BUC Stony Hill | Men's Empowerment Session | Continue Thou, Men of Faith - Onto Fulfilment| Feb 1…

where christ makes free standing on the promises of god everybody sing and standing up standing standing on the promises of christ my savior standing standing [Music] i am standing on the promises of god oh sending on the promises of christ the lord bound to him eternally by love's strong cord overcoming daily with the sweet rich sword standing on the promises of god everybody join me singing stan dino standing up standing on the promises of christ my savior standing i am standing on the promises of god sending on the promises i shall shall not fall listen every moment to the spirit's god oh i'm resting in my savior as my whole in all standing on the promises of god everybody join me singing standing up standing standing on the promises of christ my savior standing up standing [Music] i am sending on the promises of god let me hear you give god a praise tonight in the name of jesus hallelujah if you are standing on the promises of god let me shout to hallelujah open up your minds and give god the praise beloved hallelujah hallelujah let me hear you let me hear you thank you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah at this time i'll bring to you i read for you a scripture lesson which come to us from genesis chapter 24 we read from verse 50 through 60 and i'll read in your hearing the label ambassador answered and said the thing proceeded from the lord we cannot speak unto thee bad or good behold rebecca is before thee take her and go and let her be thy master son's wife as the lord has spoken and it came to pass that when abram's servant earned their words he worshipped the lord bowing himself to the earth and the servant brought forth jewels of silver and jews of gold and rayment and gave them to rebecca he gave also to their brother and her mother precious things and they did eat and drink he and the men that were with him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he said send me away unto my master and her brother and your mother said let the damsel abide with us a few days at least 10 after that she shall go and he said unto them hinder me not see the lord as prospered by way send me a way that i may go to my master and they said we will call the damsel and inquire at her mouth and they call rebecca and say unto her will thou go with this man and she said i will go and they sent away rebecca their sister and their nurse and abraham's servant and his men [Music] and they bless rebecca and said unto her thou art our sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy seed possess the gates of those which ate them this is the word of the lord he promised to add a christmas blessing there hunter at this time i grew up in prayer with our men's president minister ricardo higgins but before which okay i i'll read and and and okay we're gonna pray with minister higgins before which i read the second scripture follow-up scripture second timothy chapter 3 verse 14 but continued thou in the things without us learned and has been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them this is a read of the lord he promised to his christmas in there until we're going to the prayer with minister again but before which i'll sing just the first verse and the chorus of him i need thee everywhere i need the area most gray shows lord no noted [Applause] their voice like vine can peace i need thee [Applause] i need me oh bless [Music] me now my savior [Music] i come [Music] need the oil i need me hey i need me oh bless me now my savior [Music] i come to me that's the name of jesus minister again will take us now to return of grace in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we glorify you jesus we honor you god we thank you lord for your mercies and your grace towards us we thank you god for life thank you for health thank you for strength and thank you lord jesus for your mercy mercies which are everlasting hallelujah we give you glory and we give you honor lord because we do know other gods hallelujah you sit on the throne lord and the earth is your footstool and we oh god the inhabitants are as grasshoppers and so we look to you lord jesus who is the author and the finisher of our faith our god and we ask oh god that you will visit us another time we pray god that you will hear oh god and answer our prayers we pray lord jesus that as we as we come together lord god in this empowerment session that you lord jesus will be here lord god that you will step in oh god today lord jesus and speak lord jesus like you used to speak oh god we pray that you step in lord god and let your words oh god be a healing to someone we pray oh god that someone who's hearing today tonight lord jesus will be delivered oh god we pray oh god that someone will be encouraged hallelujah we pray oh god that your name will be glorified today father god step in today and lead us by your spirit because without your spirit lord god we are not we are none of yours bless each and every one of us tonight on this platform for yourself oh god in our lives in jesus name we pray amen amen we bless the name of jesus we shout hallelujah can you open their minds and give god the praise in the house tonight hallelujah let me hear you open your minds and give god the praise hallelujah come on come on come on no you're here i know you're here i know you're here yeah yes yes yes hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah at this time after bishop and pastor bishop given charles brown yes to bring us greetings at this time in g is he was online i don't know what went wrong but nonetheless i bring your greetings tonight in the mighty name of jesus tonight we greet our guest speaker tonight guest presenter our friend and our brother minister andrew martin tonight just remind us all that after he's through presenting we'll be having our takeaways as well as our q a question and answers so at this time i'll present to you our speaker we're giving them enough time tonight to really expound on the theme so please help me welcome our friends and our brother minister anja martin in jesus name hallelujah by just it on your arm your videos your cameras on us wave your hands as you welcome minister martin hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah go ahead welcome another time god bless you sir god bless you good to see you good to see all the saints here from bethel it's been a while god bless you but for everything there's a seasonal time amen amen and i'm glad to be here tonight um and i pray god that will be blessed by the word that i got from god tonight let me start by sharing here try to figure this thing out praise god praise god praise god yeah i'm freaking this out i have one how do i share the screen no okay so i'm here no let's try to work with something um it's gonna give me a little problem here and say okay sure where's god you see it no sir higgins yes yes yes it's good no excellent so god bless you i want to greet you all in the as i said for in the mighty name of jesus praise god and i pray god that will be blessed tonight so the theme tonight continue though man of faith unto fulfillment and the scriptures we read just now was genesis chapter 24 from verse 50 to 60 and second timothy chapter 3 verse 14. i'll be focusing firstly on ii timothy 3 14 and i will see where god take us from there amen so the scripture says what continue though in the things which thou has learned amen and has been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them um amen now when i looked at the scripture i realized that paul was warning timothy uh about some dangerous times and we know the scripture in uh first timothy chapter three or second timothy chapter three um it says talking about perilous stand will come men shall be lovers of your own selves convictions boasters so on and so forth so paul was warning timothy about a dangerous time that would have come in the last day and you know the funny thing he went on to say that practically looking at the scripture realize that some christians are going to be stripped away by these perilous times and some others are going to go into hiding so i realized that the effect of what was taking place or what is going to take place in the last days a lot of christians are going to be uh swept away by the perilous times that existed during that time and we can speak volume to this i don't know about you but i've seen it um in the apostolic setting where a lot of people based on this what is happening even in this pandemic it has exposed a lot of persons we are seeing where they are who they are amen and is that a case where if everything was going nice and dandy it would have been good but when there is no church i mean and there's no there's no person's coming into the house of god a lot of persons uh somehow got swept away or some of them practically went into hiding because they were afraid of what was happening but based on what we saw it is evident that new of the options that that that that are there that i just presented to you is practically right for us so paul gave us a simple command and his command was that for us to continue in the things which you have learned and that particular phrase i it jumped out at me continue in the things which you have learned and then i want to encourage somebody tonight that they need to continue in the things which you have learned now let us look at what paul was trying to say to timothy uh the command itself is simple really to understand because when you look at it in the in the greek it's an actual verb that actually means to abide it simply means to abide amen so it's the same greek word that the apostle paul or the apostle johnson are used in 1st john chapter 2 and verse 24 and that particular verse says let us therefore abide in you praise god which you have heard from the beginning if that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you you shall continue in the sun and in the father so therefore we see where practically uh amen the apostle paul was using the same greek word the same record for continue is the same greek word for abide that is used in amen first timothy chapter 2 and verse 24. so the word continue in second timothy 3 the the greek word that always uses the word men no men know and it actually speaks to reference to three particular things it speaks to a place so when you talk about continue you must continue in a place secondly it speaks to a time i mean thirdly you can speak to a state or condition so when he was saying that it should continue amen amen he was saying that they should continue either abiding a place or a time or a state or condition and i found these three things based on the use of the greek word use of the verb that is there to be very powerful country in a place continuing that time continuous state or a condition that's what the greek word actually speaks to so in reference to a place it actually means do not depart amen i i mean to encourage us as scenes of the most high god amen that a lot of persons are removing themselves from the host of god they have found themselves outside of the place where they should be but in relation to a place god is saying that you should continue god abide do not depart from that place praise god and i want us to understand tonight praise god that god is saying to us that we must continue do not depart from the place where god has pleased you amen in reference to time you should last you should endure you should not perish amen so we understand that look here some persons are removing themselves out of their place but god is saying do not depart from your place god is saying endure god is saying do not perish irrespective of what happened fight for it amen in reference to a state or a condition he said remain as one not to become another are different as children of the most i got this is the season amen where the enemy wants us to be in a different state of mind you want us to remove ourselves from the place where you're supposed to be you want us to uh not last or endure the battle but god has given us enough god has given us enough uh equipment god has given us enough weapons for us to continue for us to abide as much as we possibly and this is what paul was saying to timothy he was saying that you must not depart amen from your place you must endure you must remain as one not to become another are different from where god has placed you praise god so paul was practically saying to timothy you have learned these things there are some stuff that you have learned you say you have firmly believed them so you have learned some things and we we can examine that a little bit more there are some stuff that you have learned i'm going to talk about that you mean you said all that you have learned them but instead you have firmly believed them and you went on to say you must continue in them which you have learned so the important thing is to abide in them to continue into them and to never let them go so there are some stuff that that we have learned in the house of god there's some stuff that that that's a place that god has placed you um in this season in this time you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this and god is saying there are some stuff that you have learned there are some stuff that you have firmly believe amen but there's going to come amen wins they're going to come doctors they're going to come storms that are going to try to remove you out of your place but paul was encouraging timothy that irrespective of what was coming on the horizon you must continue in the things which you have learned amen the important thing i said before is to abide in the things that you have learned to continue in the things which you have learned and to never let them go praise god praise god now you see another important word that jumped out at me which highlighted the point i want to make is the word but the sentence starts with but you said the word but it marks a contrast to what come earlier in the letter so here it is in second timothy chapter three amen he was talking about some answer before some perilous times he was talking about some hard times he was talking about some stuff amen that would have troubled us i mean but what earlier the letter highlights certain things to timothy about the last is but continue though he makes it a contrast to irrespective of what was happening in the past irrespective of what is about to come amen the book there speaks to our contrast the body speaks to the facts that you must move are different in comparison to what the outcome might look like praise god now i want us to understand also amen there are going to be approved and disproved workers in the kingdom i mean in other words he was saying that men shall be lovers of them own selves and i don't strongly believe that he was just speaking about people who were unsaved he was talking about people who were saved amen and all of a sudden they decided uh to go contrary to the things of god and we have seen this in the kingdom where men are beginning to introduce new things men are beginning to put new things to the kingdom things that we know is definitely not of god so he was saying to timothy there are going to be things that they're going to approve of and they're going to be thinking that you disapprove they're going to be workers that you approve of and they're going to be workers that you'll disapprove of they're going to be dangerous times they're going to be dangerous men in the last days you said there will be hardship and persecution praise god as you follow the lord and many of us can attest to this amen you're going to have some hard times people are going to want to contradict amen everything that you have learned from the beginning everything that you have heard amen in the kingdom people are going to go concert it but amen but there i put that in full caps you must continue amen i wonder if somebody could actually type that in the in the in the chat you must continue in the things you have learned so make sure that at the end of the day amen you continue in the things that you have learned praise god now the next question would have been what did timothy learn and this is where i want to slow down what did timothy learn what was the apostle praise god saying to timothy that he must continue in what was that person saying to timothy that he must ensure that he's not too shaken about so god is not just telling us to continue for no reason at all and and another funny thing about it i love god for that reason god god sometimes we will will have us to do things but in many cases amen god practically give us the reason why we should do it i will find a reason in scriptures amen we know that there's a god he's a god of what we call progressive revelation which means that he reveals himself to us over time amen and there's stuff that you will learn from god i will learn it over time you will learn some things as you go along for example amen joseph did not know that practically he was all he was going through was to bring him to second to the pharaoh to preserve him in the sea lion he did not know this this was progressively revealed to him but overall god still tell us some local principles in scriptures and give us some reasons however why we should continue and i believe that and paul was saying the same thing to three months he's saying look here he was not just telling him to continue the things which you have learned what he said he's giving him the reasons amen why he must continue it was not it was just not for any and any purpose or no purpose at all i mean but he gave him the reasons and he stated them clearly what they should be so let us examine some of those things from the passage from the scripture that we read and it's important brethren that whenever we are looking at scriptures we don't just take out one particular line out of the verse um outside of what the verse is saying above what the verse is saying below this is very important because it runs the risk of what is called i see jesus which means that we are pulling uh we are putting our own meaning on the verse amen now we don't want that what we want to see is what exactly paul was saying to timothy here's he used that contrast but continued though in the things what is paul saying we know the book there speaks to a contrast that would drop that junk total because but normally speaks to something that you're going opposite to to to what is happening in your past so for example you know you're going through some hard times but god we normally preachers normally say that which means that irrespective of what is happening in our past or what is happening in our lives even we have a god that is able to oh uh bring us contrary to what the winds are are blowing away we're able to swim upstream irrespective of what is happening because of god so bought god but there speaks to a contrast it speaks to the fact that god is able to to bring us out and god is able to deliver us irrespective of what we are going through so here it is that timothy says but uh paul said brought to timothy continue though in the things and he did state the reasons why he should so let us look at that particular verse and in second timothy chapter 3 from verse 14 to 16 praise god it says but continue though in the things which thou has learned and has been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them amen and that from a child there was known the holy scriptures which are able to make the wise unto salvation through faith which is in christ jesus all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reprove for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of god may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works praise god so it is that paul clearly stated what it is that timothy should continue in and he gave him the reason but let us try to break this down a little bit so it can make some sense to us amen firstly he says continue because of the heritage amen continues all because of the heritage so here it is the apostle paul reminded timothy that from a child he learned the holy scriptures and he learned the holy scriptures to the influence of his grandmother and his mother and we know who those were louis and eunice amen so this speaks to our apostolic heritage amen he's saying that look here from an early age amen from a long time he learned the whole scriptures through the influence of his grandmother and his mother and this also for this speaks to amen our apostolic heritage now what am i saying to us continue though by never forgetting the heritage that was passed on to us amen i strongly believe that the apostles pra the apostles they didn't uh struggle for not amen and when we look at the lives of the apostles and we look at what they went through and what they were what they what they had to endure to ensure that we got this message i'm telling somebody that they need to continue what do you consider in continue in the heritage that was given to us amen the heritage that was passed on to us uh better lights know about uh bishop dunn amen and we know about these the forefathers of your particular organization amen we we know these men who who fought for the gospel you talk about people like j.t haywood amen are you talking about all of these forefathers who who did a great job i mean ensuring that this apostolic message was passed on to us can i say to somebody that you should continue never forget this heritage that was passed on to you and nowadays i realized that a lot of persons are are moving for new things and they are moving and they are removing the old landmark they are moving some stuff i mean that in my opinion works amen and if i know something about god amen he has a way of when he says it's in his word it is forever settled in heaven amen if he says hold us you must live holy with all men and without which no man shall see the lord the principle still applies today amen and therefore we should be holy in everything we do now i've noticed also that in this season a lot of persons uh when they say holiness they're saying okay hold this only building belongs to the inside and therefore they it doesn't matter how you look on the outside and it's come like it's a new phenomenon that has been passed on i mean i realized that and it's a password i mean it is coming from out of this secular world type of thing where you just accept it doesn't matter how you look it don't matter how you dress you don't matter what the state of your mind is but can i tell somebody that we should continue in this heritage that we have had from a long time i tell people all the time one of the things i liked as a young man growing up and i was born practically in pentecost i grew up all my life in the apostolic church amen and and i'm young i'm 39 i mean and i know it's not a long time but a lot of stuff has changed from from i got saved i mean to know one of the things that has changed is that we you could have identified an apostolic from far amen by looking at them you could say boy pentecostal church you go amen and and and and there's a reason because they had a look they had out they had a way that about them that the way the woman pulled the hair and they used to say that apostolic hairstyle and i i know the old school i used to go to walmart i used to sleep on the bench as a child a minute before i started going fake chapel my aunt brought me up so like unison eunice and louise my auntie came to walmart street and i used to sleep on the bench as a child before start going to faith chapel so i know what we look at but a lot of people today are saying it doesn't matter and the dressing out of style and we started this on the back but can i tell you something brethren dressing is not just putting on clothes but dressing is a form of communication that is why when you're going to an interview amen you don't just put on any anything to go to the interview because you want to communicate to the person uh what the type of person you are if you go in an interview and you have on a raggedy dream and something the probability of you getting the job is very low let's put another way praise god if you are um watching a tv show and i don't know if better people watch movie but if you watch on your screen praise god i show i realize that persons who who they portray to be uh amen prostitutes you will automatically see the dressing i mean as opposed to somebody who is a virgin you will see them where they look totally different they probably have way less jewelry that the clothes tend to be long whatever look different and even hollywood knows it that dressing is not just dressing dressing is communication i cannot tell you brethren as children of god we have to keep that heritage know who we are we are a peculiar people we are a royal priesthood and therefore we should continue in the heritage that was passed on to us amen continuing it i mean i don't don't remove that landmark don't forget that you make this heritage to the holy scriptures what we have learned i mean a lot of people say boy it's just standard it's more than standard we met this heritage through the scriptures all these principles that were given to us i mean they were not was given to us because somebody faced in their head but i believe that it communicates more because people could easily identify that these people were christians i have a friend who has totally changed the dressing the dress code and everything and afraid another friend came to me and said to me boy is that is it that she's not a christian anymore or he's not a christian anymore and it shocked me because it speaks of volume to me amen it is here it is that this person don't know anything about church don't know anything about anything the person does see the dressing has changed and the thing that automatically comes to your mind is that this person is no longer a christian can i tell you some brethren let me encourage you like oh paul encouraged timothy continue in the heritage amen there's some heritage that we have that you could never don't forget them amen hold on to them you don't mean you have to dress like a like a like uh like you come from 1980s whatever but it simply means that your dressing should speak to christ and your dressing can speak to christ amen it means that your speech image should be seasoned with sauce there's a way that we as apostolic speak amen we shouldn't we shouldn't sown like everybody else and when i say that if you look at the fact that peter was with the lord for a couple of years as well and by being with the lord himself the bible said it is very speech betrayed him never forget this heritage that was passed to you never forget that you met this heritage through the holy spirit amen another thing that we should never forget was continued though because of the value so don't just continue amen because of the heritage but continue because there is a value that is assigned to what you need to continue in the possibility to timothy his heritage was able to make him wise because he was saying what you learned through the scriptures was able to make him wise unto salvation through faith which is in christ jesus and this speaks to praise god a heavenly wisdom amen can i tell you brethren there is no uh greater than than this in the world a lot of persons are trying to uh deny the word of god and they seem to try to think that what you learn in school is superior to what the word of god says but your wisdom even learned about 20 other subjects philosophy and chemistry praise god another subject it means nothing if you are not wise for salvation so the wisdom on the bible is something each generation must acquire for itself appreciate and then hold on to message again the wisdom of the bible is something each generation so we get the heritage but every generation must understand that they must acquire what is in the bible for themselves they must appreciate it and then they must hold on to it there are some things in the world of god there's some value that comes to the word of god that we must hold on to we must deliberately forsake any human wisdom that opposes or replaces what the bible teaches let me say that again we must deliberately foreseek any human wisdom that opposes or replaces what the bible teaches and brethren committing some of the stuff that the bible teaches that that the world is coming with for example i remember recently i was teaching a course um a couple of weeks back and i taught a topic on christian apologetics and one of the topics i taught and was the topic of truth amen i was telling them that you know the world has assisted a saying now that i mean you must do your own truth you must do your own thing this is your truth this is your thing can i tell you something it is it sounds good it sounds good but at the same time it is deceptive it sounds good that you must do your own truth do what you think is right i mean the funny thing about it one day one of the laws in the that is in the satanic bible is do what thou wilt is one of the first command that is that anton lavey who started the satanic church said do what you want amen so these things certainly come in when they're telling you you must do your own truth do what you think is right let me tell you some problems with that firstly if you do your own truth it means that you're relying on your own heart what you think is right and the bible itself tell you that your heart is deceitful and wicked so you can't even know it who can know it you not even know the wickedness of your own heart therefore if you follow your own heart then you're going to realize that it will lead you straight amen if you follow what everything that you think is how it's supposed to go it will lead you astray what you follow is the truth of the word second reason why we can't just do our own thing is because guess what happened the bible said there's a way that cement right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death you know why it says that it seems right it looks right it means it may even sometimes feel right but guess what it cannot be it's probably not the truth it's probably your truth but not the truth what is the truth the truth is the word of god and the word of god it what it stands forever so the word of god says hey it doesn't matter what you do a will always remain a amen come like the law of identity a equal a it will always be a that's the word of god it stands forever and it does not change it does not matter what human wisdom says as long as it opposes what the bible teaches we are going to not do it we are going to continue in the word of god because of its value amen there is a value that comes by going through the word of god it leads you it makes you wise for salvation and i like the fact that the scripture says it makes you wise for salvation that means that salvation can only be attained amen through the value of us continuing in what the word of god says amen praise god everybody no look at this the bible says sanctify them to thy truth thy word is truth amen what is truth thy word is truth what is truth thy word is truth if anybody wants to know what truth is truth is the word of god and the word of god is the truth let me say it again truth is the word of god and the word of god is the truth doesn't matter what the world says it doesn't matter what people say people say boy i love yourself amen you know no matter what other people say love yourself the most that's not what the word of god teaches you the bible says love your your neighbor as you love yourself now scripture but you see these things are very subtle and they come in such a way and they introduce a lot in social media and they have been introduced a lot in phrases and we don't even realize the deception that comes where the enemy comes in very subtly at putting in his thing but guess what happened if the wisdom opposes or replaces what the bible teaches then brethren we're pushing it out we are continuing in the word of god because it makes us wise for salvation praise god thirdly continue in your confidence of the scripture so paul wright reminded timothy a few very important points what we don't want to miss amen so number three continue though in your uh confidence of the scripture no problem and timothy are some few things in the scripture with us right now we don't really want to miss those the first thing he said it was he said all scripture amen he said all scripture what i mean it indicates that he was talking more than those the hebrew scriptures he could have when he said to uh timothy a few verses up about scriptures making you wise and so on he was talking specifically about the old testament but now he was saying all scripture not some of scripture not a part of scripture but all of scripture this includes the words written form on the foundation of the apostles and the prophet mentioned in ephesians 2 20 all of scripture what do we continue in we continue in all of scripture in your confidence of what the scripture says all of it not some of it not part of it not the pieces that you choose not the pieces that you like not the pieces that that stand out to you because you have persons who who like the buffet style i mean they like when they approach the scriptures i mean the things that they like they pick those you know if you go to a buffet or you choose what you want and you leave the things that you don't want i mean but when it comes to us having confidence in the word of god it applies to all of scriptures everything that the scripture says so the same was walk right walk right because they was talk right talk right because it was live right live right all of scriptures amen we can pick for ourselves and reject the other amen so continue though in all of scriptures it says continue though because the word comes from god and not man so not that is all of scriptures but it says all scripture is given by inspiration of god in other words apart from the fact we are continuing in the confidence of the scripture we are counting in the scripture because it comes from god and not from man amen there is some stuff in the word of god that are the word of god itself on our wall is not just for it's not just somebody that came on the scene and write up something but the word of god actually is breath by god it's breathed by god god himself breathed out the word amen all of scripture so all of scripture is given by inspiration of god this means that the scripture was briefed by god and there's a greek scholar this guy by by the name of dean alford he understood this and he said every part of scripture which is practically what we know everything from genesis to revelation there is a principle in scriptures for you you know not all of scripture is necessary for you to do but there is a principle in all of scripture for you to do let me start again not everything in the scripture for example we're not we're necessarily going to kill a terrible love we're never necessarily um we're not we're carrier bullock amen but there is a principle in even that that applies to us amen because we see what these things in the old testament all point back to christ they all point back to him so there are some little principles in the scriptures all of scripture is given by inspiration of god and we must continue because the word of god comes from god and not from man no no explain something there are there are a few skeptics that that believe that the bible would have would have um practically ended in their time so few people believe that the bible would not have lived out their generation i forgot the name of this this guy but i was looking for his name earlier but i didn't get the time because of of what i was doing but he believed that the bible would not leave out his generation he actually said that look here by the time he's a certain age then there will be no more scriptures around amen few skeptics believe that they will put the last nail in the coffin that will bury the bible amen but can i tell you because it was inspired by god it will never die there's a confidence that comes to us as children that we can continue in the world because guess what it has started thousands of years ago from first century and to this very day and we can hold to this day that the word of god has will not die yet it never never died the bible lives the bible out works and the bible all influenced all of its critics amen all of these men who have spoken amen against the word of god the bible has outlived them amen all of the person who believed that the bad it would end only in palestine and won't go anywhere it outworked them it went to wider places we in jamaica have the gospel people in america the gospel i've been to kenya i've been to small tribes and i've seen people got the gospel that's all influenced a lot of people a lot of us and all of us here on this particular platform can say a surety amen we are sure 100 sure that there are times in our lives when we're going through a situation and it was the word of god that influenced us it was the word of god that moved us amen to a place where we can trust god the word of god will never die so we invite any person who is a skeptic of the bible to give us another bible if you're a skeptic give us another bible something that can be more inspired something that can be more life changing and i can tell you no skeptic all of them over the ages can never come up with something that is as close to the bible none we have that confidence and what that's what paul was saying to timothy continue in all of scripture which is inspired by god it is impossible for any skeptic to come with something that is more inspired than the word it's impossible for any skeptic to come with any script that is more life changing than the word all of us cannot test that we were dogs and saucers we are strangers from the commonwealth of israel that look here our lives were messed up we are practically uh we are nothing amen and less than nothing and evil right now the fact that we have the holy ghost we would say we are glorified mudballs you know we are made from the earth and the only thing that makes a difference in our lives praise god is the fact that we have the word so but of course no skeptic can come with anything that can be more inspiring than the word continue though in the world no skeptic can come with anything that is more life changing continue in all of scripture because it was given by god and this is why isaiah the prophet said in isaiah chapter 40 and verse eight instead the grass wither it the flower feed it amen in other words there's some stuff that are happening we see that empathy the second love thermodynamics tell you that everything is going to go to a state of chaos amen we know that things move from from order to disorder so uh a lot of us when we were in our 20s we had our full set of here praise god we had we had we looked so young and fresh amen and by the time we start going up in it we realized that we start losing it even things failed amen some of us women praise god we look so nice in our twenties and we look so good and by the time we read sixty we large if you could only see me when i was 20 everything feeds everything go to a state of tears even the very the grass without today green next day be brown the flower field i'm beautiful as a roses as beautiful as a plant is amen it lasts forever but but there speaks to contrast but they speak to the opposite but the word of our god shall stand forever can somebody say continue in the word continue continue in the word in the word continue in the word irrespective of what comes continue in the word of god why because it's our heritage continue in the world why because guess what at the end of the day nothing can outlive it continue the word because it is the word of god and guess what if that was the world it was inspired by god continue in the world everything else will fade but the word of our god shall stand forever and forever mean forever it means forever it will survive the test of time continue number four number five continue because the world is profitable and this is profitable in many ways continue though because the world is profitable is profitable in many ways it's profitable for doctrine and that tell us that it's true about god and it suitable for imaginative and the world we live in and the world to come it's profitable for doctrine for teaching i mean irrespective of it is profitable for for all the things that we need to learn as it relates to the word of god it is profitable amen at the second phase for reproof and for correction it means that it has the authority to rebuke us and to correct us and we are all under the authority of god's word i wonder about the exposure doctrine or a conduct as wrong we are wrong again when the bible exposes our conduct as wrong we are wrong it doesn't matter who you are you could be the prime minister it could be the president of the united states it doesn't matter who you are the word of god is profitable for doctrine and that is teaching and when it exposes something that is contrary to anything the word of god teaches it is profitable also for reproof and correction amen it has the authority to rebuke us and to correct us and it's probably for instruction in righteousness it tells us how to live a true righteous life there is perhaps uh a hint of grace here because paul knew what true righteousness was instead of legalistic false righteousness that depend on on its own conversion amen so he knew at the end of his instruction in righteousness it actually puts you in a state where you can move to a state of righteousness it instructs you it brings you in the path that you need to go and anyway you can live a righteous life so we'll continue though because the word is not just the word of god the word is god is not just inspired by god but the word of god is profitable and it's profitable in many ways it's profitable for doctrine it's profitable reproof and correction and it's profitable for instruction in righteousness continue though continue also praise god because if we continue the bible makes you complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work so you have six points that we have told you about the country no because the bible makes you complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work when we come to the bible and and and i will let the word of god speak to us it does couple stuff when you read the bible i mean i just read the bible because you are you get about my time has read something but when you actually get up in your time in your prayer time and you read the word of god they allow it to speak to us it does three things it changes us continue though because it makes you complete it changes your life it makes you complete and transform you you can't know when people are in the book you have a way of registering in your heart i'm a way of making you i like molding you in the person you're supposed to be i mean i cannot tell you something about the word i got so it's not everything that is going to come in your life is going to be easy not every season is going to be the best of seasons but when you're in the book and you understand how god operates or you understand what god is doing in your life you realize that the bible itself the word of god it does change you it completes you and transform you it it's like and the word transform there is like the same word uh where we get metamorphosis from it's like they they they caterpillar to the butterfly a lot of our lives is like it's like we are here we don't realize that when we stay in the book eventually we are going to fly we stay in the book it takes allow our lives to change and can i tell you something the word of god of a way of doing some things that you would be surprised how if if it does allow it to change your lives and to work on us would be so much better off amen i always tell the story about the woman the little girl who who caught the the butterfly i think it was you know it was trans in the transformation process and it was practically in his cocoon amen and and and she brought it into a bottle and she realized that because it was in the bottle the next day she come and i just see him struggling to come out of the bottle to see him struggling to come out of the cocoon here and she said well it looked like he was struggling so why should he use her hands and she kind of opened the cocoon open the thing to let up the butterfly and in doing that what happened is that the butterfly never fly that butterfly was crippled for life amen because we realized that he gained his strength by the struggles that he did to come out that's how it got it's trained to fly that's what god is trying to to develop itself you know so the word i gotta tell you that they're going to be persecution in their lives they're gonna be troubles in your lives i mean but whatever we are developing us into people that we are ought to be have a way of making us into the men and women to the world we are supposed to be so the word of god never promised us that we're going to be blessed all our life it's going to be trouble free life but guess what the word of god promises you that at the end of the day god is going to be with you at the end of the day it will come up better than you were at the enemy you're going to be like pure gold at the end they're going to be like smearing up where god is going to you're going to be crushed but what is going to come from you is the fragrance amen that bring forth that sweet smelling thing in the nostrils of god but guess what as long as we allow the word of god to be our guide it will change you it will complete you and it will transform you so i'm saying to somebody continue though because the bible makes you complete and totally equipped for every good work so one way the bible transform us is through our understanding of the word romans chapter 12 and verse 2 says be conformed not to this word but be transformed by what the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good an acceptable and perfect will of god the perfect will of god is the word of god and the word of god is the perfect will of god and this is the word of god that's going to transform your mind no so i'm emphasizing the word yeah i have nothing new practically the word of god is what is going to change your life continue though in these things because that is what is going to make a difference in your life continue though in the world because guess what it gives you practically spiritual work that goes beyond our intellectual understanding and it comes with great spiritual power being uh beyond our intellect now when we continue in the world it's going to give you the power that you need it's going to give you the strength that you need it's going to give you the guidance that you need it's going to give you the protection that you need just continue in the world and that's what paul was saying to timothy you're going to have careless time coming you're going to have troubles time coming if we have a period of time coming where people are going to be confused people are wondering what they should do your heart's not going to be feeling them for fear but the simple word in the season is for you to continue though we say continue though means to abide you should abide practically in the things that you have learned heritage continue though in the inspiration of the world continue though in the fact as is the word of god that is going to change your life now let us look at a few verses that tell you why we need to uh what we need to practically continue in the world first of all it is the word of god that gives us uh it's the word of god that will practically give us the that will give us the renewed strength that we need it's a word that god is going to transform our minds on our hearts is the word of god that was going to give us eternal life so we look at uh first peter chapter 1 and verse 23 it says being born again not of corruptive seed but of incorruptible by the word of god we shall live it and abide it forever so it's the word of god that is going to give us eternal life amen so guess what somebody continue though it's the word of god praise god that is going to do a second thing it's going to also apart from giving you eternal life are it's actually going to cleanse you so the bible says in ephesians chapter 5 and verse 26 see that that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word the word of god not only the word of god not only uh praise god gives you eternal life but the word of god also cleanses you i'm saying to somebody continue though the bible says in ephesians chapter 6 and verse 17 that the word of god gives us power over demon experience by saying take helmet of the salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god i've read that scripture above there was talking about we rest not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and so on and so forth and he's telling us the weapons that we have amen as the word of god which is the sword of the spirit that's going to give us the power against demonic spirits that will want to touch our mind and touch our lives and touch our situation praise god it's the word of god praise god that brings us power and heal our bodies so the bible says when the evening was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils and he cast out the spirit with his word and healed all that were sick the word of god gives you power i mean to heal the body good the power over demonic possessions and devils amen it is the word of god it is the word of god brethren amen that is going to bring us spiritual strength my soul melted for heaviness strengthened though me according unto thy word that's what the psalmist said the word of god gives us spiritual strength in this season can i say somebody continue though in the world continue though in the things that you have learned continue don't shift to the left or the right but continue though it's the word of god praise god as goes the power to build spiritual faith in us so faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god amen continue though in the word because it's going to give you power to to to have that faith amen that gives you the fear that you need to endure in this season continue though onto fulfillment so we're not just continuing you see a lot of people start the race a lot of people start good a lot of people start fast a lot of people shoot and that's why you cannot watch the person who is beside you yeah some people start very fast i i've been in pentecost i i would say for a good little while and um i've seen many men who have come and seen many stars and i call them stars because they seem to to to shine amen in the in their season they seem to be going like 100 miles per hour they were just they were just shooting amen and in a liquor time we realized there was no more there were no love in the host of god they said where is that person what happened to that person it meant some mighty preachers some men who were were around and you're no longer in the host of god i don't want you to just continue though for a season i want you to continue though and to fulfillment don't let nobody detract you from the task that god has placed on you don't let but detract you from the value that you have when you continue don't let nobody distract you from the word that exists the fact that the word is the word of god and the word of god is going to keep you and protect you and guide you don't let nobody distract you you start strong finish strong amen but even if you start weak feeling strong better yet irrespective of how you start finish the aim is for though to continue though onto fulfillment i can't forget this particular race i i've learned about where a young man was running and um he he lost the race i he got some stitches or something and it was so happened that he i think it was even when jamaican won us if i came out clearly i don't remember the full story but i know that he hurt himself in the race and a lot of people would have thought that he would have given up and he didn't give up and he said well yeah come last already why give up and he got up and he was willing to continue and at the end of the thing when everybody finished the race and then he was still going on going on going and everybody watch him and he never stopped tv went to and while he was going on when everybody saw us he went to the finish line even though he came last everybody stood up and they clapped him and i gave him a good clapping because they are saying look here this man was able to endure that's the point i want the race is not for the swift or the battle for the strong but to him that individual and i want so much to understand you can continue in the world but continue on to fulfillment ensure that at the end of the day you mean when you die if you should die tonight not because you were a preacher last week it's not because you were a prayer warrior last week yes last week was good but what about tonight are you still at the place where you should be are you still on fire are you still unfair for jesus so as we examine our theme tonight we realize that it's not just to continue the theme speaks to the future results which is unto fulfillment and that brings us to the scripture we look at in genesis chapter 24. you know you know there's a powerful theme that we find in that particular verse in genesis chapter 24 paul encouraging timothy based on what is to come in the future perilous time shall come this will happen i'm saying irrespective of what happened but continue and now we are seeing a reason why we need to continue because guess what there is a prize ahead there is something ahead there is something to gain and therefore we find a principle in genesis chapter 24. and joining shutter 4 realize that abraham and sarah had died and what happened is that here it is that the only person that would have been able to give him a seed at the time abram would have been isaac and isaac didn't have a wife and one of the things that abraham did he sent his servant to seek out a bride for his son amen and we realized what happened he told him even silica i want i don't want isaac to have any wife in this area i want him to go back to my homeland and i wanted to so to seek a wife for her there amen and the servant even negotiated with him okay if i go back there and nobody returns with me he's like the old thing that i have asked you then will be broken you can't marry somebody but don't bring him to me but at the end of the day at least go and try to because we need see that we need to be pure we don't want to be mixed up our our our our of what he's seen the people of the land were very evil can i tell you some brethren um when they come out to the things of god we have to be deliberate we have to ensure that we know what we want in the kingdom i mean you can't compromise because of what is happening around you you can't compromise your standard your thing because everybody else is doing it i said in a bible study recently not because everybody is doing it makes it right amen you have to ensure not because everybody wrong you live in a particular life you've ensured that the things that you are seeking are pure are in line with what god would have and the servant says look here okay i will go that and he understood the mission clearly he understood what he was supposed to do and the bible said when you reach the land and reaches abraham's land practically he started to pray and said god he wants abraham to be blessed and he wants even family to be blessed and he wants the the the desire that abram would have am it to be fulfilled he said god send forth a damsel in and i want these are the criteria that i want i want that when i um when she come she should give me water i asked her she can give me water i should not wait only give me water but she's going to feed my cattle also so he had about 10 camel i think with him and said i wanted to feed them also and so the bible said while he was before even finished praying rebecca came to him i remember he saw rebecca go to her and ask her for water she said okay she gave him water and she said okay you want me to feed your cattle so instantly amen he realized that his prayer was answered can i tell you something the bible says delight thyself in the lord and he shall give you desires of your heart note a lot of people read the scripture and they said delight itself in the lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart they think it means that their desire is what god gives but when you delight yourself in the lord he shall give you the desires of your heart in other words because he gives you the desires god's desire becomes your desire so here it is that it is abraham was delighted himself in god and therefore because he delight himself in god god gave him the desires of his heart so god's desire becomes abraham's desire so when abraham totally servant to go and the servant prayed he was prayed in the will of god you can only pray the will of god when you delight yourself in god amen so instantly this woman came and she fulfilled all the prayer before the man he will finish praying him and the one was before him and it so happened that the servant blessed her and he gave her some some gold instantly gave her marriage things right away and this and and the servant uh realized that this was the woman that was for isaac and someone tell the story and the purpose of his visit to um to his family to her family that night and he stayed there overnight and he told him that look your man this is definitely the lord's doing he knew the mission he knew what he wanted he knew that this is what god sent him to do this is what god god's purpose for him can i tell you brethren we are pilgrims for god we must understand that this earth is not our home a lot of us digging our stakes too deep a lot of us building some permanent houses here but guess what we have to understand the mission we have to understand at least your god when god sent us to something we must continue though until it is fulfilled and it's going to be fulfilled at the point in time where the bible said the trump of god shall sown and the dead in christ shall rise equal to until then there is no rest we have to fulfill the purpose that god has sent us for no the servant tell the story and the purpose is busy no rebecca's family first wanted the departure the lead by attendees i mean and it's interesting because he's saying okay we're going to leave so he's going about almost over 900 miles away from where they were that's a far distance amen i imagine you just reach and go sleep i must say i'm gonna leave the next day and i'm gonna say no man stay for 10 days that's what the family said can i tell you they're going to be some things that are going to try to distract you in this life amen to tell you that go ahead and spoil it a little more let's do it a little longer you're not afraid of this right now give some time but you must understand the mission of god understand the purpose of god your desire is that you're going to continue though on to fulfillment you're going to continue to think that god has called you until it is fulfilled in your life in that way stop you're not going to give it a break you're not going to be like david who sat on his balcony and because he was on his balcony he saw bathsheba and about a clear state it was a time where kings went to war we are still in war breath we know we are continuing we're going to fight and we're going to fight till we die we're going to fight because we're not going to fight until the end this end is not yet without we fight until god has taken us out okay so eliza remained focused on his mission and i like the fact that even though the salute here stay with us 10 days he refused that and he remained he said he was focused on his mission and replied do not hinder me can i say to somebody continue though until fulfillment don't let nobody hinder you sin the lord has prospered my way don't let nobody hinder you let nobody take you off track like nothing no situation no job no no no family member no girlfriend no boyfriend no husband no wife irrespective of who comes continue though unto fulfillment our ultimate goal brethren is for us to make it to the kingdom our ultimate goal is to we start good but we're gonna finish better we start good or after make it over the finish line we start good are we not trying to run or race this race is not like a competitive race in the sense that um because brother higgins is running so fast praise god because what i mean is moving at a peace amen and it seems like he's getting everything i don't need to compete but it's not wise to compare yourself with yourselves not because this preacher is on top of the world there is a season for everything and a season for everything in the kingdom of god but we need to understand that not if not every sunday they preach amen don't be discouraged it doesn't mean you have to keep your focus amen pass never call if we preach every sunday every teacher every so never do whatever the cases it doesn't matter keep the focus let nothing let you lose your focus continue in the world and to fulfillment continue because there is a bigger goal ahead there's nothing in this life that's going to last forever but we know that is eternity there's a prize ahead of you and i'm saying to bethel men tonight i'm saying the better scenes tonight amen the apostle paul encouraged timothy to continue though but i'm saying put a look after continue though until it is fulfilled in your life i pray that somebody was blessed tonight continue though don't lose focus of the vision don't lose focus of where god is taking you don't be focus of the prize stay in the world stay in the book don't let nobody shift to don't let bob try to tell you that it is okay if it wasn't okay yesterday it's not okay today stay in the books fear in the world stay in the things of god and watch god elevate you and watch god move you amen move with god when god move your move when the cloud move the people move amen don't move if god if the clothes stand one place stay in one place the claw is moving move the club but at the end of the day we are continuing until all that god has for us is fulfilled in our lives and that's going to happen when when we are changed for mortal to immortality when we when this when this this natural body when put on a spiritual body and god is going to bless us god bless you right now brethren continue though unto fulfillment in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah thank you elda martin for powerful words and we are going into the question and answer segment um but i am going to share what i've learned from this session first so that everybody else can follow me those are facebook and youtube and in the zoom room can follow and share what they learned or ask their question while minister martin is here today i learned about the three things that we must continue in but the three things that we can continue in that was seen in the book of timothy and that is a place a time or um remain as one a position a place a time or a position so we continue in a place where we are we continue we endure in a time or we remain as one and do not be shaken or do not uh conform to the world hallelujah be transformed by the renewing of our minds no i'm opening the floor or the room for takeaways and questions so if you have a question or a takeaway something that you learned you can just unload your mic you can send your questions on facebook or youtube in the chat and we'll read them raise your hands and unmute your mics and go ahead with your question we have a takeaway sir what's the name no matter what is changing the grass will fade the trees will will be blown or whatever wrong situation will change but the word of god cannot change it will remain as my main takeaway tonight encouraging words god bless you good elder bro thank you um we have hands up and the first hand that was up is stewart that's brother minister part and stuff you can go ahead sir blessings blessings everyone but invinci martin um good um teaching tonight i have a question i heard you mentioned continuing in the world continuing in the heritage and you touched on some few other things the question i have uh as it relates to the heritage some heritage or practices that may have been passed in the apostolic or the pentecostal church um if they are not biblical do we still continue in them i got that impression and i wanted just some clarity on it or how do you embrace to continue going forward if practices of the heritage was not grounded in the world what's the best approach or how do you guide according to that bless you that's a good question um in relation to when i say apostolic heritage i'm talking about um things that are grown in the world i'm not talking about stuff that that are that because you have you have things that are seasonal you know so for example i know of a story where a particular pastor um he told his scenes at the time but what was happening and that's and this was this was seasonal so what was happening that the young people were going to to devon house and a lot of stuff were happening at the time and this was way back right when the young people knows long long time and he told he told them look here i don't want you to go and there's a reason because a lot of things were happening at the time and in order to protect them he was saying look here i i don't think you should go and if you realize there's nothing wrong with going to never knows and others would agree with that there's nothing wrong with going as young people and and but based on what was happening at the time amen he he he has the past or felt he was and it was starting for his practical congregation he was saying it was best for them to not do that all right so that is a seasonal thing but there are certain principles that are grounded in the world that are that are built that build or apostolic heritage so for example as i said before um the the one of the things that that that we that stood out for us as apostolic is that we we tend to have a different look and i see a different look it means that people could have identified us easily now you might say that is that is not glory in the word it is the bible says in peter that we are a royal people priests with a holy nation a peculiar people now these particular words if you do a detailed study on them you realize they the power that lies with them for example a royal priesthood if you study the royalty which i started to look into i realized that they don't dress any and anyway um they don't put on any anything as royal people and and and bible is lining us with the same type of people we are royal people mr royalty as royalty we should look different than the world we should speed and you can't know i have i've had instances where i remember one time i said before i remember one time that a friend of mine she said to me boy i can't listen to a sick people i don't even call the group she said i don't care let's do this are people they say why because they might look like christian that's what i mean by that as a christian never look of course everybody knows a christian never look no this was somebody who was unsaved this was not even and that's true to me even as a young man that look here even the unsaved knows that the christian has a look there is something that should be on you that speaks well there are some people that who are unsafe even unseen people when they dressed a particle away if i made a mistake i said boy that person like a christian that has happened i know what has happened because there is a look as associated with the christian and that's the point i was making what we are doing we are eroding some of these things and therefore we have introduced a lot of stuff into the host of god which is not necessarily um which which makes us look different which makes us not look different i should say with us mixing with everybody else and reminds me of the even the story of balaam balaam could not curse israel in kundalini course they matter but um if i can get the people for those mix and mingle in other words if they just look like everybody start like advice do everybody do blah blah eventually god will get upset and curse them and we have seen that principle all through scripture any time israel mix and mingle as they get too close to the other nations that were around them god specifically separated them for our purpose you never want to get mixed up with their god they won't get mixed up with their philosophy in a similar way god in a similar way one church to be a separate different set of people who should stand out and and stand out in a season like this even like this people are looking for people in this season to stand out and to be children of god i don't know if that's clear but as long as the principle is rounded it's grown in scripture and not all the heritage i've grown in scripture there's some stuff that have been passed on here i do agree with that but most of the principles were hedged in on biblical principles they were hedged scriptures scripture based and therefore those are the ones that we should hold unless they are scripture from back it up then we should hold to it [Music] it says what please let us know if your question is that answer your question or next question will co will be coming from missionary janet brown just on media mike and go ahead later okay we'll move on until missionary brown is ready uh evangelist jessica stewart jones cannot hear me i'm hearing you know missionary go ahead praise the lord again i'm saying it's not really a quest just a takeaway and my takeaway is remain focused in the mission don't allow anyone to deter you um we should stay focused because you know sometimes we allow persons to stop us in our truck and then we we missed out what the lord had in store for us so whatever it is remain focused to the mission thank you bless the lord everyone praise the lord jesus uh minister martin i have well let me just share with you what i've learned tonight from the presentation um one takeaway that have i've i think it's profound for me is this one it says when the word exposes our actions as wrong then we are wrong praise god almighty i found that to be profound because then it just um concretized everything that he was saying because he he said that the word of god is what will make the difference in our lives and he went on to even say that when we read the word of god it changes us it completes us it transforms us and so tonight that was profound for me if you are reading the word of god it exposes the truth so when the lies come then of course the word of god will explode okay so that was proposed for me i have a question wait wait sister isn't this the jessica this is sister it's the jessica okay okay that was profound for me but this one this question no minister martin it might be a little bit controversial however i've always wanted to ask it i'm glad i'm going to get the opportunity to ask you tonight and i do hope i'm great i'm glad your elders are here amen yes i do hope that i will get an answer tonight based on this teaching now i've seen where in apostolic churches um many of our women know are they are not wearing hats so i want to ask you minister martin is that an heritage that we should preserve let me leave that right there is it is it not all right let me tell you what has happened all right in first corinthians 11 and i was looking for that particular verse it it is based on this is based and i think the interpretation of first coming tense 11. um in my opinion i think i think that the woman's head should be covered and i tell you why the bible says if she don't cover her head it is better that she'll be um shaven didn't want to say here is given for covering so the scripture is talking about a double covering in the first covering is the here the second covering is a covering over that because if it was talking about here why would it be shaven if it was the hair that is giving us the cover and all the cover that's mentioned in the verse now that's that's one interpretation of it and that's the one i hold to that the verse speaks to a double covering that is you should cover your head cover your head but the the most north american churches um which is where a lot of people are pulling their then the theology from the whole the fact that the part of the verse that says the here is given for a covering and they miss the part that says that um if you don't cover here it's better you're a shaven amen which speaks to a double covering so myself before it's really it's really an in a matter of interpretation of the scripture and how they interpret that particular verse now who is interpreting right um let's i guess you would have to do some study on that i've done studies on it and this would be a whole another thing to go through the whole thing about the context behind it in the in the current church and what was happening in the first century and what it represented and all that type of thing and that would have been another teaching altogether but i'm saying in my opinion i think there is a double cover in there and therefore when a woman comes to the host of god she should cover her head i think we have we have removed that principle a lot of us um but you say i don't want to it's because i'm not from bethlehem i don't know what the teaching is per se but i know that for me and where i come from my assembly we do cover our heads because it is here there is a double cover in there in first corinthians 11. and we can look into it and if you want us to properly exegete that that would have been amazing for another subject all together another teaching altogether but i gave you my basic understanding that it speaks to a double covering and that's what i see um covering and under here through covering thank you so much mr martin because that was what i got from the as well and so it's not necessarily in bessel that i'm seeing it really but it seems to be a universal thing but thank you so much has come down from the north american church a lot of things that come down from that side for whatever reason um but in my opinion i looking at the verse i see a double covering there and i mean that's that's that that's what i see universe thank you so much i i want to probably add to what you had said earlier on too of peter speaking about being royal priesthood and so on um this might not be biblical but even the royalties when they go out the queen the princesses they are seen with ed coverings and i'm saying if they can be out in public and dressed a certain way then we too no because because what has happened is they originally came from the church of england and they maintained the same principles from that so you have to understand that church church over the years as a lot of things have changed but they maintain the old standard so the old standard that was across all churches was that women cover their head i'ma tell you stuff has changed yes yes right all right thank you so much i do appreciate this no problem thank you sister stewart we have a question from in the chat from brother annie fraser as a follow-up to minister stewart's question what position do we take when we have some standards in our local assembly that has no bearing in scripture and it brings a strain on the saints rather than lead into any form of godliness all right you see when they come out to your local assembly one of the things you and you should have a past or who you can have discussion with that's one of the things i don't know about all pastors but i don't mind so there are cases where if you if you see something and you think that is not biblical for whatever reason um i think that you should have a discussion with him um that's my opinion um ask him to explain to you why as i said before is not all you're not all the things that are there is necessarily biblical per se but it could be something that is led on the past that's hard for whatever reason like i told you the example i thought it was seasonal in the case of a particular church and the past pastor did it for a reason um through that little thing a lot of scenes young people were received because what was happening a lot of them they have gone with some things back in that day and he noticed it and god told him what to do and he moved on it and a lot of them were preserved it sounds weird but that's a long time um a long time ago but it happened so if you see something in your assembly and you feel that it is a stirring on you or whatever the case is in my opinion i think that it is best that you go and you talk with your pastor you read with him he should give you and he should advise you on on on how to how to go forward or why he says what he says uh yes i'm saying and it should your pastor should be somebody who you can speak with and talk to and and and if that's not the case well i really don't i wouldn't tell you what to do because not every church is like that mind is not you can't say like kind of reason with your past i think you should be able to do that and it should be able to in this because now we live in that time information time where people want answers in relation to a lot of things and then i'm not gonna say i'm gonna take everything like that young people are not like when i was young when i was young well i'm still young but when i was in my um a young just got cf age 12 13 back in the day all past i need to say is that we're not go there and we don't accept it we're not going to ask no question why nowadays the young people they want to know why for every single thing you know so it's a little different than i know but at the same time it should be open enough to explain to you why he why he would ask you not to do that or why there must be a reasoning behind him asking not to do something why i should do something if that's not the case then ask him if he can be free in terms of doing something because himself paul himself said here the leaders have to be careful that's what what are you calling the same snake you know because you know i was talking about the gentiles in that person saying keep the power that exists even in leadership because they can't cause people to sin by what you put on them but let me say before the best approach the first approach is for us to actually go to our past and talk with him and he should be able to assist us in terms of what to do going forward i don't know that's that's clear sir higgins yeah i'm sure he will let us know if if that is clear yeah that was a very good answer um i'm not seeing anybody else with their hands up so i guess no one else has any takeaways or questions and as such um sir martin i want to thank you for accepting the call on such short notice amen such a short notice i really appreciate it and i'm sure the saints in the room zoom and facebook and youtube appreciate the message that you delivered so actually today thank you for the study you put in and their delivery and we pray that the lord will continue to bless you in your ministry and in your everyday life in jesus name we also want to thank everyone for joining us tonight in this empowerment session where we focused on continuing on to fulfillment and i'm sure everyone can say if you were listening you were indeed blessed i was blessed i was indeed blessed uh i want to thank those on facebook and youtube who joined us we're seeing a lot of persons on youtube croning the word and agreeing saying hallelujah agreeing with elder martin is the word from elder martin thank you to everyone for joining us tonight and for the announcements uh join us again this sunday morning at nine as we go in the sanctuary for another sunday service and at 11 for our second service this sunday and at five for 5 p.m for sunday school i know going to hand over to our very own elder mark brown just to close off in jesus name as we end this another wonderful session the mar brown okay and the mark brown seems to have left the building so i am going to sister jessica to just pray and then we'll do the benediction and close off in jesus name okay let us free father we thank you for tonight we thank you lord jesus christ for this opportunity to come in this fashion on this platform another night to learn of what your word says almighty god as we are encouraged tonight to continue though in the word of god we pray almighty god that these words will resonate inside of us that it will grow hallelujah that it will transform us and that lord jesus christ we will be better christians as a result of it we pray tonight that you will bless each and every individual who has gathered here tonight we pray tonight that you will continue to bless our presenter we pray that you'll continue to download in him what your word says so that he can continue to teach that he can continue to impart your word lord jesus whatever platform he goes on i pray lord jesus christ that somebody's mind will be changed somebody's mind will be transformed somebody will cry out to the lord somebody will cry for water baptism in jesus name somebody will receive the infilling of the holy spirit and so tonight we pray god that you will lead us and direct us and we leave everything in your hands tonight as we tell your thanks in jesus name amen hallelujah hallelujah and abroad in jesus name god bless you beloved the best healed minister marty and all the brethren all the saints thanks for being with us tonight and let's dive into the blessings no one to him who is able to keep us from falling and to present us flawless before his throne to otherwise gonna receive a glory dominion majestian power both now and forevermore and the body of christ say amen for me a minute will take us out in jesus name god bless you beloved god bless you ender freedom [Music] my jesus [Applause] many will be there [Music] rising up in the sky telling this [Music] or is many will be there

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