1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,760 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,720 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,280 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,840 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,200 today. And. 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,640 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or to find out 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,600 more about Omega, get to our website or Facebook page through 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,520 the next below. Do you? 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,280 That's good. How many of you have enjoyed 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,800 reading NEMA at 12:00 during the week 1? 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,480 Only one hand. Oh, you watch the video. 12 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:41,760 That's good. That's good. 13 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,920 So there are many lessons to learn in this chapter. 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,520 Now, I will not terrify you with the reading the list of names 15 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,960 there first you will have a list of names beginning with verse 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,200 one. Onwards rather. 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:07,280 Yeah, from 1:00 to verse 7, you have about 22 names there. 18 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,520 How many names? 22. 19 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,400 Now if you if you have read it carefully, chapter 12, you will 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,000 see these names again repeated in verse 12 to 22. 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,200 But the only difference here is it will it will start like let's 22 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,760 say you see my name in the first portion of chapter 12. 23 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:36,080 Next you will see again in second list from the House of 24 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:43,000 Ramana Matthias. Am I making sense? 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,480 So that is first list is of the tribal leaders, family leaders 26 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,440 who were who came back along with you see in the chapter 12 27 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,080 verse one, these were the priests and levers who returned 28 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:03,240 from Zerbabel along with Zerbabel son of Shaltiel and 29 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,280 with Joshua. So he was a leader and he came 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,160 to Jerusalem from captivity. And when did it happen? 31 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:19,040 538 BC, 538 BC. Now the list again starting in 32 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,520 verse 12 on verse to 22 is talking about a time that is 400 33 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,160 and 4544 BC. So that's nearly 100 years. 34 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,160 So in this 100 years, the names you see in the first list are 35 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,960 not the same. It is second list having the son 36 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:44,840 or son, son or the descendant. But why does why does it matter? 37 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,720 Why should we study all these things in detail? 38 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,080 Number one is that God cares for every individual. 39 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,480 He cares for you. And some of us may not even have 40 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,800 grandchildren, but he cares for them as well in the future. 41 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,240 He is God only, not your God, but is God of your children and 42 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,440 children's children and children's children forever. 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,560 This is very important for us to know. 44 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,280 And when you know this truth, there is joy in your heart to 45 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,440 know a God who who is beyond timeline and who can touch you 46 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:30,760 and your family forever. I seek comfort in that verse, 47 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:37,600 not confusion, disorder, names, all these different difficult to 48 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,200 pronounce names. But beyond those names is this 49 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,720 God who says I was with him, I am with you now. 50 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,040 God of Moses is also God of Joshua. 51 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,920 God of Abraham is God of Jacob and Isaac and Jacob, every 52 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,480 succeeding generation. He is a living God. 53 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,400 Hallelujah. Yeah. 54 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,800 So leaders listed there, they all came back in 538 BC And then 55 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,000 who are the people who came back? 56 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,120 Is the people who came back were priests and Lee whites? 57 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,600 What about the common people? We don't see much about them 58 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:24,440 here, but the people who are elected, the priests and the 59 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,840 leavers, are elected by God for a particular purpose, that is to 60 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,320 serve him. Even though they went into 61 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,680 captivity, they didn't lose their vision. 62 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,960 They went into captivity, but they didn't lose their vision. 63 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,440 They are a peculiar people elected by God to live for him, 64 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,200 to serve him. And when the opportunity came, 65 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,400 they grabbed it and said we are going back to Jerusalem. 66 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,520 You're going back to Jerusalem. What about the other 11 tribes? 67 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,480 We don't hear much about them. But the point I'm trying to make 68 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,280 here is we must be like the Levites. 69 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,720 We must be like the priests who long for the House of God, who 70 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,680 long to come back and serve God in the House of God. 71 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,480 That's all. Who is a Christian? 72 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,320 One who not only knows Jesus Savior, but one who wants to 73 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,600 live for Him and serve Him. It's not optional. 74 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:28,200 Whatever way you do, whatever you do, your life, your 75 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,600 testimony, your words counts before God. 76 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,560 He's looking forward what you can bring to Him, what you can 77 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,400 bring to Him always. God is not going to be surprised 78 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,640 because He, without moving his eyes, can see into the past, 79 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,840 into the future. If I had to look right, I had to 80 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:53,200 turn my head, I had to look left, I had to turn my eyes, my 81 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,360 head for God. He can be in the same place and 82 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,800 see this side and that side. Now knowing God is really 83 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,360 amazing. I tell you, when you know God, 84 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,720 there's no you will not be tired of thinking about him. 85 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,920 It just energizes you. It puts hope, it gives you 86 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,360 courage, it gives you clarity, it gives you confidence, it 87 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:21,000 gives you faith. Knowing God, there's no, it's 88 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,760 just amazing. I tell you, the Holy Spirit is 89 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,320 here right now. Even as I'm speaking those 90 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:33,040 words, He's just here. So you see what what we see here 91 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,520 is that you have to skip back some of these words. 92 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:46,660 I mean verses. Yeah, let's in the second list 93 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:49,740 of people, you see only 20 names in the first list. 94 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:52,780 I said you had 22 names. Two names are missing. 95 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,520 Why? So I sat down to check every 96 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,000 name by name and I found one name having two names. 97 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,600 So that makes 21, not 20. So 1 is missing. 98 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,360 So this can be a scribal error when the people are copying the 99 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,520 scripture. That must have gone missing. 100 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,160 Somebody who made a copy must have missed one name anyway, but 101 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,040 that doesn't make any huge difference to the teaching of 102 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:31,200 the Scripture. OK, so and another thing about 103 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,200 this list is this list is made during a time it says here in 104 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,120 verse 22. The family heads of the Levites 105 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:44,680 in the days of Ilyashim, Zoeda, Johanan, Jadua, as well as those 106 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,720 of the priests were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian. 107 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,200 So why is that detail important? It is to say that it is 108 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,280 historical record. It's not a somebody has sat down 109 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,800 and had a lots of pizza and wrote down this book. 110 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:07,600 No, it is not like that. It's historical record and 111 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,040 that's why we depend on the Scripture. 112 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,640 As I told you in the morning, every word in the scripture is 113 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,920 inspired by the Holy Spirit. It has power. 114 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,800 Like I just remembered I was having this pain in the shoulder 115 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,280 and put my hand there. I don't know why I said it. 116 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,680 I simply said I tossed the sandal on you. 117 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,800 Actually, I said Felicity, I thought that's what was in my 118 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:36,760 mind and the pain just left. I said, what is this in this 119 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,400 verse? Is there power in this verse? 120 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,280 I didn't know it and then when I went into the bed, I said, maybe 121 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,800 I must check that verse. So again, I pulled up my duvet 122 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,200 and then grabbed my phone and typed it and said, where is this 123 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,240 verse? Psalm 68, eight. 124 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,960 It says I toss my sandal on you, Edom. 125 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,080 Oh, OK, I got a little detail wrong so I corrected myself. 126 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,440 But I praise God for the healing. 127 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,760 So every word is important. So the lists are also important. 128 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,520 I'm not going to take this too much about the lists of the 129 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,760 names, but it is important. Why is important is historical 130 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:21,000 and it it makes the story of the Bible true because you can 131 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,120 pinpoint said this man had this son and that son had another son 132 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,640 is historical. That's why Matthew chapter 1 is 133 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,960 important and Luke is important. That genealogical record is very 134 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,800 important because Jesus is not a figment of imagination of 135 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,920 somebody. He is a historical person, God 136 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,040 invading history in person, space and time. 137 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,520 So that's why it is important. Cool. 138 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,320 So now what happened? The dedication of the walls. 139 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,400 So in order to dedicate the walls, so far we have not seen 140 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:56,960 the record of how it was dedicated. 141 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,680 But now Nehemiah is recounting the dedication of the wall that 142 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:03,000 is starting from verse 27 at the dedication of the wall of 143 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,720 Jerusalem, the levers were sought out from where they lived 144 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,360 and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully and, and the 145 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,880 dedication with songs of Thanksgiving and with the music 146 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:20,320 of symbols, harps and liars. Have you seen a lyre? 147 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:27,000 Have you seen a symbol half? OK, let's look at some pictures 148 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:35,800 next one that's a symbol. 2 brass pieces a little elevated 149 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,800 in the centre and then you have a knot inside to keep that loop. 150 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,960 And then when you bring them together, make ching ching ching 151 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,960 noise. Christians have stopped using 152 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,240 the symbols, I think, but somebody else uses. 153 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,480 When you see some procession on the streets, Hindus, they use 154 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:59,560 symbols quite a lot. And then harp, that's the 155 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,960 David's harp. And that is how he was. 156 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,960 He became known as a young lad who knows how to play a harp. 157 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,840 And when King Saul was having a problem, they said we know a boy 158 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,040 who can play this harp so that the madness that is driving Saul 159 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,640 can go down. So he was called to the king so 160 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,000 he can minister to him. Whenever he had attack of the 161 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,680 enemy, whenever the evil spirits are tormenting him, they would 162 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,400 sing the songs of God and that will give relief to king. 163 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,360 That's the harp. And then you have the liar, 164 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,680 which is similar kind of a thing but different shape. 165 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 A string instrument and strings would vary in number. 166 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,640 Some had 16 strings and some had different number of strings, but 167 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,560 these are different instruments. In the Bible you will see about 168 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:55,560 22 different instruments being used to worship God, but in this 169 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:59,320 list you see only three listed here, symbols half and lyre. 170 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:05,080 And somebody also uses a trumpet 4 we see in this chapter, but 171 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,360 there are many other instruments. 172 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,240 Why is it important is first thing is the leavers were living 173 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,040 everywhere scattered. They were not just centered in 174 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,440 Jerusalem. They were scattered in the 175 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,200 tribes of Israel. Wherever the different tribes 176 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,560 are there, they will be scattered different places. 177 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,920 So now they had to be brought to one place. 178 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,920 They were brought from outside Jerusalem to Jerusalem so they 179 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,560 can participate in the dedication of the walls. 180 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,960 OK. And second thing that you see 181 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:38,560 here is this has to be purified before you can dedicate the 182 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,080 words. They have to be purified. 183 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:45,040 So what are the things they purified was 30 when the priests 184 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,560 and the levers had purified themselves ceremonially. 185 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,760 They purified the people, the gates and the wall. 186 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,640 What an awesome word you're saying. 187 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,440 So what is this man saying? What is also about it? 188 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,600 What is also about this is everything that belongs to God 189 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,680 has to be purified. The city of God has to be 190 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,720 purified, walls have to be purified, temple has to be 191 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,560 purified, people have to be purified. 192 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:17,720 Before all these things, the priests and levers who are going 193 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,840 to minister, they must be pure, they must be purified. 194 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,160 So how is this purification done? 195 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,480 The purification part is when they sacrifice the animal the 196 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,680 blood is collected and that blood they will sometimes use a 197 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,680 plant called Hissop and they dip it in the blood and sprinkle on 198 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:43,200 the people. And this happened several times. 199 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,120 One of the times I remember is in the book of Exodus chapter 200 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,480 19. Before the law was given, Moses 201 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,480 had to offer sacrifices through young men, and they carried the 202 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,240 blood. And what did Moses do? 203 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,880 He sprinkled the blood on the law, the tablets that were 204 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,680 written by the hand of God, Finger of God. 205 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,960 He sprinkled it with that, the blood to make the law holy. 206 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,400 And the people to whom it is read, they must be made holy. 207 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,160 So he sprinkled the people with the blood. 2 million people. 208 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:23,200 How do you sprinkle the blood? My imagination kicks in there, 209 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,240 you see. So you have this large number of 210 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,560 Levites, hundreds and hundreds of them, and they were all 211 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,720 sanctified. First they will sprinkle the 212 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,920 blood on the Levites. They are sanctified and they 213 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,800 have bowls, golden balls full of this blood, collected and 214 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,800 diluted with water, and each one given a hissop. 215 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,240 And they rush into the people, and wherever they find people, 216 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,960 they keep sprinkling on them. 2 million people. 217 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:55,360 You have to sanctify them, purify them, and I tell you, we 218 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,960 have this worship team. You cannot have worship if they 219 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:04,120 are not purified. They must be those who know 220 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,160 Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life and the ones that are 221 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,280 filled with the Holy Spirit and then they are able to minister. 222 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,200 This is one of the criteria we put that anybody can sing, 223 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,440 anybody can play a musical instrument, and people will say, 224 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,080 huh, why don't you make them do? Why don't you make them do? 225 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,080 Do they know the Lord? OK, that's good. 226 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,840 Praise God, they know the Lord. Are you filled with the Holy 227 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,800 Spirit? They speak in tongues. 228 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,280 And then we say sometimes we relax it for some more desperate 229 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,280 conditions. But now everybody speaks in 230 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:44,280 tongues here. And after that what we see is 231 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,760 that they had to be holy. They had to be purified. 232 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,920 They must their mind, their thoughts, how to be purified. 233 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,200 I'm telling you, if we are not holy, you can play music, you 234 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,520 can sing, it will be just a noise. 235 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,360 And some of the people who come into the church, when they walk 236 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,440 in, the first thing they notice and say is we feel the presence 237 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,640 of God in Omega and we pray for it through the week. 238 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,560 I say, God, we need a glory to fill the church. 239 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,840 Let everybody feel your presence. 240 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,880 We pray for it that the that the Lord will be here and minister 241 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,920 to people when they walk into the church. 242 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,280 So that is how the whole when when the city, the walls had to 243 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,360 be purified. The people have to be purified 244 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,280 and the whole city has to be purified because the holy city 245 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,240 and that is what the church is today. 246 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,280 Unfortunately, not every church is holy. 247 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,600 You can say or I went into the sorns a place and there were so 248 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,640 beautiful worship, but we didn't feel the presence. 249 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,880 That's because they individually have to be set apart for God. 250 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,440 They should set them just apart for God and say, God, Holy 251 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,839 Spirit, dwell in me. Let my singing, let my music 252 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,640 bring glory to your name. And as I yield to God, that is 253 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,440 sanctified by the Holy Spirit and they will become acceptable 254 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,280 to God. Am I speaking too much about 255 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,240 these things? Just a minimum, standard 256 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,120 minimum. And you will see another thing 257 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:35,920 here is the word used here is song dedication with songs of 258 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,760 Thanksgiving. Song in Hebrew is Shiv. 259 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:46,360 Shiv is song, but this Shiv song is it is sung in praise. 260 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,680 Usually it's poetic and prophetic. 261 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Songs are poetic and prophetic. They are not just words. 262 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,520 So when you sing the songs, meditate on the words that you 263 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:04,240 see on the screen. Meditate on the words and as you 264 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,200 sing, that is how the Holy Spirit ministers to you. 265 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,160 It's not just you sing, make noise, go away. 266 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:16,400 No meditate on the meaning of the words you sing and the Holy 267 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,720 Spirit who is inside you will say that is what I'm doing in 268 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,080 your life. That is what I'm going to do in 269 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,000 your life. That is what I'm doing in the 270 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,440 church. He will witness in your spirit 271 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:33,240 that singing that is involving your soul, your mind and your 272 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,480 spirit in singing to God. So sheer is a Son. 273 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,280 Praise, poetic and prophetic and then you have the word 274 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,560 Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving you see several 275 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,080 times in the scripture, I think in this chapter, maybe a dozen 276 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:52,760 times, you'll see Thanksgiving. Without Thanksgiving, all your 277 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,400 worship and praise is of no meaning. 278 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,240 Thanksgiving is the at the center of the heart of a 279 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,080 believer. You need to be thankful to God 280 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,440 for everything. Even the breath that you have. 281 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,600 You need to be thankful to God. And the Hebrew word used is 282 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,400 teda. Theta is it's connected to 283 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,800 another Hebrew word called yada. What is this Theta? 284 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,560 And yada, It's basically when you are Thanksgiving, you are 285 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,760 doing is what you do is you throw your hands. 286 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:25,960 It literally says throw in your hands. 287 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:36,520 You just move your hands up in the air and to God and say, God, 288 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:43,320 I honor you. How many of us are so not? 289 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,160 Don't want to, You just want to be static. 290 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,920 Lift your hands up. Why do you have to lift your 291 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,640 hands up? You do something with your body. 292 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,560 Your spirit responds to what your body does. 293 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,560 Your spirit responds to what your body does. 294 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,760 That's the reason why you need to lift your hands up and your 295 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,200 voice has to be out. Not mumbling, singing to 296 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,600 yourself. No, you're singing to God. 297 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,440 Actually, I found something interesting about singing to 298 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,840 God. I was, I used, I used the song 299 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,440 ABBA. In the song he says ABBA, it is 300 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,520 so long unless you are a singer, you can't hold your breath and 301 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,440 finish along with him. But one of the things he says in 302 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,320 the first stanza is your thoughts define me and you dwell 303 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,880 inside me. I said, If he's dwelling inside 304 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,960 me, why would I have to say ABBA as if he's millions of 305 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:55,400 kilometers away? I, I allow some a concession for 306 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,720 it because that is just help you to connect with God. 307 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,080 You're singing that way, but because he's inside living 308 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,880 inside you, he starts to define you. 309 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,760 He's so close. He's close on the skin on your 310 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,920 bones, closer than the song on your tongue. 311 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,800 Beautiful song. Every day I sing it. 312 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:17,120 Every day I get new thoughts and that is the stamp of inspiration 313 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,720 of the Holy Spirit. When God minister to you through 314 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,880 a song, that is the sign that He inspired the song. 315 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,000 Any new song you sing it, you hear it. 316 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,000 First question to ask, has it ministered to you? 317 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,360 Yes, Forrest Pit has inspired the song. 318 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,960 So many songs you can sing and nothing happens. 319 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,400 It's just a song, just a song. Anyway, let me move. 320 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:57,240 When am I going to finish Harps, symbols, liars, you know, we 321 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,280 actually need more people to use them instruments. 322 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,040 So what actually happens here is what Neymar did later on. 323 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,200 And you see here is in verse 40, it says 2 choirs that gave 324 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,360 thanks then took their places in the House of God. 325 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,400 So what he did, he divided them into two groups basically. 326 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,640 So let's go to that map again, please. 327 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,000 Not the other one. Go back. 328 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:31,200 Oh yeah, that's the one. Now you remember this about what 329 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,000 he said about the walls being constructed. 330 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,680 First thing you see his name. I have went to inspect the walls 331 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,640 in the night. He took a donkey with him and he 332 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,920 started off from this somewhere here. 333 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,280 Tower Howens and the Valley gate, that green thing on the 334 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,320 left, he came down and he got stuck here and he had to leave 335 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,920 the donkey there and walk because there was number. 336 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,920 It was a rubble. He had to leave the donkey 337 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,720 there. So, you know, the walls were not 338 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,560 in a very good condition when he first came. 339 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,360 Second, when they were rebuilding Sun Balan and Tobi, 340 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,440 when they came to him. And what did they say? 341 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,640 Hey, what are you doing? Even if a fox jumps on it, the 342 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,720 wall is going to crumble down. That means its not going to be 343 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,080 very strong. You're just wasting your breath 344 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,160 and your energy. Don't continue doing what you're 345 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,720 doing. The same walls. 346 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,400 Now you have got people walking on the walls. 347 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,600 One team begins from the valley gate on the left side of the 348 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,800 gate goes down singing up through and they come up to the 349 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,360 tower of 100. Just on the right you have 350 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,320 another gate through the sheep gate. 351 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,840 You enter into the temple and another team went from same here 352 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,080 and Nehemiah accompanied them. They went up the north and came 353 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,920 down through and enter the temple. 354 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,720 There two teams and they are blowing musical instruments, 355 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:07,240 halves, lion symbols, dancing joy. 356 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,840 I tell you, it's glorious to imagine that though you, it 357 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,480 happened so many hundreds of years ago. 358 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,440 If you can just sit down and imagine the walls, 2.4 359 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,880 kilometers covered by these two teams, maybe in an hour or so 360 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,080 probably or because they are not just rushing, they are not on a 361 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,760 running race, they are just walking on the walls praising 362 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,720 God. They were sanctified, they were 363 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,080 purified and everything. The walls are purified, people 364 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,560 are purified, the priests and levers are purified, and the 365 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,920 song they're singing is purified too. 366 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,600 It assents to God and that brings joy to the people. 367 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:51,120 That brings joy to the people and they enter in and the word 368 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:55,320 they use is antiphonally. Antiphonally is somebody sings 369 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,640 one verse and the other team stands opposite to them and they 370 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,480 sing another verse and this people will sing the third 371 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,720 verse. They sing the fourth verse 2 372 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,920 teams together are singing there in the temple of God. 373 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,400 Am I able to communicate something or what happened 374 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,680 hundreds of years ago? I tell you, we need more people 375 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,000 to do that, not just the same 2-3 people. 376 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,440 We can't do that. We need more people to get 377 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:27,600 involved in worshipping God and it is possible if we have a 378 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,200 will, there's a way. OK, so let's just think about 379 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,600 it, pray about it and see how we can be involved to worship God 380 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,920 together. There has to be joy in it. 381 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,120 Its not something I had to do it. 382 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,720 No, there has to be joy in it. Cool. 383 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:50,840 So now these people, the leaders of Judah go up on the top of the 384 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,320 wall. I also assigned 2 large choirs 385 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,000 to give thanks. One wants to proceed on the top 386 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,120 of the wall to the right toward the Dung Gate Hosa, and he gives 387 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,360 a list of people and the other one will go from northward and 388 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:06,640 go into the temple and they meet together and worship God. 389 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,400 Cool. Now why should this be done? 390 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,680 OK, they did the dedication of wall. 391 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,640 What does it mean? Dedication of the wall means 392 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:24,280 that this city that was in rubble, walls burned down, gets 393 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,640 burned down, walls thrown down, stones are all scattered. 394 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,040 Now. God had given grace to rebuild, 395 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:37,320 to make them feel proud of it. Basically, before there was no 396 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,520 pride. You are living in Jerusalem. 397 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,760 We are not proud of it because there's no protection. 398 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,120 And now the city has protection and you can be proud that you 399 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,400 belong to this place. And this is a place that God has 400 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,880 put his name, the glory into the city. 401 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,240 So now you're you're declaring something to the people around 402 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,760 before you are ashamed, but now you are not ashamed. 403 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,840 And instead you have got a lot of hope and you've got courage, 404 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,160 you've got strength and faith. That is why you're dedicating 405 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,200 the was it is a notice to all the enemies. 406 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,760 Before they wanted to stop the building. 407 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,160 They want to come and attack, but now it is complete and they 408 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,600 cannot do anything about it. And I tell you, this is the way 409 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,800 Jesus did upon the cross is he has done everything needed and 410 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,560 he said he's finished. And when you know that it is 411 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,280 finished, you know that the devil cannot do anything. 412 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,120 You know that the snakes, scorpion, all the power, the 413 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:45,600 enemy cannot resist you, they cannot resist you. 414 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,880 Why? You are resting on the finished 415 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,840 work of the cross. Your dedication of the temple is 416 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,240 like that. What happened to the Jewish 417 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,000 people with the dedicated to the temple? 418 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,240 It should happen to you when you think of the cross. 419 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:13,200 Cool. And then we see one more thing 420 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,880 in verse 26. They served in the days of Joy 421 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,800 Akim son of Joshua, son of Zozo Zardak, and in the days of 422 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,960 Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe many small 423 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,560 details. I'm not going to tell you the 424 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,000 names of Ezra is mentioned in the first few verses and again 425 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,520 here, but there are two different Ezras. 426 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,440 They are not the same Ezra like that. 427 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,320 So interestingly, next thing that we have to think about is 428 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,800 Thanksgiving is very important and what you see here in verse 429 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,360 43. And on that day they offered 430 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,640 great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great 431 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,760 joy. The women and the children also 432 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,280 rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in 433 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,960 Jerusalem could be heard far away. 434 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:15,480 Do people see joy on your face? Do people sense joy in your 435 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:21,120 voice when you meet people when you go to work, how was how was 436 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,360 your week? How was on a Monday morning you 437 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,960 meet them? How, how was your week? 438 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,520 Ah, just another week. There's no joy in it. 439 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,680 But if you're a child of God, there has to be joy and that 440 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,920 should be visible. But basically here what they 441 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,680 have done here is they had given sacrifices, they offer 442 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:48,280 sacrifices and then rejoicing because God had given them great 443 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,680 joy. So joy, what is the source of 444 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,200 joy? God had given them great joy. 445 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,160 Has He given you the great joy? Can we rejoice in it? 446 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,840 Yes. Amen. 447 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,600 Then who rejoiced? Women, children also rejoiced. 448 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:11,200 Oh, it's only not for men only, OK, It's for the whole family. 449 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,600 Everybody has to rejoice because God is the one who is giving you 450 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,000 the joy. And then sound of rejoicing in 451 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,040 Jerusalem could be heard far away when they were singing in 452 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,640 the temple. Far away, 2 kilometers, 3 453 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,960 kilometers, they can hear the sound that is happening in 454 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,640 Jerusalem. I tell you, this should be the 455 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,560 experience of church. This should be the experience of 456 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,600 the church when you worship people walk going on the street 457 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,640 should hear that there's something happening here and 458 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,560 they should pull their car, park the car on the roadside, come 459 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,960 walking in to see why are these people making a noise here? 460 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:56,240 Cool. And then you see here, when all 461 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,360 these things were happening, people were became. 462 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,960 Basically, when you become conscious of presence of God, 463 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,360 when you want to respond to God, when you want to live for God, 464 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,520 certain things happen. One of the things is giving. 465 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,360 I don't know why I've been talking about giving so much. 466 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,800 We don't talk so much about giving generally, but here you 467 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,440 see, at that time men were appointed to be in charge of the 468 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,160 storerooms for the contributions, first fruits and 469 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,680 tithes from the fields around the towns. 470 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,760 They were to bring into the storerooms the portions required 471 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,240 by the law for the priests and the livers, for Judah was 472 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,320 pleased with the ministering priests and Levites. 473 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,120 So the people are happy with what the what is happening in 474 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,880 the temple of God. And they were giving liberally. 475 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,920 They're bringing their tithes first fruits, all kinds of 476 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,760 offerings they're bringing. And now what they were doing is 477 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,040 they performed the service of their God and the service of 478 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,280 purifications as it also singles and gatekeepers according to the 479 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,240 commands of David and his son Solomon. 480 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,520 Now they had to appoint people to do this. 481 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,560 So what they did was the Levites were scattered everywhere. 482 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,120 So people will bring the tithes and offerings to the Levites and 483 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,480 the Levites would take a tithe of it and bring it to Aaron's 484 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,720 sons or the priests in the temple. 485 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,560 And every need is met to run the temple to maintain it. 486 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,440 Money would come through all these things. 487 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,360 So there was number lack. What? 488 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,960 Why is it important to study in Nehemiah chapter 12 about these 489 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,400 things? Because the temple was not 490 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,280 running as it should run. The walls were broken down and 491 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,160 the gates were burned down. So now when that is being 492 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,360 restored, the religion in general is also restored. 493 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,040 When the walls are restored, religious life becomes restored. 494 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,520 And they were happily giving to the Lord out of joy. 495 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,120 And. One more important thing that we 496 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:06,480 need to see here is that faith following generations through 497 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,560 through intergenerational bridges, It is not just one 498 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,880 people who live and enjoy God and they die and the faith 499 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,400 disappears. No, it's not that. 500 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,400 It is generation to generation to generation. 501 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,720 It continues and we have to be like that. 502 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,560 This is the model, scriptural model. 503 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,000 We must pass on our faith to our children and they should pass on 504 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,440 their faith to their children. It just goes on sometimes. 505 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,040 In bidding May. Go wrong. 506 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,840 I am not saying this is a perfect model, but may not 507 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,360 always happen that way. But that should be the aim. 508 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,600 That should be our prayer. Cool. 509 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,320 Anything else? So many things I wrote down here 510 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:54,920 but OK. Now what I want to share 511 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,040 basically. Is we will go into the communion 512 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,480 part, but before we go into the communion part, I want to share 513 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,800 something. Can we? 514 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,520 Have a scripture on the. Screen please. 515 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:14,199 John, 663. I have been six chapter. 6 verse 516 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,840 63 I've been. Looking for our whole week? 517 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,120 For this communion, we I'm quite. 518 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,600 Excited to share with. You what God has been doing in 519 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,239 my life and that is what he wanted to do through your life. 520 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:33,360 663 What basically happened in the beginning of the chapter you 521 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:39,280 see that Jesus had multiplied bread and the fish and fed 5000 522 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,159 people and people are longing for this bread and fish to be 523 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,960 filled with. He said don't look for the food 524 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,639 that perishes and ultimately in in one place. 525 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:54,040 He said I am the bread of life. Moses gave them bread the your 526 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:57,000 your forefathers aid manna in the wilderness. 527 00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:58,840 You thought Moses gave the bread. 528 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,720 No, it's my heavenly Father who gave the bread to them and I am 529 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,600 the bread that has come down from heaven. 530 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,760 He. Was making big big. 531 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,800 Claims and people are just cannot just assimilate or 532 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,640 understand what he was saying to them basically. 533 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,960 And then at one point he says, unless you eat my flesh and 534 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,880 drink my blood, you cannot have life in yourself. 535 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,200 And they said what? Are you promoting cannibalism? 536 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,240 Do you want us to eat human flesh? 537 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,040 He said. Ah. 538 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,360 You're offended about. What I said, What if you see Son 539 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:46,000 of Man ascend to the Father and be seated there on the right 540 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,320 hand side? So what he was trying to say is 541 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,080 you are not eating my physical flesh, you are not drinking my 542 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,480 physical blood. But what I'm saying to you is 543 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,520 metaphorical. You will have to learn to feed 544 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,400 on me as you feed on the bread, as you eat your breakfast, lunch 545 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,680 and dinner. You have to feed on my finished 546 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,720 work on the cross. I have died for you to give you 547 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:10,880 life, and you are going to make that your food. 548 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,520 You're going to make that your drink. 549 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,920 It is. If you stop eating for a week or 550 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,200 two weeks, you're going to die. So you need to be. 551 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,960 Feeding on me all the time and. In 663. 552 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,840 He clarified and said, the spirit gives life, flesh counts 553 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,200 for nothing. The words I have spoken to you, 554 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,480 they are full of spirit and life. 555 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,560 Now some of us may say, ha I know this verse. 556 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,480 Did I know this verse? I do know the verse as well for 557 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,080 a long time, but since about a month or so this has come alive 558 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,480 to me. What? 559 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,360 Does what did this was. Do to me when I'm facing 560 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,360 difficult situations where I'm praying but not getting a 561 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,880 breakthrough for people and when I'm casting your demons is not 562 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,920 going, that's the time when one day the Lords brought this to my 563 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,360 mind. I eat his flesh. 564 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,520 I. Drink his blood. 565 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,120 His words are they are full of spirit and life. 566 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,760 I have His spirit in me. I have His life in me. 567 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,600 He is the one who is dwelling in me. 568 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,120 Because when He raised Lazarus, what did he say? 569 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:27,680 I am the resurrection and life. So He is living in me. 570 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,800 When I eat His blood, when I eat His flesh and drink His blood, 571 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,840 by faith He is going to live in me, and when I. 572 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,400 Remembered these things. And I said, I released that 573 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,000 anointing of God in the name of Jesus. 574 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,800 Bang the devil left. I saw it in, not. 575 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,480 One case, second case, third case, 4th case. 576 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,840 I said, oh, why did I not do this all these years? 577 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,200 I've been a Christian for nearly 48 years now I'm learning this 578 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,200 lesson that is never. Too late to learn the. 579 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,360 Lesson. If you're younger than me, that 580 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,960 is fine. Learn it now. 581 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,400 Eat his flesh, drink his blood, Smith. 582 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,880 Wigglesworth used to have comedian. 583 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,000 Several times a day or two or three times, whatever number and 584 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,400 lot of people have been influenced by human, they do 585 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,160 communion every day and there's no power. 586 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,760 My question is doing communion is not wrong or right. 587 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:27,080 Is there power in your life? If that is missing, then you can 588 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,600 eat any number of, not just a piece of bread. 589 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,360 You can eat the whole loaf if there's no. 590 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,560 Power. It's no good. 591 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,440 So this is what I'm trying to say is you develop that 592 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,040 consciousness that when you are eating his, the bread, piece of 593 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,800 bread, you are feeding into his flesh and we will drink the 594 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,680 juice. You are drinking his blood and 595 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,920 you are receiving his life in you. 596 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,120 And that life, when you release it, is going to open the eyes of 597 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,880 the blind, is going to make the deaf ear down, speak lame walk, 598 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:59,640 is going to raise the dead. Now next question I want. 599 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,720 To ask is how is it useful to me? 600 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:07,080 You might be asking, think of let's think of a food processor 601 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,240 I. Say put the food processor. 602 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:14,720 Here and switch it on and it's going on making 24 hours. 603 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,800 Is it any good to you to run the food processor 24 hours? 604 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,600 No. You want to make a dough to make 605 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,880 the pizza. You check the flour and the oil 606 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,240 and the salt and the water train. 607 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:32,960 You start the machine one minute the dough is ready and switch it 608 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,800 off and take the dough and proof it and then you make the pizza. 609 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:39,560 What am I? Trying to say here. 610 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:47,720 Use it as often as you need. It's not going to be buzzing. 611 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,840 All the time in your house, 24 hours, because you have a 612 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,560 machine there. You don't have to make it run 613 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,880 all the time, but when you need to make pizza, you're going to 614 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,320 use it. So when? 615 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,360 You are praying for people. Become conscious. 616 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,800 Feed on him, become conscious that is living in you and 617 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,240 release the power and see healing happen, deliverance 618 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:13,520 happen. You have the authority. 619 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,400 To trade upon snakes, scorpion, all the power of the enemy. 620 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,120 That's what we are going to do today. 621 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,280 When you pick up the piece of bread and juice, come back to 622 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,040 your seats after after we have partaken in it, you have eaten 623 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:32,040 his flesh and drunk his blood. His life has come, his spirit 624 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,000 has come into you. And then you are going to say I 625 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,480 trampled down snakes carpet. All the power, the enemy 626 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,400 principalities, powers, the rules of darkness become his 627 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,800 high place. That problem that is challenging 628 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,720 you, the job that is giving you trouble, the relationship that 629 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,880 is giving you problem, bring it under the blood of crash and 630 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,240 trample down. The enemy is not your wife or 631 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,240 husband who is your enemy. It is the enemy that's devil. 632 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,800 Trample him down and your relationship will improve. 633 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,800 Is it? Does it make sense? 634 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:05,880 Let's. Have a meaningful coming in. 635 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:13,360 Today, OK, you can go to there are two tables, one on the back 636 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,000 one here. You can feel free to go grab and 637 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,720 come back to your seats and we will continue the thing. 638 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,320 Thank you Jesus. Rika raba Rana saktar este. 639 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,640 Kura vashana mastere. Rihanna, Mastan. 640 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,120 Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 641 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,680 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 642 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:48,640 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. We give you glory, honor and 643 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,560 praise. Thank you Jesus 644 00:42:11,630 --> 00:42:15,030 surely pray for the. Elements Father, we thank you 645 00:42:15,030 --> 00:42:19,110 for your son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we thank you for. 646 00:42:19,110 --> 00:42:21,550 His death upon the Cross. We thank you for this direction. 647 00:42:21,550 --> 00:42:23,790 We thank you for His ascension to the right hand side of the 648 00:42:23,790 --> 00:42:26,560 Father. We praise you, we praise you, we 649 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,480 praise you Jesus. For you conquer sin and death 650 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,320 and Satan for us. We worship, we honor you. 651 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,080 We thank you for the privilege you have given us to partake in 652 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,560 your body and your blood, to receive your life and spirit as 653 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,960 you partake in it. Fill us with your life. 654 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:46,200 You live in US and let your power fill us to the glory of 655 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,480 your name and in the authority of the name of Jesus. 656 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,080 Whatever we trample down, help us to be set free from that 657 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:58,040 challenge of the health, that sickness or the relationships or 658 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,800 the problems, whatever is really troubling us as we trample down 659 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,600 snakes, swapping all the power of the enemy, set us free. 660 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,520 Help us to experience answer to our prayer to the glory of your 661 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,960 name. Thank you for your body and the 662 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,880 blood in Jesus mighty name. Let's partake with Thanksgiving. 663 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:56,700 So now that you have partaken in the. 664 00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:58,420 Body and the bread of this. What have you got? 665 00:43:59,660 --> 00:44:05,960 You have got his life and spirit now. 666 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,000 Trample down. Snake, scarf and all the 667 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,600 following. Be loud and clear. 668 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,560 Make that movement, trample down, stand up. 669 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,760 If you feel like standing up, standing up and bring that 670 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,640 problem that is causing you problem, that problem. 671 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,000 Put it under your feet and command the Satan to live in the 672 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,280 name of Jesus. He has to go because you, the 673 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,280 Jesus in you, is going to defeat that enemy, set you free. 674 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:31,840 He is going to lead you into victory. 675 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,400 He is going to heal you. He is going to set you free. 676 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,320 He is going to put joy in your heart that your body, soul and 677 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,360 spirit is being sanctified, purified by His body and the 678 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,400 blood. Your body has become a living 679 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,520 temple of the Holy Spirit and you have the power of God 680 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,040 dwelling in you and nothing can defeat you. 681 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,800 Nothing can defeat you, nothing can defeat you. 682 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,560 You are a conqueror in the name of Jesus. 683 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,840 Let's give thanks. Let's be. 684 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,720 Vocal, strong, loud and clear. Thank God for the victory. 685 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:07,600 Thank God for the healing. Thank God for delivered. 686 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,680 Next one minute is yours. Rasia saktaroni Marana secto 687 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,400 Bora bashanda bhaste San America. 688 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,160 Sanda Barano Horoboni Saktarani re rabashaka. 689 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,200 Sakarasaka re Barani. Oh we thank you Lord. 690 00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:24,360 We have one flesh with you, my Father. 691 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,040 We have become one with you. We are in union with you. 692 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,480 We thank you for the privilege of giving us a party, taking 693 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,200 your body and the blood. We thank you for the life and 694 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,200 the spirit of Christ that is coming to us. 695 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,560 Our bodies are living temple for you now. 696 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,520 We trample down snakes, capped all the powers, enemy, peace, 697 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,720 parities, powers, rules of darkness, wickedness in high 698 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,600 places. We trample you down. 699 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,080 We trample you down. Territorial spirits that are 700 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,880 assigned against Omega, we trample you down. 701 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,960 You will not stop the chest from flourishing. 702 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,880 You will not stop the chest from growing. 703 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,360 In the name of Jesus, the gospel shall go from here to the rest 704 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,040 of the city to the glory of your name. 705 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,240 We worship you, we honor you. We thank you for your living 706 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:05,000 God. We thank you for the joy you 707 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,000 have given us to partake in your body and the blood. 708 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,920 We worship you, we praise you. Lord, let your children be 709 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,200 blessed this morning. Let them go home with great joy, 710 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,000 because you are living in them. In the name of. 711 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:23,240 Jesus, we have asked. And everybody says Amen, Amen. 712 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,320 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 713 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,240 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 714 00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:35,600 our website or Facebook page in the links below.