So today I'm going to be doing a gamer pet peeves what pisses me off whenever it comes to gaming. Let's get right into this. Okay so I'm hoping at least for the most part a lot of gamers feel the same way towards some of these but if you don't agree with some of them let me know down below. But the first one here recently I have forgot about until I recently got my Playstation 2 and that is forgetting to manually save on the Playstation 2 because you're so used to the Playstation 4 doing the auto save feature. Now it happened to me a few times where I first got my Playstation 2 again but now I've kind of learnt if you are going to play a game that requires saving to remember to save especially if you did a couple hours of gaming you will lose all of that. It doesn't auto save like the Playstation 2 and it happened to me a few times right whenever I got it but now I've kind of remembered to be able to do it. But this used to be the worst thing for me especially on the Playstation 2 for example if the power went out or I've heard rumors and I've heard other people share stories where they used to have a Playstation 2 but never owned a memory card and they used to try to leave their system on 24 7 all the time constantly on and then of course your mother would go and turn it off. For me I never had that problem because I always had two or three memory cards. I don't get why people didn't go and just get a memory card because of course your parents want to save money on the electricity bill. But for me this is something that used to be so frustrating to me especially if you forgot to do it the next time you go and play you didn't realize you didn't actually do it and you lost all your progress that you did that day.  The next one here is when you want to play a game but there is an update so number one for me that this constantly happens to is need for speed. Other online games like Call of Duty GTA sometimes even though I don't play GTA anymore other games like that especially new games if the game has just come out. There's always updates for the first couple months constantly so usually whenever it comes to Fortnite it is once a week or sometimes even twice a week and you have to wait a little while before you can go and play your game. This for me whenever I was working would be the number one pet peeve in my opinion whenever it came to gaming because whenever I'd come home from work I'd want to go and play a game. And to realize there's an update that means I'd have to wait till the next day to go and play it because I'd have to work the next day I couldn't stay up all night waiting for it to download.  Sometimes for like a Fortnite update it'd be an hour. Other games it might be six hours it all depends on the game and how big it is for the update. The next one for me is when your game starts lagging and the thing whenever it used to be online gaming with friends and that's whoever was lagging the most used to always be called and told that they have the McDonald's Wi-Fi which was always funny. But for me somebody that has bad internet. Mine doesn't seem to lag too often usually if it lags it doesn't always mean that it's your internet sometimes it is the servers which to me is the most common thing now especially with Rockstar Call of Duty all the ones like that. Typically it is a server issue and if you go online you'll be able to see that it is in a server issue and everyone's experienced this.   The next one here is when you get a new game but have no space to download it now for me I don't have that problem anymore because I have went out and purchased an external hard drive for my PlayStation 4 and whenever the PlayStation 5 comes out or if I want to use that for any other device I can just simply unplug it and plug it into another device. I can use it for any system pretty much is why I wanted this one I didn't want to get an internal one because that meant I'd only be able to use it for that specific device. So that's definitely something that doesn't happen to me anymore because if I want to go and get a game which I always download the free games every month I always seem to get games on the PlayStation Store whenever they're on sale. Or if there is a new game that comes out that I really want whenever it's on sale I'll go and purchase it. So I never have that problem with space but whenever I didn't have my external hard drive I used to always have to sit there and think what game can I delete which game do I not play the most anymore and I'll just go and delete it off my system. That means I'll never get a chance to play it anymore but that was the only way I used to be able to do it back then. Now I'm able to keep all the games on my PS4 until my external hard drive gets full which right now it's a 3TB hard drive. It's about halfway full but it's going to be a long time until it's full so the next one here is when you did what it said to complete a trophy but the trophy doesn't show. So I did this recently on Onrush. Onrush was a free game a couple months ago it came out in 2018 and it became a free PS Plus game in 2019 I want to say. Maybe January maybe it was at the end of 2018 I can't remember but for this game there's one trophy which is called the Vomit Comet.  And on Onrush it is extremely hard because there's only one map that lets you to do this only one spot on that map and only one vehicle. And for me I did it at least 20 to 30 times maybe even more and I eventually got it to do it but I remember while trying to do that trophy I did it at least twice where I counted each time that it spinned and it didn't trigger the trophy. So by the third time that I actually got it to do it after playing it for a couple hours I got the trophy to pop but some video games you know you did it but the trophy doesn't pop. In certain video games where it's kind of a progress one that once you pass a certain point if you didn't do that trophy you can't get it until you do a second play through. If those trophies don't pop it used to suck but for me I never really had that problem too often. The next one is EV games trade in credit. Now for me I was never one to go and trade my games in. I used to have a friend that anytime that a new game would come out he would go and trade a bunch of his old games to be able to get the new game. Now for me you would make a lot more money back if you just posted those video games online and tried to sell them yourself. EV games and GameStop in the US gives you almost next to nothing for your video games. The number one thing for me is whenever I got my PS4 it included Black Ops 4 which I knew I didn't want. They were only going to give me $30 credit for Black Ops 4 if I gave it back to them. Then they were going to be able to go and turn that around and sell it for $80 because over here a brand new video game in Canada costs $80. They were going to give me $30 and then they were going to be able to go and turn it over and sell it for $80 because it was still sealed. I was like no I'm not going to do that. So I went home and a week later I sold it online for $50 on my own. For me it's not worth going and trading into EV games. I would honestly just wait and that's what I do. I wait until something's on sale and then go into it because you get next to nothing when you trade in value. The next one is for me console wars, PlayStation vs Xbox and then even more so now gaming in general console vs PC. I just don't understand it. I don't get why there is console wars. My opinion play whatever system you want. If you want to play consoles go ahead and play consoles. If you want PC play PC. If you want PlayStation play PlayStation. If you want Xbox play Xbox. To me I don't argue with people that agree with Xbox and I don't say that PlayStation is better because I've only owned PlayStation. But the reason why for PlayStation over Xbox and over PC is because I'm used to the controllers. I'm used to the way that PlayStation works. I've always used PlayStation whenever I was young. I had a PlayStation 1 up to my current PlayStation 4. I've had every system. I've used every system I've played on every system. I'm used to PlayStation. There's no point in my opinion to switch over to Xbox now because it would take me a while to get used to it. So for me I'd rather just stick with something that I'm used to and that I enjoy playing. I enjoy my PlayStation. But that doesn't mean I go and tell somebody that is an Xbox fan that PlayStation is better. I've only ever had PlayStation. Now I prefer PlayStation over Xbox for other reasons as well. But to me I don't get console wars and I don't get PC vs consoles. Play whatever you want to play.  I just don't agree with console wars. And the last pet peeve that I have whenever it comes to gaming is micro transactions in video games. I honestly hate them. I never purchase them. You guys probably know what I'm talking about. Grand Theft Auto buying the shark cards. Games like Call of Duty or anything like that that has you buy coins within the game. Virtual currency in specific games and if they have you purchase it that way. I hate that. And especially Fortnite where the only thing that you can get with this stuff is cosmetic stuff. It doesn't affect how you play the game. It doesn't give you any advantages. Fortnite makes a killing on micro transactions where the game was free. So I do understand that. But I've never spent a dime on Fortnite and I'm pretty good at Fortnite. I do enjoy playing the game and I'm decent at it. But it doesn't give you any advantages. So I'm 100% against micro transaction.  Never purchased anything micro transactions before just because I'd rather earn the money in the game. Micro transactions you don't basically lose too much if you don't get micro transactions. You still get to enjoy the game. You just might miss out on some exclusive stuff or certain things like that. For GTA I used to always make my money. I mean my friends used to make millions of money on there. Why go and waste real money to buy fake money? I never agree with that. I never used to take part in that. I honestly was always frustrated with that and that was the worst thing about video games. Honestly now a lot of video games are going more micro currency forward and I hate that. But to me if they're going to go more micro currency forward the game itself should be a little bit cheaper in my opinion. Because if they are expecting to make a lot more money with micro currencies they can charge a little bit less for the video games themselves.  So these are my pet piece. I also would like to include squeakers. I only do online gaming with my friend Jack and we'll basically go on the mic that way. Otherwise I am not on the mic and I usually have my mic where you can hear people talk to you turned off on whatever game I'm playing. Usually I'll go into a party on the PlayStation but I won't connect my mic and that will basically block out listening to anybody online. So I typically don't listen to anybody online unless Jack's online I'll connect my mic that way. But these have been some of my pet piece. Comment down below if there's any that you are as a gamer. It is a pet peeve of yours whenever it comes to gaming. I might have missed a few but these are my top pet piece whenever it comes to gaming. I hope you guys did enjoy. I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


Okay. The recording is on. Abinash, could you pray please and we will start. Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay, let's pray. Our Grace is Heavenly Father. We thank you for this beautiful day, beautiful time, Father God, in your presence, Lord Jesus. We are here, Lord Jesus, with one accord and one mind, Lord Jesus, to praise you, to worship you, to learn your word, Father God.  As we are going to learn about us, human spirit, Father God, help us to relate the things, Father God, which is written in the Bible, Father God, so that we can learn more and more about you, Father God. We praise you, Master. We submit this day and we submit the pastor, our sister, your mighty hand, Jesus, as he is speaking, Father God, help him speak in a deeper way, Father God, in a truthful way, Father God, in a new revelation with Jesus. We praise you, Master. We worship you, Lord Jesus. We give thanks to you, Father God. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you, Master. Amen. Thank you. All right. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to BC 214, Developing the Human Spirit. Last week we missed our class. I didn't do the class. So let's move forward. Today we're going to get into the next chapter, chapter 5. I haven't really finished the notes, so I'm just going to talk first and then complete typing of the notes, and I'll share it with you subsequently. But in this fifth chapter, what I want to do or share with us is start talking to us about how the human spirit interacts with the spiritual realm. So that's what people talk about in chapter 5. And then in chapter 6, which is the next chapter, we want to talk about, let me see what I put down. We want to talk about the faculties of the human spirit. We want to cover that, and then subsequently we want to cover the functions of the human spirit. And yeah, so those will be the two main topics. And then we'll close off the course talking a little bit about imparting and reproducing spirit to spirit. So those are the three main sections we want to cover. Just to repeat, we're going to talk right now today about the human spirit and its interactions with the spiritual realm to get some understanding on it. Then after we do that, we're going to go into talking about the faculties of the human spirit. So we'll cover that. Then we will talk about the functions of the human spirit. Okay, so those are three of the main sections we want to cover before we finish this course. Now in this chapter, chapter 5, maybe talking about the human spirit and its interactions with the spiritual realm, I want to focus mainly on the born-again human spirit. We're not too much interested in what happens on the other side. Now, you know, we know that we are spiritual beings and God has created us with the capacity to interact with the spiritual realm, that is the unseen realm. And in the spiritual realm, there is God and the angels, kingdom of light, but there's also darkness. There are Satan and his demon spirits, demonic powers. Now people have the capacity to engage with the spiritual realm, either with God or with the dark side. So there are people, human beings, who have developed their ability to interact with the dark side with demonic spirits through, you know, various practices. And we're not interested in that. We are aware that that is possible. We are aware that people do that and they derive, you know, various things through that. But that's not what we're going to explore. What we want to understand is how does our born-again human spirit interact with the spiritual realm? Now maybe we'll talk a little bit about the dark side, just to be aware of it, but that's not what we want to explore. What we want to explore is do we see in the Bible about how the born-again spirit, that means a believer, how does he engage with God, the spiritual realm, with God, who is spirit? So at the very beginning, we said, you know, God is spirit and when we engage with God, when we interact with God or fellowship with God, it is primarily spirit to spirit, spiritually. So we are not fellowshiping with God physically. You can't shake hands with God. You know, you can't sit physically next to him and talk to him. You can't do that. But we relate to God, spirit to spirit. And so our interactions with God are really in the spiritual realm, spirit to spirit. And so I want us to understand that so that when we understand that dynamic, we can of course stand to benefit. We can stand to interact with God or engage with God or fellowship with God in a much better way. So it becomes a little bit more meaningful as we engage with God. So that's what we want to do in this chapter, the human spirit and its interactions with the spiritual realm. Our focus is on the born-again human spirit as a believer. We will just mention a few things about what happens with the dark side, which is, you know, people who connect with demonic powers. Get aware of that. Now I want to summarize four main things. Let me type it out here. These four important things. Now we're talking from the perspective of a believer. I'll give you the notes for these things. I'm just kind of developing the content. So it's not in a form that I want to release to you yet. But I'll just go ahead and speak first and then type it out and give it to you in a little bit more complete form. But in me, these are four things that we must understand and how God, who is spirit, engages with us in our born-again human spirit. So we are focusing on that, the born-again human spirit. So wherever in these four sentences, when I put spirit with small s, I'm referring to the born-again spirit, the spirit of a believer. The spirit of the capitalist, of course, refers to the Holy Spirit, God, who is spirit. So these four things, and these are actually very simple, but we need to understand it. And then we will get into a little deeper, that is, we get into the faculties of the spirit, because it is through these faculties that the Holy Spirit interacts or communicates with our human spirit. So for example, and we'll probably repeat this when we get into the next section, we talk about the faculties. For example, our human body, you all understand, our human body has five main senses, like what we see, smell, hear, feel, taste. And through these five senses, we actually connect with the whole entire natural realm. So we have five channels of input, that's all. But through these five channels of input, we are connecting to the entire, I mean, everything in the natural realm, we experience through these five channels of input. And of course, it's a very complex interaction of these five channels. So when you're you're seeing, you're feeling, you're hearing, you can, you know, smell, sometimes taste, and all that comes into an experience or comes into our learning or understanding. Similarly, the human spirit has five faculties at least. And it is through these five faculties that God who is spirit communicates to the human spirit, the person, the inner person, God who is spirit communicates through these. So we need to understand how these faculties operate and how these spiritual faculties engage with the spiritual realm so that God can communicate, which we will do in the next section. But right now, I want us to understand these four important things, that how the spiritual realm, God who is spirit interacts with our human spirit. So number one, the spirit, which has got the Holy Spirit, who has got the Holy Spirit, bears witness with our spirit. Now, we understand this, or let's go first to first Corinthians chapter two. I'll put this in the notes, first Corinthians chapter two. Now, let's look at verses 11 and 12, please. First Corinthians chapter two, verses 11 and 12. Could somebody read that for us, please? First Corinthians chapter two, verses 11 and 12. Shall I read first? Please go ahead. First Corinthians chapter two, verse 11 and 12 says, for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him. Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. Amen. So verse 11 is telling us that the human spirit, the human spirit is talking about the human spirit, knows everything about the man, about that individual. Verse 11, what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man, which is in him.  So all of who you are is there in your human spirit. And then Paul says, everything about God, the Holy Spirit knows. That's the second half of verse 11. And then he says, verse 12, that we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God. That means we have received the Holy Spirit. For what purpose? Verse 12, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. So the Holy Spirit, who knows everything about God, he's been given to us. He comes and dwells with our spirit, so that he can teach our spirit, he can impart knowledge, he can speak to us, to our spirit.  So the knowledge about God's call on your life, the knowledge about God's purpose for your life, the knowledge about what God wants you to do in your life is going to come from the Holy Spirit to your human spirit, then come into your understanding.  But the Holy Spirit has been given to engage with our spirit. God engages with us first and foremost spirit to spirit. And one of the things he does at the very beginning is he bears witness with our spirit. So we read about that in Romans and I know we are all familiar with these verses. We go to Romans chapter 8 and we'll look at verses 16 and 17. Romans 8, okay, let's read what's 14 to 16. Romans 8 chapter 8, 14 to 16, please. Romans 8, 14 to 16. Yeah, Romans chapter 8 was 14 to 16, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God, for you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the spirit of sonship, and by him we cry above Father. The Spirit Himself justifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now, if your children... That's good. Thank you. Thank you. So we'll pick up in verse 15 says, you know, you did not receive the spirit of bondage to fear, but you received the spirit of sonship, Holy Spirit. So here the Holy Spirit is referred to as a spirit of sonship. He's the one who makes us sons and daughters of God. He's a spirit of adoption. He makes us sons and daughters of God. So the Holy Spirit, now I'm connecting this back to 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 12, that we have received the spirit was from God. He's a spirit of sonship, a spirit of adoption. But what does he do in our hearts? It tells us here that it is by him that we cry out above Father. It tells us here that he bears witness with our spirit.  It's like you're testifying, you're giving evidence to, you're saying something that you know as a fact. And so the Holy Spirit is bearing witness. He's testifying with our spirit or through our spirit. He is giving evidence that we are children of God. So the first thing that happens when the spirit of God comes upon us, our spirit is, he brings about that conviction.  And this happens at the time of being born again.  But how do you know that? What makes you feel so convinced about it?  We didn't see a handwriting on the clouds or something like that. And yet we say so confidently, I am a child of God. How do you know that? Because the spirit gives that conviction. But then what I want to extend that understanding is conviction for a lot of other things comes in a similar manner. But the Holy Spirit gives you conviction. He bears witness with your spirit. If somebody asks me, how do you know you're supposed to be a pastor? Like you're supposed to be pastoring the church? How do you know? Did God appear to you and tell you that you're supposed to pastor? Did an angel come and tell you, how do you know? How do you know you're doing what God wants you to do? How do you know God wants you to be in the city of Bangalore and, you know, be doing these things, you know, like pastoring a church or serving people through a Bible college or whatever? How do you know that God appeared to you? Did an angel come to you? Now some people, very few, may have those kinds of experiences where, you know, an angel came or the Lord Jesus personally came to them. But most of us don't. But how do you know you're supposed to do that? How can you say, I know that is exactly. Well, the answer is very simple. The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit. The Holy Spirit testifies to, he produces that conviction in our spirit. And it is this conviction that forms the basis for what we call as being led by the Spirit. Because he has in verse 14, Romans 8.40, as many as are led by the Spirit. So I may make, I may, or we may make a statement. I'm just using my personal example. I may make a statement and say, the Lord led me to the city of Bangalore to start a church, to pioneer a church, to take pastor a church, to serve people through the local church. And the Lord led us to start a Bible college. And the Lord led us, etc., etc., do this and do this question. Did God appear to you and tell you to do it? Did an angel come to you and tell you to do it? On what basis do you say the Lord led you? Answer simple. Conviction. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit. The Spirit testifies. He gives evidence to our spirit.  When you act on that conviction, you are led by the Spirit. Do we all understand this? So this is the first one. Romans, based on Romans chapter 8, 14, 15, 16. I'm connecting that back to 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11 and 12. So if you want to know everything about yourself, I mean, if you want to know about yourself, what is your calling? What is your purpose in life? Well, it's your spirit that knows everything about you. But where does your spirit get that knowledge about you? It comes from the Holy Spirit. So somebody asks me, what is God's purpose for your life?  So how do you know that was God's purpose for your life? Where did you get it from? Well, it came out of my spirit. But how did you get into your spirit? The Holy Spirit put that conviction. And then as you live out of that, you're actually being led by the spirit. So that's the first thing. The interaction of the spirit of God with our human spirit, giving us conviction and leading us, leading us into the purpose of God for our lives. That's the first thing. Any questions on that first part? Vessy, can I ask a question? So how can we be sure that it is really the Holy Spirit who is giving the conviction or am I getting influenced by people's opinions or, you know, even my own thoughts about the matter? So can we really confirm it basically that it is from God? So one of the things, and I'm not saying the only thing, but one of the things I really like to point to in response to that question, which is a question all of us have, you know, because we all, as we pay attention to what is happening within us in our human spirit, because the spirit is bearing witness with our spirit. And we feel convinced about certain things. I have to do this. Of course, the next question is, how do I discern? How do I know for sure that this witness that I feel, this conviction that I feel, is the Holy Spirit? One of the things that I like to point to is Ephesians 3, or maybe we should read this whole passage here. Ephesians 3, 1 to 7. I'll just summarize it. Ephesians 3, 1 to 7. What Paul is talking about in Ephesians 3, 1 to 7 is about the grace of God that was given to him. And he says, you know, this was revealed to him. He says, you know, the revelation that he made known to me, the mystery. So Paul understood about the grace of God that was given to him. And there was, of course, the mystery of God also revealed to him. And he recognized that there was the grace of God given to him to verse 7, to be a minister of that mystery. Right? So he recognized it. But in that recognition came also verse 7, the gift of the grace of God, secondly, the effective working of his power. So he says there was verse 2, there was the grace of God that was given to him to be a minister. So that's the recognition of what God called him to do, wanted him to do. But with that recognition of being a minister, there were two other things. There was the gift of the grace of God. And there was the working of his power, the effective working of his power. So one of the things that I would look for is, has God given me the gift of grace in that area? So is there the gift of grace? Is God's grace being put upon my life for that? And second, is there the effective working of his power in that direction? So these are two important things. That there is the grace of God over somebody's life, aligned to what they are called to do. So there's calling, there's gifting, there's grace, and there's power.  The call of God, the gift of God, the grace of God, and the power of God line up. That's where we would be very effective. So I would look for that. At least signs for it, you know, it's not going to be obviously in its mature state. We grow in these things, of course, but at least I need to see indicators or signs of the gift, grace, and power of God at work aligned to that conviction that calling. Sure, sure. Thank you. Thank you best. Yeah. Okay. I see Beth's question. Where do involuntary physical reactions come from, our spirit? I know I believe the word and in my mind I've heard peaceful. My body reacts at just fast heart rate or stomach soon. Where does that come from? I'm not a doctor or I'm not a specialist in this area. So I'm just sharing my thoughts. So don't take what I say as final or anything. I'm just sharing my thoughts in response to your question on where do involuntary physical reactions come from? Sometimes, I'm not saying always, but sometimes what affects our spirit eventually comes through our mind and affects our body. So if I'm very anxious, I'm very disturbed, distressed, and my spirit doesn't seem to be at peace. Then that sense of restlessness, feeling disturbed, anxiety, so on can obviously affect my mind and my body or sometimes. And I think the second case, which is I think is more common than the first one. The second case is I may be in my spirit, very comfortable resting on the promise of God, resting in God, but I haven't quietened my mind down, my soul. My soul has not yet come to the place of being like a veined child. The psalmist writes about it. My soul is still in that place of being disturbed. Spirit, yes, I have learned to, okay, that's the promise of God, I'll rest in it. But my soul and my mind, my emotions are still in that place of being agitated. And then that does affect my body. Right? I'm not a psychologist, I'm just saying based on what we understand from Scripture. And the second case is probably the most common for all of us believers because, you know, all of us believers, we know the promise of God. We know what God has spoken and we can affirm that. But then our mind is still anxious or disturbed or restless just because, you know, it's so connected to the natural world, things we see here or, you know, our mind is at work. And so we must learn to quieten our mind down. And then it can, you know, or if our mind is very agitated, then it affects our body or so that's the connect. So that would be my response to you. Your question is the second case, which is very often. Okay. All right. So going back to how the spirit interacts with our spirit, the Holy Spirit interacts with our spirit. Number one is this conviction, bearing witness. Second, let me just move on and cover these four. The second is this, the Holy Spirit gives revelation. This is in the partition of knowledge to our human spirit. Now, knowledge in our human spirit can come through two ways. One is through the normal process of the senses to our mind and then into our spirit. So for example, right now, as you're listening to me, and as we are all reading the scripture and we're all thinking about the same thing and we're all discussing, we are learning from each other. It's the normal process. That means, you know, we're interacting, we're reading the scripture, we are discussing, we are learning, we're asking questions. And through that knowledge goes through our mind. We understand what we are discussing and what we are reading, and then it gets into our spirit, which is good. But the Holy Spirit can also directly impart revelation to your human spirit, because he knows all things. He knows everything about God. And he teaches us, he teaches us, you know, John 16 verse 30. Jesus said that when he, the spirit, let's turn there. I hope, I wish we had a lot of time, I could just go on this very slowly, but we'll have to go a little fast here. But John 16, John 16, and verse 13. Could somebody read that, please? John 16 verse 13, please. Shall I read first? Please go ahead. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. Amen. So the Holy Spirit is going, Jesus said, the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. He teaches us. John 14, 26, he will teach you all things.  And verse 27, verse John 2, 27, he says, and you don't need any man to teach you because the Holy Spirit teaches you all things. Now, that is not disregarding, you know, the people whom God has put in the body to teach, but the emphasis is the Holy Spirit is teaching you. He's imparting knowledge to your human spirit or he's giving revelation, spiritual knowledge to your human spirit. So that's the second thing. And we must pay attention to that, that there is knowledge being, spiritual knowledge, spiritual truth, the Holy Spirit is teaching your human spirit, giving understanding, giving revelation, giving wisdom to your spirit. And then you pick it up. So sometimes, you know, if you are paying attention, you will realize that there are moments when you can use the word tube light or some light coming on, a light bulb coming on. It's like, oh, I understand it. Oh, I didn't see it before. Now, we use those phrases, so we use those terms, but it's the Holy Spirit giving your revelation in your spirit. And he's, oh, God, I understand now what's happening. The Holy Spirit is teaching you. He's guiding you to all truth. He is imparting truth or revelation to your human spirit and your human spirit is understanding it. So that's the second function. That's the second thing of how God interacts with our human spirit, the born again human spirit. He teaches, he gives truth, he gives revelation, he gives understanding. But the same question we would ask is how do I validate that what I'm, what I, you know, I feel I've received in my spirit is, is from the Holy Spirit. Well, that's validated against the scriptures. Right. The spirit and the word agree. So this is first John chapter five or seven, the spirit and the word agree. That means what the Holy Spirit speaks, the living word and the written word all agree. So the Holy Spirit is not going to contradict the written word. He reveals, he unveils truth in the word. So revelation is given to our human spirit. So that's part of our learning. There is the learning that we have through the natural process that is through our mind, which is good. And we must continue with that, but we must also be open to the revelation because sometimes our answers may not come from the natural learning process. That is, you know, you, you're, you're searching, you may find all the books and you may listen to everybody and trying to find out, get answers. It may not come that way. It may come from the Holy Spirit guiding you to all truth. He gives you that understanding. That's where the answers come from. The third way the spirit of God interacts with our human spirit is this. He produces the fruit of the spirit. And this is in Galatians five. Now we are all familiar with it. We talk about or over in Galatians five, the Apostle Paul says, we must walk in the spirit. We must be led by the spirit. We must live by the spirit. That means my whole life here is originating from the spirit of God. Our human spirit is connected with the Holy Spirit and life originates from that. We live by the spirit. We walk in the spirit. We are led by the spirit. And in that context, he says, but the fruit of the spirit, and he mentions love, joy, peace, kindness, meekness, goodness, temperance, faith, against the such, there is no law, the fruit of the spirit. So what is the fruit of the spirit? It's what the Holy Spirit developing the character and the virtue of Christ in our human spirit, which is then expressed through our manner of life, the way we live. But where is it developed in your human spirit? How is it developed? The Holy Spirit develops that. The Holy Spirit releases, produces that in our spirit. What love, giving us the capacity to love, joy, giving us the capacity to walk in joy, peace, kindness, meekness, self-control, faith, you know, all of that. The Holy Spirit produces. It comes from him, but it's produced in our spirit, developed in our spirit, becomes a part of us, and then we walk in it. So the spirit produces the fruit of the spirit. And the last one, and this is based on 1 Corinthians 12, the spirit manifests through the human spirit. So when the Holy Spirit wants to work through us, he manifests himself. That means he is expressing himself. He is making himself visible. You know, that's such an amazing thought. That God is making himself visible through us, human beings, born again people. So God, so that's what the manifestation of the spirit is. The spirit of God is revealing something of himself through us. How does it happen? The Holy Spirit works through our human spirit, desiring to express something of himself, whether it's the power of God or whether it's word of knowledge or word of wisdom or working miracles. And then it comes through us. So then we process it and we express it. And when we express it, it's actually the manifestation of the spirit. The Holy Spirit is expressing himself through us, but it begins Holy Spirit human spirit, our soul and body to release it. So we have to learn how to pick that up, first of all, in our human spirit. Second, how to bring our soul and body aligned to that, so that the Holy Spirit can express. So many times the reason we don't see manifestations is not because the Holy Spirit is unwilling to manifest himself. Many times we don't see manifestations is because the rest of the flow is interrupted. Either we have not learned to pick up in our spirit, or we have not learned how the soul and the body should come aligned to that, so that it can be released through us. And so right there it stops. So the problem is not with the Holy Spirit not deciding to manifest himself. I think the Holy Spirit is more than eager to manifest himself. But in our spirit, we have not learned the interaction and we have not learned how to bring our soul and body in subjection, so that we can release him more freely and more effectively. And many times our mind and our body just block the flow. So four things about the interaction of the born-again spirit with the Spirit of God. Number one, the Spirit that is the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit. Number two, the Spirit gives revelation or teaches our human spirit. Number three, the Spirit produces in our human spirit the fruit of the Spirit that is a character in the virtues of Christ. And number four, the Spirit manifests himself through our spirit. The Mensee operates, he works through our spirit to touch people. So our invitation is how do we develop the human spirit so that these four interactions are smooth, they are growing in what's happening. That's what we're going to pursue. Any questions now? I know we have a few more minutes. Any questions on these four things? Are you all with me? Do you're understanding what I'm saying? Any questions? Yes, Pastor, I have a question. Some people, you know, someone I know, just prays and then opens the Bible randomly and reads the Word and says that I found this Word for me in the Word of God. So that did not, you know, convince me. So when we say that Lord gives us a Word to confirm. So Pastor, how do we get that Word? Like what is the way we should go and is this the thing right or wrong? That's what I wanted to know. Now, you know, if somebody has the Bible and they just randomly open and then read a verse, so right now my finger is on Psalm 132 verse 4, I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumbered to my eyelids. You know, now that is not the way to do things. Right? Now God may at times, at occasion do that. But that's not the way we're supposed to be led by God. Right? It's not casting lots. It's not, you know, it's not that. But how would God use the Scriptures in leading? Well, He would, you know, the first one, He would bear witness with your spirit. And in that bearing witness, He would give you a Scripture. So that's coming by inspiration, not by accident. So this thing, you do this is by accident. You know, now my finger is on another verse in Jeremiah 2315. It doesn't make sense. But, you know, that's by accident. Now God doesn't lead us by accident. He leads us by the witness of the Holy Spirit. Right? So we have to be sensitive to that. You know, for example, yesterday, Sunday service, Finnish ministering, I usually come down and I wait, you know, I just minister to people one on one. And, you know, one man came to me and for prayer. And at that moment, the Lord just, in my spirit, it's already happening very quietly. It's not like some thunder and lightning in my spirit. He just, you know, I would say, I would use the word reminded me of a Scripture. At that time, I couldn't recall the reference. I came and looked it up later on. But I remember the words. There's a Psalm 113 verse seven and eight. So I couldn't remember the reference at that moment. But the word was very clear. God raises the poor out of the ash heap and puts them among princes. So I just, you know, I just spoke that to him. Now I didn't tell him the Lord spoke to me.  The Bible says that God will take the poor out of the ash heap and set them among princes. So I want you to just believe God, you know, that God will take you out of where you are right now and put you to do this. Right. So now that's how I spoke. It seemed like a very normal conversation. But actually, the reason I was speaking that particular words to him was because at that very moment, the Holy Spirit reminded me, speak this to him. So that's inspiration, the spirit bearing witness for us. But then the next person I was praying, and I just began to speak things over his life. And I was not speaking, you know, randomly. It seemed like a normal conversation. But for me, I know I'm speaking under the anointing.  No, I don't just, I'm just having a normal conversation. But the words I'm speaking to him at that moment is actually, I can, I personally know the sense, the anointing. I personally recognize that the very words I'm speaking are inspired at that moment. But my conversation with him is very normal. And I'm just speaking over his life. Then I pray with him. So that's how we should be operating when we are ministering people, not randomly opening the Bible, putting our finger and saying this is God's Word. That's accident. We are led by the inner witness, you know, we are led by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with our spirit. One follow up question first, if we have time. Sometimes is it possible that a word is coming to you, a simple word like humble? And then you start reading the word, which in the Bible, which speaks of humility, humbleness, something. And then you get the word from the Lord, what is Lord talking to you about? Look, I mean, is that the way? Yeah, that's, that's also, that's also fine. That's also fine. So God is giving you that lead or the leading of a particular word or a theme.  And it is the right thing to do. And then you speak out of that. And that's, that's perfect. Thank you. But the inspiration at that moment is coming from God. He's giving you what to look at. You know, in this case, example would be humility, you know, so that's good. Abraham, can we say the scriptures is the outward confirmation of the work of the Holy Spirit in us? Yes. All right, so the spirit bears witness with our spirit, but the spirit and the word agree. So we always have to come back and check with the scriptures. All right, any other questions? I know we're a little over time. Okay, so I will write this up for us. We will complete this chapter. And then we will move into the next chapter next week, which is the faculties of the spirit. So in order for us to pick up these four interactions, our faculties must be fine tuned. So we're going to talk about that. Okay. Prabhakar, a little example of training our soul and body. Okay, okay. So we will touch on that as we talk about training our spiritual faculties in how we will talk on that. Okay. All right, let's go for a break. And we will connect to the next class in about five to 10 minutes. I will open up the class right after this and then take your break and join. Okay. Thank you, everyone. I'll see you in the next class. God bless. Bye now.


If you're new to the channel, I'm Goldpony, at the new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we are in the brand new 2023 Subaru Ascent courtesy of Apple Subaru in York PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so, we're in this one today because I think we all know Subaru has incredible resale values. Not only that, it has the very best all-wheel drive system in existence. I still remember seeing a video from back in the day where they tested all the all-wheel drive systems in the snow and every single time the Subaru is with the furthest. But also the Ascent, of course, has a new exterior design and there are some new standard features as well. So, ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So, having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. All right, and so when it comes to pricing for the 2023 Ascent, there are plenty of different trim levels available for this one. So, I'm simply gonna put them on the screen and say that it starts at $33,895, but top trim level being the Touring can go up to $48,195, but it does get simpler when it comes to the power plant, regardless of trim level, that is going to be the same. Powering the Ascent is a 2.4 liter turbo charge four cylinder boxer engine, putting out 260 horsepower at 5,600 RPM, 277 pound feet of torque coming in at 2,000 RPM, that power being sent to all four wheels through Subaru's legendary symmetrical all wheel drive system, power being sent to the ground through a continuously variable transmission, zero to 60 time coming in at approximately 6.9 seconds, which we will be testing out here in a little bit. FPG numbers then coming in at 20 in the city, 26 on the highway for the base and premium, 19 city, 25 then on the highway for the Onyx edition and up taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do that acceleration or paddle shifter test, because there are paddle shifters as well, do what I mentioned to you guys, the drive modes, essentially there is an X mode, it's not so much for on-road, but rather for off-road. So essentially what X mode does is it adjusts the engine output and transmission settings, but it also increases all wheel drive system engagement and there's some other modes like dirt and snow and things like that as well available and all of that can be controlled through the infotainment screen, but that's essentially for your off-road use case, but now having got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway, let's put the ascent here to the test and let's test out the acceleration on the 2023 Subaru Ascent. All right, you guys in three, two, one, go. There it is, there it is, it's not bad. That is not bad at all, man, that is decent. So definitely not gonna have any issues emerging onto the highway. I actually kind of like that acceleration, that worked out for me, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. And so upfront you will find 13.1 inch ventilated front discs, in the back 13 inch ventilated rear discs, as far as that 60-zero stopping distance goes, it actually comes in at a very impressive 117 feet. But I will say when it comes to the braking feel of the Ascent, it is definitely on the softer side and it is kind of a squishy braking feel as well. So it's kind of like you hit the brakes, it's soft and it's just kind of squishy at lower speeds too. So it's a little bit different than I'm used to. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just probably just something I would have to get used to, that's all.  So as far as ride quality goes, it's been all right in my short little test drive here today, well, so we got a manhole coming up, so let's just hit that. Yeah, I will say it's not as smooth as the Traverse, I just got done driving, I guess I'm comparing it to that in my mind, because it's fresh in my mind, but yeah, it's not the smoothest ride. It's kind of what to be expected with Subaru. You do tend to feel a little bit more of the road. It's probably not something that would bother me personally, but there are smoother rides out there. I'll just put it that way. As far as steering feel goes, definitely on the looser side of things, a lot of SUVs will have that loose steering feel. So wouldn't have minded if Subaru maybe put a little bit firmer, a little heavier of a steering feel in the ascent as well. And touching on Cabanoise, that has been perfectly fine. That's definitely not something that has bothered me in my short test drive here today. So Cabanoise is perfectly fine in this, and touching on visibility, that is 100% on point. Quite honestly, it's probably best in class visibility, if I'm being honest, because just because of the shape of the ascent, looking at my rear view mirror here, I could see everything, so 100% on point there. To put that around, let's let the performance segment of this review, guys, let's not go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Subaru Ascent. All right, you guys, so here she is, the new 2023 Subaru Ascent, with brand new styling for 2023, the main change for the 2023 model year. So let me know in the comments whether you like this styling better than the previous design. I'm curious to see what you guys think down there. But anyways, let me go ahead and start by saying 8.7 inches of ground clearance, which is a bit more than you traditionally find in SUVs, because of course, Subaru being a more off-road brand, it does come with a raised suspension. So I do like that. But to the sides, LED steering responsive headlights do come standard across the board. And that's a feature you often will see on luxury vehicles, but very rarely on traditional brands like Honda and Toyota and things like that. So I love seeing that. And essentially what the steering responsive means is when you're going around a bend and night, the headlights are going to swivel based on the direction of your steering angle, better help on illuminating what is around that bend. So you're less likely to hit a deer or a cyclist or really anything. So I'm definitely a big fan of that one, but you do get LED daytime running lights, the automatic feature as well. I mean, the headlights will turn on automatically before they're also automatic high beams. So if you have your high beams on a night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams and when the vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically then bounce it back up to high beams. So I love that. And down below, if you go with the Onyx edition and up, you will get LED fog lights to go along with all of that. But that pretty much rounds out the front. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. So let's go ahead and start up top of the ascent here. Raised roof rails do come standard for all trim levels. Chrome windows surrounds will come standard along with rear privacy glass as well. Taking a look at the side mirrors, there will be a crystal black finish for the base setup or the Onyx edition. Body colored side mirrors then coming with the premium and limited. And if you were to go with that touring, you will find satin chrome side mirrors then. And if you were looking for those integrated turn signals that will come standard on all trim levels, but the base trim level and then power folding side mirrors will come with the touring. But now let's go ahead and take a look down at the wheel setup 18 by 7.5 inch aluminum alloys for the base and premium. And then 20 by 7.5 inch aluminum alloys for the Onyx edition end up. So having said that, that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back of the ascent. So starting up top yet again, rear spoiler with an integrated brake light does come standard rear window wiper just below that. We'll find some trim level badging back there as well. And just below it all, I still love that Subaru exposes the exhaust because the trend is not too right now. So having said that, I love the dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips. So I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. And so now since we are around to the back, there is a button on that rear tailgate. If you wanted to press that, that's one way to go ahead and open it up. There's a button on the tailgate itself as well. But it is a powered tailgate essentially for the premium seven passenger trim level end up. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 17.8 cubic feet behind that third row. If that was not enough space, the third row of course does fold down bumping that up to 43.5 cubic feet. And then with all various folded 75.6 cubic feet behind that first row. But you can also find grocery bag hooks back there. There are tie down anchors. There's a 12-volt power outlet actually as well. But what really impressed me on the ascent is if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you will find some in-floor storage. But it is actually a good bit of in-floor storage. Not just a little bit. There is a ton of in-floor storage in the ascent. So I absolutely love that. But then making our way to the third row legroom that comes in at 31.7 inches. For reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Second row seats do push forward and back. So you got a little bit of give there. So for reference again, I was able to fit but definitely gonna be more comfortable for children or small children back there. But I did like the third row. Here's the reason why. You have three cup holders on each side, which is definitely more than the traditional one or two that you typically find in that third row. You also have a little bit of storage. And my favorite part, dual USB charging ports. Now that's something that a lot of times third row passengers won't get. The second row always gets it. But third row, it's rare and the ascent has it. So big fan of that. But then making our way up to the second row legroom that comes in at 38.6 inches. Again, for reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I have there. Rear ventilation can be found by the way for all three rows. It's gonna be found kind of on the ceiling or roof of this thing. So I like that. Heated second row is gonna come with a limited and touring. And again, you can get either bench sheeting or captain's chairs. So you can get space for three second row passengers or two second row passengers with a little walkthrough area in the middle. So that's your choice. And you get dual USB charging ports, of course, for those second row passengers then as well. So then making our way up to the front seats, manually adjustable front seats do come with the base trim level, eight-way power driver seat coming with all trim levels but the base trim level, power adjustable passenger seat them for the limited and touring heated front seats for all trim levels but the base and then ventilated front seats coming with the touring trim level. Overall though, seating was plenty comfortable for me, definitely no issues there. So then taking a look at the steering wheel. It is tilt and telescoping. It will be heated for the Onyx edition trim level and up and then leather up for the premium trim level and up. Now making our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key. It's essentially you got your lock, unlock, but the pop the rear tailgate there but it is a keyless entry with a push button start if you go with the premium seven-passenger trim level or up otherwise you get that traditional key start otherwise but anyways, in our case all we are going to simply do here is put our foot on the brake and press that engine start button and so once started up, tachometers all the way to your left, speedometers on your right, there's a small digital display front and center to control what is on that digital display.  So a little bit of a basic gauge cluster. I wouldn't have minded of seeing some full digital gauges in the ascent. I think a lot of the competition is doing that right now would have loved to have seen that here. So then make your way to overall interior quality. There's a panoramic moon roof coming with the Onyx limited and touring trim levels. Homeland controls for the premium seven-passenger trim level end up, tri-zone climate control for all trim levels. There is also an overhead sunglass holder with that kind of a conversation mirror they call it but it's kind of like the school bus mirror where you can spy on the rear passengers. So that's pretty cool. Dual cup holders with ambient illumination. I love that because you don't see that that often. Like even on Mercedes, they don't put the ambient lighting there. So I really liked the look of this. It's got kind of this blue, cool ambient lighting look surrounding the cup holder. So I like that. But anyways, tons of storage within this thing as well. So overall it's a very functional, very practical to the point kind of interior quality. I'll put it that way. But so now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen because this is different from the last time that I actually reviewed the ascent. So now we have a full 11.6 inch tablet style color touch screen display for all trim levels across the board, Bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard but wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. That's something still most manufacturers aren't doing. It's mostly wired. So I love that wireless comes standard on this thing. That's pretty cool. Factory navigation system for the limited and touring climate control settings up there. There's your X mode adjustments. That's what I was mentioning earlier to you guys. And of course your radio information. So six speakers is gonna be the standard setup for all trim levels, but the limited and touring. Limited and touring are gonna give you a 14 speaker Harman Kardon sound system with 792 watts. So having said that, that's the one we got today. So let's go ahead and turn on the radio and see what we got playing today. And let's test out the clarity of this one. All right, so that was a pretty darn good sound system for the ascent without a doubt ton of bass. I'm sure that bass was coming off with the road mic here on camera. That was a really good sound system like I said, without a doubt. I mean, it's not the very best sound system that I've ever heard, but still it's plenty for the ascent. And so the last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the ascent in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming centered across the board, letting you know who or what is behind you, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so let me start by mentioning IIHS top safety pick plus, which is the very highest rating given by IIHS. That pretty much has it all right there. Front side, side curtain airbags do come standard drivers knee airbag as well.  So this is their suite of safety features that does come standard on even the base trim. So I like that adaptive cruise control, pre-collision breaking lane departure and sway warning, lane keep assist and automatic emergency steering as well.  The premium seven passenger trim level and up is gonna give you reverse automatic braking then as well. So overall, when it comes to my final thoughts here of the ascent, it's got the very best all-wheel drive system in existence. That has been proven in the dirt, in the snow and all of the different various tests that you can find online. Subaru symmetrical all-wheel drive system is amazing. Tons of cup holders in this thing and USB charging ports in the third row. I liked that as well. Excellent safety as well. You can't get better than an IIHS top safety pick. Plus, of course, as far as room for improvement goes, I would say it's just the space for me in particular. Maybe it's perfect for you though, but it is a cramped third row and it's not as much cargo space as some of the competition. Like the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Palisade, Kia Telluride. It will say it has more than the Mazda CX90 now, but the Mazda has always built small vehicles. So I don't know, I'll just say it there, but wouldn't have minded seeing Subaru make this thing a little bit larger just to make it competitive with most of the other competitors. And so, but that is about it for this one, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you wanted to see what's coming next on the channel. Before it gets to YouTube, be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews because that is what we do here on this channel. After all, do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold. 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