1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned in to a mega church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,080 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,600 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,440 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough? 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,040 Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,800 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,920 So I want to continue with the book of Nehemiah. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:38,080 I spoke on chapter one last week, but somehow in my spirit I 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,960 felt that I have done justice for the prayer of Nehemiah, of 12 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,600 the way he prayed. So I want to focus on just one 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:53,080 part of that prayer. I think it's in verse 6, chapter 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,680 one, verse 6, Let your ear be attend to you and your eyes open 15 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,120 to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,319 night for your servants, the people of Israel. 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,280 I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,480 my Father's house have committed against you. 19 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,640 Just want to focus on the word confess. 20 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,400 When will you finish the chapter? 21 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,920 I hope we will finish the chapter with that word. 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,160 So the word confess is not totally new because the 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,720 Christianity or the faith in Christ depends on the 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,160 confession. It begins with the good 25 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,880 confession that He is Lord, He is the Savior, and it all is all 26 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,680 about repenting and confessing our sin. 27 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,360 Everybody knows the word confess. 28 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,760 But now, why do I want to take extra day spend on that word? 29 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:56,000 Confess here? The news of breaking down of the 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,920 walls and the gates sent him into a different kind of a 31 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,960 reaction where he sat down, bought and bite and he wept and 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,120 he fasted and prayed for days together. 33 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,640 And then he made this prayer. And in the prayer he has 34 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,800 reminded God about his covenant faithfulness and he reminded 35 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:23,560 that he's great and awesome and, and, and then with he keeps 36 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,560 covenant with those who love him and obey his commands. 37 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,680 Now so many times we just walk into God's place and give him a 38 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,520 list of things. You know, I am going to this 39 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,920 business meeting. Can you please keep an eye on 40 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:41,560 it? Or I am going to the hospital 41 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:46,160 for seeing the doctor where you know, do something there. 42 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:51,080 You know, just is there a way that you approach God? 43 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,160 How do you approach God? There is a time when you pray a 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,720 short prayer, which Nehemiah does in chapter 2. 45 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,680 When he is the presence of the king, he sends a quick prayer. 46 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,240 That is OK. When you are under pressure of 47 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,800 time, you pray. A quick prayer is fine, but you 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,080 can't do always the same kind of prayer in your life. 49 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,280 You need to have a protocol. You need to acknowledge that He 50 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,600 is awesome and great and powerful and sovereign, and you 51 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,000 need to praise Him. You need to tell Him that you 52 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 love Him. And what does it do? 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,680 It prepares your heart to receive from Him what He wants 54 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:32,000 to give you. Many of us are in a hurry when 55 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,320 it comes to prayer. No, it doesn't work like that. 56 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,080 When you come to God, you need to leave aside all things that 57 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,240 are bothering you and focus on Him alone. 58 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,360 You are worthy, you are awesome, you are great, You're sovereign, 59 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,440 you're compassionate, you're merciful, you are just. 60 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,440 You can go on and in AW. Tozer wrote a book called 61 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,400 Knowledge of the Holy in that he says somebody has praised God of 62 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,080 1000 attributes and someone else praised the God of numberless 63 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,600 attributes. You cannot exhaust God when you 64 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,480 think about Him. So every Christian must be 65 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,560 falling in love with God that you will be able to say 66 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,200 something new about him because he has numberless attributes. 67 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,840 You need to know him. You need to say something new. 68 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:29,120 It is just a casual conversation we had in the family. 69 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,120 And John raised some issue about some video he showed me and he 70 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:41,080 says he talked about Jesus being given a name that's so high that 71 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,840 every knee will buy every tongue confess. 72 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,000 And he said that name is the name Yahweh. 73 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 And he was trying to argue that Jesus is not the highest name. 74 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,120 But before that, we had a prayer meeting on Friday night. 75 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,080 In the prayer meeting, I was telling God, you have given the 76 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,760 name Yahweh so that Israelites 1 nation can connect with you. 77 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,880 But you're given the name Jesus to Yahweh and brought him in the 78 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,720 flesh so that the whole world can connect with him. 79 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,360 I didn't know when I was saying that to God that this video I'm 80 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,800 going to see after an hour or so and I'm going to bring up the 81 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,720 conversation. But did I say something new to 82 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,840 God? I did in last 45 years. 83 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,320 I never said that to him before. So what I am trying to say is 84 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,560 you must be bubbling with worshipping him, connecting with 85 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,280 him, knowing him that is. That is when we know that you 86 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:40,280 are alive in Christ Jesus. Sign of life is you will love 87 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,160 this Jesus, you will worship him. 88 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,520 You are something new to say week after week after week is 89 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,000 like in a marriage relationship. Also 40 years you are married, 90 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,720 50 years you are married. You must have something to say 91 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,920 sometimes about the partner spouse. 92 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,840 Otherwise you know it is just dry marriage. 93 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:05,600 I would say it. So let's make it interesting 94 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,640 when it comes to prayer as well. Now he's talking about 95 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,920 confession. He's saying I confess the sins 96 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,360 we Israelites, including myself and my father's house, have 97 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,400 committed against you. Now why should we confess? 98 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:27,880 When you confess the the the transformation begins there, the 99 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,920 power of transfer is released. When you confess, walls are 100 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,920 broken down, the gates are burned down and stones are all 101 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,760 burnt out, and there is no hope of see. 102 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,080 That is the the city has lost its protection, has lost its 103 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,560 prestige, and you don't feel proud to be living in Jerusalem 104 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,160 with the walls broken down and gets burned down. 105 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,480 Look at our families. Are there problems in the 106 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,840 family? There could be historical 107 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:56,440 problems. Sometimes we must have said 108 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,400 something, done something 20 years ago. 109 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,960 We are still suffering because of what we did and what we said. 110 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,120 The walls are broken down, the foundation stones are upturned. 111 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,640 So things, there are always things. 112 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Look at our children's life, how they are in the Lord, how they 113 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,080 are having faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, how they are 114 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,440 walking with God. Or look at many of these 115 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,280 aspects. I tell you, family is the unit, 116 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,520 foundational unit where we need to have the walls in its place 117 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:33,040 and gates in its place rightly. And the next foundational unit 118 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:38,760 is a church, the body of Christ. But the individual families are 119 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,600 the stones that form the walls and gates of the church. 120 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,520 We need to have this picture very clearly in our mind. 121 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,480 We are not called to be alone. You are not a Christian on an 122 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,600 island. No. 123 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,120 Gods purpose is to raise a community of believers. 124 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,720 That's why we gather here on a Sunday to worship him. 125 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,840 And that is biblical and that is fundamental right of every 126 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,320 Christian to worship God with other Saints. 127 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,040 Sometimes you can go to a conference and not talk to 128 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:16,240 anybody. It can be just like a smile and 129 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,840 a shake hand. And then suddenly he says, oh, 130 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,480 I'll come back to you. And he leaves you OK? 131 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,840 You are coming here at a conference to relax, to connect 132 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,520 with people and you just shake and say I'll come back to you. 133 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,280 What are you in a hurry for? So sometimes you are there for 134 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,720 2-3 days and you don't connect. Why am I saying that Is we are 135 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,120 going to the camp, OK, In the camp, let us build 136 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,039 relationships. Let us get to know each other 137 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,520 because that's a time you got no limitation on it. 138 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,280 Afternoon you after lunch and you have a free time and the 139 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,200 free time is the time to connect with people. 140 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:58,160 Somebody may be very because of age and things that you may want 141 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,200 to have a little rest. That's fine. 142 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,080 But still my purpose, whatever the purpose of the camp, is to 143 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,400 build the relationship to make the church more loving and 144 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,600 strong. We need to have the foundation 145 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,280 made right, and that comes through fellowship. 146 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,040 So camps we need to have, we are having one in a year. 147 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,400 We should have more than one in a year, basically. 148 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,600 But let's see in the future how it goes. 149 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,680 It will be building the church, building the families, building 150 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:28,560 the community. Yeah. 151 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,960 So confession is very, very important. 152 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:37,240 So what does confession do #1 it is not a moral reset. 153 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,960 Is not a moral reset. Oh, I've been living insane this 154 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:43,280 and that. I confess it. 155 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,600 I reset my life again, go with God again, again I fall by, fall 156 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,600 down and sin again. I need to reset. 157 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,680 That's not the point. There is not for moral reset. 158 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,760 Of course it can do that. But that's not the sole purpose 159 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,160 of confession. Is not for a moral reset, it is 160 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,000 for knowing, encountering a holy God who expects, who has 161 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,880 standards for you, who has expectations of how you live for 162 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,200 Him. He has a purpose and a plan and 163 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,520 confession is what is going to bring you into that place, to 164 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,720 receive His plans and purposes planted into you, rewritten into 165 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:21,720 you and reinforce into your life. 166 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:30,560 That is what confession will do. Secondly, confession has 167 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,920 transforming power. Everybody says transforming 168 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,400 power. If you don't mean you don't 169 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:43,160 confess, you don't repent. It should not be shallow. 170 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,720 It is not a shallow experience. Oh, it is not like saying 171 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,000 somebody you, you are walking in on the street and somebody you 172 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,160 know, they are walking behind you and they without their 173 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,080 intention, you know that their foot touches your foot and you 174 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,760 know, you are startled. Who is kicking me from behind? 175 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,800 And that man doesn't want to say sorry because you look back and 176 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,000 say sorry. Does it happen? 177 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:16,800 It happened to be New York on the on the bridge as somebody I 178 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,400 feel somebody's foot and I look around that girl looks and says 179 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:28,320 after 2 seconds he says sorry. OK, At least the confession when 180 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,520 it comes to with God is not a shallow confession. 181 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,760 I have to say it. I have to do it. 182 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,080 No, it has to be coming from deep inside your spirit. 183 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,400 It has to come from your soul and it must make you convict of 184 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,040 your shortfalling. It should help you to see the 185 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,200 holy God and X and his expectations for you and say I 186 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,640 am sorry I fall short of your goal for my life, your 187 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,760 expectation for my life. I am so sorry. 188 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,280 And when it comes from the spirit, from inside your soul, 189 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,840 then the transforming power begins. 190 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:10,640 The transforming power begins. It is like the prodigal son who 191 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,520 said my father has many servants and they have enough to eat and 192 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,720 spare. Therefore, I will rise up and 193 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,320 go. That is my next point. 194 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:31,480 Confession stirs up your volitional part, the part in you 195 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:38,880 that will move your will. It is just not emotional. 196 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:46,360 It is not just not intellectual. That confession has to touch the 197 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,240 depth of your spirit, that volitional part. 198 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,320 Ultimately, what will make you change is that will must be 199 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,360 moved and the confession does exactly that. 200 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,720 It will change. It will push that will to do 201 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,960 what you are not able to do otherwise what you've been not 202 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,400 able to do for years. That is going to change when you 203 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,840 confess. Are we together? 204 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,680 One of the other things we we have understanding the time will 205 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,400 change things. Can we say it together? 206 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:37,080 Will time change things? It doesn't Time doesn't change 207 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,880 anything when the when you look at the nation of Israel, you've 208 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,800 got the 10 tribes in the north and the 2 tribes of roughly 2 209 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:51,240 tribes in the S 1st Assyrians came and invaded and captured 210 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:56,080 the people, took them away and deported them to different 211 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,840 places. It is almost like a place like 212 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:04,960 in the modern Iraq, the modern Iraq from Middle East. 213 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,080 They were taken away, go up and up and up up to Iraq and they 214 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:14,080 were settled there. After that all happened 150 215 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,680 years of time. God gave to Southern Judah to 216 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:20,800 repent and to keep faithful faithfulness to Him, but they 217 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,120 did not learn any lesson. After 150 years, Nebuchadnezzar 218 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:31,240 came, the Babylons came and attacked and they captured that 219 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,040 was sorry, I got it. What was the year? 220 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:42,320 Did I mention the year just now? OK, the the Babylonians came and 221 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,480 they deported. First deportation happened in 222 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:50,440 597 BC and he put another guy there as a king or a governor. 223 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,720 He was faithful to him for a while, 2-3 years, then stopped 224 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,880 paying taxes. He comes again, invades him, 225 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,440 captures the people, takes them away again in 586 BC and 582 BC, 226 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:06,120 and by then the southern Kingdom has completely fallen three 227 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,280 times. He came, captured the people, 228 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,560 deported them, put them in different places. 229 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,000 Now this time he took them to Iran, the modern day Iran. 230 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,680 So Jewish people have got enmity with Iran now. 231 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:25,400 But there that was a home for a while for 150 plus years and 232 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,920 afterwards they were captured and deported and put there. 233 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:35,880 After nearly 150 years comes the year 444 BC when Nehemiah is 234 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,880 standing in the presence of the king asking for publisher to 235 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,360 rebuild the walls. Has time healed? 236 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:50,720 No, time is nothing, time is nothing until we repent, until 237 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,640 we say I am sorry my Lord, we have messed up our life. 238 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,360 Our families are disturbed today because we have made some 239 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,720 mistakes in the past and then God releases His grace and 240 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,760 favor. It is true about everybody, 241 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,840 about its about my life. It's the same thing. 242 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,800 It's not going to be different for anybody. 243 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:17,200 I need to depend of my past. Are you crazy? 244 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,120 On this Sunday morning? You're disturbing us all. 245 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,360 That's not my idea here. That's not my idea here at all. 246 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,280 I'm not wanting to put extra guilt or anything. 247 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,720 That's not my point. There is power in confession 248 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,040 because it's going to break the power of Satan. 249 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,120 When you confess, what happens? Power of Satan is broken. 250 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,280 We are we are ministering deliverance to a person and I 251 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,800 let that person in a kind of a confessional prayer, I am sorry 252 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,040 I had done this, please forgive me, Wash me in your blood, Set 253 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,000 me free from every spirit that comes from so and so. 254 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,360 And it was going on and I said now let's do some more 255 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,920 confession. Lord I am forgive me and wash 256 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,400 me, cleanse me in your blood and set me free from every spirit 257 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,359 that comes from my father. I told her to repeat she 258 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,880 repeated it. Then I said Lord set me free 259 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,000 from every spirit that's coming from my mother and she said Lord 260 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,880 set me free from every spirit is coming from my Mama. 261 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,760 It was just 15 minutes of Ma it the spirit does not allow her to 262 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:32,720 say mother. Why the moment she says set me 263 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,720 free from every spirit coming from my mother, that spirit has 264 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,120 to go. She doesn't want to do it. 265 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,120 And she was laughing in between. Why am I behaving like a child? 266 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,360 Why am I not able to say it? And she comes back to normalcy 267 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:51,480 and then she talks with us and then again, OK, let's continue. 268 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,120 Every spirit coming from your father set me free. 269 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:59,240 She says it no problem. Every spirit come from your 270 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,480 mother set me free. Every spirit coming from it was 271 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,000 going on, Ma. It took us a long time to make 272 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,160 us say it and to set her free. Why am I giving this 273 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,600 illustration? There is power in confession. 274 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,200 When you confess it, the power of Satan is broken. 275 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,520 Whatever it is, call a spade a spade before God. 276 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,200 You don't say. You don't put some grass on it, 277 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,920 some flowers on it, and say this is not spade, it is just a bunch 278 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:33,640 of flowers. No, you don't do that. 279 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:38,880 Call a spade a spade. Sin a sin and and repent and say 280 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,120 I am really sorry. I am really sorry. 281 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,480 And when that repentance happens, 100% repentance, that 282 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,600 power of sin is broken. That demon that has kept taken 283 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,720 captive of your life will be forced out because you have 284 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,240 repented, because you have confessed this power in the 285 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,240 confession, this power in the confession. 286 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:08,000 SO4 Generations of people have come and gone, but the things 287 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,720 have not changed in the capital of Susan. 288 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,120 And Nehemiah is standing in the presence of the king, but he 289 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:19,560 cannot ask him. He cannot even mention the name 290 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,520 of Jerusalem, because if he mentions the name Jerusalem, if 291 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,320 he mentions the name Judea, the king will may trigger his memory 292 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,960 and say, Hey, I already told no, why are you asking again? 293 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:37,000 So he says my parents, my forefathers sepulchre is in 294 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,120 ruins. Isn't he bothered about the 295 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,440 people who are dead and buried? That's not his point. 296 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,520 His point is the city walls. But he says the city where my 297 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,600 fathers have been buried is lying in ruins because he wanted 298 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,800 to start up emotional part of the king. 299 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,920 And he addresses that way and the king walks into the plot and 300 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,200 is gives in to him and says how long will it take? 301 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,240 That's in chapter 2. How long is it going to take? 302 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,680 That means king has is positively wanting to grant his 303 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,600 request. OK that will. 304 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,560 I don't want to rush into the next weeks message but the point 305 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:20,760 I'm trying to hear is he has spoken to the king in a way to 306 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,440 camouflage the issue and because he if he mentions everything 307 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,920 he's not going to get it. So he just camouflages issues 308 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,480 and speaks to the king and gets his favor. 309 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,200 But then 4 generations the time has not healed things. 310 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:41,360 It needed a man who had to confess his sins, his family 311 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:46,480 sins and his nation sins. And the revival comes the 312 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,800 confession. There's power in confession is 313 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,560 the same thing that Daniel did, is the same thing that Moses 314 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,800 did. He confesses sins of Israelites. 315 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,320 God said, hey, these people are rebellious and stiff naked. 316 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,960 They are not going to change. I want to wipe out every one of 317 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,360 them. I will raise you and make you a 318 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:05,720 nation. And Moses said, God, remember 319 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,160 that you are a compassionate God. 320 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,080 You are a merciful God. Don't forget who you are. 321 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,360 Don't forget who you are. If you do that, people are going 322 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,440 to say that you are unable to bring your people into the 323 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:25,000 promised land, so you kill them. When our heart is aligned with 324 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,200 the heart of God, your interests will fade away. 325 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,720 Only the interests of God will rule your heart and your mind. 326 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:35,760 And there is power in confession. 327 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:44,760 There's power in confession. So you have the story of Jonah. 328 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,040 The word of the Lord came to Jonah, go to Nineveh. 329 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,400 I said no, no, no, I don't want those people to be saved. 330 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,600 So he goes to Tarshish under a different direction. 331 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:59,240 And of course you know the story how God ordered a whale or a 332 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,400 fish or a dolphin or water large enough to swallow him alive and 333 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,040 spit him out on the shores from where he could walk into 334 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,680 Nineveh. And then when he preached the 335 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,400 message he said 40 days, 40 days, the gods judgment is 336 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,040 coming upon this nation only 40 days. 337 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:23,080 And you he must have been half of his in three days of time. 338 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,760 All the juices from the belly, belly of the fish must have 339 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,800 eaten away his clothes and discolored and spelling fishy 340 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,680 and things falling from his hair everywhere, all his body and his 341 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,680 walking in the seats. 40 days you are going to be destroyed. 342 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,240 40 days you are going to be destroyed. 343 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,200 That news went up to the king is a crazy man saying 40 days the 344 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,000 Kingdom is going to be overthrown. 345 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,680 And king says did he say that? I don't care if he's crazy man, 346 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,640 but let's believe him. And he decreed that everybody 347 00:22:52,640 --> 00:23:00,040 will fast with sackcloth, even the animals, own animals. 348 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,280 You have to put a sackcloth on animal, your horse, your 349 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:09,680 Buffalo, your cow, your sheep, and the children, babies, they 350 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,360 repented. And then what happened? 351 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,120 God changed his mind to punish the nation. 352 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,680 Is there anything that can change? 353 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:27,880 God is a contract heart. We opened our worship this 354 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:36,560 morning with what is the song we sang create in me a clean heart 355 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:42,440 Ogar that's from Psalm 51, Create in me a clean heart every 356 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,280 song today, you know, I said, oh, this is all my messages all 357 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,640 going there in the every song was addressing it and that is 358 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,760 the Holy Spirit. I, I didn't tell them what I'm 359 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,880 going to preach and they didn't tell me what they are going to 360 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,920 sing. But everything is falling in its 361 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,280 place. And that is the work of the Holy 362 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,760 Spirit. Praise God for it. 363 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:07,040 Praise God for the worship team. So you've got a King David who 364 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,080 has committed adultery and murder. 365 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,640 You look into the book of Leviticus. 366 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:18,080 The book of Leviticus talks about different kinds of 367 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:25,800 sacrifices, offerings for sins committed unintentionally. 368 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,200 You are not plan to do it, you do it. 369 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,680 Then there is a sacrifice to forgive you and to cover your 370 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,920 sin. No sacrifice for willful sin. 371 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,520 No sacrifice for willful sin. And that is the reason why King 372 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,400 David, even though he had committed adultery with 373 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,720 Bathsheba, then God, her husband Oraya, to be killed in the 374 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,000 battle, double sin. But this is willful sin. 375 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:04,320 There's no remission, no covering, no sacrifice to cover 376 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,320 his sin. He must be put to death. 377 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,200 He must be cut off from the people of Israel. 378 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,520 He must be punished. And he had this child growing in 379 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,840 Bathsheba. And the child is born and the 380 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,440 child died, but became sick and died. 381 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,800 And he was fasting for seven days and everything is all over, 382 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,440 and he thought nobody knows about it until the word of the 383 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,920 Lord came to Nathan and he came and confronted King David. 384 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:38,600 Until then, he did not realize that he has offended God more 385 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:43,200 than one year. If it happened to David, King 386 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,480 David, it happened to us. We may not be ready to repent, 387 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,520 but I tell you, good things will happen. 388 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,200 Refreshing times will come. Blessing will come when we 389 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:01,280 repent. I know. 390 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,480 What is the question in your mind? 391 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,000 Are we not believers? Is not all our sin forgiven? 392 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,200 Why are you talking to me today about confession? 393 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,040 Again, I tell you this part of the confession thing. 394 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,280 We will never come out until the Lord comes. 395 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,440 It was Martin Luther who said there are two kinds of sins, 396 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,320 sins of Commission and sense of omission. 397 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,280 What is sense of Commission? What they should not do You do 398 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,240 the sins of Commission. What is sense of omission? 399 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,880 You don't do what you are supposed to do good things. 400 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,120 I usually give an example like your, your, your, you bought 401 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,400 your ticket, you put your money, has swiped your car and you are 402 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:51,720 sitting in the bus and you are going and at one stop, one guy 403 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,880 jumps into the bus, doesn't swipe the car, doesn't put the 404 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,840 money and he comes and sits next to you. 405 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,480 If you did not pay your fare, that sends a Commission. 406 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,360 But you saw that that guy did not pay his fare, he didn't 407 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,080 swipe his card. But are you telling the driver, 408 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,560 hey, stop, this guy hasn't put the money, we don't do it. 409 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,640 That is enough omission. Am I communicating? 410 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,840 So he said at the end of the day, Martin Luther is lying down 411 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,640 on the bed and he would say, Lord, forgive me my sins of 412 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:33,600 Commission and sins of omission. Why all of us committed. 413 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,240 So we need to, we need to confront ourselves every day and 414 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,760 the end of the day, we have to confront ourselves and repent. 415 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,000 Examine how things went. Examine somebody whose face 416 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,560 changed when you said something to them. 417 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,640 Recall, oh, I said it, it hurt them, but I didn't apologize. 418 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:02,600 Make it good next day, but first with God first before you close 419 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,080 your eyes and sleep. That is how you deal with sin. 420 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,240 You don't let it go for the next day. 421 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,480 You need to repent quickly. And I tell you this, this, this 422 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,360 concept of confession, it goes on through the Bible. 423 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,840 You will come up to 1 John where you say, where John writes, you 424 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,240 know, he's faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse 425 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,440 us from all unrighteousness when when we confess our sin. 1 John 426 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,960 19. And then you go into the Book of 427 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,320 Revelation. In the Book of Revelation you 428 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,520 see to the letter 7 letters are written to seven churches and to 429 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,960 Ephesus. He says, Yet I hold this against 430 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,640 you. You have forsaken the love you 431 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,840 heard at first sight. At first consider how far you 432 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,600 have fallen. Repent and do the things you did 433 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,760 at first. If you do not repent, I will 434 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,040 come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 435 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,120 Judgment. Why do you have to go through 436 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,960 judgment when there is a facility and available means of 437 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,200 being forgiven? Confess, repent, confess, 438 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,400 repent. You know without repentance, 439 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,040 confession is incomplete. Confession is not only 440 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,120 confession is you agree and say the same thing. 441 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,600 If God says you are told a lie, when you confess you are say I 442 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,280 told a lie. If God says you committed a 443 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,440 murder, you say I committed murder. 444 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,120 That's confession agreeing and saying the same thing that God 445 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:36,280 is saying about you. But repentance is you go, you 446 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:41,320 are going this way and when you repent, you make a 180° turn and 447 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,120 go the other way. That's repentance. 448 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,000 So you need to confess and repent together. 449 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,680 It makes one complete act. I have talked to so many 450 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,880 families, every family, one person is ready to say sorry. 451 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,680 Another person is never ready to say sorry. 452 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,320 It just happens. All the families have seen I 453 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,720 already have come across not even one. 454 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,120 I cannot say even one family where both are ready to say 455 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,920 sorry and not come across one. That is just the nature, human 456 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:20,080 nature. But the longer we hold back to 457 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:30,120 say I'm sorry so long, you're depriving joy in the family, joy 458 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,680 in the family stolen. They will come and picks up the 459 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,480 joy and goes away, disappears until you say sorry. 460 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,480 It is not going to be changed. It is not going to be changed. 461 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,640 We should ask for grace to say sorry when it has to be said 462 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,440 right time, quickly delaying is not going to help. 463 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,200 We should ask God, Lord, give me grace to repent. 464 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,840 Give me grace to say sorry. Give me grace to confess. 465 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,840 This is very important. I am telling you, you can't 466 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,160 learn about it. After 100 years of age, Now I am 467 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:09,960 old. I can't do anything. 468 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,600 I will learn to say sorry now. No, that's not the time it is. 469 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,320 Now is the time we have to learn to say sorry and then revelation 470 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,680 another church Pergamum, never that. 471 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,200 I have a few things against you. There are some among you who 472 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,800 hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the 473 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,880 Israelites of sin so they ate food, sacrificed idols and 474 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,080 committed sexual immorality. Likewise, you also have those 475 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,160 who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 476 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,160 Repent therefore. Otherwise I will soon come to 477 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,040 you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 478 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,080 Now that is a higher degree of God becoming your enemy and 479 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,960 fighting against you because you are not willing to repent. 480 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,960 As a church we must repent as well. 481 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,720 Theatra he writes again to make it quick. 482 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,440 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is 483 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:09,920 unwilling. So there's going to be judgment. 484 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,720 And then he talks to Sardis. I know your deeds. 485 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,920 You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 486 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,160 Wake up. Strengthen what remains and is 487 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,960 about to die. For I have found your deeds 488 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,560 unfinished in the sight of my God. 489 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard. 490 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,520 Hold it fast and repent. If you do not wake up, I will 491 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,720 come like a thief. So what does the repentance do? 492 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,560 What does confession do? It makes you awake. 493 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:44,080 It keeps you alert to the plan of God, action of God, heart of 494 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,760 God. And I have tell you, it makes 495 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,480 you sensitive, it makes you responsible. 496 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,760 It just makes life easy for you and for others. 497 00:33:00,790 --> 00:33:07,110 So when we confess what happens is here in to the Levodicia. 498 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,640 This is a church that was neither neither warm or not not 499 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,800 hot. Those whom I love a rebuke and 500 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,480 discipline. So be earnest and repent. 501 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,520 Here I am. I stand at the door and knock. 502 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,720 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in 503 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,680 and eat with that person and they're with me. 504 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,080 Repentance restores fellowship with God. 505 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:33,760 You want to enjoy fellowship with God. 506 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,080 Look, examine what needs to be confessed. 507 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,960 And then he says, I'm standing at the door and knocking. 508 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:49,760 When you repent, say I'm sorry. I will come into your heart and 509 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,120 I will eat with you, you with me. 510 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,920 Intimacy with God is the ultimate goal, and repentance 511 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:02,360 helps us achieve it. And Nehemiah understood it and 512 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,720 began the right way, confessing the sins of the people, his 513 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,080 family, nation, so that good times may come. 514 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,920 And you know what is very interesting about Nehemiah? 515 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,880 He is like many Christians, modern day Christians. 516 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,159 He did not have a vision like Daniel had, like Joseph had 517 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:26,040 dreams. Nothing, no dreams, no visions. 518 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,600 Yet you have a man who is sold out to do the will of God and 519 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:36,639 who stands by faith and wages the war by faith and goes and 520 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,719 rebuilds the walls. In 52 days six of the gates have 521 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,880 been set up, walls have been replaced, burnt stones removed 522 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,639 and reinstated. In 52 days. 523 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,560 You ask Nehemiah, when you go to heaven, did you have a dream 524 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,719 that one day you are going to do this thing? 525 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,480 No, no, no, I never had any dream. 526 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,840 Ah, did you have? Thus says the Lord, I am 527 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,960 appointing you a man to go and rebuild the walls. 528 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,440 No, there is no revelation from God for Nehemiah. 529 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:11,520 What made Nehemiah success is his heart aligned with the heart 530 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,680 of God. When the things of God are not 531 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,440 in the right place, your heart is grieved and God says that is 532 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,800 my will to restore and he. You don't need another word to 533 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,600 come, no revelation you need, you don't need a dream. 534 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,800 You just stand up and do the will of God and God will go 535 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,520 before you and fight for you and support you. 536 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,320 Repentance is the key. Refreshing times will come. 537 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,600 Walls will stand up, gates will be restored, honor will be 538 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,920 restored. When we begin with repentance, 539 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,560 sometimes the consequences are too far out that we may not be 540 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,160 able to control them. Things that have happened 20-30 541 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,720 years ago. But when we say, Lord, I'm 542 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:03,880 sorry, I repent. God who is outside the timeline 543 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,080 can put his hand on what happened 20 years ago, 30 years 544 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,360 ago, and set right the consequences in the present time 545 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,080 so that your future will be a blessing. 546 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,160 That is our God. That is our God. 547 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,560 Repentance softens the heart, makes it more playable like a 548 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,360 play DoH in the hands of God. You become useful in the hands 549 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:33,200 of God when you repent. Repentant does not go unnoticed. 550 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,680 When a person is repenting, he is changing, His heart is 551 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,040 changing, his mind is changing. Nobody can say he is the same 552 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,440 guy. I have seen him for 20 years. 553 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,440 No, the change will be visible to everybody. 554 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:50,520 You cannot contain the flashing of the Thunder and the 555 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,760 lightning, and you cannot hide A repented heart. 556 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,280 You cannot. Everybody will know that you are 557 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,160 a different person and they will gravitate to you. 558 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,840 They will connect with you, they will relate with you, and it's 559 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,880 going to be beautiful. Repentance is not a feeling, 560 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,640 eating, feeding on the guilt. It's not feeling, eating, 561 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,240 feeding on the guilt. It is like a rope someone who is 562 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:22,200 drowning hangs on to. When somebody is drowning and 563 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,760 you throw a rope and he clutches the rope. 564 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,040 The moment he clutches the rope, death is cancelled. 565 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:37,840 Life begins the same moment. The time you grasp that rope, 566 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,320 the death is cancelled and the life begins to operate in your 567 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,080 life. Hope begins to operate in your 568 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,000 life. Light comes into situation where 569 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,640 everything was dark before. Do you know what it is like to 570 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:56,640 drown in the water? It will confuse your mind. 571 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,120 You will be breathless, you will be forced to drink water and 572 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,680 then when you are pulled out they are going to push on your 573 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,760 belly and bring out the water again. 574 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:13,440 Its just traumatic. But if you grab the rope, all 575 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,040 those things will be cancelled. You are going to begin to see 576 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,920 light. Demand is not feeling, eating, 577 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,120 feeding on guilt. It is just broken. 578 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:27,160 It is just broken. I just want to share with you 579 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,560 that rope is a lost mercy. That rope is a lost mercy. 580 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:35,120 CS Lewis is a very great thinker and a writer and a philosopher 581 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,120 and he has many things to say about repentance. 582 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,240 In his book called Mere Christianity. 583 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,080 He writes now repentance is no fun at all. 584 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,520 Its not fun. What does he say? 585 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:50,000 Its something much harder than merely eating humble pie. 586 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,280 It means unlearning all the self conceit, self will. 587 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,800 It means undergoing kind of death. 588 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:04,440 You will be demolished and a new person comes out like a sphinx 589 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,320 from the ash rising from the ashes. 590 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,800 That's the power of confession. Repentance is not something God 591 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,280 demands of you before He will take you back. 592 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,400 It is simply a description of what going back is like. 593 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,040 It doesn't make that a condition, but that's what it is 594 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,160 all going to happen when you repent and turn to God. 595 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,280 In other words, repentance isn't a toll we paid to earn. 596 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,760 Gods love is the very path that leads us back into His arms. 597 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,320 Repentance is very important. Repentance is not believing in 598 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,880 self. But abandoning self is not going 599 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,280 on saying hi Ramana, hi Ramana, no that Ramana has to die. 600 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:50,760 When we repent, that comes an end of self will, self 601 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,840 determination and it is like a rebellion. 602 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,840 When a man is rebelling against a king, he has a sword in his 603 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,600 hand, bow and arrow in his hand or rifle In the modern days 604 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,320 AK47. But when you repent, you put 605 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,360 your arms down and raise your hands up and surrender. 606 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,120 That's the song you are singing today. 607 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:22,000 I surrender it all. Confession is not about shame. 608 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,840 Oh, to say sorry, you think, oh, I'll be so ashamed to say I'll 609 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,880 be put down. No, it is not about shame. 610 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:33,120 It is power. Power to restore relationship, 611 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,080 power to restore future, power to change things. 612 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,640 It's not to put you put shame at all, but forgiveness, 613 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,840 reconciliation, restoration, joy and peace. 614 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,080 Repentance opens the door for forgiveness. 1 down 19 brings 615 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:53,120 healing and renewal. 2nd Chronicle 714 King Solomon when 616 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,360 he built the temple, he said when people look at look towards 617 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,520 this temple and pray, be attentive, listen, open your 618 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,160 ears, hear their prayer and answer. 619 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:08,600 That's repentance. It's not emotional, 620 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,320 intellectual, but a volitional elements of repentance. 621 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,280 I will rise and go. And you know, there is a song by 622 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,520 Jonathan and Melissa Hessler Hilson they called ABBA. 623 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:28,640 And that song, I listen to it every day before I begin to 624 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,720 pray. The first song that plays is 625 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,600 ABBA. And what you see here is that 626 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,840 you see that father coming running after the prodigal son 627 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,520 with a ring and a robe. Ring stands for authority, robe, 628 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:48,360 forgiveness and righteousness. The Father is not ashamed of his 629 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,600 son. He is not ashamed. 630 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,400 He he is saying, the son is saying I am not worthy to be 631 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,040 called your son. Make me a slave, make me a 632 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:03,000 servant in your house. And father says, son, stop that. 633 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,120 Here is the ring and here is the room. 634 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,520 I tell you, every time you pray and you play the song, your 635 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,760 prayer is going to change. I don't know how long it will 636 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,280 hold on somebody's attention, but try it. 637 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,200 ABBA. But Jonathan and Melissa Helser, 638 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:29,000 I'm asking Joseph to sing it for us now. 639 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:37,560 And as a song is playing, look with a intentionally look at 640 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:42,240 your past life, all the past, and look at the things that you 641 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:44,480 need to repent and say sorry to God. 642 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,040 And you want this renovation to happen. 643 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,960 You want a refreshing time to come. 644 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,000 You want the new foundation to be laid. 645 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,000 You want the vast to be built. You want the guest to be set up. 646 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,600 You want that protection to come. 647 00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:02,480 You want the blessing to come. You wanted the joy and peace of 648 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,800 God to come and change the life of your family, yourself, and 649 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:12,680 the community and the church. Just do so you can come to the 650 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,560 front and surrender yourself to Jesus. 651 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:21,000 Surrender to him. Thanks for. 652 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,000 Joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 653 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 654 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,280 our website or Facebook page in the links below.