1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,360 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,480 healing or breakthrough, or to find out more about Omega, head 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,800 to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:32,040 So we come to verse 6, Anyone who receives instruction in the 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,400 world must share all good things, which is instructor. 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,200 Now basically we started off in chapter 6 initially that we are 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:46,440 to help each other to carry the burden. 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,680 Somebody has a need, you go out of the way and help them so that 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,360 they can bear that whatever they are going through, the situation 14 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,560 they are going through, they will be supported in that. 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,520 And now he comes to verse 2 says carry each other's burdens and 16 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,840 in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 17 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,640 So in the same way he is now coming to a practical situation 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,880 where you have evangelist, you have pastors who are caring for 19 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,000 the people. And he says if anyone who 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,080 receives instruction in the world must share all good things 21 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,440 with his instructor, what he means is that you care for their 22 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,440 needs. What they do not spend their 23 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:33,200 time working hard to make their bread and also pray and serve 24 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,680 you and study the word you know. So if they care for you, they 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,400 are ministering to you. You take care of them. 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,600 That's what he means. I really don't want to talk 27 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,440 about it much, basically because we here don't want to pass the 28 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,040 basket around. We don't want to raise the kind 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,960 of a make that as an issue, but instead we believe in 30 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,080 responsible partnership with God and to receive a blessing. 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 As you saw, that's how we what we believe. 32 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,400 But I have a funny story to tell you. 33 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,240 This is not applicable to Omega, but I'm telling you beforehand, 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:13,640 the funny story is a village. The pastor died and the people 35 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:15,360 of the church, they wanted a new pastor. 36 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,880 So they wrote to a seminary, a Bible college and they gave a 37 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,440 description of what kind of man they want to be sent. 38 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,440 As a pastor. He must know Bible very well. 39 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,000 He must be a man who is kind and compassionate. 40 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,480 He must be able to help everybody, go out of his way and 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,880 help people and all the good things they wanted in the pastor 42 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,320 they made made a huge list, said if you find somebody like that, 43 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,760 please send it to our church. We need a pastor. 44 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,560 By the way, we used to pay £70 to the one who used to be pastor 45 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,080 before and if you find a man like that we may increase it by 46 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,880 10 more pounds. This is how they wrote the 47 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,600 letter. So they got a reply from the 48 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:02,440 head of the seminary. You will better, you will do 49 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,960 well to call the man who died. He has been in heaven for quite 50 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:12,320 some time, so he won't need food and the £70 will take care of 51 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,480 him. So this is a very funny story I 52 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,520 read, but I said OK you should have some entertainment. 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,520 So. But more than that, we believe 54 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:29,360 in responsible partnership. You partnered with God, you are 55 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,640 sowing into the field of God, you are becoming one with Gods 56 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:38,360 call and purpose and then you receive your own blessing. 57 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,520 Sowing and reaping. Everybody says sowing and 58 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,520 reaping is a divine law. It is a divine law. 59 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,800 You go back as far as even the book of Genesis, you will see 60 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,080 the people sowing and reaping. And you look at the man Abraham. 61 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,120 He did so and he did reap, and he was the richest man of his 62 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,040 time. And you will see in the book of 63 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,600 Job, he was a man completely blessed. 64 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,800 There's no one more richer than Job. 65 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,000 And so many times you see that God blesses those who partner 66 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,880 with him, who enter into covenant relationship with him. 67 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,360 He is not giving money. It is not giving money. 68 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,000 Money is a very small part of what you are going to do. 69 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,320 It's a hard posture. Your heart has to be in 70 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,560 alignment with the will of God, mind of God, purpose of God, His 71 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,320 Kingdom, His rule, and then every blessing will come. 72 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,200 Money is in the small part as a token that you are in covenant 73 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,560 with God. You partner with Him by sowing 74 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:42,600 and you reap you. You don't sow wheat. 75 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,680 And you know we have a favorite expression in New Zealand, you 76 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,000 hear? Fingers crossed. 77 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,520 We'll see what is going to come out. 78 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,320 Are you going to do that? If you sow wheat? 79 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,400 What are you going to get wheat? I'm not saying you sow money. 80 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,280 You'll get money. I'm not saying that that is the 81 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,120 prosperity gospel. But what I'm trying to say here 82 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,320 is you sow and you reap. It is a spiritual law and you 83 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,920 don't sow, you don't reap. And elsewhere, elsewhere, he, I 84 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,200 mean Paul also talks about many other things. 85 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,560 I will read the scripture from his letter to Corinthians 86 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,920 chapter, first Corinthians chapter 911 onwards. 87 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,960 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if you 88 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,440 reap a material harvest from you? 89 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,600 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we 90 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,080 have it all the more? But we did not use this right. 91 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,360 On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the 92 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,560 gospel of Christ. Do not He know that those who 93 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,560 serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and those 94 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,360 who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 95 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,160 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach 96 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,480 the gospel should receive their living from the gospel. 97 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,800 This is a biblical principle. I had to teach it, but we are 98 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,880 not going to make it compulsory or anything like that. 99 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,520 We believe in a different way of accomplishing things. 100 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:14,960 So this is Paul. Stand up on it. 101 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:24,440 And Christian life is compared to a farmer who sows and who 102 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,000 reaps. Everybody say sow and reap. 103 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,600 So what is the kind of a what do you sow and what do you reap? 104 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,160 There is a question. So here he says do not be 105 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,600 deceived. God cannot be mocked. 106 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,760 The word mocked. If you want to translate in a, 107 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,280 in a, in a, in a different way, it will say turning up your 108 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,800 nose. I don't know what exactly it 109 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,280 means. I read it and try to understand 110 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,120 it. I am not going to do this to 111 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,720 God, but that is what he is saying. 112 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:03,480 You don't turn up your nose against God. 113 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,800 You don't mock God, whatever you sow, that is what you reap and 114 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:14,600 God is looking at everything you do, your heart posture, he knows 115 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,800 you are sitting down, you're getting up, He knows and that's 116 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,440 why you don't play with God. And then he says the one who 117 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,160 sows to please his sinful nature from that nature will reap 118 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,440 destruction. The one who sows to please to 119 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,080 the Spirit from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 120 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:39,760 So what is he trying to say here is life is like a farm, life is 121 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,720 like a agricultural land. So you sow and you reap. 122 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,280 So these things he has already mentioned in chapter 5 he talked 123 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,200 about OK, how do I know whether I am sowing the right seed or 124 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,600 wrong seed? Do you get any doubt about it? 125 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,040 Do you evaluate your life sometime and sit back and think 126 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,960 with a cup of coffee in your hand, sit down and ask yourself 127 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,560 am I sowing the right seed in my life? 128 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,560 This is an important question everyone of us must answer 129 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,280 honestly before God. You have to take time. 130 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,600 So the best way that you can know whether you are sowing the 131 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,000 right kind of a seed in your life is to see outcome of your 132 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,560 life. The actions you do, the things 133 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,960 that you do, they reflect what you are sowing into your life. 134 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,919 So Chapter 5, he says the acts of sinful nature are obvious. 135 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,159 What is obvious? Hidden? 136 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,680 No, it stands out. Plain sight. 137 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,280 You can see it. You do not do not have to think 138 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,040 about. Does it mean this? 139 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,880 You know, No, it is all very, very clear. 140 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,280 So he says this is this is all very clear. 141 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,040 Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, 142 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,000 witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish 143 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,080 ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and 144 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,040 the like and the like. That means the list is unending. 145 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,120 So if we indulge in any of these things, we know that we are 146 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,120 sowing the wrong seed. If we sow the wrong seed, you 147 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,400 are going to reap wrong stuff. So he says those who sow through 148 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:37,280 the flesh will reap destruction. It is very, very plain. 149 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,920 And you may say, OK, what is a good seed? 150 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,360 But the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience, 151 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,520 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and 152 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,920 self-control. Against such things there is no 153 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,720 law. If we are doing those things, 154 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,520 then you are sowing the right seed. 155 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:04,400 Does your life show Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, 156 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,840 goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control? 157 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,920 If you demonstrate these things, you are sowing the right seed in 158 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:18,240 your life and that is going to end in a harvest of eternal 159 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,800 life. Eternal life. 160 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:27,840 So is there any guess work to do here after let us say another 161 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,080 5-10 years we die. Will I go to heaven? 162 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,920 Will I end up in hell? I do not know anything like 163 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,120 that. You decide now. 164 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,800 Your life, your future is decided now and that is in your 165 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,040 hands. Your future lies in your hand 166 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,320 now. Do not your neighbor, give him a 167 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,440 high 5. Say your future lies in your 168 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:02,320 hand now. So Paul is not leaving anything 169 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,480 for guesswork. No guesswork whether you are 170 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,800 going to go to heaven, whether you're going to go to hell. 171 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,640 You don't need to do any guesswork. 172 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,520 Look at what you're doing and you will know where you're going 173 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,680 to end up. It's as simple as that. 174 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:27,320 So there were two farmers, you know, the one farmer says I want 175 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,320 to cheat the land, the ground. So he went and bought some seed 176 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,680 which is substandard. Some were rotten seed in it 177 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,920 mixed with rotten seed. And he went and liberally 178 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,600 sprinkled everywhere on the field. 179 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,720 But that next his friend who was another farmer, he went and 180 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,840 bought the good seed and he sold in his farm. 181 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,000 Then after some time, the first farmer looks at the second one. 182 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,360 Hey, why is your field looking better than my field? 183 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,920 He's comparing and is jealous of the good thing that is happening 184 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,000 in the other man's field and he said the land does not lie. 185 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,080 You have sown rotten seed and gives you back the rotten 186 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,040 output. You say I sowed the good seed, 187 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,080 so now I am having the good crop coming up. 188 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,080 So your life is like the land that will not lie. 189 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,240 You cannot do wrong stuff and expect good thing to come out of 190 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,880 your life. Just not possible. 191 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:43,680 Sometimes we may see somebody flourishing, somebody who is 192 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,680 wicked. He may flourish for a while. 193 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,120 Maybe he will make some money, extra money. 194 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,400 Maybe he will make $1,000,000, but a time comes when you will 195 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,120 be exposed. Do you see in the press in 196 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:02,320 America there is a one guy who has ruined hundreds of 197 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,680 millionaires and people in power in politics. 198 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,080 Its all being exposed now and some people are being arrested 199 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,320 because of that, what they did with them. 200 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,960 So you cannot hide it your our life. 201 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,560 We may think nobody is watching. I am making sure nobody is 202 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,760 watching me. I am doing these things and I am 203 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:27,320 going to get away with it. No, we cannot get away with it. 204 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:33,440 That is the reason why Paul says do not think that you can mock 205 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,600 God. You cannot mock God. 206 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,680 Whatever you sow, that is what you are going to reap. 207 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,640 So the how do you, how do you sow? 208 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,080 That's another question. OK, you, you know, you have to 209 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,200 sow the good seed and but how do you do it? 210 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,520 He talks about elsewhere in one Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 9. 211 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,920 Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap 212 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,520 sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap 213 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,680 generously. So I wanted to experiment with 214 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,640 beans. So I went to my hotel and got a 215 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,680 packet of seeds and I said how many seeds in this packet may be 216 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,120 40 seeds, But I said I'm not going to use all of them, I'll 217 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,640 use a dozen of them. So I planted the 12 of them and 218 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,120 I think the ten of them have come out. 219 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,040 So I'm watering it regularly and the cycle is in three months I 220 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:46,120 will have beans is going to be pardon, I looked into all that 221 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,520 beforehand. Before I put the seed, I did all 222 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,440 the Googling and things. So in three months I'm going to 223 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,160 have some beans. So that is what is going to give 224 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,400 me courage to put more beans next time. 225 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:08,200 So this is how in spiritual life also, you need to do it. 226 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:13,000 You need to experiment. Somebody asked me for a big sum 227 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:18,240 of money, something like 4000 New Zealand dollars. 228 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:24,360 I need 4000 New Zealand dollars. I just laughed at him and he 229 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,720 said why do you laugh? I didn't give any answer but I 230 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,040 was thinking about should I really help this man or not. 231 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,840 I said he didn't give me any reason. 232 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,240 He didn't tell me why he needs the money. 233 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,160 He simply said give me money. I said no, I am not giving the 234 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:42,240 money I have given 3/4 times in the past to the tune of 4005 235 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,000 thousand New Zealand dollars and I have not got them back. 236 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,320 All are fine believers, very good believers. 237 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,640 So now I am thinking should I sow here? 238 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,320 I am little worried about it. But still this morning also I 239 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,880 asked myself God should I really bother about losing money? 240 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,160 Should I really help him? You tell me what you want me to 241 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,360 do, I will do it. If I have to lose it, I will 242 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,040 lose it, but I will do your will. 243 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,200 See that it should be. That should be our attitude. 244 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,760 You do not cling to money, you do not cling to what belongs to 245 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,040 you. Do not say this is mine, this is 246 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:23,480 very Western thinking. This is my money, my food, my 247 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,760 breakfast, My lunch is Western thinking. 248 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,280 Eastern people, they do not think like that. 249 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,800 If I am opening my lunch and if you are sitting there, I push my 250 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,040 box. Take some from here and I may 251 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,360 not put my hand and take from somebody, but I will share what 252 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:42,880 I have. That's the Eastern thinking. 253 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,320 So when I was working in a factory, I there was a one guy 254 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,760 by name Shannon. I said, Shannon, what did you 255 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,440 bring for lunch? It looks very interesting. 256 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,920 You think I can pinch a little bit of it to taste, He said. 257 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,280 He pulled the food towards him and this is my lunch, he said. 258 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,720 I laughed at that man. Then another day there was 259 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:08,280 another guy who was from Cambodia and he looked at my 260 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,079 food and said that is very interesting. 261 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,599 I said have some and he ate some of it. 262 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,960 It's very nice. He said why do you eat your food 263 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,920 which is not tasty every day? That was not right for me to do 264 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,400 that. But so sometimes we need to. 265 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,880 This is all about attitude, how you sow, how you reap. 266 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,280 First you change the mind how to think rightly and you will not 267 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,920 be possessive about money, you will not be possible about your 268 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,960 things. You will be open to share 269 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,520 because when you share it is going to bring back fruit 270 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:48,840 multiplied many times more. Sometimes you know it is just a 271 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,080 cup of tea you offer to somebody, but it will transform 272 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,120 somebodies life. There was a guy who was staying 273 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:57,120 with me who said I want to quit study, I want to go home. 274 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,120 I took him out offered him a cup of tea and told him see you have 275 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:04,440 worked hard for three years, put some more work I will help you. 276 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,040 I sent him to a couple of people to get extra coaching and he 277 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,200 finished the course and I not not seen him for next 20 plus 278 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,960 years. But then he passed that exam and 279 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:18,120 he went and found a job, got married, has children, and he 280 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:21,360 contacted me after 20 and I said, you remember how you took 281 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,360 me out and offered me a cup of tea? 282 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:30,600 That changed my life. So do whatever you do, do as 283 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,920 unto the Lord, don't look at, oh, I want to help so and so A 284 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:41,000 or B or C what you do, do unto the Lord and it will never go 285 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:46,040 waste. Never go waste what you sow in 286 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,120 the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 287 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,520 And whatever help you give, even a cup of water, it will not go 288 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,800 waste. That's his promise. 289 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:01,040 He himself told it next. How do you do it? 290 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,920 You have to do it patiently, consistently. 291 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,000 Everybody say patiently and consistently. 292 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:18,800 The reward comes in its season because sometimes it is just not 293 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,080 going to happen quickly. How many of us know? 294 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:29,120 I didn't know until yesterday. When you want to sow bamboo, how 295 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:30,640 long does it take for it to sprout? 296 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,400 Pardon. Yeah, it takes one year is a 297 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,360 better answer than no answer Nearly takes three years for it 298 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:45,160 to sprout. You pour water. 299 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,440 You are pouring water and pouring water and pouring water. 300 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,800 Nothing is seen. The guy who is next to you will 301 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,160 say, hey, what are you doing? Since three years you're pouring 302 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,800 water, nothing is happening. And he in this three years he 303 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:03,240 must have ripped 6 or 8 crops the other guy, but when it 304 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,520 started sprouting after three years, bang, it starts growing. 305 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:15,360 And how much does it grow? 91 centimetres a day, that's a 306 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,400 lot. It's about four or five inches 307 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,400 everyone hour and then shoots up. 308 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,040 It grows the maximum height in 60 or 70 days. 309 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,120 It doesn't grow after that, but doesn't become mature. 310 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,080 It takes three to five years for the bamboo to mature, and then 311 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:39,920 you cut it and use it. Christian life is more closer to 312 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:46,480 sowing bamboo than sowing wheat. I'm not saying sowing wheat is 313 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,840 wrong. I'm not going to sow bamboo. 314 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,400 The point I'm trying to make is it requires patience and you 315 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,240 have to do things consistently. You cannot give up on people. 316 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,120 You cannot help the man. He did not benefit from it. 317 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:04,600 I don't want to help him anymore. 318 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,680 It is possible we can become negative after trying for a 319 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,960 while, but what we have to do is do it consistently. 320 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,920 That is, do it all the time until you see the result you 321 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,000 want to see. Some relationships are like 322 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,200 that. They take long, hard work. 323 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:31,200 But we will see the fruit if we do it consistently with faith in 324 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,600 the one who is going to change the situation. 325 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,600 We had to have the faith in God who is going to change the 326 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:45,960 situation. And then Paul talks about many 327 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,880 other things, very short, short things. 328 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:55,280 I want to conclude it with one major idea in verse 14 in verse 329 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,880 14 says May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus 330 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:06,400 Christ through which the world has been crucified to me, I to 331 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,440 the world. Sometimes we read and we think 332 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,280 we understand it, but sometimes you have to read again and again 333 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:19,160 until the light comes. So here, what is he trying to 334 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,440 say? Here is Paul is saying, when I 335 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,560 look at my my life, I look at myself crucified with Christ, 336 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:36,120 that cross that Jesus went on, my life is put there and when 337 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:40,160 the world is competing with me, the world wants to get into me. 338 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,720 When the worldly disaster wanted to conquer me, I see at the same 339 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,800 cross and see the world is on. The cross is crucified to me. 340 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:56,800 Am I communicating here? The same cross, the same cross 341 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:02,680 you are crucified to the world and the same cross the world is 342 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:08,080 crucified to you. Basically it simply means the 343 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,160 world has no power over you and me. 344 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,120 Lust of the flesh, lust of eyes, pride of life has no power over 345 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,280 us because it is dealt with the on the cross already. 346 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,040 It is nothing new he's writing. He already talked about in 347 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,120 Galatians 220 where he says I don't live any longer, but I 348 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,520 live not, not I which Christ Jesus who lives in me and reigns 349 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,800 in me. That means his contribution, he 350 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,840 says, is 0. I am a zero. 351 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,280 I want Christ to live in me, through me. 352 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,960 I desire things because Christ wants to desire. 353 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,320 I do things because Christ wants to do those things. 354 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,720 I say things because Christ wants to say those things. 355 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,320 And Jesus himself modeled it. And he said the words I speak 356 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,600 are not my words, they are my Father's words. 357 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,080 The things that I do, I do because I see my Father doing. 358 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,920 That is the pattern for each Christian to live. 359 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,680 And he says because of his preaching the gospel, people are 360 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,760 persecuting him and they're trying to distort his ministry. 361 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,440 He they wanted to take away people back to the Jewish way of 362 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,440 lifestyle, circumcision and all kinds of things. 363 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,240 And he was fighting it tooth and nail. 364 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,040 And then he says because of the persecutions that were coming 365 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,000 against him, he says, don't persecute me anymore. 366 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,520 Now the circumcision, he says, OK, where is it? 367 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,640 Oh yeah, in verse 12, those who want to make a good impression 368 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,440 outwardly are trying to compel it to be circumcised. 369 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,160 The only reason they do is to avoid being persecuted for the 370 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:53,640 cross of Christ. Oh, not that I bear the marks of 371 00:24:54,120 --> 00:25:02,180 Christ, he says. Can somebody help me quickly? 372 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,280 Oh yeah, verse 17 I didn't highlight it. 373 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:17,560 That's why finally let no one Causeway me trouble, for I bear 374 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:27,040 on my body the marks of Jesus. Everybody say mark, you know 375 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,520 this marking is nothing new. You see in the book of Exodus, 376 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,280 they mark their houses with the blood of Passover lamp. 377 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,520 They put the blood on top, on the on the sides. 378 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,760 When the Angel of death passed through and saw the blood, no 379 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,480 one died in that house because they put the blood on it. 380 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,040 So it is something that you do. You have to believe that 381 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,680 instruction, put that blood and the Angel of death passes over 382 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:58,640 it. It's very simple. 383 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:05,680 And you see again in the book of Ezekiel, God gives him the in 384 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,240 the in the vision he is telling 1 Angel to go and destroy the 385 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,200 people, punish them. And he says beginning from the 386 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,760 House of God, judgment begins where House of God the church 387 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,280 will be. The beginning of judgment begins 388 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,400 with the church. But he said don't do it until 389 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,040 there is another Angel who is going around putting a mark on 390 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,040 their forests of the people. And if you see the mark, don't 391 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,040 touch them, do not touch them. You know what is the mark that 392 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,640 is talked about? The mark talked about is in the 393 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,040 book of physically he says put Tau. 394 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,480 Tau is the last alphabet of Hebrew alphabet Tau. 395 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,200 And how does it look like a cross? 396 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:01,960 In our logo we have a cross which is like a wood fire 397 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,440 burning wood is basically stands for the Tau. 398 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,720 Just you know, Omega logo Tau. So Tau is like a cross. 399 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:20,120 So the Angel puts Tau on the forehead so that the destroying 400 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:26,440 Angel will not touch those people who are marked in the New 401 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,960 Testament. You see, when you believe in 402 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,200 Jesus Christ, you are marked by the Holy Spirit which come comes 403 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:38,680 into your life. How are you marked now with Holy 404 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:45,240 Spirit? So that mark on your forehead is 405 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,920 symbolic of the mark of the Holy Spirit that's in your heart. 406 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,960 If you have the Holy Spirit, you are saved. 407 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,120 You don't have the Holy Spirit, you are not saved. 408 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:56,720 There is no two ways of talking about it. 409 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,880 You need everybody who believes in Jesus will receive the Holy 410 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,720 Spirit. And if there is no symptom of 411 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,680 the Holy Spirit living in you, we had to question whether you 412 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,000 really repented and believed and received Jesus. 413 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,560 If the Holy Spirit is there, you will not sow in the wrong place. 414 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:22,880 You will not do the wrong stuff. And then in the Book of 415 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,160 Revelation you see again the mark being put on the forests of 416 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,280 people, and the devil does the same thing. 417 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,480 Devil also puts the mark on the people's forehead or on the 418 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,600 hand. And you see in the Book of 419 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,320 Revelation that Angel was given instruction. 420 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:47,480 If you see the mark of the beast on their forests or on their 421 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,480 hand, they will be thrown into the lake of fire. 422 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,640 But if you have the mark of God, the bread of Jesus upon your for 423 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,760 it, and if His name is written upon your for it, the name of 424 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,760 His Father, there is Father of Father of Jesus Christ, there is 425 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,800 the Father God. His name will be written, and 426 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,000 the name of Jesus will be written on your forehead. 427 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,280 And when the Angel of destruction comes, the judgment 428 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,640 comes, He looks at the name of the Father and the Son on your 429 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,040 forehead, and you are spared from being thrown into the lake 430 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:25,040 of fire. There are only two kinds of 431 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,200 marks in the world. You will be marked by God or by 432 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:37,640 Satan. You will be marked either by God 433 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,560 or by Satan. You are marked by God. 434 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,920 You have eternal life. You will go to heaven. 435 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,240 You will reign with Christ, you will live in his Kingdom. 436 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,680 If you are marked by Satan, you will be thrown into the lake of 437 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:54,520 fire. But what is Paul saying is I 438 00:29:54,520 --> 00:30:00,800 have marks on my body for suffering for Jesus, for 439 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,520 suffering for Jesus. He gives a big list of all the 440 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,680 suffering he has gone through. I think in Second Corinthians 441 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,880 somewhere he writes a long list of what he has gone through. 442 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,000 Shipwreck and being beaten 3 * 39 lashes. 443 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,160 And once he was considered dead, they thought he's dead and they 444 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,840 left his body and go away. And the disciples gathered 445 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,600 around him. And when they gather around him 446 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,720 with this man sits up and he goes to the next town to preach 447 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:32,440 the gospel next day. That is that passage has always 448 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:38,160 puzzled me where he they stoned him, they dragged his body, they 449 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,960 dragged his bodies. You, you, you stone him inside 450 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360 the city and they don't want him to die in the city. 451 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,280 Why? If the he dies in the city, they 452 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,480 are these Jewish people think that they are going to be cursed 453 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,040 because of the death of this man. 454 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,000 So they don't want him to die in the city. 455 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,040 They don't want the curse that comes by the death. 456 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,640 So they drag his body. I'm sure his legs would have 457 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:05,760 been worn out, some flesh gone out and he's dumped outside. 458 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,600 The guys must have come and put hand near his nose. 459 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,600 Look at his chest, is it going up and down? 460 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:18,200 No, I think he's dead 100%. Put the hand near the nose. 461 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,320 Any breath, no breath, I think he's dead. 462 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,520 So they leave the body and walk away, and the disciples come 463 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,680 around, stand around him, and he gets up. 464 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,960 You know, what is the desire of Paul? 465 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,440 Paul says that I may know Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that I may 466 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,560 know his suffering, that I may partake in his suffering, that I 467 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,920 may rise up with him as he rose up from the dead. 468 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,320 I may partake in the resurrection of Jesus. 469 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,560 Did he experience it on that day? 470 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,000 I believe he did. He came back from, they killed 471 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,120 him in one second. He stood up on the same place, 472 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,240 and next day he walked to another city to preach the 473 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:57,960 gospel. Again. 474 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,480 He carries the marks. I'm telling you, we have the 475 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,440 mark of being born again. I believe in Jesus. 476 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,960 I confess my sin. God puts the mark. 477 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,680 I have a seat reserved in heaven. 478 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,960 Angels of God will come and take me in a special flight when I 479 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,960 die. That's not the point. 480 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,040 The point is when you are sold out to God, you are willing to 481 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,560 bear the marks on your body for Christ, suffering for Christ, 482 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,640 suffering for the gospel. And I tell you, this is going to 483 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,600 come more in these end times. We already have stepped into the 484 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,240 end times. We are in the end times. 485 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,560 Christ is coming back very soon, but my, my, all that I am trying 486 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:50,240 to say is what are we sowing and where are we sowing and what are 487 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,080 we going to reap? This question we need to decide 488 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,760 today. If you decide today the answer 489 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,280 to that question, you will not be the same. 490 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,760 You will not be the same. What are you sowing? 491 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,240 Where are you sowing? What are you going to reap? 492 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,880 Have you been marked by the Holy Spirit? 493 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,840 Have been marked by God? I am not using the word mocked. 494 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:30,440 It is marked, marked by God because if you are marked by 495 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,360 God, you will have a place in heaven, in his Kingdom. 496 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,400 You are going to reign with Christ. 497 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,560 It always puzzles me, if everybody is going to reign, who 498 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,840 are they going to reign over? I have no answer to that 499 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,040 question. But we all will reign with 500 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,440 Christ. It all begins with faith. 501 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,120 I'm telling you guys, there's no other way we can ever know it. 502 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,680 In my own life, I just don't know why I believe in Jesus. 503 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,440 I was an idolator, going to temples, going around and 504 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,600 worshipping temples. But I heard about Jesus Christ, 505 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,400 I said this makes sense to me and I wanted to believe in 506 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,120 Jesus. And people came and asked me, 507 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,040 what do you not find in our books, in the Hindu books that 508 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,199 you want to believe in Jesus and believe in the Bible? 509 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,040 I didn't have an answer at that time. 510 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,760 It took me years to have an answer to that question. 511 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:29,320 But I believed against all challenges. 512 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,920 People look down on me sometimes if they, if I eat in a plate in 513 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,760 their house, they will put that plate away because it is defiled 514 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,199 by a Christian eating in the plate. 515 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,639 And if they gave me water, they would give me a different cup. 516 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:50,040 I have gone through it, but I'm glad I've gone through it. 517 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:54,360 But I thank the Holy Spirit who has given me the ability not to 518 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,720 look at the insult, not to look at being put down, but to keep 519 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,360 believing in Jesus. And in his right time, He 520 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,280 visited me, He gave me he, he made me hear his voice, He spoke 521 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,200 to me, He spoke to me. But that is later. 522 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,000 First you believe and then comes the proof. 523 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,400 It's never the other way around. You don't go to God and 524 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,200 challenge him and say, hey, are you there? 525 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,480 I want you to appear here in front of me. 526 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,480 Now he's not going to do it. Whole of the book of the Bible, 527 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:37,640 it never tries to prove God. It assumes God exists and the 528 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,040 only way you can know him is believing that he exists. 529 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,520 He exists and he is the unmoved mover. 530 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,360 He is the beginning without being created. 531 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,200 He doesn't belong to this category at all. 532 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,640 People ask the question, oh who? Who created God? 533 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,280 God doesn't need to be created because he is not a thing. 534 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:10,040 He is a different class. He is a spirit, eternal spirit 535 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,760 who has neither beginning or end. 536 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,080 There are two different words. Yesterday I was thinking about 537 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,280 it. One is the word eternal and the 538 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:30,240 other word is eternity. We will live into eternity means 539 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,280 we have a beginning but no ending. 540 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,800 But God is eternal, He neither has beginning nor ending. 541 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:46,480 Are we together? So for us to have eternal life, 542 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:53,200 we have a beginning, but God has no beginning, He is eternal, He 543 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,600 has no beginning, no ending. That one big straight line. 544 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,680 The creation has a beginning and creation of that ending. 545 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,400 This earth will disappear, it will be recreated, it will be 546 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,640 made new, and the new heavenly Jerusalem is going to come down 547 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,480 from heaven, and we belong to that heavenly Jerusalem. 548 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,680 That's what book Our Revelation talks about. 549 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,720 So this world is the passage through which you go through to 550 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:24,720 enter into that heavenly Jerusalem. 551 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,920 He says this is not where you are going to get stuck up. 552 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,120 You are going to end up in a different world created by God, 553 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,760 by his power. But the way to that place is 554 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:38,960 faith. Where to the eternal life is 555 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:45,240 faith. Now and forever Shall we pray? 556 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,000 Father God, we thank you again. You are the eternal one. 557 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,240 No beginning, no ending. But we thank you for making us 558 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,680 with a beginning and a no ending. 559 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,040 This resurrection. What we sow now is going to what 560 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,600 we are going to reap is what we sow. 561 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,360 And those people who sow into wickedness will reap judgment 562 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,760 and destruction, and we are all going to be raised with a 563 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,680 heavenly body. Those who are going to be saved 564 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,200 and reigned with Christ, and those who are going to go to 565 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,040 eternal Hellfire, both will be raised with the supernatural 566 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,640 body. But one will be in bliss, but 567 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,320 other one will be in torment. So in the name of Jesus, we 568 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,760 thank you for all the things that you're teaching us. 569 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,360 We thank you for you have ordained everything, and thank 570 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,600 you for the grace that you marked us with that mark on our 571 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,120 forehead. You put that mark of cross upon 572 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,040 our forehead, and you have put the bread of us and Jesus upon 573 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,320 us, and you have put the Holy Spirit in us to mark us as 574 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,440 belonging to you. We praise you with all our heart 575 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,680 because of all that you have done for us. 576 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,400 We cannot do any other things you have done. 577 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,880 We receive it by faith as a gift from your hand. 578 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,520 We love you Jesus, we love your Father, we love you Holy Spirit. 579 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,480 And now I pray for some people here of my father who are yet to 580 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,480 make a decision. In the name of Jesus, I bind the 581 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,920 power of state and upon the lives of people who are yet to 582 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,040 be marked by the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus I pray. 583 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,960 Now, Oh my God, I pray may angels be released to minister 584 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,000 to the people and remove what they should be removed, plant 585 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,680 what they should be planted and write it upon their forests. 586 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,080 That mark you put it now in Jesus mighty name I am calling 587 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,640 upon you. I am asking you, do you visit 588 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,240 us? Touch us and those who believe 589 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,200 in you. I pray, Father, that they may 590 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,240 know that they're sowing into the right field, the right seed, 591 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,760 and let them do it generously and let them do consistently 592 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:56,200 with patience because the crop is coming, because the reward is 593 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,240 coming. And you do not fail. 594 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,440 And we praise you. You are a God who rewards 595 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,200 faithfulness. You are a God who rewards faith. 596 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,960 You are a God who rewards. Oh my God, we worship, we honor 597 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,800 you. Bless every child here who has 598 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,880 committed their life to you and are sowing by faith. 599 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,280 May the reap also by faith to the glory of your name. 600 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,320 Thank you again for speaking to us in Jesus mighty name. 601 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,640 We have asked. And everybody says Amen, Amen. 602 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,040 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 603 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,960 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 604 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,280 our website or Facebook page in the links below.