1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned in to a mega church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,600 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,400 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough? 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,040 Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,760 Head to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:34,680 So we continue our study with the Galatians Chapter 1 and 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:42,400 hope, I hope I'm not chasing the rabbit horse, but it's great 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,560 study. It is just I never done this 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,840 kind of study before. So praise God for the 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:55,200 revelation. So we talked about how people 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,440 were deserting the gospel, how they were exchanging for a 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:05,840 different kind of a gospel. And yeah, so this week we see 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,240 how the gospel is very unique. Everybody say unique. 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,280 It is not only unique, it is there's no parallel to it, 18 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,320 nothing similar to it. It is just so distinct, so 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,760 peculiar and so outstanding. I don't know how to, I don't 20 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,360 have words to describe it. It's just the gospel and nothing 21 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,960 can compare to it and if we dilute it then we are going to 22 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,920 be under a great curse of God. Basically that's what this 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,360 Scripture is talking about. South here we see in verse 6, I 24 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,680 am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the One who 25 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,600 called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,880 different gospel. So what is happening here is the 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,520 people are turning to a different gospel. 28 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,680 So what is a different gospel? What is the real gospel? 29 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,040 That's what we need to understand. 30 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,120 So here he is astonished. So why he is astonished? 31 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,880 Was there anyone else who was astonished? 32 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,680 In the Scripture we see Jesus himself was astonished. 33 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,120 Where? When He went to Nazareth, there 34 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,320 he could not perform any miracles, just except laying 35 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,120 hands on some and heal some people. 36 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,200 And he was astonished at their unbelief. 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,840 He was astonished at their unbelief. 38 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,080 Was he astonished at the faith and belief? 39 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,320 Yes, he did. When the centurion came and 40 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,520 said, don't come to my home. You just say the word. 41 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,800 That's enough. My surrounding will be healed. 42 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:40,000 And he was astonished again, amazed that such kind of faith 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,800 is available in a a Gentile man rather than there's no, nobody 44 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,600 in the whole of Israel. There's no one in the whole of 45 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,680 Israel who have this kind of a faith. 46 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,000 So that kind of a faith is what Jesus is looking for this 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,520 morning in our hearts. That kind of faith is what is 48 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,920 looking into your heart. Yes, that kind of faith is 49 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:02,200 there. He's going to do something in 50 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,880 your life. Something is going to happen. 51 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,120 See, preaching is not just some information transfer from me to 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,960 you. No, I believe the preaching has 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,800 to be. It is the Spirit of God who is 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,640 inspiring and communicating and imparting life to the listeners 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,240 that is preaching. So here we see that he was 56 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:30,920 astonished and the faith of the man, and it was the same thing 57 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,760 with two other people, as if there was another lady who was a 58 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,280 Cyraphoenician lady. And she goes on begging him for 59 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,440 healing for the daughter. And he says no, no, I can't give 60 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,120 this bread that belongs to children and toss it to the 61 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,040 dogs. Dogs eat the crumbs from the 62 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,320 table for such a statement as this. 63 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,160 Go home, your daughter is healed. 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,320 See, without the faith part, gospel makes no sense. 65 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,440 The one way that gospel comes alive to people is by faith. 66 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,000 You receive it. There's no other agency, there's 67 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,960 no other method, there's no other truth by which that gospel 68 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,920 is going to take root in your heart and impart life to you. 69 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:18,160 It is by faith, not by works. So what was happening in 70 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,079 Galatia, The churches of Galatia, they were listening to 71 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,240 other a gospel, this other than this one. 72 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,600 The gospel they heard was by faith in Jesus who died for them 73 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,600 and to believe that he was crucified for their sin. 74 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,960 And now they are deserting the gospel and they're going back to 75 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,920 circumcision, they're going back to following the Jewish rites. 76 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,520 And he said, no, no, no, no, you have to believe in Jesus. 77 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,800 That's all, nothing more. That's the gospel. 78 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,320 Anything you add to it, it is not the gospel anymore. 79 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,400 It's not the gospel anymore. So now what is happening here is 80 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,080 he was amazed. He was astonished. 81 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,800 You know, this is having a reference to a story in the Old 82 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,400 Testament. How quickly he was astonished 83 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,640 that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you 84 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,280 is gospel is when you change the gospel, you are actually walking 85 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:18,600 away from the one who's calling you. 86 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,800 You are walking away from the one God who loves you and died 87 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,520 for you. You're walking away from him by 88 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,480 twisting it. So that's the reason why he is 89 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,480 so much astonished. But then this has a reference to 90 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,280 Exodus chapter 32, verse 8. They have been quick to turn 91 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:40,800 away from what I commanded them, and have made themselves an idle 92 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,880 cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and 93 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,560 sacrificed to it, and have said, these are your gods, Israel, who 94 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,840 brought you up out of Egypt. How long did it take for them to 95 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:57,240 turn away from the true God, God who spoke to them from the Mount 96 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,040 Sinai? And the whole mountain was set 97 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,320 on fire and nobody was allowed to go up. 98 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,640 And they were quaking with fear when God himself spoke. 99 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,600 And that fear just left in 40 days. 100 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,000 When Moses went up to get the tablets, they said we don't know 101 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,800 what happened to this man. We just don't know what happened 102 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,960 to this Moses who brought us from Egypt until here. 103 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,480 So they go to Aaron and say, make us gods that will go before 104 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,440 us. And he said, OK, everybody take 105 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,920 off a earring from your ears. So they took off the earring, 106 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,200 they put it there, and you have more than a million adults 107 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,880 there. So how much gold would have been 108 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,880 collected? Just one earring, kilos and 109 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,640 kilos of it. And he just melted it and shaved 110 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,720 it into a calf. And he said, what did he say? 111 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,680 He said to them like this, these are your gods, Israel, who 112 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,480 brought you up out of Egypt, making one calf and saying 113 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:05,200 you're your guards plural. He's applying plural crazy. 114 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,040 And it is the same thing that Jeroboam did when he became king 115 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,640 of the northern tribes. He didn't want them to go down 116 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,080 to Judah anymore. So he makes 2 calves, golden 117 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,480 calves, one at dawn, another at Vaishaba. 118 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,760 And he says you don't have to go to Jerusalem anymore. 119 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,920 I have made for you Golden crops, golden cops. 120 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,560 I tell you everybody, I was just trying to see how many wrong 121 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,480 cuts are there in the world. There are more than 1200 cuts 122 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,160 which claim Bible as a source book, Bible as a source book. 123 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,680 But what? What will happen to all the 124 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,840 followers of the 1200 plus? May be 1500, whatever number. 125 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,720 What will happen to all the followers of cuts? 126 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,240 We will wait for it. I will tell you what's going to 127 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,080 happen to them. I won't send you without telling 128 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,960 it. But there are so many people who 129 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,280 are quick to twist the gospel according to their own likes, 130 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,880 according to their own thinking, according to their own emotional 131 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,880 thing. We cannot afford to do it. 132 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,560 Gospel is simple and we should not twist it. 133 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,440 It is straightforward that God sold out the world, that he gave 134 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,680 his only begotten Son, that who, Sir, believes in him, shall not 135 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,000 perish but have eternal life. That's the gospel. 136 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:36,720 So here we see that they were making like they did the golden 137 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,240 God, so quickly forgetting the mighty presence of God, voice of 138 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,280 God, quaking fire, smoke, everything is forgotten in just 139 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,040 one day. After 40 days, I said no, we 140 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,040 will make our own godson. Go go ahead. 141 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,560 You want to take position of the land. 142 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,560 You cannot do it. That land will you'll never 143 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:00,000 possess it if you deviate from the way God prescribes. 144 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,120 The way God prescribes is the way you follow for your healing 145 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,400 is the way you follow for your salvation is the way for you to 146 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,680 prosper is the way you follow for your protection and your 147 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:14,320 guidance. There's no other way except 148 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,080 Jesus himself. That's why he said I am the way, 149 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,520 the truth and the life you cannot find anywhere else. 150 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,600 Cool. So disserting the one who called 151 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:30,040 you so again, disserting is the Greek word is metathete main. 152 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,680 Where is that metastrepho metathete main? 153 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,600 Yeah, you are deserting metathete me in Greek, deserting 154 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,920 pictures. A soldier abandoning post. 155 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:50,960 It is not a minor mistake. Its a volitional or a conscious 156 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:56,040 shift of allegiance. You are you are following. 157 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,360 You are a soldier, you are following a commander. 158 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,160 And when you leave the post you don't do your duty and walk 159 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,360 away. You are shifting your allegiance 160 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,160 to someone else. There are no middle ground. 161 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,760 Either you love Jesus, you follow Jesus, or you love the 162 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,240 world and the devil and follow the devil and the world. 163 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,520 There's no middle ground. Many Christians think there is a 164 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,000 middle ground, and that is the bad news. 165 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,440 I want to give you to those people. 166 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,960 There's no middle ground either in God's camp or in the devil's 167 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,440 camp. No middle ground. 168 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:36,720 You cannot please the world and also please God at the same 169 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,160 time. That's that's how it is. 170 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,560 And then walking away from the gospel truth is walking away 171 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:47,160 from Christ himself. When you turn away from the 172 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:48,840 gospel, you're turning away from Christ. 173 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,440 So we have to make sure we are right, right, right there in 174 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,520 that place. And then what are they doing is 175 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,560 they are disserting the one who called you. 176 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,520 The initiative of your salvation is in gospel. 177 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:10,360 He calls you John chapter 15. He says I have chosen you. 178 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:16,080 You did not choose me. The right to call you is with 179 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,680 Him, but the responsibility lies with you to respond. 180 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,400 He calls you, but you respond. So if you don't respond, then 181 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,760 that call goes waste. That's the reason why many are 182 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:34,440 called but few are chosen. When his call and your volition 183 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:38,160 coincide and interact, and that's when the conversion 184 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,280 happens, the gospel is reached to the whole world. 185 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,360 But not everybody believes. You've got only a handful of 186 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,480 people who are going to believe, and those are the people who are 187 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,760 going to be safe, the one who called you by the grace of 188 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,600 Christ. See, the grace is the ground. 189 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,760 Christ is the giver. Any teaching that adds human 190 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,760 effort diminishes grace. No, there's no other way. 191 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,880 You cannot get circumcised. You cannot see one thing as I 192 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,040 was thinking about, you know, that came powerfully. 193 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,240 I will, I will very soon going to tell you is that we cannot 194 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,920 change the gospel. If we do it, we are going to 195 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,080 lose everything. So here Paul later reminds them, 196 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,680 if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for 197 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:23,440 nothing. Galatians 221. 198 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,520 If it is not, if it is through the law, He died for nothing. 199 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,120 So now what? What I want to focus on is one 200 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,760 more word that we see here in verse 7, which is really no 201 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,960 gospel at all. So now I want you to focus on 202 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,840 verse six and seven. In verse 6 you see the grace of 203 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,400 Christ are turning to a different gospel, the word, the 204 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,000 word in Greek you have got two different words for different. 205 00:12:52,720 --> 00:13:00,400 One is hetero, hetero is other, another are different and the 206 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:14,030 another is aloes. So I have got 2 tissues here. 207 00:13:17,710 --> 00:13:22,590 So if I want to say where is the other tissue which is like the 208 00:13:22,590 --> 00:13:27,870 one that I am holding is aloes but if I am holding something 209 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:31,990 different where is the other thing hetero there? 210 00:13:32,070 --> 00:13:36,000 There is nothing common there. So what Paul was trying to say 211 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,920 here is what he's trying to say here is that the gospel they are 212 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,720 talking about is a hetero gospel. 213 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,200 That's different in nature, different. 214 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,680 It doesn't share anything in common with the true gospel that 215 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:53,080 is a hetero gospel. But what what he's trying to say 216 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,080 is that we need to have the arrows kind of a gospel. 217 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,880 That is, you have to agree with the original gospel. 218 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:03,880 You cannot change it. So their faith is hetero. 219 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,640 You're turning to a different gospel, which is really no 220 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,680 gospel at all. My NIV says no gospel at all, 221 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,240 but it is some other versions. They say the other gospel, the 222 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,920 another gospel, yeah, another gospel. 223 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,800 So we really no gospel at all. So we need to know how this 224 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,760 gospel changes and when it becomes the other gospel that's 225 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,640 not accepted by God, we need to know it. 226 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,960 But before that he says here, evidently some people are 227 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,560 throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel 228 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,800 of Christ. What are they trying to do? 229 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,160 They are trying to do is they are trying to throw you into 230 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,760 confusion. They were trying to confuse you, 231 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:53,000 trying to destabilize you to it is like you know you want to go 232 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,600 this way to Lincoln. They change your mind, they 233 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,800 confuse you. You end up going to Christ this 234 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,600 side to city center. That is how they are trying to 235 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,280 confuse you, changing your destination. 236 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,320 They are confusing you to change your destination where you are 237 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,440 bound to go. That's what they are trying to 238 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,480 change and that's what he's trying to say, confusion. 239 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,720 They are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 240 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,840 The word used for pervert is the metastrepho. 241 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,000 Now this word is what I got totally engaged with. 242 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,720 Two days I was stuck on that word metastrepho. 243 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,400 What exactly it says is metastaphor. 244 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,160 This verb portrays a decisive change of condition or 245 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,520 orientation, whether physical, moral, or emotional. 246 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,640 It is not a mild adjustment, but a reversal so marked that the 247 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,640 final state is recognizably different from the first. 248 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,720 Pervert is you begin with something nice and then you 249 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,200 crush it. Like let's say this is very nice 250 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,480 tissue and then you end up with something completely crumpled. 251 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:03,680 You know, it's completely different. 252 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,000 They are not the same product. They are not the same product 253 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,360 anymore. It's so different. 254 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,400 So that is what he is trying to say. 255 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:18,920 But now the same word, pervert, metastaphor is a word used for 256 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:23,400 describing a change in the priesthood of Jesus Christ. 257 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,080 Everybody says change in priesthood of Jesus. 258 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,840 Now what? What am I trying to say here? 259 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:36,920 This is if you catch it, I believe it will do something in 260 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,320 your life to change your spiritual life, to change your 261 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,960 thinking, to put you in a different sphere, to walk with 262 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,600 God in power. It is going to happen. 263 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,160 Why? Because this world we need to 264 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:56,560 understand in its fullness. We think of Aaron, the high 265 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:02,840 priest, you know, he was given a robe or he was given a dress 266 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,359 made with gold, silver, precious stones, and all is the most 267 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,160 glorious thing anybody can wear. Why? 268 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,960 God told Moses, I want to put honor on him. 269 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,440 I want to put honor on him. So make his robe like this. 270 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:27,680 And when that man is wearing that robe, he becomes a high 271 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,080 priest, and that high has a great responsibility of 272 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,160 mediating between God and man. Go once a year into the Holy of 273 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,280 Holies to carry the blood and sprinkle on the mercy seat. 274 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,600 Cannot go without the incense in his hand. 275 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,760 One hand he has got this big, big thing that is hanging on 276 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,640 three golden chains and there's fire in it. 277 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,000 And you put incense on it and the smoke comes. 278 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,520 And that smoke is what is between the high priest and the 279 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,960 Shekinah glory on the on the ark of God. 280 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,800 If he looks at the Shekinah glory, he's going to fall dead. 281 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,360 So he preserves himself by putting this incense that stands 282 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:14,000 for worship, the stands for praise, the stands for 283 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,320 Thanksgiving. And when we go to God, we need 284 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,240 to be the same way. Go to God with praise, worship 285 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,200 and Thanksgiving. Then you encounter the second of 286 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,800 glory. And then when the time came for 287 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,640 him to die, what did Moses do? He said, let's go up the 288 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,520 mountain. You know, sometimes some bosses, 289 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,720 they say, let's go to the for a walk in the car park. 290 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,320 What does it mean? He's going to lose the job? 291 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,880 So he says to Aaron, let's go for a walk up the mountain. 292 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,960 It simply means you're going to die. 293 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,680 And he took his son. God is ready. 294 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,560 And there he took off his clothes and put them on the sun. 295 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,080 And he got he died and he was buried there. 296 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,720 No one knows where Aaron was buried. 297 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:09,360 Best people want to commit idolatry by going to the two. 298 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:16,640 No one knows where he is buried. So now that robe is taken and 299 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:22,080 put on him. God's methods keep changing even 300 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,080 in the Old Testament. I want you to capture this. 301 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,120 It is no longer connected with the 12 tribes of Israel. 302 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,880 It is no longer coming with 12 tribes of Israel. 303 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,320 If it was connected to 12 tribes of Israel, God would have chosen 304 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,520 everybody of the 12 disciples from each tribe. 305 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,120 But look at them, we don't even know which tribe they belong to. 306 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,120 We are only making a wild guess because they were Galileans and 307 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:54,440 the Galilee is populated or repopulated by Jabutar Nazar by 308 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,600 carrying people from southern Joda and put them in Galilee 309 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,360 area. So probably they think they 310 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,560 belong to Judah. Or they belong to God or 311 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:08,040 Goddess, the tribe God or Gibrun or some other tribe. 312 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,440 Very few had stranded people. But does it belong to Levi? 313 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:18,960 No, he chose people who were Israelites but not particularly 314 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,160 belong to the 12 tribes. Even if you have other kind of a 315 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,560 logic, you have a Simon and Andrew brothers and you got John 316 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,560 and James. They are brothers who are 317 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,000 related to them. So they are one family, four 318 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,160 people. So where are the 12 tribes? 319 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,400 Is not there at all. What am I trying to say? 320 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,040 Now? Listen carefully. 321 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,400 God chooses another man in the Old Testament, Elijah. 322 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,920 Elijah is simply known as a Tishbite. 323 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,240 He is from a place called Tishbite. 324 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,640 So that's all you know about him, nothing more. 325 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,520 Because what tribe he belongs to no one knows. 326 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,080 And you have to go back to Tishbay, where is it? 327 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,440 And recall that area allotted by Joshua to so and so tribe. 328 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,800 So he may belong to that tribe. And then you come to his, the 329 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:15,920 successor Elisha and Elisha, when he was chosen by God. 330 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:17,760 That's what it is. First. 331 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,200 First you should be chosen by God. 332 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,480 Then he speaks to Elijah. Go and make that man your 333 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,320 decision because he's going to take over your place. 334 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,840 And he goes and finds Elijah and throws a robe on him, his 335 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,600 Mandela upon him, and he comes running after him. 336 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,840 Please let me say goodbye. And then you know all the story. 337 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:44,000 You know what I am trying to hear is it is shifted from the 338 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,320 tribe of Levi. It shifted from the tribe of 339 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,920 Jodha to another tribe which is not known. 340 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,040 And God had chosen Elijah so powerfully. 341 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,200 He ministered, He stopped the rain from falling, he stopped, 342 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,400 he again prayed and again in rain He raised the dead ladies, 343 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,400 dead boy of the lady when he was dead, and he caused food to 344 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,400 multiply for months and months together. 345 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,880 Many miracles he did, which are representing Jesus himself. 346 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,320 And he was caught up in chariot sapphire without seeing death, 347 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,480 which is again standing for the resurrection of Jesus. 348 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,440 But he shifted from the tribe that's supposed to carry or 349 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,760 treasure the call of God, from the tribe of Levi, from the 350 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,240 tribe of Judah is gone to somebody else. 351 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,920 Elisha, same thing. You only know his fathers name 352 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,240 and from where he is nothing more than that. 353 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,600 Now you again come back to Jesus himself. 354 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,040 The 12 disciples don't belong to all the 12 tribes. 355 00:22:54,690 --> 00:23:04,770 The glorious court, you call it. The mantle that Aaron had was 356 00:23:04,770 --> 00:23:12,410 transferred to his son. Just an ordinary mantle that 357 00:23:12,410 --> 00:23:18,960 belonged to Elijah was put on Elijah so that he can move in 358 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,120 the double portion of the anointing that he had. 359 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,560 Now when Jesus turn, turn came, he was disrobed for you on the 360 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,720 cross. He became naked, hanging on the 361 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,160 cross for you so that you may be clothed and I may be clothed. 362 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,920 Now this is the revelation. When there is a change in the 363 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,640 priesthood, the original thing is completely changed to 364 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:50,040 something new, different. It is heterog, not alloy allos. 365 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:55,760 It is hetero, So Jesus himself, he was exposed on the cross so 366 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:01,640 that you may receive his robe that you see him again in the in 367 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,080 the Book of Revelation. Now he's glorious. 368 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,200 His head and hair ice like grazing fire, face burn on 369 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,280 midday sun. You know his clothes from the 370 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,760 neck to the floor. You hardly see his feet, which 371 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:19,000 are like burnished bronze. But I tell you the secret, the 372 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,120 secret to getting the rope is becoming like Ruth, who goes to 373 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:29,840 boils and says spread your government on me, spread your 374 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,440 government on me. We are not worthy. 375 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,480 We are not worthy. She was not belonging to the 376 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,480 tribe of Israel at all. No tribe of Israel she belonged 377 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:46,920 to, but yet she dared to go to boys and say, please spread your 378 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,840 comment on me. We have to come by faith to this 379 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,560 Jesus. And He is willing to put the 380 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,160 robe on you. And that robe is a robe of 381 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,120 power. That robe is a power of robe of 382 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:03,480 power. It is going to make you mightier 383 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,360 than Elisha. It is going to make you mightier 384 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,480 than Elisha, I tell you. I don't know whether Paul had 385 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,760 all these thoughts when he wrote this episode, but I when I 386 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,680 looked at the word change pervert, they were doing it with 387 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,720 a negative connotation. The perversion was negative. 388 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,920 It was not a gospel at all. But when I looked at it, the 389 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,600 same word used elsewhere in the book of Hebrews, that when 390 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,960 there's a change of priesthood, the rule changes. 391 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,200 The rule changes, and the rule is by faith. 392 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,960 You can come to this Jesus, the glorious resurrected one who 393 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,960 overcame Sydney and Satan, who trampled down snakes talking all 394 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,480 of our enemy, who has trampled down Prince Charity of Roose 395 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,960 attackers who made the Republic spected up on the cross, who has 396 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,240 respoiled them, who has taken away the weapons of the weapons 397 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,880 the enemy possessed so that you can be a victor, not a victim in 398 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:04,160 his name. The rule changes, but that's 399 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,320 open by faith. It is open by faith. 400 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:17,400 Do you want this rope? So people are perverting the 401 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,760 gospel. They are taking away the power 402 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,400 in the gospel. This power gospel is not 403 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,120 something. Oh, OK. 404 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,040 Yeah. See that you've been drinking. 405 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,760 Oh, you've been living in a very bad moral way, Jesus, that for 406 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,920 you. Confess your sin. 407 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,120 Ask him to come into your life. Father, I repent. 408 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:38,720 Please come into my hand. Wash me in your blood. 409 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,680 Now you are a Sinner. Now you are a child of God. 410 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,240 Go. It's not not gospel. 411 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,720 It's gospel, but there is no power in it. 412 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,880 There is no power in it. So you either have a gospel full 413 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,160 of power or you get a gospel without power. 414 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,440 Now people who change the gospel, different kinds of 415 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,920 things they do, either they meddle with the tree, they say 416 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,840 God is not three persons. So you have got a Unitarian 417 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,880 Pentecostalism. So one has Pentecostal Jesus is 418 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,080 God the Father, Jesus is the Holy Spirit. 419 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,200 Wrong. And you have the later essence. 420 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:31,120 They have the Bible, King James Version, no other King James 421 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:36,040 worship, but they also have one more book of Mormons which is 422 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,280 mediated by an Angel. That's what they claim. 423 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,680 What did Paul say? Even if an Angel should come and 424 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,840 preach a gospel other than the one I have preached to you, 425 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:49,920 anathema, anathema, and you have all witnesses. 426 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,360 They say, oh, we don't believe in Trinity. 427 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,320 Jesus is not equal to God. He is less than God. 428 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:04,640 Where will all these people go? 1200 plus cuts and their 429 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,760 followers. Where will they go? 430 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,360 Anathema. What is anathema? 431 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,440 Ask me what is anathema? Anathema is a Greek word which 432 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:23,320 says set aside for destruction. It is like the story of Aiken 433 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,360 when he desired the robe of Babylon, when he coveted the 434 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:33,240 gold bar, and when he coveted the silver, he stole it. 435 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,120 And he hid under the tent, in his heart, in his tent, and he 436 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,760 became anathema, set aside for destruction. 437 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,800 So they stoned him with stones, him and the family and 438 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,080 everything that belonged to him, and they burned him as well. 439 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,040 I don't know how they did both, but the word says they stoned 440 00:28:54,040 --> 00:29:02,320 him and burnt. So where will they go? 441 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,040 If you pervert the gospel, what is the end? 442 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:12,720 Another destruction marked for destruction, set aside for 443 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,040 destruction. That is why in the Old Testament 444 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,640 you have this concept of setting aside for destruction where King 445 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,760 Saul was stored. Don't spray the Amalekites, not 446 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,880 even the animals. You must kill the sheep, the 447 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,880 goats, and you have to shield. Kill the oxen and the buffaloes 448 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,000 and camels and every animal. Women, men, children. 449 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,480 That looks very harsh, isn't it? Why did God set aside Americans 450 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,640 for destruction like that? Because they were into accord 451 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,240 and they had this ability to shapeshift. 452 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,320 Let me say man can become like a sheep, a man can become like a 453 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,320 camel, or man can become something like an animal, like a 454 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,280 dog. And you say, oh its only a dog 455 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,160 and you leave him. The American is going to be 456 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:06,200 spared. That's why he said no, you will 457 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,320 not spare. But yet when Saul, when Samuel 458 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,800 came, Saul had kept the sheep and goats and he said, what are 459 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,240 these? What is the breeding of sheep? 460 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,000 I hear? What is the breeding of shepherd 461 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,200 here? Almost there for sacrifice for 462 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,560 God, huh? Does God delight in sacrifices? 463 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,960 He delights more in obedience than in sacrifice. 464 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,920 Because of this, your Kingdom is taken away from you and given to 465 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,160 your knight. You can't play with God. 466 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,760 You cannot play with the gospel. The purity of the gospel has to 467 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,720 be upheld. We need to believe it with all 468 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,440 our heart. We cannot dilute it. 469 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,800 We cannot change it. We cannot twist it. 470 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,400 We cannot do anything with it. You have to believe in the name 471 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,760 of Jesus. And salvation is by no other 472 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,000 name in the name of Jesus except the name of Jesus. 473 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:02,520 He is not Paul passionate about the gospel. 474 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,040 I want you to understand how Paul is passionate about 475 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,680 preaching the gospel, a simple gospel that is going to change 476 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,360 the world and how people are trying to twist it and change it 477 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:21,200 to their own destruction. Don't let a Jehovah Witness come 478 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,320 into your house. Don't give him water. 479 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,680 Don't have him to see. I want to listen to you. 480 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,520 Come sit here and teach me. And don't do that with the LDS. 481 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,160 They don't they Saints any of the curse, because when you 482 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,040 invite them into your home, you are parting in their sin. 483 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:48,810 You are parting in their sin. So they are so throwing you to 484 00:31:48,810 --> 00:31:51,490 confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of rash. 485 00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:56,250 But even if we or an Angel from heaven should preach a gospel 486 00:31:56,330 --> 00:31:59,690 other than one will preach to you, let him be eternally 487 00:31:59,690 --> 00:32:05,090 condemned, anathema, eternally condemned, not just for 488 00:32:05,090 --> 00:32:08,680 temporary. So purity of doctrine is very 489 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,720 important and purity of the gospel is very important. 490 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,400 And I tell you, without it you have no business in this world 491 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,920 that is so unique, so distinct, that life changing, life 492 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,960 transforming, you cannot. You have nothing special. 493 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,200 The gospel is the one given to you. 494 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:34,040 Hold on to it, fight for it. Many people have sacrificed 495 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,520 their life to maintain the purity of the gospel without 496 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,600 Reformation. Martin Luther striking those 497 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,440 bronze sheet or metal, whatever metal he has taken and wrote on 498 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,480 his 95 theses and nailed it to the door in Wittenberg, I think 499 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,360 in Germany. That brought the Reformation and 500 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,920 he was persecuted. He had to flee for his life and 501 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,520 the people who believed him, they had to run for their life 502 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,080 because they protested against the Catholics. 503 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,680 They are called Protestants and we are the inheritance of that 504 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,120 group. Many have died. 505 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,440 Many have died because they talked about the Trinity of God, 506 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,360 God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 507 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,280 Athanasius is one of them. And Athanasius was put into jail 508 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,720 because he was preaching the Trinity of the Fathers and the 509 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,960 Holy Spirit and some one of his friends who goes to the jail and 510 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,080 says Athanasius, he said yeah, the whole world is against you. 511 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,360 And Athanasius said go tell the whole world. 512 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,000 Athanish is against the whole world. 513 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,920 We need people of courage who will stand for the purity of the 514 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:50,440 gospel and the doctrine. So as we have already said, so 515 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,600 now I say again, if anybody is preaching to the gospel other 516 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,160 than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned. 517 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,680 A repetition a second time. Paul goes on to say a second 518 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,480 time, why does he bother to say same thing a second time? 519 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,240 Because its the most important thing he's telling. 520 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:16,239 And verse 10, AM I now trying to win the approval of men or of 521 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,880 God, or am I trying to please men? 522 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,360 If I was still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of 523 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,800 Christ. There's no two ways of living 524 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,800 the gospel. Basically. 525 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,679 That's what he's trying to say here. 526 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,719 I am not trying to win the approval of men. 527 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,400 I'm not looking for people to appreciate me. 528 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,960 Well done, Paul, come and tap on his shoulder. 529 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,560 Well done, well done. He's not looking for it at all. 530 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,080 He's not trying to please people. 531 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,040 That's not his goal. Paul had one goal is to preach 532 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,880 the gospel and save the world, and we need to capture that 533 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,480 hunger. That kind of an intention, that 534 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:04,200 kind of a purpose that was in the mind of Paul should be our 535 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:09,320 purpose for existence as well. There are no no two ways. 536 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:14,920 There are no two ways. If I was still trying to please 537 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,080 men, I would not be servant of Christ. 538 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,280 You want to be servant of Christ. 539 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,080 You will not please people. You please the people. 540 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:27,960 You cannot be servant of Christ. It is so black and white. 541 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,880 So now in Ephesians 414 this is happening. 542 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,440 These people are all being tossed to and fro because of 543 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,080 there is no depth. There is no depth to their 544 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,000 faith. You look at Ephesians 414, then 545 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,080 we all. We will no longer be immature 546 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,920 like children. We won't be tossed and blown 547 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,680 about by every wind of new teaching. 548 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,320 We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with the 549 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,200 lies so clever they sound like the truth. 550 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,920 Anybody can come to you and try to give you arguments. 551 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,920 Once I had an opportunity when I was working in a factory. 552 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,800 The guy came and he came basically to ah, we had a 553 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,440 container that needs to be a fumigated. 554 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,800 So you lock it up and then you put, they will fill it with zinc 555 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,520 sulfide gas South. That is any rat or any mouse or 556 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,120 anything is inside it will be dead. 557 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,800 Basically it is a precondition for exporting. 558 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,400 When you send a container from New Zealand to any other country 559 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,720 you need to fumigate it. So this guy who came to do it, 560 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,960 as I was talking to him, he said he is a Jehovah Witness. 561 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,280 I said you're right, right candid, let's talk. 562 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,120 So I engaged you for about 30 minutes and he said I have never 563 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,080 come up as a man like you. Can I have your number? 564 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,880 I want to talk to you again. But he never contacted me again. 565 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,960 But I said you are wrong. You, you cannot be a Jehovah 566 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,240 Witness and still be believing in the right kind of a God that 567 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:07,600 is taught by the Bible. So if we need to seize the 568 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:12,880 opportunity, every opportunity, every single opportunity, you 569 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,920 seize it and talk about Jesus. You know, one of the things that 570 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,480 I feel bad about not going to work a secular job nowadays 571 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:27,040 since last three years, he said I don't get to meet anybody at 572 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,400 work. I used to talk to people. 573 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,800 One guy I told him about, I told him about the gospel. 574 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,160 One day he looked at me and said you need to stop this Ramana. 575 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,440 He meant he doesn't want to hear anymore, otherwise he is going 576 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,040 to tell the manager or somebody and say this guy is creating 577 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,120 problem, you know. So I had to say I honour you, 578 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:51,600 will I leave you there? But we need to be seizing every 579 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,800 opportunity. I think about 3 weeks ago I went 580 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,520 to the Barber ah. And then as I was talking to 581 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,360 him, ah, I asked him, why are you changing your profession? 582 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,280 You don't look very young at this age, why are you doing it? 583 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,400 And he said, oh, because I have a divorce, I have a son. 584 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,840 I left him a room. I came here, I want to do 585 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,760 something new all together. So I chose this profession to 586 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,400 become a father. I said, I have got something to 587 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,400 say to you. And he asked me what? 588 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,160 What do you do? I said, I'm a pastor and I pray 589 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,800 for people and their life changes when we pray. 590 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,840 Oh, that's good to hear. I said before I leave, I want to 591 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,440 pray for you. So in the lounge, we was sitting 592 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,520 there and took his hand and I prayed for him. 593 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,800 I said receive Jesus into your heart. 594 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,240 And I made him say I prayed that Sita's prayer. 595 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,960 He prayed the prayer and he said it feels awesome. 596 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,200 And I left the details. This is where we meet. 597 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,320 Come. I said, I know where you are, 598 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,760 I'm going to come, but it hasn't come in the last three weeks. 599 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,200 What I'm trying to say here is this gospel is powerful. 600 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,400 You need to seize every opportunity to share the gospel. 601 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,200 I told you this morning two things. 602 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,960 What God showed me #1 He showed me a bunch of youth standing in 603 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,720 a circle. I want you to pray about it 604 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:12,760 every day. 2 minutes. Father, increase the number of 605 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:18,200 youth who will know you in Omega and bring many more people #2 606 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,240 God showed that this building had also an upstairs in the 607 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,880 vision, and people are just crammed everywhere up the stairs 608 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,040 and they're all waiting for the doors to be open so they can 609 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,640 come in. Pray. 610 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,600 Father, we thank you for the move that of the Holy Spirit. 611 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,640 You are going to send revival. Oh, there are going to be an 612 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,880 empty number of people, unlimited number of people, more 613 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,760 than this hall can contain. I thank you for the revival. 614 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,120 I thank you for the revival. I thank you for the revival. 615 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:47,440 As you keep thanking him, the holy story is going to send 616 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,960 people to here. But will you be giving that 617 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,360 little time If this gospel is unique for you, if this gospel 618 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,960 is the only hope for Christchurch, if this gospel is 619 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,640 the only hope for self in district, will you have this 620 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,240 time to pray? Because when you pray, your 621 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,360 partner in the Holy Spirit who wants to come and move 622 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,480 powerfully, he wants to heal people without even laying hands 623 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:16,280 upon them. But you need to have that 624 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,480 passion for God. You have to love God because 625 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,680 elsewhere in the scripture it says if you don't love Jesus. 626 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,200 Anathema. Did you hear that voice anytime? 627 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,200 Hmm, where is it? I have so many scriptures here. 628 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,200 So Galatians 313 says Christ redeemed us from the curse of 629 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,400 the law by becoming a curse for us. 630 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,480 This is an important verse. He became a curse of the law by 631 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,920 becoming a sorry to redeem us for the curse of the law by 632 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,600 becoming a curse for us. That is the biggest curse anyone 633 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,280 can ever carry is the curse that was put upon Jesus. 634 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,120 So every witchcraft, every witchcraft, every demonic 635 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,680 influence, every demonic position will be broken because 636 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:22,360 he became a curse for you. Everything is less, everything 637 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,080 is smaller than the curse that Jesus endured on the cross. 638 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,600 So because you are crucified with him and he died as you, the 639 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,640 demon cannot have any power over your life anymore. 640 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,720 You tell the demon, when it comes to you, I have died in 641 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:42,640 Christ. Who are you looking for? 642 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:48,480 You are coming to the wrong address. 643 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,120 You're coming to the wrong address. 644 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,600 I am not the same person. That's how it is. 645 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,880 Romans 9 Three For I could wish that I myself were cursed and 646 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,440 cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own kinsmen, 647 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160 According to the flesh. Anathema talks about unspeakable 648 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,320 laws which Paul is willing to go through for the sake of fellow 649 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,760 Israelites. He says let me become anathema. 650 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,320 Let me be cut off from God so that the fellow Israelites can 651 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,440 be saved. That is the desire, that is the 652 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,400 passion, that is the all consuming desire of the gospel 653 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,800 that has taken hold of all of his heart where he says, let me 654 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,360 be cut off from God, but let the Israelis be safe. 655 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,720 But unfortunately, during his lifetime, he couldn't see much 656 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,760 of much of that happened. He was set aside for preaching 657 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,320 the gospel to the Gentiles, but everywhere he went first he 658 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:46,160 spoke to the Jewish people first because that is what is driving 659 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,200 him. The passion to see the Israel is 660 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,480 saved. And then you've got one question 661 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,640 12/3 Paul Contra the spirit spirit read confession. 662 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,920 Jesus is Lord with the blast bust right? 663 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,360 Jesus be cursed. What they're saying when they 664 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,840 say Jesus is cursed, they say Jesus be anathema. 665 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,440 But that's not what is going to happen. 666 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,920 The the worst distinguish the regenerating work of the Holy 667 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,680 Spirit from demonic influence and protects the church from 668 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,640 contradictory spirituality. You say Jesus is Lord. 669 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,160 Somebody's demon has a demon. You make them say Jesus is Lord. 670 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:25,040 They may say 5-10 times without any problem, but the 11th time 671 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,200 when they open their mouth, they cannot say it because by then 672 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,920 the demon in them takes over their mouth and does not allow 673 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:37,680 them to say Jesus is Lord. That's how you know whether 674 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,160 there is a demon inside or not. Make them say Jesus is Lord. 675 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,920 They once tried. No keep saying it, keep saying 676 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,080 it, keep saying it until they cannot say it. 677 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,520 Then you know that the demon is start up now and then you call 678 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:56,040 it by name and say coffee. Top one question says 1622 if 679 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,200 anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse, come 680 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,240 Lord. That is of course one question. 681 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:06,920 1622 If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse, 682 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,400 Come Lord Jesus. So you have to love Jesus. 683 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:15,960 You have no other option. It's not by force, but because 684 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,440 of his love. He gave himself up for you so 685 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,080 that you may love him and come out of the curse. 686 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,040 Come out of the curse. So afterwards we are going to 687 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,440 stand up and put under your foot every curse you've broken. 688 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:34,520 You do it and believe it and walk out free from here because 689 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,680 Jesus became a curse for you on the cross. 690 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,080 Galatians 18 to 9, twice. Paul produces anathema on any 691 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,760 who distort the gospel that we read it already. 692 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,800 So that's what it is all about. Shall we pray? 693 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,720 I encourage you to stand up. Thank you Jesus, thank you 694 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:05,200 Jesus, now is your time. Every curse, you sample it down 695 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,240 by the thought of the name of Jesus and disconnect it from 696 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,160 your life because he became a curse on the cross. 697 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,480 So you can be a blessing. You may inherit the blessings of 698 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,440 Abraham, so you will become a blessing. 699 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:21,480 So now it is your time to stand, to drown under your feet. 700 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,600 Every curse coming down your father and mother, 10 701 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,760 generations or 20 generations, it doesn't matter. 702 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,880 All is coming down the family line. 703 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,600 Trample it down. Whatever is coming from any 704 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,280 witchcraft or spell or sorcery, trample it down. 705 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,520 And every cusp you broken up on your life. 706 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:41,480 And may the whole Spirit release you from every cusp and set you 707 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,520 free this morning to the glory of His name. 708 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,440 Take it by faith, call, open your mouth and say it. 709 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,520 I distract myself from the curse of the law. 710 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,320 I disturbance from every curse, every every curse coming down my 711 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,640 father's side, mother's side, for any number of generations. 712 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,960 I trample it down in the name of Jesus. 713 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:00,800 I trample it down in the name of Jesus. 714 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,560 I am being set free because Jesus became a curse on the on 715 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,080 the cross. But I may receive his blessing. 716 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,120 I am blessed this morning. I am blessed. 717 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,120 Nobody can stop me from being blessed. 718 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,600 I am blessed, I am blessed. I am blessed in Jesus. 719 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,640 I am blessed in Jesus Christ. He became a curse so I can go 720 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,040 free. I am free. 721 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,920 I am free. I celebrate your freedom in the 722 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:33,760 name of Jesus, Amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, we 723 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,800 thank you for your work, and we thank you for your children who 724 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,760 have made this confession and go and rampled down every dust 725 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,080 under their feet that has to be broken. 726 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,600 In the name of Jesus, be disconnected from the spirit, 727 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,200 soul and body and let them begin a blessing in Christ Jesus and 728 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,560 Lord of others. Spread your garment on them. 729 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:56,280 You became naked and died upon the cross, that we may be closed 730 00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,920 with your righteousness. We are the righteousness of God. 731 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,080 He is our redemption. Make the proclamation and be set 732 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,200 free this morning in the name of Jesus. 733 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,960 We thank you, for we are free. We are free, we are free. 734 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,400 We thank you Jesus. You became a customer upon the 735 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,640 cross so that we can be a blessing. 736 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,000 We worship you, we honor you, we praise and we thank you. 737 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:22,560 We exalt your name, you deserve our worship and pray we love you 738 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,440 Jesus. We love you with all our heart. 739 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:32,800 In Jesus mighty name we ask. Everybody says Amen, Amen. 740 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,040 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 741 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 742 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,280 our website or Facebook page in the links below.