1 00:00:49,720 --> 00:01:00,920 In you, Christ Jesus, you alone, I look to imitating your ways. 2 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:11,800 In all my ways. I'll follow you and I must move. 3 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:31,200 You, Christ Jesus, you are all I look to, imitating your hands in 4 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:38,400 all my ways. I'll follow you and I will 5 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:54,240 smooth what's an example I have Christ Jesus, I love you rely on 6 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:02,760 your Lord depend on look to you my own at. 7 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:09,400 Times the circumstances of life, what we go through makes us 8 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:14,720 forget about the fact that we are children of God and we do 9 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,040 our friends as if we live on our own. 10 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,440 This morning the Lord is reminding us of the need of the 11 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:29,400 importance for us to live as a responsible children of God. 12 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,760 I want you to open your mouth and speak to God this morning. 13 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,720 How responsible are you, Jesus, as a child of God? 14 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,400 How responsible am I as a child of God? 15 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,880 Is the challenges of life taking me away? 16 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,600 Are the challenges of life making me forget about the fact 17 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,440 that I have been purchased by the blood of Christ? 18 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,320 How responsible am I? How responsible are you? 19 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,000 Open your mouth and speak to God. 20 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,520 This Lord Almighty, pray converting myself in the name of 21 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,120 Jesus. Oh Lord of this morning we come 22 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,120 before your process one more time. 23 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,240 Save me from eternal condemnation. 24 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,720 We are today for living the life. 25 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,000 Therefore, Lord, they are responding as Your word has come 26 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,560 unto us. We are all marked to the 27 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,560 responsibilities Lord for it is holy is you. 28 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:33,920 I was Speaking of life Lord Almighty. 29 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,200 I was responsible Lord to carry out for it is only in you that 30 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,440 we can have redemption of Jesus. I pray therefore this morning we 31 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:50,240 return back unto you Jesus and we pray that I will be able to 32 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,640 overcome that your grace, I'll be able to Lord will abound this 33 00:03:53,640 --> 00:04:10,680 man responsibility. Spirit divide by each terrified 34 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:35,160 till the end used to your Jesus. As we see there is the light the 35 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:46,400 war on nature revive to till again until all Jesus be seen. 36 00:04:51,560 --> 00:05:10,800 Let's death beauty of Jesus we see in me what draws compassion 37 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,480 with you reasoning. Oh not spirit divide. 38 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:40,040 I need terrified to death beauty. 39 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:47,440 Of Jesus we see. Shall we happily receive our 40 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,560 sins? Oh da. 41 00:05:52,440 --> 00:06:19,320 Spear in the. Just as we are, O Lord, your 42 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:25,400 presence, we have come. We pray in the name of Jesus 43 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,880 that your grace will abound for us this morning in Jesus mighty 44 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,160 name, Amen. Praise the Lord. 45 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:41,200 We want to thank God for the gift of life and I want to 46 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,360 specially welcome each and everyone of you. 47 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,200 In fact, greet your neighbor and tell him or her you are welcome, 48 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,760 you are welcome. God richly bless you. 49 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,160 I also specially want to thank God for the life of our brother 50 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,480 Joshua. Joshua Tremen. 51 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,160 Joshua, be on your feet. He's been away for some time 52 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,360 now, and he's back. Shall we welcome him? 53 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,520 We shall. God richly bless you. 54 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:12,800 Amen. Yeah. 55 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,680 If you don't understand why I welcome Joshua when you close, 56 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,960 come and see me. But it's very important as a 57 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,240 member of God's church and as a child of God, whenever you 58 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,160 belong to the Church of God or the family of God, you must 59 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,760 always make yourself relevant. I mean, I said as a child of 60 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,760 God, you must always make yourself relevant. 61 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,880 If I look at the ones he said beside you and tell him or him, 62 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,440 make yourself relevant. Amen. 63 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,360 One thing you should understand is that when you come to church, 64 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,600 God speaks to us through numerous ways. 65 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,360 There are some of us, we are in the church, but we are not 66 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,880 relevant. Even if you don't come, no one 67 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:07,720 knows you didn't come. And even if you come, and even 68 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,840 if you come, praise the Lord. But this morning I want to 69 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:18,680 encourage someone as a child of God, make yourself relevant, but 70 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:23,080 you only be relevant when you allow the Spirit of God to lead 71 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,040 you. Amen. 72 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,320 Amen. Even if you are not happy with 73 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:34,600 me, so long as I am preaching the word of God, I am OK. 74 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,360 I'm not here to please anyone, but please, brothers and sisters 75 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,919 in Christ, God has purchased us through the blood of Jesus 76 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:46,440 Christ. And so now that we have become 77 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,840 people of God, children of God, we all, not ourselves again, we 78 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:57,080 have become the people of God. We have become the people of 79 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,160 God, which stands for the church. 80 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:04,320 And so as a people of God, what it means is that you are an 81 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,680 ambassador of God. And as an ambassador, whenever 82 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:12,720 you are sent to go and represent your government, wherever you 83 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,240 go, you stand for the interest of your government. 84 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,880 Praise the Lord. So when you go anywhere and you 85 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,560 become irrelevant, what it means is that you have totally failed. 86 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:30,760 Praise the Lord. So this morning, I pray that God 87 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:36,800 will give us the grace, the ability to be relevant wherever 88 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,920 we go, wherever we find ourselves, even in our homes, in 89 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,560 our churches, in our various workplaces, and in every 90 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,600 institution we find ourselves. Amen. 91 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,960 I want to speak on the theme of the year. 92 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,920 Unleash to live a life worthy of your calling. 93 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,920 Unleashed to live a life worthy of your calling. 94 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,680 When you read a book of Genesis which talks about creation after 95 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:17,440 God has created everything and then he decided to create man in 96 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,600 his own image and in his own. Like the Bible is saying that 97 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:28,960 God created Adam and then God created Eve to God created Eve 98 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,160 to come and support Adam. And so when you read Bible is 99 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,320 saying that after God has created man, God handed over 100 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,000 creation unto man. And after God had handed 101 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,080 creation unto man, God has man to take care of his creation. 102 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:51,400 So what it means is that God gave man the ability, the power 103 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,720 in other ways. Man became the ambassador of 104 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,360 God. Man was to stand in for God and 105 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,920 take care of his creation. But one thing we need to take 106 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:08,480 notice that when God handed over His creation unto man, God gave 107 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:14,040 instructions unto man. So what it means is that as an 108 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,440 ambassador you cannot work or you cannot do things on your 109 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,120 own. You work with instructions, 110 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:25,600 praise the Lord. And the Bible is saying that God 111 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:32,240 instructed man to not touch the tree which was in the middle of 112 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:38,560 the garden, aside that man was giving them free will to touch 113 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:44,600 and to enjoy any other thing. So yeah, one of the things we 114 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:52,560 can see is that God gave man his will, praise the Lord. 115 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,120 So what it means that whenever you become an ambassador of God, 116 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,640 whenever you become a representative of God, even 117 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:04,320 though you are working with instructions, you also have your 118 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:09,440 own will, praise the Lord, and it is your own will that leads 119 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,960 you on the kind of choices you make you. 120 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:20,720 You may choose to abide by the instructions attached to your 121 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,320 calling, or you can also choose to leave contrary to the 122 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,360 instructions. And you could see that any 123 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:36,200 person who always works with the instruction attached to his 124 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,880 calling at the end of the day is promoted. 125 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,920 Praise the Lord. As our Bible is saying that when 126 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:52,600 God gave man his free will, man decided to go contrary to the 127 00:12:52,600 --> 00:13:01,760 will of God in other ways. Man decided to choose to eat of 128 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:08,120 the forbidding tree, and the Bible is saying that as a result 129 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:17,480 of that, man fell. As a result of that, man died. 130 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,320 Amen. So one of the lessons we can 131 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:27,040 learn here is that every choice man makes, every choice man 132 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:36,960 makes has its own consequences. Every choice man makes has its 133 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:43,560 own consequences. Every choice you make, every 134 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:48,520 choice I make, has its own consequences. 135 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:57,600 If it is true, then it means that every choice man makes is 136 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,880 very, very important, praise the Lord. 137 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,600 And as a result of the choice of Adam and Eve, the Bible is 138 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,480 saying that one of the consequences that has come or 139 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:18,200 that it has brought on to us is eternal condemnation, death. 140 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,280 That's why you read a New Testament which says that for 141 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,880 all have seen. What did I see? 142 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,560 That is the consequence of a choice that was made by man. 143 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:39,680 Praise the Lord. That is the power of choice. 144 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:46,960 So the kind of choice man makes may not maybe end up on you, but 145 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,880 it may even go after generations to come. 146 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:56,480 If it is so, then as people of God, as children of God, we need 147 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,200 to be very mindful of the kind of choices we make. 148 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,080 Amen. Amen. 149 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,880 Choices has its own consequences. 150 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,960 What it also means is that the kind of choice man makes may 151 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:21,320 bring him life, and it can also bring him death. 152 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:31,080 The kind of choice man makes may bring you life or death. 153 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,800 Amen. I'm reading from Deuteronomy 154 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:45,520 chapter 30 verse 15 to 20. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 15 155 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,920 to 20. See, I said before you today, 156 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:55,160 life and prosperity, death and destruction. 157 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:01,280 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in 158 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:08,360 obedience to him and to keep his commands decrease and loss. 159 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:15,160 Then you will leave an increase and the Lord your God will bless 160 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,320 you in the land you are entering to possess. 161 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:26,080 But if you, if your heart turns away and you are not obedient 162 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,360 and you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship 163 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:37,960 them, declare to you this day that you will certainly be 164 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,120 destroyed. You will not live long in the 165 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:47,040 land you are crossing to Jordan to enter and possess this day. 166 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,880 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I 167 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:58,280 have set before you life and death, blessings and kisses. 168 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:05,319 Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that 169 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:11,760 you may love the Lord your God. Listen to His voice and hold 170 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:17,319 fast to Him. For the Lord is your life, and 171 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:23,800 He will give you many years in the land He swore to give your 172 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,680 father's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Amen. 173 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,080 Can you please repeat this after me? 174 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:40,840 For the Lord is your life, and He will give you many years in 175 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:52,200 the land he swore, Amen. So this scripture that is after 176 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:57,000 God has sent Moses to go and deliver the people of Israel 177 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,320 from Egypt. The Bible is saying that after 178 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:05,520 God has sent Moses, Moses went through a lot of challenges. 179 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,520 In fact, it wasn't easy for Moses to lead the people of 180 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:18,000 Israel after God himself has chosen Moses to go and deliver 181 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,880 the people of Israel from the hands of Pharaoh. 182 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:25,320 The Bible is saying that the people to whom Moses was sent to 183 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:32,880 resisted him in many ways. But because Moses was the 184 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,040 prophet of God, was the representative of God, God gave 185 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,320 his word to his people through Moses. 186 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,960 And so it got to a point. God was speaking to the people 187 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,400 of Israel through Moses and drawing their attention to the 188 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:57,880 fact that they have their will. God has given them their will, 189 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:04,280 praise the Lord. And then Moses went further, and 190 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,000 then he was trying to let them understand the fact that the 191 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:14,320 will God has given unto them. They must make good choice of it 192 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,680 or they must use their will wisely. 193 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,160 And so the 15th saying, I sat before you today, life and 194 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:28,080 prosperity, death and destruction, And as people of 195 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,840 God, as children of God who have been saved through the blood of 196 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,640 Jesus Christ, the same thing applies to us. 197 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,520 Yes, we have been saved. Yes, He has purchased us with 198 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,280 His blood, but He has given us our free will. 199 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,600 Praise the Lord. But the intention of God for 200 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:53,240 saving us is for us to inherit eternal life. 201 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,880 The reason why God did not leave us to remain in the Kingdom of 202 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:06,360 darkness, God did not leave us to abide in the abyss of hell, 203 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:14,160 is because His original intention for man is for Him to 204 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:20,280 inherit eternal life. And so now that God has served 205 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:25,920 us through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, God has given 206 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,680 us back our will just as His. He gave the will to Adam and 207 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:36,160 Eve, but as a result of the kind of choice they made, the 208 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,520 consequence they faced and brought eternal death unto man. 209 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,400 Praise the Lord, now that you have become a child of God. 210 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:55,400 God has given us the free will. But it is very important for us 211 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:01,640 to know the reason why God created man, the reason why God 212 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,160 saved man. The reason why God saved man is 213 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:11,320 in order for man to inherit his glory is in order for man to 214 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:17,200 come back to the original plan of God, which is to inherit the 215 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:23,600 Kingdom of God. But you see what's happened in 216 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:30,000 the Garden of Eden was that man decided to disobey the 217 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,600 instruction of God. So what it means that whenever 218 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:40,880 man fails to disobey the instruction of God, it is a 219 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:48,000 choice you have made. And whenever man decides to obey 220 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,320 the instruction of God, it is a choice that you have made. 221 00:21:53,640 --> 00:22:00,240 But God is expecting that as a child of God, we will or you 222 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:05,720 will obey. I will obey His commands, His 223 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,160 instructions, whether it is favorable or not. 224 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:17,120 When it happens this way, then what it means is that we are 225 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:24,000 adhering to the instructions, which is attached to our 226 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,160 colleague. Praise the Lord. 227 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,680 And what was this was saying that for? 228 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,000 I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in 229 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,680 obedience to Him. The people who have been saved 230 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,480 from the hands of Pharaoh, do not forget that these people 231 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,840 were under oppression. They were maltreated, and then 232 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:52,440 God through Moses saved them. Now they have their freedom, now 233 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,640 they have their liberty. They were no more under 234 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,160 oppression. And then as Moses was leading 235 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:04,080 them, God was speaking through Moses unto them and telling them 236 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,120 of the need, the importance, commanding them to love the Lord 237 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:16,000 their God. I want to believe that probably 238 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,960 they were failing to love the Lord and they were not being 239 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,560 obedient to the voice of God. And that is why God through 240 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,000 Moses was reminding them, was telling them of the need and the 241 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,000 importance. So that means that you cannot be 242 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:43,040 a child of God, you cannot be an ambassador of God, you cannot be 243 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:48,720 a Christian who does not love God and who does not obey the 244 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:53,600 voice of God. At times when we talk about the 245 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:58,680 love for God, some people think it is all about what we say. 246 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:03,800 But true love is seen through our actions. 247 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,320 Praise the Lord, there are some people who have good vibes. 248 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,200 One, you need to convince a lady that you love her. 249 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,800 The kind of words you put together, when you hear it, you 250 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,800 melt. That is not the kind of love we 251 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,520 are talking about. And moreover, we need to 252 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,880 understand that the God we are serving, the Bible is saying 253 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:33,120 that He is all knowing. As I stand here, if I love God, 254 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,840 he knows. As you sit there, if you love 255 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:43,120 God He knows I cannot tell and even if I should tell I will 256 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:47,360 based on what I see. And it is not everything we see 257 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:55,600 that is real and genuine but our God Bible says He is all 258 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,680 knowing. And I pray this morning that you 259 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,200 love the Lord your God with all your hearts. 260 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,080 And if you love him, he should be seen through your actions, 261 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,280 you should be seen through your deeds, you should be seen 262 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,400 through your speech, praise the Lord. 263 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,840 And in fact, this morning, as we have come to the presence of 264 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,720 God, what kind of hearts, what kind of mind have we come before 265 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:31,500 him with? I have been talking about this 266 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:37,860 thing all the time. The love for God, the love for 267 00:25:37,860 --> 00:25:41,420 God compels you to do things for God. 268 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,120 The love for God compels you to do things for God. 269 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,840 Praise the Lord. So if you get to the point that 270 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:07,920 nothing compels you, then Amen. That's to work in obedience to 271 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,480 Him and to keep His commands. Decrease and loss. 272 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,160 Then you will increase. Then you will leave an increase, 273 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,840 then you will leave an increase. So you could see that God has 274 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:28,480 made provision for us if we want to leave, if we want to 275 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,880 increase. God is expecting that we will 276 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,960 love Him and that we will obey His commands. 277 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:41,280 Failure to that, I don't expect anything. 278 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,720 At times we come to church, we come to the presence of God and 279 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,600 we pray, Oh God bless me, Oh God, increase me. 280 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,520 Oh God, let me live long. Meanwhile you don't love the 281 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,840 Lord, meanwhile you don't obey the word of God. 282 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,560 But God has made provision for us. 283 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,800 It's just if you want to live long, if you want to increase, 284 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,280 then love me. If you want to increase, if you 285 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,840 want to live long, then obey my comments. 286 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,440 So brother, anything contrary to this, don't expect the results. 287 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:32,270 Amen. God has made the provision for 288 00:27:32,270 --> 00:27:38,310 us and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are 289 00:27:38,310 --> 00:27:44,040 entering to possess, but your heart stays away and we are not 290 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:50,280 obedient and you are drawn away to bow down to other ghosts and 291 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,520 worship them. So do not forget the Lord was 292 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,640 leading them to the promised land as the Lord is leading us 293 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,800 also into heaven until he was reminding them. 294 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,960 He was telling them of the of the need and the importance of 295 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,640 them to love Him and to also obey His commands so that they 296 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,920 will leave an increase. And then he was saying that the 297 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,000 opposite, that their hearts turns away and not obedience. 298 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,600 You are drawn away or you, yes, you are drawn away to bow down 299 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,760 to other gods. So what it means that anytime we 300 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:34,160 fail to love the Lord, anytime we fail to obey the voice of 301 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,840 God, the instructions of God, the commands of God, what it 302 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:43,280 means is that our hearts are drawn away. 303 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:48,040 What it means is that we bow down to other gods and worship 304 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,520 them. Praise the Lord. 305 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,800 This is serious. So if you are, if you don't take 306 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,040 care, you may be bowing down to other gods, you may be 307 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,280 worshipping other gods unknowingly. 308 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,480 But the Bible is saying that the moment you fail to love Him, the 309 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,160 moment you fail to obey His commands, what it means is that 310 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,280 you are doing the contrary, which is bowing down to other 311 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,440 gods and worshipping them. What means that your heart is 312 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,520 drawn away from Him. And this morning it is my prayer 313 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,040 that the Lord will be gracious unto us. 314 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,520 You will not live long in the land you are crossing to. 315 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,760 You not live long to the land you are crossing the Jordan to 316 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:47,680 enter and possess this day. I call the heavens and the earth 317 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,880 as witnesses against you that I have searched before you, life 318 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:57,200 and death, brothers and sisters in the Lord. 319 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:07,160 As the Lord has saved us, as the Lord has saved us, the Lord has 320 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:15,680 given us our free will. You have to make a decision for 321 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:24,440 yourself. If you inherit eternal life, 322 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,920 it's in your hands. If you inherit eternal 323 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,680 condemnation, it's in your hands. 324 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,080 Praise the Lord. But Moses went further and then 325 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:47,200 he advised them, Now choose life so that you and your children 326 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,360 may live. So what it means is that any 327 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:56,240 decision you take is not about you only, but it even affects 328 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,560 your children. So if you choose death, death 329 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,640 will come after your children and your children's children. 330 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,720 And if you choose life, life will come after you, your 331 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,520 children, and your children children. 332 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,640 So what means that the kind of choice we make, the kind of 333 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,480 decision we take is very, very critical, even though we have 334 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,480 been purchased by the blood of Christ, Amen. 335 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,960 Amen. When you come to the New 336 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:42,600 Testament, it makes it clear. It makes it clear that it is God 337 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:49,040 who calls just like God himself chose the people of Israel unto 338 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:55,760 himself, and as because He had established a covenant with the 339 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,840 great grandfather Abraham, after so many years, God kept His 340 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,720 covenant with them. We who are the New Testament 341 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:11,360 believers, the Bible makes us understand that until God calls 342 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:19,880 you, you cannot come unto him. Hello, until God calls you, you 343 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,080 cannot come unto him. So this morning as you are 344 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,960 seated here, I want you to believe in your spirit and in 345 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,720 your soul that it is God who has called you. 346 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:36,080 Praise the Lord. At times we walk without 347 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,520 confidence because we don't know who has called us. 348 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,480 But if you have the belief and the faith that it is God who has 349 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,440 called me, it is God who has called you, it even affect the 350 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,400 way you work. You are able to work boldly, you 351 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,400 are able to work courageously because you believe within your 352 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,160 spirit and your soul that it is God who has called you. 353 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,200 And that is the reason why you have become a child of God. 354 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,240 What a privilege. It is not everyone that God 355 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,960 calls. So for you to have the 356 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:21,680 opportunity for you to be called by God, praise the Lord. 357 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:32,640 Shall we read from John chapter 6 verse 41 downwards? 358 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,840 I'm reading from the NIV. At this the Jews there began to 359 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,680 grumble about him, because he said, I am the bread that came 360 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,200 down from heaven. They said, Is this not Jesus the 361 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,880 son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? 362 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,600 How can he now say I came down from heaven? 363 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,360 Stop grumbling among yourselves, Jesus answered. 364 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,960 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, 365 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,840 and I will raise them up at the last day. 366 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,920 It is written in the prophets. They will all be taught by God. 367 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:25,360 Everyone who has heard the Father and learn from Him comes 368 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,440 to me. No one has seen the Father 369 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,080 except the one who is from God. Only he has seen the Father. 370 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,880 Very truly. I tell you, the one who believes 371 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,239 has eternal life. I am the bread of life. 372 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:50,639 Your ancestors ate the manner in the wilderness, yet they died. 373 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:57,200 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone 374 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:02,840 may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came 375 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,320 down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will 376 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:12,040 live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I 377 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,120 will give for the life of the world. 378 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,160 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves. 379 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,480 How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 380 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:30,040 Jesus said to them very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the 381 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:36,760 flesh of the Son of man and eat his blood, you have no life in 382 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,520 you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks 383 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:48,160 my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last 384 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,280 day. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks 385 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:57,440 my blood remains in me and I in them. 386 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,480 Just as the living Father sent me, and I leave because of the 387 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:09,160 Father, so the one who fees on me will leave because of me. 388 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,520 This is the bread that came down from heaven. 389 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:18,880 Your ancestors ate mana and died, but whoever fees on the 390 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:24,480 bread will live forever. He said this while teaching in 391 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,240 the synagogue of Capeno. Amen. 392 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,800 But my interest is in the verse 44. 393 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,680 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, 394 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,840 and I'll raise them up at the last day. 395 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:47,040 Do not forget that the intention of God is that man will live 396 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,080 eternally. And so Jesus is saying that it 397 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,640 is he who draws all the Father, draws people on to him, and any 398 00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:00,400 person who comes on to him, he will live forever, praise the 399 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,840 Lord. But the reason why I added the 400 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,320 others is for us to understand because today is loss of our 401 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,480 Sunday. Do not forget that when God was 402 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,680 leading the people of Israel through Moses and got to a point 403 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,920 that God provided manner unto them and then Jesus is reminding 404 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:25,080 them that their ancestors the 8 manner, yet they died, praise 405 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,480 the Lord. And then he was comparing 406 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,800 himself to the manner or the bread, the eggs, and then he is 407 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,720 saying that he also came from heaven. 408 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:38,760 Anyone who eats of him answered then Jesus had not died, but 409 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,520 Jesus was telling them what was to happen, praise the Lord and 410 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,760 so he said anyone who eats will live. 411 00:37:54,550 --> 00:37:58,750 Let me read it again. How can this man give us his 412 00:37:58,750 --> 00:38:02,200 flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, very truly, 413 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:06,440 I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and 414 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,360 drink his blood, you have no life in you, Praise the Lord. 415 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,280 So if you are sitting here this morning, there are some people, 416 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,520 yes, they have accepted Jesus Christ, yes, they have been 417 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,280 baptized, but because they live in sin, they don't partake in 418 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,920 the Lord Supper. The Bible is saying that if you 419 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:32,520 do not, if you do not eat, I'll see me. 420 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,880 I'm fetching of Francos. Unless you eat the flesh of the 421 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,080 Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 422 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,800 So when you come and accept the Lord Jesus, when you are 423 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,600 baptized and you don't eat the lost Supper, you don't eat the 424 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,600 bread, you don't eat the you don't drink the blood, you have 425 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:56,400 no life in you. So what it means is that 426 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,400 partaking of the Lost Supper, it is very, very important in the 427 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:08,080 life of the believer. The reason why Jesus has saved 428 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,920 us is for us to have eternal life, life in abundance. 429 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:21,920 So accepting the Lord Jesus Christ brings life, and Jesus is 430 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,560 saying that if you do not eat, if you do not drink, you have no 431 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,480 life in you. So what it means is that 432 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,320 anything that prevents the believer from partaking the law 433 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,400 Supper, you need to deal with it until then. 434 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,280 Yes, you might have accepted him, you might have been 435 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:53,000 baptized by you have no life. Praise the Lord, ask your 436 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:03,400 neighbor, do you have life? Whoever eats my flesh and drinks 437 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:10,280 my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last 438 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,680 day. So what happens to those who 439 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:22,240 don't eat? May the Lord help us this 440 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,640 morning. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks 441 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:31,880 my blood remains in me and I eat them. 442 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,960 So what happens to those who don't eat and drink? 443 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:47,340 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I 444 00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:51,220 eat them. So whoever does not eat my flesh 445 00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:54,180 and does not drink my blood, what happens to them? 446 00:40:54,860 --> 00:41:00,100 I'm not saying it is the Bible. So if you are here, you don't 447 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:04,480 eat, you don't drink, then you should know and Bible is saying 448 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,960 that you are not in him and he's not in you. 449 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,200 So you will be in the church. And you say I love God, I, I, I, 450 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:19,120 I worship God, yet you are wasting your time. 451 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,600 Praise the Lord this morning. May the Lord be gracious unto us 452 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,000 because of time. I'm reading from Ephesians 453 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,360 chapter 4 verse one as a prisoner for the Lord. 454 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,160 Then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have 455 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,720 received. The author of these words is 456 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,720 Apostle Paul. If you should study the life of 457 00:41:52,720 --> 00:42:00,400 Apostle Paul and Bible says that he is someone who fought the 458 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:07,360 people of God and then when he repented, when he encountered 459 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,400 the light of God and he repented. 460 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:17,000 The Bible is saying that he changed from his old ways and 461 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,920 now began to walk in newness of life. 462 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,800 And in the newness of life he loved the Lord his God and he 463 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,080 obeyed all the commands he gave him. 464 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,320 If you read when Saul had an encounter with the light, Bible 465 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,840 is saying that when the light strike him down and then he 466 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,160 screamed, Who are you Lord? And then the conversation went 467 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,000 on and then the Lord instructed him to go. 468 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,440 And Bible is saying that he obeyed the voice of the Lord. 469 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,720 So, brethren, as people of God, when we come to the saving 470 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:03,520 knowledge of Christ, we need to obey the voice of God. 471 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,240 Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot love him. 472 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:14,440 Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot worship him, praise 473 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,560 the Lord. And so after Paul has a soul who 474 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:24,520 has become Paul has worked with God and God has used him to do 475 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:30,760 great things, to accomplish many things, Paul came to himself and 476 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,880 then he was saying that that is what we just read as a prisoner 477 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,160 for the Lord. Then I urge you to live a life 478 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,240 worthy of the quality you have received. 479 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:49,320 So here Paul recognized that it is a call that he received and 480 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:54,040 has responded to it. And then he is saying that, or 481 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,200 he has come to the point of understanding, acknowledging 482 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:02,400 that when you receive this call, you become a prisoner of Christ. 483 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,800 Hello. When you receive the call of 484 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,680 God, I've already made you to understand that until God calls 485 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,480 you, you cannot come on to it. And not that God has called you 486 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:17,000 and you have become a child of God. 487 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,280 When Paul is saying that when you receive this call, you 488 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,960 become a prisoner for him. How many of us are prisoners for 489 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:35,240 Christ? The other time I think spoke 490 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:39,200 about a prisoner and then he made us to understand who is a 491 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,760 prisoner? How is that someone is a 492 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:46,840 prisoner? It means your life does not 493 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,960 belong to you. Again, you don't have the 494 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,600 freedom to live your life the way you want. 495 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:59,800 You are forced to do things contrary to your will, praise 496 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,840 the Lord. So as a prisoner of Christ, what 497 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:07,240 it means is that at times you wish to have something. 498 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,440 You wish to have something, but because you're a prisoner of 499 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:20,240 Christ, you are compelled, just like someone when you are in the 500 00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:23,600 world, what may be when you are in the world, you are a 501 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,360 womanizer. Unless you don't see a lady, you 502 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,920 sleep with her, and then you come to the serving knowledge of 503 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,680 Christ, and then you see a lady so that things are there, their 504 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,840 vibes and everything. But when you become a child of 505 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,760 God, because you have now become a prisoner of Christ, you are 506 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,000 compelled to do away with those things. 507 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,440 Maybe when you are in the world, you used to drink. 508 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:02,200 When you become a child of God, as a prisoner of Christ, you 509 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,280 have the freedom, you have the liberty, You can decide to 510 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,640 drink. But because you recognize that I 511 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:16,280 own not myself, I belong to God, I have AI have become a prisoner 512 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,560 of Christ. You do away with those things, 513 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,360 praise the Lord. Maybe when you are in the world 514 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,080 you are corrupt when you come to the saving knowledge of Christ. 515 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,720 Yes, you were once corrupt, but now that you have become a 516 00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:38,280 prisoner of Christ, you have to do away with those things. 517 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:46,760 And that is what shows that now you live under the instruction. 518 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:56,080 Now you live for God. Until then you are not a 519 00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,160 prisoner of Christ. So what Paul was trying to say 520 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,920 is that we have the liberty to live our lives anyhow. 521 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,800 But because of the call he received, and he has responded 522 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:17,640 to it, he has subjected himself to the will of the Master. 523 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,440 And because he has subjected himself, he has become a 524 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,720 prisoner. So when you received a call and 525 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:32,000 you fail to subject yourself, you cannot be a prisoner. 526 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,600 How well have you subjected yourself to the call you have 527 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:45,560 received? So what I want you to understand 528 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,080 this morning is that as a child of God, your will does not 529 00:47:50,080 --> 00:48:00,320 belong to you. The reason why I will have to 530 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:05,280 wake up early in the morning and come to church even though my 531 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:12,040 sleep is not enough for me is because I don't owe myself as a 532 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,640 prisoner. You have to wake up on time, but 533 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,880 when you owe yourself, you wake up the time you want. 534 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:31,600 Praise the Lord. The reason why one the other 535 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:36,400 that I can see was saying that when you go to the prison, they 536 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,560 don't get the food of their choice and even the kind of food 537 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,720 they give them. You have no choice. 538 00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:55,050 If you don't eat, you die. So as a prisoner of Christ, you 539 00:48:55,050 --> 00:48:56,450 don't choose what you want to eat. 540 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,360 May the Lord help us this morning. 541 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,640 I pray that we all come to the point of understanding that 542 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:17,640 because of the blood of Christ we have become prisoners of 543 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,120 Christ. Because we have been saved by 544 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,480 Him and we have become children of God. 545 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:29,600 We are prisoners of Christ. Until you get this understanding 546 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,680 and you come to this level, all our worship will be full of 547 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:39,880 hypocrisy. And that is the reason why maybe 548 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,960 as an elder I'm saying it is no good to drink. 549 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,800 Yet when I close, I'll go and drink. 550 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,160 I'll look left, I will look right and I drink. 551 00:49:54,740 --> 00:49:58,700 It is no good to commit fornication as an elder. 552 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,920 I am. I'm a member. 553 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,720 Why would an elder, why would a member do that? 554 00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:12,120 He has not got to the point of understanding that he is a 555 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:17,720 prisoner of Christ. He has not subjected himself to 556 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:22,480 the calling he has received. And so when you are in a church 557 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,400 and you are living a double life, you are living a 558 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,360 hypocritical life. You should know that it's 559 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,280 because you have not subjected yourself to the calling you have 560 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,400 received for the calling you have received. 561 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:39,160 All right, but you have decided. So it's a matter of decision. 562 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:45,480 You have decided not to subject yourself to the call you have 563 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:55,550 received. How well have you subjected 564 00:50:55,550 --> 00:50:57,270 yourself to the call you have received? 565 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,320 The scripture makes sense to understand that we have the 566 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:20,170 right to do everything, but as children of God we don't deserve 567 00:51:20,170 --> 00:51:26,290 to do everything. The other time I was telling 568 00:51:26,290 --> 00:51:29,410 someone, where do the people dress anyhow? 569 00:51:31,050 --> 00:51:34,010 And as children of God, we also at times dress anyhow. 570 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,760 So when you come and you bring the wetly person here and you 571 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,960 bring the Christian here, you can't even differentiate who is 572 00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,200 the wetly person and who is the Christian. 573 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,000 But as a child of God, as an ambassador of Christ, where do 574 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,600 you stand? People should see, even from 575 00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:22,070 your appearance, who you are. As a child of God, how do you 576 00:52:22,070 --> 00:52:30,550 live your life? I remember I went to a funeral 577 00:52:30,550 --> 00:52:37,350 and I met some of my classmates and then they were going to 578 00:52:37,350 --> 00:52:41,790 drink. They were calling themselves no, 579 00:52:41,790 --> 00:52:43,470 because I'm quite wage. I don't know. 580 00:52:43,470 --> 00:52:56,760 And so forth. Why is he saying you live your 581 00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:13,440 life for people to move to see the enemies are quite sorry for? 582 00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,480 Oh yeah, massive. Oh yeah. 583 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,280 Oh. How? 584 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:23,720 I love you and those people one day raise their hands, you could 585 00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:26,920 see that tears are coming. And so when you are sitting 586 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,280 here, you look at the person appear as you see that this 587 00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,400 person, he loves God. So knowing you're correct, that 588 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:41,800 is why I'm saying that it is God the all knowing One who knows 589 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,960 the heart of men. We can only talk about what we 590 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,840 see, but the one who sees beyond the physical. 591 00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:59,720 I mean, maybe let me read this and I'll bring my message to a 592 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,880 close. First Thessalonians chapter 4-1 593 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:07,080 to 8. As for the other matters, 594 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:13,200 brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in 595 00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:19,240 order to please God, as in fact you are living now. 596 00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:24,280 We ask you and aunt you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and 597 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:31,160 more, for you know what instructions we give you by the 598 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:37,440 authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should 599 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:42,920 be sanctified. It is God's will that you should 600 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:50,560 be certified, that you should avoid sexual immorality. 601 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,720 Please listen carefully. I'm reading the tray. 602 00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:00,720 It is cause will that you should be sanctified. 603 00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:05,320 So when Bible say it is God's will, what it means is that God 604 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:10,600 is expecting that. God is expecting that. 605 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:20,000 It is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should 606 00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:25,440 avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to 607 00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:34,000 control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not 608 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:42,240 in passionates last like the pagans who do not know God. 609 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,600 And that's in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage 610 00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:53,600 of a brother or a sister. The Lord will punish all those 611 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:59,080 who commit such sins as we told you and warn you before. 612 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:07,520 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 613 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:15,680 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject 614 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:23,960 a human being, but God, the very God who gives you His Holy 615 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,200 Spirit. Amen. 616 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,400 So it is the expectation of God that we will live a holy life. 617 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,560 Hello. So if when the people are 618 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:46,080 committing fornication and friends adultery, God is 619 00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,720 expecting that we will leave contrary. 620 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,160 So maybe you are here this morning you have been committing 621 00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:59,400 fornication. No one sees you, maybe even you 622 00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,880 just you are just coming from you are just coming from one. 623 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,400 No one has seen you. But this morning the word of God 624 00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:12,880 is telling us, is admonishing us, that God is expecting that 625 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,680 we will do away with these things. 626 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:23,120 The expectation of God is that as people of God, as children of 627 00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:27,880 God, we will live a holy and pure life. 628 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,360 Amen. And then he's saying that anyone 629 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,960 who reject these instructions, anyone who lives his life 630 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:41,120 anyhow, does not reject a human being, but God. 631 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,480 So yes, you have accepted him. You have been baptized by, if 632 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,960 you live your life anyhow, you should know that you have 633 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,280 rejected God. So what it means is that you can 634 00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,480 be in the church and reject God and you be in the church, you 635 00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,480 die. We will say you are a member and 636 00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,640 we will bury you. Prepare for us. 637 00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,040 We will say you are going to heaven. 638 00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:07,880 But he who knows everything, may the Lord help us. 639 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:15,360 Then Galatians chapter 121. Then I went to Syria and 640 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,560 Sicilia. I was personally unknown to the 641 00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,080 churches of Judea that are in Christ. 642 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:28,000 They only heard the reports. The man who formally persecuted 643 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,880 us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy. 644 00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,360 And they praised God because of me, praise the Lord. 645 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,200 So this is Saul who has now become Paul. 646 00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,200 And the Bible is saying that as a result of what he did after he 647 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:50,600 had an encounter with the light of God, after he he repented, 648 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,200 after he became born again because of the life he lived, 649 00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,920 because of the faith he kept, the Bible is saying that. 650 00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,840 And they praise God because of him. 651 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:09,960 So what it means is that because of you, because of me, people 652 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:16,120 should be able to praise God. But when people are not able to 653 00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:21,000 praise God because of you and because of me, what it means is 654 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,640 that we have failed God. This morning. 655 00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,360 May the Lord be gracious unto us. 656 00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,800 Amen. Shall we be on our feet and just 657 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:39,680 bow down your head and contemplates on the word you 658 00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:45,120 have heard this morning? Living a life worthy of your 659 00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:50,440 calling? Living a life worthy of your 660 00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:57,520 calling. Living a life worthy of your 661 00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,640 calling. What kind of life do you live? 662 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:11,360 Do you truly love God? Do you obey the commands of God? 663 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,240 What kind of choices do you make? 664 01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:24,040 Are the choices of the choices you make, are they the ones that 665 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,600 brings you life or that brings you death? 666 01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:36,640 Just contemplates and the word of God you have heard this 667 01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:50,320 morning just as. 668 01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:58,520 I am your present. As I can. 669 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,480 With. An unveiling. 670 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:21,080 Face gives he out your glory. Transform me to Christ your Son. 671 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:33,120 I can. Oh my God, please open your 672 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,320 eyes. Project the lyrics for us. 673 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:43,240 Can you please repeat after me? Just as I am, just as I am your 674 01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:49,120 presence, I come, Your presence. I come with an unveiling face, 675 01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:54,200 with an unveiling face, gazing at your glory, gazing at your 676 01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:58,240 glory, transforming to Christ your Son, transforming to Christ 677 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,120 your Son, I come, Oh my God bless. 678 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,800 Me. I come, Oh my God bless. 679 01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,000 We have to understand that the call we have received, when you 680 01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,360 receive this call and you come, all you have to do is to gaze at 681 01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,800 Him. The moment you take your eyes 682 01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:22,520 off him, you fail. And this morning we want to, no 683 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:27,320 matter the kind of situation we find ourselves, we want to turn 684 01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,280 our eyes back on him. We want to gaze at him. 685 01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:37,760 If you gaze at him hanging on the tree, hanging on the cross, 686 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:52,000 you shall be saved. As as I heard your prayers, as I 687 01:02:52,080 --> 01:03:03,000 come, we tie all. Billy, please. 688 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:13,960 Gazing at your glory, transforming to Christ your son. 689 01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:21,560 I come. Oh my God, bless you. 690 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,080 Yeah, I come. Oh my God. 691 01:03:28,960 --> 01:04:12,200 Let's dance as I am your prayer. Oh my God, most at times we 692 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:16,400 come. To the presence of God, but 693 01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,960 many. Of us live hypocritical. 694 01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:26,120 Lives with their mind that my bastard does not know, My elder 695 01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:30,600 does not know, my brother does not know, my sister does not 696 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:34,400 know. Forgetting that the one who has 697 01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:39,560 called us, he knows you this morning if you can. 698 01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:44,240 Just raise up your two hands. We want to surrender ourselves 699 01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:49,320 unto him that you'll be. Gracious unto us. 700 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:55,120 The intention of God for calling you, for calling me, is for us 701 01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,320 to inherit eternal life, some of us for months. 702 01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:03,120 For yes, we don't. Partake the Lost Supper and it 703 01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:07,400 does not mean anything to us. Yet we come to church and we 704 01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,040 call ourselves people of God, children of God. 705 01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,440 Some of us, we live our lives anyhow. 706 01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,760 Transforming to Christ your. Son. 707 01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:33,440 I can't. Oh my God, let's talk of you can 708 01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:34,520 change. My life. 709 01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:49,960 I yes, says my soul on fire yard to do you as I thought. 710 01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,800 You can't. Change my life I. 711 01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:10,880 Said my soul on fire yard. To do Lord, you are the one. 712 01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:22,560 I need. Cause me to Lord. 713 01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:32,040 Bring. Me to my knees, you are my 714 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:45,000 knees. The God cause me to see, Hold me 715 01:06:45,120 --> 01:07:01,400 in your eyes, bring me to your broom and feed me with your 716 01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:07,520 Larry's eyes. That's our job. 717 01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:25,640 You can't change my life and say I soul on fire to do your That's 718 01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,800 our job. You can't change my life. 719 01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:41,080 I. Lima. 720 01:08:52,800 --> 01:09:04,520 Lehi mahi. 721 01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:57,840 He. Touch me. 722 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,440 Anytime the word of God comes, it is for a. 723 01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:38,320 Purpose this morning as we stand before the presence of God, I 724 01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:41,080 just want you to cry unto him for a touch. 725 01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:47,120 The touch of God is enough to bring transformation into our 726 01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:50,840 lives. This morning we are praying for 727 01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,800 a touch of God. The touch of God that is able to 728 01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:58,880 bring transformation. The touch of God that is able to 729 01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:03,640 bring renewal. Touch me, oh Lord. 730 01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:09,960 Touch me. Yeah, yeah, Touch me. 731 01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:50,360 Just. 1. I. 732 01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,520 So. That I may know your way. 733 01:12:17,480 --> 01:12:38,040 So so that I may know your way so that I may. 734 01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:49,440 Know. Your way, soon as I do, revive 735 01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:57,480 me. Oh Lord, let us be. 736 01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:08,600 Reach me me so that I know your ways. 737 01:13:17,480 --> 01:13:20,080 Just be silenced in the presence of God. 738 01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:26,080 As you do self retrospection, how well do you love the Lord? 739 01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,000 Are the things you confess. Contrary to their life. 740 01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,920 And contrary to the kind of life you are living. 741 01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:44,720 How well do you love the Lord? How well do you obey the 742 01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:49,880 commands of the Lord? Do you live a hypocritical life? 743 01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:56,640 How sincere are you to yourself? How do you value the salvation 744 01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:11,880 you have received? Just contemplate on all these 745 01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:19,960 things, even as you sit on the feet of the Master, the one who 746 01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,200 is able. To wash us through his weight. 747 01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,840 The one who is able to cleanse us through his weight. 748 01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:42,600 Lord, this morning may you open our eyes so that we will see 749 01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:44,120 you, so that we will know your way. 750 01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:02,440 The.