1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 healing or breakthrough? Want to find out more about 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Omega? Get to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:31,590 page through the links below. Everybody say the revival is 9 00:00:31,590 --> 00:00:35,590 continuing. So what has happened in the 10 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:38,680 previous chapters? We see that they have gathered 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,040 on the on the 7th month. The first day is the trumpets 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,400 and the 10th day is the Day of Atonement. 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,640 And from the 15th day till the 22nd day, they celebrate the 14 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,720 festival of booths or tabernacles. 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,040 And the 23rd day is a day of rest. 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Now here we are coming to the 24th day. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,800 On the 24th day of the same month, the Israelites gathered 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,360 together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on 19 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,680 their heads. Is it required for them to do 20 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,640 this? Do you expect them to be 21 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,480 behaving like this? You, you just celebrate a 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,040 festival you rejoiced in. God offered sacrifices. 23 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,080 Everything is done until the 22nd day. 23rd day is a day of 24 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,800 rest and 24th day you are putting on sackcloth, putting 25 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,800 dust and ashes on your head and turning up again in the public 26 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,360 square and humbling yourself and crying out to God for mercy. 27 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,160 Is it expected at all? Is anybody telling them to do 28 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,320 it? So the revival when it comes the 29 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,440 public will be motivated by themselves. 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:57,000 You don't need to tell them its not top down, its not from the 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,400 pastors telling oh the revival is here, you guys are going to 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,960 do it. No it is a people will be 33 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,560 turning towards the study of the word of God. 34 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,520 They will read the word of God and act upon the Word. 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,080 They will obey the word and when you do it, the revival is come 36 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,840 into your life. I can't force revival into 37 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,440 anybody. No pastor can force revival into 38 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,320 anybody. So on the 24th day of the same 39 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,520 month, Israel is gathered together, fasting and wearing 40 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,360 sackcloth and putting dust on the heads. 41 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,680 Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all 42 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,360 foreigners. They stood in their places and 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,560 confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. 44 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,000 Now what is what are we reading in the verse today? 45 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,880 Israelites descendant had separated themselves from all 46 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,440 foreigners. Now by this time many of the 47 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,000 people had wives who belong to other than Jewish people. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,440 They married, they had children. And now they are saying, OK, if 49 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,200 somebody is of a Jewish descent, he's standing there covered in 50 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,480 sackcloth, say Lord, I'm sorry and please forgive me. 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,920 He's putting away the wife and the children. 52 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,640 Is it right to do it Looks very harsh isn't it? 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,960 It is not about it is what is it about is about purity. 54 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:22,560 Its about purity and the people are willingly doing it willingly 55 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,760 wanting to separate everything that's foreign married to see. 56 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,240 This is one of the things that we keep telling again and again 57 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,880 and we want to reinforces if you are a believer, not married, if 58 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,160 you come across other, I mean opposite sex person, if they are 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,440 not believers, you don't have don't need to even stop and 60 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,080 think. You don't need to stop and 61 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,840 think. It is 100% not God's will to 62 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,400 start with. Well, there may be cases where 63 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,840 people have got married later on, they became believers. 64 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,720 That's not a, that's an exception, not a general rule. 65 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,840 General rule is you are not unequally yoked together with 66 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,080 unbelievers. It's very simple rule and that 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,920 applies to marriage and these people have broken it and that's 68 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,560 the reason why now they are saying, ah, we have messed up 69 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,360 our life but we want to change it. 70 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,440 It's a costly decision for them to make it. 71 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,920 To put away a wife and children is very costly, very costly. 72 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,560 To obey God is very costly. It's not easy. 73 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,600 And Jesus himself said those who want to follow me, they have to 74 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,880 take up the cross daily and follow me. 75 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,200 So is it any surprise that this is the same thing even in the 76 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,640 Old Testament and it's not no different in the New Testament? 77 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,120 It is very hard to follow God and one of the one of the things 78 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,040 is we need to be committed to study the word and obey the word 79 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:54,120 and that's what they are doing. So those who had of Israel 80 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,960 descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. 81 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,960 They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the 82 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,600 sins of their ancestors. That means this is not a new 83 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,840 sin, its been done by the father or the forefather, grandfather 84 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,120 and now they're confessing all the sin of their sins and their 85 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,680 forefathers saying we have sinned against you by marrying 86 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,160 into the foreigners. Now what is the problem? 87 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,200 Marrying somebody who is not a believer, who is not shared the 88 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,880 same faith? Go back to the time when they 89 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,880 were redeemed from Egypt and they were on their journey to 90 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,720 the Promised land and they come to the Mount Sinai and after the 91 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,840 Mount Sinai then they are going forward. 92 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,360 One of the things they came across is one of the one of the 93 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,080 kings, Balaam, wanted to curse Israelites, Balak and he hired a 94 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,120 false prophet called Balaam to curse the Israelites and he 95 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,280 failed because God did not allow Balaam to curse Israelites. 96 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,040 Ultimately what Balaam did was he told them he I got no power 97 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,040 to cast a spell on these people. But you can do one thing. 98 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,960 Let your women virgins come out dancing and celebrate festival 99 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,120 and let them see. Let the Israelites see and go 100 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,920 after them and when they get into sexual relationship they 101 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,520 will bring wrath of God on themselves. 102 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:22,080 That's what it happened and few thousands were dead. 103 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,520 After that when God gets them, few thousands were dead. 104 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,560 So the reason what is the importance is God wants to keep 105 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,920 a pure race. That is why he he has insisted 106 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,920 from the beginning, holiness is very important to God and that's 107 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,760 why I am holy, be holy, because I am holy. 108 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,880 That's the commandment. And here we see that these 109 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,280 people have read the word and understood that they have 110 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,240 sinned. And now they are confessing 111 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,880 their forefathers and their own sins and their fathers sins, and 112 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,600 they are repenting of these things. 113 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,240 And they stood where they were and read from the book of the 114 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,000 law of the Lord. They got for 1/4 of the day and 115 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,240 spent another quarter for confession, and in worshipping 116 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,240 the Lord they got. Now this is what revival is all 117 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,520 about. Before how long they were 118 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:09,600 standing in the previous chapter, morning 6 till 119 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,440 afternoon 12, whoever could understand was standing and Ezra 120 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,560 was reading from a pedestal, a high point and he used to read 121 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,120 from there. Many leavers were joining him 122 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,000 and there were many other leavers who were scattered 123 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,160 everywhere who are trying to give an interpretation of it so 124 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,360 people would understand when they understood it. 125 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:34,440 They are crying and weeping and now quarter of a day is 3 hours. 126 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,040 Now let us have a service of three hours of reading the Bible 127 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,720 and let us have another three hours of worshipping God and 128 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,720 confession. How many will be in the church? 129 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:48,960 You'll say no, that's crazy. I don't want to be part of the 130 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,680 church. In India, we have one particular 131 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,080 denomination where they have got too many things going on. 132 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,520 On Sunday you'll have one, one message, a lot of singing, 40 133 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,480 minutes to one hour singing, and then you have one message or one 134 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,680 hour for worshipping. And people will be worshipping 135 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,280 everywhere. And afterwards they have a 136 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,080 second message and that second message is again for one hour. 137 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,320 And then they have some type of intercession. 138 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,080 And then they have convenient, another message for convenient. 139 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,120 It starts at morning 10:00, ends at 4:00, and they serve a meal 140 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,640 after that. And people will be coming at 141 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,720 their own time. Some will want to decide to come 142 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,200 at the second message, some want to join the 3rd message, and 143 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,480 some want to cook and eat and then come here where they don't 144 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,600 like the food they eat there. Whatever. 145 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,200 See, that's not the way we have to do things. 146 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,880 The point I'm trying to make here is when the revival comes, 147 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,800 we don't have to force it. It is not by these things. 148 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,240 It is individuals who have to be touched by God. 149 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:54,760 And you must have longing for that word of God and the longing 150 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,240 to obey the word of God. And then there is revival. 151 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,000 So here the revival is continuing. 152 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,000 And then they read for 1/4 of a day and for another quarter of a 153 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,080 day they were confessing and worshipping the Lord their God. 154 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,680 Standing on the stairs of the Levites were Joshua Bani Kadmil, 155 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:21,280 Shabanaya Bhuni, Sharabaya, Bani Kenani and they cried out with 156 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,960 the loud watches the Lord their God. 157 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,520 Now why do you have to cry out? Is God deaf? 158 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,840 He can't hear you. What is this cry God business? 159 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,800 You know so many times religion is limited to only a cerebral 160 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,920 exercise. It is just mental. 161 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,840 You hear the gospel, Jesus dead for you on the cross, you 162 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,720 understand it. You are a Sinner. 163 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,280 You need to repent, you need to ask forgiveness, ask Jesus to 164 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,480 come into your heart, and this is all that happens in the mind. 165 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,960 Only the mind is involved and they think they are born again. 166 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,600 Yes, they are born again, there is no doubt about it. 167 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,840 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Christ, or you 168 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,560 confess about His Lord and you believe that He is the Son of 169 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,000 God, He has come in the flesh. All those things are true, but 170 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,680 you have to let your emotions get involved at some point, 171 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:27,760 otherwise it is incomplete. You are not just a mind, you got 172 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,600 emotions as well in the soul has emotions as well. 173 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,280 So you need to let your emotions get involved and when you are 174 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,200 when you are excited about what God is doing, your emotions will 175 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,400 be involved in it. You cannot just help it. 176 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,240 So crying out is an expression of the that part of your 177 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,960 emotions and and that when your mind and your heart are 178 00:10:52,960 --> 00:11:00,360 involved, that becomes complete. I myself have been a very for a 179 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,560 large part of my life. It was mostly cerebral. 180 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,640 I come from a Hindu background. I hear the gospel, I believe in 181 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,680 Jesus. And I learned that studying the 182 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:15,160 word is important. So I learned to study the word 183 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,200 and preach the word, all those things. 184 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,960 But emotion is not something a part of me getting involved from 185 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,560 for a long, long time. I would say for a long time and 186 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:31,640 now I realize that my mistake now I want to involve my 187 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:36,360 emotions, involve my emotions. So let us involve our emotions 188 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,360 in worshipping God. You cannot worship God without 189 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,040 involvement of your emotions. So we need to try out, we need 190 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,320 to do all those kind of things that that required of, of it. 191 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,440 And then these people stood up and the Levites, Joshua Cadmiel, 192 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:59,080 Bani Hejbanaya, Sharabaya Hodaya Sebanaya Petahaya said stand up 193 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,880 and praise the Lord your God who is from everlasting to 194 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:03,520 everlasting. That's a command. 195 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,920 So you have the 6-7 people standing up on the platform and 196 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,520 they are saying, guys, stand up, praise God. 197 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,080 It's a commandment. And the whole congregation rises 198 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,680 up, rises up to its feet, and then you see here, Blessed be 199 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,600 your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessings 200 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,720 and praise. You alone are the Lord. 201 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,480 You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all the 202 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,800 starry hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all 203 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,280 that is in them. You give life to everything, and 204 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,120 the multitudes of heaven worship you. 205 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,880 A general kind of a worship. But do you think all seven 206 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,520 people are shouting the same prayer, all of them saying the 207 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,520 same prayer? If I call 2 of you and say, now 208 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,960 pray, are you going to say the same words? 209 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,200 So there should be 1 bird. Somebody should take leadership. 210 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,400 So out of the seven people, one must have loudly blessed God, 211 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,880 praise God so others can join in. 212 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,200 So somebody takes leadership and blessed be your glorious name. 213 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,000 Now observe the word blessed. What is blessed? 214 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,960 Can you bless God? How do you bless God? 215 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,600 You know so many times you come across the psalms and in many 216 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,520 places you use the word praise the Lord. 217 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,560 Hallelujah is praise the Lord. Basically praise the Lord. 218 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,000 So what do you do when you praise God? 219 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,840 You praise God for every benefit you receive from who God is. 220 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,680 You just thank Him for that. You praise Him. 221 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,000 You praise Him because of who He is, but the worship is for who 222 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,560 He is. You don't worship God for 223 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,720 healing. You thank Him for healing. 224 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,200 You praise Him for the healing, but worship is for His goodness. 225 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,360 You worship Him because He is holy. 226 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,440 He worship Him because He is merciful. 227 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,400 You worship Him because He is gracious. 228 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,880 You worship Him because He is infinite. 229 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,680 You worship Him because unchanging God. 230 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,240 You worship Him because he is so great. 231 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,480 You worship Him because He is souring. 232 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,880 He rules over the whole world without interfering with you 233 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,160 willpower. That is worship. 234 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,760 But after some time you come to an end of worshipping God. 235 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,040 You have you run out of the new new new words to say to Him. 236 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,200 That's the reason why when you have fellowship with Him, you 237 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,440 will know more and more and more of His nature and your worship 238 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,520 will not be stale. How many of us willing to eat 239 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,240 the bread that is bought 2 weeks ago? 240 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,920 It is stale. You don't eat it if you have 241 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,760 enough of our, I mean, we use our common sense not to eat a 242 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,760 stale bread. How can we bring a stale worship 243 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:01,280 to God? I'm just trying to challenge, 244 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:08,240 you know, So you need to have something fresh and that comes 245 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,600 by meditating on who He is, meditating on His works, 246 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,240 meditating on His works wonders that He's doing. 247 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,720 You know, in the scripture we see that the earth is filled 248 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:19,960 with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. 249 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,760 As the waters cover the seas, you open your eyes, you will not 250 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,400 see anything that does not show His glory. 251 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,880 You look at this wood, there's no life in it. 252 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:36,480 Look at a tree, there's life in it, and that tree also is 253 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,680 praising God, and that tree is full of the glory of God. 254 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,360 And this wood is also full of the glory of God. 255 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,200 The dust is full of the glory of God. 256 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,040 The air you breathe is full of the glory of God. 257 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,280 I tell you, you cannot escape it. 258 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,360 And atheist, he cannot escape from God in any way because he 259 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,520 is borrowing his life from the things that are around him. 260 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,040 He can never be proud of it and say, I can challenge God. 261 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:04,920 You know, it just doesn't make any sense. 262 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,600 So worship is a different thing and praise is a different thing. 263 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,200 And as you praise God, you you use the words like extol him, 264 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,520 exhort him. Why do we do all those things? 265 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,080 There's a continuous engagement with the greatness of God, His 266 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,280 goodness, His power. You know that is why you, you 267 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:32,280 extol and you exalt him. He's highly exalted already. 268 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,280 When you exalt him, what you're saying is you are so great, but 269 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,760 my mind is so small, my thoughts are so small. 270 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,200 But now I realize my thoughts are small. 271 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,200 I want to exalt you and see you as you are the highly exalted 1. 272 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,840 Is there a place for exalting him? 273 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,040 Yes or no? Can I hear a strong yes? 274 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,120 So we have to exalt him and you have to extol him. 275 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,920 I tell you there are so many different words are used, not 276 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,000 without a meaning or a purpose. It is to make your living a 277 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,599 dynamic experience. A dynamic experience because you 278 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,000 cannot be meeting this God and be a cold Christian. 279 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,119 You can't be a called Christian, lukewarm Christian. 280 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,319 No, because he's a consuming fire. 281 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,680 You approach to him. You approach him like Moses has 282 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,240 done. He looks at the burning Bush and 283 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,240 he comes towards a burning Bush. He hears a voice saying, Moses, 284 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:36,080 Moses, take off your shoes for the ground on which your 285 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,840 standing is holy. You cannot have an encounter 286 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,200 with God without worshipping him. 287 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:44,040 You cannot have an encounter with God without praising Him. 288 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,840 And when you do those things you will encounter God, you will 289 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,720 encounter God. So here they are praising God. 290 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,560 You all over the Lord you made the heavens, even the highest 291 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,400 heavens, and all the starry hosts, the earth and all that is 292 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,240 in it. What is He trying to say? 293 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,240 All things visible, invisible, are created by God. 294 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,400 God is the Creator and the He is worshipping God because He 295 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,600 created everything. You give life to everything, and 296 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,360 the multitudes of heaven worship you, multitudes of heaven, 297 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,080 heaven worship you. Actually in another version it 298 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,880 says multitude of heavens. The heaven that you see, the 299 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,400 planetary system and the stars and then galaxies is all that 300 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,200 you see is 1 heaven. But there's also a heaven, a 301 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,360 second heaven, and a third heaven, the heavens He has 302 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:39,120 created, the invisible heavens, even the angels that are there 303 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,160 surrounding his throne that's in the highest of the heavens. 304 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,920 And all that is created by God, all that is created by God. 305 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,720 And these Levites were trying to encourage people to engage with 306 00:18:52,720 --> 00:19:00,240 this God. So now we see in verse 7, you 307 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,160 are the Lord God who chose Abraham. 308 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,800 Everybody say chose. That is just mind blowing to me. 309 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:13,480 That word itself. He chose Abraham and he changed 310 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,760 his name to Abraham. When did he do it? 311 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,520 When Abraham believed in God, He must be 75 years old. 312 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:31,240 He was in Mesopotamia, the modern day Iraq I think, and he 313 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,760 was worshipping moon God. He was an adulator. 314 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:38,800 But then God chose him and spoke to him and said come and follow 315 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,840 me. I will take you to the land that 316 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,760 I want to give to you and your ancestors. 317 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,120 Did he possess the land? He never possessed the land 318 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,240 during his lifetime. He made mistakes, He heard his 319 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,040 voice, advice, and he had another son called Ishmael. 320 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,920 It brought its own sorrow. And then God met him again at 321 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,600 the age of 99. He changed his name from Abraham 322 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,720 to Abraham, from the Prince to the father of nations. 323 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,200 And because God changed the name, you know that the simple 324 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,560 letter H stands for the Spirit of God, stands for the rock, the 325 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,280 Spirit of God. He changed his name, put that 326 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:23,000 Spirit of God into his name. Change of name is very powerful 327 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,120 in the Old Testament and when God changes the name with the 328 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,840 purpose you are Jacob, you are like a you are a thief. 329 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,040 But now you are no longer a thief. 330 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,800 I am changing your name to Israel the Prince. 331 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:42,480 God changes the name and I made a mistake in my life when I got 332 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,800 baptized. I think they wanted to give me a 333 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,440 Christian name. They want to take off my Ramana 334 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,320 and give me a Christian name. I resisted it. 335 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,840 I said no no I am Ramana. I remain Ramana forever and 336 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,760 after many years I realized that maybe I should change my name. 337 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,560 Its too late now. I can't change my name now. 338 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,000 Sometimes I prayed to God, I said God, if you tell me this is 339 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 what the name I am looking, I look at you and call you by this 340 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,800 name. I will change my name, but I 341 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,200 have not heard anything from it yet. 342 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,880 Maybe I should speak more vigorously about it. 343 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,480 But I said, what is in a name anymore? 344 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,760 There's nothing much there. It's just an ID for me. 345 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,880 Identity. But in the scripture, name means 346 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 a lot. That's the reason why we put a 347 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,760 lot of emphasis when we give names to the children. 348 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,360 We pray, we pray, we pray ask God, what is the name that you 349 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,400 you have called him from eternity past before the 350 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,320 foundation of the world. What is the name you give to the 351 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,120 child? What did you say come out so and 352 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:46,720 so very important. That's the how parents should 353 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,800 really pray and you know, give the names to the children 354 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,200 because that's something really good because that is going to 355 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,280 have it is going to prophetic impact upon the children and 356 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:06,400 that's how we do it. And well, so where we where we 357 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,400 are. He chose Abraham and brought him 358 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,880 out of her of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. 359 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,000 There was a reason why God chose just one man Abraham. 360 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,000 He found his heart faithful to you. 361 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,960 He found his heart was faithful to Yahweh. 362 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,240 Yahweh. Sir, out of all these people, I 363 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,520 look at this man. I can trust this man. 364 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,080 Why? This man will instruct his 365 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,440 children and break them up in the fear of Maine, in the fear 366 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,640 of me. That is how he chose Abraham. 367 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,040 Can God trust us like that to bring up our children in the 368 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,920 fear of God? That was very simple. 369 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,120 Faithful is just that's what he is looking for. 370 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,400 That quality of faithfulness is being true to him, being 371 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,640 completely sold out to him. How much is the see faithfulness 372 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,560 is just shows only the only measuring rod with which you can 373 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,240 measure faithfulness is your obedience. 374 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:17,920 How do you measure faithfulness by can I hear it, obedience and 375 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,960 Abraham when he was asked sacrifice your son Isaac, he did 376 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,840 not think a second time I am I this is my you know, preachers 377 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,760 have a lot of imagination sometimes and my imagination is 378 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,960 he didn't even tell Sarah. God says sacrifice your son 379 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,640 Abraham. Oh, where is my wife Sarah? 380 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,080 I had to talk to her first. He would not have succeeded in 381 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,360 doing what he wanted to do if he had talked to Sarah. 382 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,320 She said. You are a mad guy. 383 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,920 You didn't really hear God. You think you're hearing God. 384 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,920 He's the one who promised a son. After 25 years gives you a son 385 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,760 or after 30 years he says no sacrifice. 386 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,040 You know, I don't think it is God. 387 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,000 That's the reason why he never talked with Sarah. 388 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,640 That's what I believe personally. 389 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:08,000 And he next day morning took the firewood and took the servants 390 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:14,520 and the Son and started walking. And the Son asked him, oh, we 391 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,400 have the fire, we have the firewood, but where is the 392 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,680 sacrifice? God will provide on the mount of 393 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,680 the Lord will be provided Jehovah Jireh. 394 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:30,600 So that is what it is. He was obedient to God 100% 395 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,880 thousand percent. He was obedient to God. 396 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,360 That's why the word faithful is in relation to obedience. 397 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,160 And Abraham was found faithful by God. 398 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,640 He said I know I can trust this man and he will obey me 100% and 399 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,440 he It was a prophetic act in that it was signifying our 400 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:55,000 foreshadow of Christ coming and dying for us with the Son of 401 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,080 God. Your life when called by God, is 402 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,040 there no private thing about your life? 403 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,120 There's nothing private about your life. 404 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,000 When God puts His finger on your life as it did on Abraham and 405 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,400 change his name to Abraham, your life becomes a prophetic life. 406 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:16,280 It is going to be a blessing to the future generations when He 407 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,880 blesses you. Your children are blessed. 408 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,000 Your grandchildren are blessed forever. 409 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,240 They are blessed. That's what we are looking for. 410 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,040 Sometimes we may not see very powerful demonstration of it. 411 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,160 Even in the life of Israel. We can see that they were not 412 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,720 always faithful to God. They did desobey God they did. 413 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,680 Even in this situation where we are right now studying, because 414 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,400 of the deservedience, they are sent to Assyria, they are taken 415 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,800 over to Babylon and now from there they are come back 416 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,800 rebuilding the temple and rebuilding the walls. 417 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,200 They are trying to work hard to re establish that connection 418 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,160 with God. It is never too late to connect 419 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,040 with God. It is never too late if we have 420 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:07,200 not lived consciously, if you have missed it, we can always 421 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,680 come back to God and say I'm sorry, I want to begin again. 422 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,760 And he will say that's fine, that's fine, I'm waiting for 423 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:22,800 you. So he gave them, He made a 424 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,840 covenant with him. Give his descendants the land of 425 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,880 the canons, heaters, amoral, sphericides, Jebusites, 426 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,000 girgasites. You have kept your promise 427 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,280 because you are righteous. He has kept his promise because 428 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,240 he's righteous. God is righteous. 429 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,840 You worship Him because he's righteous. 430 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:43,000 And now when you believe in Jesus, he gives you that 431 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,280 righteousness, that righteousness that he has. 432 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,120 He gives it to you for free by believing in Jesus, and he 433 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:55,080 clothes you his righteousness. Amazing, isn't it? 434 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,360 Is it amazing or not? God? 435 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,160 You close you with righteousness. 436 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,160 So verse 9, it says you saw the suffering of our ancestors in 437 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,960 Egypt. You heard they cry at the Red 438 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,800 Sea. You send signs and wonders 439 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,480 against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of 440 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,560 his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated 441 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,600 them. You made a name for yourself 442 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,160 which remains to this day. You divided the sea before them 443 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,000 so that they pass through it on dry ground, but you hurl their 444 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,560 pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters. 445 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,560 By day you let them with a pillar of cloud, and by night 446 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,160 the pillar of fire, to give them light. 447 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,360 On the way you were to take, they were to take. 448 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,360 This is just whole of this prayer. 449 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:47,760 Up to 37 verses is a long prayer recounting the nature of what 450 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:52,520 God has done for these people. And somebody says, huh, so much 451 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,360 is said, but it's not a prayer. It doesn't look like a prayer 452 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,440 when you read all the 37 verses. It doesn't look like a prayer 453 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,200 anywhere, but it is acknowledging, recounting the 454 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,120 history, recounting His acts, recounting his power, display of 455 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,680 power. When you do all that, it is like 456 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,280 worship rising from your heart, which is pleasing to God. 457 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,640 There should be a time when you can sit down and look back into 458 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,600 your life and say how God helped you in different times, how God 459 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,160 helped you in different times. You just bow your head and 460 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,280 worship and that is one of the things God tells them is you 461 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,480 don't forget the newer slaves in Egypt. 462 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,800 What is he trying to say is you should not forget your past. 463 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,360 Don't forget your past, and when you bring the past before God, 464 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,400 it is like a sacrifice to God, a pleasing aroma to God. 465 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,800 Oh God, I was lost, but you had mercy on me. 466 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,320 And you say that you are bringing a sweet smelling savour 467 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,960 to God. So here you see certain things. 468 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,760 One of the things is that when God acted in the life of Israel, 469 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,000 He made a name to himself and that name stands today. 470 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,640 Do we know that our God in the Bible is the one who split the 471 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,800 Red Sea? We know it even today. 472 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,000 We know what He did to them stands even today. 473 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,240 It stands for His nature, power, His glory. 474 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,160 And then one of the things you see here is you see in this 475 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:33,680 recapitulation of the story, provision of a provision and 476 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,920 also protection and guidance. Did He guide them? 477 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,920 How did He guide them? There was a pillar of cloud by 478 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,640 day and pillar of fire by night. If they had to walk day and 479 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,160 night without getting tired, he had to give them the energy. 480 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,200 He had to give them the strength to walk. 481 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,320 During day and night you have this pillar of cloud and that 482 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,840 goes before them. Once it rises and lifts up, they 483 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,960 know it's time for them to pack up and they are following the 484 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,440 cloud. And after it is night, the cloud 485 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,520 becomes a pillar of fire. And then they are, it is going 486 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,440 before them, giving them the light so they can see. 487 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,600 So you have got protection and you have got provision and you 488 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:22,160 have got guidance. I have tell you it is the words 489 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,160 will not be enough to when, when I sit down and think of God in 490 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,040 my life, my words are not enough. 491 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:34,360 Because I was born in a idolatrous family. 492 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,200 All my ancestors were idolatrous. 493 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,360 They have a priestly family, but they were worshipping devil and 494 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560 God had mercy on me. And when I sit down other day, I 495 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,000 was thinking about it all my cousins, there may be 60 or 80 496 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,040 of them and their children and their children, children. 497 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,880 I never heard even one became a Christian until now in this 4050 498 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,160 years. So my heart went out and said, 499 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,960 God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you because you chose me 500 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,360 as you chose Abraham. You have blessed me as you 501 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,600 blessed Abraham. And I tell you this is just 502 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,240 amazing. Everyone of us must have this 503 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,560 encounter with God. We must be able to sit down and 504 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,720 give glory to God for his hand on our lives, how he chose us. 505 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,000 And Jesus himself says in you have not chosen me, but I have 506 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000 chosen you. And that is in John 15. 507 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,360 And that's true, we don't choose God, but He chooses us first 508 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,120 because it shows us we believe in Him. 509 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,080 Sometimes the devil will come in the way and stop us from 510 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,920 believing in Jesus. Even though he has chosen us, He 511 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,000 has given us the light of the gospel of Christ and we 512 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,880 sometimes can face the devil and we have to tell him. 513 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,440 You will not ruin my life anymore. 514 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,800 You will not say anything in my life. 515 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,440 I silence your voice in the name of Jesus. 516 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,280 I am running to Jesus. I am running to Jesus and you 517 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:13,000 will not stop me and go and run to Jesus and hug Him and say I 518 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,800 am really sorry, take me back, please take me back. 519 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,640 Put again that protection over me as I read it from Psalm 1:30 520 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,400 in the morning. He is holding us in the palm of 521 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,000 His hand. He is covering from above, from 522 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,120 before, from behind. This knowledge is too wonderful. 523 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,840 This protection, this provision, this guidance is too wonderful 524 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:41,400 for words. And one of the things that you 525 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:48,680 see here is verse 15. In the hunger you gave them 526 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,920 bread from heaven, and in the thirst you brought them water 527 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:56,880 from the rock. I want to make it on this few 528 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,480 words and then stop it there for today. 529 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,040 The rest of the chapter you read for yourself. 530 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,360 If I still feel inspired, maybe I'll cover it next week, but 531 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,320 otherwise we'll think that it is over for this chapter is over. 532 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,080 But he gave them bread from heaven and split the rock and 533 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,400 Prince their thirst. Now we think it is just one 534 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,240 event that happened in Israel. It's just a miracle. 535 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,360 It's OK, He made some provision. Praise God, it's not just over. 536 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,360 After 1500 years, nearly 2000 years, Jesus comes on the scene 537 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,880 and says you think Moses gave you bread from heaven, You think 538 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,040 Moses spit the rock for you to be to drink water. 539 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,120 But I tell you, it is my Father heavenly Father who has given 540 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,640 you the bread. And he said I am the bread of 541 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,720 life. I am the bread of life who has 542 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,880 come down from heaven. So who did the Israel feed on? 543 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,120 They were feeding on Christ. In Corinthians word Paul says 544 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,720 they drank from the rock that followed them. 545 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,600 The rock was following them. When they were thirsty, it 546 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:18,199 opened up and Jesus himself, he allowed his body to be broken up 547 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:22,920 for you and me so that you can drink from that rock that split 548 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,639 for us. He is pursuing you. 549 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,320 He is following you. Even when I was standing there 550 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,480 during the worship, I was feeling a heavy hand of the 551 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,280 enemy on my life. Myself, I have my I was not able 552 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:43,320 to focus but I remembered the bread and the wine. 553 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,960 I remembered how He gave His body and the blood for us. 554 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,000 That one second everything lifted up. 555 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,760 Everything lifted up. I start praising God, I tell you 556 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,200 can go through any difficult time. 557 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,320 I'm not saying you, we are believers. 558 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,040 We will be protected from difficult times. 559 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,560 No, we will go through it, but he is with us. 560 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,680 But the, the, the provision of the communion is to overcome 561 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,040 your difficulties. The provision of communion is to 562 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,360 turn against the enemy who is pursuing you, oppressing you. 563 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,280 That provision is given to us. We we can do it anytime in our 564 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,400 own homes if you want to. Nobody can stop you from having 565 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,720 communion in your own house. But it should not become a 566 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,040 regular thing where it has no meaning. 567 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,520 It has to be approached with reverence. 568 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,400 It should make a sick an impact on you. 569 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,360 Even you know, so many people talk about Smith Wigglesworth 570 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,600 who used to have communion on an everyday basis. 571 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,360 So a lot of Christians do come in and come in and everyday 572 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,040 morning, evening, afternoon, they keep it on the table ready, 573 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,400 take it and eat it. Thank you, partake in your body 574 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,040 and your blood. But look at the life. 575 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,480 Is anything changing in their life? 576 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,840 Nothing changes when you have communion meaningfully and give 577 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000 glory to Him, worship him, praise him. 578 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,680 Power will be released into your life to destroy the yoke. 579 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,360 Power will be released to destroy the yoke. 580 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,280 Communion is not something that is you. 581 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,360 You know there are people, there was a theologian called Swingley 582 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,440 and he is the one who who came up with the idea that they were 583 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:31,680 just symbols, emblems. He said oh you just, it is just 584 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,640 nothing. Its just symbolizes his body and 585 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,280 the blood, but nothing more than just remembering that he died 586 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,480 for you. But it was a Luther who was 587 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,000 there and he said no, the Catholic Church was saying no, 588 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000 it really becomes a body and the blood. 589 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,440 They are going to A1 extreme. That bread is still bread. 590 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,880 When you eat it, it doesn't become flesh. 591 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640 That juice does not become turn into blood. 592 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,960 So there should be a right way of understanding the whole 593 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:04,000 thing. The right way is the right way 594 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,560 of understanding the communities. 595 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,920 When you partake in it by faith, at the point of partaking, it 596 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,720 becomes to you like flesh. It becomes you like blood and 597 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:17,960 the power of the flesh that's broken for you on the cross, the 598 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,400 power of the blood that shed for you on the cross gets released 599 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,320 into your life. That cloud has to lift from your 600 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,640 mind. That cloud, the heaviness of the 601 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,240 hand of enemy must lift from you because you're partnering in the 602 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:35,960 body and the bread of Christ. And a few times God had been 603 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,080 merciful to me and explained the importance of communion to me. 604 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,960 He gave me revelation of it. But the first revelation comes 605 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,840 to Abraham when he went against 5 kings with his own men and 606 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,520 with the local leaders. He went against them and wore 607 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,040 upon them set free lot and all that belonged to him. 608 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,440 When he was coming back, he met with the king of Salem, 609 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,880 Melchizedek, and he brought out to him the bread and the wine, 610 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,560 and he gave 10% of everything he had. 611 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,640 He gave it to king of Salem Melchizedek. 612 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:15,560 That was the first occurrence of bread and and the wine being 613 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:20,560 given, which is symbolic of Jesus himself and Jesus is in 614 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:25,000 the order of milk is a high priest for us and He himself is 615 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,720 a sacrifice. He allowed his body broken for 616 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:29,120 us. He allowed his blood to be shed 617 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,840 for us. I tell you, words will not be 618 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,520 enough to understand this mystery. 619 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,840 Its a mystery. How God can first become flesh 620 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,520 is a mystery, and how he can die is more difficult for us to 621 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,480 understand. But I tell you, its the faith of 622 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,920 the heart. When you believe in the heart, 623 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,600 the truth becomes yours. Light shines into the dark part 624 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,960 of your heart and you understand. 625 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,400 And you say, oh God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you. 626 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,840 I don't deserve it, but you died for me. 627 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,040 I praise you for that. Thank you for your life. 628 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,280 So today when we partake in the communion, I want you to 629 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,520 encounter this Jesus. I want you to encounter the 630 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,440 power of his death. I want you to encounter the 631 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,880 power of resurrection. I want you to encounter the 632 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,480 light to shine in your dark part of your heart. 633 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,040 I want you to experience the life of God. 634 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,000 Because when you partake in the body and the blood, you're 635 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,880 partaking in the life of Jesus. You're not partaking in the 636 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,200 piece of bread or a bit of juice. 637 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,840 No, you are parting in the life of Christ. 638 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,720 It is a mystery, but it is open to faith, to experience. 639 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,800 So what we are going to do is we will, we will get a piece of it 640 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,760 and I will pray for the communion elements. 641 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,920 Then you can go there and pick up a small chalet or whatever is 642 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,920 the cup there. You pick it up and take a piece 643 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,360 of bread, come back to your seat and we will partake together. 644 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,680 We have two places, one on the back, one on the front. 645 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,960 So what? Whatever is nearer, you can grab 646 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,240 it and you can come back and then we will pray about it and 647 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:13,920 we will partake in it. The elements are there for you. 648 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,800 You can go and grab it now. Thank you Jesus. 649 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,960 Rikka Ravarana saktareeni mahasarasthekareeni sarana mande 650 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:31,280 kastarani. Mahara Sastarani Cross, we 651 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,600 praise you, We praise you, We praise you, We praise you, 652 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,520 Father God, We thank you for your heart itself is split when 653 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,480 you're allowed your son to die on the cross. 654 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:42,720 And we thank you, Holy Spirit, for you are there with him on 655 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:46,280 the cross. We praise you, we praise you. 656 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,160 We praise you, Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, for the way you 657 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:55,560 have given yourself to US. 100%, 100% you've given yourself to 658 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,000 us. I worship you, Father, I bow 659 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,800 before you. We thank you for the broken body 660 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,280 and shed bread of your Son Jesus, so that we may be saved. 661 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,200 We worship you, we praise you. And now, Father, as you partake 662 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,920 in it, let the power of the Holy Ghost enter our spirit, soul and 663 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,880 body. I pray that healing will come 664 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,280 where somebody needs healing and deliverance will come to those 665 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,560 who need deliverance in the name of Jesus. 666 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,240 By the power of the bread of Jesus, by the power of the bread 667 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:26,800 of Jesus, by the power of the bread of Jesus, I decree healing 668 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,800 and deliverance in the name of Jesus. 669 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,200 Thank you Lord, as we partake in it. 670 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,760 Thankfully, Holy Spirit, yes, I thank you Holy Spirit, you are 671 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,840 right now ministering to people. I thank you Holy Spirit, for you 672 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,920 are making them know that you are there with them in their 673 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,480 heart, in their bodies. They can feel your presence 674 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,160 right now because when they partake is going to be partaking 675 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,000 in the life of Christ. We praise you, we praise you, we 676 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,320 praise you. Thank you, Lord, bless this 677 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,840 participation. In the name of Jesus we ask, 678 00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,920 Amen. Let's party. 679 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,040 Let's give thanks. Again. 680 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,440 We thank you, Father, for the privilege have given us to have 681 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,120 faith in what Jesus did on the cross for us. 682 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,080 We worship you, we praise you. We thank you for the life that 683 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:22,120 is entering into us. We celebrate it, and we rejoice 684 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,360 in you, and we praise you, and we worship you. 685 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,000 We honor you. We extol your name. 686 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,040 We exalt your name for who you are, the Compassionate 1. 687 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,200 Merciful One, goodness full of goodness. 688 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,960 We praise you all for the grace you've given us to believe in 689 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,600 your Son Jesus, and to partake in his body and the blood. 690 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,760 We thank you for every blessing that's pursuing us because you 691 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,120 partake in it. Remember particularly our 692 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,520 Father, some of the people who are not well in the church, I 693 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,360 pray for them now. In the name of Jesus, put your 694 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,080 hand upon them, touch them. Those who are travelling, may 695 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,680 Angel be with them and protect them. 696 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,480 We praise you, we praise you, we praise you Father, we give you 697 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,400 glory, honor and praise. We bless your name in Jesus 698 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:10,040 mighty name. We ask and everybody says Amen, 699 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:15,800 Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 700 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 701 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,000 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 702 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:22,760 the links below.