1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses. 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,120 You and trust God will. Reveal himself to you in a new 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,320 way today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 healing or breakthrough? Want to find out more about 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Omega? Get to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:33,110 page through the links below. Hallelujah, one more time. 9 00:00:33,110 --> 00:00:35,710 Hallelujah. That's it. 10 00:00:35,710 --> 00:00:39,160 Very good. So we are continuing your study 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,920 from the book of Galatians chapter 2. 12 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,800 We finished until was 10 last week. 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,240 We will continue from 11 onwards. 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:56,320 Now this is a very important scripture portion and we have 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,320 seen how Paul was very passionate to preserve the 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,200 gospel, the truth of the gospel, and didn't want to compromise. 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,480 But here we see sometimes leaders also make mistake. 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,160 Can leaders make mistake? Yes. 19 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,760 So here is a leader, Peter the Apostle, and he is visiting 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,720 these people at Antioch. So when Peter came to Antioch, I 21 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,640 oppose him to his face because he was clearly in the wrong. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,360 Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,080 Gentiles, but when they arrived he began to draw back and 24 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,080 separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,760 of those who belong to the circumcision group. 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,680 So what is happening here is that Peter has come to visit the 27 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:45,080 people of Antioch, the church at Antioch, and he is now, he's 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,880 there for some time. So every day he would mingle 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,760 with everybody, Jews and Gentiles, and eat with them, sit 30 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,480 with them, have fellowship, talk, preach, everything is 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,880 going normal. Suddenly what happened is a 32 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:02,240 certain group of people, they came from Jerusalem to Antioch, 33 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,120 and they said that they belong to the Apostle James or 34 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,080 followers of Apostle James. But is it possible that Apostle 35 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,680 James would have done it? Would he have said go and check 36 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,640 on Peter whether he is eating with Gentiles or not? 37 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,280 I don't think so. Because in Acts chapter 15 we 38 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,400 have, we have done this study before acts #15 James was the 39 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,040 one who gave a final verdict about what Gentiles should do, 40 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,760 that they should abstain from meat offered to idols and they 41 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,360 should not eat strangled animals with blood, avoid the blood and 42 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,920 avoid fornication. So that these are the only few 43 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:48,400 things he put on the Gentiles. Now what is the problem here? 44 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,800 Does it say they cannot eat food with Gentiles in that agreement? 45 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,240 No. So some people saw a loophole in 46 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:03,120 the direction and they came and they acted as if James sent 47 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,480 them. But when they came and started 48 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,720 influencing Peter, Peter got afraid, you know, and then he 49 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,440 withdrew, withdrew from the Gentiles. 50 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,320 He started eating separate. Like today everybody is sitting 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,160 and eating and suddenly you see Peter gets away from here and 52 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,480 sits separately and eats because he doesn't want to eat the 53 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,000 Gentiles. So Paul saw it and then came and 54 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,240 confronted Peter, confronted Peter, say you are wrong. 55 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,160 Now, if he did not do, what would happen? 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,480 If Paul did not confront Peter, what would happen? 57 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,440 The gospel will be compromised, the truth will be compromised. 58 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,880 That's the reason why Paul had to confront him. 59 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,600 So the problem with Peter is not a new problem, is it a new 60 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,560 problem? No, this is his nature. 61 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,440 He has been like that before he became a an apostle. 62 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,320 He has been from the building like that. 63 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,000 I would say he would just be like a pendulum. 64 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,280 He will be on one end one day and next within one second he 65 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,440 will go swing to the other end. Let's look at some of the 66 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,320 instances where Peter had changed, let's say when he was 67 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,360 talking. I mean Jesus asked, who do you 68 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,720 say I am? You are the Son of the living 69 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,400 God. And Jesus said flesh and blood 70 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,000 has not revealed this to you. Flesh and blood has not 71 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,600 revealed. This is from the revelation from 72 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,440 my Father. And then after some time he says 73 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,480 when Jesus is talking about, he says Son of Man will be betrayed 74 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,120 into the hands of the Gentiles. They are going to crucify him. 75 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,040 They are going to kill him. He takes him from the crowd and 76 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,800 says, takes him aside and says this will not happen to you. 77 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,000 No, no, no, it's not going to happen to you. 78 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,520 Then Jesus looks at him and said, get behind me, Satan. 79 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:58,680 Get behind me Satan, because one moment he is receiving 80 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,480 revelation from the Father that Jesus is the Son of the living 81 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,560 God, and the next moment says you will not face the cross, 82 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,440 which is against the will of the Father. 83 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,960 So sometimes we can have some kinds is not always possible, 84 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,960 but sometimes leaders can disappoint. 85 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,800 And here is an example of Peter swinging from one end to the 86 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,360 other revelation that is from the Father to being influenced 87 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,520 by the devil 100%. So from being influenced by the 88 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,440 Holy Spirit is going to the other extreme of being 89 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:37,320 influenced by the devil. And then he is also a man who we 90 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,120 are not trying to put some mud on Peter to make him look very, 91 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,840 very bad. No, that's not our purpose. 92 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,960 The purpose here is that we all have some of the Peters 93 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,320 characteristics. One day we are up spiritually, 94 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,080 another day we are down spiritually. 95 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:59,000 Today we are winning over our struggles and next day we are 96 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,960 being losing the defeat. We are losing our battle to the 97 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:07,320 devil and losing it. I prayed for a man 343 days ago 98 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,960 and he was struggling with an issue and I prayed for him to be 99 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,480 delivered and only this morning I wake up to see the phone and 100 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,760 he says I fell in my sin again. So I knew that the prayer that I 101 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,440 prayed is not 100% effective in the sense he is not fully set 102 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,520 free. So when I go home I'm going to 103 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,400 tell him hey we need to pray again. 104 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,080 Its not, it's not yet over. The battle is not yet over. 105 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,600 So the point I'm trying to make is there will be this kind of a 106 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,560 up and down in Christian life, but we need to learn to walk 107 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,720 with God in a steady way. It has to be a straight line, 108 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,240 not a wave, up and down wave, so that we have to learn. 109 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,360 So some people think it is automatic. 110 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,080 You should just believe in Jesus. 111 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,760 Everything is going to disable. All your problems will be gone, 112 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,640 your temptations will be gone. You become a St. overnight. 113 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,920 It doesn't happen because we have the same soul still. 114 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,160 The day before your conversion, the soul you have is the same 115 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,920 soul you have. The after conversion. 116 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,040 That soul needs to be submitted. That soul needs to be 117 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:12,040 surrendered to Jesus. It has to be crucified and we 118 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,480 have to train the soul, we have to train the body. 119 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,520 The flesh is the same. The day before he was born again 120 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,440 is the same body you have after the day you are born again. 121 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,320 So that flesh which was doing things is going to continue to 122 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,880 want to do the same things. And you have to tell the flesh, 123 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,960 no, you are dead, you cannot do the same things. 124 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,320 So what? What am I trying to say? 125 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,000 There is a place for dedication, there's a place for resisting, 126 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,280 there's a place for changing your habits. 127 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Habit. It doesn't become. 128 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,080 You don't get a habit in a day, do you? 129 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,360 You had to do it repeatedly. Even the most alcoholic person 130 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,520 who talked to him the very first time you tasted alcohol, what 131 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,960 was it like? Ah, it wasn't so nice. 132 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,920 Then why did you become alcoholic? 133 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,520 Because I kept drinking and drinking until it became nice to 134 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,040 me. It's just like that. 135 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,720 Most of the sins are like that. You first time you commit, you, 136 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,200 you're, you have a conscience. You feel guilty about it. 137 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,480 You don't want to do it, you want to stop it. 138 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,240 But again, a second time you do. A third time we do, the 139 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,000 conscience is dead. It will not tell you anything 140 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,520 anymore now. And you are free to do the same 141 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,840 thing any number of times. We kill our conscience when we 142 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,039 keep doing the very things our consciousness not to do. 143 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,440 So that is how it is. Now look at this man. 144 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:41,240 He is now going back in the in the boat and in the middle of 145 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,200 the night they were rowing against the wind and it was very 146 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,760 difficult. And Jesus is going passing by, 147 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,680 walking on the sea and they thought he is a ghost. 148 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,240 They cry out and Jesus says no, I am the same. 149 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,240 I am not a ghost, I am Jesus. If you are Jesus, ask me to walk 150 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,080 on the water and come to you. OK, come. 151 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,600 He is the only disciple who had the courage to walk on water. 152 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,760 Were there not other disciples? Did they say we want to walk as 153 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,720 you are walking? So there's good thing about 154 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,440 Peter. We must have that characteristic 155 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:21,000 of Peter where we want to try and walk on water and to take up 156 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,920 the challenge. Only problem is he looked at the 157 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,520 wind and the waves. They did not stop, but he was 158 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,480 able to walk on the same water. The same wind, same waves did 159 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,680 not stop him from walking, but when he looked at them, he began 160 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,920 to sink. Your problems can be there, but 161 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,280 you don't look at the problem. Don't focus on the problems. 162 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,280 If you want to walk on water, don't focus on your problems. 163 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,600 That's very simple. You focus on the problem. 164 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,800 You are not going to walk on water. 165 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,520 So that is how it is. And this man 1 moment is walking 166 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,040 on water, another moment is sinking. 167 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,240 Jesus saved me and Jesus reached out into his hand, picked him up 168 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,240 and pulled him up and brought him to the boat again. 169 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:11,440 So one time it is something like that and justice before in the 170 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,440 Garden of Gethsemane, and when the people came to arrest Jesus, 171 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,560 he was impulsive, took out the sword that he had, and I cut off 172 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,800 the ear of the high priest servant, chop one second, the 173 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,120 ear is gone, is on the ground. And Jesus had to tell him, put 174 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,960 that sword back in the sheath, and then he took the ear and put 175 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,520 the man's ear and healed it. Even the last moment. 176 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,080 Jesus is the one who wants to heal. 177 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,720 He wants to heal and do miracles not because anything. 178 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,200 That is His nature. He is God and He cannot be any 179 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,600 other way. He was 100% man, 100% God and He 180 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,840 was wanting to do naturally what He would do. 181 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,600 Even though He is not going to be arrested, He will do the same 182 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,400 thing and He will do the same thing today. 183 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,680 He is the same yesterday, today and forever. 184 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,320 So he was an impulsive guy, foot washing just before, you know, 185 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,200 you see that in the scripture, before he was betrayed, before 186 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:19,000 he was, I mean, arrested. He wanted to tell the people 187 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,120 that his disciples some valuable lesson. 188 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,880 So he made them sit around and he tied a towel around his waist 189 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,440 and he took a basin of water, came to each one and wash their 190 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,440 feet and dried with the cloth and then goes to the next and 191 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:32,600 the next. And he comes to Peter. 192 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,600 Peter says no, no, no, you cannot wash my feet, Jesus. 193 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,480 And if I don't wash your feet, then you have no part in me. 194 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,640 OK, Is that so? Give me a bath now. 195 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,240 So one second he's here, another second he's here. 196 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,920 So today what you are seeing Peters behavior is he does not 197 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,920 mean he was not a man of God. He was a man of God. 198 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,320 And you see in Acts chapter 5 when he is walking on the 199 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:06,480 streets, people laid the sick on the roadside so that the shadow 200 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,080 of Peter may fall upon them, so that some of them will be 201 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,360 healed. Everybody on whom the shadow 202 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:17,120 fell was healed. He is the man who was full of 203 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,000 the power of God. But when he look at the man, as 204 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,160 he looked at the waves, he looked at the men who came from 205 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,360 Jerusalem claiming to be men from James. 206 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,920 And he was afraid. He was afraid, influenced by 207 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,760 people. So he withdrew from fellowship 208 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,160 with Gentiles and started eating separately. 209 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,440 And Paul looked at the whole situation and said, Hey, Peter, 210 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,560 is Peter senior to Paul? Yeah. 211 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,680 He's been apostle from the beginning. 212 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,720 He was with Jesus for 3 1/2 years. 213 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,640 And did he deny him? Yeah. 214 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,040 I don't know him. Oh, you guys, what you're 215 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,080 saying? I don't know at all. 216 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,480 I don't know him. I don't know him. 217 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,640 I don't know him. He denied him three times. 218 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,920 And when when Jesus was there being questioned by the thing 219 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,800 and when he was denying, he looked at Peter through the 220 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,240 crowd. And Peter knew what Jesus meant 221 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,680 and he went out and he was convicted of his sin. 222 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,080 He cried, he cried, he cried, and then he was restored. 223 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,040 And even before that, Jesus himself says you are going to 224 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,240 deny me. You are going to tell me 3 225 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,960 times. And afterwards when you are 226 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,640 restored, take care of the sheep. 227 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:38,840 That means there was a comfort even in the last minute. 228 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,680 Jesus says that's not your end, you deny me is not the end of 229 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,880 your life. You disappointed me is not the 230 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,160 end of your life. You have failed me is not the 231 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,200 end of your life. And today God is telling 232 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,600 somebody here, your failure is not final. 233 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:00,160 Your failure is not final. He wants to give you a life in 234 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,600 the Spirit, walking in the Spirit victorious over sin and 235 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:16,160 Satan is not end is not the end. So this this Peter, he when he 236 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,200 walked, he shouted fell on the people. 237 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,440 It healed in chapter 5. And now when you come back to 238 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,760 chapter whatever, maybe after chapter a few more chapter 10 239 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,720 chapters here or 11 chapters, he is now withdrawing from the 240 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,640 crowd. I don't think he's really 241 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,840 actually written in Acts. It's only here in Galatians 242 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,480 about this instance and here Paul had to confront him. 243 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,600 Paul is much younger in age and much younger in his walk with 244 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,160 the Lord and in being an apostle. 245 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:50,520 Peter was senior to Paul, but it he did not stop Paul from 246 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:58,080 confronting a senior servant of God, an apostle For us. 247 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,800 Sometimes we say if there's a senior pastor and assistant 248 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,960 pastor, assistant pastor will not dare to go and tell the 249 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,200 senior pastor, Sir, you are wrong. 250 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,000 It is very hard. If he, if he says that, he will 251 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,640 say OK, out of the door. So many churches are like that 252 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,160 happening. But we must have humility to 253 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,600 receive correction. We must have humility to receive 254 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,520 correction, which Peter had. Peter had the humility. 255 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,320 He repented of it. He didn't repeat it. 256 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,920 But you know what great lessons with great cost did not stop 257 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,760 this man from fluctuating. Why in Acts chapter 10, when he 258 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,600 wanted to, when he was before he went into Cornelius house, what 259 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,720 happened? He had a vision when he was 260 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,280 waiting in the Tanners house, Simon, the Tanners house, he had 261 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,480 a vision. And in the vision he saw heaven 262 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,640 open and the sheet laid down and there were so many kinds of 263 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,000 animals and unclean animals in it, snakes and all kinds of 264 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,120 unclean animals. And he heard a voice saying, 265 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:04,120 Peter, raw rice, get up, kill and eat because he was hungry at 266 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,120 that time and the food was cooking downstairs. 267 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,200 He was upstairs and the smell must be wafted into the air and 268 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,120 increase his hunger. And he fell into a trance and he 269 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,360 heard the voice saying, arise, kill and eat. 270 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,080 And what did Peter say? Lord, nothing unclean has 271 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:25,400 entered this mouth. And then God says don't call 272 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,360 unclean what God has called clean. 273 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,640 And this happened how many times? 274 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:36,360 Three times the sheet came down. He hears the voice, He says, I 275 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,960 cannot eat it. I never eaten anything unclean. 276 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,960 And God says don't call unclean what God has called clean. 277 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:48,800 So after this such powerful lesson, maybe after another six 278 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,800 months or two years, less than two years, he is travelling from 279 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:56,080 Jerusalem to Antioch, only to separate himself by looking at 280 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,200 some people, few people, not a big crowd, not the whole church, 281 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,520 just some men from James. He looks at them and he was 282 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,880 afraid and started withdrawing from the rest of the believers, 283 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,240 was eating separately. Until then he was eating every 284 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,560 day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, he was eating with everybody. 285 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:17,400 But when he saw the men, he withdrew and Paul had to 286 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,599 confront him. So he before certain men came 287 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:23,040 from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. 288 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,240 He used to eat is that's what the NIV says. 289 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,840 And when you look into the Greek imp imperfect tense, it means it 290 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,480 was happening all the time. It's just every day was 291 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,080 happening. It was every day happening. 292 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,200 He was eating with everybody, sitting on, eating with 293 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,440 everybody. And then it changed. 294 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,760 So the problem, what is the problem with sin, what is the 295 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,840 problem with any kind of a mistake is it spreads to other 296 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,880 people. It has got a what effect is that 297 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:59,160 cascading effect? So there is somebody with him, 298 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:05,000 Barnabas, who was actually a companion of Paul and who was 299 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,880 who took leadership in bringing power from obscurity, from being 300 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,880 unknown, to bring him to the church and to make him a 301 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,840 powerful tool in the church. And Burnabus himself was carried 302 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,760 away into the same mistake and he started joining Peter. 303 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,240 And when this happened, Paul lost it and he went straight to 304 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,120 Peter and said, Peter, you are wrong in this matter. 305 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,920 You are wrong. So we need the kind of those 306 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:37,040 kind of people and the other Jews join him in his hypocrisy 307 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,680 so that by the hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. 308 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,440 That is what caused Paul more grief. 309 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,120 He was not worried about Peter himself, but he was more worried 310 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:48,640 that even Barnabas was joining him. 311 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,920 And tomorrow the whole church will become the same thing. 312 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,600 And the very purpose for which God chose Paul, the very purpose 313 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,120 for which he chose the apostles and to take the gospel to the 314 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,040 whole world is going to go into the rubbish bin by that kind of 315 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,200 behavior is going to be canned forever. 316 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,280 That's the reason why Paul had to stand up for the truth. 317 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,760 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of 318 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,600 the gospel, in line with the truth of the gospel. 319 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,600 So this is how we have to train our mind. 320 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,640 You don't need everything written there. 321 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,280 Don't eat pork, don't eat this, don't eat that. 322 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:28,640 You don't need a full, full list of the don'ts. 323 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:29,920 Don't don't. You don't need it. 324 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,080 You need to understand the gospel in such a way that when 325 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,400 you say something, is it in line with the gospel or is out of 326 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,000 line with the gospel, and that is how you train your mind. 327 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,280 So some people say, oh, where is it written? 328 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,560 You should not drink. Don't worry about where is 329 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,680 written. Is it going to help you to be 330 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,000 holy? Will it help you to be a 331 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,440 prophet? Will help you to raise the rate, 332 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,040 will help you to heal somebody? I tell you, whoever is 333 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,440 compromising never walks in miracles. 334 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:05,040 No, that is a proof that that thing is not right. 335 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,360 You, you want to know how something is right or wrong. 336 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,400 You will know by its effect upon you. 337 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,760 You will know what it is stopping you from doing. 338 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,080 If it is stopping you from becoming like Jesus, that is a 339 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,840 sin to you. You don't need somebody write 340 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,400 something here. If it is stopping you from 341 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,320 becoming like Jesus, that is a sin to you. 342 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:35,280 That is very simple. So I said to Peter in front of 343 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,320 the mall, You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and are not 344 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,320 like a Jew. How is it then that you force 345 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,400 Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? 346 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:51,200 Now this is law versus grace. You have the laws, 10 347 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,200 commandments. You are not able to follow it. 348 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,080 You are failing it every day. And when you are failing from 349 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,360 doing what the law is commanding, you are living like 350 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:00,800 a Gentile. So you are a Jew living like a 351 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,320 Gentile. Then why do you force Gentiles 352 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,480 live like Jews, which you yourself are not able to walk? 353 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:13,800 Many times when you speak against somebody's behavior, 354 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,720 somebody what they have done is wrong and you do the same thing, 355 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,920 you are condemning yourself. You don't need a judge with a 356 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,600 gavel, bang, bang, bang, you're done wrong. 357 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:26,360 You don't need anybody to say it. 358 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:32,920 You do what you disapprove in somebody, the same moment we are 359 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,720 condemning ourselves. That's how it works. 360 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:46,520 So what we see here is very interesting thing I found here 361 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:51,440 is let's say Paul is confronting Peter, But what is said about 362 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,320 Paul when you see particularly I'll read from you, from 363 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:12,630 Corinthians, Yeah, comparing Paul and Peter, 364 00:22:12,870 --> 00:22:18,550 what we can learn. Paul says I was becoming a Jew 365 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:21,150 to a Jew so that I can win some Jews. 366 00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:25,840 I became a like the one like a somebody under a law. 367 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,480 I became like one who is under the law to win those who are 368 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,040 under the law. And to those who are without the 369 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,800 law, I became like 1 without the law so that I can win them too. 370 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:41,120 So how is Paul compromising things different from Peter not 371 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,600 eating with the Gentiles? They are two different things. 372 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,320 Two different things Paul is doing for a purpose. 373 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,280 He's adapting. He's adapting so that the gospel 374 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:57,120 will have more impact, whereas Peters choice of not eating with 375 00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,960 the Gentiles is actually having a negative effect of 376 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,360 discouraging people from believing in the gospel. 377 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,680 Authenticity of the gospel is watered down by his withdrawing 378 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,920 from the people. So he is adapting for further in 379 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,680 the gospel and Peter is doing something to bring down the 380 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,040 effect of the gospel. That's why Paul is right and 381 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,760 Peter is wrong. Are we together here? 382 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,760 Compromise is wrong where it distorts the gospel or creates 383 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,480 division. The difference lies in motive, 384 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,320 love versus fear. Paul loved the people, so he was 385 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,040 going out of his way to show them that he is with them and 386 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,360 helping them to encourage to believe in Jesus. 387 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,200 Whereas Peter is acting out of fear, not out of love. 388 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,000 So this is one of those things, when you are doing something, 389 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,760 check in your heart, is it fear that's making you do or is it 390 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,720 love that's making you do? If you love somebody, then you 391 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,840 are going to do mostly the right thing. 392 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,760 But if it's a fear that is making you do something, then 393 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,960 you are going to do something that is wrong. 394 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,880 So that's why we need to check ourselves. 395 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,680 Now, sometimes this whole, this is a very important thing I'm 396 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,360 going to talk about is that how do we solve in the generation? 397 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,880 How do we live with the authentic Christian life? 398 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:28,000 How do we live? I bring before you an example of 399 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,080 a missionary called Hudson Taylor. 400 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,680 Anybody heard his name? Hudson Taylor was a missionary 401 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,720 to China. So when he went to China, what 402 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,440 he did was that he adapted their clothes. 403 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:48,200 He adapted their hairstyle. You know, they shave off in the 404 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,640 front and then they have this long hair and they braid the 405 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,480 hair in the in the back and to wear their clothes and eat with 406 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,880 chopsticks and not live in a luxurious home, but a home like 407 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:08,000 any other Chinese would live. Many of the many of the 408 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:11,880 missionaries, they will have a missionary bungalow, a big 409 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,480 palace, a big mansion with many rooms and luxurious lifestyle. 410 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,040 It will be inside, it will be America or UK and outside they 411 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,800 are living with poor people. That's how you see many 412 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,360 missionaries happening. But when Hudson Teller went to 413 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,480 China, he said, no, I want to be like them. 414 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,880 So he would shave off his friend and put the would take the hair 415 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,720 to the back and long hair and braid it and wear those long 416 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,920 clothes and eat with chopsticks. Live in a simple, simple home 417 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:43,440 and learn Chinese and different dialects. 418 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,400 There's not one language there in the each region has a 419 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,440 different language. And he would learn different 420 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,000 languages and would preach in Chinese, write in Chinese. 421 00:25:54,360 --> 00:26:00,640 When you do that, you are transforming the gospel into a 422 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,440 friendly gospel, a gospel that they can receive without 423 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,280 suspicion, without fear, without rejection. 424 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,520 That is how we have to give flesh to the gospel. 425 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:20,360 You become transformed in a way that the people to whom you are 426 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:26,160 going, they will say this man, he loves me, this man he loves 427 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,520 us and he has a authentic message because you are living 428 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,520 the gospel before them. So that is how it has to be. 429 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,840 Cultural identification has to be done. 430 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:41,880 Language has to be changed. The heart language has to become 431 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,520 the local language and then lifestyle simplicity. 432 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,960 He lived in Chinese style housing and when people wanted 433 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,320 to come as missionary to China, he would tell them, hey, you 434 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:00,080 want to be a white man here when you come from London and be a 435 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,080 missionary, I don't want you here. 436 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,200 You must be willing to adopt the same lifestyle like I do. 437 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,280 So they have to go through this training where they have to 438 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,800 learn to eat with chopsticks instead of the fork and the 439 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,640 knife and they have to wear those clothes. 440 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,400 They have to live in simple housing. 441 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:25,280 It is a rigorous training and no wonder he had a huge mass of 442 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,200 missionaries. I think I am from my memory, I 443 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,760 think at least 400 missionaries were there who went into all 444 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,080 four corners of every corner of China to impact with the gospel. 445 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,320 So today you have underground church, but the foundation was 446 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,600 laid by Hudson Taylor. Today the church is going 447 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,760 through tribulation and is still surviving because somebody laid 448 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,840 a strong foundation, unshakable foundation. 449 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,320 So we need to be very, very clear about the power of the 450 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:06,400 gospel, its impact, its scope, its its depth, its grander, its 451 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,320 glory. I tell you, many Christians 452 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,960 don't know the glory of the gospel. 453 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,040 We don't know. We should not be ashamed to 454 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,480 confess, say I didn't know there many years, even though I was 455 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,880 preaching from the Word, I didn't understand the glory of 456 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,120 the gospel. It is the power of God to say 457 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,360 everybody, everyone, and we need to know the depth and power of 458 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,280 the gospel. Only then you, when you speak 459 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,280 the authentic gospel will flow out of your lips because it has 460 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,200 to be in the heart first. How glorious is the gospel? 461 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,840 How powerful is the gospel? We don't know it. 462 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,040 Then you will go and say tap on somebody's shoulder. 463 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,120 I want to tell you about Jesus for spiritual laws. 464 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,440 I'm not talking against for spiritual laws. 465 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,560 It has changed many people. It saved many people brought to 466 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,200 the Kingdom. It brought many people to the 467 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,480 Kingdom. But the point I'm trying to make 468 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:10,920 is it has to go from inside your heart and go out of your mouth. 469 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,160 And the person who listens to the gospel will know that this 470 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,680 is the truth, the living truth of the living God. 471 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,640 And it will come like a revelation to him. 472 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,760 It will come like a powerful revelation to him. 473 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,880 And that is how it is. It will make an impact upon the 474 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,720 person who is listening. Some of us are Christians for 475 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,440 1020 years without knowing the power of the Gospel. 476 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,760 We don't know how power, how much power is in the bread of 477 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,560 Jesus. We don't know how much power in 478 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,600 the in the the stripes that he has went through. 479 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,360 We don't know how much power is in the cross on which he died. 480 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,640 We don't know it. It is time for us to have a 481 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,040 fresh look at the cross, a fresh look at the direction of Jesus, 482 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,000 a fresh look at the power of the world. 483 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,840 We who are Jews by birth and not gentle sinners. 484 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,280 He is not trying to put down Gentiles as sinners down. 485 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,240 No, it was a usual Jewish language. 486 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,320 They are called Gentiles who are non Jew as a Sinner because they 487 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,000 did not have the law of God. They did not have the 10 488 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,080 commandments. That is the reason why Jews call 489 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,640 Gentiles as sinners. But he says we who are Jews by 490 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,120 birth and not gentle sinners, know that a man is not justified 491 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,560 by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. 492 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,240 Hallelujah. You are not saved by obeying the 493 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,640 commandments. You are saved by faith in Jesus 494 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,880 Christ. Only Jesus plus nothing. 495 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,160 Jesus plus nothing, no more of circumcision, no more of doing 496 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,280 this. The tabernacles festival of 497 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,600 tabernacles are Passover. He is ultimate Passover down in 498 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,600 dusted its all over. We have to believe in that 499 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,120 Jesus, the historical Jesus who did everything required by the 500 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,200 law and he has completed the law. 501 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,320 He has satisfied everything He said, Sanam, and came not about 502 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,760 His law, but to fulfill every dot and iota, because in the 503 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,000 language of Hebrews, in the Hebrew language, a dot can 504 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,040 change the whole way. You say something, so you say 505 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,600 remove a dot, you will say you have to say differently. 506 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,080 You got a dash. You say something and the dash 507 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,520 is not there. You say something else. 508 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,760 So He came even the invisible things to emphasize the 509 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,120 invisible things to emphasize everything. 510 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,040 That is what is funny about Hebrew language is there are no 511 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,320 vowels in it. You only have consonants, the 512 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,440 words. How do you learn? 513 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,760 Only by hearing. It is much later. 514 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,920 The Masorets, when they came and they translated the Bible, they 515 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,360 are the ones who put how to say it and developed a system. 516 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,440 You put a dot, it is he. You put this one, it is AO. 517 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,880 You don't know otherwise. But Jesus says I came to fulfill 518 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,440 every part of the law, and he did it. 519 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,760 He did it. Paul, who knew Hebrew and Greek 520 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:23,360 and Aramaic, he knew what Jesus meant when he says he I came to 521 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,080 fulfill the law. He knows it. 522 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,960 The breadth of it, the depth of it, the power of it. 523 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:35,960 He knew it. So here we see again in verse 524 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,080 16, know that a man is not justified by observing the law, 525 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,000 but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in 526 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,480 Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ, 527 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,320 not by observing the law, because by observing the law no 528 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,080 one will be justified. No one is going to be justified 529 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:59,040 by observing the law. That's the reason why Jesus came 530 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,920 and fulfilled the law for you and me, so that we may receive 531 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,480 the righteousness that comes by faith, by believing in Him as if 532 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,440 you have followed the law, as if you have followed the law, as 533 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,320 you obeyed the law all your life, whatever righteousness you 534 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,200 are going to get, He is giving you the moment you believe in 535 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,080 Jesus justification by faith. He is one of those doctrines of 536 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,200 reformation and that is the one that has split the church from 537 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,840 Catholic domination. You have the Protestants 538 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,760 justification by faith. Type it in your Google and ask 539 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,560 what is justification by faith. You will have all that doctrine 540 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,800 of it. Study it, read it. 541 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:43,080 It is it is important tenet or basic faith statement that we 542 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,400 all believe and many churches are stopped talking about it. 543 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,760 When do they have time to talk about justification by faith? 544 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,360 I don't think many churches have a time to talk about it. 545 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,520 I tell you is a very basic doctrine on which your faith 546 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,720 leaves, stands or false. It's as powerful. 547 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,000 It is not just only giving you a clean slate. 548 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,719 It's easy to say all your past is gone when you believe in 549 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,800 Jesus. What's next? 550 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:16,400 Where do I stand? You are given the righteousness 551 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:22,320 of Jesus so that the moment even the thief on the cross, they 552 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,840 said Remember Me in your Kingdom. 553 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,280 When he died, he said you will be with me in paradise today. 554 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,560 The same second. He did not have time to fight 555 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,320 temptations and sanctification and all this kind of process, 556 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,960 but the moment on the cross he said Remember Me in your 557 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,480 Kingdom. Jesus said you will be with me 558 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,960 in paradise today. It is as powerful. 559 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,040 The word of Jesus is powerful. What he said to the thief, he is 560 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,440 telling to everybody, I am not waiting for you to do this, 561 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,679 this, this, this. I give you my righteousness 562 00:34:54,679 --> 00:35:00,040 because you believe in what I have done for you and you are 563 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:05,120 ready to receive a reward that is due to a righteous living. 564 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,520 When you believe in Jesus and go to the Father, he says well done 565 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,840 my son, well done my daughter. I want to reward you for the 566 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,720 righteousness that you received from my son and give you the 567 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,840 reward for it. The practical implication of 568 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,360 doing or obeying the law, doing the things that are demanded by 569 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,280 law, or our volitional willful actions. 570 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,040 Because we believe we don't do those things because we are 571 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,520 going to be saved, because we are saved, we are going to do 572 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,800 those things. We cannot divorce the right 573 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,200 living and the right confession. You cannot divorce them. 574 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,680 Both go together and we cannot. We cannot separate it. 575 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,960 The truth of the Gospel 1500 years under the Law of Moses has 576 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,880 not changed the people to obey the law. 577 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,680 And the Jews are living like Gentiles, those who don't have 578 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,440 the law. So was 1516 justification by 579 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,480 faith and not by works. Jews have to put their faith in 580 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,280 Jesus and are not justified by observing the law. 581 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,120 They have to believe in Jesus. Every Jew has to believe in 582 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,800 Jesus and every gentle has to believe in Jesus. 583 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,800 There's no other way. There's no other way any man can 584 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,320 be saved. So what I'm trying to encourage 585 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:30,240 today is let us look at our, let us look into our own heart and 586 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:35,640 see when and how we failed God and tell yourself that is not 587 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,440 the end of my life. That is not my destiny. 588 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,720 I must have failed God, but that's not the end of my life. 589 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:50,560 I want to surrender to Jesus. I want to my I want to renew my 590 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:55,440 mind with the word of God. I want my soul to be transformed 591 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,440 by the impact of the world because I love Jesus, because I 592 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,680 worship him, because I obey him. And as you do it, you will be 593 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,520 transformed to the likeness of Jesus. 594 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:10,320 Shall we pray, Father, in the name of Jesus? 595 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,280 Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. 596 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,400 Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. 597 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:19,200 Like Peter himself, oh, Godfather has been your son, but 598 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,680 he wavered so much, but yet you made him a pillar in the church 599 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,160 and you made him over. You gave him the keys of heaven. 600 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,840 We praise you Jesus. And you said, I will build my 601 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,640 church upon this rock, and the gates of shall not prevail 602 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,880 against it. We thank you, Father. 603 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,440 You are not depending on a weak vessel, but you are depending 604 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,520 upon a rock. By your power, by the power of 605 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,800 the Holy Ghost, you are going to make him a rock and build your 606 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,000 church. So I pray, take us all with our 607 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,520 weaknesses, make us like a rock as you turn Peter who is a Reed, 608 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:56,440 Simon, a Reed into a rock. Peter, I pray same way. 609 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,320 Turn us in from inside out and make us strong and build your 610 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,040 church. And we thank you, for the gates 611 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,320 of us shall not prevail against it. 612 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,680 We worship, we honor you, we praise you Jesus. 613 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,600 Now you want to say, yeah, I want to surrender my life to 614 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,080 Jesus. Just quickly stand where you 615 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,520 are. And I want to pray for you that 616 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:22,640 the Lord will have mercy and touch you right now and remove 617 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,920 those faltering heart and put a steady heart in that place, that 618 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,520 he will remove the heart of flesh, heart of stone, and give 619 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,360 you a heart of flesh in the name of Jesus. 620 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:49,920 Surrender, surrender, surrender. The Lord says, like Moses, he 621 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,440 gave the law to set people free, but they were enslaved by it. 622 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,760 But I give you life, says the Lord this morning. 623 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,640 He wants to give you life. Take it, take it, take it, take 624 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,320 it, take it. He is giving you life. 625 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,200 Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it now. 626 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,520 Holy Ghost, fall upon the children now. 627 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,560 Refresh them now in the name of Jesus. 628 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,320 Refresh them now in the name of Jesus. 629 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,440 Refresh them now in the name of Jesus. 630 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,360 Thank you, Lord, bless your children this morning. 631 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,080 Jesus name, we ask? Amen. 632 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,000 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 633 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 634 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,240 our website or Facebook page in the links below.