 right good morning everyone it's good to be back and right trust everyone's doing well so let's get into our time of study from lifestyle evangelism we cover we have covered two chapters up to now right we looked at chapter one where we talked about the urgency the necessity about sharing Jesus and we also looked at chapter two last week which is powerful because it talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and how the message of the cross and the power of the gospel is more than enough to bring a person into salvation right yes God has given us other methods as well we can share testimonies we can you know there's even through songs and but the core of Christianity and our message is the message of the cross you know even as we minister to people even in in smaller settings or in bigger settings it is important to remember that the message of the gospel is not shared if the cross has not been mentioned right so there is power in the gospel we also looked at last week the Greek word sozo now this was we looked at you know it's a power packed word it's not just okay salvation it's being healed delivered victorious to to overcome overcome from the works of the devil and sozo is for everyone each and every one of us so we looked at all of this last week we also looked at presenting the gospel in five minutes the four spiritual laws right and we also remember mentioning that okay don't have the points with you always okay I should follow this it's just certain guidelines that you can use as your you know get as you get an opportunity to evangelize and we also looked at the two minute example which is sharing your experience and praying for people's needs right so we will continue from chapter 3 on power and love now I will continue teaching if you have questions feel free to stop me or if you have questions if you want to put it up on the chat you can also put it up there and we'll try our best to answer it all right so you're ready for chapter 3 everyone with me okay all right so we looked at all of this now we looked at an urgency necessity we looked at the power of the gospel right now we have to learn to minister in power and in love right why is it because you know sometimes when we are so zealous for God right we may end up ministering without wisdom right meaning we may you know it happened to me at when once I became a believer at a young age you know I started saying you know God is going to bring God is going to do this you have to sit and pray you're watching TV you go to hell you know those kind of things but over the years I realized that as we minister to people it is very important to minister in power and love right so the crux or the foundation of us sharing the gospel should be out of love and out in the power of God right so that's what we will look at in this chapter so we're going to be reading quite a few scriptures this class so I request maybe a few of us to just immediately start reading the verses so that we don't lose on time right so the Lord Jesus himself went about preaching teaching healing delivering working of miracles all of this he did and he did this out of compassion and love right so Jesus did not do all of this to become popular he don't do all of this to gain become famous or so that he can be greater than the Pharisees and the Sadducees or he didn't do it even to start a movement right he did these miracles these teachings and healings and deliverance only because he had compassion on people right and that was the drive of Jesus's ministry and that should be the drive for us as well so let's look at two scriptures here Matthew chapter 15 and verse 32 could one of us please read that Matthew 15 verse 32 and Jesus called his disciples to him and said I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with me now three days and have nothing to eat and I do not want to send them away hungry for they might faint on the way thank you John so we see here that Jesus said Jesus shows compassion here now it's interesting to you know if you look at the background of this whole scenario you know the people are flocking behind Jesus because Jesus is doing these wonderful miracles he's healing the sick he's healing the lame and people are getting delivered demons are fleeing but not many of them accept him as the Messiah so if you read even in the book of John they follow Jesus not that he's a Messiah but they followed him because okay this man is doing wonderful miracles and you know it was to satisfy their own need and Jesus knew that it was not like Jesus didn't know he knew that the people are following him because they wanted a miracle they wanted healing but yet Jesus ministered out of compassion right he did not say it to them I know why you all are following me I know why you all of you are just coming behind me and you know been with me for three days now I know why he didn't mention any of it all he did was he ministered in compassion he said these people have been with me for so long I can't send them away this way and he you know made a way to provide for them let's read Mark chapter 6 and verse 34 and Jesus when he came out saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep not having a shepherd so he began to teach them many things thank you Rosalind so he had compassion on them again right it's the same crowd it's the same people he had compassion on them now what is it what is important is when we are ministering to people right God may give us opportunities right people from different faiths remember that we must minister out of love and compassion right if we have this in mind saying that okay I want to win this soul so that he comes to church or I would have been I want to win this soul so that you know my friends may know now these are wrong reasons to minister to people right the right reasons would be when we are ministering to people we are to minister out of compassion and out of love right the second aspect we see is Jesus ministered in power right let's read John chapter 14 just a couple of verses maybe 1 to 8 John chapter 14 1 to 8 do not let your heart be troubled believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many dwelling places if it were not so I would have told you for I go to prepare a place for you if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also and you know the way where I am going Thomas said to him Lord we do not know where you're going how do we know the way Jesus said to him I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father but through me if you had known me you would have known my father also from now on you know him and have seen him thank you John so you know in the book of John he goes on later to say greater things than the things that I did you will do right and so we see that Jesus is encouraging his disciples and he's trying to tell them okay we are to minister out of the power that has been bestowed upon us right he's a greater things than what I did you will do right and Luke chapter 24 46 to 49 let's read that Luke chapter 24 46 to 49 Luke chapter 24 46 to 49 and he said yet it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day it was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of this name to all the nations beginning in Jerusalem there is forgiveness of course of sins for all who defend thank you Jafina yeah so we see here that Jesus is giving this mandate to his disciples and he's saying listen don't worry I'm gonna bestow you with power he does the same thing in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 he says you will receive power to be my witness right now think about this picture this in your minds right the disciples are all afraid Jesus has been crucified he's dead and now the disciples are afraid they don't know what to do he resurrects Jesus resurrects from the dead now all of a sudden acts in acts the Pentecost happens and the power of the Holy Spirit falls upon everyone we did mention this earlier but just picture this Peter and maybe some of the other disciples as well they were all afraid but after the power of the Holy Spirit after the anointing of the Holy Spirit the baptism of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost what happened the same people who were fearful were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit where Peter begins to stand in front of everyone and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ right now here's one thing that we should always know we cannot minister or evangelize or share the gospel without the power of the Holy Spirit how do we know that because Jesus himself mentions it in John chapter 20 verse 22 can one of us read that please John chapter 20 and verse 22 and when he had said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the Holy Spirit yes thank you John so Jesus in this context John 2022 Jesus has resurrected he's meeting his disciples and what did he do he blew on them the Holy Spirit right and he said receive the Holy Spirit a couple of days later he says go to Jerusalem and wait don't go and start your ministry right go and wait in Jerusalem I will pour out my spirit and I will clothe you in power and you will be my witnesses so what was the difference here Jesus has you know blown on them the Holy Spirit wasn't that enough for them to go and start evangelizing and doing the ministry but Jesus says no go and wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit so remember this that when we are in ministry and as whatever we want to do we need the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit to clothe us so that we may be able to you know defend and fight the works of the enemy we need that remember this one time in the city of Mangalore you know used to go out and do outreaches and you know I love outreaches I just love going out and ministering and just giving out tracks and I enjoy it right it's not a burden for me I enjoy I love doing it so so I keep going every now and then and if you know the city of Mangalore is it's got a lot of Hindu influence dominance I could say so there was this one time when you know we were giving out tracks and you know a gang of like five six people just surrounded me and started saying what are you doing here you know you can't do this you're making India like America and he was not making sense but he was saying things like that and at the first moment I mean you know it's easy to read the scripture at home and preach the word in the church it's easy to do all of that right and now in the street and nobody cares whether you're a pastor nobody cares what all of that how many sermons you preach nobody's gonna ask you all that you've got like five six people just surrounding you and you know just waiting to just bounce on you and all of a sudden this feel just came into me a feeling of fear okay I'm this is my time and at that moment I said Holy Spirit help me right and I got this verse I have clothed you in power right I said greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world so the Holy Spirit just you know gives you these verses and all of a sudden that fear was just removed right it was just gone right and I just became normal and I said this is what I'm doing I'm on the street I'm not coming to any private property and I'm just sharing I'm just giving out we have an event worship event so I'm giving out these tracks if you want you can call the police as well and then they you know they said they tried to you know instill fear into me but they saw that I was not fearful and then they just you know just walked away here's the thing we need the power of the Holy Spirit to evangelize now I'm not saying that you know you may come across the situation but it could even be your friend it could be any person your your colleague at your workplace whatever it is we need the power to minister the gospel right Acts chapter 5 and verse 32 let's read that Acts chapter 5 verse 32 Acts chapter 5 verse 32 we are witness of these things and so is the Holy Spirit who is given by God to those who obey him amen so Peter is saying we are witnesses of these things by the power of God given to us right and and so as we go about in this ministry we are to as we be witnesses we are witnesses because of the power of God in our lives right I'm reminded of this book I read plenty many years ago maybe in year 2003 four something during that time the name of the book is called the cross and the switchblade some of you may have heard the book by brother Pastor David Wilkerson and it's a powerful book they made a movie out of it also later on the cross and the switch blade it talks about these you know these gangsters hardcore criminals and this young man maybe about 27 years old this pastor you know he was in a small town had a small church but God somewhere in his heart he felt I need to go to New York City and do a ministry there so he left his wife and small child he went to New York to scout the place and he came across this whole you know gang wars and drug addicts and and he remained there and he was a very thin skinny man but what he did was he ministered in power when you read the book you know one of the gang members said you know I can kill you right now and he said you can kill me but then you can kill me you can cut me into pieces but still I will love you because the Lord Jesus loves you and died for you and that opened a door for this you know hardcore criminals right and they accepted the Lord and many lives were touched and if you can you should read the book the book is better than the movie but but what is it you know the man who was in the gang and you know he testifies later saying that the preacher was a thin man very weak looking but every time he would preach we had guns we had things with us we felt powerless when we stood next to him why was that and he says later on we felt even the guns we felt we had no power we felt that he's stronger than us that's what made this person even more angry you know but later on he says he realized that it was the power of the Holy Spirit clothed in power of the Holy Spirit that this pastor was evangel it was ministering in the power of God that even the gang members were afraid right now here's the thing we are to remember that you know in our ministry in our walk with God how do we receive this power we are to pray we are to read the word we are to spend time in in God's presence right it's like drawing from God say God anoint me more fill me more right we're all in the classes listening to a lot of classes and you know it shouldn't be knowledge knowledge is good but it should be something of the Holy Spirit you ask the Holy Spirit empower me with these words empower me with the scriptures and and then you go back and you read it and you say God empower me strengthen me that I may overcome the works of the enemy that's the that's the call of God on our lives right and we are to minister with signs medicals and wonders right expect this we're never be minister expected right we should never feel that okay I'm not called for healing or I'm not called for deliverance I'm not called for that I can just you know sing songs or I can be the worship team no you and I can expect science wonders and miracles to happen when we are ministering in the power of this Holy Spirit amen do you believe that right so it's not only the pastor's responsibility or the prophet or the healing evangelists yes there's an anointing on their lives but you and I have the same power we are empowered the same by the same spirit to do you know science wonders and miracles and when we look at the scriptures when we look at apostle Paul as well right when we look at his life he did so my so many wonders science miracles and it became a normal thing in his life you know when we look at the end towards his life remember that story where the young man was sitting on the window sill and you know Paul was going on preaching and preaching and he fell off and he and he died what a apostle Paul do he didn't say okay let's start a fasting prayer or let's you know do this and that no he said don't worry he's alive he went laid on him the boy got up and they took him home alive right remember this when he went into the island of Malta right he was setting up the fire in his final missionary journey and a snake bit him right what did he do he shook off that snake it didn't do any harm to him so what now I want to be careful now don't go searching for snakes and say okay you know don't do that what I'm trying to say is we are the minister as we minister expect signs wonders and miracles to happen right expect God to move in our midst when we expect and we really prepare and we expect God to move God will move right God is no respecter of persons he treats all of us the same so so keep this in mind right even as we evangelize ask God to fill us with power compassion yes and then fill us with power as well so let's look at how we minister with compassion second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 14 to 15 second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 14 to 15 second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 14 either way Christ love controls us since we believe that Christ died for us we also believe that we have all died to our own life he died for everyone so that those who received this new life will no longer look for themselves instead they will look for Christ who died and was raised for them thank you Jafina so we see here let's bring context to what Paul is writing here right the word he uses in the NKJV he says some places he says compels or the love of Christ constrains us right now the Corinthian church is a church filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is flowing in the church people are prophesying there's gifts of healing and all of that but there are many practical problems in the church what is the problems there's division in the church people are you know saying I belong to Paul I belong to Cephas I belong to Apollo's then there are practical problems people are coming to the communion table and you know eating as if it's food right and so all these things are happening now as a leader Apostle Paul has all the rights to you know get upset and shouted them and say what are you doing but he doesn't do that right he says the love of Christ constrains me it is because of the love of Christ that I am writing this letter to you I urge you you know in some letters he sounds upset but in the end he says you are my children to the Galatians he says you are my children and so much so that if a parent does not correct his children they're not good parents so he's trying to bring the whole thing of compassion. Apostle Paul showed compassion again on the people and even though they were plenty of mistakes plenty of wrongs that was happening in the church he showed compassion now this is a very important lesson for us to learn right now the problem is sometimes when we know the truth the truth should not get to our head in the sense that we should not say okay you guys are you know worshiping other gods those are not gods those are this and that no we know that is wrong but even in that the love of Christ should be shown to the people right the more we love people the more we will be able to minister to them. I'm reminded of this you know it was a documentary I forget the name of this person sorry I forget the name but it's a powerful documentary and I watched it a couple of years back it's about this young man he joins this terrorist organization named Hezbollah right and maybe next class I'll just mention the name of that person he's a pastor now but he joins terrorist organization named Hezbollah in the early 60s he was involved in the group he was married but something happened that he had to you know move away from that place and get into the city and the main reason to come into the city he came into England I remember the main reason he came to England was to scout the place around and see what what can be done in the you know in England and so he you know just dresses up neatly gets a job at some you know these pizza delivery jobs and he was doing that kind of stuff and he took up a rented room in an old widow's house that widow was a believer right and every day she would pray she would you know and he would get so upset and shout and but he would pray she would pray she would you know share the scriptures with him and you know out of compassion and later on she gets to know that he is you know from this organization terrorist organization and all of it but he goes to her and tells her I know this but I'm still gonna let you stay here because I know that God loves you and God wants to change your life and and through that you know through that whole experience he writes and he in the documentary he says that I've never felt love in this kind of a way people always you know reject us push us away for who we are never felt love in this kind of way and through this first his wife becomes a believer and then he becomes a believer they had to flee from that place they went into the USA and then you know they became pastors and they started their own ministry there so there was not much of preaching of the gospel it was just an act of love right I've just cut short the story but what I'm trying to say is when we speak to people when we get opportunities to minister to people make sure that you minister out of love is the book son of Hamas I'm not sure maybe I can check and next week I'll put the book name of the book up because I think there are quite a few testimonies on this but I want to make sure I give you the right one so yeah so ministering out of compassion is powerful right it's powerful I remember this one time you know we were in Bangalore in the city of Bangalore long back maybe maybe about five eight years ago or we were giving out tracks me and another friend of mine we were giving out tracks and this person took track he crushed it and he threw it on my face and I said okay I thought moment I was so upset I said hey what is this you know you're doing this in this in Bangalore in the city of Bangalore you need to be more respectful and all of it I went home I was so upset right I was praying I said God how can you do that you know how can you just crush it and throw it on me if you didn't want it he could just give it to me but the Lord taught me something that day he took me to that verse in Romans which says that while this is love that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and that that verse really became a revelation right but Jesus loves them and now here I am upset and hating them right and so it just changed my whole perspective of how to minister so I remember later on just going back and it happened a couple of times is another time this guy was you know on the streets and I gave him a track he took out his you know lighter and he burnt it in front of me I don't know if this happens to people but I don't know why it happens to me but he burnt it in front of me and and you know I was almost getting upset but I remember telling God God help me to love this person because you love this person and after burning the whole thing he went away but he came back that way right I didn't have anything in my heart I said God it's okay it's all right just touch him and maybe you can use him for your glory but he came back he was upset with me said why are you doing this I said I'm just doing it because what you are doing I have done that before and I began to share my testimony and share the gospel he said can I talk to you and then we went into this you know there was a snooker parlor we went into the snooker parlor I began to talk to him and I and I and I you know just sharing the gospel with him he talked about how he lost his mother at a young age his father abandoned him and how he was filled with hate and I just a simple two-minute gospel I shared but what Jesus did he was crying he was weeping in the snooker parlor he you know he broke up with his girlfriend or something but then we you know prayed we finished praying he said I'm a new person became a believer at that moment he said okay I'm gonna change my life he went he said I want to join a Bible college I said no you finish your studies then you join your Bible course so he joined a Bible college and now he's a pastor in the church in Hyderabad so so you know things can happen right when you minister out of compassion compassion is the core of our gospel first Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 128 could one of us please read that first Thessalonians chapter 2 1 first Thessalonians chapter 2 you years of no dear brothers and sisters they are wishing to you was not a failure you know how badly we had been treated at 45 just before we came to you and how much we suffered there yet our guard gave us the courage to declare his goodness to you in spite of great opposition so you can see we were not preaching with any decide or impure motives or will we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the good news our purpose is to please God not people he alone exclaims the motives of our hearts never once did we try to win you with flatly as you well know and God is our witness that we were not pretending to be your friends just to get your money as for human price we have never sought it from you or anyone else right thank you Jeffina so we see that Paul is writing to the Thessalonians he's confirming his ministry saying see we did not become friends with you just so that we can get some things out of you now the Thessalonian church was a church which is you know when Paul was in Corinth they were sending gifts to Paul right because he was having a tough time in Corinth so they were sending gifts those gifts could be money clothes and all of it so Paul is writing back and saying now you know we the reason that we came to you was not so that you know we can receive gifts and you know live this life of you know just enjoy what you are blessing us with we thank God for it but we came because we are approved of God and we came because we had compassion on you we had love and we still love you and that's why we want to minister out of love so so chapter 3 talks about this power and love so even as we get opportunities right remember to speak and minister in power and love now just because I've shared testimonies of you know things that happen in my life there are times when I have failed miserably right I failed I've failed where in you know I've tried to minister the Gospel it didn't work right so I'm not saying that every time it works right sometimes it takes time sometimes it happens immediately sometimes it happens over a course of you know our continual follow-up so remember that even as we you know go through all these opportunities that God gives us ask God to empower you to fill you with love remember what Paul writes to the current current to the Corinthians he says we may have all these gifts right prophecies word of knowledge you know speaking in tongues and all these amazing gifts first go into and study and the Paul is saying if you have all of this but if you do not have love it's of no use it's just sound right so so remember that even as we God has called us to minister and as we you know God gives us opportunity remember that yes we may know everything right once we finish our course here you may know a lot but remember that we are to also minister in love love is you know the foundation of why we share the gospel amen right anybody have any questions any thoughts you want to share before we go ahead to the next chapter okay so shall we go on to the next chapter chapter 4 yes okay I'm gonna ask you yes okay I'm gonna ask you a few questions right we're gonna chapter 4 overcoming inhibitions now when we say the word inhibitions means things that hinder us right now we all have some inhibitions right hesitations to share Jesus right so I'm gonna leave it open now I want to hear from maybe some of you what are some of the inhibitions that you feel you have in sharing the gospel right now feel free don't worry right my I had a plenty of inhibitions I will share after you all but this is just so that we learn together what are some of the inhibitions or the hesitations that you had well you know well when you got an opportunity to share Jesus now this is a classroom setting so don't worry this is not going to go out of your classroom this is a safe place so go ahead and share maybe a few of us can share what are some of the inhibitions that you have faced go ahead Alan Alan has left raised his hand first go ahead Alan so one of the inhibitions I faced was while sharing the gospel with friends was I was worried about how our relationship would change with that person yes very true very true that's a perfectly honest and you know it's a true thing even I had the same thing right let's hear from someone else yes they were Joe Ash had wanted to say something yes go ahead Joe Ash yeah so fear like fear of what people think of you or like fear of messing up like I'll face that personally a lot okay okay fear of what people will think of you and fear of you know messing up while delivering your you know while sharing the gospel with them yeah okay okay okay so Alan where are you from is okay if you can mention where which place are you from I'm from Bangalore okay Joe Ash Bangalore okay all right go ahead Divya yeah Pastor thank you so one thing that inhibits me I would say like based on the experiences here it's all about the different you know religious philosophies people will be having like I may be ignorant of their doctrines right so we had a couple of experiences where we'll be you know evangelized by Mormons and we really don't know how to you know so the first time when we had that interaction I was trying to find the difference between their Bible and Christian Bible so I felt oh there is they do not believe in the grace of God but the second time when we had the same experience I'm feeling like I don't know enough to you know help them understand and ultimately I couldn't you know share the truth the gospel but I just prayed that they may know the truth and they gave their tract and all so I was just going through it looks very similar so that ignorance right how to tell them so it was more of it's more of a theological aspect so you that is one of the inhibitions that you're facing okay anybody else want to share yes go ahead yeah when I first started telling people about Jesus one of the thing that I felt was I'm not perfect like I'm not so responsible I'm not Jesus Christ I'm not so perfect like him he's so holy and he's great but I'm very young and I did a lot of things which are not supposed to do as I learned more about Christ as I learned who I am in Christ my perspective is changed he gave me a new life I am born again that changed me but when I first started it was like a deep scar telling me that you cannot do this you are perfect like you are not perfect enough to do this okay all right thank you jeffina yeah so all of you shared very genuine inhibitions right now would say I went through all four of them right all four of them right but as we go on in this lesson I'll give you a few let's look at how we can overcome we look at the inhibitions and we will also look at how we can overcome them right and I will also pick up on few of what you all have mentioned so that we can you know target those inhibitions as well so chapter 4 let's look at overcoming inhibitions right I'm sure all of us also you know have inhibitions right so first one not knowing what to say they were didn't know what to say right so let's look at it the fear this fear is because of our ignorance about the gospel that is what to share what to say and how to share it right here's one thing learn practical things on how to share Jesus now remember that we cannot know everything right we cannot know everything I don't know everything right now just because I don't know everything that is not going to stop me from evangelizing right for example you know one of the things that I personally do is if it's somebody that I've met one off you know I try to ask them a lot of questions right now it's okay to not know everything right even as we go on to the next year you will get a subject called apologetics and then the final year you'll get world religions where you'll talk about you'll study about world religions as well and how to defend the gospel and apologetics so that's gonna help you but don't wait let me finish my third year and then start evangelizing now the fear of ignorance is only a fear right and God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power love and sound mind right so these are verses that we can declare right now it does not mean that we don't prepare right I remember when I was wanting to share the gospel with people I would stand in front of the bitter and I would do a role play to myself right so in one one five minutes I would act like an angry person the other next five next encounter will be with an old man or the next uncounter will be with the working professional so I would try all of this and then you know I remember I would record it I would do an audio recording and say why did I even say this it was not required you know so practice and prepare right don't worry about only the theological thing that's why we remember we looked at chapter one what is it the message of the cross is the power of God unto salvation so if you only share the message of the cross you know people who say so the Mormon comes and says you know this is what we believe in this is what and you may feel oh I don't know this said okay I don't know it but I know one thing what is it the message of the cross is the power of God unto salvation right and so we can go and say hey thank you for sharing about your belief but here's what I believe in and here's what happened when I read this you know it's the word of God came alive in me as a sinner I you know I believe that when I read this and I put my hands into Christ Christ cleanse me from all unrighteousness and you're giving that gospel just a two three-minute gospel remember it is stronger and more powerful than any kind of arguing or defense that you're giving a simple two or a five-minute gospel so never downplay that that's why we looked at it in the first chapter itself the message of the cross is much more than enough right and on that message you build found we build foundations right so be ready to give a defense prepare yourself people will ask tough questions right you know I remember this this person came and asked me she's from a different faith she's not from a different faith but I'm gonna say this nothing against them right but this woman was a Catholic and she said we believe in everything we speak in tongues I said that's wonderful that's great so she said why are you all against this so just asked her I said God how do I minister to this person what what can I do and I don't know all the history of what all happened the Catholic Church and all of that so I didn't want to go there but one question I asked her so you do you love the scripture and she speaks in tongues gift of healing she prays for people people get healed right and so she she's quite well known in the charismatic Catholic movement I asked her one question I asked her is Christ the all-sufficient one in your life right a see is he sufficient for you so she said yes okay so if Christ is a sufficient one for you so you pray only to Jesus she said no then I said then Christ is not the sufficient all-sufficient one for you and it opened her mind she said how can you say that you got upset I said you think about it you sit and think about it if you're praying to somebody else other than Christ that means Christ is not the sufficient one right he's not the all-sufficient one in your life and then you know we would send messages across and a couple of months back about six months back you know she came out of that movement and you know she's truly sitting and reading the Word of God now I didn't know anything about the Catholic movement the whole you know history and all I didn't use any of that just the gospel I just said you know for me Christ was the all-sufficient one right so not knowing what to say is a genuine thing but we can ask the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit remind me he's a reminder bring to remembrance things it could be a simple question it could be a simple word or a scripture and that one thing can you know penetrate into a person's heart there are plenty of examples where I've shared with Mormons now I don't know much about the Mormons but there are three of them who are who had come to my house who are Mormons but they left and now their pastors one is in Delhi one is in which rather the pastors of started their own churches so what I'm trying to say is not knowing what to say should not hinder us from preaching the sharing the gospel even if it is something that is something very theological you can say hey I don't know that right sometimes you know in this day and age if we say I don't know people may mock us so it's okay to say I don't know nothing wrong in it right if you ask me how in the book of numbers what is there sometimes I say I don't know numbers has a lot of numbers what numbers I don't know it's okay if you don't know right but what I'm trying to say is don't come to a place where you say okay let me know everything and then I will share the gospel no the message of the cross is more than enough for you to share the gospel people will come and say ask questions or where is Jesus or what do you think about this way you may not know the answer I don't know about it but I can find out I can let you know but this is what I believe in the cross and Christ crucified and I believe that he rose again from the dead just a gospel which is the power of God right so not knowing what to say is definitely an inhibition I went through it but the more we depend on the crux of the gospel the message of the cross all these other things will come secondary prepare yourself practice and then you will be able to give a good defense now here's the thing I remember you know wanting to always minister and share the gospel with people but I was sitting at home and I talked to myself and one day the Holy Spirit said you keep praying the whole day and you want to share the gospel nobody's going to come to your house you got to go out right and so even as we prepare we need to practice it and we need to go out we need to step out and do what God is calling us to do right my time is up we will pick up from overcoming inhibitions from next week right if you have questions you can always put it up on the stream as well we will look to answer them as well so let's just close with the word of prayer right father we want to thank you for this wonderful day Lord we thank you for the session Lord from what we learned today that we are called to minister your word in power and in compassion and I pray God that you fill us with your love the love of Christ will be the root out of everything that we do that it will it will flow out of love of God and we thank you God for giving each one of us the opportunity to go ahead and make disciples for your kingdom you have commissioned each one of us you empowered each one of us Lord Lord even as we look at as we've looked at inhibitions Lord Lord we thank you that we come to your presence not by works but by the grace of Jesus Christ thank you for your wisdom thank you for your understanding thank you for your power that you have given us Lord we pray Lord that you will continue to teach us through your word and through your scriptures Lord and Lord we pray that we will also learn to walk in your ways of God we pray a blessing over each and every student Lord as they study and prepare themselves Lord may your Holy Spirit empower empower them and use them for your glory we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name we pray amen thank you so much everyone have a blessed week ahead I will see you next week God bless you all