IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH

Heavenly greetings in Jesus' mighty name.

Yes, the Lord be with your
spirit wherever you are.

With your spirit, what does that mean?

Yes, today we're actually gonna talk

about what it means to worship God in
spirit and truth, which is the fundamental,

commandment

that Jesus Christ actually revealed

to the Samaritan woman in
that book of John four.

And this is central to
the university of God.

This is actually why we
started the foundation

series, which is stepping
into the spiritual.

Why?

For how long will we stay in the natural
without stepping into the spiritual?

Because it's in the spiritual that we
see, hear, and communicate with God.

Yes, God would not have commanded
us to walk in the spirit.

If he'd not designed us
to walk in the spirit.

We read that in the book of
Galatians five, verse twenty five.

So today we want to break
down these key scriptures

and really ask God for
revelation knowledge,

because many people might
have knowledge of the Bible.

Even from Sunday school,

many people have knowledge
of Bible stories,

have knowledge of Bible history, even
have knowledge of memorizing Bible verses.

So that's completely different
to having a revelation

of the living word of God in the midst of
your heart, that will change your life,

and be a point of contact
between you and the almighty God.

So you ready? Let's get stuck in. Rastin,
what can you say about spirit and truth?

Thank you for your brilliant
introduction. So, why are we here?

That's the question. What's the purpose
of this journey, University of God?

Knowledge of the bible is everywhere.

The question is, Christianity is all about
relationship with God and with others.

Relationship with God is
by faith. Relationship

with others

is love. That's why we said we relate
with God by faith, and we relate to others

by the love of God in our lives.

The overflows from God to others. Absolutely.
God being the source of everything.

We are not talking about
love of men, but love of God.

As Romans chapter five, verse five says,

the love of God is poured in
our heart by the Holy Spirit.

We all, including I, Ruth, I suppose,

we read the Bible many times in our lives.

There was a time I read the
bible roughly every year,

but something was lacking.

I went to church like everybody, I read
the bible, there were some vital questions

that I could not understand,

because Jesus used parables many times.

He spoke using figurative language.

And in the old testament

we have many prophets that
spoke about the coming messiah.

And we realize that the revelation of God

from the old testament to the new is one
continuous stretch of the same truth.

And there is a link between the two.

Saul understood the Old
Testament, he preached it, right?

But I asked myself, why did he fight
the knowledge of Christ and the gospel?

And he was at the feet of Gamaliel,

he knew the law of Moses
very well in the letter.

But he was absolutely sure that
this new law is not of God,

and he fought it. And later, he embraced
the gospel and became an apostle of Christ.

When Jesus came, what did he say?

I did not come to abolish
the law, but to Fulfill it.

Not to fulfill it, meaning there's a link.

And Jesus went to say in
Matthew five verse seventeen,

that not one word of the promise in the
old testament will fall to the ground.

He came to fulfill it, means there
is a relationship between the two.

Now, when we talk about God,

we start in the old testament,
right? We say old testament.

If Jesus came to fulfill and he quoted
the scriptures, why do we call it old?

Why, if it's the same promise of hope?
Religiously, we say old, we say new.

But when Jesus came, he said,
I'm not coming to break the law,

but to forfeit the law. Never decide.

The question I'm asking to myself and to
others, do we really know who Jesus is?

Do we really know his message?

Do we have maybe an intellectual,
religious way of approaching Jesus?

Or do we know who Jesus is?

Who God is? Ruth has mentioned
a Samaritan woman, right?

And the Jewish people were there in the
temple, and Samaritans said, We worship

in this mountain. But they
were surely the same God.

But some say, We are the truth, you are
not the truth. And they were fighting.

Jesus, being a Jew, went to her
and spoke to her, as she said,

and told her that you worship but
you do not know God is Spirit.

This is the core of this program of today.

Jesus has come to tell us, to teach
us what is necessary and essential,

that God is Spirit.

And we must worship him
in spirit and in truth.

This means whatever

we do to receive approval from God
must be in spirit and in? Truth.

This means if it is not in
spirit, it is not the truth.

And so it's all nothing.

So what is the difference
between spirit and truth?

What I realized from this that
spirit and truth, they go together.

If it is just spirit, without
the truth, it's not from God.

If it is truth without being spirit,
that's not the truth. Why am I saying this?

Let me give an example.

There was a man called Cornelius, right?

He was praying earnestly because he
wanted to know the God of the Jews.

He was not a Jew, he was a
Roman person. He was praying,

giving alms to the poor. And one day

a spirit being called Angel
appeared to him and told him, oh

your prayers and alms
has been approved by God.

Oh la la, bless it. I said to
myself, it's the spirit being right?

Why didn't the angel preach the gospel
to him? Ruth, I'm asking you a question.

Why didn't the angel, a spirit, preach
the gospel to the House of Colleges?

Do you have an idea? Because I'm asking
the question to you viewers watching me.

Well, because it was in God's
plan that Peter was the one.

Jesus said it must be
in spirit and in truth.

This means not just because something
is spirit, then we should accept it.

There are different types of spirit.
It is not enough to be only in spirit.

What kind of spirit is speaking?

What kind of spirit is operating?

Jesus said, To be of
God, it must be in spirit

and in truth. The truth must go together.

So not anyone who speaks in
the spirit is of the truth.

That's what it means for me. When satan
tempted Jesus in the book of Matthew,

when they took Jesus on top of the temple,
what did he say? He said, it is written.

Yes, If you are the Son of
God, jump. And the angels will?

Angel will what? Will catch you.
He'll catch you. He quoted the letter

of the bible. It is in the bible. You
can say it. Ninety one. Absolutely.

But spoken by who? Which spirit spoke it?

The lying spirit, not the spirit of
Satan. You can quote it, you can say it.

Why did the angel not preach
the gospel to Cornelius?

But the angel said,

Call one man called Simon Peter.
When he comes, he will tell you.

God used human being. Who was Peter?

Who was Peter?

A man like you and me.

But what makes Peter special was what?

Peter was what? Born again. At the
Pentecost he received the Holy Spirit.

At home you can read Acts chapter ten,
you can see the Spirit of God told him,

go to this house I'm sending you.

When he came to the house of
Cornelius, what did he do?

He simply began to preach
the gospel of truth.

Paul called the gospel, the
gospel of truth. Ephesians

chapter one verse thirteen,
the gospel of truth.

Which kind of truth was he preaching?

Jesus is the way,

the truth, and the life. Thank you.
Natural truth or spiritual truth?

Spiritual truth. That's the question. We
have fact in the nature, and we have truth,

spiritual truth.

Remember Jesus said, I will pray to
the Father, He will give you another?

Comforter, the Spirit of truth
whom the world cannot receive.

He neither sees him nor knows him.

And Jesus further said in John
chapter sixteen verse thirteen,

that when the Holy Spirit comes, he will
guide us into the fullness of the truth.

Guide us in all truth, yeah.

First John chapter five verse six says,

It is the Holy Spirit who testifies
because the Spirit is truth.

This being said, let's go back to
what we call the Old Testament.

In the talk about that wilderness,

in the beginning God revealed
himself to the people of Israel

when they were journeying in the
wilderness to the promised land.

Why God allowed us to
be in the wilderness.

Hosea chapter two verse fourteen.

God say, I will take you to the wilderness,
and there I will speak to your heart.

Take note of that. I would
can you read this first, Ruth?

That will help us to
set the message right.

Therefore,

behold, I will allure her,

and will bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfort to her.

I will take it what?

To the wilderness.

Mhmm. And speak comfort to her. Next
verse. I will give her her vineyards

from there, and the valley
of Acor as a door of hope.

She shall sing there,

and as in the days of her youth,

as in the day when she came
up from the land of Egypt.

Why God sometimes has to take us
to the wilderness to speak to us?

That's the question. Yeah.
And we all want an encounter

with God, we all want
to hear God's voice, but

we don't often realize that God gives
us an appointment in the wilderness.

Why? Because in the rush of everyday
activities, it's difficult for us to to still

our spirit and pay attention to
the spirit of God talking to us.

I think one of the greatest
hindrance is our senses.

One of the greatest hindrances

to perceive the truth from God is
our natural common sense, because

we are always focused

on the natural. Mhmm. What we see, what
we hear, what circumstances look like.

It's the greatest temptation, actually,
just to see everything in the natural.

The battle we fight each day
is with our senses. True.

So if God want to draw me to a place
of fellowship to draw my attention,

He would cut me off from the noise
and destruction of this world.

Now you understand sometimes, God can use
circumstances, difficult circumstances,

to separate you from
the noise of this world.

It's true, God often works through
the circumstances of life. Absolutely.

When you are alone in your wilderness.

Mhmm. Widiness mean no friend,

no people to talk to you. Not not a place
you would naturally want to go or be?

In a wilderness, there's
nothing that will comfort you.

Your money cannot comfort you,
people cannot comfort you.

You are alone left to yourself.

God said,

I will take you to the wilderness, Hosea
chapter two verse fourteen to fifteen,

and I will comfort you.

None of us is ready to that encounter
with God when everything is fine.

Nobody comes to the knowledge
of Jesus in comfort. Trouble,

difficulty brought us into God's presence.

Questions,

challenges, just look back
at your life and you'll see,

examine your own journey
of encountering Jesus.

When God rescued them from the land of
ancient Egypt, and God opened the Red Sea.

Ruth,

honestly speaking, I'm
talking to you, listen to me.

If you witness God opening the
sea, and you pass on dry ground,

you saw the water separated.

I think no miracle is greater than one.
No, I think it's the greatest miracle.

Can you experience that and later
down God? That's the question.

Well, anything is capable
of the human heart.

The question is,

no matter how big the miracle
is, human beings always forget.

Why? Because it doesn't affect the heart.

The purpose of miracles is
to affect us in the outwards.

First, miracle healing,
miracle deliverance,

miracle breakthrough.

But the greatest miracle the bible is
talking about is not on the outside,

is inside of you. Salvation. Salvation.

Why is it there? That's the question.

God said, I took them to the
wilderness for one purpose.

Deuteronomy chapter eight from verse
two. I took you to the wilderness

where you suffer hunger and thirst

to teach you that man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that comes.

From the mouth of God.
From the mouth of the Lord.

In the beginning, in the wilderness.

Now you can see the parallel. Immediately,

Jesus came out of the baptism.
He went to the wilderness.

The same Satan meeting
there at the wilderness.

If you are a son of God,
turn this stone to bread.

When God took them to the wilderness,

the bible says there was the presence
of God was visible. Am I right?

Yeah,

it was a pillar of cloud by day
and a pillar of fire by night that

they could visibly see and experience.

They saw the pillar of cloud

by day and the pillar of fire by
night. That represents the presence

of God physically. They saw physically
the presence of God of His glory.

That's not all. He asked
Moses to build a tabernacle.

In the wilderness where
there is no food, am I right?

They cry out, and the Bible
says, manna came from heaven.

Manna to feed them. When they
were thirsty, they cry out.

God made water to come
from the rock itself.

Even their shoes, their clothes, they
never wore out? They saw all these things.

They saw this great miracle. They
saw how God rescued them from Egypt.

That's supposed to be enough
to build a faith forever.

And that's not all. In Exodus
chapter nineteen, God said to Moses,

prepare the people. I am going
to speak to every single person.

This has never happened in history.

Prophets heard from God, but God
said, I'm going to speak to everyone,

every member of the congregation will
hear my voice. That's what happened.

And God said to Moses, Sanctify them
three days. Go to Naomi chapter four.

Can you help us? Go to Naomi chapter
four verse twelve. Let's listen.

And the Lord spoke to you
out of the midst of the fire.

You heard the sound of the words, but
saw no form. You only heard a voice.

What strikes you there?

Well, many things strike me, but
the first thing is that God spoke

from the midst of the fire.

Yes, God spoke through the
midst of the fire. And He said,

You heard the sound of His voice,
but you saw no face, no image.

No form. The same God will
say in this tent, come on,

Thou shall not make any image of anything
in heaven, on earth, and in the earth.

I mean, don't make any idol. I am
not visible. Don't worship them.

Don't worship them.

This is what I'm coming from. Don't
make an idol and don't worship them.

And now you remember what Jesus
said to the Samaritan woman,

John chapter four verse twenty four. Yes,

God is spirit. God is spirit.
Mean, you don't need to say him.

But those who worship in must. Worship in
spirit and truth. In spirit and in truth.

That's where we're, that's where we're
going today. They heard the voice of God,

no image. They saw the miracle
and everything in the wilderness.

Until today, you know, humankind,

we continue to try and put an
image, to something that we worship,

which is distracting from the real,

the real place of worship, which is in our
heart, a spirit that communes with God.

The question fundamentally is
not God. God cannot change.

The question is we human beings.

Relationship with God is deep,
deeper. Deepest. Deepest.

Some people say, I don't believe in God.

I'm not interested in God. They have no
relationship with God. That's their choice.

Some people say, yes, I believe in
God. I go to church every Sunday.

They go to church every Sunday.

Every Sunday, they go to church,
they listen to the message.

Some people said, I want to
have a relationship with God.

Daily, every single day of
life, they read the Bible,

to live it and to walk with God, to build
relationship with the Holy Spirit daily.

My daily bread. That's the
will of God for everybody,

to have a relationship with God every
day. We saw that God spoke to everybody.

His will, His might, it just
spoke to every single person.

But you must follow His ways.

This means knowing God
is not to see miracles,

is not to see great clouds,
but to learn his ways.

It's true because if

you think about it, the pillar of
cloud by day and the fire by night was

to lead them through the wilderness,

but they were never meant to
stay in the wilderness forever.

They were meant to get out of
it, to go to the promised land.

Thank you for saying that.

They were in the wilderness where
they see the visible signs of God,

but they themselves were in the natural.

God is spirit. God is in the spirit.

Nobody can see His face,

but we can hear His voice, the Word.

But they themselves,

they were in the natural.

So at that time, God knew
the weakness of their status,

and God allowed a visible
presence to tell you, God is here.

So they wouldn't doubt.
So they wouldn't doubt.

God was trying

to start to build the faith so

they would know that mighty God is with
them, so they can fear Him forever.

All the nations alone who heard what
God did in Egypt was afraid of them.

If they look, they see the
cloud, hey, God is there.

When you see the cloud, hey God is
there. The bible says every day God

spoke to Moses face to face, like a man
speaks to his friend. But the others,

when God descended,

God want to speak to you,

want to speak to you, to every
one of us, that's the will of God.

But when God called them in that
Deuteronomy four twelve you just read,

what did they say? Lord, let
God not speak to us again.

We are afraid of hearing His
voice. That's what He said,

Choose somebody, choose a prophet to
speak to us. And that's what He said.

So as they journey on the wilderness,

God tests them.

God allows thirst to come. Every
time they are thirsty, what happened?

What did they do? They complained.
They complained to God.

They forgot everything
God did. There's no water.

God said to Moses,

speak to the rock, or hit the rock. Water
came out. God did that in their presence.

When there was no food, the manna came.

Even when they were tired of the
manna, God actually brought them meat.

But now the question,
where were they heart?

Jesus said, where your treasure
is, there is your heart.

Take note of your heart.
What is your heart?

Your heart means your spirit.

Zechariah chapter twelve verse one says,
God formed the spirit of man within him.

First Thessalonians chapter five verse
twenty three says that man is spirit,

soul, and body. The
hindrance is from our side.

We are so much drawn away by
the natural, by our senses.

So they want you to see a sign to believe.

So when they were in the
wilderness, when they came

in Numbers chapter fourteen,
do you know what happened?

When God wanted them to enter
the promised land, he sent spies,

twelve spies, they went to spy.

What happened when they came out?

Well, they all had a negative
report about the giants in

the land that filled people with fear,

except Joshua and Caleb, that actually
maintained the faithfulness and testimony

of what God had done for them
in the past, and said that no,

they shouldn't be afraid, that God-
Why were they afraid? Afraid of who?

They were afraid of the people
inhabiting the land, the giants. Giants.

Take note of that.

Giants. They said These
people were giants.

We, we were like grasshoppers in their side
and in our side. I mean, they confirmed.

Yeah, they saw themselves as small,
just as the giant saw them as small.

They didn't see themselves
as God saw them.

When those people that came give the negative
report, the scriptures say everybody,

all the congregation, begin to cry,

begin to murmur, and they
want you to stone Moses.

Yes,

you brought us here to kill us. It's better
for us to go back to Egypt, to slavery.

That's what they said. But we have just
said that the presence of God was visible.

The cloud was on top
of their head visibly.

Why they could not see it? The
presence of God were visible.

It was visible.

Why did they allow what
they hear, what they heard,

to overwhelm them to such a great extent
they lost focus of God's presence,

which were there. If

they that had the physical presence of
God above their head as a constant sign

could be distracted and
overwhelmed by their situation.

It really shows us that the
battle is of the senses.

This means you can never know God by
sight. You can never know God by miracles.

To know God is to know His ways.

And because they were
so it was so unfamiliar

to them, that's why they were thinking
of the familiarity of of Egypt,

what they remembered, what they knew,

what they were comfortable with
because they were familiar with it.

That's why their hearts kept
going back rather than trusting

in in what God said, the promise for them.

This simply means to know
God is to know His word.

That's the only sound they heard,

the voice of God.

To know His ways, you must learn
His Word and obey His Word.

His ways are in His
Word. God is in His Word.

Knowledge of God is in His Word,
but they remain in the natural,

and they went back to the wilderness.

So we are saying as long
as you stay in the natural,

you will remain in the wilderness.

Wait. Think about that for a moment.

Just let that sink in. As long as you're
in the natural, you remain in the natural,

you can just remain going
round and round the wilderness.

Many people that left the slavery of Egypt,
so many, in fact, a whole generation,

never entered the promised land. Why?
Because they chose to stay in the wilderness.

As long as you are in a natural,
you can go from churches

to churches to churches to churches.
You are still in the wilderness.

You can go from experience to experience
to experience, spiritual experience,

watching this, watching that,
feeling this, feeling that.

As long as you are still in the natural,

you have not yet grasped that revelation

truth that to worship
God is spirit and truth,

you remain in the wilderness.

I can worship God in the
natural with a beautiful voice.

I'm still singing in the wilderness.

I can pray mighty prayer
points in the natural.

I'm stalking to the
air and the wilderness.

We can use beautiful,

eloquent words,

have ability to inspire people. But many
of our our words, they can entertain men,

but do they really reach God? Do
they really reach the heart of God?

You heard that? I can have
beautiful voice, mighty song,

sing and tears will come emotionally.

If it is not in spirit, it is not
in truth, and it is all nothing.

But don't forget, Jesus said in
Matthew chapter fifteen verse eight,

These people come to me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

When I come to God to raise my hand in
worship, God is looking at my heart first.

Are you such in heart?

Yes. When I come to give my offering,

God look in my heart. Isn't my heart
giving in spirit for God's sake,

or me? Moses was called by God who spoke
to him. He heard the voice of God clearly.

He learned the ways of
God, took His commandments,

and wrote them on tablets of stones to
give them to his people, not to forget it.

Moses fulfilled his assignment
by bringing them out.

But what happened? In the
wilderness, God took Moses.

That's weird. They had to now rely
on God. They couldn't rely on Moses.

When God took Moses, they
could not see Moses anymore.

But Moses gave them the
word he left behind.

Joshua came, a young man. God
spoke to Joshua chapter one,

who was afraid, because he
saw the mightiness God did.

And God said, as I was with
Moses, so shall I be with you.

The spirit of God was with Joshua.

What takes him to the promised land was
God through his word, by his spirit.

Today we are so much
conditioned by the symbols,

by the signs, by the letter, that
we forget things in the spirit.

That's why people say, I
go to church every day,

I do this, why I can't hear God? Why I
can't this, why this, why this, why this?

Is it in spirit and in truth?
It is our heart, our spirit,

that is connected to God in the spirit.

The only part of us that
can receive inspiration,

revelation, fellowship with God
is the human heart, our spirit.

Romans chapter one verse nine,
we serve God with our spirit.

We have to understand this.

We have to understand relationship
with God deep, deeper, deepest.

Some are in the letter,
but not in the spirit.

What do I mean by that? It's not just
about confessing the word with your mouth.

But you have to believe in your heart.

The confession

of my mouth, my songs, my prayers
must be in spirit and in truth,

for my heart, for my mind,

and speak by faith. So the question
is, how do we enter God's presence?

That's my question. We said the pillar of
cloud was symbolizing the presence of God.

To be in the spirit is to
be in the presence of God.

And it's sometimes when
we're in the midst of a rock

and a hard place that we sense the presence
of the Lord most clearly in our lives,

that we hear the voice of
the Lord most clearly, that

we see the need to depend on Him alone.

That's true, what you say, that's very
true. But to be in the spirit is to be in

the presence of God.

The question is, how do I know I am in
the presence of God? That's my question.

How do I know I am in the presence
of God? That's a good question.

That's the question. How do
we know the reality of God?

How do I know I'm into God's presence?

How do I know that what I'm hearing
is from God or not from God?

That's the question.
Your spirit must testify.

To what? If you can't distinguish between
right and wrong, how can you testify?

Devil can speak, God can speak, how do you
know the difference? That's the question.

I can give you one hint.

Paul said, Romans chapter nine verse one,

I speak the truth, I am not lying.

My conscience is bearing me
witness in the Holy Spirit.

I'm coming to you.

Holy Spirit. The Spirit of truth.

How can I be into God's presence?

The bible says, simply how can
I be into God's presence, Ruth?

Spirit of truth. Can you see God?

It has to be in spirit because
you can't see him by faith.

Thank you, now you are talking by faith.
That's the word I want you to say.

To be in the spirit is simply by faith.

Because the bible says,

we walk by faith, not by sight.
Second Corinthians five:seven.

Second Corinthians chapter four,

verse eighteen says, We look not at
what is seen, but what is unseen.

Because what is unseen is eternal.
And what is seen is temporal.

By faith. So we walk by faith.

We live by faith when we are able
to recognize our union with Jesus,

with God in the spirit, heart
to heart, spirit to spirit.

They were in God's presence.
They saw the outward sign,

but their heart was not connected to
God. Moses heart was connected to God.

To hear his voice,

to mark his voice, to discern his
voice. To obey his voice. Absolutely.

You said at the beginning,

God wouldn't have asked us,

commanded us to walk in the spirit if he
had not designed us to walk in the spirit.

Means I have a spirit.

Zechariah twelve verse one,

Job thirty two verse eight, first
Thessalonians five, I have a spirit.

So the question is, how can I identify
that it is God speaking to me?

We said in the Old Testament,
they were walking by sight.

They saw physically God's presence,

but they never knew the way of the Lord.
No matter how big the miracles are,

that can never anchor your heart
and bring it to God's presence.

Only the word of God can do that.

The only way to know
God is through his word,

by his spirit. Not every spirit that speaks
is from God. How do you speak the truth?

How do you know the
truth? By the Holy Spirit,

the spirit of truth. You must be led
by the spirit of God to walk in the

Spirit. That's why the Bible says in
Romans chapter eight, verse fourteen,

those who are led by God are what?
The sons of God. Sons of God.

Led not by the emotion,
but led by the Holy Spirit.

So we have to allow the Holy
Spirit to guide us? Absolutely.

But how do we recognize that? The Bible
calls it the gift of righteousness.

Can you go to John chapter
sixteen verse ten? Let's listen.

Of righteousness because I go to my
Father, and you will see me no more.

When the Holy Ghost come, he will
convict you, convict me, everybody,

of righteousness.

Because you will see me physically

no more, I'm going to the
Father. What does this mean?

When the Holy Spirit come, He
will convict you of righteousness.

He will reveal to you who Jesus is.

Philippians chapter three verse seven.

Let's go to Philippians chapter
three verse seven to take an example

of what you are saying.

How the Holy Ghost

convict his soul of righteousness
in Christ and to bring him to Jesus,

to the knowledge of Christ. But
what things were gained to me,

these I have counted
loss for Christ. Mhmm.

Yet indeed I also count all
things loss for the excellence

of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord,

for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things and count them as rubbish,

that I may gain Christ.

But what things were gain to me,
these I have counted loss for Christ.

Okay, good. What were those
things he considered gain?

Those things he considered
gain. Verse five.

Circumcised the eighth day of the stock
of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,

a Hebrew of the Hebrews,
concerning the law, a Pharisee.

Pharisee, concerning the law of
Moses, Concerning the symbols,

outward form of worship.
Religion. Religion.

You say all this now, I
consider as a Rubbish.

Rubbish and loss.

Why? Because you receive a
revelation of Jesus Christ.

Romans chapter three verse twenty.

To twenty one, twenty two.

Therefore, by the deeds of the law, no
flesh will be justified in his sight.

For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness
of God Now the righteousness

of God, let's take note what Jesus said.

The Holy Ghost will
convict of righteousness.

Go ahead. But now the righteousness
of God apart from the law is revealed.

Is revealed.

By who? By the Spirit. Continue. Being
witnessed by the law and the prophets.

Even the righteousness of God
through faith in Jesus Christ

to all and on all who believe. Through
faith in Christ Jesus it is revealed.

This means we live by faith when
we recognize our union with God,

with Jesus Christ,

in the Spirit. When we accept
Jesus as our Lord and Savior,

we have the very presence of God in our
heart through the person of the Holy Spirit.

And when the Holy Spirit comes,

he will be the conviction of righteousness.
He will show us what is to come.

He will guide us into
spiritual understanding of God.

He will teach us His ways,

and then we walk in the Spirit.

That's why we say we walk in the Spirit.

We worship in the Spirit,

led by the Holy Spirit.

How do you worship

in spirit and in truth?

Romans chapter two twenty eight. Let's
go there. Romans chapter two verse twenty

eight and twenty nine, key verses.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly,

not in circumcision that
which is outward in the flesh,

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly,

and circumcision is that
of the heart in the spirit,

not in the letter, whose praise is not
from men but from God. Do you hear that?

Circumcision of your
heart, of your spirit.

Not done by man, done by God.

The praise and worship of that person come
from God the Holy Spirit, who inspired.

That's why when Jesus
came to fulfill the law,

the people couldn't understand. There's so
much belief in the symbol, in the ritual,

in the natural things,

and they forget that these were just
shadows. What's the purpose of the symbol?

The reality is found in Christ.

Thank you. The substance is in
Christ, reality is in Christ.

But the symbol was, what is the symbol?

The symbol is only a sign
or something in the natural

that will remind them of their
relationship with God in the spirit.

When you see the ark of the covenant,

it is to remind them of
their relationship with God

in their spirit, in their heart.

Means the purpose of the law
was to bring their heart to God.

And Paul said, by the law no
man is justified by the law.

Despite the presence of God, their
hearts went away far from God,

and they erred in the wilderness.

The Bible says we are in the world,

but we're not part of it. As long as we
live in the natural, we are in this world.

But as long as you are born again,

as long as you are led by the
spirit to walk in the spirit,

you are in this world physically,
but not separately in spirit.

When you worship God,

you worship God

in spirit and in truth led by the
spirit of God right from your heart.

To know God, to know His way,
you must be in the Spirit,

led by the Spirit of revelation.

Let's talk about Jesus and Nicodemus.

Nicodemus was the teacher of the law
who knew the law of Moses perfectly.

He was teaching the people, guiding the
people principle of the law of Moses as

he received it. But one day he
heard there's one man called Jesus.

When they reported to him
what this man was doing,

he came to see Jesus to
inquire, to find out the truth.

What I wanted to say,

the Holy Spirit always gets
into the heart of the matter.

To get into the heart of the matter is to
find out the truth from God's perspective.

And that can only happen if we enter
the spirit, not in the natural.

So when He came, He said,

Rabbi,

no one can do what you are doing
unless God is with him. Yeah.

Jesus said, unless a man is born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Now Nicodemus,

we find out by the question
he asked Jesus, despised

all his knowledge was in the natural.

So how can this be?

How How can a man be born again? How
can an old man enter his mother's womb?

That's what he said. He was just
looking at it in the natural.

And Jesus said, You were the teacher of
Israel and you do not know these things.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
a man is born of water and a spirit,

you're going to enter the kingdom
of God. What is mortal spirit?

Unless a man is born of the Word

and the Spirit of the Word in
truth, the Word and the Spirit,

he's gonna enter the kingdom of God.

That which is born of flesh is flesh,
that which is born of spirit is spirit.

Nicodemus was absolutely in the natural.

Ruth, can we go to John chapter
three from verse thirteen to sixteen?

Let's listen. No one has ascended to
heaven, but he who came down from heaven.

No one has been to heaven except me who
came from heaven, Jesus is saying to him.

That is the Son of Man
who is in heaven. Yes.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness Now, another parallel.

As Moses lifted up the what?

The serpent in the wilderness.

The serpent in the wilderness. You
know what happened in the wilderness?

The bible says there was a time the
people began to murmur against God,

and God allows serpents, snakes
to come everywhere as judgement.

When the snakes began to bite them,
they were dying. They cry out and Moses

interceded. God said,

do a poll and do an image of a snake

and attach it to the poll. Everybody
who looks at it will save his life. Now,

that pole was a symbol
of Jesus on the cross.

The substance of that
signal symbol is in Christ.

Jesus is saying, as Moses lifted up
the serpent, so the Son of Man must be?

Lifted up. Must be lifted up.

That with a symbol, the substance
of it is Christ on the cross.

Everybody who puts his faith in what
he did on the cross wishes salvation

and everlasting life.

He was teaching Nicodemus

what's the purpose why I'm coming.
You have read that Moses had this.

I am this. I am more than
a poor. If you look at me,

you'll know I am the savior. That's what
I came for, to save new and new. Continue?

But whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life.

Yes. For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son.

And as a symbol. That
whoever believes in him

should not perish but have everlasting
life. Everybody knows this word.

The most famous word of the gospel.

John three sixteen. Another parallel
symbol. He mentioned the snake.

This is what Abraham did.

Take your own leprokad, not son
Isaac. Genesis chapter twenty two.

Go and sacrifice it for me. He's saying

Isaac was spared, but I'm
coming to give my life.

I'm the promise of Abraham.
I'm the seed of Abraham.

Through the promise, I'll be fulfilled.

If Nicodemus was dead
by the Spirit of God,

He would perceive and
understood this thing,

but he was listening to it
in the natural. Who is Jesus?

That means we can only
know Jesus in the spirit.

You can only know Jesus in the
spirit, led by the spirit of God.

Thank you for what you're saying. Go

to first Corinthians
chapter twelve verse three.

Therefore I make known to
you that no one speaking

by the spirit of God calls Jesus cursed,
and no one can say that Jesus is Lord

except by the Holy Spirit. No
one can say Jesus Christ is Lord.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
He's the Lord God Almighty

without the help of the Holy Spirit. It
takes revelation to know that in the Spirit

and in truth. Now for something
to be in spirit and in truth,

it must be in the spirit by the
spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit.

The word you hear must be sanctioned
by the testament of the Holy Spirit

to say it is true.

The Bible says the spirit joined himself
with our spirit to testify that we are

sons of God.

When he comes,

he reveal the truth,

he leads us into the spiritual

understanding of the truth, and give
us conviction, and give us faith.

And we know God is speaking
to us clearly through him.

Now let's see another
example I want to take,

which is the natural, from natural
to the spirit, to know Jesus.

Let's see Jesus and his disciples. Jesus
had disciples. We know Peter very well.

Let's go to Matthew chapter sixteen.

We start with verse thirteen.
Listen to what Jesus said.

When Jesus came into the region of
Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,

saying, Who do men say that I, the Son
of Man, am? That's what you imagine.

Jesus want to know your opinion about him.

He wants to know His opinion,

Larson's opinion about Him, Ruth's
opinion about your opinion about Him.

Who is Jesus to you? Who is Jesus to you?

That's life's most important decision,
what you do with Jesus Christ.

What did they say?

So they said, some say John the Baptist,

some Elijah, and others
Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

They were still in the symbol of
the Old Prophet of the history.

Elijah, John the Baptist, another prophet.

Some of them looked at Jesus on the
outside. Go to Mark chapter six verse three.

Is this not the carpenter, the son of
Mary and the brother of James, Joses,

Judas, and Simon? And are they
not his sisters here with us?

So they were offended at
him. They were offended.

Is it not the son of the carpenter? We
know him, we know his brothers and sisters.

They were offended. John seven verse
twelve, some say he deceives people.

Some say he's good. They didn't know who
Jesus was. They only saw him in the body.

The child they knew, the son
of Joseph, the carpenter,

that's all they knew about Jesus.

They were in the natural,
completely in the natural.

But some people say he's good,
and they even followed him.

Let's go now to John chapter six.

Now, Jesus went and did miraculous
things. They multiplied the bread

and the fish, just like the manna that
fell in the wilderness and they ate.

And they say, what kind of miracle?

Is this when the prophet is
supposed to come? He gave us food.

Manah came, and they followed Jesus.

The question is, why did they follow Jesus?
What's the purpose of following Jesus?

Because they wanted him to
give them natural blessing,

like the the food multiplied thing.

It's like Jesus was in a period of fame.

Mhmm. So they many followed him because
they saw, wow, He can multiply food.

You know, He can do miraculous things. And
they were amazed and wanted more of that.

They came to Jesus in the natural.

Anytime we come to Jesus, to God,

for selfish reason,

for classical material, we are
bound to come in the natural,

led by our circumstances.

Because I face financial
difficulty, I pray for breakthrough.

Because I have sickness,

I pray for healing.

Because of this, I ask without
knowing the will of God in the matter.

So let's start on verse thirty.
Let's just try to break it down.

Therefore they said to
him, They said to him,

What sign will you perform then?
That we may see it and believe you.

What work will you do?
Why did they ask for sign?

Because they related to the visible.

They they wanted to see to
believe, like like Thomas.

Yes, because they saw the visible
sign in the Old Testament of the cloud

of the presence of God.
Visibly to believe,

yes. Why can't you show us a sign for
us to believe? What did Jesus say?

Our fathers ate the manna in the desert,

as it is written. He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.

Then Jesus said to them, Most assuredly,

I say to you, Moses did not
give you the bread from heaven,

but my Father gives you
the true bread from heaven.

Now Jesus knew they were
following Him because of miracle,

but Jesus wanted to take them
to the Spirit. He said to them,

Moses gave you the manna,

but my father gave you
the bread of heaven.

For the bread of God is he who comes down
from heaven and gives life to the world.

Then they said to him, Lord, give
us this bread always. Thank you.

Do you need something?
Do you need something?

Jesus said, for the bread of heaven is?

The one who come from heaven. He
who comes from heaven. And what?

Gives life to the world. Life to the
world, nobody wants to die. Life.

Remember what they said to the woman,

somebody told me, Here who drinks
his water will let him thirst again.

He said, We give you life.

Give us this bread. What did Jesus say?
Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

I am the bread of life. He who
comes to me shall never hunger,

and he who believes in me shall never
thirst. Go to verse thirty five.

That's what Jesus said.

But I say to you that you have seen
me and yet do not believe. Uh-huh.

All that the father gives me will come
to me, and the one who comes to me,

I will by no means cast out. Jesus said
you saw me see me, but you don't believe?

For I have come down from
heaven, not to do my own will,

but the will of him who sent
me. The will of the father,

I came to do the will of God in your
life. What does that mean? Let's continue.

This is the will of of the Father.
This is the will of the Father. Yes.

That all

that of all he has given
me, I should lose nothing.

Yes. I should raise it
up on the last day. Yes.

And this is the will of him who sent
me, that everyone who sees the son

and believes in Him may have everlasting
life. Meaning, when you see me,

you have to believe in me and I
will give you everlasting life.

That's what Jesus Christ came to do.

Spiritual thing. And I will raise him up.

I will raise him. At the last day. At the
last day. That's Jesus we're looking for.

Do I believe in Jesus because of miracle?
Or do I believe in Jesus for everlasting

life, for salvation,

and for eternal life? Are we in the
natural or are we in the spiritual?

Let's continue.

See what happen after.

The Jews then complained about him

because he said, I am the bread
which came down from heaven.

And they said, Is this not Jesus,
the son of Joseph? You hear that?

Now they went in a nutshell. Is this not
the son of Joseph? Jesus in a nutshell.

How can he say I came down from
heaven? We know you're here.

They were in a nutshell. Whose
father and mother we know?

We know your father, your own?

How is it then that he says,
I have come down from heaven?

How could he say you
come down from heaven?

Jesus therefore answered and said to
them, do not murmur amongst yourselves.

No one can come to me unless the
Father who sent me draws him.

Praise the Lord, take note
of this verse. Read it again.

No one can come to me unless the Father who
sent me draws him. No one can come to me

except the Father Himself draws him to me.

I mean, no one can come to me unless the
Father open your spiritual understanding

to be in the spirit to know whom I am.

You see me in the natural, I
am more than natural, you see.

Let's continue, and then we go
back to continue. What happened is?

It is written in the prophets, and
they shall all be taught by God.

Therefore everyone who has heard and
learned from the Father comes to me. Yes.

Not that anyone has seen the
Father, except he who is from God,

he has seen the Father.

Yes. Most assuredly, I say to you, he
who believes in me has everlasting life.

Verse sixty. Therefore,
many of his disciples,

when they heard this, they
said, it is hard saying,

who can understand it? Many of his disciples
who followed him for natural thing,

they say it is hard to hear this.

When he said he who eats my flesh and
drinks my blood, bites in me. Yes.

How can he eat his flesh?

This is hard to understand.
This means no one can believe

what he has not understood.

And no one can understand unless the Father
open your heart to spiritual revelation

to who Jesus is.

And they were offended because they
were in the natural. And many left him.

And they left him. They turned away
and left and said, this is too hard.

We don't understand. So what happened
next? What happened next? When they left?

When Jesus knew in
himself that his disciples

complained about this, he said
to them, does this offend you?

What then if you should see the Son
of Man ascend where he was before?

It is the Spirit who gives life.
It is the Spirit who gives life.

The flesh profits nothing.
The flesh profits nothing.

The words that I speak to you, The words
I speak to you, Are spirit, Oh my Lord.

And they are life. Spirit and
life mean in spirit and in truth.

The word I speak, when the Holy
Spirit of truth speaks and testify,

you know, the truth, not just
words, spirit and life words.

Word that God speaks
himself through his mouth.

Word that come from the mouth of God,
mouth of the Holy Ghost, the word of truth

from the spirit of God.
Next sentence, let's listen.

But there are some of
you who do not believe.

For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were who did not believe,

and who would betray him.

Yes.

And he said, therefore I have said to you

that no one could come to me
unless it has been granted to him

by my father. From that time, many of his
disciples went back and walked with him

no more. No one can be in the spirit

without the spirit of the
father, the holy spirit.

No one can be in the spirit in
Christ without the Holy Spirit.

That's why it's the narrow way.
That's the narrow way of faith.

Not everyone will go their path.
Not everyone will go their path.

Without the Holy Ghost, we are natural.
Without the inspiration of the Holy Ghost,

we can see the truth in the spirit.

Without Him no faith.

Without Him is faith in faith, faith in
the word. We quote the word in our mouth.

Without him, nobody can believe in
our heart. Convicts the righteousness

in your heart, it takes the
spirit of truth. Let's continue.

From that time, many of his disciples
went back and walked with him no more.

They went back to the wilderness.

They went back to the
natural where they came from.

And they were on actually on the way to
the promised land, but they went back

the promised land. And they
went back to the wilderness.

And they never get after the wilderness.

They never get after the natural.
The living is natural forever.

Then Jesus said to the twelve,
do you also want to go away?

Now Jesus said to the twelve, disciple,
you, do you want to go away? What happened?

But Simon Peter answered
him, Lord. You said, Lord?

To whom shall we go? Where do we go?

You have the words of eternal life.
Now we can go back to Matthew.

Let's go back to Matthew sixteen,
talk about Peter. He has one gift.

Peter was in the spirit
with the help of God.

When Jesus says, you have
the words of eternal life.

What is Peter saying?

The manna you are talking about is
not natural food, but spiritual food.

The words of your mouth
gives me everlasting life.

Who revealed that to to
to Peter? Holy Spirit.

Let's go to Matthew chapter sixteen
now. That means that he was with Jesus,

not because of the miracles he was doing,
but because of the change- Absolutely.

That had been wrought in his heart. Called
by God. That's why deep, deeper, deepest.

Peter, the first people came to
Jesus because of natural want,

as we come to church for blessing,

But Peter was deep beside, he served God
with his life, heart to heart with God,

and God revealed him. He
believed for everlasting life.

Now let's go to Matthew chapter sixteen.

Let's go now to verse sixteen.

Simon Peter answered and said, you are
the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus answered and said to him,
blessed are you, Simon Barjona.

Do you know what you said? In John
chapter six, when everybody left,

Jesus said, you, why you don't go? Peter
said, you have the words everlasting life.

This time Jesus said, who did I
say I am? Like Jeremiah, Jeremiah.

And you, you who knows me, who
are with me. What do you say?

Peter said, you are the Christ,
the Son of the living God.

He spoke the word of Revelation.

Who Jesus was, He said it. Why? Let's go.
Next verse, what did Jesus say? Listen.

Jesus answered and said
to him, blessed are you,

Simon Barjona,

for flesh and blood has not revealed this
to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Now you understand what Jesus
said in John chapter six,

nobody comes to me except
the father draws him.

No one knows whose I am unless the
father revealed to him whom I am.

The father revealed to Peter, who said
you are the words of everlasting life,

to speak the same word in the power of
the Holy Spirit, to know who Jesus was.

Peter was in the Spirit to receive that
revelation. You must be in the Spirit.

To be in the spirit, you
must believe for salvation's

sake, for God's sake, for heaven's
sake, not for classical reason.

For the sake of eternity. Absolutely.

Now, Peter was in the spirit.

But something happened after.
Go to verse twenty two,

twenty one, let's listen, twenty one.

From that time, Jesus began to show to
his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem

and suffer many things from the
elders and chief priests and scribes,

and be killed and be raised the third day.

Then Peter took him aside and
began to rebuke him, saying,

Far be it from you, Lord,
that this shall happen to you.

What happened here?

When Jesus told him they would kill me,

I will die. On the third day,
I will resurrect what happened.

Peter went back to the natural
immediately in these emotions.

Ah, I love you? No, this will never
happen to you. Never ever, God forbid.

It was his flesh talking. The
flesh was talking, it was natural.

What Jesus said to him,

verse twenty three.

But he turned and said to Peter, get
behind me, Satan. Come to imagine.

You are an offense to me, for you
are not mindful of the things of God,

but the things of men. Means you are
thinking like a natural man thinking.

You are not thinking like a spiritual
man must think, like God may think.

To think like Jesus is to think like
God, is to think like the Holy Ghost.

To have the mind of Christ
is to have the mind of God.

That's the Holy Spirit, the mind of God.

Romans chapter eight,

let's read from verse twenty seven.

How can we have the thoughts of
Christ, the mind of Christ, to think

the way God wants me to
think? That is in the spirit.

How to be in the spirit, that's
what we're talking about.

How can I be in the spirit? Now
let's listen to Romans chapter eight.

Likewise, the spirit also helps in our
weaknesses. Oh my God. Listen to that.

What can you say, Martie? Oh,

this is,

really what we need. This is
the meaning of the comforter

that Jesus left. Thank you very much. The
Spirit help us. What's our weaknesses?

We are natural. We are in the
natural. We are in the flesh.

We know nothing in the Spirit.

We need help in our natural weaknesses,

in the ability to see in the spirit, so
the spirit can take a stay in the spirit.

Say it again. Likewise, the spirit
also helps us in our weakness.

For we do not know what we
should pray for, for as we ought.

But the spirit himself makes intercession

for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. Good. We do not know what we?

We do not know what we should
pray. What do you understand?

As we ought. What do
you understand by that?

We do not know, we pray, we pray,
we don't know what we're asking.

Why? We don't know what we need. We know
what we need. I'm hungry. I need food.

But am I asking the right thing? Do
I know the will of God on the matter?

That's the key.

To pray in the spirit, we need to also
pray. You pray according to the will of God.

You are asking,

God heal me. Is it the will of God to heal
you? That healing might be for a purpose.

Is it the will of God for you
to go there while you're asking?

You want to have a vehicle. Is it the
will of God for you to have a vehicle?

At that moment, we don't
know what to ask for.

That's this

the Holy Ghost will help us now to enter
the spirit, to know the mind of God in

the matter, so we can ask in
accordance to the will of God.

Continuously. Now he who searches the
hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is.

Say it again,

Now he who searches the hearts knows
what the mind of the spirit is,

because he makes intercession for the
saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things
work together for good

to those who love God and to those who
are called according to his purpose.

Come back to verse twenty
seven. That's the key now,

That put things barely open
to the eyes of everybody.

Now he who searches the heart. He who
searches the heart. Who searches the heart?

Do you know what is in the heart of a
person? The spirit. Only the Holy Spirit.

He who searches the heart
knows what is the mind of what?

The mind of God. The mind of God. Means He
knows what is in the mind of God for you.

He knows the thoughts of God for the
situation where you are. And what?

He? Makes intercession.

Intercede meaning he thinks. For the
saints according to the will of God.

What's intercession?

I don't know God. I need somebody
to help me, to take me to God,

to intercede for me.

I cannot hear from God. I need
an mediator, and in Jesus' name,

Holy Spirit will take my prayers,

intercede in the presence
of God. Pray for me

so I can know the will of God in the
presence of the heart. Without him,

our voice will never
go beyond the ceiling.

He's the one that carries our
prayer to the presence of God.

He searches the heart.

What does he mean, searches the heart?
Let's go, is this a repetition, a reminder?

Let's go to First Corinthians chapter
two verse nine to verse thirteen.

But as it is written, eye
has not seen, nor ear heard,

nor have entered into the heart of man

the things which God has prepared for
those who love Him. Mean the things of God,

no human eye has seen can see.

But God has revealed them
to us through His Spirit.

God revealed the things of
God to us by His Spirit.

He revealed His ways,
He revealed His mind,

He reveals His will to us by His Spirit.
First Corinthians two verse fourteen.

But the natural man does not receive
the things of the Spirit of God.

The natural man does not
receive the things of God.

The natural man will always go
by what he sees, what he hears,

the symbol, the sign, does
not know the things of God.

When we are in the natural, we don't
know Jesus in spirit and in truth.

We don't pray in spirit and in truth.
We don't worship in spirit and in truth.

Now, let's see now the
spiritual man, verse fifteen.

But he who is spiritual judges all things,

yet he himself is
rightly judged by no one.

For who has known the mind of the
Lord that he may instruct him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

The mind of Christ is meant for
those who are the spirit of Christ.

When we have the spirit of God,

he will intercede to us
according to the mind of God.

While I'm praying for my suggestion,

I pray you will tell me this is
the mind of God for this truth.

Some people will tell you in your
heart, this is the will of God.

What happened to you? God asked for
the purpose, and we'll tell you.

That's what happened to Paul.

He speaks to the saints through His
word, by His spirit in our heart.

That's why we are in the
spirit, led by the Holy Spirit,

to know the mind of God, to know the
heart of God, to know the will of God.

He supplied the inspiration to pray, what
to pray for, what to worship God in spirit

and in truth, and reveal
to us the way of God.

Are we such? Are we led by the
spirit? Are we inspired by him?

Are we seeking for Him?

Are we waiting for Him to guide us
in our actions and deeds every day?

When we are in a situation, do
we allow him to come, to inspire,

do we wait for, upon him?

Do we pray to receive revelation,
guidance from him before we do anything?

As long as we are in the natural, we
are in the wilderness without direction,

without purpose. But when the Holy Ghost
comes, He will lead you with purpose,

with direction to the right place to be.

So when Jesus was saying,

eternal things will speak about things
of heaven, not things that are natural.

It takes a spiritual man to understand this.
So now what is the heart of the matter?

The lesson we learned from all this,
Ruth. What lessons can we learn from this?

We live in the spirit when we recognize

our union with Jesus Christ in the spirit.
To be in the spirit is to be in God's

presence. Who can take us to
God's presence? The Holy Spirit.

When He takes us into God's presence,

His word, His revealing
word, which inspires

The question is now, for how long
are we going to stay in the natural?

What you were saying? When are we
going to get out of the wilderness?

What does it take to get out of
the wilderness into God's promises?

What does it take to get out of the
natural, to be in the spirit, and to hear

God clearly? To be led by the
spirit of God? It's a hard decision.

It's a hard decision.

Mean engage your heart. Your body can never
be in the spirit, but your heart count,

Your spirit count. It is your heart,
your spirit, that receive inspiration,

revelation from the Holy Ghost, from the
mind of Christ, to know His will, His ways.

He will inspire us to act faith on his
revelation to go to the right direction.

So to walk in the spirit is to walk
in accordance to the word of God.

And that word of God is spirit and life.

When the Holy Ghost revealed that
word, you know the will of God.

It's not quoting the word. The will of God
come when the spirit of God reveals you.

When satan uses Psalm ninety one, it
wasn't the will of God for him to jump,

but Jesus was worded by the Holy Spirit
of truth. He recognized his voice.

The word and the spirit must come
together to become the truth,

in spirit and in truth. Holy
Ghost will take you to the spirit

and he will reveal the truth of the
mind of God, of the will of God.

Once he revealed it to you, he
will guide you to understand it.

Once you understand it, you will be
convinced by faith and act faith.

That's the highway to enter the promised
land, to be in the spirit of Jesus,

the promise of God. Revelation from the
Holy Ghost, spiritual understanding,

Job chapter thirty two verse eight, where
understanding come, conviction will come.

This is from God in my heart. And you act
faith and you walk with God in the spirit.

So walking in spirit does not mean you open
your heart to good humility to any kind

of spirit. Be careful not every spirit
is from God. To know the truth now,

everything must be done through His word,

by His Spirit. You can't separate
the word from the Spirit. That's

why Christianity is not
mysticism. It's not mysticism.

It's not any kind of spirit we welcome.
Not every spirit that speaks is from God.

We have Balaam,

we mentioned Balaam last time in the book
of Numbers. He was a divination spirit.

He was doing things, sacrifices,

but not of God.

The spirit of God never came because
of Balaam, he came because of Israel,

for God's sake. He turned that curse to a
blessing. To turn the curse to blessing.

The same way the Holy Ghost came and
opened the mouth of a donkey to speak words

of men, the only way to
know God, to know Jesus,

is through the word of God and by the
Holy Spirit. The two have to go together.

It's not about confessing, it's about
believing your heart led by the holy spirit.

To be in spirit and in truth.

So if you hear this in
spirit, is it in truth?

We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

He's the one that will
tell you this is from God,

this is not from God. That's the testimony
of the Spirit in our heart, in our mind.

He would guide us into the
understanding of the truth.

So if you are wondering is
this from God or not from God,

what to do? Go to the closet
and pray to your Father.

Ask the Holy Ghost to reveal to you, who
is this person? Who is this situation?

What is your mind? What is your will?

And pray as Paul did in second Corinthians
chapter twelve verse seven to twelve,

until God gives you a revelation
of His mind and purpose,

then you will know His will,
you will know what to do.

The believer who works in
the natural has no strength.

If we want to know Jesus, we need
to know him in spirit and in truth.

Whatever we do must be done in spirit
and in truth. We can see the importance

of the guidance of the
Holy Spirit in our life,

and the Holy Ghost does nothing
without the word, the scriptures.

That's why. He uses the,

the Holy Spirit uses the word of
God to bring peace into our hearts,

to bring joy into our hearts,
to bring faith into our hearts.

The word must go along with the spirit.

Moses, the prophet, they heard
this voice directly in their heart,

and then God instructed them to write
them on the pages. This is the letter.

But they heard from their heart
directly. First in the heart. First.

So this word must come to the same heart
to be processed to become spirit and life.

And that's the faith we are talking
about. Not faith, and faith by confessing,

but real faith that comes from your heart.

Hearing all the way from your heart.
The instruction of the Holy Spirit.

That's divine faith.

That's why when Peter said to Jesus,

where should we go? You have the
words of eternal life. That is it.

He was not talking about the letter alone.

The words of eternal life are the
words, the living word of God,

spirit and life. That's why Jesus say
in John chapter six, verse forty five,

no one comes to me except
the father draws him. Why?

What part does the father
draw? Your heart. Your heart.

No one comes to me and the father
draws him. They will be taught by God.

No one can say Jesus is Lord, in spirit
and in truth, without the Holy Spirit.

So it's time for you to develop your
own relationship with the Holy Spirit,

to get out of the wilderness in your life.

So now,

this holy bible is a Christian guide for
belief and practice and contains the truth.

When you read this bible,
ask the author of the bible,

the Holy Spirit,

to guide you.

That's the secret God gave to Joshua,

and we told you last time,
we'll repeat it again.

Joshua chapter one verse eight,
Keep the words in your mouth.

Meditate on this word day and night.

And do what it says. Do whatever I say.

Meditation, not incantation.
We don't call it in spirit.

We meditate the word of God, the promise
of God here. This word. We meditate

on this word day and night.

And then the spirit of God come, we
give you spiritual understanding and

strengthen you to obey this word and to
put it into practice. God said it, not me.

Walk in the spirit, led by the spirit.

What do we do? Engage your heart, not
your eyes, not your brain, to God.

Seek His face, ask for
guidance from the Holy Ghost,

ask for God to pour the spirit of revelation,
Ephesians chapter two verse seventeen.

Ask Him to guide you and the Lord will
guide you, and you will be in the realm

where you can be able to
discern his mind in your life.

So please,

we give you the grace.

Go and read and study the book of Romans
chapter eight from beginning to end,

and the book of first
Corinthians chapter two,

verse one to the end. Every Christian

who want to be in the spirit
should know these two chapters.

Write that down. Romans eight. Romans
chapter eight, from verse one to the end.

And then first Corinthians. First
Corinthians chapter two. Two.

From verse one to the end.

Read it. Ask God to give you
spiritual understanding of it.

How to become spiritual,
how to walk in the spirit,

how to allow the spirit of God
to take us into God's presence.

And then you will get
after the wilderness.

Then the word will become a lamp to
your feet and a guide to your path.

You would never miss a target.

A guide to your path to get out of the
wilderness. To get out of the wilderness.

To get out of doubt. Amen. To get out
of lack of want. Not to know God's way.

Thank you.

God bless you. We can't wait to hear
your testimony of how the living word

has really been a a light to your feet
and light lamp to your path. And we just

are excited to feel what God is
doing in your life through his word

and by his spirit. Remember, this is
the purpose and vision of the University

of God. Through his word, by his
spirit. In spirit. Into the spiritual.

Through his word, by his spirit.

In spirit and in truth. The word
and the spirit must go together.

It is important to store this word
of God and to walk onto this word.

That's the safety net,

and the spirit of truth will guide you and
lead you into the fullness of that truth.

Amen. Amen. God bless you.
The Lord be with your spirit.