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Nehemiah, and last week we studied Chapter 9.
This week we are going to look at chapter 10.
But the background to understanding this chapter is
somewhere else. The background is in the book of
Deuteronomy chapter 2827, Chapter 11, and in book of
Joshua Chapter 7 and 8. It's scattered all over because
God was delivering the Israelites from Egypt, bringing
them out and through. Moses gave a command.
When you enter the land, you ought to read out the blessings
from the Mount of Gerizim and curses from the Mount of Ebal.
There is a picture there. Can we see the picture, please?
It's in the drive. I forgot it.
When you have time, you can retrieve it.
It's in the drive. Thank you.
So the distance between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal is about
less than two kilometers, or about two kilometers.
Now you've got 6 tribes standing up on Mount Gerizim and the
other 6 tribes standing on Mount Ebal.
And many of the leaders, most of the leaders would be there, not
all the people, because there's 1,000,000 + 1,000,000, two
million. You cannot stand on the hills.
So you've got the leaders of the tribes, six of them on Mayor
Gerizim and six of them on Mount Ebal, and they are to read out
blessings from Gerizim and cursors from Ibar.
Now you have to shout from Mount Gerizim so people can hear on
Mount Ebal and say Amen. And when they shout out the
words again from the Mount of Ibar, the people on Mount
Gerizim should hear it and say Amen.
Every time they read out a blessing, all the people would
say Amen and imagine the whole place to mountain shaking with.
I am 100% sure the mountains must have been shaking.
When the people are shouting Amen, that is it.
So you see here on the left, Mount Gerizim, it shows 881
meters from sea level and Mount Ebal is 940 meters from sea
level and this was 2890 feet and that is 3084 feet.
And I was just trying to imagine what must be the thing blessing
and the curses, you know, you need to, you need to dominate
blessings should actually dominate the curses basically.
But here you see that the height of the curses is more.
What am I trying to see here is that when we are obeying God,
when we are following His commandments, you will
experience the blessings. And you may not be really
overjoyed about it, but when you break it, the way the curse
comes, you're going to feel more of it.
You'll feel the curse more strongly.
I don't know. This is what I'm thinking.
All the good things I'm enjoying in life, but I'm not grateful to
God. I'm not thanking Him every day.
Oh, I thank you for the sunshine.
How many people do that? Only in public prayer.
They do it. Oh, she does it.
Somebody is raising the hand. That's good.
So every small thing, we need to praise God for every small
thing, every blessing. You know, when I look at the
whole universe, why should God make such a huge universe which
man can never travel through? Even if you travel the speed of
light, you won't touch the other end of the universe.
So big He made so that this small earth can be supported by
such a huge universe. It's not even 1%.
It is 0.0. Oh, oh, oh, oh, 1% of the whole
mass of the universe is the earth.
You can't even see after certain distance, you can't even see the
earth. Like a pinhead in a paper
pinhead. Even that says you cannot see
the earth. It is so small, tiny.
But God has set his eye on this earth and sustaining life on
this earth and is blessed. It's just overwhelming to think
of God's blessing. It's overwhelming experience to
think of God's blessing at the same time, when we deserve a
God, we will feel His hand. It is inbuilt.
It's inbuilt. It's called in theology, they
call it law of retributive justice.
Sometimes people get away. Somebody can murder and may not
be found out. He may never experience, but
some people are caught after 30 years, you know, or 40 years.
Sometimes that's the justice catches up at some time or the
other. But what we are trying to focus
here is Chapter 9, verse 2038. In view of all this, we are
making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our
leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seal
to it. What is happening here is OK now
We have been in captivity, we have come back and rebuild the
walls and the temple cells are restored.
Everything is going good. But the all these things have
happened, but now is the time to renew our covenant.
Everybody said renewing the covenant, its time to renew our
covenant. Now this is ordained by law that
once in seven years they had to read the law.
That's what we have seen in chapter 8 Ezra was doing.
He stood up and read the law and now they had to renew the
covenant. So they are now saying, OK, all
of us people cannot come and sign on it, but we push our
leaders to go and put their stamp on the agreement.
What are they trying to do here? They are committing themselves
to do everything that is in the law.
They are committing themselves to do everything in the law.
So here in chapter 10, we see those who sealed it were so they
said they are going to come and seal it.
So who are the people who came and sealed it?
You've got a list of people there.
It begins with Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hakaliya.
So he's an he's the leader who has come back, who left his job
to be a cupbearer in the presence of the king.
And now he's helped the people, united them, gave them a vision
and motivated them. And the walls are built.
Now people are coming back and settling down in Jerusalem.
Before it was less populated. Now they are saying, OK, some of
you have to come in because too few are living inside.
So they cost lots. You'll see it in the next
chapter. They cost lots who should come
and live in Jerusalem. Cool.
So he is the first one mentioned and he's right because he's the
leader. He's the first one to say I put
my seal on it. I agree with it, it's good.
But what is not mentioned there in the chapter, in chapter 10,
verse one is the name of Eliashib, who is Eliashib.
Eliashib is a high priest. His name is not there.
Why is his name is not there? Because two of his children are
married to non Jewish people. Two of his children are married
to non Jewish people. So because this is going against
him, he's absent from the sea. Anything.
It looks right to me what he's doing.
He's saying OK. He's not saying, ah my son, I
have given my children to non Jewish people, but yet I will
come and sign it. He's not saying it.
That's good on his part. At least he's accepting his
guilt and staying away from it so, so many times.
Sometimes the silence of scripture.
We need to find out why Scripture is silent on some
things. It will not talk about the
mistakes. And particularly here, Alia Ship
is not being mentioned, is actually an act of grace.
His name is not mentioned. Polish people have put his name
there. Alia Ship, his sons and
daughters are married to somebody else.
That's why he's not signing the document.
Is it written there? No, it's an act of grace.
Our sins are overlooked by Holy Spirit sometimes for the good,
for our encouragement. But at the same time, I tell you
somewhere Sami says I am not punished account to my sins.
We are not punished account to our sins.
But you are blessed more beyond your imagination when you focus
on the blessings. It's just mind blowing and God
doesn't deal with us account to our sins.
And then you have here other names, Zedekiah, Seraya,
Azariah, Jeremiah, Pashu, the length goes and the name of Ezra
is not there, is it there in chapter 10 you don't find the
name of Ezra, why his fathers name is mentioned there?
Seraya Isa after the name of the governor, the son of Akalaya,
Zedekiah. Seraya.
Seraya is the father of Ezra. So because his father's name is
mentioned, Israel is including the father.
So there is no separate mention of Israel there.
Are you excited to hear something?
So when you sit down and study all these kind of things, it
just, I get excited about the word, you know.
Oh this is so awesome. So Ezra is mentioned because his
fathers name is mentioned. Ezra is not mentioned in
particularly by name is not there, but his fathers name is
there because the father is the head.
He is taking second place. Even though he's a leader, he's
hiding under the fathers name. That's really good.
So now you go through all these names.
I think the names number about 44.
I could be right or wrong about it. 44 people have sealed with
their signature seal the document.
I don't know whether we should do something like that, but at
the end of this message I may be encouraged to say if you are
committing yourself to study the Word, you want to obey the Word
and preach the Word, stand up. You make an agreement with God,
you make a cover with God that you will study this book and you
will obey what is written in the book and that you will preach it
to others from the book. That's the motto of Ezra.
And we will try to do it at the end of the message.
And then who are the people who different kinds of people are
involved in signing the document?
So you have the Levites. This whole list is Levites.
And then you have again some more mentioned Levites.
And then you have leaders of the people and you have got, what
are the names? Yeah, these were the priests,
sorry, priests, Levis, leaders of the people.
That is chiefs of the nation, the main groups.
Every tribe has its head and sometimes they divide the
Israelites, you know, they tried to have 1 / 1001 / 101 over a 10
for the purpose of regrouping and going into battle, that kind
of a thing. So the these people were the
chiefs, main people who are controlling, controlling the
events in Israel. So they were all there, leaders
of the people or the chiefs of the nation were there.
The rest of the people was 28 priests, Levites.
Priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and
all who separated themselves from the neighbor, neighboring
peoples for the sake of the law of God, together with their
wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to
understand. Now that is again a very
important Scripture. That is verse 28, who are
involved somehow put their document the seal, but somehow
not, but they are agreeing to it.
They are saying who are the people agreeing to it?
Rest of the people. Who are the rest of the people?
Priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, all
who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the
sake of the law of God. Now when the revival comes, this
is what we continue. Last week we said revival
continuing. So what is the impact of
revival? Ask the question to neighbor,
what's the impact of revival? I don't hear anything.
Can you say one more time? Yes, the impact of river will
affect every part of your life. And here first thing they see
here is that they are separating with their wives all the sensors
who are able to understand all these now join their brothers
and nobles and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to
follow the law of the Lord given through Moses and the servant of
God, and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations,
decrease of the Lord our God. So first requirement here is
they separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the
sake of the law of God. What does it mean?
How should we apply to ourselves?
Basically the Israelites were living with so many non Jewish
people also living with them and they were intermarrying and
having children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren, all these things. But now they are taking the most
difficult step is to separate themselves from non Jewish
people. I don't know that is applicable
today, but it's just historical thing.
But the point I'm trying to make is the New Testament also when
Paul rush to this kind of mixed marriage context, he says if the
wife is not a believer and the husband is a believer or husband
is a non believer and wife is a believer, if they want to live
together, let them live together.
But they should not have started it.
That's a different matter. OK, I am not with that.
You can just marry anybody. I am not saying that a believer
should marry only a believer. A Christian must marry a
Christian. But if it had had already
happened, let it continue. I am not saying no, no, you need
to separate. No, that is not the New
Testament. The Old Testament says you
separate. And they separated themselves.
They put away the wives and the children and grandchildren,
everything. They have done it.
It is a very difficult step to do for them and they have done
it. And everybody who can understand
now that is our Sunday school. Basically, if you have a child
that is able to understand they are part of this covenant.
They were making everybody. We don't separate the Sunday
school and the church, but for the sake of making the covenant,
everybody who can understand has to agree with it then was 30.
We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the
peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.
This is actually again there is a what you call a customer.
I think it is almost all over the every country follows.
This is the is the when a man and a woman marry, the woman
leaves her family and goes to the husband husbands family and
nowadays it's not there too much.
When they are married, they have their own home.
That's a different matter now. But in the Old Testament they
carry the name whose name, surname changes.
A man's surname does not change. Usually it is a ladies surname
changes usually so that is going into that family take the name.
So that's what they are saying here is we promise not to give
our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their
daughters for our sons. That means basically there is no
intermarriage between different kinds of people.
Jews cannot marry non Jewish people and they want to uphold
the law now. So the revival when it comes, it
begins with marriage. It has to begin with marriage
and from there it goes on into different areas.
Next you see again in verse 31 when the neighboring people
being bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will
not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day.
So it has to impact the business.
The non Jewish people want to do business seven days a week, so
they bring grain and merchandise from outside Jerusalem and they
want to come inside and sell it. And these people used to go and
buy it and name. I said no, you will not do it
anymore. And he shut the gate.
You'll see it in the next chapters.
You'll see it. He actually shut the gate on the
Sabbath and he did not allow anybody from outside Jerusalem
to come inside until the Sabbath is over to prevent people from
coming in to do business. And when they do business,
they're breaking the law, breaking Sabbath.
That's the reason why he said no, we should not break the
Sabbath and that is how it is going to impact it is affecting
the businesses. Then it continues every 7th
year. We will we will not, we will
forego working the land and will cancel all dates.
Now this is having a big impact again the the Deuteronomy, what
it says is you shall plough your land and grow crops and reap
everything for six years. The 7th year you will not plow
the land, you will not sow, you will not reap.
This is the Old Testament, OK. And now it doesn't happen
anywhere in any part of the world.
Nobody has a Sabbath. A sabbatical year is not being
followed. So 7th year is called in Hebrew
it is called smita, SMITAH smita smita.
So the 7th year is called sabbatical and 7th year is not
supposed to be no ploughing, no reaping, nothing.
Just you leave the land like that.
Whatever grows by itself, you take it.
Otherwise, no, you don't do anything and cancel the debts.
If you owe, if you give money to somebody, when the 7th year
comes, you have to cancel the debt He gives you back.
You take it, but it doesn't give you cancel it.
Wow. It is going to have economic
impact. It's going to have economic
implications, and when we obey the law of our God, we have to
be willing to lose some things to gain something.
Now what are you gaining? Why did God give you law?
When you obey the law, you are in favor with God.
When you obey the law, every blessing pursues you.
When you obey the law, you are going to be healthy.
And when you obey the law, all your cattle will do well.
They will give their young ones at the right time, right season,
and your crops will bear fruit. I have a good testimony to share
about it. Once I went to Punjab, one small
meeting was supposed to be there by evening, 7:00 I think.
And these guys took me round and round and reached me there at
9:00 or 10:00. Let's say this is group standing
there and I'm just coming from inside.
I step into the door and I see somebody at the back jerk like
this. I said, oh, something is
happening in this lady, you know, So I come, go to the wall
and I just sit there at the wall.
That's where people are filled up there.
So I sit near the wall, stand near the wall, sit near the
wall. This lady stood up from there.
As soon as I stood there, she stood there and she was doing
her hand like this. I said OK, the devil is
manifesting now. I wasn't bothered because she's
at the end of the crowd. And after some time she came
stood in the middle and doing the same thing.
And after some time I was singing was still continuing.
She came, stood in front of me and when she was doing like
this, it was going from my nose like this.
So I asked the pastor, do you want me to deal with the lady
now or afterwards? He said whatever you feel right,
you do it. I said in the name of Jesus
Christ of another put my hand on her head.
She just fell on the on the ground and she sat there and all
through the singing and the message she didn't disturb at
all, but I prayed for her. At the end again she manifested
and she fell to the ground and I thought she is free.
Next day we had meetings in the in the city and she came to the
into the meeting and after the meeting should come up and say,
please pray for me. You pray for me yesterday, pray
for me today in the name of Jesus, put my hand, he slayed in
the spirit and 2nd day, third day.
Then after a couple of months, I called the pastor and asked him,
hey, there was one particular lady of all the crowd, There was
one particular lady who came again and again, do you know
anything about her? He said, oh pastor, there's a
big testimony there. I said, what is a big testimony?
She invited 300 of her relatives.
How many 300 and gave a testimony before all of them
saying I went to these meetings, something happened to me.
Now everything is changed. Before I used to have cows, they
would not give milk. I have I plow through the field
and there's no fruit there and there's no crops coming up.
Now everything is changing my life.
This Jesus has changed my life inside out.
Praise the Lord for such a testimony.
So obeying the law is going to give you that kind of an edge in
your life, and not obeying the law is going to give the
opposite. Obeying the law will make you
strong like a mountain, but deserving the law will make you
like a mouse that is running away.
You can't stand up your enemies. You will have enemies coming up
everywhere. These things are going to happen
because that is automatic. Obeying brings blessing,
disobedience brings crushes. How much curse is there on the
world today? Because the most most of the
world is deserving God. Most of the world is deserving
God. And that's why we need to pray
that God will have mercy and touch people, change people.
It's very important. OK, so next thing that you see
here is we are assuming responsibility for carrying out
the commands to give 1/3 of a shekel each year for the service
of the House of our God. Third of a shekels, very tiny
amount, small piece of silver, but they say we are going to
give annually, once once a year that piece of silver.
Why? For the maintenance of the House
of God. So the question now comes here
is how is this applicable now in the New Testament?
In the New Testament, there are no rules of giving.
But giving is not discouraged, is in fact encouraged.
But how do you give? You give out of a because you
love God, because you love his Kingdom, because you want his
Kingdom to prosper. You give not because it's a law
saying you have to give your 10%.
Am I communicating here? Why do we give out of free?
Because you love God, because your love is Kingdom to prosper.
That's why you give and how much you give.
It's up to you. It's up to you.
But I in my own life, I have hard and fast.
You know, I have thought through it.
There was a time my salary was today's equal to $10 a month.
Maybe those days it was more because I can't find out how
much was a rupee compared to a New Zealand dollar.
But today's dollar value, if I put it just $10, I have to make
in a month. That's how I started and I had
to I wanted to give half to my family those days to support my
mom and my daughter and my sisters to pay the fee for food
and everything. And other half, if I rent a
house, would go, other half would go for the rent.
So I would choose not to stay in this independent house but share
accommodation in some other place.
So from that I had to eat, I had to pay for my stay.
I life was not easy, but I said I will honor God with what he
has given me and 10% goes to him.
A month will come when you cannot put the 10%.
It's very difficult. You know, in that little money
you can't take it out and I would keep that in mind and
compensate it later when I'm a little comfortable.
I'm not saying this is how you should do.
This is what I have done in my growing years.
I had no fellowship in the place where I was working actually at
the time and but still God gave me grace.
When you are faithful when you have little, you'll be faithful
when you have more. So that's what I would like to
say, not I this is not something I really wanted to preach on
giving, but this is there in the Scripture, so I need to deal
with it. OK, who?
You give that third of a shekel? Why the third official?
What is it used for? It is used for setting the bread
in the house. In the house, the priestly
family, they will bake the cakes or the bread and make 12 cakes,
six on one heap, another heap, 6 of them they put on the
showbread. There's a table specifically
mentioned for bread and they put that bread every week, beginning
of the week and take it away at the end of the week.
That means you eat it after six days.
Stale bread, OK, nobody died. And that was not allowed to be
eaten beforehand. You had to keep it there for six
days. And then the priestly family,
those who are clean only are allowed to eat, not anybody.
Somebody comes along, you can't give the bread to.
Oh, you are hungry, you take the bread.
No, that's holy. Only to be eaten by the priestly
family. But it costs money.
So from this 1/3 of a shekel, that money is used for putting
the bread there on the show table and then to burn for green
offerings and the burnt offerings on the Sabbath, new
moon festivals, appointed fees for the holy offerings for sin
offerings, to make atonement for Israel and for all the duties of
the House of our God. That money goes to maintenance
of the religious system. Maintenance of the religious
system. Why is it required?
Your life is closely tied with religion.
There. You cannot separate.
It is not like you are born a Jewish person.
I have nothing to do with the temple and nothing to do with
the sun, Hadrian. You cannot say you are part of
it. You are born into the system.
You cannot get rid of it. But today, Christians choose not
to do anything with the church, not to do, not to give, not to
support. You know that's not right.
What happens is when you are in relationship with God, when you
love God, when you worship him, when you want to his Kingdom to
go ahead, you will do nothing but give.
You cannot say no, no, no, I'm not giving.
This is my money. You cannot say that there's
nothing like my money. If it doesn't give you, you
don't have anything. So we need to take the
responsibility to partner with the Kingdom of God.
That's the main principle. Very, very important.
Then what do you see here? The priests and the Levites and
the people have caused lots to determine when each of our
families is to bring to the House of our God at set times
each year a contribution of wood to born on the altar of the Lord
of God as written in the law. You need firewood to burn the
sacrifices on the bronze altar. You need the firewood.
So who will do it? The priests and the Levites.
They cost lots at different times of the year, let's say
monthly, once a month. Once a month we'll bring the
firewood. So cost a lot.
Your name comes or somebody else's name comes, or someone
else's name comes according to the times you will bring and
supply the firewood. Does it cost time to go and to
cut the trees down? Does it cost time to gather them
and dry them? Does it cost time and effort to
put them on a cart and tow them to the temple?
Did anybody say I should be paid for doing all these things?
It is voluntary. Why?
Because you love God and His house.
See, this is what we need to catch many people in the New
Testament times. They don't understand what is
this principle of love and living in covenant and longing
for the Kingdom of God and promoting the Kingdom of God
that spirit we had to get it and when we get it, we will not
complain about giving at all. We don't need a rule for it.
You will just give cool. The next we see here verses
3536. We also assume responsibility
for bringing to the House of the Lord each year the first fruits
of our crops out of every fruit tree.
When you go set, your sick have been sickle.
Yeah, sickle in the in the thing and harvest it, and you dry the
grain and then you pound the grain or you mill it.
The first fruits have to come to the temple of God.
They bring that and offer it to the sacrifice.
So the priest will take a handful of it and burn it on the
altar and the rest goes to the maintenance of the priest.
The flower, the first fruit, the family benefits and what else
They give first fruits of our crops of every fruit tree.
If you have a fruit tree, it will bear fruit in its own
season. But the very first time you
pluck something, you are bringing it to the temple of God
as a first fruit. We have raw ones.
Give us a bottle gourd. I said, Rao, what is this for?
This is the first one we have cut from the tree, from the
plant. Praise God, that idea of giving
it to somebody, you know, it's a blessing.
When you share things with somebody, you have a blessing.
So we should not stop doing it. Basically, we should keep doing
it because it blesses somebody who don't have skills to put a
plant. And you know, like me, it helps.
Just joking. So as it is written in the law,
we will bring the first born of our sons and of our cattle, of a
herds and of a flock to the House of our God, to the priest
ministering there. How do you bring your son?
I can understand you got from first fruits of the herd, first
fruit of the cattle. OK, bring the calf and give it
to the priest. How do you do with your son in
the in the oldest when you read the book of Deuteronomy, when
you have a son, first born son, you have to dedicate him to God.
First born son belongs to me. God says every first born
belongs to me. Cattle, animals, human beings,
it's all mine. But there's another clause which
says you have to redeem your son.
You have to redeem your son. So there's a price to pray
whatever number of shekels you pay and you redeem your son.
But basically your children belong to God.
Second thing, this is very interesting.
What I read in the Old Testament, when you have a
donkey is of no use in the temple of God.
You can't sacrifice a donkey, so you have to redeem the donkey.
You have to pay the money and redeem the donkey.
You know, that's all symbol of salvation by faith in Jesus
Christ. Do you see that?
You have to understand that everything needs to be redeemed.
Even a donkey's head has to be redeemed.
And in the New Testament, you see here, what does Paul say?
Gospel must be preached to all creation, including donkey.
So we have this beautiful the world is full of richness.
I tell you everywhere you see the principle of salvation
coming through, you need to redeem.
But if you don't want to redeem a donkey, OK, you say, I have
enough 1000 donkeys. I don't need one more.
You need to break his neck. That's what the Old Testament
says. I don't want to be too harsh on
it, but that's what the Old Testament says.
The point I'm trying to say here is nobody wants to break the
neck of a donkey. He will just pay the money and
redeem the donkey. But if somebody is too harsh on
his own heart and doesn't want to redeem the donkey, that's
what is to be done. That's what the Bible says.
Old Testament, cool. So we have to do all these
things and we are binding all this.
It is as written in the law. We will fulfill it.
We will do it so many times its coming through.
So that is what is the essence of it is doing the law is more
important and then I must conclude it now.
So the first fruit, first of our ground meal of our grain
offerings are the fruit of all the trees of our new wine and
oil. We will bring a tithe of our
crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the ties
to all the towns where we work. So now whose job is it to bring
the ties to the Temple of God? Leavers were not just living in
Jerusalem, they were stationed in different parts of the entire
Judea and you know, all of Israel.
And wherever they live they have to go and collect the tithe.
But you need one of the priests to accompany for
responsibilities sake. A priest from Jerusalem will go
and the leavers will help and they collect the tithe, and from
the tithe they will take a tithe and bring it to Jerusalem.
For the 9/10 of what is collected belongs to the Levites
because they don't own the land, they don't plow, they don't sow,
they don't reap. How will they live from the
tithes of collected in that area?
The Levites live from their tithe.
It comes to the high priest. This is a very tight knit system
in the Old Testament, but we don't follow it anymore in the
New Testament times. We don't follow it, OK, And
mostly what we do is voluntary. You love God, you give.
You don't love God, that's your job.
Not my job. Cool.
Then a priest decided from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when
they receive the ties, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of
the ties up to the House of our God.
The essence of all these things is written in the last verse.
We will not neglect the House of our God.
Let's all read it together. We will not neglect the House of
our God. That is the commitment.
You need to remember that the system has to continue.
We need the church because that's the place where we sit
and study the world and we need to contribute somewhat
definitely to it and and otherwise how will it go?
How will Gods word be preached week after week?
How will people be healed? How will they will receive
deliverance? How will the gospel preach the
whole city? We need to do it somehow.
I am might put God has put on my heart that we should reach the
city. I don't know how, but I'm
waiting on God week after week. Give me a strategy to reach the
city. We need to do it.
So whole whole thing is done like that.
So when they were repenting from their lack of obedience to the
law, now they are repenting and turning to God S what area of
their life is affected? Every area is affected,
marriage, family, finances, everything.
There is no area exempted. So if you are a Christian, you
cannot tell God, OK, I am, I do not mind giving the money part,
but marriage do not enter there or I will allow you in my
marriage but not in my finances. There is no area exempt from
God. If there is any area, we have to
surrender it to God and say God, you be king of my life, you are
king of my life, you are the Lord of my life.
And then the revival continues in your life until you
surrender. There is no revival.
Every area of our life has to be surrendered to God.
There is no area exempt from God.
You cannot even I tell you, even if you want to oversleep, you
have to tell bring it under God. It is too much of coffees.
You have to breathe under God. Now there is a limitation for
everything you may say, preacher you are, you are going beyond
your boundary to talk to me. I am saying bring your life
under the authority of God, Lordship of Christ, every area.
This is not a single area. You cannot say no, no, this is
not a area. Or whether it is your mobile
phone, you know, social media, you cannot run it.
Run your life. You have to run the mobile
phone. Mobile phone should not run your
life. So there is no area.
I am telling you. So the best thing that we can
ever do is to say with these people that we want to bind
ourselves with an agreement and we want to do all that is in
this law written in the law. I tell you this is so much of
joy in obeying the law, obeying God and God will speak to you in
different ways. And sometimes when you're you
may not be written in the in the Bible itself, but you may hear
something God said. Do you do this?
There will be a law that can be connected generally, but many
things God can speak on his own. Don't do this, don't do that,
but we need to hear from God. That's very important.
Cool. So let's just, I'm not saying
everybody stand. No, those of you who want to
say, God, I want to surrender my life to you.
I want you to be Lord of my life.
I yield every area of my life. You want to say that you can
stand up and then we will sit together.
And some of you may say, no, I don't want to do it and you can
sit. That's not a problem.
Thank you, Jesus, I will be praying on everybody's behalf.
And when you say Amen, you are putting your signature to what I
have said. Father God, we thank you for
your children who are this morning committing themselves to
obey all that is in your book and to receive every blessing
that comes from obedience to the law.
We praise You, We praise You, We praise You, We praise You, we
praise you, for you are the living. 1 You are the king of
our life. Every area of our life you are
king. There's no area that is exempt
from your lordship. And those of us who are young
and not yet married, they have to marry only those who know
Jesus and accept his lordship and those are in the marriage
continue in the same status. But I pray that you give us
grace to make you Lord of our life very clearly, that
everybody will know that we belong to you.
And every area of our life, including finances, children, a
job, career or vocation, everything we bring, our free
time around, times of work, everything we bring under the
Lordship. We praise you God, be King of
our life, be Lord of our life, the glory of your name.
Help us to receive every blessing because you are King of
our life and everybody who agrees with me will say Amen in
Jesus name. We have asked.
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