he who believes in me will do these things right that we will minister in the same manner okay okay let's look at one more verse a couple more verses Luke chapter the last chapter Luke Luke 24 verses 48 and 49 okay Luke 24 48 and you are witnesses of these things behold I give you the promise I send the promise of my father upon you but daddy in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high okay saying you are witnesses of these things behold I send the promise of my father upon you okay and you wait there in Jerusalem till you are covered or endued with power from on high so that is that is something he's saying I send the promise of my father then let's turn to Acts chapter one okay Acts chapter one verse eight but you maybe we should we should just read the verse four right and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me okay so he's saying wait I'll send the promise of the father and then verse eight but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth okay so it's a lot very simply you know he's saying that this is what this is what it is that I will go I will send the promise of the father wait in Jerusalem till you are endued with power on high okay so all that goes on to prove that the Lord confirming the fact that he did what he did by the power of the Holy Spirit and he's looking to his followers and he's saying you know this is what you can do this is what you need to walk in and because I go to my father okay so any any doubts any questions any any any doubts yeah no doubts at all affirming it's true yes yeah yeah Nina anyone online class classroom any any questions anything that you might want to share add okay see this is a very important aspect of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit you know why he is there with us and and that scripture that we read you know yes he anointed Jesus to do this things right to share preach the gospel to open the eyes of the blind to set the captives free the ministry of the Lord Jesus and the Lord is looking to his people speaking to the followers looking to the disciples and saying okay this is what they will do also okay right okay so I'm sure as first year students we're also learning about our identity right okay so who we are in Christ okay so what is that one thing that you can tell me about identity what you've learned okay we'll start with Christmas what and what comes to your mind from your identity in Christ class you are what chosen purchased by God okay okay that stands out to you okay anyone else I forget your name next to Nina sorry Valencia okay Valencia for you what is it set apart okay Christ so when you when you say set apart it's like you know taking this like water bottles setting it apart okay so it's it's taken set separately for a particular purpose purpose and and also you know it's set apart from from something for something right so so you know okay I'm set apart from the world the things of the world but I will also set apart for something for a purpose okay things like that anyone sorry we are his children okay we are sons and daughters of God yeah so we've been born again by the spirit of God by the word of God so we are his children we are the family of God so many things right when we say children family of God we are heirs of God we have an inheritance all those things are there yeah okay let me look here to be more like Jesus called and set apart to reflect and be like Jesus in everyday life born again now we are a new creation yeah I just come back to Nina's comment in a little while okay we are made righteous by him yeah absolutely right so call and set apart reflect and be like him yeah in everyday life so that is part of our identity you know some of those things but this is also part of our identity what are we talking about the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit the anointing of the Holy Spirit to do those things that Christ has called us to to right that is also part of our identity as built as new creations as disciples okay so I think yeah Nina you made a comment about even reconciled redeem made righteous awesome I'm just looking at the comment that you said this was in connection with witness I guess you're referring to the the anointing the baptism of the Holy Spirit and referring to accept the one and verse eight right it says that you receive power and you shall be witnesses yes absolutely so that's the primary objective that you know when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit to be witnesses but it also says to be witnesses with power you know to receive the power to be witnesses and how did the Lord you know testify or witness about what was to come and how did he minister right so we are baptized we are anointed by him to be witnesses to to do so in the same manner that he did so that is the thing that we are filled with power to do that we're not powerless to do that of course power talks about transformed lives power talks about you know addictions change you know everything being broken but it also talks about ministering the way he did so it talks about christ likeness but it also talks about ministering the way he did you know ministering with power so good observation thank you okay so so this is something that we need to you know we need to understand we need to be we need to get comfortable with okay every time we see in the gospels every time we see the ministry of the Lord to say Lord you've called me for this okay so let's look at so we looked at Acts chapter 1 and verse 8 right and we see that because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit you know the Lord Jesus saying that you can do you know as believers as disciples you can do the things so for us that is a standard for ministry that is a standard for a normal christian life okay now I'm sure that you know when we studied about in christ identity you know you were challenged right in what way right because you read that and they're saying you're a new creation in christ and you are a new creation you're born again no more of unrighteousness but you're clothed with righteousness and righteousness of god in christ is what you're clothed with right you've been made the righteousness of god in christ so you know we see all and we are challenged by that challenged to renew our mind to conform to the truth so also you know when you look at this truth you see that we're challenged again okay no more excuses right we're challenged inspired to renew our mind to this truth this is the truth to renew our mind to the truth right so this so the thing to do is say yes yes lord you know I haven't experienced this so far I haven't seen it or maybe we have you know but to say yes lord I I receive this right I receive this I accept this and I invite this I just want to walk the way you did right so many times when we say I want to be like Jesus we're talking about character you know I want to be like him in love I want to be like him in compassion I want to be like him in forgiveness right I want to be like him christ like absolutely right we need to be but christ likeness involves character and gifting never forget that right two aspects right power and character gifting and character it's not a bad word power is not a bad word you know gifting is not a bad word right it becomes it becomes skewed or it becomes biased only when we do not consider the character which is the vessel right so christ likeness involves both okay right okay let's look at now we're going to look at some of the teachings of the of the lord when he taught about the Holy Spirit okay what did he speak about the Holy Spirit okay so we're talking we're just learning about the Holy Spirit we've looked at several things right what the Holy Spirit did in the Old Testament what he did in the New Testament what he did in the life of Jesus and now we've come to the place where what come to the place where we learn about what did the Lord Jesus talk about specifically about the Holy Spirit okay okay so let's look at a few verses here Matthew 10 and verse 20 okay Matthew chapter 10 and verse 20 okay what does it say can you even read out yeah it is not who you speak but the Spirit of the Father who speaks in you and why did he say that in what situation did he say that right he's sending out his disciples and he's saying I'm sending you into a very hostile environment right I'm sending you into a difficult place right so I'm sending you as sheep among wolves right it's hostile people are going to be against you people are going to be you know putting you in prison you know if you read that verse versus before that verse 16 on words he says behold I send you out as sheep in the midst of pools therefore be wisest serpents and harmless as derbs but beware of men for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles but when they deliver you up do not worry about how or what you should speak for it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak for it is not you who speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you so what he's saying is this you know when if you need to defend yourself if you need to and before that he's saying you will be witnesses in all these places you know if you look at the life of Paul he was a witness to kings and governors right because he was persecuted for his faith but in the very place where he was taken even taken before kings and governors he was a witness he testified about Jesus right and Jesus saying you know it's by the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit will give you the words to speak in those moments and you will testify okay let's look at Mark 13 okay so we're looking at the words of the Lord Jesus and what he's teaching again they when they arrest you and deliver you up do not worry beforehand or pre-meditate what you will speak but whatever is given to you in that hour speak that for it is not you who speak but the Holy Spirit so something important that we learn here that this Holy Spirit enables you to testify enables you to talk about Jesus enables you to witness okay and it's a it's not a comfortable place to witness it's not like everybody's waiting to hear it's not like somebody introduce you and say okay now brother so and so sister so and so will now share the testimony it's not like that it's like saying why did you talk about Jesus why are you doing the things that you're doing they're accusing right you are creating a problem you are a troublemaker and in that scenario the person is saying okay this is why I'm doing or I'm living the kind of life I'm living okay and here the Lord is saying it'll be given to you okay what you should speak the Holy Spirit will teach you right so it's something wonderful the Holy Spirit will teach us he will show us he will give us the words to speak okay so we are speaking as inspired by the Holy Spirit right when we are tested when we are being witnesses with power we are speaking as inspired by the Holy Spirit so each of us as believers have this privilege okay then the Lord Jesus also talked about the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit okay so we we studied that and in what context did he say that he cast out that that spirit which was which was actually reciting in that person causing blindness causing dumbness right the person could not speak the person could not see because of the condition created by the this evil spirit so the Lord cast it out and after that everybody what did they what did everyone say what did they say you remember that what did they say yeah you are casting out demons because of Bilzebub who's actually giving you the power and the authority to cast out right so the Lord Jesus you know refuted that you know he said I cast out by the finger of God or by the power of the Holy Spirit okay and then he said you know about this every kind of sin will be forgiven but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven I think we we looked at that in the earlier class and we said that yeah blasphemy is against the Holy Spirit why is it so you know why is it the unforgivable sin because people knowing that it's it's a power of God people knowing the works of God because they don't want to give up their pride give up their position they're saying that this is a work of a demon attributing the work of God to work of a demon you know that's the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit right okay we'll take a break and then we'll come back in 10 minutes thank you