Ephesians Chapter 1 Part 2

All right, so thank God once again for the, um, opportunity to be able to continue this. As John said, the session on Tuesday, we weren't able to contain the entire chapter. We actually reached from verse 8 into 9. And so here we go. All right. For those of you who are seeing me for, or hearing me for the first time, my name is Zan, as John said. And accompanying me on the call here tonight, as usual, would be Adrian. That's my aunt. She will be the one actually assisting with posting definitions and so on, the excerpts on the chat window. And also Kelly K. Right. So Kelly K would be monitoring the chat window to make sure that I don't miss any questions or comments as, as we go along. Right. So, um, last class, we actually stopped with the definitions of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Yeah. And we also spoke about, um, we also related the way that entire emphasis on wisdom, knowledge, and understanding came from, as King Solomon spent a lot of time elaborating on it. And we, we, we went back to Genesis actually identify that with God is wisdom, or in our, in our modern day English, intelligence, um, not knowledge being information, and understanding being reasoning and knowing the mechanics. So when Adam actually chose the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or information, he chose knowledge independent of God, whose intelligence. So he would have acquired his knowledge on his own, but had no, but had no reference point, no reference point for to, to apply this knowledge. Um, so, okay, Vanessa just asked, so is there a connection to Solomon asking for wisdom and receiving more, like an example of the importance of intelligence? Yes, ma'am, that is spot on. Yeah. In his, in his actually understanding of the, of the Torah, of the law of Moses and things like that, he would have seen the necessity, right? Or everybody in the royal household of Israel were taught the, the, um, the scriptures, as well as they were educated along many other areas. That is evident with respect to, um, Daniel and his friends, who we refer to as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They were all of the royal lineage, so they were very educated. So when they went into Babylon, their knowledge was absolutely far beyond most of Israel. So yes, yes, um, Vanessa, that is, that's the connection. And he would have identified the necessity to have wisdom, as we covered in the last sessions. God actually created, um, wisdom before he created anything. So to understand the kingdom, one must actually look at it through the eyes of intelligence, the eyes of wisdom is the eyes of God, right? He is your own. He is the one and only reference point for, for, for actually knowing the mechanics. Nice. So we were in verse 8, right? So we continue verse 8. Um, says, "In all wisdom and understanding, with practical insight, He into verse 9, He made known, He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ." Right. Now, I want us to narrow into that verse, that is verse 8 and 9. I'll just post it there for us. John, actually, could you post verse 8 and 9 there for me, please? If, if you, if you can, I know you have your, your Bible in front of you too, so we can take a look at that. Nice. Thank you very much. Nice. So we see the full stop here in this verse is after "us," which He lavished on us, and that was relating to the, the riches of His grace, right? That is the wealth that actually comes with freedom from liability. So the, the, the sentence actually starts, "In all wisdom and understanding, with practical insight, He made known to, He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ." According to this verse, how do, how do we actually come to the understanding or come to the knowledge of the mystery of His will? Will from, from our last session, being His royal command, right? What, what, watch the verse, how does one come into the knowledge of the mystery of His will? His will being the knowledge of His command? In all wisdom? Yes. Right. So in this verse here, that, that this actually highlights that in Christ, the knowledge of God's will, His royal command for you, for your life, and for the church corporately, is not a mystery anymore. With Jesus being wisdom unto us, we have wisdom, we are wisdom, we have the intelligence of God. And with understanding, which is reasoning, um, understanding the mechanics, we can come to the understanding as to what His will is, what His royal command is for you individually, as well as for the church. Is, is everybody seeing that? This is not something that you, that, that, that is smoke. It's not something that you guess. So do we have to fast and pray to know God's will? No, we do not. Right. Do, lovely. Right. Do we have to do anything to know God's will? No, we do not. Like, He has actually, Christ has made, has to want us. And so all we do is gain the information so that we can acknowledge and reason. Yes, exactly. The, not the hearing the word will be the information, and be reason. We have had, from, from the last session, you all would have seen for yourselves that once you begin to reason, you, you engage directly the Holy Spirit, who is the spirit of reasoning, spirit of understanding. And the understanding of the scripture is made, is actually brought into light. All right. So verse 10. Right. Read from verse 9, "which He purposed in Christ with regard to the fulfillment, with regard to the fulfillment of the times, that is the end of history, the climax of the ages, to bring all things together in Christ, both things in the heavens and things on the earth." Could anyone tell me what they're speaking about there? What is the fulfillment of the times? What is the end of history? The climax of the ages? What does that refer to? What are we speaking about? Yeah, what does the end, the fulfillment of the times? What, what are they referring to? What is that? The last days? The time that Jesus came, uh, the, the law was ended, and, uh, of the old covenant has ended, and the new, um, um, and the new, new begun. So after the, the times, after the cross, the, the seed was planted, and, you know, the promises, uh, uh, was coming into fulfillment. Yes, sir. That is spot on. That is spot on. So the last days, according to scripture, would, um, everybody usually use the, the word, the term, the last days, um, they, they usually use the term the last days out of context. But in the Bible, when they actually say the last days, this is exactly what I'll be referring to. So just to bring us into clarification with, with Elijah's answer, which is spot on, we can go to Daniel, the Book of Daniel, chapter 9, right? Verse 24 and 25. I will post that there for you. Daniel 9, verse 24 and 25. Right. This is actually prophetic, and then we will actually look at it in the, here we are, and then we'll take a look at, yes, cross-reference. Daniel 9:24 and 25. It says, "Seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, have been decreed for your people and for your Holy City, Jerusalem, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins." Listen to what this says: "to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement for wickedness, reconciliation for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, right standing with God, to seal vision, the vision and prophecy, and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place." So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Prince, there will be seven weeks of years and 62 weeks of years. It will be built again, the city, plaza, on not evening times, um, in times of trouble." As you read on into verse 26, just post that there for you, it actually elaborates, right? This is the prophecy that is actually related to it. Go into 27. I'll just post verse 26, and you all could read the rest on your own time. V, just go, give me one, give me one second. All right. So Vanessa says, "My notes say is when the sinful time has been brought to completion and Satan is bound." Accurate. Which, which version is that, um, Vanessa? One New Man. Um, no, which version of the Bible are you, did you get that from? Which, um, translation? Oh, that is the translation, One New Man. Okay. I have not, the first time I'm hearing that one. Okay. Um, I, it's, it seems accurate. I may actually have to look at the rest of the verse, the chapter, to actually get the context. But yes. All right. So it reads on, then after 62, 62 weeks of years, the Anointed One will be cut off and the has been his Messianic Kingdom. Now, if you read on into this chapter, this is the prophecy that is actually referred to. Exactly. Um, exactly what Elijah's answer was, the end of the, the law. That is actually why it's referring to the end, as you see in verse 25, is it? No, verse 24, sorry. The end of the, finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, right? That is actually with the removal of the law. Just to make, just to nail that down, we can go to Galatians chapter 4, where it is said clearly, so that we see that the, what is that she said, stated in Ephesians is exactly what we are seeing. So I will just post that there for you also. Galatians 4. Here we go. There we are. All right. Some of you may, may have read this before and may not have understood that this is actually what is referring to. From verse 3, it says, "So also we, whether Jews or Gentiles, when we were children, spiritually, were kept like slaves under the elementary, man-made religious or philosophical teachings of the world. But when in God's plan the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the regulations of the law, so that He might redeem and liberate those who are under the law, right? That we who, who believe might be adopted as sons, as God's children, with all rights as fully grown members of a family." And so in that verse, they actually, it also highlights, well, you see the, the correlation that the fullness of times was the end, or the end of the age was the end of the old covenant. Does that, does that make sense everyone? Yeah. End of the old covenant. Nice. So that would be the fulfillment of the times. So when the apostle was around, he would have been referring, and the disciples referred to the last days. That is actually what we're referring to. Any questions there at all? Everybody silent tonight? Yes, no. Everybody following? All right. Lovely. Nice. So we move on. Okay. So verse 11. "In Him also we have received an inherent, an inheritance, a destiny we were claimed by God as His own." Oh, sorry. Okay. All right, John. No problem. "In Him also we have received an inheritance, a destiny we were claimed by God as His own, having been predestined, chosen, appointed beforehand, according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will." Right. So what, in particular, what is an inheritance? So let's define that. It says that you, you, you obtain an inheritance. What is that? That, let's define an inheritance. What, what is an inheritance? Thank you, John. What is an inheritance? Something you get upon the death of a person. All right. All right. Go ahead. What is rightfully ours based on lineage, usually apparent ours. Mhm. Anybody else? What is an inheritance? Given to an, well, what is given to an heir? Yes, yes. All good answers. What is an inheritance? Adrian, can you please? Something you did not deserve. Okay. Obtain an inheritance, as you see here. That's a good answer, John. Something you did not deserve. Also, you see here that the, the word they actually referring to inheritance be clo a gift received from an ancestor. Is that a gift received from an ancestor? Continually rights. He had to, to do some, to had to the said he had to something. Lovely. Right. So an inheritance here is defined as the act of inheriting property, the recept, or even the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring, which is everything, everything that, that you all said right there. The acquisition of a possession, condition, or trait from past generations. Something that is or may be inherited. Also, a, a valuable possession that is a common heritage from nature. Right. To inherit is to come into possession of or receive, especially as a right or divine portion. Let's emphasize on that. So you, inheritance here, nice contextual understanding, to come into possession of or receive, especially as a right or divine portion. One who has left houses or brothers or sisters from, well, sorry, that's that's Matthew 12:9, 1929, sorry. Right. So we see that our inheritance here is our divine portion, and it is our right. We see that inherently understood as one's property based on, yes, yes, to me. Awesome. Right. Now, our inheritance in Christ, as you see here, is not specific only to physical possessions, as in inheritance of land and property, but as you see in these definitions, it is actually also referring to inheritance, genetic inheritance. So that we are literally the seed of Father, the incorruptible seed. What Father is, we are. Yeah. What Father is, we are. It is genetic. So this is not limited to physical possessions, but also genetics. You have inherited the nature. So everywhere. So that in itself could be a separate study in the Bible. Spiritual. Are you, when you ask, um, spiritual, Diane, are you referring to, uh, the genetics we're speaking about, or the, or the physical inheritance of, of property and possession? Yes, yes. If it's actually referring to this, to the, to the, to the genetics, the nature, yes, that is the nature of your spirit. You have inherited that from Father, right? So one of the studies that you can do on, on, on, on your, on your personal time is actually peruse the Bible and look at the Psalms and, and, and, and the prophets, and even the, the letters of the New Testament, and see what they say about Father, because everything that they speak about Father is Father's nature. And you'll see that, and you would actually get a very clear idea as to who you are, because you are His seed genetically. Does that make any sense? Does that make sense at all? Nice. Lovely. All right. So verse 12. Kelly K, would you read verse 12 for me, please? Sorry, I was trying to find the unmute. Um, so that we who were in, sorry, the start over. "So that we who were the first to hope in Christ, who first put our confidence in Him as our Lord and Savior, would exist to the praise of His glory." Thank you very much. So hope in Christ, yeah. First to hope after the end of the age, the age of the old covenant. Who, who put our confidence in Him as our Lord and Savior? We explained what Lord was in our last session, as in the title, as owner of land and over, owner of property. So we see that when we say Lord Jesus, we actually speaking about His ownership. Another way to say Lord is owner, as our owner and Savior, would exist to the praise of His glory. Right. What exactly is glory? Could we define glory? It says that we exist to the praise of His glory. So that our ex, this, what this is actually saying is that our existence is for the praise of Father's glory. Father would praise His glory because of us. Sorry, not Father praise the every, Father will receive praise for His glory, high renown, and honor won by notable achievements. Excellent, John. I love that definition. I love that definition. Lovely. Right. Adrian, can you post the definition for me, please, on glory? Right. So you see glory here as worshipful praise, as John says, honor and thanksgiving, right? Great beauty and splendor, and the height of prosperity or achievement. So what is Father going to be praised for? For His achievement of our existence? Let me say that again. Father is going to be praised for His achievement. He'll be honored for the greatest achievement ever, which was actually our existence as sons. Is that, is that resonating? Is that resonating? This here highlights the value of the sons and what, um, our, our, our position in all of creation as sons. Sorry, Kelly said, everyone just get cut off or just me? Is everyone on the call? Everyone hearing me? I hear you. How you? Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Um, everyone. So everyone is on. Um, Diane, is it that you're not hearing us, or you, or your mic is doing problems? Okay. Lovely. All right. So, um, as I was saying, what this is actually saying is that praise will be given to Father, His achievement of our existence. What does that, what does that, what exactly does that mean in light of everything that we've covered so far? What does that mean to you that praise is going to be given to Father's achievement, His glory for our existence? Come on, what does, what exactly does that mean? What does that, what does that say about our existence? Say it one more time there, Zan. The question was, in light of what we covered on Tuesday with respect to what Father has done and the governmental position, our nature, who we are in Christ, what, for Father to actually receive praise, the praise of His glory, or the praise of His achievement, as John said, the height of His achievement, as, as put the definition of glory, what does that say about our existence? It says that through Christ we overcame and returned to our fullness of His nature. Yes, yes, that's also true. But, um, soon, give me a, a, a, a more accurate. That, that's a bit vague. Give me, be more accurate. And in, in what you want to articulate. What does it say? As John, as John and Diane say, that we are important. Diane says that is very important. It says that we are very, very important. Anybody else? Like, we are His babies. Uh, He's proud. Yes, He's proud to have us. Kelly, guys, Kelly, I see that you're speaking from, from the perspective of our parent. Yes, He's proud to have us. As a matter of fact, this clearly states that our existence, our existence in itself, um, gives Father the utmost praise as His pride and joy, His greatest achievement. Our existence is beyond, we choose Him. Uh, Sue, not really that we choose Him, but well, what the Bible says actually is that He chose us long before the foundations of the earth. So what is that, what is actually narrowing into is the fact that the beauty of our existence, the beauty of our existence is, how do I put that in simple terms? The beauty of our existence equals the highest praise unto the Father. Let me say that again. The beauty of our existence equals the highest praise unto the Father. We are the jewels. Let me say that. We are the jewels of the Kingdom, right? And I, I, I personally don't, don't, don't think that, like, I personally think that a lot of Christians, they, for those that actually see themselves as lesser, or as, as they stated in the Old Testament, that the, the righteousness that filthy rags, it is actually in, in total contravention to what you really are. You are the jewels of the Kingdom. It's His prize possession. Yes. All right. I would put it in another way. If right now, if right now, based on that just one verse, if right now, Lord Elijah, or Lord Linda, Lord Diane, Lord Shelly, Lord D, would actually was to walk into, to heaven right now, or that, or that region of the Kingdom, I should say, the entire of Heaven would actually stop in amazement. Does that make sense, anyone? That is actually how, that is actually how beautiful, and how much of a jewel, and how you are the best, as, as His sons, you are the best of all creation. Yes. As a matter of fact, as we go along here, you'll see that based on, on these statements, that if we are to walk into that region of the Kingdom right now, all of heaven will stand in awe, and the entire angelic army, the myriads and myriads that the Bible speaks about, will stand at attention. Does that make sense? Yes, yes. John, it is hard to believe, but it is what it is. Yeah. And the sooner that, the sooner that we, as the saints, as the sons of God, accept that reality, the faster the kingdom will respond to us. Does that make sense? The faster we accept that reality, the faster the kingdom responds to us. Nice. Lovely. Right. Kelly says, is like when the queen is making her visit. Yes, yes. It is a, it is, it is. They probably roll the red, the red carpets for us, or the diamond carpets up there for us to walk on. Yeah. So verse 13. Right. Um, would anyone read, be kind enough to read verse 13 for us? John, kindly post on verse 13 for me, please. Anyone read verse 13? Verse 13, brother. "In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the goodness, the good news of your salvation, and as a result believed in Him, were sealed with the Seal of the promise of the promised Holy Spirit, the one promised by Christ as owned and protected by God." Praise God. Thank you very much. "In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth," right? That's the word of the word of God, the word of the Gospel, the good news of your salvation. What is salvation? Anyone? Define salvation for me. What do you understand by the term salvation? What does that mean? We commonly throw it around. Courtney says, "To be saved." To be saved. What, what does that, what, um, what does it mean to be saved? What, what are you saved from? In regard, in regards to our position and the context of this chapter, what is salvation? From danger, sin. Yes. From danger, sin, and darkness. Right. From, from death, to have eternal life. Yes. We are saved from the curse of the law. Um, yes, Michelle, that is also correct. We are saved from the curse of the law. Actually, the law is no longer, um, is no longer active, so the curse of the law can't even touch us, right? So it's to be saved from danger. Do you know that salvation in this, in Paul's letters here, and salvation when Jesus was around, was actually two very different contexts? Does anyone understand that or know that? Is that new? Turning one here, salvation, it's the same meaning, but two very separate contexts in Paul's letters, as, and when Jesus actually was speaking to the Jews. Anybody knew that? We see that salvation here is actually being saved from sin and darkness. You are given eternal life. Um, just so that you know, this is just some additional information. When Jesus spoke about salvation, Jesus' ministry pretty much, as He explained, was to, um, bring that good, that, um, to, to bring Israel into repentance. He was there actually also fulfilling the prophecy of, of Moses. I mentioned this in the last session, that Israel was actually going to, to turn away from the covenant, and Jesus was there preaching national judgment when, or I should say, also preaching national judgment, especially to the Pharisees and those that follow them. And so when, saved, when Jesus had actually be saved, he was actually speaking, what Jesus was doing was actually giving the Jews escape instructions because of the judgment that was coming. Those who had believed in Him, He gave them the instruction that when they see certain things, to get out, to move, to run, so that those who did not believe in Him did not get the instructions. And when Rome surrounded Israel, they were clueless. Millions of them burnt in the valley of Hinnom. Those that believed escaped. Does that make sense? He literally gave them the, the, the, the signs to look for to get out so that they don't perish in the valley of Hinnom. They burnt there for weeks at a time. Yeah. So in this case, when we speak about salvation, in which verse, um, you speaking about, um, Ephesians, bro, 1, 13. Oh, 13. And, um, okay, okay, yeah. The, the additional information I just gave there is, is actually found in the Gospels, right? But what, when, when we actually speak about salvation here in verse 13, we speaking of being with, being safe, safe from, as the definition says here, rescue or safety, saving a person from sin or evil. I, I meant your reference point to, to Jesus who was talking to the, to the Jewish, uh, that when the Romans come, uh, they, they get a safe place, and a few of, many of them were burned in the valley. That's, that's what I, um, what I, what I asked you, uh, where can I find it? Um, I believe if I'm not mistaken, the instructions to get out is actually found in Matthew 24. I believe Matthew 24. If I am not accurate on that, I will get back to you after. But Matthew 24, where He actually gave the instructions as to what, when they see these things, to escape, um, to, to, to, do not back, to run. Um, also, well, the, the persecution of Israel in, in 70 AD is not mentioned extensively in the Bible per se, right? But, um, Paul actually was also made reference in his letters, right? Does that, um, answer question, Elijah? I, yeah, thank you. That, that in particular, I would love to diverge, but that would actually consume our time here. Thank you, bro. No problem, no problem at all. Right. So we see what salvation is. What does it mean to be sealed? It says that we are with the Seal of the promise of the Holy Spirit. What does it mean to be sealed? What does seal mean here? There are actually two meanings to the word seal here, which is the, the, the Greek word sphragizo. It means to be stamped, or literally to be, to be bottle sealed. Yes, stamped. It has two meanings: to be stamped, or to be, yes, closed up tightly. So which means, let's, if we put it into context with respect to being, to be, to, to being sealed, we are literally sealed like the contents in a bottle by the Holy Spirit. You say that again? Just like the contents of a bottle are actually sealed, you are sealed like a bottle by the Holy Spirit. Right? Yes. Also, yes, Rebecca, also refers to, um, um, ownership and security. Sue, yes. Closed up tightly. Also, royal order is a seal. Yes, ma'am. Perfectly on. The seal is proof of ownership. Yes. Spot on. Right. So that brings into context, "In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, and as a result believed in Him, who was stamped with the Seal of the promised Holy Spirit, the one promised by Christ as owned and protected by God." Right. So in light of this verse, do we ever have to worry about protection? Whether we are protected? No, we don't. If I would go so far as, once you understand this, do you even need to ask God for protection? No, you do not. Right? That seal is there. To ask God for protection is to deny that He has already sealed you, and, and the kingdom has, has actually, the kingdom has taken up the responsibility of making sure that you are protected. Right? So this is another very good point that we should acknowledge as Philippians 6 says, that we would walk in the activation of it. So we can go anywhere and know that we are protected. We can relax. Verse 14. Adrian, can you please, was 14 me please? Then is there no reason for declaration and decreeing, etc.? It depends, um, Sue, on what you're speaking about, right? What, what I actually, what I was referring to just now is the fact that Philippians 6 actually says that once we acknowledge what Christ has done in us, our faith becomes effective and powerful. And Jesus actually said that once we understand, we will bear fruit. So in Christ, what we are actually doing is acknowledging, even as we go through these things. Answer your questions to me is acknowledging what Christ has done and having faith in it. There is no necessity to actually ask for protection. You walk in that protection. It is done. It will never change. It never moves. If we actually think that we need to ask for protection, it is to literally say that the Holy Spirit is not there presently, and you calling them back. Does that make sense? All right. So Steven says, "We do not ask, what speak protection, which is releasing that is within us. We speak or declare not to get us to get, but because that is what we have inside of us." Yes, um, Steven, but what I would just like to, to, to just, um, add to that there, that if you're actually speaking, um, about protection, if you need to speak protection, it means that what you're actually doing is declaring protection. That, in understanding that the Holy Spirit is your seal, and that you are owned and secure, protected by God, is not, it's not from the perspective of the, of the Gospel, is not necessary. You just walk it. It's important that most saints grab this, because if you actually walking with the perception that you need to ask for protection, then technically, what you're saying is that you're not. And what you believe, you will experience. Does that make sense? Even, yes, walking it out. Exactly. Right. Verse 14. Uh, Adrian, "The Spirit is the guarantee, the first installment, the pledge of foraste of our inheritance until the redemption of God's own purchased possession, His believers, to the praise of His glory." Thank you very much. That's right. So the Spirit is the guarantee, the guarantee, the first installment, the pledge. Now think about this. The kingdom has just, Father, the, the Father has actually made a pledge by giving you the Holy Spirit, a for of our inheritance until the redemption of God's own purchased possession, His believers, to the praise of His glory. Right. What, what is the one thing that we are waiting on with respect to redemption here? What is the Apostle referring to? He says, "The Holy Spirit is the foretaste of our inheritance until redemption of God's own purchased possession." What is the one thing that we are waiting on? With respect to our possession, respect our redemption, sorry? Think about it. You have received the Holy Spirit. It says that you, you have received the Holy Spirit at the foretaste until redemption of God's own purchased possession. Full manifestation with regards to what, Linda? Exactly. Quote me. The new bodies, the glorified bodies. That is the only thing that we're waiting on, right? That is the only thing that we actually waiting on to full, to, to, to, to complete the redemption. They, for, um, John, raptor, not, um, that would, would be secondary with regards to what verse 14 is actually saying. Well, at that, at that would be, um, to, to be more specific, would be the redemption, or the reception of the glorified bodies. Yeah. Right. Um, but it says here, "The Spirit is the guarantee, the first installment, the pledge of for of our inheritance until redemption of God's own purchased possession." Now, by receiving the Holy Spirit, we can actually, even though we have not received the redemp, the, the, um, the glorified bodies as, as yet, the Holy Spirit literally is fulfilling that function until the reception of the, of, of the glorified body that we're speaking about. Let's all go to Romans chapter 8:1. Romans 8:11. I'm searching, um, for it here. John, if you have it already, can you? Yes, thank you. Thank you, Diane. So we see here, it says, "And the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you." Now, pay attention to what this verse is saying. I'm reading it slowly. "And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you." This verse here is actually saying that even though you don't have the glorified bodies as yet, the Holy Spirit is giving life to your mortal bodies. Now, if you read this verse, what this is actually saying, I know this is going to destroy a lot of theology. Also, if the Spirit is giving life to mortality, if the reception of life is actually, isn't this actually saying that the reception of life is giving your your mortal bodies preservation, life to mortality? If life to mortality are actually antonyms in this verse, what is actually saying is that by the Holy Spirit in you, once you acknowledge this, by the Holy Spirit in you, acknowledging that the Holy Spirit gives you mortal body life, actually causes the Holy Spirit to give your body the effects of immortality. Does that make sense? I'm saying that again. I, I am fully much aware that this is going to destroy a lot of theology, but it is here, and I will, I will prove it to you. So I'm saying it again, that in this verse, "giving life to your mortal bodies," life to mortal bodies, which means it says life here is stated as opposite to mortal, which means by the holy presence of the Holy Spirit, by acknowledging, according to Philippians 6, the presence of the Holy Spirit, it, He gives your body, your mortal body, immortality. You are experiencing the effects of immortality. How many of us would like to see that actually, uh, a, a demonstration of that in the Bible? Let's go to Exodus chapter 3. We're laying it thick, Dan. We're laying it thick. Yeah. Exodus chapter 3. Let's take a look at the effects. It's said, uh, let's Exodus chapter 3. Yes, Courtney, that's, that's spot on too. They shake off snakes, and we can't, and we can drink poison. Yes, because of the Holy Spirit makes your mortal body immortal. Chapter 3 of Mo, of Exodus, sorry. Chapter 3 of Exodus says, "Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the Wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush was on fire, yet it was not consumed." Are we all seeing that? The bush is on fire, but it is not consumed. What is actually pointing to that? What the Holy Spirit, once the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, merges with anything, it is preserved. Thank you, John. Stephen, as a quick question, you mean to say that we should not die having the Holy Spirit with on us, since because the Holy Spirit gives life to your flesh? What I'm saying, Steven, is that just as Jesus, being the example, Jesus did not die from the crucifixion. Jesus actually chose when He would give up the ghost. He suffered at the hands of the crucifixion. Death did not take His life. He gave up His Spirit. And so we, as saints, can choose, as sons of God, when we have mortal bodies, and the presence of the Spirit makes our bodies, gives our bodies the immortal effect, and we can choose. That's what I'm saying, Steven. Does that make sense to everyone? Right. If you all remember when Moses actually came, when God came down the mountain, the mountain was actually smoking, the fire of God, again, a representation of the Holy Spirit. The fire of God was on the mountain, and the mountain was not consumed. Yes, I know it's a lot to grasp, but I, I found it necessary to actually implement it here. We can actually go into this lot. What I will do, although, is in the basic identity, to which we will, we would elaborate. Basic identity, to would be, would be, um, dedicated to holiness. We would actually divulge into that, and you would see what all of the, the areas in the Bible that actually this, this is actually tied into holiness. I wouldn't give all the information here, but it is tied into it, because He not, you hear, no, no, no. You would not hear this in church. That's why I said this, this is actually destroying a lot of theology. Choose where you stay these things, because you can be stoned. You can be stoned. They will stone your yard with firebrands and pitchforks. So it's like Elijah asked not to see death. So it's life. When Elijah asked not to see death, Kelly, I need to be a little more specific there. All right. Well, let's get back to, to, to Ephesians. Kelly, let's be a little more specific there for me. Let's come back to Ephesians. So I will leave that for you all to, for you all to chew on a little bit and do, and, and, and pick your curiosity a little bit. You just search scriptures and see when, where the Holy Spirit, anytime the Holy Spirit actually comes into contact with an object or life form, it does not, it does not diminish. It actually takes on immortality while He's present. I'll leave that for you all to search out in the Bible until basic identity. To, what do you all think? Yeah. Yes. Search it up. Search it up. Was to see that I'm not too sure what the context they get. Yes, Diane. Yes, it is. Courtney, that's some, that's some nice homework. That's some nice homework for you. Right. So verse 15. Verse 15 says, "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in Jesus and your love for all God's people." Pause. We are all speaking about faith. What is faith? Tell me, what is faith? They find faithful evidence of things hoped for, as seen evidence of things hoped for, the substance of, and the evidence of things seen. John, hold on to that verse, because we're coming right back to that verse. But in your simple terms, apart from the scriptural verse, define what faith is. What faith is in all age. What is faith? Right. Vanessa says, "Expectation." Yeah. Yes. "Trust." "Believe in the unseen." Um, "believe in the unseen to what extent?" St, um, great mind. Yes, yes, yes. Great mind. Complete trust. All those are good answers. All right. Let's take a look at what the, the, the definition is from the Greek word pistis. Can, nice. See the definition here is persuasion, that is, credence. Pay specific attention to the word credence here. Definition of the word credence. Adrian, credence here is defined as mental acceptance as true or real. I want you to give this a little thought, because what we're going to do now is now look at Hebrews 11:1 and break it down. So you come, what, what faith is. A lot of people actually just think trust, but faith goes a little deeper than that in the Bible. It is a little more, let's just say it's, let's just leave it as it's a little deeper than just mental trust. Um, Kelly says, "Trusting and acting upon the unseen to the physical." Yes, technically, yes. Right. So let's look at Hebrews 11 chapter 1. John just mentioned, "For faith is the assurance, the title deed, confirmation of things hoped for, divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things not seen, conviction of their reality. Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses." For by this kind of faith of old, gained divine approval. In verse two, thank you, John. Thank you very much. It says, "By this kind of faith, the men of old gained divine approval." Now, that's a strong statement, right? It says that this kind of faith, the men of old gained divine approval. So let's see what kind of faith they're speaking about. Now, usually, to come an understanding as to what something is, to help find the parameters of what it is, what is, what, you you might want to get in the practice of doing also is actually ascertaining what it is not. So let's do a little exercise here for everybody. Everybody in the session here, I'm giving you a short exercise. Just take two minutes to do this exercise. That same verse, Hebrews 11 chapter 1. It says, "Now faith is the assurance, the titled deed, confirmation of things hoped for, divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things not seen, the conviction of their reality. Faith comprehends this fact, what cannot be experienced by the physical senses." Kindly write that verse in the negative for me. Write the opposite of that verse to me. So, so this is, so this is the, this is the project right now, right? Hebrews 11:1 in its opposite. So let's see what it is not. Hebrews 11:1. You can write or unmute, but you could also unmute and read the verse in its opposite for me. So let's see what it is not. Feel free. I want everybody to get involved in this. Everyone. Hi. Yes, go ahead. So faith is, um, no faith. I don't know how to word this. The opposite of faith would be doubting. Yes. Anyone else? Anybody else? Doubting. That is what it is. But what we actually want to do is just take the same verse and instead of saying, "Now faith is," then let's say, "Now doubting is," and continue. Or unbelief is. Have 2% in cell picking up. Okay. No problem. Sue. No problem at all. God bless you and be enveloped in light, be carried in the spirit. Anybody, anybody? Diane said, uh, Linda said, doubting, which is on. So let's, let's, let's look at Hebrews 11:1 in, in its opposite. Yes. So look at Adrian's. She just posted there for me. So let's say that unbelief is the assurance, title things, the title deed confirmation of things feared for. Is that making sense? Just writing this verse in the opposite to get what, to understand what faith is. We actually want to look at what it is not. Unbelief is the assurance. Yes. L D, they're referring to unbelief is the assurance, title deed confirmation of things feared for, divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things that can be seen, the conviction of their reality. Unbelief comprehends as fact what can be experienced by the physical senses. Does this make sense to anybody? Nice. No. Do you know that? Yes, Diane. Do you know actually that is exactly what I'm going to say. Do you know that when we actually operate in unbelief, we fulfill this verse specially in our lives? Sorry, what are the Skype notifications? Do you know that when we actually operate in doubt, this is exactly what we do? This is exactly what we do. All right. Now let's take a look at that verse as I mentioned and see what it is really saying. Now, we, in previous sessions, actually spoke about, I just want to cover this and then we move on. We, in previous sessions, actually spoken about, um, the fact that we are spirits, and we possess a soul, and the soul is our appendage. So let's dissect this Hebrews 11:1 in its positive respective faith. So let's start. Let's identify in this verse, what, what is actually reference, is referring to our spirit man, and what is referring to our soul. So what we're going to do, says, look at Hebrews 11:1 and identify what parts, parts of the verse are actually referring to the spirit man, and which parts are referring to the soul. For those of, for those of you who may be struggling with faith, we're just going to cover this here. So it says, "Now faith." No question. Is faith in your spirit, or is it in your soul? It's in your spirit, right? Lovely, because faith is the fruit of the Spirit. So now, faith is the assurance of things hoped for. So faith in the spirit, then, is it your spirit, or your soul, that is in hope? The soul. The spirit does not have to hope, because the spirit is right. Hope refers to the expectation of something that is coming. So now, faith is, faith is in the spirit. Is the assurance, the title deed. What is, what, what is a title deed? What is a title deed? Proof of ownership. Lovely. Excellent. So a title deed is proof of ownership. Adrian just posted the definition there.

For me, the deed constituting the evidence of a person's legal ownership. So, your spirit faith is in your spirit. That is your title deed of the legal ownership of things hoped for. That's your soul hoping for what is in the spirit, divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things not seen. Right, when they say "things not seen," are we speaking about physical or spiritual? Physical? No. That's sorry, I'm saying physical. Spirit. Spiritual. So, the things not seen are things that are spiritual. So, we're looking at faith is the assurance, which is the title deed of the things that you hope for in your soul, and the evidence in your soul of things in the spiritual. Does that make sense? Saying this again now. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for in the soul and the evidence, the physical evidence of things in the spirit. Does that make sense? Yes. You got it right. Does this make sense? See, okay. Once more. Now, faith, which is your, is, is in the spirit, as your spirit man, is the assurance, the title deed, which is your legal ownership of the things hoped for in the soul. So, the, the, the responsibility of your soul here is to hope for it, for hope for, to hope for what is divinely guaranteed, and the physical evidence of the things in the spiritual. Does that make sense to anybody? Excellent. It goes on to say, the conviction of their reality. So, the conviction of the spirit's reality. Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses. If we reverse that, it will say, faith comprehends as fact what can be experienced by the spiritual senses. Now, for those of you who have been in Adventist identity, there is a session that is usually carried out in Adventist identity, um, that is actually fits this description. Anybody think about it? Which session that we do here in Advent identity that actually fits the exercises of that session, fits this, fits this description? It is the evidence of things in the spiritual, the physical evidence of things in the spiritual. Faith comprehends as fact what can be experienced by the spiritual senses. Which session do, do, do, do? In which session do we do exercises that actually puts this into practice? Prophecy. And which other session? There's a session that's actually, even though many may not have acknowledged it, seeing in the spirit. Yes, seeing in the spirit. Do you know that actually that session, seeing in the spirit, is actually putting this to practice? What we do in, in the spirit class. This is not me marketing "seeing in the spirit" here, by the way. I just, just, but what I'm saying is that "seeing in the spirit," what we do, what has been done in "seeing in the spirit" is that you see it in the spirit, and you smell it. That is the moment when you actually connect the spirit, your spirit, to the physical realm. Does that make sense? When you feel it, when you smell it, that is the moment when you have just connected the spirit realm to the physical reality. Does that make sense? This should resound in everyone here deeply. In prophecy, that is actually what moves the physical reality because when we prophesy, we do exactly that. We see it in the spirit, and because we sense it, we feel it, we smell it, our physical body actually begins to follow the experience of the spiritual realm. And when we speak as prophets, it takes effect because that is the moment when the physical reality is connected to the spiritual reality. Does that make sense? You, that is faith. Yeah. Any comments, thoughts? Just take a minute for thoughts on that. Comments. How does this resound with you? Do you understand? Anybody could unmute and give your thoughts. Comments. [Applause] By seeing it, smelling it, um, we, um, we bring it into existence by prophecy, by speaking it out. Um, so we, um, what we sense in the, um, in the spirit, we bring it to, in, in physical realm by speaking it out. Yes, by, by speaking it out and actually speaking from the standpoint that is a reality. Do you know, not to take too much time on this, but do you know that when you are in anxiety, that is exactly what you do? Think about it. You see it in your mind, in the eyes of your imagination. And when you see it in the eyes of your imagination, the first thing that you do is that you connect an emotion that causes your body to follow what you see in your imagination. And exactly what you see, you, you actually make an unconscious decision. Yes, yes. Diana, um, Courtney says, "So prophecy and seeing connect the two realities." I, I'm not too sure what you're referring to, Courtney. You need, you be more specific. Yeah, when we actually do this, when we actually get anxious, what we do is that the first thing that comes, we begin become anxious because of what we see in the eyes of our imagination. And when we've, what we see in the eyes of our imagination, our soul believes to be true. As soon as the soul believes to be true, it, it actually confirms it and concretes it with the, with the emotion of fear, and your body follows. So if you actually have fear that you are sick, your soul believes what it sees in the eyes of your imagination. It concretes it, connecting the reality of what you see there to your physical reality through an, through fear, through anxiety, and your body begins to deteriorate. A lot of people do that. Faith is actually the opposite. So what we see is the love of the Father, and what we do is what we see in the eyes of the spirit. Yes, Diana, that can cause disease. We do it so well in the negative. But right here, in this verse, actually tells you that faith comprehends as fact what can be experienced by the physical senses. You actually bringing the, the physical evidence of the spiritual realm. You are actually causing your body to follow. Does that make sense? Yes. Diana, a lifetime of that garbage, indeed. Does that make sense? Hey, Zane, can I just ask something? Ahead. Okay, so when we're believing, and I'm going to just be, you know, real here, like in the instance of John for his healing, and, you know, we're standing in faith for it, we're, we're, um, believing for something that we don't see in the physical right now. How important is it, and does it make sense to be, I don't know if I want to use the right word, I'll just say it, the word, because I can't think of another one. Should we be imagining it? Should we be, um, you know, seeing it in our mind? Should we be doing something like that to pull it into, um, and, minute, let me back up. Should we be imagining it and stuff like that? Because just to be real honest, I see John in this chair every day. Okay? So I'm, I'm standing in faith for it. I believe that it's done. But what's in front of my physical eyes is so prevalent. So should I be seeing in my spirit the opposite? Because I need something to, to really connect to, and seeing him out of that chair and seeing him walking? Is it kind of clear? It's kind of a hard sentence. I don't even know where I'm going in my head. But understand exactly what you're asking, and this, um, verse 16 to 18 here is going to answer that question for you. Right? We're going to answer that question now. It's, you have actually answered a question in good timing. So now that we've actually explained what faith is, verse 16 says, "I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my remembering you in my prayers." All right, now, prayer is defined. How many? Well, before we actually go into verse 17 and 18, Adrian, can you please post the definition of prayer there for me? I want, I want to actually make this very clear. Yes, it does seem like the Matrix here, but this is all, all Kingdom, all Kingdom. I find it very interesting that Diana asked me that question just before we actually engage into answering her question. If that is an evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit, I don't know what is. Prayer. So you see here, prayer, by, as defined by, by the dictionary, is the part of a pleading, as a complaint, that specifies a relief sought, a request for relief. Now, I want you to understand something here. A lot of people think that prayer actually is actually meant to get you closer to God. I, I, I cannot emphasize enough that that is an erroneous statement. You cannot get closer to God than where Jesus has actually put you. You have inherited a relationship of eternity through Jesus. Let me say it again. A lot of people think that prayer is actually designed to get you closer to God. It, I cannot emphasize sufficiently that that is erroneous. You are in relationship with God. You are closest to God than you can ever be in all eternity because Jesus has become you. You have the relationship with God that Jesus has with God. You have the relationship with Father that Jesus has with, that Jesus has with Father. Does that make sense? Lovely. So then the question is, what is prayer for? Now, if we go to Hebrews 11:6, Dean, post that for me, please. It actually explains that prayer is not to get you closer to God. Prayer helps you because what you do in prayer is exercise. Hebrews 11:1. Prayer is a faith exercise. Hebrews 11:6, it says, "But without faith, it is impossible to walk with God and please Him, for whoever comes near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He rewards those who earnestly and diligently seek Him." Prayer is a faith exercise. Jesus also actually, um, prayed. When I say a faith exercise, a prayer is a faith exercise in the sense that it actually gives you, is like a practice, a drill. The more you do it, the easier you are able to walk in faith 24/7. What you do in prayer is accept the realities of God in the spiritual realm as your physical reality. Does that make sense? Lovely. So you're not getting closer to God. What you're actually doing is exercising your faith. Now, this became very evident when Jesus came, came out, came down from the Mount of Transfiguration. Do you remember that? When he came out of the Mount of Transfiguration, and they could not, the disciples could not get the devil out of him, and he asked, and they asked him, why couldn't they? What did he say? Because of the unbelief. And how did he say that he should, they should cure their problem? Mark speaks about it. Prayer by prayer. Well, some versions actually say fasting and prayer, but if you notice, um, by, if you actually notice in Matthew chapter 17:21, I believe it says, "pray and fasting." Some versions of the Bible actually has that verse in italics. That is because that is actually an inclusion of the translations that was not from the original text. What it did say, though, was prayer. All right. So to cure unbelief, prayer is not to get you closer to God. Prayer is to give you drills. It's like a faith drill. The more you pray, the more you actually practice connecting the reality of God in the spirit realm to your physical body. I cannot stress the necessity for saints to go through classes like "seeing in the spirit" to actually see it and cause and actually believe it to the point where you cause your physical body, you sense it, you cause your physical body to actually follow what you're seeing in the spirit realm. And at that point in time, the reality of God affects your physical reality. Does this make sense? Say that last, that last line one more time. What, what I just said was, yeah, we're gonna get another zismo, we're gonna get a zanis here and put a quote on it. What I was saying is that prayer is not to get you closer to God. You are already closest, as close to God than you can ever be in all eternity future here. What prayer is, is actually a faith drill. So when you pray, what you, the more you pray, the more you are, you, you are practiced in making the spiritual realities of God your physical reality. Say that again. What you're practicing in your prayer is making the spiritual realities, just like in the "see the spirit" class, you're making the spiritual reality of seeing the rose and smelling the rose and bread, and you begin to smell it until your physical senses sometimes begin to smell it. It is at that point in time that your, your spiritual reality has just connected to your physical reality. That is what Hebrews 11 speaks about when it says the evidence, the physical evidence of the things in the spiritual realm, is at that point in time where that your faith is unwavering. Yes, Dan, hold on, hold on. We coming up, we coming up. We coming to you. So let's, so verse 17, now that we've made that clear, Diana, let's answer your question. Verse 17 says, "I always pray, so thank you, John. I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering in my prayers. I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom." Now, you already have the spirit of wisdom. So when it says "spirit of wisdom" here, there are two definitions for the word "spirit" in the Greek. Um, two meanings. One is actually breath, wind. But in this case, what we actually speaking about is mental disposition. Let me say it again. Mental disposition. There are two definitions of the word spirit. One is wind and breath, which is what you have, the Holy Spirit. But in this case, it is actually speaking about your mental disposition. So he's praying that the soul would actually coming to the mental disposition of wisdom, which means they need to renew their minds. "May grant you a, a, a mental disposition of wisdom and of revelation that gives you a deep and personal intimate insight into the true knowledge of God." Knowledge of Him. What, what does knowledge mean here? Very important that, that you get this also before we actually step into, to Dan's respon, D's answer here. What does knowledge refer to here? All this is actually saying the same thing that we actually speaking about with respect to faith. What is knowledge referred to here? What do we understand by the true knowledge of Him? What does that mean? Relationship of Him? Yes. Know Him. How do we know Him? Diana? Yes. Relationship. Vanessa? Understanding. Understanding where? How? Linda? We have His name here. Not exactly. That's not a response I'm looking for. Intimate. How? Knowing that we know. How do we know that we know? Linda? Through His Spirit. How? Through His Spirit. Steven? But your thinking caps here. Bear witness with our spirit. How does He do that? Keeping His commandments. What, um, read John, um, Vanessa. When you speak, keeping His commandments is actually taken from John 15, I believe. Go back there and you'll see that reading His commandments is not what you think it is. Living it out. How do we live it out? Shell? How do we walk it out? You all get Him closer. Come on, come on. How do you, how, how is that possible? How is that possible? Come on. Identity. Yes, Diana. But that's not by faith. Okay. But so John, when you say by faith, what are we speaking about with respect to faith that actually gives you any knowledge of Him? Let's answer that. Adrian, can you post the, the, the definition of knowledge, the Greek definition of knowledge there for me, please? Yes, here we go. Knowledge here is epignosis. Epignosis. That means recognition, full discernment, acknowledgment. Look at this. This is going to answer your question here. Knowledge is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association. Let's get a little more specific. Association: something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person. The process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories. What this is saying is that you'll have a true knowledge of Him by linking your, what you see in the eyes of your imagination to your sensations, memories, your physical reality. That is the true knowledge of Him by experiencing your fit to actually experiencing your, what you, by, sorry, I'm tying up my tongue here, by associating your imagination, what you, what you see in your imagination to your physical body, to your soul, by experiencing it through your sensations, just as we do the, in the, in the "see in the spirit" class. You sense it till your physical body begins to feel sensations of what you're seeing in your spirit realm. Does that make sense? Making it real to your physical body, to your soul. Does that make sense? That is what it refers to as the true knowledge of Him. Association. So what you see in the spirit, you associate it with your, with your emotions, and your physical body begins to sense it. You can actively do that. That is the true knowledge of Him. Making sense in the knowledge or for the acknowledgment? Yes, yes. John, right. So we're going into it. So here comes your answer, Diana, into the true knowledge of Him, for we know the Father through the Son. Verse 18, "And I pray that the eyes of your heart, the very center and core of your being, may be enlightened, flooded with light by the Holy Spirit, so that we will know and cherish the hope, the divine guarantee, the confident expectation to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the Saints." Adrian, can you please post the New English Translation to this? I will work with the new translation for these verses here. It is, it is in my opinion, um, one of the closest translations to what it says in the Greek. New English Translation. So Diana, here's your answer. It says, we're waiting on that. On the, um, Adrian, technical difficulties. All right, thank you. Actually, putting the full three points for me. Um, Katie, you point, putting the full, the full three points under the, the, um, the eyes of your heart. If you want, I, I can actually put it in. All right, thank you. Okay, Diana, here's your answer. It says here, had some difficulties. No problem. So it says here, everyone, just pay attention to the New English Translation of, of 16 to 18 here. It says, "I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation and your great knowledge of Him." In the New English Translation, it puts in parenthesis, "since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened." Do you know that the word "heart" there is the Greek word kardia, that means imagination? It would read, "since the eyes of your imagination have been illumined by the Holy Spirit." Lovely. So that you may know. So the following in verses 17 and 18 are the three things that He mentions that comes, that flows from the eyes of your imagination. Let me say this again. The following are the three things that He mentions in verse 17 and 18 that, that, that He actually says flows from the eyes of your imagination. Number one, what is the hope of His calling? If you, in the last class, we said that the calling meant employment. So the first point we read, what is the expectation of your employment? Number two, what is the wealth of the glorious inheritance in the Saints? This is speaking about physical finances, physical wealth, money, possessions. It flows from the eyes of your imagination. And number three, what is the incomparable greatness of His power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of His immense strength, which also says that the power of God, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, also flows from what you see in your imagination. What you see in your imagination by faith, you need to connect to the physical reality, and that is where the power of God flows. I can say this by experience also. I have put this to the test. Is this making sense? Diana, does not answer your question? Yeah, it does answer my question, and it's really good. Um, but, you know what? I would immediately, I would think that a person maybe coming out of the New Age or something like that might get leery about it, you know what I mean? Because there's such a similarity there in, you know, what I'm saying, meditation and things like that. So what would you say to someone who maybe was in the New Age before and now you're telling them this, and they're kind of scared that this is so close? Good question. I love that question. The difference is this. For those who actually have the Spirit of Adam, now this is undeniable because it is right in front of you. But to actually address that people who actually come from the New Age, you need to understand this. For those who have the Spirit of Adam, even if you take a look at the Old Testament, there are lots of references to the, to visions, which was actually mental pictures that prophets worked with. They walked from what they saw in the mental visions. The difference between those in Adam is that they do not have the Holy Spirit. All through the Old Testament, if you run a, a search for the word "imagination" in the Old Testament, it, you will get about at least 24 references to imagination, and in all of them, the Lord constantly speaks to, to, to men in the Old Testament and said that their imagination is evil. That's because the nature of the Adamic spirit is darkness. It is evil. It is death. For those who are in New Age, you will find that what they actually imagining does not come from the Spirit of God. It actually comes from the Adamic spirit. The prophets of the Old Testament were actually more, uh, able, or actually saw manifestation of power, or they were the ones permitted to actually walk by what they saw in the screen of their mind to actually walk after it because they had the Holy Spirit. And once they have the Holy Spirit, their imagination is now God's imagination. So their mind is actually linked with the mind of God. For those coming out of the New Age, there's actually maybe a, a little iffy as to the, to what Paul is actually saying here. Is when you come into Christ, you know, actually have to make, especially if you come out from the New Age and from those practices, you need to make a differentiation between your old and, and new. And here, here is what you, and here's how in Ephesians chapter 4, which will come, I think is in chapter 18, Paul explains that the, the, that the dark imagination is actually your dark understanding, which is the same word, the anoia, imagination. It is actually linked to the old nature, which means that when you come into Christ now, you actually need to understand what is the, what is the energy source of the mind of God? Paul explains, as well as the Apostle, the Apostle John in John chapter, in John, um, in 1 John, explains that when you, when you actually look into the eyes of the imagination, you know what you're actually seeing by actually the energy source behind what you're seeing. And that energy source must be, must be love. Must be Agape. This is why the prophecy classes in, in that, that we all do are so accurate because you're actually seeing into the eyes of love. If it is not through the eyes of love, you are not actually seeing through the eyes of the spirit. Um, in Ephesians chapter 3, the last three verses, sorry, the last, the last couple verses of Ephesians chapter 3 explains this, that for us to be filled with the fullness of God is to be filled and actually, um, have a true knowledge, which is experiencing the love of Father in the spirit and walking it out, allowing our, our minds to accept it, our souls to accept it as reality. It is all rooted in love. For, so for those who actually come out to the New Age, as I, as, as I always say, the New Age in particular, if you actually go back to the history of the New Age, you will find that the New Age actually took this from the teachings of disciples and incorporated, or should I say, not, not the New Ages, they took it. The new, the New Ages took it from the East, which is actually where it's tied into, to, um, Buddhism and things like that. And those religions actually took the, the teachings of the disciples historically and incorporated, incorporated it into the religion. So for the New Age to come out now and step into this, you have to, I, you have to actually, it is, it is beyond the shadow of a doubt that what Paul is actually saying is that these three things flow from the eyes, your illumined imagination. But you must emphasize that what they actually, what they actually want to see in the imagination must be through God, and through God, it must be love, the love of God, Agape. Does that make sense? And does that answer the question? Now, excellent. See, that is why the prophecy class, as I said here, that, that we do are so accurate. Even Paul dedicates the entire of, of 1 Corinthians 14 to emphasizing that if all of this actually must, it must flow from love, right? So to answer your question, Diana, your first question, um, even if you may be a little iffy as to actually seeing John in this case in your imagination healed, trust me, the Holy Spirit helps you. And here's how the Holy Spirit helps you. You would receive involuntary visions sometimes, and it is actually the prompting of the Holy Spirit for you to actually take it and make it active. Yes, exactly. You know why you're having dreams? I consider dreams. I consider, listen, listen up to this part here. If we understand that at the eyes of our imagination is actually the eyes of the spirit, your spirit man, or I should put it like this, what your physical eyes are to your physical soul and physical body, the eyes of your imagination are to your spirit man. Let me say that again. What the eyes of your, your physical eyes are to your physical soul and body, the eyes of the imagination are to the spirit man, according to what Paul is saying. Now, I'm not making this up. You all seen it for in the scriptures there for yourselves. Lots of times, what happens is that your spirit, God actually speaks to you, you, by His Spirit, when your mind is relaxed. Sometimes when I say relaxed, when you actually not physically or, um, consciously engaged in activities like you're very busy, when you actually become a little more relaxed throughout your day, you'll realize that that is when the thoughts of God, Father's thoughts tend to flood your mind, as because your conscious mind, which is your logical thinking mind, is not as engaged. Is this making sense? You have four brain, your, your, your brain waves, right? So when you actually become a little more relaxed throughout your day, like you're going through your casually and you're not very occupied, that is when you'll find that the thoughts of Father that tend to to flow into your mind like a flood. It, it, it's, it's just all over you. You, you, you might, you might even be able to actually receive visions at that point in time. So let me put it like this for you. What psychologists refer to as your conscious and subconscious mind, we refer to as soul and spirit. Soul being the conscious mind, and the spirit being the subconscious mind, which, what the Bible also refers to as your heart. So when you are not very consciously engaged, your subconscious mind kicks in, and that is actually what the Bible refers to as your heart or your spirit. And, and the thoughts of God flow from there. What happens is that sometimes we have a tendency, as we have been doing this for years, we, in our, the occupation of our conscious mind, which is the logical interpreting mind, God may have spoken to you through your spirit. It comes up, but you may be busy, or sometimes you rationalize what comes up in your mind, you know, when your, when your conscious mind is actually as, um, is, is actually dominant, when you are asleep, and when your conscious minds go to sleep, your, the, what God has spoken to you and showing you in your spirit is revealed to you as dreams. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Yeah. Yes. So when you dream, it's usually, but when, when you dream, what, what that God is actually showing you something, it's usually because He has spoken it to you in your spirit. But your conscious mind throughout the day is so occupied that you actually, the thoughts come into your mind, you know, it just wanders into your mind. A lot of time, you, you reason it, you rationalize it, and you say, "Nah, that." Now you dismiss it. But as soon as that conscious mind, that logical part of your mind becomes dormant when you're sleeping, everything becomes very clear. You see direct from your, from your, um, what God has actually already spoken and shown to you in your spirit. So I usually consider dreams personally as the spirit's, um, as the Holy Spirit's prompting, actually use it actively to actually engage it and use it as a point of faith to connect the spiritual reality to a physical reality. Does this make sense? Their dreams? Yes. Vanessa, dreams actually comes from your, from your subconscious, which is actually your spirit. I will tell you this, daydream actively. Daydream. It is your, it is the, it is the eyes of your spirit, the eyes of the Holy Spirit. Let me be more specific. The, the mind of Father is in your daydreaming. That is when your, your conscious mind actually disengages, and you begin to function subconsciously. You see, your spirit is, um, if you're rationalizing things, most of the times it's not your spirit. That's, that's the, that's the function of your conscious mind. Your spirit is, um, it exists, it flows. John, that's excellent. Yes. What I, what, in my understanding so far, what the psychologist called subconscious and subconscious mind is what the Bible is referring to as soul and spirit. So when you sleep, your conscious mind is, is actually asleep. You're rationalizing, you're calculating. It's, it's, it's, it's actually the, the logical thinking and things like that. It's, it's dormant. It's gone to sleep, and you begin to see directly from your spirit. Yeah. So Diana, what, what you, what you actually see in your dreams is actually Father, what has already taken place in the spirit. All you, I would recommend, even though this might be new, what I would recommend that when you actually praying, that you actively use what the spirit has shown you in your imagination and allow the spirit, the Holy Spirit, to actually allow your, your soul to accept it as a reality, and that is where your power, the power begins to flow. Does that make sense? Yes, that is awesome. That makes a lot of sense. And when I think back about the dreams and stuff, at which John, it just, it really does make a ton of sense. Thank you so much. Problem. No problem. No problem. Right. I know a lot of Christians will actually read that verse and because of the amount of information, how well these new ages and things like that, they run from it. But it is, it is where God actually, where you speak to God. Yeah. It is. I mean, um, are bad dreams for your from your soul? Vanessa, if you are in Christ and you're actually having bad dreams, there are two things that I am, from my, this is, this is me speaking from my personal experience here, because this is not in the context of this chapter here, but what happens is that when you actually begin to have bad dreams, usually there are two factors that you could take into consideration. Number one, usually it could be discernment of demonic entities around. That's because that's coming from your spirit, your spiritual sight. Two, what tends to happen sometimes is that what you program in your, you actually doing on a, all right. So then, what you want to do, Vanessa, is to actively stand up and command devils to leave. I know that they are not in you because Christ is in you. In this case, so usually it could be, um, discernment, spiritual discernment of demonic are around, right? And also another fact to take into consideration when it comes to, to, to, to, to, to bad dreams is that what you do on a, on a regular basis, the information that you program your mind with on a regular basis tends to become subconscious information. And when you put your head to sleep, what you have been programming with as a lifestyle, you see it. So if you are actually always speaking about demons and you're preoccupied with demonic activities, you are actually making it a lifestyle. You are not made, you are not designed to make that a lifestyle. You are designed to make the kingdom a lifestyle. And so you might be doing that and you technically, um, programming yourself, and when you go to sleep, that is exactly what you're going to see. Does that make sense? Since we have actually be disciplined, remember, remember, first Peter says to gird the loins of your mind. The word "mind" is also the, that means understanding, means to, to good, the procreative force of your imagination. So another thing that you take into consideration, that if you always thinking about devils, your thoughts come from your imagination. You cannot think without seeing it in your imagination. That is how you, you think. That is how you plan. That is how you live. So if you're always thinking about the devils, you're actually making it a practice to, to guide your imagination into demonic things, and that is procreative. It says that, it says that in First Peter, that's what the word loins there mean. It's procreative. So what you always focusing on in your imagination, in your mind, becomes procreative. You will create the reality. The saint must be disciplined. A saint of God must be disciplined. He must have a disciplined thought life. That is why in 2 Corinthians 10:4 and 5, because of what I believe Peter said, 2 Corinthians 10:4 and 5 actually emphasizes that you bring your thoughts into obedience to Christ. Your thoughts are rooted in your imagination. Does that make sense? Yeah. Everybody getting that? All right. So let's wrap this thing up. We already to March. We just have a little bit again, and we could wrap up nice. So where will we? Right. So we're in verse 19, and it says, "And so that you will begin to know what the immeasurable, unlimited, and surpassing greatness of His active spiritual power is in us who believe." Where does your belief stem from? Your imagination. These, in concordance with the working of His mighty strength. You need to teach a class on this. Actually, Diana, actually, that would be, um, I am doing Basic Identity One, which was in Christ Adam. Basic Identity Two will be on Holiness. I decided not to do Basic Identity Three, but to do Advanced Identity One. And Advanced Identity One will be dedicated to that. See, see, "seeing in the spirit," and in that, I go into a lot more detail, and I actually did put, actually put Holiness before the "seeing in the spirit" because there are things that we need to know about Holiness that actually would, that actually protect us when we see this word. It helps us discipline our minds. And yes, Basic Identity, sorry, uh, Advanced Identity Two would be on government. Me must be the Holy Spirit in this class. You all just actually identifying what is already established here. Yes, yes. John, amazing. Indeed. One mind. Yeah. Amen to that. All right. So we're going on verse 19, and it says, "And so that you begin to know what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His active spiritual power in us who believe." Yeah, belief starts in imagination, just as the preceding verse actually says. It flows from the eyes of imagination. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength. Now, do you all know that the working there, the word "working" there means actually is a, is the Greek word, um, energeia, that means energy. Or to be more specific with the transliteration, with, with, with the Greek word energeia, it means energy. Right? So the energy of your supernatural power. The word "power" in the Greek, does everyone, I'm sure everybody knows what the word power in the Greek is. What's the Greek word for power? Dunamis. Dunamis. Yeah. Dunamis. Then dunamis there actually means force or miraculous power. Now, there is no, there is no coincidence that it says these are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength. There's no coincidence that the word "working" there is energy. Do you know that the, what are the two English words that takes its root from dunamis? What are the two English words in particular that takes its roots from dunamis? Dynamite. Dynamite. And there's one more which brings, which brings everything in here. Dynamite and one more is this word Dynamo. What is a Dynamo? Yes, a powerful person. But scientifically, what, what is a Dynamo? Dynamo. Adrian, post the definition of Dynamo for me, please. Right. So Dynamo: a machine that produces electricity. Do you know that the power of God is a form of electricity? When Jesus said that He's made you, He's made you power, He's giving you Spirit of power, is actually the Spirit of God is, is a generator of electricity. Yes. These are in accordance with the word working with the energy of His mighty strength. Do you not that life? This is just some, some additional information for you. Do you know that life is actually electricity? The life in your body is electricity. You want to prove it? Yes. Electricity. Or the elect of a city. That's some, that's a nice perspective there. Electricity. Or the elect of a city. That's some, that's a nice perspective. Then a lovely perspective. So how do we prove that? What is life? Life is energy. Life is electricity. How do we know that that our body actually works with, with life, with, with electricity? How does your heart work? What actually makes your heart pump in your body? What makes your heart pump? Isn't it a pacemaker that functions with what? Electricity. Yes. And scientifically, what Linda just took the, uh, out of my mouth. Electricity in the brain. The Holy Spirit is really flowing here. As we, as we, I, I stand in amazement sometimes that actually when begin to engage the spirit of understanding, spirit of reasoning, that everybody naturally begins to flow the answers before I ask the questions. So your brain, just as Linda said, is electricity in the brain. Nice. So the, your thoughts are actually electrical pulses. If your spirit leaves your body, does your body have electrical pulses in the brain or in your heart? Your heart stops because the electricity leaves, and your brain does not have electrical pulses. So it actually, that there is a clear sign that life is electricity. Do you know that that, um, the Bible in Judges, Bible in Judges actually said that Elijah, if I'm not mistaken, was it Elijah or Samson? I think it was Samson. Drank water and his spirit returned to him. Anybody familiar that Samson drank water and his spirit returned to him? Or was it Elijah? I may be wrong. One of them drank water and his spirit returned to him. Anybody familiar with that? Elijah. Okay. Stand correctly there. Yes. I put it up. Elijah. Yeah. So Elijah drank water and his spirit returned to him. That's because his spirit is actually a breath, a wind, that actually is energy, that that actually has energy, an an energy charge. So just like in natural electricity in science, if you, if you touch water, electricity flows through your body easier. It becomes conductive, a lot more conductive. And so we need to drink water because water actually causes the electricity, your life, the energy of your spirit, to flow through the body with a lot more ease. Is the same thing, right? So when Christ has actually made us power, Linda, you better us start drinking some water. So when actually the Bible says that Christ has made us power, made us dunamis, what Christ has done has made us a Dynamo, which is a generator of electricity. Do you know that the Adamic spirit is not a Dynamo? It is a conductor. It is not a generator. So the opposite of generator is a conductor. It does not give, it takes. So we, in this world, in Christ, we need the, the, the sons of the, the, the, the those in Adam really need the sons because we have the, we are the generators, and we can resurrect, we can heal. This is the reason why when you lay hands on people, you feel warmth, electricity, and movement generates warmth, or you feel a, a tingling. That's because you are actually releasing the energy of Christ into the person. You are, you have been made a generator of electricity. So start touching people. Start laying your hands and release the energy. Restore the energy in their body. That is actually what causes the body to, to heal quickly. That's why it's called Christ is called a quickening Spirit. By releasing energy, it causes the functions of the body, the healing, healing capabilities of the body to, to quicken. It happens speedily. Does that make sense? Nicely. So verse 20, let's wrap this thing up. Verse 20 says, "which we produced in Christ when He raised from the dead." And, John says, "Do you have to touch?" In your opinion, do we have to touch? Vanessa, no. To answer your question, Vanessa, if you read Hebrews chapter 6:1-5, it actually says that the first elements, the first, the beginning elements of Christ is laying, includes laying on of hands and raising the dead. That is level one Christianity. I am of the opinion based on that verse and that in chapter 6:1-5 that laying on of hands is actually level one Christianity. The saint must proceed to be able to actually walk as Christ, which means the words that come out of his mouth, his presence, it must graduate from that into his presence being actually generating electricity to heal and to affect those around him and to, to actually bring the entire creation or to, to step into governance. Does that make sense? Vanessa, right. Laying on of hand, I said, is actually the first principles of Christ. That's level one Christianity. We must mature and move on from that. That's found in Hebrews chapter 6:1-5. Yes. No wonder. And water helps your brain to function correctly. Yes, Diana, that is true. We need to drink water so that will deete your important. You have important hydration and trace minerals. Yes, ma'am. Spot on. All right. So verse 19 and 20, as we, as we were saying, um, this in accordance with the work of His mighty strength, which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, Father, all rule and authority and power and dominion, whether angelic or human, and Father of every name that is named above every title that can be conferred, not only in this age and world, but also in the one to come. What do we understand? Well, actually, King James version reads, "for principalities and powers." Do you know what a principality is? What is a principality? What is a principality? A, well, the prince will be the ruler, will be the ruler, and the principality is the area in which the ruler covets, right? So Christ has actually been put far above all princes and authorities and powers and dominions, right? So the principality will be defined as the, the territory or jurisdiction of a prince. Do you know that actually, Adrian, kindly pre Daniel, Daniel 8:25. Do you know that Jesus in Daniel 8:2, Daniel 8:25, Jesus is referred to as the Prince of Princes? Adrian, territorial spirits. Yes, Diana, that, that actually refers to angelic princes. Daniel 8:25 speaks of Jesus as the Prince of, of Princes. He will also stand up and support the Prince of Princes. So if we are in Christ and in perfect union with Christ, this is your position with Christ, the Prince of Princes. Satan is in, in Ephesians chapter 2, is referred to as the prince of what? The power of the air. Sui, ask me, Sui, in particular, ask me this question on Tuesday, that Christ being the Prince of Princes, and Satan being the Prince of the Power of the Air, you have all military authority over Satan as the Prince of Princes. You can, you.

Actually, have military authority over Satan. Does that make sense? We're not hearing you. Okay, yes. The Prince of Princes, Satan is not your enemy. He is a subjugate. He must comply. He has more choice. You, you were breaking up. Oh, okay. Okay, right. So I'll just repeat what I was saying. I was saying that, um, Christ is actually seated far above all principality. And the principality is a region that a prince rules over. Daniel 8:25 refers to Jesus as the Prince of Princes. We are in perfect union with Christ, which means we share that authority. So we are the Prince of Princes, as in, um, in Christ. And so if Satan is referred to as the prince of the power of the air, we have military authority over Satan. He has no choice. Satan is not your enemy. He is a subject. He must comply. He must comply to military rank. If we look at all the Captain of the Host as the Lord, He refers to him as Lord, which means that as Captain of, yes, military terms, yes. Right. So you have military jurisdiction as a Prince of Princes, right? Authority. Adrian, can you please post the definition on authority? This is why I look forward to government class. You're breaking up. I don't know why I'm breaking up. Maybe I should sign out and call again. Take a big call again. Will that help? Just, we're almost right at the end there, Zane, so stay with us here. All right, all right. Authority is the Greek word exousia. It means privilege, force, capacity, competence, mastery. Right. We are seated above all authority. So we are the authority of the authorities. Also, authority here means the power to give orders or make decisions. Let me say that again. Read that again. Authority here as the authority of the authorities. You have the power to give orders or to make decisions. The power or right to direct, control the military and all of creation. Does that make sense? You have power to act, especially over others, that derives from status. The status of the Prince of Princes. The power to exercise control over all of creation. Does that make sense? Is everyone following that? Lovely. This is all military power. Yes. Michelle, go ahead and ask your question. I was looking back and it says he will magnify himself in his mind. And I was thinking about what Diana said, if he can magnify himself in his mind and do all these horrible things, how much more can we do if we know who we are in Christ? Do far away above than what he can do. We can do all the things of God, knowing what we know in our minds. That is an excellent comment and pretty much in line with what we were speaking about, that we are exist to the praise of his glory. And you, you actually spot on. If we can actually accept the fact that we are the, we are the jewels of the Kingdom, what the entire Kingdom stands in awe watching, this will just become easy. It will become very simple. It just, it, we just need to just accept it and stop fighting it, stop looking for reasons to not accept it. Just embrace it. Yeah, excellent, excellent, um, excellent comment, Michelle. Yes, acceptance is key. All right. Dominion. Adrian, the definition of Dominion. Yeah, we see Dominion here as, um, kurios. It means mastery and rulers. Dominion here has the power as authority or right as ownership to use or dispose of property. Absolute or exclusive use, control, ownership, or possession of property. The ruling or controlling power. There is a reason why the word Kingdom exists. Do you know that the word kingdom is actually a combination of the word King and domain, meaning the ruler of the domain as King in kingship with Christ? Because the word Christ means Messiah or delivering King. It means Messiah, which is the king. The king is in us. Christ is in us. The king is in us. And the kingdom is actually our domain. We have rulership over the domain. Does that make sense? We have dominion over the domain. We have the right. We have the right to exercise power and control. We are the ruling and controlling power in Christ, as Christ, in the spirit, as the spirit. Exactly right. He does not have a kingdom. He is that, he is in that realm. Excellent. Right, verse, verse 22. And he put all things in every realm. Or before I move on, just to, just to point out the word name. The word name there actually also refers to title. Now, we actually our Greek understanding of name is a name is usually for us in our Greco-Roman understanding, a title. What, what we use to identify a thing. The word name in the Bible does not refer to the name Jesus. It refers to the office. That is what a name is, a job of authority, reputation, the office. So when we say in the name of Jesus, the name Jesus is not what has power. If you read Hebrews chapter 1, it is the office of Jesus. When we say in the name of Jesus, what we are literally saying is in the lordship of Jesus, in the office of Lord that Jesus has. Does that make sense? In the governmental aspect of identity, basic identity of, um, of identity, our advanced identity, we will go into that. Right. So that name refers to as a title. So you are actually seated far above all princes, all authority, all powers, and all titles. There is no title in the Kingdom that is greater than your title. You are the title of the titles, the power of the powers. Yes, in the office and lordship of Jesus. Amen. Even when you say Amen, who is the Amen? Do you know that when you say Amen, what you are literally doing is actually signing your prayer as if you sign a check? Because the Amen is Jesus. It is Christ. So when you say Amen, it's like a signature. Christ has just said that. Yeah, Jesus is the Amen. Every time you say Amen, you seal it with the name. Jesus is as if you just signed the check and that's done. Jesus is the Amen. Everything ties into the Bible in everything ties in. Right. So verse 22, and he put all things in every realm. In, in actually what John was saying, all realms belong to you also. So even Satan's realm is under your control. And he put all things in every realm in subjection under Christ's feet. Even the demonic realm is under your authority. Every realm is under your authority. Do we see that? They are not exclusive. They are under your authority. They are under your feet. And appointed him as Supreme and authoritative head over all things in the church. As Supreme and authoritative head. In Christ, you are Supreme with Christ. Isaiah 53 refers to us, the Saints, as the mighty. Anybody familiar with that? Isaiah 53, the end of the chapter calls us the mighty. We are the seed of Father. Father is mighty. We are the mighty also. Appointment here also refers to to the definition to choose someone to have a particular job, to give someone a position or duty that is given by Father's Royal due, Royal positioning, to decide or establish something in an official way. And head to place of, to place of leadership, honor, or command, to be the leader or director of. You are the leaders in Christ. We are leaders and the directors of all realms. Yeah. And last verse, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all things in all believers. Adrian, I just decided for this verse in particular, the latter, the latter three verses or four verses, I took this from the Message translation, which is very accurate to what it says in the Greek, what it actually means in the Greek. And it says, "All this energy issues from Christ. God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe. Everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from this rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of all. Has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. Listen up here for this sex, for this, for this, um, the last, the last part of this of of this excerpt here, brothers and sisters, the church, you see, is not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, individually as well as corporately, in which He speaks. Christ has become us. We even sign our prayers by saying Amen, by which He fills everything, which He speaks and acts, by which He fills everything with His presence." Note that this says that the world is peripheral to the church. This, you can actually look at as the conclusion of this chapter to show that you have governmental position, military position, and everything surrounds you. We have the power to to to speak governments into position in the Kingdom and to take away the authority. We have the power to to to move galaxies. All of this is in Christ. So just as Vanessa said, acceptance is the key. Acceptance is the key. It is right in front of you. I will now open the mic for thoughts. We have come to the end of chapter 1 in 2 hours and a half on the dot. I, I, I based on on the on the on the on the flow of this class, I believe in future, Ephesians chapter 1 would actually need to be carried on two days to cover all, all of the information when necessary. Might I make a suggestion, Zane? Um, what you just read in the Message was like, wow, that's incredible translation of all this. Um, could we get somebody who really reads well, uh, maybe to read the whole chapter? Well, in, in the Message, that's an excellent, excellent, excellent, um, suggestion. Uh, Diana, you read awesome. How about you? Yes, we could end with, we could actually end the session with that. Read the entire chapter in Message. I love that. The Message, you actually, you, you actually took, you know, John again, the Holy Spirit, that was actually the last item on on my agenda here. One mind, boy, one mind. So Diana, [Music] sure. Is your, okay, I just pulled it up. Okay, so Ephesians 1 in the Message. I, Paul, am under God's plan as an apostle, a special agent of Christ Jesus, writing to you faithful believers in Ephesus. I greet you with the grace and peace poured into our lives by God our Father and our Master Jesus Christ. How blessed is God and what a blessing He is. He's the Father of our Master Jesus Christ and takes us to the high places of blessing in Him. Long before He laid down Earth's foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love to be made whole and holy by His love. Long, long ago, He decided to adopt us into His family through Jesus Christ. What pleasure He took in planning this. He wanted us to enter into the celebration of His lavish gift-giving by the hand of His beloved Son. Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, His blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we are a free people, free of penalties and punishments choked up by our mis, all of our misdeeds. And not just barely free either, abundantly free. He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans He took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in Him. Everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet Earth. It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eyes on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone. It's in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it, this message of your salvation, found yourselves home free, signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signant from God is the first install on what's coming, a reminder that we'll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. That's why when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn't stop thanking God for you. Every time I prayed, I'd think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank, I ask. Ask the God of our Master Jesus Christ, the God of Glory, to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing Him personally. Your eyes focused and clear so that you can see exactly what it is He is calling you to do. Grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life He has for His followers. Oh, the utter extravagance of His work in us who trust Him, endless energy, boundless strength. All this energy issues from Christ. God raised Him from death and set Him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe. Everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from this rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of all. Has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which He speaks and acts, by which He fills everything with His presence. Awesome. Thank you, Diana. That's awesome, awesome. That seals everything that we have covered in the last, well, today and also on Tuesday. Right. So I will now, as we will, um, as we've come to the end of this, I am now opening the floor for any, any and everyone on mute, unmute and give your thoughts, comments. How is chapter 1? Yes, Diana, actually, that translation is very, is, um, it's very detailed with the implications of the actual text in the Greek. Yeah, yeah. So feel free to unmute anyone. Come on. We went through this study. I did a lot, lots of speaking, lots of talking. Come on. Well, one thing is, I like where it says the, the utter extravagance of his work is, you know, work in us who trust Him, endless energy, boundless strength. Yes, sir. That's, that's powerful right there, sir. Man, love it. Awesome. Anybody else? Come on. Unmute. Don't be so shy. Don't shout all at once. Yeah, bro. Um, acceptance is the key. You know, we, we are more than we ever think we are. We are beyond our, uh, own limit, limitation, because our own limitation is our thought. Yes, sir. Our thought life. And yes, if we accept, we, who we are, who we truly are, um, just what you, just what you said is, you know, we, we are the power, uh, power of powers, title of titles. We, we can, um, um, order, order, you know, we have military power. We are order, have ordering power with, uh, authority, uh, of all creation. And, yeah, to think, uh, to think about that, it is, uh, amazing. Um, you know, it is, it is beyond, but to know that that is, uh, yeah, that is stepping in, uh, stepping in, in, who we really are. And, uh, yeah, I love it. Awesome, bro. Awesome, awesome. And even to add to what you're saying there, it says it calls Father the Father of Glory. And if we are His sons, then do you know that everybody should actually acknowledge that? This for, for Paul, for the Apostle Paul to call Father the Father of Glory, and we are His sons, then what we, what that is inferring is that we, and the glory of Father, we are the sons of Glory. So it's, as you, as you see here, in just chapter 1, this is just chapter 1. And in chapter 1 here, actually brings into into clear picture where you stand in and with Christ. Christ being here as you. And all, as you just said, bro, is acceptance. Just to accept it and to walk in that as your new paradigm. I just want to say that that brought so much life. Jesus, I'm over here. Loud neighbors could probably hear me. I can literally feel my spirit flying. Thank you, Jesus. Awesome, awesome, awesome. That's what we're talking about. That, that, that is what this session is supposed to do, to liberate all of the, we bondages. Um, can I just say something? Courtney, you sound so much like me. Every time I come into the realization of what this is all about, I go off in the Jesus and sometimes have to put things in front of my mouth to stifle the sound. So welcome to the club. Anybody else? Anybody else? At least one more. At least one more. Anybody comments, thoughts? Hi, um, I just wanted to say I can't wait when my shadow is healing people, just my very presence and my shadow is healing people and raising, um, others from the dead. You know, I just can't wait to be in that, to be moving in that. That is accessible just by acknowledging these things. I myself have had a lot of, well, a few experiences myself. One of the, one of the, um, one of the testimonies I, I actually posted in Advanced Identity, testimony was where a couple months ago, I literally sat in a hospital with my girlfriend's younger son. He was hospitalized. And I sat down in the hospital room, I mean, they were just monitoring him. And I sat down in the hospital room reading, actually, on the ward. And just by accepting my spiritual reality and allowing my mind to accept it as the reality and my body to follow, just as Paul spoke about the power of God flow from the eyes of the imagination. Within less than 12, well, it was, I reached there about 10:00 in the morning. By 6:00 in the afternoon, Kelly K could actually attest to the fact by just sitting there acknowledging that I am the son of righteousness, as son, as an heir, and that the entire ward is under my light, Christ being here as Zane, the entire world. By 6:00 in the afternoon, the entire ward was sent home. Kelly K could attest to that. It was something that is very unusual. All you need to do is to accept it and walk in it. I can give more testimonies. The entire ward was sent home. And the same when I left, it was just she and two other parents in the room. One of the children, both of them actually were suffering from some other, other, um, condition. And when I reached home, I, I sent a voice note to Kelly's phone and commanding every spirit of infirmity to leave them. And within a short period of time, they found that the, what was affecting the child just across the room from Kelly, miraculously disappeared. And those parents went home the following morning. They dismissed them. And they were in the hospital for a long time. Yeah, sickle cell, his pain was so severe. Right. They were in the hospital for days. All it took was for, for, for a son of God to say, in the name of Jesus, Spirit of infirmity, Spirit of sickle cell, leave now. I didn't even shout over the WhatsApp voice note. She just played it. They couldn't even hear when she played it. She just played it on loudspeaker. And that was it. Next morning, the rest was. And don't, I'm speaking about an entire ward. The entire floor was dismissed. Everybody recovered. This is real. Just accept it and walk in it. Right. If you don't see miraculous, um, dramatic effects, remember the Kingdom of God starts as a mustard seed. All you need to do is understand it and walk in it, and it grows. Yeah. So be encouraged. Be encouraged. But I don't think Linda, I don't think they know it was me actually. If they actually, um, if they realized it was me, they'd ask not to come back and shoot it. Yeah. So anybody else? At least one more. At least one more. Come on, come on, come on. Don't let me have to pull teeth. Come on. I know. Okay, I have one more. My thought, and it's just a thought that I was thinking of. I'm so, I don't know, I don't want to get sad, but it's kind of a bummer for me thinking about that it took me this long. You know, I've been saved over 30 years. It took me this long to get this kind of teaching. I've been in so many churches, I can't even tell you. So thank you. Just thank you. Abundant blessings and abundant love to that, to to you, Diana, and also to you, John. You know, every time I actually look at you both in the spirit, and I there when I actually pray, I pray for you guys too. And I look at you both in your spirit, all I see is light and glory. Today, I actually sat down this afternoon, and you all came to mind, and without me actually having to actively engage the spirit, you, you just came to mind, and a sensation of glory, like a glorious sensation, just flooded my body. And I know, I know from in the spirit that you all are awesome people, most genuine hearts. And I bless the both of you all. What you all, what you all have initiated here, it's all by the heart of Father, and the Kingdom is fully backing you, the entire angelic. So much love to you both and to everybody here, Linda, Courtney, Michael, Susie. And before, before we, before we, um, we go, I just like to pray us out. So I would like to ask everyone to just place your hand on your chest. And I will pray. Whilst I, whilst I pray, you will, you will feel the tangible presence of the Lord. As I, as I pray, just don't, don't, don't be afraid to to just testify or confirm that you're feeling it. Actually praying in faith, the same faith we're speaking about, connecting that spirit to the physical. So Father, everyone, place your hands on your chest. Father, I thank you for my siblings, my holy siblings. And I release your, your, your glory, your light in your life, and to every one of them, every participant of this call, was here presently, and was here. Those that were here, I release your light and life upon them now. Be filled with the light of our Father now. Be illuminated. The glory of the Lord envelope every participant of this session, those that are here, and those that were here, and fill their homes, the entire property. Light in Jesus's name. There shall be peace. Every spirit of infirmity, I command you, go now. Be free. The sons of God are free. And every prince of darkness, I command you to to stand down and back away. Leave every son, not only in this session, but throughout the entire world. Leave the sons of God now. I decree total and immediate destruction to your works, your plans, your attacks, your obstacles, your impediments, your hindrances. Let go of what are, what are theirs. And I release the presence of the spirit, life, and light, the glory of the Lord, in the authority, in the lordship of King Jesus. I thank you, Father. Be filled with peace and further revelation and understanding. I command the souls of every member, every participant of this session, and those who were here. I command their souls to be renewed. Every electrical connection, every circuit of the brain of their soul that is outside of the knowledge of God, I command them now to be to recede, to be raised. And I command their souls to line up now. I command new circuitry according to the truth of the knowledge of God to be formed. That this will, they will walk out with ease from now on. And I thank you, Father. Walk in peace and walk in strength. You will walk in glory, in the glory of the Supreme Mighty Ones and governors of all of creation, military leaders over all of the army and princes in Jesus's name. Father, thank you. Glory. Your I let you. Your your bodies be filled with the power of God now. Every tissue, every system of the body, repair, be healed, line up to the holiness of the Father. All holiness, go now. Thank you, Father. In the lordship of King Jesus. Amen. Amen. All right. Well, that brings us the end of our session. Glory be to our Father. My holy siblings, my holy brothers and holy sisters, walk in confidence, walk in power.