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 --> 00:00:31,280 page through the links below. As I was praying last night, not 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:39,680 last night, the night before, the Lord showed me a picture of 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,640 something very solid made of steel, a cylinder kind of a 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,680 thing. But then when when the cap is 12 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:54,920 removed inside I found found a hollow wooden thing inside. 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,160 That means appearance is solid steel, but inside there is no 14 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,840 stuff. So I said, Lord, what does this 15 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,280 mean? Many may this is this. 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,920 This picture goes into the message. 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:18,400 It goes into everything we have. We project ourselves as 18 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,720 something to the world, but we are not so inside in our heart. 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,920 So God wants us to be solid outside and solid inside. 20 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,120 Can we say it? The Lord wants us solid outside, 21 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,400 solid inside. Amen. 22 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,320 Amen. So I was also reflecting about 23 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:47,720 this being Mother's Day. I thought if I don't say 24 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,320 anything about it doesn't look nice. 25 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,640 I had to say something. But I was thinking what should I 26 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,880 say for mothers? It is something very, very 27 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,120 important day for me. I appreciate mothers a lot 28 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,240 because they are the pillars. As I said that picture, the Lord 29 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:09,199 showed me the pillar inside. They are also strong mothers. 30 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,080 They are strong inside. They are not only look outside 31 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,680 strong, but they are also strong inside because they go through 32 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,400 the loneliness. When the husbands are away 33 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,880 working, trying to make money, they are stuck with the 34 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,800 children. They are disciplined them. 35 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,160 They have to shout at them, they have to bring them up. 36 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,200 They are sick. They are stay with them too 37 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,280 much. There is no job description that 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,960 you can write down and say this is what a mother should do 39 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,200 because they do everything. They are super mothers, I would 40 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,960 say. So one super mother I want to 41 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:46,720 talk about is Susanna Wesley Heard the name John Wesley's 42 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,160 mother, Charles Wesley's mother, and she had 16 children. 43 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:53,880 And how did she manage those children? 44 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,040 No one knows and she would find time for every son, every 45 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,200 daughter, daughter. She would find time to read the 46 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,480 Bible, pray with them once a week, one hour. 47 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,840 Every child should give and pray with every child and she has to 48 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,760 educate them, teach them. You know, I am not I am not 49 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,280 trying to promote homeschooling here. 50 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,520 I am telling you, but those days that was an option that the only 51 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,240 option most of the time and husband being a preacher, income 52 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,640 was less. So she had to juggle so many 53 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,240 things. And then one of the things that 54 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,880 many of us think that OK, Susanna, Wesley So people still 55 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,400 remember her. Was she a great preacher? 56 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,080 Was she, did she write a book? Did she establish churches? 57 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,240 No, nothing, nothing of that sort. 58 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:55,480 She was a silent mother, but she shook the nation by her 59 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,920 commitment to the family and the children. 60 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:03,840 She shook the nation because she gave two sons who shook England 61 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,520 and America. One is John Wesley, who started 62 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,920 the Methodist Church, and Charles Wesley. 63 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,760 He wrote thousands of songs and we still sing from the hymn 64 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,800 books when we sing some of the Charles Wesley songs. 65 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:22,600 So this is this is what she has done is that the house was a 66 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,000 seminary. Children learn to read the Bible 67 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,440 at home before there are 5 or 6 when they learn to start 68 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,680 reading. They have finished from Genesis 69 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,760 to Revelation, from the King James Version and they have read 70 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,720 it. That is how they learn to read. 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:47,960 And there is another man called. Welcome back to it. 72 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,800 Sometimes you know his names, JGLM and Curry Blake. 73 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:57,840 Curry Blake he was before he was five, he had read through the 74 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,120 Bible and he would read the Bible until the mother goes to 75 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,280 sleep. Sometimes she falls asleep 76 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,840 listening to the word, but he learned to read that way. 77 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:12,120 I tell you, the number one place where children are educated is 78 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,920 in the home and a mother is the first preacher they are exposed 79 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,160 to. She is the first disciplinarian, 80 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,800 first teacher, everything. It is just mother. 81 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,200 She was very faithful and she impacted her generation not 82 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:31,800 because she went out and preached. 83 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,960 Some of us, we think, oh, the preaching is the only way we can 84 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,960 impact the people. No, prayer is very, very 85 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:43,920 important too. And mothers are often the first 86 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,440 pastors, teachers, disciple for the children. 87 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,640 And amidst amidst all this busyness, one thing that stands 88 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,840 out about Susanna Wesley is she would sit in the chair, pull her 89 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:01,920 cloak over her, whatever she has to cover her head and sit in the 90 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,920 chair and pray. How does she find time managing 91 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,720 16 children to find time for prayer? 92 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,840 Some of us may say no, no, no. That is something extraordinary 93 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:16,320 in where whatever you want to do, you will find time. 94 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,880 That is the rule. You do not have time for prayer 95 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,320 because you do not want to do the prayer part. 96 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,120 If you want to do prayer, you will find time. 97 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,400 And she would have this busy schedule. 98 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,960 Early morning she will get up and late in the night she will 99 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,000 sleep. Managing the children, feeding 100 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,840 them, crying, teaching them, teaching them everything she 101 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:38,120 would do. And she will sit in a chair, 102 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,280 cover her head. It is like Moses entering the 103 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:43,040 tent of meeting outside the camp. 104 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,320 That is her tent of meeting. Cover her head and sit there and 105 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,600 pray. That is how she impacted the 106 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,640 children. That is how she impacted the 107 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,680 nation. Can we have more praying mothers 108 00:06:54,680 --> 00:07:00,440 and fathers? If you want to pray, you will 109 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,800 pray. If you don't want to pray, you 110 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,920 will have many other things listed up to do in the slot. 111 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,160 So my heart is for prayer and I personally pray quite a lot. 112 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,120 I am not trying to boast before the congregation, but I do pray 113 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:24,120 and I believe that is how you serve God, not by preaching. 114 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,280 Preaching is only a side business. 115 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,920 The main business is everybody say what is it prayer? 116 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,240 That is the main business. So we have to develop that kind 117 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,080 of a lifestyle. Cool. 118 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,880 So let us again give clap for our great mothers in our 119 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:48,400 congregation. Well done church. 120 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,880 That is awesome. So now we go into the scripture. 121 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:59,400 That is the Exodus chapter 17. Yeah, that is the one Exodus 122 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,920 chapter 17. The story is very simple. 123 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,360 They are travelling from place to place as God commanded them. 124 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,480 How was He guiding them? There was a pillar of fire by 125 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,120 night and a pillar of cloud by day. 126 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:21,360 When the cloud lifts, the whole camp lifts and moves and the 127 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,880 cloud settles. They all settle down and put up 128 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,680 the tents. So now in this chapter 17 we see 129 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,280 the whole Israel community set out from the desert of sin. 130 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,280 This SI and sin is not talking about the sin. 131 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,600 We generally use the adjective whatever it is, the sin is a sin 132 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,280 sin is a name of the place. It is not talking about the 133 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,560 literal sin that we talk about. S desert of sin travelling from 134 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:50,680 place to place as a Lord commanded. 135 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,840 Now they had a reputation. The Israel had a great 136 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:56,760 reputation. What kind of reputation they had 137 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,360 when they came out. You know, everywhere they go, 138 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,720 people were trembling in and sometimes they won't even stop 139 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,320 these people. They will come to fight. 140 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:10,240 You'll see it more in Book of Joshua. 141 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,880 You'll see that when they send the spice and they come to this 142 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:21,080 lady and then she says we know that your God is a living God 143 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,160 and we know that your God is fighting for you and men of this 144 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,520 place, they have lost their heart. 145 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,600 It is became like water. I know that you guys are going 146 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,760 to come and you are going to conquer this place. 147 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:38,320 But Remember, Me and my family spare us because I had given 148 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,960 you. I have protected you from this 149 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,280 being founded by the King's soldiers. 150 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,200 So the reputation is there. The Israelites had a great 151 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,200 reputation. The day God is a fearful God and 152 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,120 a God who fights for them, a God who establishes them, God who 153 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,440 leads them, a God who is a living one. 154 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,000 God who meets their need, protects them, guides them, 155 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,760 provides for them. They have got a great 156 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,800 reputation. How this Red Sea, he split them 157 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,440 for for them. How he was guiding by pillar of 158 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,840 cloud by day, pillar of fire by night, and then so many 159 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,120 miracles. The last we saw is last week He 160 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,560 rained down bread from heaven, manna. 161 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,440 But the people, they do not have any appreciation for what God is 162 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,360 doing for them. When the trouble comes, they 163 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,720 immediately go into another mode, mode of complaining, 164 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,120 mumbling, grumbling, complaining, fighting, 165 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,280 quarreling. This is what all the Christians 166 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,200 down to the centuries have been doing. 167 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,960 We have a very short memory and we forget the miracles God does 168 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:54,640 for us and we fight with Him. We want to demand more miracles. 169 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:01,480 Miracles do not produce faith, but faith produces miracles. 170 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:11,400 I'll repeat again, miracles do not produce faith, but faith 171 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,400 produces miracles. So many times in our life we get 172 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,840 stuck because we have the appearance that we are super 173 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,800 Christians, but inside is good, not solid steel. 174 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,200 That's the reason why these people had to learn this lesson 175 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,720 and God was taking them through this problem. 176 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,920 He brought them to a place where there is no water. 177 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,800 Does God know there's no water there? 178 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,240 Why does He bring them there? To expose their heart. 179 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,360 Their heart will be exposed only when they are brought to this 180 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,480 place. So He brings them to this place. 181 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:57,960 And now when you see in Exodus chapter 17, it says travelling 182 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,920 from place to place as the Lord commanded, they camped to refede 183 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,320 him, but there was number water for the people to drink. 184 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,120 So they moved from desert of sin to refede him. 185 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:13,200 So you think is A is desert of sin, B is refidem? 186 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,600 No, no, no. To look what this really means, 187 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,760 you have to look up at numbers 33. 188 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,560 I'm sure it is numbers 33. When you go into numbers, it 189 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,280 shows numbers 33 versus 12 to 14. 190 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,760 If you can put it up, it will be great. 191 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,520 Numbers 3312 to 14. They left the desert of sin and 192 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,760 camed at Dopka. They left Dopka and Camed at 193 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,440 Alush. They left Alush and camped at 194 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,320 Refidim where there was number water for the people to drink. 195 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,240 So there is a three stages. They leave one place, come to 196 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,880 another place, from there to another place, there to another 197 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,240 place. This is what I understand is 198 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:55,040 that when I try to look up the geography of the place, it looks 199 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,960 like every of these places are about 10 to 12 kilometers apart. 200 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,320 So it will be a day's journey, mostly one day's journey. 201 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,600 So they travel, come to from sin, the wilderness of sin, they 202 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,120 travel and come to Dopka and then at from Dopka, next day 203 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,560 they travel up to Alush. And then third day they travel 204 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:20,560 from Alush to Refidem. So this is how God is bringing 205 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,800 them. And then they arrive at Refidem 206 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:30,400 to find no water, no water, 2 million people and the cattle, 207 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,880 sheep and camels and whatever they had all the cattle. 208 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,200 And if you have two million cattles as well, that makes it 209 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,560 double S the problem. And you need water for all the 210 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,160 people. It's not a small job. 211 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,800 You cannot have a well dig there a well and say oh, here is the 212 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,400 well, drink the water. Because to put pull the water 213 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,040 from the well and feed 4 million mouse is not a small job. 214 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,040 Those days very hard. Life is very hard, so God had to 215 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,560 do a miracle, which God himself knows. 216 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,560 When the Holy Spirit guides us, we think life is going to be 217 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:12,200 very smooth, don't we? Let's say God says to a man, 218 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,280 here is the lady I want you to marry. 219 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:16,840 OK. And what do you expect? 220 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,120 Everything will go smooth? No. 221 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,080 And this is a woman who says, I am praying. 222 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,320 I want to find the perfect husband and God says I will show 223 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,280 you a perfect husband and she will think life is going to be 224 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,160 very smooth from now on because I found a perfect husband. 225 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:43,360 No, you might be asking me how dare you make a statement like 226 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,400 that in front of so many people? This is a human experience. 227 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,600 Jesus Christ himself was led by the Holy Spirit into wilderness, 228 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,000 not into a palace, not into a Vyas is where you have got palm 229 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,680 trees and water everywhere. No, he was LED into a 230 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,680 wilderness. The Holy Spirit leading Son of 231 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,960 Man into wilderness. If he did for Jesus, you think 232 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:17,870 you can be exempted from us? So that is how every problem 233 00:15:17,870 --> 00:15:21,390 will expose our heart and every problem will help us to grow. 234 00:15:23,230 --> 00:15:26,630 Every problem will expose our heart and every problem will 235 00:15:26,630 --> 00:15:30,600 help us to grow. That is how God designed life. 236 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,320 So don't complain when you have problems. 237 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,080 Thank God because as you thank Him for the problems, you will 238 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,440 grow. You will grow. 239 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,040 That is the way we have to overcome life. 240 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,960 That is the way we have to solve the problem, not by complaining, 241 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,440 not by murmuring. So these people, they were, what 242 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,640 did they do in verse 2? They quarrel with Moses and said 243 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,720 give us water to drink. Quarrel. 244 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,160 Basically the old English version says chided Moses. 245 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,640 No, I used to think chiding is, you know, some getting angry, 246 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,520 but actually quarreling. Argumentation. 247 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,640 Moses, where are you? You are sitting inside the tent. 248 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,520 Come out. We want water right now. 249 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,440 We are all thirsty. You know, when you have no food, 250 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,360 sometimes you can survive for a while, but without water you 251 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:29,080 cannot survive long. Water is very, very important. 252 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,280 And when you do not have water, you will not have any strength. 253 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,080 Your face will fall, your limbs will go dull, and you would not 254 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,520 be able to walk. And for the journey that they 255 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,800 have to do, surviving in the wilderness, water is essential. 256 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,480 So what they are asking for is not unreasonable, but the way 257 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,200 how you ask God is very, very important. 258 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,760 So many times we complain to God, murmur, I say, oh God, what 259 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,840 is happening in my life? Are you there? 260 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,040 So many times you ask this question, are you there? 261 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:05,520 That's what they asked the question. 262 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,000 You look at verse 7. They said and he called the 263 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,599 place Masa and Meribah because Israelites quarrel and because 264 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,040 they tested the Lord saying is the Lord among us or not? 265 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,800 Is God there in the midst? That's the question. 266 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,720 And every Christian asks this question in his life several 267 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,560 times. Several times it is. 268 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,040 If you are not asked this question, is God there in my 269 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,800 life? You are not a Christian. 270 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,600 Why? If you believe in this Jesus, 271 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,000 there will be times when you will go through waterless 272 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,000 places, you will see you will go through desert, experience 273 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:51,800 scorching sun and thirsty body thirst tormenting you and you 274 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,880 say, my God, did you bring me here to die? 275 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,920 That that's the kind of questions you we are going to 276 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,520 ask. And when we trust him, you know, 277 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,160 so many times we think God answers prayer because you're 278 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,240 crying. No, you can cry whole night. 279 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,600 You may not get any response. You can be complaining, 280 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:20,000 absolutely no response, your cry will not even go above your 281 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,920 head. But when you have faith and 282 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,520 trust Him and say I know you are a living God, I know you will 283 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,840 come through, I know you will refresh me, I know you will 284 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,640 provide for me, I know you will guide me. 285 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,360 And when you say it, I know you can do it. 286 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,160 He says you understood my heart. Now, one of the things you see 287 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,560 in the book of Psalms when they talk about the children of 288 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,440 Israel is they did not understand His ways. 289 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,440 How many Christians know God's ways? 290 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,920 We have to know His way. We have to know how He thinks. 291 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,440 We have to know how He feels. We have to know how He guides. 292 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,240 We have to know how He will provide. 293 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:03,760 We have to know how He heals, how He provides, because when we 294 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:08,920 know His way, then you are living a Christian life. 295 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,480 Otherwise we are going to be ending up complaining and 296 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,240 quarrelling, complaining and quarreling. 297 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:21,760 Sometimes it is Moses we are complaining, sometimes it is a 298 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,440 pastor, you know Moses is their pastor basically. 299 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,200 Sometimes congregation may have a problem and they will say this 300 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,840 is my pastors problem. He has not prayed for me. 301 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,600 That is why I have this problem. Some people can think like that, 302 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,640 but what can Moses do? It is not in Moses hand to fix 303 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,600 every problem, but he did go to God. 304 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,160 Every time there is a problem people complain where did he go 305 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,520 to God. There was one other time when 306 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,120 Aaron and Moses they are being criticized by people. 307 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,600 He walked to the tent which is to be set up outside the camp. 308 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,280 And when Aaron and Moses went near the tent, the cloud 309 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:07,560 appeared, the glory of God came, and when they saw the glory of 310 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:13,360 God come on the tent, people prostitute fell down, and then 311 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:17,040 God says. You guys just move outside. 312 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,800 I want to kill the whole people because they what they are doing 313 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,240 is not right. If what God did to the children 314 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,520 of Israel, if he does today in the church, you will not have 315 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,600 anybody in the church all over the world. 316 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,080 We had understand He is holy and we have not understood the 317 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,760 holiness of God. That is the problem. 318 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:42,440 We do not understand who is God. If we understand who is God, we 319 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,440 are going to live differently, we are going to worship Him 320 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,000 differently, we are going to obey him differently, we are 321 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,800 going to follow him differently. We need to know who is our God. 322 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,120 That he is holy and he expects us to be holy is very, very 323 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,640 important. So Moses says why do you quarrel 324 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,080 with me? Why do you put the law to the 325 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,600 test? Basically he is saying you are 326 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,520 not complaining against me, you are complaining against God, you 327 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,720 are complaining against God, you are murmuring against God, you 328 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,680 are showing your dissatisfaction against God. 329 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,920 Southern, we need to be very careful what we say, how we say, 330 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,960 to whom we say. But the people were thirsty for 331 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,320 water there and they grumbled against Moses. 332 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,120 They said, why did you bring us out of Egypt? 333 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,400 To make us and our children and our livestock die of thirst. 334 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,320 So problem is Moses, not their problem. 335 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,920 You brought us from Egypt to kill us, our children and our 336 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,560 livestock. Is it reasonable pro? 337 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,280 Is it a reasonable complaint? Don't they want to be free? 338 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,600 Did not Moses become a mediator so that he can help them to come 339 00:21:54,600 --> 00:22:00,000 out of Egypt, confront Pharaoh and armies and fight those 340 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,400 people and see them down in the Red Sea? 341 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,320 He did everything. Now they are saying you brought 342 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,880 us to kill us here so many times. 343 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,520 What we do is not just grumble against the mediator, not just 344 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,800 grumble against the leader. We try to stone them because he 345 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,600 said Moses says to God, when he goes to God, he says, look at 346 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,760 this, look at these people, Moses, cry out to the Lord, what 347 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,000 am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone 348 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,360 me. They are discussing among 349 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:37,680 themselves. Let us get rid of Moses because 350 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,800 this problem, he is responsible for the problem. 351 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,360 No, Moses is not responsible. They are responsible. 352 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,200 You know when there was famine during the time of Elijah, 353 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,280 Elijah three years, there is no rain. 354 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,400 And when King Ahab meets Elijah, what does he say to Elijah? 355 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,680 You are trouble of you trouble. You are trouble of Israel and 356 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,320 Elijah said not me. You are the troubler of Israel. 357 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:08,520 So many times when we complain, you know somebody said when you 358 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,160 point your hand like this, show one finger to somebody, you got 359 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,120 three other fingers showing towards yourself. 360 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,760 So that is how it is. We cannot complain, we cannot 361 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,760 grumble. So they walk on. 362 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,440 He says they are ready to stone me. 363 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,680 The Lord answered, walk on ahead of the people, take with you 364 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,760 some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with 365 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,040 which you struck the Nile. You know the staff that he had 366 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,800 the big stick, many, many miracles were done through that, 367 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,120 but judgment came through that staff. 368 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:52,120 What came judgment on Egypt? He stretched the staff and some 369 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,000 plague will come. He stretched the staff, 370 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,240 something will happen. He stretched the staff on the 371 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,800 Nile and dip it in the water Nile and it turns into blood 372 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,320 judgment. But God says, take that staff of 373 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:11,240 judgment and go on with the elders, and I will be standing 374 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,000 before you and show you the rock that He should strike. 375 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,120 Now you have got here this story, you have got all three 376 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:22,800 persons of the Godhead. You will see here is the Holy 377 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:29,720 Spirit there with them, how the pillar of cloud by day, pillar 378 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:35,400 of fire by night is the Holy Spirit is Yahweh with them. 379 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:43,640 Sorry, is Yahweh with them. Yes, Yahweh was going before 380 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:50,080 them standing by the rock to tell Moses strike this rock and 381 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,320 God the Father, no one has seen. He is invisibly present there 382 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,000 too. In your problem, God is there, 383 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,440 in my problem God is there. We have, we need eyes to see 384 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,040 that he is there. So many times when you go 385 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,880 through the problem, you don't see that God is with you at all. 386 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,640 But after the problem is over, you look back and say, oh, I see 387 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,520 God was with me. So the English word that we have 388 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,360 is retrospectively you understand God. 389 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,200 Retrospectively you look back, you understand God. 390 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:32,880 Many times we don't look back, don't evaluate. 391 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,920 That's why we don't see God's hand. 392 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:41,720 Look back 40 years ago, 50 years ago, 60 years ago in our life 393 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,080 and you will see the hand of God guiding you, providing for you, 394 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,400 protecting you, saving you. That is how Christian life 395 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,440 works. You know these truths that I am 396 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,960 talking the very, very important truth. 397 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:01,160 Why that will that will change the way you think of life. 398 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,840 You understand life when you look at it retrospectively. 399 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,440 You look back, then you understand. 400 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,400 Look forward, looks blank. Look back. 401 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,960 You'll understand. That's how it works. 402 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,760 Does it make sense? Can I hear Amen from you guys? 403 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,200 Amen. Cool. 404 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:30,000 And then what happens? He says, which take with you 405 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,960 some of the elders of yourself, take in your hand the staff with 406 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,680 which you struck the Nile, and go, I will stand there before 407 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,120 you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will 408 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,680 come out of it for the people to drink. 409 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,880 What should Moses do? Strike the rock. 410 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,080 And who is this rock? Who is the rock? 411 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,760 It is Jesus himself because Paul writes to Corinthians and he 412 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:05,320 says the rock was Christ. Where is it the scripture for 413 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,880 it? The quarrel? 414 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:17,920 OK, one Corinthians chapter word Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3 415 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,560 onward. They all ate the same spiritual 416 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,920 food and drank the same spiritual drink. 417 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,080 For they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied 418 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,400 them. And that rock was Christ. 419 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,720 But the rock had to be struck, which is a symbol of the 420 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,920 crucifixion of Jesus. The rocks to be struck is a 421 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:46,560 symbolic of crucifixion of Jesus and from that rock water flows 422 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,600 today. That is why Jesus could stand up 423 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,640 on the last day and shout and say if anyone is thirsty, come 424 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,120 to me and drink and whoever drinks of Maine out of his 425 00:27:58,120 --> 00:27:59,920 bellicel flow. Rivers are living water. 426 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,280 So this is not a rock that you drink one day and then you go 427 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,680 forward 10 more kilometers. There is no more water because 428 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,720 that water is physical. Locate is fixed, defined by a 429 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,080 location, and you go forward. The same water will not come 430 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:15,760 there. You have to again. 431 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,280 God has to feed you again fresh. But when, when you come to 432 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,240 Jesus, you become a source of living water. 433 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,680 Living water flow out of your belly. 434 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,320 What a great truth, what a refreshing truth. 435 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,560 Do we have this living water flowing out of our bellies? 436 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,440 If you are a believer, if you have believed Jesus, you will 437 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,960 have this happen, you will have this experience because living 438 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,040 water shall flow out of your belly. 439 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:51,680 Is it for yourself? No, that living water from your 440 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,440 belly is to refresh other people. 441 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:04,640 So now we see again testing. God is demanding proof, though 442 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,600 He already has given evidence. One of the things that I see 443 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,000 here is how do you describe a people, 2 million people who see 444 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,200 miracles and keep demanding miracles and have no faith. 445 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,720 Imagine Jesus Christ feeding 5000 people and people are 446 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,880 coming looking for a very Jesus, very Jesus refined. 447 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,880 Oh, you are here. You are following me. 448 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,480 Not because you are following me, because you are. 449 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,480 You ate, ate enough of your belly, stomach full. 450 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,880 Do not look for the bread that perishes, OK? 451 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,160 And he goes on to teach them many things. 452 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,480 And then he says, I am the bread of life. 453 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,400 I am the bread of life. They ask, give us his bread. 454 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,640 I am the bread of life. And then they did not want to 455 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,640 believe the bread of life. Basically they did not want to 456 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,560 believe. And then they asked the 457 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:02,000 question, what miracle? You are going to give us a sign 458 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,040 from heaven so we may believe that you are the bread of life. 459 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,120 They just ate the food yesterday, bread and fish, and 460 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,320 today they are forgetting again and saying give us a sign from 461 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,160 heaven. This is the heart of man. 462 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,920 This is the heart of every man and woman. 463 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,760 We demand miracles every day and when we are demanding miracles 464 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,400 every day, that means there is no faith in our heart. 465 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,280 There is no faith in our heart. When we have faith, it will be 466 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:38,040 surrender to God. Though Job said, though you slay 467 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,720 me, yet will I trust you. You kill me with a sword, yet I 468 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,280 will trust you with those three children of Hebrew children who 469 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,560 are thrown into the fire. We know that our God is able to 470 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,400 save us, but even if it does not save us, we are not going to bow 471 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,120 to any other idol that you install. 472 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:01,520 That is faith. Faith is being so strong in your 473 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:07,160 belief that Jesus is God and you have to believe so strongly that 474 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,920 nothing will shake you from your faith. 475 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,880 No circumstance, no situation, no challenge is going to shake 476 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:20,600 you. So here is a situation which is 477 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,040 basically like exposing their heart. 478 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,200 When they are grumbling and testing, they are exposing their 479 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,240 heart, they are thinking, they are demanding science, they are 480 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,800 demanding a proof. But it is not. 481 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,640 And with next question that we ask is this happened in the Old 482 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:43,120 Testament? We are in the New Testament. 483 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,320 We are in the New Testament. You can ask, you can question 484 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,480 God, you can complain against Him, you can murmur against Him, 485 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,640 get away because we are in the New Testament. 486 00:31:54,480 --> 00:32:00,000 Is it true? No, Paul talks about Exodus 17 487 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,280 in Second Corinthians chapter 10 and he says their bodies were 488 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,560 lying in the desert. Why? 489 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,440 Judgment of God. They grumbled and quarrel. 490 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,400 Did he say you people die here? He didn't say that. 491 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,680 He split the rock and gave them the water, but none of them 492 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,600 entered into the promised land. They all died in the wilderness. 493 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,600 40 years roaming around and you have got Psalm 95. 494 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,200 You got Psalm 106 where it talks about wilderness experience. 495 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,480 Every sentence, every verse talks about negative things, 496 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,120 about what these people have done. 497 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,200 I read through the Psalm. I said this is not looking good. 498 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,920 But if we apply that to the Christians, what is going to 499 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,440 happen? We are going to be exposed as 500 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,760 people without faith because we quarrel, because we complain. 501 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,000 It is not a good thing at all. And next thing that we see here 502 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,560 is another instance that we have to see is there is one more time 503 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,680 God provided water for them in the wilderness. 504 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,200 But that time when they again cried out to God, complained to 505 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:15,880 God, God said to Moses, go, I will stand before you and show 506 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,840 you the rock and speak to the rock. 507 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,160 Water will come out. What did he say? 508 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,840 Speak to the rock, water will come out. 509 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,320 And Moses went with the elders, took the staff with him this 510 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:38,520 time, bang, he hit it, water came out, they all drank, but 511 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,160 God was unhappy with Moses. Why? 512 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800 Christ will be struck only once on the cross. 513 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,840 Jesus died on the cross for once to provide water for you. 514 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,160 You don't demand a miracle again, because when they 515 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,240 demanded miracle, he said no miracle will be given to His 516 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,920 generation except the sign of Jonah. 517 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,960 What is the sign of Jonah? People will crucify Christ. 518 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,560 He will be buried, but he will be right. 519 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,159 He will rise again from the dead on the third day. 520 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,400 That also has happened already. What more miracle do we need? 521 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,719 What more miracle do we need to believe this God? 522 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,480 He died for us and He rose again from the dead. 523 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,800 What more miracle we need? That one miracle is enough to 524 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,480 sustain 8 billion people for next 8 billion years or forever. 525 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,400 Because that is such a powerful, powerful miracle. 526 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,000 His death, burial, resurrection is the most powerful miracle 527 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:44,040 that man can can ever see. Do we see? 528 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,840 Do we appreciate His death on the cross? 529 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,280 So Moses was stored by God because you dishonored me before 530 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,840 these people. You will see the Promised land 531 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,080 from a distance, but you will not enter there. 532 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,600 Punishment comes, whether you like it or not, when we deserve 533 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,400 a God. But when you come to Christ, He 534 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:15,360 forgives and He restores. Even a man like Saul who was 535 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,160 persecuting the church, pulling people from their houses, 536 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,640 throwing them into the jail and whipping them. 537 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,560 And God had mercy on him and appeared to him so that he 538 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,880 becomes the bearer of the message, not the persecutor of 539 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,240 Christ anymore. That is the mercy of God. 540 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,800 But when we resist the mercy of God all the time, there comes a 541 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,600 point where there is no turning point. 542 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,280 We cannot turn back anymore. You go far enough where you 543 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,000 cannot turn back anymore. That's the reason why we need to 544 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,600 guard this heart. Guard the heart and your faith 545 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,680 and anything that comes in between you and God. 546 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,320 You fight it in the name of Jesus and that will set you 547 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,480 free. That will set you free. 548 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,320 Many of our hearts have been hijacked by Satan. 549 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,440 Your emotion, your will, your soul is hijacked by. 550 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,480 When you go through trauma, when you have a difficult situation, 551 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,320 when you are going through very, very difficult situation, it can 552 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,200 be ill health, it can be relationships, it can be loss of 553 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,880 job, it can be business collapse. 554 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,520 Whatever has to have happened, there's a trauma for the soul. 555 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,280 When you dwell on it for too long and don't come to God, 556 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,880 Satan comes and puts his hand on your shoulder. 557 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,720 Don't worry, I am with you and he'll take you down downhill, 558 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,000 not uphill. He won't pull you out, He'll 559 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,680 push you down more. He'll put chains on you and put 560 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,480 you in unbelief forever and ever and ever until you cry out to 561 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,680 God and Jesus says let him go free. 562 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,720 Let her go free and the chains fall from your hand. 563 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,960 Until then you will be in the hands of shade. 564 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,480 So I'm not trying to terrify anybody. 565 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,760 This is just the normal spiritual reality. 566 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,760 Normal spiritual reality. We have to open our eyes to see 567 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,960 that God gives us the freedom to say yes to God or no to God. 568 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,720 But when you say yes, you have got so many good things, but 569 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:15,400 when you say no, then so many negative things waiting for us. 570 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,520 But God is a God of mercy. Let's all say it. 571 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:26,160 God is a God of mercy. He wants to bless you, He wants 572 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,280 to save you, He wants to provide for you, He wants to protect 573 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,600 you, He wants to guide you, He loves you. 574 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,720 The whole question is, are we willing to believe and trust him 575 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:41,000 or we want to say no, no, no, I don't want to believe anymore. 576 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,440 I don't want to trust you anymore because there are times 577 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,040 when I have gone through difficult times. 578 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,560 You did not come through me and help me. 579 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,200 So one of the scenes from the movie called Ben Hur, it always 580 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,280 touches me where he was being put in chains and he was walking 581 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,600 along and he was very thirsty and many people are getting 582 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,360 water. But this guy who is taking this 583 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,720 captives, he tells no water for him, no water for Ben Hur. 584 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,000 And he was being dragged, and he falls down, and you see Jesus 585 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,800 coming and give him the water. And as he was drinking, somebody 586 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,520 comes, kicks it off. But that water sustained him, 587 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,240 sustained his faith, sustained the spirit of rebellion in him. 588 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,440 And he always remembered that. Why did that man give me water 589 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,120 and save me? Because that water, if he did 590 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:43,000 not drink, he would die. So he comes through like the 591 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,080 parable of Benhar. He comes through to feed you, 592 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,920 refresh you, give you a drink when you are in the trouble. 593 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,120 But sometimes we don't see or you just drink that water and 594 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,600 forget the man who gave you the water. 595 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:03,040 That's when the trouble comes. Oh, there's so much more to say. 596 00:39:08,370 --> 00:39:13,250 I'll conclude with the story because I know you love stories. 597 00:39:14,090 --> 00:39:18,530 I'll conclude with the story. This is there was a copper mine 598 00:39:19,210 --> 00:39:22,650 in the desert of Atacama in Chile. 599 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:29,120 That mine collapsed and 33 people were trapped inside the 600 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,520 mine. How many people 33 this happened 601 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,280 on They were set free on October 13th 2010. 602 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:45,640 And people inside they have no light, no food, no fresh air, no 603 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,280 water to drink. They are trapped inside and I do 604 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,800 not know how they survived for because it took 69 days for them 605 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,440 to be set free. But until the 17th day there was 606 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,640 number hope. They were complaining. 607 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:01,840 They were in the in the darkness. 608 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,200 They were shouting to each other. 609 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,840 Somebody would shout loud, hey, is there a God here? 610 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:09,840 If he is there, why doesn't he save us? 611 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,520 Day one is gone. Day 2 is gone. 612 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,920 Day three is gone. Day four Day 17 A shaft comes 613 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:23,560 crashing through a drill bit. With a camera attached to it and 614 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,720 they wrote a small note on it and stuck it. 615 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,400 All 33 of us are alive. And when the shaft was taken 616 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,080 back, they said, oh, the people are alive, but it took 69 days 617 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,920 before everyone of them came out of the thing. 618 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,400 So after that, probably they must have provided them air to 619 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,440 breathe, water to drink, food to eat. 620 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,280 They must be feeding through the little pipe. 621 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,040 They had to make a separate shaft until they pulled out 622 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,760 every one of them. See 33 people, they saved every 623 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,000 one of them. Everyone came out. 624 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,440 And one of the miners, he said when we were inside, trapped 625 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:07,040 inside, we were not 33 people. We are 34 people because God was 626 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:13,360 with us, because God was with us, I tell you. 627 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:20,280 Problem does not have any color. Problem does not have a name, 628 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,640 does not have preference. Oh, this man is tall, so I will 629 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,720 be favorable to him. This man is short. 630 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,560 I am going to be cruel. Nothing. 631 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,960 Problem itself has got no favorites. 632 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,800 It is the same for everybody, but what we do, how we react to 633 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:41,120 the problem decides the outcome. You can be trapped in the 33 634 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,120 people and you can question God and say where are you? 635 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,840 Are you there, Why are we dying in this place? 636 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,040 Or you can say you are with us and we will wait for your 637 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,000 salvation. We will wait for your salvation. 638 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,560 This is not a cooked up story, this is real story. 639 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,720 In 2010 it happened and I remember reading in the 640 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:06,520 newspapers this every day there is a lot of TV activity going on 641 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,320 trying to give you update. Every morning you will see how 642 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,320 anything happened. Every morning you will wake up 643 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,920 and look up the news and say hey, what's happening today, 644 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,960 69th day, everyone of them came out. 645 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,000 It is a long time, long time to survive and to keep your faith. 646 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,080 And I tell you we are in the same situation, but we have to 647 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:31,800 look to God for our salvation. He is the rock that is following 648 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,080 us. He is the bread who is going to 649 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,280 satisfy us. He is the light. 650 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,360 He is everything to us. And I am telling you after so 651 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,440 many years, one shift that I had to make in my mind to say 652 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:51,280 audibly, very clearly every day several times is Jesus your God. 653 00:42:54,920 --> 00:43:00,000 That photo that you have seen Jesus with a shepherds rod in 654 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,040 his hand, with a lamb in his hand and chucked up when he is 655 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:08,280 the holding in his hand, it has robbed Christ of His divinity. 656 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,920 It has robbed Christ that He is God. 657 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:13,560 You have a picture that He is a Savior. 658 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,360 You have a picture that He is Redeemer. 659 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,000 You have picture that He died for you. 660 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,680 You have picture that He is a shepherd, but you don't have the 661 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:26,800 picture that He is God. What changed for disciples is 662 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,920 precisely this. This Jesus was walking with 663 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,600 them. This Jesus was doing miracles, 664 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,040 was healing the blind, was healing the paralytic who was 665 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,840 healing the leprosy people who was raising the dead, making the 666 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,680 crippled walk. They had to see that he is God 667 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,320 because they heard Yahweh is God and now he is Jesus is God is a 668 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:53,000 big shift and Christians are still like the Jewish people. 669 00:43:54,240 --> 00:44:00,840 God is 1, Jesus is Savior. No, God is 1, Father, Son, the 670 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,160 Holy Spirit and Jesus is God. If you have Jesus, you have the 671 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:09,920 Father and the Holy Spirit. You cannot have one without the 672 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,040 other. And I had to sell tell myself 673 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,920 after so many years, I am telling you now I am a Christian 674 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,600 for nearly 4748 years and now I am saying to Jesus every day, I 675 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:24,200 am saying you are God, you are God, you are God, you are God. 676 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:31,320 And that shifts something like what shifted for the apostles. 677 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,840 Why did they do miracles? Why did they cast out demons? 678 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,680 How did they heal the blind? How did they do the miracles? 679 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,840 Because they made that mental shift that Yahweh is Jesus, 680 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,280 Yahweh is Jesus. He's the one who followed them. 681 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,400 They drank from the rock, the Christ. 682 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,800 Shall we bow our heads in prayer? 683 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:07,780 Father God, I thank you. We humble over the 30 feet. 684 00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:12,900 We have our own story. We have our own struggles. 685 00:45:13,380 --> 00:45:17,980 We have our own questions. We have our own, My Father, the 686 00:45:17,980 --> 00:45:21,700 innate desire to rebel against you, question you, quarrel with 687 00:45:21,700 --> 00:45:24,820 you, argue with you. Oh, my God, we are so foolish. 688 00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:29,760 Forgive us, I have done it a lot so many times in my life. 689 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,560 I pray now for your divine touch. 690 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,880 Holy Spirit, I invite you now to alight upon your children, 691 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,880 expose their heart, show them who they are or they they have a 692 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:51,800 reputation to be solid Christians, like a pillar, but 693 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,840 inside is hollow. And I pray that you feel this 694 00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,040 hollow Ness with your presence, with your glory, with your 695 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,560 power. And I thank you Father, Holy 696 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,120 Spirit, for dwelling in us. Thank you for filling us with 697 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:06,560 your presence. Thank you for filling us with 698 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,920 your power. Oh Lord, I praise you only once 699 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,040 again, Jesus, but we are dwelling in us. 700 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,920 We are one spirit with you and I worship with Jesus. 701 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,480 You are God, you are God, you are God, Yahweh, you are, you 702 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,680 are God. We worship you this time. 703 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:26,840 We praise you Jesus. I command the rock to open for 704 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,640 your children every situation they are going through which is 705 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,720 sounding like a rock they tap on, it sounds like a rock, but I 706 00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,800 command water to come out for them in the name of Jesus. 707 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,840 I command water to come out of rock for your children in the 708 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,360 name of Jesus. Drink deep, be refreshed, 709 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:50,200 castaway your unbelief and put your faith in Him because he is 710 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,360 waiting to show himself. God in our lives. 711 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:58,520 SAR haste barano moravande sambhakare bosaro renima raste 712 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:03,640 saktaro hosanna mahastakuroni. The Lord says only you have the 713 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,760 power to stop the rain. I want to pour the rain on you, 714 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,480 but you have the power to stop it. 715 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:14,440 Change it this morning and say, God, let it rain, let it rain, 716 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,320 let it rain, Let there be light in my life and the darkness will 717 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,560 go. Call out to Him and he wants to 718 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,320 touch you and change the story. Oh me praise you, we praise you, 719 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,240 we praise you this morning. We thank you for your word. 720 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:32,800 May your presence continue to go with us and help us to mediate 721 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,360 upon the scripture before we hit the bed again and bow in your 722 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,240 presence and thank you, for you are the rock that is following 723 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:43,120 us. We worship Jesus in Jesus name. 724 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:47,040 We have asked and everybody says Amen. 725 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,320 Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 726 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,520 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 727 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,520 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 728 00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:57,280 the links below.