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Very good. So we are continuing your study
from the book of Galatians chapter 2.
We finished until was 10 last week.
We will continue from 11 onwards.
Now this is a very important scripture portion and we have
seen how Paul was very passionate to preserve the
gospel, the truth of the gospel, and didn't want to compromise.
But here we see sometimes leaders also make mistake.
Can leaders make mistake? Yes.
So here is a leader, Peter the Apostle, and he is visiting
these people at Antioch. So when Peter came to Antioch, I
oppose him to his face because he was clearly in the wrong.
Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the
Gentiles, but when they arrived he began to draw back and
separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid
of those who belong to the circumcision group.
So what is happening here is that Peter has come to visit the
people of Antioch, the church at Antioch, and he is now, he's
there for some time. So every day he would mingle
with everybody, Jews and Gentiles, and eat with them, sit
with them, have fellowship, talk, preach, everything is
going normal. Suddenly what happened is a
certain group of people, they came from Jerusalem to Antioch,
and they said that they belong to the Apostle James or
followers of Apostle James. But is it possible that Apostle
James would have done it? Would he have said go and check
on Peter whether he is eating with Gentiles or not?
I don't think so. Because in Acts chapter 15 we
have, we have done this study before acts #15 James was the
one who gave a final verdict about what Gentiles should do,
that they should abstain from meat offered to idols and they
should not eat strangled animals with blood, avoid the blood and
avoid fornication. So that these are the only few
things he put on the Gentiles. Now what is the problem here?
Does it say they cannot eat food with Gentiles in that agreement?
No. So some people saw a loophole in
the direction and they came and they acted as if James sent
them. But when they came and started
influencing Peter, Peter got afraid, you know, and then he
withdrew, withdrew from the Gentiles.
He started eating separate. Like today everybody is sitting
and eating and suddenly you see Peter gets away from here and
sits separately and eats because he doesn't want to eat the
Gentiles. So Paul saw it and then came and
confronted Peter, confronted Peter, say you are wrong.
Now, if he did not do, what would happen?
If Paul did not confront Peter, what would happen?
The gospel will be compromised, the truth will be compromised.
That's the reason why Paul had to confront him.
So the problem with Peter is not a new problem, is it a new
problem? No, this is his nature.
He has been like that before he became a an apostle.
He has been from the building like that.
I would say he would just be like a pendulum.
He will be on one end one day and next within one second he
will go swing to the other end. Let's look at some of the
instances where Peter had changed, let's say when he was
talking. I mean Jesus asked, who do you
say I am? You are the Son of the living
God. And Jesus said flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you. Flesh and blood has not
revealed. This is from the revelation from
my Father. And then after some time he says
when Jesus is talking about, he says Son of Man will be betrayed
into the hands of the Gentiles. They are going to crucify him.
They are going to kill him. He takes him from the crowd and
says, takes him aside and says this will not happen to you.
No, no, no, it's not going to happen to you.
Then Jesus looks at him and said, get behind me, Satan.
Get behind me Satan, because one moment he is receiving
revelation from the Father that Jesus is the Son of the living
God, and the next moment says you will not face the cross,
which is against the will of the Father.
So sometimes we can have some kinds is not always possible,
but sometimes leaders can disappoint.
And here is an example of Peter swinging from one end to the
other revelation that is from the Father to being influenced
by the devil 100%. So from being influenced by the
Holy Spirit is going to the other extreme of being
influenced by the devil. And then he is also a man who we
are not trying to put some mud on Peter to make him look very,
very bad. No, that's not our purpose.
The purpose here is that we all have some of the Peters
characteristics. One day we are up spiritually,
another day we are down spiritually.
Today we are winning over our struggles and next day we are
being losing the defeat. We are losing our battle to the
devil and losing it. I prayed for a man 343 days ago
and he was struggling with an issue and I prayed for him to be
delivered and only this morning I wake up to see the phone and
he says I fell in my sin again. So I knew that the prayer that I
prayed is not 100% effective in the sense he is not fully set
free. So when I go home I'm going to
tell him hey we need to pray again.
Its not, it's not yet over. The battle is not yet over.
So the point I'm trying to make is there will be this kind of a
up and down in Christian life, but we need to learn to walk
with God in a steady way. It has to be a straight line,
not a wave, up and down wave, so that we have to learn.
So some people think it is automatic.
You should just believe in Jesus.
Everything is going to disable. All your problems will be gone,
your temptations will be gone. You become a St. overnight.
It doesn't happen because we have the same soul still.
The day before your conversion, the soul you have is the same
soul you have. The after conversion.
That soul needs to be submitted. That soul needs to be
surrendered to Jesus. It has to be crucified and we
have to train the soul, we have to train the body.
The flesh is the same. The day before he was born again
is the same body you have after the day you are born again.
So that flesh which was doing things is going to continue to
want to do the same things. And you have to tell the flesh,
no, you are dead, you cannot do the same things.
So what? What am I trying to say?
There is a place for dedication, there's a place for resisting,
there's a place for changing your habits.
Habit. It doesn't become.
You don't get a habit in a day, do you?
You had to do it repeatedly. Even the most alcoholic person
who talked to him the very first time you tasted alcohol, what
was it like? Ah, it wasn't so nice.
Then why did you become alcoholic?
Because I kept drinking and drinking until it became nice to
me. It's just like that.
Most of the sins are like that. You first time you commit, you,
you're, you have a conscience. You feel guilty about it.
You don't want to do it, you want to stop it.
But again, a second time you do. A third time we do, the
conscience is dead. It will not tell you anything
anymore now. And you are free to do the same
thing any number of times. We kill our conscience when we
keep doing the very things our consciousness not to do.
So that is how it is. Now look at this man.
He is now going back in the in the boat and in the middle of
the night they were rowing against the wind and it was very
difficult. And Jesus is going passing by,
walking on the sea and they thought he is a ghost.
They cry out and Jesus says no, I am the same.
I am not a ghost, I am Jesus. If you are Jesus, ask me to walk
on the water and come to you. OK, come.
He is the only disciple who had the courage to walk on water.
Were there not other disciples? Did they say we want to walk as
you are walking? So there's good thing about
Peter. We must have that characteristic
of Peter where we want to try and walk on water and to take up
the challenge. Only problem is he looked at the
wind and the waves. They did not stop, but he was
able to walk on the same water. The same wind, same waves did
not stop him from walking, but when he looked at them, he began
to sink. Your problems can be there, but
you don't look at the problem. Don't focus on the problems.
If you want to walk on water, don't focus on your problems.
That's very simple. You focus on the problem.
You are not going to walk on water.
So that is how it is. And this man 1 moment is walking
on water, another moment is sinking.
Jesus saved me and Jesus reached out into his hand, picked him up
and pulled him up and brought him to the boat again.
So one time it is something like that and justice before in the
Garden of Gethsemane, and when the people came to arrest Jesus,
he was impulsive, took out the sword that he had, and I cut off
the ear of the high priest servant, chop one second, the
ear is gone, is on the ground. And Jesus had to tell him, put
that sword back in the sheath, and then he took the ear and put
the man's ear and healed it. Even the last moment.
Jesus is the one who wants to heal.
He wants to heal and do miracles not because anything.
That is His nature. He is God and He cannot be any
other way. He was 100% man, 100% God and He
was wanting to do naturally what He would do.
Even though He is not going to be arrested, He will do the same
thing and He will do the same thing today.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
So he was an impulsive guy, foot washing just before, you know,
you see that in the scripture, before he was betrayed, before
he was, I mean, arrested. He wanted to tell the people
that his disciples some valuable lesson.
So he made them sit around and he tied a towel around his waist
and he took a basin of water, came to each one and wash their
feet and dried with the cloth and then goes to the next and
the next. And he comes to Peter.
Peter says no, no, no, you cannot wash my feet, Jesus.
And if I don't wash your feet, then you have no part in me.
OK, Is that so? Give me a bath now.
So one second he's here, another second he's here.
So today what you are seeing Peters behavior is he does not
mean he was not a man of God. He was a man of God.
And you see in Acts chapter 5 when he is walking on the
streets, people laid the sick on the roadside so that the shadow
of Peter may fall upon them, so that some of them will be
healed. Everybody on whom the shadow
fell was healed. He is the man who was full of
the power of God. But when he look at the man, as
he looked at the waves, he looked at the men who came from
Jerusalem claiming to be men from James.
And he was afraid. He was afraid, influenced by
people. So he withdrew from fellowship
with Gentiles and started eating separately.
And Paul looked at the whole situation and said, Hey, Peter,
is Peter senior to Paul? Yeah.
He's been apostle from the beginning.
He was with Jesus for 3 1/2 years.
And did he deny him? Yeah.
I don't know him. Oh, you guys, what you're
saying? I don't know at all.
I don't know him. I don't know him.
He denied him three times.
And when when Jesus was there being questioned by the thing
and when he was denying, he looked at Peter through the
crowd. And Peter knew what Jesus meant
and he went out and he was convicted of his sin.
He cried, he cried, he cried, and then he was restored.
And even before that, Jesus himself says you are going to
deny me. You are going to tell me 3
times. And afterwards when you are
restored, take care of the sheep.
That means there was a comfort even in the last minute.
Jesus says that's not your end, you deny me is not the end of
your life. You disappointed me is not the
end of your life. You have failed me is not the
end of your life. And today God is telling
somebody here, your failure is not final.
Your failure is not final. He wants to give you a life in
the Spirit, walking in the Spirit victorious over sin and
Satan is not end is not the end. So this this Peter, he when he
walked, he shouted fell on the people.
It healed in chapter 5. And now when you come back to
chapter whatever, maybe after chapter a few more chapter 10
chapters here or 11 chapters, he is now withdrawing from the
crowd. I don't think he's really
actually written in Acts. It's only here in Galatians
about this instance and here Paul had to confront him.
Paul is much younger in age and much younger in his walk with
the Lord and in being an apostle.
Peter was senior to Paul, but it he did not stop Paul from
confronting a senior servant of God, an apostle For us.
Sometimes we say if there's a senior pastor and assistant
pastor, assistant pastor will not dare to go and tell the
senior pastor, Sir, you are wrong.
It is very hard. If he, if he says that, he will
say OK, out of the door. So many churches are like that
happening. But we must have humility to
receive correction. We must have humility to receive
correction, which Peter had. Peter had the humility.
He repented of it. He didn't repeat it.
But you know what great lessons with great cost did not stop
this man from fluctuating. Why in Acts chapter 10, when he
wanted to, when he was before he went into Cornelius house, what
happened? He had a vision when he was
waiting in the Tanners house, Simon, the Tanners house, he had
a vision. And in the vision he saw heaven
open and the sheet laid down and there were so many kinds of
animals and unclean animals in it, snakes and all kinds of
unclean animals. And he heard a voice saying,
Peter, raw rice, get up, kill and eat because he was hungry at
that time and the food was cooking downstairs.
He was upstairs and the smell must be wafted into the air and
increase his hunger. And he fell into a trance and he
heard the voice saying, arise, kill and eat.
And what did Peter say? Lord, nothing unclean has
entered this mouth. And then God says don't call
unclean what God has called clean.
And this happened how many times?
Three times the sheet came down. He hears the voice, He says, I
cannot eat it. I never eaten anything unclean.
And God says don't call unclean what God has called clean.
So after this such powerful lesson, maybe after another six
months or two years, less than two years, he is travelling from
Jerusalem to Antioch, only to separate himself by looking at
some people, few people, not a big crowd, not the whole church,
just some men from James. He looks at them and he was
afraid and started withdrawing from the rest of the believers,
was eating separately. Until then he was eating every
day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, he was eating with everybody.
But when he saw the men, he withdrew and Paul had to
confront him. So he before certain men came
from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles.
He used to eat is that's what the NIV says.
And when you look into the Greek imp imperfect tense, it means it
was happening all the time. It's just every day was
happening. It was every day happening.
He was eating with everybody, sitting on, eating with
everybody. And then it changed.
So the problem, what is the problem with sin, what is the
problem with any kind of a mistake is it spreads to other
people. It has got a what effect is that
cascading effect? So there is somebody with him,
Barnabas, who was actually a companion of Paul and who was
who took leadership in bringing power from obscurity, from being
unknown, to bring him to the church and to make him a
powerful tool in the church. And Burnabus himself was carried
away into the same mistake and he started joining Peter.
And when this happened, Paul lost it and he went straight to
Peter and said, Peter, you are wrong in this matter.
You are wrong. So we need the kind of those
kind of people and the other Jews join him in his hypocrisy
so that by the hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
That is what caused Paul more grief.
He was not worried about Peter himself, but he was more worried
that even Barnabas was joining him.
And tomorrow the whole church will become the same thing.
And the very purpose for which God chose Paul, the very purpose
for which he chose the apostles and to take the gospel to the
whole world is going to go into the rubbish bin by that kind of
behavior is going to be canned forever.
That's the reason why Paul had to stand up for the truth.
When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of
the gospel, in line with the truth of the gospel.
So this is how we have to train our mind.
You don't need everything written there.
Don't eat pork, don't eat this, don't eat that.
You don't need a full, full list of the don'ts.
Don't don't. You don't need it.
You need to understand the gospel in such a way that when
you say something, is it in line with the gospel or is out of
line with the gospel, and that is how you train your mind.
So some people say, oh, where is it written?
You should not drink. Don't worry about where is
written. Is it going to help you to be
holy? Will it help you to be a
prophet? Will help you to raise the rate,
will help you to heal somebody? I tell you, whoever is
compromising never walks in miracles.
No, that is a proof that that thing is not right.
You, you want to know how something is right or wrong.
You will know by its effect upon you.
You will know what it is stopping you from doing.
If it is stopping you from becoming like Jesus, that is a
sin to you. You don't need somebody write
something here. If it is stopping you from
becoming like Jesus, that is a sin to you.
That is very simple. So I said to Peter in front of
the mall, You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and are not
like a Jew. How is it then that you force
Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
Now this is law versus grace. You have the laws, 10
commandments. You are not able to follow it.
You are failing it every day. And when you are failing from
doing what the law is commanding, you are living like
a Gentile. So you are a Jew living like a
Gentile. Then why do you force Gentiles
live like Jews, which you yourself are not able to walk?
Many times when you speak against somebody's behavior,
somebody what they have done is wrong and you do the same thing,
you are condemning yourself. You don't need a judge with a
gavel, bang, bang, bang, you're done wrong.
You don't need anybody to say it.
You do what you disapprove in somebody, the same moment we are
condemning ourselves. That's how it works.
So what we see here is very interesting thing I found here
is let's say Paul is confronting Peter, But what is said about
Paul when you see particularly I'll read from you, from
Corinthians, Yeah, comparing Paul and Peter,
what we can learn. Paul says I was becoming a Jew
to a Jew so that I can win some Jews.
I became a like the one like a somebody under a law.
I became like one who is under the law to win those who are
under the law. And to those who are without the
law, I became like 1 without the law so that I can win them too.
So how is Paul compromising things different from Peter not
eating with the Gentiles? They are two different things.
Two different things Paul is doing for a purpose.
He's adapting. He's adapting so that the gospel
will have more impact, whereas Peters choice of not eating with
the Gentiles is actually having a negative effect of
discouraging people from believing in the gospel.
Authenticity of the gospel is watered down by his withdrawing
from the people. So he is adapting for further in
the gospel and Peter is doing something to bring down the
effect of the gospel. That's why Paul is right and
Peter is wrong. Are we together here?
Compromise is wrong where it distorts the gospel or creates
division. The difference lies in motive,
love versus fear. Paul loved the people, so he was
going out of his way to show them that he is with them and
helping them to encourage to believe in Jesus.
Whereas Peter is acting out of fear, not out of love.
So this is one of those things, when you are doing something,
check in your heart, is it fear that's making you do or is it
love that's making you do? If you love somebody, then you
are going to do mostly the right thing.
But if it's a fear that is making you do something, then
you are going to do something that is wrong.
So that's why we need to check ourselves.
Now, sometimes this whole, this is a very important thing I'm
going to talk about is that how do we solve in the generation?
How do we live with the authentic Christian life?
How do we live? I bring before you an example of
a missionary called Hudson Taylor.
Anybody heard his name? Hudson Taylor was a missionary
to China. So when he went to China, what
he did was that he adapted their clothes.
He adapted their hairstyle. You know, they shave off in the
front and then they have this long hair and they braid the
hair in the in the back and to wear their clothes and eat with
chopsticks and not live in a luxurious home, but a home like
any other Chinese would live. Many of the many of the
missionaries, they will have a missionary bungalow, a big
palace, a big mansion with many rooms and luxurious lifestyle.
It will be inside, it will be America or UK and outside they
are living with poor people. That's how you see many
missionaries happening. But when Hudson Teller went to
China, he said, no, I want to be like them.
So he would shave off his friend and put the would take the hair
to the back and long hair and braid it and wear those long
clothes and eat with chopsticks. Live in a simple, simple home
and learn Chinese and different dialects.
There's not one language there in the each region has a
different language. And he would learn different
languages and would preach in Chinese, write in Chinese.
When you do that, you are transforming the gospel into a
friendly gospel, a gospel that they can receive without
suspicion, without fear, without rejection.
That is how we have to give flesh to the gospel.
You become transformed in a way that the people to whom you are
going, they will say this man, he loves me, this man he loves
us and he has a authentic message because you are living
the gospel before them. So that is how it has to be.
Cultural identification has to be done.
Language has to be changed. The heart language has to become
the local language and then lifestyle simplicity.
He lived in Chinese style housing and when people wanted
to come as missionary to China, he would tell them, hey, you
want to be a white man here when you come from London and be a
missionary, I don't want you here.
You must be willing to adopt the same lifestyle like I do.
So they have to go through this training where they have to
learn to eat with chopsticks instead of the fork and the
knife and they have to wear those clothes.
They have to live in simple housing.
It is a rigorous training and no wonder he had a huge mass of
missionaries. I think I am from my memory, I
think at least 400 missionaries were there who went into all
four corners of every corner of China to impact with the gospel.
So today you have underground church, but the foundation was
laid by Hudson Taylor. Today the church is going
through tribulation and is still surviving because somebody laid
a strong foundation, unshakable foundation.
So we need to be very, very clear about the power of the
gospel, its impact, its scope, its its depth, its grander, its
glory. I tell you, many Christians
don't know the glory of the gospel.
We don't know. We should not be ashamed to
confess, say I didn't know there many years, even though I was
preaching from the Word, I didn't understand the glory of
the gospel. It is the power of God to say
everybody, everyone, and we need to know the depth and power of
the gospel. Only then you, when you speak
the authentic gospel will flow out of your lips because it has
to be in the heart first. How glorious is the gospel?
How powerful is the gospel? We don't know it.
Then you will go and say tap on somebody's shoulder.
I want to tell you about Jesus for spiritual laws.
I'm not talking against for spiritual laws.
It has changed many people. It saved many people brought to
the Kingdom. It brought many people to the
Kingdom. But the point I'm trying to make
is it has to go from inside your heart and go out of your mouth.
And the person who listens to the gospel will know that this
is the truth, the living truth of the living God.
And it will come like a revelation to him.
It will come like a powerful revelation to him.
And that is how it is. It will make an impact upon the
person who is listening. Some of us are Christians for
1020 years without knowing the power of the Gospel.
We don't know how power, how much power is in the bread of
Jesus. We don't know how much power in
the in the the stripes that he has went through.
We don't know how much power is in the cross on which he died.
We don't know it. It is time for us to have a
fresh look at the cross, a fresh look at the direction of Jesus,
a fresh look at the power of the world.
We who are Jews by birth and not gentle sinners.
He is not trying to put down Gentiles as sinners down.
No, it was a usual Jewish language.
They are called Gentiles who are non Jew as a Sinner because they
did not have the law of God. They did not have the 10
commandments. That is the reason why Jews call
Gentiles as sinners. But he says we who are Jews by
birth and not gentle sinners, know that a man is not justified
by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah. You are not saved by obeying the
commandments. You are saved by faith in Jesus
Christ. Only Jesus plus nothing.
Jesus plus nothing, no more of circumcision, no more of doing
this. The tabernacles festival of
tabernacles are Passover. He is ultimate Passover down in
dusted its all over. We have to believe in that
Jesus, the historical Jesus who did everything required by the
law and he has completed the law.
He has satisfied everything He said, Sanam, and came not about
His law, but to fulfill every dot and iota, because in the
language of Hebrews, in the Hebrew language, a dot can
change the whole way. You say something, so you say
remove a dot, you will say you have to say differently.
You got a dash. You say something and the dash
is not there. You say something else.
So He came even the invisible things to emphasize the
invisible things to emphasize everything.
That is what is funny about Hebrew language is there are no
vowels in it. You only have consonants, the
words. How do you learn?
Only by hearing. It is much later.
The Masorets, when they came and they translated the Bible, they
are the ones who put how to say it and developed a system.
You put a dot, it is he. You put this one, it is AO.
You don't know otherwise. But Jesus says I came to fulfill
every part of the law, and he did it.
He did it. Paul, who knew Hebrew and Greek
and Aramaic, he knew what Jesus meant when he says he I came to
fulfill the law. He knows it.
The breadth of it, the depth of it, the power of it.
He knew it. So here we see again in verse
16, know that a man is not justified by observing the law,
but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in
Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ,
not by observing the law, because by observing the law no
one will be justified. No one is going to be justified
by observing the law. That's the reason why Jesus came
and fulfilled the law for you and me, so that we may receive
the righteousness that comes by faith, by believing in Him as if
you have followed the law, as if you have followed the law, as
you obeyed the law all your life, whatever righteousness you
are going to get, He is giving you the moment you believe in
Jesus justification by faith. He is one of those doctrines of
reformation and that is the one that has split the church from
Catholic domination. You have the Protestants
justification by faith. Type it in your Google and ask
what is justification by faith. You will have all that doctrine
of it. Study it, read it.
It is it is important tenet or basic faith statement that we
all believe and many churches are stopped talking about it.
When do they have time to talk about justification by faith?
I don't think many churches have a time to talk about it.
I tell you is a very basic doctrine on which your faith
leaves, stands or false. It's as powerful.
It is not just only giving you a clean slate.
It's easy to say all your past is gone when you believe in
Jesus. What's next?
Where do I stand? You are given the righteousness
of Jesus so that the moment even the thief on the cross, they
said Remember Me in your Kingdom.
When he died, he said you will be with me in paradise today.
The same second. He did not have time to fight
temptations and sanctification and all this kind of process,
but the moment on the cross he said Remember Me in your
Kingdom. Jesus said you will be with me
in paradise today. It is as powerful.
The word of Jesus is powerful. What he said to the thief, he is
telling to everybody, I am not waiting for you to do this,
this, this, this. I give you my righteousness
because you believe in what I have done for you and you are
ready to receive a reward that is due to a righteous living.
When you believe in Jesus and go to the Father, he says well done
my son, well done my daughter. I want to reward you for the
righteousness that you received from my son and give you the
reward for it. The practical implication of
doing or obeying the law, doing the things that are demanded by
law, or our volitional willful actions.
Because we believe we don't do those things because we are
going to be saved, because we are saved, we are going to do
those things. We cannot divorce the right
living and the right confession. You cannot divorce them.
Both go together and we cannot. We cannot separate it.
The truth of the Gospel 1500 years under the Law of Moses has
not changed the people to obey the law.
And the Jews are living like Gentiles, those who don't have
the law. So was 1516 justification by
faith and not by works. Jews have to put their faith in
Jesus and are not justified by observing the law.
They have to believe in Jesus. Every Jew has to believe in
Jesus and every gentle has to believe in Jesus.
There's no other way. There's no other way any man can
be saved. So what I'm trying to encourage
today is let us look at our, let us look into our own heart and
see when and how we failed God and tell yourself that is not
the end of my life. That is not my destiny.
I must have failed God, but that's not the end of my life.
I want to surrender to Jesus. I want to my I want to renew my
mind with the word of God. I want my soul to be transformed
by the impact of the world because I love Jesus, because I
worship him, because I obey him. And as you do it, you will be
transformed to the likeness of Jesus.
Shall we pray, Father, in the name of Jesus?
Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.
Like Peter himself, oh, Godfather has been your son, but
he wavered so much, but yet you made him a pillar in the church
and you made him over. You gave him the keys of heaven.
We praise you Jesus. And you said, I will build my
church upon this rock, and the gates of shall not prevail
against it. We thank you, Father.
You are not depending on a weak vessel, but you are depending
upon a rock. By your power, by the power of
the Holy Ghost, you are going to make him a rock and build your
church. So I pray, take us all with our
weaknesses, make us like a rock as you turn Peter who is a Reed,
Simon, a Reed into a rock. Peter, I pray same way.
Turn us in from inside out and make us strong and build your
church. And we thank you, for the gates
of us shall not prevail against it.
We worship, we honor you, we praise you Jesus.
Now you want to say, yeah, I want to surrender my life to
Jesus. Just quickly stand where you
are. And I want to pray for you that
the Lord will have mercy and touch you right now and remove
those faltering heart and put a steady heart in that place, that
he will remove the heart of flesh, heart of stone, and give
you a heart of flesh in the name of Jesus.
Surrender, surrender, surrender. The Lord says, like Moses, he
gave the law to set people free, but they were enslaved by it.
But I give you life, says the Lord this morning.
He wants to give you life. Take it, take it, take it, take
it, take it. He is giving you life.
Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it now.
Holy Ghost, fall upon the children now.
Refresh them now in the name of Jesus.
Thank you, Lord, bless your children this morning.
Jesus name, we ask? Amen.
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