 Just before we went for a break, we were looking at how God prepares us even as he gives us his dream and his vision and we looked at the preparation process in the lives of Moses, Paul, Joseph, David, and Jeremiah. So we see that during the preparation period, it's actually a waiting time for the execution of the fulfillment or the dream, the vision that God has for us but during this waiting time, waiting time is not idle time. You know, when you wait, you're just sitting and waiting for the train or for your interview or you're waiting for your turn to come. You're just idle but it does not mean that you're not doing anything when you're waiting and in a preparation process. During the preparation process, you should be actively involved. What should you be actively involved doing? Getting yourself prepared for what God wants you to be prepared in, okay? So getting actively involved in the preparation process and what God was assigning you to do so you know that this is God's plan and purpose so you go and roll for courses, you get yourself prepared, your personal life, you get into order, your family life, management, time management plan you have. You look at various aspects and you get yourself ready. Look at one example we can look at is during Joseph's waiting time, you know, we see that he served with excellence, right? Whether he was in Potiphar's house or whether he was in the prison, he was serving. He did his work very diligently, sincerely and that is why God caused Pharaoh and that is why God caused the jailer to look at Joseph. Not because God had chosen him, God had a plan and purpose and so he was, you know, divinely orchestrating things. What if Joseph had thrown a tantrum saying, hey, I'm not slave material, I'm not a slave son, I've never swept, I've never swabbed, I've never cleaned in my life, I'm not going to do this, I'm just going to sit here and when Pharaoh came into the house, he would just pretend as if to say he's cleaning. Now God looked at Joseph's attitude, of course the Bible does not say it but we know it because when we look at the internal factors, God looks at our attitudes and our motives, why we are doing what we are doing and that is why God also brought him to that place of fulfillment of his dream or to sort of delay things and also we know that David was tempted but he did not give into temptation. That's another aspect that we need to keep in mind. So we see even Moses when he was in the wilderness, what was he doing? He was not just sitting down idle, he got married, he had children, he also was taking care of his father-in-law's sheep. So David during his time when he was running away from King Saul, he was engaging in warfare, he led his 400 men, he was training his men up, he was engaging in warfare, he was positioning himself as a leader, as a confident leader so that his men could believe and trust in him and also remember when we learned in the publication, I think it was Code of Honor I think or receiving God's guidance, the second lesson, we learned how David inquired of God, at various instances he inquired of God, how important it is for us to inquire of God. We also see Paul during his waiting time, he preached, he taught in synagogues, even though he was persecuted, his life was threatened, he did not run away and hide, he was preaching, he was teaching, he also received revelations which he wrote down. So every season is actually a preparation process for the next season of life, so we need to be in a constant state of learning, of growing and maturing in the things of God even in the practical aspects. The fifth one is that the unfolding of God-given vision may differ from our expectation. I'm sure that when David was anointed as king, he would never have thought that he is going to be running away to save his own life and he is going to be like a restless wanderer, protecting his own life and staying in the wilderness rather than being a king. So during those times, what do we learn from David's life? When God imparts dreams and visions and gives us his heavenly goals and destinies, don't let go even if the journey towards them is difficult and hard and there's hardships and difficulties and it is not how you envisioned it, how not how you expected it, it's longer than you thought it would take. You need to stay the course and you will see the vision fulfilled. So that is about David's life. What about Joseph's life? Joseph, he never thought he would be sold away as a slave by his own brothers and he would be falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, end up in prison but all of that elevated him to be the prime minister of Egypt. What about Moses? He never imagined that him acting and taking justice in his own hand and being fair and being just by protecting his brother would rest in him being in the wilderness for the next 40 years and being a restless wanderer. So even as we go through various challenges and difficulties or when God gives us a vision, we can be very excited but when we go through problems and difficulties, don't think that it's not God's vision or plan for your life. Stay the course, see his vision to see his vision fulfilled because what God is about to unfold through our lives is not dependent on who we are, what we are, what skills we have, but it is God's glory that is going to be revealed in and through us. Even as we are weak vessels, even as we might be frail, even as we have our own limitations, our own difficulties, sometimes we might be so foolish, so weak, you know despised by the world nothing but God will fulfill his dream and vision and plan for our lives. The sixth one is the Kairos moment for a God given vision gets delayed when attempted by self, like what Prince asked his question. So we see 40 years it delayed in Moses's life. So can there be delays in our life? Yes because we are all human, right? We all make mistakes but what do we do when we make those mistakes? There can be delays, there can be disappointments, there can be detours, they can bring a lot of discouragement but we need to hold on. What should we do? First thing when we make a mistake is what do we do? We repent, we ask God for forgiveness and when we ask that God is greater than our mistakes and there's nothing that is too complicated for him, nothing that he can't resolve. Look at what the psalmist says when he found his feet in a net, when he was trapped in his own temptation and his weakness. What did he say? He says, my eyes are ever towards the Lord. So when you are caught up in a net, in a mess, you're tempted, you're falling in temptation, you're ended up in a failure. What do you do? Your eyes should be upon the Lord. Sometimes our problems can end us up in a mighty pit where we can't get ourselves out, we can't pull ourselves out because of repeated mistakes that we are making. Look at what the psalmist says. He says, I waited patiently for the Lord. He heard my cry and he pulled me out of the horrible pit. So God, when we make mistakes, when we go back to him, he's a God who restores. He's a restorer of our lives, our souls, our time. What he can do in 10 years, he can do it in one year. Jesus, just three years, he did the ministry. For Paul, he started in the age of 50, just did wonderful ministry later on. So God can accelerate things. What takes many years to accomplish? God can fulfill in a much shorter time. All the years, the locus that we think God can restore. So what should we do? When we make mistakes, we ask for forgiveness. We don't live in the past. We don't live in our mistakes. We move ahead. We learn from our mistakes. We become wiser and we continue to pursue God's plan, vision for our lives, the plan that he has put into our lives. The seventh one is we have 11 to go. So we have the seventh one. The God given vision may not be understood by everyone. Now, for more in the life of Moses, we read in Acts 7, verse 23, that God put in his heart when he was 40 years old to lead the people of Israel. But we see that when Moses tried to help his own brother, Hebrew brother, they could not understand. His own people could not see God's hand. They could not see the purpose why Moses was in leadership, why he was in Pharaoh's palace, why he was raised up in Pharaoh's palace. People did not understand, but we see that also in Paul's life, when Paul became a believer, he encountered Jesus. There are many from the church who were still doubtful and suspicious of Paul. They did not want to do anything with Paul. So we see that Paul spent a lot of time alone. Look at what he says in Galatians chapter 5, verse 16. He says, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. So sometimes when God births a vision, a plan, and a dream, we might have to just keep that within ourselves, pray about it, spend time understanding it. Don't immediately confer with flesh and blood. And God given vision does not necessarily mean that it needs to have the approval of God. I mean, sorry, approval of people. It should have the approval of God, but sometimes people will not approve of it. They might not understand it, but you can still hold on to it, but God will send people who will help you, counsel you, guide you, show you the way and help you to execute the plan and the vision that God has for your life. Point eight, a God given vision will face demonic opposition. So in the case of Nehemiah, it was not easy for Nehemiah, right? When he went to build the walls of Jerusalem, was it easy for him? No, if you read the book of Nehemiah, he faced a lot of problems and difficulties. The Arabs, they tried to try to do things where they could accuse him, they could trap him. Even Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees, tried to ask him various tricky questions that they could trap him. But we see that in respect of that, Nehemiah was able to fulfill God's plan and purpose. So we know that when God gives us a plan and purpose, a devil is not happy with the authorization you get from heaven to build God's kingdom. He will do whatever it takes to oppose, to hinder, to divert us away from the work of the kingdom. So how can Satan divert our attention? He can distract us. He can get us to do things that are good but not seemingly good that is going to fulfill or birth God's plan and vision through our life. So we need to be very, very careful. Sometimes Satan can very subtly lead us to do good things but those good things are not going to really help us to fulfill God's plan and vision. So that is a distraction. And what does distraction do? It breaks our vision, it breaks our focus. It results in wasted time and energy and resources. Doing a good thing but will not help us fulfill God's purpose, a distraction. Now for example, God has called you to raise up, you know, be a pastor for a church, okay. He's called you to be a pastor, okay. So you can do that but then also you're somebody who loves business. You love business, you like to do engage in business. So maybe you can get distracted in, you were already running a business when God called you to be into full-time ministry, a specific call to be a pastor to leave your business. But because of your love for that, you can seem to go back to doing it so that you can think that, hey, through this business, I can, you know, get a place for my church. I can raise a building. I can support myself. I can support my family but there's nothing wrong in doing that. We learned we can do it if you're struggling financially. But if you're not and you're in a place but because you love business, you want to go there, that can be a distraction. It can lead you away from what God has called you to do. So sometimes you can be doing good things but then you can be doing the wrong things at the wrong time in the wrong place, okay. Or sometimes you can say God wants you to start a church here in Bangalore City but you get an opportunity to go to the US to work with another pastor or leader and you say maybe God is using and you're excited to go to the US. You're looking at it as an opportunity to go to US but you're saying that it's a good thing God is actually preparing me to be under the leadership of another pastor so I can learn. But is God really taking you there for a preparation time or is God saying hey I want you to be here and start your work. So you need to discern or you need to discern whether you you start the son or you want you get an opportunity to go to the US to study something. You know study another course a Bible college course but God is saying I want you to decide. So for me my distraction was you know when I was in full-time ministry you know my sisters they live in the US they used to spend so much of money buying all of those you know the forms and everything for schools to get me into counseling because I was interested in counseling. I was interested in counseling God did not have me as think of me as a counselor okay. So they had spent quite a lot of dollars in buying all of those booklets and you know all of those handbooks from various colleges and I wasted everything. And even now when I meet some of my my classmates in Bible college they're shocked that I've never done a PhD I never even done sorry I never did an MPH I never landed up doing a PhD and they were wondering why I was just stuck up with only a BD and I and they told me you have even the opportunities your sisters live in the US and I told them God had never led me to do another course not to do an MPH not to do a PhD but always to be in the ministry and I never looked at those counseling courses. So that can also could have been like a distraction I could have easily gotten and I could have gone to the US and lived there and continued into counseling but that was not God what God wanted for my life okay. So there's diversions you know demonic opposition can bring diversions and these can be like you know these diversions can be huge gaps or distance that can that Satan can bring in our mission that he has for us okay and you know sometimes even disputes internal disputes that we have people we are the vision bearer people God brings in people sometimes we bring in the wrong people we need to be very careful and they can cause a lot of strife and dispute and we can find ourselves fighting against them okay disputes and strife and you know even with our own family even with our spouse children they can be dispute so you know all of these things can be very subtle ways that God brings and when you have people like that in your team who come in and they're trying you know they're trying to bring in disputes and strife don't fight them you know I've learned from managing teams with the children's church and catalyst I've learned not to fight with people you know I know what they're doing behind my back but I know and I say God I don't have the time and the energy to fight them and fighting them is going to be a wastage of my time and energy and it's going to bring about this unity I just want to maintain unity and I've just prayed about it and I've seen how God just removes them so beautiful God will fight your battles you let him fight it is his kingdom it's not my kingdom it's not my ministry I'm just here to serve I'm just here to do things right in the way God wants me to do things that is right that is to keep unity in the team I keep unity I I'm nice to them but I still know what they're doing and how they're trying to bring in this unity and I've just seen how beautifully God just takes them away he just fights your battle okay and the other thing is discouragement you know Satan can bring that very easily when we get discouraged we just want to drop everything run move away we just want to leave you know sometimes it is very very difficult discouragement is something difficult is very difficult to encourage yourself because you keep oscillating between encouragement discouragement encouragement discouragement sometimes it's so fed up you just want to leave everything and run okay I remember at one point of time in my ministry I wanted to just leave not ministry and run but I wanted to leave that place where I was ministry and God was taking me to the life of Paul as a missionary and the difficulties and the challenges he faced and at the end of that one week I said okay God you know I'm going to go back in this same ministry and I'm going to minister there even though things are challenging and difficult for me and then after one day I saw things you know I get back to discouragement and I said God I'm not going back and that's when God gave me one line which was like a punch line punched me on my face says ministry is not a matter of convenience it's a command it's not your convenience I want to go back I don't want to go back it's not your convenience it's a command God saying go back and I know that at the right time God took me away from that place and let me somewhere else so you know even when we are discouraged we need to learn to strengthen ourselves in the Lord our God that is what David did remember when he came back and he saw all of his wife the wife children all of his 400 men's wives and children all his property everything that belonged to him taken away his men and he were crying and mourning and his men were thinking of killing David and what did David do he strengthened himself in the Lord his God you know what did he what he would have done by strengthening himself he would have just worshiped God he would have loved God he would have shown God love somehow he strengthened himself so it's very important for us in our ministry to you know be connected to to God to be strengthened okay then the ninth thing is a God given vision is always bigger than the individual okay so we see that even in Nehemiah's life the building of the wall was a very big vision okay but we see that Nehemiah says that he when he went to Jerusalem he never shared with anyone what was in his heart he kept it as a secret he surveyed the entire place but when the right time came he told his people okay look at what he says in Nehemiah chapter 2 verses 18 he says let us rise up and build then they set their hands to this good work so he says come let us rise up and build the walls of Jerusalem okay so the right time he tells the people and they all come in and they pitch in and they work even if you look at the life of Paul we see that Paul was not an Nehemiah myself man you know I'm the apostle I'm great I know everything you know I don't need anyone but we see that he had many people who were working along with him and he called them at various names he called them as fellow workers you know partners fellow helpers fellow laborers fellow servants fellow prisoners and he always at the end of his letters he always mentions people who are with him in the ministry okay so you know sometimes you know we all want big vision to give us a big dream big goal big plan and purpose which is very good but we need to have big hearts why big hearts because the big vision requires a big heart which means it requires other people to come alongside to help you sometimes we don't want other people to come alongside because we think they will rob us of our the fame the name and the applause that we need to get okay so we need to connect with people bring the right people into our vision okay and even as they come into our vision you know we need to celebrate them we need to encourage them we need to build them up also as well and we need to you know share the vision with the right kind of people in the right panel so that they can step in and even as some of them come in we need to celebrate some some who don't want to step into our vision we shouldn't be angry with them okay we should not get upset with them we should not do away with the allies is because god did not you know have plan and purpose for them to be in our vision okay whenever somebody steps into the two projects i handle and they want to leave i always thank them and bless them and send them because it's not my project it's not what i'm doing it's god's kingdom it is his church his work that i'm doing and if he's taking them away god will bring somebody else and god has purpose something else for them so release them and send them no use of fighting okay but we need to be cautious and wise who we need to share and who we need to invite if you don't be cautious if you're not smart that can create the most problem for you okay people kingdom building is all about building people but also people can be the greatest hindrance and barrier and can also destroy your peace of mind so much so that your health issues are you know so come to a place where you can't even do ministry anymore okay two more points tenth one is other people find and fulfill their lives calling by participating in your god given vision god will bring other people into your vision you need to be wise to choose the right people but even as they come in don't use them okay make use of their skills and their ability don't use them for your own benefits for your own privileges for your own fame and name okay acknowledge them keep their interests in mind also okay and they collaborate with you give them the rightful place and the due honor that they also require okay the leavened one is even as god gives us dreams and visions it's all interlinked with each other okay it's interlinked with others dreams and vision in the body of christ so we are all having our dreams and visions that god has given but it is all for the purpose of building and enhancing his kingdom the church okay so we need to partner with each other and build god's kingdom not saying that i do it in isolation that is wrong but build together partner with others and we will fulfill what god has called us to do okay any questions on this lesson chapter four online students any questions you all have Rin is looking at how much more we have to cover well look at it it's a nightmare for me myself i'm just praying that i'll be able to finish it in time sorry yeah yes i'm just sticking to what is there in the notes i'm not doing anything extra yeah pastor i have one question pastor can you hear me yes jack in very clearly please go ahead so pastor when we when god brings in people and you know that god calling is there in their lives and we try to encourage them and bring them up but we see that sometimes they are not they get discouraged and they actually don't see where god sees them so at that point in time how much can we as people or like encourage them or we know for sure that you know god has a calling for them but uh you know i don't know like how to say because they they are willing but they get discouraged so easily so at that point in time do we just pray for them and leave them alone or should we keep a i mean like continual touch with them or like how do we deal with such people pastor yeah good question thank you jack in so there's an extent to where we can journey with people you know we can't we can't come to a place where we can think for them make them do what we want i think even god does that with our own lives right he's given us the free will to choose the moral free will to choose you know so he tells us what is right and wrong but then he says hey if you want to choose this you choose you go your own way i will let you go your own way okay so that is even god dealing with us you know the way he deals with us he tells us what is right and wrong we he's given us various parameters he's given us his word the holy spirit he's given us our conscience nature roman chapter one says nature even talks about the divine attributes the godhead so we are without any excuse but he says in roman chapter one irrespective of that people have chosen license of the truth they have given exchange of glory of god the glory of man made things and so what does god says i give them up you know i've i've given them up i let them go their own way so what we can do with for people is to an extent we can journey with them helping them but if we see them you know coming back to the same place we're self pretty you know and all of those things there's nothing more we can really do rather than just pray for them and you know ask god to work and the holy spirit to work in their lives because ultimately it's not our words it's not we are gives us skill and our charisma so holy spirit working in them so if the holies they're not listening to the holy spirit then you know they can't even listen to us so we just pray and leave them and i think you know god will orchestrate situations in life where they will learn through those situations and you know ultimately listen to the what the holy spirit is saying yes did that help yeah okay thank you jack in that was a good question we told about god gives people in our life like we need our people like god places some people in our life to fulfill the purpose or so like if uh if that relationship was broken like if uh god attached it to people like like to be a successor for someone or help them in their vision and if because of their heart attitudes or because of their behavior their relationship got broken and they got separated so so is it like god find some other person or god restores would god find someone else yes he would find somebody else to bring that person in god always would want to restore that person the holy spirit will continue to work though they're not yielding and hard-hearted and stubborn and they're not willing to listen to holy holy spirit and god would let them be but he still would want to restore their lives yes he is a restorer he doesn't want anyone to perish yes okay any other questions okay there are no more questions we'll move on to chapter five okay we look at kingdom builders lifestyle okay um oh as kingdom builders sometimes we are so caught up in building god's kingdom that we forget that god is more interested in our character in our lives and who we are then what we are doing okay so who we are and the life we live as kingdom builders is more important to god than what we are doing okay so we're going to look at three main areas godly characters spiritual maturity and stewardship okay um what is um character character is basically your attitudes your nature your behavior your temperaments your personality okay your who you are as a person okay um and it is not who you really are before people but who are you in the secret quiet uh okay in your own quiet space okay and your character is revealed through your actions your behavior to your conduct okay um and your actions and your reactions actually reveal your character your actions and your reactions in difficult and unexpected circumstances actually reveal who you are as a person it reveals your nature your character your temperament your um uh you know your disposition your personality it reveals who you are especially when you how you react um to in difficult and unexpected circumstances okay your secret choices also reveal your character your words attitudes and decisions also reveal your character your value systems what influences you also reveals your character so let's look at an example of Joseph okay now we know that Joseph served faithfully for 11 years in Potiphar's house but we see that you know he had a very difficult time there and he was tempted by Pharaoh's sorry Potiphar's wife okay but we see in spite of the repeated temptations what was Joseph's stand he had the power to say no and why do you think he had the power to say no fear of God and because he had a strong model character his character was no this is not right okay we see that in verse eight okay he refused uh and said to his master's wife look my master does not know what is with me in the house but he has committed all that he has to my hands okay your conscience will also keep you accountable to God when no one is watching I love verse nine you know um when when Joseph says how can I sin against God I when I read this the first time in my life I just it just I stuck with me and saying but this young man you know um in when repeatedly facing this temptation in the face of temptation thought about how can I sin against God and I was looking at my own lifetimes when I have sin have I ever thought man and I if I do this sin it is going to grieve the heart of God it is going to break the heart of God I think and if we think that we will never do we really love God we will never do that whatever it is okay so he had um um his conscience you know uh uh towards God conscience towards his master kept him accountable even when nobody was watching okay and he was he had the ability to say no because he had a strong character you know without having a strong character you can say not say no to anyone and everyone's difficult you need to have a strong character okay and a strong character cannot be weakened and will not give in to continual temptation okay so we see here that he was continually tempted but he he did not give in to his temptation okay so how his character developed we look at um another example in the bible that of Daniel okay now we see that Daniel when he was very young okay he in his early teens he was taken to Babylon as a captive but he was taken to the palace okay and in this palace there were 10 10 uh Israelite boys who were from royal families were chosen who were to be taught everything about the Babylonian language science math everything and the end of three years you know they were supposed to be given food from the king's table everything end of three years Pharaoh is going to give them a test and then he's going to choose officials from his from these 10 uh Israelite boys all young teenage boys and when they were served food from the king's table you know this is another example that has stuck in my life you say no uh what did Daniel and his three friends do Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego they decided they will not eat that the food from the king's table you know I was thinking what would I would have done you know I would have said hey you know this is a king's order I can't disobey the king's order I will die you know you're living in the palace you have to eat the king's food um you know and it's good food and all of those things okay but here they said we don't want this food why because it was not according to the standards of uh the Israelites what God had asked them to eat and I was thinking even in the area of food where some of us would think no should we honor God with food you know we should honor God in other things what we watch we should in watch say thoughts all of those things in an area like food so we see that even in a simple thing like food Daniel and his three friends wanted to honor God when they were just teens you know teens the teenage years they just want to eat and eat and eat and eat and indulge in a lot of food you know but here are these three young men so you know what do we learn that character is developed at a very early age when you stand by your convictions and we see that God honored Daniel and his friends and they were they were able to answer all the questions that the king asked and king thought they were too super brilliant they were not just super brilliant but God gave them the wisdom God honored them for honoring him and I think God even looks at us when the way we honor him in a simple thing like food you know and I'm thinking God will also honor us in the way we dress the way we conduct ourselves no simple things in every area of our lives God wants us to honor him okay and it's never too early to start you know developing a godly character okay we also see that our characters influenced by our friends so we see Daniel you know Daniel and his three friends they decided they will not eat from the kings the food but the other six guys they said hey let's enjoy let's feast you know come on belt it you know enjoy but these Daniel and his three friends they resolved in their heart they will not define themselves by eating that king's food so a character also is influenced by our companions the friends that we have okay and a character is built over time through discipline and practice and we see this in the life of Daniel you know when the when the king gave the order for the next 40 days nobody should pray to any other god what does Daniel do as was his custom in his early days it says you know Daniel chapter six verse 10 you know now when Daniel knew the writing he went home in his upper room opened the windows to a Jerusalem bent down his knees three times a day and pray and gave thanks as was his custom since his early days so you know to get children to practice things from a very early days is something that they will not forget becomes a practice okay so he in spite of that order he went and did what was his ritual what was his custom okay and strong moral character is strengthened through adversity even through challenges even through difficulties look at what Romans chapter five verse three and four says can somebody read that these Romans chapter five verse three and four Romans chapter five verse three and four and not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulations produce perseverance and perseverance character and character hope amen okay so we should what did she say we should glory in tribulation that means we should you know praise god we should be worshiping we should be happy when we are going through what tribulations you know something very difficult for us to do why because tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope okay now why is character very very important okay we see that godly character is a prerequisite for kingdom ministry okay if we look at first Timothy chapter three verses five one to fifteen Paul is actually writing to young Timothy who he leaves there in the church and he's saying you know at Ephesus and he's saying you know I wanted to choose good leaders and he's saying choose bishops and so what is he saying the choose bishops who are godly who pray five times a day who fast huh he's saying that who read the Bible the Torah you know they're always in the church is he saying that no what is he saying he's talking about that there should be husband or one wife temperate sober minded good behavior hospitable not given to wine not violent not greedy for money gentle not quarrelsome not covetous you know able to rule their own house take care of their own children you know not puffed up with pride so he's just not you must be reverent not double tongue not given too much wine not greedy for money look at all that it's all talking about basic moral character you know your attitudes your behavior he's not saying hey there should be someone fasting five times a day uh they should be knowing the Torah they should be you know doing this they should be doing that not spiritual rituals so to say but talking about lifestyle okay so you know uh and he says likewise deacons you know what deacons what deacons help us like administrators in the church and look at the look at the list what he says for them in verses 11 to verse 15 I just want all of you to quietly read that for yourself verses 11 to 15 in first Timothy chapter 3 verses chapter 1 verses 11 to 15 and look at what Paul is writing to Titus you know who he left at Crete to oversee the churches at Crete he's saying you know I want you to choose the right people for leadership in the church and look at what he's telling them just read verses 6 to verse 9 for yourselves again please so important sorry yes Titus 1 5 to 9 so read first in Titus 1 5 to 9 and also first Timothy chapter 1 verses 11 to 15 so he's not talking here about how anointed how gifted how much they can speak in tongues you know they're flowing in all the gifts of the spirit which is the ministry office they're called to but he's talking about their lifestyle right he's talking about their character so in kingdom building God is looking more for not just our anointing because he can pour the anointing he can pour but if he pours in a vessel that is not having a good character the anointing will be wasted it will ruin and break the hearts of many that is what is happening around the world look at what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 9 verse 17 can somebody read that please Matthew chapter 9 verse 17 Matthew chapter 9 verse something not do they put new wine into old skins or else a wine skins break and the wine is spilled and the wine skin are ruined but they put new wine into new wine skin and both are preserved we learn this amen we learn this in ministers foundation right the anointing is the wine a character is the wine skin if the character is weak the wine skin is weak what will happen the wine will break and burst and wine will be wasted the same way if our character is weak the anointing will be wasted okay and we also learned in the ministers foundation in that publication you know your gift can take you where your character cannot see you if you don't have the good character you might be the most gifted anointed person but it can you know you can't stay too long it will not hold you there so we need strength of character to help us you know to the great heights that God takes us or brings us into okay we stop here we just have one more minute any questions any questions okay so you can you can be the most you can like you can be a very gifted person in in some area okay you can have all the skills the gifts that is required for that ministry whether it's worship or you know youth ministry or children's ministry but if you don't have a your character your character in the sense you are you know you're a gospel loudmouthed you you know you lose your patience you can't handle people you're very bossy you're very dominating you're very rude you know you are not somebody who's I me myself everything has to be about me you know and all of those things then what is the point of your gifting it you can't last long in that ministry in that place nobody would want you people will be rebelling against you there'll be striped there'll be disunity there'll be you know a break disorder and so you have you're a very gifted person but your character is not able to hold that gifting then there's no place nobody would want to work with a boss like that right nobody would want to work with a team leader ministry leader a pastor with with this kind of an attitude who's talking down bossing you know dominating not patient bringing about division gossiping behind people not living a honorable and holy lifestyle you can see through people right and it's not going to hold your gifting nobody would want to even come and pray for ask you to pray or you know you know even you won't even want to go to a church and listen to such a pastor or you won't even want to serve under such a ministry leader or a team leader so you can be the best gifted person but if you don't have your character your gifts cannot hold you you know in that place of position and authority okay okay thank you everyone for joining class we'll continue next week okay some important things we learned today hope you can implement that and practice even as we are in the process of kingdom building okay thank you have a blessed day and a blessed week everybody God bless