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page through the links below. Everybody say the revival is
continuing. So what has happened in the
previous chapters? We see that they have gathered
on the on the 7th month. The first day is the trumpets
and the 10th day is the Day of Atonement.
And from the 15th day till the 22nd day, they celebrate the
festival of booths or tabernacles.
And the 23rd day is a day of rest.
Now here we are coming to the 24th day.
On the 24th day of the same month, the Israelites gathered
together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on
their heads. Is it required for them to do
this? Do you expect them to be
behaving like this? You, you just celebrate a
festival you rejoiced in. God offered sacrifices.
Everything is done until the 22nd day. 23rd day is a day of
rest and 24th day you are putting on sackcloth, putting
dust and ashes on your head and turning up again in the public
square and humbling yourself and crying out to God for mercy.
Is it expected at all? Is anybody telling them to do
it? So the revival when it comes the
public will be motivated by themselves.
You don't need to tell them its not top down, its not from the
pastors telling oh the revival is here, you guys are going to
do it. No it is a people will be
turning towards the study of the word of God.
They will read the word of God and act upon the Word.
They will obey the word and when you do it, the revival is come
into your life. I can't force revival into
anybody. No pastor can force revival into
anybody. So on the 24th day of the same
month, Israel is gathered together, fasting and wearing
sackcloth and putting dust on the heads.
Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all
foreigners. They stood in their places and
confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
Now what is what are we reading in the verse today?
Israelites descendant had separated themselves from all
foreigners. Now by this time many of the
people had wives who belong to other than Jewish people.
They married, they had children. And now they are saying, OK, if
somebody is of a Jewish descent, he's standing there covered in
sackcloth, say Lord, I'm sorry and please forgive me.
He's putting away the wife and the children.
Is it right to do it Looks very harsh isn't it?
It is not about it is what is it about is about purity.
Its about purity and the people are willingly doing it willingly
wanting to separate everything that's foreign married to see.
This is one of the things that we keep telling again and again
and we want to reinforces if you are a believer, not married, if
you come across other, I mean opposite sex person, if they are
not believers, you don't have don't need to even stop and
think. You don't need to stop and
think. It is 100% not God's will to
start with. Well, there may be cases where
people have got married later on, they became believers.
That's not a, that's an exception, not a general rule.
General rule is you are not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers. It's very simple rule and that
applies to marriage and these people have broken it and that's
the reason why now they are saying, ah, we have messed up
our life but we want to change it.
It's a costly decision for them to make it.
To put away a wife and children is very costly, very costly.
To obey God is very costly. It's not easy.
And Jesus himself said those who want to follow me, they have to
take up the cross daily and follow me.
So is it any surprise that this is the same thing even in the
Old Testament and it's not no different in the New Testament?
It is very hard to follow God and one of the one of the things
is we need to be committed to study the word and obey the word
and that's what they are doing. So those who had of Israel
descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.
They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the
sins of their ancestors. That means this is not a new
sin, its been done by the father or the forefather, grandfather
and now they're confessing all the sin of their sins and their
forefathers saying we have sinned against you by marrying
into the foreigners. Now what is the problem?
Marrying somebody who is not a believer, who is not shared the
same faith? Go back to the time when they
were redeemed from Egypt and they were on their journey to
the Promised land and they come to the Mount Sinai and after the
Mount Sinai then they are going forward.
One of the things they came across is one of the one of the
kings, Balaam, wanted to curse Israelites, Balak and he hired a
false prophet called Balaam to curse the Israelites and he
failed because God did not allow Balaam to curse Israelites.
Ultimately what Balaam did was he told them he I got no power
to cast a spell on these people. But you can do one thing.
Let your women virgins come out dancing and celebrate festival
and let them see. Let the Israelites see and go
after them and when they get into sexual relationship they
will bring wrath of God on themselves.
That's what it happened and few thousands were dead.
After that when God gets them, few thousands were dead.
So the reason what is the importance is God wants to keep
a pure race. That is why he he has insisted
from the beginning, holiness is very important to God and that's
why I am holy, be holy, because I am holy.
That's the commandment. And here we see that these
people have read the word and understood that they have
sinned. And now they are confessing
their forefathers and their own sins and their fathers sins, and
they are repenting of these things.
And they stood where they were and read from the book of the
law of the Lord. They got for 1/4 of the day and
spent another quarter for confession, and in worshipping
the Lord they got. Now this is what revival is all
about. Before how long they were
standing in the previous chapter, morning 6 till
afternoon 12, whoever could understand was standing and Ezra
was reading from a pedestal, a high point and he used to read
from there. Many leavers were joining him
and there were many other leavers who were scattered
everywhere who are trying to give an interpretation of it so
people would understand when they understood it.
They are crying and weeping and now quarter of a day is 3 hours.
Now let us have a service of three hours of reading the Bible
and let us have another three hours of worshipping God and
confession. How many will be in the church?
You'll say no, that's crazy. I don't want to be part of the
church. In India, we have one particular
denomination where they have got too many things going on.
On Sunday you'll have one, one message, a lot of singing, 40
minutes to one hour singing, and then you have one message or one
hour for worshipping. And people will be worshipping
everywhere. And afterwards they have a
second message and that second message is again for one hour.
And then they have some type of intercession.
And then they have convenient, another message for convenient.
It starts at morning 10:00, ends at 4:00, and they serve a meal
after that. And people will be coming at
their own time. Some will want to decide to come
at the second message, some want to join the 3rd message, and
some want to cook and eat and then come here where they don't
like the food they eat there. Whatever.
See, that's not the way we have to do things.
The point I'm trying to make here is when the revival comes,
we don't have to force it. It is not by these things.
It is individuals who have to be touched by God.
And you must have longing for that word of God and the longing
to obey the word of God. And then there is revival.
So here the revival is continuing.
And then they read for 1/4 of a day and for another quarter of a
day they were confessing and worshipping the Lord their God.
Standing on the stairs of the Levites were Joshua Bani Kadmil,
Shabanaya Bhuni, Sharabaya, Bani Kenani and they cried out with
the loud watches the Lord their God.
Now why do you have to cry out? Is God deaf?
He can't hear you. What is this cry God business?
You know so many times religion is limited to only a cerebral
exercise. It is just mental.
You hear the gospel, Jesus dead for you on the cross, you
understand it. You are a Sinner.
You need to repent, you need to ask forgiveness, ask Jesus to
come into your heart, and this is all that happens in the mind.
Only the mind is involved and they think they are born again.
Yes, they are born again, there is no doubt about it.
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Christ, or you
confess about His Lord and you believe that He is the Son of
God, He has come in the flesh. All those things are true, but
you have to let your emotions get involved at some point,
otherwise it is incomplete. You are not just a mind, you got
emotions as well in the soul has emotions as well.
So you need to let your emotions get involved and when you are
when you are excited about what God is doing, your emotions will
be involved in it. You cannot just help it.
So crying out is an expression of the that part of your
emotions and and that when your mind and your heart are
involved, that becomes complete. I myself have been a very for a
large part of my life. It was mostly cerebral.
I come from a Hindu background. I hear the gospel, I believe in
Jesus. And I learned that studying the
word is important. So I learned to study the word
and preach the word, all those things.
But emotion is not something a part of me getting involved from
for a long, long time. I would say for a long time and
now I realize that my mistake now I want to involve my
emotions, involve my emotions. So let us involve our emotions
in worshipping God. You cannot worship God without
involvement of your emotions. So we need to try out, we need
to do all those kind of things that that required of, of it.
And then these people stood up and the Levites, Joshua Cadmiel,
Bani Hejbanaya, Sharabaya Hodaya Sebanaya Petahaya said stand up
and praise the Lord your God who is from everlasting to
everlasting. That's a command.
So you have the 6-7 people standing up on the platform and
they are saying, guys, stand up, praise God.
It's a commandment. And the whole congregation rises
up, rises up to its feet, and then you see here, Blessed be
your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessings
and praise. You alone are the Lord.
You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all the
starry hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all
that is in them. You give life to everything, and
the multitudes of heaven worship you.
A general kind of a worship. But do you think all seven
people are shouting the same prayer, all of them saying the
same prayer? If I call 2 of you and say, now
pray, are you going to say the same words?
So there should be 1 bird. Somebody should take leadership.
So out of the seven people, one must have loudly blessed God,
praise God so others can join in.
So somebody takes leadership and blessed be your glorious name.
Now observe the word blessed. What is blessed?
Can you bless God? How do you bless God?
You know so many times you come across the psalms and in many
places you use the word praise the Lord.
Hallelujah is praise the Lord. Basically praise the Lord.
So what do you do when you praise God?
You praise God for every benefit you receive from who God is.
You just thank Him for that. You praise Him.
You praise Him because of who He is, but the worship is for who
He is. You don't worship God for
healing. You thank Him for healing.
You praise Him for the healing, but worship is for His goodness.
You worship Him because He is holy.
He worship Him because He is merciful.
You worship Him because He is gracious.
You worship Him because He is infinite.
You worship Him because unchanging God.
You worship Him because he is so great.
You worship Him because He is souring.
He rules over the whole world without interfering with you
willpower. That is worship.
But after some time you come to an end of worshipping God.
You have you run out of the new new new words to say to Him.
That's the reason why when you have fellowship with Him, you
will know more and more and more of His nature and your worship
will not be stale. How many of us willing to eat
the bread that is bought 2 weeks ago?
It is stale. You don't eat it if you have
enough of our, I mean, we use our common sense not to eat a
stale bread. How can we bring a stale worship
to God? I'm just trying to challenge,
you know, So you need to have something fresh and that comes
by meditating on who He is, meditating on His works,
meditating on His works wonders that He's doing.
You know, in the scripture we see that the earth is filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
As the waters cover the seas, you open your eyes, you will not
see anything that does not show His glory.
You look at this wood, there's no life in it.
Look at a tree, there's life in it, and that tree also is
praising God, and that tree is full of the glory of God.
And this wood is also full of the glory of God.
The dust is full of the glory of God.
The air you breathe is full of the glory of God.
I tell you, you cannot escape it.
And atheist, he cannot escape from God in any way because he
is borrowing his life from the things that are around him.
He can never be proud of it and say, I can challenge God.
You know, it just doesn't make any sense.
So worship is a different thing and praise is a different thing.
And as you praise God, you you use the words like extol him,
exhort him. Why do we do all those things?
There's a continuous engagement with the greatness of God, His
goodness, His power. You know that is why you, you
extol and you exalt him. He's highly exalted already.
When you exalt him, what you're saying is you are so great, but
my mind is so small, my thoughts are so small.
But now I realize my thoughts are small.
I want to exalt you and see you as you are the highly exalted 1.
Is there a place for exalting him?
Yes or no? Can I hear a strong yes?
So we have to exalt him and you have to extol him.
I tell you there are so many different words are used, not
without a meaning or a purpose. It is to make your living a
dynamic experience. A dynamic experience because you
cannot be meeting this God and be a cold Christian.
You can't be a called Christian, lukewarm Christian.
No, because he's a consuming fire.
You approach to him. You approach him like Moses has
done. He looks at the burning Bush and
he comes towards a burning Bush. He hears a voice saying, Moses,
Moses, take off your shoes for the ground on which your
standing is holy. You cannot have an encounter
with God without worshipping him.
You cannot have an encounter with God without praising Him.
And when you do those things you will encounter God, you will
encounter God. So here they are praising God.
You all over the Lord you made the heavens, even the highest
heavens, and all the starry hosts, the earth and all that is
in it. What is He trying to say?
All things visible, invisible, are created by God.
God is the Creator and the He is worshipping God because He
created everything. You give life to everything, and
the multitudes of heaven worship you, multitudes of heaven,
heaven worship you. Actually in another version it
says multitude of heavens. The heaven that you see, the
planetary system and the stars and then galaxies is all that
you see is 1 heaven. But there's also a heaven, a
second heaven, and a third heaven, the heavens He has
created, the invisible heavens, even the angels that are there
surrounding his throne that's in the highest of the heavens.
And all that is created by God, all that is created by God.
And these Levites were trying to encourage people to engage with
this God. So now we see in verse 7, you
are the Lord God who chose Abraham.
Everybody say chose. That is just mind blowing to me.
That word itself. He chose Abraham and he changed
his name to Abraham. When did he do it?
When Abraham believed in God, He must be 75 years old.
He was in Mesopotamia, the modern day Iraq I think, and he
was worshipping moon God. He was an adulator.
But then God chose him and spoke to him and said come and follow
me. I will take you to the land that
I want to give to you and your ancestors.
Did he possess the land? He never possessed the land
during his lifetime. He made mistakes, He heard his
voice, advice, and he had another son called Ishmael.
It brought its own sorrow. And then God met him again at
the age of 99. He changed his name from Abraham
to Abraham, from the Prince to the father of nations.
And because God changed the name, you know that the simple
letter H stands for the Spirit of God, stands for the rock, the
Spirit of God. He changed his name, put that
Spirit of God into his name. Change of name is very powerful
in the Old Testament and when God changes the name with the
purpose you are Jacob, you are like a you are a thief.
But now you are no longer a thief.
I am changing your name to Israel the Prince.
God changes the name and I made a mistake in my life when I got
baptized. I think they wanted to give me a
Christian name. They want to take off my Ramana
and give me a Christian name. I resisted it.
I said no no I am Ramana. I remain Ramana forever and
after many years I realized that maybe I should change my name.
Its too late now. I can't change my name now.
Sometimes I prayed to God, I said God, if you tell me this is
what the name I am looking, I look at you and call you by this
name. I will change my name, but I
have not heard anything from it yet.
Maybe I should speak more vigorously about it.
But I said, what is in a name anymore?
There's nothing much there. It's just an ID for me.
Identity. But in the scripture, name means
a lot. That's the reason why we put a
lot of emphasis when we give names to the children.
We pray, we pray, we pray ask God, what is the name that you
you have called him from eternity past before the
foundation of the world. What is the name you give to the
child? What did you say come out so and
so very important. That's the how parents should
really pray and you know, give the names to the children
because that's something really good because that is going to
have it is going to prophetic impact upon the children and
that's how we do it. And well, so where we where we
are. He chose Abraham and brought him
out of her of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.
There was a reason why God chose just one man Abraham.
He found his heart faithful to you.
He found his heart was faithful to Yahweh.
Yahweh. Sir, out of all these people, I
look at this man. I can trust this man.
Why? This man will instruct his
children and break them up in the fear of Maine, in the fear
of me. That is how he chose Abraham.
Can God trust us like that to bring up our children in the
fear of God? That was very simple.
Faithful is just that's what he is looking for.
That quality of faithfulness is being true to him, being
completely sold out to him. How much is the see faithfulness
is just shows only the only measuring rod with which you can
measure faithfulness is your obedience.
How do you measure faithfulness by can I hear it, obedience and
Abraham when he was asked sacrifice your son Isaac, he did
not think a second time I am I this is my you know, preachers
have a lot of imagination sometimes and my imagination is
he didn't even tell Sarah. God says sacrifice your son
Abraham. Oh, where is my wife Sarah?
I had to talk to her first. He would not have succeeded in
doing what he wanted to do if he had talked to Sarah.
She said. You are a mad guy.
You didn't really hear God. You think you're hearing God.
He's the one who promised a son. After 25 years gives you a son
or after 30 years he says no sacrifice.
You know, I don't think it is God.
That's the reason why he never talked with Sarah.
That's what I believe personally.
And he next day morning took the firewood and took the servants
and the Son and started walking. And the Son asked him, oh, we
have the fire, we have the firewood, but where is the
sacrifice? God will provide on the mount of
the Lord will be provided Jehovah Jireh.
So that is what it is. He was obedient to God 100%
thousand percent. He was obedient to God.
That's why the word faithful is in relation to obedience.
And Abraham was found faithful by God.
He said I know I can trust this man and he will obey me 100% and
he It was a prophetic act in that it was signifying our
foreshadow of Christ coming and dying for us with the Son of
God. Your life when called by God, is
there no private thing about your life?
There's nothing private about your life.
When God puts His finger on your life as it did on Abraham and
change his name to Abraham, your life becomes a prophetic life.
It is going to be a blessing to the future generations when He
blesses you. Your children are blessed.
Your grandchildren are blessed forever.
They are blessed. That's what we are looking for.
Sometimes we may not see very powerful demonstration of it.
Even in the life of Israel. We can see that they were not
always faithful to God. They did desobey God they did.
Even in this situation where we are right now studying, because
of the deservedience, they are sent to Assyria, they are taken
over to Babylon and now from there they are come back
rebuilding the temple and rebuilding the walls.
They are trying to work hard to re establish that connection
with God. It is never too late to connect
with God. It is never too late if we have
not lived consciously, if you have missed it, we can always
come back to God and say I'm sorry, I want to begin again.
And he will say that's fine, that's fine, I'm waiting for
you. So he gave them, He made a
covenant with him. Give his descendants the land of
the canons, heaters, amoral, sphericides, Jebusites,
girgasites. You have kept your promise
because you are righteous. He has kept his promise because
he's righteous. God is righteous.
You worship Him because he's righteous.
And now when you believe in Jesus, he gives you that
righteousness, that righteousness that he has.
He gives it to you for free by believing in Jesus, and he
clothes you his righteousness. Amazing, isn't it?
Is it amazing or not? God?
You close you with righteousness.
So verse 9, it says you saw the suffering of our ancestors in
Egypt. You heard they cry at the Red
Sea. You send signs and wonders
against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of
his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated
them. You made a name for yourself
which remains to this day. You divided the sea before them
so that they pass through it on dry ground, but you hurl their
pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.
By day you let them with a pillar of cloud, and by night
the pillar of fire, to give them light.
On the way you were to take, they were to take.
This is just whole of this prayer.
Up to 37 verses is a long prayer recounting the nature of what
God has done for these people. And somebody says, huh, so much
is said, but it's not a prayer. It doesn't look like a prayer
when you read all the 37 verses. It doesn't look like a prayer
anywhere, but it is acknowledging, recounting the
history, recounting His acts, recounting his power, display of
power. When you do all that, it is like
worship rising from your heart, which is pleasing to God.
There should be a time when you can sit down and look back into
your life and say how God helped you in different times, how God
helped you in different times. You just bow your head and
worship and that is one of the things God tells them is you
don't forget the newer slaves in Egypt.
What is he trying to say is you should not forget your past.
Don't forget your past, and when you bring the past before God,
it is like a sacrifice to God, a pleasing aroma to God.
Oh God, I was lost, but you had mercy on me.
And you say that you are bringing a sweet smelling savour
to God. So here you see certain things.
One of the things is that when God acted in the life of Israel,
He made a name to himself and that name stands today.
Do we know that our God in the Bible is the one who split the
Red Sea? We know it even today.
We know what He did to them stands even today.
It stands for His nature, power, His glory.
And then one of the things you see here is you see in this
recapitulation of the story, provision of a provision and
also protection and guidance. Did He guide them?
How did He guide them? There was a pillar of cloud by
day and pillar of fire by night. If they had to walk day and
night without getting tired, he had to give them the energy.
He had to give them the strength to walk.
During day and night you have this pillar of cloud and that
goes before them. Once it rises and lifts up, they
know it's time for them to pack up and they are following the
cloud. And after it is night, the cloud
becomes a pillar of fire. And then they are, it is going
before them, giving them the light so they can see.
So you have got protection and you have got provision and you
have got guidance. I have tell you it is the words
will not be enough to when, when I sit down and think of God in
my life, my words are not enough.
Because I was born in a idolatrous family.
All my ancestors were idolatrous.
They have a priestly family, but they were worshipping devil and
God had mercy on me. And when I sit down other day, I
was thinking about it all my cousins, there may be 60 or 80
of them and their children and their children, children.
I never heard even one became a Christian until now in this 4050
years. So my heart went out and said,
God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you because you chose me
as you chose Abraham. You have blessed me as you
blessed Abraham. And I tell you this is just
amazing. Everyone of us must have this
encounter with God. We must be able to sit down and
give glory to God for his hand on our lives, how he chose us.
And Jesus himself says in you have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you. And that is in John 15.
And that's true, we don't choose God, but He chooses us first
because it shows us we believe in Him.
Sometimes the devil will come in the way and stop us from
believing in Jesus. Even though he has chosen us, He
has given us the light of the gospel of Christ and we
sometimes can face the devil and we have to tell him.
You will not ruin my life anymore.
You will not say anything in my life.
I silence your voice in the name of Jesus.
I am running to Jesus. I am running to Jesus and you
will not stop me and go and run to Jesus and hug Him and say I
am really sorry, take me back, please take me back.
Put again that protection over me as I read it from Psalm 1:30
in the morning. He is holding us in the palm of
His hand. He is covering from above, from
before, from behind. This knowledge is too wonderful.
This protection, this provision, this guidance is too wonderful
for words. And one of the things that you
see here is verse 15. In the hunger you gave them
bread from heaven, and in the thirst you brought them water
from the rock. I want to make it on this few
words and then stop it there for today.
The rest of the chapter you read for yourself.
If I still feel inspired, maybe I'll cover it next week, but
otherwise we'll think that it is over for this chapter is over.
But he gave them bread from heaven and split the rock and
Prince their thirst. Now we think it is just one
event that happened in Israel. It's just a miracle.
It's OK, He made some provision. Praise God, it's not just over.
After 1500 years, nearly 2000 years, Jesus comes on the scene
and says you think Moses gave you bread from heaven, You think
Moses spit the rock for you to be to drink water.
But I tell you, it is my Father heavenly Father who has given
you the bread. And he said I am the bread of
life. I am the bread of life who has
come down from heaven. So who did the Israel feed on?
They were feeding on Christ. In Corinthians word Paul says
they drank from the rock that followed them.
The rock was following them. When they were thirsty, it
opened up and Jesus himself, he allowed his body to be broken up
for you and me so that you can drink from that rock that split
for us. He is pursuing you.
He is following you. Even when I was standing there
during the worship, I was feeling a heavy hand of the
enemy on my life. Myself, I have my I was not able
to focus but I remembered the bread and the wine.
I remembered how He gave His body and the blood for us.
That one second everything lifted up.
Everything lifted up. I start praising God, I tell you
can go through any difficult time.
I'm not saying you, we are believers.
We will be protected from difficult times.
No, we will go through it, but he is with us.
But the, the, the provision of the communion is to overcome
your difficulties. The provision of communion is to
turn against the enemy who is pursuing you, oppressing you.
That provision is given to us. We we can do it anytime in our
own homes if you want to. Nobody can stop you from having
communion in your own house. But it should not become a
regular thing where it has no meaning.
It has to be approached with reverence.
It should make a sick an impact on you.
Even you know, so many people talk about Smith Wigglesworth
who used to have communion on an everyday basis.
So a lot of Christians do come in and come in and everyday
morning, evening, afternoon, they keep it on the table ready,
take it and eat it. Thank you, partake in your body
and your blood. But look at the life.
Is anything changing in their life?
Nothing changes when you have communion meaningfully and give
glory to Him, worship him, praise him.
Power will be released into your life to destroy the yoke.
Power will be released to destroy the yoke.
Communion is not something that is you.
You know there are people, there was a theologian called Swingley
and he is the one who who came up with the idea that they were
just symbols, emblems. He said oh you just, it is just
nothing. Its just symbolizes his body and
the blood, but nothing more than just remembering that he died
for you. But it was a Luther who was
there and he said no, the Catholic Church was saying no,
it really becomes a body and the blood.
They are going to A1 extreme. That bread is still bread.
When you eat it, it doesn't become flesh.
That juice does not become turn into blood.
So there should be a right way of understanding the whole
thing. The right way is the right way
of understanding the communities.
When you partake in it by faith, at the point of partaking, it
becomes to you like flesh. It becomes you like blood and
the power of the flesh that's broken for you on the cross, the
power of the blood that shed for you on the cross gets released
into your life. That cloud has to lift from your
mind. That cloud, the heaviness of the
hand of enemy must lift from you because you're partnering in the
body and the bread of Christ. And a few times God had been
merciful to me and explained the importance of communion to me.
He gave me revelation of it. But the first revelation comes
to Abraham when he went against 5 kings with his own men and
with the local leaders. He went against them and wore
upon them set free lot and all that belonged to him.
When he was coming back, he met with the king of Salem,
Melchizedek, and he brought out to him the bread and the wine,
and he gave 10% of everything he had.
He gave it to king of Salem Melchizedek.
That was the first occurrence of bread and and the wine being
given, which is symbolic of Jesus himself and Jesus is in
the order of milk is a high priest for us and He himself is
a sacrifice. He allowed his body broken for
us. He allowed his blood to be shed
for us. I tell you, words will not be
enough to understand this mystery.
Its a mystery. How God can first become flesh
is a mystery, and how he can die is more difficult for us to
understand. But I tell you, its the faith of
the heart. When you believe in the heart,
the truth becomes yours. Light shines into the dark part
of your heart and you understand.
And you say, oh God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you.
I don't deserve it, but you died for me.
I praise you for that. Thank you for your life.
So today when we partake in the communion, I want you to
encounter this Jesus. I want you to encounter the
power of his death. I want you to encounter the
power of resurrection. I want you to encounter the
light to shine in your dark part of your heart.
I want you to experience the life of God.
Because when you partake in the body and the blood, you're
partaking in the life of Jesus. You're not partaking in the
piece of bread or a bit of juice.
No, you are parting in the life of Christ.
It is a mystery, but it is open to faith, to experience.
So what we are going to do is we will, we will get a piece of it
and I will pray for the communion elements.
Then you can go there and pick up a small chalet or whatever is
the cup there. You pick it up and take a piece
of bread, come back to your seat and we will partake together.
We have two places, one on the back, one on the front.
So what? Whatever is nearer, you can grab
it and you can come back and then we will pray about it and
we will partake in it. The elements are there for you.
You can go and grab it now. Thank you Jesus.
Rikka Ravarana saktareeni mahasarasthekareeni sarana mande
kastarani. Mahara Sastarani Cross, we
praise you, We praise you, We praise you, We praise you,
Father God, We thank you for your heart itself is split when
you're allowed your son to die on the cross.
And we thank you, Holy Spirit, for you are there with him on
the cross. We praise you, we praise you.
We praise you, Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, for the way you
have given yourself to US. 100%, 100% you've given yourself to
us. I worship you, Father, I bow
before you. We thank you for the broken body
and shed bread of your Son Jesus, so that we may be saved.
We worship you, we praise you. And now, Father, as you partake
in it, let the power of the Holy Ghost enter our spirit, soul and
body. I pray that healing will come
where somebody needs healing and deliverance will come to those
who need deliverance in the name of Jesus.
By the power of the bread of Jesus, by the power of the bread
of Jesus, by the power of the bread of Jesus, I decree healing
and deliverance in the name of Jesus.
Thank you Lord, as we partake in it.
Thankfully, Holy Spirit, yes, I thank you Holy Spirit, you are
right now ministering to people. I thank you Holy Spirit, for you
are making them know that you are there with them in their
heart, in their bodies. They can feel your presence
right now because when they partake is going to be partaking
in the life of Christ. We praise you, we praise you, we
praise you. Thank you, Lord, bless this
participation. In the name of Jesus we ask,
Amen. Let's party.
Let's give thanks. Again.
We thank you, Father, for the privilege have given us to have
faith in what Jesus did on the cross for us.
We worship you, we praise you. We thank you for the life that
is entering into us. We celebrate it, and we rejoice
in you, and we praise you, and we worship you.
We honor you. We extol your name.
We exalt your name for who you are, the Compassionate 1.
Merciful One, goodness full of goodness.
We praise you all for the grace you've given us to believe in
your Son Jesus, and to partake in his body and the blood.
We thank you for every blessing that's pursuing us because you
partake in it. Remember particularly our
Father, some of the people who are not well in the church, I
pray for them now. In the name of Jesus, put your
hand upon them, touch them. Those who are travelling, may
Angel be with them and protect them.
We praise you, we praise you, we praise you Father, we give you
glory, honor and praise. We bless your name in Jesus
mighty name. We ask and everybody says Amen,
Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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