1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:16,680 today. And. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,040 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, Want to find 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,600 out more about Omega? Get to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:32,970 page through the links below. Or even in the Scriptures, even 9 00:00:32,970 --> 00:00:36,960 as we read it in the Bible, grace must be discovered and 10 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,840 experienced in the proximity of God. 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,800 And proximity means actually in the presence of, you know, we're 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,400 not. When you're in the proximity of 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,600 somebody, you're right next to them, you're in the same place. 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:58,000 And it's to so if we experience that and benefit that, and that 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,720 benefits us, and if we really truly desire that to be 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,120 everything that God desires us to be, that's the only way that 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,000 we're going to be able to reveal him in this hopeless and godless 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,920 world. We really need to know what 19 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,120 grace is. And because if we don't know 20 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,080 what grace is, we'll never show grace. 21 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,720 That's the thing. Because that's what the people 22 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,120 in the world are looking for. They're looking for something 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:24,640 that's real. But if we don't know God's 24 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,080 grace, how we can tell them about it from a textbook 25 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,920 perspective. But if we don't know it, how can 26 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:37,120 we show it? So grace must be accessed by 27 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,080 experience, but how do we do that? 28 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,480 Like I said, you know, it's not something that we read about in 29 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,480 the Bible. It's not just something about, 30 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,480 that's the thing that gives us the information about. 31 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,520 It's not something that just comes over the pulpit. 32 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:58,840 It must be experienced. OK, I mean grace. 33 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,480 It's it's not necessarily a term that we use too much in the 34 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,160 world, but here's the English definition. 35 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,880 It's undeserved kindness, favour and practical terms, showing 36 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,680 forgiveness when someone doesn't deserve it. 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,320 Many Christians don't make it past this point. 38 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,160 So they find out the forgiveness of God, but they don't 39 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,840 understand the benefits of His grace, which go far, much 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:33,320 further than our forgiveness. So what is biblical grace? 41 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,800 In order to understand grace, we need to define the difference 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,560 between what mercy and grace actually is. 43 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,640 Mercy is not giving us something that we deserve, in other words, 44 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:50,080 punishment for our sins, and grace is giving us something 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,440 that we do not deserve, namely the life of Christ. 46 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,200 That's the difference. Grace cannot be earned. 47 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,680 It cannot be worked for. And Romans fall for. 48 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:08,080 It says now to him who works now the works, who works according 49 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,320 to the works of the law in order to find favor with God, The 50 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,600 wages are not counted as grace, but debt. 51 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,760 That means you're expecting God to owe you something when God is 52 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,720 no man's debtor. So he wants to be someone that 53 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,000 demonstrates what grace is. A lot of people don't really 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,520 understand that, you know, people get saved and they think 55 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,360 that they somehow have to pay God back. 56 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,400 And that's something that risks deep in humanity because it just 57 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,040 can't get over his grace. His grace is amazing. 58 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,800 Once again, it has to be discovered from His proximity, 59 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,160 what it really looks like, because we can never understand 60 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,040 it from an intellectual perspective, from a human 61 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,040 understanding. We have to actually have God 62 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,480 reveal that to us. He's done it in the person of 63 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,920 Christ, you know, as Christ walked upon the earth, died upon 64 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,720 the cross, and was resurrected. But once again, that must be 65 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,280 believed in. Is it really true? 66 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,720 And we're here because it's really true, but we have to 67 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:13,160 experience it in a greater way in the demonstration of the 68 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,880 Spirit. Here's some biblical examples of 69 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:22,200 grace. John 15-6 you did not choose me, 70 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,480 but I chose you. That's that's a wonderful 71 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,480 scripture that that's, that that releases things, you know, in a 72 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,400 big way there when you realize, you know, that he actually chose 73 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,240 us. You know, you look at the amount 74 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,680 of Christians that there are around the world. 75 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,800 I mean, on paper it says that there's a lot. 76 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,280 But if you go into your community workplace and wherever 77 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,760 it may be, there's not many Christians around. 78 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,160 There's not. And God chose you like Joseph 79 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,200 was saying this morning and names are written in heaven. 80 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,960 And that's something to rejoice about. 81 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,120 But once again, if it's not really apprehended in the 82 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,120 proximity of God, where's the rejoicing? 83 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,200 I don't see a lot of rejoicing in the church. 84 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,200 Sometimes it's really got to be stirred up. 85 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,960 We're singing these songs, we're sounding out these great words, 86 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,600 but where's the woe, the overflowing? 87 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,440 Because once again, we're not really experiencing the 88 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,840 proximity of God, which is actually here. 89 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,360 But we're not experiencing it. That's why I'm emphasizing we've 90 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,240 got to learn what it is to enter in. 91 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,200 Let us come boldly to the throne of grace. 92 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,400 I'll break that down a wee bit more soon, but also in Exodus 33 93 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,240 when Moses said to God, show me your glory. 94 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,960 And one of the things that God says, I will be gracious to whom 95 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,120 I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I have 96 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,640 compassion. In other words, it cannot be 97 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,280 earned. You know, look upon these 98 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,040 Israelites. This Moses was speaking this 99 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,040 just after they'd built the golden calf. 100 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,000 And he also puts, you know, his tent out of the the camp of 101 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,160 Israel. So if anyone wanted to see God, 102 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,720 they had to actually come outside the camp to Moses tent 103 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,120 in which when Moses went to his tent, the glory of God came 104 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,240 down. But Moses knew God's glory 105 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,200 because he knew God face to face. 106 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,840 And that's the way that God spoke to him. 107 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,240 And God says I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious to 108 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,560 even these sinful people. I've chosen to be gracious. 109 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,360 You know, they're not doing anything good, but I've chosen 110 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,720 to be gracious. Grace comes out of the character 111 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,920 of God. It cannot be earned by us in any 112 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,520 way whatsoever. That's one of my favorite 113 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,760 scriptures. Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 to 114 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,840 10. For by grace you have been saved 115 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,120 through faith, and that not of yourselves. 116 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,040 It is the gift of God, not of works, least anyone should 117 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,640 boast. For we are his workmanship 118 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,160 created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared 119 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,480 beforehand, that we should walk in them. 120 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,680 It's one of these scriptures that every Christian should 121 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,040 memorize, that's for sure. You know, it's one of the first 122 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,160 ones I memorized, but still I am learning the depth of it. 123 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,000 You know, 30 years down the track as a Christian, not of 124 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,920 works least. Anyone boast I'll just read this 125 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,280 out from my Bible. I want to take it just a wee bit 126 00:07:30,280 --> 00:08:01,800 deeper. Starting at chapter 2, verse 127 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,600 one. And you He made alive, who were 128 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,240 dead in trespassers and sins, in which you once walked according 129 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,200 to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the 130 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,160 power of the ear, the Spirit who now works in the sons of 131 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,080 disobedience, Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in 132 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,120 the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the 133 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,560 flesh and of the mind. And we're by nature children of 134 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,320 wrath, just as the others. But God, who was rich in mercy, 135 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,559 because of His great love with which He loved us even when we 136 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,480 were dead in trespasses and sins, made us alive together 137 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,320 with Christ. By grace you have been saved and 138 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,760 raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly 139 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,640 places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show 140 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,280 the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness towards 141 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,920 us in Christ Jesus. For grace you put, by grace you 142 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,520 have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. 143 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,320 It is the gift of God, not of works, least anyone should 144 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,600 boast, for we are his workmanship created in Christ 145 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,200 Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand, that we 146 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:20,480 should walk in them now. Does anyone believe that we've 147 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,920 actually been raised up with Christ and made to sit with Him 148 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:27,400 in heavenly places? 1-2 You know, you say, OK, 149 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,320 that's the right response, you know, but we need to experience 150 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,640 this position. This is the thing, you know, we 151 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,320 come, you know, I was praying before. 152 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,000 You know, we've come to more than just a Smoky Mountain. 153 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,040 We've come to more than just a church building. 154 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,200 We've come to heaven. We really have. 155 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,960 And just because we're veiled, we're veiled by our flesh, and 156 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,520 our flesh really gets in the way. 157 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,160 It gets in the way of our feelings. 158 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,720 It's dictated by everything that you know, we've experienced in 159 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,880 the past, the familiarity of what we've been. 160 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,600 And that's what the, the power of the word of God, you know, it 161 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,920 changes our mind. This, this, this thing. 162 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,200 Here is a map that brings us to heaven. 163 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,200 Believe it or not, this is the written word of God. 164 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,560 And that will only take you as far as the written word of God. 165 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,280 But we need to be brought to a Savior who has been resurrected 166 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,560 from the dead, who pulls out a spirit that we might be brought 167 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:29,720 near, that we might understand this word by spirit in his 168 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,960 proximity. And that comes by faith. 169 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,680 By faith we were raised up even dead in trespassers and sins. 170 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,680 Now this is the amazing thing. God didn't wait for us to be 171 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:42,440 good enough before he raised us up. 172 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,600 Now one thing you know anyone know where their Christian life 173 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,760 began? Where it begins? 174 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,880 No, no, where, not when. I know where it begins. 175 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:04,720 I have given you a hint. I sorry, no, I'll probably get a 176 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,040 bit more. It begins at the right hand of 177 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,320 God, believe it or not. So, you know, quite often we 178 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,280 think, what do I have to attain to to come to this lofty 179 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,400 position? Nothing. 180 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,840 I've just got to believe that in Christ, I've been raised up and 181 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,680 made to sit with him in heavenly places. 182 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,720 I've just got to catch up with the reality of what God's 183 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,480 performed in Christ. And that's what it is when we 184 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,680 draw near that we have the exuberance of grace within us. 185 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,400 That's when the veil has taken off our heart. 186 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,520 See the letter can only bring you to death. 187 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:41,960 That's the purpose of the letter. 188 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,840 The Spirit is the is what makes us alive. 189 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:52,400 It's like in Second Corinthians I says when Moses is read, a 190 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,720 veil lies upon their heart. But when one turns to the Lord, 191 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,640 the veil is taken away. This is now the Lord is the 192 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,400 spirit and we're the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. 193 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,520 And it says, but we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a 194 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,200 mirror the glory of the Lord, and are being transformed into 195 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,680 the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of 196 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:19,800 the Lord. So we're transformed by seeing 197 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,920 Him, not having information about Him. 198 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,120 We need that. But that's only a starting point 199 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,600 to propel us into a place and recognizing what God has 200 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,880 performed for us in Christ, that He has made us to sit with Him 201 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,360 in heavenly places. Now that should be something to 202 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,640 rejoice about. But then once again, when we 203 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,360 start heading into that place, the flesh gets in the way. 204 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,880 And that's where we have a devil that's really rooted and fused 205 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,680 in our fleshly nature. But God's made all provision in 206 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,320 Christ that as we believe in Him, He's like that arrow that 207 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:55,800 takes us into the heavenly realm. 208 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,080 He's the anchor that holds us in place, as it says in Hebrews 209 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,040 chapter 6, that we have a sure hope that enters into the 210 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,520 heavenly realm beyond the veil as an anchor, a sure anchor of 211 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,920 the soul. But once again, this place has 212 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:16,760 to be accessed and just doesn't. God's performed it in Christ 213 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,000 positionally, but we have to find it experientially. 214 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,320 And that's where the work of the Spirit comes in. 215 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,680 So once again, it's not by good works that we do and God 216 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,000 eliminates that. You know, in this particular 217 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,120 passage he says that the reason why is that he might show the 218 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,400 riches of his grace and his kindness towards us in Christ 219 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,320 Jesus. Even in the ages to come, we are 220 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,760 going to be getting an unfolding revelation of God's grace, of 221 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:52,080 his goodness, of his giftedness. You know, it's, it's by grace, 222 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,720 it's by his kindness that we find repentance, not by what we 223 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,240 do, not by how good we are, but by his kindness. 224 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,200 It's not by the judgement of God that transforms us. 225 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,800 That won't change you. That might bring you into a 226 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,400 church building, that might help you join a religion. 227 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,000 But it's this kindness that leads you to a repentance never 228 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:22,880 to be regretted. So what are these good works? 229 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,440 These are the good works that God's prepared beforehand, 230 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,160 revealing his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, that we should 231 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,200 walk in these good works. So once we start working for our 232 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,640 salvation, we fall from grace. And a lot of people don't know 233 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,960 grace is because they're still trying to work. 234 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:42,720 They're still trying to pay God back. 235 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,960 And it eliminates, it doesn't say that you lose your 236 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,760 salvation. You do not experience the life 237 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,640 of grace. You understand that. 238 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,360 It's like it blocks you off immediately. 239 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,720 I mean, God doesn't compromise with us. 240 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,520 He doesn't sort of allow us to have so much works. 241 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,080 And then he uses the grace to make up the other 70% that 242 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,640 you're lacking. It's grace all the way. 243 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,680 And God doesn't give us a changed life. 244 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,600 He gives us an exchange life. That means He replaces us with 245 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,520 His Son and these good works. So we're, we're called into the 246 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:24,240 purpose of Jesus. So we're we're called not just 247 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:29,080 to be a, a great business person, a great doctor, a great 248 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,760 dentist or anything like that. That's just maybe a part where 249 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,720 it finds expression. We are called to be conformed to 250 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,880 the image of God's son. That's the good works that we're 251 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,880 called to. We're called into His purpose 252 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,080 and that's where we've got to lose our life into what God's 253 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,880 actually doing, and that's conforming us to the image of 254 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:56,560 His Son. See, one of the things with God, 255 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,720 He delights to give grace. That's the thing He wants to 256 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,080 show off more than anything. This is grace. 257 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,760 It's His very character. He wants to reveal His glory in 258 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:12,760 US, His generosity. In James 4/6 it says, but he 259 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,960 gives more grace. Therefore, he resists the proud 260 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,680 but gives grace to the humble. So if you want to know what 261 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:26,040 grace is, humility is the key, is a real key. 262 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,720 So once again, if you're working, it comes out of a 263 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,600 haughty spirit, it comes out of a proud spirit. 264 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,240 If you're looking to find salvation, you might, your 265 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,320 intentions might be very good, but before God, it's not. 266 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,720 So when you begin to recognize it's not on the basis of works, 267 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,720 but it's on the base of grace, you know, that's where we find 268 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,800 more grace. We can never maintain our 269 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,960 position with God through how much we pray, how much we read 270 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,760 the word of God, the good works that we do, how we help our 271 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,960 neighbor, even though these are very, very good things and these 272 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,640 are all a demonstration of God's goodness and kindness. 273 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:12,640 And whenever we have a sense of guilt, we can never respond by 274 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,640 doing more. Like I've only prayed more if I 275 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,880 only read more. The proper response is seeing 276 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,240 our perfection summed up in Jesus Christ. 277 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:38,900 That's the only way. OK, so it says then let us then 278 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:43,060 approach God's throne of grace with confidence so that we may 279 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:50,420 receive mercy and find grace even there. 280 00:17:50,420 --> 00:17:54,060 It's showing grace is something that has to be discovered, that 281 00:17:54,060 --> 00:18:01,640 has to be found. I looked up the word find in the 282 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,360 phase in the Strong's Concordance. 283 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,600 Sorry, what a phase definition is? 284 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:16,440 It means to come upon, hit upon, to meet with after searching to 285 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,960 find a thing sought to find by inquiry, thought, examination, 286 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:26,160 scrutiny, observation, to find out by practice and experience, 287 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,120 to see, to learn, to discover, understand, to be found, to be 288 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:35,800 present in proximity, to find out for oneself, to to require, 289 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,800 to get, obtain and procure. So when it says to come to 290 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:45,560 throne, God's throne of grace, it's it's not just to a concept 291 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:50,760 with actually God's calling us into his very presence in a far 292 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:57,640 greater way. So how do we do that? 293 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,960 We have to understand that God has made provision for for grace 294 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,360 for us in Christ. God is the means by which we 295 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,360 find grace, by which we find his generosity. 296 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:12,600 He, he is the gift of God. He is the embodiment of grace. 297 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,960 But once again, we must access it. 298 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,640 We've got to know what it is to come into the heavenly realm. 299 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,000 So how do we truly discover grace? 300 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,400 Because a lot of us think, you know, that we have it, that 301 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,480 we're experiencing it. But God has a way by which we 302 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:39,960 find grace and by which he demonstrates grace, which allows 303 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,880 the abundance of grace to be seen in a greater way because 304 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,360 otherwise we don't appreciate it. 305 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,200 See, until we realize that we're actually bankrupt before God, we 306 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:59,760 don't value his grace. We don't is to practice it with 307 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,920 others. Yeah. 308 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:03,720 Yeah. Well, that's right. 309 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,200 That's that's exercising it. Yeah. 310 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:09,800 And we certainly do. Yeah. 311 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:16,980 Yeah. OK. 312 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:22,020 John 16 to 17 and of his fullness we have all received 313 00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:25,780 and grace for grace for the law was given through Moses, but 314 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:28,700 grace and truth comes through Jesus Christ. 315 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:38,660 See these, I mean, Jesus said some very confronting things 316 00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:40,300 that, you know, can really challenge our thinking. 317 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:45,800 Challenge is my thinking. In John 539 to 40, Jesus said 318 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,880 you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal 319 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,320 life, but these are they which testify of me. 320 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,640 But you are not willing to come to me that you may have life. 321 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,080 I find that very, very challenging because a lot of 322 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,400 people can come to church. A lot of people can read the 323 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,040 Bible and think that they actually have life. 324 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,480 You know, we've got many religions. 325 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:13,440 We've got many denominations, but there's a lot of people that 326 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,680 are not willing to actually come into this place, come to him in 327 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,880 proximity because that's where life truly is. 328 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,680 It comes out from the heavenly realm. 329 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,320 So we have an unveiled existence. 330 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,800 It's like, you know, there's three types of people here. 331 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,000 I believe people that search the scriptures because he's actually 332 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,360 talking to the Jews. You have the scriptures and just 333 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:39,000 by having this, you know it's searching them. 334 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,320 You think that you have eternal life, yet these are they which 335 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,640 testify of me or speak of me. And this can be much the the 336 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:53,360 church that has the information of Jesus but are not willing to 337 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,160 actually come to him that we might have life. 338 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,160 I mean, the confronting thing is that Jesus has called us to a 339 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,320 cross. So how do we actually get in the 340 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,680 spirit realm, you know, into into that realm? 341 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,800 We have to learn what it is to lay aside our fleshly nature. 342 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,160 We have to learn what it is to actually die to ourselves, a 343 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,000 death that we can never actually accomplish on our behalf. 344 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,040 And this is where the grace comes in. 345 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,080 God has actually given us a death in Christ that he 346 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,720 communicates to us by the power of a spirit. 347 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,360 When we try and die to ourselves, we can't do it 348 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,880 immediately. We come under works again, but 349 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,160 when we begin to believe and understand that He has provided 350 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,080 a death for us, not just in concept, but in practice by 351 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,840 experiencing His Holy Spirit within us. 352 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,480 Because it says if you by the Spirit put to death the deeds of 353 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,680 the body, you will live. It's by the power of the Spirit 354 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:58,830 that we do that. How else we find out about grace 355 00:22:58,830 --> 00:23:06,680 in a greater way and Romans chapter 520 to 21 and says that 356 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,680 moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound, but 357 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,960 we're sin abounded. Grace abounded much more. 358 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,680 So the reason that God gave the law ultimately is to for us to 359 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,720 recognize that we're sinners worthy of death and to even 360 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,560 bring about that death because it says the law brings about 361 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,520 wrath for where there is no law, there is no transgression. 362 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,240 So they had to be transgression. There's no grace in the law that 363 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,840 actually kills the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. 364 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,840 But we're sin abounded. You know, as Christians, the 365 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,000 more that we begin to understand how unworthy we are, how 366 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,200 bankrupt we are. And I don't mean it in the 367 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,520 morbid sense, just a Sinner or anything like that. 368 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,320 Because the more that you see that you're a Sinner saved by 369 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:02,360 grace and only by grace, and where God has positioned us in 370 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,560 the person of Christ, raised us up, made us to sit with him in 371 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,720 heavenly places. That's our identity, that's our 372 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,280 stature. That's the thing that we 373 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,280 actually rejoice in. The only thing that qualifies us 374 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,240 for grace. I'll say this in a bit of a 375 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,280 derogatory sense, but it's sin is what qualifies us for grace. 376 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,120 The only thing see, the more that we see that we're sinners. 377 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,000 This is the grace of God, the reason he gave us the law that 378 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,840 we might recognize that we're sinners to the point that we 379 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,720 abundantly practice it, that we cannot save ourselves. 380 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,160 The more that you try and keep the law, the more that you'll 381 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,920 find yourself in sin. And until you recognize that 382 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,520 grace won't be valued, I'll say that boldly. 383 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,960 Grace won't be won't be valued, but when you begin to see that 384 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,400 who God's created you to be in Christ Jesus, all of a sudden 385 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,200 the works of the law start falling away. 386 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,000 You just stop trying because all of a sudden you see yourself 387 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,760 seated with him in heavenly places and you begin to launch 388 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,520 out from that perspective. Now this is grace. 389 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,000 This is liberty and this is the thing that we need to say see so 390 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,200 much more. It's the simplicity of the 391 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,640 gospel. The letter kills, but the Spirit 392 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,840 gives life and the Spirit is given so freely. 393 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,800 And that's why I'm saying, you know, let us draw near to the 394 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,560 throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find and 395 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:27,560 discover experiential grace in time of need, that we might 396 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,080 accomplish everything for which God has set us forth to Every 397 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,320 temptation that comes our way, every requirement that God wants 398 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,960 from us comes out from the throne of grace. 399 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,080 But once again, it has to be lived out from proximity. 400 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,480 Is this making sense? Is this, you know, because we 401 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,640 have what we have to do is reposition our thinking. 402 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,080 See, God's called us to a powerful walk. 403 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,680 He's called us to be something completely different than every 404 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,200 religion in the world. We have the life, we have the 405 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,560 Spirit. You know, we actually, we live 406 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,920 in an invisible realm. And when we begin to see grace, 407 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:10,560 we will begin to demonstrate grace, you know, if if our heart 408 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,400 is unveiled, our lives will be unveiled before the world. 409 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,040 And the Spirit will speak and give testimony to who you are, 410 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,680 what you believe, because you're made to sit with him in heavenly 411 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,960 places. When, when, when we get hold of 412 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,960 this, we will be bold in the face of our enemies, which is, 413 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:33,040 it says in Philippians is to them testimony of destruction, 414 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,920 but to us of salvation. And that's what the world's 415 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,520 looking for are people that are full of hope, that just throw 416 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,920 aside the things of the world, not being conformed to this 417 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,960 world. There's too many churches being 418 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,720 conformed to this world. We need to look completely 419 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,240 different. And This is why we draw neither 420 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,880 the throne of grace that we might behold him, that we might 421 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,480 be transformed by him just by seeing him. 422 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,360 Sometimes it's a painful thing to discover grace. 423 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,080 Discovering grace itself is not painful, but the process can be 424 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,560 quite a little bit gnarly because we can be stubborn 425 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,960 because didn't God say to Moses after Moses says, you know, show 426 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,040 me your glory? And just before that he says, 427 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:21,120 you know, in a sense he was going to cast the, the people of 428 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,560 Israel. He's actually cast them on 429 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,200 Moses. He's the people that you brought 430 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,960 out. You know, you can go off to the 431 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,480 land that I'm I'm giving you, but I'm not going with you. 432 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,120 And Moses, you know, that's where he pleaded with him. 433 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:33,360 Lord, you've got to go with us. Don't let us go out from this 434 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:38,040 place unless you go with us. I forgot what I was actually 435 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,720 going to be saying. Lost of a trick of thought 436 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,000 there. Oh yeah, It's that the whole 437 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,400 discovery thing once again, discovering, discovering grace. 438 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:55,200 Like even Paul, Paul the apostle had to discover grace in Second 439 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,120 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 9. If you're familiar with that, 440 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:03,400 you know he said, I will come to revelations of the Lord. 441 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:09,400 You know that will happen, but that I might not be puffed up 442 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,800 with pride. A thorn in the flesh was given 443 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,000 to me, and I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might 444 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,440 depart from me. And after he'd done that, the 445 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,600 Lord said to him, my grace is sufficient for you. 446 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:28,680 In other words, now that thorn was given to him, you know, to, 447 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,320 to, to, to beat him up in a, in a way where he is not proud of 448 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,320 himself because of all the revelations, because it all 449 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,600 comes from grace. You know, we, we have revelation 450 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,080 of the Lord by grace, not by anything good that we do. 451 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,200 We're not rewarded with his revelation by the things that we 452 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,840 do. We're rewarded by grace. 453 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,440 So even he had to discover grace, you know, because he was 454 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,960 a very proud Jew. He had a, a pedigree of being an 455 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,280 Israelite, A Benjamite. He kept the law in such a way, 456 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,640 you know, the ceremonial law that he could say that he was 457 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,000 actually blameless. But that had to be spin out of 458 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,080 him that, you know, God had to, he just didn't reveal it. 459 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,600 One day it was revealed through the experience of being beaten 460 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,920 up by a messenger of Satan, which was given by who? 461 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,480 Given by God, believe it or not. And the only thing that overcame 462 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,720 that was grace. That was the sufficiency that 463 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,280 overcame it. It's by Paul that we get Romans 464 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,440 Chapter 7. Anyone familiar with Romans 465 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,480 Chapter 7? No, eh? 466 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,600 Oh, OK. The good that I will to do, I do 467 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,920 not do. The evil that I will not to do 468 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,720 that I practice, you know, because that's a man trying to 469 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,440 be pleasing to God and that soon as that happens, you come under 470 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,360 the law and the law starts working and the enemy has such 471 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,120 room. The accusation of the law ISM is 472 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,040 in full, full blossom right there. 473 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,080 That's why Satan's called the accuser of the brethren. 474 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,400 That's where he gets his power is from the law of God and a 475 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,760 fallen Adam. I believe that this is this what 476 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,160 I believe. Anyway, it's just a thought. 477 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,800 You know, that Satan has actually lost his power as a 478 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,920 cherubim. Soon as he'd sinned, boom, like 479 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,800 lightning, he fell from heaven. And the only way that he draws 480 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,360 any existence for a certain amount of time that he has is 481 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,640 drawing it from the law of God in order to accuse humanity. 482 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,280 That's where he gets his power from. 483 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,880 That's where he gets his power over us. 484 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,400 He doesn't just get it because he is a powerful Angel, it's 485 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,400 because he tempts us according to the law of God, and that's 486 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,080 where he finds place. That's where he finds existence 487 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,720 as inhumanity. That's why he got Adam to eat 488 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,800 from the tree, from the knowledge of good and evil, 489 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,000 because that's where he would draw his power from. 490 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,440 So we need to understand that when we're coming into 491 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,600 temptation, you know, even God allows, he gives the enemy 492 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,560 because the devil is God's devil to accomplish his purpose 493 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,040 because he has the power of death. 494 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,320 That's the thing that when we begin to see that this is where 495 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,040 we can, you know, we need to see that where the law entered with 496 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,000 sin abounds with sin abounds, grace abounds so much more. 497 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,600 That word actually means to super abound in the person of 498 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,960 Jesus Christ. It says so that just as sin 499 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,600 reigned or where the enemy had rule, where he ruled as king, 500 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,720 Even so grace might reign through righteousness, through 501 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,640 imputed righteousness in the person of Jesus Christ to 502 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,560 eternal life through Jesus Christ. 503 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,840 So that's the powerful thing. When we begin to see that we've 504 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:49,560 actually been raised up with him in heavenly places, that's where 505 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,440 we overcome the enemy because it's the throne of grace. 506 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,400 It's it's, it's a rule of Jesus Christ and we've been placed 507 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,080 into him and all we've got to do is come into agreement with 508 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,360 that. Repent. 509 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,000 On the basis of that. Repent means to think after the 510 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,800 manner of to think after the manner that God has raised us up 511 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,160 and made us to sit in heavenly places. 512 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,800 See behaviour follows repentance because repentance means to 513 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,400 think after the order of and when we see that God's raised us 514 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,720 up in Christ, we're able to change our behaviour. 515 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,800 But you can't under law because you're imprisoned to sin. 516 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,560 This is where Jesus is our Saviour, our Redeemer. 517 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,320 This is where He is our power and strength. 518 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,080 This is where He imparts His very life, that we might 519 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,880 overcome sin. And we have to be alive in the 520 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,520 Spirit in order to overcome sin, because it's the Spirit that 521 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,880 lusts against the flesh and the flesh against the Spirit. 522 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,120 So if we walk in the Spirit, we will not fulfil the lusts in the 523 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:49,040 flesh and we have to receive the Spirit from proximity in the 524 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,840 presence of God. If we receive the Spirit, we're 525 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,760 in the presence of God. We are before the throne as as 526 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,400 Fiona was reading out this morning, it's where we've been 527 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,400 brought to. It's just not information. 528 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:04,720 When we begin to see that by the Spirit full wonderful stuff, we 529 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,640 need to be in that place as a church. 530 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,120 We need to be seeking this place, giving preference to this 531 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,640 place, that there's so much more that God wants to do in and 532 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:17,640 through us. But it has to be sought, you 533 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,120 know, you have to have a passion, you know. 534 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,200 I mean, don't you want more? Isn't there more that you want 535 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,240 as a Christian? Or is this it? 536 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:31,840 You're quite happy with this? I'm sure nobody is, you know. 537 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,800 And The thing is, when we begin to advance in this, there will 538 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,320 be war, there will be warfare, there will be. 539 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,760 But this is knowing, you know, the weapons of our warfare in 540 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:47,080 Christ, that we are fully clothed in His armour, Man, we 541 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,040 just need to meditate on that, that we are in Him, we are 542 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,920 perfect in him, not in practice, but God sees us completely 543 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,240 perfect in him. And it comes out from God's 544 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,360 persuasion where faith grows, not our intellectual 545 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,800 apprehension. And the only way that we begin 546 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,520 to see it in a greater way is by coming into proximity. 547 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,480 I find that when I'm praying, it's after, sometimes after 548 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,040 about an hour when I've gotten past myself, that I begin to 549 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,560 experience some of God's grace. And then I want to go further 550 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:17,639 and further. But I'm, you know, I'm 551 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:21,080 confronted with myself. But I find the more that I'm 552 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,920 there, the more access that I have, the more power that he 553 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,080 places on my life. And I want to go further. 554 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,400 I want to break the ceiling and I want to get right past the 555 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,520 veil. And it's through faith. 556 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,760 It's through the fight, the good fight of faith. 557 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,360 I think we're starting to run out of time now, but I hope 558 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,280 that's something good for people to meditate on. 559 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,360 You know, we've got so much more that's available to us. 560 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,320 It's in the invisible realm. There's a realm around us. 561 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,000 You know, God's not way off Yonder. 562 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,000 You know, He is all around. He's in our midst. 563 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,880 In fact, He lives inside of you. There's so much more I'd want to 564 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,640 say. We are like we are the Ark of 565 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,040 the covenant. And just as the Ark was clothed 566 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,080 on the outside with gold and on the inside with gold, that's who 567 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,800 we are. That's what God's bringing us 568 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,440 into. But that's how He sees us in 569 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,880 Christ. And that's the work that He's 570 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,320 going to perform and perfect in us that we are complete in 571 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,880 Christ. We're just going through the 572 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,040 journey of it. The more that we believe, the 573 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,240 more it will be revealed and made manifest. 574 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:39,800 So Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 575 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,040 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 576 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,040 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 577 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:46,800 the links below.