WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:02.610 - Heavenly greetings in Jesus mighty name. 00:02.610 --> 00:04.350 Yes, the Lord be with your spirit. 00:04.350 --> 00:06.090 Thank you so much for joining us here 00:06.090 --> 00:08.610 on "The University of God." 00:08.610 --> 00:10.200 You know, The University of God 00:10.200 --> 00:13.770 is all about getting the Word into your heart 00:13.770 --> 00:18.000 because it's there that it becomes effective in your life. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.670 So, how does the Word get into the heart, 00:20.670 --> 00:22.170 and why does it need to get into the heart? 00:22.170 --> 00:25.170 Well, today we want to actually look deeper into this 00:25.170 --> 00:28.410 in a practical way, looking at the process 00:28.410 --> 00:31.080 of our believing the Word of God. 00:31.080 --> 00:33.480 The Bible says in Luke 8:11 00:33.480 --> 00:36.510 that the Word of God is the seed of divine life 00:36.510 --> 00:39.993 that comes into our hearts and causes faith to grow. 00:42.210 --> 00:45.450 How does that seed cause faith to grow? 00:45.450 --> 00:49.500 Well, we know that a seed can't just do any good 00:49.500 --> 00:52.020 without it being planted, watered, 00:52.020 --> 00:55.710 and left until the right time of harvest. 00:55.710 --> 00:59.599 So, let's look at that in the relation to our life 00:59.599 --> 01:02.820 as believers in this world, navigating this world. 01:02.820 --> 01:05.280 How do we go through the process of believing, 01:05.280 --> 01:08.400 and how does that Word of God go into our heart, 01:08.400 --> 01:11.370 and how can it actually become that seed of divine life 01:11.370 --> 01:12.453 that grows? 01:13.380 --> 01:16.920 So, Racine, what can you say about the seed of divine life? 01:16.920 --> 01:17.910 - Thank you. 01:17.910 --> 01:22.110 So, we are every day humbled by the Spirit of God 01:22.110 --> 01:25.350 because the scripture says, we know a part. 01:25.350 --> 01:27.963 That's why anytime we read this Holy Bible, 01:29.310 --> 01:32.463 the Spirit of God always unfold something new, 01:33.390 --> 01:37.680 because knowledge of God is deep, deeper, deepest, 01:37.680 --> 01:39.420 that's the grace of God. 01:39.420 --> 01:42.603 So sometime, we should not think that we know everything. 01:43.470 --> 01:44.583 We know a part. 01:45.420 --> 01:48.270 That's why the wisdom of God will take us 01:48.270 --> 01:52.080 to deeper, deeper level of understanding of God every day, 01:52.080 --> 01:54.330 for His ways are not our ways. 01:54.330 --> 01:58.140 What we are saying today is foundational. 01:58.140 --> 02:03.000 As He said, the Word of God is a seed of divine life 02:03.000 --> 02:06.960 that comes into our heart and causes faith to grow. 02:06.960 --> 02:08.403 What's the purpose of faith? 02:10.200 --> 02:13.053 Only faith pleases God. 02:14.645 --> 02:19.645 Whatever we receive today in the name of Jesus Christ 02:19.770 --> 02:21.989 of Nazareth, the Son of God, 02:21.989 --> 02:24.033 is a pure product of God's grace. 02:25.050 --> 02:27.090 Grace, grace, grace. 02:27.090 --> 02:30.090 We all say grace, grace, grace. 02:30.090 --> 02:33.603 But grace is not automatic, we have a role to play. 02:34.590 --> 02:37.380 What is a role to play to enjoy that grace? 02:37.380 --> 02:42.380 That's where faith comes from, because Jesus and the cross, 02:42.600 --> 02:45.180 He laid down His life as a living sacrifice 02:45.180 --> 02:46.530 to all human beings, 02:46.530 --> 02:50.103 He shed the blood of the new covenant, He died for everyone. 02:52.320 --> 02:54.750 The question is, the fact that Jesus died on the cross 02:54.750 --> 02:56.580 for all humankind, 02:56.580 --> 02:59.400 doesn't mean that everybody embrace the truth 02:59.400 --> 03:00.693 of the Gospel of Christ. 03:01.620 --> 03:04.410 That does not mean everybody is saved. 03:04.410 --> 03:05.700 - For whosoever wills. 03:05.700 --> 03:06.533 - Absolutely. 03:06.533 --> 03:11.250 The question, how one can be willing in ignorance? 03:11.250 --> 03:12.083 - Mm. 03:13.590 --> 03:18.590 - How can one receive what he ignored, or even ask for it? 03:18.870 --> 03:20.433 There's one biblical truth, 03:21.600 --> 03:26.600 no one can achieve and obtain what he's unwilling to pursue. 03:29.010 --> 03:30.660 - Because if you don't know you need something, 03:30.660 --> 03:33.103 you won't look for it. - You will not. 03:33.103 --> 03:36.840 If I'm not thirsty, I'll not reach out to the water. 03:36.840 --> 03:38.400 I don't see any meaning for that. 03:38.400 --> 03:43.107 That's why the Bible says, "We come to God by faith." 03:44.670 --> 03:47.250 For me to come to God by faith, 03:47.250 --> 03:50.160 I must come to God with a purpose, 03:50.160 --> 03:51.910 with the right motivation of heart. 03:52.860 --> 03:54.030 What do I need God for? 03:54.030 --> 03:55.830 What's my greatest need? 03:55.830 --> 04:00.153 If I don't discover myself or my need for God, 04:01.470 --> 04:02.870 nothing will push me to God. 04:03.810 --> 04:05.640 Now, what is the need? 04:05.640 --> 04:08.403 You may not know it, but you can discover a need. 04:09.840 --> 04:14.840 One day, a special man came on this Earth, called, Jesus. 04:16.473 --> 04:20.040 He begin to say, "The Kingdom of God is at hand, repent. 04:20.040 --> 04:22.590 The Kingdom of God is at hand." 04:22.590 --> 04:25.630 He begin to say, "I enter the synagogue 04:27.300 --> 04:30.510 where everybody share the Word of God, 04:30.510 --> 04:32.640 the scroll of the book of Isaiah. 04:32.640 --> 04:34.470 They will read it every sabbath, 04:34.470 --> 04:36.990 waiting for the Messiah to come." 04:36.990 --> 04:40.287 And He said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me." 04:41.640 --> 04:43.863 While Jesus was saying those words, 04:44.940 --> 04:48.120 all the people in the synagogue were just thinking, 04:48.120 --> 04:51.093 he was just reading the scripture that everybody knows. 04:52.110 --> 04:54.213 But Jesus was fulfilling the scriptures. 04:56.010 --> 04:58.810 That scriptures were bearing witness to the one talking. 05:00.630 --> 05:03.030 He said, "The Spirit of God is upon me. 05:03.030 --> 05:04.710 He has anointed me." 05:04.710 --> 05:07.470 He was the living word, the Word was talking to them. 05:07.470 --> 05:08.520 He was not gonna letter, 05:08.520 --> 05:11.010 but words of life was talking straight. 05:11.010 --> 05:12.600 - Naturally, they couldn't understand it. 05:12.600 --> 05:13.433 - They could not. 05:13.433 --> 05:16.770 The identification between the letter 05:16.770 --> 05:19.443 and the Word speaking to them, they didn't see it. 05:20.310 --> 05:23.100 Exactly, you are just reading that everybody read the book, 05:23.100 --> 05:26.208 means we can read something without really believing it, 05:26.208 --> 05:27.990 without really understanding, without applying it, 05:27.990 --> 05:29.590 just for the sake of reading it. 05:30.930 --> 05:34.230 But Jesus was that promise that one day, 05:34.230 --> 05:36.810 this is the Messiah, He will come this way 05:36.810 --> 05:39.450 and this will be the way He will talk. 05:39.450 --> 05:41.250 They said, "No, it can't be Him, ah. 05:41.250 --> 05:44.340 Okay, He's another person reading that every Sabbath." 05:44.340 --> 05:48.060 But He said, "He has anointed me to preach good tithing 05:48.060 --> 05:48.893 to the poor. 05:50.550 --> 05:54.540 He has sent me to bind the broken-hearted, 05:54.540 --> 05:58.050 to open the eyes of the blind." 05:58.050 --> 05:58.883 Oh my Lord. 06:00.008 --> 06:01.080 - To proclaim the day of salvation. 06:01.080 --> 06:04.863 - The blind He's talking about is not natural blindness. 06:06.420 --> 06:11.073 Spiritual blindness, which is ignorance, darkness. 06:13.050 --> 06:14.673 If I'm spiritually blind, 06:15.720 --> 06:19.383 how will I be able to recognize the Messiah when He comes? 06:21.088 --> 06:21.960 (indistinct) 06:21.960 --> 06:23.490 - Yeah, you won't be able to. 06:23.490 --> 06:27.930 - Don't forget what Moses said in Deuteronomy 29:4. 06:27.930 --> 06:30.213 He warned his people in advance. 06:31.380 --> 06:33.270 You have seen how God took you in the wilderness 06:33.270 --> 06:35.040 and the great signs and wonders God did 06:35.040 --> 06:36.510 through the wilderness, 06:36.510 --> 06:41.490 but God has not given you yet eyes that can see 06:41.490 --> 06:44.070 and perceive, ears that can hear. 06:44.070 --> 06:46.890 That's what Moses said, mean, 06:46.890 --> 06:49.140 you don't have eyes of faith yet. 06:49.140 --> 06:51.789 To when the day Jesus came and said this verse, 06:51.789 --> 06:53.040 the Spirit of God is upon me. 06:53.040 --> 06:55.047 He has anointed me to preach, to guide 06:55.047 --> 06:56.910 and good tide into the poor, 06:56.910 --> 06:59.340 to proclaim liberty to the captive, 06:59.340 --> 07:01.380 to open the eyes of the blind. 07:01.380 --> 07:02.463 He finished reading. 07:04.170 --> 07:05.730 Everybody expect him to comment, 07:05.730 --> 07:07.950 but they used to comments, the scriptures. 07:07.950 --> 07:09.753 He only said, today- 07:10.927 --> 07:13.500 - The scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. 07:13.500 --> 07:14.700 - That's what he said. 07:14.700 --> 07:19.700 This word I've just read is fulfilled, and trouble started. 07:22.800 --> 07:23.857 It's supposed to be joyful. 07:23.857 --> 07:25.926 "Hey, the Messiah has come!" 07:25.926 --> 07:26.759 "Huh?" 07:26.759 --> 07:28.470 "Hey, we waiting for you, guys, come, 07:28.470 --> 07:29.413 let's go tell the whole world." 07:29.413 --> 07:33.597 I say, "What? What are you saying? You." 07:34.680 --> 07:36.930 They look at him on the outside, human nature. 07:36.930 --> 07:39.390 This mean they never believed. 07:39.390 --> 07:41.163 The promise of God has a time. 07:42.540 --> 07:46.920 When God give you a promise, faith starts, right? 07:46.920 --> 07:49.773 But faith is expecting God to fulfill that promise. 07:51.660 --> 07:55.230 If we do not understand the promise in the Bible, 07:55.230 --> 07:56.430 how can you have faith? 07:56.430 --> 07:58.860 Faith is not real without a promise. 07:58.860 --> 08:00.210 - It's true. 08:00.210 --> 08:01.440 - But the question is, 08:01.440 --> 08:04.560 do we have a real spiritual understanding 08:04.560 --> 08:06.123 what the promise is all about? 08:07.500 --> 08:10.050 Because I may understand the promise in my own way. 08:11.700 --> 08:15.993 They thought if the Messiah come, we'll be a warrior, 08:16.920 --> 08:20.400 we'll raise the army, and begin to set the country free 08:20.400 --> 08:22.533 from the dominion of the Romans Empire. 08:24.210 --> 08:27.030 They were waiting for the battle in the natural, 08:27.030 --> 08:28.320 but they never understood 08:28.320 --> 08:32.103 that this Messiah came to fulfill a specific promise. 08:33.210 --> 08:36.900 That promise, they were reading it every day in the Bible, 08:36.900 --> 08:39.900 but they never understood what the promise is all about. 08:39.900 --> 08:44.317 They forgot what God said to Abraham, that, 08:44.317 --> 08:47.313 "In your seed, all the nations of the earth, 08:48.210 --> 08:53.210 all the families of the earth will be blessed." 08:54.150 --> 08:56.250 They never, they forgot that one. 08:56.250 --> 09:01.250 They never saw the correlation between Isaac sacrifice 09:03.210 --> 09:05.700 and how the Messiah will offer His life. 09:05.700 --> 09:07.200 They read the Bible every day. 09:08.370 --> 09:10.383 Isaiah chapter 53 says it. 09:11.580 --> 09:14.030 They read it, but never understood what it means. 09:16.770 --> 09:19.860 David preached Psalm 22, that he would be pierce, 09:19.860 --> 09:21.410 but nobody saw the correlation. 09:22.425 --> 09:25.950 That's why we say knowledge deals with what? 09:25.950 --> 09:29.760 The explanation, the unfolding, 09:29.760 --> 09:32.880 and the correlation of the Bible facts. 09:32.880 --> 09:35.400 That's why Jesus came to fulfill the scriptures. 09:35.400 --> 09:37.920 - You mean the first step in that process is knowledge? 09:37.920 --> 09:40.570 - Absolutely, that's what we are talking about today. 09:41.610 --> 09:45.573 The right knowledge of God settles peace. 09:47.130 --> 09:50.490 The right knowledge of God brings spiritual faith, 09:50.490 --> 09:51.363 real faith. 09:52.230 --> 09:55.470 That's why Jesus said in John chapter 8, 09:55.470 --> 09:56.920 while teaching at the temple, 09:58.087 --> 10:02.813 "If you abide in my words, you will know the truth, 10:02.813 --> 10:05.640 and the truth will set you free." 10:05.640 --> 10:06.930 - Free from ignorance. 10:06.930 --> 10:08.100 - Absolutely. 10:08.100 --> 10:10.860 The greatest darkness is ignorance. 10:10.860 --> 10:12.840 Let me take you back to Genesis chapter 1. 10:12.840 --> 10:15.570 The Bible says in the beginning, the world was informed 10:15.570 --> 10:18.873 and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. 10:20.040 --> 10:23.007 And God said, "Let there be light." 10:25.110 --> 10:26.400 And there were light, why? 10:26.400 --> 10:28.350 Because they said the spiritual God was sovereign 10:28.350 --> 10:30.307 over the face of the watches, and God say, 10:30.307 --> 10:32.310 "Let there be light," and they were light. 10:32.310 --> 10:34.953 What was that light all about? 10:36.270 --> 10:40.020 Don't forget, in the synagogue, everybody has capacity 10:40.020 --> 10:42.423 to read the word and interpret it. 10:44.520 --> 10:47.940 But what was that light really, really, 10:47.940 --> 10:50.460 really, really meant for? 10:50.460 --> 10:52.680 Which light are we talking about? 10:52.680 --> 10:55.170 Is it the natural light of the day? 10:55.170 --> 10:57.030 Is the light of the sun? 10:57.030 --> 10:58.500 Certainly not. 10:58.500 --> 11:03.030 Because when we look at the progress of creation, 11:03.030 --> 11:06.303 the sun and the moon was created on the fourth day, 11:07.440 --> 11:08.977 and God said in the fourth day, 11:08.977 --> 11:13.230 "This will be light to mark the time, the seasons, 11:13.230 --> 11:14.063 et cetera." 11:15.480 --> 11:18.600 Paul Apostle led by divine revelation explained to us 11:18.600 --> 11:20.823 in 2 Corinthians 4:6, 11:21.690 --> 11:24.840 that God who said in the beginning, read it for us, Ruth, 11:24.840 --> 11:25.740 that will help us. 11:28.213 --> 11:29.550 - 2 Corinthians 4. 11:29.550 --> 11:32.490 - Yes, verse six, (indistinct) apostle Paul. 11:33.877 --> 11:35.910 - "For it is the God who commanded light 11:35.910 --> 11:39.420 to shine out of darkness, who was shone in our hearts 11:39.420 --> 11:42.810 to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God 11:42.810 --> 11:44.760 in the face of Jesus Christ." 11:44.760 --> 11:45.630 - You hear what she says? 11:45.630 --> 11:49.800 She said, "The light of the knowledge of God." 11:49.800 --> 11:51.033 That's the key. 11:52.170 --> 11:55.050 The light of the knowledge of God 11:55.050 --> 11:57.333 on the face of Jesus Christ. 11:58.380 --> 12:03.380 This mean darkness as rightfully said, is ignorance. 12:03.630 --> 12:05.580 Darkness stands for ignorance. 12:05.580 --> 12:09.390 Light stands for the truth, spiritual understanding, 12:09.390 --> 12:10.473 spiritual truth. 12:11.670 --> 12:14.227 That's why Jesus say, John 8:12, 12:14.227 --> 12:15.987 "I am the light of the world." 12:17.070 --> 12:20.793 Now, when Jesus came and say those words, 12:21.930 --> 12:24.483 they did not understand it spiritually. 12:25.740 --> 12:27.930 They say, "Ah, trouble started." 12:27.930 --> 12:29.613 That says, bless for me! 12:31.290 --> 12:34.260 And Jesus immediately, in Luke chapter 4, 12:34.260 --> 12:37.350 they wanted to get rid of Jesus and throw him to the cliff, 12:37.350 --> 12:39.050 it was 'cause of the word he said. 12:40.500 --> 12:45.500 Why is it we think we believe until we face real situation, 12:46.230 --> 12:48.540 we know who truly believe. 12:48.540 --> 12:51.753 We can have the word in our mouth and confess it every day, 12:53.160 --> 12:55.893 but believing is really from the heart. 12:57.420 --> 12:58.560 When Jesus was speaking, 12:58.560 --> 13:02.193 why could they not understand that this is the Messiah? 13:03.510 --> 13:05.130 Isaiah said it clearly. 13:05.130 --> 13:09.513 Let's go to Isaiah 6:9, and then we unfold the message. 13:11.520 --> 13:12.353 Isaiah 6:9. 13:14.100 --> 13:18.540 He saw, he, Isaiah foresaw how they will react to Jesus 13:18.540 --> 13:21.247 the day He comes, in the midst, and begin to say, 13:21.247 --> 13:22.407 "I am the Messiah." 13:27.300 --> 13:29.073 Isaiah chapter six from verse nine. 13:30.390 --> 13:33.090 - And He said, "Go and tell this people, 13:33.090 --> 13:35.940 keep on hearing but do not understand. 13:35.940 --> 13:38.343 Keep on seeing, but do not perceive. 13:39.210 --> 13:42.720 Make the heart of this people dull and their eyes heavy, 13:42.720 --> 13:44.160 and shut their eyes." 13:44.160 --> 13:44.993 Oh sorry. 13:44.993 --> 13:48.480 "Make the heart of this people dull and their ears heavy, 13:48.480 --> 13:51.870 and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes 13:51.870 --> 13:55.710 and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, 13:55.710 --> 13:57.060 and return and be healed." 13:57.060 --> 13:58.770 - Hallelujah, He has said it all. 13:58.770 --> 14:00.420 Wait, you're going to take it one by one 14:00.420 --> 14:03.180 'cause this will be the backbone of our message today. 14:03.180 --> 14:04.920 What did Isaiah say first? 14:04.920 --> 14:06.170 Let's take it one by one. 14:08.887 --> 14:11.820 - "Go and tell this people, keep on hearing." 14:11.820 --> 14:12.653 - Keep on hearing. 14:12.653 --> 14:13.830 - "But do not understand." 14:13.830 --> 14:15.150 - Let's wait. 14:15.150 --> 14:18.873 Means you can hear, they heard Jesus preach the message, 14:19.890 --> 14:23.100 and Jesus say, "Today, this word of the scriptures 14:23.100 --> 14:26.697 you have heard from prophet Isaiah is fulfilled." 14:28.710 --> 14:30.390 They could not what? 14:30.390 --> 14:31.223 Understand it. 14:31.223 --> 14:32.056 How? 14:32.940 --> 14:37.470 Understanding is not kennel, understanding is spiritual. 14:37.470 --> 14:38.400 Why? 14:38.400 --> 14:39.903 Let's listen to next sentence. 14:42.277 --> 14:44.520 - "Keep on seeing, but do not perceive." 14:44.520 --> 14:45.810 - That is it. 14:45.810 --> 14:49.170 There's a difference between to see and to perceive. 14:49.170 --> 14:53.013 Ruth, I see you, you see me plainly, right? 14:54.180 --> 14:57.210 But perceive is to look through a veil. 14:57.210 --> 14:58.810 I can see you through something. 14:59.970 --> 15:03.270 So, our kind of knowledge, our sentence, 15:03.270 --> 15:05.400 our senses at a veil, 15:05.400 --> 15:09.180 because we want to filter spiritual things through our mind. 15:09.180 --> 15:13.260 Our mind, our current mind cannot perceive spiritual things. 15:13.260 --> 15:14.660 They're spiritually descend. 15:15.930 --> 15:18.910 So, we need help to be able to perceive 15:20.040 --> 15:23.640 through the fact if they were able to perceive, 15:23.640 --> 15:26.730 they will look beyond the appearance of Jesus 15:26.730 --> 15:28.803 and see who is talking. 15:29.940 --> 15:31.840 If God give him the grace 15:32.785 --> 15:36.545 to perceive beyond the human appearance of Jesus, 15:36.545 --> 15:40.380 they will see in him the Lord, the promised Messiah. 15:40.380 --> 15:41.670 But they could not perceive. 15:41.670 --> 15:42.520 Continue reading. 15:43.507 --> 15:45.660 - "Make the heart of this people dull." 15:45.660 --> 15:47.100 - Make the heart dull. 15:47.100 --> 15:49.173 Mean, we perceive with the heart. 15:50.760 --> 15:53.670 To perceive is with your heart. 15:53.670 --> 15:55.113 Heart means spirit. 15:57.990 --> 15:59.407 Continue. 15:59.407 --> 16:00.810 - "And their ears heavy." 16:00.810 --> 16:05.343 - Their ears heavy, mean the heart has ears, not this ears. 16:06.810 --> 16:09.930 The heart has eyes, and heart had ears. 16:09.930 --> 16:13.860 Your conscience sees and perceive the Word of God 16:13.860 --> 16:14.693 in your heart. 16:15.630 --> 16:16.463 Continue. 16:16.463 --> 16:18.090 - "And shut their eyes." 16:18.090 --> 16:19.867 - Shut their eyes. 16:19.867 --> 16:21.780 - "Lest they see with their eyes." 16:21.780 --> 16:25.860 - Lest they see, mm? 16:25.860 --> 16:27.037 With their eyes and what? 16:27.037 --> 16:28.350 - "And hear with their ears." 16:28.350 --> 16:31.440 - And hear with the heard my words in their heart. 16:31.440 --> 16:33.540 If the word of Jesus is planted in your heart, 16:33.540 --> 16:35.480 that's where Ruth said, the Word of God 16:35.480 --> 16:37.980 is the seed of divine life 16:37.980 --> 16:41.670 that comes into our heart and causes faith to grow. 16:41.670 --> 16:43.320 Now, how can the word enter your heart 16:43.320 --> 16:44.420 if your heart is dull? 16:46.230 --> 16:49.950 The word could only enter my heart by revelation. 16:49.950 --> 16:53.493 Revelation mean I'm able to see what is beyond the veil. 16:54.990 --> 16:57.873 Revelation sees beyond human appearance. 16:58.770 --> 17:00.390 Revelation sees who is talking, 17:00.390 --> 17:02.250 this man is the ordinary man, He is the messiah. 17:02.250 --> 17:04.533 It takes revelation to know who Jesus is. 17:07.080 --> 17:10.440 If the heart is dull, if a heart is heavy, mean our heart, 17:10.440 --> 17:15.060 our spirit is the instrument of God to bring revelation, 17:15.060 --> 17:18.240 spiritual understanding, spiritual conviction, 17:18.240 --> 17:19.710 and faith comes from the heart. 17:19.710 --> 17:21.990 You can see the importance of the heart. 17:21.990 --> 17:24.753 This mean, the Word we speak are not ordinary words. 17:26.430 --> 17:30.133 For the word to give birth to what we call faith, 17:30.133 --> 17:33.570 a spiritual force, the word must alight 17:33.570 --> 17:36.330 into the right ground, not the human mind, 17:36.330 --> 17:39.000 we can reject it, but the heart that is opened 17:39.000 --> 17:42.030 to perceive the truth and to receive the word say, yes, 17:42.030 --> 17:44.430 this is the Messiah, it's my heart. 17:44.430 --> 17:46.893 With our heart we believe, not with our head. 17:48.720 --> 17:53.193 So, we can read the Holy Bible with our head, it's not bad, 17:54.090 --> 17:55.563 but that's not the real soy. 17:56.850 --> 17:59.793 That's why Jesus gave us the parable of the sower. 18:01.230 --> 18:06.230 When we preach or teach, we are planting the seed of life, 18:08.310 --> 18:11.850 that seed with alight on different grounds. 18:11.850 --> 18:14.750 Maybe Ruth will help us again to go to look chapter eight, 18:16.080 --> 18:17.780 and let's listen to what she says. 18:19.900 --> 18:21.523 - From verse 11? 18:21.523 --> 18:22.917 - Yes, start from verse, even verse five, six. 18:28.177 --> 18:32.250 - "Some fell on the rock, and as soon as it sprang up, 18:32.250 --> 18:34.803 it withered away because it lacked moisture. 18:35.880 --> 18:40.031 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it 18:40.031 --> 18:41.490 and choked it. 18:41.490 --> 18:43.170 But others fell on good ground." 18:43.170 --> 18:44.220 - Thank you very much. 18:44.220 --> 18:46.263 This is what Isaiah was saying. 18:47.670 --> 18:50.580 When the heart is dull, you can never see 18:50.580 --> 18:52.950 and perceive the hidden truth. 18:52.950 --> 18:54.420 What makes the heart dull? 18:54.420 --> 18:56.760 That's what Ruth is reading now. 18:56.760 --> 18:58.890 Some fell on rocky what? 18:58.890 --> 18:59.820 - Rocky ground. 18:59.820 --> 19:02.110 - Rocky ground, when the heart is so hardened 19:03.600 --> 19:05.350 that you cannot perceive the truth. 19:06.960 --> 19:09.300 Some fell among thorns. 19:09.300 --> 19:10.170 - Thorns. 19:10.170 --> 19:13.920 - When our heart is full of mindset bad feelings, 19:13.920 --> 19:17.040 that heart cannot see, it become dirty, 19:17.040 --> 19:18.930 it damages the heart. 19:18.930 --> 19:21.000 It cannot hear and understand anything, 19:21.000 --> 19:25.590 it become dull in comprehension, dull in revelation, 19:25.590 --> 19:27.033 completely dark. 19:28.260 --> 19:29.373 Continue, Ruth. 19:30.330 --> 19:32.490 - But others fell on good ground, sprang up 19:32.490 --> 19:33.900 and yielded a crops- 19:33.900 --> 19:36.090 - Some fell on good ground. 19:36.090 --> 19:37.020 Which is good ground? 19:37.020 --> 19:40.083 The good ground are those are able to perceive the truth, 19:41.100 --> 19:43.110 to perceive the revelation. 19:43.110 --> 19:46.470 Not only to perceive it, but to understand it, 19:46.470 --> 19:50.310 to be convinced, to believe it and act on it. 19:50.310 --> 19:51.843 And salvation become real. 19:53.250 --> 19:55.230 Why are we saying this? 19:55.230 --> 19:57.750 We can see when it comes to spiritual things, 19:57.750 --> 20:00.423 we cannot understand them with our kind of mind. 20:01.860 --> 20:06.780 We need revelation to see beyond the facts, 20:06.780 --> 20:07.950 beyond the ordinary, 20:07.950 --> 20:10.593 the hidden truth Jesus was talking about. 20:10.593 --> 20:12.150 - And that's why the disciples even asked Him, 20:12.150 --> 20:12.983 what does it mean? 20:12.983 --> 20:14.043 - Thank you very much. 20:15.510 --> 20:19.713 That's why when we hear the gospel, the word of the truth, 20:21.180 --> 20:24.360 we need to know that the soil in which the seed is planted 20:24.360 --> 20:27.303 is our heart, not our mind. 20:28.620 --> 20:32.730 Only God sees the heart, mean, only God can open the heart. 20:32.730 --> 20:34.680 Only God can plant the seed. 20:34.680 --> 20:36.933 Ruth, that's go to verse 10. 20:38.603 --> 20:39.436 - And He said... 20:39.436 --> 20:40.297 - He said... 20:40.297 --> 20:43.110 - "To you, it has been given to know the mysteries 20:43.110 --> 20:44.100 of the Kingdom of God." 20:44.100 --> 20:44.933 - Oh my God. 20:44.933 --> 20:48.420 - "But to the rest, it is given in parables, that seeing, 20:48.420 --> 20:52.980 they may not see, and hearing, they may not understand. 20:52.980 --> 20:57.780 Now, the parable is this, the seed is the Word of God." 20:57.780 --> 20:58.680 - That's it. 20:58.680 --> 21:00.870 Jesus said, the seed is the Word of God. 21:00.870 --> 21:02.010 Who plant the seed? 21:02.010 --> 21:02.970 God. 21:02.970 --> 21:05.850 Only God can plant the seed in your heart. 21:05.850 --> 21:07.920 And He said to them, for you, verse 10, 21:07.920 --> 21:11.390 it has been given the grace to see the mystery 21:11.390 --> 21:12.223 of the Kingdom of God. 21:12.223 --> 21:14.763 Mean, God has given the eyes that can see, 21:16.020 --> 21:19.410 ears that can hear, heart that can understand and believe. 21:19.410 --> 21:21.840 That's why when Jesus called Peter, "Follow me," 21:21.840 --> 21:24.217 they left everything, they follow Him. 21:24.217 --> 21:26.160 "Matthew, follow me." 21:26.160 --> 21:28.710 He left the tax booth and follow Jesus immediately. 21:29.910 --> 21:31.380 The sons of Zebedee, "Come!" 21:31.380 --> 21:32.400 They abandoned their father, 21:32.400 --> 21:33.840 they walk and follow Jesus immediately. 21:33.840 --> 21:34.673 Why? 21:34.673 --> 21:36.840 - Because their heart responded to the call. 21:36.840 --> 21:37.890 - Thank you. 21:37.890 --> 21:41.220 God given the gift of eyes that can see, 21:41.220 --> 21:44.970 that this man calling them is the Messiah. 21:44.970 --> 21:47.700 God give them grace beyond the fact 21:47.700 --> 21:48.990 the human nature of Christ, 21:48.990 --> 21:50.680 to see the divine nature of Jesus. 21:50.680 --> 21:54.783 Their heart wrong, conviction came, this is the man. 21:56.220 --> 21:59.400 It takes the grace of God to have revelation. 21:59.400 --> 22:01.800 It takes the grace of love to understand. 22:01.800 --> 22:03.750 It takes the grace of God to believe. 22:03.750 --> 22:06.810 That's faith, is a gift from God. 22:06.810 --> 22:09.870 We are talking about real faith, divine faith, 22:09.870 --> 22:11.910 produced by God, through the mighty works 22:11.910 --> 22:13.440 of the Holy Spirit. 22:13.440 --> 22:17.940 Not faith in faith with our mind, intellectual faith, 22:17.940 --> 22:19.350 but real faith. 22:19.350 --> 22:22.377 That's why Jesus say, "Have faith in God." 22:24.060 --> 22:28.020 Now we understand what Paul said, 22:28.020 --> 22:30.300 that these are spiritual things that we only receive 22:30.300 --> 22:31.800 by revelation. 22:31.800 --> 22:34.800 So today, the first step of this knowledge 22:34.800 --> 22:36.960 we're talking about is not a normal knowledge 22:36.960 --> 22:40.470 if call it divine knowledge or spiritual knowledge. 22:40.470 --> 22:42.750 - To turn the light from off to on. 22:42.750 --> 22:44.850 - Absolutely, from darkness to the light. 22:44.850 --> 22:46.020 - Yeah. 22:46.020 --> 22:48.570 - And we are able to perceive. 22:48.570 --> 22:53.163 That's why the Bible say, we walk by faith, not by sight. 22:54.840 --> 22:57.480 Means we have sense knowledge 22:57.480 --> 23:01.710 and we have spiritual knowledge, revelation knowledge, 23:01.710 --> 23:03.060 the (indistinct) you receive truth 23:03.060 --> 23:05.283 when the spirit of Father reveal it to you. 23:06.540 --> 23:09.570 Saul was a Pharisee who knew the law 23:09.570 --> 23:11.073 very well in the letter. 23:12.510 --> 23:17.280 Later he received grace and mercy as he himself said 23:17.280 --> 23:20.820 in the book of 1 Timothy chapter 1:11-13, 23:20.820 --> 23:25.320 that God gave him grace and mercy because he was ignorant. 23:25.320 --> 23:27.123 That's why he persecuted the church. 23:28.110 --> 23:32.220 In Galatians chapter one from verse 10 to 11, he said, 12, 23:32.220 --> 23:34.953 that is gospel he received by a revelation from God. 23:36.480 --> 23:40.563 We need revelation because these are things of the spirit. 23:42.120 --> 23:46.533 When it comes to the things of the spirit, we are all weak. 23:48.390 --> 23:49.920 You want to understand 23:49.920 --> 23:52.383 we should approach the Bible with humility. 23:53.370 --> 23:56.010 I can learn this Bible, I can read it by heart 23:56.010 --> 23:58.380 and quote it by heart as a Pharisees did, 23:58.380 --> 23:59.910 I would just read it. 23:59.910 --> 24:03.213 But is the Bible meaningful for you? 24:04.980 --> 24:09.027 The truth hidden in the Bible, is it true for your life? 24:09.027 --> 24:11.130 And that's the question. 24:11.130 --> 24:14.850 Or when you read story book, that story, Ruth, 24:14.850 --> 24:17.253 is only concern the character you are reading. 24:18.960 --> 24:23.960 But if what I read, what I'm reading, it's true for my life, 24:24.000 --> 24:27.480 I begin to ask myself, this can affect my life? 24:27.480 --> 24:29.930 And I begin to appropriate the truth for my life. 24:31.230 --> 24:33.657 It can only happen if I have a spiritual understanding 24:33.657 --> 24:36.450 and say, "Hey, I'm convinced this is true for my life. 24:36.450 --> 24:39.330 I will apply to my life, it will change my life." 24:39.330 --> 24:41.373 And that's what faith is all about. 24:42.870 --> 24:45.930 There is a truth in the Bible. 24:45.930 --> 24:49.470 The Holy Spirit revealed the truth to us first. 24:49.470 --> 24:52.293 He opened our eyes to see what is promised in the word. 24:53.340 --> 24:57.450 And number two, He will come and guide us 24:57.450 --> 25:00.603 into an understanding of that truth. 25:01.860 --> 25:06.390 That understanding is saying, this is true, this is true, 25:06.390 --> 25:07.980 this is true. 25:07.980 --> 25:10.117 When understanding came, you asked the question, 25:10.117 --> 25:12.147 "Wow, can it be true for me?" 25:13.140 --> 25:15.962 And then Holy Ghost will come and help you. 25:15.962 --> 25:17.040 We call it conviction. 25:17.040 --> 25:19.023 Yes, it is true for you. 25:20.250 --> 25:22.595 Once your heart has the conviction of this, 25:22.595 --> 25:25.495 that it's true for me, I say, "I want to be like this man. 25:26.460 --> 25:28.920 I want to be like Jesus. 25:28.920 --> 25:32.607 This is my trouble, this is the answer, this is it." 25:33.930 --> 25:36.780 And that work is a work of Holy Spirit. 25:36.780 --> 25:39.063 No human being can give you persuasion. 25:39.990 --> 25:42.480 Nobody can force this truth to you, 25:42.480 --> 25:44.820 you have to go through the process. 25:44.820 --> 25:48.570 Revelation, understanding, conviction. 25:48.570 --> 25:51.330 And then conviction means faith, belief has started, 25:51.330 --> 25:54.150 this is true for me, and you apply it, 25:54.150 --> 25:56.403 you walk towards it and you receive it. 25:57.750 --> 26:02.400 But it'll start with the right knowledge of God. 26:02.400 --> 26:05.580 The right knowledge, God means the divine meaning 26:05.580 --> 26:07.293 of the scriptures you are reading. 26:08.820 --> 26:11.490 When the divine meaning came to be fulfilled that day, 26:11.490 --> 26:13.623 those in the letter rejected it. 26:14.790 --> 26:17.400 The one they were waiting for for so long 26:17.400 --> 26:19.863 did not come in the way they wanted to be. 26:20.850 --> 26:23.433 It did not come from where they expect Him to come. 26:24.480 --> 26:27.270 God's ways are not our ways. 26:27.270 --> 26:29.790 This means the state of our heart, 26:29.790 --> 26:32.913 the kind of knowledge we have can resist the truth. 26:34.376 --> 26:36.090 Our heart can resist the truth, 26:36.090 --> 26:37.230 we have different types of heart, 26:37.230 --> 26:38.580 we'll talk about it later on. 26:38.580 --> 26:40.740 But today, we'll talk about knowledge. 26:40.740 --> 26:43.920 - So, that will affect the way that the seed planted? 26:43.920 --> 26:45.090 - Absolutely. 26:45.090 --> 26:48.060 - The state of your heart can affect how that word 26:48.060 --> 26:50.760 enters your heart, and whether it grows or not. 26:50.760 --> 26:51.807 - Thank, you have said it. 26:51.807 --> 26:53.853 You say seed, and you say grow. 26:55.068 --> 26:58.590 Can you plant a seed today and reap the harvest today? 26:58.590 --> 26:59.423 - No. 27:00.300 --> 27:01.950 - Or can you take the seed in your hand 27:01.950 --> 27:03.900 and the food will come off of the seed? 27:04.740 --> 27:09.740 The seed must first be planted in the ground, normal seed, 27:11.640 --> 27:13.620 and then inside the ground 27:13.620 --> 27:16.173 there's a process of transformation, right? 27:17.070 --> 27:20.008 And one day we saw something come out of it 27:20.008 --> 27:21.208 like this one behind me. 27:22.360 --> 27:24.000 (indistinct) 27:24.000 --> 27:29.000 The seed, the trunk, you saw the leaves and the fruit, 27:29.490 --> 27:31.620 but it has to be planted first. 27:31.620 --> 27:35.670 Let's go to John 12:24, and we are gonna talk about, today, 27:35.670 --> 27:37.950 of how the seed is planted. 27:37.950 --> 27:39.453 That's today's message. 27:40.957 --> 27:43.200 - "Most assuredly I say to you, 27:43.200 --> 27:47.010 unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, 27:47.010 --> 27:48.540 it remains alone. 27:48.540 --> 27:51.420 But if it dies, it produces much grain." 27:51.420 --> 27:53.133 - Who say that? Jesus. 27:54.750 --> 27:56.313 What is Jesus saying this? 27:57.600 --> 27:59.227 He said, say it again. 27:59.227 --> 28:01.050 - "Most assuredly I say to you, 28:01.050 --> 28:04.950 unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies..." 28:04.950 --> 28:05.783 - Wait. 28:05.783 --> 28:08.553 Falls into the ground, mean planted. 28:09.720 --> 28:12.180 When you fall to the ground, He say he dies. 28:12.180 --> 28:13.981 That's what Jesus said. 28:13.981 --> 28:15.067 Mm-hmm? 28:15.067 --> 28:17.130 - "It remains alone. 28:17.130 --> 28:19.980 But if it dies, it produces much grain." 28:19.980 --> 28:22.620 - It has to die to produce much grain. 28:22.620 --> 28:25.380 Mean, the seed you see has to be decomposed 28:25.380 --> 28:30.300 like a human body, and will bring something new. 28:30.300 --> 28:32.553 Life will come from the death of the seed. 28:34.500 --> 28:38.020 Jesus is telling us the seed we're talking about 28:39.180 --> 28:42.303 need to be transformed, change in nature, 28:43.350 --> 28:46.653 from the ordinary seed to spiritual seed. 28:48.270 --> 28:52.860 It has to seize in the natural, and to be in the spirit. 28:52.860 --> 28:55.200 That's the death he's talking about. 28:55.200 --> 28:58.740 Now, where is the seed planted? 28:58.740 --> 29:00.990 That's the question, we talk about the heart. 29:01.950 --> 29:05.190 She said the word is a seed that comes into our heart. 29:05.190 --> 29:07.320 Now, we know only God sees the heart. 29:07.320 --> 29:09.060 Only God can plant the seed. 29:09.060 --> 29:12.634 Now, how God will be able to plant the seed 29:12.634 --> 29:14.531 in the heart of a person? 29:14.531 --> 29:15.900 We're going to take an example. 29:15.900 --> 29:19.440 We're gonna take the example of the Ethiopian Eunuch, 29:19.440 --> 29:21.980 which many people know, but today, we're gonna break it 29:21.980 --> 29:26.110 to see there's a difference of reading the Bible 29:27.240 --> 29:32.240 or memorizing the Bible, and when the seed is planted 29:32.340 --> 29:34.470 in the right soul of the heart, what is the effect, 29:34.470 --> 29:35.790 what it produce? 29:35.790 --> 29:39.150 Let's go to the Book of Act, chapter eight. 29:39.150 --> 29:43.237 We take it one by one from verse 27. 29:43.237 --> 29:46.590 - "So, he arose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia, 29:46.590 --> 29:50.070 a eunuch of great authority under Candace, 29:50.070 --> 29:52.080 the queen of the Ethiopians who had charge 29:52.080 --> 29:55.410 of all her treasury and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 29:55.410 --> 29:56.580 was returning. 29:56.580 --> 29:57.930 And sitting in his chariot, 29:57.930 --> 30:00.510 he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 30:00.510 --> 30:02.037 Then the spirit said to Philip, 30:02.037 --> 30:04.680 'Go near and overtake this chariot.' 30:04.680 --> 30:07.710 So, Philip ran to him and heard him reading, 30:07.710 --> 30:09.357 the prophet Isaiah, and said, 30:09.357 --> 30:12.150 'Do you understand what you are reading?' 30:12.150 --> 30:17.150 And he said, 'How can I, unless someone guides me?' 30:17.400 --> 30:19.800 And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him." 30:19.800 --> 30:20.747 - Thank you. 30:20.747 --> 30:22.533 Let me just pause you one second. 30:23.400 --> 30:26.310 You listen to what Ruth just read today, 30:26.310 --> 30:27.860 this is what we read every day. 30:28.710 --> 30:30.540 We are going to take it step by step. 30:30.540 --> 30:35.040 The man was reading, but what he was reading 30:35.040 --> 30:37.203 was difficult for him to understand. 30:39.330 --> 30:43.020 He said, "Who is talking to me? 30:43.020 --> 30:44.130 Is it the book? 30:44.130 --> 30:46.110 It's so real what I'm reading? 30:46.110 --> 30:47.610 Is it the prophet himself talking, 30:47.610 --> 30:49.050 or he's talking about somebody?" 30:49.050 --> 30:52.950 But don't know these words was bringing his heart. 30:52.950 --> 30:54.483 Who is he talking about? 30:56.400 --> 30:58.200 Who is this person? 30:58.200 --> 31:01.680 We suffer for others who took away our sickness, 31:01.680 --> 31:05.430 our infirmities, who would die because of others. 31:05.430 --> 31:06.263 Who is this person? 31:06.263 --> 31:07.920 I want to know this person. 31:07.920 --> 31:11.613 He wanted to know the truth, but it was hidden for him. 31:12.780 --> 31:17.283 So, anytime we read with the heart to understand, 31:19.770 --> 31:23.613 then we receive help from the Holy Spirit. 31:25.140 --> 31:28.620 We can see here that the man was reading 31:28.620 --> 31:33.620 but he did not understand what was a real divine meaning 31:34.500 --> 31:37.740 of those scriptures he was reading. 31:37.740 --> 31:39.420 He needed help. 31:39.420 --> 31:43.323 When we read the Bible and we want to know the truth, 31:44.340 --> 31:47.860 and we realize that that truth we can never get to it 31:47.860 --> 31:48.910 if we are not helped, 31:50.130 --> 31:52.500 then we'll be going to pray for help. 31:52.500 --> 31:55.200 If God sees that we have generous to know the truth, 31:55.200 --> 31:57.753 to understand the truth for salvation's sake, 31:59.460 --> 32:02.793 then the helper from above called the Holy Spirit will come. 32:04.290 --> 32:07.897 Just come before, start from verse 24. 32:07.897 --> 32:11.490 - "Then Simon answered and said, 'Pray to the Lord for me 32:11.490 --> 32:13.500 that none of the things which you have spoken 32:13.500 --> 32:15.180 may come upon me.' 32:15.180 --> 32:16.440 So when they had testified 32:16.440 --> 32:17.850 and preached the word of the Lord, 32:17.850 --> 32:20.250 they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel 32:20.250 --> 32:23.010 in many villages of the Samaritans." 32:23.010 --> 32:23.843 - Good. 32:23.843 --> 32:24.973 Now go to verse 29. 32:26.527 --> 32:28.317 - "Then the spirit said to Philip, 32:28.317 --> 32:30.330 'Go near and overtake this chariot.'" 32:30.330 --> 32:33.420 - When the man was reading, he could not understand. 32:33.420 --> 32:34.710 But the man did not give up. 32:34.710 --> 32:37.350 This is the clue of genuineness. 32:37.350 --> 32:38.467 Sometime you read something, 32:38.467 --> 32:40.860 "Oh, it doesn't make any meaning for me." 32:40.860 --> 32:42.180 Drop it, "I'm all right." 32:42.180 --> 32:43.260 - But he continued reading. 32:43.260 --> 32:47.430 - Let's continue reading because I want to understand. 32:47.430 --> 32:51.360 I want to know what this man called Jesus is saying. 32:51.360 --> 32:54.000 I read the Bible, I don't understand, I read what this man, 32:54.000 --> 32:57.933 he looks strange for me, but this man did not give up. 32:59.250 --> 33:03.270 He knew this, there is something he could not understand, 33:03.270 --> 33:04.620 who will help me? 33:04.620 --> 33:07.140 So, when he was continued to read, to read, to read, 33:07.140 --> 33:12.140 to read, God who is invisible, immortal, omnipresent, 33:12.810 --> 33:15.060 located the heart of this man. 33:15.060 --> 33:16.980 Holy Spirit saw him. 33:16.980 --> 33:19.920 When you're reading in your dark, in your house, 33:19.920 --> 33:23.130 whenever you are, if you read with sincerity 33:23.130 --> 33:25.593 to know the truth, with humility! 33:26.850 --> 33:29.257 Asking God with forgiveness, 33:29.257 --> 33:32.220 "Lord, this I can't understand it, please help me, 33:32.220 --> 33:34.800 I want to know this, I don't want to reject it, 33:34.800 --> 33:36.300 but help me to understand it." 33:38.227 --> 33:41.280 Holy Ghost saw it, and immediately (indistinct) 33:41.280 --> 33:42.457 will say, 29. 33:44.347 --> 33:46.357 - "Go near," then the spirit said to Philip, 33:46.357 --> 33:48.450 "Go near and overtake this chariot." 33:48.450 --> 33:52.713 - Then the Holy Ghost instructed Philip, the right person, 33:54.210 --> 33:59.210 to go and help this man to understand what he was reading. 34:02.011 --> 34:04.710 The revelation can come by you alone, 34:04.710 --> 34:07.803 but God can send somebody to give you the word of life. 34:08.910 --> 34:11.040 God sent Jesus to enter the synagogue. 34:11.040 --> 34:14.880 When He was preaching, we saw people's heart was hardened. 34:14.880 --> 34:17.700 But this man, his heart was not hardened. 34:17.700 --> 34:18.990 - His heart was a good soil. 34:18.990 --> 34:20.370 - His heart was a good soil, he was ringing, 34:20.370 --> 34:22.320 he wanted to know, he wanted to understand. 34:22.320 --> 34:26.820 When we are humble, revelation is a language 34:26.820 --> 34:30.123 that only humility can understand and receive. 34:31.050 --> 34:32.500 If we say we know everything, 34:33.420 --> 34:36.300 we can never get to the state of revelation. 34:36.300 --> 34:39.487 That's why Jesus said in John chapter five, 34:39.487 --> 34:42.240 "I came here for two sorts of judgment." 34:42.240 --> 34:43.353 - That those who are- 34:43.353 --> 34:45.240 - That those who cannot see. 34:45.240 --> 34:47.310 - So, can't be see- 34:47.310 --> 34:48.270 - If they're humble. 34:48.270 --> 34:51.533 But those who say, "I can see, I'm not interested." 34:51.533 --> 34:52.943 They will remain blind forever. 34:55.410 --> 34:56.313 Continue reading. 34:58.230 --> 34:59.400 - So, Philip ran to him 34:59.400 --> 35:01.987 and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 35:01.987 --> 35:03.630 "Do you understand what you are reading?" 35:03.630 --> 35:04.830 - Thank you. 35:04.830 --> 35:08.160 This means, the work of the Holy Spirit 35:08.160 --> 35:10.920 in the process of salvation, at first, 35:10.920 --> 35:14.013 begins with the understanding. 35:16.710 --> 35:19.440 The fact that you heard something 35:19.440 --> 35:22.470 does not necessarily mean you have spiritual understanding 35:22.470 --> 35:23.760 of it. 35:23.760 --> 35:26.673 They heard Jesus in the synagogue clearly, 35:27.780 --> 35:32.780 but they never understood what it meant for them. 35:33.720 --> 35:36.360 They have their own interpretation of the scripture, 35:36.360 --> 35:41.360 or their own mindset, but Jesus came for a purpose. 35:42.030 --> 35:43.710 They forgot that man, 35:43.710 --> 35:46.463 He came to establish the Kingdom of God in our heart. 35:48.630 --> 35:51.480 He came to strike the roots of our trouble. 35:51.480 --> 35:54.990 The promise God made to Abraham was not the land, 35:54.990 --> 35:57.930 that promise was the older families of the earth 35:57.930 --> 36:00.390 will be blessed in the seed of Abraham. 36:00.390 --> 36:02.010 What was that blessing? 36:02.010 --> 36:04.310 They never understood what that blessing mean. 36:05.610 --> 36:08.280 The blessing of Christ, as Paul, we explained late 36:08.280 --> 36:12.063 in Galatians 3:14-15, is the promise of the Holy Spirit, 36:13.387 --> 36:15.090 the promise of eternal life, 36:15.090 --> 36:16.260 the Kingdom of God in our heart, 36:16.260 --> 36:18.210 but they never understood what it mean. 36:19.245 --> 36:21.450 And they bring, look at Jesus in natural and to fight Him, 36:21.450 --> 36:24.750 blasphemy, this is not what we're waiting for. 36:24.750 --> 36:26.043 This not what we expect. 36:27.480 --> 36:29.790 That's what we need to humble for God to reveal to us 36:29.790 --> 36:31.710 the divine meaning of the Bible 36:31.710 --> 36:34.410 because no one can apply rightfully the Word of God 36:34.410 --> 36:36.860 if you don't have revelation understanding of it. 36:38.430 --> 36:41.910 Now we ask Him, do you understand what you- 36:41.910 --> 36:42.780 - Are reading? 36:42.780 --> 36:44.047 - What did he say? 36:44.047 --> 36:46.670 - "How can I, unless someone guides me." 36:46.670 --> 36:48.336 - What humility. 36:48.336 --> 36:50.407 He never said, "Yes, I understand." 36:50.407 --> 36:53.580 "How can I, unless I receive help?" 36:53.580 --> 36:55.350 That's humility. 36:55.350 --> 36:59.850 - That means it's not our education or our mental ability 36:59.850 --> 37:02.670 to understand or read that can help us 37:02.670 --> 37:04.620 divinely understand the Word of God. 37:04.620 --> 37:07.383 - That is, we presume to know whether we know nothing. 37:09.000 --> 37:11.100 That's why the Bible says, 37:11.100 --> 37:12.800 in the book of 1 Corinthians 2:10, 37:15.127 --> 37:17.640 "The things of the spirit are indistinct. 37:17.640 --> 37:20.090 It takes the spirit of revelation to receive it." 37:21.180 --> 37:25.053 The natural man, the cannily might person, 37:26.077 --> 37:26.910 1 Corinthians 2:14, 37:28.107 --> 37:29.067 "Cannot receive the things of the spirit 37:30.818 --> 37:33.210 'cause there are foolishness for him. 37:33.210 --> 37:36.060 They can only be spiritually discerned." 37:36.060 --> 37:39.360 What we are saying here, why do we need revelation? 37:39.360 --> 37:43.170 Facts, we can see, but truth, spiritually truth, 37:43.170 --> 37:45.123 need to be spiritually discerned. 37:46.620 --> 37:48.900 - And that's how we can become mature as believers. 37:48.900 --> 37:52.830 If that's what the University of God is all about. 37:52.830 --> 37:56.280 - We need to have faith in the divine meaning of the Bible. 37:56.280 --> 37:59.700 We all know we are humans, we are human beings, 37:59.700 --> 38:01.980 we have different kind of denomination, 38:01.980 --> 38:03.750 different types of interpretation of the Bible. 38:03.750 --> 38:05.730 You just go to internet and types of, 38:05.730 --> 38:08.100 you see different interpretation. 38:08.100 --> 38:10.560 You dunno in which one to take, which one to do. 38:10.560 --> 38:12.847 But the Bible says, 38:12.847 --> 38:15.480 "The Holy Spirit is the spirit of understanding." 38:15.480 --> 38:16.940 Isaiah 11. 38:16.940 --> 38:19.790 Is the spirit of revelation, Ephesians verse 17, 38:19.790 --> 38:24.123 is the one that revealed the gospel to Paul. 38:25.050 --> 38:27.630 It is the Holy Spirit that opened the hearts of Legia, 38:27.630 --> 38:30.900 Act 16:14, to hear the message, 38:30.900 --> 38:32.600 this is what I'm gonna talk about. 38:33.630 --> 38:35.820 I'm not talking about personal revelation at this time, 38:35.820 --> 38:38.620 I'm talking about somebody's preaching the word of life. 38:39.480 --> 38:42.720 Your heart must be opened by God 38:42.720 --> 38:45.180 to receive the word straight into your heart. 38:45.180 --> 38:47.993 They're going through the process of personal revelation. 38:48.990 --> 38:51.720 Jesus was speaking directly, but they rejected Him. 38:51.720 --> 38:54.693 They looked at it natural, they did not receive His words. 38:56.400 --> 38:59.640 In this case, this man was reading, 38:59.640 --> 39:03.937 he needed revelation by himself, but God say, 39:03.937 --> 39:05.787 "I will send Philip to speak to him." 39:08.760 --> 39:13.340 Philip say, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 39:13.340 --> 39:15.450 Why do we need understanding? I'm asking that question. 39:15.450 --> 39:18.180 - If we don't have understanding, 39:18.180 --> 39:21.060 what we know cannot actually sink into our heart. 39:21.060 --> 39:25.290 It can't remain there, it will just remain in the mind. 39:25.290 --> 39:26.580 - Okay. 39:26.580 --> 39:27.413 Now... 39:28.410 --> 39:30.660 - It will not be a benefit to us if we don't understand it. 39:30.660 --> 39:31.620 - Right? 39:31.620 --> 39:36.393 If I come and say, "Ah, Ruth, wow, the good news, 39:37.230 --> 39:39.870 I heard that tomorrow there's a free ticket 39:39.870 --> 39:42.360 to go to America for everybody who order this product. 39:42.360 --> 39:44.880 You freely go to America, don't ask you visa, 39:44.880 --> 39:46.830 you go there for free tomorrow." 39:46.830 --> 39:48.243 I give you that news. 39:49.770 --> 39:51.970 The question is, do you believe what I said 39:53.400 --> 39:56.171 or do you want to find out what I said is true? 39:56.171 --> 39:57.660 Will you act on what I said immediately? 39:57.660 --> 39:59.280 Will you? 39:59.280 --> 40:01.538 - I probably have to find out if it's true. 40:01.538 --> 40:02.640 - You need to find out the truth. 40:02.640 --> 40:03.473 - Yeah. 40:03.473 --> 40:04.739 - I mean everything we have, 40:04.739 --> 40:07.489 we need to find out the truth from God's point of view. 40:08.520 --> 40:10.533 There's fact and there is truth. 40:11.676 --> 40:13.110 There are conditions to be met. 40:13.110 --> 40:15.930 Everything we hear on earth has conditions. 40:15.930 --> 40:19.380 What are the conditions to qualify for that? 40:19.380 --> 40:21.120 That's the knowledge we need to find in the Bible. 40:21.120 --> 40:23.294 The condition for salvation 40:23.294 --> 40:25.530 are clearly stated in this Bible, 40:25.530 --> 40:27.930 and one of the condition is faith. 40:27.930 --> 40:32.930 Romans 10:6-17, "And faith comes by hearing the message 40:37.860 --> 40:40.347 and believing the message with our heart." 40:41.640 --> 40:46.640 Now the question, how can I accept a revelation, 40:48.540 --> 40:51.513 a knowledge, if I don't understand it? 40:53.220 --> 40:54.690 They couldn't accept Jesus saying 40:54.690 --> 40:56.940 because they couldn't understand it. 40:56.940 --> 41:00.750 This man say, "I'm reading it, I'm trying to understand." 41:00.750 --> 41:05.750 That's why we say faith comes when the word prevails 41:05.910 --> 41:08.433 over the thinking processes. 41:10.530 --> 41:14.250 Faith is not an intellectual acknowledgement. 41:14.250 --> 41:17.283 It is a spiritual things to be discerned spiritually. 41:18.690 --> 41:22.470 Now, for the word to prevail, in our mind, we try to think, 41:22.470 --> 41:26.100 we cannot find it, it's difficult to understand 41:26.100 --> 41:28.620 by intellectual faculties. 41:28.620 --> 41:31.530 That's why we need revelation to come. 41:31.530 --> 41:32.673 When revelation come, 41:33.600 --> 41:37.263 it comes directly into the right ground of the heart. 41:38.370 --> 41:42.423 So this guy, Philip, came and spoke to his heart. 41:43.410 --> 41:46.353 Now, the word can enter your heart, 41:47.320 --> 41:51.330 and if you don't understand what happened, it would what? 41:51.330 --> 41:56.330 - It would not grow, it will not produce roots. 41:56.670 --> 41:57.870 - Very good. 41:57.870 --> 41:58.863 Why? 41:59.760 --> 42:00.783 That's the question. 42:02.250 --> 42:04.650 The word can enter the right ground and never produce, 42:04.650 --> 42:06.600 that's some seed you put in the ground, 42:08.130 --> 42:09.510 but you never base it. 42:09.510 --> 42:10.560 Why? 42:10.560 --> 42:12.060 It lacks something necessary. 42:12.060 --> 42:13.530 It need to be watered. 42:13.530 --> 42:14.363 - Mm. 42:15.450 --> 42:20.160 - We water the seed when we meditate on the seed 42:20.160 --> 42:23.490 in order to understand the divine meaning 42:23.490 --> 42:26.580 hidden in that seed, the divine meaning. 42:26.580 --> 42:29.370 That mean I don't reject something I heard, 42:29.370 --> 42:32.880 I want to find out whether it is true or not. 42:32.880 --> 42:34.560 - And that's what the Ethiopian eunuch did. 42:34.560 --> 42:36.600 - That's what he was doing. 42:36.600 --> 42:41.550 He did not reject it, he was loudly speaking, meditating, 42:41.550 --> 42:44.970 trying to find out, and meditation attract the attention 42:44.970 --> 42:46.620 of the Holy Spirit of revelation. 42:47.520 --> 42:50.677 When the Holy Ghost saw this man, he instructed Philip, 42:50.677 --> 42:53.267 "Go and speak to this man." 42:53.267 --> 42:56.310 That's the same thing that happened to Cornelius, 42:56.310 --> 43:01.310 a foreigner who in this heart was hunger for righteousness. 43:05.370 --> 43:08.283 God located him and sent an angel to him. 43:09.205 --> 43:12.030 The angel said, "We have heard your prayers and your arms, 43:12.030 --> 43:13.080 you give to the poor. 43:14.370 --> 43:18.207 Call for Simon, Peter, to come and tell you something." 43:19.050 --> 43:21.750 This means when a preacher come, 43:21.750 --> 43:23.340 he's preaching the word of life 43:23.340 --> 43:25.650 sent by the Holy Spirit to you, 43:25.650 --> 43:27.870 and he's the only one that can speak words of light 43:27.870 --> 43:29.973 that will enter your heart straight. 43:32.040 --> 43:35.310 When an anointed person is speaking to you, 43:35.310 --> 43:38.190 God is speaking through him, and that word is life 43:38.190 --> 43:40.113 will enter your heart straight. 43:41.040 --> 43:46.040 The question is, will you receive it as such, 43:46.170 --> 43:47.910 being the word of God? 43:47.910 --> 43:52.533 The question is, do you understand the meaning of it? 43:55.350 --> 43:57.663 I can never receive what I do not understand. 43:59.670 --> 44:01.833 So first, knowledge must come. 44:02.940 --> 44:06.210 After knowledge come, understand he must come right. 44:06.210 --> 44:07.777 And he ask him, "Do you understand?" 44:07.777 --> 44:10.317 "How can I understand unless somebody help me?" 44:12.390 --> 44:13.490 What did he say after? 44:17.460 --> 44:19.860 - And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. 44:19.860 --> 44:22.980 - Now, to show his willingness, "come." 44:22.980 --> 44:25.387 Philip never forced himself to enter, he say, 44:25.387 --> 44:29.100 "Please come and explain to me, 44:29.100 --> 44:30.990 maybe you are the one to help me." 44:30.990 --> 44:32.950 Knowledge has come with explanation 44:34.680 --> 44:36.897 or unfolding by revelation. 44:36.897 --> 44:40.740 But he stood by reverend explaining to him what happened, 44:40.740 --> 44:41.573 let's read. 44:43.387 --> 44:45.697 - The place in his scripture which he read was this, 44:45.697 --> 44:48.600 "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, 44:48.600 --> 44:51.720 and as a lamb before its shearer is silent. 44:51.720 --> 44:53.700 So, he open not his mouth. 44:53.700 --> 44:57.000 In his humiliation, his justice was taken away. 44:57.000 --> 44:59.880 And who will declare his generation 44:59.880 --> 45:02.670 for his life is taken from the earth. 45:02.670 --> 45:04.948 So, the eunuch answered Philip and said, 45:04.948 --> 45:07.920 'I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this? 45:07.920 --> 45:10.290 Of himself or of some other man?'" 45:10.290 --> 45:11.940 - Can't you understand? 45:11.940 --> 45:14.673 Who is he talking about? 45:17.040 --> 45:20.483 He understood, but who is the person who he's talking about? 45:21.405 --> 45:22.238 Continue. 45:22.238 --> 45:23.340 - "Then Philip opened his mouth, 45:23.340 --> 45:26.540 and beginning at the scripture, preached, 45:26.540 --> 45:29.820 'Beginning at this scripture preached Jesus to him.' 45:29.820 --> 45:32.640 Now, as they went down the road, they came to some water, 45:32.640 --> 45:34.950 and the eunuch said, 'See, here is water. 45:34.950 --> 45:37.710 What hinders me from being baptized?' 45:37.710 --> 45:40.530 Then Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, 45:40.530 --> 45:41.550 you may.' 45:41.550 --> 45:42.690 And he answered and said, 45:42.690 --> 45:45.810 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'" 45:45.810 --> 45:47.060 - You see the connection? 45:48.420 --> 45:49.323 Do you understand? 45:50.790 --> 45:54.483 And after he said, do you believe? 45:56.250 --> 45:58.200 No one can understand. 45:58.200 --> 46:00.300 No one can understand what he has not received 46:00.300 --> 46:01.800 by the revelation. 46:01.800 --> 46:04.980 And no one can believe what he does not understand. 46:04.980 --> 46:06.449 - So that's the process of believing. 46:06.449 --> 46:07.590 - That's the process. 46:07.590 --> 46:09.363 Knowledge must come first, 46:10.380 --> 46:13.290 then understanding must come first, 46:13.290 --> 46:15.297 and that understanding will give birth to conviction, 46:15.297 --> 46:17.673 and yes, it is true for me. 46:18.870 --> 46:21.333 And then you can believe it to act on it. 46:22.320 --> 46:23.420 What did he say after? 46:24.390 --> 46:25.680 - Then Philip opened his mouth 46:25.680 --> 46:28.500 and beginning at this scripture preached Jesus to him. 46:28.500 --> 46:29.333 - Yes. 46:29.333 --> 46:32.490 - Now, as they went down the road, they came to some water, 46:32.490 --> 46:34.440 and the eunuch said, "See, here is water." 46:34.440 --> 46:36.510 - Wait, this is where I want to come. 46:37.860 --> 46:42.513 Who told him the meaning of water baptism? 46:44.220 --> 46:46.980 Philip must have told him about Jesus. 46:46.980 --> 46:49.730 Philip must have laid down the condition for salvation. 46:50.610 --> 46:52.890 And when the man saw the water, 46:52.890 --> 46:54.723 he was the one that asked for it. 46:55.950 --> 46:57.630 Philip never said, "Do you want to be baptized?" 46:57.630 --> 47:01.503 The man said, "I want to be baptized." 47:01.503 --> 47:04.743 Because he was convinced that this is true. 47:06.420 --> 47:07.353 Continue, Ruth. 47:09.840 --> 47:13.410 - See, here is water, what hinders me from being baptized? 47:13.410 --> 47:16.590 Then Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, 47:16.590 --> 47:17.670 you may. - Thank you. 47:17.670 --> 47:20.700 The only thing that can hinder you from being baptized 47:20.700 --> 47:22.743 is lack of faith, it's act of faith. 47:24.300 --> 47:26.370 Faith is a conviction of the heart, 47:26.370 --> 47:29.340 for that baptism to have a meaning before God, 47:29.340 --> 47:32.240 you must mean it by faith and believe with all your heart. 47:33.180 --> 47:34.620 What hinders me? 47:34.620 --> 47:37.567 He say, if you believe, say it again. 47:37.567 --> 47:39.333 - "If you believe with all your heart, you may." 47:39.333 --> 47:42.843 - With all your heart, you may. 47:43.860 --> 47:44.850 That's what he said. 47:44.850 --> 47:47.130 The question is, who sees the heart of the man? 47:47.130 --> 47:47.963 God. 47:49.320 --> 47:53.370 This means baptism of water with Holy Ghost baptism, 47:53.370 --> 47:56.313 all baptism must be act of faith. 47:58.260 --> 48:01.710 You must have the revelation of the truth 48:01.710 --> 48:03.363 necessity to your baptize. 48:04.380 --> 48:07.470 You must believe it is true for your own life. 48:07.470 --> 48:11.163 You must be convinced, and then faith comes. 48:12.090 --> 48:13.784 It's the act of faith. 48:13.784 --> 48:16.184 And when you do it, God will fulfill the promise 48:17.040 --> 48:17.973 of salvation. 48:19.080 --> 48:20.850 That's the process. 48:20.850 --> 48:24.240 We are seeing the importance of knowledge, 48:24.240 --> 48:25.353 revelation knowledge. 48:26.430 --> 48:28.503 Two people can hear the same message, 48:29.970 --> 48:33.547 one remain indifferent, another person will say, 48:33.547 --> 48:37.127 "Huh, I want to receive salvation." 48:37.127 --> 48:39.150 - 'Cause the state of their heart is different. 48:39.150 --> 48:40.590 - Absolutely. 48:40.590 --> 48:43.680 An evangelist may preach a message, 48:43.680 --> 48:46.830 and call people to embrace Jesus. 48:46.830 --> 48:49.413 Some people stay in the seats. 48:50.490 --> 48:54.240 Some people heart are cut by the message in they heart, 48:54.240 --> 48:58.713 and they run, Jesus, that's by faith, and salvation comes, 48:59.610 --> 49:00.660 and the spirit of God comes. 49:00.660 --> 49:02.760 The life will never be the same, 49:02.760 --> 49:04.557 it's the state of our heart. 49:05.781 --> 49:09.713 There's a veil in our heart, the veil that hinders us 49:10.740 --> 49:12.993 is the veil of ignorance. 49:14.524 --> 49:16.890 It can only be pierced by revelation. 49:16.890 --> 49:19.200 You can see through the divine meaning. 49:19.200 --> 49:21.567 When you perceive the divine meaning and understand it, 49:21.567 --> 49:23.430 and then with act of faith, 49:23.430 --> 49:26.180 and then we'll receive the promise of God in our lives. 49:27.570 --> 49:32.570 So knowledge, spiritual knowledge, spiritual understanding, 49:33.030 --> 49:34.800 and then conviction. 49:34.800 --> 49:39.513 Ruth, can we read 1 Colossians 1:9. 49:41.490 --> 49:45.840 This simply means the Bible will not make any difference 49:45.840 --> 49:49.380 to you unless you have spiritual understanding on it 49:49.380 --> 49:50.223 to act on it. 49:51.180 --> 49:54.810 When a pastor or a man of God preaches a message, 49:54.810 --> 49:57.720 you just see a nice message, it will not make any difference 49:57.720 --> 50:01.110 unless your eyes are open to have a spiritual understanding 50:01.110 --> 50:04.020 of it, and apply it in your life. 50:04.020 --> 50:05.317 Yes? 50:05.317 --> 50:08.550 - "For this reason, we also since the day we heard it, 50:08.550 --> 50:10.290 do not cease to pray for you 50:10.290 --> 50:12.570 and to ask that you may be filled with a knowledge 50:12.570 --> 50:16.200 of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding." 50:16.200 --> 50:17.460 - You hear that? 50:17.460 --> 50:21.000 That you be filled with the knowledge of God's will, 50:21.000 --> 50:21.967 with what? 50:21.967 --> 50:24.270 - "All wisdom and spiritual understanding." 50:24.270 --> 50:26.040 - Wisdom and spiritual understanding. 50:26.040 --> 50:27.990 The will of God comes by revelation. 50:27.990 --> 50:28.847 That's the divine meaning in the Bible, 50:28.847 --> 50:30.453 that's the promise of the Bible. 50:31.740 --> 50:34.413 You must have a spiritual understanding of it. 50:35.640 --> 50:38.310 And when the spiritual understanding come, conviction come, 50:38.310 --> 50:40.977 and wisdom will lead you to apply it to get salvation 50:40.977 --> 50:43.327 and to receive the promise of God in your life. 50:44.790 --> 50:46.323 So, what are we saying today? 50:48.240 --> 50:51.420 There is perfect knowledge, complete knowledge 50:51.420 --> 50:52.740 in the Holy Bible. 50:52.740 --> 50:54.270 There is a hidden truth. 50:54.270 --> 50:57.423 There are facts, there are stories, there are letters. 50:58.410 --> 51:00.360 But the Word of God, when it comes into a heart 51:00.360 --> 51:03.030 at the point of revelation, the Word becomes spiritual. 51:03.030 --> 51:04.470 The spiritual meaning of the Bible 51:04.470 --> 51:06.420 comes to our heart by revelation. 51:06.420 --> 51:10.353 And that's the life, the life of the seed in that Word. 51:11.460 --> 51:13.890 When it becomes revelation spirit, 51:13.890 --> 51:15.540 only then the Holy Ghost will use it 51:15.540 --> 51:17.940 to bring spiritual understanding. 51:17.940 --> 51:21.690 Will give you light, the light of understanding will come. 51:21.690 --> 51:24.120 But you have the light of understanding, say yes, 51:24.120 --> 51:26.160 it is true for my life. 51:26.160 --> 51:29.317 That's why the Bible says in Romans 14:5, 51:29.317 --> 51:32.193 "Let everyone be convinced in his own heart, 51:33.210 --> 51:36.480 that conviction is an opinion from your heart called belief, 51:36.480 --> 51:38.043 that's where belief starts. 51:39.120 --> 51:41.757 And only what you believe you can express by faith 51:41.757 --> 51:44.310 and to receive the promise of God in your life." 51:44.310 --> 51:46.590 - That's why it has to be planted in your heart 51:46.590 --> 51:48.960 because it's only when it's planted in your heart 51:48.960 --> 51:51.210 that nothing will change your mind about what you believe. 51:51.210 --> 51:52.043 - Absolutely. 51:52.043 --> 51:54.300 - Because your belief is not based on how you feel 51:54.300 --> 51:56.940 or the circumstance around you, but it's based on something 51:56.940 --> 51:58.650 that's planted deeply in your heart, 51:58.650 --> 52:02.027 you believe because you understand a spiritual truth. 52:02.027 --> 52:03.780 - It can only planted in your heart 52:03.780 --> 52:05.850 by revelation for the Holy Spirit, 52:05.850 --> 52:07.437 and that will lead you to spiritual understanding 52:07.437 --> 52:09.273 and conviction on your act of faith. 52:10.710 --> 52:11.970 Thank you. 52:11.970 --> 52:16.970 So, what does this compel in our lives? 52:17.340 --> 52:19.540 You should approach the Bible with humility. 52:21.090 --> 52:24.810 We should not be quick to take something for granted 52:24.810 --> 52:26.490 or to reject it. 52:26.490 --> 52:28.260 We should look deep enough. 52:28.260 --> 52:31.230 Discovery is for forward lookers. 52:31.230 --> 52:35.490 The Ethiopian eunuch was a forward looker, beyond the facts, 52:35.490 --> 52:38.040 he want to know the hidden truth. 52:38.040 --> 52:42.540 He continued to dig deep, to ask until Holy Spirit came, 52:42.540 --> 52:46.590 revelation came, and the veil were removed from his heart, 52:46.590 --> 52:51.590 and he perceived the truth that this was not the prophet, 52:52.440 --> 52:55.260 this is somebody who come to die for him, 52:55.260 --> 52:57.420 to bring salvation, to take over his curse 52:57.420 --> 52:59.910 and bring healing and salvation. 52:59.910 --> 53:03.300 And Peter, that person you don't know is Jesus Christ 53:03.300 --> 53:06.030 of Nazareth, the Son of God. 53:06.030 --> 53:09.510 He came, went to the cross, took away all our sins, 53:09.510 --> 53:12.720 all our curses, and died for every human being 53:12.720 --> 53:15.900 by shedding the blood, redemptive blood of Jesus. 53:15.900 --> 53:17.956 Everyone who believes in Him, 53:17.956 --> 53:20.490 will receive the forgiveness of all his sin, 53:20.490 --> 53:22.113 and receive ever-lasting life. 53:23.010 --> 53:26.850 He was convinced, he believed, and he embraced salvation 53:26.850 --> 53:29.103 forever in Jesus' name. 53:30.420 --> 53:35.070 So, our earthly understanding knowledge must give way 53:35.070 --> 53:38.430 to spiritual enlightenment revelation 53:38.430 --> 53:40.173 to come to maturity of faith. 53:41.010 --> 53:44.550 Not faith in faith in my mind, but divine faith, 53:44.550 --> 53:45.630 faith in God. 53:45.630 --> 53:48.150 And that faith can only happen with the working power 53:48.150 --> 53:49.320 of the Holy Spirit. 53:49.320 --> 53:52.920 At the first stage, Holy Ghost will bring revelation 53:52.920 --> 53:55.623 by opening our eyes to see the promise. 53:57.679 --> 54:02.520 And when we, eyes are open, He will take us to next step, 54:02.520 --> 54:04.050 understanding. 54:04.050 --> 54:07.950 Take us to other step, conviction, faith. 54:07.950 --> 54:10.350 So, we are going to talk about this, the next step, 54:10.350 --> 54:11.700 spiritual understanding. 54:11.700 --> 54:13.260 - So, stay tuned for this series. 54:13.260 --> 54:16.320 This is part one in the series, all about knowledge, 54:16.320 --> 54:19.320 which is the first step of the process of believing. 54:19.320 --> 54:22.230 So, make sure that you stay tuned 54:22.230 --> 54:23.940 for the rest of this series. 54:23.940 --> 54:25.380 Why are we talking about this? 54:25.380 --> 54:30.180 Because we want to make sure that the light is turned on 54:30.180 --> 54:33.210 in your heart, because it's that light 54:33.210 --> 54:35.370 which needs to be there for you 54:35.370 --> 54:36.990 to understand the Word of God, 54:36.990 --> 54:39.240 and for the Word of God to go deep into your heart, 54:39.240 --> 54:43.500 to be planted, to be watered, to be steadfastly trusted, 54:43.500 --> 54:47.280 and that's when the fruit will be evident in your life, 54:47.280 --> 54:49.720 and that is what will make a difference. 54:49.720 --> 54:50.940 - Amen. - Amen. 54:50.940 --> 54:52.560 - Thank you, Jesus. 54:52.560 --> 54:54.300 Stay blessed. 54:54.300 --> 54:58.743 Whatever you read in the Bible, continue to ask God, 54:59.580 --> 55:00.903 what's the meaning of it? 55:02.340 --> 55:03.990 If you read a parable of Jesus, 55:03.990 --> 55:05.550 which seems difficult to understand, 55:05.550 --> 55:08.070 like the Ethiopian eunuch, look deep enough, 55:08.070 --> 55:09.750 continue to meditate. 55:09.750 --> 55:12.543 Meditate, asking God, what's the meaning? 55:13.440 --> 55:15.480 Help me, Holy Spirit. 55:15.480 --> 55:19.717 As Jesus said in John 16:13, 55:19.717 --> 55:21.570 "When the helper will come, Holy Ghost, 55:21.570 --> 55:24.087 he will guide you into the fullness of the truth." 55:25.380 --> 55:28.290 In John 16:12, "I have many things to say, 55:28.290 --> 55:30.210 but you cannot understand them now." 55:30.210 --> 55:32.778 But when he come, the spirit of understanding 55:32.778 --> 55:35.823 will take you to spiritual understanding of my words. 55:36.960 --> 55:40.050 Stay in faith, remain in faith, and be blessed. 55:40.050 --> 55:41.700 In Jesus' name. 55:41.700 --> 55:42.810 - Amen, God bless you. 55:42.810 --> 55:44.773 - The Lord with our spirit.