1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,600 You've tuned in to a Haga church. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,360 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,800 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,840 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:13,400 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,160 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough? 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:17,800 Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,520 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,200 Exodus chapter 19 verses 1:00 to 6:00. 10 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,680 On the first day of the third month, after the Israelis left 11 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,960 Egypt, on that very day they came to the desert of Sinai. 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,920 After they set out from Refidim, they entered the desert of 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,680 Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the 14 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,240 mountain. Then Moses went up to God, and 15 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,680 the Lord called him from the mountain and said, This is what 16 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,960 you are to say to the descendants of Jacob, and what 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,640 you are to tell the people of Israel. 18 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,560 You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,760 you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself. 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,160 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,720 all the nations you will be my treasured possession. 22 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,960 Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a 23 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,040 Kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 24 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,200 These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,920 It is amazing words I am telling you. 26 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,920 The very first thing that I want to say here is about the Mount 27 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,160 Sinai. Why it is important for Moses. 28 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,480 First of all, it is important to Moses, you know, you realize 29 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:43,720 that why it is important to Moses, where he was keeping the 30 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,000 sheep and you know, the cattle of his father-in-law. 31 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,840 He was roaming on this mountains. 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,760 He saw the burning Bush. Where was it? 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,920 Mount Sinai. So he saw the Bush caught on 34 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,400 fire, but the Bush itself is not burning. 35 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,520 He only saw the flames, but the Bush itself is not Catching 36 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,160 Fire. So he came nearer to see what is 37 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,200 it. So as he came nearer, he heard 38 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,759 the voice coming from the Bush. Moses. 39 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,440 Moses, here am I. Take off the sandals because the 40 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,200 ground on which you are standing is holy. 41 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,600 And you see you see lot of the other things in Exodus, 42 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,200 beginning of the Exodus you will see all this story. 43 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,280 But one of the things, things in chapter 3 verse 12, the Lord 44 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,200 said to him, God said, I will be with you and this will be the 45 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:37,240 sign to you that it is I who have sent you. 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,720 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship 47 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,960 God on this mountain. Is it happening now, happening 48 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,760 now? It is happening now. 49 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,680 So it is important for Moses that he is called by God. 50 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,320 It is important for Moses that it is a fulfillment of the 51 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,600 promise of God that I will. I am sending you to Egypt, but 52 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,680 you will bring the people and worship me here on this 53 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,040 mountain. That is fulfilled. 54 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,320 A prophecy fulfilled. So chapter 19 is a prophecy 55 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,400 fulfilled. Now I want to encourage you if 56 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,240 you have a word God has spoken into your life anytime any 57 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,800 promise you wholeheartedly believed it is going to be 58 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,040 fulfilled. Can I share a Amen. 59 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,560 So if you receive a word from God, it will be fulfilled. 60 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,440 I am telling you Omega is not built on anybody's imagination 61 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,680 is not because I want to start a church so many times I said I do 62 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,880 not want to write a book. I do not want to write a start 63 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,840 an organization, but it is God who spoke in the year 2000 64 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:47,360 Build, come build the Church of God and it was fulfilled in 2019 65 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,080 when I got the call and in 2020 we started the church after the 66 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,640 corvid. So this is not our imagination. 67 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,560 Don't look at the few people now and say, hey, this is this man 68 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,240 says God called him, but this look at see if there are no 69 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,360 people here, not many, it's coming. 70 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,920 Even if some more go from here, it does not mean God has not 71 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,200 called his church into existence. 72 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,600 God has called his into existence. 73 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,560 He has a plan and a purpose. So that is first thing that we 74 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,640 want to keep it in mind. Second thing here is this is the 75 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,920 third month after the Israelites left Egypt. 76 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:29,200 How long third month? Why do we have to focus on the 77 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,680 third month? This is third month, let's say 78 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,720 first day of the third month. They have reached there. 79 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,280 So in the last two months, what things have happened in two 80 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:38,600 months? In the last two months, what 81 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,360 have happened? God brought the 10 plagues and 82 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,480 set them free. After every elders of the first 83 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,880 born of the male are dead, they let them go and they came and 84 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,720 they pursued them. They were destroyed in the Red 85 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Sea. God opened the Red Sea, saved 86 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,240 the Israelites, but killed the Pharaoh and his army. 87 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:01,200 And you see this pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by 88 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,680 day, guiding them. When it lifts they they travel. 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,680 When they, it settles, they set their camp and stay there. 90 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,440 So they have been going around this wilderness, but God was 91 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,600 with them in the wilderness. Everybody say God was with them 92 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,760 in the wilderness. Whatever problem we are going 93 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,000 through, whatever pain we are going through, whatever sickness 94 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,120 you are going through, God is with you in your problem. 95 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,400 He is with you. As you acknowledge that He is 96 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:40,840 with me, it becomes lighter. You try it, you go on, oh, this 97 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,280 pain, it will become more. You feel more. 98 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,720 The pain may not be more in terms of if you have a 99 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,160 instrument to measure your pain, it may not be more, but because 100 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,920 you are saying it, you feel more pain. 101 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,720 But you say the Lord is with me in this, it will become less. 102 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,080 He is dwelling in you. So release the Holy Spirit, ask 103 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,960 the Holy Spirit, Lord, move from my Spirit to the part where this 104 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,040 pain and command that pain to go in the name of Jesus. 105 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,720 It will go. It will go. 106 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,840 That is how we had to learn to fight. 107 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:18,000 And on the very day they came to the desert of Sinai, So they 108 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,120 have come to the desert of Sinai. 109 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,280 I mean, the theologians are not very clear about this word 110 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:24,800 Sinai. What does it mean, where it 111 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,960 comes from and all. So I don't want to go deep into 112 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:33,480 it, but Saina is a mountain and we see that God commands them to 113 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,480 wash their clothes and get ready for visitation. 114 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,040 God is going to come down on the mountain, going to speak to 115 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,840 them. He says you have to prepare 116 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,080 yourself. How do you prepare yourself? 117 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,760 Three things he said #1 is to wash their bodies. 118 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,600 That means they have to take bath or they have to plunge into 119 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:56,640 some source of water and get cleaned to wash their clothes. 3 120 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,320 Abstain from intimacy with their spouse men. 121 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,560 This most of the time it is referred to men. 122 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,200 So they have to abstain from intimacy with their wives. 123 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,240 These are the three conditions and 3rd day God is going to come 124 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,240 and meet them. I did lot of thinking about it, 125 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,440 but in the New Testament you do not have that kind of 126 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,960 application now. But there are times when Paul 127 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:28,080 himself writes, do not avoid intimacy unless both of you 128 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:34,360 agree for a season of prayer. You want to seek God, say I want 129 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,160 to fasten and pray for three days And you want to tell the 130 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,360 husband tells the wife, OK, I am going to fasten and pray and she 131 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,320 understands there is no intimacy for three days. 132 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,400 Or the wife says I want to fasten and pray. 133 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,320 Husband understand law, it is 3 days, no intimacy, but what he 134 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,000 says is but do not prolong it come together. 135 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,400 So it is one of those things it is like a it is like a oil in a 136 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,280 in a machine. There is friction. 137 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,600 The moving parts are there big machine and if you put oil, what 138 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,840 happens less friction and machine moves good. 139 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,840 So this is one of those things God gives as a lubricating oil 140 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,080 to reduce the friction to bring love, understanding unity. 141 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:23,360 So I believe that it is one of those blessings of God and now 142 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,400 you do not need to follow like the Old Testament. 143 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,360 I am saying, oh, I am praying now. 144 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,080 So I am not going to be intimate with my wife or the wife says 145 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,159 no, I am praying now. I am not going to be intimate 146 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,360 with my husband. Absolutely rubbish. 147 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,720 Now. Why? 148 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,039 Because it is not God's plan anymore. 149 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,039 It is our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 150 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:48,960 We have to keep it in holiness and we should always see God and 151 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,640 live in union with Him and does not necessarily mean one of 152 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,480 these things to avoid. I, I see a couple, uh, I have 153 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,600 observed a couple who are allotted to prayer, but I, after 154 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,000 some time the marriage fell off, though it broke. 155 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,720 One of the things I understand is that that lubricating oil is 156 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,320 missing. That is how I understood it. 157 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:18,480 So we should not, uh, what you call it, some other secular 158 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,800 article I was reading. And in that they said after some 159 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,040 time there will be times when the love will go down. 160 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,480 It is not going to be always burning bread. 161 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,880 When as you get married, you know, there is a lot of love, 162 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,600 lot of emotion. It will not be there after some 163 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,280 time. The pressures will come, 164 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,520 children problems. It is going to hit you very, 165 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,320 very hard. But what that what that this is 166 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,200 secular article. I am telling you it is not about 167 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:47,640 religious art. It is secular article. 168 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:52,520 And what the wife says is I do not feel the same way I used to 169 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:57,320 feel for my husband before and wife or the husband says well, I 170 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,960 I do not feel the same way before. 171 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,920 But this is called the intimacy is called the maintenance dose 172 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,960 It is to maintain the relationship it has to it has to 173 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,000 be done. Try it. 174 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,880 I will say it wherever it is dry, wherever it is dry, you 175 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,080 need to try to improve the marriage. 176 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,920 That is what I'm trying to say. Why? 177 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,280 Because here in the oldest was written, but in the New 178 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,440 Testament it says you agree for a short time, but then to 179 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,240 restore it afterward. And that is good for the 180 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,680 families because you are to live in love and understanding and 181 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,040 grow together. It is one of those things. 182 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,920 And some people, some people say, does the church have 183 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,360 anything to say about marriages? I am saying it today, restore 184 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,200 what needs to be restored so that there is joy in the family 185 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,320 and unity in the family. Cool. 186 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:58,200 Next thing is we see here if you read the whole chapter 19, Moses 187 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,280 has gone up and down the mountain at least three times. 188 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,720 How many times? Three times. 189 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:09,440 You see, first time in verse 3, then Moses went up to God and 190 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:13,000 the Lord called him from the mountain and said this is what 191 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,560 you ought to say to the House of his Jacob. 192 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,960 So when Moses went up to God and the Lord called him from the 193 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,040 mountain, this is not completely going up to the top of the 194 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,240 mountain. No, he just started going 195 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,000 towards the mountain, maybe quarter, quarter away. 196 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,800 And then the voice came from the mountain to Moses. 197 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,520 So when you take one step, even few steps towards God, God takes 198 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:42,840 that step to speak to you. See, I used to teach doctrine of 199 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,840 God several for many, many years in the camp, student camp. 200 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,560 I would say God is infinite and personal. 201 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,320 But that's all I knew at that time. 202 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,040 But now if I had to teach the doctrine of God, I would say God 203 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,480 is infinite and personal and a God who speaks, you take out the 204 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,400 words, God who speaks. You do not have God of the 205 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,840 Bible. That part personal has 206 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,280 communication itself in it, but I never emphasized it. 207 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,400 That's why I am adding it as a special phrase. 208 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,680 God who speaks, that is the God of the Bible. 209 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,320 Have you heard His voice? If you have not heard his voice, 210 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,320 then something is really missing, very, very important 211 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,440 and missing. So restore, seek Him again what 212 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,080 He is trying to do tell you, tell us today, this morning is 213 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:39,240 you take few steps, set apart a time, fix time to seek Him, fix, 214 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,880 fix time to pray. And you will see that God takes 215 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,960 the steps to speak to you. And you practice it for three to 216 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,640 six months. And you tell me, if you have not 217 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,720 heard the voice of God, come and talk, talk to me because it will 218 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,640 not fail. He has spoken through 219 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,320 generations to many people He has spoken. 220 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,040 The voice of the Lord comes, but we have to have the discipline 221 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,480 to hear Him and we are going to hear His voice. 222 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,680 And here Moses, he wanted to go up the mountain and God already 223 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:11,960 speaks. He says OK, OK stop there, go 224 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,160 back. This is what you have to say to 225 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,240 the House of Jacob and what you have to tell the people of 226 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,560 Israel. Jacob and Israel are synonymous. 227 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,080 House of Jacob, House of is there. 228 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,800 It means the same thing. You yourself have seen what I 229 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,520 did to Egypt, how I carried you on the eagles wings and brought 230 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,440 you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and 231 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,360 keep my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my 232 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,560 treasured possession. Although the whole earth is 233 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,640 mine, you will be for me a Kingdom of priest and a holy 234 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,920 nation. This is the most important 235 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:51,960 central words of chapter 19. All other things explain that. 236 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,640 So what? What is God saying here is 237 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,040 number one thing he says is, you know what I have done to Egypt? 238 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,800 You know the miracles I have done the 10th place I sent. 239 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,640 You know how I split the sea? You know how my pillar of my 240 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,080 presence went with you? Pillar of cloud by day, pillar 241 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,840 of fire by night. All these things I am telling 242 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,040 you to prove only one point. It is like an eagle that teaches 243 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,480 its carries its young on its wings. 244 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,440 I have brought you from Egypt to Mount Sinai. 245 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,880 Well, wherever you are right now is Mount Sinai for you. 246 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:28,880 Any number of years you have gone, walked with God. 247 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,880 God says I have brought you up to this point like an eagle 248 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,880 carries its young. What? 249 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,160 What does this mean to you? To me? 250 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,160 Eagles have got a funny way of raising their kids, You know, do 251 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,720 we Do we do that with our kids? I don't know, I don't think so. 252 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,360 But the eagle, when it's hatched, it brings the food, 253 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,720 breaks into pieces, feeds it. But once the young eaglets 254 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,680 become little bigger and the wings are spreading, it knows 255 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:03,120 the time it disturbs the nest and breaks it down and makes 256 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:08,840 forces the eagle eaglet to fly. And when it is thrown from up 257 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,440 somewhere, the Cliff is trying to find how to fly. 258 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:21,240 It is flying below so that in case the eaglet loses balance or 259 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,240 doesn't, cannot fly, has no strength, it's collapsing, it's 260 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,520 falling down, it's going to catch so that it will be on the 261 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,760 back of the eagle. It will carry to safety again. 262 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,280 And then after a day or two, throw from there again. 263 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,120 So that that's how it teaches the young to fly. 264 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,120 Amazing things. I tell you. 265 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,960 If an eagle has enough common sense to do that, how much more 266 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,440 God will do with your life. He will disturb your life. 267 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,880 Everything is going good. Sometimes it happened to me, 268 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,800 everything was going good. But He loses the job. 269 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,280 So at that time it is painful. But God is teaching something. 270 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,400 He is teaching me how to hear His voice. 271 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,480 He is teaching me how to come close to Him. 272 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,640 He is teaching me how to obey Him in spite of the problems. 273 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,120 So that is what His life is all about. 274 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,320 He disturbs the nest. He throws you up from the head 275 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,800 from a height, and then He is flying below to catch you. 276 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,920 And now with all these things, what he is saying is from Egypt 277 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,680 I brought you to Mount Sinai, basically talking about the 278 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:33,760 experience of being born again. What is it about born again? 279 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,480 He gives you the gospel and after you believe the gospel, He 280 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,880 keeps on helping you to grow. So the process is He brings you 281 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,080 to the mountain. Why you know you have to learn 282 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,560 to hear his voice. That is the second step. 283 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,920 You have to know him in a way that you have not known him 284 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,360 before. That is why he brings you to the 285 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,440 mountain of Sinai. Other thing that had to do a lot 286 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,480 of research was I spent a lot of time in sometimes, you know 287 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:09,280 going what do you call rabbit holes, chasing the rabbit holes. 288 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,880 So in this desert, how this 2 million people are going to take 289 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,760 bath, how they are going to wash their clothes was their source 290 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,720 of water. Right now when you go there to 291 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,319 Mount Sinai, there is no, no water there, no water there. 292 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,720 But 2500 years ago or 3000 years years ago, there was at least 4, 293 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,720 four sources of water around the mountain, four sources enough 294 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:45,440 for them to do it. So I said, OK, Bible is right, 295 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,400 Bible is right. So whenever you get a doubt, do 296 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,320 some more research. Then you know that Bible is 297 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,240 right. So that is what it is. 298 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,080 And then what he says is I carried you, I brought you on 299 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,640 eagle's wings and brought you to myself. 300 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,800 He brought them to where? Mount Sinai people can mistake 301 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,160 the place, the job, whatever that you are acquiring, the 302 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:15,000 person you meet as the object of your journey. 303 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:21,000 No its not for a boy meeting a girl or for a girl meeting a boy 304 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:25,880 is not the object, it is only a means of coming to himself. 305 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,800 You need to make God your center of your life. 306 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,600 God said I brought you to myself. 307 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,520 You have to know God. That's your primary objective in 308 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,600 your life, primary goal. That one objective that you have 309 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,560 is to know God and He brings you to Himself. 310 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,840 My question is, have you had this encounter with God? 311 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,320 Have you seen His power? Have you heard His voice? 312 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Have you seen His guidance? And then you have everything to 313 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,680 rejoice about because that is normal Christian life. 314 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,960 When these things are missing, normal Christian life is 315 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,920 missing. We may think we are believers, 316 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:10,640 we may think we are something, but I tell you we are nothing. 317 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,160 We need to have these things. We need to have the experience 318 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,440 of being born again. We must have the experience of 319 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,160 hearing the voice of God, encounter with the Holy Spirit. 320 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,320 Very, very important, very, very important. 321 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:28,120 Now he says, now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then 322 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:30,880 out of all nations you will be my treasured position. 323 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:33,680 Everybody say treasured position. 324 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,520 In the Hebrew it is called Shagullah. 325 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,440 Shagullah Shagullah is a treasure position. 326 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,400 What is the treasure position? It is for some. 327 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,520 It is something for which you work very hard and to obtain it. 328 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,800 It's not something you casually find. 329 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,240 Treasure position is you pursue. Likely you want to buy a house. 330 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,800 You have to work hard, maybe for five years to raise the money 331 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:04,760 and then you are able to. Pay the deposit and then you go 332 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,000 on making some more money and to pay pay off the mortgage that 333 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,320 becomes your treasure possession or is anything else you want to 334 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,840 buy a field. You are a you are a farmer and 335 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,080 then you want to buy a field that becomes your treasure 336 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,440 possession. You work for it and we possess 337 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,720 it and God says I have worked for you. 338 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:28,480 I have 4 seen you out of all the nations have chosen you is God 339 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,520 of the whole world. He is God of the whole world, 340 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,800 there is no doubt about it. But for Himself, what He did was 341 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,920 He chose one particular people who are called Hebrews or the 342 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,560 Israelites, and God wanted to choose them to demonstrate to 343 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:47,000 the world that He is true, that He is a living God, and through 344 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 them other nations will know and connect with Him. 345 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,200 In order to purge these people from idolatry and to give them 346 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,880 the revelation of true and living God, He chose a people 347 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,680 and He brought them to Himself. And that is the treasure 348 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,320 position. And Jesus himself, when he was 349 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:11,040 teaching, He talked about a man who found a Pearl of great value 350 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,280 hidden in the ground. What did he do? 351 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,360 He goes and sells all that he has and crumbs and pays and buys 352 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:22,760 that land so that he can possess that Pearl of great value or 353 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,720 treasure, hidden treasure, he finds it. 354 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,440 He sells all that he has and he buys the field so he can possess 355 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,720 it. My question is, God has done 356 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,920 that part out of all the 7 billion people. 357 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,680 He has given you the knowledge of salvation so that he can 358 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:48,440 believe in Jesus and be saved. My question is, do you consider 359 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:54,760 God as a treasured possession? I hear only one voice. 360 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,360 Can I hear everybody? Yes, that is what it is. 361 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,960 That is when you say God is my treasure position and God says 362 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,480 you are my treasure position. There is a love relationship 363 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:18,000 between God and you. There is a love relationship and 364 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,080 that relationship will become stronger and stronger every day, 365 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,760 not become weaker. You have to value God. 366 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,120 You have to have respect for God. 367 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,520 You have to appreciate God. You must love God. 368 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,440 You must worship Him. You must praise Him. 369 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,520 That is what Omega is all about. We are here to become a 370 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,800 community of worshiping people. Worship Jesus. 371 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:51,680 Are we going further or? OK, that's good. 372 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,720 So now he says, what will happen then? 373 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,960 You will be for me a Kingdom of priest and holy nation. 374 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,600 Kingdom of priest and holy nation. 375 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,960 See when God selected this family of Jacob, he had twelve 376 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,240 sons and then one of them was a Levite. 377 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,920 Levite. And then through the sons of 378 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,480 Levi you got here Moses and Aaron. 379 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,200 And then God really chooses this particular family so they will 380 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,840 be priests and rest of them they are not. 381 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,720 And he chooses the tribe of Judah so that they can Kingdom 382 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,280 can belong to the tribe of Judah. 383 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,160 Every king that comes and rules over Jerusalem and the southern 384 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,040 Kingdom has has to belong to the tribe of Judah. 385 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,560 But what God is saying is from the beginning this is God's 386 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,120 vision. We try to have a narrow vision, 387 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:45,280 but God has a broad vision. God's vision is everyone should 388 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,960 be a priest and everyone should be a king. 389 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:54,840 So if everyone of us are king, are we subject to each other? 390 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,360 We are equals. We are equals. 391 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:08,720 If everybody is a priest, same situation, you become equals. 392 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,080 Somebody is more, me less, I am more, he is less. 393 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,560 Doesn't work. God's man. 394 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:19,400 Is that now the same thing you see in the New Testament when 395 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,120 you see first Peter 29, Peter writes. 396 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,160 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, 397 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,120 God's special possession. That is the same words used 398 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:32,880 here. You are a treasured position, 399 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,520 special position that you may declare the praises of him who 400 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,320 called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 401 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,280 So He is connecting this to salvation. 402 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:49,080 This experience of Exodus 19 is putting into the words of 403 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,080 salvation for everybody. You are being drawn from 404 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,440 darkness, brought into this wonderful light, marvelous 405 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,440 light, so that you can become a treasured possession, so you can 406 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,120 become a royal priesthood, holy nation. 407 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,440 The very word royal priesthood is a combination of 2 words, 408 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:12,720 royal and priesthood, your king and a priest, your king and a 409 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,320 priest. But where will you be a king and 410 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,000 a priest? It is to those who don't know 411 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,080 God. You are a priest and you will be 412 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,640 a king. Rule over them by faith. 413 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,920 So in order to be a royal priesthood, we must be able to 414 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,280 stand. What does the priest do? 415 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,000 He mediates between God and people. 416 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,120 Unless you become a prayer warrior, how can you be a priest 417 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,280 unless you stand in the presence of God and say God? 418 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,960 I want to pray for these people, People of Pray Bolton, only 5000 419 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,440 people, 2000 families. I pray for this place now, in 420 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,360 the name of Jesus my father, save these people, utterly, 421 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,480 completely save them. Bring them to the knowledge of 422 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,800 yourself. I pray for the Lincoln area, I 423 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,840 pray for the Christchurch area, I pray for the Canterbury area. 424 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,440 You have to be a priest interceding in the presence of 425 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,200 God. Am I making sense? 426 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,200 Suppose you don't pray. What are you doing? 427 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:25,840 What are you doing? When you go to the hospital, you 428 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,920 see doctors wearing a white coat. 429 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,040 OK. And if he doesn't wear the white 430 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,960 coat and he walks into the ward, will anybody say you are a 431 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,720 doctor? You are thrown off your coat. 432 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,200 That makes you people, makes you that make people recognize you 433 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,040 as a doctor. You are a priest when you don't 434 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,600 pray. You are like a doctor walking 435 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:55,760 without a coat. You are a king. 436 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,560 What does a king have? A crown on his head and people 437 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,720 around him. And you are a king. 438 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,040 When you speak a word, it will be carried out. 439 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,400 King doesn't have to tell you please go by means this and 440 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,560 that. Make me lasagna. 441 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,880 He says I want to have lasagna and the servants run around and 442 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,480 do whatever needs to be done and serve him lasagna. 443 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,000 You need to know you are a king. When you speak with your word in 444 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 the name of Jesus, that will be carried out by the angels of God 445 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,280 who hear your voice. So now what is happening is you 446 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,920 are, you have pains and things and you have got a sickness. 447 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,480 You have got so many problems in the family, in the job and 448 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,200 finance. Everything is a mess. 449 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:50,880 You are not working as a king. Am I trying to accuse anybody? 450 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,400 No, we all learn to grow into this. 451 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,400 We had to learn to grow into this. 452 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,800 You had to learn to stand in the presence of God and say a lot of 453 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,320 thank you for choosing me. Thank you for I am your royal 454 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,560 priesthood, holy nation. And now in the name of Jesus, I 455 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,120 speak this thing to happen. I speak blessing over my job. 456 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,080 I speak blessing over my finances. 457 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,840 I speak blessing over my children. 458 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,520 I speak blessing over my health. I speak blessing over my 459 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,840 destiny, my future. You are functioning as a king. 460 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,800 When you don't do it, you are walking like a man without a 461 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:30,080 crown. I am not accusing anybody. 462 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,520 I have also walked in ignorance. I have grown in the Lord. 463 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Not in a year or two, you know, next year I will be walking with 464 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,880 girl for 50 years. That's not a small time. 465 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,960 So, ah, don't look at me and say this man is trying to tell me 466 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,560 down, put me down. No, I'm not trying to. 467 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,120 I'm encouraging. We have to be living like kings 468 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,680 and priests. That's my purpose, nothing more. 469 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,560 And then so this is the first time Moses goes up the mountain 470 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,880 halfway, comes down, talks to the people, and then he again 471 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:09,040 goes S Moses went back. He went back a second time and 472 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,400 summoned the elders of the people and said before them all 473 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,120 the words of the Lord had commanded him to speak. 474 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,000 The people all respond together we will do everything the Lord 475 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,960 has said. So Moses brought their answer 476 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,400 back to the Lord. So he goes up the mountain a 477 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,760 second time and then he says, no, no, you go back down. 478 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,000 Tell the people not to come up the mountain. 479 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,320 If they come and touch the base, the foot of the mountain, they 480 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,920 are going to die. They should be put to death. 481 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,920 Moses says you only told, you told already that no man or 482 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,440 animal should come up the mountain, so they are not going 483 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,280 to come. No, no, you go down South. 484 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,560 He has to come down again. And again he says, OK, bring 485 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:54,840 Aaron, your brother with you up. And they prepared themselves, 486 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,440 wash their big bath in the waters around, wash their 487 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,600 clothes, abstain from intimacy. They're waiting for God to 488 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,440 confront them. And then what happens on the 489 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,560 third day early in the morning, they can feel the earth is 490 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,440 shaking, its like an earthquake and they see loud peaks of 491 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,440 Thunder. And then they look up on the 492 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,280 mountain. The dark cloud came upon it and 493 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,360 the fire was coming down upon the mountain, consuming the top 494 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,240 portions of it. And people all were afraid. 495 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,520 And when Moses spoke to God, God answered back from the mountain. 496 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:37,880 Where is it written? Verse 19 And the sound of the 497 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,240 trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke, and the voice 498 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,840 of God answered him. What an amazing experience. 499 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,200 Now theologists have got a word to explain it. 500 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,480 It's called propositional revelation. 501 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,440 Everybody say propositional revelation. 502 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,800 What is proportional revelation? God speaking to you in your own 503 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,920 language, following the grammar, vocabulary, everything. 504 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,400 He will not speak. If you want to say you want to 505 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,120 eat steak next week, you will not say I ate steak next week. 506 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,360 You have to follow the grammar, isn't it? 507 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,720 God follows the grammar, the vocabulary and speaks to you in 508 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,280 your language. That is proportional revelation. 509 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,800 He knows your language. God spoke to me in English. 510 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,240 God spoke to me in Tamil and English together. 511 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,160 God spoke to me in Telugu recently, spoke to me in 512 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,120 Gujarati. That is not my mother tongue, 513 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:40,040 that is my wife's language. God speaks in the language that 514 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,960 you know. Oh, how does how is God going to 515 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,000 speak to me? How will you speak to you 516 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:53,880 language that you know? This is amazing. 517 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,560 God, I'm telling you this words proportional revelation is very 518 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,240 important because that's one of the doctrines of the Christian 519 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,840 faith. God speaks using the language 520 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,160 and the grammar of the language that you know. 521 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,000 He speaks to you in the language. 522 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:16,080 So that is very, very important. And then Moses went up and the 523 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,360 Lord said to him, go down and warn the people. 524 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:25,040 So this man, 80 plus years of age, going up and down and up 525 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:29,200 and down the mountain three times, I am glad I am not Moses 526 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,840 because my knees are not strong. Recently when we went to 527 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,840 America, every house had steps to go up. 528 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,640 You either have basement or upstairs and you have to go up 529 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,720 and down. I said give me somewhere in the 530 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:48,120 middle side, do not have to go up and down because until then I 531 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,600 was going for a walk every day for 5 kilometres and I thought I 532 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,080 was fit, only to realize that when I go to America, my knees 533 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,640 are not strong. I realized it there. 534 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,400 I think God took me there to teach me one lesson. 535 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,000 You have to exercise your knees anyway. 536 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,640 But the point is Moses was strong. 537 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,040 Even at the age of 120 when he had to die, he was strong. 538 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,800 He did not die because of sickness. 539 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,520 He died, did not die because of sickness. 540 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:21,600 He was physically strong. He said go up the mountain and 541 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,640 you are going to die and I am going to bury in a place no one 542 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,360 will know where you are buried. Why? 543 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,680 Because people will make an idol of it. 544 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,680 They will build something around the tomb and then make it into a 545 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,040 temple and, you know, worship there, offer sacrifice. 546 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,800 No, no, I do not want anybody to do that. 547 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,400 So I am going to bury in a way that nobody will know where you 548 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,880 are buried. So that is how it is. 549 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,440 So verse 24, God, Lord replied, go down and bring Aaron up with 550 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,760 you. So are you God's treasure? 551 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,040 Possession? Yes. 552 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,760 Has he carried you on eagle's wings? 553 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,440 Has he been your healer? Has he done miracles for you? 554 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,800 What more you want? What more do you want? 555 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:21,560 I'm telling you I have so much of notes here, 3 pages, but I'm 556 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:28,440 just beginning my message now. The whole question that comes to 557 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:33,400 is and when God made a covenant with these people, He came down 558 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,840 the mountain and the whole experience is from verse 16 to 559 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,239 verse 19. On the morning of the third day, 560 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,400 there was Thunder and lightning with a thick cloud over the 561 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,760 mountain and a very low trumpet blast. 562 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,159 Who is he? Who is it that is blowing the 563 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:48,880 trumpet? Not humans? 564 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,040 Is the angels of God blowing the trumpet on the mountain and the 565 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,000 trumpet blast? And then what happened? 566 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,480 Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses let the people out of 567 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:03,440 the camp to meet with God. You are meeting with God. 568 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,600 But Christian experience is all something like this when you 569 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,840 believe in Jesus, this God who is holy, who came on that 570 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,280 mountain and people were afraid when there was a earthquake was 571 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,480 there. But he comes into your life very 572 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,440 silently. That's what John writes in the 573 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,520 in the prologue in chapter one of his gospel, Johns Gospel 574 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,120 chapter 1. The word was in the beating was 575 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,840 the word the word with God. The word was God and the word. 576 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,440 Everything that is great has been created through the Word. 577 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,200 Nothing has been created without the word. 578 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,680 And then he goes on to say the word became flesh and dwelt 579 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,920 among us full of grace and truth. 580 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,120 Now you have on one side this kind of a holy God. 581 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,480 When you look at him, you are afraid of him. 582 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,000 He comes in thick cloud and then fire, low trumpet blast, 583 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,360 earthquake. We need that experience to put 584 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,080 some kind of fear I've got in our heart. 585 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,360 But unfortunately he doesn't do that with us. 586 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,640 He comes very quietly because we are in a New Testament. 587 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,600 He comes quietly into your heart. 588 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,000 He stands at the door of your heart and knocks. 589 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,840 If you hear my voice, open the door. 590 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,000 I want to come in. I want to eat with you and I 591 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,520 want you to eat with me. And we are sometimes keeping him 592 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,480 waiting for five years, 10 years. 593 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,360 Some of us, we don't want to obey him quickly. 594 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,240 He is a holy God. You cannot play with him. 595 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:37,760 You cannot live in sin and say I am all right, everything is all 596 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,760 right and keep on living in sin is not the answer, is not the 597 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,480 lifestyle that God expects us. If you fear God, first thing to 598 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:51,000 do is to stop the sin. Come out of it whatever is, it 599 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,920 costs. Sometimes it costs. 600 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,360 It is not that easy to stop sinning. 601 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,760 It costs and we must be willing to pay the cost if you want to 602 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,720 follow him. That is the reason why Jesus 603 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:08,560 said he who wants to follow me must take up His cross and walk 604 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:15,600 daily His cross and daily our cross is when we want to do 605 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,680 God's will. And right now we are not doing 606 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,840 God's will. When you want to do God's will, 607 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,880 that becomes your cross, that becomes your cross, and you have 608 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,560 to deny yourself. That flesh will demand things 609 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,920 from you, and you have to say no to the demands of the flesh. 610 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,680 Take up the cross, walk daily with Him. 611 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,000 That is Christian life. But here you see all these 612 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,800 things. You know Yahweh is Jesus. 613 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,080 I have told you so many times, Yahweh is Jesus. 614 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,240 When you look at Yahweh in the chapter 1919, He is a terrible 615 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:54,640 God, full of fire, holy, and He cannot accept you and He cannot 616 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,400 just overlook your sin. But again, when it comes to the 617 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,280 New Testament, the same God is so full of love, compassion, 618 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,400 mercy, but judgment is in the future. 619 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,480 He does not judge you immediately. 620 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,960 Just because He does not judge you immediately does not mean 621 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,680 you are. You are accepted and everything 622 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,160 is fine when you deal with sin. What needs to be confessed has 623 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,320 to be confessed. What this should be renounced 624 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,760 has to be renounced and get up and walk with him. 625 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:31,040 That is very, very important. And then today is actually Day 626 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,560 of Pentecost. Many churches are celebrating 627 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,480 Day of Pentecost coming out the Holy Spirit on the on the 628 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,760 church. The church was born this day, 629 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,840 2000 years ago nearly. I did not want to make that as a 630 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,720 focus because I was deciding. I decided to speak on chapter 631 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,200 19. But chapter 20 is giving of the 632 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,880 law. That is that coincidence with 633 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,920 the dead Pentecost. So next time I preach, I'll be 634 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,200 preaching on chapter 20. So we'll have Pentecost 2 weeks 635 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,240 late. But that is what it is. 636 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,320 We don't go by calendar. That's the reason why I'm not 637 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,520 focusing on it. But we have to come be expected 638 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,400 that what God wants to do in our life through His Word is very, 639 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,360 very important. We need to give supremacy to the 640 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,440 Word. You have to make the Bible the 641 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,800 ultimate rule book and obey it. Because without obedience, I am 642 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,720 telling you, whether you have Old Testament Christian or a 643 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:31,200 nutrition Christian, it doesn't matter. 644 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,000 There is no Christian in the Old Testament anyway. 645 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,840 So you are, whether Old Testament St. or a New New 646 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,800 Testament St., you must have obedience because that's what he 647 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,320 said. If you obey me, you will be part 648 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,360 of my covenant. You will be my royal priesthood, 649 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,360 holy nation. And what did Jesus say? 650 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,480 I am the one, you are the branch. 651 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,240 And if you obey me, keep my commandments, you will remain in 652 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:58,440 me, and I will remain in you. And then you will bear fruit, 653 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,080 much fruit in the glory of the Father. 654 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,600 Take out obedience. Whether you belong to Old 655 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,440 Testament or the New Testament does not matter. 656 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,240 We are outside the will of God. And if you want to be within the 657 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,440 will of God, obedience is very central. 658 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,680 OK, I think we should keep away my notes and we will focus on 659 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,160 prayer. Shall we pray? 660 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:30,400 Father God, we thank you, we praise you with all our heart, 661 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,200 we praise you, for you are a God who speaks to us in our own 662 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,320 language. We worship you, we praise you, 663 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:43,040 but you are not Stop speaking. Everybody who seeks you can hear 664 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,040 you. And you spoke from the mountain 665 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:51,520 to Moses and the whole nation. 2 million people heard your voice. 666 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,000 So I pray now that the outcome of our lives will bring the 667 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,520 testimony of our outcome of our lives will bring glory to your 668 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,240 name. Let people know that we are a 669 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:07,280 people who hear your voice and do your will and let that 670 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,760 testimony bring glory to your name. 671 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,920 I pray for everyone this morning who is here and those will hear 672 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,960 me on online. I pray that your hand will be 673 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,360 upon them and that you will bless them. 674 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,280 That you will cause up to hear your voice and to know your mind 675 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,040 to do your will and raise up a big generation of people who 676 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,000 will be worshipping you and obeying you to the glory of your 677 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,720 name. Thank you for hearing this 678 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:32,960 prayer. Bless your children this morning 679 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,880 in Jesus mighty name we ask and everyone says Amen. 680 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,520 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 681 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,440 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 682 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,760 our website or Facebook page in the links below.