WEBVTT 00:00.120 --> 00:02.280 Heavenly greetings in Jesus' mighty name. 00:02.280 --> 00:04.320 Yes, the Lord be with your spirit 00:04.320 --> 00:05.220 wherever you are. 00:05.220 --> 00:07.800 With your spirit, what does that mean? 00:07.800 --> 00:09.146 Yes, today we are actually going to talk 00:09.146 --> 00:13.140 about what it means to worship God in spirit and truth, 00:13.140 --> 00:16.170 which is the fundamental commandment 00:16.170 --> 00:18.030 that Jesus Christ actually revealed 00:18.030 --> 00:20.640 to the Samaritan woman in that book of John 4. 00:20.640 --> 00:23.010 And this is central to the University of God. 00:23.010 --> 00:25.860 This is actually why we started the foundation series, 00:25.860 --> 00:28.380 which is 'Stepping into the spiritual.' 00:28.380 --> 00:29.550 Why? 00:29.550 --> 00:31.740 For how long will we stay in the natural 00:31.740 --> 00:33.990 without stepping into the spiritual? 00:33.990 --> 00:36.930 Because it's in the spiritual that we see, hear, 00:36.930 --> 00:38.520 and communicate with God. 00:38.520 --> 00:40.860 Yes, God would not have commanded us 00:40.860 --> 00:43.080 to walk in the Spirit if He not designed us 00:43.080 --> 00:44.220 to walk in the Spirit. 00:44.220 --> 00:47.760 We read that in the book of Galatians 5:25. 00:47.760 --> 00:50.970 So today we want to break down these key Scriptures 00:50.970 --> 00:54.000 and really ask God for revelation knowledge, 00:54.000 --> 00:58.020 because many people might have knowledge of the Bible. 00:58.020 --> 00:59.236 Even from Sunday school, 00:59.236 --> 01:02.760 many people have knowledge of Bible stories, 01:02.760 --> 01:05.460 have knowledge of Bible history, even have knowledge 01:05.460 --> 01:08.040 of memorising Bible verses. 01:08.040 --> 01:10.555 But that's completely different to having a revelation 01:10.555 --> 01:15.240 of the living Word of God in the midst of your heart 01:15.240 --> 01:17.400 that will change your life 01:17.400 --> 01:21.180 and be a point of contact between you and the Almighty God. 01:21.180 --> 01:22.013 So are you ready? 01:22.013 --> 01:23.610 Let's get stuck in. 01:23.610 --> 01:26.793 Racine, what can you say about spirit and truth? 01:28.110 --> 01:30.310 Thank you for your brilliant introduction! 01:31.620 --> 01:33.900 So why are we here? 01:33.900 --> 01:35.730 That's the question. 01:35.730 --> 01:39.537 What's the purpose of this journey - The University of God? 01:40.500 --> 01:43.230 Knowledge of the Bible is everywhere. 01:43.230 --> 01:46.062 The question is, Christianity is all about 01:46.062 --> 01:50.910 relationship with God and with others. 01:50.910 --> 01:53.100 Relationship with God is by faith. 01:53.100 --> 01:55.260 Relationship with others is love. 01:55.260 --> 01:56.250 That's why we said, 01:56.250 --> 01:58.530 we relate with God by faith 01:58.530 --> 02:02.280 and we relate with others by the love of God in our lives. 02:02.280 --> 02:05.160 - That overflows from God to others. - Absolutely. 02:05.160 --> 02:07.500 Absolutely - God being the source of everything. 02:07.500 --> 02:10.530 We are not talking about the love of man, but the love of God. 02:10.530 --> 02:12.697 As Romans chapter 5:5 says, 02:12.697 --> 02:16.410 'The love of God is poured in our heart by the Holy Spirit.' 02:16.410 --> 02:20.850 We all, including I, and Ruth I suppose, 02:20.850 --> 02:24.090 we have read the Bible many times in our lives. 02:24.090 --> 02:26.763 There was a time I read the Bible roughly every year, 02:27.840 --> 02:31.110 but something was lacking. 02:31.110 --> 02:32.910 I went to church like everybody, 02:32.910 --> 02:33.743 I read the Bible. 02:33.743 --> 02:36.450 There were some vital questions 02:36.450 --> 02:39.630 that I could not understand, 02:39.630 --> 02:42.810 because Jesus used parables. 02:42.810 --> 02:47.370 Many times He spoke using figurative language. 02:47.370 --> 02:51.570 And in the Old Testament we have many Prophets 02:51.570 --> 02:54.270 that spoke about the coming Messiah, 02:54.270 --> 02:56.550 and we realise that the revelation of God 02:56.550 --> 02:58.740 from the Old Testament to the New 02:58.740 --> 03:02.940 is one continued stretch of the same truth, 03:02.940 --> 03:04.680 and there is a link between the two. 03:04.680 --> 03:07.860 Saul understood the Old Testament. 03:07.860 --> 03:09.363 He preached it, right? 03:10.230 --> 03:13.050 I would ask myself, why did he fight 03:13.050 --> 03:14.700 the knowledge of Christ and the Gospel? 03:14.700 --> 03:17.490 And he was at the feet of Gamaliel. 03:17.490 --> 03:21.510 He knew the law of Moses very well in the letter, 03:21.510 --> 03:25.914 but he was absolutely sure that this new law 03:25.914 --> 03:28.680 is not of God, and he fought it, 03:28.680 --> 03:31.290 and later he embraced the Gospel 03:31.290 --> 03:32.940 and became an Apostle of Christ. 03:32.940 --> 03:35.100 When Jesus came, what did He say? 03:35.100 --> 03:37.350 "I did not come to abolish the law, but to"? 03:37.350 --> 03:38.280 - "Fulfill it." (Matthew 5:17) 03:38.280 --> 03:41.194 But to fulfill it. It means there is a link. 03:41.194 --> 03:44.590 And Jesus went on to say in Matthew 5:17 03:45.816 --> 03:49.740 that not one Word of the promises in the Old Testament 03:49.740 --> 03:50.790 will fall to the ground. 03:50.790 --> 03:52.200 He came to fulfill it. 03:52.200 --> 03:55.173 This means there is a relationship between the two. 03:56.940 --> 04:00.360 Now, when we talk about God, 04:00.360 --> 04:02.100 we start in the Old Testament, right? 04:02.100 --> 04:04.710 We say Old Testament. 04:04.710 --> 04:08.869 If Jesus came to fulfill and He quoted the Scriptures, 04:08.869 --> 04:10.023 why do we call it Old? 04:10.023 --> 04:12.180 Why, if it's the same promise of hope? 04:12.180 --> 04:14.850 Religiously we say Old, we say New. 04:14.850 --> 04:16.740 But when Jesus came, He said, "I'm not coming 04:16.740 --> 04:18.871 to break the law but to fulfil the law." 04:18.871 --> 04:21.870 The question I'm asking to myself and to others, 04:21.870 --> 04:24.153 do we really know who Jesus is? 04:25.170 --> 04:28.080 Do we really know His message? 04:28.080 --> 04:30.930 Do we have maybe an intellectual, 04:30.930 --> 04:34.563 religious way of approaching Jesus? 04:34.563 --> 04:39.270 Or do we know who Jesus is, who God is? 04:39.270 --> 04:41.523 Ruth has mentioned the Samaritan woman, right? 04:42.750 --> 04:45.060 And the Jewish people were there in the temple, 04:45.060 --> 04:48.180 and the Samaritans said, 'We worship in this mountain.' 04:48.180 --> 04:50.070 But they were worshiping the same God. 04:50.070 --> 04:53.730 But some say we are the truth, you are not the truth - 04:53.730 --> 04:55.050 and they were fighting. 04:55.050 --> 04:57.150 Jesus, being a Jew, went to her 04:57.150 --> 04:59.910 and spoke to her as she said and told her 04:59.910 --> 05:01.590 that you worship what you do not know - 05:01.590 --> 05:03.240 God is Spirit. 05:03.240 --> 05:05.610 This is the core of the programme today. 05:05.610 --> 05:09.450 Jesus has come to tell us, to teach us what is necessary 05:09.450 --> 05:13.743 and essential - that God is Spirit. 05:14.760 --> 05:18.180 And we must worship Him in spirit and in - 05:18.180 --> 05:19.013 - truth. 05:19.013 --> 05:22.980 This means whatever we do to receive approval from God 05:22.980 --> 05:25.530 must be in spirit, and in? 05:25.530 --> 05:26.363 - truth. 05:26.363 --> 05:29.100 This means if it is not in spirit, 05:29.100 --> 05:30.739 it is not in truth. 05:30.739 --> 05:32.533 - And so it is all or nothing. 05:32.533 --> 05:36.900 So what is the difference between spirit and truth? 05:36.900 --> 05:40.020 What I realise from this is that spirit and truth, 05:40.020 --> 05:41.070 they go together. 05:41.070 --> 05:44.613 If it is just spirit without the truth, it is not from God. 05:46.200 --> 05:50.250 If it is truth without being spirit, that's not the truth. 05:50.250 --> 05:51.630 Why am I saying this? 05:51.630 --> 05:53.073 Let me give an example. 05:54.810 --> 05:56.970 There was a man called Cornelius, right? (Acts 10) 05:56.970 --> 05:59.430 He was praying earnestly, 05:59.430 --> 06:02.880 because he wanted to know the God of the Jews. 06:02.880 --> 06:04.610 He was not a Jew, he was a Roman person. 06:04.610 --> 06:07.620 He was praying, giving alms to the poor, 06:07.620 --> 06:11.880 and one day a spirit being, called an angel, appeared to him 06:11.880 --> 06:14.760 and told him, all your prayers and alms 06:14.760 --> 06:19.603 have been approved by God. 06:19.603 --> 06:23.190 I said to myself, this is a spirit being right? 06:23.190 --> 06:26.910 Why didn't the angel preach the Gospel to him? 06:26.910 --> 06:28.350 Ruth, I'm asking you a question. 06:28.350 --> 06:31.380 Why didn't the angel, a spirit, preach the gospel 06:31.380 --> 06:32.850 to the house of Cornelius? 06:32.850 --> 06:35.430 Do you have any idea? 06:35.430 --> 06:38.310 I'm asking the question to you, viewers watching me. 06:38.310 --> 06:41.730 Well, because it was in God's plan that Peter was the one. 06:41.730 --> 06:46.530 Jesus said, it must be in spirit and in truth. 06:46.530 --> 06:50.250 This means not just because something is spirit 06:50.250 --> 06:51.083 that we should accept it. 06:51.083 --> 06:52.870 There are different types of spirit. 06:52.870 --> 06:56.310 It is not enough to be only in spirit. 06:56.310 --> 06:58.203 What kind of spirit is speaking? 06:59.190 --> 07:01.380 What kind of spirit is operating? 07:01.380 --> 07:04.590 Jesus said to be of God, it must be in spirit 07:04.590 --> 07:06.000 and in truth. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.583 The two must go together. 07:10.140 --> 07:15.140 So, not anyone who speaks in the spirit is of the truth. 07:15.540 --> 07:16.650 That's what it means for me. 07:16.650 --> 07:19.792 When satan tempted Jesus in the book of Matthew; 07:19.792 --> 07:22.980 when he took Jesus on top of the temple, 07:22.980 --> 07:23.813 what did he say? 07:23.813 --> 07:26.003 - he said, "It is written." (Matthew 4:5) 07:26.003 --> 07:29.220 'If you are the Son of God, jump.' 07:29.220 --> 07:30.563 - 'And the angels will.' 07:30.563 --> 07:31.396 - Angel will what? 07:31.396 --> 07:33.062 - 'Will catch you.' 07:33.062 --> 07:35.700 He quoted the letter of the Bible. 07:35.700 --> 07:36.750 It is in the Bible. 07:36.750 --> 07:37.591 - Psalms 91. 07:37.591 --> 07:42.591 Absolutely, but spoken by who? 07:42.660 --> 07:44.280 Which spirit spoke it? 07:44.280 --> 07:46.165 The lying spirit, not the spirit of truth. 07:46.165 --> 07:46.998 The lying spirit of satan. 07:46.998 --> 07:49.020 You can quote it, you can say it. 07:49.020 --> 07:53.220 Why did the angel not preach the Gospel to Cornelius? 07:53.220 --> 07:57.330 But the angel said, call one man called Simon-Peter. 07:57.330 --> 07:59.040 When he comes, he will tell you - 07:59.040 --> 08:00.450 God used a human being. 08:00.450 --> 08:01.999 Who was Peter? 08:01.999 --> 08:04.320 Who was Peter? 08:04.320 --> 08:05.613 A man like you and me. 08:06.630 --> 08:10.650 But what makes Peter special was what? 08:10.650 --> 08:11.670 Peter was born again. 08:11.670 --> 08:14.160 At Pentecost, he received the Holy Spirit. 08:14.160 --> 08:16.765 At home you can read Acts 10, 08:16.765 --> 08:18.810 You can see, the Spirit of God told him - 08:18.810 --> 08:21.510 'Go to this house, I am sending you.' 08:21.510 --> 08:26.510 When he came to the house of Cornelius, what did he do? 08:26.520 --> 08:31.520 He simply began to preach the Gospel of truth. 08:31.530 --> 08:36.990 Paul called the Gospel, 'The Gospel of truth.' (Ephesians 1:13) 08:36.990 --> 08:38.880 Which kind of truth was he preaching? 08:38.880 --> 08:42.048 - Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. (John 14:6) 08:42.048 --> 08:42.930 Natural truth or spiritual truth? 08:42.930 --> 08:43.763 Spiritual truth. 08:43.763 --> 08:44.970 That's the question. 08:44.970 --> 08:46.980 We have facts in nature, 08:46.980 --> 08:49.650 and we have truth, spiritual truth. 08:49.650 --> 08:51.120 Remember what Jesus said? 08:51.120 --> 08:52.800 I will pray to the Father, 08:52.800 --> 08:54.150 He will give you another - 08:54.150 --> 08:54.983 - Comforter. 08:54.983 --> 08:56.820 The Spirit of truth, 08:56.820 --> 08:58.800 whom the world cannot receive. 08:58.800 --> 09:01.410 He neither sees Him, nor knows Him. (John 14:16-17) 09:01.410 --> 09:04.080 And Jesus further says in John 16:13, 09:04.080 --> 09:05.580 that when the Holy Spirit comes, 09:05.580 --> 09:08.763 He will guide us into the fullness of the truth. 09:08.763 --> 09:11.683 Guide us in all truth. 09:11.683 --> 09:13.883 - 1 John 5:6 says, 09:13.883 --> 09:17.100 "It is the Holy Spirit who testifies 09:17.100 --> 09:19.920 because the Spirit is the truth." 09:19.920 --> 09:22.890 This being said, let's go back 09:22.890 --> 09:25.403 to what we call the Old Testament, 09:25.403 --> 09:27.300 to talk about that wilderness. 09:27.300 --> 09:30.810 In the beginning, God revealed Himself 09:30.810 --> 09:32.820 to the people of Israel 09:32.820 --> 09:36.450 when they were journeying in the wilderness to the promised land. 09:36.450 --> 09:39.061 Why does God allow us to be in the wilderness? 09:39.061 --> 09:43.140 Hosea 2:14. 09:43.140 --> 09:47.550 God said, "I will take you to the wilderness 09:47.550 --> 09:49.767 and there I will speak to your heart." 09:50.912 --> 09:52.143 Take note of that. 09:53.211 --> 09:54.963 Can you read it for us, Ruth? 09:55.800 --> 09:58.983 That will help us to set the message right. 10:01.211 --> 10:04.020 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her 10:04.020 --> 10:05.700 and will bring her into the wilderness 10:05.700 --> 10:07.434 and speak comfort to her." 10:07.434 --> 10:08.267 I will take her what to what? 10:08.267 --> 10:11.040 To the wilderness and speak comfort to her. 10:11.040 --> 10:11.977 The next verse. 10:11.977 --> 10:14.490 "I will give her her vineyards from there 10:14.490 --> 10:16.980 and the valley of Akor as a door of hope. 10:16.980 --> 10:19.500 She shall sing there as in the days of her youth, 10:19.500 --> 10:22.170 as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt." 10:22.170 --> 10:27.346 Why does God sometimes have to take us to the wilderness to speak to us? 10:27.346 --> 10:29.310 That's the question. 10:29.310 --> 10:32.280 Yes, and we all want an encounter with God. 10:32.280 --> 10:33.690 We all want to hear God's voice, 10:33.690 --> 10:35.340 but we don't often realise 10:35.340 --> 10:38.430 that God gives us an appointment in the wilderness. 10:38.430 --> 10:39.263 Why? 10:39.263 --> 10:40.380 Because in the rush of everyday activities, 10:40.380 --> 10:43.530 it's difficult for us to still our spirit 10:43.530 --> 10:46.469 and pay attention to the Spirit of God talking to us. 10:46.469 --> 10:51.469 I think one of the greatest hindrances is our senses. 10:51.690 --> 10:53.730 One of the greatest hindrances 10:53.730 --> 10:58.080 to perceive the truth from God is our natural common sense. 10:58.080 --> 11:02.310 Because we are always focused on the natural, what we see, 11:02.310 --> 11:04.710 what we hear, what circumstances look like. 11:04.710 --> 11:06.570 It's the greatest temptation actually 11:06.570 --> 11:08.310 to see everything in the natural. 11:08.310 --> 11:10.950 The battle we fight each day is with our senses. 11:10.950 --> 11:15.950 True. So if God wants to draw me to a place of fellowship 11:16.410 --> 11:17.700 to draw my attention, 11:17.700 --> 11:19.290 He will cut me off from the noise 11:19.290 --> 11:20.790 and destraction of this world. 11:20.790 --> 11:24.420 Now you understand sometimes God can use circumstances, 11:24.420 --> 11:25.710 difficult circumstances, 11:25.710 --> 11:29.033 to separate you from the noise of this world. 11:29.033 --> 11:32.400 God often works through the circumstances of life. 11:32.400 --> 11:35.610 When you are alone in your wilderness. 11:35.610 --> 11:38.850 Wilderness means no friends, no people to talk to you. 11:38.850 --> 11:41.520 Not a place you would naturally want to go or be. 11:41.520 --> 11:44.470 In the wilderness, there's nothing that will comfort you. 11:45.960 --> 11:47.577 Your money cannot comfort you, people cannot comfort you. 11:47.577 --> 11:49.290 You are alone, left to yourself. 11:49.290 --> 11:51.090 God said, "I will take you to the wilderness," 11:51.090 --> 11:54.240 Hosea 2:14-15, "And I will comfort you." 11:54.240 --> 11:58.710 None of us are ready to encounter God when everything is fine. 11:58.710 --> 12:01.530 Nobody comes to the knowledge of Jesus in comfort. 12:01.530 --> 12:05.010 Trouble, difficulty brought us into God's presence. 12:05.010 --> 12:06.360 Questions, challenges. 12:06.360 --> 12:08.100 Just look back at your life and you will see. 12:08.100 --> 12:10.773 Examine your own journey of encountering Jesus. 12:10.773 --> 12:15.000 When God rescued them from the land of ancient Egypt 12:15.000 --> 12:19.590 and God opened the Red Sea, Ruth, honestly speaking, 12:19.590 --> 12:20.730 I'm talking to you. 12:20.730 --> 12:21.600 Listen to me. 12:21.600 --> 12:23.790 If you witnessed God opening the sea, 12:23.790 --> 12:26.610 and you passed on dry ground - 12:26.610 --> 12:29.760 you saw the water separated. 12:29.760 --> 12:32.186 I think no miracle is greater than that one. 12:32.186 --> 12:33.840 No, I think it is the greatest miracle. 12:33.840 --> 12:36.660 Can you experience that, and later doubt God? 12:36.660 --> 12:37.710 That's the question. 12:37.710 --> 12:40.680 Well, anything is capable of the human heart. 12:40.680 --> 12:45.000 The question is, no matter how big the miracle is, 12:45.000 --> 12:46.830 human beings always forget. 12:46.830 --> 12:47.663 Why? 12:47.663 --> 12:49.560 Because it does not affect the heart. 12:49.560 --> 12:53.370 The purpose of miracles is to affect us in the outward first. 12:53.370 --> 12:56.490 Miracle healing, miracle deliverance, miracle breakthrough - 12:56.490 --> 12:59.160 but the greatest miracle the Bible is talking about 12:59.160 --> 13:00.300 is not on the outside, 13:00.300 --> 13:01.361 it's inside of you. 13:01.361 --> 13:02.791 - Salvation. 13:02.791 --> 13:04.650 Why is it there? 13:04.650 --> 13:06.091 That's the question. 13:06.091 --> 13:10.710 God said, I took them to the wilderness for one purpose. 13:10.710 --> 13:14.025 Deuteronomy 8:2, 'I took you to the wilderness, 13:14.025 --> 13:16.350 where you suffer hunger and thirst 13:16.350 --> 13:19.410 to teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, 13:19.410 --> 13:21.483 but by every Word that comes.' 13:21.483 --> 13:22.481 - "From the mouth of God." 13:22.481 --> 13:24.150 - From the mouth of the Lord. 13:24.150 --> 13:25.800 In the beginning, in the wilderness. 13:25.800 --> 13:27.060 Now you can see the parallel - 13:27.060 --> 13:29.040 immediately Jesus came out of the baptism, 13:29.040 --> 13:30.030 He went to the wilderness, 13:30.030 --> 13:32.251 the same satan met Him there in the wilderness. 13:32.251 --> 13:37.080 'If you are the Son of God, turn this stone to bread.' (Matthew 4:3) 13:37.080 --> 13:38.940 When God took them to the wilderness, 13:38.940 --> 13:41.400 the Bible says the presence of God was visible. 13:41.400 --> 13:42.233 Am I right? 13:42.233 --> 13:44.370 Yes, it was a pillar of cloud by day 13:44.370 --> 13:45.870 and a pillar of fire by night 13:45.870 --> 13:48.690 that they could visibly see and experience. 13:48.690 --> 13:52.050 They saw the pillar of cloud by day 13:52.050 --> 13:54.480 and the pillar of fire by night, 13:54.480 --> 13:59.480 that represented the presence of God physically. 13:59.520 --> 14:03.270 They saw physically the presence of God, of His glory. 14:03.270 --> 14:04.530 That's not all - 14:04.530 --> 14:06.568 He asked Moses to build a tabernacle 14:06.568 --> 14:09.540 in the wilderness where there was no food. 14:09.540 --> 14:10.373 Am I right? 14:10.373 --> 14:14.250 They cried out, and the Bible says, manna came from Heaven. 14:14.250 --> 14:15.750 Manna to feed them. 14:15.750 --> 14:18.180 When they were thirsty, they cried out. 14:18.180 --> 14:22.500 God made water to come from the rock itself. 14:22.500 --> 14:25.616 Even their shoes, their clothes, they never wore out. 14:25.616 --> 14:27.870 They saw all these things - 14:27.870 --> 14:29.310 they saw these great miracles, 14:29.310 --> 14:31.410 they saw how God rescued them from Egypt. 14:32.370 --> 14:35.610 That's supposed to be enough to build their faith forever. 14:35.610 --> 14:36.600 And that is not all. 14:36.600 --> 14:39.714 In Exodus 19, God said to Moses, 14:39.714 --> 14:41.820 'Prepare the people. 14:41.820 --> 14:45.120 I'm going to speak to every single person.' 14:45.120 --> 14:47.400 This has never happened in history. 14:47.400 --> 14:49.080 Prophets heard from God, 14:49.080 --> 14:51.930 but God said, I'm going to speak to everyone. 14:51.930 --> 14:54.603 Every member of the congregation will hear My voice. 14:55.650 --> 14:56.820 That's what happened. 14:56.820 --> 14:59.376 And God said to Moses, sanctify them three days. 14:59.376 --> 15:01.170 Deuteronomy chapter 4. 15:01.170 --> 15:02.430 Ruth, can you help us? 15:02.430 --> 15:04.773 Deuteronomy 4:12, let's listen. 15:06.933 --> 15:10.710 "And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. 15:10.710 --> 15:14.130 You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form. 15:14.130 --> 15:15.718 You only heard a voice." 15:15.718 --> 15:17.400 What strikes you there? 15:17.400 --> 15:19.230 Well, many things strike me. 15:19.230 --> 15:21.540 But the first thing is that God spoke 15:21.540 --> 15:23.070 from the midst of the fire. 15:23.070 --> 15:26.010 Yes, God spoke through the midst of the fire, 15:26.010 --> 15:29.880 and He said, You heard the sound of His voice, 15:29.880 --> 15:31.890 but you saw no face, no image. 15:31.890 --> 15:33.120 - No form. 15:33.120 --> 15:35.263 The same God will say in His 10 commandments, 15:35.263 --> 15:37.920 'Thou shall not make any image of anything 15:37.920 --> 15:41.400 in Heaven, on earth or in the earth,' meaning don't make any idols. 15:41.400 --> 15:45.660 'I am not visible - don't worship them.' 15:45.660 --> 15:46.770 This is what I'm coming to. 15:46.770 --> 15:49.050 'Don't make an idol and don't worship them.' 15:49.050 --> 15:50.940 And now you remember what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, 15:50.940 --> 15:52.560 John chapter 4:24 - 15:52.560 --> 15:54.272 yes, God is Spirit. 15:54.272 --> 15:56.393 God is Spirit, this means you don't need to see Him. 15:57.240 --> 15:58.583 But those who worship Him must? 15:58.583 --> 16:00.300 Worship in spirit and truth. 16:00.300 --> 16:03.591 In spirit and in truth. 16:03.591 --> 16:05.400 That's where we are going today. 16:05.400 --> 16:07.793 They heard the voice of God - no image. 16:07.793 --> 16:11.670 They saw the miracles and everything in the wilderness. 16:11.670 --> 16:14.010 Until today, you know humankind, 16:14.010 --> 16:17.446 we continue to try and put an image 16:17.446 --> 16:19.800 to something that we worship, 16:19.800 --> 16:23.160 which is distracting from the real place of worship, 16:23.160 --> 16:24.450 which is in our heart - 16:24.450 --> 16:26.070 our spirit that communes with God. 16:26.070 --> 16:28.770 The question fundamentally is not God - 16:28.770 --> 16:29.730 God cannot change. 16:29.730 --> 16:33.210 The question is we, human beings. 16:33.210 --> 16:36.900 Relationship with God is deep, deeper. 16:36.900 --> 16:37.733 - Deepest. 16:37.733 --> 16:38.613 - Deepest. 16:39.540 --> 16:42.093 Some people say, I don't believe in God. 16:43.110 --> 16:45.060 I'm not interested in God. 16:45.060 --> 16:47.220 They have no relationship with God. 16:47.220 --> 16:48.220 That's their choice. 16:49.470 --> 16:52.590 Some people say, yes, I believe in God. 16:52.590 --> 16:54.810 I go to church every Sunday. 16:54.810 --> 16:56.280 They go to church every Sunday. 16:56.280 --> 16:58.733 Every Sunday they go to church and listen to the message. 16:59.670 --> 17:01.200 Some people say, 17:01.200 --> 17:04.973 I want to have a relationship with God - 17:06.870 --> 17:07.743 daily, every single day of life. 17:07.743 --> 17:10.310 They read the Bible to live it, 17:10.310 --> 17:13.230 and to walk with God - to build relationship 17:13.230 --> 17:14.550 with the Holy Spirit daily. 17:14.550 --> 17:16.710 My daily bread. 17:16.710 --> 17:17.610 And that's the will of God for everybody - 17:17.610 --> 17:21.930 to have a relationship with God every day. 17:21.930 --> 17:24.510 We saw that God spoke to everybody. 17:24.510 --> 17:27.453 His will, His mind is to speak to every single person, 17:28.530 --> 17:30.990 but you must follow His ways. 17:30.990 --> 17:33.866 This means knowing God is not to see miracles, 17:33.866 --> 17:38.866 is not to see a great cloud, but to learn His ways. 17:41.460 --> 17:43.470 It's true because, if you think about it, 17:43.470 --> 17:46.290 the pillar of cloud by day and the fire by night 17:46.290 --> 17:48.960 was to lead them through the wilderness. 17:48.960 --> 17:51.450 But they were never meant to stay in the wilderness forever. 17:51.450 --> 17:56.010 They were meant to get out of it, to go to the Promised Land. 17:56.010 --> 17:57.480 Thank you for saying that. 17:57.480 --> 17:58.738 They were in the wilderness 17:58.738 --> 18:02.670 where they saw the visible signs of God, 18:02.670 --> 18:05.733 but they themselves were in the natural. 18:07.500 --> 18:09.030 God is Spirit. 18:09.030 --> 18:11.490 God is in the spirit. 18:11.490 --> 18:15.150 Nobody can see His face, but we can hear His voice - 18:15.150 --> 18:16.500 the Word. 18:16.500 --> 18:20.490 But they themselves, they were in the natural. 18:20.490 --> 18:25.490 So at that time, God knew the weakness of their status 18:25.590 --> 18:29.373 and God allowed a visible presence to tell them God was there. 18:30.330 --> 18:31.320 So they wouldn't doubt. 18:31.320 --> 18:33.300 So they wouldn't doubt. 18:33.300 --> 18:35.813 God tried to start to build their faith 18:35.813 --> 18:38.430 so they would know that the mighty God is with them 18:38.430 --> 18:40.260 so they can fear Him forever. 18:40.260 --> 18:43.560 All the nations around who heard what God did in Egypt 18:43.560 --> 18:45.303 were afraid of them. 18:46.620 --> 18:48.360 If they looked, they saw the cloud - 18:48.360 --> 18:49.623 God is there! 18:51.480 --> 18:52.980 When they saw the cloud, God was there. 18:52.980 --> 18:57.330 The Bible said every day that God spoke to Moses face to face, 18:57.330 --> 18:59.730 like a man speaks to his friend. 18:59.730 --> 19:02.580 But the others, when God descended. 19:02.580 --> 19:04.460 God wants to speak to you, wants to speak to me - 19:04.460 --> 19:05.460 to every one of us. 19:05.460 --> 19:06.780 That's the will of God. 19:06.780 --> 19:08.850 But when God called them 19:08.850 --> 19:12.930 in Deuteronomy 4:12 you just read, what did they say? 19:12.930 --> 19:15.810 'Lord, let God not speak to us again. 19:15.810 --> 19:17.370 We are afraid of hearing His voice.' 19:17.370 --> 19:18.270 That's what they said. 19:18.270 --> 19:20.720 Choose somebody, choose a Prophet to speak to us. 19:22.401 --> 19:23.234 And that's what they said. 19:23.234 --> 19:28.110 So on the journey in the wilderness, God tested them. 19:28.110 --> 19:29.730 God allowed thirst to come. 19:29.730 --> 19:32.100 Every time they were thirsty, what happened? 19:32.100 --> 19:33.230 What did they do? 19:33.230 --> 19:34.063 They complained. 19:34.063 --> 19:35.550 They complained to God. 19:35.550 --> 19:37.710 They forgot everything God did. 19:37.710 --> 19:39.120 'There's no water.' 19:39.120 --> 19:42.750 God said to Moses, speak to the rock, or hit the rock. 19:42.750 --> 19:43.583 Water came out. 19:43.583 --> 19:45.630 God did that in their presence. 19:45.630 --> 19:48.180 When there was no food, the manna came. 19:48.180 --> 19:50.010 Even when they were tired of the manna, 19:50.010 --> 19:52.230 God actually brought them meat. 19:52.230 --> 19:56.040 But now the question, where was their heart? 19:56.040 --> 19:59.640 Jesus said, where your treasure is, 19:59.640 --> 20:01.743 there is your heart. 20:03.060 --> 20:04.950 Take note of your heart. 20:04.950 --> 20:05.913 What is your heart? 20:06.960 --> 20:08.730 Your heart means your spirit. 20:08.730 --> 20:10.687 Zachariah 12:1 says, 20:10.687 --> 20:13.963 "God formed the spirit of man within him." 20:13.963 --> 20:17.670 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says that 20:17.670 --> 20:21.210 man is spirit, soul, and body. 20:21.210 --> 20:24.305 The hindrance is from our side. 20:24.305 --> 20:29.305 We are so much drawn away by the natural, by our senses. 20:29.700 --> 20:32.670 They wanted to see a sign to believe. 20:32.670 --> 20:34.470 So when they were in the wilderness, 20:34.470 --> 20:36.810 in Numbers 14, 20:36.810 --> 20:37.680 do you know what happened? 20:37.680 --> 20:39.840 When God wanted them to enter the promised land, 20:39.840 --> 20:41.790 they sent spies - 12 spies. 20:41.790 --> 20:42.900 They went to spy. 20:42.900 --> 20:44.760 What happened when they came out? 20:44.760 --> 20:46.530 Well, they all had a negative report 20:46.530 --> 20:49.230 about the giants in the land, that filled people with fear, 20:49.230 --> 20:53.730 except Joshua and Caleb, who actually maintained 20:53.730 --> 20:57.030 the faithfulness and testimony of what God had done for them 20:57.030 --> 20:59.451 in the past and said that, no, they shouldn't be afraid. 20:59.451 --> 21:00.900 Why were they afraid? 21:00.900 --> 21:02.040 Afraid of who? 21:02.040 --> 21:03.987 They were afraid of the people inhabiting the land - 21:03.987 --> 21:06.150 the giants. 21:06.150 --> 21:07.380 Take notice of that. 21:07.380 --> 21:08.340 Giants. 21:08.340 --> 21:13.340 They said, 'These people were giants. 21:13.350 --> 21:15.690 We were like grasshoppers 21:15.690 --> 21:19.260 in their sight and in our sight,' it means they confirmed. 21:19.260 --> 21:21.300 - They saw themselves as small 21:21.300 --> 21:23.520 just as the giants saw them as small. 21:23.520 --> 21:26.280 They didn't see themselves as God saw them. 21:26.280 --> 21:29.580 When those people that came gave the negative report, 21:29.580 --> 21:32.430 the Scripture says, everybody, all the congregation 21:32.430 --> 21:35.460 bega n to cry, begin to murmur, 21:35.460 --> 21:37.176 and they wanted the stone Moses. 21:37.176 --> 21:39.330 'You brought us here to kill us. 21:39.330 --> 21:41.930 It's better for us to go back to Egypt, to slavery.' (Number 14:1-10) 21:43.440 --> 21:44.760 That's what they said. 21:44.760 --> 21:49.760 But we have just said that the presence of God was visible. 21:50.190 --> 21:53.130 The cloud was on top of their head, visibly. 21:53.130 --> 21:54.300 Why could they not see it? 21:54.300 --> 21:57.960 The presence of God was visible. 21:57.960 --> 21:59.370 It was visible. 21:59.370 --> 22:03.310 Why did they allow what they heard 22:04.530 --> 22:07.260 to overwhelm them to such a great extent 22:07.260 --> 22:10.620 that they lost focus on God's presence, which was there? 22:10.620 --> 22:13.840 If they, that had the physical presence of God 22:14.796 --> 22:17.040 above their head as a constant sign 22:17.040 --> 22:20.730 could be distracted and overwhelmed by their situation, 22:20.730 --> 22:24.720 it really shows us that the battle is of the senses. 22:24.720 --> 22:27.990 This means you can never know God by sight. 22:27.990 --> 22:31.140 You can never know God by miracles. 22:31.140 --> 22:34.350 To know God is to know His ways. 22:34.350 --> 22:38.100 And because it was so unfamiliar to them, 22:38.100 --> 22:41.550 that's why they were thinking of the familiarity of Egypt, 22:41.550 --> 22:44.010 what they remembered, what they knew, 22:44.010 --> 22:45.150 what they were comfortable with 22:45.150 --> 22:46.740 because they were familiar with it. 22:46.740 --> 22:48.960 That's why their hearts kept going back. 22:48.960 --> 22:53.620 Rather than trusting in what God said, the promise for them. 22:53.620 --> 22:58.620 This simply means to know God is to know His Word. 22:58.650 --> 23:03.060 That's the only sound they heard, the voice of God. 23:03.060 --> 23:07.290 To know His ways, you must learn His Word 23:07.290 --> 23:08.700 and obey His Word. 23:08.700 --> 23:10.443 His ways are in His Word. 23:11.310 --> 23:13.410 God is in His Word. 23:13.410 --> 23:15.180 The knowledge of God is in His Word, 23:15.180 --> 23:17.520 but they remained in the natural, 23:17.520 --> 23:20.130 and they went back to the wilderness. 23:20.130 --> 23:23.701 So we are saying, as long as you stay in the natural, 23:23.701 --> 23:29.160 you will remain in the wilderness. 23:29.160 --> 23:30.720 Think about that for a moment. 23:30.720 --> 23:31.710 Just let that sink in. 23:31.710 --> 23:33.357 As long as you are in the natural, 23:33.357 --> 23:35.183 you will remain in the natural. 23:35.183 --> 23:38.430 You can just remain going round and round the wilderness. 23:38.430 --> 23:41.010 Many people that left the slavery of Egypt - 23:41.010 --> 23:42.990 so many, in fact, a whole generation 23:42.990 --> 23:44.400 never entered the promised land. 23:44.400 --> 23:45.300 Why? 23:45.300 --> 23:47.580 Because they chose to stay in the wilderness. 23:47.580 --> 23:49.350 As long as you are in the natural, 23:49.350 --> 23:52.710 you can go from churches to churches, 23:52.710 --> 23:54.300 You are still in the wilderness. 23:54.300 --> 23:55.860 You can go from experience 23:55.860 --> 23:57.021 to experience, to experience, 23:57.021 --> 23:59.940 spiritual experience, watching this, 23:59.940 --> 24:02.820 watching that, feeling this, feeling that. 24:02.820 --> 24:05.370 As long as you are still in the natural, 24:05.370 --> 24:08.220 you have not yet grasped that revelation truth, 24:08.220 --> 24:10.230 that to worship God is in spirit and truth - 24:10.230 --> 24:11.110 you remain in the wilderness. 24:11.110 --> 24:15.030 I can worship God in the natural with a beautiful voice. 24:15.030 --> 24:17.073 I'm still singing in the wilderness. 24:19.486 --> 24:22.800 I can pray mighty prayer points in the natural - 24:22.800 --> 24:25.680 I'm talking to the air in the wilderness. 24:25.680 --> 24:29.100 We can use beautiful, eloquent words, 24:29.100 --> 24:31.710 have ability to inspire people, 24:31.710 --> 24:34.410 but many of our our words - they can entertain men, 24:34.410 --> 24:36.540 but do they really reach God? 24:36.540 --> 24:38.790 Do they really reach the heart of God? 24:38.790 --> 24:42.895 You heard that I can have a beautiful voice - mighty song, 24:42.895 --> 24:45.810 singing and tears will come emotionally. 24:45.810 --> 24:48.600 If it is not in spirit, if it is not in truth, 24:48.600 --> 24:49.800 then it is all nothing. 24:49.800 --> 24:54.727 But don't forget, Jesus said in Matthew 15:8, 24:54.727 --> 24:57.540 'These people come to Me with their lips, 24:57.540 --> 25:00.243 but their heart is far from Me.' 25:01.140 --> 25:04.440 When I come to God to raise my hands in worship, 25:04.440 --> 25:06.627 God is looking at my heart first. 25:07.800 --> 25:10.013 Are you such in heart? 25:10.013 --> 25:13.140 When I come to give my offering - God looks at my heart. 25:13.140 --> 25:18.140 Is it my heart giving in spirit for God's sake, or me? 25:18.180 --> 25:21.360 Moses was called by God, who spoke to him. 25:21.360 --> 25:24.030 He heard the voice of God clearly. 25:24.030 --> 25:28.050 He learned the ways of God, took His commandments, 25:28.050 --> 25:30.900 and wrote them on tablets of stone 25:30.900 --> 25:33.870 to give them to his people - to not to forget it. 25:33.870 --> 25:37.200 Moses fulfilled his assignment by bringing them out, 25:37.200 --> 25:39.540 but what happened? 25:39.540 --> 25:41.870 In the wilderness God took Moses. 25:41.870 --> 25:46.140 That's where they had to now rely on God, 25:46.140 --> 25:47.490 they couldn't rely on Moses. 25:47.490 --> 25:51.240 When God took Moses, they could not see Moses anymore, 25:51.240 --> 25:54.360 but Moses gave them the Word he left behind. 25:54.360 --> 25:56.430 Joshua came, a young man. 25:56.430 --> 25:58.830 God spoke to Joshua in chapter one, 25:58.830 --> 26:02.400 who was afraid because he saw the mightiness of what God did, 26:02.400 --> 26:05.040 and God said, "As I was with Moses, 26:05.040 --> 26:07.140 so shall I be with you." (Joshua 1:5) 26:07.140 --> 26:09.540 - The Spirit of God was with Joshua. 26:09.540 --> 26:13.870 What took them to the promised land was God - 26:15.090 --> 26:17.940 through His Word, by His Spirit. 26:17.940 --> 26:22.940 Today we are so much conditioned by the symbols, 26:23.040 --> 26:25.740 by the signs, by the letter, 26:25.740 --> 26:28.950 that we forget things in the spirit. 26:28.950 --> 26:33.480 That's why people say, I go to church every day, I do this. 26:33.480 --> 26:37.920 Why can't I hear God? Why I can't this, why this, why this? 26:37.920 --> 26:39.990 Is it in spirit and in truth? 26:39.990 --> 26:44.220 It is our heart, our spirit that is connected to God in the spirit. 26:44.220 --> 26:47.880 The only part of us that can receive inspiration, 26:47.880 --> 26:51.450 revelation, fellowship with God is the human heart - 26:51.450 --> 26:52.290 our spirit. 26:52.290 --> 26:54.307 Romans chapter 1:9 - 26:54.307 --> 26:57.060 We serve God with our spirit. 26:57.060 --> 26:59.310 We have to understand this. 26:59.310 --> 27:02.190 We have to understand relationship with God - 27:02.190 --> 27:04.770 deep, deeper, deepest. 27:04.770 --> 27:08.193 Some are in the letter but not in the spirit. 27:09.120 --> 27:10.200 What do I mean by that? 27:10.200 --> 27:13.000 It's not just about confessing the Word with your mouth, 27:13.881 --> 27:16.470 but you have to believe in your heart. 27:16.470 --> 27:19.950 The confession of my mouth, my songs, my prayers 27:19.950 --> 27:24.360 must be in spirit and in truth from my heart, 27:24.360 --> 27:27.150 from my mind - and spoken by faith. 27:27.150 --> 27:31.560 So the question is, how do we enter God's presence? 27:31.560 --> 27:33.120 That's my question. 27:33.120 --> 27:35.089 We said the pillar of cloud 27:35.089 --> 27:38.013 was symbolising the presence of God. 27:38.940 --> 27:43.477 To be in the Spirit is to be in the presence of God. 27:45.900 --> 27:48.960 And it's sometimes when we are in the midst of a rock 27:48.960 --> 27:51.960 and a hard place that we sense the presence of the Lord 27:51.960 --> 27:53.370 most clearly in our lives - 27:53.370 --> 27:55.440 that we hear the voice of the Lord most clearly, 27:55.440 --> 27:59.483 that we see the need to depend on Him alone. 27:59.483 --> 28:00.600 What you said, that's very true, 28:00.600 --> 28:05.600 but to be in the Spirit is to be in the presence of God. 28:05.610 --> 28:09.900 The question is, how do I know I am in the presence of God? 28:09.900 --> 28:11.250 That's my question, Ruth. 28:11.250 --> 28:15.720 How do I know I am in the presence of God? 28:15.720 --> 28:17.100 That's a good question. 28:17.100 --> 28:18.150 That's the question. 28:18.150 --> 28:20.190 How do we know the reality of God? 28:20.190 --> 28:22.380 How do I know I'm in God's presence? 28:22.380 --> 28:23.850 How do I know that what I'm hearing 28:23.850 --> 28:25.650 is from God or not from God? 28:25.650 --> 28:26.523 That's the question. 28:26.523 --> 28:28.290 Your spirit must testify. 28:28.290 --> 28:29.123 To what? 28:29.123 --> 28:31.410 If you can't distinguish between right or wrong, 28:31.410 --> 28:32.640 how can you testify? 28:32.640 --> 28:34.410 The devil can speak, God can speak. 28:34.410 --> 28:35.940 How do you know the difference? 28:35.940 --> 28:37.265 And that's the question. 28:37.265 --> 28:39.570 I can give you one hint. 28:39.570 --> 28:44.570 Paul said in Romans 9:1, 28:45.090 --> 28:46.530 'I speak the truth. I am not lying. 28:46.530 --> 28:50.925 My conscience is bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit.' 28:50.925 --> 28:52.707 I'm coming to Him, Holy Spirit - the Spirit of truth. 28:56.760 --> 28:59.040 How can I be in God's presence? 28:59.040 --> 29:00.255 The Bible says simply, 29:00.255 --> 29:02.841 how can I be in God's presence, Ruth? 29:02.841 --> 29:04.910 - Spirit of truth. - Can you see God? 29:04.910 --> 29:06.150 It has to be in spirit, 29:06.150 --> 29:08.400 because you can't see him - by faith. 29:08.400 --> 29:09.233 Thank you. 29:09.233 --> 29:10.350 Now you are talking by faith. 29:10.350 --> 29:13.503 That's the word I wanted you to say, to be in the Spirit 29:14.697 --> 29:16.280 is simply by faith. 29:17.671 --> 29:22.523 Because the Bible says we walk by faith, not by sight. 29:23.735 --> 29:24.933 2 Corinthians 5:7, 29:24.933 --> 29:28.717 2 Corinthians 4:18 says, 29:28.717 --> 29:31.920 'We look not at what is seen, but?' 29:31.920 --> 29:32.767 - 'What is unseen.' 29:32.767 --> 29:34.310 'Because what unseen is.' 29:34.310 --> 29:35.490 - 'Is eternal.' 29:35.490 --> 29:38.130 'And what is seen is temporal' - by faith. 29:38.130 --> 29:42.120 So we walk by faith, we live by faith 29:42.120 --> 29:46.920 when we are able to recognise our union with Jesus, 29:46.920 --> 29:51.300 with God in the Spirit, heart to heart, 29:51.300 --> 29:55.140 Spirit to spirit. They were in God's presence, 29:55.140 --> 29:57.480 they saw the outward signs, 29:57.480 --> 29:59.310 but their heart was not connected to God. 29:59.310 --> 30:02.430 Moses' heart was connected to God, to hear His voice, 30:02.430 --> 30:04.680 to mark His voice, to discern His voice. 30:04.680 --> 30:05.859 - To obey His voice. 30:05.859 --> 30:07.290 - Absolutely. 30:07.290 --> 30:08.590 You said at the beginning, 30:10.410 --> 30:12.600 God wouldn't have asked us, commanded us 30:12.600 --> 30:14.940 to walk in the Spirit if He had not designed us 30:14.940 --> 30:16.500 to walk in the Spirit. 30:16.500 --> 30:18.300 This means I have a spirit. 30:18.300 --> 30:22.530 Zachariah 12:1, Job 32:8, 1 Thessalonians 5 - 30:22.530 --> 30:23.760 I have a spirit. 30:23.760 --> 30:25.080 So the question is, 30:25.080 --> 30:27.933 how can I identify that it is God speaking to me? 30:28.770 --> 30:32.610 We said in the Old Testament, they were walking by sight. 30:32.610 --> 30:35.370 They saw physically God's presence, 30:35.370 --> 30:37.200 but they never knew the way of the Lord. 30:37.200 --> 30:39.390 No matter how big the miracles are, 30:39.390 --> 30:40.770 that can never anchor your heart 30:40.770 --> 30:41.940 and bring it to God's presence. 30:41.940 --> 30:43.950 Only the Word of God can do that. 30:43.950 --> 30:48.950 The only way to know God is through His Word, by His Spirit. 30:49.470 --> 30:52.020 Not every spirit that speaks is from God. 30:52.020 --> 30:53.490 How do you see the truth? 30:53.490 --> 30:54.750 How do we know the truth? 30:54.750 --> 30:56.940 By the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth. 30:56.940 --> 31:00.000 You must be led by the Spirit of God to walk in the Spirit. 31:00.000 --> 31:02.045 That's why the Bible says in Roman 8:14, 31:02.045 --> 31:04.467 those who are led by God are what? 31:04.467 --> 31:05.670 - The sons of God. 31:05.670 --> 31:08.400 Sons of God, led not by their emotion, 31:08.400 --> 31:10.410 but led by the Holy Spirit. 31:10.410 --> 31:12.750 So we have to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us. 31:12.750 --> 31:13.620 Absolutely. 31:13.620 --> 31:15.300 But how do we recognise that? 31:15.300 --> 31:18.900 The Bible calls it the gift of righteousness. 31:18.900 --> 31:21.130 Can you go to John 16:10? 31:21.130 --> 31:22.507 Let's listen. 31:22.507 --> 31:25.350 "Of righteousness because I go to My Father 31:25.350 --> 31:26.940 and you will see Me no more." 31:26.940 --> 31:29.850 When the Holy Ghost comes, He will convict you, 31:29.850 --> 31:33.060 convict me, everybody - of righteousness. 31:33.060 --> 31:36.240 'Because you will see Me physically no more. 31:36.240 --> 31:37.380 I'm going to the Father.' 31:37.380 --> 31:38.380 What does this mean? 31:39.390 --> 31:40.890 When the Holy Spirit comes, 31:40.890 --> 31:43.410 He will convict you of righteousness. 31:43.410 --> 31:45.963 He will reveal to you who Jesus is. 31:48.090 --> 31:49.500 Philippians 3:7, 31:49.500 --> 31:51.150 let's go to Philippians 3:7 31:51.150 --> 31:52.650 to take an example of what we are saying. 31:52.650 --> 31:54.960 How the Holy Ghost convicted Saul 31:54.960 --> 31:57.781 of righteousness in Christ and to bring him to Jesus, 31:57.781 --> 31:58.717 to the knowledge of Christ. 31:58.717 --> 32:01.350 "But what things were gain to me, 32:01.350 --> 32:03.960 these I have counted loss for Christ. 32:03.960 --> 32:06.240 Yet indeed I also count all things loss 32:06.240 --> 32:08.790 for the excellence of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord, 32:08.790 --> 32:12.240 for whom I have suffered the loss of all things 32:12.240 --> 32:14.674 and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ." 32:14.674 --> 32:15.607 Start for verse seven. 32:15.607 --> 32:17.460 "But what things were gain to me, 32:17.460 --> 32:20.604 these I have counted loss for Christ." 32:20.604 --> 32:24.600 What were those things he considered gain? 32:24.600 --> 32:25.433 Verse five. 32:25.433 --> 32:28.710 "Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, 32:28.710 --> 32:32.280 of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews 32:32.280 --> 32:34.140 concerning the law, a pharisee." 32:34.140 --> 32:36.330 - A pharisee, concerning the law of Moses. 32:36.330 --> 32:39.330 Concerning the symbols, the outward form of worship. 32:39.330 --> 32:40.163 - Religion. 32:40.163 --> 32:40.996 - Religion. 32:40.996 --> 32:43.180 You say all this now I consider as 32:43.180 --> 32:44.610 - rubbish. 32:44.610 --> 32:45.840 - Rubbish and loss. 32:45.840 --> 32:47.010 Why? 32:47.010 --> 32:50.970 Because he received a revelation of Jesus Christ. 32:50.970 --> 32:53.983 Romans chapter 3:20-22. 32:58.807 --> 33:00.690 "Therefore by the deeds of the law 33:00.690 --> 33:03.810 no flesh will be justified in His sight, 33:03.810 --> 33:06.235 for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 33:06.235 --> 33:10.387 But now the righteousness of God." 33:10.387 --> 33:11.868 Let's take note, what he said. 33:11.868 --> 33:13.590 The Holy Ghost will convict us of righteousness. 33:13.590 --> 33:14.423 Go ahead. 33:14.423 --> 33:15.960 "But now the righteousness of God, 33:15.960 --> 33:18.050 apart from the law is revealed." 33:18.050 --> 33:20.896 - Is revealed by who? 33:20.896 --> 33:23.153 - By the Spirit. 33:23.153 --> 33:26.340 - "Being witnessed by the law and the Prophets. 33:26.340 --> 33:27.840 Even the righteousness of God, 33:27.840 --> 33:31.200 through faith in Jesus Christ to all 33:31.200 --> 33:33.000 and on all who believe." 33:33.000 --> 33:36.270 Through faith in Christ Jesus, it is revealed. 33:36.270 --> 33:39.450 This means we live by faith 33:39.450 --> 33:44.450 when we recognise our union with God, with Jesus Christ, 33:44.610 --> 33:46.410 in the Spirit. 33:46.410 --> 33:49.080 When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, 33:49.080 --> 33:51.600 we have the very presence of God in our heart 33:51.600 --> 33:53.673 through the person of the Holy Spirit, 33:54.810 --> 33:56.310 and when the Holy Spirit comes, 33:57.463 --> 33:58.860 He will bring the conviction of righteousness. 33:58.860 --> 34:01.830 He will show us what is to come. 34:01.830 --> 34:06.120 He will guide us into spiritual understanding of God. 34:06.120 --> 34:11.028 He will teach us His ways and then we will walk in the Spirit. 34:11.028 --> 34:14.670 That's why we say we walk in the Spirit, 34:14.670 --> 34:18.903 we worship in the Spirit, led by the Holy Spirit. 34:20.610 --> 34:23.310 How do you worship in spirit and in truth? 34:23.310 --> 34:25.440 Romans 2:28, let's go there. 34:25.440 --> 34:32.167 Romans 2:28-29 - key verses. 34:32.167 --> 34:35.340 "For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, 34:35.340 --> 34:38.370 nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 34:38.370 --> 34:40.830 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; 34:40.830 --> 34:44.280 and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, 34:44.280 --> 34:48.473 not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God." 34:48.473 --> 34:49.306 Do you hear that? 34:49.306 --> 34:51.690 Circumcision of your heart, of your spirit, 34:51.690 --> 34:53.730 not done by man, done by God. 34:53.730 --> 34:56.340 The praise and worship of that person comes from God, 34:56.340 --> 34:59.043 the Holy Spirit who inspired it. 35:00.480 --> 35:03.720 That's why when Jesus came to fulfill the law, 35:03.720 --> 35:04.860 the people could not understand. 35:04.860 --> 35:08.460 They so much believed in the symbol, in the ritual, 35:08.460 --> 35:10.440 in the natural things, 35:10.440 --> 35:14.220 and they forgot that these were just shadows. 35:14.220 --> 35:15.930 What is the purpose of a symbol? 35:15.930 --> 35:18.353 The reality is found in Christ. 35:18.353 --> 35:20.010 The substance is in Christ, reality in Christ, 35:20.010 --> 35:22.200 but the symbol was - what is a symbol? 35:22.200 --> 35:26.910 The symbol is only a sign of something in the natural 35:26.910 --> 35:29.310 that will remind them of their relationship 35:29.310 --> 35:30.870 with God in the spirit. 35:30.870 --> 35:35.100 When they saw the Ark of the Covenant, it was to remind them 35:35.100 --> 35:38.263 of their relationship with God in the spirit, in their heart. 35:38.263 --> 35:41.970 It means the purpose of the law was to bring their heart to God. 35:41.970 --> 35:45.960 And Paul said, 'No man is justified by the law.' 35:45.960 --> 35:47.097 Despite the presence of God, 35:47.097 --> 35:49.830 their heart went away far from God 35:49.830 --> 35:51.693 and they erred in the wilderness. 35:52.620 --> 35:54.568 The Bible says, 'We are in the world.' 35:54.568 --> 35:56.310 - 'But we are not part of it.' (John 17:16) 35:56.310 --> 36:00.090 As long as we live in the natural, we are in this world, 36:00.090 --> 36:02.820 but as long as you are born again, 36:02.820 --> 36:05.310 as long as you are led by the Spirit to walk in the Spirit, 36:05.310 --> 36:06.720 you are in this world physically, 36:06.720 --> 36:08.673 but not a part of it in spirit. 36:09.780 --> 36:11.837 When you worship God, you worship God in spirit and in truth, 36:11.837 --> 36:13.770 led by the Spirit of God, 36:13.770 --> 36:14.913 right from your heart. 36:17.310 --> 36:21.930 To know God, to know His way, you must be in the spirit, 36:21.930 --> 36:23.970 led by the Spirit of revelation. 36:23.970 --> 36:25.820 Let's talk about Jesus and Nicodemus. 36:26.670 --> 36:28.410 Nicodemus was a teacher of the law 36:28.410 --> 36:31.563 who knew the law of Moses perfectly. 36:32.610 --> 36:33.840 He was teaching the people, 36:33.840 --> 36:37.920 guiding the people in the principle of the law of Moses as he received it. 36:37.920 --> 36:40.500 But one day he heard there was one man called Jesus. 36:40.500 --> 36:43.650 When they reported to him what this man was doing, 36:43.650 --> 36:46.863 he came to see Jesus to inquire, to find out the truth. 36:47.790 --> 36:51.540 What I want to say, the Holy Spirit always gets 36:51.540 --> 36:53.820 into the heart of the matter. 36:53.820 --> 36:57.089 To get into the heart of the matter is to find out the truth 36:57.089 --> 36:59.520 from God's perspective. 36:59.520 --> 37:02.070 And that can only happen if you enter the spirit, 37:02.070 --> 37:03.060 not in the natural. 37:03.060 --> 37:07.620 So when he came, he said, 'Rabbi, no one can do 37:07.620 --> 37:09.870 what You are doing unless God is with Him." (John 3:2) 37:09.870 --> 37:11.850 Jesus said, 'Unless a man is born again, 37:11.850 --> 37:13.860 he cannot see the Kingdom of God.' 37:13.860 --> 37:18.860 Now, Nicodemus - we find out by the question he asked Jesus, 37:19.020 --> 37:23.440 that despite all his knowledge, he was in the natural. 37:23.440 --> 37:25.050 He said, how can this be? 37:25.050 --> 37:26.250 How can a man be born again? 37:26.250 --> 37:28.290 How can an old man enter his mother's womb? 37:28.290 --> 37:29.123 That's what he said. 37:29.123 --> 37:30.870 He was just looking at it in the natural. 37:30.870 --> 37:33.360 And Jesus said, 'You are a teacher of Israel 37:33.360 --> 37:35.130 and you do not know these things? 37:35.130 --> 37:36.840 Truly, truly, I say to you, 37:36.840 --> 37:39.210 unless a man is born of water and the Spirit 37:39.210 --> 37:43.087 you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.' 37:43.087 --> 37:44.708 What is water and the Spirit? 37:44.708 --> 37:47.881 Unless the man is born of the Word, 37:47.881 --> 37:49.995 and the Spirit of the Word in truth - 37:49.995 --> 37:52.710 the Word and the Spirit - they cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 37:52.710 --> 37:54.390 That which is born of flesh is flesh, 37:54.390 --> 37:56.310 that which is born of Spirit is spirit. 37:56.310 --> 37:59.130 Nicodemus was absolutely in the natural. 37:59.130 --> 38:04.123 Ruth, can we go to John 3:13-16? 38:05.100 --> 38:05.947 Let's listen. 38:05.947 --> 38:07.647 "No one has ascended to Heaven, 38:07.647 --> 38:10.380 but He who came down from Heaven." 38:10.380 --> 38:14.250 No one has been to Heaven except Me who came from Heaven, 38:14.250 --> 38:15.634 Jesus is saying to him. 38:15.634 --> 38:19.237 "That is the Son of Man who is in Heaven. 38:19.237 --> 38:22.410 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness." 38:22.410 --> 38:27.410 Now, another parallel, as Moses lifted up the what? 38:27.540 --> 38:29.190 - "The serpent in the wilderness." 38:29.190 --> 38:30.552 - The serpent in the wilderness. 38:30.552 --> 38:32.010 You know what happened in the wilderness? 38:32.010 --> 38:33.601 The Bible says there was a time 38:33.601 --> 38:36.510 the people began to murmur against God, 38:36.510 --> 38:38.520 and God allowed serpents - 38:38.520 --> 38:40.503 snakes to come everywhere as judgment. (Numbers 21:4-6) 38:42.030 --> 38:44.820 When the snakes began to bite them, they were dying. 38:44.820 --> 38:46.860 They cried out and Moses interceded. 38:46.860 --> 38:50.190 God said, make a pole, 38:50.190 --> 38:53.580 and make an image of a snake and attach it to the pole. 38:53.580 --> 38:57.120 Everybody who looks at it will save his life. 38:57.120 --> 39:01.740 Now, that pole was a symbol of Jesus on the cross. 39:01.740 --> 39:05.400 The substance of that symbol is in Christ. 39:05.400 --> 39:08.040 Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent.. 39:08.040 --> 39:09.480 ..so the Son of Man must be." 39:09.480 --> 39:10.500 - "Lifted up." (John 3:14) 39:11.823 --> 39:13.650 That was a symbol. 39:13.650 --> 39:17.130 The substance of it is Christ on the cross - 39:17.130 --> 39:19.200 that everybody who puts their faith 39:19.200 --> 39:20.675 in what He did on the cross 39:20.675 --> 39:23.133 receives salvation and everlasting life. 39:23.970 --> 39:25.590 He was teaching Nicodemus 39:25.590 --> 39:27.090 of the purpose why He was coming. 39:27.090 --> 39:29.160 You have read that Moses had this - 39:29.160 --> 39:29.993 I am this. 39:29.993 --> 39:30.840 I am more than a pole. 39:30.840 --> 39:33.750 If you look at Me, you will lift me up; you will know I am the Saviour, 39:33.750 --> 39:37.162 that's what I came for, to save human beings. 39:37.162 --> 39:38.430 "That whoever believes in Him should not perish, 39:38.430 --> 39:39.842 but have eternal life. 39:39.842 --> 39:42.133 For God so loved the world 39:42.133 --> 39:44.850 that He gave His only begotten Son." 39:44.850 --> 39:45.683 - Another symbol. 39:45.683 --> 39:47.730 - "That whoever believes in Him 39:47.730 --> 39:50.760 should not perish but have everlasting life." 39:50.760 --> 39:52.260 The most famous Word of the Gospel. 39:52.260 --> 39:53.610 - John 3:16. 39:53.610 --> 39:54.930 Another parallel symbol - 39:54.930 --> 39:56.670 He mentioned the snake. 39:56.670 --> 39:58.260 This is what Abraham did. 39:58.260 --> 40:00.060 Take your only begotten son, Isaac. 40:00.060 --> 40:03.330 Genesis 22, 'Go and sacrifice him for me.' 40:03.330 --> 40:05.550 He's saying Isaac was spared, 40:05.550 --> 40:06.990 but I'm coming to give My life, 40:06.990 --> 40:08.160 I'm the promise of Abraham, 40:08.160 --> 40:09.300 I'm the seed of Abraham, 40:09.300 --> 40:10.740 through which the promise will be fulfilled. 40:10.740 --> 40:12.890 If Nicodemus was led by the Spirit of God, 40:13.740 --> 40:15.296 he would have perceived and understood this thing, 40:15.296 --> 40:16.830 but he was listening to it in the natural. 40:16.830 --> 40:18.180 Who is Jesus? 40:18.180 --> 40:20.610 That means we can only know Jesus in the spirit. 40:20.610 --> 40:22.140 You can only know Jesus in the spirit, 40:22.140 --> 40:24.120 led by the Spirit of God. 40:24.120 --> 40:25.544 Thank you for what you are saying. 40:25.544 --> 40:28.117 Go to 1 Corinthians 12:3. 40:28.117 --> 40:30.600 "Therefore, I make known to you that no one 40:30.600 --> 40:34.350 speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, 40:34.350 --> 40:36.979 and no one can say that Jesus is Lord 40:36.979 --> 40:38.622 except by the Holy Spirit." 40:38.622 --> 40:40.680 No one can say Jesus Christ is Lord. 40:40.680 --> 40:42.238 Jesus Christ, the Son of God, 40:42.238 --> 40:43.650 is the Lord God Almighty, 40:43.650 --> 40:45.720 without the help of the Holy Spirit. 40:45.720 --> 40:50.460 It takes revelation to know that in the spirit and in truth. 40:50.460 --> 40:53.190 Now, for something to be in spirit and in truth, 40:53.190 --> 40:55.467 it must be in the spirit by the Spirit of truth, 40:55.467 --> 40:56.583 the Holy Spirit. 40:57.480 --> 40:59.640 The Word you hear must be sanctioned 40:59.640 --> 41:02.820 by the testimony of the Holy Spirit to say it is true. 41:02.820 --> 41:05.010 The Bible says the Spirit joins Himself with our spirit 41:05.010 --> 41:07.230 to testify that we are sons of God. (Romans 8:16) 41:07.230 --> 41:10.410 When He comes, He reveals the truth. 41:10.410 --> 41:13.050 He leads us into the spiritual understanding of the truth 41:13.050 --> 41:14.727 and gives us conviction and gives us faith, 41:14.727 --> 41:18.690 and we know God is speaking to us clearly through Him. 41:18.690 --> 41:21.930 Now, let's see another example I want to take, 41:21.930 --> 41:23.460 between the natural - from the natural 41:23.460 --> 41:25.620 to the spirit, to know Jesus. 41:25.620 --> 41:28.740 Let's see Jesus and His disciples. 41:28.740 --> 41:31.654 Jesus had disciples, we know Peter very well. 41:31.654 --> 41:37.980 Let's go to Matthew 16:13 41:37.980 --> 41:39.280 Listen to what Jesus said. 41:40.177 --> 41:43.110 "When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, 41:43.110 --> 41:45.213 He asked His disciples saying, 41:45.213 --> 41:48.450 'Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?'" 41:48.450 --> 41:49.680 Can you imagine? 41:49.680 --> 41:55.920 Jesus wants to know your opinion about Him. 41:55.920 --> 41:58.337 He wants to know, Racine's opinion, Ruth's opinion, your opinion about Him. 41:58.337 --> 41:59.550 - Who is Jesus to you? 41:59.550 --> 42:01.470 - Who is Jesus to you? 42:01.470 --> 42:04.074 That's life's most important decision. 42:04.074 --> 42:05.520 What you do with Jesus Christ. 42:05.520 --> 42:06.520 What did they say? 42:07.770 --> 42:11.850 So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, 42:11.850 --> 42:14.460 and others, Jeremiah or one of the Prophets." 42:14.460 --> 42:20.400 - They were still in the symbol of the old Prophets of history. 42:20.400 --> 42:23.160 Elijah, John the Baptist, one of the Prophets - 42:23.160 --> 42:25.770 some of them looked at Jesus on the outside. 42:25.770 --> 42:27.817 Go to Mark 6:3. 42:27.817 --> 42:29.220 "Is this not the carpenter, 42:29.220 --> 42:34.220 the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon? 42:34.260 --> 42:36.570 And are they not his sisters here with us?" 42:36.570 --> 42:38.070 So they were offended at Him." 42:38.070 --> 42:39.780 - They were offended. 42:39.780 --> 42:41.970 'Is it not the son of the carpenter we know here? 42:41.970 --> 42:43.890 We know His brothers and sisters.' 42:43.890 --> 42:45.120 They were offended. 42:45.120 --> 42:48.690 John 7:12, some say He deceives people. 42:48.690 --> 42:50.340 Some say He's good. 42:50.340 --> 42:51.660 They did not know who Jesus was. 42:51.660 --> 42:54.837 They only saw Him in the body. 42:54.837 --> 42:58.470 The child they knew, the son of Joseph, the carpenter. 42:58.470 --> 43:00.666 That's all they knew about Jesus. 43:00.666 --> 43:02.910 They were in the natural, completely in the natural. 43:02.910 --> 43:06.210 But some people say He's good and they even followed Him. 43:06.210 --> 43:08.130 Let's go down to John 6. 43:08.130 --> 43:11.460 Now, Jesus went and did a miraculous thing. 43:11.460 --> 43:15.180 He multiplied the bread and the fish 43:15.180 --> 43:17.850 just like the manna that fell in the wilderness, 43:17.850 --> 43:22.526 and they ate and they said, what kind of miracle is this! 43:22.526 --> 43:25.620 Is this the Prophet that is supposed to come? He gave us food - 43:25.620 --> 43:28.533 manna came - and they followed Jesus. 43:29.640 --> 43:32.820 The question is, why did they follow Jesus? 43:32.820 --> 43:34.830 What's the purpose of following Jesus? 43:34.830 --> 43:39.784 Because they wanted Him to give them natural blessing 43:39.784 --> 43:42.560 like the food being multiplied. 43:42.560 --> 43:46.680 It is like Jesus was in a period of fame, 43:46.680 --> 43:50.490 so many followed Him because they saw - 43:50.490 --> 43:52.770 wow, He can multiply food! 43:52.770 --> 43:54.750 He can do miraculous things, 43:54.750 --> 43:58.293 and they were amazed and wanted more of that. 43:59.160 --> 44:02.280 They came to Jesus in the natural. 44:02.280 --> 44:07.280 Anytime we come to Jesus, to God for selfish reasons, 44:08.626 --> 44:11.280 for classic or material reasons, 44:11.280 --> 44:13.590 we are bound to come in the natural, 44:13.590 --> 44:15.873 led by our circumstances. 44:17.190 --> 44:21.150 Because I face financial difficulty, I pray for breakthrough. 44:21.150 --> 44:23.250 Because I have sickness, I pray for healing. 44:23.250 --> 44:24.690 Because of this, I ask, 44:24.690 --> 44:26.990 without knowing the will of God in the matter. 44:28.410 --> 44:30.060 So let's start from John 6:30. 44:30.060 --> 44:32.118 Let's just start to break it down. 44:32.118 --> 44:34.110 "Therefore, they said to Him, 44:34.987 --> 44:37.170 'What sign will You perform, then, 44:37.170 --> 44:38.970 that we may see it and believe You?' 44:38.970 --> 44:41.040 What work will You do?" 44:41.040 --> 44:42.840 Why did they ask for a sign? 44:42.840 --> 44:47.172 Because they related to the visible, 44:47.172 --> 44:50.400 they wanted to see to believe like Thomas. 44:50.400 --> 44:52.920 Yes, because they saw the visible sign 44:52.920 --> 44:55.230 in the Old Testament, of the cloud, 44:55.230 --> 44:58.140 of the presence of God visibly, to believe. 44:58.140 --> 45:02.880 They said, 'Why can't You show us a sign for us to believe?' 45:02.880 --> 45:03.937 What did Jesus say? 45:03.937 --> 45:07.020 "Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as is written, 45:07.020 --> 45:09.041 'He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.' 45:09.041 --> 45:12.810 Then Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly I say to you, 45:12.810 --> 45:15.810 Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, 45:15.810 --> 45:19.290 but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.'" 45:19.290 --> 45:21.540 Now, Jesus knew they were following Him 45:21.540 --> 45:25.770 because of the miracles, but Jesus wanted to take them to the spirit. 45:25.770 --> 45:28.920 He said to them, 'Moses gave you the manna, 45:28.920 --> 45:31.197 but My Father gave you the bread of Heaven.' 45:31.197 --> 45:34.890 "For the bread of God is He who comes down from Heaven 45:34.890 --> 45:37.320 and gives life to the world. 45:37.320 --> 45:41.400 Then they said to Him, 'Lord, give us this bread always.'" 45:41.400 --> 45:42.454 Do you notice something? 45:42.454 --> 45:43.450 Do you notice something? 45:43.450 --> 45:44.970 Jesus said, 'For the bread of Heaven is' - 45:45.803 --> 45:47.486 - "He who comes from Heaven." 45:47.486 --> 45:49.260 - He, and what? 45:49.260 --> 45:51.303 - "Gives life to the world." 45:51.303 --> 45:52.800 Nobody wants to die - life. 45:52.800 --> 45:54.480 Remember what He said to the woman - 45:54.480 --> 45:55.950 the Samaritan woman, "He who drinks this water 45:55.950 --> 45:57.470 will never thirst again." 45:57.470 --> 45:59.400 He said, 'He will give you life.' 45:59.400 --> 46:02.100 They said, "Give us this bread." 46:02.100 --> 46:03.090 What did Jesus say? 46:03.090 --> 46:07.477 Jesus said, "I am the bread of life." 46:07.477 --> 46:10.170 "He who comes to Me shall never hunger, 46:10.170 --> 46:12.870 and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." 46:12.870 --> 46:14.040 - Go to John 6:35. 46:14.040 --> 46:15.037 It's what Jesus said. 46:15.037 --> 46:17.070 "But I say to you that you have seen Me 46:17.070 --> 46:18.443 and yet do not believe. 46:18.443 --> 46:21.930 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me 46:21.930 --> 46:25.470 and the one who comes to Me, I will by no means cast out." 46:25.470 --> 46:28.433 Jesus said, 'You see Me, but you don't believe.' 46:28.433 --> 46:31.800 "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My own will, 46:31.800 --> 46:33.867 but the will of Him who sent Me." 46:33.867 --> 46:37.039 The will of the Father - 'I came to do the will of God in your life.' 46:37.039 --> 46:38.705 What is the will of God? 46:38.705 --> 46:39.813 "This is the will of of the Father who sent Me." 46:39.813 --> 46:41.432 This is the will of the Father - 46:41.432 --> 46:45.060 "That of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, 46:45.060 --> 46:47.550 but should raise it up at the last day. 46:47.550 --> 46:49.260 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, 46:49.260 --> 46:52.650 that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him 46:52.650 --> 46:53.950 may have everlasting life." (John 6:39-40) 46:53.950 --> 46:57.898 This means, when you see Me, you have to believe in Me, 46:57.898 --> 46:59.430 and I will give you everlasting life. 46:59.430 --> 47:01.946 That's what Jesus Christ came to do. 47:01.946 --> 47:03.337 It's a spiritual thing. 47:03.337 --> 47:07.320 "And I will raise him up at the last day." 47:07.320 --> 47:09.256 That's the Jesus we are looking for. 47:09.256 --> 47:10.950 Do I believe in Jesus because of miracles? 47:10.950 --> 47:13.260 Or do I believe in Jesus for everlasting life, 47:13.260 --> 47:16.113 for salvation and for eternal life? 47:16.980 --> 47:19.410 Are we in the natural or are we in the spiritual? 47:19.410 --> 47:21.277 Let's continue - see what happens after. 47:21.277 --> 47:23.160 "The Jews then complained about Him, 47:23.160 --> 47:24.570 because He said, 'I am the bread 47:24.570 --> 47:26.310 which came down from Heaven.' 47:26.310 --> 47:28.800 And they said, 'Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?'" 47:28.800 --> 47:29.790 Did you hear that? 47:29.790 --> 47:31.350 Now they went into the natural. 47:31.350 --> 47:33.930 'Is this not the son of Joseph?' - in the natural. 47:33.930 --> 47:35.520 How can He say, I came down from Heaven? 47:35.520 --> 47:36.900 We know you here. 47:36.900 --> 47:38.047 They were in the natural. 47:38.047 --> 47:39.720 "Whose father and mother we know." 47:39.720 --> 47:41.557 We know Your father, Your mother. 47:41.557 --> 47:43.063 "How is it then that He says, 47:43.063 --> 47:44.480 'I've come down from Heaven?'" 47:44.480 --> 47:45.907 How can He say He come down from Heaven? 47:45.907 --> 47:48.870 "Jesus therefore answered and said to them, 47:48.870 --> 47:50.925 'Do not murmur among yourselves. 47:50.925 --> 47:52.920 No one can come to Me 47:52.920 --> 47:54.780 unless the Father who sent Me draws him.'" (John 6:41-44) 47:54.780 --> 47:55.613 Praise the Lord. 47:55.613 --> 47:57.579 Take note of this verse. 47:57.579 --> 47:58.597 Read it again. 47:58.597 --> 48:00.210 "No one can come to Me 48:00.210 --> 48:02.430 unless the Father who sent Me draws him." 48:02.430 --> 48:04.740 No one can come to Me 48:04.740 --> 48:09.013 except the Father Himself draws him to Me. 48:09.013 --> 48:12.450 Meaning, no one can come to Me, 48:12.450 --> 48:15.046 unless the Father opens your spiritual understanding 48:15.046 --> 48:17.463 to be in the spirit to know who I am. 48:18.870 --> 48:19.917 You see Me in the natural. 48:19.917 --> 48:21.467 I'm more than the natural you see.' 48:23.490 --> 48:26.310 Let's continue and then we will go back. 48:26.310 --> 48:27.457 What happened next? 48:27.457 --> 48:29.010 "It is written in the Prophets, 48:29.010 --> 48:31.980 'And they shall all be taught by God.' 48:31.980 --> 48:33.510 Therefore, everyone who has heard 48:33.510 --> 48:36.347 and learned from the Father comes to Me. 48:36.347 --> 48:38.910 Not that anyone has seen the Father, 48:38.910 --> 48:40.650 except He who is from God; 48:40.650 --> 48:42.194 He has seen the Father. 48:42.194 --> 48:46.260 Most assuredly, I say to you, 48:46.260 --> 48:48.000 he who believes in Me has everlasting life." (John 6:47) 48:48.000 --> 48:49.297 - Verse 60. 48:49.297 --> 48:52.440 "Therefore, many of His disciples, when they heard this, 48:52.440 --> 48:57.596 said, 'This is a hard saying; who can understand it?'" 48:57.596 --> 49:02.048 Read it - many of His disciples who followed Him for natural things, 49:02.048 --> 49:05.430 they said, it is hard to hear this. 49:05.430 --> 49:11.160 When He said, he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me. 49:11.160 --> 49:12.303 'How can we eat His flesh? 49:12.303 --> 49:13.890 This is hard to understand.' 49:13.890 --> 49:18.890 This means, no one can believe what he has not understood. 49:18.960 --> 49:22.410 And no one can understand unless the Father opens your heart 49:22.410 --> 49:23.895 to spiritual revelation of who Jesus is. 49:23.895 --> 49:27.720 And they were offended because they were in the natural, 49:27.720 --> 49:29.760 and many left Him. 49:29.760 --> 49:31.883 They turned away and left and said, this is too hard - 49:31.883 --> 49:32.970 we don't understand. 49:32.970 --> 49:33.803 So what happened? 49:33.803 --> 49:35.977 What happened next, when they left? 49:35.977 --> 49:37.260 "When Jesus knew in Himself 49:37.260 --> 49:39.210 that His disciples complained about this, 49:39.210 --> 49:41.539 He said to them, 'Does this offend you? 49:41.539 --> 49:44.700 What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend 49:44.700 --> 49:46.530 where He was before? 49:46.530 --> 49:49.897 It is the Spirit who gives life.'" 49:49.897 --> 49:51.720 "The flesh profits nothing." 49:53.077 --> 49:54.990 "The Words that I speak to you." 49:55.823 --> 49:56.880 "Are Spirit." 49:56.880 --> 49:57.713 - Oh my Lord. 49:57.713 --> 49:58.546 - "And they are life." 49:58.546 --> 50:02.370 Spirit and life means, in spirit and in truth. 50:02.370 --> 50:05.010 The Word I speak, when the Holy Spirit of truth speaks 50:05.010 --> 50:08.010 and testifies - you know the truth, not just words - 50:08.010 --> 50:09.990 Spirit and life Words. 50:09.990 --> 50:12.720 The Word that God speaks Himself through His mouth - 50:12.720 --> 50:15.120 Words that come from the mouth of God, mouth the Holy Ghost, 50:15.120 --> 50:17.577 the Word of truth from the Spirit of God. 50:17.577 --> 50:19.447 Next verse (John 6:64) - let's listen. 50:19.447 --> 50:21.900 "'But there are some of you who do not believe.' 50:21.900 --> 50:23.635 For Jesus knew from the beginning 50:23.635 --> 50:30.335 who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him." 50:30.335 --> 50:32.250 "And He said, 'Therefore, I have said to you 50:32.250 --> 50:33.570 that no one can come to Me 50:33.570 --> 50:37.410 unless it has been granted to him by My Father.' 50:37.410 --> 50:39.750 From that time, many of His disciples went back 50:39.750 --> 50:41.738 and walked with Him no more." 50:41.738 --> 50:43.990 No one can be in the spirit 50:43.990 --> 50:47.848 without the Spirit of the Father, the Holy Spirit. 50:47.848 --> 50:50.160 No one can be in the Spirit in Christ 50:50.160 --> 50:51.090 without the Holy Spirit. 50:51.090 --> 50:52.410 That is why it is the narrow way. 50:52.410 --> 50:53.820 That is the narrow way of faith. 50:53.820 --> 50:55.770 Not everyone will go that path. 50:55.770 --> 50:57.330 Not everyone will go down that path. 50:57.330 --> 50:59.280 Without the Holy Ghost, we are natural. 51:00.270 --> 51:01.800 Without the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, 51:01.800 --> 51:04.083 we can't see the truth in the spirit. 51:05.190 --> 51:07.470 Without Him, no faith. 51:07.470 --> 51:09.210 Without Him it is faith in faith - 51:09.210 --> 51:10.043 faith in the Word. 51:10.043 --> 51:11.400 We quote the Word in our mouth. 51:11.400 --> 51:13.770 Without Him, nobody can believe in the heart 51:13.770 --> 51:15.600 and be convicted of righteousness in your heart, 51:15.600 --> 51:17.103 it takes the Spirit of truth. 51:18.150 --> 51:18.997 Let's continue. 51:18.997 --> 51:21.900 "From that time many of His disciples went back 51:21.900 --> 51:23.160 and walked with Him no more." (John 6:66) 51:23.160 --> 51:24.963 They went back to the wilderness. 51:25.950 --> 51:28.260 They went back to the natural where they came from. 51:28.260 --> 51:30.570 And they were actually on the way to the Promised Land, 51:30.570 --> 51:31.742 but they went back. 51:31.742 --> 51:32.895 They were on the way to the Promised Land 51:32.895 --> 51:34.047 and they went back to the wilderness. 51:34.047 --> 51:35.790 And they never got out of the wilderness. 51:35.790 --> 51:37.020 They never got out of the natural - 51:37.020 --> 51:38.857 they will remain in the natural forever. 51:38.857 --> 51:40.470 "Then Jesus said to the twelve, 51:40.470 --> 51:42.960 'Do you also want to go away?'" 51:42.960 --> 51:45.077 Now Jesus said to the twelve disciples, 51:45.077 --> 51:46.560 'You, do you want to go away?' 51:46.560 --> 51:47.407 What happened? 51:47.407 --> 51:50.707 "But Simon-Peter answered Him, 51:50.707 --> 51:51.930 'Lord, to whom shall we go?'" 51:51.930 --> 51:52.763 'Where do we go?' 51:52.763 --> 51:54.780 "You have the Words of eternal life." 51:54.780 --> 51:57.058 Now we can go back to Matthew. 51:57.058 --> 51:57.990 Let's go back to Matthew 16, 51:57.990 --> 52:00.423 to talk about Peter - he has one gift. 52:01.470 --> 52:04.383 Peter was in the spirit with the help of God. 52:05.400 --> 52:09.240 When he said, "You have the Words of eternal life," 52:09.240 --> 52:10.920 what is Peter saying? 52:10.920 --> 52:13.247 The manna You are talking about is not natural food, 52:13.247 --> 52:15.690 but spiritual food - 52:15.690 --> 52:19.650 the Words of Your mouth give me everlasting life. 52:19.650 --> 52:22.290 Who revealed that to Peter? 52:22.290 --> 52:23.370 Holy Spirit. 52:23.370 --> 52:25.260 Let's go to Matthew 16 now. 52:25.260 --> 52:27.300 That means that he was with Jesus, 52:27.300 --> 52:30.180 not because of the miracles He was doing, 52:30.180 --> 52:33.390 but because of the change that had been wrought in his heart. 52:33.390 --> 52:34.290 Called by God. 52:34.290 --> 52:37.620 That's why deep, deeper, deepest. 52:37.620 --> 52:40.080 The first people came to Jesus 52:40.080 --> 52:44.400 because of natural want, as we come to church for blessing, 52:44.400 --> 52:46.260 but Peter was on the deeper side, 52:46.260 --> 52:49.260 he served God with his life, heart to heart with God, 52:49.260 --> 52:52.110 and God revealed to him he believed for everlasting life. 52:53.160 --> 52:59.497 Now, let's go to Matthew 16:16. 52:59.497 --> 53:01.533 "Simon Peter answered and said, 53:01.533 --> 53:04.395 'You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.' 53:04.395 --> 53:06.420 Jesus answered and said to him, 53:06.420 --> 53:08.700 'Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah.'" 53:08.700 --> 53:09.960 - Did you notice that? 53:09.960 --> 53:13.710 In John 6, when everybody left, 53:13.710 --> 53:16.260 Jesus said, 'You - why you don't go?' 53:16.260 --> 53:19.080 Peter said, 'You have the Words of everlasting life.' 53:19.080 --> 53:21.720 This time Jesus said, 'Who do they say I am?' 53:21.720 --> 53:23.612 'Like Jeremiah...' 53:23.612 --> 53:26.093 'And you, you who know Me, who are with Me - what do you say?' 53:26.093 --> 53:29.190 Peter said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." 53:29.190 --> 53:33.150 He spoke the Word of revelation of who Jesus was. 53:33.150 --> 53:33.983 He said it. 53:33.983 --> 53:35.367 Why? 53:35.367 --> 53:36.200 Let's go next verse, what did Jesus say? 53:36.200 --> 53:37.033 Listen. 53:37.033 --> 53:38.310 "Jesus answered and said to him, 53:38.310 --> 53:41.430 'Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah, 53:41.430 --> 53:44.070 for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, 53:44.070 --> 53:46.630 but My Father who is in Heaven.'" 53:46.630 --> 53:48.870 Understand what Jesus said in John 6 - 53:48.870 --> 53:51.813 'Nobody comes to Me except the Father draws him.' 53:53.760 --> 53:55.380 No one knows who I am 53:55.380 --> 53:59.070 unless the Father reveals to him whom I am. 53:59.070 --> 54:02.070 The Father revealed to Peter, who said, 54:02.070 --> 54:03.720 You have the Words of everlasting life. 54:03.720 --> 54:06.090 To speak the same Word in the power of the Holy Spirit - 54:06.090 --> 54:07.950 to know who Jesus was. 54:07.950 --> 54:10.980 Peter was in the spirit to receive that revelation. 54:10.980 --> 54:12.333 He must be in the spirit. 54:13.410 --> 54:16.200 To be in the spirit, you must believe for salvation's sake, 54:16.200 --> 54:20.190 for God's sake, for Heaven's sake, not for classic reasons. 54:20.190 --> 54:24.000 - For the sake of eternity. 54:24.000 --> 54:26.463 Now, Peter was in the spirit, 54:27.750 --> 54:29.820 but something happened after. 54:29.820 --> 54:36.067 Go to Matthew 16:21. 54:36.067 --> 54:39.060 "From that time, Jesus began to show to His disciples 54:39.060 --> 54:42.180 that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things 54:42.180 --> 54:45.000 from the elders and chief priests and scribes, 54:45.000 --> 54:48.300 and be killed, and be raised the third day. 54:48.300 --> 54:51.178 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, 54:51.178 --> 54:56.178 'Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!'" 54:56.610 --> 54:57.660 What happened here? 54:58.500 --> 55:02.737 When Jesus told him, they will kill Me, I will die. 55:02.737 --> 55:05.190 On the third day, I will resurrect, what happened? 55:05.190 --> 55:08.943 Peter went back to the natural immediately - in his emotions. 55:10.140 --> 55:11.610 'Ah, I know you - 55:11.610 --> 55:12.660 Lord, this will never happen to you! 55:12.660 --> 55:14.370 Never, ever, God forbid!' 55:14.370 --> 55:15.780 It was his flesh talking. 55:15.780 --> 55:17.933 The flesh was talking, he was in the natural. 55:18.870 --> 55:20.520 What Jesus said to him, verse 23. 55:21.524 --> 55:24.230 "But He turned and said to Peter, 55:24.230 --> 55:26.610 'Get behind Me, satan! 55:26.610 --> 55:28.680 You are an offense to Me, 55:28.680 --> 55:30.630 for you are not mindful of the things of God, 55:30.630 --> 55:32.250 but the things of men.'" 55:32.250 --> 55:35.430 He meant - you are thinking like a natural man. 55:35.430 --> 55:38.370 You are not thinking like a spiritual man must think - 55:38.370 --> 55:39.870 like God thinks. 55:39.870 --> 55:43.050 To think like Jesus is to think like God, 55:43.050 --> 55:44.650 is to think like the Holy Ghost. 55:45.540 --> 55:49.470 To have the mind of Christ is to have the mind of God. 55:49.470 --> 55:51.470 That's the Holy Spirit, the mind of God. 55:52.710 --> 55:56.910 Romans 8:37. 55:56.910 --> 55:59.610 How can we have the thoughts of Christ, the mind of Christ - 55:59.610 --> 56:02.100 to think the way God wants me to think? 56:02.100 --> 56:04.050 That is - in the spirit. 56:04.050 --> 56:06.210 How to be in the spirit, that's what we are talking about. 56:06.210 --> 56:07.666 How can I be in the spirit? 56:07.666 --> 56:10.717 Now, let's listen to Roman 8:26. 56:10.717 --> 56:13.950 "Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses." 56:13.950 --> 56:16.230 - Oh my God, listen to that. 56:16.230 --> 56:17.787 What can you say about it? 56:17.787 --> 56:21.480 Oh, this is really what we need. 56:21.480 --> 56:24.330 This is the meaning of the comforter that Jesus left. 56:24.330 --> 56:25.290 Thank you very much. 56:25.290 --> 56:26.280 The Spirit helps us. 56:26.280 --> 56:27.240 What are our weaknesses? 56:27.240 --> 56:28.830 We are natural. 56:28.830 --> 56:30.060 We are in the natural. 56:30.060 --> 56:31.320 We are in the flesh. 56:31.320 --> 56:32.820 We know nothing in the spirit. 56:33.900 --> 56:36.600 We need help in our natural weaknesses, 56:36.600 --> 56:38.220 in the ability to see in the spirit, 56:38.220 --> 56:40.830 so the Spirit can take us there in the spirit. 56:40.830 --> 56:41.663 Say it again. 56:41.663 --> 56:45.480 "Likewise, the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. 56:45.480 --> 56:50.040 For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, 56:50.040 --> 56:52.770 but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us 56:52.770 --> 56:54.720 with groanings which cannot be uttered." 56:54.720 --> 56:56.393 Good, we do not know what we? 56:56.393 --> 57:00.330 "We do not know what we should pray for as we ought." 57:00.330 --> 57:02.196 What do you understand by that? 57:02.196 --> 57:03.192 We do not know. 57:03.192 --> 57:06.984 We pray - we don't know what we are asking. 57:06.984 --> 57:08.243 - We don't know what we need. 57:09.097 --> 57:12.420 We know what we need! I'm hungry - I need food. 57:12.420 --> 57:14.820 But am I asking the right thing? 57:14.820 --> 57:16.830 Do I know the will of God on the matter? 57:16.830 --> 57:17.730 That's the key. 57:17.730 --> 57:20.122 To pray in the spirit, we need help of the Holy Spirit. 57:20.122 --> 57:21.517 We must pray according the will of God. 57:22.830 --> 57:25.110 You are asking, God heal me. 57:25.110 --> 57:26.370 Is it the will of God to heal you? 57:26.370 --> 57:28.290 That healing might be for a purpose. 57:28.290 --> 57:30.420 Is it the will of God for you to go there, 57:30.420 --> 57:32.250 where you are asking? 57:32.250 --> 57:33.426 You want to have a vehicle. 57:33.426 --> 57:35.296 Is it the will of God for you to have a vehicle, 57:35.296 --> 57:37.020 at that moment? 57:37.020 --> 57:39.863 We do not know what to ask for. 57:39.863 --> 57:42.060 The Holy Ghost will help us now to enter the spirit, 57:42.060 --> 57:45.000 to know the mind of God in the matter, 57:45.000 --> 57:47.823 so we can ask in accordance to the will of God. 57:48.900 --> 57:50.017 Continue. (Romans 8:27) 57:50.017 --> 57:51.660 "Now, He who searches the hearts 57:51.660 --> 57:55.230 knows what the mind of the Spirit is." 57:55.230 --> 57:57.610 Say it again, you are making me do it. 57:57.610 --> 57:59.040 "Now He who searches the hearts 57:59.040 --> 58:01.710 knows what the mind of the Spirit is, 58:01.710 --> 58:03.810 because He makes intercession for the saints 58:03.810 --> 58:05.872 according to the will of God. 58:05.872 --> 58:09.330 And we know that all things work together for good 58:09.330 --> 58:11.550 to those who love God, to those who are the called 58:11.550 --> 58:12.720 according to His purpose." 58:12.720 --> 58:14.850 Come back to verse 27, that's the key now 58:14.850 --> 58:18.787 that puts things bare and open to the eyes of everybody. 58:18.787 --> 58:22.260 "Now He who searches the heart." 58:22.260 --> 58:23.580 Who searches the heart? 58:23.580 --> 58:25.320 Do you know what is in the heart of a person? 58:25.320 --> 58:26.370 - The Spirit. 58:26.370 --> 58:27.543 - Only the Holy Spirit. 58:28.604 --> 58:31.980 He who searches the heart knows what is the mind of what? 58:31.980 --> 58:33.870 The mind of God. 58:33.870 --> 58:37.770 It means He knows what is in the mind of God for you. 58:37.770 --> 58:40.650 He know the thoughts of God for the situation you are in. 58:40.650 --> 58:42.570 And God, He - 58:42.570 --> 58:43.800 makes intercession. 58:43.800 --> 58:45.240 He intercedes - 58:45.240 --> 58:47.663 for the saints according to the will of God. 58:47.663 --> 58:49.113 What is intercession? 58:50.610 --> 58:51.443 I don't know God - 58:51.443 --> 58:53.430 I need somebody to help me, to take me to God, 58:53.430 --> 58:55.020 to intercede for me. 58:55.020 --> 58:55.980 I cannot hear from God. 58:55.980 --> 58:58.971 I need a mediator, an intercessor. 58:58.971 --> 59:01.260 The Holy Spirit will take my prayers 59:01.260 --> 59:03.710 and intercede in the presence of God and pray for me. 59:04.800 --> 59:07.110 So I can know the will of God in the presence of Father. 59:07.110 --> 59:10.773 Without Him, our voice will never go beyond the ceiling. 59:11.940 --> 59:15.243 He's the one that carries our prayer to the presence of God. 59:16.161 --> 59:17.553 He intercedes according to the will of God, He searches the heart. 59:17.553 --> 59:19.650 What does it mean, He searches the heart? 59:19.650 --> 59:21.960 Let's go - this is a repetition, a reminder. 59:21.960 --> 59:25.963 Let's go to 1 Corinthians 2:9-13. 59:27.217 --> 59:31.140 "But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, 59:31.140 --> 59:33.270 nor have entered into the heart of man 59:33.270 --> 59:36.060 the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.'" 59:36.060 --> 59:37.770 This means the things of God, 59:37.770 --> 59:41.193 no human eye has seen, can see. 59:42.037 --> 59:45.510 "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit." 59:45.510 --> 59:49.170 God revealed the things of God to us by His Spirit. 59:49.170 --> 59:51.270 He revealed His ways. 59:51.270 --> 59:53.220 He revealed His mind. 59:53.220 --> 59:57.235 He reveals His will to us by His Spirit. 59:57.235 --> 59:59.407 1 Corinthians 2:14. 59:59.407 --> 01:00:01.620 "But the natural man does not receive 01:00:01.620 --> 01:00:03.180 the things of the Spirit of God." 01:00:03.180 --> 01:00:07.590 The natural man does not receive the things of God. 01:00:07.590 --> 01:00:12.480 The natural man will always go by what he sees, 01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.360 what he hears, the symbols, the signs. 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.670 He does not know the things of God. 01:00:17.670 --> 01:00:21.840 When we are in the natural, we don't know Jesus 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.069 in spirit and in truth. 01:00:23.069 --> 01:00:25.650 We don't pray in spirit and in truth, 01:00:25.650 --> 01:00:27.930 we don't worship in spirit and in truth. 01:00:27.930 --> 01:00:30.813 Now, let us see the spiritual man, verse 15. 01:00:31.927 --> 01:00:34.003 "But he who is spiritual judges all things, 01:00:34.003 --> 01:00:38.253 yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 01:00:39.300 --> 01:00:41.740 For who has known the mind of the Lord, 01:00:41.740 --> 01:00:43.411 that he may instruct Him? 01:00:43.411 --> 01:00:45.257 Known the mind of God, that he may instruct Him - 01:00:45.257 --> 01:00:50.070 "But we have the mind of Christ." 01:00:50.070 --> 01:00:51.660 The mind of Christ is meant for those 01:00:51.660 --> 01:00:53.940 who have the Spirit of Christ. 01:00:53.940 --> 01:00:56.010 When we have the Spirit of God, 01:00:56.010 --> 01:00:59.250 He will intercede for us according to the mind of God. 01:00:59.250 --> 01:01:01.230 While I'm praying about my message, when I pray 01:01:01.230 --> 01:01:03.780 He will tell me - this is the mind of God for this truth. 01:01:03.780 --> 01:01:05.040 Something will tell your heart, 01:01:05.040 --> 01:01:06.030 this is the will of God. 01:01:06.030 --> 01:01:08.190 What happened to you, God allowed it for a purpose, 01:01:08.190 --> 01:01:09.240 and He will tell you. 01:01:09.240 --> 01:01:11.160 That's what happened to Paul, He speaks to the saints 01:01:11.160 --> 01:01:13.860 through His Word, by His Spirit in our heart. 01:01:13.860 --> 01:01:17.190 That's why we are in the Spirit led by the Holy Spirit, 01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:19.511 to know the mind of God, to know the heart of God, 01:01:19.511 --> 01:01:20.490 to know the will of God. 01:01:20.490 --> 01:01:22.440 He supplies the inspiration to pray, 01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:24.330 what to pray for, how to worship God 01:01:24.330 --> 01:01:26.490 in spirit and in truth. 01:01:26.490 --> 01:01:28.410 And He reveals to us the ways of God. 01:01:28.410 --> 01:01:29.983 Are we such? 01:01:29.983 --> 01:01:32.388 Are we led by the Spirit? 01:01:32.388 --> 01:01:34.380 Are we inspired by Him? 01:01:34.380 --> 01:01:36.027 Are we seeking for Him? 01:01:36.027 --> 01:01:39.831 Are we waiting for Him to guide us in our actions and deeds, every day? 01:01:39.831 --> 01:01:44.273 When we are in a situation, do we allow Him to come to inspire? 01:01:44.273 --> 01:01:45.730 Do we wait upon Him? 01:01:45.730 --> 01:01:49.380 Do we pray to receive revelation, guidance from Him, 01:01:49.380 --> 01:01:50.523 before we do anything? 01:01:51.450 --> 01:01:55.290 As long as we are in the natural, we are in the wilderness, 01:01:55.290 --> 01:01:57.807 without direction, without purpose. 01:01:57.807 --> 01:02:01.050 But when the Holy Ghost comes, He will lead you - 01:02:01.050 --> 01:02:04.830 with purpose, with direction to the right place to be. 01:02:04.830 --> 01:02:06.172 So when Jesus was saying - 01:02:06.172 --> 01:02:08.220 eternal things He was speaking about, 01:02:08.220 --> 01:02:10.500 things of Heaven, not things that are natural. 01:02:10.500 --> 01:02:12.630 It takes a spiritual man to understand this. 01:02:12.630 --> 01:02:14.550 So now, what is the heart of the matter, 01:02:14.550 --> 01:02:16.320 the lesson we learned from all this? 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:18.930 Ruth, what lessons can we learn from this? 01:02:18.930 --> 01:02:22.800 We live in the spirit when we recognize our union 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:24.600 with Jesus Christ in the spirit. 01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:27.540 To be in the spirit is to be in God's presence. 01:02:27.540 --> 01:02:29.010 Who can take us to God's presence? 01:02:29.010 --> 01:02:31.080 The Holy Spirit. 01:02:31.080 --> 01:02:32.910 When He takes us into God's presence, 01:02:32.910 --> 01:02:35.280 His Word, His revealing Word will inspire us 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:38.430 and tell us God's mind, God's opinion, 01:02:38.430 --> 01:02:40.731 and give us utterances, to speak words, 01:02:40.731 --> 01:02:42.990 inspire us to speak the heart of God, 01:02:42.990 --> 01:02:45.120 the mind of God in the presence and in our prayers. 01:02:45.120 --> 01:02:46.650 The question is now, 01:02:46.650 --> 01:02:49.260 for how long are we going to stay in the natural? 01:02:49.260 --> 01:02:53.130 What you were saying - when are we going to get out of the wilderness? 01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:54.930 What does it take to get out of the wilderness 01:02:54.930 --> 01:02:56.100 and into God's promises? 01:02:56.100 --> 01:02:57.750 What does it take to get out of the natural, 01:02:57.750 --> 01:03:00.510 to be in the spirit and to hear God clearly? 01:03:00.510 --> 01:03:02.795 To be led by the Spirit of God? 01:03:02.795 --> 01:03:05.340 It's a heart decision. 01:03:05.340 --> 01:03:06.840 Meaning - engage your heart. 01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:08.910 Your body can never be in the spirit, 01:03:08.910 --> 01:03:10.950 but your heart can, your spirit can. 01:03:10.950 --> 01:03:14.310 It's your heart, your spirit, that receives inspiration, 01:03:14.310 --> 01:03:16.950 revelation from the Holy Ghost, from the mind of Christ 01:03:16.950 --> 01:03:18.723 to know His will, His ways. 01:03:19.926 --> 01:03:22.890 He will inspire us to act faith on His revelation - 01:03:22.890 --> 01:03:25.080 to go to the right direction. 01:03:25.080 --> 01:03:28.860 So to walk in the Spirit 01:03:28.860 --> 01:03:32.253 is to walk in accordance to the Word of God. 01:03:33.450 --> 01:03:35.823 And that Word of God is Spirit and life. 01:03:36.660 --> 01:03:38.130 When the Holy Ghost reveals that Word, 01:03:38.130 --> 01:03:39.750 you know the will of God. 01:03:39.750 --> 01:03:41.607 It's not quoting the Word. 01:03:41.607 --> 01:03:44.513 The will of God comes when the Spirit of God reveals it to you. 01:03:45.573 --> 01:03:48.747 When satan used Psalm 91, it was not the will of God for Him to jump. 01:03:48.747 --> 01:03:51.330 But Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit of truth - 01:03:51.330 --> 01:03:53.010 He recognized his (satan's) voice. 01:03:53.010 --> 01:03:57.480 The Word and the Spirit must come together to become the truth, 01:03:57.480 --> 01:03:59.970 in spirit and in truth. 01:03:59.970 --> 01:04:02.310 The Holy Ghost will take you to the spirit, 01:04:02.310 --> 01:04:04.337 and He will reveal the truth of the mind of God - 01:04:04.337 --> 01:04:06.420 of the will of God. 01:04:06.420 --> 01:04:08.070 Once He reveals it to you, 01:04:08.070 --> 01:04:10.146 He will guide you to understand it. 01:04:10.146 --> 01:04:13.350 Once you understand it, you will be convinced 01:04:13.350 --> 01:04:15.727 by faith and act faith. 01:04:15.727 --> 01:04:18.180 That's the highway to enter the promised land, 01:04:18.180 --> 01:04:21.810 to be in the spirit and to enter the promise of God. 01:04:21.810 --> 01:04:24.990 Revelation from the Holy Ghost, spiritual understanding, 01:04:24.990 --> 01:04:28.260 Job 32:8 - where understanding comes, conviction comes. 01:04:28.260 --> 01:04:29.910 'This is from God in my heart.' 01:04:29.910 --> 01:04:33.273 And you act faith, and you walk with God in the spirit. 01:04:34.680 --> 01:04:39.196 So walking in spirit does not mean you open your heart 01:04:39.196 --> 01:04:40.380 to any kind of spirit. 01:04:40.380 --> 01:04:43.080 Be careful - not every spirit is from God. 01:04:43.080 --> 01:04:44.580 To know the truth now, 01:04:44.580 --> 01:04:48.990 everything must be done through His Word, by His Spirit. 01:04:48.990 --> 01:04:50.580 You can't separate the Word from the Spirit. 01:04:50.580 --> 01:04:55.200 That's why Christianity is not mysticism. 01:04:55.200 --> 01:04:57.750 It's not any kind of spirit we welcome. 01:04:57.750 --> 01:05:00.270 Not every spirit that speaks is from God. 01:05:00.270 --> 01:05:03.570 We have Balaam, we mentioned Balaam last time in the book of Numbers. 01:05:03.570 --> 01:05:05.400 It was a divination spirit. 01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:09.240 He was doing things - sacrifices, but it was not of God. 01:05:09.240 --> 01:05:11.010 The Spirit of God never came because of Balaam, 01:05:11.010 --> 01:05:13.260 He came because of Israel, for God's sake. 01:05:13.260 --> 01:05:15.090 He turned that curse to a blessing. 01:05:15.090 --> 01:05:16.620 To turn the curse to blessing. 01:05:16.620 --> 01:05:18.030 The same way the Holy Ghost came 01:05:18.030 --> 01:05:20.820 and opened the mouth of a donkey to speak words of man. 01:05:20.820 --> 01:05:23.820 The only way to know God, to know Jesus, 01:05:23.820 --> 01:05:27.660 is through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit. 01:05:27.660 --> 01:05:29.943 The two have to go together. 01:05:31.200 --> 01:05:32.940 It's not about confessing, 01:05:32.940 --> 01:05:34.200 it's about believing in your heart 01:05:34.200 --> 01:05:39.003 led by the Holy Spirit to be in spirit and in truth. 01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:43.560 So if you hear this in spirit, 01:05:43.560 --> 01:05:46.770 is it in truth? We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 01:05:46.770 --> 01:05:47.970 He's the one that will tell you, 01:05:47.970 --> 01:05:50.250 'This is from God', 'This is not from God.' 01:05:50.250 --> 01:05:53.423 That's the testimony of the Spirit in our heart, in our mind. 01:05:53.423 --> 01:05:55.950 He will guide us into the understanding of the truth. 01:05:55.950 --> 01:06:00.950 So if you are wondering if this from God or not from God, 01:06:01.803 --> 01:06:06.273 what to do - go to the closet and pray to your Father. 01:06:07.680 --> 01:06:11.640 Ask the Holy Ghost to reveal to you, who is this person? 01:06:11.640 --> 01:06:12.810 What is this situation? 01:06:12.810 --> 01:06:15.057 What is Your mind? What is Your will? 01:06:15.057 --> 01:06:20.057 And pray as Paul did in 2 Corinthians 12:7-12, 01:06:20.310 --> 01:06:25.170 until God gives you a revelation of His mind and purpose - 01:06:25.170 --> 01:06:26.370 then you will know His will. 01:06:26.370 --> 01:06:27.900 You will know what to do. 01:06:27.900 --> 01:06:31.675 The believer who walks in the natural has no strength. 01:06:31.675 --> 01:06:34.225 If we want to know Jesus, 01:06:34.225 --> 01:06:37.593 we need to know Him in spirit and in truth. 01:06:38.571 --> 01:06:42.480 Whatever we do must be done in spirit and in truth. 01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:46.493 We can see the importance of the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our life. 01:06:46.493 --> 01:06:48.120 And the Holy Ghost does nothing 01:06:48.120 --> 01:06:49.870 without the Word - the Scriptures. 01:06:51.090 --> 01:06:53.760 That's why the Holy Spirit uses the Word of God 01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:56.233 to bring peace into our hearts, 01:06:56.233 --> 01:06:57.222 to bring joy into our hearts, 01:06:57.222 --> 01:06:59.362 to bring faith into our hearts. 01:06:59.362 --> 01:07:02.640 The Word must go along with the Spirit. 01:07:02.640 --> 01:07:05.490 Moses and the Prophets, they heard His voice 01:07:05.490 --> 01:07:09.060 directly in their heart, and then God instructed them 01:07:09.060 --> 01:07:10.470 to write them on the pages. 01:07:10.470 --> 01:07:11.420 This is the letter, 01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:13.410 but they heard from their heart directly from God. 01:07:13.410 --> 01:07:16.520 First in the heart. 01:07:16.520 --> 01:07:18.990 So this Word must come to the same heart, 01:07:18.990 --> 01:07:20.970 to be processed, to become spirit and life. 01:07:20.970 --> 01:07:22.680 And that's the faith you are talking about. 01:07:22.680 --> 01:07:24.540 Not faith in faith by confessing, 01:07:24.540 --> 01:07:26.811 but real faith that comes from your heart, 01:07:26.811 --> 01:07:27.960 hearing and obeying from your heart 01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:29.790 the instruction of the Holy Spirit - 01:07:29.790 --> 01:07:31.140 that's Divine faith. 01:07:31.140 --> 01:07:33.042 That's why when Peter said to Jesus, 01:07:33.042 --> 01:07:36.780 "Where should we go? You have the Words of eternal life." 01:07:36.780 --> 01:07:40.440 He was not talking about the letter alone. 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:43.140 The Words of eternal life are the Words, 01:07:43.140 --> 01:07:46.650 the living Word of God - Spirit and life. 01:07:46.650 --> 01:07:49.747 That's why Jesus said, in John 6:45, 01:07:49.747 --> 01:07:53.847 "No one comes to Me except the Father draws him." 01:07:54.687 --> 01:07:57.045 And what part does the Father draw? 01:07:57.045 --> 01:07:59.130 Your heart. 01:07:59.130 --> 01:08:01.623 No one comes to Me - the Father draws him. 01:08:01.623 --> 01:08:03.753 They will be taught by God. 01:08:04.680 --> 01:08:09.420 No one can say, 'Jesus is Lord' in spirit and in truth 01:08:09.420 --> 01:08:10.830 without the Holy Spirit. 01:08:10.830 --> 01:08:15.600 So it's time for you to develop your own relationship with the Holy Spirit 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:18.660 to get out of the wilderness in your life. 01:08:18.660 --> 01:08:23.490 So now, this Holy Bible is the Christian's guide 01:08:23.490 --> 01:08:26.160 for belief and practice, and contains the truth. 01:08:26.160 --> 01:08:30.090 When you read this Bible, ask the Author of the Bible, 01:08:30.090 --> 01:08:33.093 the Holy Spirit, to guide you. 01:08:34.440 --> 01:08:37.080 That's the secret God gave to Joshua, 01:08:37.080 --> 01:08:39.360 and we told you last time, we repeat it again - 01:08:39.360 --> 01:08:42.903 Joshua 1:8, "Keep the Words in your mouth. 01:08:44.250 --> 01:08:47.550 Meditate on this Word, day and night." 01:08:47.550 --> 01:08:48.660 And do what it says. 01:08:48.660 --> 01:08:49.493 Do what the Word says. 01:08:49.493 --> 01:08:51.540 Meditation is not incantation, we don't call any spirit. 01:08:51.540 --> 01:08:54.450 We meditate on the Word of God, the promise of God in here. 01:08:54.450 --> 01:08:57.972 This Word, we meditate on this Word, day and night. 01:08:57.972 --> 01:08:59.793 And then the Spirit of God comes, 01:08:59.793 --> 01:09:01.655 and will give you spiritual understanding 01:09:01.655 --> 01:09:03.270 and strength in order to obey this Word 01:09:03.270 --> 01:09:05.301 and to put it to practice. 01:09:05.301 --> 01:09:07.410 God said it, not me. 01:09:07.410 --> 01:09:09.780 Walk in the spirit led by the Spirit. 01:09:09.780 --> 01:09:10.740 What do we do? 01:09:10.740 --> 01:09:14.250 Engage your heart, not your eyes, not your brain, to God. 01:09:14.250 --> 01:09:15.150 Seek His face. 01:09:15.150 --> 01:09:17.370 Ask for guidance from the Holy Ghost. 01:09:17.370 --> 01:09:19.827 Ask God to pour out the Spirit of revelation - 01:09:19.827 --> 01:09:23.137 Ephesians 2:17. 01:09:23.137 --> 01:09:26.250 "Ask Him to guide you, and the Lord will guide you, 01:09:26.250 --> 01:09:27.600 and you will be in the realm 01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:31.830 where you will be able to discern His mind in your life." 01:09:31.830 --> 01:09:34.200 So please, we give you the grace. 01:09:34.200 --> 01:09:38.880 Go and read and study the book of Romans 8:1-end, 01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:43.320 and the book of 1 Corinthians 2:1-end. 01:09:43.320 --> 01:09:45.360 Every Christian who wants to be in the spirit 01:09:45.360 --> 01:09:47.160 should know these two chapters. 01:09:47.160 --> 01:09:48.540 Write that down, Romans 8. 01:09:48.540 --> 01:09:51.603 - Romans 8:1-end. 01:09:51.603 --> 01:09:53.193 - And then 1 Corinthians. 01:09:53.193 --> 01:09:57.930 - 1 Corinthians 2:1-end. 01:09:57.930 --> 01:09:58.763 Read it. 01:09:58.763 --> 01:10:01.260 Ask God to give you spiritual understanding of it. 01:10:01.260 --> 01:10:03.600 How to become spiritual, how to walk in the spirit, 01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:06.060 how to allow the Spirit of God to take us into God's presence. 01:10:06.060 --> 01:10:08.260 And then you will get out of the wilderness. 01:10:09.240 --> 01:10:14.790 Then the Word will become a lamp to your feet and a guide to your path, 01:10:14.790 --> 01:10:16.860 you will never miss a target. 01:10:16.860 --> 01:10:20.115 A guide to your path to get out of the wilderness. 01:10:20.115 --> 01:10:22.920 To get out of the wilderness, to get out of doubt. 01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:23.753 Amen. 01:10:23.753 --> 01:10:26.405 To get out of lack and want and to know God's way. 01:10:26.405 --> 01:10:27.960 Thank you. 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.660 God bless you, we can't wait to hear your testimony of how the living Word 01:10:30.660 --> 01:10:36.270 has really been a light to your feet and a lamp to your path. 01:10:36.270 --> 01:10:38.851 And we are excited to hear what God is doing in your life, 01:10:38.851 --> 01:10:42.510 through His Word and by His Spirit. 01:10:42.510 --> 01:10:46.860 Remember, this is the purpose and vision of the University of God - 01:10:46.860 --> 01:10:48.840 to step into the spiritual. 01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:53.220 Through His Word, by His Spirit, in spirit and in truth. 01:10:53.220 --> 01:10:56.370 The Word and the Spirit must go together. 01:10:56.370 --> 01:10:58.017 It is important to store this Word of God 01:10:58.017 --> 01:11:00.090 and to walk according to this Word, 01:11:00.090 --> 01:11:01.740 that's the safety net. 01:11:01.740 --> 01:11:03.537 And the Spirit of truth will guide you 01:11:03.537 --> 01:11:06.090 and lead you into the fullness of that truth. 01:11:06.090 --> 01:11:06.923 Amen. 01:11:06.923 --> 01:11:08.353 Amen, God bless you. 01:11:08.353 --> 01:11:10.217 The Lord be with your spirit.