1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,120 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,840 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,720 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,480 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by your law and 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,480 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,560 Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,040 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,320 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,480 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,320 Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,680 divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,400 and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen. 13 00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:07,900 me ask you a question. When you when you hear the word 14 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:12,060 Christian or Christians, what do you understand from that? 15 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:17,400 I mean, there must be an yes. Followers of Christ. 16 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,400 Followers of Christ. What else? 17 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,040 That's a good one. Christians. 18 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,080 When I ask you what? Yes. 19 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,600 Many Christs. Many Christs, Many Christs. 20 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,280 Yes. People will put their faith in 21 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:36,960 the Lord. Bina khati, people will put 22 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,280 their faith in the Lord. Oh, that's good. 23 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:44,240 Yeah. Yes, OK, invested and powered by 24 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,200 the Lord Christians. OK, great, excellent. 25 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,280 OK, but do you know that when the church, early church began. 26 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,200 This is in the book of the Acts of the Apostles when you read 27 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,360 your scriptures, and I pray that everyone here, it may be for 28 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,560 wishful thinking, but still there's always hope that you 29 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,560 read, you open your scriptures, your Bible and you read. 30 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,080 When you read the book of the Acts of the Apostles, you'll see 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,080 that the word Christians does not appear for a few years after 32 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,040 Jesus had resurrected. So those who believed Jesus 33 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,640 Christ, when the church began to preach, the disciples began to 34 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,160 preach and people heard, you know, Simon gave his first 35 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,120 sermon and 3000 Jewish people believed. 36 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,040 And when they believed, they said, what shall we do? 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,280 He said be baptized. Now you have to repent and be 38 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,240 baptized. So the word Christians, Litva, 39 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:42,520 you know, when I first became a Christian, when I first became a 40 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,360 Christian, there was no word of Christian. 41 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,600 It was actually called something else. 42 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,840 And let me read it to you. It's Acts Chapter 9 verses one 43 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,400 to two. Now Saul, who is Saint Paul, 44 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,680 previously called Saul, was still filled with anger and with 45 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,760 threats of murder against the disciples of our Lord. 46 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,640 And he asked his, the high priest, to give him letters, 47 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,840 listen to this, to give him letters to the synagogues at 48 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,320 Damascus, that is Syria that he should find. 49 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:17,000 If he should find anyone, man or woman, following this faith, he 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,440 might bring them bound to Jerusalem to kill the 51 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:20,480 Christians. Basically. 52 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Now we know them as Christians. But in the Aramaic version it 53 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:30,240 says people of this way, they used to call them the people of 54 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,000 the way. Who is the way? 55 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,880 Who? Who claimed that he is the way? 56 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:44,120 Jesus? Yes, John chapter 14, verse six. 57 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:52,560 Let me read it to you. Jesus said I am the way and the 58 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,880 truth and the life. No man comes to my father except 59 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,600 by me. So when they refer to him as the 60 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,920 people of the way, they meant the faith, this new faith. 61 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,400 Let's not even call it a Christian faith because back 62 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,920 then they didn't know. So they were called the people 63 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,400 of the way and Jesus is the way. That means the people that who 64 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,720 followed Jesus Christ, as I think William said, and they 65 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,800 believed the first people that were called Christians. 66 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,720 Who do you think they were? No, say Syrians, They weren't in 67 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,840 the Bible. How about we accepted 68 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:30,000 Christianity? Yes, we were. 69 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,720 We were one of those first that accepted Christianity in the 70 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,800 first or second century of Christianity. 71 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,840 Who do you think? Who do you do you know who was 72 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,080 the first people that were called Christians? 73 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,840 No, I wasn't expecting because it's not something that everyone 74 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,160 comes across. But if we read Acts Chapter 11, 75 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:58,280 verse 26, listen to this Acts 11, Bina. 76 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,440 Yes, yeah. But they weren't called 77 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,600 Christians. They were called the people of 78 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:12,240 the way, the yeah, the first people that were called 79 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,240 Christians. If we read Acts Chapter 11, 80 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:20,080 verse 26, here is the answer. Why is it different here? 81 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:21,560 Oh, here it is. No, it's not. 82 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,800 And when he had found him, that means let me, let me just this 83 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,920 man called Ananias went to look for Saint Paul. 84 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:36,200 This soul, when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch 85 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,800 and for the whole year they assembled together in the church 86 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,760 and taught a great many people that disciples were called 87 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,360 Christians first at Antioch and from that time onwards. 88 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,960 So those people in Antioch who were listening, who were being 89 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,400 discipled, that's why it's called this, this a disciple is 90 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,000 someone who is discipled. If I take on Stephen, Shamasha, 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,280 Colin, Andrew under my wings and I teach him I'm an, an Italian 92 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:06,360 Medina, they are my disciples because I disciplined them. 93 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,360 So those people, they were preaching for one year, the 94 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,480 disciples, they were the first one, they were called 95 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,080 Christians. Now what does that mean? 96 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,320 What does it mean to be Christians? 97 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,200 Why did they start calling them Christians? 98 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,000 Because something Edna said, which was so true and she's 99 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 always looking at her nail. Something that Edna said, 100 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,760 because they were Christ, like little Christians, little 101 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,000 Christs, they saw them, They knew this must be a different 102 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,400 faith. And then they obviously 103 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,320 understood that they are Christians following us of 104 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,320 Christ. Now raise your hand if you 105 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,040 identify yourself as a Christian. 106 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,000 If you don't identify yourself as a Christian, raise your hand. 107 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,080 OK, good. Wait, I want to burst your 108 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,360 bubble now. So what does that mean when 109 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,280 people say to you, I'm a Christian, meaning you are 110 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:11,520 Christ like that means what Christ is, you are what Christ 111 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:16,000 is. By nature we must be by grace. 112 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:22,440 Every title in the Bible that is given to Christ, he is. 113 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:30,160 By his nature He is we must also be by the grace of God, not by 114 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,160 our nature because our nature is corrupted. 115 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,320 For example, let me give you a few and then we're going to see 116 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,200 how we can be. He is called in One Corinthians 117 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,320 chapter one, verse 24. He is called the power of God 118 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,120 and the wisdom of God. This is Christ himself. 119 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,280 Let me read it to you. Verse 124 One Corinthians. 120 00:08:06,990 --> 00:08:11,590 But we preach Christ crucified, which is a stumbling block to 121 00:08:11,590 --> 00:08:14,510 the Jews and foolishness to Arameans. 122 00:08:14,990 --> 00:08:22,040 But for those who are called both Jews and Aramians, Christ 123 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,440 is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 124 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,720 What does that mean? When people saw Jesus Christ, 125 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,360 When we now read about Jesus Christ, we know that must be 126 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,919 God. It must be God because no man 127 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:39,000 can. Do you know when Nicodemus came 128 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,760 to him by night he said we know you are from God, but he wasn't 129 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,880 from God. He is God because no one can do 130 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,080 what you're doing unless God is with him aiming God is with him. 131 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,040 He is God. You are the power of God 132 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,400 obviously because he said to Lazarus come out and Lazarus was 133 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,280 resurrected 4 days he was dead. He was starting to decay. 134 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,200 He stood in the boat and he said to the ocean be still and the, 135 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,560 the, the, the waters were still. He said, why do you think in 136 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,200 your heart? He could read minds, He could 137 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,520 read hearts. Why? 138 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,360 Because he is God by nature. He is God. 139 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,400 How do I become the power of God? 140 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:23,440 How do we No, no, how do we, how must we become the power of God 141 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,040 and we become the wisdom of God and we must be Why? 142 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,680 Because we are Christians. You all raised your hand. 143 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,320 I didn't raise mine. I should raise mine. 144 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,840 Sorry. That's what it means that you're 145 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,360 saying, yes, I'm a Christian. Well, let me ask you something. 146 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,920 Do you portray the power of God to your friends and to your 147 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,760 relatives and to those cousins, relatives, family, friends, 148 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,160 school friends, workmates that don't know Jesus Christ? 149 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,280 Do you show the power of God? You may say how I don't want you 150 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,800 to go and stand in in front of the ocean and say be still. 151 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,280 You don't need to do that. We don't need to read minds. 152 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,120 We can't. We don't have that power unless 153 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,120 God gives us that power like he did to Daniel. 154 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,960 Daniel actually actually said what Nebuchadnezzar was dreaming 155 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,360 last night. He said your dream was this. 156 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,880 And this is the interpretation. That's if God wants to work with 157 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,160 us, but we can't. You tell me what I dreamt last 158 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,480 night. Can anyone guess? 159 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,400 Yeah. A Red Bull. 160 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:29,720 No, I didn't actually, because I've. 161 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,720 I've given up a long time ago. So I didn't. 162 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:34,960 OK. Yes. 163 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,040 Water. No, I didn't. 164 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,520 Don't. Don't guess. 165 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:39,440 It's OK. No one can guess. 166 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,440 Don't even go there. Don't be silly. 167 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,760 Don't start saying, oh, you're a cat and a dog and I don't. 168 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,760 Right? The point is, you can't. 169 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,480 You can't tell me. I can't even remember. 170 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,560 Honestly. Let me think. 171 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:51,600 What did I dream last night? Yeah, it was. 172 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,120 It was in. Right? 173 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:58,160 I don't even remember my dream. But Jesus knew the thoughts, 174 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,920 knew the minds. Simon thought to himself. 175 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:09,400 He said, you know when you speak, Sir, when you do that 176 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,120 something's going through your mind. 177 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:16,520 Simon saw this wicked and evil lady came to Jesus. 178 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:21,000 He thought in his mind and said, Jesus said, why do you think in 179 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,720 your mind? Because he is God. 180 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,400 But how can you be the power of God? 181 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,160 How can you show the power of God? 182 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,480 What is God? Tell me, what is God love? 183 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:37,160 What else? What else is God creator? 184 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,000 What else? He's the Father, Love, 185 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:44,240 compassion, mercy, grace, right? And that's through the power and 186 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,400 the will of God. You can do that. 187 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,360 You can portray. You must, we must. 188 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,080 It's hard. I know at times it's very, very 189 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,280 hard. And I always say I'm not going 190 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,640 to be a hypocrite. Sometimes I stumble, I have 191 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,720 difficulties, but I must. We are incumbent to do that 192 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,600 because you just raised your hand and I raised my hand. 193 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,760 I'm Christian. Are you Muslim? 194 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,880 No, I'm Christian. I've got Karaba. 195 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,480 Well, just by doing that, No, you say, no, I'm Christian. 196 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,840 You have a smile on your face. Why? 197 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,440 Because Christ is love is compassionate. 198 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,040 You can show the power of God. When people say to you, 199 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,000 gentlemen and ladies, why have you changed? 200 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,760 What's wrong with you? You've changed. 201 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,200 Why? Well, you don't cuss as much as 202 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,720 you do before. Why you're so dorky? 203 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,160 Why don't you become go along with the trend and and what the 204 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,440 world portrays as good. That's how you show the power of 205 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,960 God. You say you know what I was, but 206 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:49,920 I'm not anymore because I know Christ and not only I've been 207 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:55,120 baptized and I've been baptized by Marpolan Kasha Polan Polan 208 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,720 Church. No, no, no, that's not about 209 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,560 it's, that's not about Christianity. 210 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:04,040 No, when people say to you, why have you changed? 211 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,720 When people can start seeing your change, your mindset has 212 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,840 changed. When people see that you are 213 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,120 more humble, people will say to you, well, you know, during 214 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,640 fast, during soma, when you really offer that true soma and 215 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,640 not eat chicken and say, no, it's not chicken, it is it's 216 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,320 Bama chicken. And you know, I've gone there, 217 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,440 I've done that. When you truly offer your 218 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,760 fasting humility, people will start saying to you, wow, why 219 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,240 you so you've changed. That's the power of God. 220 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,680 When people that knew you in the world and saw you always in the 221 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:51,160 world, and then all of a sudden they see you with God, they say, 222 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,560 wow, what happened? That's the power of God. 223 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,240 When you start knowing your faith and you sit in a, a 224 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,000 congregation in a, in a meeting and, and there's discussions, 225 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,200 you don't pick up the phone and say hi, I'll be, I'm discussing 226 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,600 baptism with the friends. Can you send me some verses? 227 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,240 No, I'm not going to send you any verses. 228 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:16,520 Why should I? Because baptism is not one verse 229 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,600 or two verse and the verses are not there to fight, but in 230 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,240 purpose. No, no, no, good luck. 231 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,360 Go on purpose. No, yourself, you don't purpose 232 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,200 of Nazi, you don't do that. But when you start conversing, 233 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,160 you know there was an understanding of the Church of 234 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,280 the East many years ago that the Church of the East didn't know 235 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:42,040 how to preach. I'm in Australia, Khalil and my 236 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,240 girl Malachaze, 8, Mother Hadelaya Pamacruz. 237 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,840 They don't know the Scriptures, they don't know Saint Paul. 238 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,280 And you know what, let me tell you, yes, there was an element 239 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,680 of truth there. There was because we only 240 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,120 thought it's all about, you know, just come to church and 241 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,240 sing in the choir and that's it. But know why we didn't know. 242 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,760 But when the Church of the East through a few started preaching, 243 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,600 I remember we began a, a, a radio programme. 244 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,320 It was a religious radio programme in Sydney. 245 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,160 It went for two hours because then Internet, Internet, that's 246 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:19,760 why. But there was no Facebook, 247 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,280 Facebook. So it's all radio, the radio 248 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:29,600 wave microphones, right? And we started preaching. 249 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,240 We started opening the scriptures and and preaching the 250 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,200 word. Those people who would say the 251 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,280 Church of these don't know how to preach. 252 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,520 They started saying, wow, there's a revolution in the 253 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,600 Church of the East. How about the Church of these 254 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,960 has has missionized the world. OK, so when you sit and you 255 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,360 start conversing and not pick up your phone and say, Robbie, send 256 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:54,960 me texts. No, send me verses. 257 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,000 No, don't do that. Go and read, go and study. 258 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,640 So you come back, go and pray to the Lord, Say Lord, I want to be 259 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,680 able to give an answer because of my faith. 260 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,120 That's what the scriptures say. Always be prepared to give a 261 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,680 reason for your faith. Why do you believe in Jesus 262 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,360 Christ? Because Jesus is good? 263 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,320 No. Why do you believe in Jesus 264 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,280 Christ? Why makes Jesus different from 265 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,520 anyone? Why is it that Christians were 266 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:27,680 dying for Jesus Christ and today Christians are being persecuted 267 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,080 for Jesus Christ? Why? 268 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,480 Oh, because Jesus is love and it's good. 269 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,160 There's a lot of people that would love lovely and kind and 270 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,960 compassion many people. But when you stand there and you 271 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,400 say you know why? Because Jesus is alive, praise 272 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,320 his name. That's why. 273 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:48,160 Because I worship a living God. I worship a living Jesus Christ, 274 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,640 not a dead person. I worship a living Jesus Christ. 275 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:59,920 If his tomb is empty, which is not if for because his tomb is 276 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,600 empty, because he was resurrected, it makes everything 277 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,720 about him true. He just. 278 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,280 He proved that to the world. He gave us the greatest 279 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:16,280 testimony to say that yes, only Jesus, only Jesus. 280 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,280 Why? Because his tomb is empty, 281 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:27,760 People start saying, oh, oh, oh, you're quoting Scripture now. 282 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,880 You know, your parents will probably say, hey, live. 283 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:32,720 I have Akasha. No, no, Sir, I don't want to be 284 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,600 Akasha. If God calls me, why not? 285 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,320 But I need to know what it means that I must be the power of God 286 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,040 to people because I'm a I'm a Christian. 287 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,000 I'm a little Christ in this world. 288 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:50,080 Christ is not with us beloved, and as I always say, no one has 289 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:57,000 physically seen Jesus Christ right from the day of his 290 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,640 ascension when he went into heaven. 291 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,560 No one has physically seen him right now in your dreams. 292 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,800 Yes, people have seen I just saw a video by there is a tick. 293 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,360 I get TikTok. Like why would you do it on 294 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:17,320 TikTok? Apparently when I'm it's Jesus 295 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,120 and then he comes down and he's walking to people claiming to be 296 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:22,800 a don't believe everything. It's just silly. 297 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:29,920 No one has seen Jesus physically because he ascended into heaven 298 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:34,560 and he sat. You know, it's like he ascended 299 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,920 to his throne that he had come down from and he sat and that's 300 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,840 it. He won't move. 301 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,440 However, there are Christ's on earth. 302 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:51,600 That is you, that is us. We can be the we must be the 303 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,080 power of God. Jesus came and gave hope to the 304 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,320 helpless and the hopeless of the community. 305 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,200 Those who are totally rejected, you can do that. 306 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,280 You can do that. Jesus came and made Mens he, he, 307 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,120 he reconciled us. We were enemies. 308 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,920 He made peace between US and God. 309 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,840 You can be a peacemaker. Jesus is called peace in 310 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,000 Ephesians chapter 2 verse 12. You're a Christian. 311 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:26,280 You need to make peace. Not to put to Hadohina, not to 312 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,200 cause divisions, not to talk bad about one another and start 313 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,560 gossip about one another. And when there is a gossip, you 314 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,400 should not. I just say, I don't want to get 315 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,440 involved. You know, there's too much 316 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,320 drama. No, no, no, that's not enough. 317 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,600 Jesus didn't come down and say, oh, dad, this is terrible. 318 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,880 I'm just going to come back up and I can't do anything with 319 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,040 these people. No, no. 320 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,360 He made peace. He made peace on the cross. 321 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,160 He died. We don't need to die for one 322 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,800 another. When you see someone talking 323 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,920 bad, when there's a gossip going around, don't flame it. 324 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,440 You know, the scripture said a wise man conceals many matters. 325 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,480 When there's a gossip, you just conceal it. 326 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,920 You know what, just get over it. Don't do this. 327 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,560 But a foolish man likes to continue to just go. 328 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,480 Just extend the gossip and and continue it. 329 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,640 Peace. How can we be the wisdom of God? 330 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:28,200 We can be the wisdom of God. Of course, through God we know 331 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,760 everything, beloved. What we need to know, we know 332 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,080 through Jesus Christ. That wisdom should be portrayed 333 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:41,240 to those who don't know God. You need to, you need to be that 334 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,680 Bible, that scripture. The people that don't know the 335 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,680 Bible don't know Christ, that can read. 336 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:51,160 And again, it goes back to how we conduct ourselves. 337 00:20:52,720 --> 00:21:01,480 Christianity is not just being in the church for two hours on a 338 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:06,080 Sunday and even being involved in the church, not only coming 339 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,040 to church, which many of you don't, which many of you don't. 340 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,880 We need to do something about that. 341 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:18,080 Enough is enough, right? Conference is over. 342 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,280 You go. I assure you, you go every 343 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,880 parish and look at their attendance, the pictures they 344 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:30,320 post, pre conference, post conference 8040. 345 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,240 Why? What does that say? 346 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,840 What does that say? Tell me, what does it say? 347 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:41,240 And now what does that say? They, they only come for is this 348 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:46,040 Christianity? I'm Christ like, Oh yes, I need 349 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,720 to come to church. I need to come to Bible studies 350 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:53,040 so that I can go, No, no, no, that's not Christianity. 351 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,120 Jesus Christ came on earth. He is God. 352 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,840 He could have blinked his enemies away, but he didn't do 353 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,080 that. He didn't come on earth just to 354 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,320 show, hey, I am God, I'm the Son of God. 355 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,680 No, no, actually, when they came to hail him as a king, what did 356 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:13,880 he do? He ran away. 357 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,280 While he walked away, He didn't want any glory. 358 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,240 We don't we don't come to God because we want to receive. 359 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,560 See that's being Christ like I don't do something for the House 360 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,160 of God in order to get something from the House of God. 361 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,800 I don't give to the House of God in order to in order to get no 362 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,320 when I do get. That's why the grace of God. 363 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,000 That's the blessings of God. I don't come to Bible studies 364 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,920 and to to church so that I can go to Canada next year. 365 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,120 That's not Christian, that's not being Christ like. 366 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,360 That's the scriptures. It's not me. 367 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:58,040 It's not just Kasha General's philosophy, It's not this is the 368 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:03,800 reality of Christianity. Christ knew the wisdom of God. 369 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,160 When they came to oppose him, to trick him, to sort of capture 370 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,960 him through words and they were using the scriptures. 371 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,720 Christ referred back to them with the scriptures again to the 372 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,800 point where it was time for Christ to put everyone in his 373 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,920 place, his oppositions. He said let me ask you a 374 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:27,040 question for for three years, let's say 2 1/2 years or so, 375 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,000 you've constantly come and asked me questions. 376 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:34,480 You've came and debated, you've come and showed your opposition. 377 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,360 Let me ask you a question, who is Christ? 378 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,440 Who is Jesus? He says who is the Christ? 379 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,280 They said the Son of day that so OK, Oh OK. 380 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,640 But if he is the son of David, why does David call him my Lord? 381 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,680 I'm not going to go into that. The Lord said to my Lord. 382 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,400 King David says it. The scripture said that from 383 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:04,280 that point onwards, no one dared to speak to him and question him 384 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,160 because they knew there was coming out second best. 385 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,200 So what do they do? Let's go and kill him. 386 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,640 That's what happens within humanity. 387 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,280 Marcel and I will be arguing and if I lose Kassman, I'll either 388 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,760 start swearing at him and becoming offensive and 389 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,760 disrespectful or I'll even cause harm. 390 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,000 You know what? Because I'm those type of 391 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,560 Christians, I argue Christianity. 392 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,000 Don't worry about other faiths in Christianity that happens. 393 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,400 As opposed to you know what? Thank you. 394 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,560 I didn't see it that way. I didn't know it that way. 395 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,640 Let me go back and re examine myself. 396 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,800 That's Christianity, that's being Christ like that's the 397 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,480 wisdom of God. That's the power of God. 398 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,800 Peace, peace. Jesus is peace. 399 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,680 So first and foremost, we may, we must make peace with God. 400 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,440 What caused enmity between US and God? 401 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,200 What caused it? How did we become the enemies of 402 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,080 God? What happened? 403 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:09,280 You know yes, what how sorry Chris find it. 404 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,880 I don't know even before that No actually through that we became 405 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:17,720 reconciled with God. Yes. 406 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:25,680 Yeah, we disobeyed him. Wow, what a great. 407 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:32,320 You know, sometimes it it mind boggles me that just by 1 Tina 408 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,600 one fig Adam and Eve ate Eve ate and gave to her husband. 409 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:43,320 We God, we set enmity dishmanauta between US and God 410 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,040 because it was sin, right? So number one, you need to make 411 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,280 peace with God. Gentlemen, if you're in sin, let 412 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,600 me you know, I speak, I speak Khacha openly. 413 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,840 Am I OK still walking right? If you're on pornographic sites, 414 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,920 if you're in sexual immorality, if you have hatred in your 415 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,560 heart, if you see someone and you want to just bash someone 416 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,640 because someone just looks at you, you walk. 417 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,720 You know, you see people bashing each other. 418 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,000 What happened? We don't know. 419 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,520 They would just walk past each other and just just start 420 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,800 fighting, right? That's sin. 421 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,920 What's wrong? That's sin. 422 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,440 That means you have no peace with God. 423 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,680 You got to make peace with God. We have to repent, ladies, you 424 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,720 want to show your glamour. You want to show people to how 425 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,680 you look, what your figure is and and how much you know what 426 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,920 is it looks and what have you. And you want people to attract, 427 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,480 you know, be attract and what have you. 428 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,920 That's not that's immorality. We need to make peace with God. 429 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,440 If God's yes, and I've always said this, if God's yes is a no 430 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,800 in your life, you need to make peace with God because there's 431 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,080 an enmity, but you don't need to go and crucify yourself. 432 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,560 Let me tell you, you don't need to go and get a big shape and 433 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,800 cut the head off and put blood on your you don't need to do 434 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,320 that. That's done. 435 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,520 That's finished. You get on your knees. 436 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,600 It's the distance is from the knee to the floor. 437 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,520 You get on your knees and you say, Lord God, Jesus Christ, 438 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,760 I've sinned. Forgive me, forgive me, Lord, 439 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,200 come to the church, be absolved by the church and you have peace 440 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,240 with God. That's the only time we can make 441 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,320 peace with others. If I don't have peace with the 442 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,920 Lord in my heart, there is no way. 443 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,240 It's very difficult that I can make peace with us and let alone 444 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,880 bring others to peace because like Moses did. 445 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,280 Let me tell you what Moses is. Moses was in Egypt and he saw an 446 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,200 Egyptian soldier who was beating a Jew. 447 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,080 He went to sort of tell him not to do it. 448 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,760 Bang, he fell and he died. And then Fast forward, there 449 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,600 were two people fighting. Two Jews were fighting. 450 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Moses went and said, hey, hey, what are you doing? 451 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,320 He said. They said, who are you to tell 452 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,560 us what to do? You're a murderer. 453 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,600 We thought you killed a Egyptian, but he didn't mean it. 454 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,480 It was accidental. Accidental. 455 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:23,480 We have to first make peace with God, be at peace with God, be at 456 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,360 peace with others. Then you can bring peace to big 457 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:36,440 priest between others. And lastly, Jesus is a spiritual 458 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,680 food, a spiritual drink and a spiritual rock. 1 Corinthians 459 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,080 10. Let me read it to you. 460 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,640 One Corinthians 10 versus three to four. 461 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:56,480 Yet I have sent actually, I always start with a OK three to 462 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,280 four for though we do live an earthly life, yet we do not 463 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,120 serve worldly things. Here's another worship night 464 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,120 topic for the weapons which we use. 465 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,040 Is it 1 Corinthians? No reason it's two Corinthians. 466 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,200 See, See no one said to me, Robbie, that's not the right, 467 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,760 right verse. In any case, chapter 10, verses 468 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,640 three and four, one Corinthians and all. 469 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,800 Let me let me start one. Moreover, brethren, I want you 470 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,720 to know that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all 471 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,280 passed through the sea, and all were baptized by Moses, both in 472 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,240 the cloud and in the sea. And all ate the same spiritual 473 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,960 food which came down from heaven. 474 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,480 And all drank the same spiritual drink which came down from the 475 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,160 rock. For they drank of that spiritual 476 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,880 rock that followed them, and that rock was Jesus Christ. 477 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:58,880 How can you be a spiritual food? How was must we try and toil and 478 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,760 and make every effort to be spiritual for now? 479 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,800 When someone is hungry, are you going to give them a drink? 480 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:14,000 Someone comes here and says I'm starving and you say drink this 481 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,040 water, all right, but I'm not sure I'm starving. 482 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,840 And what's the reaction when someone who's starving eats? 483 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,480 Is it or is it? That's nice? 484 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,720 No, I'm filled. We need to be food for people. 485 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,720 First we need to go. Those who are spiritually 486 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,480 starving of the love of Christ, the grace of Christ, the 487 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,200 knowledge of Christ, the relationship with Christ, we 488 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,400 need to go and tend to them. How do you do that? 489 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,680 Very simple. What do you do Friday nights? 490 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,920 What do you do Friday nights? Oh, I go to Bible studies. 491 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,440 What? Since when? 492 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,160 That's a good. That's a good sign. 493 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,240 When someone says are you, you say yes. 494 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,680 Me. Yeah. 495 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,840 What's wrong with you? Oh, you've noticed. 496 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,480 There's nothing wrong. I go to Bible studies on Friday 497 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,600 night. Why? 498 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,160 Because I love the Lord. Not because I want to go to 499 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,640 conference, because I love the Lord. 500 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,760 Not because I just want to chill out with friends. 501 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,600 We do that afterwards. No, because I love the Lord. 502 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,320 Do you have a relationship with God? 503 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,240 What do you mean? Which God? 504 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,200 Come along. Why don't you come along? 505 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,840 Tell me a little bit about your Lord. 506 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,760 Well, right now I don't know much because I'm now in that 507 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,440 learning process. Come along. 508 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,320 And when you do come, let me tell you something. 509 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,800 When you walk into the church, you can't be wearing shorts 510 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,080 because why? I don't know much, but I know 511 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,400 we're in the presence of God. You see, you're becoming the 512 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,040 wisdom of God, the power of God. You're, you're giving this 513 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,560 person food when you come to church, you know, no tank tops. 514 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,720 No, you know, relax. It's not about picking up 515 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,640 someone there. It's in the House of God. 516 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,320 Sorry, you can't do that. You don't need to go and put 517 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,240 3000 kilos of makeup on. You know, you don't need to do 518 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,520 that. You were going to God. 519 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,640 You're starting to feed this person. 520 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,120 And then where does the spiritual dream come into play 521 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,320 is when that person comes and sits here. 522 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,800 I'll, I've shared this with you. I'll share it with you again. 523 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,000 Who's been to Sydney? Great. 524 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,960 Are you been to Saint Peter and Paul Parish? 525 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,360 No. OK. 526 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,480 When you go to Sydney, there are three parishes in Sydney and one 527 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,000 on the way. Mats Mariam Church, St. 528 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,520 Hermes Church. That's where you're baptized. 529 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,920 St. Hermes Cathedral, Right. 530 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,280 And Saint Peter and Paul Parish. The parish priest is Bash and 531 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,960 Neil Dasha Neil I knew when he was young. 532 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,400 I used to go to his father's house. 533 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,760 He used to do video editing. I'm to DVDZ welcome. 534 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,640 Then I I hardly saw him at church. 535 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:03,800 Actually might be Christmas. The CEO no CE, not even O Ocean 536 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,560 as a maybe not Robbie. If I'm, if I'm mistaken, forgive 537 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,160 me. One Friday evening just like 538 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,920 this. We had Wednesday Bible studies 539 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,320 and we would have Friday preaching, one Friday, Neil 540 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,240 Mccoo. Then his friends invited him. 541 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,040 And by the way, his friends were Italian. 542 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:29,760 They used to come to preaching. His friends invited him to to 543 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,200 that Friday preaching. To my shame, you know, that's 544 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,680 what we're human beings. When he walked in, I thought, 545 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,680 oh, it's an idea. Yeah, he's probably friends and 546 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,680 you know, anyway he heard the message. 547 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,720 He comes and goes. Hi Darby. 548 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,080 I said, Neil, good to see you. I mean, you know, he's a good 549 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,640 sermon. I I enjoyed the sermon. 550 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,800 It's great from that day, from that day, Neil would be Friday 551 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,800 evening preaching. He would be Wednesday evening 552 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,800 Bible studies, every gathering unless he was working. 553 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,560 Then he became a reader, a Lecter. 554 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,760 Then he became a subdeacon. And one day I went one of them 555 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,440 on Monomoid troops back to Australia. 556 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,320 We were we would slaughtered Ramshaw and I saw so Shamash and 557 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,040 Neil walk up to the podium with a hood dry in his hand. 558 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:21,080 I'm thinking Marbin Yaman, Christian's cousin. 559 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,159 Marbin Yaman said listen and he said the poem Shapir Vishana 560 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,440 where he goes. He learned from Ravi Raja and 561 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,400 now he's serving as a priest. So what happened? 562 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,159 His friend fed him. He said come, he came. 563 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,639 And you know, when he gave him the drink is when he came. 564 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,520 Something touched his heart, his mind. 565 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:46,120 That's when he's probably gone. You know when you drink, you go. 566 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,520 Why? Because the thirst is quenched. 567 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,880 That's how you can be. You can be that spiritual food 568 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,000 by telling people about your relationship, but not being 569 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,480 hypocrites. I'm not saying that I go to 570 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,320 church every Friday or I go to church every Sunday, but my 571 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,640 conduct in love, whether it's social media, whether it's 572 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,560 hanging out, whether it's at school, whether it's at work, 573 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,560 it's totally different and contrary. 574 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,160 No, no, no. When you bring that person, you 575 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,480 fed the person when he drinks is when he he is the word of God. 576 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,760 Something touches his heart because you know what? 577 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,560 It's God that's bringing him, and then you can be that rock, 578 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,480 meaning that person is built upon the rock, which is Jesus 579 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,680 Christ. You that Christ bought him to 580 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,160 Jesus Christ, you're that little Christ. 581 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,400 That's what Christianity means, beloved. 582 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,560 It doesn't mean how my who my tribe is and how many priests 583 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,120 were in my household, how many bishops I've had in my 584 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,320 household, how much money I donate to the, how much work I 585 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,800 do for the church. That's it's, it's good. 586 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,000 I don't want to write this off. This is great. 587 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:08,240 But to be called Christian means you are fulfilling the role of 588 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:12,120 Christ in society. And if you think, if you're 589 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,200 thinking me, who me? That's what King David did. 590 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,400 King David was a brother of seven. 591 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:25,160 I believe he was a shepherd. He is that playing his harp and 592 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,120 he was tending to his sheep. God said to his son, his his 593 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,520 father. Jesse said, I want I want one of 594 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,400 your sons. He brought all of them at home. 595 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:38,240 And then like, stand up, Isaac, like here I am, Lord, right? 596 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,760 No, no, no, no. I don't want that. 597 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,160 I don't want that. You have one. 598 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:46,760 He said, oh, Pudana, you know, he's like that, that that he's a 599 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,680 shepherd. He goes not I want him because 600 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,520 my strength is seen in the weakness of people. 601 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,400 Don't ever ride yourself off. Don't ever think, gentlemen, 602 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,760 you're probably thinking that, yeah, I got things to do. 603 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,040 We're going to go out and hang out. 604 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,120 Whatever it is. Don't ever think that God will 605 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:10,240 not use you one day. Don't ever think because Neil 606 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,760 who came on Friday, if I had asked him, Neil, do you want to 607 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,680 be a priest, he would have laughed at me, but he is now a 608 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,160 priest. Ladies, don't ever think that 609 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,360 because you're a woman, God will not use you. 610 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,400 You go and look in the Scriptures how many women God 611 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,320 used one woman who was at the well who was talking to Jesus 612 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,520 Christ went to her city brought all her city to Jesus Christ. 613 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:41,640 One woman, right equality is with Jesus, with Jesus Christ. 614 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:47,480 Don't ride yourselves off. Continue your utmost best and 615 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,520 try and continue and putting your your effort and your whole 616 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,600 life on being that Christ. One day God may say I want to 617 00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:02,280 use you and then that's when your your life is your 618 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,840 foundation is rocked and your life is turned around 180°, 619 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,520 especially when God is glorified through what you do. 620 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,800 So be that Christian that we must be. 621 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,560 If there is nothing you've understood from this message, 622 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,600 start reading the scriptures and see what Jesus Christ was. 623 00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:26,840 That is what we must be. We must be, because we have that 624 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,720 precious title of Christians. We're not called the people of 625 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:32,920 the way. We are now called Christians. 626 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,600 Meaning they're a little Christ that's on earth. 627 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,120 Praise and glory be to his name, now and at all times and 628 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:38,960 forever. Amen. 629 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,640 We hope you enjoyed this week's message. 630 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,880 Please don't forget to rate and review this podcast and share 631 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,240 with your friends and family. For any future topic suggestions 632 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:16,680 or to give us detailed feedback, please visit our link in the 633 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:21,080 show notes. Linktr dot EE forward slash 634 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,040 double edged sword. Until next time, God bless you 635 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:24,320 all.